Chapter 147: The royalties have skyrocketed. Is my wife surprised? (Please order the full version)
At Yan University, Chen Shumin wanted to treat Cheng Xuemin to lunch to calm his own shock.
So when Cheng Xuemin arrived at the Humanities Club, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon!
I immediately handed over the manuscript of one or two comic strips of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to Lao Pan.
When Lao Pan saw Cheng Xuemin coming in, he couldn't help but give him a good news. How popular was Cheng Xuemin's "Journey to the West" he painted before.
In just one month, more than 400,000 copies were sold, and more and more copies were printed and reprinted.
In response, Cheng Xuemin nodded and expressed no surprise.
Because Cheng Xuemin knew that in the alleys of Yanjing City, as long as there were children gathering, they would probably gather together and rush to read the Journey to the West novel!
It was Feng Liwen, the little nephew of Feng Jiayou. Every time he ran home, he kept shouting that I am the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. Look at my golden cudgel.
Sometimes he would take out a wooden stick and shout directly at his sister-in-law: "Hey, goblin, let's watch!"
Just imagine!
A little kid over three years old can read the "Journey to the West" villain book, and he can imitate the Monkey King in the comic strip and beat the little goblin with a stick.
This shows how popular the "Journey to the West" sketch by Cheng Xuemin is.
However, Xuemin was just a little surprised. Because no matter how popular it is, what does it have to do with him as the original author? There is no additional royalties for publishing and publishing rights.
After announcing the good news to Cheng Xuemin, Lao Pan was looking forward to the "Three Kingdoms" novel that Cheng Xuemin handed over, and he immediately read it on the spot.
Looking at it this way, I was so intoxicated that I lost track of time.
Seeing that Lao Pan was fascinated by what he was reading, Cheng Xuemin didn't wait in his office, so he went directly downstairs to Zhang Guangnian's office at "People's Literature" and sat down.
They exchanged pleasantries again, and they couldn't help but laugh at Cheng Xuemin, the son-in-law, who really made his mother-in-law, Teacher Gu, live.
The teacher Gu they knew in their circle was the heroine 'Anjie' portrayed in his son-in-law's "Parental Love". She was exactly the same!
No matter how Cheng Xuemin tried to explain, Lao Zhang simply didn't believe it.
This makes it even more clear that "Parental Love" is about his mother-in-law, and it is written based on her mother-in-law's portrayal.
Immediately following must be the bill of royalties. Zhang Guangnian had prepared it a long time ago. He originally asked his mother-in-law, Teacher Gu, to notify Cheng Xuemin to come and collect it at any time.
Today, Cheng Xuemin made a special trip to deliver the manuscript of the "Three Kingdoms" novel. The main purpose was to collect the manuscript fee.
When Cheng Xuemin received the royalties for "Parental Love", he and Lao Zhang started talking about the topic of the united front.
In this regard, Zhang Guangnian also thinks highly of Cheng Xuemin, or it may be because of the above Lao Zhang.
So I met Cheng Xuemin in person again to finalize the headlines, which made Cheng Xuemin inexplicably moved and nodded repeatedly to express his gratitude.
The front page headline of "People's Literature", this influence... This honor is really enough for Cheng Xuemin to boast about for a lifetime.
If we wait for one day, we can directly take down the front page headline of "People's Daily"!
Don’t dare think!
Anyway, so far, teachers Mao Laoba and Lao Ding have not been on the front page of "People's Daily".
The supplement made quite a few headlines on the front page.
But can the front page headlines of the supplement be compared with the front page headlines of the main issue?
So, Cheng Xuemin just thought about it.
After getting the payment slip from Zhang Guangnian, I went back to Lao Pan's office at the Humanities Society upstairs.
Old Pan had obviously just finished reading, and was still intoxicated by the lingering lingering feeling. When he saw Cheng Xuemin leaving and coming back, he quickly said, "Xuemin, where have you been? I thought you went back without saying hello!"
"It's alive! Xuemin, the characters in Three Kingdoms were really brought to life by you!"
"It's beautiful, it's really beautiful! Xuemin, even an adult like me is fascinated by the little book drawn by You, let alone a child!"
Lao Pan greeted him repeatedly, with an overflowing expression on his face. Don't be too excited.
"Teacher Pan, you gave me the award, but in fact your painting is not that good!"
Cheng Xuemin quickly smiled shyly and modestly, is it really such an exaggeration?
"Xuemin, don't be too humble! They say that excessive humility is pride!"
"But Xuemin, you do have the capital to be arrogant!"
Lao Pan nodded to Cheng Xuemin and continued to sigh: "Xuemin, you may not know that when I said that the manuscript of "Journey to the West" was given to you, Xuemin, the art students at Qingmei were still not convinced and said they would wait to see what you do. play!"
