"The ......"

Huo Yaowen said with some embarrassment: "Suzhen, I have something to do today, I'm afraid I won't be able to attend your coming-of-age ceremony." ”

Huo Tingting also nodded on the side and said, "Yes, Suzhen, Brother He has something to do today, and he wants to go back to school." ”

Lu Suzhen was a little disappointed when she heard this, but she still smiled and said, "It's okay, Brother Yaowen, you are busy in advance, I will ask Uncle Chang to send Tingting home later." ”

"Hmm. ”

Huo Yaowen nodded, and said to the younger sister: "Don't make trouble at Su Zhen's house, you know? When you get home, make a phone call to the school and talk to me." ”

"Got it, brother!"

Huo Tingting waved her hand, and when she saw her friend at this time, Huo Yaowen's brother naturally went away.

Seeing the impatient appearance of the younger sister, Huo Yaowen rubbed her hair and said, "Don't make trouble." ”

"It's going to mess up the hairstyle. Huo Tingting pouted and hurriedly grabbed Huo Yaowen's arm.

"Then I'll go first. ”

Huo Yaowen thought about it, and still said to Lu Suzhen: "Suzhen wishes you a happy coming-of-age ceremony." ”

"Thank you. Lu Suzhen smiled softly.

Immediately, Huo Yaowen waved goodbye to the two.

Looking at Huo Yaowen's departing back, Lu Suzhen took Huo Tingting's arm and said, "Tingting, let's go in quickly, the guests are coming soon, and I haven't chosen my clothes yet." ”

"I know, I'm already very fast, and it won't take an hour to get from my house to Hong Kong Island. ”

"Then come in Tingting, the cake is ready, I just took a bite, it's super delicious." ”

"Really? I'm going to eat a lot. Huo Tingting's eyes lit up.

"Uh-huh, I'll give you all to eat. ”

In this way, the two hugged each other and laughed all the way to the villa, and Huo Tingting's surprised voice sounded from time to time.

At this time, on the third floor of this luxurious villa, Lei Luo was standing by the window, looking at the situation at the gate.

The man looked a little familiar just now, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.

Uncle Chang, the housekeeper next to him, said: "Master, the person who Miss is waiting for is her classmate, named Huo Tingting, I used to see Miss when she came home from school." ”

"Hmm. ”

Lei Luo nodded and said, "Who was that man just now?"

"I don't know, it may be Miss Huo's family, after all, it is still a little distance from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island, and it is normal for Miss Huo's family to be uneasy. ”

Family?

Lei Luo raised his eyebrows, this feeling of being both familiar and unfamiliar made him very unhappy, and after thinking about it, he still said: "Help me find out who that person is, I always feel a little familiar." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

......

Fok Yaowen got off Pak Ka Road, got on the bus to Hollywood Road at the intersection station, and went to the "Literary World" newspaper office.

What a great place.

Sitting on the bus, Huo Yaowen looked out through the window at the bustling and backward streets.

Along the way, Huo Yaowen was thinking about the villas in the mid-mountainous areas he had just seen, the mansion villas, although many of the villas were built more than ten years or decades ago, but the style of those villas was not backward at all.

It is false to say that he is not envious, but Huo Yaowen is confident that he will be able to live there one day in the future!

Reborn in a lifetime, even if you are a pig, you can become a sperm.

Soon, ten minutes later, Fok Yaowen rushed to the Hollywood Road "Literary World" newspaper office in Central.

The last time he came over, Huo Yaowen received the first prize of 5,000 yuan, and then because "Sweet Honey" needed to be corrected and typeset, and there were more people who came at that time, Deng McKee, the editor-in-chief of the literary world, asked the three winners to come to the newspaper next Sunday to sign the publishing contract.

Waiting for the "Literary World" newspaper, soon a clerk led Huo Yaowen into the conference room, in addition to the editor-in-chief Deng Maiji, Lin Yanni, who won the second place, and Chen Fenfen, who won the third place, had already arrived.

