Chapter 229 Uncle Xu, please listen to my explanation

In the afternoon's award ceremony, in addition to the essay writing competition in which Li Luo participated, which was called "Entertainment Dream, Urban Spring and Autumn", there were two other awards.

One is one of the top ten online literary works in Qianjiang Province in 2014.

The other is a writing contest on realistic themes titled "Good stories that keep pace with the times."

The selection of the top ten works of the year is mainly aimed at those popular works. Basically, after the names are called out, any reader who usually reads online articles will have heard of them.

In comparison, the essay writing competition called Urban Spring and Autumn that Li Luo participated in limited the scope of entries to the urban category of Qidian, and its value was definitely not on the same level.

As for the essay solicitation on realistic themes...it is more like a task that online literature websites have to complete on a regular basis and in a fixed quantity every year, just to get the job done.

Its popularity is probably not even as high as that of the Urban Spring and Autumn essay category.

But to Li Luo, none of this matters.

After all, the purpose of essay writing competitions is mainly to gild the authors and their works.

Some works have nice names, so the copyright may be sold for a higher price.

Including data and labels such as ranking first on the site's monthly ticket list, ranking first on the annual list, ranking first in the category, opening up a new track in a certain subject, and exceeding 100 million clicks on a certain website, the purpose is actually the same.

Just to sell it at a good price.

But plagiarism-type works like Li Luo's are destined to be difficult to sell copyrights.

Especially when it comes to film and television copyrights, you basically don’t even have to think about it.

So Li Luo just wanted to collect the 50,000 yuan bonus and then go home.

It’s just that this award ceremony is really boring, and the arrangement is long and boring.

After Li Luo arrived at the conference hall on time at 1:30, he listened to the Municipal Writers Association Chairman Li's speech on the stage for more than half an hour about the significance of realistic themes.

Then came the award ceremony for the essay contest on realistic themes.

More than a dozen award-winning authors came on stage one by one, and leaders presented the awards and then took a group photo.

Afterwards, another leader spoke on the stage, expounding on his understanding of urban themes and emphasizing the guidance and warning of the entertainment industry. To Li Luo, it was like a lullaby.

Li Luo was suddenly awakened when the host on the stage called his name.

"The first prize winner of this Entertainment Dream, Urban Spring and Autumn essay contest is "I'm Really Not a Star", written by Chong Ran. Please invite Chong Ran to the stage."

Under the gaze of the crowd, Li Luo blinked, became a little more sober, then stood up and walked towards the stage.

It must be said that another benefit of his attending the symposium is probably that it greatly increased the popularity of the pen name "Reignite".

After the confrontation with Chu Sheng in the morning, almost all the authors present knew him.

At such a young age and with such achievements, there is no one who writes online who does not envy him.

Even those who have better grades than him would envy Li Luo's youth.

Those who have poor academic performance will really envy everything.

"The second prize winner is "Literary Age", the author goes to bed early and grows taller, please come."

Just after Li Luo came on stage, the host announced Xu Youyu's works and pen name.

Qianzhou, who had been prepared, stood up at the right time, stepped onto the stage and stood next to Li Luo.

Fortunately, no one has much impression of Xu Youyu. They only know that a very beautiful girl has been following Li Luo these days. But even those who have asked about Xu Youyu's pen name may have forgotten it as soon as they turned around.

So when everyone saw Qianzhou coming to power, there was nothing unusual.

After all, it is a work oriented towards men. If Xu Youyu himself really went on stage to receive the award, it would actually cause quite a stir.

After all, female authors for male genres are rare, let alone those who are so young and beautiful.

Among the people in the audience at this moment, the one who felt the most regretful was naturally Xu Rongsheng.

After all, it was a rare opportunity to present an award to his daughter, but in order to avoid him, the girl lied about her illness and asked the editor to go on stage to accept the award on her behalf.

"I think your speech this morning was very good."

