"Can you show me?" asked Lin Weidong expectantly.

"Of course not. Anne didn't think about it, and Li refused Lin Weidong's request.

Lin Weidong didn't feel disappointed, he was completely able to understand Anne's thoughts, but he was confused in his heart: "Sister Anne, isn't this novel you are writing now going to be published under the banyan tree?"

Anne said calmly: "Yes, my novel is not going to be serialized under the banyan tree, I will directly find a publishing house to publish it." ”

"Why?" Lin Weidong looked at Anne suspiciously.

Anne said bluntly: "Because there is no threshold for online writing, those traditional publishing houses have serious confidence in us online writers. ”

"I think that only if we have published physical books ourselves, those publishing houses will look at us differently and have an endorsement of our literary level. ”

Lin Weidong nodded suddenly in realization: "So that's the case, no wonder your novels have not been published on the Internet, dare to love that they look down on us Internet writers at all." ”

"So to speak. Anne nodded, slowed down, and then said: "Actually, the company also went to Beijing to promote my book before, and at that time I had already written a very popular work on the Internet, but the publisher was always very hesitant, even if our company said that the print run was only 20,000 copies, the publisher still refused to agree." ”

"They don't think there's going to be good work online, and in the current situation, it's going to be very difficult to change their mindset. ”

Lin Weidong sighed: "Then according to what you say, is there no way to publish this "e-Net Love" I wrote in our mainland?"

Although "e-Net Love" has been published in Taiwan in traditional Chinese books, and Lin Weidong's dream of being a writer has also come true, Taiwan is only a province after all, and Lin Weidong, as a mainlander, still desires most to publish his own simplified books in the mainland.

Looking at Lin Weidong's discouraged look, Anne comforted: "Lonely City, a novel serialized on the Internet, it is indeed difficult to publish it in the mainland, but it is not completely without opportunities. ”

"Otherwise, I'll show you someone tomorrow, and maybe, he can help you. ”

"Also, haven't you always wanted to see Wang Shuo? He and Wang Shuo are good friends, and this time Wang Shuo is willing to be a judge, because he invited him to brush his face. ”

Hearing Annie's words, Lin Weidong was immediately overjoyed, and asked curiously, "Who is he, is he the boss of your company?"

"It's not. Anne shook her head and said, "It's not our boss, our boss went on a business trip to the United States, and he is the moderator under our banyan tree." ”

The moderator mentioned by Anne is named Chen Cun, known as "Grandpa" in the rivers and lakes, born in 1954.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Cun has many identities, he is not only a writer of the Writers Association, but also a moderator of the forum under the banyan tree, and an artistic director under the banyan tree.

At the beginning, the boss under the banyan tree, William Zhu, asked Chen Cun to give himself an official title, he said that it was not good, he didn't want an official title, this was very annoying.

So, Chen Cun came up with a name and said that it should be called "mesh", an eye on the net.

Later, after the official corporatization of "Under the Banyan Tree", they said that the name Chen Cun was not good, and if they wanted to have an official name, they would change the name to art director.

In Chen Village's view, the advantage of being called an artistic director is that it sounds more elegant, and he doesn't care about anything, which is equivalent to a "no matter what the minister", he can say anything, but he has no specific responsibilities.

After chatting with Anne for a while, Lin Weidong knew that she was going to write, so he stopped bothering her, consciously returned to the room, and borrowed a copy of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" before leaving.

Lying on the bed in the room, Lin Weidong took "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" and turned a few pages, but sure enough, he still couldn't read it.

However, Lin Weidong felt warm in his heart when he thought of Anne's care for him, and he couldn't help but sigh that in this era, there is more trust between people than in 20 years.

It's been two days since he left Mei'an City, Lin Weidong was bored lying on the bed, tossing and turning in bed, and all he could think about was Wang Sijia's face.

Lin Weidong, who had nothing to do, was really bored, so he got up from the bed, then took out a towel and a change of clothes from his backpack, and went to the bathroom to take a hot shower.

This night, Lin Weidong slept soundly and had no dreams all night.

The next morning, under the banyan tree headquarters.

Under Anne's recommendation, Lin Weidong met Chen Cun in the director's office.

Because Chen Cun suffered from ankylosing spondylitis, he was hunched over and had difficulty moving, so he had to rely on crutches to move.

