Chapter 32 A mayfly sees the sky 4
The loud slaps made everyone freeze on the spot.
No one expected that this middle-aged man who looked elegant and easy-going would suddenly take action.
Tanaka Koizumi, who was knocked to the ground, felt burning pain on his face, and the swelling feeling he had just felt suddenly disappeared.
He suddenly figured out who the person in front of him was.
The trendy "tiger" once pointed at the officials of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and cursed, saying that if there were no such people as you, the suicide rate in Japan would drop even further.
What was such a fierce man doing just now?
The self-righteous person can discuss friendship with his peers and even comment on the manuscript he wants to read.
After being slapped by the other party, Tanaka Koizumi did not dare to say anything at all. He stood up and even nodded and bowed to apologize to the other party.
"It's not me you should apologize to." Ono Taro frowned while holding the white manuscript paper. He was not usually such an impulsive and irritable person.
But the other party didn't know how to pretend to be satirical about other people's articles, and secondly, he said that the article he was optimistic about was useless.
Ono Taro has been working hard in the literary world for decades. He came all the way here and was told that the thing he was interested in was a piece of smelly dog shit.
Isn’t this pointing at his job and saying that he has no vision and is not worthy of eating it?
This is because he has tempered his temper a little in recent years. In the early years, he was forced to taste the iron fist of a cultural person again.
Tanaka Koizumi's face turned red when Taro Ono pinched his neck to apologize to a young man.
He has some status in Yamanashi Prefecture, and now he is asked to apologize to a high school student
"No need."
Ryukawa Toru's expression was indifferent. From beginning to end, except when Ono Taro hit him, he didn't even look at him.
It seems that he was not the one who was told that the manuscript was not good, and he was indifferent to Ono Taro's apology.
"His stubbornness is his stupidity. I have no interest in the apology of a stupid person." Ryukawa Toru spoke calmly and turned his gaze to the ashamed opponent.
Does Tanaka Koizumi really not see the good or bad qualities of "Snow Country"?
In fact, not necessarily. People who can write best-selling novels are not fools.
He just stubbornly believed that a young man like Toru Ryukawa could not write good articles. From the beginning, he viewed Ryukawa Toru with prejudice.
He had been fighting for many years to be the author of a purely literary creation, but he really couldn't believe that Toru Ryukawa in front of him could write a real literary work.
He wanted to apologize, but Ryukawa Tetsu didn't want it at all, and the other party didn't even look at him in the eye from the beginning to now.
Tanaka Koizumi gritted his teeth and looked deeply at Ryukawa Toru before turning and leaving.
He was high-spirited when he came, and he was dejected when he left.
Mrs. Takeda looked at this scene and smiled with satisfaction.
This person's stalking was so shameless, but she, a woman, couldn't really do anything to him.
Now because Ryukawa Tetsu received a slap in the face, she felt bad about her.
"What are you giggling about?"
When Toru Ryukawa passed by Mrs. Takeda, he slapped her on the butt. Mrs. Takeda, who was still a little happy, turned ugly.
Xiaojiali in Shanzhonghu Village saw off two rude guests and welcomed the editor of Xinchao News Agency.
When Taro Ono walked into the courtyard, he first bowed to Toru Ryukawa and the others, apologizing for the abruptness of his sudden visit.
The expression of being humble and polite is completely different from the expression of just hitting someone.
"It doesn't matter. You are willing to come all the way to read our Archer's manuscript. We should thank you."
Don't know why.
Mrs. Takeda, who was laughed at by Ryukawa Toru, suddenly took on the important task of receiving guests.
She invited Ono Taro into the courtyard very politely and expressed her welcome to his visit. It should have been Tatsukawa Toru's job to receive Ono Taro, but now the other party is obviously more active than Tatsukawa Toru.
"Hey, what are you doing? You don't want to say bad things about me in front of the editor, do you? Let me remind you first, he is very optimistic about my manuscript. If you talk nonsense in front of him, be careful that he slaps you. .”
Ryukawa Toru stood next to Mrs. Takeda and muttered in a low voice.
His signing with Shinchaosha was almost a certainty, and he didn't want Mrs. Takeda to jump out and stir up trouble at this moment.
The woman rolled her eyes at him, then hummed and said, "The editor-in-chief of Shinchaosha is a person who can directly talk to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. If I have a good relationship with him now, Xiaoqian will have many options for escape in Tokyo in the future."
Longchuan Che smacked his lips. This woman really spared no effort to consider her daughter.
"Hey, Toru Ryukawa, can you really be a writer?"
Over there, Mrs. Takeda was entertaining the guests warmly, and Akane Takeda came up from the side.
Just now anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Ono Taro was angry because Tanaka Koizumi said the manuscript was not good, and Takeda Akane, who was thinking fast, immediately came to Tatsukawa Toru's side.
"Yeah, are you scared?"
"What's there to be afraid of? I'm just practicing calligraphy with you." Takeda Akane curled her lips, she cared more about another thing than losing the bet.
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"How much money can you make from your novel?"
Akane Takeda's little eyes were darting around. Toru Ryukawa was eating his own food and using his own. Wasn't the money he earned also belonged to his family?
Thinking about the royalties mentioned by Tanaka Koizumi just now, Akane Takeda's eyes lit up brightly.
"Well?" Longchuan Che pinched his chin.
"You mean seizing the young man???"
In the quiet room where the fireplace table was burning, Akane Takeda stared blankly at Taro Ono in front of her.
"Nine to nine hundred thousand." Ono Taro said awkwardly despite the girl's disgusted look.
In Japan, when you write a serial for a magazine or newspaper, the manuscript fee is not calculated per thousand words, but how much a piece of manuscript paper costs.
The kind of writing paper that Ryukawa Toru uses is regular writing paper, with twenty words per line, which is about four hundred words per line including punctuation marks.
An ordinary publishing house charges about two to three thousand yen per piece of manuscript paper, while Shinchao Press charges a little more, between four thousand and five thousand yen.
According to Ryukawa Toru, his Snow Country has about 80,000 words, which is
"Nine hundred thousand yen? This is too little."
Takeda Akane pouted and compared it to Tanaka Koizumi who said just now that he made tens of millions from one book, but Ryukawa Toru simply couldn't stand the royalties.
"Shinchosha's monthly manuscript fee is calculated based on the manuscript paper. It is different from Tanaka Koizumi's method of collecting publishing fees for published books. This price is already the highest for new writers with a blank page." Ono Taro was also a little embarrassed by being disliked by the female high school student in front of him. .
From the time I walked in until now, the other party has been treating me very well, but the contract terms I brought now seem not to be satisfactory to the other party.
"Oh, it's boring."
Takeda Akane patted Tatsukawa Toru on the shoulder and got up and went upstairs. Her dream of getting rich was shattered in the blink of an eye. The girl thought to herself that Ryuukawa Toru, a bastard, was indeed unreliable, so she ran upstairs.
"Mr. Ono, please don't mind." Mrs. Takeda bowed apologetically as her daughter was attracted by money.
The importance of traditional literature has never been to make money. It has existed as a carrier of cultural inheritance from the beginning and has a very high influence on society.
"This fee is the cost of previous publications." Thinking that this fee is indeed too small for "Snow Country", Ono Taro said with some consolation: "As long as the popularity is high, Shinchaosha will also publish a separate volume for the work."
Mrs. Takeda nodded and was about to call Tatsukawa Toru to sign the contract.
"I need to think about it again."
Ryukawa Toru held up his face and winked at Mrs. Takeda.
It was just a casual remark at first, but the beautiful woman in front of him suddenly blinked and looked at him.
(End of chapter)