The reason why Mr. Ke suddenly changed his mind and refused to sign Li Ye's Latent is that Wen Leyu gave her a manuscript of a new novel last night.
At the beginning, Wen Leyu wanted to learn to write novels with Li Ye. Li Ye chose the mode of "co creation" for real-time teaching, and asked Wen Leyu to provide the story background and character materials of the new novel.
Of course, the materials were provided by Mr. Ke, and on the day after the materials were provided, Mr. Ke started writing by himself.
She will try her own skills to write a novel like "Lurk".
Teacher Ke also has her own pride. She is not a layman in literary writing. She thinks that with Li Ye's "Hidden" as a reference, she can write something.
Mr. Ke's writing is relatively smooth. After all, he is a college student in the 1960s and has published literary works. He has absolutely no problem in writing skills.
Among the materials she prepared, many of the stories about the archetypes of characters were told by the old people at home, and now they are only explained in words.
The more Mr. Ke wrote, the smoother he got. He soon wrote a good beginning,
After reading it carefully for several times, she felt a little confident and proud. She planned to let Li Ye see it in a few days and "learn from each other".
Create together! Of course, we should work together.
But it's a pity that Mr. Ke hasn't had time to give Li Ye the manuscript, but Wen Leyu has brought Li Ye's manuscript.
After reading it, Mr. Ke sat down for another night, just as he had seen the manuscript of Latent.
People have to die compared to people, and goods have to be thrown away compared to goods.
The same character material, the same story background, the works written, but completely two things.
If you have to make a comparison, Mr. Ke's story is like a pot of salt water stew, lacking taste and taste, which can barely relieve hunger.
The story written by Li Ye is a stir fried meal with meat and vegetables, complete in color, fragrance and nutrition.
The missing ingredients and cooking techniques are all private goods that Li Ye added himself.
In fact, Mr. Ke's story is a "bookkeeping novel" with beautiful words and few plots, while Li Ye's story is a literary novel with rich plots.
When it was getting light outside the window, Mr. Ke laughed at himself.
Now she finally understood how careless and unassuming she was when she asked for a cooperation signature.
Li Ye doesn't need her help at all. Her help will only make people more confused.
Although Mr. Ke really had no way out at that time, and would not give up even if it was a straw, was this really a valid reason?
And looking at the manuscript in his hand, Mr. Ke could feel that Li Ye was really helping her.
This novel, tentatively named Fubing on the Beacon Fire, is a "high-end customized article" that fits Mr. Ke's mind everywhere,
Although it is just a beginning, the soldiers who shed their blood for the sake of brightness are all described by Li Ye in a variety of ways with bright colors, which will leave a deep impression.
This is very important.
When the book was written, Mr. Ke showed it to some people. As long as they had the impression, their forgotten husband would be remembered again.
It can be said that Mr. Ke never explained to Li Ye what she needed, but Li Ye gave her exactly what she wanted most.
Honesty is mutual.
Mr. Ke immediately made a decision to apologize to Li Ye.
She showed Dong Yuejin her previously published works, and then admitted her shortcomings, which was to raise Li Ye's literary level in a disguised way.
After all, Li Ye is still too young to be despised easily.
In the face of Li Ye's parents, Mr. Ke admitted his shortcomings modestly, but he didn't feel humiliated, even felt it was just right.
Teacher Ke is watching his daughter's change. It may not happen to Li Ye later, but don't let other parents talk about it!
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"I'd like to propose a toast to you two and congratulate you on bringing up a good son and grandson."
Mr. Ke picked up his glass and formally toasted Li Zhongfa and Li Kaijian.
"Where is it? The child is still young. We should ask Mr. Ke to teach more!"
Li Zhongfa and Li Kaijian are also the scene people, and they are not shy at the moment. They are toasting and the atmosphere in the box is very harmonious and warm.
And because of Mr. Ke's intervention, we finally filled in our minds to explain some questions.
