"Xiao Lin, how can you type so fast! It's amazing." The speaker was Li Mingfang, a cashier in the accounting department. As soon as she finished speaking, the girls and boys around her nodded.
Anyone who can work in an office building in the center of Pengcheng is ambitious, and working on a computer is the most basic thing here.
But computers are expensive nowadays, and not many people have home computers. Therefore, their typing speed is OK, but definitely not as fast as Lin Shuyue, who has been using computers since elementary school.
She's not exaggerating. When Lin Shuyue was fighting against keyboard warriors online, she almost made sparks fly from her keyboard. According to the statistics of the input method, Lin Shuyue can type more than 4,000 words per hour.
The original owner was an intern and was not sure whether she could stay in the newspaper. Therefore, during the three months of internship at the newspaper, she was not familiar with her colleagues. However, Lin Shuyue felt that once the report she wrote was published, it would not be a problem to get a job at the newspaper in the future. Although she had no experience in the workplace, she was not a fool. She would not push away the way to build good relationships with colleagues.
"As long as you remember the arrangement of the 26 letters on the keyboard, combine it with some techniques, and practice more, your typing speed will increase." Lin Shuyue does not know Wubi or Quanpin, and she relies purely on Pinyin to type. (TL Note: Wubi and Quanpin are both an input method. Wubi is based on the structure of characters rather than their pronunciation. Quanpin requires up to six keystrokes to type each Chinese Pinyin character.)
Faced with pairs of eyes full of curiosity, Lin Shuyue explained the typing skills to them based on her experience in her previous life, and at the same time sent the report she had just written to the email address of editor-in-chief Wang Mingzheng.
Li Mingfang and the others learned Lin Shuyue's tricks and immediately returned to their workstations. After a while, they printed out a keyboard key map and pasted it on the partition of their workstations for easy memorization. People nearby saw it and followed suit, and soon most people had such a piece of paper pasted on their workstations.
Some people who remembered the key positions of the 26 letters followed Lin Shuyue's method and opened a blank document to practice.
For a moment, the office was filled with the sound of keyboards typing.
Li Weisheng, who was sitting in the tea room, looked at the bustling office and had a very unpleasant expression on his face. Opposite him sat a boy who was about his age. He was Qian Yongqiang from the advertising department. "Brother Sheng, look at Lin Shuyue's smug look. It's really unpleasant."
Li Weisheng glanced at Qian Yongqiang and frowned slightly: "Isn't it too harsh for you to say that about a girl?"
Li Weisheng didn't want to listen to Qian Yongqiang's nagging anymore and left the tea room.
Behind him, Qian Yongqiang's flattering smile faded, and his brows were full of gloom. But soon, he cheered up and chased after him, holding the latte he had just gotten for Li Weisheng.
Li Weisheng sat down at his workstation. The employee from the publicity department at the opposite workstation stood up and handed him a piece of paper. "Asheng, this is the partition table of the 26-letter keyboard. There are several extra copies. I'll give you one."
Li Weisheng didn't say anything. Qian Yongqiang carefully watched his face and said, "Go away, go away. Our brother Sheng types so fast, does he still need to practice? Who are you looking down on?"
Ever since Li Weisheng joined the newspaper, Qian Yongqiang has been his number one lackey. When the employees in the publicity and promotion department heard him say this, they curled their lips and sat back.
Li Mingfang took an apple and placed it on Lin Shuyue's desk, and whispered to her, "Did you see that? The prince and his lackeys."
Lin Shuyue turned her head and saw Qian Yongqiang standing behind his workstation, hunched over towards Li Weisheng. It looked quite lifelike. Lin Shuyue couldn't help but burst out laughing.
When Li Weisheng heard Lin Shuyue's laughter, he immediately looked over, his eyes as big as copper bells, not to mention, he looked quite fierce.
Lin Shuyue still remembered what the dog said when she came out of the editor-in-chief's office in the morning. She rolled her eyes at him and turned around to do her own thing.
Li Weisheng was very upset. He had carefully prepared a big piece of news, and the editor had already decided to make it the headline for tomorrow's article. But now Lin Shuyue had intervened and everything was ruined! The more he thought about it, the angrier he got.
Wang Mingzheng came out of the tea room carrying the freshly brewed coffee. When he passed by the entrance of the news department, he shouted. The heads of the art department and the news department stood up and walked into the editor-in-chief's office.
