Chapter 14: Fame Emerges

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Although Lin Jing came out with a 7A in the entrance examination, her life has not changed much, and she is still working hard day and night to climb the lattice.

After more than a month of struggle, "Heroes" has come to an end, and it will not take a few days to finish it.

It is worth mentioning that a few days ago, she received the admission letter from Xiangjiang Chinese University, a thin piece of A4 paper, compared with the red and purple admission letters of many mainland universities that Lin Jing has seen, it can be said that it is very simple.

It is easy for those who do not know what Hong Kong Chinese University is, will this be an admission letter for a pheasant university?

The day after receiving the admission letter from CUHK, his father Lin Liwei took a day off and set up a banquet at home for a day, and invited the neighbors of the 10th building of Lei Muk Shue Estate.

It was also on that day that a reporter from "Ming Pao" came and interviewed Lin Jing, the 7A champion of the Higher Cheng Dù Entrance Examination. However, this interview was not published in the Ming Pao Evening News, but in the supplement of Ming Pao.

Ming Pao Evening News was founded in 1969 as a successor to the Chinese Night Post, which was a comprehensive newspaper when it was founded, and transformed into an economic-oriented evening newspaper in the 70s. It was only in 1973 that Lin Shanmu, who was still the deputy editor-in-chief at the time, left and founded the Hong Kong Economic Journal on his own, and took away many columnists of the Ming Pao Evening News. Coupled with the downturn in the Hong Kong stock market after 1974, the influence of the Ming Pao Evening News was undoubtedly reduced, and since then the Ming Pao Evening News has been in a slump, with sales hovering around 10,000 copies all year round.

Hu Wenliang, who took over as deputy editor-in-chief of the Ming Pao Evening News after Lin Shanmu, has been trying to restore the influence of the evening newspaper, but the implementation of various measures has had little effect, and the publication of martial arts novels is also a helpless move, in fact, he has not pinned his hopes on martial arts novels.

At that time, Jin Yong saved "Ming Pao" with a pen, but with the decline of martial arts novels, the situation of relying on a martial arts novel to win the world has undoubtedly become a legend today.

Newspapers can't be sold, and naturally they don't get too much pay for writing articles. Therefore, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu gave Lin Jing a price of 35 fast for 1,000 words, which was very reasonable in his opinion.

At the beginning of the serialization of "Heroes", although a big title was played as a beak, the sales of "Ming Pao Evening News" did not get much improvement, and it was still half-dead, after all, "Heroes" is just a new work for newcomers, and those who don't like to read martial arts novels won't read it, and those who like martial arts novels don't pay attention to "Heroes" because they don't have the habit of reading "Ming Pao Evening News".

But with the passage of time, the sales of "Heroes" and "Ming Pao Evening News" have improved slightly, and they have grown slowly.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu, who noticed this change, sent a large number of people out to conduct a simple survey of readers who subscribed to the "Ming Pao Evening News" and came to the conclusion that the "Ming Pao Evening News" was able to make this change because of the "Heroes".

Overjoyed, he immediately expanded the serialized page of "Heroes" and put an eye-catching recommendation title on the main page of each issue of "Ming Pao Evening News", and the effect was not bad. But Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu was no longer satisfied with such a petty fight, and when he accidentally learned that Lin Jing, the author of "Heroes", was still the top student in the recent examination, he thought of a clever plan to increase the sales of the evening newspaper.

He rushed to the editor-in-chief office of Ming Pao and persuaded the deputy editor-in-chief to send a reporter to interview Lin Jing.

Not many people read the Ming Pao Evening News, but the supplement of the Ming Pao is different.

An interview titled "7A champion turned out to be the author of the martial arts novel "Heroes"" appeared in the supplement of "Ming Pao", which caused a thousand waves with one stone, and soon attracted a wide range of heated discussions among readers.

It turned out that although the reporter only made a simple interview with Lin Jing, the interview script was carefully polished by him, and he used all his pen power to do his best to sensationalize what he could, saying "My mother died early, my father was seriously injured, the family lived in a dilapidated house, he was in debt, and he had to work part-time to earn money to support his family while studying", anyway, how to write it touching and heartfelt, how to write it with the greatest sympathy, and finally portrayed the perfect and tall image of a person's tenacious struggle with endless ambitions.

In just a few days, Ming Pao received thousands of letters from readers, and most of them were letters of condolence, accompanied by a lot of donations.

