Chapter 21 Counting is counting

These private publishing houses, no, it should be said that the core fraud of small private workshops is to deceive the author's manuscript first, and then go to the regular publishing house to dump the book number, and then launch it to sell it for money. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Therefore, the core of the whole process is to deceive the manuscript of the young author completely.

Big-name authors are not to be messed with, they have a lot of experience in dealing with publishers, and most of them have the connections of regular publishers. If you annoy them, you probably won't be able to eat and walk around. When encountering some of the more serious authors, they may even sue them directly and all the time.

And those small-name authors don't have these resources at all, so they can only obediently tie their hands and consider themselves unlucky.

Zhao Qingshan was thinking about wishful thinking in his heart, and at this time the phone called.

"Hello, is it Zhao Qingshan Zhao Editor?"

"Oh, hello, may I ask who you are?"

"I am Mr. Zheng Long's agent on my side, and you seem to have the intention to help Mr. Zheng publish his works..."

Zhao Qingshan was stunned for a moment, and didn't react at once... I thought about it and came back to my senses...

"You... Are you Zheng Long's agent? Isn't Zheng Long just in junior high school, how can there be an agent? ”

Zhao Qingshan is a little square...

"Yes, Zheng Long is only in junior high school, so he must be handled by his guardian. I'm his sister, and I can do it all. ”

"Oh... All right... So what are you going to do? ”

"In this way, I happened to be in Beijing today, and I came to travel with one of my nieces, so I will visit your publishing house by the way to see the strength of your publishing house."

"Oh, well!"

The two chatted a few more words, and Zhao Qingshan put down the phone inexplicably. This phone call made him feel furious, but he couldn't say what the reason was, so after thinking about it, he simply reported the matter to the supervisor Shangguan Mao.

Shangguan Maogang wanted to scold Zhao Qingshan for doing this, but after thinking about it, he said:

"You show me that kid's article first, I want to see what kind of article is so valuable..."

Shangguan Mao began to read the text with a superior mentality, but as soon as he read the first page, Shangguan Mao was surprised:

"This serial, we have to get it!"

Zhao Qingshan grinned.

"Moreover, I don't think this author is very famous, I think we will probably save this manuscript fee together! If the other party makes a fuss, it would be nice to give some compensation. ”

"I think so..."Zhao Qingshan hurriedly echoed:

"However, it seems that this Zheng Long's sister is a bit difficult to handle... And we agreed to meet at the company this afternoon, and I was afraid that something would go wrong at that time. ”

"I'm not afraid, when the time comes, I'll sing a double reed with you, just like the last time I got the xx author. Where can these grass-headed authors fight us, hahahaha! ”

Zhao Qingshan also laughed along with hehehe.

As soon as Soba arrived in Kyoto, she took a bus to Nortel and found her sister.

Her sister Buck Xue was performing at Nortel, and it was quite unexpected to meet her just after class.

"Buckwheat, why are you here? Don't you have to go to school? ”

"Sister, we'll talk about this later. Now there's something important that you need your help with. ”

Buckwheat snow is coloring:

"Okay, you say, as long as I can help and don't break the law, I will definitely help you. Who made me your sister? ”

"You're really my sister!"

So, buckwheat explained the ins and outs to buckwheat.

Buck Xue also studied art, and often did some part-time modeling and acting in addition to class, and often encountered such unreliable companies every once in a while, and hated these scam companies.

"This kind of company is so hateful! Well, what do you say, we will do it, but we can't let them cheat people into writing the manuscript they worked so hard to write in vain! ”

Buckwheat leaned into her sister's ear and told her about the battle plan she had drawn up on the train.

"Okay, you, you're a big ghost!"

"No, don't look at whose sister it is!"

Zheng Long, on the other hand, told his parents about the publication of his works.

Zheng Nanxing and Qian Lizhen didn't believe it at first, but when they saw the sample magazine, they really believed it.

Sometimes ordinary parents don't believe that their children can do extraordinary things because what they do is often beyond the scope of their parents' life experience.

But when you really show them what you've done, they'll still be genuinely happy for you and cheer you on.

In the whole world, only the love of parents for their children is unreserved.

Zheng Nanxing looked at the sample magazine, carefully studied Zheng Long's article many times, and said several times in a row

"Good, good, good!"

Qian Lizhen's eyes were even moister, and she was so choked that she couldn't speak.

"It's out, Aaron is really out..."

It was this kind of atmosphere that made Zheng Long seem very unaccustomed.

"Dad, Mom, it's a good thing to publish works, why are you crying? In the future, my son will write more articles, and even publish novels and novels! ”

Zheng Nanxing also changed his previous distrust of Zheng Long and began to encourage him:

"Okay, ambitious! That's how our Zheng family's children should be! Daddy believes in you! In the future, Dad will never stop you from reading, whatever books you want to read, what books you want to buy, as long as the family can afford it, he will definitely buy it for you! However, you can't delay learning! ”

Zheng Long nodded:

"yes, I see."

"But..."

Qian Lizhen suddenly thought of a very real problem...

"Aaron, where's your manuscript fee?"

Zheng Long didn't know how to answer, so he had to lie and say:

"Some of my good classmates knew about it, so I invited them to eat. The manuscript fee is not much, and it is almost spent. ”

"Oh."

Qian Lizhen was a little disappointed, and said:

"If you have a manuscript fee in the future, you must take it home first, we will keep it for you, and it will be yours in the future anyway."

Zheng Long nodded fiercely.

Back in the room, Zheng Long began to continue writing the second half of "Phantom City". The first half of the revisions and touches have been almost completed. After writing it, Zheng Long read "Phantom City" again and felt that it was better than Guo Mingming's original work

It's better written, at least not so pretentious, but a bit of it is preserved.

Especially in some specific fight descriptions, Guo Mingming's original work is a little too illusory and ethereal, although it has won the love of many female readers, but it seems a little cumbersome. Zheng Long focuses on integrating many of the fight scenes in the online novels he later reads, and strives to be different in each paragraph, making the whole work look fuller.

In terms of character portrayal, the background setting of the conflict between the two races is more perfect - of course, this is also derived from his years of accumulation of online games and online articles, after all, in the era when Guo Mingming wrote "Phantom City", such a setting may still be relatively new to Chinese writers, but for later writers, the conflict between several races is almost an indispensable background.

That night, Zheng Long finally finished "Phantom City" and stored the documents in several places to ensure that he would not lose the documents. After all this was done, Zheng Long began to check grammar and typos again until two o'clock in the middle of the night, and when he finished reading the last word, he finally let out a sigh.

It's finally done!