When presenting the awards, Cao Qiwen, deputy secretary of the Qianjiang Province Writers Association, handed the first prize certificate to Li Luo and patted him on the shoulder with a smile.

"The Writers Association has recently been considering recruiting online writers to join us. I think you're a good fit."

"Our Writers Association has had very little new blood in recent years, and even fewer young people like you. You can try to apply when the time comes."

"Thank you, Secretary." Li Luo thanked him in a low voice. Adhering to the principle of saying less and making fewer mistakes, he did not say any more.

In fact, for the Writers Association, the more it develops, the more it needs the participation of online writers.

From a national perspective, the profession of author is a competition of influence.

The greater the influence of a writer among the people, the more he will be absorbed and recruited.

In the past, such writers were more likely to come from the field of traditional literature.

But with the development and changes of the times, the rise of the Internet and the rapid development of online literature, accompanied by the decline of the influence of traditional literature, many things are changing.

From Secretary Cao’s perspective, let’s take the Chu Sheng incident that happened this morning.

If such a confrontation between the two parties were to spread from traditional writers in the Writers Association, its influence would only cover a very small range.

But if the group of online writers present at the time were allowed to spread the message by simply posting a single chapter at the end of their serialized novels, it might reach the eyes of millions or even tens of millions of readers within just one day.

Such a terrifying influence has reached a level that must be taken seriously.

Therefore, simply establishing an online writers association is far from enough.

The Writers Association is connecting with the Online Writers Association and is considering directly absorbing influential online writers into the association to complete further integration.

Authors like Li Luo who are young and have great prospects are naturally the targets for wooing.

However, Li Luo was not very interested in such things. He just responded with a few words, received the certificate and bonus, took a group photo with the leaders, and then followed Qianzhou off the stage.

"Can we leave early?" Li Luo returned to his seat and whispered to Qianzhou next to him.

"It's fine if others leave early, but you are an award winner after all, it would be embarrassing to leave early." Qianzhou said in a low voice, "Sit for a while, there will be only one hour at most."

"Another hour?" Li Luo was speechless.

It's already past three o'clock.

Originally he thought the award ceremony would be quick, but Li Luo still underestimated the leaders' love for long speeches.

The award ceremony only takes about ten minutes, but a speech takes more than several dozen minutes.

"Here, take this back to Zaoshui." Qianzhou quietly handed over the certificate and bonus and said to Li Luo.

"No, you take it first." Li Luo said in a low voice, "You saw it at noon. The senior sister is still trying to hide it from her father. I'll leave these two things with you for now, and we'll come back to get them when we have time."

"But I have to catch the high-speed train after dinner tonight." Qianzhou said in advance, "Don't forget it, both of you."

"Give it to me after dinner tonight." Li Luo thought for a moment, then said, "She and her father are going out to eat alone, and we are going to attend the dinner, so it's a good opportunity for you to give me the food before you leave."

"Alright." Qianzhou took back the certificate and the prize money, nodded and said, "You two are really something. You can't keep going to bed early from your family forever, right? It's bound to be known eventually, so it's better to tell them as soon as possible and get rid of it."

"Just tell her this in person." Li Luo laughed.

"Forget it then." Qianzhou shook his head repeatedly, "This is her own business, I won't interfere."

Li Luo sat in his seat, chatting with the editor, and time passed quite quickly.

It was around 4:30 in the afternoon when the annual top ten award ceremony finally came to a perfect end.

Looking at the well-known authors on the stage, Li Luo felt a little emotional.

But just as he was expressing his emotion, the host on the stage announced that the afternoon's award ceremony had come to a successful conclusion, and everyone stood up and prepared to leave for the dinner.

Many authors would greet Li Luo with a smile when they passed by him, including some big names who had just received awards on the stage.

If Li Luo hadn't been young, he would have been hugged by the neck and taken out to play by these old guys.

