At the end of the day, the purpose is different.

The reason why Wang Manyin published comic books is more for his own speculation business, what he wants to pursue is speed, and there is not so much time to waste.

Publicly-funded publishing is for the purpose of sales and needs to make a profit, which involves many processes. From the beginning of the review of a book to the actual placement in the bookstore for sale, it takes at least half a year, or even a year or two.

According to Wang Manyin's design, the book "Six Squirrels Brain Teaser" has more than 50 pages, a total of 100 brain teasers. The first printing of 20,000 copies, calculated down, the cost of a book is about two cents.

Yes, books are still very cheap in this era.

In the case of Wang Lei's favorite 16-open "Aviation Knowledge", there are two color pages in the middle of the back cover, and the price is two cents and five cents.

Even the famous "Cihai" is priced at only four cents and five cents.

At present, the more expensive magazine on the market is "Legends of the Ancients", which is priced at two cents and five cents a piece. However, this book is relatively thick, nearly 200 pages long.

There is also a 32-page "Story Club", which was originally priced at one cent and eight cents, and now the price has increased to two cents and a half.

"Six Squirrels Brain Teaser" takes 32 folios, with black and white illustrations and text in the middle, and prints 20,000 copies and less than 5,000 yuan.

Of course, this is just the cost of printing.

If you include the manuscript fee of the orchid, the cost will definitely be higher.

Knowing that Wang Manyin had a comprehensive consideration, Tian Xiaoxia did not persuade anything more, but only said that she would help contact the publishing house tomorrow.

After eating, everyone chatted for a while.

Seeing that the time was not early, Wang Manyin got up and took his family to say goodbye. The house where the two families of Shaoping currently live is allocated by the school, with one bedroom and one living room, with an area of more than 40 square meters.

What's more, there are five of them, and it is not convenient to lay on the floor, so it is more comfortable to go to a hotel to live.

Fortunately, there is a unit guest house near the school, which was contacted by Wu Zhongping, and the family moved in smoothly.

This guest house is a high-grade guesthouse, with spacious and bright rooms equipped with TVs, electric fans and boiling kettles. Of course, the room price is much more expensive than that of ordinary hotels, five yuan for a standard room.

The family opened two rooms, and it was ten dollars a night.

If you change to an ordinary person, it is estimated that you will die of distress.

With Wang Manyin's current value, money doesn't matter, it's just sprinkling water.

He is more concerned about the safety of his family.

Although it has been more than half a year since Yan Da was launched, it has not been able to completely stop some crazy criminals, and now hotel and hostel theft cases still occur from time to time.

Not long ago, Wang Manyin also heard that a repair shop buyer was killed in a hotel.

Wang Manyin told the children to lock the door before returning to the next room.

Orchid was sitting at the head of the bed reading a book, and when she saw her husband returning, she spoke: "Man Yin, do you know what Wu Zhongping's family does?" ”

"What the hell, what's wrong?" Wang Manyin turned his head and asked.

Judging from the previous contact, the other party is quite polite, and it should not be a child from an ordinary family.

"We were cooking in the kitchen at night, and while Xiaoxia went downstairs to buy soy sauce, Lan Xiang whispered to me. Wu Zhongping's parents are provincial staff members, and their positions are not small. He has always wanted to take Lan Xiang to meet his parents and formalize the relationship between the two...... However, Lan Xiang was a little hesitant and asked me for my opinion. ”

Listening to what his mother-in-law said, Wang Manyin remembered that there seemed to be such a thing in the original book. Wu Zhongping's parents are indeed not simple.

Lan Xiang hesitated for a long time before she finally mustered up the courage to come to the door.

But now it's different, and the situation of the Sun family can't be considered bad. Especially Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia, who have identity bonuses.

"See you when you see it, I think Zhongping is a very good person. Besides, our orchid is also very good, I believe Zhongping's parents will like it. Besides, this kind of thing will have to be faced sooner or later, and instead of procrastinating, it is better to have a result earlier. ”

There are no outsiders, Wang Manyin directly gave his opinion.

"Well, I'll tell her about it later......" Orchid responded, still a little worried.

The night passed.

In the morning, Lan Xiang and Wu Zhongping came over early and brought a camera.

Tian Xiaoxia and Shaoping wanted to go to work, so they didn't accompany them.

Wang Manyin took a few people to eat an authentic mutton steamed bun, and then went to visit the legendary Big Wild Goose Pagoda together, and the ticket cost a dime. But there's really nothing to see, and there are large areas of farmland around.

In the afternoon, they went to visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, and the entrance fee was three cents. However, the bronze chariot and horse are exhibited separately, and you need to pay another five cents to buy a visit ticket.

It's not easy to come here, Wang Manyin met the children's requirements throughout the whole process, and tried to see the main attractions as much as possible.