This was something that Lin Jing herself did not expect, she thought it was a very ordinary and pure interview at the time, who knew that it was carefully planned by Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu. Fortunately, she had a lot of eyes at the time, and did not agree to Ming Pao publishing her photo and home address.

As the heated discussion of that interview further expanded, the sales of "Ming Pao Evening News" also ushered in an explosive growth, from less than 20,000 copies to 50,000 copies. Many Xiangjiang citizens bought the "Ming Pao Evening News" with a curiosity, and they all wanted to know what a martial arts novel written by a fifteen-year-old girl would look like.

Of course, some of them are just curious, and they can't be converted into real readers who subscribe to the "Ming Pao Evening News", but as long as half of them have already made Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu smile from ear to ear.

Other newspapers in Xiangjiang saw it and moved one after another.

However, although they obtained Lin Jing's address through various channels, they were not able to interview Lin Jing herself, or even anyone from the Lin family.

In desperation, they had no choice but to interview Lin Jing's neighbors and marginal people, and then fully used their imagination to concoct a series of anecdotes.

"A female champion from a single-parent family, why doesn't she love romance and martial arts?"

"Without leaving home, the 7A female champion writes martial arts behind closed doors!"

"The unfortunate family breeds wonderful, the secret that the 7A female champion has to say!"

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With the appearance of a large number of strange essays in countless newspapers, both large and small, the citizens of the entire Xiangjiang who read the newspapers or not have begun to hear about the person "Lin Jing".

Many readers of "Heroes" suddenly realized that the martial arts novel I had been reading was written by a girl who was only 15 years old.

Of course, it is not without some hypocritical readers, when they learned that "Heroes" was written by a little girl who had not even reached the flower season, they immediately gave up reading.

But this is always a small part, and most people who really like "Heroes" don't mind who wrote it. What they care about is whether "Heroes" can maintain its consistent wonderfulness, as long as the standard can be maintained, it is enough, if it can be written better, it is undoubtedly better.

The words are divided into several ends, and it shows that on the side of the newspaper group, Jin Yong has been busy revising and integrating the publication of the fifteen martial arts novels he wrote recently, and has not paid much attention to the daily affairs of "Ming Pao", but he just heard about Lin Jing by chance, so he asked the deputy editor-in-chief of the evening newspaper to ask.

"The "Heroes" serialized in our evening newspaper is the same person as the 7A female champion?"

"Yes, Mr. Cha, I was just as surprised as you at the beginning, no, with her interview registered in the supplement, it has become a strange talk in Xiangjiang."

"Then it's also true that this Lin Jing Xiaoyou's family is poor?"

"Indeed, her mother passed away at the beginning of the year, and the family lives in public housing, and it is said that she still owes a lot of debts."

"How is her remuneration calculated?"

"Thirty-five in a thousand words."

"Thirty-five thousand words, a little lower, double it."

Doubling is seventy thousand words, Hu Wenliang hesitated. "Ming Pao" generally does not take the initiative to increase the remuneration of the author, Jin Yong said that he would double the remuneration of a fledgling young author, which surprised Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu.

"Is there any difficulty?" Jin Yong didn't explain much, just asked casually.

......According to the regulations of Ming Pao, even if the articles published in the newspaper bring about an increase in the actual sales of Ming Pao, the increase in remuneration for writers is not something that can be achieved overnight.

"Think of it as a sponsorship for this poor and strong little friend to study."

Jin Yong's newspaper is purely a business, and if he wants to make the greatest profit in business, he must strictly control the cost, so his expenditure on the newspaper will be so cheap, and he is talking about business. It is precisely because of this that the name of his stinginess spreads throughout Xiangjiang.

In fact, in ordinary life, Jin Yong is not very stingy. He has always been generous in his efforts to donate to education.

For example, once Jin Yong went to a school with a check of one million yuan to donate, the principal of the school and he was also a very familiar friend, took the check and looked at it and made a joke and said, "Is there a zero missing", Jin Yong didn't say much at the time, but immediately sent 9 million when he turned around.

Since the person in charge is talking, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Hu is naturally as good as a stream.

Lin Jing's side soon received a new contract for "Heroes". Although she also believed that the price of "Heroes" would not stay unchanged at 35 words per 1,000 words, she did not expect the joy to come so quickly.

"Heroes" has been serialized with more than 300,000 words, the old price of 1,000 words is 35 unchanged, and the price after more than 300,000 words is 70,000 words, which means that she can earn more than 100,000 at once.

And as her fame slowly spreads, she has new ideas.