Compared with those geniuses who went to a prestigious school like Peking University and Tsinghua University of Science and Technology at the age of twelve or thirteen, teenagers can write novels, and Su Shaohua can accept it. However, Zeng Wei is still a child after all, and he is definitely not as energetic as an adult.

After all, children of other ages, during the Chinese exam, are still pulling out their hair for the dozens of hundreds of words to look at the picture and speak, even if they are high school students, don't there are also many people who have a headache for the 800-word essay during the exam?

To complete the cooperation with the magazine "Ancient Legends", Zeng Wei needs to write at least 12,000 words of fiction every month, and preferably 24,000 words per month.

Don't look at this number is not big, but this is a novel with high cultural literacy requirements, even if Su Shaohua is asked to write it himself, he does not dare to guarantee that he can complete it.

He had carefully read the first two chapters of the novel that had been published, and even because of his special status, he had already read the third and fourth chapters that had not yet been published, and he had to admire the author's talent for conception and ability to grasp the language.

This is also the reason why Su Shaohua didn't dare to believe it when he heard the child in front of him say that he was Zeng Wei after he came to Zeng's house.

In Su Shaohua's view, only those high-achieving students in the Chinese department of the university have such profound literary skills. A child who may not even look ten years old can write such a wonderful novel, can you tease me?

After communicating with Zeng Wei, Su Shaohua finally accepted it, and the little kid in front of him was indeed Zeng Wei, the author of "Sou Shen Ji", and the third young man of the Zeng family.

But problems followed.

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Zeng Wei heard the question expressed by Su Shaohua, and was immediately happy.

You can't write 10,000 or 20,000 words of fiction a month, don't you use bean bags as dry food!

What is it to write 10,000 words and 20,000 words a month, those online novel authors in later generations, who can't write 200,000 words a month are considered handicapped, and there are not a few people who change 10,000 words a day, even if it is a fast gunner with 30,000 yards a day, there are even legendary characters who write 100,000 a day.

As a hardcore reader who has been cultivated by online novels for a long time, Zeng Wei scoffed at Su Shaohua's worries. Although he had never written a novel before, in the four months since his rebirth, he has also written more than 300,000 words of "Sou Shen Ji", which is enough for the "Ancient Legends" magazine to be serialized for one or two years.

However, Zeng Wei still understands Su Shaohua's worries, after all, today's China has not yet entered the Internet era, so he naturally can't imagine how fast the metabolism of information is in that era of knowledge explosion.

In this era when the birth of writing is almost entirely handwritten, a writer can write 120,000 words a year is considered to be highly productive, like Master Jin, who can maintain the annual creative figure at 560,000 for more than ten years, and still maintain a high level, it is simply a miracle.

Zeng Wei said with a smile: "Mr. Su, you are too worried, you don't have to worry about the problem of creation, what you need to worry about is whether the "Ancient Legends" magazine can meet my requirements." ”

Su Shaohua looked at Zeng Wei in disbelief and said: "Sanshao, haven't you heard clearly, the revised "Ancient Legends" will be a monthly magazine, if we reach a cooperation, you need to create at least 12,000 words per month, and it is best to be able to maintain more than 20,000 creations." Can you keep up with your energy?"

Zeng Wei smiled and said, "You definitely don't believe it if you don't practice it, so let's give you a little confidence." ”

As he spoke, Zeng Wei turned around and entered his grandfather Yan Zhenhuang's former study, which has now become his study.

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Soon, Zeng Wei walked out with two thick notebooks and said to Su Shaohua: "Mr. Su, you take a look at this first." If you still have questions, then we don't need to talk about cooperation. ”

Su Shaohua took the two notebooks suspiciously, opened the top one, and found that on the title page was written the words "Sou Shen Ji" Volume 1 Eight Thousand Miles Road, which looked like it should be written with a brush, and the handwriting was exactly the same as the manuscript that he had seen before that Zeng Sanshao sent to the "Ancient Legends" magazine, Su Shaohua knew that the author of "Sou Shen Ji", Zeng Sanshao, was indeed the young man in front of him.

Su Shaohua flipped through the pages quickly, and the first chapter ...... Chapter 2...... Chapter 3...... Chapter 4...... is exactly the same as the content of "Sou Shen Ji" that he has watched, and Su Shaohua confirmed it again, this is the taste.

Then, Su Shaohua quickly flipped through the content of the back and found that behind this notebook, there were also the contents of chapters 5 and 6, as well as the entire content of the second volume, and all the contents of the entire notebook, about 130,000 words.

As for the other thicker notebook, it contains the contents of the third, fourth and fifth volumes of the "Sou Shen Ji", which should have about 200,000 words.

