[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot":3,"chapter-i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-chapter-50":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm in a Small County, and You Say I'm a Big Shot?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2297461,4494,"Chapter 50: 049 So many things seem impossible, but with you, they become possible!","i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-chapter-50",50,"\u003Cp>Fang Qingye naturally wasn’t in a hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life is precious; safety comes first. He didn’t want to be reborn and never truly enjoy life before getting hit by a car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He returned to the shore to pack up his fishing gear and stared at the seven fish in the plastic bucket, unsure what to do—it looked like he’d have to dump them back into the river; he couldn’t possibly take them to the city competition venue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Fang Qingye lifted the plastic bucket, ready to pour the fish back into the river, someone called out to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother, what are you doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up and saw a middle-aged man in his forties, standing not far away, wearing a straw hat—clearly a fishing enthusiast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve got an urgent errand, so I can’t take the fish—I’m just about to dump them,” Fang Qingye replied honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, the man immediately stepped forward, pulled a pack of Su Yan cigarettes from his pocket, and offered Fang Qingye one, smiling broadly: “Brother, can I make a deal with you? Can I buy your fish at market price?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye waved his hand, indicating he didn’t smoke, then asked: “Why don’t you fish for yourself?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man’s expression turned awkward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, my luck’s been terrible today.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sighed again and introduced himself: he loved fishing too, but his skills were poor—he often came back empty-handed, and his wife always teased him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, he learned to be smarter: on days he caught nothing, he’d just go to the city’s agricultural market and buy a few fish to make up the count.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now that I’ve got fresh fish right here, I don’t need to make another trip to the market,” the middle-aged man concluded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s a smart trick...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll just give them to you—why pay? Bring me your bucket!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you so much!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man hurried off to a nearby fishing stand, fetched a plastic bucket, and Fang Qingye poured the fish into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh... you caught quite a few! There’s even mandarin fish! Real expert!” The man stared at the lively fish in the bucket, full of admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not that great.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye finished packing his stool and gear and prepared to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother, what do you do for work? Will you come back next weekend?” the middle-aged man quickly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I work at a bank. Next week? We’ll see,” Fang Qingye answered honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I work at the Development and Reform Bureau. If you come fishing next week, I’d like to learn from you how to fish,” the man said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ll see,” Fang Qingye replied, picked up the bucket, left the riverbank, got in his car, wolfed down bread, drank some water, then drove straight toward Jinghai City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He arrived at the competition venue in under an hour. Everyone was startled to see Fang Qingye wearing a straw hat, a tank top, and baggy shorts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this guy really competing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia He furrowed her brows slightly, but she knew Fang Qingye was a fisherman—he wouldn’t dress like the others in white short-sleeve shirts and ties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Fang, have you eaten?” she asked with concern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ate some bread, no problem.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good. The afternoon competition hasn’t started yet—find a place to rest.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t say more, but signaled Liu Meili to hurry to the organizing committee and request a replacement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Zhang Rong couldn’t help but whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fang Qingye, how many characters per minute can you type?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Depends on how I feel—anywhere from a few dozen to a hundred or so,” Fang Qingye answered honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Rong said nothing, only nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His performance is extremely unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Meimei, however, was confident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fang Qingye, I believe you’ll perform excellently today!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why?” Fang Qingye asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because you’re calm—and so many things seem impossible, but with you, they become possible!” the girl said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If calmness was the point, then yes—he was calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he’d been reborn once, experienced many things. He wasn’t at the level of perfect equanimity, but this kind of competition? No reason to be nervous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Chen Meimei’s last remark, it bordered on idealism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Meili returned quickly with news: the organizing committee agreed to the replacement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Fang, get ready—the competition’s about to start,” Liu Meili said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ready for what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye genuinely didn’t know what needed preparing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t like some people who get nervous and want to drink water or rush to the bathroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At two p.m., the afternoon competition officially began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Fang Qingye’s name was called—he entered the competition hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The venue had been the city bank’s computer room, temporarily converted for the contest. Fang Qingye sat at computer No. 7 as instructed and noticed the competitor at No. 8 was a middle-aged woman with curly hair, around forty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t that Li Lifen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye had seen her photo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Lifen noticed him too—wasn’t this the young man the Nanxin branch had hastily substituted in? Fang Qingye, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him in his tank top and shorts, smelling faintly of fish, she wrinkled her nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy was clearly just here to fill a slot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That smell...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So annoying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to tell Chairman Yang to kick him out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she held back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d already used her connections to eliminate opponents using Sogou Input Method—asking to remove him now would be too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Meili would probably come storming in again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it. Just endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye, of course, paid no attention to her. He tested the keyboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm... felt good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a high-end keyboard—Logitech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh? Why was there a small piece of non-stick tape on the top-left corner?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone made a mark?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thought flashed through Fang Qingye’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone must have secretly brought their own keyboard into the computer room and, out of habit, installed the one they usually used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how did it end up on my computer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mistake?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever. Since it’s here, I’ll just use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So comfortable—unexpected bonus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, these thoughts passed in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His focus shifted entirely to the text to be typed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye carefully read the passage—it was an economics article.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Wubi input, the content’s familiarity or presence of technical terms didn’t matter—it all came down to character roots and how to decompose each character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye quickly scanned it, opened the Word document, placed both hands on the keyboard, and was fully ready.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Lifen, however, was nervous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This keyboard wasn’t her usual one!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To ensure she won first place, she’d privately approached a staff member arranging the competition—someone she knew—and asked that her personal keyboard be used for the contest, even marking it and installing it on computer No. 8.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the very computer she’d use in future competitions!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unexpectedly, her usual keyboard was gone—and by sheer accident, it had ended up on Fang Qingye’s desk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what could she say now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ask to swap keyboards with Fang Qingye?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d be a fool to agree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it would look suspicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, she panicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The competition began quickly; the room filled only with the clatter of typing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye focused entirely, pushing his typing speed to its limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm... good form today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This keyboard really is great...\u003C\u002Fp>",1203,"2026-06-20T05:58:40.725Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","28c674269297547cc8d21a51156b54a4d091bfbeb0879fdc6069d49e3dd4eb77","i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-chapter-51","i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-chapter-49",215,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-cover.jpg"]