292、The Road to Counterattack for the Dependents 4

"Why, old classmate, you don't recognize me anymore?"

Jiang Chao couldn't help but want to laugh. It was a rare trip back to his hometown, but he didn't expect to meet Yan Chu in the barber shop.

He looked at this child who was once described by his elders as a good student in the eyes of his teachers. Over the years, he had often heard stories of his "famous" deeds from other people's mouths.

A white T-shirt with no label visible and a slightly loose collar. It looks like the kind of street stall goods that old farmers in the countryside like most and costs 20 yuan for three pieces. Black pants with large crotches. Jiang Chao remembers that his father also has such a pair. , they were given as gifts by China Telecom during an event. Because the quality was so poor, his father didn’t even care to wear them. In the end, his mother cut them off and used them as rags. There were also sandals, dozens or twenty-one pairs of street stalls, Jiang Chao’s face. His smile became even brighter, it seemed that those rumors were not just rumors.

"Why, you really didn't recognize me?"

Seeing that Yan Chu was silent, Jiang Chao felt that he was ashamed and guilty. It was precisely because of his silence that it only fueled Jiang Chao's interest.

"I am your high school classmate Jiang Chao. I used to sit across from you. My grades were not as good as yours. I only got an ordinary undergraduate degree. Fortunately, I still had some luck. After graduation, I got admitted to the Tobacco College. The company can still make a living."

Tobacco company, there are so many people trying to get in. There are so many people signing up every year. In order to get him in, the Jiang family's parents paid more than 200,000 yuan, and this had to be someone they knew. , otherwise you wouldn’t be able to get in even if you have money.

However, the tobacco company is also famous for its good welfare benefits. The more than 200,000 yuan will be enough to repay the capital in two or three years. And because he joined the tobacco company, none of his relatives thought he had a lot of potential, even the blind date At that time, the girl heard that he worked in a tobacco company, and she took the initiative to get along with him.

When he was studying, he was not very good, but after graduation and working, Jiang Chao let out a sigh of relief.

He finally understood that your academic performance was all in vain and that your family relationship was strong enough. This was the basis for your foothold in this society.

"Old classmate, college tyrant, you were admitted to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which is one of the top schools in the country. After so many years, I'm afraid you should be a junior executive in the Fortune Global 500 now, or have passed the exam. A civil servant?"

Jiang Chao smiled and said, "Go away, you know the details of the other party. This loser is just an old man who lives at home."

"Not at work."

Yan Chu, whose real age is thousands of years old, really doesn't find such malicious humiliation to be unbearable. With his self-cultivation, he can handle it all with a smile.

"Didn't go to work?" Jiang Chao looked confused: "Oh, I understand, did you think those jobs were not challenging, so you took the initiative to fire the boss? Yes, you are so smart, how can you not find someone? When it comes to work, my boss pointed at our noses and said that you will definitely be the most promising among our classmates in the future. Now that I think about it, I am planning to make a big move to impress us. "

After entering the society for a long time, Jiang Chao's temperament has actually become very smooth. He will not offend others without any trouble, but Yan Chu is an exception.

The third year of high school is the time when a group of teenagers and girls are in love. Jiang Chao likes the class belle of the class, but the class belle likes this boy who skipped a grade and came to their class and is two years younger than the classmates in the class.

Jiang Chao was very unconvinced, especially after the original person rejected Ban Hua's confession, which made Jiang Chao feel ashamed that his cherished treasure had become a waste that others did not want.

Yan Chu was already useless. A man who went home after graduating from college and never worked again was no match for him.

Jiang Chao looked sarcastically at the man with dull skin and unhealthy lifestyle habits. His hair was so long that it needed to be tied with a rubber band so that it would not block his vision. How could such a loser otaku have a chance to turn around? .

But if he can't do it, there is no need for Jiang Chao to completely offend Yan Chu because of a class beauty who he once liked and has now become another woman's wife. It's not that he is afraid of him, but there is no need.

"Speaking of which, we didn't get in touch with you at the previous class reunions. My old classmate misses you so much. Your name is always mentioned at every reunion."

Jiang Chao didn't care about Yan Chu's indifference, he smiled and stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder. In fact, Lao Ban also knew about his current depravity. Every time he mentioned him, it was just to lament his lack of understanding of people at that time. Jiang Chao would not say these words to Yan Chu.

