"Why, old classmate, you don't know me anymore?"
Jiang Chao couldn't help but wanted to laugh, it was rare to go back to his hometown, but he unexpectedly ran into Yan Chu in the barber shop.
He looked at this child from other people's family in the elders' mouth, and a good student in the teacher's eyes. Over the years, he has heard a lot about his "beautiful" deeds from other people's mouths.
A white T-shirt with no label visible and a slightly loose neckline, like the kind of street stalls that cost 20 yuan and three pieces that old peasants like most in the country. Jiang Chao remembered that his father also had such a pair of black trousers. It was given by China Telecom at an event. Because the quality was so poor, his father didn’t even bother to wear it. In the end, his mother cut it off as a rag, and there were sandals. The smile is even bigger, it seems that those rumors are really not just rumors.
"Why, you really didn't recognize me?"
Seeing that Yan Chu didn't speak, Jiang Chao thought he was ashamed and guilty, and it was precisely because of his silence that it fueled Jiang Chao's interest.
"I am Jiang Chao, your high school classmate. I used to sit diagonally across from you. Back then, my grades were not as good as yours. I only took an ordinary undergraduate exam. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to be admitted to Tobacco after graduation. The company can be regarded as a good meal."
Tobacco company, how many people want to get in. There are so many people who sign up every year. In order to get him in, Jiang's parents stuffed more than 200,000 yuan. It has to be someone they know , otherwise you don't even want to enter if you have money.
However, the tobacco company is also famous for its good benefits. The more than 200,000 yuan is enough to pay back the capital in two or three years, and because he joined the tobacco company, none of the relatives around him thinks that he is promising, even the blind date When the girl heard that he was working in a tobacco company, she took the initiative to get along with him.
When he was studying at the beginning, he was not very good, but after graduating and working, Jiang Chao let out a sigh of relief.
He finally understands that academic performance is false, and the relationship at home is strong enough. This is the foundation of your foothold in this society.
"Old classmate, college bully, back then you were admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University, which was a top-ranked school in the country. After so many years, I'm afraid you should be a small executive of the world's top 500 now, or you should have been admitted to A civil servant?"
Jiang Chao was grinning, get out of here, he knows the other party's details, this trash is just a gnawing old man squatting at home.
"Not at work."
Yan Chu, whose real age was over a thousand years old, really didn't think such a malicious humiliation was unbearable. With his self-cultivation, he could handle all this with a smile.
"Didn't go to work?" Jiang Chao showed a puzzled look: "Oh, I understand, did you think those jobs were not challenging, so you took the initiative to fire the boss? That's right, you are so smart, why can't you find someone? When it comes to work, the old class pointed at our noses and said, you will definitely be the most promising one among our classmates in the future, now that you think about it, you have accumulated a lot of money, and you plan to make a big move, let us look at it with admiration."
After stepping into the society for a long time, Jiang Chao's temperament is actually very smooth, he will not offend others without incident, but Yan Chu is an exception.
In the third year of high school, it was the time when a group of boys and girls were in love with each other. Jiang Chao liked the banhua in the class, but Banhua liked the boy who skipped a grade and came to their class, who was two years younger than the classmates in the class.
Jiang Chao was very unconvinced, especially after the original body rejected Ban Hua's confession, which made Jiang Chao feel ashamed that the treasure he cherished became a waste that others didn't want.
Yan Chu has long been abolished. A man who went home after graduating from university and never worked again is not his opponent at all.
Jiang Chao looked sarcastically at the man with dull skin and unhealthy living habits, and his hair so long that he needed to be tied with a rubber band so as not to block his view. How could such a silky otaku turn his back on him? Opportunity.
But if you can't do it absolutely, there is no need for Jiang Chao to offend Yan Chu completely because of a classmate who once liked, but now has become another wife. It's not that he is afraid of him, but that there is no need for it.
"Speaking of which, we didn't get in touch with you in the previous class reunions. The old class misses you. Every time we have a reunion, we always mention your name."
Jiang Chao didn't care about Yan Chu's indifference, and smiled and patted him on the shoulder. In fact, Lao Ban also knew about his current depravity, and every time he mentioned him, it was just to lament his ignorance at that time. Jiang Chao would never say these words to Yan Chu.
"At the beginning, you were the most proud student in the old class. You didn't visit the old class after graduation. You couldn't justify it. How about this? The class reunion is tentatively scheduled for eleventh. At that time, everyone is free. You college bully How about giving face to our old classmates and participating in it?"
