A few days later, on Saturday, when Zhu Mingli was practicing boxing with Tang Bo Pengjin, he unexpectedly received a call from the capital.

"Hello?!Is it Mr. Mingli Zhu, the author of "The Martian"?" After connecting the phone, a voice sounding a little pretentious came from the other side, which instantly reminded people of the two devils who were mixed in the concession in the thirties of the last century in film and television dramas.

"Uh, yes. I'm Zhu Mingli......" Zhu Mingli was embarrassed when he heard the other party's "mingli zhu", and he almost committed cancer......

"Okay, hello Mr. Zhu, I'm an editor in the China office of Random House in Emai Ruiken, Alan Wu, I want to ask, is the novel "The Martian" your own original, and is the physical publishing right of this book in your hands?" Listening to this voice, Zhu Mingli's mind immediately appeared with the image of a second devil with an oily face and an orchid finger......

"Random House?!" Because the other party used English when he said this name, Zhu Mingli didn't react at once, although his English listening, speaking, reading and writing ability has been able to communicate with crooked nuts without much obstacle in the past year, but after all, it is not his native language, and the conversion is not so fast......

"Oh, nonono!Random House, Random House!" Alan Wu may have rolled his eyes and said, "Mr. Zhu, you may not have heard of the name of our company, let me introduce you to you, our Random House is one of the largest publishers in the United States and even the world.

The books published by our company have won many literary awards, including the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize!

In the past few years, our company's business has entered the mainland, and in 2007, the "BJ2008 Olympic Guide" developed by our company in cooperation with China was unveiled at the Frankfurt Book Fair and achieved great success!

So, Mr. Zhu, you are in luck! Our company has taken a fancy to your novel "The Martian", and if your copyright is confirmed, our company will buy the copyright of your novel and publish it all over the world......"

Listening to this Alan Wu's arrogant tone, Zhu Mingli was almost angry, where did the hell come from?

With the eighth place in the current best-selling list of "The Martian" in Amazon Books, even if it is not those publishers crying and begging to buy the copyright, at least equality and respect must be there!

But listen to this Alan Wu's tone, from the beginning of the pretentiousness, from time to time popping out two English words, as if he was a bull, and then opened his mouth and closed his mouth, "Is the copyright in your hands" A look of completely disbelief that "The Martian" was written by Zhu Mingli.

And from his mouth, it was said that Random House wanted to buy the copyright of "The Martian", which seemed to him to be a gift to Zhu Mingli!

Zhu Mingli knew the name of Random House, and it was this publisher who won the publishing rights of the original "The Martian" and pushed the novel to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

As for whether Random House has the ability to get its own contact information, Zhu Mingli does not doubt that as one of the largest publishers in the United States, it is easy to get his contact information through Amazon.

But Zhu Mingli thinks that with the quality that Alan Wu has just shown, he is not worthy of the good name of Random House, and he is a bit of a dog's eye......

However, Zhu Mingli has never had that young and arrogant mentality, although this Alan Wu's tone is not good, Zhu Mingli still decided to talk to him, after all, who can't get along with or money, right?!

You must know that in the "previous life" Random House bought the copyright of the novel for "six figures", and the novel was already at the top of the best-selling list on Amazon.com at that time, and this "six figures" must be more than just one or two hundred thousand!

So Zhu Mingli said to Alan Wu, "Of course, the copyright of this novel is mine, but the Chinese serial copyright and Chinese entity copyright of the novel have been signed to the science fiction world, if Random House has this will, there are also English entity publishing rights and overseas traditional copyrights can be signed." ”

"Oh, yes. Alan Wu's tone was a little flat, "Our company is willing to buy the overseas copyright of "The Martian" at a price of 1 million, if you think you can, Mr. Zhu, our company will send lawyers and relevant staff to your city later to sign a contract with you......"

"Hiss......" When Zhu Mingli heard Alan Wu say the number 1 million, his hands trembled, and he almost didn't hold his phone steady!

"$1 million?!Yes, this price is no problem at all! I agreed!" Zhu Mingli smiled on his face, thinking that this Alan Wu's voice actually sounded pretty good, "But if you sign a contract, ......"

Library ...... Sneer...... "Allen Wu's sneer suddenly came from the other end of the phone, interrupting Zhu Mingli's words, "Ahem...... Sneer...... Ai only heard Alan Wu's sharp voice say, "Are you kidding me?!" Zhu Xiansen, are you crazy about money? $1 million?! Who gave you the confidence to make you think that you can buy the copyright of a novel for $1 million?!

1,000,000 RMB is already a high price given by our company!"

Zhu Mingli's face changed suddenly, 1 million RMB? Labor and management are now more than this number just in the website, who the hell gave you the courage to offer such a price? Liang Jingru?!

"Okay, okay, Zhu Xiansen, let's talk about signing the contract......" Alan Wu called Zhu Mingli "Zhu Xiansen", obviously trying his best to ridicule.

"Sign the contract, sign the ghost of Nima!" was already slighted, and now he is so insulted, even if it is a clay man, there are three points of fire, when the publishing house signed the physical publishing rights of "Wasteland", Zhu Mingli directly scolded them through Liu Wei, and now where can Zhu Mingli bear it, he scolded directly, and scolded directly in English, "What the hell are you just in the toilet, right? 1 million RMB, you also want to buy the copyright of Lao Tzu's novel?" Why the hell are you selling a lot of shares to your boss, and the chrysanthemum has become brainless!

Who gave you the confidence to be able to talk to people in such a tone? Do you think that if you can speak a few words of English, you will be very good? Labor and management will also curse people! Eat!!***!"

After speaking, Zhu Mingli hung up the phone, and then marked the number as a blacklist. It's enough to be disgusted once, do you want the other party to disgust yourself again?

As for offending this Alan Wu and making friends with Random House or something, Zhu Mingli doesn't care!

It's as if he didn't care about the publisher directly scolding each other at the beginning, because Zhu Mingli didn't plan to continue to mix in this industry in the future, so he wasn't afraid of offending them, and he didn't care about really offending a giant publisher like Random House.

Because the original intention of writing "The Martian" was just to make a windfall, and now this task has been overfulfilled, and the sale of the two books on Amazon has brought Zhu Mingli a windfall of nearly 2 million RMB, and there will be more in the future.

As for whether it can be published, if the price is right, Zhu Mingli naturally doesn't mind, if he wants to offer a brain-dead price of 1 million RMB like Alan Wu, how far will his natural thoughts go!