Chapter 29: Young family, why don’t you give such a good manuscript to your mother?
"Old Zhou, this is Lao Xu, the author of "The Herdsman", also named Cheng Xuemin!" Zhang Dening greeted him quickly and introduced, "Old Xu, this is the editor-in-chief of our Yanjing Literature team. Wei Zhou Yanru, Teacher Zhou, you can also call her Lao Zhou with me!”
"Hello, Teacher Zhou!" Cheng Xuemin quickly stood up and greeted him!
"Aunt Zhou, please don't hurt me! My Xuemin is really carrying the manuscript written by my mother. If she finds out about this, our husband and wife will really be doomed!"
Obviously Feng Jiayou doesn’t know Zhang Dening very well, but he is very familiar with Zhou Yanru, so he calls her Aunt Zhou!
"What a little girl! I heard that you married yourself in northern Shaanxi. I can't believe it! She, the apple of Gu Xueqing's eye, would let her get married in northern Shaanxi?!"
Zhou Yanru is obviously also a good melon-eater, and she is basically a peer in the industry. In the past, they all lived in the same courtyard!
She also heard from her old neighbors and colleagues that her daughter, Gu Xueqing, married her in northern Shaanxi! Zhou Yanru was quite surprised at that time and thought it was impossible.
But now seeing is believing!
A husband and wife, one Xu Lingjun and the other Li Xiuzhi, came to submit a manuscript for Yanjing Literature!
"Aunt Zhou, you are laughing at me too!" Feng Jiayou muttered, feeling shy for a moment.
"No! I'm very optimistic about you. You must be bolder and stronger than your mother!" Zhou Yanru walked over and continued, "You are a great lover. You wrote "The Wrangler" very well. We are the first to prepare for Yanjing Literature. The headlines are pushing him!"
This is the tone set by editor-in-chief Li Qingquan. Taking advantage of the lingering aftertaste of "Scar" published by Shanghai Literature and Art, Yanjing Literature is preparing to make another effort to release "Wrangler".
"The headlines on the front page!?"
Of course, Feng Jiayou was not really angry. When he heard that Yanjing Literature paid so much attention to "The Wrangler", he immediately panicked and said repeatedly, "Aunt Zhou really wants to push it like this? You must never tell my mother, Wrangler" It was written by her son-in-law!”
"No, no, how about Aunt Zhou return "Wrangler" to us? Really, my mother would beat me to death if she knew!"
There are also times when women are in panic!
How did she go so far as to encourage Cheng Xuemin to stab her mother in the back, instead of voting for her mother's "October" instead of voting for "Yenching Literature"?
Now that I heard that Yanjing Literature was going to promote "The Wrangler", I was instantly panicked, and sometimes I was scared! ?
"My dear, this "Wrangler" was finalized and toned by our editor-in-chief. It is impossible for you to reject the manuscript!" After Zhou Yanru found out the details of their couple, she thought she knew it and smiled. Said, "The worst thing is not to let your mother know!"
"Anyway, if you have any manuscripts in the future, submit them to our Yanjing Literature. I promise you that you will not let your mother know! Even if she comes to the door in person to threaten and induce you, we will not even tell you!"
Well, on this point, it seems that I can eat them as a couple for a lifetime. Isn’t it very kind? !
"Oh my God! Is the "Wrangler" he wrote really that good? Aunt Zhou, you don't actually need to make headlines, just publish it and pay him the royalties!"
I really don’t want to be named that!
I thought that if I could publish in Yenching Literature and earn manuscript fees, that would be enough!
She secretly publishes and secretly collects this wave of royalties, and her mother won't find out about making small fuss.
But Yanjing Literature is doing well here. It wants to promote "Wrangler" directly on the front page. This is a rhythm that will push the couple into a pit of fire!
"Great! Lao Xu's "Wrangler" is so well written. We, Lao Li, estimate that its influence may surpass "Scar" and "Teacher", so we decided to make it a front-page headline! "
Zhou Yanru then explained that they, Yanjing Literature, really attached great importance to "The Wrangler" and really planned to promote it without hesitation.
But it made the Feng family and young children feel that the sky was about to collapse. She was obviously praising her man for his good writing, and was trying to push him to become famous. It was obviously good for them, but why couldn't they be happy? ah! ?
Bai Ling on the side felt even more sour when she heard their team leader Zhou's boastful affirmation again. Originally, the author of this manuscript belonged to her!
She was forced by her mother to go on a blind date, which delayed her for half the morning, and she just missed such a front-page headline!