With that said, Jiang Chao took out his phone, and inadvertently revealed the conspicuous pear logo on the back of the phone in front of Yan Chu.
This is Lizi X. He specially entrusted a friend to bring it from Hong Kong, and it cost him 8,000 yuan. Although he is earning a lot now, this is his salary for nearly a month, which really hurts his heart.
"It's rare to meet, leave a contact information, when the time comes to hold a class reunion, I can send you the time and place."
Jiang Chao looked at Yan Chu's reaction. If the other party agreed, there would be another joke at the class reunion. Seeing the former favorite man in this state, for those old classmates, it must be better than just listening to rumors **, it's okay if the other party doesn't agree, it just proves the other party's inferiority complex, when the class reunion, he will tell the story to the students, express his sympathy and regret, the focus of all the students that day, go to him body came.
It is only the beginning of July, and there are still three full months before the November holiday. After thinking about it, Yan Chu took out the Nokia E71 in his hand. At that time, it was considered a very good model, but today, eight years later, such a mobile phone is obviously a bit outdated.
Jiang Chao almost couldn't hold back his laughter. Who still uses Nokia these days? Are you planning to use him to smash walnuts
It seems that this former college bully is really dead.
Jiang Chao happily wrote down Yan Chu's mobile phone number, and then took out a 20-yuan note in a very generous way: "Boss, I gave my friend the money for today's haircut, so you don't need to look for it."
The barbershops in the county don’t charge much, especially the one they’re in now. It’s been in the county for more than 20 years, and the barber is still the same one. Now other barbershops are charging a lot, and he still has a conscience. It is very reasonable to maintain the price of eight yuan per person for washing, cutting and blowing, so many families in the vicinity are willing to take care of his business.
Jiang Chao's hair was very fluffy, and he looked like he had just washed his hair. In order to show off in front of Yan Chu, an old classmate, after paying for the haircut for himself, he gave his share in advance.
"No, I've brought money."
Yan Chu took out the eight yuan that he had prepared long ago, and put it on the barber table.
"You say you, we are all old classmates, why are you being polite to me?" In Jiang Chao's view, Yan Chu was trying to save face and suffer, it was vain and arrogant.
He stuffed the eight yuan that Yan Chu took out back into his hand, and looked down on Yan Chu, the former college bully, even more in his heart.
Yan Chu could clearly feel the contempt and disdain in the other party's eyes.
This made him dumbfounded. After all, he used to be a classmate. Could it be that society is really such a gloomy big dye vat. Seeing that his former classmate is lonely, he can't wait to step on it? He doesn't remember offending him, does he
Yan Chu was not angry, and under the other party's sight, he insisted on handing the eight yuan to the boss.
"I want to cut the board to make it more refreshing."
After all, without waiting for Jiang Chao to return the money, he went straight to the shampoo trough in the corner of the barber shop.
"You're really—"
Jiang Chao gritted his teeth and sighed, feeling frustrated that his kind help was rejected.
"Forget it, but if you have any difficulties in the future, remember to come to me, an old classmate, and don't forget about the class reunion. The classmates will be very happy to see you attending."
Seeing Yan Chu nodding, Jiang Chao held back the snickering in his heart, and finally left the barber shop.
He couldn't wait any longer, and wanted to go home and publicize this matter among his classmates, so that his former classmates and teachers would know what his college bully looked like.
In the past few years, the number of old classmates participating in the class reunion has become less and less. With Yan Chu joining this time, there must be many classmates who are curious about him who will come back specially. Where is the most classmates
In these three months, how to gather money to prepare an outfit that won't lose points immediately became Jiang Chao's top priority.
*****
"restaurant"
This is a new book prepared by Yan Chu. After much deliberation, he decided to give full play to his strengths and write a novel related to food.
First, his writing style is relatively delicate, and he can outline the tempting delicacy of food very well with words. Second, he knows better than anyone about the cooking of food, which can save a lot of time in the preparation of materials in the early stage .
The point of view of this novel is the male protagonist’s perspective, because of gender constraints, Yan Chu also knows that if he writes a female protagonist’s novel, there may be some awkwardness, and Lujiang’s male protagonist’s novel is popular now, so he took advantage of this hot topic ,Not bad.
"Restaurant" mainly tells about a young man who inherited the fly restaurant passed down to him by his grandfather, and a series of ironic or touching stories unfold around this small restaurant and the diners who come to the restaurant. This chapter tells the story of the young man’s first night in inheriting the small restaurant. He misses every little thing he had with his grandfather when he was a child. Chicken.
