The filming of "Charlotte's Troubles" in the early and middle stages has already cost nearly two million, and this is still on the premise that several leading actors offered to get paid after the movie was released. Therefore, it can be said that Qin Shi's funds are very tight now, and the 500,000 yuan advanced from Wang Lining has long been used for the rental of various venues and the daily expenses of the crew.

A week after "Breaking the Sky" was serialized, Qin Shi also went to find Wang Lining. Because they agreed at the beginning, the manuscript fee for "Breaking the Sky" in the first week was calculated at 500 yuan per thousand words. After a week, the manuscript fee will be adjusted according to the market reaction.

Originally, before the serialization of "Dou Po Firmament", the sales volume of Jiangnan Daily was about 150,000 copies per day, and it was on a downward trend, but after the serialization of "Dou Po", the sales not only slowed down the downward trend, but also skyrocketed, and the sales returned to the peak and broke the record in a week, and now it is stable between 25 and 300,000 per day.

Although a newspaper is sold, the profit that Jiangnan Daily can get is actually not much, and even in terms of selling newspapers alone, the newspaper is operating at a loss.

However, the newspaper does not make a profit from selling the newspaper, but through the advertising space in the newspaper. The higher the sales of the newspaper and the more exposure it gets, the higher the cost of advertising space.

Originally, because the sales of Jiangnan Daily continued to decline, some companies and enterprises had already terminated the cooperative relationship with Jiangnan Daily, which made Wang Lining really headache.

But when Qin Shi put the manuscript of "Dou Po" on his desk, he knew that those people would definitely regret it.

So naturally, once "Dou Po" was serialized, it was a mess of fire, and the intestines of those companies that terminated the contract with Jiangnan Daily were all repentant.

It is easy to terminate the contract, but it is difficult to renew the contract, when those companies and enterprises come to talk about cooperation, Wang Lining also found the right opportunity and made a lot of money.

Because Qin Shi saved Jiangnan Daily alone and made Jiangnan Daily make a lot of money, Wang Lining naturally had no reason to treat him badly.

Originally, the remuneration of 500 yuan per thousand words also mentioned 1,000 yuan per thousand words, which is actually equivalent to one yuan per word.

For more than half a month, Qin Shi took the time to use the computer to code words every day, fortunately, he didn't have to think about it, but just wrote down the story by memory, so he could write 20,000 words almost every day, of course, he could almost code 10,000 words on the computer in an hour.

Although Qin Shi was already writing very quickly, this was a novel with a total number of more than five million words after all, so it was not so quick to finish. But fortunately, Wang Lining knew that Qin Shi was short of money to make movies, so he also advanced another 1.5 million to Qin Shi in the future.

Generally speaking, such a thing as a manuscript is rarely paid in advance, and it is generally paid after seeing the manuscript, and even after the manuscript is published, the remuneration may not be able to be received. Like Qin Shi, it is already an exception within an exception.

Of course, Wang Lining naturally had his reasons for doing this, and Qin Shi also understood it in his heart.

So on this day, Wang Lining took the initiative to ask Qin Shi to meet.

The meeting place is at a private club called "Yuan" in Gangnam City.

This is a club with a very famous reputation, and it is not even as famous as it is in heaven and earth, but when Qin Shi arrived at the door of this club, he knew that the reason why this club is not famous is because ordinary people are not qualified to know it at all.

The place where the "source" is located is very special, located at the foot of a relatively remote mountain by the West Lake, across a lake, opposite is the most lively and prosperous place in the whole Jiangnan City.

But this place, the quietness is somewhat unexpected, the clubhouse is an old-fashioned house, not high, only two floors, from the outside, there is no very new architectural elements, but it gives people a nostalgic feeling.

There is a row of fences outside the gate, which gives people the feeling of coming to a mountain village in a trance.

Qin Shi pushed open the gate of the fence and walked in, but there was no welcome at the door, and there was no one.

He was a little surprised in his heart, how could a club in such a place be so quiet, wasn't he afraid that someone would trespass?

But when Qin Shi walked in the door, Wang Lining also greeted him and took Qin Shi to a private room on the second floor.

The interior of this house is also very peculiar, as if it was a Western-style building in the twenties and thirties of the last century, and even the staircase is a wooden circular staircase, and even the sound of hitting the wooden planks will be made when you walk on it.

There are very few people walking around the house, and the staff are either wearing long coats or cheongsam, giving it a very retro feel.

The doors of many rooms were ajar, but the moment Qin Shi went upstairs, he caught a glimpse of the interior of a private room.

He saw a person, but he didn't see it very clearly, but he vaguely knew who that person was, because that person would appear in the political news of the TV station almost every once in a while.

Qin Shi was very curious about the identity of the owner of this club, and at the same time, he was also very puzzled why Wang Lining would ask him to meet him at this place.

When he was brought into that room by Wang Lining, he also met someone who surprised him.

Jiang Yan.

"Why are you here?"

Qin Shi saw Jiang Yan sitting in the private room, his brows were also slightly furrowed, and then he asked.

"Let's sit down first."

Jiang Yan took a sip of the fragrant tea he was holding in his hand, put the teacup on the table, and said to Qin Shi.

With doubts in his heart, Qin Shi also pushed away a chair and sat down, looking at Jiang Yan's elegant appearance of wearing a robe and drinking tea at this time, it was really difficult for him to say that Jiang Yan in front of him was on a par with the madman he saw in the abandoned factory that day.

But after thinking about it for a while, Qin Shi also understood that such a Jiang Yan is enough to be worthy of the title of madman, because madmen are all unreasonable, which is unexpected and unexpected, so they can be called real madmen.

"I'm quite satisfied with the gift I gave you at the festival."

Jiang Yan personally stood up, made a cup of tea for Qin Shi, and said with some deep meaning.

"It's a bit of a surprise, but it's still expected, you're a very good friend."

Qin Shi took the cup of tea, looked up at Jiang Yan and said.

"That guy Liu Yuan is like a clown in our circle, but this clown thinks that he can be unscrupulous if he hugs a thigh, and this time, it is just a small lesson for him."

Jiang Yan's eyes crossed a different color, and he said calmly.

"You turned a corner today and asked Wang Lining to come to me on an appointment, it shouldn't be just to talk about this."

Qin Shi lowered his head and tasted the tea made by Jiang Yan himself, the taste was sweet and fragrant, it was indeed the best in tea, but today's meeting was obviously not as simple as tasting tea.