"It's going to be the end of the year?" "My father has some regrets, if only he could get the book before the year, and when relatives come to the door for the New Year, he can just take it out to show off, although it can also be after the year, but it is not a little more meaningful.

"Well, I don't have enough articles for a book now, I still have to write a few more articles, and I usually have to study to prepare for exams, so I don't have much time. Chen Yu'an said the reason for Fu Xing again.

"Well, it's better to slow down. As soon as he heard about learning, his father immediately changed his tone, and compared with studying, publishing books is secondary.

"Oh, by the way, the publisher didn't say how much money we were going to prepare?" the father suddenly seemed to remember something.

"Let us prepare money?" Chen Yu'an was a little confused, this is here and there, why do we still have to prepare money?" "You mean the travel expenses, right? Don't worry about this, my manuscript fee during this period is enough." ”

"It's not this, your uncle's cousin-in-law works at the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and he published a book last year, which cost him more than 20,000 yuan, right? But don't worry, more than 20,000 yuan can still be scraped together at home. The father pretended not to care and said, in fact, their family lives on the salary of their father alone, so there is extra money, otherwise they would not even worry about giving gifts to the factory director.

But for the sake of his child's dream, he is willing to take on this responsibility and find someone to borrow money to help Chen Yu'an publish a book, which is a father's sense of responsibility.

"No, it's not the same thing. In addition to being moved, Chen Yu'an also understood what his father meant, and there are generally two kinds of books, self-funded books and publicly-funded books.

For some books that cannot meet the market demand, if the model of publicly-funded books is adopted, the publishing house will not be able to recover the cost, such as personal autobiographies, local chronicles, and some poems, essays, essays, novels written by some low-level literature lovers.

There is no one in the market for these books, and those authors have a strong desire to publish books, so they can only buy their own book numbers, bear the printing costs, publish a small number of books at their own expense, and give themselves an explanation.

This is probably the case with Chen Yu'an's uncle's cousin-in-law, and his father doesn't know much about the publishing industry, so he can only speculate based on the cases around him, mistakenly thinking that Chen Yu'an will also give a sum of money to the publishing house before people will help him publish the book.

"Dad, Han Han, do you know? is the one who helped me talk on TV two days ago?" Chen Yu'an thought about it and decided to agree to use an example to explain to his father.

"You know, that young man with a little long hair? He looks quite energetic, what's wrong with him?" The father had a good impression of these people who helped his children.

"He has published a book this year, and he has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, so Han Han can get more than a dollar for each book, right?" By 2003, the printing volume of "Triple Gate" published by the Writers Publishing House has exceeded 950,000 copies, so Han Han will receive a royalty income of 1.216 million yuan, and the royalties of each book will be more than a dollar.

"Not many people are willing to spend money to buy my uncle's cousin-in-law's books, and the publishing house will lose money when he publishes books for him, so he will be asked to pay, many people are willing to buy Han Han and my books, and the publishing house can make money, so they not only don't want money, but they will also give us money. Chen Yu'an gave another example, "Jia Pingwa is also like this, otherwise what would he live on?"

"Jia Pingwa, that's a great writer. Father subconsciously retorted, but he already understood what Chen Yu'an meant, "I really don't need us to pay?"

"Really, I can still get money back for our family when the time comes!Hmm, but it is estimated that it is not as much as Han Han, and it can probably have tens of thousands of yuan, right?" Chen Yu'an deliberately said that the number was lower, so as not to worry his father too much.

"Tens of thousands? That's a lot. The father muttered, his monthly salary is only about 1,000 yuan, and tens of thousands of yuan is enough for him to earn for several years, "Then I'll go to the magic capital with you, I don't worry about you taking so much money with you." ”

It's not that I'm worried about Chen Yu'an's messing around, but the security has not been good over the years, and he is afraid that Chen Yu'an will be targeted by bad guys.

"It's not cash, it's definitely the same as this time, it's all remittance transfers, or checks. "Give cash, Chen Yu'an really doesn't dare to take it.

"Oh, that's good. Chen Yu'an's father is a financer, and he still understands these things, so he understands immediately, "Okay, when the time comes, you go by yourself, and I will get you an ID card first." ”

After speaking, his father went out to work for Chen Yu'an's trip to the magic capital, to apply for an ID card, to find someone to see if there was a problem with the authorization letter, and to prepare new clothes for Chen Yu'an, the magic capital is a big city, you have to dress better, don't let the child be wronged.

In the next period of time, the Chen family began to be busy with this matter, Chen Yu'an saved the manuscript as soon as he had time, his father not only handled the documents, but also wondered who to find to take Chen Yu'an to the provincial capital and send him to the airport, and his mother wandered around the best clothing stores in the city every day, wanting to buy him beautiful clothes.

Time passed unconsciously, in a blink of an eye it was 2001, after New Year's Day, it was time for the final exam, and this time the exam was much more formal than the previous two, divided into three days.

After the exam, the results and rankings were posted on the wall of the school on a big red paper, and Chen Yu'an made progress this time, ranking 24th in the whole grade, which was better than his ranking in the high school entrance examination, so he finally didn't have to worry about the blame at home.

At the class meeting before the holiday, the teacher first told him to pay attention to safety at home during the winter vacation, remember to review his homework, and not forget to write his homework, and then called Chen Yu'an to the office alone.

Zhang Quanbin and Wang Wei told Chen Yu'an that the school attached great importance to his participation in this new concept essay contest, and would arrange for Wang Wei to take him to the provincial capital in the school car, and by the way, he also gave him a small sum of money, which should be regarded as travel expenses.

"Thank you, teacher, thank you for the school's concern, I will definitely come back with a first prize and win glory for our school." Chen Yu'an was naturally very grateful for this, and hurriedly thanked him again and again.

"Don't be too stressed, being able to participate in the semi-finals is a victory, okay, you go back and talk to your family first, decide to leave that day and give me a call, and I will pick you up with the school car." Wang Wei said with relief.

After saying a few more words, the two of them asked Chen Yu'an to go back to inform their parents first, and when they returned home and told their parents about it, their father was also very happy, and it was more reassuring that someone sent Chen Yu'an.

Chen Yu'an decided to go to the magic capital three days before the start of the rematch, and planned to stay there for a few more days after the rematch, and his parents did not object, so he finally went out for the second time, and it was time to play for a few more days.

On the day of departure, Wang Wei took the school car to the family courtyard and prepared to send Chen Yu'an to the provincial capital.