Chapter 50: 100,000 I want to buy Liaozhai

Since Wanli's last unsuccessful search for Zhang Xiaoqiang, the sales of folk ghost stories have not been able to rise, and the anxious Wanli's hair is gray, Lin Chuanjian has also talked to Wanli a few times at this time, but Wanli has no good way, people just don't want to come, you can't kidnap people!

In fact, the sales of folk ghost stories were still good before the world, but because of the incident of thousands of miles, readers lost their trust in folk ghost stories and no longer bought their magazines, which led to the sales of folk ghost story magazines, which were not ranked among the top three magazines of the same kind at this time.

In fact, there is another important reason, that is, there is a newcomer named March in the supernatural world recently, although his supernatural stories are not terrifying, and there are even some funny ingredients, but after reading them, people can understand a lot of truth.

Now, no matter which supernatural magazine is, all supernatural stories or ghost stories are based on horror elements, how scary and how to write, readers have developed a kind of aesthetic fatigue, so when this slightly supernatural or even funny story written in March appeared, it quickly attracted a large number of readers.

The sales of the supernatural world have also reached an unprecedented height.

On this day, Zhang Xiaoqiang went home and turned on the computer and saw a message from Blue Bird, the editor-in-chief of the supernatural world: "March, give me your mobile phone number, I have something to do with you." ”

After sending the phone, within five minutes, the blue bird's phone called: "Is it March?"

For fear of being heard by his mother, Zhang Xiaoqiang replied in a pressured voice: "I am, are you a blue bird?"

"I'm a bluebird, and I have something I want to tell you. ”

"Big you say. ”

"That's right, after discussion with our editorial team, we decided to collect and publish the supernatural stories you wrote, but you have only published a few articles now, I mean that it will be published when you have written enough 100,000 words, do you agree?"

No one is willing to agree to this, and I believe that it is every author's dream to print the words they typed out into a book.

However, Zhang Xiaoqiang did not agree immediately, because he knew that this required copyright fees.

Seeing that Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't answer, Blue Bird continued: "March, to be honest, this kind of supernatural story you wrote is really good, the reason why the sales of our supernatural world have soared and become the best among similar magazines is that you have contributed a lot.

Now you are already the author of the supernatural god, and the price offered to you before was 2,000 words, and our general manager said that if the sales of the next issue can still break through, it will rise to 2,000 words for you.

Also, do you know why your supernatural stories are so popular? In addition to the wonderful stories, there is another important reason, that is, our supernatural world has invested a lot of financial and human resources to publicize you! Now your popularity is no less than that of the world at the peak of the year, and even better than him.

In March, as long as the total number of words you write exceeds 100,000 words, we will collect your stories and publish them, and you will also receive a large royalty. ”

"How much?"

"One hundred thousand!"

Lakh?

Seeing this amount, Zhang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but want to laugh, is a 100,000-word chat worth 100,000 yuan?

What an international joke.

In fact, whether it is a thousand forty or a thief, it is Zhang Xiaoqiang's story taken from the chat.

Liao Zhai is also called Liao Zhai Zhiyi, commonly known as the Ghost Fox Biography, which was written by the Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling.

There are a total of 491 short stories in the book, with a wide range of themes and rich contents, which have successfully shaped many artistic models, with concise writing and delicate descriptions, which can be called the pinnacle of classical short stories.

It is worth mentioning that Liaozhai is written in classical Chinese, and Zhang Xiaoqiang translated it into vernacular.

In his previous life, Liao Zhai had made a lot of film and television dramas, and they were all filmed by big film companies, and the actors were all big names, the most classic is the A Chinese Ghost Story series, Leslie Cheung plays Ning Caichen, and Wang Zuxian plays Nie Xiaoqian.

And it has won many international awards, which are worth several hundred thousand, which is needless to say.

Zhang Xiaoqiang naturally wouldn't agree, and at the same time he also had some ideas in his heart, he just said lukewarmly to the blue bird: "The blue bird is big, you also know that I am still a student now, and I am about to take the high school entrance examination, the time is not so special, so let's talk about this later!"

Blue Bird was a little surprised, and hurriedly said: "This 100,000 is a lot of waste of my tongue, and I got it from our manager, basically you don't have to care about anything, except for this 100,000, the number of words you publish in the supernatural world is still calculated according to 2,000 words per thousand, and there will be a price increase in the future, think about it, this is a good opportunity for fame and fortune." March, there's a contract here, take a look. ”

After saying that, Jade Bird sent over a document, which was actually a contract, which said in detail that the supernatural world had bought out the full copyright of Zhang Xiaoqiang's article published in the supernatural world magazine.

Zhang Xiaoqiang just glanced at it, and then refused: "Blue Bird, thank you for the love of the supernatural world, but it's better to concentrate on publishing." ”

"Why?"

"No, the blue bird is big, I still have something to do, go down first. ”

Without giving the blue bird a chance to speak, Zhang Xiaoqiang hung up the phone.

In other words, it is impossible for anyone to agree to such a contract, the reason is very simple, the value of Liao Zhai cannot be measured by money, and it must be whimsical for the supernatural world to want to buy out all rights at such a price.

Maybe the supernatural world hasn't realized how valuable Liao Zhai is, but Zhang Xiaoqiang has his own plan in his heart.

Although Zhang Xiaoqiang did not agree, Bluebird's words brought him food for thought......

A few days later, the news of the blue bird came again, this time it was not about centralized publishing, but about the latest issue of the supernatural world was about to be printed and published, why the new manuscript was not written for a long time, Zhang Xiaoqiang also felt that it could not be dragged on like this, so he replied to the blue bird:

"I'm sorry, Blue Bird, I don't plan to write, you also know that I'm still a student now, and now I'm about to take the high school entrance examination, writing has consumed a lot of my time and energy, and my academic performance has also dropped a little, so I plan to talk about this after the high school entrance examination." ”

Blue Bird panicked when he heard this, he is now an important author of the supernatural world, and the supernatural world can have today's sales, which is completely inseparable from him, if he leaves in March, the sales of the supernatural world will decline, not to mention, his dream of opening up overseas markets is about to be shattered.

Hurriedly replied to March: "March, the supernatural world is only a semi-monthly magazine, and it is only published once every half a month, you only need to write the last one in an issue, don't you have time yet?"

"I'm sorry. ”