Yuan Meng and Jia Youwei met outside a coffee shop near Yuanda Press. The two of them sat outside, not just to drink coffee and soak up the sun to enjoy the warm sunshine, but to have serious things to talk about.

Yuan Meng still asked for a cup of his favorite bubble coffee cappuccino, while Jia Youwei asked for a bottle of pure water as always.

"The first part of "Ordinary World" sold well. We intend to print the first part and be ready to bring the second part and the third part to the market at any time.

As for the specific time, it depends on the market reaction and operation. In terms of royalties, you can rest assured that we will pay you as soon as possible. Yuan Meng held the coffee spoon in his right hand and said with a slight smile while slowly stirring it in the coffee cup.

Jia Youwei leaned back on the chair, drooped his head, crossed Erlang's legs, crossed his fingers on his thighs, and said calmly: "Even if I can't trust your publishing house, I can trust you." ”

Yuan Meng stopped the movement of his right hand, and said with a smile: "Is it because of the concise relationship that you take care of me so much?"

"It's one aspect. Another aspect is your business ability and professionalism, which still reassures me. Jia Youwei said truthfully.

Jian Jian put down the coffee spoon in his hand and smiled happily: "Thank you very much." I also have one more thing here, which is that Yuanda Publishing House is going to hold a new writer contest.

In terms of the composition of the jury, it is natural to hope that a serious literary writer like you, who has already made a name for himself in the literary world, will play in it.

The biggest benefit of this is not only to publicize and expose your true face, but also to make our publishing house a higher grade, so that many peers or the outside world will think that we will only publish vulgar young books. ”

"Still don't. This kind of opportunity is still left to young people! Your writer named Chen Cheng is very good! He is a person who can even sell the film and television rights of online dramas, and that is called high-end. Jia Youwei couldn't help laughing.

Yuan Meng originally thought that he would agree, but he didn't expect him to refuse like this. It stands to reason that if he doesn't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, his book has to rely on Yuanda Publishing House.

Not for tomorrow, but also for today, it is quite necessary for the two sides to have a good relationship. What's more, this is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win situation.

"Can't you think about it anymore?" Yuan Meng took the initiative to call Jia Youwei here this time to talk about things, just for this matter.

Jia Youwei spread his hands out and said, "What else is there to consider? I don't participate in anything other than writing." ”

"There is a labor fee, and the price is easy to say. If you don't make money, you're a bastard. Even if Yuan Meng knew that he had taken about 100,000 royalties from Yuanda Publishing House, he didn't think he was rich.

What kind of place is the capital? At the beginning, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "Frog", and he publicly said that he wanted to buy a bigger house.

As a result, opinions were expressed on the Internet, and Nobel's millions of prizes could not buy much of a house in the capital. Let's not talk about people like Jia Youwei, who made his official debut not long ago, and there were also "Life", the first part of "Ordinary World", and two books on the single book.

In Yuan Meng's opinion, the constraints on his hand are certain. Even if you take some royalty money, it won't improve your life much. He still has a deficit in the past. So, the first thing to do when you have money is to pay off your debts.

Besides, I had heard from Jian Jian that he had rented a house in a small courtyard house to live with his daughter. Raising a child is a bottomless pit, isn't the online post of "A Monthly Salary of 30,000 Can't Support a Child for a Summer Vacation" a good proof?

Of course, it is natural to say that you don't have to have so much money. Raising a child depends on how you raise it. At this stage, there are nine years of compulsory education, and in the future, it is possible that it will be pushed into 12 years of compulsory education.

In addition to food and clothing, children should be given a little pocket money, and they still grow up by themselves, and it really doesn't cost much money. Isn't this how left-behind children in rural areas live?

They don't have their parents to accompany them, they don't have a home education, and the serious result is that boys become hooligans and girls become bitches.

Nowadays, many rural changes have become a kind of envy for women who have lost their feet to earn money, and the life of male gangsters?

Yuan Meng knows very well that if people can't enter the elite class, the working hours are not only long, but also the pay is low. The rest of this life will be quite hard.

The more advanced the society develops, the more obvious it becomes. In the past, we developed from the low level to the middle level, and there were many successful cases of mud legs. It is better to build an atomic bomb than to sell tea eggs.

Now, as we move from intermediate to advanced, the more knowledgeable and professional talents are needed. Hong Kong is a prime example.

The monthly salary of a university professor is HK$100,000 and that of a cleaner is HK$5,000, a difference of 20 times. The latter is also very susceptible to unemployment.

After all, if A doesn't do it, B can do it. B doesn't do, don't do, D do...... Therefore, Hong Kong's today is our tomorrow.

Not only that, but a promotion or a salary increase, it seems that you will never have a chance with yourself. After a long time, instead of complaining about society, work, prices, etc., you will complain about all kinds of unfairness and feel that everything is expensive.

After a long time, people will become numb. In addition to eating and drinking, there is only one thing left to retire and then wait for death. What is the ideal?

Either thinking about paying off the 30-year mortgage earlier, or thinking about how nice it would be if I had a house of my own!

The reason why Yuan Meng has such an idea is not without reason. In the past, she and Jane used to be neighbors, classmates. Later, the gap between the two families was getting wider and wider.

His family still lives in the old-fashioned community of the tube building, and the Jian family has long lived in a high-end elevator apartment. Her home is not only small in size, but only has one suite, and it is a fool's dream to buy a second house.

Even if you want to sell your old house for a new one, it's not that you're overstretched, but you're powerless. The only hope is pinned on the government's demolition work to renovate the old city.

Looking at her best friend's simplicity, not only does she already have two full-payment houses, but she also heard that her family is starting to prepare to buy a third one.

The only shortcut for the common class to change their own and even their families' destiny is to study hard and be admitted to a prestigious university.

At the very least, you have to be admitted to a double first-class university like 985,211. As for what is next, the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still have to work hard.

Even if you go to such a university to study as an undergraduate, it does not mean that you are an elite, but you have greatly improved your chances of winning and taken a solid first step. There is a second step, a third step...... Waiting for you.