Chapter 170: The Trough
By the time we got to the hotel, it was already dark outside.
The hotel lobby was already brightly lit, and as soon as I entered the lobby, I saw two or three tables in front of me, with a red banner hanging on it, which read: The Second Annual Conference of Chinese Original Literature and the Annual Conference of Authors at the Starting Point.
Behind the desk sat two women and one man, and the staff of the three starting points all had their work cards on their chests.
Seeing the big tiger and others coming in with a tall young man in his arms, still carrying luggage in his hands, the three staff members immediately stood up, with smiles on their faces.
"Let's check in first!"
The big tiger said to Lu Yang, Lu Yang nodded, and surrounded by three people, he walked over and wrote his name on the sign-in book under the guidance of a female staff member.
Then, another female staff member handed him something like a work card and a key card for a hotel room. The work card-like thing was also wearing a blue rope, and Lu Yang's name was written on the small sign. When he took the room key card, the big tiger said that it was the key card of their room.
Then the big tiger and the others took Lu Yang to the room to put their luggage.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, Lu Yang, who had a little rest, went out with the three of them to find food, and there was food in the hotel, but everyone wanted to go out to eat, and by the way, they also walked around in Shanghai at night.
After all, except for the big tiger, everyone is from somewhere else, and it is rare to come to Shanghai once, so you can't help but go out to see it.
The place to eat was chosen by the big tiger.
A restaurant of local Shanghai cuisine, with two floors. The area is also okay, the point is that this store is old enough, and the words on the signboard are faded.
When ordering. Lu Yang asked which great gods had arrived now.
The conversation opened, and when the dishes came up, Lu Yang already knew that the great gods such as Blood Red, Sanshao, and Yuntian had arrived, as well as the old gods such as Yanyu Jiangnan and the masters.
There was a meeting tomorrow, so the big men didn't drink much that night, and they were able to go back by themselves after eating.
On the morning of the next day, the annual meeting was held as scheduled.
In addition to the editor and other staff members of the starting point. There were not many popular authors attending the meeting, only twenty or thirty people, and it is said that the works are all authors with more than 7,000 orders.
This annual meeting. In addition to being hosted by the starting point, there are also six well-known domestic network companies co-organized by Sina, Sohu, Tencent, NetEase, TOM and Tianya Online, and some publishing houses from Taiwan.
The specs look high.
At the meeting, the leaders of the starting point. Leaders of other websites and companies took turns to speak. Lu Yang didn't pay attention to those.
For Lu Yang, a reborn person, there are too many veteran gods and well-known editors at this annual meeting, and Lu Yang knows that many of them will disappear from the starting point in the next year or two, not only the gods, but also the editors.
Just next year. Blood Thick will leave the starting point with a group of great gods and join the digital station founded by another industry giant. The annual meeting lasted for two days.
It was very lively. also signed a few works for simplified publication at the meeting, but this kind of good thing did not come to Lu Yang, Lu Yang's editor-in-charge Brother Tian told Lu Yang at the dinner that if it weren't for the fact that "The Great Warlords of the Three Kingdoms" and "Infinite Killing" had already been published in simplified Chinese, he would definitely have a place in Simplified Chinese this time.
In this regard, Lu Yang just smiled.
Speaking of which, the publishing houses participating in today's meeting are willing to sign, and there are only a few novels with the highest popularity, all of which are sure to make a profit, if it is really a cake, doesn't he Lu Yang still have two books that have not been published in simplified Chinese?
However, Lu Yang also knew that this world was like this, and there was no sense of injustice.
Next year! Next year, when the blood thickens and takes away a group of editors and gods, they will cry, and when the time comes, we will see if they can be as arrogant as they are now.
Historically, in 06 years, the blood thickness almost hollowed out the first-line gods of the starting point, and the top gods such as Yanyu Jiangnan, Blood Red, and Cloud Sky were dug up to only a few left, and many people predicted that the starting point was going to end.
At that time, the grand behind the starting point, in order to save the panicked starting point, gritted his teeth and added an additional investment of 100 million yuan to stabilize the hearts of the remaining editors and several other gods, as well as many middle-level authors.
Then, measures such as improving welfare were adopted, so that the foundation of the starting point was not shaken.
Later facts have proved that the greatest value of the starting point is not those top gods, but many first- and second-line middle-level writers, these first- and second-line writers, under the support of the website, soon gave birth to a group of new gods, this batch of newly born gods, the table is more awesome than the original gods.
For example, Tomato, Chendong, Yueguan, Dancing, Shenji......
It can be said that if it weren't for the departure of Xuehong and others, who gave them the opportunity and place to be praised by the website, these people might not have been able to come out so quickly.
At the end of the two-day annual meeting, Lu Yang stepped on the train back with the autographs of the gods and the contact information.
For Lu Yang, this visit was an eye-opener.
It is almost impossible for these people to meet on the same occasion again after this year.
……
Not long after he went back, Lu Yang found that the blood-red "Shenglong Dao" was over, and the biggest opponent of "Infinite Killing" was suddenly gone, and he suddenly sat on the first place on the monthly ticket list.
I don't know when the "Legend of the Evil God" of Cloud Sky was published, and it has been on the shelves recently.
