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Chapter 4 Encountering a scout

From May 6 to May 16, Lin Jing never left home every day except for doing housework, and kept writing without stopping, hiding it from her family.

"Heroes" wrote about 100,000 words, and then some degree of text polishing was made around these 100,000 words, so that the writing style of "Heroes" will not be too different from each other. As for the plot structure, she did not make any changes.

These 100,000 words are almost the first volume. It is a one-man show by Wu Dingyuan among the four protagonists of the entire novel "Watching the Sea and Clouds". Although it has not yet been able to see the whole picture, the style has been established and the plot has been unfolded. It is enough to let the editor judge the value of it.

In addition to "Heroes", she also wrote the beginning of some other novels, but because "Heroes" has not yet been recognized, she just wrote the beginning.

On May 17, the day before the exam was Monday.

After packing the manuscript of "Heroes", Lin Jing decided to go out and send the documents.

The situation of martial arts novels in Xiangjiang in 1982 is actually much worse than before. Many martial arts novels, magazines and newspapers that were previously popular have been discontinued for many years, and even fewer are still writing martial arts novels.

At this time, the only one who insisted on writing martial arts novels in Xiangjiang was Wen Rui'an. However, he was not from Xiangjiang. He had been writing in Taiwan before, but was expelled by the Taiwanese authorities for some reason and had to leave Taiwan. Later, he went to Xiangjiang.

The martial arts novel written by Wen Rui'an is serialized in "Ming Pao", including "Four Famous Captains" that Lin Jing is more familiar with.

This familiarity is just because I have read it. If I like it so much, I won’t be able to say that I like it.

In her impression, Wen Rui'an has talent and good writing style, but once this person starts writing, he will be in a tragic situation. No matter how wise and handsome the protagonist in his works is when he appears, he will be tortured to death once the plot unfolds.

The abuse of the master can be said to have been promoted in his writings. Although Jin Yong and Gu Long sometimes abused the master, compared with him in this regard, they are really beyond the reach of the world.

Moreover, he also liked to play word games, and reached the point of being obsessed with the fact that later the troublemakers wanted to cut Wen Rui'an into pieces and count his ten major crimes.

Of course, Wen Rui'an has not yet reached the point of becoming obsessed with the future, although he has shown his first love to abuse his master.

The newspapers that Lin Jing chose to publish "Heroes" are also "Ming Pao".

Because after years of development, Xiangjiang at this time had a very strong position in the world and its sales were rising steadily. Moreover, Ming Pao has always had a tradition of serializing high-level martial arts novels.

Of course, as the first martial arts novel to be released soon, Lin Jing did not expect much profit.

Because Jin Yong is in charge of Ming Pao, he has a great reputation in the newspaper industry and has never given authors time to spend.

Even if Lin Yanni, the best prose writer in Xiangjiang, asked him to add the royalties, he just smiled and said, "You love spending money so much, and you spend it again and again, and you don't add it."

For example, the "Master Master" Yi Shu also asked him to add the manuscript fee, so he made another excuse: "You don't spend money, what's the use of adding the manuscript fee?" Yi Shu also scolded him in the column of Ming Pao for this. Unexpectedly, Jin Yong read it and said with a smile: "You can scold me, but the manuscript will still be published, and the manuscript fee will still not be added at all."

However, although the treatment of Ming Pao is not high, contributors are still flocking to it. After all, Ming Pao is very famous, and being able to publish manuscripts on it is a symbol of identity. Instead of doing nothing in some tabloids, it is better to grit your teeth and go to Ming Pao to "prove the truth". If you "accidentally" become famous and become famous, then the manuscript fees will naturally come.

Lin Jing did not have the address of Ming Pao, but this was a trivial matter. She just found a newsstand on the street and glanced at the head of the Ming Pao newspaper.

After knowing the address, she first copied the original manuscript and prepared both ways. Then she found a courier company and handed out the first 100,000 words of "Heroes" along with her name and home address.

