Chapter 21: Novel Publishing
After talking for a while, I saw that the old lady's face became worse and worse after being rejected. Uncle is a fine person, how can he not see that the old lady has a strange face. The uncle didn't think about money, thinking that it was the younger brother and his wife who angered the old lady again, and the uncle was too late to be happy, so how could he say good things for his younger brother's family, so he kept pretending to be stupid.
When it was time to eat, Chen Yuan changed her clothes and came out of the room, went to the toilet and went directly to the kitchen after washing, I don't know what the mother and daughter said, and when Chen Yuan came out, her face turned from cloudy to clear.
The Chen family does not have a restaurant, usually they eat directly in the living room, Chen Yuan helped bring the dishes and chopsticks out, and when she looked at Chen Lan, she rolled her eyes at Chen Lan unexpectedly.
Chen Lan didn't bother to bother with the little girl, but her mental age was 25 years old, as long as Chen Yuan didn't mess with her, she didn't need to get along with Chen Yuan.
Seeing that he was being ignored again, Chen Yuan was so angry that he couldn't wait to put the bowl in his hand on Chen Lan's head.
The whole process of a lunch was quiet, Chen's father was not a talkative person, and he had almost nothing to talk about with his eldest brother's family, and Mrs. Chen was still resentful of Chen's father and Chen's mother's refusal to take out the money, and she had an old face and a posture of being inclose. Chen Hao was absent-minded for some reason, and the uncle called him several times but did not respond.
After lunch, the old lady went back to her room without saying a word.
Chen's father and Chen's mother whispered a few words, and then knocked on the old lady's door.
When the old lady opened the door and saw that it was Chen's father, she was even more unhappy, and asked coldly, "What's the matter?" โ
Chen's father took out his wallet and took out all the two thousand yuan to the old lady, and then it was seen that there were more than ten pieces of money left in the wallet.
Mrs. Chen still wanted to harden her temper and not want Chen's father's money, but Chen's father stuffed the money into the old lady's hand, and said sadly: "My monthly salary with Aqing is only about 4,000, and we have to pay more than 1,000 rents every month, and Lanlan will go to high school next month, so I really can't afford to repair the house for the family." "If it weren't for his wife's ability, he wouldn't have been able to take out the two thousand yuan after making money from the Taobao store in the past few months. Chen's father is still a man with a conscience, and the money earned by his wife's Taobao store is her private money, if it weren't for an emergency, he would never beat his wife's private money.
After saying this, Chen's father said goodbye, "I have to go to work tomorrow, I'll go back first, and I'll come back next month when Xiaohao gets married." โ
The old lady saw that she couldn't squeeze money out of Chen's father, so she had to give up, and at the end of the day, she didn't forget to say, "Remember to give Xiaohao a big red envelope when the time comes."
Father Chen was disheartened, "Okay." โ
Chen's father and his family were about to leave, but the uncle pretended to keep him. "Xiaohu, why do you leave quickly? Don't stay for one night? โ
The eldest aunt was anxious at this time, and she knew that she didn't coax the uncle to take out the money, seeing that Xiaohao was going to get married next month...... The eldest aunt still didn't give up, and forced a smile on her face: "Yes, let's stay for one night." The eldest aunt stiffly changed the topic to the house, "It's all because our big dragon has no ability and doesn't make money......"
The uncle couldn't listen to these words, and immediately said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about! โ
When the eldest aunt saw that her husband was angry, she immediately cowered, hurriedly cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and walked quickly to the kitchen as if she had greased under her feet.
Father Chen saw that even his sister-in-law slaughtered him as a fat sheep, and his mood was very complicated, and he said sullenly: "Let's go first." โ
Father Chen was not in the mood to speak along the way, Chen Lan and Mother Chen glanced at each other, with the same helpless expression, let's wait for Father Chen to figure it out by himself.
The next day, Chen's father's birthday, Chen Lan took out her leather shoes and said a lot of good things, and finally made Chen's father happy. The family didn't go out to eat that day, and Chen's father just ran out of 2,000 yuan, and he was strapped for money, so he made a table of good dishes at home, and the family happily ate a meal.
On the third day, Chen's father went to work normally after taking leave.
There are still two years before his father's accident, but Chen Lan is reluctant to let his father work hard to drive a truck every day, and his mother's Taobao store is already on the right track.
