After blacking out the brain-dead of the so-called Alan Wu, the clerk of Random House in China, Zhu Mingli saw a missed call from the capital on his mobile phone after coming home from school for several days, but the number was different each time, as for whether Alan Wu changed his number and called, or a call from other publishers, Zhu Mingli didn't know.

Zhu Mingli didn't call back, because there were still a few days before the high school entrance examination, he was very busy and had no time now, and besides, "The Martian" had not yet reached the top, so he was not in a hurry to sell the copyright.

At the end of the month, on the evening of June 30, Zhu Mingli received a call from Liu Wei, the editor of the magazine. He came specifically to tell Zhu Mingli about the physical sales of "Wasteland".

"Wasteland" was officially released two weeks ago on June 14, with the first 10,000 copies on the shelves, and the 10,000 copies of the book were distributed to bookstores and bookstalls all over the country along with the sales channels of Science Fiction World magazine.

As for the launch time of the next volume, it is determined according to the market reaction of the first volume, if the first volume sells well, it will be later, and if it does not sell well, it will be earlier.

In the first week, the sales of "Wasteland" was 1,567 copies, and such a number is like a drop of water falling into a pond in such a large market across the country, and there is not even a trace of movement.

However, thinking of what Liu Wei said to Zhu Mingli before, judging from the bestseller list with an average monthly sales of 2,000 copies as the benchmark, "Wasteland" sold 1,567 copies in one month after its launch, which seems to have a bit of bestseller potential.

Now, another week has passed, and Zhu Mingli has received new sales, 1,354 copies, down from last week's sales, with a total of 2,920 copies, which the publisher believes is acceptable and has exceeded expectations.

After Zhu Mingli entered the best-selling list of "The Martian" and "Wasteland" in the English version of "The Martian" and "Wasteland" in Amazon Books, and was promoted to the invisible millionaire, especially after knowing that the sales of "Wasteland" could only last for about 100,000 copies, the rest of the sales of the novel were a little light.

Because even if the sales of "Wasteland" reached 100,000 copies in the end, Zhu Mingli's sales share was only about 100,000 yuan, but the novel sold well Zhu Mingli was still quite happy in his heart, after all, it was his own hard work.

Because the exam is coming up tomorrow, Liu Wei gave Zhu Mingli the best wishes for a smooth exam after informing Zhu Mingli of the sales of "Wasteland", and ended the call.

After Zhu Mingli hung up the phone, he went to the court with Mingzhi to play, today is Tuesday, it is the day of playing basketball.

As for the exam, Zhu Mingli has been preparing for this seriously for a year, and in his "previous life", he was able to get a good score, if he couldn't do well in the exam this time, then Zhu Mingli would have to find a piece of tofu and kill himself......

At half past five in the morning, Zhu Mingli got up on time, ran with two dogs, and practiced boxing with a few wise people after coming back.

At seven o'clock, after drying up two pieces of oatmeal bread, two eggs and a carton of fresh milk, and taking a small document bag containing the admission ticket, filling out the card, a black gel pen, and a 2B pencil, Zhu Mingli said goodbye to his mother who was having breakfast.

"Take the exam well, and ...... carefully when answering questions," Zhou Jiamei habitually told her eldest son.

"Mom, don't worry, I won't let you down......" Zhu Mingli waved his hand confidently, and by the way, he drove the two dogs playing around him back to the yard.

When I came to the school, most of the people in the class had already come.

Traditionally, on the morning of the first day, the test time is from 8:30 to 10:30, and Zhu Mingli's test location is the same as that of the exam, which is still in the first middle school.

The time to go to the test center was 7:40, and while there were still twenty or thirty minutes before the departure time, many people took out review materials to review, and even Zeng Peng, who was about to go through the motions, also memorized poems and classical Chinese at this time......

Because it is a high school entrance examination, unlike the general entrance examination, you can just find a bus to over, and the school will rent a bus, so that every student has a seat on the bus......

At around 7:35, the head teacher came to the classroom and asked everyone to check whether the admission ticket, filling in the card, gel pen, and 2B pencil had been left behind.