She had also considered herself submitting a manuscript to the head office of Ming Pao, but later she thought about it. The head office of Ming Pao is located on Hong Kong Island, which is a little distance from Tsuen Wan where she lives now. If she really goes there, she would have to take many trains.

The Tsuen Wan Line was opened a few days ago, but for the same distance, the cost of taking the subway is even higher than the cost of taking the bus, which is even less cost-effective.

And she considered that her age was easy to make people think that she was writing childish and ridiculous young books.

Many people think that she is not a woman in her mouth and is not a firm job. Although she is a woman now, her age is a flaw after all. Before she can achieve impressive results, it will also make people misunderstand.

If the manuscript is passed and the editor thinks it is worth serializing, the situation will completely turn around at that time, and the age will increase. Maybe it may be praised as a "genius".

This world is so weird that she can't help but "follow the local customs".

After leaving the express delivery company, Lin Jing went to the vegetable market to buy orders and walked home with her hands.

The distance between two or three miles was not far away or not, but when she touched her pocket, she simply walked into the car.

"Robbery, robbery, help me stop him..."

Just as Lin Jing was taking the "11" bus and was walking quickly, she suddenly heard a call from behind that like a pig slaughtering from the ground.

She stopped and looked back. A short and concise man was yelling and panicking. The pedestrians blocking him were dodging away, fearing that they would cause trouble.

When he got closer, Lin Jing saw that he was holding a delicate women's shoulder bag firmly in his left hand, and occasionally looked back, while rushing fast.

Seeing that he was about to rush to the front, Lin Jing flashed to the side and then stretched out his right foot quietly.

"oops……"

When he exclaimed, the unexpected robber immediately rushed forward and rushed to the ground like a vicious dog.

Maybe it was because he was secreting a lot of adrenaline when he ran away just now. He was obviously dying of his nose and mouth, but he still got up from the ground in an instant, his movements were quick and fast.

"Who is it? Who tripped the uncle?" He shouted loudly, looking like he would never give up if he didn't fight against the person who tripped him. Although he was already scattered, his face was in a mess at this time.

A few wild roars scared the pedestrians around them so much that they scattered birds and beasts.

"Is it you?" After looking around for a week, he finally saw Lin Jing standing aside, the old god was there, but Lin Jing's appearance as weak as "Miss Lin" made him feel a little suspicious in an instant.

Seeing that Lin Jing did not refute or say yes, he suddenly became a little angry and shy. He thought of running away, but instead had the idea of ​​teaching Lin Jing a lesson, "Tas, damn girl, how dare you tease me, my uncle."

A gangster like this had no idea of ​​mercy on the slap of Lin Jing, and he said that he would hit him as soon as he said he would.

But what he didn't expect was that Lin Jing would not be afraid of his mighty power if he dared to trip him.

As soon as his slap hit the air, Lin Jing's left hand was immediately grabbed by his wrist.

Seeing that Lin Jing had fought back, the robber subconsciously wanted to retract his right hand that he had patted. Unexpectedly, with the force, it was like a scoundrel shaking a tree. The right hand that was caught on his wrist did not move, as if the hand was not his.

A little girl pinched the "pit door" in public on the street, and she couldn't get it back even if she tried hard. After living for more than 20 years, he had never been "humiliated" like this. For a while, his qi and blood surged, and his face turned red.

"Let go, let go." The robber clamored, "Do you know who I am? Who is my elder brother? My elder brother is the leader of these more than ten streets. If you don't let go, I will definitely call my hundreds of brothers to take turns when I go back..."

"ah……"

However, before he could finish his words, Lin Jing was pressed down on his wrist and lifted it up after he was only over 1.6 meters tall.

It turned out that while he was clamoring to attract Lin Jing's attention, he quietly took out a seven or eight centimeter-long butterfly knife from his pocket with his other hand, and wanted to stab him with a knife while Lin Jing was not paying attention.

But how could Lin Jing be scared and hidden by him? It was just that he used a slight force on his left hand. With the clatter of the bones, the short robber's limbs suddenly softened because of the severe pain in his right hand. The right hand holding the butterfly knife loosened, and the knife that was half stabbed fell to the ground.