Seeing that several people had arrived early, Huo Yaowen apologized: "I'm sorry Editor-in-Chief Deng, I came a little late." ”

Deng McGee waved his hand: "It's out of the way, everyone has just arrived." Mr. Huo, please be seated. ”

Waiting for Huo Yaowen to sit down, Deng McKee said to the three winners: "This time, I think everyone should know what it is for, and I will make a long story short, our literary world intends to publish the books of the three, and the publishing contract is divided into two ......."

There are two types of contracts, one is a share and the other is a buyout.

In the sharing contract, the writer shares 5% of the sales, that is, the number of copies sold * the selling price * the percentage of the share = the remuneration.

For example, if a book costs five yuan and sells 10,000 copies, that is, 5 * 10,000 * 0.05 = 2,500 yuan.

The buyout contract is very simple, negotiate the price and buy out the publishing rights of the book at a fixed price.

Of course, in the form of royalty sharing, the publisher will give the author a minimum number of prints, commonly known as "first prints".

After listening to Dun McKee's talk about the share and buyout contract, he smiled and said: "The three of you can think about it, whether you choose to share or buy out, we are very welcome." Although Mr. Huo won the first place in the essay competition, it may not meet the taste of the public, Miss Chen, you won the third place, but after the book is published, it may sell the most. ”

"I choose royalty sharing. Lin Yanni said directly.

Chen Fenfen thought about it, but said, "I'll choose to buy out." ”

Huo Yaowen originally wanted to sign a buyout, and he was most short of money now, but looking at Lin Yanni's confident look on the side, he pondered his book, it was definitely not bad, so there was no need to choose the way to buy out, he pondered for a few seconds, and said, "I also choose to share." ”

"That's good. ”

Deng McKee nodded, went out to arrange the contract with the clerk next to him, and then looked at Huo Yaowen and said, "Huo Sheng, the ghost blowing lamp of Oriental Daily was also written by you." ”

Both books are written under the pseudonym of Fusheng, and Deng McKee is not a fool, so how can he not see the problem.

When Lin Yanni heard this, she glanced at Huo Yaowen in some surprise, although she hadn't read "Sweet Honey", but "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" was the favorite book in the family on weekdays, and she was familiar with it, so she naturally read a lot.

I never thought that the author of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" was such a young person, and he also wrote a romance novel and won the first place in the essay competition.

"Yes. There was nothing to hide about this, so Huo Yaowen nodded directly.

Deng McKee said with a smile: "Haha, Huo Sheng, although our "Literary World" is mainly based on weekly magazines, but there are also newspapers, if Huo Sheng still has good works in the future, you can consider our newspaper, and the manuscript fee must not be lower than that given by Oriental Daily!"

Huo Yaowen smiled and said: "Of course there is no problem, but I don't have any ideas recently, and I have been idle since I finished writing the first part of Ghost Blowing the Lamp." ”

"No hurry, no hurry. Dunmace waved his hand.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the conference room.

Dunmaki said casually, "Come in." ”

The door was opened, and Nie Hualing and Zhang Ailing walked in.

Deng McKee stood up in surprise and asked, "Ms. Nie, Ms. Zhang, why are you here?" ”

Nie Hualing smiled and said, "I'm sorry to disturb you, Editor-in-Chief Deng, I have something I want to find Mr. Huo and Miss Lin." ”

"Out of the way, out of the way. Dunmäke waved his hand.

Lin Yanni sat down the first and took the lead in getting up and shaking hands with the two seniors in the literary world: "Hello Ms. Nie, hello Ms. Zhang." ”

Huo Yaowen and Chen Fenfen followed.

After Nie Hualing and Zhang Ailing said hello to Huo Yaowen and the others.

Nie Hualing said with a smile: "I came to find three of you this time to invite them to participate in the ten-day Sino-Western International Writing Cultural Exchange Conference held by me and my husband in the United States, and many literati writers from all over the world will participate in this writing cultural exchange meeting.

And we have reached a cooperation with the largest publishing house in the United States, Bantan Books, and they will choose to sign a contract to publish any book written at the writing meeting as long as it is valuable, so I wonder if the three of you are interested?"