Although Lin Jing was the top scorer in the 7A exam, her life did not change much. She still worked hard day and night to climb the grid.

After more than a month of struggle, "Heroes" has come to an end and it will be able to finish it all in a few days.

It is worth mentioning that a few days ago, she received an admission letter from Xiangjiang Chinese University. A thin piece of A4 paper. Compared with the colorful admission letters from many mainland universities that Lin Jing has seen, it can be said to be outrageously simple.

It is easy to misunderstand those who don’t know what Xiangjiang Chinese University is. Could this be an admission letter for a pheasant university?

The day after receiving the admission letter from CUHK, his father Lin Liwei took a day off and held a day's banquet at home, and hosted a banquet for the neighbors in the entire building of Limushu Village. Although the family was still in debt, he did not save any money. Lin Jing understood his daughter's happiness as a father.

It was also on that day that a reporter from Ming Pao interviewed Lin Jing, the top scorer in the higher education level, who was the top scorer in the 7A exam. However, the interview manuscript was not published in Ming Pao Evening News, but was published in the supplement of Ming Pao.

Ming Pao Evening News was launched in 1969. It was a comprehensive newspaper when it was founded. In the 1970s, Lin Shanmu, who was still deputy editor-in-chief, left, founded Xinbao by himself, and took away many columnists of Ming Pao Evening News. The loss of a large number of professional talents reduced the level of Ming Pao Evening News and greatly affected sales. In addition, the stock market in Xiangjiang was sluggish after 1974, which undoubtedly reduced the influence of Ming Pao Evening News. Since then, Ming Pao Evening News has been in a slump, and its sales have been hovering around 10,000 copies all year round.

Hu Wenliang, who took over as deputy editor-in-chief of Ming Pao Evening News after Lin Shanmu, has been trying to restore the influence of the evening newspaper, but the implementation of various measures has little effect. It was a helpless move to publish martial arts novels. In fact, he did not place his hope on martial arts novels.

At that time, Jin Yong used a pen to pick up the "Ming Pao" Yu Jiangqing, but with the decline of martial arts novels, the situation of conquering the world with a martial arts novel has undoubtedly become a legend today.

If the newspapers cannot be sold, the person who writes the articles will naturally not get too high rewards. Therefore, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu gave Lin Jing a price of 35 thousand words, which was very reasonable in his opinion.

At the beginning of the serialization of "Heroes", although a big title was put on the beak head, the sales of "Ming Pao Evening News" did not improve much, and it was still half-dead. After all, "Heroes" is just a new work. Those who don't like to read martial arts novels will not read them. Those who like martial arts novels did not pay attention to "Heroes" because they did not have the habit of reading "Ming Pao Evening News".

But as time goes by, the "Heroes" slowly fermented, the sales of "Mingbao Evening News" actually improved a little and grew at a slow rate.

Deputy Editor Hu, who noticed this change, sent a large number of people out and conducted a simple investigation on readers who subscribed to the Ming Pao Evening News and concluded that the Ming Pao Evening News was able to make this change because of the conclusion of "Heroes".

After being overjoyed, he immediately expanded the serial page of "Heroes" and put a prominent recommendation title on the main page of each issue of "Mingbao Evening News", which was quite good. However, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu was no longer satisfied with such a small fight. When he accidentally learned that Lin Jing, the author of "Heroes", was still the top scorer in the recent examination, he thought of a trick to increase the sales volume of the evening newspaper.

He rushed to the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao, persuaded the deputy editor-in-chief and sent reporters to interview Lin Jing.

There are not many people who read the Ming Pao Evening News, but the supplements of Ming Pao are different.

An interview manuscript titled "The 7A No. 1 Scholar was originally the author of the martial arts novel "Heroics"" appeared in the supplement of Ming Pao, which caused a thousand waves in one stone and soon caused widespread heated discussion among readers.

It turned out that although the reporter only gave a simple interview with Lin Jing, the interview manuscript was carefully polished and used all his writing skills to do his best to express his sensational ability, saying, "My mother died early, her father was seriously injured when she was in danger, she lived in a dangerous house, was heavily in debt, and had to study while earning money to support her family." Anyway, how it was touching and how it could win the greatest sympathy, how it was written, and how it was written, and finally portrayed a perfect and tall image of a person's tenacious struggle that was endless.

Such tears and people naturally aroused the sympathy of many citizens. In just a few days, Ming Pao received thousands of letters from readers, and most of them were letters of condolence, accompanied by a lot of donations.

