Although Li Feiteng was very tired, he was quite worried about his eldest sister-in-law, so he did not rest, and came to an ordinary apartment in the southern suburbs of Seattle with Gao Yuanyuan.

In the evening, the car stopped in front of the apartment, Li Feiteng got out of the car and looked at the apartment, from the domestic standard, this apartment is already good, just outside it looks like there are more than 100 square meters, or a two-story wooden structure, it doesn't look very old.

"Or I'll go in first, you're outside. An Miaomiao came to the door and hesitated for a moment and said.

"It's okay, I'll just follow you. Li Feiteng said, and when she opened the door, he followed into the apartment.

The living room was really a little messy, there were wine bottles and fruit crumbs on the coffee table, dirty clothes on the sofa, and women's underwear, which made An Miaomiao's face a little red, and she hurriedly said, "You go out first!"

"Okay. Li Feiteng compromised, he didn't want to be considered a cheeky pervert by his sister-in-law, so he decisively withdrew from the apartment.

As soon as he left, An Miaomiao pushed open the door of her sister's bedroom, and as soon as she came in, she saw her sister sleeping with her head locked in the quilt.

She knew that her sister was not asleep at all, so she sat on the edge of the bed and whispered, "Sister, the patient's family has stopped suing you, and they have forgiven you." ”

When An Yu heard this, she moved, lifted the quilt herself, and asked in surprise: "How is it possible, they are going to send me to prison!"

Looking at her sister's pair of panda eyes, An Miaomiao smiled and said, "I can still lie to you, this matter is over, sister." Otherwise, you won't want to study abroad. Accompany me after giving birth. Just go back home. ”

"How can you look so open and insist on giving birth to a child?" An Yu said excitedly, she had been hurt once unforgettable, she no longer believed in love, no longer believed in men, but she still hoped that her sister could have a good home.

Who knows, my sister actually had the same experience as her, which simply made An Yu have some misanthropic thoughts. If it weren't for An Miaomiao's optimistic strength to inspire her, she wouldn't have been able to abandon her sister, maybe she would have committed suicide by taking sleeping pills these days.

An Miaomiao didn't answer, she quickly changed the topic and said: "This time it's my big boss who helps, he has already come, but when he saw the appearance of the living room of your apartment, he was waiting at the door." ”

"Ah! Li Feiteng is here again!"

"What, you said he helped me?"

An Yu had an expression of disbelief on her face, and she stared at her sister. asked tentatively: "Miao Miao, what is the relationship between you and Li Feiteng." Your child, it can't be his!"

An Miaomiao was taken aback by her sensitivity, and hurriedly said: "Sister, what do you want, if the child is him, I am willing to do anything." ”

"You can't say that, no matter how good and rich he is, he can't step on two boats, didn't you say that he had Gao Yuanyuan and gave birth to a daughter, didn't you?"

"Hmm. Sister's words made An Miaomiao smile in her heart, and said: "Hearing you say this, I still believe in love very much, you, don't mention myself in the future, I can't figure myself out, and I still care about others." ”

Where is Li Feiteng only a woman and a daughter, An Miaomiao already knows the existence of all his women, as one of his four women, two women have already given birth to children for him, and Meng Tingwei still gave birth to a boy, but these are nothing to her, as long as Li Feiteng is good and can love her and miss her, these are not big problems.

"Let's go, go clean up the living room and let the family come in and sit down. An Miaomiao got up and said, and went out to clean up the living room.

An Yu muttered in the back: "His time should be precious, maybe he has already left......"

When she came to the living room, she looked messy, and among them was her own corset, which really made her blush.

Without saying a word, she immediately reached over and grabbed her corset. It just so happened that Li Feiteng was about to come in and tell An Miaomiao that he had something, and as soon as he came in, he saw An Yu reaching out for her bra.

She glanced at Li Feiteng in shock, and the two stared at each other, particularly embarrassed.

Li Feiteng said in his heart, the bra on her hand seems to have a B, but why can't she see it at all?

