Chapter 224 Gong Ying's "Youth", the youth of the art troupe (please order the full version)
After returning from the celebration of the General Political Art Troupe, Cheng Xuemin once again devoted himself to the creation of "Garland Under the Mountain"!
The original manuscript of "Garland Under the Mountain" is a novella with a length of 120,000 words. According to Cheng Xuemin's daily progress of 10,000 words, the manuscript can be completed in about ten days.
And now, more than a week has passed since he started writing.
I also have an 80,000-word manuscript in my hands, and almost a third of it is still unfinished.
Cheng Xuemin expected that the manuscript would be basically finished when Mr. Wu notified him of the commendation meeting.
During this period.
Cheng Xuemin also completed the painting of the Battle of Yiling in the romance of the Three Kingdoms. Bai Di Tuogu completed it. Adding the two volumes he had painted before, he already had three volumes in hand.
The comic strips of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" have also entered the post-Three Kingdoms era since Uncle Liu Huang and Bai Di Tuogu.
In the end, only Prime Minister Zhuge's "Six Out of Qishan" and the last volume "The Return of the World to Jin" are left.
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin was not in a hurry to send the three volumes of paintings to Lao Pan at the Humanities Society.
Instead, I'll send them over together after I've almost finished drawing the last two volumes.
Finish one outstanding draft first and count it as one.
"This is a curse!"
Cheng Xuemin hid the six thousand yuan in foreign exchange coupons, feeling somewhat uneasy and more excited.
This is 6,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons. If converted into RMB, the small treasury he secretly built is much larger than that of the Feng family.
If his wife discovers this, she will really die!
The most terrible thing is!
This time I went to the Foreign Languages Publishing House to collect the foreign exchange fee, and what I was given was actually foreign exchange coupons, a total of sixty hundred-yuan bills.
If you can't deposit it in a bank, you may have to leave it at home.
But with six thousand yuan of foreign exchange coupons hidden at home, it would be a surprise sooner or later.
Once the thunderstorm was discovered, Cheng Xuemin could not imagine how powerful it would be.
Spend it, spend it, spend it quickly!
Cheng Xuemin thought to himself that this foreign exchange coupon must not be used for too many nights and must be spent as soon as possible!
When I have time, I have to go to the Overseas Chinese Apartment to have a look.
If the owner of the apartment that my daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou is interested in has not yet sold it, can she lower the price to less than 6,000 and spend all the foreign exchange coupons in her hand first?
After visiting overseas Chinese stores several times, Cheng Xuemin found that the 6,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons might not be spent at all.
Relying on his wife and son to drink imported milk powder?
If you drink 200 yuan of foreign exchange coupons a month, it will be 2,400 yuan a year. If you add in other things, it will be 3,000 yuan.
That is to say!
The 6,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons in Cheng Xuemin's hand can last for two years if he feeds his wife and son milk powder.
Moreover, this is despite the fact that Cheng Xuemin has not published a single foreign language manuscript in the past two years, and has not earned a penny in foreign exchange or US dollars since!
But, is this possible?
When Cheng Xuemin went to collect the 6,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons, Lao Zhou of the Foreign Languages Publishing House gave him three manuscript invitation letters in addition to the foreign currency manuscript fee.
They were all sent by big international magazines from outside.
In particular, the invitation letter for "Playboy" mentioned that Cheng Xuemin's last article became a global hit, and sales increased by more than 60% year-on-year!
This is definitely the increase in sales brought about by the article written by Cheng Xuemin.
What is the concept of a 60% year-on-year increase? !
Anyway, it directly alarmed the global editor-in-chief of "Playboy" and wrote a special letter of invitation to Cheng Xuemin.
The letter stated that Cheng Xuemin's royalties for his next manuscript would be calculated directly based on the unit price of fifteen cents per word, and there would also be a share of copyright sales.
The unit price of a word is fifteen cents, which is already considered the top-level unit price of manuscript fees that can be obtained outside China!
If Cheng Xuemin pitched a novella with 100,000 words, wouldn't it mean that the minimum foreign exchange fee would be 15,000 U.S. dollars, and commissions would be given based on sales volume, so the total manuscript fee would definitely be 40,000 to 50,000.
pity!
The main theme of "Playboy" is short, colorful and cool!
The manuscripts they receive are generally not very long, and few have articles exceeding 30,000 words.
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin planned to write a 30,000-word foreign language manuscript directly. If he guaranteed a minimum and added a commission, he would be able to earn the current total manuscript fee of 6,000 foreign exchange coupons.
There were also invitations to publish from two other major international magazines. Although they were not as popular as Playboy, they received good response and sales.
Only then did the arrogant magazine take the initiative to invite Cheng Xuemin, a newcomer from the East, to write articles.
Although the letter did not specify how the manuscript fee would be calculated, if Cheng Xuemin submitted a manuscript, the fee would not be lower than the 1,200 yuan in foreign currency.
So, everything needs to be done!
Before Cheng Xuemin prepares for the college entrance examination, he submits a 30,000-word article to Playboy to earn another round of foreign exchange money to pay for his son's milk powder.
