Chapter 4: Encounter with a talent scout

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From May 6th to May 16th, Lin Jing stayed at home every day except for housework, and kept writing, hiding from her family.

"Heroes" was written about 100,000 words, and then a certain amount of textual polishing was carried out around these 100,000 words, so that the writing of "Heroes" at least did not differ too much. As for the plot structure, she didn't make any changes.

These 100,000 words are almost the original first volume, which is the one-man show of Wu Dingyuan among the four protagonists of the whole novel "Watching the Sea and Yunyuan", although he has not yet seen the whole picture, but the style has been completed, and the plot has been unfolded, and he can get a glimpse of it or two, which is enough for the editor to judge the value.

In addition to "Heroes", she also wrote the beginnings of some other novels, but because "Heroes" has not yet been recognized, she only wrote the beginnings.

May 17th, the day before the HKCEE, happened to be a Monday.

After packing the manuscript of "Heroes", Lin Jing decided to go out to send it.

In 1982, Xiangjiang's martial arts novels were actually much worse than before, and many martial arts novel magazines and newspapers that had been thriving in the past had been closed for many years, and even fewer were still writing martial arts novels.

At this time, he still insisted on writing martial arts novels in Xiangjiang, and there was only one more famous Wen Ruian, but he was not from Xiangjiang, he had been writing in Taiwan before, but he was expelled by the Taiwan authorities for some reason, and he had to leave Taiwan, and later moved to Xiangjiang.

The martial arts novels written by Wen Ruian were serialized in "Ming Pao", including "The Four Famous Catches" that Lin Jing is more familiar with.

This familiarity, that is, just reading it, is not so much if you like it.

In her impression, Wen Rui'an is talented and his writing is not bad, but once this person starts writing, it is a tragic situation of flesh and blood, no matter how wise and dignified the protagonist of his pen is, once the plot unfolds, he will be abused to death.

Although Jin Yong and Gurung sometimes abuse the master, compared with him in this regard, it is really unattainable.

And he also likes to play word games very much, to the point of going crazy, so that later good deeds want to slash Wen Rui'an and count his ten major crimes.

Of course, the current Wen Rui'an has not yet reached the point where he later went mad, although he has begun to show his love for abusing the master.

The newspaper that Lin Jing chose to list "Heroes" is also "Ming Pao".

Because "Ming Pao" has been exhibited for many years, Xiangjiang has a very high status at this time, and its sales are rising steadily, not to mention that "Ming Pao" has always had a tradition of serializing high-level martial arts novels.

Of course, "Heroes" is the first martial arts novel that is about to go out, and Lin Jing doesn't expect to get much profit.

Because Jin Yong is in charge of "Ming Pao", in the newspaper industry, his reputation for stinginess is far and wide, and the time for giving authors manuscript fees is not very high.

Even Lin Yanni, who is known as the best prose writer in Xiangjiang, asked him for an increase in manuscript fees, but he just smiled and said: "You love to spend money so much, you add and spend it, and you don't add it." ”

For example, "Mrs. Shi" Yishu also asked him to increase the manuscript fee, so he found another excuse: "You don't spend money, what's the use of increasing the manuscript fee?" Yishu also scolded him in the column of "Ming Pao" for this. Unexpectedly, Jin Yong saw it, and still smiled and said: "You can scold it, the manuscript will be published as usual, and the manuscript fee will not be increased at all." ”

However, although the remuneration of Ming Pao is not high, contributors still flock to it, after all, Ming Pao has a great reputation, and being able to publish articles on it is a status symbol. Rather than doing nothing in some tabloids, it is better to grit your teeth and "preach" in the "Ming Pao", if "accidentally" becomes a hit and becomes famous, then the manuscript fee will naturally roll in.

Lin Jing didn't have the address of "Ming Pao", but it was a trivial matter, she casually found a newsstand on the street and glanced at the masthead of the "Ming Pao" newspaper.

Knowing the address, she first made a copy of the original manuscript, prepared for both, and then found a courier company and handed over a copy of the first 100,000 words of "Heroes" along with her name and home address.

Originally, she also considered going to the head office of Ming Pao to submit the article in person, but after thinking about it, the address of the head office of Ming Pao is on Xiangjiang Island, which is a little far away from Tsuen Wan, where she lives now, and if she really goes, she will have to transfer many times.

