Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 158 Going out with the little beauty
Li Yan's words "full marks in all subjects" were still echoing in Lin Heng's mind until the next morning.

Lin Heng thought that he was a person who liked and was good at pretending, but this was the first time that he was so shocked by someone else's pretense.

If someone else said something like this, I would just laugh it off.

Even for Leung Tin-shing, everyone just regards it as a form of self-motivation.

It happened to be Li Yan, the person who had accomplished many outrageous things.

Lin Heng didn't even dare to sleep in, and he set the vibrating alarm clock to 8 o'clock, which woke him up from his dream.

Just wait and see. Li Yan, who took first place in his grade despite not reviewing for the midterm exam, said that when he starts reviewing, what kind of bloody storm will rage in the dormitory——

Where is Li Yan?
Lin Heng thought he had seen it wrong, so he got out of bed and went to the balcony and bathroom to look, but there was no sign of Li Yan.

Is this guy still hiding outside to study secretly?

No, at this moment Li Yan and Xiaopang are in the secret base - which is Lin Zhiyuan’s small house.

The time agreed with Wei Yunzhi was 8:30, but Li Yan came early just to get the manuscript fee slip in the mailbox.

"Master Yan, are you really not afraid of being stolen?"

"Who would have thought that there was a bill for the manuscript inside?"

I counted it and it was two thousand five.

Xiaopang's eyes widened. "How much have you published?"

Li Yan swung the thick stack of manuscript fee receipts in her hand, "I'm still not famous enough, so I can only make up for it by quantity. During this period, I concentrated on publishing a batch of essays that were just submitted a week ago, and also published a medium-length or long article in the Garden Digest. I was paid more than 200 yuan for each article to get this amount."

"Too greedy."

"What are you greedy for? This house is yours. It's worth three hundred thousand. Are you greedy for my two thousand?"

"Oh, it's different. My dad bought it for me. How can it be the same as what you earned yourself?"

Li Yan smiled. The little fat boy was quite strong-willed.

"You can use this money to buy snacks and toys, but I can't move into my house."

Li Yan's smile froze and she decided to take back her previous thought.

"Why don't you look excited?" Xiaopang happily held the manuscript fee receipt, but saw that Li Yan had a calm expression.

The reason... is naturally online literature. According to the editor of Kaiyuan, his novel can be considered for listing after it is halfway through being posted in Wenkui Pavilion. After it is posted in Wenkui Pavilion, he can update more often, and when the main text is 200,000 words, he can start making money.

Judging from his current reading progress, this book will definitely do well.

Kaiyuan didn't dare to boast too much to him and could only emphasize that the monthly income of over ten thousand yuan was stable, and the rest depended on luck.

This editor also believes in the metaphysics of human character.

With this level of income, the 2,500 yuan fee for handwriting dozens of articles and publishing them a month is indeed not enough.

What's more, there is already a big brother in the Golden Alliance. If we split the money 50-50 and subtract this and that, we will still get more than 40,000.

In 08, a monthly income of over yuan was considered good, and it was even more incredible for a first-year junior high school student.

But when it comes to Li Yan, it can only be said that it is a little lacking.

On the way to school with the fat boy, there was a post office. Li Yan exchanged the manuscript fee receipt for cash and sent another thousand yuan back home.

When he told his parents that he had received a thousand yuan for his article, there was silence on the phone for five full seconds. Chen Fengling asked in a trembling voice, "Really?" After getting an affirmative answer from their son, the couple stayed awake all night.

What will the online novel say about this... Li Yan shook his head. Forget it. The threshold is just increased little by little. They are just surprised now. Maybe when they go home during the winter vacation, they will start to wonder if Li Yan can open two accounts at the same time.

The two returned to the school gate at 8:23, and Li Yan asked a soul-searching question:
"Come to think of it, Zhiyuan, why did you tell Wei Yunzhi when my birthday was?"

Who knew that Lin Zhiyuan was not flustered at all, and looked confident, "The little beauty asked me this, I can't just not answer, right?"

Li Yan nodded and remained silent.

What else can I do? If I continue to talk, I will be ridiculed. It is better to be a master and keep silent.

Lin Zhiyuan was just about to start flirting when he saw a beautiful figure waving at him from across the street.

Wei Yunzhi, with her hair disheveled, was wearing a thick light blue sportswear, straight white trousers, a light pink scarf, and a familiar little bear shoulder bag. Her whole look was very clean and bright, which matched her lively and sunny smile very well.

"Good morning, Li Yan, Zhiyuan."

"Morning, Yunzhi." Lin Zhiyuan was stumped by Li Yan's greeting. He was stuck on the words "Morning, senior sister" for a long time and couldn't utter them. In the end, he could only shout "Good morning" with full strength.

"You said you would take us to a nice place," Li Yan asked, "not far from here, where is it?"