"Let's go." Qianzhou stood up and stretched, took Xu Youyu's certificate and bonus, and walked out the door with Li Luo.

At this moment, Xu Rongsheng walked up to Li Luo and patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go back to the hotel."

Li Luo felt somewhat guilty after being caught by Xu Rongsheng. On the way back to the hotel, it was Xu Rongsheng who found topics to chat with him.

"After I go back this time, I plan to take some time to read your book 'I'm Really Not a Star'." Xu Rongsheng said with a smile, "It must be a very good book to win the first prize."

Upon hearing this, Li Luo was shocked all over. Thinking of what Xu Youyu said at the dinner table this afternoon, he shuddered suddenly.

It's really cold in this winter...

"Uncle Xu, my book is just so-so. Why don't you take a look at those top ten books of the year? They are definitely better than mine." Li Luo said with a wry smile, "Or what about those realistic themes? They should be more to your liking, right?"

"What are you talking about?" Xu Rongsheng smiled and shook his head. "Where is the demeanor you showed when you were confronting others this morning? I see that you are quite confident in your work. I think it is a good starting point for my research on online literature."

"Ah?" Li Luo was stunned for a moment, "Researching online literature?"

"What's wrong? Don't you think this is a good research direction?" Xu Rongsheng smiled and said, "The older generation of modern and contemporary literature has already been studied, but there are very few people who actually study the mechanisms of the most popular online articles nowadays."

"I also talked a lot with editor Xia Lie this time. He has interviewed many online writers and discovered many differences and similarities between online novels and traditional novels."

"I think these are all things that are worth studying, and they can be studied as a new sub-category."

Li Luo was also a little surprised to hear Xu Rongsheng say this.

To be honest, in his previous life, Xu Rongsheng did turn to in-depth research in the field of online literature.

But that was after Xu Youyu graduated from university. Because he won the title of Twelve Heavenly Kings that year and was selected as the Starting Point God, he really couldn't hide it anymore. After confronting his family, Xu Rongsheng, under the influence of his daughter, began to understand online literature in depth.

But the direction of this life is obviously different.

Xu Rongsheng actually made this decision six or seven years in advance.

This was somewhat beyond Li Luo's expectations.

After all, in the previous life, it was still because of the influence of Xu Rongsheng’s own daughter.

In this life, could Xu Rongsheng make such a change simply because of the influence of his daughter's classmates?
Li Luo scratched his head, a little confused.

Maybe Xu Rongsheng really just thinks that online literature is worthy of in-depth study.

"Oh, right." Xu Rongsheng suddenly thought of something and asked Li Luo, "Is Youyu's room next to yours?"

"Yes." Li Luo nodded and added, "I'm at 9105 and she's at 9106."

"I understand." Xu Rongsheng nodded, and walked into the hotel elevator with Li Luo and Qianzhou.

Qianzhou pressed the button for the 8th floor. Just as Li Luo was about to press the button for the 9th floor, Xu Rongsheng next to him pressed it first.

Li Luo thought Xu Rongsheng was pressing it for him, so he whispered thank you.

As a result, when the elevator reached the 8th floor, Qianzhou said hello and left, but Li Luo found that Xu Rongsheng had no intention of getting out of the elevator.

This made Li Luo a little dumbfounded, and he quickly reminded: "Uncle Xu, we are at the 8th floor."

"Hmm? I know." Xu Rongsheng laughed, "But I'm going to look for Youyu. I told her at noon that we would have dinner together."

As soon as these words came out, Li Luo's face changed suddenly, and he suddenly thought of something.

When he went downstairs to attend the award ceremony, Xu Youyu was still sleeping in his bed!

I don't know if she woke up.

If this bastard is still lying on his bed and is discovered by Xu Rongsheng, he will never be able to clear himself even if he jumps into Yin Jiang!

Thinking of this, Li Luo quickly took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Xu Youyu on QQ, reminding her that Xu Rongsheng had followed him upstairs.