However, as soon as Chen Lan got up, Chen's mother decisively refused, "No, if the Taobao store loses money one day, and your father has no job, how can you support a large family?" โ
Chen Lan retorted: "Mom, I can still write novels to make money, can you bear to watch my father be so tired every day?" โ
Chen's mother looked a little relaxed, the income of Taobao stores in the past few months is good, but it will be smooth sailing in business, and writing novels is not a serious matter, even if the novel is published, how much money can be made. Thinking of this, Chen's mother said firmly: "You still study your books hard, if your grades drop because of writing novels, you don't want to touch this computer again." โ
Chen Lan finally realized what it means to show only to meet soldiers, it is reasonable to say, after all, my mother can't predict the future, I can't see how much Taobao Tao can attract gold, and it is not a problem to receive tens of thousands of dollars a day if she does well. While not many people are yet aware of Taobao's amazing prospects, they are trying to scale up, create their own studios, and build their own brands, so that the store can stand out from the fierce competition in a few years.
Chen Lan can understand her mother's cautious attitude, but she still can't help but be disappointed, she tried to persuade her mother to do Taobao in the hope of changing the future and making the family live a better life, but her mother's concept has not been able to change, thinking that it is good to be safe and stable. It's still too rushed, Chen Lan thought, in a few years, when my mother sees Taobao becoming the largest shopping platform and more and more customers, she will probably be able to figure it out.
Chen Lan took a step back and said in a soft voice: "Now that the Taobao store has a good reputation, there are many repeat customers, but the style is a little less, so let's stop wholesale more clothes, not only women's clothing, but also men's clothing can be sold well." If the business in the store has been so good at the end of the year, will you let my dad come back to make men's clothing? โ
This time, Chen's mother did not object, "Wait a few months to see the sales volume, if the sales volume can be stabilized, let your father resign, find a light job, and help occasionally." โ
Hearing Chen's mother relieved, Chen Lan was finally relieved, with the improvement of the economic level, more and more people will use computers, and Chen Lan is not worried about the closure of his Taobao store at all.
By August, the first novel was on the market, and under Chen Lan's suggestion, the publishing house put the novel on the shopping network, so Chen Lan sent a link to the online shopping novel to the novel copywriting on the JJ Literature Network, and then ignored it, but was busy with the manuscript of the second novel. After entering a middle school, you have to start a residential life, and you can only come back once every weekend, so try to save as many manuscripts as possible now, and when the time comes, you will publish a chapter in two days, and a novel of 300,000 or 400,000 words can last for four or five months.
After careful consideration, Chen Lan decided to write the second novel about ancient time-travel, which has always been mixed in for better publication, and occasionally she will write illusions on the theme of rebirth, writing her own experience into the novel, so that the heroine can be reborn into the past and change her life, but Chen Lan has never been exposed to ancient literature, which is a new challenge for her.
The background of the novel is set in the Qing Dynasty, yes, this is a Qing Dynasty novel, and it has been written by countless people in later generations. From college to graduation, Chen Lan spent all her free time writing novels, but she hasn't watched much TV series, she only knows that there are a few TV series adapted from novels, but she is not shameless enough to plagiarize other people's settings. In her novels, the male protagonist and the male protagonist are all digital groups, and the female protagonist is wearing Kangxi's adopted daughter, so there is still an obstacle in the identity of the male and female protagonists together, of course, Chen Lan, as the female protagonist's mother, is absolutely reluctant to let the female protagonist fight with the flowery beauties of the male protagonist's harem, so the finale is ed.
On the day I received the admission notice from No. 1 Middle School, Chen Lan's second novel had already been halfway saved, and I almost stayed at home for nearly a month, and I even forgot about the high school entrance examination results.
Chen's mother happily slapped Chen Lan on the back, "It's a middle school!" It's really a ......."
Seeing that her mother couldn't smile from ear to ear, Chen Lan felt that the hardships in the past few months had been worth it.
Chen Lan looked at the notice carefully, it said that the first year of high school (class 3), the first middle school is divided into two real classes and four key classes, which means that the first (6) class of high school and the previous class are all key classes.
A few months ago, Chen's mother had no expectations for Chen Lan's grades, thinking that it would be good to be admitted to high school, and a few months later, Chen's mother faintly ignited hope in her heart, hoping that Chen Lan could be successfully admitted to a middle school, and now when Chen Lan said that she was admitted to the key class of a middle school, the result was even more surprising than expected.
Chen Lanming knew that Zhang Jiajia had been admitted to the first middle school class, but Zhang Jiajia's home phone had long been unreachable due to arrears, not to mention that Zhang Jiajia was still working in a relative's store, and Chen Lan couldn't find Zhang Jiajia, so she couldn't share this joy with her.
At this time, Chen Lan received a call from the editor of the publishing house, 10,000 novels were sold out, and many readers left messages that they couldn't buy this novel, Chen Lan hurriedly opened the backstage of JJ Literature Network to read the comments, and sure enough, readers commented that the number of first printing copies of the novel was too small, and they just saw the news on the Internet, and followed the link to see it, and the novel was already sold out.