As soon as they arrived, Wang Mingzheng projected Lin Shuyue's report onto the wall screen and said to the person in charge of the art team and the editorial team, "Lao Zhang, this report was written by Xiao Lin. I think it's very well written, with sharp words and to the point."
"Coupled with this photo, I can foresee how much of a reaction this report will cause once it appears in the newspaper!"
"I just called my colleagues and found out that none of them has been able to interview the person in charge of this case. You should know what this means. So you must arrange this page well and make it eye-catching. Try to make sure everyone sees us first among all the newspapers. Do a good job! At the end of the month, I will give you a double bonus!"
The head of the art editing team, Lao Zhang, nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, Lao Wang, I will do this version myself, and I guarantee that you will not be disappointed."
Wang Mingzheng looked at Lao Zhang with great satisfaction. At the beginning, there were only a few people in Pengcheng Metropolitan Newspaper. It was Wang Mingzheng who brought Lao Zhang and a few others to support the business. The two of them were superiors and subordinates, but they were more like friends. What Wang Mingzheng wanted was Lao Zhang's guarantee.
Wang Mingzheng looked at the director of the news department and said, "Old Zhao, you must have a good chat with Lin Shuyue when you have time. You must keep this talent for me. She is a well-known figure in the Public Security Bureau. With her around, will we still have to worry about not getting exclusive information from the Public Security Bureau in the future?"
Compared with the cheerful Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhao from the News Department obviously did not look so good.
Wang Mingzheng saw it, but pretended not to see it and waved his hand to let them go out.
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In a blink of an eye, it was time to get off work. Lin Shuyue was dragged by Li Mingfang to the canteen at the very end of the fifth floor, which was the newspaper's own canteen.
The house is not big, less than 50 square meters. Except for a cooking room, the rest is filled with metal tables with plastic bags tied to the tables.
Many people have come to the cafeteria at this moment. Li Mingfang cooperates well with the other people in the office. Some get food, and some take seats at the table.
While waiting in line for food, Li Mingfang whispered to Lin Shuyue, "We have a big dish today."
Lin Shuyue stood on tiptoe and looked forward. Today's meal was braised chicken legs, fried potatoes with meat, and stir-fried choy sum with garlic. The soup was kelp and bone soup.
"It smells so good." As they were talking, they arrived.
After getting their meal, the two went to the seat they had reserved in advance. As soon as they sat down, Li Mingfang couldn't wait to join in their conversation.
Lin Shuyue listened to them talking while eating, as if she had returned to her previous life when she went to the cafeteria with her classmates.
It clearly happened a few days ago, but now it seems to be separated by two different time and space.
Lin Shuyue was deeply moved.
"Shuyue, do you know that Li Weisheng is the nephew of Mr. Li from the advertising department of our newspaper?" Li Mingfang spoke to Lin Shuyue in a low voice.
Lin Shuyue turned her head to look at her: "I know. What about him?"
Li Mingfang took a sip of soup and said, "Let me tell you something. The day before yesterday, he was bragging to the people in the advertising department that he had a big news story to be released tomorrow, which would definitely make the front page. But now that Lao Wang has decided to use your product, he's so pissed."
"After you left, I saw him kicking the trash can in the bathroom. The cleaning lady saw it and scolded him several times." Li Mingfang couldn't help but smile as she spoke.
Li Mingfang was in the Art Department, and her main job was to publish pictures for newspaper advertisements. She was in charge of the illustrations and layout of Li Weisheng's news on several occasions. The director had approved them, but Li Weisheng thought they were not good enough and insisted that she revise them. She revised them, but they were rejected by the director, so she ended up using the first version.
Li Mingfang was so angry that he almost died.
In the entire newspaper, she was the one who wanted Lin Shuyue to stay in the newspaper the most. There was no other reason, she would feel comfortable if she could make things difficult for Li Weisheng.
Lin Shuyue also had a bad impression of Li Weisheng, because Li Weisheng was a very arrogant person. From the first day the original owner entered the newspaper, he looked down on the original owner's professional ability. He mocked the original owner several times, openly and secretly, saying that as a woman, she should not come to steal food from men.
If the original owner hadn't been afraid of affecting his internship results, he would have slapped Li Weisheng's size 42 face with the soles of her size 36 shoes.