The Tsuen Wan Line opened a few days ago, but for the same distance, the cost of taking the subway is even higher than the cost of taking the bus, which is even less cost-effective.

And she takes into account that her age is easy to preconceive that she writes childish and ridiculous young age books.

Hairless and unstable is the truth in the eyes of many people, although she is now a woman, but age is a hard injury after all, and before she has made impressive results, it will also be misunderstood.

If you wait until the manuscript is over and the editor thinks it is worth serializing, then the situation will be completely reversed, and the age will increase, and you may even be praised as a "genius".

This world is so strange that she can't help but "follow the customs".

After coming out of the courier company, Lin Jing went to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables and carried them home.

The distance of two or three miles is not far or not, but it is not close, and when she touches her pocket, she simply walks into the car.

"Robbery, robbery, help me stop him......"

Just as Lin Jing was taking the "No. 11" bus and walking briskly, he suddenly heard the sound of killing pigs from behind him.

She stopped and looked back, and a short, sturdy man was screaming and rushing in panic, and the pedestrians in front of him were desperate to dodge for fear of getting into trouble.

When he got closer, Lin Jing saw that he was firmly grasping a delicate women's satchel in his left hand, and while occasionally looking back, he was rushing fast.

Seeing that he was about to rush in front of him, Lin Jing flashed to the side, and then quietly stretched out his right foot.

"Oops......"

When he exclaimed, the robber who was caught off guard immediately pounced on the ground like a vicious dog.

Maybe it was a lot of adrenaline secreted in his body when he ran away just now, and he had obviously thrown himself into the street and his nose and mouth were bleeding, but he still got up from the ground all of a sudden, moving quickly and quickly.

"Who is it, who tripped the uncle?" He shouted loudly and loudly, as if he would not give up if he did not get along with the person who tripped over him, although he was already a thief, his face was a mess and wolfish at this time.

A few wild roars frightened the surrounding pedestrians into scattering.

"Is that you?" After looking around, he finally saw Lin Jing standing aside, the old god was there, but Lin Jing's appearance that looked so weak as "Sister Lin" made him suspicious in an instant.

Seeing that Lin Jing didn't refute or say yes, he suddenly became a little annoyed and angry, and his thoughts of running away were exhausted, but he had the idea of teaching Lin Jing a lesson, "Hema, dead girl, dare to play tricks on your uncle and me." ”

A little gangster like this, but he didn't have any thoughts of pity for Xiang Xiang and jade, he raised his hand and slapped Lin Jing with a slap, saying that he would hit it.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that Lin Jing dared to trip over him, so he wasn't afraid of his ruffians.

As soon as his slap hit the air, he was immediately grabbed by Lin Jing's outstretched left hand.

When the robber saw that Lin Jing actually fought back, he subconsciously wanted to take back the right hand that was slapped out, but when he used his strength, it was like a grasshopper shaking a tree, and the right hand that was grabbed by the wrist did not move, as if this hand was not his.

In front of the public on the street, he was pinched by a little girl who couldn't pull it back, and he couldn't pull it back with all his might, and he had never been "humiliated" like this for more than 20 years.

"Let go, you let go." The robber shouted to himself, "Do you know who I am, who my eldest brother is, my eldest brother is the leader of these more than ten streets, if I don't let go, I will definitely call my hundreds of brothers to ......take turns when I go back."

"Ah......h

However, before he could finish speaking, he was only in his early sixties when Lin Jing held down his wrist with one hand and lifted him up.

It turned out that he was shouting on his mouth to attract Lin Jing's attention, and with the other hand, he quietly took out a butterfly knife seven or eight centimeters long from his trouser pocket, wanting to stab Lin Jing when he was not paying attention.

But how could Lin Jing be frightened by him, but his left hand was slightly forced, and in the gurgling of the bones, the short robber suddenly softened his limbs because of the severe pain in his right hand, and the right hand holding the butterfly knife was loosened, and the half-stabbed knife suddenly fell to the ground.

Syllable!

Lin Jing was annoyed by his foul mouth, and when he let go of his left hand, he raised his foot to be a whip leg, and knocked him to the ground.