Su Shaohua was a little shocked, but he didn't expect that the little child in front of him had already created a work of more than 300,000 words.

Although he just skimmed the content of the back, judging from the handwriting on it, the creator is definitely attentive, because the two books of more than 300,000 words, each word is meticulously written, and they are all standard small letters.

In fact, this was something that shocked Su Shaohua even more. He couldn't believe that a child less than ten years old could insist on writing so many words, and his attitude was extremely serious.

It seems that the reason why a genius is a genius is his inevitability. From these more than 300,000 words, you can see a lot of things.

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After reading the two notebooks, Su Shaohua really no longer worries about Zeng Wei's creation, because even according to the highest serialization speed of the "Ancient Legends" magazine, the next about 300,000 words are enough to be serialized for a year.

Looking at Su Shaohua's expression, Zeng Wei smiled and said, "Mr. Su, then let's talk about the conditions that your magazine can give me." ”

Seeing Zeng Wei looking like a little fox, Su Shaohua felt uneasy in his heart. He vaguely felt that the conditions originally discussed by the magazine were probably really unable to meet this little guy.

At this moment, Su Shaohua no longer regards Zeng Wei as a child less than ten years old, but as an adult like him.

Even, he attaches more importance to Zeng Wei than to other authors. This is not only because of the huge influence that "Sou Shen Ji" has brought to the magazine "Ancient Legends", but also because he feels that the little guy in front of him is more difficult than those traditional adult authors.

Most adult authors, because of their long-term creation, have a kind of bookish anger, in other words, they are nerds, and it is not too difficult to fool them.

However, if you want to put the same means on the little child in front of you, I am afraid it will not work.

Although this is just a feeling, with Su Shaohua's life experience of more than 30 years and the vision he has cultivated over the years because of his work, Su Shaohua feels that his guess is very accurate.

Therefore, Su Shaohua was ready to retreat into advance, and said to Zeng Wei: "I know that although Sanshao is young, he is not comparable to ordinary people, and he has his own thoughts about everything, can you tell me your own thoughts first?"

Zeng Wei naturally knew that Su Shaohua was retreating, he glanced at Su Shaohua, smiled meaningfully, and said, "Mr. Su, are you sure you really let me say it first?"

Su Shaohua nodded.

Zeng Wei pondered for a moment and said, "Since that's the case, then I'm not welcome." We used to calculate by the number of words, I think this method is good, so let's continue to calculate according to this method. ”

Su Shaohua has no opinion on this. However, Zeng Wei's next words made Su Shaohua jump up directly.

I only heard Zeng Wei continue: "My request is very simple, two hundred yuan for a thousand words, as long as "Ancient Legends" can meet my request, not to mention 12,000 words per month, even if it is 350,000 words per month, it is no problem at all." ”

Su Shaohua couldn't sit still anymore, stood up and said loudly: "Sanshao, you are blackmailing!"

The fire in his heart, this kid really dares to open his mouth, two hundred yuan per thousand words, I'm afraid that even those master-level characters may not necessarily meet this remuneration standard, right?

Zeng Wei pressed down with both hands and said to Su Shaohua: "Mr. Su, don't be so excited, didn't you let me talk about my thoughts by myself." Besides, I asked for a lot of money to pay back on the spot, and I didn't say that my request was non-negotiable. ”

Su Shaohua tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart, and said that the sky-high asking price is not like yours, but he still sat down and did not turn around and leave. He said to Zeng Wei seriously: "Sanshao, I came to Gudan with sincerity to talk to you about cooperation, I hope you can be serious and don't talk about some impossible conditions." ”

Zeng Wei continued: "Mr. Su, I naturally know your sincerity, but why don't I have 120,000 sincerity. In fact, I made this price seriously considered. ”

Without waiting for Su Shaohua to speak, Zeng Wei waved his hand to stop him and continued: "Mr. Su, I think you should be aware of the great changes that "Sou Shen Ji" has brought to "Ancient Legends". For that reason, I think he's worth the price. ”

In this regard, Zeng Wei is very confident. As a die-hard reader of "Ancient Legends", Zeng Wei has a very clear understanding of its development process. In his memory, it was not until 1999 that the bi-monthly issue of "Legends of the Present and the Ancients" was changed from a bi-monthly magazine to a monthly magazine, and the single-month issue maintained its traditional style and mainly published legendary novels; the bimonthly issue carried out the banner of "well-known figures of the year and little-known legendary stories" and launched the series of "The Finale of the Ten Marshals and Ten Great Generals of the Republic," which was a success.

However, it is only now in 1993, and "Ancient Legends" is planning to change bimonthly to monthly, and this process is only because "Ancient Legends" serialized his "Sou Shen Ji".