Chapter 114: Fame and Fortune
The summer vacation is over, and it doesn't leave Zhang Tan with much excitement and unfinished.
If it was a real half-grown child, he would definitely be crazy during the summer vacation, but Zhang Tan was not. For him, summer vacation is not much different from going to school, and the psychology of adults in their thirties has long had their own set of routines, and it will not be reversed too much because of school or vacation.
In this summer vacation, I can only say that it is very leisurely and fulfilling.
Fulfillment is because he is seriously writing book code words every day, planning to write 180,000 words a month, in fact, in July and August, he wrote more than 200,000 words, and it does not take up too much time, half a day can complete the code word work. The rest of the day is his leisurely life.
Fishing, singing, going to town for a barbecue, drinking some beer, and occasionally going to the ice rink run by a junior high school classmate, or going to the billiards room with a few cousins.
In the billiard room, there are often young women with bright hair colors, avant-garde dresses, and very decent looks and figures. You invite her to lunch, and she can stick her whole body on you, pestering you for an afternoon, and trying to reach out and rub some oil, it's so simple.
You invite her to dinner, and you can even hide in the corner with you, playing kissing and stroking games.
If you are willing to spend money for a few days in a row, it is nothing to open a room.
In his previous life, Zhang Tan envied the little ruffians in the town. Sons, take the chicks here all day long to show off. And because he was thin and weak, he looked like a little radish head, and no young women came to him, so he could only stare dryly, staring at the round buttocks of those young women, and swallowing saliva for a long time.
Even if he has a hundred yuan in his pocket in exchange for catching fish and shrimp, he is embarrassed to invite a young woman to dinner.
Moreover, the attraction of billiards at that time to him should be greater than the bodies of these swaying women.
Things are changing.
Zhang Tan, who returned to these billiard rooms again, was no longer Wuxia Ameng.
A nutritious diet and non-stop exercise made his body rise rapidly like a crop, soaring from 1.65 meters to 1.72 meters. The T-shirt he wore in the summer was attached to his body, and he could occasionally be seen with bulging pectoralis major muscles, as well as convex and concave abdominal muscles.
It's not the little radish head of the year anymore.
The beard on the mouth was also plucked out one by one by him with tweezers, leaving only a neat circle, which looked much more pleasing to the eye. Coupled with the mature temperament that exudes all the time, the young women in the billiards room will approach him without Zhang Tan taking the initiative.
Most of these young women are in their twenties, and their youth is beautiful. Wash off the dye of your hair, and then dress your clothes formally, I believe they are all sweet pure girls. Of course, there are also one or two fat people occasionally, as well as men's wives. But the popular ones are beautiful.
"I tell you, don't do anything to my brother, he's still young." Brother Zhang Qiang in the lobby consciously blocked Zhang Tan's side and pushed those young women away.
"Hey, Brother Qiang, what do you mean, we just asked your brother for an autograph, I admire cultured people the most." A young woman with a very punctual face and a punctual figure said with a smile.
Another sloppy young woman chimed in: "That's right, we're looking for your brother to get an autograph." ”
Brother Lobby showed no mercy: "Flash to the side for me, OK?" This is not English or not! ”
"It's so stingy." Hitting a wall, the young women muttered and turned around.
Zhang Qiang said to Zhang Tan in a serious tone: "Don't take care of the women here, don't be indecent at all." It's best not to talk to them, because people like them are used to beating snakes and sticks, and getting into trouble. ”
Zhang Tan wanted to say: "Big brother, let me handle this kind of troublesome matter myself." ”
But as a celebrity, you can't talk nonsense.
Zhang Tan just nodded: "Well, I know." ”
Now Zhang Tan has become a treasure of the old Zhang family, a key object of protection, everyone will unconsciously be proud of Zhang Tan, and at the same time maintain Zhang Tan. Zhang Tan has an immediate effect on the status of the old Zhang family in Gangji Town, and only Zhang Henong is a retired cadre in the old Zhang family, which is somewhat influential.
On the whole, it is still a peasant family that mainly farms, not that the peasants are the protagonists of the country, regardless of whether they are high or low. But I will be more or less inferior, and I always feel a head short when I interact with those who are cadres and do business.
Even Zhang Henong, who has been a state cadre, is not confident himself, his national cadre dared to fight hard when he was young, and in that turbulent decade, when the traitors were shot, no one in the whole commune dared to shoot, he dared. The upper position relied on this ferocity, not the little ink that he drank with his father-in-law.
After Zhang Tan rose, the old Zhang family finally straightened their waists and could shout: "Our family is also a scholarly family, from the old lady He, it is an intellectual!" Intellectuals! ”
If you don't believe it, heh, immediately bring out Zhang Tan.
"My grandson (son, nephew, brother) Zhang Tan, do you know? Writer! The book has been published, and hundreds of thousands of copies have been bought! Everyone in Hong Kong and Taiwan knows him! ”
The old Zhang family, with Zhang Henong in charge, is still a very united family, and there are not so many intrigues between families.
In other words, no one dares to intrigue in front of Old Man Zhang.
The old man is really majestic for half his life.
The topic is far away.
One way or another.
Seeing a few girls turn around and leave, Zhang Tan understood that he was now going to try to learn how to be a "celebrity".
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Zhang Tan went to school, and Li Yan drove over to pick him up.
Li Yan's car was a newly bought Fiat Palio, which cost seventy or eighty thousand yuan. Originally, Li Yan was reluctant, but Zhang Tan's new book "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has signed out all the copyrights in simplified and traditional Chinese, and it is conservatively estimated that at least the royalties can get more than one million, and her commission is three percentage points, which is more than 30,000.
More than 30,000 yuan is much more than what she earns in a year in a publishing house.
simply bought a car, so that it is more convenient to serve Zhang Tan.
For Zhang Tan's potential, she can see it more clearly than anyone else, now that Zhang Tan is still young, she can write such a work, and she will have it in the future? Moreover, as long as martial arts novels are well written, film and television adaptations will be easy in the future, which is another way to make money. With such a cash cow, Li Yan must of course work hard.
"How's the sales of 'Condor Shooting'?" Sitting in the co-pilot's seat, Zhang Tan asked.
Li Yan replied excitedly: "Here at Anwei Literature and Art Publishing House, the 100,000 copies printed were sold out in a week, and the 200,000 copies printed have also been sold out, and the third edition of 200,000 copies is now being printed." At the same time, the second volume will be printed at 300,000 copies. ”
Zhang Tan nodded: "Hmm, is this sales good?" ”
"It's not bad, it's just an exaggeration, now "Shooting the Condor" is already the most successful publishing case of the Literature and Art Publishing House this year, and the publishing house is ready to increase publicity efforts to strive for the circulation of a single volume of "Shooting the Condor" to exceed 800,000 copies!"
raised his eyebrows, Zhang Tan's joy could not be hidden.
He knows how much potential this classic novel has. Jin Yong is because of this book, famous all over the world, make a lot of money, and finally opened his own newspaper "Ming Pao", "Ming Pao" in the first year, and persisted to write the second part of the Condor trilogy "The Condor Heroine", so that "Ming Pao" sold out several times, and became one of the leaders of Xiangxiang newspapers.
Now that "Shooting the Condor" has a chance to hit the sales of 800,000 copies, Zhang Tan takes it for granted, but psychologically, he can't help but want to be proud.
With the addition of the traditional Chinese version, a single volume must not break one million copies!
As soon as the eagle shot out, the paper was really expensive!
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This chapter is made up for yesterday.,Yesterday was a lot of delay.,Sorry.。
Well, in addition, today is the 20th birthday of the old book friend "Xiao Liu", congratulations!