Winning the second place in the 1500 meters and the first place in the 3000 meters in the school sports meeting, except for bringing Zhu Mingli a few certificates of merit and praise from the teacher, it actually did not have much impact on Zhu Mingli's life.

On December 14, after a month and a half, Zhu Mingli finally finished writing "The Martian" with difficulty, with a total of more than 100,000 words. The number of words is not much, but it is really a rather painful process for Zhu Mingli!

After filling this hole with tears, Zhu Mingli made up his mind that he would never write novels involving a lot of professional knowledge such as "The Martian" in the future, he is the level of an online writer, how convenient and easy it is to write online novels, maybe with his own level and more advanced routines than now, he can pretend to be forced to say that he will have millions more in the card if he is not careful

When he sent the rest of the novel to Liu Wei to help revise and sort it out, Zhu Mingli also received the English version of the first half of the translation.

According to Liu Wei, this is the senior translator of the magazine he found, and this translator named Chen Hongxuan himself graduated from the State University of New York in the United States and is a professor at Sichuan Provincial University. That's absolutely barren!

After Zhu Mingli got the English version of the novel, he read it himself.

Zhu Mingli thinks that his level of listening, speaking, reading and writing in English is not bad, until now Zhu Mingli insists on reciting ten English words every day, reciting an English composition a week, and even Zhu Mingli watched the American classic movie "Forrest Gump" with Chinese and English subtitles in the situation of pulling a piece!

In three months, Zhu Mingli basically memorized all the lines of this movie, and his English speaking ability has been greatly improved, and Zhu Mingli feels that he can communicate fluently with foreigners in daily oral language with his vocabulary.

When he got the English version of "The Martian", Zhu Mingli read it carefully, and he was worthy of being a top student of a famous American school and a professor of a famous domestic school.

Zhu Mingli must admit that after the re-creation of a famous university professor, he definitely took a great advantage, although Professor Chen's translation price is not low, and Zhu Mingli's original author's remuneration is on par, reaching 150 yuan per thousand words!

Yes, after editor Liu Wei saw the content of "The Martian", he signed a contract with Zhu Mingli, and compared with the remuneration of 100 yuan per thousand words of "Wasteland", "The Martian" increased by 50 yuan on this basis.

However, Zhu Mingli actually doesn't pay much attention to the remuneration of the serialized novel, the full text of the novel is only a little over 100,000 words, and the full calculation is only about 16,000 yuan.

What Zhu Mingli is looking forward to most is the copyright of other aspects of the novel, especially after the novel has been revised by a professor at a prestigious university, Zhu Mingli feels that his plan has a greater hope of success.

Although he has decided not to write highly professional science fiction novels anymore and is ready to start writing online novels, according to Zhu Mingli's plan, he will not start serializing online novels until he has passed the high school entrance examination, because although the learning tasks in the second semester of the third year of junior high school are not as good as those of the third year of high school, he does not have the extra energy to serialize novels every day.

Before this, Zhu Mingli decided to revise "Wasteland", and after preparing to write about The Martian, Zhu Mingli had a whim to change "Wasteland" to English and upload it to Amazon for sale.

Zhu Mingli remembered that the American drama "The Walking Dead" in the last days of the later world was filmed for several seasons, and the content of his "Wasteland" and The Walking Dead were somewhat similar.

In fact, the revision of "Wasteland" is also simple, that is, the location and background are changed to the United States, the characters and protagonists are replaced by Americans, and the plot is changed without changing the medicine.

When Liu Wei heard that Zhu Mingli decided to change an American version of "Wasteland", he was also quite speechless.

Before, he thought that Zhu Mingli's desire to upload the novel to a foreign Amazon website and download and sell the electronic version was a child's whim, but Professor Chen, who translated the novel, felt that although the idea was bold, it was not impossible.

Besides, Zhu Mingli is still a junior high school student, so what does it matter if he tries it?

On the last day of 2008 in the Gregorian calendar, Zhu Mingli received the English translation of the remaining parts of The Martian.

In order to upload the novel to the Amazon online bookstore abroad, Zhu Mingli specially learned the circumvention technique online.

On New Year's Day, Zhu Mingli tinkered with the computer for a long time, and finally uploaded the novel to Amazon Books, and then, Zhu Mingli could only wait and see what happened, resigned to fate!

After uploading "The Martian", Zhu Mingli completely let go of this concern and focused on revising the content of "Wasteland", the original content of "Wasteland" Zhu Mingli was handwritten, which was mailed to "Science Fiction World", and later the magazine received the content of the novel, and sent the manuscript back to Zhu Mingli.

Zhu Mingli checked the manuscript and coded the content into electronic files while revising, and it took three weeks for the American version of "Wasteland" to be revised by Zhu Mingli.

So Zhu Mingli sent the revised content to Liu Wei and asked him to help him find Professor Chen to translate the novel, because the price of Professor Chen's translation was higher than the original remuneration of "Wasteland", so Zhu Mingli had to cheekily ask Liu Wei to help him pay the translation fee first.

Because Zhu Mingli has no other source of income now, and it is not good to be cheeky and beg his parents to come up with tens of thousands of yuan to help him pay for the translation, and even the translation fee of "The Martian" is paid by Zhu Mingli's magazine serialization!

However, this dilemma should change after the year, because Liu Wei told Zhu Mingli that after "Wasteland" was serialized in the magazine for three issues, the response was not bad, and the magazine had already prepared to set up a project to publish the physical version of the novel!

At that time, Zhu Mingli can receive a sum of remuneration and royalties, and maybe he can also get a part of the sales share!

"Wasteland" was revised for a week, the first semester of the third year of junior high school has come to an end, January 14th to 16th, after two and a half days of final exams, the first semester of the third year of junior high school is over, the winter vacation is not long, a total of only three weeks, from January 17th to February 8th, that is, the day before the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival officially starts classes.

In fact, Zhu Mingli has long been less interested in winter and summer vacations now, and he has left school for so many years in later generations, especially after writing online novels, not to mention winter and summer vacations, even the concept of weekends is basically gone.

The theme of daily life is code words, code words, and the only holiday is the preparation period for new books, at this time, Zhu Mingli can spend a month to two months to have a good time everywhere.

Oh, by the way, there is another thing, that is, on the Friday of the second week after the final exam, the school held a parent-teacher conference, which Zhu Mingli's mother Zhou Jiamei attended.

When he was in junior high school, Zhu Mingli's parent-teacher meeting did not disgrace his parents, and this time it was the same, although the results of the final exam did not test Lin Jialin, he was still second, but the ranking of the year section advanced a few places, ranking thirteenth in the year.

This achievement is undoubtedly the best answer sheet for parents, and it can also make parents raise their eyebrows and raise their heads when relatives and friends come this Spring Festival!

After all, during the summer vacation, because of the policy that foreign household registration could not take the college entrance examination locally, the parents did not make unnecessary considerations, so they bought land to build a house and moved Zhu Mingli's household registration over. What those relatives and friends say in private, they don't need to ask and guess a thing or two.

And Zhu Mingli's good results in the mid-term and final exams are undoubtedly the best reward for the selfless dedication of his parents.