"Eh?"
Looking at the paper placed before her, then raising her eyes to glance at Bai Qing, whose face said "I am not joking," Fang Qiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
She actually wanted her to draw up a written statement.
Was her word that untrustworthy?
"Ahem, this isn't my personal request, but based on my judgment of the market."
Feeling Fang Qiu's resentful gaze, Bai Qing couldn't help but cough, speaking with a face full of seriousness.
"Alright then."
Fang Qiu sighed helplessly.
What else could be done?
Just draw it up.
Thus, Fang Qiu picked up the quill and flew through writing a statement for Bai Qing.
Presumably to prevent her from playing tricks, Bai Qing even specially added a few harsh conditions.
Under duress, Fang Qiu could only add them.
"The contract is concluded. Those who break their contracts shall suffer the Wrath of the Rock."
Bai Qing accepted the written statement and said.
The statement was drawn up.
The two chatted idly for a while longer, discussing both work and life.
For instance, matters regarding the Mondstadt channel.
According to Bai Qing, near the trade route where Liyue and Mondstadt conducted commerce, there had been Hilichurls harassing people recently. Although the Millelith had already increased their patrol intensity, the matter of Hilichurls disturbing the trade route had still not been thoroughly resolved.
Therefore, regarding the matter of opening up the book sales channel in Mondstadt, the higher-ups were still deliberating.
Fang Qiu was indifferent.
The readers were right there; harvesting them earlier or later was the same, and they weren't likely to run away.
As for matters of daily life, it was nothing more than trivialities, such as asking how her health was recently, or if there were any uncomfortable places.
She suggested she spend time going to Bubu Pharmacy for a physical checkup.
After chatting for about the time it takes an incense stick to burn, Bai Qing said she still had other authors to contact. After contacting the authors, there were still books from Inazuma that hadn't been proofread, and she had to return to the publishing house to proofread them, so she stood up to bid farewell.
"By the way, these are letters from some readers. Read them when you have time."
Before leaving, Bai Qing took out a stack of letters from her documents and placed them on the desk.
Fang Qiu originally wanted to refuse accepting them, but helplessly, Bai Qing was already leaving. She couldn't very well say much more, so she could only stand up to see Bai Qing off.
After seeing Bai Qing off, Fang Qiu sat back down on the Jumpy Dumpty, looking helplessly at the reader letters placed on the table.
Forget it.
Being idle is just being idle, and the letters are already on the table.
Why not take a look?
Thinking of this, Fang Qiu opened one of the letters.
"F your mother! Old Thief Fang Qiu, refund my money! How can you face us? Kaori was written to death, Jack was written to death, Long Kui was also written to death by you, and even Jing Tian and Zixuan are about to die. You son of a b, how can you face us! Old Thief Fang Qiu, refund my money! F your mother!"
She opened several letters in a row; the content was largely the same.
Forget it, better not read them.
Fang Qiu silently put the letter paper back into the envelope, then placed it together with the other letters into the box.
Having dealt with the letters, Fang Qiu lay back onto the Jumpy Dumpty, looking at the ceiling.
The time to listen to the opera was at night; there was still some time until then. For a moment, she actually felt somewhat lost, not knowing what to do.
Originally, she wanted to be a Salted Fish for a while longer.
Now that she had money, there was no need to work that hard.
However, being idle for too long was also somewhat boring.
"Sigh, forget it, let's write a new book."
Fang Qiu sighed and muttered to herself.
It had to be said, if the computers and mobile phones of authors in her past life only had a typing function, their typing speed would probably have increased quite a lot.
Although she typed slowly in her past life purely because her health was poor, not because she was playing on her phone and computer—definitely not!
Fang Qiu pulled out a sheet of paper, smoothed it out in front of her, and dipped the quill in ink.
After pondering for a moment.
Her pale hand gripped the pen and lowered it, writing four words on the paper.
Your Name.
It had to be said, after finishing the novella Sword and Fairy, her handwriting had improved quite a bit.
It wasn't that she was naturally gifted, but because she wrote too poorly before, so there was a lot of room for improvement.
After writing two more books, maybe she could return to a normal person's standard, and then slowly revert to her predecessor's level, or even surpass it...
Mn...
It seems the difficulty isn't small.
It's very difficult, okay.
Shaking those indifferent thoughts out of her mind, Fang Qiu cast her gaze back to the draft.
Lifting the pen to start.
The story began with a falling meteor.
Time flew by rapidly; Fang Qiu gripped the quill tightly, constantly lowering it to write.
Line after line of not-so-neat handwriting was constantly written out under her pen.
In a flash, it was dusk.
The afterglow of the setting sun poured down, turning the sea surface a patch of orange-red.
The sky gradually grew late.
Fang Qiu wrote with a face full of seriousness.
Until she gradually couldn't see the handwriting on the paper clearly, Fang Qiu finally stopped her pen.
"It's already this late, huh. Time to light the oil lamp."
Fang Qiu glanced at the scenery outside the window, murmured as she stood up, and lit the oil lamp.
Just as she intended to sit down and pick up the pen to continue writing, she remembered she had an appointment tonight.
She hurriedly put down the quill in her hand, rushed to the full-length mirror, and started taking off her clothes.
Halfway through taking off her clothes, Fang Qiu realized she had already changed into her outing clothes long ago, and hurriedly put the clothes back on.
Having dressed properly, Fang Qiu tidied up the manuscript paper, extinguished the lamp, locked the door, and set off.
By the time she jogged all the way to Heyu Tea House, fortunately, it wasn't too late, and she hadn't missed the entry time.
At this moment, Hu Tao was sitting on a stone platform telling stories to a few small children. Seeing her face full of smiles, speaking with great enthusiasm, the few small children also listened with faces full of excitement.
Fang Qiu didn't approach, but waited quietly at the side, listening to her tell the story.
"Let me tell you a true story. A few days ago, I once saw a very strange person at Wuwang Hill. He was constantly knocking on the door of an abandoned hut by the roadside. I spoke to him, but he ignored me, just kept knocking and knocking, thump thump thump. So, I got angry, walked over, and kicked open the broken door he was knocking on with a single kick. And then, that person turned his face around. Guess what I saw?"
Hu Tao deliberately lowered her voice, speaking with a face full of ill intentions.
"What happened?"
A small child swallowed his saliva and spoke with a face full of fear.
Fang Qiu listened from the side and couldn't help swallowing her saliva as well.
"The moment he turned his head, I saw a face full of bloody gore, smiling at me."
As she spoke, Hu Tao grinned, smiling eerily.
A little girl was scared to tears on the spot.
"Eh, eh, eh, don't cry. Clearly, you were the one shouting that you wanted to hear it just now."
That little girl heard Hu Tao's words, and thus cried even louder.
"Don't cry, don't cry. Big Sister will give you Mora to buy candy."
Seeing this, Fang Qiu smiled helplessly, walked forward and gently rubbed that little girl's head, then took out twenty Mora and handed it to them, speaking in a gentle tone.
"Mn, thank you, Big Sister."
Taking the Mora, the little girl pursed her lips and stopped crying.
Thus, the few small children happily held the Mora and ran all the way toward the dessert shop.
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