1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 125
Xie Mingqing came to the editorial department of "Contemporary" to seek Lin Weimin's opinions on the publication of "Farewell My Concubine". He is now a member of the Guowen Society. Unless the Guowen Society does not want it, it is impossible to give the production rights of the work to other publishing units .

The last question about the manuscript fee was blocked by Xie Mingqing before Lin Weimin could fight for it.

"Don't even think about it. It's already an exception for the agency to give you 12 yuan per thousand characters. It's impossible to raise it again. Whether it's other publishing houses, newspapers or magazines, if you can give you [-] yuan, it's a big deal. "

What Xie Mingqing said was the truth. In the time period of 81, ten yuan for a thousand characters was basically the top.

The standard of 12 yuan per [-] characters previously offered by the Guowen Society was completely the result of the leadership of the society overcoming public opinion.

Lin Weimin wanted to negotiate the price, purely based on the principle of getting the best price increase, and when he saw Xie Mingqing coming up, he blocked the conversation, and he didn't struggle.

The manuscript fee standard of 12 yuan per thousand characters has exceeded the vast majority of writers in China at this time.

The "Interim Regulations on Book Author Remuneration" formulated in China last year only implemented the payment method of "basic author remuneration plus print remuneration", but the author remuneration standard is only the same as the previous level.

Writers who hope to make a fortune from their writing still have a way to go.

After Xie Mingqing left, Lin Weimin sorted out the letters from readers piled up in the editorial department. He asked for leave yesterday, and there was another pile of letters.

Surprisingly, he found a letter from Lu Yao in a pile of letters, and he glanced at Liu Yin guilty. Liu Yin was the editor in charge of Lu Yao's work "A Thrilling Scene" in "Contemporary" before.

Lu Yao's letter this time was to complain to Lin Weimin.

"A Thrilling Scene" was published in "Contemporary" last year as expected, which greatly encouraged Lu Yao's confidence in creation.

Not only that, Tan Chaoyang is very optimistic about Lu Yao. When "A Thrilling Scene" was published in "Contemporary", he also published an article "You Must Have a Fiery Heart--To Lu Yao" in "China Youth Daily" "Comrade Yao" and recommended this work to readers, which shows that he is optimistic about Lu Yao.

With these motivations, Lu Yao returned to Xi'an and after thinking about it, he chose to bid farewell to his wife and children and went to Ganquan County, Yan'an to create the story about Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen that made him think about it day and night.

Lu Yao said in his letter that he is currently living in a guest house in Ganquan County and writing "The Music of Life", "I work almost eighteen hours a day, I can't distinguish between day and night, and I smoke a few cigarettes when I'm sleepy. I feel like I'm burning There was a big fire, from the heart to the soles of the feet were hot."

Lin Weimin saw Lu Yao's determination and perseverance in writing in the letter, but at the same time he was a little worried because Lu Yao also mentioned his physical condition in the letter.

"The facial features are festered, and the urine and bowel movements are not smooth." This is Lu Yao's description in the letter, which makes Lin Weimin a little worried.

He remembered that Lu Yao's descendants spent so much time and energy in creating the masterpiece "The Ordinary World", forgot to sleep and eat, and his physical condition was too poor, so he passed away regrettably.

Along with the letter, there is also a new novella "In Difficult Days" written by Lu Yao. According to Lu Yao's introduction in the letter, this work was written during his time in Xi'an from the end of last year to the beginning of this year.

The story about Gao Jialin and Liu Qiaozhen was named "The Music of Life" by him. The first draft of the novel has begun to take shape, but Lu Yao is not satisfied with the quality of the draft, and he wants to revise it again.

Fearing that Lin Weimin would be anxious waiting in Yanjing, he sent "In Difficult Days" over.

Lin Weimin frowned and finished "In Difficult Days". The work was well written, but Lin Weimin was more concerned about Lu Yao's physical condition at this time.

If Lu Yao was just the name he saw in a book, he might not feel much.But now he is a real person, a friend who calls himself "Brother Wei Minwen" in the letter.

Lin Weimin found Tan Chaoyang's office with the manuscript, and the old comrade looked at Lin Weimin through the reading glasses, "Weimin, what's the matter?"

"Editor-in-chief, Lu Yao has a new work." He handed the manuscript to Tan Chaoyang.

Tan Chaoyang suddenly became interested. He was extremely optimistic about Lu Yao, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to speak out for him in the "China Youth Daily" and recommended his works.

After spending almost two hours reading the novel, he called Lin Weimin over, "The novel is well written, Lu Yao's strength has improved, and he can publish it."

Lin Weimin handed Lu Yao's letter to him, "Look at this again."

After reading the letter, Tan Chaoyang frowned, "He is working too hard."

"Yeah, I'm a little worried."

"What do you think?" Tan Chaoyang asked.

Since Lin Weimin came to him with a letter, he must have thought it through.

"I'm planning to go to Shaanxi to visit him, and check the status of the manuscript. If there is no problem, I want him to come to the agency to revise the manuscript. I'm really afraid that he will ruin his body if he is messing around in the guest house like this. It's gone." Lin Weimin said worriedly.

Qin Chaoyang's expression was also not good-looking, "It's not easy to train such a potential writer, you can't just watch him do things like this. Then I will give you a week to go to Shaanxi and bring Lu Yao back. Our editorial department Isn't it better that these old guys are here than him messing around in the guest house?"

"Okay, then I leave tomorrow?"

"can."

After discussing with Tan Chaoyang and making arrangements for work, Lin Weimin rode his bicycle to the train station to buy a ticket, and boarded the train to Shaanxi early the next morning.

In this day and age, trains usually come by day. He took the train from Yanjing to Xi'an, and then changed to Ganquan County in Xi'an. This journey of thousands of kilometers took him two days.

When Lin Weimin found the Ganquan County Guest House mentioned in Lu Yao's letter, he was greeted by an unkempt, emaciated middle-aged fat man.

"For...for the people?" Lu Yao stood at the door, looking at Lin Weimin in surprise.

Lin Weimin smiled and said, "You don't know me anymore?"

"Why did you come here?" Lu Yao asked in disbelief.

Lin Weimin put away his smile and said angrily, "I'm afraid you will die here!"

Without waiting for Lu Yao's answer, he squeezed into the room.

The rooms in the guest house were not big, and the rooms of more than a dozen one-story houses were filled with smoke and the beds were scattered. Lin Weimin caught a glimpse of the iron dustpan behind the door full of cigarette butts.

The steamed buns on the table were already hard, and there were twists and a few snacks, which were also hard.

Lin Weimin turned his head to look at Lu Yao again. His hair was disheveled, his face was gray, the corners of his eyes were still red, and the corners of his mouth were rotten.

He couldn't help but feel a headache because of this man's desperate spirit, he threw Lu Yao's scattered clothes on the bed to Lu Yao.

"go!"

(End of this chapter)