I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 387 The Kite in the Child's Hand

"I took the 'paper kite' out!"

The child named the kite he bought and called it "Zhiyuan".

The 'paper kite' was bought by the child and his father from the bamboo strip maker in the village, saying that the strip craftsman made it himself.

……

This is the beginning of this fairy tale. The beginning of the story does not start directly from the perspective of the kite "Zhiyuan".

Instead, more strokes are spent on children, the little masters of the 'paper kite'.

The child lives in an ordinary farm family,

There are parents, grandparents, living together.

At the end of March and the beginning of April, he was planting seedlings in the paddy fields, and he also rolled up his trousers to playfully help in the paddy fields, until the rolled up trouser legs were also wet, covered with mud spots, and he was still giggling.

In August and September, when the rice was being harvested, my mother was cutting the rice and my father was threshing the rice. footprints.

When he wakes up in the morning, he will lie down by the window, staring at the birds on the tree outside the house in a daze,
In the evening, waiting for his parents to come back after working in the farmland, he would also sit by the threshold and watch the sunset.

There is a small stream in front of the house, the water is just above the ankle, the water washes the stones, and there is a gurgling sound.

Sometimes, children will also take a dustpan to catch fish in the stream,

But more often, I still squatted by the stream, looking at my parents who came back from working in the fields, washing the mud on their feet.

Grandma and grandpa sometimes tell him stories at night, but accompanied by the chirping of insects and cicadas, most of the stories the child hears are frightening.

More often, when the child expects his grandma to give him money to buy things, he can always buy more snacks for him.

the beginning of the drama,
It is at the beginning of April in the lunar calendar.

The rice fields have just been flooded and are still wet,

The rice seedlings have grown, and the fields are full of greenery.
In the early morning, the rice seedlings are still covered with drops of last night's dew,
The dew bends the leaves of the rice seedlings and drips into the ground.

At this time, people who have passed the ridge can still be soaked by the rice seedlings stretching from the field, soaking their trouser legs,

Dip it in something like a weed seed.

When a child is flying a kite with a paper kite, he is also on the ridge between the fields,

Sometimes they even ran to the side of the small ditches that irrigate the farmland.

But when the children come out, it is often already afternoon.

In the morning, either I was greedy for a lazy sleep, or I was yawning listlessly after being called up by my grandma for breakfast.

At noon, the sun was shining again, and my mother would not let me run out indiscriminately,
Waiting for the afternoon, when the wind blows, it is a good time for children to fly kites.

The child is the only child in the family,
There are not many children of his age in the village.

In addition to talking to adults, other children talk,

The child also likes to talk to the yellow dog that is tied up in the neighbor's house, the big rooster in the pen and other poultry things.

But often the yellow dog in the neighbor's house is probably a little annoyed by being tied up all the time.
As soon as the child gets closer and talks to the yellow dog, the dog barks at the child, pulls the iron chain and rushes towards the child.
When the child was eating, he threw the bone in the bowl to the yellow dog, and the yellow dog lowered his head and gnawed the bone, wagging his tail at the child, listening to the child say a few more words.

The big rooster at home, the child dared not get close to it. He was chased by the big cock that flew up from the pen several times and ran all over the house, and was laughed by grandma and grandpa.

There are also ducks raised in the stream, back and forth in the stream, I don't know whether they are washing their feathers or eating aquatic plants.

The child was sitting by the stream, shaking his legs dangling in the stream, watching a row of ducks swimming past him, and talking to the ducks.

He also named each row of ducks, from Ya Da Pai to Ya Liu,

One day, I don't know whether it was Yada or Yaliu who died. The child was still sad for a while, until he ate a bowl of roasted duck with potatoes from the neighbor's house.

Except for the ducks in the stream,

The child also gave names to other animals, things, and things that could be named.

like now

The kite in his hand.

"Zhiyuan" is said to be another name for a kite. The child listened to what the kite maker said,

It sounds nice, so I gave the kite this name.

This bamboo craftsman made paper kites, like a big swallow with spread wings, and carefully colored the paper kites.

"...Come back early, don't go to the river..."

The child is going out with the 'paper kite', and the house is busy with other things - the mother who has packed a basin of dirty clothes and is about to go out to do the laundry pokes her head out from the next room,

Shout out to the child.

"I see!"

Without looking back, the child responded loudly, and ran out of the house with the paper kite.

"Little Zhiyuan, let's go, I'll let you go to the sky..."

"Hey, it's a pity that you are too young, otherwise you will take me and go to the sky for a while."

The child talked to the paper kite with great interest, and then sighed,
But children's emotions come and go quickly.

After crossing the bridge over the stream, we arrived at the farmland across the stream.

Standing on the ridge, the child became excited again,
Walking along the ridge of the field, I walked forward and found a slightly empty place to put the paper kite.