"Back then, you were the most proud student of your old class. You didn't even visit your old class after graduation. It doesn't make sense. How about this? This class reunion is tentatively scheduled for November, when everyone is free. You, a college bully, How about giving face to us old classmates and participating?"

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 pear x. He specially asked a friend to bring it from Hong Kong. It cost him a full eight thousand yuan. Although he earns a lot now, this is his salary for nearly a month, which really makes him feel heartbroken.

"It's rare to meet, so leave your contact information. When the class reunion is held, I can send you the time and place."

Jiang Chao looked at Yan Chu's reaction. If the other party agreed, there would be one more joke at the class reunion. Seeing the former favored man reduced to what he is now, for those old classmates, it would definitely be better than just listening to rumors. Naked, it's okay if the other party doesn't agree, it just proves the other party's inferiority complex. At the class reunion, he will tell this story to his classmates to express his sympathy and regret. That day, the focus of all the classmates will be on him. coming.

It was only the beginning of July, and there were still three full months before the National Day holiday. Yan Chu thought about it and took out the Nokia e71 in his hand. This was a new mobile phone he bought when he was in college. 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 help laughing. Who still uses Nokia these days? Are they planning to use it to smash walnuts?

It seems that this former university tyrant is really on his last legs.

Feeling relaxed, Jiang Chao wrote down Yan Chu's mobile phone number, and then generously took out a twenty-yuan note: "Boss, I gave my friend the money for today's haircut, so there's no need to change it."

Barber shops in the county don't charge high prices, especially the one they are in now, which has been open in the county for more than 20 years. The barber is still the same as before. Now that other barber shops are charging sky-high prices, he is still conscientious. The price of eight yuan per person for washing, cutting and blowing is already very reasonable, so many people in the area are willing to take care of his business.

Jiang Chao's hair was very fluffy and looked like it had just been washed. In order to show off in front of Yan Chu, his old classmate, after paying for his share of the haircut, he also gave his share in advance.

"No, I brought the money."

Yan Chu took out the eight dollars he had prepared long ago and put it on the barber's table.

"You said 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, and he was vain and arrogant.

He put the eight yuan that Yan Chu had taken out back into his hand, feeling increasingly contemptuous of Yan Chu, the former university bully.

Yan Chu could clearly feel the contempt and disdain in the other person's eyes.

This made him dumbfounded. After all, he was once a classmate. Could it be that society is really such a gloomy big dye vat? Seeing that his former classmate was lonely, he wanted to step on him? He doesn’t remember that he offended him, right?

Yan Chu was not angry, and insisted on handing the eight yuan into the boss's hand under the eyes of the other party.

"I want to cut the board inches so it's more refreshing."

After that, without waiting for Jiang Chao to hand back the money, he walked straight to the shampoo sink in the corner of the barber shop.

"You are really——"

Jiang Chao bared his teeth and sighed, looking frustrated as he tried to help but 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 suppressed the snicker in his heart and finally left the barber shop.

He couldn't wait any longer and wanted to go home as soon as possible to publicize this matter among his classmates, so that his former classmates and teachers would know what they, the college bully, had become.

In recent years, fewer and fewer old classmates have participated in the class reunion. This time, with Yan Chu joining, I think there must be many classmates who are curious about him and will come back specially. Maybe this will be the number of people they have ever attended. What about the most class reunions?

How to raise money to prepare an outfit that would not lose points in the past three months 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.

Firstly, his writing style is relatively delicate and he can use words to outline the tempting and delicious food. Secondly, he knows better than anyone about the cooking of delicious food, which can save a lot of time in the early preparation of materials. .

The perspective of this novel is the perspective of the male protagonist. Due to gender restrictions, Yan Chu also knows that if he writes a novel with a female protagonist, there may be some awkwardness. Moreover, Lu Jiang is currently popular in male protagonists, so he just takes advantage of this hot topic. ,Not bad.

"Restaurant" mainly tells the story of a young man who inherited a fly tavern passed down to him by his grandfather. A series of stories that are either laughable or touching unfold around this tavern and the diners who come to it.

The first chapter of the novel is directly named after the beggar chicken.

This chapter tells about the first night when the young man inherited the small restaurant. He missed every moment of getting along with his grandfather when he was a child. With this mood, he cooked a signature dish that his grandfather was best at, which is what the title says. Chicken.

There was no outline, so he finished the first chapter of the story heartily. Yan Chu checked for typos, and then carefully read this small chapter. After making sure that there were no problems with word order and grammar, he wrote the content of this chapter. uploaded.

