Chapter 52: The Informant (2)
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The strategist impatiently picks up a lump of pasta with a fork.
It was the middle of the night, and we walked around for a long time before we found a restaurant on the street that was open all night, and asked for pasta, toast and sausages for snacks, and then ordered red wine, and we ate and talked, but although I was hungry all day, I couldn't eat anything.
"I said, brother, how the hell did you get involved with the Aikman family?"
I have the impression that the head of such a large group is surrounded by countless pleasers every day, including many powerful rising stars, who spend countless money and gifts, but often they are thrown out without even touching the threshold. Because the Aikman family is very strong, they don't care about general flattery.
The military advisor has no deep background at all, just a simple citizen's background, how did he accomplish such a difficult task?
The military advisor calmly took a sip of wine, took out a beautifully decorated book from his briefcase and pushed it in front of me.
"Have you seen this?"
"Is this a ....... novel?"
"The ancient romance novel "Emma", which is now one of the top 10 bestsellers on the market, has sold more than 30,000 copies, do you know who the author is?"
I flipped through the back of the book, and the author was a short name - "Fili"
"I haven't heard of a name, and I don't read romance novels, at most I only read some cultivation and leveling classes."
"Brother, don't watch that kind of thing, no matter how much you watch, you're just an elite monster who was killed by the protagonist, and you will survive for ten chapters," the military advisor mocked me calmly, "Fili is the real name that Lady Ekman used when she married into the Ekman family." ”
"I'll go, how do you know?"
I was shocked, because any information from this kind of family veteran was processed and protected layer by layer, enough to easily pass under the noses of top spies, and it only took a month or even less time for the military advisor to decipher it.
"I first looked through Mrs. Ekman's public information, and came up with information about her love of literature, and occasionally improvised articles at some public events, and then in a personal report of her, I learned about her graduation school, and according to the published information on the prose short stories, I went through all the essays of the college over the past ten years, checked them one by one, and finally determined her true identity."
"It's that simple?" I still can't believe it.
"It's that simple," the military advisor said with a relaxed raise of eyebrows, "Don't talk about those stupid shortcomings who can't even make up eight hundred words, as long as people who are good at writing, whether they are dry or smooth, eccentric or delicate, can always leave their own unique style, and will never admit mistakes." ”
I scratched my head, and sure enough, I was stupid enough to write up to seven hundred and five at a time, and I really couldn't understand the world of a master of writing ten thousand words like a military advisor.
"Then I used the funds you got to quietly set up a medium-sized publishing house, spent more than 200,000 yuan, vigorously fried a few second-rate writers, made a little reputation, and increased the online submission business, indicating that the professional training of newcomers from all walks of life, so the number of manuscripts increased rapidly, and then I waited silently, repeatedly retrieving and comparing the manuscripts sent every day," the military advisor showed a proud color on his face, "Until one day, I finally waited for the manuscript I hoped for." ”
"Mrs. Aikman was very clever in her thinking, and her writing was excellent, worthy of a noble woman who had received a high education from an early age, but the plot was so varied that the text seemed long and boring as soon as it exceeded 200,000, and I helped her work to be slightly corrected and published, and at once it made some name in the hands of booksellers. Mrs. Aikman was so excited that she quickly submitted another copy, so I helped her edit it again in the same way, and this time it was a great success, and it made it directly to the monthly bestseller list. ”
"Mrs. Aikman was so excited that I wrote to her with a few more suggestions, and she trusted me so much that she made an exception and summoned me in the mansion, and to be honest, I was a little excited."
Speaking of which, I still don't know a little.
"However, with the strength of the Aikman family, it is not a big problem to publish a few broken books, why is it so troublesome? And as the wife of the Aikman family, there will be no shortage of those few dollars and manuscript fees. ”
"There is really no problem, but Mrs. Aikman is a woman with strong self-esteem, she can't tolerate being touted like a vase, so she uses a pen name to toss and turn between various publishers, remember the morning when Master Aikman was punished to kneel, that is, he wanted to secretly contact some publishers to help Mrs. expand her reputation, but Mrs. Aikman saw through it at a glance, and directly poured blood mold."
"As for the manuscript fee, of course Mrs. Aikman is not short of money, but her heart is relatively empty, anyone's childhood ideal until she grows up, and even when it is still an ideal in her later years, there will be a hole in anyone's heart, which is how much money and how high the status cannot be satisfied, and I just have the ability to help her achieve this ideal."
I frowned.
The current appearance of the military advisor always makes me feel like a veteran conspirator, with a kind of sophistication and deceit that is incompatible with us.
"I'll take care of the Aikman family, although it hasn't involved military procurement figures, but it's a qualified matchmaker, as long as there is a relationship with Mrs. Aikman, I'm not afraid that Master Aikman won't give in."
"What are you going to do, it seems to me that Mrs. Aikman is not a fool, and she is not short of money, and you are not going to give her a big gold chain." I couldn't help but complain.
"You should say she's 'Ice Smart', but I always have a way."
"What's the solution?" My curiosity sparked.
"Gift-giving."
"What."
"It's literal, find a gift and send it." The military advisor replied calmly.
God, this is such a stupid way to go home, I almost rolled my eyes.
The military advisor smiled and took out a small gift box, I thought it was an engagement ring at first, but I opened it strangely, only to see a shell inside, it was really just the simplest shell, I looked left and right, up and down, except for the pattern is a little peculiar, I really can't see what the connotation is.
"Don't look at it, it's just an ordinary shell, and it looks slightly better than the ingredients you drank two days ago."
"What the hell is this?"
"'Some mysterious person must give a gift to his wife, there is a certain traditional Nordic cultural meaning, probably to express the desire for a temporary truce', well, I plan to say so for the time being." The military advisor smiled lightly.
"It's that simple?"
"It's as simple as that, in this exchange of huge forces, a little show of sincerity is far more important than any expensive gift, and the two have been hostile for half a century, no matter how narrow-minded people are, they must be quite tired of being entangled by the same enemy since they were little children. I've also inquired a little about the information during this time, at least in the Aikman family, I've become a certain tired of this kind of confrontation, but I can't pull my subordinates to take the initiative to come to the door. ”
"So you want to pretend to be the intermediary of the Blogna family, and provide an opportunity for the two sides to communicate," I shook my head vigorously, "God, this is crazy, and you don't know anything about the Blogna family." ”
"Speaking of which, Wenxiu, do you know why I brought you out this time?" The military advisor suddenly asked a completely unrelated topic.
"Well, I don't know." I grunted.
"All of us in the three classes have their own personalities, Brother Gang's righteousness, Long Fei's calmness, Bangbang's chivalry, Xiaobei's honesty, and pervert............ Hehe, but I think of all of them, the biggest guy is you, whether it's taking the initiative to attack the north or performing in the defense of Brinica. ”
The advisor stared straight at me, and the serious gaze made me a little embarrassed for a moment, to be honest, I never felt that I was so great.
"So, I've taken you through all this, and I hope you can keep it a secret for the time being until the plan is completed, and don't explain my details to the big guys, and you can do the persuasion work."
"Why, is there anything you can't explain to your brothers?" I raised my voice slightly, dissatisfied.
"I'll do it at the right time, but you should also know that everyone can control everything, but they can't control their mouths," the military advisor sighed, "I'm worried that everyone has doubts. ”
"Strategist, you have been a smart guy since you were a child, but, just now, you said something wrong."
I said coldly.
"No one will ever be suspicious of their brothers, including me."