"What kind of news made the headlines?" Lin Shuyue was a little curious.
Some people had already finished their meals and returned their plates. Now there were only the two of them and another colleague at the table. Li Mingfang glanced at the colleague and spoke even more quietly, "Isn't his uncle from the advertising department? He always takes him with him when he goes out for social events. He took a photo of the Guangsheng Group CEO taking his 18-year-old wife out for fun."
Li Mingfang gave Lin Shuyue a look that said you know what I mean.
Lin Shuyue understood instantly.
Guangsheng Group is the largest electrical appliance industry in Pengcheng. It used to be an OEM factory for foreign electrical appliances. It only started to produce its own brand in recent years. Because of its low prices and marketing skills, its turnover is very good.
It's not surprising that men become bad when they have money.
Li Mingfang didn't say anything else. Given their current relationship, it was not appropriate to talk about deeper gossip now.
After lunch, she went to the office to take a nap in the air conditioning. At 1:30 in the afternoon, the afternoon shift started. Lin Shuyue felt bored staying in the news department, so she went out with her bag.
It was normal for reporters in the news department not to be at their workstations. No one noticed her departure except Li Weisheng, who also went out with his camera after she left.
Lin Shuyue walked along the main road and met many people along the way. Lin Shuyue opened the good and evil system to identify them one by one and found a very interesting pattern. On the good and evil radar, most people's good and evil values fluctuated around 10%, and the darkest color was not even as gray as the sky on a cloudy day.
She walked and observed, and unknowingly came to the back streets of Pinghu District, where Internet cafes, milk tea shops, rental bookstores, game machine stores, and billiard shops were lined up side by side.
Lin Shuyue chuckled, found an Internet cafe and went in.
Lin Shuyue is a game lover. She has played most of the games on the market. Every week, she always takes one night to play games all night. This habit has been kept since junior high school and has never changed. She always takes ten or five minutes to satisfy her craving for games on weekdays.
Traveling back to 2004, she was a little uncomfortable without a smartphone or the laptop her grandfather had spent a lot of money to buy her when she was in college.
It seems that she have to put buying a computer on the agenda as soon as possible.
The Internet cafes of this era are very different from those of later generations. The environment can be said to be almost non-existent.
On the left hand side of the door is the cashier counter, behind which are water, instant noodles and some snacks. On the right hand side is a row of simple computer tables starting from the door, with computers standing side by side. The empty space in the middle is also not idle, with several groups of computers placed on it.
The room was filled with a strong smell of cigarettes and instant noodles, mixed with the shouting of people who lost in games. It was very noisy.
Lin Shuyue looked around and saw that the computers in this internet cafe were almost full, all of them were young people, and most of them were around fifteen or sixteen years old. This was not seen in internet cafes in later generations.
Lin Shuyue did not make a fuss. After all, at that time, the country's control over the age limit for Internet access in Internet cafes was not strict.
Lin Shuyue opened a card, found a table inside, turned on the computer, entered the card and went online.
The computer page of the Internet cafe is very clean. In addition to the necessary software that every computer has, there is only a Penguin software and a game package. When you open it, you can see that there are music software, video software and games.
Lin Shuyue logged into the original owner's Penguin account, and then found Counter-Strike among a number of game software.
Lin Shuyue's eyes lit up. After all, she had played this game often before she traveled through time.
After logging into her account and claiming the gift from the system, Lin Shuyue selected the mode she wanted to play and entered the game.
This game has two roles, police and gangster, played by players.
Each game is divided into two rounds, each with 15 rounds. In the first round, Lin Shuyue got the role of a bandit. At the beginning of the game, she controlled the game character, rushed out of the base camp with a gun, and started killing indiscriminately.
Soon, a group of teenagers gathered behind Lin Shuyue. When the game was over, these teenagers also cheered.
Lin Shuyue ignored them and concentrated on playing the game. After a game was over, she took off her headphones and went to get the water on the table.
Just after taking two sips, she heard a voice in her ear: "You are very strong, do you want to play a game?"
Lin Shuyue looked in the direction of the voice and saw the person who said this was a boy of about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a thin build and fair skin. He had long, non-mainstream bangs, but his delicate features did not look rustic because of the bangs. Instead, they added a touch of unruly handsomeness.
He looked at him steadily, with a burning desire to fight in his eyes.