Of course, there is no shortage of souvenirs.

They stayed in Qin'an City for a week, and only after finalizing the matter of publishing the book, did they return to Yuanxi County by car.

Lan Xiang also came back with the car, planning to live in Shuangshui Village for a while.

This time, Wang Manyin went to the provincial capital, in addition to buying souvenirs, he also bought a lot of various daily necessities.

The most expensive is to spend 500 yuan to buy a tape recorder, two-channel stereo. There are tape recorders, and pirated tapes are naturally indispensable, among which Teresa Teng is the majority.

As early as a few years ago, Teresa Teng's tapes had entered China.

For the first time, many people know that in addition to all kinds of passionate music, there are such sweet and beautiful sounds in the world.

Soon, Teresa Teng's songs quickly spread among young people through underground methods. With the popularity of tape recorders, all kinds of ripped and pirated tapes were also put on the stalls of self-employed people.

It's just that what followed was that some people began to lash out at Teresa Teng, believing that her songs convey bad emotions such as decadence and decline, which belong to the sound of glamour and should be completely banned.

However, this ban has not hindered the popularity of songs, at least Wang Manyin has often heard enough young people humming in Qin'an City in the past few days.

In addition, he bought a ceramic bathtub and a Triangle rice cooker.

Now that there are conditions, Wang Manyin naturally wants to make his family's life more comfortable.

With a rice cooker, it is much easier to steam rice and cook rice in the future, and you don't have to sweat on the stove in the summer.

As for the bathtub, it is mainly convenient for bathing.

He plans to add a shower to the sidelines later. Repair the top with a pool. Fill the pool in the morning, expose yourself to the sun for a day in the summer, and bathe at just the right temperature in the evening.

There is a large ceramic bathtub, which is also much more convenient for boiling water in winter.

There is no way, there are no electric water heaters and solar energy in this era, so you can only take stupid methods.

As Wang Manyin expected, after the tape recorder was brought home, it once again attracted the attention of the villagers.

Of course, adults are not interested in these songs, mainly young people do.

In the cave, there is often a group of children holding pens, listening and memorizing lyrics.

Soon, Teresa Teng began to become popular in the village.

Even Wang Manyin and Orchid are idle, and occasionally hum a few words: "There are many stories in the small town, full of joy and joy......"

This summer is still hot and dry, Wang Lei and Wang Xing were ready to continue selling popsicles, but they were stopped by orchids.

The number of people selling popsicles has increased significantly, and there are a few in the Shibi Festival Market alone. The way they took was similar to what Wang Manyin did last year, directly letting the bus help bring the goods.

Of course, the children want to earn money, and the two of them will not stop them. Instead, he was arranged to work in a factory and was paid a dollar a day.

***

Just after eating at noon, a group of broken babies in the village were not too hot, and ran to Wang Manyin's house early to watch TV and listen to the tape recorder.

Wang Manyin deliberately went to the garden to pick a few watermelons, and killed one at home, so that they could eat and watch at the same time.

In terms of eating, Wang Manyin and his family have always been very generous to people. In addition, there are a lot of watermelons planted in the vegetable garden this year, and recently it is the peak fruit season, and you can pick four or five a day. As for the melons, you can pick a basket every two days.

I couldn't finish eating at all, except for sending it to the old father-in-law in Shuangshui Village, the rest was distributed to the workers in the factory.

Now there are three big watermelons left, Wang Manyin left one for his family, and then walked towards the new factory with his arms.

The workers in the factory at the site are not only the villagers of the can village, but also some from the surrounding villages.

It was too hot, and these people didn't want to go home to eat, so they simply brought steamed bread cakes to work in the morning and ate them at noon.

After Wang Manyin found out, he specially provided coal and pots for them to cook and eat by themselves in the workshop at noon.

I just picked a lot of watermelons, so I got two of them.

"Full Silver is here!"

"Uncle Wang......"

Seeing him arrive, the workers who were eating got up to greet him.

"What are you eating?"

"What can you eat, order the next dumpling noodles ......"

"Freshly picked watermelons, you wait to kill and eat." Wang Manyin said and put the watermelon in the house.

After chatting with someone for a few words, he returned.

A group of children at home were noisy, and Wang Manyin didn't bother to go over to watch TV, so he simply moved a chair, made a branch as a fishing rod, and then used duck feathers as a float, and the embroidery needle was burned red to make a fish hook.

Then, he was alone with the radio and sat under the acacia tree fishing and playing.

There are a lot of fish in the space, so you can eat whenever you want.

He did it more to pass the time.

The breeze was blowing, the cicadas were chirping overhead, and a few birdsongs were heard from time to time......

Wang Manyin lazily reclined on the bamboo chair, indescribably comfortable.