Then everyone began to line up to go downstairs to take the bus, and when they got to the bus, many people still did not stop to review, and their eyes were still staring at the review materials in their hands without blinking.

In fact, at this time, what should be reviewed and memorized, is almost the same, just because the exam is coming soon, the vast majority of people will only know after leaving school, in fact, the questions that officially began when they were students are always simpler than the content of the mock test when they reviewed, as long as they have a good review before, and relax their minds during the exam, they will not be so bad......

It's a pity that they don't know this truth yet, so they are very nervous now, even if Zhu Mingli tells Xiao Yating, who is sitting in the seat in front of him, not to be nervous and relax, it is useless, from getting on the bus to getting off the bus, she has been reciting classical Chinese repeatedly......

The location of the exam is still the junior high school teaching building at the time of the last examination, after everyone got off the bus, gathered in front of the teaching building, at this time there was still about half an hour before the start of the exam, and the candidates from several other schools also arrived, and then the candidates from several schools gathered on the basketball court and the big playground.

There were a lot of people shouting and shouting, like a vegetable market, but some of the students who were originally very nervous relaxed and put down the review materials that were tightly grasped in their hands......

At 8:15, the news of the candidates' entry came on the radio, and then everyone walked into the examination room, and Zhu Mingli came to his examination room on the 5th floor, found his seat and sat down.

Soon after sitting down, the exam began, and the invigilator began handing out the test papers and answer sheets.

Zhu Mingli carefully filled in the school, name and admission ticket number on the test paper and answer sheet, first briefly scanned the test questions, and then turned to the last essay question.

The most important thing in the language test is the composition, and the score of 60 points is not careless.

Zhu Mingli's habit is to read the essay questions before doing the questions, like writing an online novel, first come up with an outline, and then go back to complete the detailed outline while doing other topics, maybe you can get some new inspiration and inspiration when doing the questions......

This year's essay is a fable about an astronomer who used to go outside at night to observe the stars, and one night, he walked outside the city, looked intently at the sky, and accidentally fell into a deep well. He was wounded, and he wept in great sorrow and cried out again. The inhabitants of the neighborhood ran to the well, and when they asked why, they said, "Why do you care only about the things in heaven and not the things on the earth?"

The title requires you to write about similar things that happened in your life based on the fable, or talk about your feelings after reading it, or use your association and imagination to continue writing the fable. The idea is self-determined, the style is standardized, and the topic is self-proposed......

Oh, after reading the essay questions, Zhu Mingli turned around and began to do the questions, multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, and reading questions one by one, except for the final reading comprehension, the other questions are not difficult.

It took Zhu Mingli less than an hour to finish these questions, and then he began to fill in the answers on the answer sheet, checking them in the process.

After filling in the answers, Zhu Mingli began to write the essay, and the content of the essay had been roughly thought of before, and it was also written smoothly at this time, controlling the number of words, just filling the composition paper.

After the composition was written, there was less than half an hour before the end of the exam, and Zhu Mingli did not hand in the paper in advance, and waited until the end of the exam before leaving the examination room with the large army, and then everyone got on the bus and went back to school, each went home, and prepared for the afternoon exam.

In the afternoon, I took an English test.

The English test is a bit easy for Zhu Mingli now, and he has memorized words, grammar, compositions and watched English movies for a year, which is not covered.

When the listening began, Zhu Mingli had already finished the third part of the oral application questions, and was ready to start reading comprehension. In the process of listening, Zhu Mingli took two reading comprehension questions by the way.

After the listening test, Zhu Mingli finished the rest of the test questions smoothly, and then began to write essays.

This year's English essay topic is very interesting, writing about the changes in his appearance, hobbies, and habits in the past three years in junior high school, which is simply a tailor-made topic for Zhu Mingli, so Zhu Mingli wrote the English essay in one go......

On July 2nd, mathematics will be tested in the morning, physics and chemistry will be tested in the afternoon, and on July 3rd, the last half day of the high school entrance examination, history and politics will be opened.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, with a bell ringing, the last political exam ended, and the candidates walked out of the examination room with sadness or joy, regardless of the results, the 2009 high school entrance examination in Jiangjin City was over......