Wenhao: This child has been smart since he was young

Chapter 132 Are You Smart?

Coming to the computer, Gu Lu counted the nearly twenty short stories he had written, totaling more than 100,000 words.

It spans three books: "The Human Chair", "The Bus Driver Who Wants to Become God", and "Selected Works of Minato Akikawa".

As a collection of short stories, it would not be good to be too fragmented, so it is divided into two volumes, one with two different styles, the bus driver and Akakawa Minato.

Of course, when publishing a collection of short stories, it cannot just be works that have been published, you must come up with something new.

It just so happened that Gu Lu drew Zhu Chuan's work, and there were still two unpublished works, "Hua Hua Fan" (Flower and Grass Bento) and "Owl Man".

It's very sincere. The former won the Naoki Prize, the highest award for popular literature in Japan, and the latter won the ALL Reading Mystery Novel Newcomer Award. Both are not ordinary works.

"The Owl Man - a masterpiece of the Transformation School. If you don't know what the Transformation School is, you will basically understand it after watching it."

“But do I need to change the background?”

After thinking for a moment, Gu Lu decided that it was not necessary. First of all, the urban legend and the perversion of the characters' personalities were more in line with the neon background.

Secondly, he remembered that he had also opened a wise series of pits.

“I’m not a bad person who digs holes and never fills them. In that case—” Gu Lu included “The Owl Man” in the Wise Series.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like a lot of plot changes were made. After all, there is no detective character in "Owl Man" from beginning to end. It's just that when Owl Man was watching the news, news about Yoshio Kobayashi flashed in the news.

Just one more sentence.

Yoshio Kobayashi is Akechi's apprentice and the leader of the Boy Detective Team - yes, the Boy Detective Team in Bleach Elementary School is also modeled after Edogawa Ranpo, not the Baker Street Rangers.

It took Gu Lu a whole day to finish 13 articles, totaling about 12 words, and sent them to President Wang.

"Finally done!" Gu Lu stretched and felt sore in his back.

Fortunately, I am still young and have exercised.

During the break, Gu Lu was ready to see if the heroine had done anything stupid. He logged into Penguin on his computer and found that an unexpected person was looking for him.

Bibabu Gumball: [Gulu, are you a great writer?]
This old man should be the junior high school monitor Chen Na, right? Gu Lu clicked into the junior high school class group to check the name of the person in the group, and then replied modestly.

Juchang: [I am just starting out, and am just a small writer.]
Those who dare to face their own dark history are all warriors. Sister Nana has also made stupid mistakes. According to her original memory, when the first grade of junior high school just started, Chen Na ate chewing gum and bubble gum together, and fooled Zhao Juan by saying that it would taste better this way. As a result, both the chewing gum and bubble gum were ruined.

Bibabu Gum: [Does he know many celebrities, 630 reporters, or newspaper reporters?]

He probably saw it on TV news, but this question made Gu Lu's face a little serious.

He asked directly and to the point.

Chief Orange: [Is there something wrong?]
Bibabu Gumball: [It's not my business. Juanzi is in trouble. I called you to tell you that typing is too slow.]
Gu Lu gave his cell phone number to Chen Na. At that time, the whole class was in the trend of writing yearbooks, and Sister Nana was unmoved, so it was normal that she had no contact information.

Chen Na explained the matter clearly on the phone. When Zhao Juan heard the reporter interviewing Gu Lu outside the window, she suddenly felt that she could change. "If I help your grandparents outside, then the next time my grandparents encounter difficulties outside, shouldn't it be your turn to help?"

This is not a joke. Zhao Juan is not just talking big, she really follows through, creating a group, and then in her spare time, she will do things like "give up seats to the elderly" and "help the elderly who don't know how to put coins in the light rail ticket vending machine" and so on.

Why did Chen Na know so much? Because she joined in under Juanzi's inspiration, and many things were easy to do anyway.

But just this Monday, Zhao Juan helped an elderly man and was then blackmailed for money.

In a different world, many people have been blown away by butterfly wings. Why do such disgusting people still exist?
Or is it that too many bad guys have grown old, and many people have been blackmailed, but the truth has never been revealed.

"Weren't there any cameras at the time? If I remember correctly, Zhao Juan's father seemed to be a policeman, right?"

"It's on Wenti Road. You should know it, Guru." Chen Na said, "It's useless even if we are the police. The bad old man will say that Juanzi hit him, and we can't find any witnesses."

Surveillance cameras were widely used across the country from 2006 to 2008. But Gu Lu also said that the infrastructure in the Fog City is very poor, even the municipalities are below the average level, not to mention that Dukou District is one of the poorest main urban areas in the Fog City.

