A winter break just passed, and the students were back in the classroom. This winter vacation has only been out for more than two weeks, and for the students, they really don't feel much change.

In the last semester of the third year of junior high school, the learning task is still quite heavy, although the high school entrance examination can also change a person's life, but the high school entrance examination is not as cruel as the college entrance examination, and the third year of junior high school is not like the third year of high school.

The third year of junior high school not only has new textbooks last semester, but also new courses this semester, so the second semester of junior high school must complete the content of this semester's new textbooks before the midterm exam, and only after the midterm exam will officially enter the review stage of the high school entrance examination.

Although the study tasks are heavy, the school life is still going on step by step, because the physical education high school examination has not yet been examined, so the one-hour exercise every afternoon is still carried out.

In the first week of the new semester, Mr. Chen, the head teacher, rearranged his seat, and Zhu Mingli still did not escape the fate of becoming the mainstay, and moved the table to sit between the second and third groups, in front of the podium table.

But fortunately, because of exercising every day for most of the past six months, eating and drinking well, Zhu Mingli's height has jumped to 172cm, which is considered the top five tallest in the class, so Zhu Mingli sits in the seventh of the "mainstay".

In front of him, from low to high, they are Lin Lin, Lin Xiaoqing, Lin Jialin, Lin Yating and other six girls, plus Zhu Mingli, the seven people are the top seven people in the class in the final exam results of last semester, and if there is no accident, the seven of them can be admitted to the first-level standard school in the high school entrance examination.

As for the others, it depends on how hard they try......

If the high school entrance examination is compared to a 1000-meter run, compared to the vast majority of students in the same grade who are still warming up, Zhu Mingli has already completed the 500-meter run, so Zhu Mingli's plan for this semester is also step-by-step, not in a hurry.

In addition to daily study and the planned preparation of online novels, after Zhu Mingli barely learned to play the bamboo flute with his father, on the first weekend of the new semester, Zhu Mingli also went to the city center to buy a guitar and came back.

"In the previous life" Zhu Mingli studied guitar for half a year after going to college, but unfortunately he had a lazy cancer attack later, and the folk guitar that he bought for more than 200 yuan was put on the shelf.

Because he learned the bamboo flute during the Chinese New Year, Zhu Mingli thought about picking up the guitar and learning it......

In addition to incorporating the guitar into his study plan, during the Chinese New Year, Tang Bo didn't know how to find it, so he found a set of leg methods called Shaolin King Kong Twelve-Legged on the Internet, and secretly practiced for a few days, and later kicked Zhu Mingli off guard when he practiced with Zhu Mingli.

After Zhu Mingli saw this set of leg techniques, he found that it was very refined, simple and practical, plus Zhu Mingli has been practicing Wing Chun and military body boxing are mainly boxing methods, and there are very few leg methods, only simple leg methods such as kicking and whipping legs.

Compared with boxing, the leg method actually occupies a greater proportion in martial arts fighting skills, the so-called "hands are two doors, all rely on the legs to hit people", "punches three points, leg kicks seven points", Zhu Mingli has been strengthening his body for most of the past six months, and consolidating what he has learned before.

This time, he discovered the twelve-legged leg method of Shaolin King Kong from Tang Bo, and he was also happy to see the hunting, and added this leg method to the sequence of daily exercises.

The following week, Zhu Mingli finally received the English translation of the new version of "Wasteland".

At the same time, Zhu Mingli also received a notice from Liu Wei, the editor of the magazine, that in the past few months, Zhu Mingli's first novel "Wasteland" has been serialized in the magazine for about a third of the time, which has caused a very good response among readers.

Once the novel is published, Zhu Mingli will not only be able to get a manuscript fee equivalent to that of The Martian, but also because of the quality of The Martian, Zhu Mingli will also be able to get a share of the physical sales of The Wasteland.

Zhu Mingli doesn't know how much of the physical sales he will be able to get in the end, but with the status of "Science Fiction World", the world's best-selling science fiction magazine, he thinks that he will be able to get a lot of money at that time.

Because of this, the American version of "Wasteland", which was originally just modified by holding the grass and beating rabbits, Zhu Mingli had a few more expectations for his results. Think about it, if the US version of "Wasteland" can have good sales results, then you may get more of the physical sales of "Wasteland"!

Of course, what Zhu Mingli is most looking forward to is the results of "The Martian"!

I have already had an experience, and this time I will go over the wall to upload a novel to Amazon Book City, and Zhu Mingli is a little familiar.

Since the upload of "The Martian", Zhu Mingli has never checked the subscription, and this time uploaded "Wasteland" Zhu Mingli just checked the situation of "Mars".

After climbing over the wall, I entered the website, logged in to the account, entered the list of works, and clicked to check the sales of "The Martian" with some eagerness, and Zhu Mingli saw a number that surprised him: $1064.

The original author, Andy Weir, was encouraged by readers to send the novel to Amazon for $0.99, and finally downloaded and purchased more than anyone who originally had it in his personal space!

Zhu Mingli is on par with the original author, and the price for "The Martian" is $1, and now the sales of the novel are $1064, which means that from the upload on New Year's Day to the present, more than 1,000 people have purchased and downloaded the novel "The Martian" in more than a month!

Zhu Mingli doesn't know what kind of situation this sales is on Amazon.com, but in his opinion, this is a very good sales result!

Zhu Mingli realized that the novel "The Martian", first written by himself and then translated by a professor, is definitely of much better quality than the original version of the novel, and the most feared thing about a novel is that no one cares.

And now more than 1,000 people have downloaded this novel, even if a third of them think that the book is well written and promoted, and Zhu Mingli's price of this novel is only 1 US dollar, I believe that the sales of the novel will snowball!

The money seems to be very good!

According to the excitement, Zhu Mingli uploaded "Wasteland" first, and the price of "Wasteland" Zhu Mingli ordered 3 US dollars, this price is derived from "The Martian", the Martian has a total of more than 100,000 words priced at one dollar, and the number of words in "Wasteland" is three times that of "Mars", so it is 3 US dollars.

After uploading "Wasteland", Zhu Mingli turned his head to check the situation of the Martian, and entered the sales page of "The Martian", Zhu Mingli first looked at the score under the cover introduction, the five-star rating, "The Martian" got 4 stars, Zhu Mingli didn't know how the score was, and it should be good.

Moving on, Zhu Mingli mainly wants to see what readers say about "The Martian".

After studying every day for more than half a year, and reading through the translation of "The Martian" for the second time, Zhu Mingli no longer has much obstacle in listening, speaking, reading and writing in English, especially in popular communication.

And after reading the comments of "The Martian", Zhu Mingli's heart finally fell, although there were many bad reviews in these comments, but Zhu Mingli saw more words like "surprise", "interesting" and "amusing......

Zhu Mingli feels that he has taken a solid second step in his plan for "The Martian"!