014 Manuscripts
Two days later, as soon as Chi Fei got off work, he came to Juyazhai with all the manuscripts of Liang Zhu.
The golden shopkeeper has been waiting there for a long time, lest the pool will not come.
As soon as he saw Chi Fei, he immediately walked over and asked, "Little brother, have you brought all the manuscripts here?" ”
"I've brought it here, please check it with the shopkeeper." Chi Fei handed him the manuscript very simply.
Of course, he also copied a copy of these manuscripts for the record.
After the golden shopkeeper took it, he continued to read down the chapter he saw last time.
When I saw the passage of the eighteen phases, I couldn't help but admire: "Okay, well written, really well written." ”
Then, as the tragic part gradually unfolds, the original cheerful and sweet atmosphere gradually disappears, and is replaced by a cold reality that freezes through the heart.
Especially when he saw that Shanbo learned from his wife that Yingtai was the ninth sister, he hurriedly went to Zhu's house to propose marriage.
However, when I went to Zhu's house, I learned that Zhu Yuanwai had married Yingtai Xu to others. When Shanbo went home with regret and hatred, lovesickness, and finally couldn't afford to get sick, even the golden shopkeeper who had seen the world couldn't help but be moved and regretted.
At the end of the story, when he saw the two people buried together turn into butterflies and fly away, the golden shopkeeper was shocked to realize that his eyes were moist.
Gently wiping the corners of his eyes, the golden shopkeeper put down the manuscript and said with a wry smile: "Let the little brother see the smile." The story of your master is so well written that the old man can't help but lose his temper. ”
"The shopkeeper has won the prize. My master would be glad to hear you say that. ”
After tidying up his mood, the shopkeeper began to count the total number of words in the entire manuscript to facilitate the calculation of the manuscript fee
After clicking it twice, the shopkeeper Jin said: "All the manuscripts have a total of 256,752 words, little brother, you can click on it yourself, right?" ”
"No need, I can trust the shopkeeper."
"Well, I will calculate the 256,752 words according to 257,000 words, and according to the price of 1,000 words and a half taels that we said before, the total manuscript fee for the manuscript is 128,25 yuan. Little brother, you might as well do the math yourself. After the golden shopkeeper took out the abacus and hit it twice, he reported the result.
Chi Fei calculated it in his heart with beads, and the result was not wrong, so he nodded and said: "The shopkeeper is not wrong, it is indeed this amount." ”
The golden shopkeeper saw that he didn't even make an abacus, so he directly said that he was not wrong, thinking that this young man must be because he didn't know how to make a plan, but he was embarrassed to say it, so he agreed with it, and couldn't help but be a little funny.
Fortunately, they are time-honored brands with integrity, otherwise this teenager will definitely suffer a lot of losses.
Since there was no objection from both sides, the shopkeeper Jin asked, "Little brother, I have accepted this manuscript." Do you want a silver ticket, or do you want silver? ”
"I want a silver ticket if it's convenient."
So the golden shopkeeper gave him two silver bills of fifty taels and two silver bills of ten taels of denominations, making a total of one hundred and twenty taels of silver. The remaining eight taels and five dollars, Chi Fei took silver, which was convenient for buying paper and ink in the future.
After the two sides settled in person, the golden shopkeeper carefully put away the manuscript, and then said to Chi Fei: "Little brother, you go back and tell your master, if there is a new work in the future, please be sure to get it to our store first." As for the manuscript fee, it is negotiable. ”
"Okay shopkeeper, I will definitely report your words to my master when I go back. If it's all right, I'll go first. ”
"Slow down, little brother."
After leaving Juyazhai, Chi Fei touched the silver ticket and silver in his chest pocket through his clothes, and his heart was full of excitement.
This feeling is more exciting than the first manuscript fee he got when he was a part-time online writer.
Because it means that what he writes is indeed acceptable to the times.
As for how many people will agree, it depends on the reaction after publication.
In fact, Chi Fei didn't really want to sell out the "Liang Zhu" that he had worked so hard to write, but after contacting several other bookstores, he found it difficult to take this path.
Ordinary authors, even if they are small and medium-sized god-level authors, the bookstore will directly buy out the work, and they will not talk to you about any share at all. This is already a common practice in the industry.
Unless you are a very famous author, in modern terms, at least a god-level author, you are qualified to have the confidence to negotiate with the bookstore.
But forget it, he just hopes that the story of "Liang Zhu" can come out. Being able to sell for more than 100 taels is already an unexpected joy, and you can't be too greedy.
It's a pity that there are no banks in this era, otherwise he really wants to keep his money in the bank, so that he can rest assured.
After all, more than 120 taels is not a small amount, if it is calculated according to his current salary of 3 taels of silver per month, it will take more than three years to save enough without eating or drinking.
Usually, a dozen taels a month can basically keep the whole family fed.
But there is no need to think about banks, even in his world, the ticket number (also known as "ticket bank") that can deposit and withdraw money is similar to that of a bank only appeared in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.
This dynasty is very similar to the Ming Dynasty in terms of history and social environment, and it is basically unlikely that there will be a ticket number.
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After handing over the manuscript, Chi Fei was a matter of concern.
As for how Juyazhai will operate this book, Chi Fei doesn't have to worry about it.
