Chapter 304 I Hate People with Connections

"Is CC tired?" Gu Lu asked Qi Caiwei beside him.

Today, Qi Caiwei was running around everywhere, explaining things to the newlyweds. She was full of energy.

"This is our club, so we must definitely work harder!"

Generally speaking, sweating profusely with clumps of hair sticking to your forehead looks messy and will lower your appearance.

For CC, it was a little bit, but Qi Caiwei's cheerful energy made up for everything and infected Gu Lu.

"Then there's no need to be so tiring and say all this one by one." Gu Lu said.

"Of course, of course. You, Gulu, did the preliminary preparations. I didn't participate in the early stages, so I must do more when recruiting new members." Qi Caiwei shook her head.

Hey, there's another person here! Li Guyuan next to him wanted to speak, but in the end he just took it all in silence.

The recruitment meeting ended successfully. Regardless of whether it was the club that the freshmen most wanted to join, 80% of the students joined.

Originally, Gu Lu wanted to take Tang Tian and the others to the community office, but Director Hu suddenly came to him for something.

Just leave this matter to CC and Tangyuan.

After the recruitment activity ends, it’s time for dinner in the cafeteria!

"Lady, look, you can really walk sideways in No. 8 Middle School. Do you know crabs? You are almost there now." Shu Rou said, "Zhang Liru, the president of the Shuren Literature Club, and Zhou Lin, the president of the Model United Nations, are all familiar with Gu Lu. And the president of the dance club you joined is a fan of Gu Lu's books. Gu Lu's cards are simply big and small kings!"

The cards showed the Joker and the Joker. Gu Jiayu frowned. Was this a compliment?

"No matter how good my brother is, it has little to do with me. I have to work hard myself." Gu Jiayu ate stewed potatoes and meat. "After joining the dance club, I felt like Alexander. I have the same hands and feet, and my limbs are a bit uncoordinated."

"Just practice more," Shu Rou consoled her. "I learned about Model United Nations today and found that it is completely different from what I imagined. Not only do you need to be able to speak, but you also need to remember a lot of information."

Shu Rou changed her mind and asked, "Why hasn't Tang Tang come back yet?"

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao.

"I didn't get to eat it, luckily I wasn't late. I almost finished my braised pork." Tang Tian held the plate.

Tang Tian had just taken two bites when she took the initiative to say, "You know what? No. 8 Middle School is really rich, and the club's activity rooms are all very good!"

"Really? Does our dance club have a practice room?" Gu Jiayu asked.

Shu Rou asked, "Does Model United Nations also have a dedicated base?"

Compared to the many computers in the publication club, what is a practice room? So Tang Tian promised, "There will definitely be one. The first club activity will be next week. Just wait and see."

Is No. 8 Middle School so powerful? Gu Jiayu thought about it and realized that No. 8 Middle School was the best school in Fog City, so it was normal for it to be a little powerful.

Looking forward to it! Looking forward to it!

After dinner, students rush back to the classroom for evening reading.

However, something happened in a place that neither classmates nor teachers often went to.

"What does Guru want me to do?" Zhou Lin came to the small garden.

In school, it was rare for Gu Lu to meet Zhou Lin alone.

There are two gardens in the Eighth CPC. The small garden here is close to the house where the school teachers live. It is not on the way to anywhere, so it is more appropriate to call it a weed pile than a garden.

Of course, a weed pile can also produce beautiful flowers, so it is better to call it a small garden.

"I just heard something." Gu Lu said, "Director Hu told me that the school anniversary in mid-October will not be held."

"?" Zhou Lin's eyes seemed to be saying, what horrible things are you saying.

"Because he was afraid that I would object, Director Hu told me first, and the specific information will not be announced until Friday," said Gu Lu.

Today is Wednesday, which means the news will be announced the day after tomorrow.

"So what's your opinion, Guru?" Zhou Lin asked.

"They said they were afraid that I would object. But in fact, my opinion is not that important." Gu Lu said, "At least this matter will not change because of my attitude."

After Gu Lu learned about this, he wanted to find someone to discuss it. Normally, he didn't think that Zhou Lin was the student who could make the most decisions in Gu Lu's mind at this time.

"What was the reason for the cancellation?" Zhou Lin asked, "I remember last year's event, and there were many journalists reporting on it."

"There should be a large-scale leadership inspection at the end of October," Gu Lu said, "The school cancelled the school anniversary in order to better prepare for the large-scale inspection."

This fits Zhou Lin's stereotype of school leaders. For the sake of safety, they can make all kinds of unreasonable rules. For example, requiring parents to hand in milk cartons is to deal with inspections from above. Students who do not hand in enough milk cartons every week will have their conduct points deducted.

Once your conduct score is low, you will have nothing to do with the selection of "Three Good Students" or "Outstanding Young Pioneers".

As for the reasons like students are lactose intolerance and can’t drink that much milk per week etc… who in the school cares about you?

In the later era of developed e-commerce, even industries such as selling clean milk cartons and empty pen refills have emerged.

"I should do something." said Zhou Lin.

