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Chapter 105: Attention from Director Xie Jin (Monthly Tickets 1000 plus more)

Wei Ping'an looked at Wei Ming and saw that he was full of energy and had no signs of having his yang energy drained away.

On the contrary, he himself was a little tired these days. Even Wei Ming noticed it and asked him, "Uncle, have you been working very hard recently?"

Wei Ping'an waved his hand and said, "The new Vice President Wang thinks highly of me and has allowed me to participate in the demolition and construction of the house."

Lu Xiaoyan in the kitchen said, "Your uncle has been working overtime recently and comes home very late."

Wei Ming smiled and asked, "I heard that everyone is eyeing the new house now. Since you are involved, do many people want to follow your path?"

Wei Pingan said: "I can only help Qiao Feng get one set. After all, he is my soldier and I brought him to Peking University. I can't take care of other people."

As for Wei Ming, he is not married yet, so he doesn't even consider it.

Wei Ping'an then said, "The school just doesn't have money. If it did, Peking University would actually have enough land to at least solve the housing problem for those faculty members who have started families and careers. Even if the main campus is not enough, the branch campus is much larger."

Now Peking University basically relies on funding from above, and its ability to generate its own revenue is still relatively poor. The only disciplines that can generate profits are basically those in science and engineering.

Such a big matter was not something that a small dormitory manager like him could interfere in. Who else could he interfere in? The only one he could interfere in was Mei...

Wei Ming shook his head. He felt a little upset and kept thinking about these things.

At this time, Lv Xiaoyan brought out a dish: "Get moving, it's time to eat."

As soon as they sat at the table, she immediately asked, "Xiao Ming, where are the photos? Did you remember them this time?"

Regarding the "family portrait" he and Gong Xing took with Xile in the Summer Palace, Lu Xiaoyan strongly requested Wei Ming to develop a copy for her as well, on the grounds that his son and daughter were in the photo.

In fact, Wei Ming knew her purpose, but her reasons were very sufficient, so he had no choice but to bring her here.

Then the four of them gathered together to watch it, mainly to watch Gong Xing.

At first glance, she is indeed beautiful, no less beautiful than a movie star, and you can tell at first glance that she is a girl with a gentle personality.

But it can be clearly seen that this age seems, it seems, estimated, to be older than Wei Ming, and looks to be around twenty-three or twenty-four.

But Wei Ming said that they were just ordinary friends he met on the train.

But how could Wei Ping'an and Lu Xiaoyan believe that you could just spend half a day with an ordinary friend?

They put the photo away and didn't mention it for the moment.

As soon as Wei Ming entered the door, Lu Xiaoyan gave him the royalties for the second article of "The Magic Book of Heaven" and the December issue of "Children's Literature". The money was still the same, but there was another good news.

During the meal, Lü Xiaoyan told Wei Ming: "China Juvenile and Children's Publishing House has decided to publish this novel in a book after the serialization of "The Book of Heaven" is completed next year."

Wei Ming was startled: "Ah, is the word count a little short?"

"Although it's less than 40,000 words, for a children's book the words can be enlarged, and with those illustrations, it should be enough."

Wei Ming understood. This is what they mean when words are not enough, pictures are used to make up for it.

"If the illustrations are not enough, I can contact my classmates to draw some more." Wei Ming smiled, which could be regarded as giving Aaron some opportunities to make money.

It is certainly a good thing to be able to publish a book, especially if it is published next year, when the standard of royalties will be increased and the remuneration based on the number of copies printed will be restored.

Although it is not as good as getting a few percent of the list price for each book as royalties, the more books are printed and sold, the more the author earns, which also gives the author more motivation to publish books.

By then, he will definitely publish a book of his short and medium-length stories.

In fact, it is not uncommon to publish a single novella in this era. A thin booklet can often be seen in bookstores. Zhang Dening also suggested to him to publish "Er Niu", but this year there was no print run fee, so Wei Ming refused.

Next year, Wei Ming will publish a collection of these animal series. Given their popularity and classic status, it should not be excessive to sell one million copies, right?
As soon as Wei Ming left, Wei Ping'an and Lu Xiaoyan started whispering, discussing whether the red-haired foreign girl or the gentle elder sister was better.

Little did they know that there was another hidden force besides these two.

~
Today is Sunday, and Aunt Wang helped Wei Ming cover for a while so that he could come out for this meal.

As soon as Aunt Wang left, Melinda came again and brought a new tape, which she also exchanged from the music teacher.

As the music started, the dormitory office became lively again, with many South American students gathering around and some even dancing samba.

But when the tape reached the end, Wei Ming was stunned: "This shouldn't be Latin American music, right?"

Melinda: "Isn't it that the teacher did it himself?"

Wei Ming went back and listened to it again. It was an incomplete melody, obviously Chinese music, and it sounded familiar to him, but it felt like it was a long time ago.

Wei Ming said to Melinda, "Whenever you go to see her again, you can take me with you. I want to get to know her."

Melinda said it was no problem. Before going upstairs, she whispered to Wei Ming, "Just use two. I can't handle three."

Wei Ming patted her on the butt and made an "OK" gesture.

