Chapter 331 Wen Leyu: "Are you from here?"
"Aunt Chen, do you have any more garlic? Two cloves."
"I want a bowl of noodle soup, too much. "Hua Hua Shi'er."
"I want another bowl of noodles, I'm not full yet!"
In Jiang Xiaoyan's noodle shop, there are seven people, including Li Ye and Li Yue. A big bowl of delicious food.
Eating a bowl of hot lamb noodle soup in the middle of winter will instantly dispel all the coldness in your body.
Jiang Xiaoyan’s father, Jiang Yougui, came out of the kitchen with a sarcastic smile and placed a large handful of garlic cloves and two bowls of noodle soup on the table for everyone.
"Hey, eat more, don't need money, take care of enough, take care of enough"
"How can we not need money? Uncle Jiang, if you don't want money, we won't dare to eat."
“Can’t ask for money, I really can’t ask for money.”
Jiang Yougui rubbed the corners of his clothes and retreated to the kitchen with an embarrassed look on his face.
Then Jiang Xiaoyan, who was busy in the kitchen, scolded him in a low voice: "Can you speak? You talk about money all day long. If you are so annoying, just go back to your hometown."
< br >"I didn't say it was bad! We can't ask for money. We are all your classmates, so asking for money is nothing."
Listening to the man's aggrieved voice, Li Ye, Hu Man and others all tolerated it. It's both funny and helpless.
There was no long holiday during the Spring Festival in the 1980s, so Jiang Xiaoyan and her mother did not go home with Li Ye and others, nor did they return to Beijing together. They only stayed in their hometown for two days and then hurried back to work on their home. Small noodle shop.
After Li Ye and others arrived at Jiang Xiaoyan's noodle shop, they discovered that Jiang Yougui, who had been in his hometown last year, was here, but Jiang Xiaoning, who had been in the capital for several months, was nowhere to be seen.
Everyone was embarrassed to ask in person. When they were ready to leave after eating, they asked Jiang Xiaoyan at the door.
Jiang Xiaoyan said: "What's there to say? My brother can't bear the hardships in the capital, so he will go back to his hometown!"
Han Xia is outspoken and has a good relationship with Jiang Xiaoyan, so she doesn't see anyone outside. Asked: "Then your brother is willing? The last time I saw him, he refused to go back to his hometown!"
Jiang Xiaoyan shook her head and said: "He was admitted to a joint venture instant noodle factory in his hometown and worked eight hours a day. An hour, forty or fifty yuan a month, what’s there to be unwilling to do?”
Han Xia nodded thoughtfully and said, "Yes, your business is too tiring."
Although Jiang Xiaoyan's business is small, she has to get up at three or four in the morning to make noodles. It doesn't close until ten o'clock. After years of hard work, I can even fall asleep standing up.
Jiang Xiaoning has never done heavy work since she was a child, how can she bear this?
There is another reason Jiang Xiaoyan did not say.
That means Jiang Xiaoning can’t make any money despite suffering so much!
My mother and sister were very tight on money, and they only had five yuan as pocket money every month. If he said anything more, he would be deported as a "blind flow".
Jiang Xiaoning works for free and has no time to go around the capital. Life is difficult!
In the end, under the coercion and inducement of her sister, Jiang Xiaoning agreed to the humiliating contract of sending fifteen yuan a month, and waited at home for Chen Jinhua to save money for him to marry a wife.
As for bringing his father Jiang Yougui to the capital, Jiang Xiaoyan was not willing. His mother Chen Jinhua’s serious illness made him very resentful of his father Jiang Yougui.
Just now in the noodle shop , Li Ye and others all noticed the contradiction between them.
Li Ye looked at Jiang Xiaoyan, who looked unhappy, and said to the other students: "You guys get on the bus first, and I will tell Xiaoyan something."
Jiang Xiaoyan immediately said unhappily: "Li Ye, you Do you want to give me food money again? Can you stop being so annoying?”
"Am I a Moji person?"
Li Ye glanced at Jiang Xiaoyan, pointed at the noodle shop's sign and said, "Did your mother or you decide on this sign?"
Jiang Xiaoyan's noodle shop is called "Chen's Noodle Shop", which is Chen Jinhua's.
Jiang Xiaoyan said in confusion: "My mother and I discussed this, what happened?"
