Chapter 35: The Five Mao Who Brought His Own Dry Rations

  "Conchita - Bowerwin? He is an outcast of the Blue Moon Druidic Circle, and a scholar who loves to study lost civilizations and alternate planes."

  Yvonne signed the check while casually answering Marlon's doubts.

  Just now, Marlon, who had just escaped from the crowd of onlookers, came to the Emerald Pattern Publishing House and told Evna what happened in the empty space next to the publishing house.

  "In other words, this Lycan Druid is a babysitter you found for Evanna?"

  Yvonne's response made Ma Long ask this question very naturally.

  "What's the trust?" Evana looked up at Marlon, but she wasn't puzzled by the new term. He had clearly explained it to her two days ago when he was talking about the "Three Wins Plan", so now she was just curious why he would ask that.

  "I couldn't possibly invite this person, a great Druid with assets of over 100 million Lant to come and be a... babysitter."

  As they spoke, Evana finally filled out the check with a few quick strokes of her pen.

  "Oh, I see, so you're a self-sufficient fifty-cent coin."

  Ma Long nodded, finally confirming what role that great Druid had played in this three-win plan.

  "What's this 'self-bringing dry rations' five Mao? What does that even mean?" Evonne didn't understand, but immediately she handed the filled-out check to Zhou Tai: "Alright, you don't need to answer that question, it must be another one of your rural dialects. Hurry up, I reckon our great banker Mr. Soles is getting impatient and wants to take the stage."

  "Good."

  Ma Long nodded and took the check handed over by Yvonne.

  There are two cheques in total, the first one is 110,000 Rand and the second one is 76,300 Rand.

  Ma Long walked out of his office with two large checks, and Yvonne's gaze fell back on the bound manuscript of "The Count of Monte Cristo" on her desk.

  She gently flipped through the pages, browsing through the beautiful text that made her involuntarily immerse herself in it. After a long time, Yvonne finally let out a sigh of admiration: "No matter how many times I read it, it's still a story that's good to the extreme! This child, how did she come up with it?"

  A loud knocking sound rang out.

  Then, Alan Doyle, with a head full of white hair, holding a small stack of thin paper that still smelled of ink, pushed open the door and walked in.

  "Miss, I've finished preparing the draft of those... little flyers you asked me to work on!"

  As they spoke, Arnaud had already walked quickly to the front of Evina's office desk and placed the thin paper that was still emitting the smell of ink in his hand next to the original manuscript of "The Count of Monte Cristo".

  "Thanks for your hard work, Uncle Arnaud."

  Yvonne smiled at Arnaud.

  "It's nothing, it's all what I should be doing!"

  With Evina's thanks, Arlandor's face suddenly bloomed with joy, and he pointed to the printed materials, urging: "Miss, take a look and see if there are any problems. If not, I'll go supervise the printers downstairs to start large-scale printing right away!"

  Arland's fingers tapped on the handbills, about the size of an adult palm, which still emitted the scent of ink.

  The "small flyer" pointed out by Alain, the first line of which was written in bold font: "Emerald Pattern Honor Publishing - Excerpts from 'The Little Prince'".

  And under "Emerald Pattern Honor Publishing - The Little Prince Wonderful Content Selection", the other "small flyers" that were pressed down, also wrote similar things -

  "Jade Pattern Chapter Honorary Publication - Excerpts from 'Cinderella'"

  "Jade Pattern Chapter Honor Publishing - Excerpts from 'Pinocchio'"

  ……

  "Emerald Pattern Honor Publishing - Excerpts from 'The Count of Monte Cristo'"

  "Jade Stripe Chapter Honor Publishing - Excerpts from 'The Wang Family Crest'"

  In fact, these "brilliant content excerpts" with a hint of content summary flavor had already been written by Marlon and left at the Emerald Pattern Publishing House on the day that Evna dragged him to find Solrs to discuss cooperation.

  All of this was planned long ago.

  These small flyers are also an important part of Ma Long's "Three Wins Plan", which makes the Jade Stripe Publishing House a big winner.

  Tomorrow morning, these small flyers will be plastered all over the streets and alleys of Baishacheng, stuffed into every household's mailbox and door crack.

  In this otherworldly place without a television network and therefore no TV commercials, only these ubiquitous flyers can achieve the all-around fatigue of advertising bombardment.

  Then Ma Long's nine books will successfully attract people's attention and be sought after by them.

  Then, everything that happened in Baisha City will gradually spread throughout the Republic of Luoling with the dissemination of books and news. At that time... Malong will become a more famous genius young writer, and the Feicuiwen Press, which has signed the publishing rights to Malong's literary works, will surely be a big winner?

  Ma Long's remuneration is quite generous, but without a doubt, the more Ma Long earns, the more Evana and her Emerald Pattern Press will earn.

  Isn't it just a simple mutually beneficial relationship?

  Eva carefully looked over each of the printed flyers, then smiled.

  "Uncle Arland, indeed, with you handling this matter, there's absolutely no way any problems will arise!"

  Just like what Evana said, all the small leaflet drafts are fine.

  "This kind of thing, as long as you do it with heart, anyone can do a good job." Arnaud didn't lean on his old age, he humbly bowed and then asked again: "Miss, I'll go downstairs now and let the printers start printing?"

  "No." Evna shook her head: "Now it's still a bit too early."

  Eva negated Arnaud's proposal, she stood up and walked around her desk towards the direction of the door.

  "Wait until I've finished watching the excitement and then see if it's time to start. Perhaps, as our genius young writer said in one of his many rural dialects... plans always can't keep up with changes."

  Leaving these two sentences behind, Yvonne walked out of the door and went in the direction downstairs.

  Eva soon stepped out of her publishing house.

  At this time, the more than 300 square meters of empty space next to the Jade Chapter Publishing House, where the new headquarters of Sores Bank is located, has been blocked and sealed off...

  "What's going on inside?"

  Eva furrowed her brow, then walked over to a middle-aged man who looked more approachable, standing on tiptoes and looking towards the center of the empty space, and poked his shoulder with her index finger.

  "Stop arguing, can't you see I'm in the middle of..."

  The middle-aged man was answering impatiently, but when he turned his head and found that the one poking him on the shoulder was a beautiful red-haired beauty, this originally impatient middle-aged man suddenly transformed into a gentle and courteous demeanor.

  "Ah, inside, that kid called Marlon-Lyster, took out a 110,000 Lanters check from Sol's Bank, wanting to exchange it for the old Saint Warrior's 'Eli's Book', but the old Saint Warrior said Sol's Bank is almost bankrupt, so he only accepts cash and doesn't want checks..."

  "Who would have thought, the people watching the commotion earlier happened to include the person in charge of building the new headquarters for Sol's Bank, and now he's having a huge argument with that old saint warrior who sells books."

  "Haha, now we'll see, that bloodline banker should be arriving soon!"