Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 117

2021-06-23

Chapter 117 Tobesque's Newspaper

This year-round fog-shrouded city known as the North In the Pearl City, there are many kinds of newspapers. The current university district not only gathers most of the universities and colleges in Tobesque, but also gathers newspapers and publishing houses, so the journey is not long.

The Rhodes card from Professor Manning hasn't been for sale, so while the detective's wallet has been found, Shade's options are still small.

The big national newspapers like the Tobesque Morning News, the Terraria River News, and the Kingdom Morning Post, to which Detective Sparrow subscribed, he certainly wouldn't have dared to think.

But I still took my business card and went to the newspaper to ask, and I was frightened by the quotation given by the accountant, so I gave up completely.

"These are the best-selling newspapers in the country, and my business is limited to Tobesque, so there's no need to advertise in such places."

He also reassured myself, and then I felt that my ideas made sense, and I convinced myself.

In Tobesque's local circulation, "Threepenny" or "Delarion Commercial", you can get a small square in the middle of the newspaper, or below the obituary column, Advertise with inventors looking for investment, factory jobs, or things to look for.

The newspapers are very busy, so when Shade visits these newspapers, his visits are not taken seriously. Editors and reporters came in and out, and within twenty minutes of Shade's stay in the smoky newsroom on the second floor of Delarion Business Daily, three people rushed in, waving their hands and shouting "big news."

The local child abduction incident has made new progress. Members of the royal family made an unexpected appearance at the Auction House. Someone died on the street in the northern district of Tobesque. Then some people followed the guy with news to charge ahead. Steam City is never short of new things.

The price of advertising space in this newspaper is also not low, and it is charged on a per-time basis. Considering that his firm's capacity is limited and he can't receive too many customers, Shade just bought the advertisements for this week's Sunday and next week's Sunday to see the effect first.

As for those tabloids that publish lace news, such as "Textile Daily", "Tobeysk Citizen" and other newspapers, the price of advertising is low. It's just that Shade worries that putting too many ads in such a newspaper will make him, like Sparrow Hamilton, an expert in cheating and mistress investigations.

But he didn't have much choice but to pray that other commissions would come to him because of these tabloid advertisements.

The good news is that when Shade took his business card and found the newspaper office of Steam Bird Daily, the fourth largest newspaper in the city, on St. George Street in the Tobesque University District, he was in the office. The middle age person who received Shade, wearing a black button-up formal suit, glanced at the business card placed on the stylish solid wood desk, put down the pen in his hand, clasped his hands together, and asked suspiciously behind the desk:
"Sir, may I ask who gave you your business card?"

"Miss Dorothy Luisa, she commissioned me a while ago for her new book detective story. Later I heard that I wanted to advertise in a newspaper, so I directly introduced this place to me."

Shade half true half false said, he and others in the same group have such a "reasonable" understanding experience.

"Luyisa. There is no problem with advertising. The lower edge of the second page, next to the date, can give you about 30 words of space. If you want to advertise for a long time, it can be cheap Some. How about ten shillings a month? Pay us at the beginning of the month, or send money by post.

“Ten shillings? "

Shade was stunned for a moment, suspecting that he heard it wrong, or that the gentleman behind the desk made a mistake.

He has traveled a lot today, and he knows that things like "Steam Bird Daily" "For a big-selling newspaper with four issues a week, even if it costs ten shillings for a week's end-page advertisement, it is very cheap.

And the lower advertising area of the second page is ten shillings a month. , it's almost the same as asking for no money.

"Lu Yisha introduced it to the business card, of course it can be cheaper. "

The middle age person explained with a shrug.

"Is Miss Luisa contributing to you?" "

Shade knows that female writers are also part-time journalists.

"Contributed, but more importantly, her father, Professor Skaven Luisa, is a shareholder of the newspaper. Now the editors of the newspaper are mostly his students. When I was a student, I also attended the professor's course. Since she introduced you, it should be cheaper. "

The middle age person explained, and asked Shade if he wanted tea.

"This"

From the perspective of conversation, the female writer must be from the middle class or even the upper class , but Shade didn't expect Miss Luyesha's family to be so powerful. Yesterday at Professor Manning's place, he knew that the professor met Miss Luyesha's father, but he didn't expect it at the time.

"Is this really good? "

Shade asked sadly.

"What's wrong?" It's not that they don't charge you. Oh sir, you're so funny, are you worried we're going to lose money? . "

middle age person said with a smile, Shade also shook his head and laughed, as if afraid that the other party would regret it, he slapped ten shillings on the table.

He plans to thank Miss Luysha well next time. Shade already owes two people for the copybook of "The Little Match Girl" and the advertisement.

Because it will be reserved for next month The 20 pounds he needs to pay back and the 10 pounds he owes Mia, so Shade's funds are not very generous. The cheap advertisements in the "Steam Bird Daily" greatly reduced his planned expenditure, which made the still not wealthy foreigners , full of hope for the future of life.

"Sure enough, everything will be fine. ”

After dealing with the problem of the advertisement, when I returned to the Saint-de-Land square at noon, I accidentally found a letter on the floor mat. It turned out to be a reply from "the lady", and she asked Shade to go in the evening. See her at the club.

"The lady" successfully helped a group of five escape after the accident at Lake View Manor, which of course won't be free help.

"But This level of ring warlock, It shouldn't be missing the power of a ring warlock. Could it be that it is really inconvenient for me as a noble to do things for me to do? "

He doesn't think that nobles are the law-abiding guys described in the book.

The letter that Priest handed over last time should have been temporarily looking for paper at Lake View Manor. It was written with a pen, so the quality of the paper is very ordinary. This time the lady used special high-grade letter paper. Although there is no gold edge on the edge of the paper, the whole piece of paper has a special fragrance. Mia is very interested in this. It's a very sensitive smell, probably pungent, but Shade likes it.

Of course, he doesn't want to smell the letter paper like a pervert.

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