A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 8 Yellow Leaves Fall in the Autumn Wind (Seeking Reading and Monthly Tickets)
"It's not really a lie to them to say I've found a job. Now that I have the panel, reading novels will be my job from now on!"

Zhou Qing put down his phone and found himself walking to a Heji Eel Noodle Restaurant without knowing when. His stomach growled and he suddenly realized that he had rushed from Tanzhou so early in the morning and had not even had breakfast.

I was nervous before and didn’t feel hungry.

Now that I have the money, as soon as I relax, my stomach immediately rebels.

"This is it."

He walked into the store and ordered a bowl of their signature eel noodles. When he was paying, he found that the battery level of his phone had dropped to 18 percent and the red mark was on.

"Change your phone! You must change your phone!"

Zhou Qing had long been fed up with this broken battery and immediately decided to buy a new phone after eating a bowl of noodles.

"I bought it in Jiangcheng, and I can use it to read the third novel on the way back!"

He quickly searched the map.

"Hey, there's a Huawei store diagonally across from the bank."

After Zhou Qing finished his noodles, he walked back and quickly found the place.

There were not many people in the store at this time. He picked a white pura70 pro+ from the available mobile phones, with a configuration of 16gb+512gb, priced at yuan.

This was the most expensive thing he had ever bought, costing two thousand yuan more than the laptop.

After being selected, Zhou Qing paid the bill decisively - he had been frugal before, not because he was reluctant to spend money, but because he was too poor and had to spend money in a planned way to ensure his survival.

Of course, he is not the kind of person who would spend money lavishly after making a fortune.

Today's mobile phones are powerful. With this phone with a 5050mAh battery, 100w wired fast charging and 80w unlimited fast charging, in the next stage, he can not only read novels anytime and anywhere, but also no longer have to worry about the battery life of his phone.

I changed the SIM card, connected to the store's WiFi, installed the commonly used software, tried everything, and felt good. Watching short videos is smoother than before.

I logged into 12306 and bought a high-speed rail ticket back to Tanzhou at around : pm.

Zhou Qing put the packaging box into his bag, waved goodbye to the smiling salesperson with his new phone, and walked out of the store. After thinking for a while, he felt that time was running out, so he called another online taxi.

I opened WeChat and suddenly remembered that I forgot to say hello to "Yan Hui Xi Lou" after the transaction was completed.

I immediately searched for her account in my friend list and sent her a message: "Happy cooperation! (handshake)"

After this transaction, Zhou Qing had a very good impression of "Yan Hui Xi Lou". He felt that the other party was a very straightforward and straightforward person, and had strong financial strength.

He plans to keep in touch with the other party, perhaps they can continue to cooperate in the future.

Three minutes later, Zhou Qing sat in the back seat of the online car-hailing vehicle and had a brief chat with "Yan Hui Xi Lou". After the conversation ended, he looked out of the window and admired the scenery of Jiangcheng city.

After two minutes, he rolled down the car window, and a cool breeze blew in his face, ruffling his hair. Zhou Qing ignored it and just watched the street scene passing by quickly in front of him. After an unknown amount of time, he looked down at the new phone in his hand and suddenly felt like he was in another world.

He was stunned for a long time, and inexplicably felt the urge to cry, and his eyes turned red.

Take a deep breath.

Inhale, exhale.

He forced himself to hold back his tears, thinking, "Only cowards cry. I wasn't a coward before, and I certainly won't be one in the future!"

Thinking of this, I started to laugh foolishly again.

The driver of the car in front glanced at him several times through the rearview mirror, but Zhou Qing ignored him. The smile in his eyes and on the corners of his mouth couldn't be stopped.

Life will be different from now on!

Five minutes later, Zhou Qing began to think about whether to choose a novella or a full-length novel as the third novel.

"You can actually choose one of the two novels you've read through and try a close reading." "But close reading requires a lot of effort. You have to read and understand the novel thoroughly, and delve into the text. Even if you choose a novella like 'Border Town,' the time and energy you spend is probably much more than reading a million-word novel in its entirety."

"That's why the probability of getting good stuff from 'intensive reading extraction' is much greater than that from 'thorough reading extraction'."

The online taxi stopped at the entrance of the high-speed railway station. Zhou Qing paid the bill directly on the platform, got off the car with his bag and entered the station.

There were a lot of people in the waiting room, and I had to walk around twice before I found an empty seat to sit down.

"It takes the shortest time to read through the novella, so I can try again the fastest!"

He summoned the panel, a thought came to his mind, and the panel changed instantly -

Name: Zhou Qing

Currently reading: Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind (Lu Yao)

Complete reading library: "The Return of the Condor Heroes", "Border Town", etc.
Intensive reading completion library: None

……

Zhou Qing blinked when he saw the novel randomly selected this time.

Quickly fell into memories.

When he was in high school, Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" was very popular among his classmates, but he had no money to buy it.

He remembered very clearly that in the second semester of his senior year, just before the summer vacation, he saw this book at his Chinese teacher's house and asked to borrow it from her.

After taking it home and reading it, I was deeply moved. Later, I borrowed from her the five volumes of "Lu Yao's Collected Works" published by the People's Literature Publishing House, which included this article "Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind".

The handsome face of Zhou Qing's high school Chinese teacher flashed through his mind. After calculating the time, he realized that they had not been in contact for more than two months.

He shook his head and focused on reading the novel: "I remember this novel was quite short."

A quick encyclopedia look.

If my memory serves me right, "Yellow Leaves Falling in the Autumn Wind" has only 64,000 words.

"The drive back is over an hour and twenty minutes. It's over 60,000 words, so I should try to finish it before getting off the train in Tanzhou!"

"Yellow Leaves" is an early work of Lu Yao, written in 1983, and won the first National Excellent Novella Award.

This novel is not very famous among all his works. People usually know "Ordinary World" and "Life", especially "Ordinary World". The novel was very famous in the past, and the TV series was also very popular. In today's era of popular short videos, the "Northwest Hammer King" and "Ball Head" memes were once popular on Douyin.

Zhou Qing has seen it several times.

"It seems that 'Life' has also been made into a TV series, and the female lead Liu Qiaozhen is played by the 'chicken leg girl' in 'Joy of Life'."

Putting aside all distractions, he searched the website where he had previously read "Border Town" and found Lu Yao's collection of works. He clicked on it, selected "Yellow Leaves" in the catalog, and hurried to read it.

"After her parents passed away and she failed to get into university, the stubborn Lu Ruoqin had no choice but to lock up her old house in the small town on the Guanzhong Plain and move with her brother to the deep valleys of the mountains on the Loess Plateau."

"Nineteen years of consistent life in her hometown ended, and she entered a completely unfamiliar world. She felt a little sad, but also a little curious."

The new phone's screen is clear and of the right size, and the browser's reading mode can simulate page turning. I feel it's much better to read novels with one hand than using a computer before.

Zhou Qingxin was focused and soon immersed in the world of novels.

Fifty minutes later, the train stopped at Yuecheng Station for two minutes, and someone came to occupy the empty seat next to it.

As soon as the other person sat down, a strong smell of perfume entered his nose, making him sneeze.

　There will be more in the evening. Please support me by reading, rewarding, monthly tickets and recommendation tickets!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)