But after the message was sent, no one responded.

This caused Li Luo's heart to stop suddenly, and then it started beating violently again.

At this time, the elevator had stopped on the 9th floor. Xu Rongsheng walked out of the elevator first, went straight to room 9106, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

No one responded.

Xu Rongsheng frowned: "Could this girl have gone out to play? Or is she sleeping in?"

Muttering this, he knocked on the door a few more times, but there was still no response from inside the room.

At this time, Xu Rongsheng turned his head to look next door, only to find that Li Luo had not come over yet. He was holding his mobile phone in his hand and was dawdling, not knowing what he was looking at.

"Li Luo, Youyu doesn't seem to be in the room. Did she say where she was going this afternoon?"

"Oh, oh, this..." Li Luo came to the door of his room with his hair stiff, and explained to Xu Rongsheng with a wry smile, "Senior, she should be in my room now."

Xu Rongsheng: “……?”

When Xu Rongsheng heard Li Luo say this, his whole mind froze for a moment.

Although he had guessed it before, after all, his daughter was renting a house in Li Luo's house.

The two people have been together for a long time and have both been writing novels privately, so they probably have a lot in common.

This time we came together to attend the symposium again and our relationship was extremely good.

So even though he knew that they were in two separate rooms, Xu Rongsheng was still a little worried.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Luo was so bold that he actually admitted it in front of him!

"It's like this..." Li Luo explained quickly, "After returning to the room at noon, the senior sister accidentally wet the bed sheets. She called the front desk to change the sheets, but they said the waiter was still eating and she would have to wait for about half an hour."

"Senior was feeling sleepy at the time, so she simply came to my side to borrow my bed and take a nap."

"So if the senior didn't go back to her room later, she should have stayed in my room."

As he said this, Li Luo raised his hand and knocked on his door.

Xu Rongsheng, who was standing by, saw his movements and couldn't help but ask, "Where's your room card? Can't you just swipe it?"

"There is only one room card, and you need to insert the card to turn on the air conditioner in the room, so I didn't bring it with me." Li Luo said, and then knocked on the door a few more times.

It's not that he's stalling for time, that's actually the case.

After all, it’s impossible to sleep without air conditioning in the winter.

Li Luo knocked on the door several times, but there was no response.

Xu Rongsheng frowned, stretched out his hand and knocked it hard a few times.

This time, there was finally some movement inside.

After a sound of footsteps, the door of room 9105 was opened a crack.

Xu Youyu was wearing a bathrobe, rubbing his eyes sleepily, and looked out the door through a gap the size of half his face. After confirming that it was Li Luo, he immediately laughed and said sweetly to Li Luo with a little bit of naivety of just waking up:
"Brother~you're back?"

Before he finished speaking, Li Luo was so frightened that he shuddered all over. He subconsciously took a half step back, and his hand was frantically pointing at Xu Rongsheng on his right, blinking his eyes desperately to hint at Xu Youyu.

At this time, Xu Rongsheng had narrowed his eyes and looked at his daughter's bathrobe, bare feet, and slightly messy long hair, and fell silent for a moment.

At this moment.

Xu Youyu noticed that there was something wrong with Li Luo's reaction, and then she noticed Li Luo's little gestures to hint at her.

Following the direction of his finger, Xu Youyu looked to the side in confusion, and saw a serious face as gloomy as water.

"what!!!"

Bang.

The door to the room was slammed shut.

Li Luo and Xu Rongsheng were the only ones left in the corridor, and there was silence for a while.

Li Luo stiffened his neck and reluctantly looked towards Xu Rongsheng, exchanged a glance with him with difficulty, then laughed awkwardly, raised his hands and made a soothing gesture.

"Uncle Xu, please listen to my explanation."

"Many times, what you hear may not be true, and what you see may not be true."

“Things are definitely not what you think now!”

(End of this chapter)