A widower's entertainment

Chapter 15 [Spring Breeze Shock]

Lin Youcheng didn't know how much impact his writing and submitting articles to magazines would have on his neighbors in the yard.

Because he himself is also in great shock now.

Lin Youcheng was still a little excited. He took the letter and read it carefully. Inside was a reply written by Dong Zhao, deputy editor of "Novel Monthly", which not only praised his novel "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" The beautiful love and delicate writing style, and I am also looking forward to Lin Youcheng's new works in the future.

At the same time, editor Dong Zhao also conveyed in the letter the answers to the questions that the entire editorial department wanted to know. They wanted to know whether the love story between Lao San and Jing Qiu was real or fictional.

The story was so real that many people in the editorial department cried after reading it?
  Seeing this, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but smile. He was very happy that those people were moved by this story. Sure enough, his choice was not wrong.

Lin Youcheng knew that he would have to reply to the editorial department later. As for whether this love story was true or fictional, Lin Youcheng did not intend to answer directly.

Because he didn't know if such a story had ever happened in this strange and strange time and space.

Maybe, maybe not.

Lin Youcheng doesn't have a definite answer, and in Lin Youcheng's opinion, such an answer may have more literary charm, just like the last sentence written by Mr. Shen Congwen in "Border Town", this person may never come back. , maybe come back tomorrow.

Let the readers think everything for themselves.

With this thought in mind, Lin Youcheng set his sights on the final content of the royalties.

The reply from "Novel Monthly" also included a reference to the manuscript fee at the end, because the current standard for manuscript remuneration is ten yuan, and Lin Youcheng is a newcomer, and the magazine's standard for manuscript remuneration is eight yuan.

There is no way, who makes Lin Youcheng a new author.

However, Lin Youcheng's manuscript is a full-length novel, with 226,300 words. In the end, at the end of the day -

1808 yuan!
  One thousand eight hundred yuan!

Looking at this number, Lin Youcheng was really happy.

In fact, this is not too high, it is still a bit low.

You must know that the author who published his famous novella "Life" last year received 1300 yuan in royalties for his -word novella.

However, for Lin Youcheng, he is now quite satisfied with the royalties.

This amount of money is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for Lin Youcheng.

You know, in this day and age, a worker's salary is only thirty or forty yuan, or more than four hundred yuan a year at most. This requires the worker to work for almost four years.

Sure enough, there is a golden house in the book!
  Sure enough, I can still make money by writing long stories!

It was no wonder that he ignored the hard work. After sweeping the streets and taking care of the children, he worked non-stop day and night, writing and rushing to finish the manuscript.

Thinking of the painful time climbing the grid, no matter how tired his hands were and how painful his waist was, Lin Youcheng felt that everything was worth it.

If Lin Youcheng writes a million-dollar novel, and then the standard of royalties is raised to ten yuan, then he can become a household worth ten thousand yuan in one step.

A ten-thousand-yuan household in this era?

That’s really something I don’t dare to think about, I don’t dare to think about it.

Lin Youcheng knew very clearly that now was the last good time for him to catch up. In fact, in the early days of the founding of New China, writers and translators could buy a courtyard house in the capital with the remuneration from one book.

Later, during that particularly sensitive period, the fee system was reduced again and again, and eventually the royalty system was directly cancelled. Until now, literature has been booming in the 80s, which was also the last good time for royalties. But in real terms, the standard of royalties is low, and even in absolute terms it is still lower than the level before 1957.

But things are much better now. You must know that in the 90s, the fees for writers and translators have been low for many years, and prices have continued to rise. Most of this group's lives are insulated from affluence. Those without regular jobs can even make ends meet. A considerable number of them are almost completely Rely on love and feelings to support yourself.

Of course, this situation will change later when the royalty income appears.

But those are still far away from Lin Youcheng.

Lin Youcheng was extremely happy with the huge amount of royalties in front of him, but he still tried hard to control his expression and not be overly excited like Fan Jin who won the national championship.

Hey, I won the draft!
  Then I had a stroke!
  Lin Youcheng, after all, you are also a young man in the 21st century and have received thousands of script royalties. Why are you so excited about the more than a thousand yuan in front of you?
  However, is this more than a thousand yuan?
  This is a lot, a lot of money!
  This was more than a thousand yuan in 1983!
  Although Lin Youcheng tried hard to control his excitement, he couldn't stop his grin.

The smile made Lin Zhaoqing's heart beat fast, making him very scared.

Lin Youcheng looked at Lin Zhaoxi and Lin Zhaoqing standing aside, suppressed the smile on his face, and said: "Zhaoqing, dad doesn't blame you for fighting with others. Sometimes, when you are bullied, you must learn to fight back, but you must remember Don’t bully the weak.”

"It's good to have the courage to admit that it was you who did the beating."

Lin Zhaoqing didn't expect that his father didn't scold him for fighting, nor did he blame him for hurting someone, and even compensated for the medical expenses. He couldn't help but be surprised, but he felt relieved for a moment.

He was afraid that his father would scold him.

Lin Youcheng looked at Lin Zhaoxi and said, "Xi'er, take your brothers and sisters to clean up. We will go out to eat today."

go out to eat?
  Lin Zhaoxi and others were surprised, especially Lin Zhaoqing. He didn't expect that he was not scolded and his father would take him out to eat.

It's really great.

Lin Zhaoqing was so excited that he almost jumped up, but he still didn't dare to be too happy in front of Lin Youcheng. After all, he had just gotten into trouble.

Lin Zhaomei was also very happy. Although she still didn't understand why her father took them out to eat, and she didn't understand what writing for magazines was like in the yard, but she was very happy to be able to go out to eat now.

Lin Zhaoxi looked at Lin Youcheng, glanced at the letter in Lin Youcheng's hand, and thought of what he had just heard from the postman that his father wrote articles for magazines, and asked: "Dad, are you writing articles in a book?"

Lin Youcheng smiled and nodded.

Lin Zhaoxi was really surprised, with her mouth open and her face full of shock. She didn't expect that her father could actually write articles in books. This was really amazing.

Yes, it's really awesome.

Lin Youcheng didn't know that there were no hidden secrets in this Chunfeng Lane street.

Soon, the entire Chunfeng Lane neighborhood heard that street sweeper Lin Youcheng had published an article in a magazine.

That's right, it's the widower Lin Youcheng who raises six children and sweeps the streets!

Really, for a moment, the whole street of Chunfeng Alley was shocked.

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