The district government office is about a hundred or two hundred meters away from Wenti Road. There are several cameras near the office, but there are none on Wenti Road.

"Can you go out now? Let's make an appointment to meet, and ask Zhao Juan if possible." Gu Lu said that it was seven o'clock in the evening, which was not too late, but it was normal for many high school families with strict discipline not to let children go out, so he had to ask in advance.

"No problem for me. Juanzi should be able to do it too." Chen Na agreed and asked, "Where exactly do we meet?"

"The fat boss's place." Gu Lu wanted to find a place that all three of them knew and had a certain degree of concealment, but not too far away. The first place he thought of was the fat boss's game room.

"Got it, no problem." Chen Na hung up the phone.

Gu Lu went out immediately. In fact, he himself did not realize that he was quite excited about this matter, a small part because Zhao Juan was a junior high school classmate, and a large part because Gu Lu was very disgusted with this kind of thing. Just because of these old Biddens, people dared not do even good things!

A real example: in his previous life, if Gu Lu encountered a favor outside that did not require physical contact, he would help if he could, but if physical contact was required, he would definitely not dare to do so.

Gu Lu was so focused on being closer to Zhao Juan and Chen Na that he forgot that he had moved to the Sha District, which was still quite far away. So he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and went out to flag down a yellow "Ferrari".

About half an hour later, Gu Lu arrived at the fat boss's game store.

The shabby sign reads [Computer Repair], the glass sliding door behind the roller shutter is dirty, and the latest games are written on the cardboard with a red marker. Nothing has changed, but the people who play the games are different. They are no longer the junior high school students of Gu Lu's class.

"Gurgle!" "I didn't see you, I thought I came to the wrong place." Zhao Juan and Chen Na were standing at the door, and greeted Gu Lu after seeing him.

"Let's go in and talk." Gu Lu took the lead and walked into the game room.

The fat boss is still as fat as ever, with a greasy T-shirt, that’s the feeling.

"Long time no see. Are you back to take care of my business?" the fat boss asked with a smile. After all, it was only four or five months since they last saw each other, so it was impossible for him to forget.

What's more, this junior high school student became a writer using his computer in his store, which was very impressive.

"Of course I'm taking care of business and playing on the computer." Gu Lu also greeted him naturally, "Also, I have something to discuss with my classmates, so I have to close the door for a while."

"No problem, you can open it yourself. You are very familiar with this store." said the fat boss.

A group of three people walked into the room. To be honest, Gu Lu had the illusion that he had just been here yesterday, because it was basically the same as his impression five months ago.

"Gulu, did you often come here to play games when you were in junior high school?" Chen Na asked.

"I don't have a computer at home, so I have to come here to submit my article to the magazine." Gu Lu responded, and then said, "Okay, Zhao Juan, tell me what happened."

"Okay." Zhao Juan described it more clearly than Chen Na, because the latter also heard it. According to Zhao Juan's description, there were probably many people passing by Wenti Road, and then Zhao Juan saw the old man's painful expression and went up to talk to him.

Hearing this, Gu Lu wanted to scold Zhao Juan. How many houses does your family have? How dare you do this? Others don't try to be good people when they pass by, so why do you want to be a good person?
But she couldn't say the words of scolding, because the expression on Zhao Juan's face was like a flower that was about to wither. It was obvious that her "kind spirit" had been severely suppressed.

"He asked me to pay 8,000 yuan, otherwise he would make a big deal out of it and prevent me from completing my studies." Zhao Juan was scared and regretful.

Gu Lugang looked at a set of data that showed that the average salary in the main urban area of ​​Fog City was only 3,400 yuan, while the salary of grassroots police officers was not even that high.

It's not an exaggeration, because before Gu Lu traveled through time in 2023, there were still many jobs in the main urban area of ​​Fog City with a monthly salary of two to three thousand...

Eight thousand dollars is really an exorbitant price.

"There were a lot of passers-by walking around at that time, right?" Gu Lu interrupted the explanation and asked directly.

"There are quite a lot." Zhao Juan nodded.

"Okay." Gu Lu took out his cell phone and contacted the reporter of "Everyday 630".

During the school anniversary interview, all reporters exchanged contact information with Gu Lu.

The phone rang seven or eight times. When the other end picked up, Gu Lu greeted him, "Uncle Ji, I'm Gu Lu from No. 8 Middle School. I'm sorry to bother you at this time. I have a piece of news that's very suitable for reporting."

"Yes, yes, it happened recently. This is what happened..."

"Now? Okay, we'll meet at the Creek Restaurant."

After Gu Lu explained the details of the situation, reporter Ji from the news channel immediately expressed his willingness to meet as soon as possible.

