"I really have something to tell you, you know that I am also the honorary vice chairman of our writers' association. Yesterday, Chairman Tie asked me if you would like to join the Writers' Association. Wang Lijian said.

Zhuang Yan raised his eyebrows, he didn't know anything about the Writers' Association, and he didn't know what was going on with joining the Writers' Association. He asked, "Brother Wang, do I have any obligation to join the Writers' Association?"

Wang Lijian said with a smile: "I think you still want to ask what are the benefits, you can rest assured, the government's support of writers is a characteristic of our country, and not only does it have no obligation to join the Writers' Association, but there are also many benefits." First of all, if you join the Writers' Association and have a name, you will definitely have a lot of green lights in terms of publication and submission, and secondly, the state also pays regular salaries to the members of the Writers' Association every month, although it is not much, but it is better than nothing. ”

As soon as he heard that there was a salary, Zhuang Yan smiled, "What don't you do, and you still have a salary, is there such a good thing?"

"Absolutely. Wang Lijian said, "The National Writers' Association has a total of more than 2,000 people, and the country can still afford it." Do you think anyone can come in? Those who can come in are worthy of being raised by the state. Besides, the salary is not much, so you shouldn't get your hopes up. ”

"So, this writers' association, should I enter?"

"Of course you should enter, if you shouldn't, I won't mention this stubble to you. Rest assured, the Association does not have any political missions, nor will it restrict your freedom. However, sometimes the Writers' Association organizes activities, and you should try to participate in them as much as possible, after all, it is also good for you. Wang Lijian said.

Since this is the case, Zhuang Yan has no reason to refuse, he nodded: "Okay, what to do, I listen to you." ”

Wang Lijian said with a smile: "Don't do anything, when the time comes, we will write a letter of recommendation to Chairman Tie with a few other people, but this is just a process." This matter was brought up by Chairman Tie, and there must be no problem on her side. Wait until she agrees, and then go through some small programs, and you will be the person of the association. You don't have to do the small programs in the back, just leave them to Yao Qian. ”

"Well, it's a little easier. Zhuang Yan said with a smile.

"Well, don't worry about the rest, I'll talk to Yao Qian when I get back. ”

After Wang Lijian finished speaking, he hung up the phone, Zhuang Yan sat on the sofa and took a sip of tea, and comfortably cocked Erlang's legs. Since he had Yao Qian, he is now completely a hands-off shopkeeper, whether it is physical book publishing or other copyright matters, Yao Qian basically solves them.

All he has to do now is concentrate on writing books, and he can communicate with his fans on the Internet when he has nothing to do.

But there is one more thing, Zhuang Yan is wondering if he wants to get to the bottom of Yao Qian.

Yao Qian now only knows that he is Zhuang Yan, the Zhuang Yan who wrote the books "Alive" and "Metamorphosis", but he does not know that he is also the author of "The Adventures of Shuke and Beta" Fairy Tale Manor.

So the copyright affairs of "The Adventures of Shuke and Beta" can't be handed over to him to do, and a few days ago, Yu Hai was still asking him about the film and television copyright of "Shuke Beta", saying that Yanjing Fine Arts Film Studio saw that the book was now so popular, so it wanted to get the film and television copyright first and make the cartoon.

Zhuang Yan didn't reply immediately at that time, only said that he wanted to take a look again, but this matter is not easy to delay any longer, otherwise the other party would think that he was deliberately dragging it.

And this matter does not necessarily fall on the head of Yanjing Art Film Studio, you have to shop around. Since you have to shop around, you must prepare early, and now you can take advantage of the momentum of the new book fire to make cartoons, and you can save a lot of things in terms of publicity.

And what Zhuang Yan has to consider now is whether to tell Yao Qian about this, these days with Yao Qian, it is unrealistic to say that he can see through the other party, but Yao Qian feels good about Zhuang Yan, and he seems to be a trustworthy person.

Of course, Zhuang Yan was not ready to put the treasure on Yao Qian's character, he decided to sign a confidentiality agreement with Yao Qian before telling him this, and it was stated in the agreement that Yao Qian was not allowed to reveal anything about the fairy tale manor.

He also believes that Yao Qian will not think that he distrusts him because of this, because he is truly irresponsible if he does not follow the rules.

Zhuang Yan has always firmly believed that it is better to talk about morality than rules and constraints. No one's morality is created out of thin air, there must be some kind of constraint in order to make morality last.

Talking to Yao Qian about "Shuke and Beta" is a little simpler than Zhuang Yan imagined. In the afternoon, he called Yao Qian to his house, chatted with him for a while, and then told him about it.

Yao Qian's performance also exceeded Zhuang Yan's expectations, he was only slightly surprised for a moment before he reacted to what he should do. Even Zhuang Yan hadn't mentioned the matter of the confidentiality agreement, so he mentioned it himself.

The reason why Yao Qian was asked to come home to talk about things was so that he could feel his sincerity and make him feel that he was his own person with Zhuang Yan.

If Chen Jiaqing and the others were still there, Zhuang Yan would never let him come, but now that Chen Jiaqing and the others are gone, there is no taboo.

Speaking of which, in addition to Chen Jiaqing and them, Yao Qian was the first person to come to Zhuang Yan's house, and even Yang Zhao never came. Thinking of this, Zhuang Yan had a little apology for Yang Zhao, and he was too unconcerned about this brother. If you have time to turn back, you still have to invite Yang Zhao to sit down.

Yao Qian left without eating, and with him was the signed confidentiality agreement in his briefcase, and of course, what he left behind was also a confidentiality agreement.

After sending Yao Qian away, Zhuang Yan returned to the study and began his work.

"Border City" has a total of 50,000 words, about 10,000 words are sent every day, and it will take about five days to send the book, and the time for sending the book every day is set, and the manuscript is also corrected in advance.

Today's chapter is the real beginning of the story, that is, the story of Cuicui's encounter with the send-off during the Dragon Boat Festival two years ago, which echoes the sentence at the beginning.

Now think about it, the beginning that Zhuang Yan wrote casually is really interesting, the three tenses in one sentence, the two tenses that are emphasized, the past and the future, represent the beginning and end of the whole story.

The love story of the border city began with Cuicui's encounter with the send-off during the Dragon Boat Festival that year, and ended with Cuicui sitting under the white tower at the end.

It is no wonder that Wang Lijian will be surprised, even if Zhuang Yan himself looks back now, he will also sigh with emotion, marveling at Marquez's writing skills and storytelling skills.

And the power of this beginning is not something that everyone can see, and not everyone is a professional like Liang Zhuo and them.

As you can see from the comments, there is no mention of the beginning at all.

Even if there are a few inconspicuous comments about the beginning, they all say that the beginning is more attractive, and they don't really realize the power of this beginning.

There are only two chapters today, and there will be four chapters tomorrow