Chapter 66: The Gift
Since April 21, a nationwide campaign against pirated comics has been launched, and within a few days, all the pirated comic publications have been swept away...... Subsequently, four comic publications, "Yanjing Cartoon", "Juvenile Comics", "Cartoon Pioneer" and "Chinese Cartoon", came out one after another, and together with "Anime Boy", they constituted the first 5 of the 5155 Project.
However, unlike the last four newly created comic publications, "Anime Shonen" became famous thanks to the recommendation of the news network and the subsequent focus interview on the domestic comic market.
The telephone number that was made public in the magazine had been ringing 24 hours a day since the 22nd, and it was all called by booksellers from all over the country who requested supplies...... Meng Zhe estimates that "Anime Boy" can at least win two-thirds of the market share after the fall of magazines such as Painting King, and thus become a giant with more than 500,000 copies sold in a single issue.
Ah--since it's been done so big, and since there are so many excellent serialized comics under it, there is no possibility of being quickly abandoned by readers...... Meng Zhe immediately slacked off completely.
Meng Zhe's purpose in drawing comics is just to make his future wife happy, and at the same time to earn some money to support his family.
Although in the process of achieving this goal, a series of unexpected things happened, which made Meng Zhe go from drawing comics for other magazines to running his own comic magazines and making a great reputation...... But now the purpose of making money has been fully achieved, isn't it?
"Yoshida, do you Shueisha really want the copyright of the Chinese version of "Digimon" and "Princess Huanzhu"?"
Meng Zhe, who was excellent and wandering, kept dealing with the two uncolored figure white models in his hand, and asked without raising his head.
"Meng Sang, please be sure to give us the copyright of these them! Please! β
Yoshida's hair was messy, his eyes were bloodshot, his voice was hoarse when he spoke, and there were even several swollen pockets at the corners of his mouth.
Shueisha has already given Yoshida a task, asking him to get the copyright of these two serials before the end of April, but it looks like it is about to be the end of April, but Meng Zhe doesn't show his mouth alive!
Because he didn't complete the task of inviting Meng Zhe to participate in the release of the single book issued by Shueisha earlier, Yoshida has been reprimanded by the chief editor across the Pacific Ocean. If he can't complete the task this time, Yoshida feels that he will definitely be fired! Absolute!
"Oh...... I see, so what price are you Shueisha willing to pay? β
Meng Zhe still didn't look up, he carefully put down the two white molds of the figure, picked up the nitro paint and sprayed the basic color on the two white molds, after spraying, he added a little coffee and red to the nitro paint to make a shadow color, and sprayed it on the depressions of the figure's body or the area where the effect was made...... "Fifteen thousand yuan per original!" Meng Sang, this is really the highest price! Yao Jun, Hu Jun, and Jiang Jun are all newcomers after all...... Meng Sang, please! β
Looking at Meng Zhe, who was you'd like to go, Yoshida was almost crying, he had exhausted all his solutions, and he had said all the bottom lines he could say, if Meng Zhe didn't let go, he could only pack up his things and go back to his roots...... However, even if the Yoshida clan has already explained all the bottom lines, Meng Zhe still has no intention of letting go.
After spraying the shadow color, Meng Zhe began to spray the main color layer that is darker than the basic color to the two figures, and spraying this layer can make the overall tone more natural...... As a result, poor Yoshida despaired, and he felt that his job had been lost this time. Yoshida remembered his girlfriend and what he said to her when he left for China: "Honey, I will definitely make enough money from China and come back to marry you!" β
Now, if you don't make enough money, you will be fired, where will you still have the face to see people when you go back, and where will you still have the face to praise Haikou's girlfriend?!
Kill yourself...... Only suicide.
"Huh? Why haven't you seen you for a few days, and you've become so haggard from Yoshida's? What, Yoshida, what did you just say? I was so focused on making the figure just now that I didn't know it at all......"
Just when Yoshida felt that his life was completely over, Meng Zhe's voice suddenly appeared in Yoshida's ears like the gospel of God.
"Fifteen thousand dollars per manuscript! Yao Jun, Hu Jun, and Jiang Jun for their "Digimon" and "Princess Huanzhu", we at Shueisha are willing to contribute 1,500 yuan per manuscript, as well as 500,000 yuan for the contracted writer's annuity, to obtain the copyright of these two works in the local areaββ"
Yoshida blinked his eyes, and then suddenly shouted at Meng Zhe in the loudest voice and repeated.