Businessmen are highly profitable, and the manuscripts bought at a large price will definitely expand the value as much as possible, and people are experts.
So, as usual, he went to work as usual, taught others what he should teach, and practiced what he should practice, and lived a full and busy life.
Since he didn't have to write in the evenings, he had more time to practice boxing.
Fortunately, his room was far away from Deng Quan's and them, so it wouldn't affect them.
After more than three months of hard training, his arm and calf muscles gradually became thicker, and there was no longer any swelling and pain after beating the wooden stake. Even in terms of physical fitness, there has been a great improvement.
He believes that as long as he continues to practice uninterrupted until he is about twenty years old, he will be able to return to his previous level.
With this full and orderly routine, he began to conceive a second novel.
If the first "Liang Zhu" is his remembrance and memory of his original world, then this second novel is his ambitious work.
He wants readers in this era who are fascinated by even reading the male version of Mary Sue novels like "Golden Locks" to see what is a real level of YY masterpieces.
He has always believed that YY is not something to be ashamed of, but rather an attractive part of his works.
For example, writer Lu Yao's masterpiece "Ordinary World" actually has YY elements in it.
The main character, Sun Shaoping, is just a high school student born into an ordinary peasant family. As for the heroine Tian Xiaoxia, her father is the deputy director of the county revolutionary committee, and she herself is a reporter of the provincial newspaper. There is a huge gap between the identities of the two themselves.
You must know that in that era, journalists, like soldiers, were almost praised as a profession.
Coupled with the heroine's cheerful, lively, positive, and beautiful appearance, this image is simply the goddess of all young people of that era.
But she is such a goddess-like heroine, but she desperately fell in love with the low-born male protagonist Sun Shaoping, and died without regrets.
Isn't this what YY is?
The huge gap in the identities of the two makes the relationship between the male and female protagonists full of conflict and drama, which naturally forms the conditions of YY.
The first condition of YY is to have a gap.
A rich man falls in love with another rich woman, it is not called YY, it can only be called a good match.
A goddess who is not only well-born, but also beautiful and has a good personality falls in love with a poor dick, that is called YY.
However, the same YY, there is a good YY and a bad YY.
Good YY, the relationship between men and women should be natural and unpretentious, speak and act with reason, simply put, just like a normal person. When both parties have experienced many things together, the relationship begins to sublimate, and finally it comes naturally, so that it can be convincing.
Bad YY, to put it bluntly, is brainless YY, doesn't talk about logic, doesn't care about human feelings, as long as the plot is cool enough. The man is obviously a brainless dick.,Doing something that seems to be very good B.,It's actually very stupid.。 But those women are like taking expired Tsubaki medicine.,All of them are fascinated.,It's as if there's only a male protagonist in the world with JJ.。
What Chi Fei wants to write is a logical, convincing, and high-level YY novel.
Since it is a YY novel, the positioning of the readership should be dominated by male readers.
What do male readers like? It's nothing more than fighting, killing, getting promoted, having sex everywhere, and taking risks to hunt for treasures.
What novel was the hottest in his time? Of course, it's a monster-fighting upgrade novel.
And the most classic of the monster-fighting and upgrading novels is the Xianxia novel.
Although there are also supernatural and ghost novels in this era, they are basically petty fights.
It's not that a scholar met a beautiful fox fairy on the road and had a shemale love, or somewhere there are monsters to haunt him, and the protagonist goes to help get rid of demons and so on.
And Xianxia novels are completely different concepts from this kind of supernatural ghost novels, and they are different from the world view, the former is much grander and magnificent.
There are too many things that can be written in it, what sects, magic weapons, pills, formations, monsters, etc. are simply innumerable.
In his time, some popular Xianxia novels were written with millions or even tens of millions of words, which shows their grandeur.
What's more interesting is that Xianxia novels can also be written as a series.
As long as a complete world view is constructed, after the story of one protagonist is written, the story of another protagonist can be written, and it is endless.
The classic work "Tale of the Twelve Kingdoms" by Japanese female writer Fuyumi Ono is the best example.
The more I thought about it, the more feasible it became, and Chi Fei decided that his second novel would be based on Xianxia.
Just when Chi Fei was about to start writing the outline of the story, Zhang Quanshui suddenly came over to him with a strange expression on this day and said to him that Shopkeeper Liu told him to go back to the courtyard immediately and find him in an emergency. After saying that, he hurried away.
Chi Fei was a little puzzled, so he had to follow him back to the courtyard.
As soon as he returned to the courtyard, he saw that the door of his room had been opened, and the things in the room had been turned over everywhere, even the quilt on the bed had been touched to the ground.
The shopkeeper Liu, who was standing at the door, was standing there with a blue face.
As soon as he saw Chi Fei, Shopkeeper Liu immediately showed a very angry expression, as if he wanted to eat him alive.
I saw him take out a few pieces of paper from his body and slap them on the table and ask loudly: "Let me ask you, where did you get these silver tickets?!" ”
Those few pieces of paper are the one hundred and twenty taels of silver tickets.
While the shopkeeper Liu questioned, Chi Fei clearly saw that Liu Changdong, who was standing behind him, was looking at him with a smug and excited face.
The look in his eyes seems to say, I have been waiting for this day for a long time.