Melinda thought this was "good", but Wei Ming meant: three times.

As for how to use the two sets three times, Melinda needs to use her little brain.

~
The next day, Wei Ming got up early as usual and opened the window to get rid of the smell. As for the garbage, he cleaned it up as soon as Melinda left.

However, the sheets needed to be washed, and Melinda had already taken them away, so she was in charge of it. Then Wei Ming started to exercise to conserve his energy.

Today is also the day when the third issue of "Contemporary" is officially released.

The newsstand outside Peking University was filled with queues early on.

Because after the uncle at the newsstand found out that today's "Contemporary" had Wei Ming's works, he wrote the news on the blackboard outside early on.

Since his supply was always insufficient and people often had to wait two days or even longer, the news spread quickly from person to person and everyone lined up early, hoping to be the first to see it.

Although there were a lot of people this time, the old man learned from his experiences and lessons from the previous two times and applied for a total of 100 books this time!

This kind of magazine is quite thick and has a large capacity. The price of one copy is 1.3 yuan. Even if students like it, few can afford it on their own. Many of them are bought together by the same dormitory.

For example, the dormitory of Liu Zhenyun, who is also from rural areas.

Liu Zhenyun had already read "The Shepherd" from Wei Ming in advance, and completed the review article in advance and mailed it out before the novel was officially published.

Then the other five brothers in the dormitory suggested buying a copy of "Contemporary". Everyone wanted to read Wei Ming's new works and explore literary criticism at the same time.

In fact, it is just to earn royalties, which is equivalent to an investment.

As someone who had already read it, Liu Zhenyun felt that he had lost out, but when he thought that he could already earn royalties and was better than everyone else, he did not object and just contributed his two cents.

However, what was even more unfortunate was that when Liu Zhenyun drew lots, he drew the task of buying books.

He decided to lend it to Jianmei after everyone in the dormitory had finished reading it. He didn't want to waste his two cents.

You can buy a serving of pot-fried tofu for only two cents!

It was already very cold in Yanjing in December. Liu Zhenyun was slow and was far back in the queue. He was worried that he would have made a wasted trip.

He moved slowly with his arms folded like a farmer. Many of the people in front and behind him were from the Chinese Department, and one could even see someone with the Tsinghua University badge on his chest.

The college student who was buying things in front was walking and looking at them, with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

As Liu Zhenyun, who has read "The Shepherd", knows that this novel maintains Wei Ming's usual high standard, with stronger plot conflicts and more controversy, and is expected to arouse wider discussion.

Fortunately, the uncle at the newsstand did not let Liu Zhenyun down today and he was able to buy it.

However, the old man's expression was still not optimistic as he watched the team still adding more people.

It seems like, there is still something missing!
After buying the magazine, Liu Zhenyun ran to Nanmengang and boasted to Zhao Debiao and Mei Wenhua about the grand scene of readers lining up to buy the magazine in order to be the first to read Wei Ming's novel.

He also said to Mei Wenhua: "Your sister Qingqing was also in the queue, but she went later, so she probably can't buy it."

Mei Wenhua was unmoved after hearing this. He thought, Mi Qing, eh? Just so-so. He had recently been getting along well with the female foreign student by sending meals to Wei Ming. He felt that Mi Qing was nothing special. In terms of passion and unrestrainedness, he was far inferior to her.

As soon as Liu Zhenyun left, Liu Rulong came. He had already completed the illustrations for "Heroes Have Always Been Young".

Mei Wenhua said: "Go find Biaozi who is on patrol first. He should know where Wei Mingmao is."

Wei Ming is currently accompanying Melinda to attend class in the international student classroom.

In fact, there are no serious courses now, the main thing is writing papers.

The two of them can appear in the international students' classroom at the same time so calmly. If it were an ordinary classroom, other students probably wouldn't be able to study.

After Aaron found A-Ming, they both left the classroom.

"There are only six pictures. Did it take you so long to draw this time?"

"I rejected dozens of drafts," Liu Rulong said. "I first tried the comic strip style, then I used the Hong Kong comic style, and finally I decided on this style."

In fact, it is still a comic technique, but it is a more powerful comic, a bit like the Japanese hot-blooded comic.

For the current mainstream, this is very innovative, just like the portrayal of martial arts in Wei Ming's novels.

Aaron did this specifically to better complement Wei Ming's novel.

Wei Ming was very satisfied.

"It's a pity that the environment is not suitable now, otherwise you can become a cartoonist." Wei Ming shook his head regretfully.

~
Magic City, Shanghai Film Studio.

Shi Fangyu, deputy director of Shanghai Film Studio, found Xie Jin with a copy of "New Films" magazine.

"Old Xie, I sent you a good book!"

Xie Jin put down the magazine in his hand: "Oh, what book?"

Shi Fangyu flipped open the magazine and pointed to the catalog, saying, "'Wind and Rain Dujuanhong' is the novel 'Legend of Tianyun Mountain' that I wrote a while ago. I asked the author to change it into a script and submit it. Take a look."

"Well, leave the magazine behind."

As soon as Deputy Director Shi left, Xie Jin immediately picked up Contemporary and continued reading The Horse Herder...

(End of this chapter)