Chapter 36

The next morning, Wen Leyu arrived at the classroom with red eyes and handed Li Ye a stack of materials Teacher Ke had organized overnight.

Li Ye looked at it carefully and screened out a few materials that were not so sensitive, preparing to mix them into his novel manuscript.

Wen Leyu, who was beside him, saw Li Ye just drawing lines on a few of them, and her face became a bit awkward.

Yesterday she heard the conversation between Li Ye and Teacher Ke and knew that Li Ye was unwilling to accept too many sensitive contents. Teacher Ke's "good intentions" might instead drag Li Ye down.

So she habitually nudged Li Ye with her elbow and whispered: "If you think it's useless, forget it..."

"Why forget it," Li Ye looked at Wen Leyu "strangely" and said: "These are very useful! The hardest thing about a novel is striving for perfection.

This is like an exam. We have already scored ninety-five points before, but the last five points are the hardest. Teacher Ke is now helping us fill in the last five points."

"........."

Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye suspiciously, her big eyes blinking like little stars, and finally settled down.

【It seems Mom's help is still useful...】

Compared to Wen Leyu's slow reaction, Li Ye's thinking was very clear.

After Teacher Ke didn't refuse his proposal of "co-authoring," Li Ye determined what Teacher Ke needed.

Or rather, Li Ye only had this bit of things that Teacher Ke needed.

Teacher Ke and Wen Leyu were not locals. Since they came to Qingshui County a few years ago, they had been in a terrible environment.

A few years ago, the large-scale phenomenon of returning to the city began to appear. Many people who had come down to "recall bitterness and think of sweetness" and "sincerely study" had escaped this predicament.

For example, Li Ye's father and grandfather.

But Li Ye's father and grandfather had been working for a year or two, while Teacher Ke and Wen Leyu were still stranded in Qingshui County.

So their road back to the city must have encountered great difficulties.

There is only one radish for one hole. If you want to go back, there must be someone who doesn't want you to go back.

Usually, Li Ye paid special attention to Wen Leyu and Teacher Ke. They were definitely representatives of strong and self-respecting women. If they hadn't really encountered difficulties, Teacher Ke would never have been able to lower her face to take advantage of Li Ye, a child.

As for what use the title of a bestselling novel author had, Li Ye also generally understood.

This era had already begun to popularize "gift-giving," but there were many thresholds you couldn't enter with cigarettes and alcohol.

But if you visited someone in the name of "literary advice," or indirectly mailed the novel to someone's door, saying "Please give some advice, is it similar to your experience?", maybe you could pry open a ray of dawn.

Like Teacher Ke's situation, maybe this ray of dawn became the key to the matter.

That was why Teacher Ke had no choice but to find Li Ye, struggling with whether to take advantage of Li Ye's benefits.

But they didn't know that Li Ye felt he had made a big profit.

After all, he was a traveler from later generations. When Teacher Ke was still lost in the fog, he knew the correct direction of development.

It is true that a phoenix with fallen feathers is not as good as a chicken, but no matter how beautiful a chicken is, it is only superficially bright.

And a phoenix is a phoenix, with the blood of a divine beast flowing in its bones. In order to benefit his descendants, Li Ye had to "privately help" them a little.

Li Ye wrote like flying, Wen Leyu watched intently, and the last part of the novel manuscript was being completed quickly.

Just before class ended, Wen Leyu suddenly said to Li Ye: "Can you teach me how to write a novel?"

Li Ye was stunned and asked: "You want to write a novel?"

Wen Leyu nodded and said: "I want to learn, learn your writing technique. Can you teach me?"

Li Ye frowned and said very seriously: "Wen Leyu, your main task now is the college entrance exam. Writing a novel takes up too much time and energy..."

Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye without speaking, but her burning eyes were clearly refuting Li Ye: "You're telling me this? Then what are you, this bastard, doing now? Aren't you writing a novel?"

Li Ye rubbed his forehead, recalling how he dealt with bear children in his previous life.

【Popsicles can't be eaten; you'll get diarrhea.】

"Are you eating hot poop? Is it chocolate-flavored?"

【Little movies can't be watched; watching them will cause kidney deficiency.】

"Does your waist hurt? I saw you bought Six-Flavor Rehmannia Pills."

Arguing with a child requires ten-star high-difficulty skills.