The other two companies who took the initiative to request articles also wanted to submit an article during the summer vacation after the college entrance examination.
Anyway, a foreign language manuscript has 10,000 to 20,000 words. For Cheng Xuemin’s hand speed, it is as simple as a drizzle of water.
And from now on, Cheng Xuemin also plans to focus on foreign language manuscripts!
For a foreign language manuscript of only about 10,000 words, the minimum purchase price is 1,200 yuan, which is less expensive than writing a domestic manuscript.
How many words do you have to write if you want to earn 1,200 yuan in royalties in China?
Nearly 180,000 words!
No, no, no, it’s more than 180,000 words!
Because Cheng Xuemin earned 1,200 yuan in foreign exchange royalties from these 10,000 words, which is foreign exchange gold!
Converted into our own money, it is more than three thousand.
More than three thousand!
Cheng Xuemin needed to write three to four hundred thousand words, and his hand would break when he wrote, just to earn more than three thousand yuan.
Well! ?
All right!
Cheng Xuemin thought it over again, and it seemed that was not the case!
It seems that the royalties earned from a foreign language manuscript are actually about the same as those earned from a novella published by Cheng Xuemin!
Although a foreign language writer with tens of thousands of words can get a foreign exchange fee of 1,200 yuan, this is a one-time deal at a buyout price.
Cheng Xuemin can actually get two royalties for his novels published in China!
One is the publication fee for the first edition of the magazine, and the other is the fee for the single-line version given by the publishing house, both of which are seven yuan per thousand words!
Adding all of them together, a novella is nearly 3,000, which is actually about the same!
If it can become a hit and be reprinted by other magazines, you can also earn a lot of royalties.
However, the novella, which has a length of more than 100 to 200,000 words, will rarely be reprinted by magazines even if it becomes popular, maybe not at all.
Like Cheng Xuemin's "Parental Love" published in "People's Literature" at the beginning of the year, it was popular enough, right?
It’s not like I haven’t seen it reprinted by other magazines!
Even "Yenjing Literature", with which Cheng Xuemin had a good relationship, did not have the courage to reprint it, and the superiors would not approve it.
After all, today's magazines are all under the same department, allocating funds in a unified manner.
Is there anyone above who pays twice for the same manuscript?
The reprinting fee for a short story is more than ten or dozens of yuan, but you can directly reprint a medium-length novel with more than 200,000 words?
Even if you report it, the superiors will definitely not approve it. But even so!
Cheng Xuemin still feels that writing foreign language manuscripts is more lucrative. Writing a short story of 10,000 words a day will cost you 1,200 yuan in foreign exchange fees. It really shouldn’t be too satisfying.
Writing domestic manuscripts requires exhausting work for more than half a month, so I can only pay this amount.
All of a sudden!
Cheng Xuemin found that writing domestic articles suddenly no longer tasted good!
Of course, this thought just passed by in a flash. Now he is the pioneer of imperial inscriptions. Can he not write it if he wants to?
If he doesn’t write, there will be tasks coming down from above asking him to write!
For example, Cheng Xuemin had been writing the manuscript for this trip south to express condolences for a week.
Moreover, when they went to the celebration party of the General Political Department Art Troupe, Li Shuangjiang and the others started making noise again, asking Cheng Xuemin if this manuscript would also include their condolences delegation going south?
Hearing Li Shuangjiang's coaxing, Gong Yin, Han Qiaoyue, Lao Ge and others also agreed, curiously asking Cheng Xuemin if he would write them into the book.
At that time, Cheng Xuemin answered them like this: No!
In "Garland Under the Mountain", there is no plot to express condolences to the artistic soldiers of the regiment, and it is impossible for Cheng Xuemin to go through the back door specifically for them and add some plot scenes for them.
At that time, Gong Yin and the others were disappointed. Apparently they all wanted to be written into Cheng Xuemin's book.
Seeing how disappointed they were, Cheng Xuemin waved his hand again, and when he was happy, he directly said that although it would not be included in this manuscript!
But he already had the idea to write a manuscript specifically for the story of their cultural troupe’s trip south to express condolences!
He has already thought of a name, it’s called "Youth"
A manuscript dedicated to telling the story of their work in the General Political Art Troupe instantly aroused Gong Yin, Han Qiaoyue and the others' continuous applause.
The old regiment leader and the political commissar were so surprised that they came over to inquire. They found out that after Cheng Xuemin finished writing this manuscript, he would write a special manuscript for their art troupe!
Okay!
On the spot, Political Commissar Hu was so happy that he agreed on the spot, and the matter was settled!
I hope that after Cheng Xuemin writes the condolence manuscript in his hand, he will also write the manuscript about their art troupe as soon as possible!
Nothing else is guaranteed!
I will definitely let this manuscript written by Cheng Xuemin be published in "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" so that all soldiers in the army can see the youth of their General Political Art Troupe.
Therefore, you still have to write what you should write!