An Yu was very sensitive, and she instantly felt his eyes look at the corset on his hand, and then aimed at her breasts, which made her a little itchy and uncomfortable.

As a girl who has been single for many years, her body is very sensitive, so after being swept over her chest by his special gaze, there were some bad pictures in her head immediately, and she instantly clamped her legs, panted slightly, and pressed one hand involuntarily on the sofa, setting off her body's center of gravity.

"Well, ahem, I'll go first. Li Feiteng raised his eyebrows and said, he also felt that An Yu was a little strange, in short, the atmosphere was too embarrassing, and he just left as much as he could.

As soon as he left, An Yu sat down on the sofa with a slump of the whole person, feeling that her legs were cold and a little wet, and she suddenly realized that she seemed to have forgotten to wear the inner library!

"Hey, I didn't ...... just now" Her face was flushed, and she didn't know if she was gone just now, and if she was seen by Li Feiteng.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, you clean up for me, I'll change my clothes. ”

……

In front of the hotel building, a middle-aged man with blond hair looked at his watch and waited for a while, and when Li Feiteng's Lincoln stretch car stopped, he also hurriedly walked up.

"Mr. Li, I'm Zhu Lien, the editor of Random House Press, and it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

"Please. ”

Three of Philasm's books were translated into English, all of which were published by Random House, and after he finished writing, he contacted Random House and invited the publisher to come and read the manuscripts.

The protagonist in The Da Vinci Code is also named Langdon, so these are the reasons why Fei Teng Lee asked Random House to publish it.

In addition, Random House is also the world's largest publishing group, with a wide range of sales channels, very high publishing specifications and requirements, and a large number of bestsellers.

The two came to the suite, and Li Feiteng handed him a copy of the manuscript he had sorted out, and said, "This is a suspense novel." But it's very different from my previous works. It is aimed at European and American readers. And not the Chinese. ”

Zhu Lien nodded, immediately took it and began to read carefully.

Li Feiteng waited patiently for him to review the manuscript, and after he waited for about ten minutes, Zhu Lien said with a surprised expression: "Mr. Li, is this really your work?"

"Without a doubt, yes. Li Feiteng was not angry, and nodded with a smile.

"Oh my God, that's a great job. Although I only read tens of thousands of words, I really wanted to read them in one sitting. Zhu Lien said in amazement, he is in the position of deputy editor-in-chief of Washington Publishing House, and often reviews manuscripts for famous authors, and his vision is very vicious.

"This has the style of two masters of reasoning, Mark Bane and Wavor, but compared to them, the postmodern non-narrative writing method makes me particularly interested in reading it, in short, this is a rare high-IQ suspense novel!"

Li Feiteng was also very happy in his heart. He has read the works of the two reasoning masters mentioned in front of him. One is the King's Redemption, the other is the Last Clothes, especially the Last Clothes about a missing case, and the detective's technique is very subtle, and before he starts writing, he also re-reads it.

He was happy, but Zhu Lien hadn't said anything about the royalty contract.

At this time, Zhu Lien pondered for a moment, and finally spoke: "Mr. Li, the royalty of your previous three novels is 20%, and we are willing to increase this novel by another percentage point." ”

Hearing this answer, Li Feiteng felt a little uncomfortable, his royalties in China are also so high, because he joined the writers' association, he is very clear about how much benefit he can get between the publishing house and the author.

The publisher is at least 30%-50%, and his royalty is only 21%, so the publisher has at least 39%, and the remaining 40% is probably the cost price.

Before Li Feiteng's rebirth, the global sales of the Da Vinci Code were 61 million copies, priced at $7.99, and in China it was 70RMB, according to the highest sales, the publisher would earn close to $200 million, while he only had about $170 million.

Of course, if he starts a publishing house by himself, he will definitely make a lot of money, but whether the sales can be guaranteed is not necessarily.

It's a pity that Li Feiteng will definitely not be able to establish a very large publishing house in a short period of time.

