In 1998, China's Internet development was still in its infancy, there were not many netizens, and the mainstream of the Internet was to chat rooms, forums and web portals.

Publishing a novel on the Internet?

I'm sorry, most people haven't heard of it.

But there was a place to publish a novel at this time. More precisely, to publish articles.

Founded in 1997 and one of the two major websites that have had a profound impact on the development of China's Internet, Banyan Shuxia has quickly become a base for China's first generation of online literary youth.

Here, netizens with ideas can freely write their own inspiration and thoughts into various forms of literary works and post them on it.

Although due to technical limitations, the "freedom" of this era still needs to go through the process of "sending by e-mail - publishing on behalf of the website", but compared with the submission of articles in traditional magazines, this is already a rare low threshold.

The online publication that Tang Mingyao said is to go to the banyan tree to publish this novel.

After telling Luo Wenxi about his plans, the other party immediately took the initiative to say that he could help him submit the manuscript.

Tang Mingyao also felt that it was inconvenient for him to go out of school, even if he waited until the weekend, he still had to borrow her computer, and it was better for her to do it all, so he readily agreed.

And then......

The next day, Luo Wenxi came to class with a crying face.

Tang Mingyao asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"I searched for that website all night, but I couldn't find it."

Tang Mingyao: "......"

In this era, surfing the Internet is really unfriendly to netizens, search engines don't have it, and even if there is, Internet novices can't find it, and it's not easy to use if you find it...... Without a specific URL, it is really difficult to find a specific website.

So Luo Wenxi stayed up until the early hours of the morning, but still didn't find the legendary "under the banyan tree".

Tang Mingyao was stunned and speechless.

There is no way to do it, the submission can't be submitted, so I can only wait for him to go in person.

finally stayed up until the weekend, and didn't wait for Sunday, after class on Saturday afternoon, Tang Mingyao went to her house with Luo Wenxi.

This time, I saw her mother, a woman of about 200 pounds, who moved like a hill.

Tang Mingyao tried to maintain a smile and greeted: "Hello, Auntie." ”

"Yo, this is Tang Mingyao, right? I heard that you and Wenxi are in the same class, so take care of her more in the future. She is stupid to study, she reads dead books, unlike you who learn everything easily......"

Tang Mingyao: "Take care of each other, take care of each other." ”

Seeing that the other party had the intention of catching him to do homework, he hurriedly said, "Auntie, I want to borrow your home computer to use it." ”

"In Wenxi's room, just let her take you."

Tang Mingyao hurriedly followed behind Luo Wenxi and slipped in.

I turned on the computer, thought about it, and couldn't remember the website under the banyan tree, in fact, he hadn't logged on to this website much in his previous life, but he often surfed the Internet, and he could always hear its famous name elsewhere.

However, this is not difficult for an old web worm, and after tossing for a while, I logged in to the correct URL and found the submission mailbox.

"That's it! The online review should be a little faster than the magazine review, so please help me pay attention to it these days. ”

Luo Wenxi's eyes flashed with adoration, and he nodded again and again.

didn't stay at her house for long, Tang Mingyao went back to school, finished memorizing English the next morning, and went to the wholesale market to buy a batch of goods, using the money left by his mother before leaving to replenish the store's inventory.

Then I found an advertising design shop, designed a formal store sign, and went to buy two special shelves, which cost more than 400 yuan.

When I returned to the store in the afternoon and rearranged it, the store finally looked like a good place, not much better than the other stores in the city.

In fact, Tang Mingyao has more and better decoration plans in his heart, but now that everything has just begun, it is almost the same to achieve this step.

The next step is to wait for my mother to return to the city and officially start a long-term business.

"Tang Mingyao, it's over!"

During the self-study last night, Luo Wenxi rushed into the classroom like a whirlwind and excitedly told him the latest submission information.

The girl's face was flushed, and she looked even more excited than Tang Mingyao, the person concerned: "The website has replied, and it has decided to publish your manuscript!" ”

Tang Mingyao smiled and nodded.

This result is not what he expected, if the threshold for online publication is so high, it will be no different from traditional magazines, and it will not be able to grow and develop.

Luo Wenxi continued: "I read the website in the afternoon, and your novel has been put on the table, I don't know how many people can read it!" Ahh ”

After a while, she gradually calmed down and looked at Tang Mingyao's calm appearance: "You don't seem to be very excited?" ”

Tang Mingyao said: "Online publishing is different from traditional magazines, there are not so many thresholds, as long as you want to write, anyone can publish. Of course, reactionary rhetoric or face scrolling is still not enough......"

"Is that so? Then I, can I also go and write? ”

"There's nothing you can't do, if you want to write, just write."

Luo Wenxi was about to move: "Then I'll try!" ”

Tang Mingyao was secretly amused, in her previous life, she had never heard that she had such a hobby, was this led astray by herself?

Thinking about it carefully, from the moment she walked into the door of the experimental class of the county No. 1 middle school, she had already been led astray by herself, and this time she was just a little more biased.

Two days later, my mother returned from the countryside.

Tang Mingyao went to class during the day, and secretly climbed over the wall after school, went out of the school gate to help her mother Zhang Luo's residence, and arranged her and her younger brother Tang Lingfeng's life.

In less than a week, everything was in order.

Tang Lingfeng transferred to a nearby No. 1 Middle School and entered the third grade of primary school.

Trinket shops reopened, and the variety of goods continued to be enriched, with a variety of stationery and small gifts, and business was booming.

When he was free, Tang Mingyao began to check his younger brother's studies during this time, the board crackled, poor Tang Lingfeng, thought that his brother would let go when he went to the city to study, but before he could get away with it for a month, he fell into hell again, feeling that he was eaten to death by his brother, and he had no power to struggle.

In school, Luo Wenxi's biggest interest every day is to search the Internet for the spread of Tang Mingyao's novel, and she doesn't even pay too much attention to what she wants to write.

With Tang Mingyao's teaching, she has recently learned to soak in chat groups, and go to cats to pounce on water, and every time she gets acquainted with one place, she promotes the time-traveling martial arts novel called "Modern Legend of Jianghu".

As a result, more and more people are learning about the novel, and more and more people are talking about it.

"Here, here are the comments I saw on the forum today, I copied them all!" Luo Wenxi took the note and handed it to him.

Tang Mingyao opened it and looked at it, and the first one read: "The author is amazing, I can come up with such an awesome idea, modern people travel to the world of martial arts, solve mysteries, defeat the conspiracy, and return from learning and kill all sides in the modern world, I can see my blood boiling, I also want to have such an adventure!" ”