Among the more than 10 teams of young people under the banyan tree, Chen Cun, who has gray hair and is on crutches, is an outlier, looking like a little old man.

Moreover, Chen Cun is also an out-and-out computer fan, since he was a child, he likes new things, especially new machines, when he was a child, Chen Cun's ideal was to be an astronomer, as early as the end of the 70s, he began to play with the camera.

In 1992, Chen Cun bought his first computer, and has maintained the habit of getting up and turning it on, sleeping and turning it off.

Ridiculously speaking, Chen Cun's angiospondylitis is largely caused by playing with the computer for a long time.

When Lin Weidong arrived at the director's office, Chen Cun had only come in for a while, and the computer had just been turned on.

To Lin Weidong's surprise, the navigation website used on the homepage of Chen Cun's computer was actually hao123 founded by him.

Lin Weidong couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, do you also use this navigation website?"

Chen Cun smiled and said: "Ah yes, I think this hao123 is very easy to use, put together all the URLs commonly used by users, no need to find them one by one! Have you used it?"

Lin Weidong held back a smile and nodded: "I've used it, I also think it's very easy to use." ”

However, Lin Weidong muttered in his heart, I didn't just use it, I made the whole website.

In addition, in order for hao123 to operate normally, Lin Weidong also spent a sum of money to buy a server.

Lin Weidong asked with interest: "Uncle, I heard Sister Anne say that you bought a 286 computer in 1992, and it took several months of salary at that time, right?"

Chen Cun shook his head and threw a cigarette to Lin Weidong: "It's not a few months, it's two years' salary!" I spent more than 6,000 yuan, and I also bought a second-hand printer of more than 1,000 yuan." At that time, many computers didn't have hard drives, and mine had a hard drive, and 2 megabytes of RAM, which sounds funny now, but it was very generous at the time. ”

Lin Weidong picked up the lighter, lit the cigarette, took a puff, spit out the smoke ring, and sighed: "How can you be willing to spend 2 years of salary to buy a computer?"

Chen Cun said calmly: "I played it once before, I think it's so fun, so smart, I have liked machines since I was a child, and computers are the smartest of all machines." ”

"The first day I bought my computer, the store gave me two small games similar to Tetris, and I played them until 3 a.m. I think it's over, the computer was bought back for writing, at least under the pretext of writing. ”

Looking at Chen Cun, who was talking eloquently, Lin Weidong decided to do what he liked, and then asked: "At that time, it was still a DOS system, right?"

Chen Cun flicked the cigarette ash and nodded: "Yes, the dos system is to memorize some commands, copy space C colon backslash, I can also memorize some basic commands." ”

"At that time, there were already some writers in Shanghai who were using computers to write, such as Ye Yonglie and Dai Houying. Later, there was a craze for "changing pens" in writers' circles, and many people gave up their pens and switched to computers. ”

"Flowers and" is what I wrote on the computer,Input is Larry,I set some phrases myself,Use a consonant and a vowel to spell out the words。 With the computer, my novels consist of thinking of writing paragraphs and adjusting them at the end. ”

Lin Weidong asked curiously, "So you started to contact the Internet very early, right?"

Chen Cun said proudly: "That's right, I learned to surf the Internet in 1997, and I first used Modem dial-up to access the Internet, and the Internet speed was only 33.6K, and later it rose to 56K. At that time, the cost of Internet access was even more expensive than it is now, three or four hundred yuan a month. The good things I see on the Internet can only be saved and watched offline. ”

Although Chen Cun is a middle-aged man who has been in the countryside and has been in the factory for more than 100 years, Lin Weidong does not feel that he has too deep a generation gap with him.

Moreover, in the process of chatting with Chen Cun, Lin Weidong found that Chen Cun is a very talkative person and a very enlightened person, and he does not have the condescending bad habits of ordinary leaders.

At the same time, Chen Cun also has a very good impression of Lin Weidong, a young man, and feels that many of the ideas put forward by Lin Weidong are extremely imaginative, which can be called whimsical in the eyes of Chen Cun today, but it will not make people feel unrealistic.

Of course, the reason why Lin Weidong chatted so vigorously with Chen Cun was not because he liked to chat, but because he wanted Chen Cun to help him publish "e-Net Love" and befriend Wang Shuo.