"But when they saw the manuscript you handed in later, they were all dumbfounded. They had to admire how good you were at painting, and even threatened to come to you to discuss and exchange your painting skills!"
"By the way, did they go?"
Cheng Xuemin was a little surprised that there was such a thing, but the art students at Qingmei should just talk about it, they didn't see them coming to the door!
"No, no, there is still such a thing. Teacher Pan, why didn't you tell me before, so I could hide away!"
Cheng Xuemin said jokingly.
"No!?"
"It might be that it's the winter vacation, and they all went back to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year!"
"Perhaps when school starts in the next year, they will definitely look for you!"
When Lao Pan heard this, he was confused for a moment, and then quickly thought that he was on winter vacation, so it made sense that he didn't go to see Cheng Xuemin.
"But don't! Teacher Pan, I'm really afraid of being beaten to death if I take their jobs like this!"
Cheng Xuemin shook his head repeatedly. Originally, Qingmei was responsible for the comic strips and illustrations in the Humanities Club!
But who knew that Cheng Xuemin, Cheng Yaojin, suddenly came out and took their Qingmei's job. It would be strange not to kill him when they met.
"Ha! Xuemin, you are so funny!"
Lao Pan nodded at Cheng Xuemin, really laughing at this kid's joke.
Then he waved his hand and said: "Let's not mention this, let's not mention this! Xuemin, we have used these two volumes of Three Kingdoms! You wait here for a moment, I will go to Lao Li to get you a royalties bill!"
Cheng Xuemin was polite and was not in a hurry. They could get married together next time. However, Lao Pan got serious and acted resolutely, and there was no way he could let Cheng Xuemin return empty-handed.
Cheng Xuemin can only say, justice!
This is also the case with the Humanities Society and People's Literature. Basically, Cheng Xuemin can submit the manuscript on the same day and receive the manuscript fee back on the same day.
Unlike his mother-in-law's October and Lao Li's Yenching Literature, they had to wait for the payment settlement day before they could be released together.
So the mother-in-law gave them the bill for the manuscript that she gave her mother yesterday.
However, it was just a short story with not much royalties, and it could not arouse any desire in Cheng Xuemin's heart.
Even the little money-lover Feng Jiayou was the same. When she received the manuscript fee slip from her mother, she felt unsatisfied and urged Cheng Xuemin to come to the Humanities Club to get the manuscript fee slip for "Parental Love" to fill the emptiness and loneliness in her small coffers.
Cheng Xuemin didn't have to wait long, and Lao Pan paid him for two volumes of the Three Kingdoms villain book.
One volume contains sixty-two pictures, and two volumes contain one hundred and twenty-four pictures!
According to the fee of eight yuan for a single piece, the total is one thousand and twenty-four yuan!
Including the fee bill for "Parental Love" that I just received from People's Literature Lao Zhang, the total is 1,852 yuan. After this calculation, the two manuscript fee bills add up to 2,876 yuan!
Cool!
This is not unknown. When Cheng Xuemin got the two royalties, he did the math and was really dumbfounded.
More than 2,800 royalties!
Is this the highest he has ever received from his wife for publishing fees?
The previous highest price was two thousand yuan for the "Wrangler" script written for Xie Jin.
real!
Cheng Xuemin came here today to submit the manuscript. He really didn't expect to receive the manuscript fee bill for "Three Kingdoms" back.
So I just thought about getting the royalties of more than 1,800 yuan for "Parental Love" to my daughter-in-law, and I was so happy that I was waiting to celebrate with my daughter-in-law in the evening.
But who would have known that Lao Pan was really loyal. It was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and he could help him get the royalties, which was completely beyond Cheng Xuemin's surprise.
"By the way, Xuemin, we all know and read the Tianjin Daily reports these days!"
"Originally, our art editing team could only watch and wave flags and cheers for you from the side, but I didn't expect that Mr. Wu above would approve an instruction, which instantly gave our art team a task and we can go on stage!"
Originally, Cheng Xuemin received the manuscript fee bill, and after a few polite thanks, he was ready to withdraw!
Lao Pan mentioned this matter again.
Cheng Xuemin is also not surprised. Teachers in the industry who meet him now will directly stand in line and take the initiative to mention this matter to him.
Originally, Lao Pan didn't mention it here today, but Cheng Xuemin thought it was different, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
But who knew that before leaving, Lao Pan suddenly mentioned this on his own initiative.
He also gave Mr. Wu an instruction. What instruction?
What instructions or tasks can Lao Pan and his little book art team have to help him support him?
Immediately, Cheng Xuemin asked in surprise and confusion: "Teacher Pan, what instructions does Mr. Wu give us?!"