Li Ye smiled and said: "Then do you think your mother is a smart person?"
Jiang Xiaoyan no Understanding what Li Ye meant, he could only nod silently.
Even if Jiang Xiaoyan is a college student, she has to admit that her mother is a smart and capable person. If not for her persistence, she, Jiang Xiaoyan, would have dropped out of school and started farming.
"So! Your mother was not stupid in bringing your father to the capital," Li Ye said in a low voice: "Your mother is most likely planning to separate the family."
"Family separation?"
Jiang Xiaoyan was stunned, and suddenly seemed to understand something.
No wonder I objected so hard that I wanted to get my father to come to the capital from my hometown.
Li Ye looked at Jiang Xiaoyan and said with a smile: "In the past, your mother did not come from Qingshui County, so her vision was somewhat limited, but from now on, your mother is the head of the household."
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Li Ye watched Chen Jinhua build a successful noodle shop in just one year, and was already planning to open a second branch.
Once such a powerful woman broadens her horizons, how can she still be restricted by the Jiang family?
Just like the signboard "Chen's Noodle House" at the entrance of the noodle shop, Chen Jinhua can completely control the power in this small family in the capital.
Jiang Yougui has an honest and responsible character. I just have to be a "good wife"!
. . . . . . .
There are two reasons why Li Ye returned to the capital early. The first was to prepare for the training of the school debate team, and the second was, of course, to go shopping with Wen Leyu for lantern shopping.
And the second reason is the main one. Things about the debate team are just incidental.
Many years ago, among flower growers, the war between men and women was very serious. However, during the Lantern Festival, both Miss Dajia and Biyu from Xiaojia could watch handsome men under the lanterns all over the street. Imagine the story of a talented man and a beautiful woman in the novel.
So during the Lantern Festival, girls go shopping for lanterns, which has a profound meaning throughout the ages. Romance is not an exotic thing. Our ancestors have played with it countless times. Li Ye and Wen Leyu held hands, each holding a bunch of candied haws, and wandered on the street full of lanterns.
Occasionally, Li Ye would put his string of candied haws in front of Wen Leyu's little face.
But Wen Leyu never dislikes it. He will open his small mouth and bite it with his teeth, shaking his neck to pull the hawthorn off the bamboo stick.
Then in less than a minute, Wen Leyu would stretch his string of candied haws in front of Li Ye, and then do the same thing again.
It can be said that the current relationship between the two of them is nothing short of skin-to-skin contact with a real young couple. Even if Li Ye is bolder, he may not be unable to give it a try.
“Well, by the way, my mother asked a colleague to bring back some literary review magazines from the lighthouse a few days ago. There were reviews on "A Song of Ice and Fire". She was a little angry after reading it.< br>
"Huh?"
Li Ye spat out the hawthorn seeds in his mouth and said seriously: "What did the comments say?"
Wen Leyu said: "There is a pretty Famous writers say that our books are neither fish nor fowl, that they do not follow Western thinking at all, and are just to defraud readers of money."
"This comment is a bit harsh."
"Bing. After the first volume of "A Song of Fire" was published, the market response was very good. Now it has reached the second volume. It makes a lot of money, but it is a scam.
Li Ye suddenly asked: "Is the writer who made the comment named Wood?"
Wen Leyu nodded: "Yes, that's him. My mother has asked classmates who are familiar with the lighthouse literary circle, this Wood He's not an unknown person."
"You don't know the inside story," Li Ye said: "We also held a prize-winning essay competition for "A Song of Ice and Fire" at the Lighthouse, and Wood's first draft was from the American region. of First, he didn’t have time to go to Hong Kong Island.”
Li Ye briefly talked about what happened on Hong Kong Island, and then said: “Originally, Wood was very arrogant and didn’t bother to argue with us, but he couldn’t stand it. "Song of Fire" sold well!
I asked Pei Wencong during the Chinese New Year. According to incomplete statistics, last year's income should be between 4.5 million and 5 million US dollars,
So if Wood had accepted our translation contract at that time, he would now be able to get a translation fee of US$450,000 to US$500,000.
When the next few volumes are released, the fee will be doubled several times, and it will be less. Wood was very proud, so he regretted that the money fell on someone else."