Click!

Unexpectedly, before she could put down her raised leg, she felt a white light flash in front of her eyes, and then a soft sound.

When I looked back, it was a fat man with a camera, and she had frozen the action she had just kicked the robber down into the film.

"Huh?"

was taken a photo without permission, Lin Jing was not very happy in her heart, and stared coldly at the fat man with small glasses.

"Haha......"

The fat man didn't expect Lin Jing's reaction to be so cold, although Lin Jing's movements just now looked soft and rigid, extremely graceful, so he couldn't help but press the shutter, but according to the current situation, that action is likely to fall on him, which is very bad, so he pretended to touch the back of his head very honestly, and then laughed, and while laughing awkwardly, he looked for an opportunity to slip away.

"Hand over the film?"

"What?" The fat man who was just about to sneak away was very surprised, and then he was very skilled in distinguishing for himself, "I am actually an artist, currently working for a very famous advertising company, part-time 'talent scout', while looking for art, I am responsible for digging some potential talents, just now Miss's righteousness and bravery, I was very moved, and I couldn't help but take an art photo......"

"I'll count three!" Lin Jing was unmoved, because the three words "art photo" reminded her of the camera in later generations, "One! ”

"Do you really want to pay it?" The fat man pretended to be pitiful and aggrieved.

"Two!"

"Okay, okay, okay, don't count, I'll take it out." Seeing that Lin Jing's attitude was as hard as iron, the fat man had no choice but to take out the film from the camera.

Lin Jing stared at his every move very carefully, and now that the fat man was not cheating, he nodded.

At this time, the short and fat middle-aged woman who was robbed finally "rushed" to arrive, she picked up the satchel lying on the ground, and observed it very carefully, and now the appearance of the satchel was not damaged, so she breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to say hello to Lin Jing.

"Fortunately, my bag is fine, this is Hermes, it costs tens of thousands." The short and fat middle-aged woman carried a bag in one hand and crossed her waist in the other, and said, "Now, little girl, you helped me get my bag back, and this is your reward." ”

After speaking, she took out a denomination of 100 yuan from a stack of Hong Kong dollars in her bag and handed it over.

"No need, I just kicked him if he didn't like it, if you think it's necessary, call the police yourself." After Lin Jing finished speaking, she turned around and left.

"Hey, what's the matter with you?" Seeing Lin Jing walking a few steps away, the short and fat middle-aged woman paused and said, "I really don't know how to lift, I don't even give my face, hum!" ”

"It's all you, not only almost made me lose my brand-name expensive bag, but also caused me to lose face." The stocky middle-aged woman said, kicking the robber who was still lying on the ground and fainting, and said indignantly, "You just wash your ass and wait for jail." ”

But say the other side!

"Miss, hi, Miss, don't go, listen to me......"

Because Lin Jing's steps are very blocky, the fat man's legs are short, and he barely keeps up with him when he trots, he is sweating profusely, talking while running, and at the same time chattering about the benefits of being a star.

"My name is Zhang Yanqin, I am really a talent scout, my company is looking for a beautiful girl like Miss you to shoot an advertisement recently, I think Miss you have a very special temperament, and it is the person I have been looking for......"

Lin Jing had a cold face and ignored the fat man who claimed to be a talent scout.

First, the scouts have always been mostly liars, as long as they see a young woman with good appearance, they will generally move out of the set of "you are very temperamental" words, as if as long as they follow them, they can immediately live a dazzling star life that is hugged by them; Second, she doesn't like to stand in front of people to perform, which makes her feel uncomfortable, and she has always been behind the scenes.

didn't get a response from Lin Jing, the stalker fat scout turned out to be very resilient, and kept following behind like kraft candy, and even followed Lin Jing's door. If it weren't for Lin Jing closing the door in time after entering the house, I'm afraid he would have followed up cheekily.

"For the entertainment industry, you should really discuss it with your family and think about it carefully, then I'll wait for your news, this is my business card, I tucked it under your door, remember to reply to me......"

Hearing the dead fat man called Zhang Yanqin outside, it seemed that Lin Jing had agreed to think about it, she really felt a little crying and laughing at this moment, this person is really shameless and invincible.