For a new book, you have to wait for the editor to take the initiative to sign a contract, or to manually apply for a contract when it reaches 10,000 words. After thinking about it, Yan Chu simply coded two more chapters in one go and clicked upload at the same time.

Then, he closed the author's backend and concentrated on thinking about tomorrow's content, regardless of the subsequent data.

Wang Ye is an ordinary female college student who is addicted to novels. Her favorite novels are food novels. Unfortunately, there are relatively few such novels on the Internet. She has read almost all of them over and over again. The dishes cooked by the protagonist in them are... She could almost recite it from memory.

It's a pity that this kind of food articles became almost the same in the later period, with no new ideas. As time went by, Wang Ye began to wonder whether he should change his preferences.

As usual, after finishing his professional homework and going to bed to rest, Wang Ye opened the Lujiang mobile web page and clicked on the keyword food in the advanced search column to see if there was any food in the past three months. New texts appear.

After picking out some novels that were barely pleasing to the eye and reading a few, Wang Ye felt a little disappointed. When he was about to turn off his phone and go to sleep, his eyes stopped on a novel called "Restaurant".

I don’t know why, but when I look at this name, it feels very unconventional.

She thought, how about taking a look?

With this thought in mind, she opened the novel. The introduction of the novel was as concise as its title, with only one short sentence, the story of a restaurant.

Such an introduction was very unattractive. Wang Ye frowned and clicked on the author's name. As expected, this was a new author who had just started writing. This "Food House" was his first novel.

Wang Ye is quite happy to support new authors. Although many new authors’ original intention of writing articles is just a temporary dizziness, and the possibility of cheating the article is very high, writing articles is not easy. If only because of her support, the novel can be published more An author who perseveres is also a good thing.

With this in mind, even though she was not interested in the introduction, she still chose to click on the first chapter and read it carefully.

"Fuck!"

About ten minutes later, Wang Ye's eyes nearly popped out when he saw the small words that appeared after she clicked on the next chapter.

She had just seen the rising place, and it was gone, gone, gone, gone...

Returning to the home page and looking at the conspicuous number 10276 in the word count column, Wang Ye almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

She actually read such a thin novel. What's even more frightening is that this novel has a strange magical power that makes people want to stop, especially the delicious food described in detail. Just reading it can't help but secrete in the mouth. The taste of delicious food.

She is about to enter the difficult life of chasing articles and seeing small things. Wang Ye thinks that the most difficult thing is probably the protest from her stomach now. After just reading three chapters of the novel, she is actually hungry. She cannot control her sinful hands and wants some. Treat yourself to a bunch of takeaways.

Think of the boneless beggar's chicken wrapped in lotus leaf yellow mud and stewed in the novel. Think of the delicious chicken soaked in various mushrooms and glutinous rice, brushed with secret sauce... ...

Wang Ye swallowed and climbed out of bed.

She is dying. If she doesn't eat some meat tonight, she won't be able to sleep peacefully.

Scenes like this happened in many places in China, but after all, it is just a novel that has not yet been listed on various recommendation lists. In addition, it is still an article by a newcomer. For the time being, it has not exerted its due power.

*****

Early the next morning, Yan Chu got up and turned on his computer. The author's backend page showed that the novel had more than 80 collections in one night. Yan Chu looked at the clicks on the first chapter and saw that there were only more than 80 collections. That’s it. The ratio of clicks to collections is as high as one to one, which is already an astonishing number. 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 Dahongwen.

However, after all, there is still little data, and it is still difficult to say what will happen in the future.

Yan Chu looked at the same number of clicks on the three chapters. What surprised him was the messages displayed in the background of the novel. There were more than a hundred messages for each chapter, far exceeding the number of readers who had collected his novels.

In other words, some readers have left more than one message, which can arouse discussion among readers, which is a good sign.

As a person who is trying online writing for the first time, Yan Chu is still exploring everything now, so readers' messages are very important to him. Without thinking, Yan Chu opened the comments in the background.

[This book is poisonous, or highly poisonous. It is recommended that you bring potato chips, soda, barbecued crayfish, sausage, fried clams, spicy screws before reading the book before eating]

【hungry】

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+3

+4

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+ID number

[Putting poison in the middle of the night...If one day I become fat and die, it will be very harmful]

[I want to ask, am I the only one who ordered Beggar’s Chicken after reading this novel yesterday?]