However, he thought that in the future, in another five years, Amazon Books will be launched, and he will definitely set up an online bookstore in China, at that time, online sales channels also account for a large part of sales.

Li Feiteng thought for a while, and he said: "Mr. Zhu Lien, if we sign a gambling contract, when the sales of this book exceed five million, you will have to pay two percentage points more in royalties, that is, 23% of the royalty, and when the sales of more than 10 million copies are sold, we will add another two percentage points until the 27% royalty is capped?"

Zhu Lien was frightened by his words, although he was very optimistic about this novel, but before it was released, the author had the confidence to break through 15 million sales, which is simply incredible!

"Also, our cooperation is five years at most. Li Feiteng added.

After hearing this condition, Zhu Lien was even more dumbfounded, if there is only a five-year contract, then at least 3 million copies of the annual sales will be completed, and they will pay royalties at a premium.

But a book that sells 3 million copies a year, what kind of concept is this? It's just another Harry Potter.

Zhu Lien didn't think much about it, he nodded and agreed: "Since Mr. Li is so confident in his new book, then I am also willing to bet." ”

Li Feiteng also smiled when he heard him agree, and continued: "In terms of the first printing, I think there will be at least 500,000 copies, and I also hope that you can publicize it more." ”

"Of course, I have no objection to the first printing of 500,000 copies. ”

On the same day, the two signed a contract, and Li Feiteng sent Zhu Lien away, and he also had a smile on his face.

For him, the failure of creation can only be said that his plagiarism was unsuccessful, and it does not mean that his literary level is very poor, because this is a foreign book, a lot of cultural history, even if he finds a lot of information, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no loopholes.

In the evening, he made a call to An Miaomiao, knowing that her sister was fine, and his heart was relaxed.

Li Feiteng thought about the old couple yesterday, and couldn't help but feel funny in his heart, the people of the magnesium country will also say one thing with their mouths and do another thing in their hearts, one and a half million US dollars, which is not a small number.

However, thinking that he spent two million US dollars for An Yu, which is equivalent to fifteen million yuan, he still felt a little painful in his heart, not that he was stingy, but that this money was also borrowed from others.

"I'm really in debt now!" Li Feiteng felt pressured in his heart, he didn't put all his expectations on the novel, because the failure rate was relatively large.

What he has to do now is to increase the success rate of the Da Vinci Code as much as possible.

In fact, Amazon Book City is also very popular in the magnesium country now, but the channel is still not as good as the real bookstore, at most it can be in a few states, and it has not yet gone global.

It is more difficult to build an online mall in China, but it is relatively simple in magnesium country, Li Feiteng wants to try it, on the two platforms of search and Google, to build a personal online platform for him, and cooperate with logistics companies and telephone banking to see if there can be some benefits.

Thinking to himself, he sat down in front of the computer in the study, smoking a cigarette and typing quickly into the programming.

Although there are no tools for writing software on the computer, for Li Feiteng, this is nothing, he mainly writes the idea of a website, and some code, and the detailed work is still responsible for the two companies.

Personal online mall, just use a simple sub-page, these are not the point, Li Feiteng stopped to think about the way to pay.

Cash on delivery is the easiest, only need to reach an agreement with the logistics company, then there is no problem, so the online mall must have a system for customers to leave their addresses.

Similarly, this requires some real names, personal information registration, and email addresses, otherwise there will always be some boring and hateful people, just place an order, but refuse to accept it, because the postage in the middle must be paid by the buyer.

In addition to this payment method, there is also bank transfer, this method, when the company has no brand influence, people will definitely be skeptical, afraid of being deceived.

However, this is a magnesium country, and the law is very perfect, so the bank transfer method is also something that many people are willing to try.

However, because he is not satisfied with the goods and asks for a return, it is more difficult to refund the bank transfer, or Li Feiteng is from the seller's point of view, he does not want to refund, so he can only maintain excellence in goods and services, and avoid problems with books as much as possible. (To be continued......)