"The old market street." Wei Yunzhi walked briskly with his hands behind his back.

The three of them came to a familiar fork in the road. Usually, Li Yan and Lin Zhiyuan only walked east, which was the center of Rongxi District. Rongxi Book City, Rongxi District Library and even Lin Zhiyuan's cabin were all on the east side.

This time, Wei Yunzhi took them west.

"From the looks of it, you guys rarely come here, right? The center of Rongxi District is on the other side, and this is all very old urban area." Wei Yunzhi said as they walked, "I lived here when I was very young. I didn't know much at that time, I just knew that my mother often took me to a very lively place, very lively, and with a different atmosphere from the surrounding areas."

Li Yan felt it, and if she walked a little deeper into the place, she could feel the...tranquility here.

They are all residential buildings built in the 1980s, 1990s or even earlier. The shops open are almost all convenience stores and newsstands run by old men and women, with the occasional restaurant, and all of them have very small storefronts.

It looks very much like Rinjo.

On the other side, those bookstores, shopping malls, libraries, commercial streets, office buildings... are what everyone imagines a "big city" to look like.

"When I was a kid, I would go to these small parks to play. I could spend the whole day looking at a tree. My mother was always worried that I would be kidnapped. Every time she caught me, she would criticize me and I would cry." Wei Yunzhi pointed to the tree pool that was often seen at the entrance of the old campus. "When I grew up and came back, I realized that this was not a small park at all."

"It looks like my home." Li Yan said, "I like lying on a big rock next to a pond downstairs. There is a willow tree next to the rock. When the wind blows, I open my eyes and see the fluttering willow branches."

"If there's a chance to go over there, I'd like to lie down too."

"Of course, lie down together."

Lin Zhiyuan was stunned. Do you know what you are talking about? Is this something that I can listen to?
"Later, my family moved to Xinqiao District, and we seldom came here. It wasn't until I came to Rongxi Middle School that I found the lively place my mother took me to again." Wei Yunzhi said, pointing to a market surrounded by residential buildings not far away, "It's here, the nameless old market street. I dare say that the best snacks in Rongxi District are all here."

Turns out he’s a foodie!

It didn't seem very surprising. Li Yan highly approved of Wei Yunzhi's taste in bread.

As she got a little closer to the market entrance, Li Yan felt the strong heat - coming from the scalding steamers and stoves of various merchants, and also from the sudden surge in popularity.

"No wonder it was so quiet along the way just now. Could it be that all the people came here?" Li Yan said with a smile.

"It's early in the morning and everyone is eating and buying groceries, so it must be very busy. Others haven't woken up yet." The scene was noisy, so Wei Yunzhi had to speak loudly, and his voice was much crisper and sweeter than usual.

Lin Zhiyuan's eyes never left the nearest dim sum shop. The hot buns were indeed quite tempting on a winter morning.

The three of them plunged into a busy market street. With Wei Yunzhi's enthusiastic introduction, they got to know Rongxi's most delicious noodle soup shop, mixed rice noodle shop, fried food shop, and stewed food shop...

The introduction was very detailed. The noodle soup shop only had one delicious soup base and the other flavors were not good. The noodles could not be added with peanuts but sesame paste. The fried food shop only served vegetarian dishes, and the braised food shop only served meat dishes...

He is indeed a gourmet.

Hearing this, the fat boy, who had just eaten a bun, immediately became hungry again.

The three of them walked around and chose a noodle shop with a rich menu and sat down. They ordered a bowl of mixed noodles, a bowl of noodle soup, a bowl of mixed noodles, and a plate of steamed dumplings.

The portions were not large and the table was small. When the hot noodles were placed on the table, steam rose up and the three people could not see each other's faces clearly.

"Pay now and eat later. Your table is 38 yuan."

The food is quite expensive... Li Yan thought, but considering that the noodle soup contains chopped scallops and good-sized dried shrimps, and this store is certified by Wei Yunzhi, I guess the high price should be justified.

Wei Yunzhi opened her small handbag, and Lin Zhiyuan also took out money from his pocket. Li Yan waved her hand to stop them and took out a red bill and gave it to the boss.

"Master Yan, what did we say? Don't be corrupted by the ways of the world."

"I received the manuscript fee, and I'm just happy." Li Yan said with a smile, "It's not about social etiquette, I just want to be a playboy."

A dandy with a "huge sum" of fifteen hundred yuan...

　I have to attend social events, so my nights are wasted. I also have to work outside during the day, so I can only rely on my saved drafts. I'll update two chapters today, slowly.

　　Tomorrow is ten thousand.

　　By the way, why is it that when I update twice a day, the data is stable and rising, but when I work hard every day, the data is falling...

　　This way I feel a little weak when I explode...

　　I don’t want to be the protagonist of “Reborn as a Writer: Who Asked You to Work Hard in Reverse Direction?”

　　
　
(End of this chapter)