"My dear. Scarlett leaned into Lin Weidong's arms and said softly.

"Huh?"

"I'm really happy today, I'm very happy! You have spent one important day after another with me, and I can't live without you more and more. Actually, I'm a little scared of this feeling, and if one day, you don't want me, I'll be very sad. ”

Lin Weidong hugged her tightly: "Fool, what kind of stupid thing are you talking about? Unless you don't want me first, I won't want you no matter what." ”

Scarlett said, "Then you promise me that you will never leave me." ”

Lin Weidong swore and said, "Well, I promise you." As I said, I will always hold your hand and never let go. ”

After the millennium night, Lin Weidong and Scarlett both became busy, Scarlett was preparing for the final exam, and Lin Weidong had to go to the Red Ant Internet Café to make up for Xie Sisi at night, in addition to attending classes in the classroom during the day.

January 5th, it was a Wednesday.

At noon, as soon as Lin Weidong returned to the dormitory building after eating with Wang Taoxin and Yang Jin, he was called by the dormitory manager to answer the phone, which was a call from Chen Cun.

On the phone, Chen Cun said to Lin Weidong excitedly: "Lonely City, it's awesome, your novel sales have exceeded 2,000 copies." ’

"It's only been on the shelves for a day, you know, it's just yesterday's data, do you understand the concept?"

In fact, Lin Weidong doesn't have much concept of these data, and as an author, his biggest excitement is that he will have the opportunity to see the books he writes when he visits bookstores in the future.

You must know that for many new authors, it is really not easy to publish a physical book in the mainland, and as for the amount of manuscript fees, although Lin Weidong is full of expectations, he can only resign himself to fate.

If Lin Weidong is a well-known scholar or a best-selling author, he may have a lot of manuscript fees.

However, the manuscript fee of the general author has little to do with the price of the book, mainly how many copies can be sold, and the author has a certain commission for each book sold.

The specific percentage depends on the author's popularity and the grade of the publishing house, and the average professor can only get a few thousand yuan for a book, and tens of thousands are very few.

If you are just an ordinary author, and your book cannot bring much economic benefit to the publishing house, like Xiao Wenchang, they will not pay for the manuscript, and they are not even willing to help you.

In this case, scholars can buy a book with a book number, which generally costs 25,000 to 30,000 yuan, depending on the popularity of the publisher and the closeness of the relationship between the publisher and the person in charge.

Fortunately, Lin Weidong's situation is special, although he is not a famous scholar, he is also a well-known Internet writer, whether on the Internet or in reality, there are a certain number of loyal fans, coupled with Chen Cun's great help, he was exempted from the money to buy a book number.

If each book of "E Net Love" is priced at 24 yuan and 8% of the royalty is calculated, Lin Weidong can earn 3,800 yuan by selling 2,000 books.

This account was not calculated by Lin Weidong himself, but by Chen Cun for him, and when Lin Weidong knew that he could earn 3,800 yuan by selling 2,000 books, he woke up in hindsight.

Chen Cun said with great interest: "Lonely City, let me tell you, the first printing of your book was 10,000 copies, and now the sales are so good, the publishing house will definitely continue to print more!"

"I estimate that with your fame on the Internet, it shouldn't be a problem to sell for twenty or thirty thousand. ”

Lin Weidong was very excited when he heard it, if "E Net Love" can really sell two or three copies as Chen Cun said, then he can earn twenty or thirty thousand yuan casually.

Thinking of this, Lin Weidong hurriedly asked: "Uncle, I want to consult with you, when can I get the manuscript fee for this book?"

Chen Cun was silent for a while before he said, "It's not so fast, it will take three months at the latest." ”

"It's going to take so long?" Lin Weidong felt disappointed.

Chen Cun heard the loss in Lin Weidong's tone, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter?"

Lin Weidong nodded and said, "Yes, it's really short of money, and I'm about to run out of food." ”

Chen Cun asked again: "Don't your parents usually give you living expenses?"

Lin Weidong said calmly: "No, I used my own money to go to college, and I didn't ask my family for a penny." ”

Hearing Lin Weidong's words, Chen Cun admired Lin Weidong even more, and said briskly: "Otherwise, you tell me your bank account, and I will pay you money, and I will pay it back when you get the manuscript fee." ”

Lin Weidong didn't think about it, so he opened his mouth and politely refused: "No, uncle, you have already helped me so much, I haven't repaid you yet, how can I borrow money from you again, absolutely not!"

Chen Cun said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm lending you money, I want to pay it back, and I'm not sending you money to spend for no reason, if you don't borrow, you look down on your uncle......"

Lin Weidong was out of options, and he was also very moved, he had never met a nobleman who took the initiative to lend money to him, he just didn't want to borrow.

Not long after the phone hung up, Chen Cun rushed to the bank and transferred 2,000 yuan to Lin Weidong's bank account.

In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Weidong went to the mobile phone store and spent 1,000 yuan to buy a Nokia 3210 back.

This Nokia 3210 was released in October 1999 and should be the first mobile phone that many people have used in their lives.

Although it can only make calls and send texts, its reasonable price, stiff body, and colorful case design are very attractive, and it also comes with a snake game.

Of course, these are not the most critical, the reason why Lin Weidong bought it was mainly to facilitate contacting friends, and in the future, he didn't always have to answer a phone call, so he went to the dormitory manager aunt to see her face.

You must know that Lin Weidong's calls are very frequent, and the dormitory of the dormitory manager is about to become Lin Weidong's special phone booth, in the long run, not to mention that the aunt is annoyed when she sees Lin Weidong, even Lin Weidong himself feels embarrassed.

After buying a mobile phone, Lin Weidong entered the phone numbers of Chen Cun, Annie and others into the address book, and also told them his mobile phone number.

However, if Lin Weidong has nothing to do, he generally won't call easily, after all, the phone bill is very expensive, and they are all long-distance calls.

On January 7, the fourth day of the release of "E Net Love", Lin Weidong's physical book sales exceeded 6,000 copies.

At 10:40 a.m., just after class, Anne dialed Lin Weidong's mobile phone number.

Anne said: "Lonely City, congratulations, your novel is finally published, I heard from my grandfather that your novel is selling very well." ”

Lin Weidong smiled and said: "Yes, I didn't expect to sell thousands of copies, this time I really want to thank you and my uncle." ”

Anne smiled and asked, "It's good for you to thank Uncle Xie, what are you doing with me?"

Lin Weidong said with a straight face: "If it weren't for you, how could I go to Shanghai, if it wasn't for your introduction, how could I know you?" ”

Anne smiled and said, "Okay, it's okay for you kid to have a heart." ”

"By the way, Lonely City, since your novel has been published, why don't you go to the banyan tree to advertise, there are many readers who don't know that you have published a physical book, you should promote it, maybe you can increase sales." ”

Lin Weidong thought about it and felt that this was the case, so he said to Annie: "Okay, Sister Annie, I'll go right away." ”