Reborn Scholar

Chapter 14

Meng Shi read all the English volumes on the first day of junior high school.

Because it's just a beginner's entry, it's really easy.

She memorized all the words and sentence patterns, and was able to speak them fluently without any hindrance.

But Meng Shi felt that this was not enough.

So, she bought two Oxford dictionaries.

These two dictionaries are quite expensive, and they are not available in this small town. They were bought at the Xinhua Bookstore in the city.

The reason for buying two dictionaries is very simple, one is the English-Chinese Dictionary and the other is the Oxford Dictionary.The English-Chinese dictionary is the Chinese interpretation of English words, while the Oxford dictionary is the English interpretation of English words.

Meng Shi was afraid that he could not understand the English explanations he had, so he bought two copies and compared them.

Of course, English-Chinese dictionaries are for students below high school to learn English, because in many cases, Chinese interpretations of English words are still inaccurate, and English explanations must be used to express the meaning of the word more accurately.

Meng Shi's idea was very simple, that is, to memorize words.

She didn't mean to memorize from the first letter A to the end according to the sorting method in the dictionary.Even with a Chinese dictionary, it is impossible for her to know all the Chinese characters.

After reading the English textbook for the first grade of junior high school, she read the textbook for the second grade of junior high school. She had to understand both the Chinese and English definitions of every word.

Memorizing words and sentences is really boring.

At this time, it is impossible to find English movies and English songs to learn easily. This is the only way.

However, she will not push herself too much.Because these words are very simple in junior high school, she actually knows most of them, so she memorizes [-] words every morning, all of which are simple, commonly used and familiar, and will not take too much time.

Before going to bed at night, repeat what you learned in the morning. In the next morning, in addition to memorizing new words, you have to go back and review the previous words.Therefore, it was easy in the first few days, but later on, it took a long time because there was too much to review!

However, Meng Shi is not really a child anymore, she has absolute self-control.

When reciting vocabulary by herself, she will also give her brother some simple English nouns, such as fruit, book, pen and other simple words, as well as simple dialogue.

Besides memorizing vocabulary, she also has a lot of time.

Her parents won't let her intervene in the work in the field.It is enough for her to study at home and take care of her younger brother.However, Meng Shi took the initiative to take over the cooking. It was easy and effortless to make farm food, and she could handle it completely.

The younger brother can't be kept around, he will stay at home for a while, and then he will go out to play with other children for a while.

Meng Shi had time to write.

However, what she intends to write this time is reasoning and suspense.

There is no way, the domestic manuscript fee is too little, she can't do anything she wants.With her current status, other ways of making money are quite difficult to achieve. Only the manuscript fee is relatively easy.

The development of domestic mystery novels has not been prosperous enough, but mystery novels in China's close neighbor and old enemy country R have become the most popular genre of novels since their inception.

R country's mystery novels have produced many world-renowned works, and there are even works that can be compared with famous works like Sherlock Holmes.

Before Meng Shi, she was also a fan of mystery novels. Of course, Sherlock was her favorite...

Now, she is purely for the purpose of making money.

Compared with science fiction, reasoning is much more difficult to write.

In particular, even if she clearly knows the main line and ending of a story, it is quite difficult to fill in the details in the middle.

Readers are not fools, and any omissions and unreasonable things in the book will be picked out by readers.

However, for the sake of money, she doesn't mind working hard.

The first chapter, Longmian.

Strictly speaking, this novel is not a pure mystery novel, but more like reasoning plus supernatural.

At one point, it was said that the plot of the novel was not well designed.

However, this novel still won the Mystery Writers Association Award of Country R in 91.

Similarly, it was precisely because the trick was designed in an ordinary way that Meng Shi chose this, so that he would not be too worried about missing clues.

What Long Mian actually wants to tell readers is: People who are missing a part are unfortunate, but people who have more superpowers may not be happy. In short, in the words of some commentators: Knowing more is not necessarily a problem Happy thing!

The story structure is not complicated and there are not many characters.

Meng Shi first laid out all the details of the two cases involved in this book, and then connected them together.

She writes relatively slowly. In the first pass, she writes out the whole story first, and then in the second pass, she focuses on checking for any omissions.

By the third time, it is focused on modifying sentences.

The summer vacation has only passed a week, and the reply letter from the science fiction world has also arrived.

Both Jurassic Park and Independence Day can be translated into English by the magazine agency, and they can be delivered to science fiction magazines in M ​​country.

But there is a requirement.

Meng Shi needs to pay a translation fee of 1 cent per word. In fact, generally speaking, the translation is calculated according to the English word, but the magazine should find a familiar translator to translate, so it is calculated according to Chinese, and Meng Shi is a little bit more expensive. It's a good deal.

Sighing, Meng Shi had no choice but to accept it.

Who told me that my English is not good enough?Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to translate it yourself?
She only paid 2 cents per word for writing manuscripts, and 1 cent per word for translation...

However, she can also understand.These manuscripts are usually translated by old professors from the universities they are looking for. The old professors are very high-level, but their salaries are not high. This little money is just a little extra money.

That is, in this era, it is only possible to hire a professor at such a cheap price.

Meng Shi didn't feel too much pain.

Anyway, if these two works are published in country M, the manuscript fee will not be low. At the same time, if they are published in country M, they will have a chance to be seen by Hollywood in country M, and they will have a chance to be adapted into movies. That's the big deal!
Meng Shi didn't reply, but called the editorial department directly. The reply was too slow.

After agreeing to the translation fee request, the magazine talked with Meng Shi again. If the magazine helps to submit the manuscript, then the manuscript fee will be divided into [-]-[-] with the magazine, the magazine will be two, and Meng Shi will be eight.

Meng Shi also agreed to this point.

This also means that the magazine does not need to give her the manuscript fee for Independence Day, and it will be used directly to pay for the translation.

A whole summer vacation.

Meng Shi memorized all the English vocabulary and textbook content for the three years of junior high school, and also finished writing Longmian.

August NO.30, Meng Shi received a letter from the magazine.

Both Jurassic Park and Independence Day were submitted to the Asimov Science Fiction Magazine in Country M. The editor of Country M’s A magazine has responded by phone, confirming the acceptance of these two manuscripts. The manuscript fee for Jurassic Park is $800 after tax. Author fees for Independence Day are $600 after tax.

Seeing this letter, Meng Shi wanted to cry!
According to the current official exchange rate, 1 US dollar is exchanged for 37659 RMB, that is, the manuscript fee for Jurassic Park is 3000 yuan, and the manuscript fee for Independence Day is more than 2000 yuan!

Moreover, this manuscript fee has to be tax deducted in the country. After the tax is deducted, it will be shared with the magazine...

Meng Shi finally got his hands on the two books, which cost about 700 yuan.

Of course, if she could get US dollars and exchange them through private means, the money she got would at least double.

But the problem is, how can a country that is extremely short of foreign exchange give her foreign exchange?

Directly converted into RMB according to the official exchange rate!
There is really no place to cry, unless the US dollar stays abroad and does not enter the country.But the question is, with just a few hundred dollars, what can you do abroad?
Meng Shi could only comfort herself, it's fine, as long as these two novels are published and Hollywood takes a fancy to them, then she will be able to salvage a fortune from the film and television adaptation rights!

At the same time, she also pinned her hopes on the reasoning novel she was about to send to Country R. The manuscript fee was much higher than Huaxia and Country M, but it also had something to do with the type of manuscript. After all, those who write reasoning, brain cells die faster!

(End of this chapter)