"Please! Meng Sang, please promise me! Otherwise, I would have really had to kill myself! β
In Meng Zhe's stunned eyes, Yoshida knelt in front of Meng Zhe with a pop, and he really let go...... "Oh, Yoshida, what are you doing here?" It has been 100 years since we abolished kneeling in China, and now only the dead will be bowed down by others. Hurry up, hurry up, 15,000 yuan each, there should be no problem, I'll go talk to Da Yao and them in a while, I'll take care of them! You can also report to Shueisha, and then bring the written contract. Rest assured, we have such a good relationship, how could I not help you? Well...... The ground is hard, Yoshida, you don't have a knee injury, right? β
Meng Zhe, who was secretly happy in his heart, dragged Yoshida up from the ground with a 'look of concern', and said the last sentence while agreeing to sell the copyright.
"Meng Sang, sure enough, you Chinese are the most humane in the world!"
didn't think about it, Meng Zhe seemed to have gone a little too far, and Yoshida was actually moved by the tears and bowed again and again!
β¦β¦ On the morning of the 17th day of the third lunar month, Meng Zhe wrapped the two completely completed figures in a self-made box and exquisite wrapping paper, and then carefully packed them into a schoolbag and brought them to the school classroom.
It's just that as soon as Meng Zhe sat down in the classroom, Guan Yingluo, who arrived before him, reached out and handed over a box of twenty-four color drawing pencils.
"Today is your birthday, I wish you a happy birthday."
When Meng Zhe turned his head to look, Guan Yingluo said with a smile.
"Guan Yingluo, you...... How do you know I'm going to live today? β
Meng Zhe felt a little incredible, he felt that with Guan Yingluo's big surname, it was impossible to remember things like the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar.
Therefore, Meng Zhe even forgot that he should reach out and take the gift, which is not rude.
"Don't forget it!"
Guan Yingluo was a little angry - "I want it!" Absolutely! Miss Guan's gift, even if it is a feather, is extremely precious, this affectionate friendship...... How could I not want to? β
Meng Zhe hurriedly reached out to grab the pencil in Guan Yingluo's hand, jokingly...... Guan Yingluo, this girl, the price of angering her is too great!
was different from Meng Zhe's expectations, Guan Yingluo didn't do the same as she did in her house that day, the women didn't let the eyebrows fight with him, but quickly stuffed the gift in her hand into Meng Zhe's arms, and then muttered in a low voice: "Soul light Meng Jiji!" The ghost has a deep friendship with you! β
After muttering, Guan Yingluo turned her head and looked out the window and ignored Meng Zhe.
Meng Zhe laughed twice, and after putting Guan Yingluo's gift into the table, he suddenly patted his head and remembered something, so he opened his mouth and said, "Guan Yingluo, you don't have anything to do this weekend, right?" β
"What for?"
Guan Yingluo didn't turn around, but she responded.
"Of course, to make clothes? This weekend is just in time for May Day, so take an extra day off? β
Wearing the clothes of the characters in the comics, showing and promoting them on the side of the book, Meng Zhe has indeed told Guan Yingluo about this.
ββ¦β¦ Oh. Guan Yingluo paused for a moment before letting out a sigh, and then she finally turned her head to look at Meng Zhe and asked very seriously: "Jiang Weirui and Jiang Xiyao, are the two of them going too?" β
"Of course they're going too, because they're the prototypes of the Chess Soul and the Dream Eater."
Meng Zhe nodded and replied affirmatively.
After listening to Meng Zhe's answer, Guan Yingluo turned her head in the direction of the window again, looked out the window and ignored Meng Zhe.
Meng Zhe didn't feel anything about this, he took out all the books in his schoolbag and piled them on the table, and then ran out of the classroom with his schoolbag on his back...... Along the stairs, Meng Zhe climbed towards the fourth floor layer by layer, because there were many people who greeted him, it took Meng Zhe about five minutes to finally go up to the fourth floor.
Just walked to the middle of the stairs leading from the third floor to the fourth floor, Meng Zhe heard the angry voice of his sister-in-law Jiang Xiyao: "Li Xuefu!" Get out of the way, I'm going to study in class! I don't want any of your gifts! β
Then, Meng Zhe heard the voice of his future wife Jiang Weirui again: "Li Xuefu, why are you pestering my sister?" If you don't get out of the way, I'm going to report to your homeroom teacher!" β
"Xun'er, I really just want to wish you a happy life, and the gift is also a piece of my heart. The gift is really not expensive at all, it is just a Motorola pager of Hanxian......"
Li Xuefu?
This little gentleman still dares to pester my sister-in-law?!
Meng Zhe was furious when he heard this-Damn!
How dare you still pester my sister-in-law with a thief's heart and immortality?!
So, Meng Zhe, who took three steps and walked in two steps, rushed to the fourth floor in a few big steps, and then he saw the two big loli of the Jiang family who were blocked by a few people.
Li Xuefu ...... Fuck me off with your broken pager, Kaoru and Mei'er won't want anything from people like you. β
casually pushed aside the two people who were in the way, and Meng Zhe, who blocked the two obviously frightened big loli, said.
(To be continued)