"Ahem!" Cheng Xuemin was listening on the sidelines. When Zhou Yanru said this, he was also afraid of being known by his mother-in-law, just like the young Feng family.
But Cheng Xuemin had no intention of taking back the submitted manuscript, so he could only go to the dark side. What he cares about most now is royalties, money!
He immediately coughed, interjected slightly, and asked: "Teacher Zhou, how should I calculate the royalties for this front page headline?!"
"Five yuan for a thousand words! We at Yanjing Literature always encourage young and new authors to submit manuscripts, and the support in terms of manuscript fees is much better than that of your mother-in-law's "October"!"
When they mentioned the manuscript fee, it meant that they would no longer ask for rejection of the manuscript. Zhang Dening, who was afraid that the manuscript would just fly away before Zhou Yanru could say anything, hurriedly answered from behind!
Although their editor-in-chief did finalize the edition and set the tone, and it made the front page headlines, the author had to ask for the manuscript to be rejected and not published, and there was nothing Yanjing Literature could do!
Now that Comrade Xu is asking about the royalties, I must quickly tell them about the advantages of their Yanjing literature!
“It’s also five yuan for a thousand words!?” Cheng Xuemin’s face visibly dropped when he heard this!
Not satisfied with the manuscript fee of five yuan per thousand words? !
Hearing this tone, Zhou Yanru's face was also startled, and she quickly said: "Five yuan per thousand words is the support price offered by Yanjing Literature to young new authors. In your case, Xuemin... I can make the decision and pay you six yuan per thousand words." You settle, Wrangler’s writing is really good and it’s worth the price!”
"Of course, if you have new works in the future, you can continue to submit to our Yanjing Literature. At that time, we will pay you seven yuan per thousand words according to the new national manuscript fee regulations and the maximum price for well-known old writers. How about that?!"
There is a mother-in-law in "October". They, Yanjing Literature, have no advantage. They can only lure him in terms of royalties, but it may not be a long-term solution. They can lure him as long as they can!
The premise is that her mother-in-law must not know, otherwise this son-in-law of Lao Xu would not be tied to "October" by his mother-in-law to work long-term! ?
"That's what you want to say, Teacher Zhou! I just happened to write a new manuscript here. Please help me see if I can write two manuscripts, all based on the old author's seven yuan per thousand words!"
Cheng Xuemin took advantage of the situation and took out his newly written manuscript on the spot. Fortunately, he prepared a new manuscript.
"Are there new manuscripts? So soon!?" Zhou Yanru was stunned when she heard this. She took the manuscript in confusion and started to read it!
When the two editors Zhang Dening and Bai Ling heard this, they were also extremely surprised, and they all came over one after another. They were also curious about what masterpiece Lao Xu, who could write "The Wrangler", had written?
As time passed by, other colleagues in the entire editorial department also noticed that something was wrong in the atmosphere and came over one after another!
Almost half an hour later, Zhou Yanru said to Cheng Xuemin with an extremely complicated expression: "Xuemin, you two wait for me, I'll go find Lao Li!"
After saying that, he quickly got up, left the editing room, and went to the office next door!
"Old Li is Mr. Li Qingquan, our editor-in-chief!" Zhang Dening introduced again.
After waiting for more than half an hour in Li Qingquan's editor-in-chief's office, seeing that Lao Li had finally finished reading, Zhou Yanru asked nervously: "Lao Li, how are you!?"
Li Qingquan, the editor-in-chief of Yanjing Literature, first told Zhou Yanru not to worry, then picked up the phone next to him and made a call!
The call was quickly connected, and Li Qingquan said: "Old Liu, we at Yanjing Literature really want to thank you this time and treat you to dinner later!"
After saying that, he hung up the phone directly and let the other party guess without any clue!
"This...Old Li, did you call Liu Xinwu from "October"!?" Zhou Yanru seemed to have picked up on something and asked confusedly.
"Shouldn't we thank them?" Li Qingquan replied to Zhou Yanru with a smile and said, "Let's go and meet Gu Xueqing, her good son-in-law. After two great works, I am worried about Comrade Cheng Xuemin, his mother-in-law... …”
"Then Lao Li, why don't you call Liu Xinwu? I think you're just enjoying the drama and not afraid of trouble?!"
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PS: It’s been more than half a month since I started reading the book, but I haven’t read it yet. Reading the next chapter depends on whether the little chubby girl can read the book next week, so I beg my little dads and moms to help me read the next chapter. Chapter, thank you!
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