Gu Lu looked at the girl with super strength and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Every club is working hard for the school anniversary. Since it is not a special case and it is just a one-size-fits-all decision made by the school leaders, we cannot give up this right," said Zhou Lin.

Is it a right for students to participate in the school anniversary celebration? This statement confused Gu Lu. He felt that the school anniversary celebration and the clubs were benefits given by the school.

Zhou Lin was too familiar with Guru, so he saw through his thoughts. "Let me give you an example. For example, we go to buy a house, and the developer advertises that it has a beautiful atrium garden."

"Many tenants may have decided to buy a house just because of this beautiful atrium garden." Zhou Lin said, "Similarly, when No. 8 Middle School promotes its anniversary, it also promotes the rich club activities. These promotions are also factors that many freshmen will consider when choosing a school. In short, it is the rights of students."

It seemed like something was wrong, but Gu Lu couldn't find a way to refute it. In his heart, he still believed that studying was the most important thing, and other factors were just charity from the school.

"I plan to negotiate with the principal next Monday," Zhou Lin said. "I definitely won't betray you! So after the school announces the news on Friday, I'll go on Monday."

A student negotiating with the principal? Gu Lu looked at Zhou Lin's serious face. So - stubborn?
No, he wasn't being stubborn. Gu Lu immediately realized that the person in front of him was someone who would always do his best to achieve his goals.

I want to become the Secretary-General of the Global Model United Nations, so now I am the President of the Model United Nations Club of No. 8 Middle School, and I lead the team to the Southwest Model United Nations Conference.

If you believe that club activities are students’ rights, you should fight for them.

"You are really heroic!" Gu Lu gave a thumbs up. He dared to negotiate with the principal now because of his identity as a writer.

"Be careful or the principal will make things difficult for you," said Gu Lu.

"Oh, yes, it's possible." Zhou Lin fell into deep thought, and after thinking it over, he said, "It's possible, but we still have to go. This year, the program we prepared for the school anniversary is to recreate the Paris Peace Conference. For this, we consulted the history teacher and looked up a lot of information. It should be shown at the school anniversary."

"We can't chat anymore. The evening reading will be over soon." Zhou Lin said as he ran towards the classroom.

"Principal, please give me some face and don't make things difficult for Zhou Lin." Gu Lu suddenly muttered as he watched the other person's back as he left.

He wanted to protect Zhou Lin in the negotiation. Whether it would be successful or not was another matter, but at least he wanted to avoid being bullied.

After a while, the sound of insects chirping could be heard all around, but it was much quieter than before. Perhaps it was because autumn had arrived and most of the insects were dead.

Gu Lu, who was not attending evening self-study, walked back slowly.

Turning into the small road, Gu Lu found that there were warning signs on the uneven places. The residents' notice board also announced the time of road repair.

"What's the new director's name? He's really reliable." Gu Lu thought to himself. He closed the door quietly, turned on the computer, and received a message from President Jian.

Sure enough, the Children's Publishing House couldn't sit still. Gu Lu smiled and said, "This way, Uncle Jian will get a favor."

King Guru: [I had a pleasant cooperation with the Juvenile and Children's Publishing House, and the editors there were all very nice. The reason I left the publishing house was because I wanted to challenge myself with more topics.

The publishing direction of the Juvenile and Children's Publishing House is slightly different from my goal. It is a very normal move to change publishing houses. The New Youth Publishing House has been very good to me.

Let's get back to the topic. I am still experimenting with different types of novels and how to write them.

The two short stories serialized in "New Reading" have sparked quite a bit of discussion.

It's normal. There are successes and failures, likes and dislikes. Trust your own preferences and choose the works you like to read.]
Big Big Orange灬: "I've also seen a lot of people say that Gu Lu's supernatural novels are getting worse and worse. So pitiful."

The wandering magician of Magic City replied to [大大大橙子灬]: "I have said so much, but you didn't understand it at all. This thing of Gu Xiaozei is just a disclaimer. It will happen frequently if the writing style is changed in the future. Don't restrict him to a certain style of writing."

Big Juice replied to [Modu Wandering Mage]: "You didn't understand what Big Orange wanted to say. He didn't care whether Gu Xiaozei was sad or not. He just wanted a hug (dog head)"

The wandering magician of Magic City replied to [BIG Juice is great]: "It's my sister who is ignorant (dog head)"

Always so coquettish: "MM, where is the MM (sticking out tongue)."

Currently, Gu Lu has more than 500,000 followers on Weibo, and quite a few netizens have commented on his posts. One of them is Yi Zhang Huang, who was both happy and a little sighed when he saw Gu Lu's comments.

I am happy to see Gu Lu's words, and I will definitely not change my writing style. I sigh that there will be no more works like "Iron Pillar" and "Listening to the Moon Song in the White Room".

"Why are you unhappy?" Yizhanghuang looked at the mirror at home.

Yi Zhang Huang changed his voice and played another person: "I just feel sorry for the loss of a great character in the supernatural world."

"Yeah, wouldn't that mean you have no rivals? It's really tiring to shoulder the responsibility alone."

Let me be clear, middle school and high school students are not that naive. But the 28-year-old Yizhang Huang's dramatic behavior is just right.

