Chapter 25: The Man of Temperament
The train from Peking to Shanghai needs to pass through Tianjin, Nanjing, and then go to Shanghai, after Pingjin, Tianjin, Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, Lu Yan is not worried about letting Wanyu sit alone for so long, so he specially went to Nanjing to pick her up: "Mr. Yan, I will leave for Nanjing in a few days." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Okay, send a telegram over there, and I'll send it to you after I receive Wanyu's letter."
"Mr. Yan, in the past few days, I will complete the novel draft of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" and the novel draft of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" and hand it over to you, and I will leave." Lu Yan hurriedly said goodbye and went back to catch up with the manuscript.
In the next few days, Lu Yan handed in all the manuscripts, even "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" was written to the finale, and if these manuscripts were sent slowly, they could last until Lu Yan came back, and then tell Lu Yan a story, and he could continue to write it.
In the past few days, "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is more popular than "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and it is related to the "Zero Point" newspaper once again, since it broke through to 10,000 a few days ago, the circulation has fallen into decline, but "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" is full of stamina, and it is hard to increase the circulation of "Zero Point" to 10,000, and there are only 3,000 circulation left from Shanghai News, and catching up is just around the corner.
Compared with "Zero Point", "Pioneer Times" and "Shanghai Entertainment" are much bleaker, the former has a circulation of only 1,010, and the latter is not much better than the former, only about 1,003, which is also a normal phenomenon, and now "Dajiang Daily" has no advantages compared with other newspapers except for novels.
Yan Buwen's manuscript fee is also increasing, during this period of time, the remuneration for the novel alone is 2,000 yuan, plus the previous unspent also has 2,560, because Yan Buwen's manuscript fee has been increased to 5 yuan per thousand words, in Shanghai, it is also the legendary unscrupulous life can reach. Such a high remuneration corresponds to the sales of breaking through the sky, the issuance of 10,000, the gross profit is 1,000 a period, and 16,005 a month, minus the manuscript fee, plus miscellaneous expenses, there is a net profit of nearly 10,000 a month, which is simply something that I didn't dare to imagine before.
Because of the high sales volume, the newspaper specially took out 20 percent of the excess profits as a one-month bonus to distribute to everyone, plus the previous commission, salary, the editor-in-chief level has 70 or 80 yuan a month, and the regular staff also has 17 or 8 yuan a month, which is much higher than the salary of ordinary newspapers.
Winter melon now has a salary of 20 yuan a month, and when Yan Buwen saw him, he was already oily, and he was about to find a wife in Shanghai recently, which is also considered a complete merit. For other people, the winter melon treats Yan Buwen much kinder, no matter what Yan Buwen explains, the winter melon will be done as soon as possible, and the winter melon also knows that he can take so much money, mainly because of Yan Buwen's credit, and he has to be grateful.
Wang Liangting has been a lot more honest since the last incident, going to work with peace of mind, getting his salary honestly, and greeting Yan Buwen when he sees him, and gradually Yan Buwen is familiar with the editorial department below, and occasionally goes out for a meal, but he definitely doesn't drink, and those who have drunk with Yan Buwen before know that a bottle of rice wine is difficult to swallow Yan Buwen, so he simply doesn't drink it. There are a lot of good food and drinks in this place in Shanghai, and there are a few more meals, and these colleagues in the editorial department, printing department, and distribution department are all brothers and sisters with Yan Buwen. Especially Luo Yang, this guy is very good at drinking, after Yan Buwen drank a bottle of rice wine with him, Luo Yang was so addicted that he pulled Yan Buwen to continue drinking. Luo Yang is five big and three thick, and he can really drink, so after drinking two more bottles, Xiao Rong can't stop after drinking it, it's been a long time since I've been so happy.
If the newspaper personnel are classified, they can be roughly divided into three categories, one is Cao Yuan'an's people, Chen Kang, Wang Liangting, Luo Yang, winter melon, etc.; the other is some colleagues in the editorial department, distribution department, and printing department who are close to Yan Buwen; The other is the wait-and-see people, the new employees don't understand anything, anyway, they go to eat and don't stand in line.
"Mr. Yan, today is refreshing, I didn't expect you to be also temperamental, why don't you come to my house for dinner another day, how about I invite you to drink the Moutai I brought from my hometown? This wine is much more domineering than rice wine, and it has been treasured for 30 years. Luo Yang said with a smile before leaving, this is much stronger than ordinary rice wine, from his hometown while the old man was not paying attention to "stole" a bottle over, and he was not willing to drink it, today I saw that Yan Buwen could chat, so I planned to take it out and share it together.
"When the time comes, Brother Luo will remember to invite us to taste it together."
"Let's take two sips of good wine." Everyone laughed.
Yan Buwen nodded: "That's okay." "Luo Yang is from the hometown of winemaking, no wonder he can drink so much.
"You still drink, what is there to drink." Xiao Rong was angry on the side.
"Haha, Mr. Yan, I'll go first." Luo Yang saw that Xiao Rong was angry, so he hurriedly slipped away first, and he didn't get involved, he only took care of it and personally invited Yan Buwen to eat at home after a few days, and Xiao Rong, who was angry, kept glaring at him.
"Mr. Yan, let's go first." After Luo Yang left, the others also took their leave.
Yan Buwen was dragged home by Xiao Rong, and then asked Yan Buwen to take a bath with a disgusted face, and his body was full of the smell of wine. Yan Buwen sniffed to himself: "It's okay, isn't it very fragrant?" ”
Xiao Rong threw Yan Buwen's changed clothes to him: "Then you can sleep with your clothes." ”
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In the morning, in a small vegetable garden, a girl took a jar of water to water the vegetables in the vegetable garden, then fed some food to the half-sized chickens in the fence, went back to the pot room where the fire was burning, had some breakfast, cleaned up and went out.
On Friday afternoon, Shangwen Girls' School ended early, because they were all female students, safety was still the first, and they could basically leave after one class. It was about four or five o'clock when Ruan Lingyu came back, and then she went to the newspaper office to find Yan Buwen, but at that time, Lao Zhang at the door said that he had gone out to eat for others, Ruan Lingyu nodded, and prepared to come to him the next day.
Thinking about the last time I knew that he was sick, it had been several days, Ruan Lingyu still felt quite guilty in her heart, according to the little girl in Mr. Yan's family, Mr. Yan fell on the day of dinner at her house, broke the back of his head, and then fainted all night, and only returned home in the morning, and then he fell into a coma, he didn't wake up when he went that day, and then I heard Lao Zhang say that it seemed that he slept for a day and a night. After that, she still had a fever, and Ruan Lingyu felt sorry for Mr. Yan, so she planned to go to see him earlier.
In the past few days at school, Ruan Lingyu is also a little worried, but I believe that Mr. Yan is auspicious and will not have an accident. The most strange thing for Ruan Lingyu in the past few days is that Zhang Damin really hasn't looked for her once, maybe he was scared by his father, or where he went. Then when she was at school, someone from the police station came to ask her about Zhang Damin and Sun Tian, Ruan Lingyu answered as usual, and then these people from the police station left and never came back.
Did something happen? Ruan Lingyu thought of the evil deeds of these two people a few days ago, and she wished that these two people had committed an accident and were arrested, last time their behavior really scared her, every time she went home, she had to be frightened, afraid that someone would jump out on the way, and when someone knocked on the courtyard door, she had to call her father to open it together.