"The Little Man's Comic Book!" Lao Pan didn't mince words and said directly to Cheng Xuemin, "Mr. Wu gave us an instruction, which is to promote the Little Man's Comic Book about "Old Qiao", start immediately!"
""Director Qiao's Take-Off" is also going to be a comic book? At this time, is it true or false?"
What Lao Pan said made Cheng Xuemin stunned again.
Although I know that later generations of "Director Qiao's Assumption of the Job" did have comic strips, but it shouldn't be so soon, right?
And at this juncture, Mr. Wu directly instructed Lao Pan Humanities Society to immediately launch the promotion of the Little Man's comic book.
this……
Cheng Xuemin didn’t even know what to say!
"Mr. Wu personally conveyed the message. I heard that he got the instructions from above! In addition, instructions were also given regarding the manuscript fee. For special matters, a special leaflet will be issued for ten yuan!"
Lao Pan pointed his finger at it, and then continued, "So Xuemin, I think so. Since Xuemin is so good at comic strips, you might as well do the comic strips of "Old Qiao" yourself. ,How about it?"
Ten yuan for a leaflet, a special deal?
Holy shit!
Cheng Xuemin exclaimed in his heart that the price of the booklet was 10 yuan, which was really a special deal, because the maximum royalties for the Little Man comic strips were 8 yuan for the booklet.
If I give him ten yuan now, Cheng Xuemin will have to make a careful calculation.
The original manuscript of "Director Qiao's Assumption of Office" has more than 28,000 words. If it were simplified and abbreviated into a short book, it would still require more than 100 pages.
A single copy costs 10 yuan, which is more than 1,000 yuan, which is very profitable.
But Cheng Xuemin soon denied it. Now that "Old Qiao" is in the limelight, Cheng Xuemin is also in the limelight.
It doesn't matter if he writes other manuscripts. If he writes a short story about "Director Qiao's Taking Up the Job," that would be a bit too much.
So it’s better to avoid suspicion and keep a low profile! Cheng Xuemin didn't care if he didn't want to eat this piece of fat, so he just rejected Lao Pan.
"Okay, Xuemin, we understand that you have this concern, so just avoid it!"
Lao Pan also expressed his understanding that he could only find someone else to draw the little book for "Old Qiao". After being polite to Cheng Xuemin, he left directly.
What should the wife bring?
On the way back, Cheng Xuemin was thinking about what he should bring back to his wife.
New leather shoes and new clothes for the Chinese New Year. I bought them all while shopping in department stores.
Other...Lao Fengxiang!
While riding his bicycle, Cheng Xuemin was paying attention to the street scene of the old Yanjing era and thinking about what to buy.
But when he saw Lao Fengxiang, he immediately became energetic. Go in and find some gold jewelry for your wife and go back.
When I watched the Japanese-translated film "The Hunt", the heroine in it was not only very eye-catching in her bell-bottom pants, but also the jewelry she wore was equally eye-catching.
Of course, given the simplicity of women in this era, they have no awareness of worshiping gold and have no special pursuit of gold jewelry.
Because there are no women in this era who would openly wear gold jewelry on the streets.
Lao Fengxiang rarely takes orders from private individuals, so he doesn't know whether private individuals can buy the gold jewelry now.
Just go in and ask!
“Comrade, can we buy these privately?”
After Cheng Xuemin entered, he took a look at the layout inside and looked at many styles. He stopped in the necklace area, pointed to the gold necklace jewelry displayed on the counter, and asked the sales staff here.
Although Lao Fengxiang has never closed down his business, in the past ten or twenty years, he usually supplied goods to the government, and private individuals could not buy them!
Fortunately, the salesperson's answer was yes. Now that the policy is better, private individuals can also buy some gold jewelry in moderation.
Then there is nothing to say!
The money that his wife-in-law Feng Jiayou gave him to buy a TV set for him has not been handed back yet. It has been with Cheng Xuemin, five hundred yuan!
Immediately, Cheng Xuemin chose the most fashionable gold necklace, which was actually modeled after the one hanging around the neck of the heroine in "The Hunt". This shows that although Lao Fengxiang has been inactive for more than ten years, he has not fallen behind.
This gold necklace is priced at 386 yuan and weighs about ten grams. Although it is slender, it is beautifully made and the price is not very expensive.
After all, the current price of gold is only thirty-two-three per gram.
Let Lao Fengxiang package it in a beautiful box and present it to his wife when he goes back. Don't look forward to it too much.
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin whistled almost all the way back home.
"Xuemin, what's up? Did you get it back?"
Feng Jiayou at home had also been looking forward to it all day long. After finally expecting his man back, he quickly stopped watching TV, pulled him into his room, and asked in a low voice!
"Daughter-in-law, I got it back, how many do you think it is?!"
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(End of chapter)