There is no outline, and the story of the first chapter has been written heartily. Yan Chu checked the typos, and then carefully read this small chapter. uploaded.
The new book has to wait for the editor to sign the contract, or wait for the 10,000 words to be signed manually. After thinking about it, Yan Chu simply coded two more chapters in one breath, and clicked upload at the same time.
Then, he closed the author's background, concentrating on thinking about tomorrow's content, regardless of the data after that.
Wang Ye is an ordinary female college student who is obsessed with novels. Her favorite novels are gourmet novels. Unfortunately, there are relatively few such novels on the Internet, and she has read them several times. The dishes cooked by the main characters, She can almost recite it backwards.
It's a pity that this kind of food articles are almost the same in the later stage, and there is nothing new to write. Over time, Wang Ye began to wonder whether he should change his preferences.
As usual, before finishing his professional homework and going to bed to get ready to rest, Wang Ye opened the Lujiang mobile webpage, and then clicked on the keyword food in the advanced search column, wanting to see if there are any food in the past three months Wen Xinwen appeared.
After reading a few novels that were barely pleasing to the eye, Wang Ye felt a little disappointed. When he was about to turn off his mobile phone and go to sleep, his eyes stopped on a novel called "Restaurant".
I don't know why, but looking at this name, there is a feeling that it is not out of the ordinary.
She thought, why don't you just take a look
Thinking of this, she opened the novel. The introduction of the novel is as concise as its title, only a short sentence, the story of a restaurant.
Such a brief introduction is very unattractive. Wang Ye frowned and clicked on the author's name. Sure enough, this is a newcomer author who has just started writing. This "restaurant" is his first novel.
Wang Ye is still very willing to support new authors. Although the original intention of many new authors is just a momentary dizziness, the possibility of cheating is very high, but writing is not easy. If her support can make the novel more popular An author who persists is also a good thing.
Thinking about it this way, although she didn't feel much about the introduction, she still chose to click on the first chapter and read it carefully.
"Fuck!"
About ten minutes later, Wang Ye stared at the small words of the author who came out after she clicked on the next chapter and only wrote here for the time being, add a bookmark and don't lose the progress.
She just saw the rising place, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone...
Returning to the homepage, Wang Ye almost spat out blood when he saw the conspicuous number 10276 on the word count column.
She actually read such a thin novel. What's even more frightening is that this novel has a strange magic power that makes people want to stop, especially the delicately described food in it. The taste of food.
She is about to enter the difficult career of chasing articles, but it is still a trivial matter. Wang Ye feels that the most difficult thing is probably the protest in her stomach. After reading only three chapters of the novel, she is actually hungry, unable to control her sinful hands, and wants to eat A bunch of takeaways, treat yourself.
Think of the deboned beggar chicken wrapped in lotus leaf yellow mud described in the novel, think of the moist and delicious chicken soaked in various mushrooms and glutinous rice fragrance, brushed with secret sauce...
Wang Ye swallowed, and climbed out of bed in twos and twos.
She is dying. If she doesn't eat some meat tonight, she won't be able to sleep peacefully.
This kind of scene happened in many places in Huaguo, but after all, it is just a novel that has not yet been listed on various recommendation lists. In addition, it is still a newcomer's article. For the time being, it has not exerted its due power.
*****
Early the next morning, Yan Chu got up and turned on the computer. The author's background page showed that in one night, the novel had added more than 80 favorites. Yan Chu looked at the clicks on the first chapter, and there were only more than 80 That's all, the ratio of clicks to favorites is as high as one to one, which is already an astonishing figure. You know, generally speaking, the ratio of clicks to collections can reach three to one to five to one, which already has the potential of a big red text.
But after all, there is still little data, and it is still hard to say what will happen in the future.
Yan Chu looked at the similar clicks in the three chapters, and what surprised him was that there were more than one hundred comments in each chapter, far exceeding the number of readers who collected his novels.
In other words, some readers left more than one message, which can arouse readers' discussions, which is a good sign.
As a person who tried online writing for the first time, Yan Chu was still figuring out everything now, so readers' comments were very important to him. Without even thinking about it, Yan Chu opened the comments in the backstage.