This was something Lin Jing didn't expect. She thought it was just a very ordinary and pure interview, but she didn't know it was carefully planned by Deputy Editor Hu. Fortunately, she became more careful at the time and did not agree to the Ming Pao to publish her photos and home address.

As the heated discussion caused by that interview manuscript further expanded, the sales of Ming Pao Evening News also ushered in an explosive growth, from less than 20,000 to 50,000. Many Xiangjiang citizens bought Ming Pao Evening News with curiosity and looked at it. They all wanted to know what a martial arts novel written by a fifteen-year-old girl would look like.

Of course, some of them were just curious and could not be transformed into real readers who subscribed to the Ming Pao Evening News, but half of them had already made Deputy Editor Hu laugh from ear to ear.

Other newspapers in Xiangjiang saw it and were moved by the news.

But although they obtained Lin Jing's address through various channels, they were unable to interview Lin Jing himself, or even anyone from the Lin family.

In desperation, they had to interview these marginal people from Lin Jing's neighbors, and then fully utilized their imagination to create stories of catching wind and shadows.

"Why don't the 7A female top scholar from a single-parent family love to talk about romance and martial arts?"

"The 7A female top student works behind closed doors and writes martial arts!"

"Unfortunately, the secret that the 7A female No. 1 pick has to tell!"

...

As a large number of strange essays that are not shocking and never stop appearing in countless newspapers, the citizens of Xiangjiang, who are reading newspapers or not, have also begun to hear about the person "Lin Jing".

Many readers of "Heroes" suddenly realized that the martial arts novel I have been reading was written by a fifteen-year-old girl.

Of course, there are not a few pretentious readers. When they learned that "Heroes" was written by a little girl who had not even arrived in the flower season, they immediately gave up reading it.

But this is always only a small part, and most people who really like "Heroes" won't mind who wrote it. What they care about is whether "Heroes" can maintain its consistent excitement. As long as the level can be maintained, it will be enough. If it can be written better, it will undoubtedly be better.

It's a few points, and it's also said that Jin Yong has been busy revising and integrating the fifteen martial arts novels he wrote recently, and has not paid much attention to the daily affairs of Ming Pao. He just heard about Lin Jing by chance, so he found the deputy editor-in-chief of the Evening News to ask.

"The Legend of Heroes" serialized in our Evening News is the same as the 7A female No. 1 pick?"

"Yes, Mr. Cha, I was as surprised as you at the beginning. Now, as her interview was logged in the supplement, it has become a strange talk in Hong Kong."

"Then is the fact that this little friend Lin Jing's family is poor?"

"Indeed, her mother passed away at the beginning of the year. The family lived in a public housing house and was said to have owed a lot of debts."

"How is her royalties calculated?"

"Thirty-five thousand words."

"Thirty-five thousand words, lower it a little, double it."

Doubled it would be 70,000 words, and Hu Wenliang hesitated for a moment. Ming Pao generally would not take the initiative to pay the author's manuscript. Jin Yong suddenly said that he would double the manuscript to a fledgling young author, which surprised Deputy Editor Hu.

"Is there any difficulty?" Jin Yong didn't explain much, but just asked casually.

"There is no difficulty..." According to the provisions of Ming Pao, even if articles published in newspapers bring actual sales to Ming Pao, increasing royalties is not achieved overnight. Generally, they are gradually increased in small quantities.

"Just treat it as sponsoring this poor and more determined friend's study."

Jin Yong runs newspapers purely as business, and if he wants to get the biggest profit in business, he must strictly control costs, so he is so petty about newspaper expenses, and he is doing business. It is precisely because of this that his reputation of being stingy spread throughout Xiangjiang.

In fact, Jin Yong is not very stingy in his daily life. He has always generously donated money to do good deeds such as donating money to support education.

For example, once Jin Yong took a check of one million yuan to a school to donate money. The principal of the school and he was also a very familiar friend. After taking the check, he joked, "Is it a zero less written?" Jin Yong didn't say much at the time, but he immediately gave him nine million.

Since the person in charge made a speech, Deputy Editor Hu naturally followed suit.

Lin Jing soon received a new contract for "Heroes". Although she also believed that the price of "Heroes" would not remain unchanged at a thousand words and thirty-five, she did not expect that joy would come so quickly.

The "Heroes" has been serialized for more than 300,000 words, which is the old price of 35 thousand words and remains unchanged. After more than 300,000 words, it is worth 70 thousand words, which means that she can earn more than 100,000 yuan at once.
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