Chapter 6: Collaborative Paper Writing
After sending off those students from the Chemistry Department, Liu Zhenyun said admiringly, "Hongmin, you don't have to be modest now, right? The entire Chemistry Department is a fan of your book."
Zou Shifang said from the side: "He was just being polite, but you took it seriously."
"Don't say that. Hongmin is young..."
Before Liu Zhenyun could finish his words, he saw Liu Hongmin looking at him with a smirk on his face, and he was unable to say anything else.
"You are such a bad boy. It's a good thing I just spoke up for you."
Liu Hongmin raised his glass and clinked it with Liu Zhenyun's glass. "Just kidding. Come on, have a drink."
Zou Shifang also smiled evilly and came over with a wine glass, "Zhenyun, you better be careful next time, this guy is very bad!"
"You are not a good person either."
Liu Zhenyun glared at Zou Shifang unhappily. Neither of these two guys were good people.
After joking for a while, Liu Zhenyun asked curiously: "Hongmin, you don't seem to have anything to do recently? Why don't you write a novel?"
Liu Hongmin: "I wonder if you have heard of the Qin Tomb in Shuihudi, Yunmeng?"
They both shook their heads, "What is that?"
Nowadays, people don’t know much about archaeology, not to mention that these two are literary young people.
Liu Hongmin had expected this to happen, so he briefly said, "In 75, Professor Chen Zhenyu discovered a Qin Dynasty tomb complex in Shuihudi, Yunmeng, and found a large number of bamboo slips inside. After restoration, Professor Chen found that these bamboo slips were actually handwritten work documents by a Qin Dynasty official named Xi. Among them are a large number of Qin laws, official documents, and daily books, which are very helpful for us to understand the social environment of the Qin Dynasty."
The two looked at each other. They didn't expect that the tomb they heard about for the first time would have such great significance.
"But shouldn't these be done by people majoring in archaeology?"
"Excavating tombs is indeed archaeology, but the contents of the bamboo slips are for those of us who study history to study," said Liu Hongmin. "This semester we are studying the history of the pre-Qin and Qin and Han dynasties, and the contents of these Qin bamboo slips are subversive. So, our professor got the recorded contents of the Qin bamboo slips through his personal connections and asked us to conduct research on this topic."
Zou Shifang grinned when he heard this, "No, you are only a freshman, and you want to study now?"
"Is there any problem?" Liu Hongmin looked at him puzzled.
Zou Shifang shook his head. "No problem. I just feel that your study of history seems to be more meaningful than our philosophy department."
Liu Zhenyun also said: "It is just as meaningful as the Chinese Department."
"That's not the case. We have different majors and our future work directions are also different. We mainly study historical books, and then archaeological documents. In fact, studying these unearthed documents is the main work of Lao Ge and others."
Old Ge, that is Ge Chaoguang, majored in Classical Literature in the Chinese Department. The Classical Literature major is a very strange major. It only recruits a batch of students every four years. Because there are only 4 people, they take all other courses with other majors except for their major courses. If they study history, they take classes with the history department, if they study literature, they take classes with the literature department, and if they study philosophy, they take classes with the philosophy department.
Therefore, whether it was Liu Hongmin, Zou Shifang, or Liu Zhenyun, they all knew Ge Chaoguang.
Compared with them, Ge Chaoguang is a true scholar who focuses on studying his major and does not want to be a writer.
"This time, I am in a team with Lao Ge." Liu Hongmin said, "We estimated that it will take at least one month to complete this project." Liu Zhenyun nodded in understanding. The final exams would be in a month, and Liu Hongmin still had to prepare for the exams, so naturally he had no time to write the second part of Shao Bao.
"Hongmin, when school starts next year, you must show me the manuscript for the second part of Shao Bao."
"Okay!" Liu Hongmin readily agreed. After the publication of "Famous in the World", Shao Bao had already put his label on it, so there was no need to worry about the manuscript being leaked. Moreover, Liu Zhenyun was not that kind of person. He just wanted to learn Liu Hongmin's writing style.
After Liu Hongmin paid the bill, he said goodbye to the two and went to find Ge Chaoguang.
"Old Ge, are you still busy?"
Liu Hongmin put the packed food on the table and said, "Eat first, rest your brain, and combine work and rest."
Ge Chaoguang could have refused, but when he saw that Liu Hongmin brought back white meat in a clay pot, his mouth immediately watered. Because of the scarcity of supplies, people these days like to eat fatty meat, which can replenish oil and water. White meat in a clay pot is a famous dish in Beijing, famous for being fat but not greasy, and lean but not dry.
Liu Hongmin helped him get the bowl and chopsticks, and Ge Chaoguang started eating without hesitation.
"Hongmin, you guys who can write novels are still the best. You get paid for your works, so you don't lack money to spend."
Ge Chaoguang said enviously that he also wanted to have a good meal every now and then. Unfortunately, he had no talent in writing novels, so he could only watch with envy as Liu Hongmin received so much royalties.
"It means that we are not short of money, but it is not enough to eat meat every meal."
As Liu Hongmin spoke, he looked at the information compiled by Ge Chaoguang.
"You are so bold that you want to eat meat every meal." Ge Chaoguang said speechlessly: "Even if you have money, you can't do it. Where can you get so many meat tickets?"
Liu Hongmin smiled and said, "As long as you have enough money, it's easy to get meat tickets, right?"
Ge Chaoguang was shocked. "How much does that cost?"
Money can indeed buy meat tickets, but the price of meat tickets is almost catching up with the price of meat itself. In other words, buying meat tickets is equivalent to spending twice the price of meat. But what Liu Hongmin said is not wrong. If he had 1,000 or 10,000 yuan, he might really be willing to buy meat tickets and eat meat every day.
Just as Ge Chaoguang was daydreaming, Liu Hongmin took a quick look at the information he had compiled.
"Old Ge, the information is almost ready!"
Ge Chaoguang came back to his senses and said, "There's still some left. We should be able to finish it soon."
Liu Hongmin nodded. "Okay, I'll take you away when you're done. I'll start writing tomorrow, and you continue to follow the plan and look for some ancient books about the Qin Dynasty to see if you can find any new content."
"Row!"
Ge Chaoguang quickly ate up the casserole meat and then went back to work. It took another two or three hours to finally find all the records about the Dazexiang Uprising in the mainstream history books that Liu Hongmin had bought.
Liu Hongmin took the books and the information sheet written by Ge Chaoguang and returned to the dormitory. The two prepared so thoroughly because they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to write a paper, with Liu Hongmin as the first author and Ge Chaoguang as the second author.
(End of this chapter)