It only takes two minutes for the hook to be thrown into the water, and the float is moving.

Wang Manyin took advantage of the situation and immediately landed an ear of wheat. No sooner had he taken the fish off the hook than he could throw it into the bucket when a dark shadow fell overhead and chirped.

Immediately after, a few more grabbed food with their mouths open.

These little guys are the young birds that Wang Manyin picked up from Pimple Ridge more than a month ago, their name is Shrike, and they can fly now.

Despite his small size, the shrike was called "the bird of prey" or "butcher's bird" in later generations. In addition to a variety of bugs, they also catch animals such as mice, birds, and frogs and lizards in their daily diet.

The shrike was very clever, and if he couldn't finish the food, he would hang it on a needle and dry it as a reserve.

Sometimes people will see air-dried voles hanging from the branches, and take it for granted that the voles have committed suicide, but in fact they are just shrike reserves.

It was with this in mind that Wang Manyin took a few shrike birds to the space and released them next. There are a lot of grasshoppers there, and we can provide them with food.

Next, Wang Manyin turned on the feeding mode. Every time he caught a small fish, a shrike stretched his neck to grab it.

As a result, the fish I caught was not enough for a few little guys.

I was busy when I heard someone shouting from below.

"Full silver, full silver!"

Everyone in the village knows that his three local dogs are powerful, so they need to shout a few times before going to the door.

Through the lush Maruzi bushes, it is impossible to see who it is. Wang Manyin hurriedly walked to the edge of the field to look.

It turned out to be Wang Shiwa from the same village, who sounded like a child, but was actually the son of Wang Lianshun's eldest brother. In terms of age, he is a few years older than Wang Manyin, and now he also works in the factory.

"Brother Shiwa, are you here?" Wang Manyin hurriedly let the other party into the shade of the tree.

Then, he brought a chair from the cave and handed it over to a large melon.

"No, I don't eat it," Wang Shiwa could only hold the melon and nibble on it after retreating a few times.

"Man Yin, your yard is cleaned up by Mrs. Mei, everywhere is clean, and it is comfortable to look at!" After eating a few bites of melon, Wang Shiwa praised again.

"It's okay, the main thing is that the orchid is diligent, and she usually makes it."

It's noon, and there's definitely something going on here. But the other party didn't mention it, and he didn't want to ask.

Half a melon was in her stomach, but Wang Shiwa still said what she meant: "Manyin, what you said in the morning, I want to find two people from the factory to learn to drive a car, do you think I can do it?" ”

Some time ago, Tian Runsheng and Jin Bo successfully passed the test and got their driver's licenses. Now the factory has sent a lot of trouble to Huangyuan City, and the two of them can drive directly, and there is no need to recruit drivers.

In order to facilitate the transportation of goods in the future, Wang Manyin is ready to buy another truck, so he plans to recruit two people as trainees, but this time he will directly select from the workers.

In the morning, he deliberately talked in the factory, but he didn't expect someone to come to the door so soon.

The key to this choice...... Wang Manyin made a cross in his heart, he was too old.

"Brother Shiwa, you're in your forties this year, right?"

He only knew that Wang Shiwa was older than him, and he really didn't know how old he was.

"Those who are four or three years old are sheep."

"It's not...... Brother Shiwa, you still have to take a theory test to learn to drive, and you need to memorize a lot of things. At your age, you can't have a good memory. ”

After a slight pause, Wang Manyin asked another key question: "Have you graduated from high school?" ”

He remembered that before he joined the second team, Wang Shiwa worked as a scorekeeper for a period of time.

It's just that Wang Shiwa knows too few words, and often writes other words when recording work points, and even draws a few circles, so that other members can't understand them, and in the end, they often quarrel with each other.

Another time, there was a big joke in the village.

Wang Jincai was a breeder at the time, and one day he led the cattle of the production team out to "look for cattle".

"Looking for cattle" is a local dialect of the Shibijie Commune, which refers to the breeding of cattle. As a result, Wang Shiwa couldn't write and look for words at all, so she directly made a circle and fork on the notebook.

Later, when the work was evaluated in public, he read directly: "Wang Jincai goes out on a day, cattle a day, and earns 8 points!" ”

It caused the members to laugh, and finally spread for many years.

So Wang Manyin is very skeptical about Wang Shiwa's learning level.

However, the other party replied a little unconsciously: "Man Yin, although I have never gone to school, but I have participated in the literacy class held in the village for eight years in Wu (non-typo), which is equivalent to graduating from high school, and now I still have a graduation certificate at home, I don't believe that I will show it to you later." ”

Hearing this, Wang Manyin was speechless and said, "Brother Shiwa, I believe this." But do you think you can graduate from high school by attending literacy classes for a few days? ”

(End of chapter)