Some treasures his paper kites,

When passing by the farmland, the child held up the paper kite,

I am afraid that the rice seedlings on the edge of the field will scratch the paper kite and make it dirty.

"It's here!"

The child came to an open place in the farmland and stood on a fairly wide ridge,
Arranging the kite strings, with a gust of wind blowing,
Along the ridge of the field, I ran with the kite.

The child gradually lengthened the string of the kite, and the kite trembled slightly with the wind, getting higher and higher.

Waiting for the child to stop and raise his head, the kite 'Paper Kite' is already high in the sky.

"Paper kite! Little paper kite! Fly higher, fly higher..."

There is no one in the surrounding farmland, the child raised his head, talking loudly to the 'paper kite',
The kite string in my hand gradually lengthened, and the paper kite flew higher and higher, just following the kite string and the wind, slowly swaying back and forth in the high air.

Seeing the kite being released, the child became happy,

Holding the kite string, he sat down on the ridge of the field, looking at the sky and the resources in the sky,
In the end, he simply lay down along the ridge of the field, watching and watching.

However, the child never let go of the kite line.
But this time,
In the sky, a strong wind suddenly blew up, which distorted the position of the 'paper kite' in the sky,
The child sat up as soon as the butt, stood up, and went to pull the kite string, fearing that the 'paper kite' would fall,

Just as the child pulled, last year's kite line made of cotton thread just broke.

The kite "Zhiyuan" was blown higher by the strong wind,
The child chased after the 'paper kite' was blown away.

……

The 'Zhiyuan' whose kite string was broken just now was full of fear.

The strong wind blew it wildly, without the kite line fixed, it could only sway with the wind.

Every gust of wind seemed to knock it down.

Moreover, her little master is still below.

Zhiyuan looked down and saw her little master was still chasing her panting on the field ridge.

Until finally can't catch up,

Little Zhiyuan heard the last call from the little master,

"Paper kite...Little paper kite, fly a little higher...Fly a little higher!"

Immediately afterwards, the little kite was blown by the wind and carried further away.

Riding the wind, the paper kites drifting away,
In the beginning, it was fear, dread,

Just to calm down with the wind, just to carry her to the distant sky,
Like her little master, she is curious about her surroundings,

I like the feeling of flying in the sky and not being fixed in one place.

'Then I will go to a further place to see, and then go back to the little master. '

Thinking of this, Zhiyuan became even happier,

She is going to look further afield, and then go back to find the little master!

Riding on the wind like this, the little kite gradually flew away.

When you want to fly out of this village completely,
Zhiyuan looked down and saw that the little master seemed to have returned home.
The family was eating dinner, and the lights were shining through the window, reflecting the outside of the house.

And then, with the wind, the kite left the sky of the village.

……

"call……"

"Crackling..."

It's not too early today, when Ji Zhuo sat in the study, it was already noon.

At this moment, with the sound of keyboard tapping, while the content of the new book "Kite" increases,
The midday sun outside the window also gradually shifted to the west, and then the sun set.

In this study room, immersed in the plot, Ji Zhuo hardly took any other actions.

Just typing and sitting in front of the computer all afternoon.

Until the evening comes, the tall buildings in the city are like trees in the forest, blocking the setting sun,

The bustling lights replace the stars in the night, lighting up and embellishing the city.

Before the lights were turned on in the study room, the city lights coming in from the window were on.

And the light reflecting off the computer screen.

Only then did Ji Zhuo stop today's code words and let out a long breath.

Moving his shoulders, neck and wrists with pantothenic acid, Ji Zhuo looked at the content written today on the coding software.

There are no chapters either,

one afternoon,

About [-] characters were written, which gave the beginning of "Kite", or "Paper Kite".

Looking at it now, Ji Zhuo is quite satisfied.

such progress,
I will probably be able to send it to pen and ink tomorrow.

……

"The countdown to the release of "Shadow Empire" is [-] days!"

""Shadow Empire" will be released soon, and many well-known people have expressed their expectations."

""Shadow Empire" will start online pre-sale in a week. It is reported that Bert Publishing House has already stocked a large number of "Shadow Empire""

"The total sales volume of each language version of "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals" is about to exceed 400 million! The single-month sales breakthrough of 500 million is just around the corner!"

Delwin Publishing House, editor-in-chief Lou is looking at the news and public opinion on the Internet,
The whole person is a little bad.

There is something wrong with Burt Publishing House, it was fine before,

All of a sudden, it was as if he had been beaten into chicken blood, and suddenly increased the investment in publicity resources, dragging Burt Publishing's parent company, North Comprehensive Publishing, into the water.

For a while, countless celebrities were talking about "Empire of Shadows" on social platforms... It was as if they only knew about the release date of "Empire of Shadows" that was announced before.