We could only make a temporary appointment at a nice restaurant nearby. We couldn't ask the reporters to come to the fat boss's place.

"Let's go to Xiaohe Restaurant." Gu Lu stood up. "Since there are many passers-by, we can look for witnesses at the time in the news. If we can find the testimony of two or three passers-by, our chances of winning will be very high."

It really works! Chen Na had no other choice but to ask for help from her former classmate. She saw it on the news, but she never thought that the other party could call the TV station reporter with just a few words.

Chen Na happily held the hand of her younger sister Zhao Juan, happy for her good friend. The latter also took several deep breaths, trying not to cry.

Because of her, her family might have to bear the pressure of paying 8,000 yuan in compensation, and she had to face these grievances even though she was doing good things with good intentions... Zhao Juan was only a 16-year-old high school student.

Seeing this expression, Gu Lu wanted to ask, "Will you still meddle in other people's business in the future?"

But there was no need, because he found that when people were unable to punish bad people, they would turn their attention to good people.

"It's only been half an hour, and we're all old acquaintances. Just give me one dollar for half an hour," said the fat boss.

I believe that many students who graduated from No. 2.5 Middle School have forgotten that the fat boss charges yuan per hour for using the computer, and one yuan for half an hour, which is definitely a discount.

"Save the remaining time for me and I'll come to play next time." Gu Lu said.

"No problem, you must come then." The fat boss took the money with a smile, "I have been subscribing to Story Club, but why is your novel not in the latest issue? Are you busy with your studies after entering high school?"

"Because I changed magazines recently." Gu Lu said, "I'll bring you one next time I come."

It is true that "Everyday 630" has the highest ratings in the Fog City, but the fat boss runs a game store and even has irregular meal times, so how could he possibly watch the news?

"Okay, it's settled. I'll be waiting!"

The three of them walked out of the game room and headed towards the Xiaohe Restaurant.

Gu Lu had never eaten at this restaurant, and his original self had never been there either. It was just that occasionally when he was walking around after school at noon, he could smell the delicious aroma of Sichuan peppercorns and spicy peppers.

They arrived there in a few minutes, and Gu Lu wanted to go into the store to order food.

"What would you like to eat? I still remember Zhao Juan treated me to snacks." Gu Lu said, "I'll treat you to dinner today."

"Snacks?" Is that true? Zhao Juan was puzzled. She remembered buying a bottle of drink.

"You may not remember it, but in the first grade of junior high school, it seemed to be your birthday or something, and you gave each of your classmates a bag of beef tendon in return. It was really delicious." Gu Lu said, "So you can order whatever you want to eat today."

"I had dinner before going out." Zhao Juan left out half of the sentence. Besides, she had no appetite after what happened.

Chen Na also said, "I also ate."

Hearing this, Gu Lu ordered a few dishes at random. He didn't order too much because it would be a waste if he couldn't finish the food.

A moment later, reporter Ji sent a message saying that he had arrived at the door.

Reporter Ji is different from Reporter Wang of the Young Pioneers. The latter goes out frequently, so his skin is a healthy wheat color, while the former is the stereotypical image of a reporter, with a square face that makes him look righteous, and his voice is loud and energetic.

When all the dishes were served, Gu Lu gave a brief introduction to both sides in the middle.

They were all efficient people, so there was no small talk and they got straight to business.

"I believe Gu Lu and this student's words very much, but we cannot prejudge our position in news reporting," said reporter Ji. "In other words, in the absence of surveillance video, looking for passers-by who saw Zhao Juan helping the elderly is not in line with the purpose of our news channel."

Can't I? Zhao Juan's face turned pale immediately, and Chen Na also became nervous and squeezed her sister's hand.

Gu Lu's expression remained normal. Because if it was completely impossible, there was no need for reporter Ji to make a special trip.

As expected, there is room for maneuver. Reporter Ji pulled up an article on his phone.

It sounds very familiar. It was "The Days Away from Lei Feng" written by Gu Lu when he participated in the preliminary selection of the Bing Xin Cup.

"Student Gu Lu, your writing is really very predictive. After I finished this essay, I actually encountered a similar thing in my life." Reporter Ji said, "Qiao Anshan was wrongly accused for helping someone."

"We can use this article as a starting point to discuss whether something similar would really happen in our Fog City?" Reporter Ji changed the subject and gradually became serious. "We can use this as a starting point to find witnesses, but there is only one problem..."

"Uncle Ji, please speak." Gu Lu continued.

"This makes our news program neutral, but as the author of this article, you, Mr. Gu Lu, have a clear stance," said reporter Ji.

(End of this chapter)