It’s just that in the future, for domestic manuscripts, I should be lazy and write slower, and I don’t have to be as productive as before. Of course, I must be careful in my external excuses, strive for perfection, and not write too slowly. normal?
Therefore, if the foreign exchange coupons in your hand should be spent, spend them as soon as possible. Don't hide them at home. If Feng Jiayou discovers it one day, it will be a surprise sooner or later.
You have to check out the Overseas Chinese Apartment next door. The price is almost enough to buy a second property.
In this era, if you have money on hand, what else can you do if you don’t buy more real estate?
How about keeping it in the bank and waiting for it to depreciate suddenly?
"Xuemin, my sister-in-law seems to have been drinking medicine for more than a week!"
"Why isn't there any movement?"
Feng Jiayou could already get out of bed. She was basking in the sun in the backyard and suddenly said to Cheng Xuemin.
"How can it be so fast!"
Cheng Xuemin glanced at the woman lying in the yard through the window, but he smiled funnyly.
What he brought back was not a magic medicine!
Cheng Xuemin also made some calculations. The day after he took out the prescription, his mother-in-law personally went to give it to her eldest daughter-in-law, prepared the medicine according to the prescription and cooked it for her!
Three meals a day, not a single meal is missing!
In addition to the morning and evening meals, which are drunk at home before going to work and then going to bed, the lunch meal is cut out in the morning and asked to be drunk by sister-in-law Ke Yumei at work!
Anyway, except for the lunch meal, which Feng’s mother couldn’t control, the other two meals were all focused on the boss’s family. She felt relieved after watching them drink with her own eyes!
So we can see how much hope the mother-in-law has in the prescription brought back by her son-in-law Cheng Xuemin?
Not only the mother-in-law has great hopes, but so do the Feng family, her eldest brother and sister-in-law!
Feng Jiayou, the sister-in-law, is even more so!
Because her son failed to give her a big brother and sister-in-law, although they didn't say anything on the surface, there must be a gap in their hearts.
If her man, Cheng Xuemin, hadn't helped her sister-in-law get pregnant, the gap might never go away.
Therefore, the entire old Feng family, and perhaps even the younger ones, were more eager than her eldest brother and sister-in-law to hope that the earthworks her man brought back would definitely come true!
No!
It has only been a week and half a course of medicine, and the Feng family can't wait to see any movement!
"Aren't I in a hurry?"
The Feng family was really anxious for her elder brother and sister-in-law, and said worriedly, "Xuemin, you said you had such great hope for your elder brother and sister-in-law, but what if it doesn't work out in the end!"
"Then my eldest brother and sister-in-law don't have to blame me to death?"
It is another typical worry about gains and losses. It has only been a week, and the Feng family has begun to worry about this and that!
"If it doesn't work, the worst case scenario is that you just give that kid to them!"
"Anyway, I don't want to change this kid's poop diaper anymore!"
Cheng Xuemin sniffed, and there was another stench coming from the little one lying next to Feng Jiayou.
Obviously!
Don’t say a damn thing again, fuck it!
He is so good!
Cheng Xuemin sometimes really wanted to give him to his eldest brother and sister-in-law.
"Hehe, Xuemin, are you serious?"
"Don't talk nonsense. My sister is still writing test papers in the main room. If she hears it, she will file a lawsuit against us in front of mom when she goes back to take the college entrance examination!"
"Why shouldn't Mom be so frightened that she immediately takes the train to Yanjing and takes her grandson back to raise her?"
Feng Jiayou was immediately amused by Cheng Xuemin's words and said something to him angrily. He just wanted to look at his son beside him.
It could be seen that this boy was looking directly at him, which made Feng Jiayou feel even better, and said: "Besides, you are so willing to give away such a cute and well-behaved son, Xuemin..."
"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, xuemin, xuemin, your son has poop again!"
"I said no wonder he was so silly towards me. It turns out he did something bad again! Xuemin, hurry up, your son has pooped again!"
This silly woman, the Queen Mother is too late to realize it!
Cheng Xuemin smelled the stink of that kid's shit from afar, and he was pointing it at his mother, it was really him!
It’s actually different from other little ones!
Generally, other little ones will cry and cry non-stop whenever they poop or urinate and feel uncomfortable down there.
But his family is so good, they actually have fun with his mother!
“Wow wow wow!”
But it didn't last long. Maybe his mother, Feng Jiayou, disliked him pooping and peeing, so she yelled too loudly, which made him very unhappy!
I started crying again on the spot.
"Pull again!?"
His aunt Cheng Wenxiu heard the commotion inside and asked outside. Seeing that Cheng Xuemin was about to come out, she quickly waved to Cheng Xuemin and shouted: "Xuemin, don't move, don't move, you can write your manuscript in peace!"
"Let me go, let me go, my little squirrel has stinky poop again, auntie, auntie, come help you change your diaper!"
Cheng Qingsong, because this year is the Year of the Rat, so his nickname was added the word "rat" after Xiaosong, which became Little Squirrel.
With this pull, the aunt Cheng Wenxiu put down her homework and rushed over to help her nephew change his diaper.
…
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)