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Chapter 19 Sister Lin was stabbed in the back by the personal maid (please follow up)

At around five o'clock, at the entrance of Beiying Guest House, Chen Shiping rode his 28-bar bicycle and made a graceful flick, stopping the bicycle steadily.

He has the aura of a will-o'-the-wisp boy, but he doesn't have any yellow hair.

As soon as Chen Shiping put up the outriggers of the car, he saw a black car driving past him. A young and energetic face appeared in the half-open window, and finally stopped at the door of Nortel not far away.

Chen Shiping looked at the car with envy, and then looked down at his own two-eighth bar. What a gap!

At a young age, people are driving cars to pick up girls, while I am still struggling to make ends meet.

Just when Chen Shiping was in a daze, the door of the guest house was suddenly pushed open, and several girls from the Red Mansion crew walked out together.

"Isn't this Writer Chen? Why are you here?" Miss Xia Qing, who plays Baoyu, took the initiative to say hello.

Tao Huimin was also in the crowd. Seeing Chen Shiping appear here, he vaguely guessed that he was here to find him.

Chen Shiping's eyes stayed on Tao Huimin's face for a moment, and he asked with a smile: "Are you going out to eat?"

"Yes, do you want to come together?" Xia Qing asked with a smile. She and Chen Shiping were quite familiar with each other. When they were on the set, Chen Shiping even corrected her makeup problem.

Xia Qing took the initiative to invite, but Chen Shiping couldn't refuse and agreed directly. The main reason was that Tao Huimin was so shy that if he asked her in front of so many people, she would be embarrassed to agree.

The crew's meal allowance for the actors was only two yuan a day. The girls couldn't eat much meat and fish, so they found a wonton stall for dinner.

Chen Shiping was sitting at the stall drinking wonton soup, but his eyes always lingered on Tao Huimin, making her blush and embarrassed to look up.

"Didn't you go out to play today?" Chen Shiping looked at Tao Huimin and asked.

Tao Huimin shook his head and ate the wontons in small bites. After a while, he said to Chen Shiping, "What about you?"

"I went to talk about the publication of my novel. I came over just after I finished my work. I didn't expect that I would meet you for dinner together." Chen Shiping said with something in mind.

Tao Huimin understood the meaning of Chen Shiping's words, raised the corners of his mouth slightly and hummed again. He felt that today's wontons were a little more fragrant.

When the girls at the same table heard that Chen Shiping was talking about publishing, they all asked curiously. Chen Shiping simply talked about the publication of Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller, but did not mention the book Secrets of Young Women.

When the girls heard that the first edition had printed 100,000 copies, they couldn't help but marvel and asked how much royalties Chen Shiping could get.

Chen Shiping smiled and raised a finger, without saying what the unit behind him was.

"Ten thousand?!" Chen Hong looked at Chen Shiping in surprise and asked.

Chen Shiping glanced at the young Chen Hong and nodded with a smile. Then, with the girls' shocked eyes, he turned to look at Tao Huimin and asked, "An American movie was recently introduced. Do you want to go watch it together?"

Tao Huimin was also surprised at Chen Shiping's royalties at this time. He was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously: "What movie?"

"Would you like to watch Love Story together?" Chen Shiping said with a smile.

Chen Hong, who came to his senses next to him, suddenly said: "Why don't you invite us to come with you? We even treat you to wontons."

As soon as Chen Hong's words came out, the dinner table was quiet for a while. Xia Qing quickly pulled her under the table, then looked at Chen Shiping and said, "We won't go. You and Hui Min can go."

"No, I'm almost moldy in the guest house. Let's go watch it together. I haven't seen an American movie in a long time."

As if Chen Hong didn't understand what Xia Qing meant, she spoke inappropriately again. Chen Shiping didn't know whether Chen Hong did it on purpose or because he was too young to see, but he could only smile and say, "Okay, let's go together."

After saying that, Chen Shiping turned to look at Tao Huimin and said, "Want to go and see it?"

Tao Huimin originally wanted to agree when she heard the title of the movie was a love story, but she felt a little unhappy when Chen Hong made such a fuss.

"Don't Chen Hong want to go see it? You and she can go see it. It will cost an extra ticket for me."

Chen Shiping: "." Why did sister Lin become Lin Daodong?

The movie was still not finished, so Chen Hong, who insisted on joining in the fun, was finally pulled back by Xia Qing. Lin Daotun twisted away after finishing the wontons, leaving Chen Shiping alone sitting at the wonton stall, as lonely as a dog.

A good weekend was wasted like this, and Chen Shiping had no choice but to wait until the next time he asked Tao Huimin again.

However, Chen Shiping did not have time to meet Tao Huimin in the next few weeks. Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller was officially published, and it was snapped up by readers as soon as it was released.

The first batch of 100,000 printed copies was sold out within half a month.

While Chen Shiping was busy working on the script of Red Mansion with Mr. Xie on the set, he also found time to attend a forum for readers of Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller.

The whole person was extremely busy, but the busier he was, the happier Chen Shiping was. This month, Xu Sanguan's blood-selling record was reprinted twice.

The first printing was increased to 150,000 copies, and the second printing was increased to 200,000 copies!

Chen Shiping received a total of 45,000 in royalties from these several reprints, but after tax was deducted, it was only a little over 40,000.

At the same time that Xu Sanguan became popular, a novel also became popular on book stalls throughout the northern market.

Chen Shiping looked at the 20,000 yuan sent by pirate bookseller Boss Li, and didn't care how much money he had deducted from him. Being able to give 20,000 yuan was already a sign of honesty.

"Boss Li asked me to ask if you have any new books?" the second-hand dealer who had dealt with Chen Shiping asked with a smile.

After counting all the money, Chen Shiping looked at him and said, "Is it true that if there are no new novels, there will be no royalties in the future?"

"Hey, I don't know that, but you're so smart and you should understand." The second dealer prevaricated.

Chen Shiping naturally knew the meaning behind this, thought for a moment and said, "Tell Boss Li that there will be a new novel next month."

"That's it. You made a lot of money this time. Your book is almost more popular than Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller." The second dealer spat and said, "Who said street stall literature is not good? Your book is more popular than Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller." The sales of Sanguan Blood Selling Story are much better."

Chen Shiping couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, looked at him and asked, "Did you also pirate Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller? How many copies have you sold?"

"Not many. Boss Li has printed tens of thousands of copies. I heard that some big booksellers in the south are so ruthless that they printed 200,000 copies in one go!"

After hearing the news of two hundred thousand copies, Chen Shiping clutched his chest in pain and could not speak for a long time. The second dealer An Ge was so frightened that Chen Shiping had a heart attack due to jealousy.

God's retribution, I earned 20,000 yuan by writing pirated novels, and others stole hundreds of thousands of copies from me, and there will be more in the future!

There are no genuine novels these days that are not pirated. Jia Pingwa’s Wasted Capital was once printed by millions of copies by pirates.

But he hasn't written it yet. Chen Shiping feels that he can bear the pain of having the fruits of his labor stolen for him!

Rather than letting the pirated bookseller steal it, let him steal it! right. If something happens to a scholar, it must be called plagiarism!

However, thinking about the rampant piracy of books, Chen Shiping couldn't help but curse, "Damn piracy!"

No, I have to write more erotic novels to make money back!

(End of this chapter)