I found a cell phone from ten years ago.

Chapter 14 Novel Signing Paper Gold

Stand at attention, at ease, salute, march in step, goose-step, run, stand at attention...

After only one morning of training, Shen Qiang, Xu Haoyang and others' expectations for military training disappeared completely and they began to complain bitterly.

The heat in Jiangning in early September was still there. Just standing in the sun in military training uniform would make you sweat all over in a short time, not to mention the various trainings you had to go through.

After the class was dismissed at noon, on the way to the cafeteria, Xu Haoyang couldn't help but complain:

"This military training is so boring! It feels no different from the military training we had in high school!"

Shen Qiang said: "During the break just now, I found that several people sneaked away, and the instructor didn't do anything."

After a pause, he said tentatively, "How about we escape this afternoon?"

This kid wanted to skip training, but he didn't have the courage, so he wanted to pull a few more people to give him courage.

Li Xu glanced at Shen Qiang and said, "I advise you not to do this. Today is the first day of military training. The instructors may arrest a few typical people to establish their authority. Be careful not to get caught in the crossfire."

After hearing what he said, Xu Haoyang, who was originally moved by Shen Qiang's words, suddenly backed off again.

Unexpectedly, Li Xu was right.

As soon as the group finished gathering in the afternoon, the instructors began to check the number of people. Five or six unlucky guys were caught red-handed and became examples.

When they received the news and rushed over, they were not only criticized by the instructor, but also forced to run laps around the playground.

This made Shen Qiang and Xu Haoyang secretly feel fortunate that they did not escape, otherwise they would have become one of those unlucky guys.

After the training ended at around five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Xu returned to the dormitory, took a quick shower, changed his clothes, and left the school.

When he arrived at Dachengming Store, he first bought a roujiamo and a cup of soy milk on the first floor, and then carried the things to the third floor.

After entering Centennial Impression and finding a machine to sit down, Li Xu ate while climbing to the starting point.

After clicking on "Mystery", he couldn't help but be stunned.

More than 3600 clicks, more than 300 recommendation votes, and 327 collections.

The number of comments in the comment section also increased from a few or ten to more than thirty.

How come the data suddenly increased so much?
Especially the collection, which increased by more than 200 in one day.

The little advertising he had done before could never have had such a big effect.

After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure it out. Li Xu simply gave up thinking about it. Anyway, a big increase in data is definitely a good thing.

He plugged in the USB drive and prepared to upload today's two chapters, but as soon as he entered the writer's area, he found an additional internal message.

"Hello, Li Xu. Your work, 'Lord of Mysteries,' has been reviewed and has met the contract requirements. Contracted editor: Persimmon QQ 27237718××, responsible editor: Qingzhou 541477××."

Li Xu did not use a pen name, but his real name.

Is this a signed contract?
Li Xu was both pleasantly surprised and a little shocked. He didn't expect to sign the contract so quickly, so he only sent more than 20,000 words.

It seems that the editor's vision is quite accurate.

He first logged into QQ and then added the QQ number of the contracted editor.

After asking a few simple questions, the other party sent the contract template.

Li Xu took a quick glance at the contract and started filling out the information.

It doesn't matter whether he reads the contract or not. As a newcomer, does he have the qualifications to negotiate terms with the website?
After filling in personal information, bank card account number and other relevant information, Li Xu modified the saved manuscript while waiting.

About half an hour later, the contract editor sent the electronic version of the contract.

After that, just print out the electronic contract, sign your name (pen name) and date, and mail it out.

Li Xu cut the electronic version of the contract into a USB drive, then created a new document, took out the Honor Magic6 Pro, opened "Mysterious", and began to concentrate on typing (copying the book).

There are only eleven chapters left.

Now that I have signed the contract, I must work harder and accumulate more manuscripts.

From 7 to 10 p.m., Li Xu wrote seven more chapters totaling nearly words, bringing his draft to . After leaving the internet cafe, he went to the food court on the basement level and bought a pork loin pancake, which he ate while leisurely walking to school.

When I returned to the dormitory, it was already 10:.

Seeing Li Xu coming back, Xu Haoyang immediately sat up from the bed, "Brother Xu, what have you been doing? I didn't see you during the singing party last night. Don't you know how interesting tonight is?"

"I went to the Internet cafe."

"You went to the internet cafe? What did you do there?"

"What else can you do in an Internet cafe? Go online."

Li Xu does not want to reveal to the public that he is writing novels online for the time being, as he does not want to attract too much attention and discussion.

He understood a truth very early on: it is best not to publicize something before it is done, otherwise it will easily attract unwarranted speculation and criticism.

……

In a blink of an eye, military training has already started for three or four days.

These days, after finishing training every afternoon, Li Xu would go directly to the Internet cafe and type for three or four hours.

After a few days, the number of manuscripts accumulated increased, and there were already more than thirty chapters.

On the afternoon of the 10th, Li Xu skipped training for the first time. Instead of going to the playground for training, he came to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China near the school and planned to apply for an online banking card.

In the past few days, he found a gold investment method that is more suitable for him on the Internet - paper gold.

Paper gold, to put it simply, is a kind of gold transaction on paper.

The bank will open an account for investors. Investors only need to deposit funds to buy and sell gold, and make profits by buying low and selling high and earning the difference in gold prices.

Paper gold has a low threshold and is easy to operate, making it very suitable for novices like Li Xu.

More importantly, the risk is low.

Gold is a precious metal and its price can’t fall much further. Even if you are unlucky and encounter a sharp drop in gold prices, the most you will suffer is being trapped.

But as long as you don’t sell, you won’t lose money. Sooner or later, the price of gold will recover and you will be able to get out of the predicament.

What's more, Li Xu knows the trend of gold and is unlikely to be trapped.

As for the financial issue, he found an excuse to ask his family for three thousand yuan, and borrowed three hundred yuan and two hundred yuan from several childhood friends and classmates, and raised a total of fifteen hundred yuan.

Together with the more than 2,000 yuan he already had in his card, he had a total of 7,000 yuan in start-up capital.

It is impossible to make a lot of money by speculating in gold with this little money.

But at least I can practice and earn some living expenses.

Li Xu came to ICBC today to open online banking, just to buy ICBC's paper gold.

After opening an online banking account and obtaining a bank card and U-Shield, Li Xu left ICBC and went to Dacheng Famous Store.

When he arrived at Centennial Impression, he found a machine to sit at, and after reaching the starting point, he still looked at the data of "Mysterious" first.

It has received over 10000 hits, over 1300 recommendation votes, and over 1000 collections.

Yesterday, the total word count of "Mystery" reached 5, making it onto the newcomer potential list, and its performance has entered a period of rapid growth.

The Newcomer Potential List is the only list that new authors can appear on the website before signing a contract. The conditions for being on the list are that the book is in the new book stage and the word count must be at least 5.

"Mystery" is currently ranked 15th on the newcomer potential list.

The Rookie Potential List is only ranked 15th on the homepage, which is right at the bottom of the list.

Li Xu plans to update one more chapter today to see if he can make it to the list, or at least not be squeezed out by others.

Wait a minute, there is a reward!

　Thanks to Bingyu Congming, Lan__Zi, and Qiao Gelifeng for the rewards!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)