[This book is poisonous, or highly poisonous. It is recommended that you bring potato chips, soda, grilled crayfish, sausage, fried clams, spicy snails before reading the book... and then eat it] [Hungry]
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10086
identity number
[Poison in the middle of the night... If one day I die of fat, it will definitely cause great harm] [I want to ask, am I the only one who ordered Beggar Chicken after reading this novel yesterday] And me
And I
silently raise your hand
Upstairs you are definitely not alone
…
Almost the vast majority of the comments were accusing Yan Chu of poisoning late at night, but the tone of the readers was obvious, and they enjoyed it.
Did he get off to a good start
For some reason, Yan Chu couldn't help laughing when he saw the comments. He had a very complicated sense of accomplishment, which made him feel that being an Internet writer seemed quite interesting.
Especially when watching these cute little readers sprinkling flowers, Yan Chu felt that he might be able to give full play to his expertise in food, and strive to make his readers feel full of spirit when their bodies are hungry.
He will never admit it, it's just his bad taste.
The development trend on the first day was very good, and in the afternoon, Yan Chu successfully received a text message from the editor of the present team, and he got the opportunity to sign a contract with Lujiang.
Lujiang is different from Dianjia. What Lujiang signs is a person, and what Dianjia signs is a book. Once he signs a contract with Lujiang, he will not be able to write novels on other websites during the contract period. After reading the article, Yan Chu still decided to sign a contract with Lujiang.
In this way, when the contract was sent back to the Lujiang headquarters and the author's background changed from unsigned to signed, Yan Chu's novel had already updated thirteen chapters, and on the ranking day, it was successfully listed on the editor's recommended list. list.
At this time, he already has more than 900 collections. You must know that before this, his novels did not have any exposure channels, and they were all searched by readers themselves. Today, he is on the editor's recommendation list, not to mention, the same He also made it to the newcomer list for new readers. To really test the potential of his book, he had to look at the changes after these two lists.
The editor's recommendation list is ranked according to favorites. Now it has always been known as the Shura field, and the great gods are pink. It is difficult to get a good position on the list. Yan Chu's new article with more than 900 collections is ranked in the whip leg The position of five, this position is already very good for newcomers and new books.
More than ten days have passed, and his mentality has become very peaceful, and he doesn't pay as much attention to the data at the beginning. He writes a kind of food every day, and it is very interesting to see the appearance of his relatives and readers jumping their feet when they can't eat. .
The food he wrote about today is Ground Sanxian, which is a very authentic home-cooked dish, but it is not easy to make it well.
Jiang Yue is a loyal reader of "Restaurant", and she has been chasing after "Restaurant" since its inception. She is an ordinary housewife and her husband has a high salary. After giving birth to her second child, she quit her job. After returning to work and family, my daily hobby is cooking food for my family.
Before Yan Chu wrote about some difficult foods, and it was difficult to cook such complicated ingredients at home, Jiang Yue just took a look, and never had the urge to try it herself, this time it was different , The ingredients of ground three delicacies are very simple, eggplant, potatoes, green peppers, these things happen to be available at home.
"Restaurant" is different from ordinary food articles. Perhaps because of his research on food, Yan Chu clearly wrote the cooking skills and methods he learned from the kitchen god space in the novel. Among them, perhaps it is this sense of substitution that makes readers feel more and more that this food article is what a food article should really look like.
Jiang Yue noticed that the handling of ground delicacies in the novel was a little different from when she cooked this dish in the past. She didn't know whether it was the author's unique technique or he compiled it casually, but anyway, these ingredients are not expensive. If it's broken, it won't hurt too much.
Jiang Yue, who was greedy for the delicious food described in the novel, simply took out the ingredients and cooked the local three delicacies according to the cooking method described in the book.
"How do you make this delicacy today?" Jiang Yue's husband couldn't believe it was his wife's handiwork as he ate the eggplant with a strong taste.
"Mom is delicious, but the baby wants more."
Not only Jiang Yue's husband likes it, but even Da Bao at home has recognized this dish. It is not obvious that he was a picky eater who was afraid of green peppers before.
"You think it's delicious too, don't you?"
Seeing her husband and children eating happily, Jiang Yue narrowed her eyes with a smile. There is nothing happier than being recognized by her family for her craftsmanship.
To be honest, Jiang Yue herself was taken aback by the taste of the local delicacies, and she even began to wonder whether the recipes of other delicacies in the novel were as authentic as the local delicacies.
Could it be that the author of this book is actually a retired star chef? Or a reclusive descendant of the royal chef
Eating the delicious food, Jiang Yue couldn't help but wonder if she should try other recipes in the book.
And Jiang Yue was obviously not the only one who discovered this.