Literary Master 1983

Chapter 100 Yu Qie Buys a House (Part )
During this period, Yu Qie found that compared with people buying houses, there are more people who are changing houses.

In addition, several housing exchange centers have formed in Yanjing, and everyone comes here to exchange houses. The reasons for changing houses vary: getting married, changing jobs, the elderly have passed away...

If you want to live well, you can only sacrifice area for privation, or sacrifice privation for area, or sacrifice location for a bigger house.

When one family changes house, it will affect at least another family. If neither of them is satisfied, a third family will be introduced... until the second, third, seventh or eighth change. Some people have changed houses for their entire lives before they finally get the house they want.

Whether the sunlight, kitchen, bathroom, and coal toilet are available, whether it is possible to build a attic and occupy public land, and whether there are bad neighbors...all are things that need to be considered.

It was not easy for Yu Qie to find a house that suits his taste in a few days or weeks by riding his bicycle, and then negotiate to buy it one by one.

This house-changing and house-buying are similar in nature. Yu Qie can learn what those who change houses want from their needs. Then he despairingly discovered that money was not hard currency in 84. Although many "tenants" of Siheyuan were willing to sell, there were too many people living in the Siheyuan.

If even one person disagrees, it won't happen.

The most frustrating thing was that they once found a courtyard house with simple tenant relationships. There were only three families, all of whom were employees of Yenching Normal University. They had connections and money to find a house, and they all agreed to it. However, because the youngest son of one of the families voted against it, all the efforts of the three families and Yu Qi were in vain.

The reason was that the family had made a bed for the youngest son to sleep alone in a large closet of only about two or three square meters. If the courtyard house was sold, the youngest son might not have this privilege, so he naturally disagreed.

Yu Qie took out all his money - about 20,000 yuan. However, he couldn't find a way to spend it.

Half of the money came from the cost of adapting the comic book "Letter from the Fiancée". This comic book was divided into two volumes, each priced at 35 cents. At that time, "Three Strikes on the White Bone Demon" was priced at 32 cents, and "Wreath under the Mountain" was priced at 29 cents.

Then the comic book was first printed 150,000 copies, and a basic fee of several hundred yuan was paid. According to the "Trial Measures for the Remuneration of Fine Arts Publications", the adaptation fee was paid according to the number of copies multiplied by 30% of the selling price, and 20% of the adaptation fee was the original author's fee. Then the comic book was printed another 400,000 copies, and Yu Qie received more than 17,000 yuan.

You ask why Yu Qie, a writer, gets most of his royalties from comic strips?
This is not his fault, because there was a bug in the writers' remuneration at that time. Even if a single volume was published, it could not be paid completely according to the royalties of later generations (which were introduced in 89, and then the remuneration skyrocketed). This was because writers at that time often had jobs and a basic salary of a few dozen yuan, and the pricing of their remuneration was not based on the market, and there was a ceiling.

This was a special situation caused by the decade before the reform and opening up, and it has been inherited today. In short, the same novel could earn a maximum of more than 55 yuan per thousand words in , but now it can only earn a maximum of or yuan.

Comic strips do not have this limitation.

Between 1982 and 1984, a total of 15 billion comic books were published nationwide. This market was popular from the Republic of China to the beginning of the new century. All the big figures you can think of have read comic books.

Tiantan Park.

Yu Qie found a corner here, wrote a "housing purchase sticker" and wrote his request on it. He took some rice paste from the canteen of Yanda University, stuck the "housing purchase sticker" on the ground, and then stepped on it to prevent the sticker from being blown away by the strong wind.

The Temple of Heaven Park later became the most famous place for blind dates in the capital. All kinds of outstanding people came here like a piece of hanging pork, listing their appearance, age, income, household registration, etc., waiting to be selected.

But now it is a well-known exchange and purchase of real estate in Beijing. People negotiate the conditions face to face, which is more direct than posting advertisements on telephone poles. If they can reach an agreement, they can go to see the house on the spot.

As the deal is about to be concluded, other newcomers will lower their own conditions and shout them out to increase the success rate of the transaction.

Is this the first generation of CtoC? It’s aligned with the granularity.

Fuck! I still have time to think about the Internet.

Where is my house? I don’t even have one.

I'm in Yanjing, I'm just an outsider, I don't know why Zhang Li would want me. "--Comic strips do make money." Yu Qie thought, "No wonder Jia Pingtu finds ways to publish comic strips for every book. I originally thought that after becoming the head of the Hebei Writers Association, he liked to expand his fame, but now I know that there are actual benefits to be gained."

Just the "ghost artist" who draws comic strips can earn about a thousand yuan in basic salary for two or three months, not to mention the author himself.

"Is anyone here to read my post? It is authentic and trustworthy."

"No one? If no one, I'll call again later... Hey, here they come."

An old man came and said as soon as he met me: "I have nine people in my family, occupying half of the courtyard. I can also convince the other family, as long as you can come up with something to exchange... huh?"

The old man asked Yu Qie to move his toes.

"Fifty yuan per square meter! You are sincere." The old man was overjoyed. "Let me see it again..."

Yu Qie moved his feet again. "Pay and register immediately? How refreshing!" The old man smiled so much that he was almost smiling. He was already imagining the happy life of living in a new house.

Then - "You can't replace the house? Is that all you have money?"

Yu Qie said: "I have nothing. I am so poor that I only have money."

The old man frowned slightly, closed his mouth slightly, shook his head and walked away. After walking a few steps, he couldn't help but come back, "Let's talk again. I'll help you find other outsiders who are willing to exchange for a big house and move out with money. Maybe we will be destined to be together... But I still need to convince the remaining family."

"Okay, sir." Yu Qie said, "Take a look. I've been waiting here in the evenings these few days. Let me know when you've made the contact."

"How many days?" The old man seemed to have encountered something incredible. "I thought it would take you several years. What can you do in just a few days?"

When Yu Qi heard this, he felt helpless.

In a few years, my buddies will be able to buy commercial housing by themselves. In ten years, I will be able to buy a big villa. I can buy anything I want, so why do I need to set up a stall?
Sun Guitian, the actress who played the grandmother in the TV series "Home with Kids", also scraped together 26,000 yuan this year and bought a whole courtyard house. After only 30 years, the courtyard house is worth hundreds of millions of yuan. The average price is 200,000 to 500,000 yuan per square meter.

After standing here for an entire afternoon, Yu Qie's legs were numb. Few people visited his posts because he required extremely simple relationships between residents, which was difficult in the 1980s.

Finally someone came here, blocking the dazzling sunlight above Yu Qie's head, and his shadow fell on the "House Buying Sticker".

"Yu Qie?"

It was a familiar face, with two voices.

Yu Qie raised his head: "Luo Yihe, Cha Haisheng? What are you two doing here?"

Cha Haisheng said: "I am here to learn martial arts."

Yu Qie said, "Cha Haisheng, you are a teacher at the University of Political Science and Law, why did you come here to learn martial arts? And Luo Yihe, how could you believe this?"

Luo Yihe said: "I followed Haisheng here. He is really fascinated by these things. I am curious too, so I came to take a look."

(End of this chapter)