For this work that was once extremely popular in 05 and 06, Lu Yang is still very jealous.
Cloud Sky, like Blood Red, is also a god of speed flow, and "Legend of the Evil God" is his pinnacle. Fortunately, it hasn't hit the shelves this month, and there's no threat to Infinite Kill.
So, in January, Lu Yang won the first place on the monthly ticket list again and won the success.
……
Maybe it was the last time I didn't refuse Tong Yaqian's winter vacation and went to Lu Yang's hometown, recently, every day when Lu Yang was eating in the cafeteria, Tong Yaqian would always appear opposite him with food.
Every time she didn't say anything, Lu Yang ate in silence, and she was also silent, and after eating, they nodded to each other and said goodbye, and then went to do their own things.
Within a few days, this scene fell into the eyes of Yang Zhi and Cheng Hua, who came to eat in the cafeteria.
At that time, the two did not come forward to greet Lu Yang, but on the way back, they sent a text message to Lu Yang, which was sent by Yang Zhi.
The message reads: Yes, Lu Yang! That was the beautiful president of the school newspaper just now, right?
At the beginning of this semester, the original president of the school newspaper went because of an internship in his senior year, and Tong Yaqian is now the president of the school newspaper.
Unexpectedly, Yang Zhi also knew about it.
Lu Yang, who was eating, took out his mobile phone and read the text message, but he didn't reply, put the phone back in his pocket, and continued to eat silently.
……
During the afternoon class, several people in the dormitory all rushed to Lu Yang's side, occupying all the seats around Lu Yang, and then began to ask Lu Yang if he was dating that Tong Yaqian.
Some people even asked if Lu Yang broke up with Cao Xue?
Lu Yang didn't want to answer any of these questions, he was so annoyed that he took his things and left, and he didn't want to go to the afternoon class.
returned to the rental house, sat in front of the computer, took out his mobile phone, found Cao Xue's number, and wanted to dial, but finally put it down.
Recently, the two have been in contact every day, but the previous feeling of intimacy seems to be estranged, and they can't get back the feeling they used to have, which is also one of the reasons why Cao Xue hasn't come back yet.
When he opened the document, he couldn't find the state of the code words, Lu Yang was a little irritable, so he opened the author's background again, and looked at the number of more than 30,000 and more than 14,000 for "Infinite Killing", and his mood was still irritable.
In the past, every time he was in a bad mood, as long as he looked at these subscription numbers, his mood would quickly improve, but the previous tried and tested methods have also failed today.
got up and went to the living room, playing the guitar, and he couldn't calm down, the question of Yang Zhi and others just now really messed up his heart.
At this moment, I can't calm down.
After thinking about it, he threw down his guitar and changed into a tracksuit and went to Sanda.
……
This time is the time for classes in the afternoon, and when Lu Yang arrived at the Sanda Club, there were only three or five freshmen who had not had classes in the afternoon. Lu Yang was not interested in fighting them, so he walked to a sandbag that was unused by himself, and began to beat the sandbag with his head stuffy, and the sound of banging was endless.
Beat up.
After a while, I was sweating all over.
Several freshmen in the training room could see that he was abnormal today, no one dared to come up and talk, they couldn't concentrate when they were training, their eyes always couldn't help but glance at Lu Yang, secretly smacking Lu Yang's heavy punches and legs, every time they hit the sandbag, they all banged, and the sound was dull.
After more than half an hour, Lu Yang, who was covered in sweat, stopped.
He wiped the sweat beads on his face with his sleeve, and left the training room expressionlessly, when he hit the sandbag just now, he didn't wear gloves at all, and when he left, his hands were still bruised, but he didn't seem to realize it.
When passing by the school gate, he unexpectedly met Rui Xiaoxiu.
Lu Yang was in a bad mood, so he just barely squeezed a smile, nodded with her and left, Rui Xiaoxiu didn't speak, but noticed Lu Yang's abnormality today.
He was sweating profusely, and the skin on the backs of his hands seemed to be broken and bleeding.
Looking at Lu Yang's departing back, Rui Xiaoxiu bit her lip and hesitated for a few seconds before changing direction and following Lu Yang, and when she arrived at the door of Lu Yang's rental house, she quickened her pace and came behind Lu Yang.
Lu Yang glanced back at her, she looked at the back of Lu Yang's hand worriedly, Rui Xiaoxiu hadn't been here for a long time, Lu Yang didn't know the reason, but the two had said that they were friends before, and since she was here today, although Lu Yang was in a bad mood, she still let him into the house.
"You sit down for a while! There is boiling water in the water bottle, and the tea leaves are next to the water bottle, if you want to drink the water, you can pour it yourself! I'll take a shower first!" After briefly saying a word to Rui Xiaoxiu, Lu Yang went to get his clothes and went into the bathroom.
It was already very cold, under the rain sprinkler, Lu Yang stood under the sprayed hot water, closed his eyes and didn't move for a long time, this time the situation was more complicated than breaking up with Feng Tingting.
Cao Xue has not yet returned. (To be continued......)
PS: Thanks to the Jie Fan family, sunshuanfu for rewarding 100 points, thanks to Dream + Red + Dust for rewarding 1888 points, this is today's fourth chapter.