Bang!

Lin Jing was angry at his odor. When he let go of his left hand, he lifted his foot and whipped him to the ground.

Click!

Unexpectedly, before she could put down her raised legs, she felt a white light flashing in front of her eyes, and then a light sound.

When I looked back, a fat man holding a camera freezes her way of kicking the robber into the film.

"Um?"

Lin Jing was taken privately without permission. She was not very happy and stared at the fat man wearing small glasses.

"Ha ha……"

The fat man could not have imagined that Lin Jing's reaction would be so cold. Although Lin Jing's movement just now looked soft and hard, and extremely graceful, he couldn't help but press the shutter, but according to the current situation, the action might fall on him, which would be a big problem. So he pretended to be honest and touched the back of his head, then started to laugh, and while smiling awkwardly, he looked for an opportunity to slip away.

"Super the film?"

"What?" The fat man who was about to sneak away was very surprised, and then he distinguished himself very skillfully. "I am actually an artist. I am currently working in a very famous advertising company and work as a part-time "Star Scout". While looking for art, I was specifically responsible for discovering some potential unintentional talents. The lady's bravery just now made me very moved. I couldn't help but take an art photo..."

"I'll count three times!" Lin Jing was unmoved at all, because the three words "artistic photos" reminded her of the camera in later generations, "One!"

"Do you really want to get married?" The fat man pretended to be pitiful and aggrieved.

"two!"

"Okay, okay, okay, don't count, I'll take it out now." Seeing Lin Jing's attitude as firm as he was, the fat man had to take out the film in the camera.

Lin Jing stared at his every move carefully, and found that the fat man was not cheating, so he nodded.

At this time, the short and fat middle-aged woman who was robbed finally arrived. She picked up the bag lying on the ground. After careful observation, she found that the appearance of the bag was not damaged. She breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to say hello to Lin Jing.

"Luckily my bag is fine. It's from Hermes, and it costs tens of thousands of yuan." The short and fat middle-aged woman held the bag in one hand and put the other on her hips, and said, "Hey, little girl, you helped me get my bag back. This is the reward for you."

After saying that, she took out a stack of Hong Kong dollars in her bag and handed it over with a denomination of 100 yuan.

"No need, I just don't like him, just kick him. If you feel it's necessary, call the police yourself." Lin Jing said, turned around and left.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Lin Jing walking a few steps away, the short and fat middle-aged woman paused and said, "I really don't know how to show my face. Humph!"

"It's all you. Not only did you almost make me lose my brand-name bag, but I also lost my face." The short and fat middle-aged woman said, kicking the robber who was still lying on the ground and kicking a few times, and said angrily, "You just wash your butt and wait to go to jail."

But talk about the other side!

"Miss, hey, Miss, don't leave, listen to me..."

Because Lin Jing's steps were very blocky and the fat man's legs were short, he could barely follow him while trotting. He was sweating profusely and said while running, while chattering about the various benefits of being a star.

"My name is Zhang Runqin. I am really a scout. My company is looking for a girl as beautiful as you, Miss, to shoot advertisements recently. I think Miss, you have a very special temperament, and it is the person I have been looking for..."

Lin Jing had a cold face and ignored the fat man who claimed to be a scout.

First of all, the scouts have always been mostly scammers. Whenever they see young women with good looks, they usually bring out the words "you are very elegant", as if they can immediately live a dazzling star life with them. Secondly, she doesn't like to stand in front of others to perform, which makes her feel uncomfortable. She has always been behind the scenes before.

Without Lin Jing's response, the fat scout who was pestering him was actually very resilient, and he followed him like a candy, even to Lin Jing's doorstep. If Lin Jing hadn't closed the door in time after entering the house, he might have been shameless.

"For the entertainment industry, I should really discuss it with my family and think carefully. Then I will wait for your news. This is my business card. I'm stuffed it under the crack of your door. Remember to reply to me..."
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