There are many people who play the joke on the Internet. Even if the real person comes out, some netizens still don't believe it. They think that the Children's Publishing House is looking down on others.

It has to be said that this time the truth is in the hands of a few people.

Gu Lu's words freed the publishing house from the spotlight, and Yuan Mingjie breathed a sigh of relief.

A message of thanks was also sent.

Gu Lu saw it, but didn't respond.

[Yao Xiaoju: Brother Gu, the English version of The Little Prince will be on the market next week. I hope it will sell well.

Gu Lu: Sell a few million copies.

Yao Xiaoju: Hahaha. The Japanese version of Flowers for Algernon is also on the agenda. Brother Gu, your overseas career is progressing very smoothly.

Gu Lu: Thanks to Brother Yao’s help.

Yao Xiaoju: Mainly because your work is good enough, Xiao Gu, I have something to run. In addition, I feel that Flowers for Algernon will be popular in Europe and America, so I am already looking for a translator. But...

Gu Lu: But what?
Yao Xiaoju: But Europe and the United States have little interest in Chinese science fiction works. ]
This is true. When it comes to the Earth, before Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem", no science fiction works were exported abroad.

Invisible chain of contempt.

Gu Lu replied calmly, "Thank you, Brother Yao. If you really can't find anyone to translate Algernon, then wait for my Little Prince to gain some popularity first."

Spokespersons are talented, Yao Xiaoju said it is easy to find a translator, but it is still difficult to hire an excellent translator.

After chatting with the overseas agent for a while, Gu Lu was thinking whether the little prince could become famous in the UK.

After thinking about it, Gu Lu felt that it was possible!
But what if?
Maybe because he was too tired from recruiting new members today, Gu Lu went to bed early.

Thursday, get up early.

Friday, get up early.

Saturday, got up early - went back to bed.

Oh, no, I have to talk about what happened on Friday. When the school issued the notice, students from No. 8 Middle School wailed everywhere.

Take Zhang Liru's class as an example. She is in the last semester of participating in the Shuren Literature Club. Many students in the class are like this.

Club activities are useless for entrance exams, but it is precisely because of their uselessness that they become the sustenance of many students. Spiritual sustenance must not be placed only on useful things, otherwise it will be very easy to collapse.

Useless use.

Well, this is a bit philosophical. To put it simply, after two years of working in the club, the final closing ceremony was cancelled - you can imagine.

The students howled so loudly that their dissatisfaction almost broke the classroom.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? There's no school anniversary, so what? Study hard. The college entrance examination is in a year. You can concentrate better without the school anniversary." The head teacher suppressed the class forcefully.

That’s right, the solution Director Hu came up with was that the school would not notify the students directly, but let the class teachers do it.

The idea is good, at least there was no trouble at No. 8 Middle School!
It's the weekend again. Before I knew it, time had smoothly entered the beginning of winter. The weather in the foggy city has become cooler, and I have to wear two more layers of clothes.

The first half-monthly issue of "New Reading" was released, and the October issue of "Youth" was also released.

The former was quickly available in newsstands and bookstores across the country, and the latter was quickly spread to all junior and senior high schools in the Fog City.

Why are these two events mentioned together? There is no special reason, they just happened to coincide with each other.

Yizhanghuang bought "New Reading" as soon as it became available. The reason was very simple, because his article was in this issue of the magazine.

"Huh? Why isn't my article featured on the cover?" Yizhang Huang originally thought that his manuscript would definitely be featured on the cover, but he didn't expect it to be another one.

【Lottery·Gu Lu】

【Dogman·Wanyi'an】

What is the use of the cover recommendation? Actually, it is of little use. At most, it can bring a little attention to the article. But whether it can become a champion article still depends on its quality.

But - that's a matter of face, representing the two most exciting stories in an issue, I'd rather not sacrifice it for the sake of saving face!
"I'm speechless." If Yizhanghuang wasn't in a more stable mood, he would have wanted to throw the magazine aside.

Wan Yian, it has been basically confirmed that he is a relative of a certain editor-in-chief. His story is not scary at all, but he is always recommended on the cover.

As for Gu Lu, there is nothing much to say. He is a man of great talent! On the one hand, the article is indeed literary, and on the other hand, his status in the martial arts world is there. No matter what, he has to give face to his predecessors.

I watched Dog Man first. The story is about the protagonist being bitten by a dog, then turning into a dog, and then it ends abruptly. There is no narrative skill and no horror atmosphere.

"Haha, I hate people with connections the most in my life." Yizhang Huang continued to read Gu Lu's new story "The Lottery".

[On the morning of June 27, the sky was clear and the sun was shining. The day seemed to come with the fresh warmth of midsummer, the flowers were blooming beautifully, the grass was green. At about ten o'clock, the villagers began to gather in the square between the post office and the bank...]
“It’s still similar to The Possibility of Evil. It doesn’t create a horror atmosphere, but instead it’s a quiet and beautiful environment.”

At the beginning of the article, Yizhanghuang already felt the arrival of spring and the blooming of flowers. How could it be scary?

(End of this chapter)

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