"Ahem~"
Li Ye suddenly heard Wen Leyu coughing.< br>
He quickly took out a small silver kettle from his arms, opened the lid and put it on Xiao Nizi's mouth.
"Tons, tons, tons~"
Wen Leyu drank half a pot of warm water in one breath, then opened his eyes wide and faced Li Ye and said: "Didn't we agree at the time? Just pay them wages. How can we pay them?" There are so many of them?"
Li Ye told Wen Leyu before that the value of "Song of Ice and Fire" will exceed 10 million US dollars in the near future, and there will be no upper limit in the future.
Wen Leyu was somewhat skeptical at the time, but Teacher Ke believed in Li Ye very much.
Later, Li Ye also told Wen Leyu that the "fee for the manuscript was over one million," but it was within Wen Leyu's psychological tolerance, so it was nothing.
But how long has it been? It actually jumped to five million? What's even more terrible is, why do those "tool people" want to take away half a million yuan in royalties?
That’s half a million dollars!
Li Ye had no choice but to put his arms around Wen Leyu's waist and said, "There's nothing we can do about it! Our first draft cannot meet the requirements of Western readers. Ten percent of the translation fee is It must be given,
but they earn Much more, don’t we earn more? After deducting 20% of the translation fees of the two authors, and then Pei Wencong takes 30%, we get 56%.”
“Oh. , we make more, more ”
Wen Leyu's little head nodded repeatedly, comforting himself while quickly calculating in his mind how much one-third of fifty-six percent was.
The answer is close to one million. In addition, Teacher Ke also said that Wen Leyu should be in charge of his share, so the amount collected in Wen Leyu’s hands is nearly two million US dollars.
But something suddenly occurred to her and she asked again: "The five million you mentioned, is it the American version? Or is it added to the European version?"
Li Ye smiled and said: "Of course It’s the American version. The sales volume of the European version is a little less, more than three million!”
Wen Leyu: “…”
She had to do the math again.
Li Ye looked at Wen Leyu, whose eyes were shining with golden light, and couldn't help but smile: "Xiao Yu, why have I heard people say that girls from families like yours don't seem to be interested in money?"
Wen Leyu was stunned, tilting his little head, squinting at Li Ye without saying anything.
Because Wen Leyu is wearing a furry mink hat, he looks like an underage Northeastern Golden Grain, cutely recognizing Li Ye - "Are you from the local area?"
If it wasn’t local, I would have tried Yako!
Are you saying I'm not interested in money? What do you want to do after that?
Wen Leyu is not a person who is greedy for money, but there is a note in her little notebook - "Have a good talk with Li Ye, do not allow wanton waste, and learn to be frugal."
Isn’t the best way to make someone frugal is to make him don’t have much money in his pocket?
Although frugality with an annual salary of ten yuan is different from frugality with an annual salary of one million, Wen Leyu always feels that it is his responsibility to help Li Ye establish a good living habit.
Li Ye blinked, not understanding what Wen Leyu's eyes meant, and continued: "I heard people say that the education you have been exposed to since childhood was relatively high-end.
For example, someone screwed someone up, and someone was tricked by someone who was superior, so vulgar things like a small amount of money may not catch your eye. ”
Li Ye’s words are not nonsense, because although he was a small person in his previous life, he accompanied his boss to get in touch with a big boss once. This was the situation at that time.
But Li Ye didn’t Determine whether today in 1984 will be the same as forty years later.
“As for money, it can’t be on the stage, but it can’t be done without it, and it also depends on the amount of money.”
Wen Leyu squinted his eyes and stretched out his little hand. He got into Li Ye's sleeve, grabbed his wrist, and pinched it hard
"And I will marry a chicken and a dog, and I will be interested in whatever you are interested in in the future. What other high-end and low-end things are there? If you say such unreasonable things to me in the future, be careful I will pinch you. Bleeding. "
Li Ye felt a pain in his wrist and immediately realized that he was wrong. No matter how fairy-like the girl is, she is still a girl, and she has the same little problems as ordinary girls.
However, Wen Leyu's ability to say "Marry a chicken, follow the chicken, marry a dog, follow the dog" made Li Ye feel really comfortable listening to it.
There will be three updates tonight, morning and evening, but it will be very late, probably after two o'clock in the middle of the night, so everyone should get up and watch it tomorrow morning! Sorry sorry
(End of this chapter)