In a short period of time, it really suppressed "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals", which should have been the most popular.

"Why is Burt Publishing going crazy? Isn't "Empire of Shadows" released in half a month, and it's so hyped up now?"

"After such a day-by-day promotion, readers are tired of the information when waiting for the official release."

"What will we do then? Is it necessary? "Empire of Shadows" needs to create this kind of enthusiasm?"

Editor Lou frowned and said.

The assistant next to her raised her head, glanced at her, and didn't dare to speak.

It's as if "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals" was not advertised in advance like this when it was published.

There was a lot of movement back then.

However, the assistant considered his salary and dared not say it.

Editor-in-Chief Lou was still frowning,

Editor-in-Chief Lou doesn't care if "Empire of Shadows" is announced or not.
But the point is, now it has stolen the popularity of "The Shepherd Boy Seeking Immortals".

Sure enough, this Burt Publishing House is not a good thing,

It's a pity that ABC cooperates with such a shameless publishing house, if it is also in our publishing house...

"...Editor Lou, why don't we increase the publicity...and our publicity effect must be better than theirs. After all, we have books, and "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals" is really on sale. "Shadow Empire" hasn't been released yet."

"It is definitely necessary to increase investment in publicity. It is impossible for this Burt Publishing House to steal the popularity of "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals" for nothing. I will discuss it with other people...you can call for a meeting!"

"Since Burt Publishing has made a move, we have to keep up! The sales volume of "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals" will exceed 400 million, and it can't compare to the popularity of a book that has not been released?"

Editor-in-Chief Lou said firmly.

then……

The two publishing houses rolled up with each other,

In terms of the popularity of Europa and even the entire Internet, it is simply a fight between gods and gods.

……

"The total sales volume of "The Shepherd Boy in Search of Immortals" in various languages ​​overseas has officially exceeded 400 million. Delwin Publishing House issued an announcement to thank readers for their support on behalf of the author!"

"The "Shadow Empire" autographed book is forwarded to the lucky draw. After the "Shadow Empire" is officially released, you will get a copy of "Shadow Empire" signed by Mr. A!"

"The famous writer Fuschoke praised "The Shepherd Boy in Search of the Fairy" as a great fairy tale."

"The famous publishing giant said that he has read "Shadow Empire", which is a great book..."

on the Internet,

Delwin Publishing House and Burt Publishing House, for the popularity of works published by their respective publishing houses,
It's really all the means, and I will appear on the stage after you sing.

It's buzzing all over the web.

"..."

And at this time, sitting in front of the computer,

Al, who was watching the news on the Internet, was a little silent.

He didn't know which god he had offended,

The road to publishing the excellent work "The Ordinary and the Great" is always full of obstacles.

Seeing that the popularity of "The Ordinary and the Great" has improved with word of mouth.

As a result, the two big publishing houses, Delwin Publishing House and Bert Publishing House, were fighting at this time.

It's okay to fight, don't hurt the fish in the pond.

Ayer Press was simply unlucky, and it was affected.

Ayer Publishing House is a small publishing house, except for some publicity that can be provided as much as possible,
The word-of-mouth spread of "The Ordinary and the Great" mainly depends on the readers' tap water.

Naturally, there is no way to compete with these two major publishing houses for publicity resources.

Burt Publishing House relies on its parent company, and Delwin Publishing House pours out publicity resources frantically,

And Ayer Press... can only watch.

Originally,
Relying on the quality reputation of "Ordinary and Great",

Even in the gap between the books published by the two publishing houses,
The enthusiasm of "The Ordinary and the Great" can also tenaciously exist in the cracks,

Now it's all right, the two publishing houses fought fiercely, and even the cracks were eliminated.

I didn't see either of these two publishing houses that fought fiercely, which one completely suppressed the other, and it was wiped out.

But it's a bit uncomfortable for Ayer Publishing House.

There was silence for a while,
Al moved the mouse silently again,

Directly searching for topics and posts related to "The Ordinary and the Great" on social platforms,
Waiting for the search results to come out,

Al breathed a sigh of relief.

Although on the bright side, the popularity of "The Ordinary and the Great" was overwhelmed by the crazy pouring of resources from those two publishers,

I was overwhelmed, but in fact, the discussion about "The Ordinary and the Great" is still increasing,

The loyal readers of "Ordinary and Great" are still working hard for "Ordinary and Great" to be seen by more readers.

This reassures Al.

He didn't believe that those two publishing houses could keep pouring out publicity resources like this.

I'm not afraid of pouring out like this, anyway, the popularity and word-of-mouth of "The Ordinary and the Great" is also continuing to grow.

In this way, readers are working hard for this, and it is good that Ayer Press continues to work hard for it.

He has enough confidence in "Ordinary and Great".

(End of this chapter)