It was the first time Chen Lan had encountered this situation, not to mention 10,000 copies in ten years, even a few thousand copies were likely to not be sold, Chen Lan forgot, although many readers would not read the genuine version on the Internet, but they were very willing to buy physical books. At this time, Chen Lan's mood was surging like turbulent waves, and he couldn't help but be excited.
Chen's mother was about to use the computer, and when she saw Chen Lan staring at the computer, she thought something was wrong with her, and finally her daughter was admitted to the first middle school, don't be stupid, isn't there an example given by Fan Jinzhong in the text.
Mother Chen shouted nervously to Chen Lan, "Lan Lan? โ
Chen Lan came back to his senses, thinking that Chen's mother was going to use the computer, so she gave up her position.
Mother Chen breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm scared to death of your mother and me, I thought you were happy and stupid." โ
Chen Lan and black line, "Mom, you think too much, but I have good news for you." โ
Chen's mother typed the courier bill into the computer, and responded casually, "What's the matter?" โ
The corners of Chen Lan's mouth were raised, and she said proudly: "All the 10,000 copies of my first published novel have been sold out, and the editor of the publishing house just now came to me to discuss and prepare to print an additional 100,000 copies of the novel." โ
Mother Chen took a moment and didn't pay attention to it.
This feeling of not being taken seriously made Chen Lan cry and laugh, "Mom, do you know how much I paid for publishing 10,000 copies?" โ
"How much?"
"More than 20,000."
Chen's mother's typing hand paused, thinking that she had heard a mistake, and asked repeatedly, "How much did you just say?" โ
Chen Lanqing cleared his throat and quickly revealed his manuscript fee, "More than 20,000." โ
Chen's mother's expression was even more shocked than hearing that Chen Lan was admitted to a key class in middle school, and said in disbelief: "You're not lying to me, you can earn more than 20,000 yuan by writing a novel on the Internet?" โ
Chen Lan was dissatisfied: "What does it mean to write casually, every time I conceive the plot, I don't know how many brain cells will die, and I have to ponder the sentences again and again, and look up information on the Internet......"
Chen's mother listened to a lot of words that she didn't understand, and even the surprise of hearing that Chen Lan earned 20,000 yuan was about to be consumed, "Okay, okay, I know you've worked hard, didn't you say that there is still good news to say?" Come on, I'll have to make a courier order later. โ
"Just now, the editor of the publishing house approached me to discuss printing 100,000 more novels." Chen Lan finished speaking in one breath.
Mother Chen gasped, "100,000 copies?!" "How much manuscript fee do you have to get, 20,000 for 10,000 copies, 200,000 for 100,000 copies, Chen's mother silently calculated the income of Taobao store in the past few months, and her heart was suddenly congested, and her hard work for a few months was not as good as her daughter's publication of a novel.
Chen's mother will not be blindly depressed, but quickly cheered up, and began to think about expanding the scale of Taobao stores, Chen's mother has also been mixed with the Internet for a few months, and also opened Taobao stores to do business, no longer think that the Internet is an ethereal deposit, if you can make good use of the network, maybe you can still make a lot of money.
Chen Lan didn't know what kind of changes he had brought to Chen's mother when he broke out the manuscript fee, but the most heart-wrenching thing was that the 200,000 manuscript fee had just arrived and was confiscated by Chen's mother. "I'll give it back to you when you go to college." Chen Muyi said righteously.
Chen Lan: ฮฃ(ยฐโณยฐ|||)
Mom, are you swollen like this...... My money......
Chen Lan went to Chen's father to cry.
Father Chen went from shock to pride at the beginning, although he didn't believe it was true at first, but when the bank card was remitted to 200,000 RMB, Father Chen burst into tears.
Chen's father touched Chen Lan's head and coaxed her, "Your mother said that she would pay it back to you when you go to college, and she was also afraid that you would spend money indiscriminately, so if you were short of money, tell your father, and your father will give it to you." โ
Chen Lan said secretly: Fortunately, she also submitted a lot of short stories to the magazine, if all of them were handed in, she would really cry.
"It's okay." Chen Lan actually doesn't care much about the 200,000, it's just the first novel to be published, and she will publish more novels in the future, cough cough, she will have to secretly hide โกโก private money when the time comes. "This money is reserved for the family to buy a house, housing prices have been rising in recent years, and the house will only get more and more expensive in the future, and you have to buy a house as soon as possible."
Chen's father and Chen's mother don't want to have their own house in City A, watching the house prices rise day by day, buying a house in City A has become an extremely luxurious thing. Neither Chen's father nor Chen's mother expected that Chen Lan would propose to buy a house, and after a moment of silence, Chen's mother gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, let's buy a house." โ