Li Ye really wanted to tell Wen Leyu directly that to write a novel, you either need talent or accumulation. Relying on a few secrets and techniques alone wouldn't allow you to write a novel.

But after thinking about it, these were of no use, because Wen Leyu wasn't an ordinary child.

She had experienced wind and rain at a young age. Teacher Ke said she was "timid," but that was wrong.

Wen Leyu actually had her own ideas. She was wooden and indifferent on the outside, but her thinking was extremely agile, and her heart was stubborn and firm.

She looked like a weak little cat, but she was actually vigilant and agile, with sharp claws hidden under her meat pads.

Finally, Li Ye had to persuade: "The college entrance exam will become harder to take year by year. If you can't get into a good school this year, there will be even less hope next year."

Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye quietly for a few seconds, bit her lip, wrote a paragraph on the paper, and pushed it over.

"I want to accompany my mother. If my mother is still in Qingshui County, I'm not going anywhere. If my mother gets a job, I can get into college at any time."

Only then did Li Ye realize why Wen Leyu clearly had such a good foundation, but didn't get into college last year.

"Then fine! You learn how to write an outline, list character settings, clarify the story background, the identity and personality of the protagonist and supporting characters, as well as the subsequent development route, plot highlights..."

Li Ye pulled over a piece of white paper and listed the material requirements while talking. In a short while, he had written several pages densely.

"After the materials are prepared, I will write the main text, and you or your mother will proofread... We will cooperate to write a novel together. After writing it, you will have almost learned it."

Wen Leyu was already confused.

Couldn't understand, couldn't understand at all.

She thought her language foundation was not bad, not much worse than Li Ye's. As long as Li Ye taught her the secrets, not to mention being better than the master, she could at least learn seven or eight parts of Li Ye's skills.

But she didn't know that writing and language were two completely different things.

If you write essays well, you only have the introductory conditions for writing. The twists and turns inside need to be realized bit by bit during the actual writing process.

Li Ye looked at the little circles in Wen Leyu's eyes and said proudly: "Actually, you can take these to Teacher Ke to see and let her explain them to you. They are easy to understand."

".........."

Wen Leyu stared at Li Ye and rolled her eyes for the first time.

Easy to understand?

Are you saying I'm stupid?

This was the first time the little girl rolled her eyes at Li Ye, and that coquettish and reproachful taste instantly stirred Li Ye's spring heart.

【Form is emptiness, emptiness is form, Amitabha, no, not allowed, you have to have a certificate to do anything in this era!】

A few days later, Wen Leyu finally gave Li Ye what he wanted.

The dozen or so pages of materials were full of dry goods.

Although the handwriting was written by Wen Leyu, Li Ye could tell at a glance that it wasn't the ability of a little girl like her.

The story background was a resistance team in the mountains decades ago.

The protagonist of the story was a group of firm soldiers who were dedicated to the country, described by Teacher Ke from the perspective of "certain soldiers."

And the main plot of the story was described by Teacher Ke like this—【A group of "useless goods" left over from the main combat units were temporarily pieced together into a combat collective, nobody cared about them,

until one day, a killing embryo who had surrendered became their leader. This killing embryo had a complicated identity, had attended military school, had suppressed bandits, and had killed Japanese soldiers...】

Li Ye pondered and guessed whether the person related to Wen Leyu and Teacher Ke was one of the "useless goods," or that killing embryo...

If it was the former, it would be fine, but if it was the latter, there would be trouble!

Li Ye spent half an hour carefully sorting out these writing materials and then listed many questions on a piece of paper, which he handed to Wen Leyu.

"If you want to write it brilliantly, these details need to be clarified. Can you provide detailed content?"

Where could Wen Leyu provide any content? She could only take it back to her mother and let Teacher Ke analyze and answer.

After Teacher Ke got Li Ye's questions, she thought for a long time before adding them one by one.

By the time Wen Leyu handed it to Li Ye, Li Ye asked again. After going back and forth two or three times, Li Ye's thinking finally became clear.

The matter was so coincidental that the story Teacher Ke needed to write highly overlapped with a book Li Ye had read in his previous life that was never finished.

【Oh my, I originally wanted to work hard, but... how can this be embarrassing?】 Chapter 37: The Shelf is Quite High