And I

And I

Raise your hand silently

You are definitely not alone upstairs

...

Almost the vast majority of the comments were accusing Yan Chu of the abominable act of releasing poison late at night, but the readers' tone was clear that they enjoyed it.

Is this a good start for him?

I don't know why, but Yan Chu couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the comments. He had a complicated sense of accomplishment, which made him feel that being an online writer seemed to be quite interesting.

Especially when watching these cute little readers throwing flowers, Yan Chu felt that he might be able to make more use of his expertise in food and strive to make his readers feel spiritually fulfilled when they are physically hungry.

He would never admit that it was just his bad taste.

The development trend on the first day was very good, and in the afternoon, Yan Chu successfully received an in-site text message from the editor of the Xianyan group, and he got the opportunity to sign a contract with Lujiang.

Lujiang is different from Dianjia. Lujiang signs people, and Dianjia signs books. Once signed with Lujiang, he will not be able to write novels on other websites during the contract period. After reading all the contract terms one by one, Yan Chu decided to sign with Lujiang.

In this way, when the contract was sent back to Lujiang headquarters and the author's backstage status changed from unsigned to signed, Yan Chu's novel had been updated to thirteen chapters, and on the ranking day, it was successfully listed on the editor's recommended list.

At this time, he already has more than 900 collections. You know, before this, his novels had no exposure channels, and readers searched for them by themselves. Today, he is on the editor's recommendation list, and also on the new list for new readers. The real test of the potential of his book depends on the changes after these two lists.

The editor's recommendation list is ranked according to collections. Contemporary novels have always been known as the Shura field, with many great gods and pinks. It is difficult to get a good position on the list. Yan Chu's new article with more than 900 collections ranks fifth, which is a very good position for a new book.

More than ten days have passed, and his mentality has been very peaceful. He doesn't pay as much attention to data as he did at the beginning. He writes a kind of food every day, and it is also very interesting to see the readers jump up and down in anxiety when they can't eat it.

Today, the food he wrote is three fresh vegetables, which is a very authentic home-cooked dish, but it is not easy to make it well.

Jiang Yue is a loyal reader of "Food Store" and has been following it since it was first published. She is an ordinary housewife whose husband has a high salary. After giving birth to her second child, she quit her job and returned to her family. Her hobby is to cook delicious food for her family.

Before, Yan Chu wrote about some difficult foods, and it was difficult to cook such complex 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 the three fresh dishes were very simple, eggplant, potato, green pepper, and these things happened to be available at home.

"Food Store" is different from ordinary food articles. Perhaps because of his deep research on food, Yan Chu did not mind clearly writing the cooking skills and methods he learned from the Kitchen God Space in the novel. Perhaps it was this sense of substitution that made readers feel that this food article was what a food article should really look like.

Jiang Yue noticed that the treatment of the three fresh vegetables in the novel was somewhat different from her previous cooking of this dish. She didn't know whether it was the author's unique technique or he just made it up casually. Anyway, these ingredients were not expensive, so if they were not cooked well, she wouldn't feel too bad.

Jiang Yue, who was greedy for the food described in the novel, simply took out the ingredients and cooked the three fresh vegetables according to the cooking method described in the book.

"How is this three fresh vegetables made today?" Jiang Yue's husband couldn't believe that this was his wife's skill as he ate the eggplant with a strong flavor in his mouth.

"Mom, it's delicious, and the baby wants more."

Not only did Jiang Yue's husband like it, but even the eldest child in the family also recognized this dish. It was hard to tell that he was a picky eater who was afraid of green peppers before.

"You think it's delicious too, right?"

Jiang Yue looked at her husband and children eating happily and smiled. Nothing makes people happier than being recognized by family members for their skills.

To be honest, the taste of this dish of three fresh delicacies shocked Jiang Yue herself. She even began to doubt whether the cooking methods of other delicacies in the novel were as authentic as this dish of three fresh delicacies.

Could it be that the author of this book is actually a retired star chef at home? Or a descendant of a royal chef who lives in seclusion?

While eating the delicious meal, Jiang Yue couldn't help but let her imagination run wild, and wondered whether to try other recipes in the book.

And it was obvious that Jiang Yue was not the only one who made such a discovery.

The author has something to say: Have you forgotten that I am a fairy with a melon-seed face and a small waist who graduated from Mary Sue Junior College? How can you still doubt my gender? Well, I can only admit that I am actually a cross-dressing guy