Li Ye is still young, and writing spy war articles such as Hidden is not convincing enough,
But now Mr. Ke is on one side of the platform, but by mistake, he has filled this gap. Everyone is serious. It is Mr. Ke who dictated many stories to Li Ye.
After a while, Li Ye watched Dong Yuejin blush and sweat. He knew that his drinking capacity was average. If he was drunk, he could not talk about anything.
When talking at the wine table, it's better to be between "slightly drunk" and "drunk", because when drunk, it's not worth talking, and when sober, it's not worth talking.
So Li Ye took an opportunity to interject and asked, "Editor Dong, did the publishing house tell you anything about remuneration when you came here this time?"
Editor Dong prepared early and said with confidence, "Of course, Li Ye, the quality of your novel is still good. I helped you win the standard of 5 yuan per thousand words, which is already very high among new writers."
"Five yuan?"
Li Ye is obviously disappointed. The national regulation is 3-10 yuan for 1000 words. A new author can get 5 yuan for the first time when writing a book. It seems that it is not low.
But for a book like Latent, only 5 yuan is given for 1000 words, which is really not high.
Li Ye pondered for a few seconds and asked again, "Editor Dong, how much is the royalty? What percentage?"
"Royalty?" Dong Yuejin was stunned and asked Li Ye: "What royalties?"
Li Ye was also stunned. He thought for a moment and said, "Even if the printing press remuneration, didn't Guo Jia recover the printing press remuneration in 80 years?"
Dong Yuejin looked embarrassed and said, "I really don't know that..."
Li Ye frowned. He didn't know whether Dong Yuejin was really confused or playing dumb with himself.
Because when he wrote online articles in his last life, he admired the high royalties of those great gods, and occasionally saw the content of royalties for planting flowers.
Royalty was introduced into this land in the 1920s, and Hu Shi and others lived in the imperial capital of "the capital is not easy to live in" by means of royalties.
In the 80 years, Guo Jia recovered the royalties that had been interrupted for a long time, and formulated the royalty rate of "5% of the basic remuneration for ten thousand copies". Later, it also increased repeatedly, and even Han X took 20% of the royalties.
But what Li Ye didn't know was that Guo Jia stipulated that the rules should be followed, but the real implementation of this policy in favor of the author was after the birth of "Lord Shuo".
But now Li Ye didn't know this. He thought he had made a mistake.
So Li Ye asked tentatively: "So, editor Dong, the 80 year standard of manuscript fee is 3-10 yuan per thousand words for original works and 2-7 yuan per thousand words for translation?"
Dong Yuejin was also embarrassed. He nodded and said, "Yes, this is right, but the print print remuneration...... I'll check with the community......"
That is, I remember correctly. For a while, Li Ye felt a little uncomfortable and his smile was obviously cool.
In fact, Dong Yuejin is also very difficult. Although Latent is indeed a rare good work, it cannot level the status gap between the publishing house and the author before seeing the achievements.
Dong Yuejin is a very kind and inclusive editor for new writers like Li Ye,
In this era, there are many people like Feng Bo of Dahe Publishing House.
Li Zhongfa and Li Kaijian felt uncomfortable when they heard about it. The highest price is 10 yuan, and the lowest is 3 yuan. You just gave my grandson 5 yuan, and cut off the following profits?
Li Zhongfa immediately laughed and raised his glass to persuade him to drink: "Come on, editor Dong, let's have a drink. Children like being honest. Don't take it personally. We don't write books because we are greedy for money, do we?"
Li Kaijian, a retired scout, has quietly brought back Li Ye's novel manuscript and put it in his bag with the help of the two men's drinking skills.
[Want to buy my son's treasure for more than 1000 yuan? Is it a lot of money?]
Hao Jian's sesame sugar business is surprisingly prosperous. Jin Peng came to report on it two days ago. It is estimated that the profit sharing of the latest batch may be as high as 3000 yuan.
So the Li family's emphasis on money is different from before.
Dong Yuejin was drunk a lot by Li's family. He felt dizzy and took his bag. He wanted to find out the contract and confirm the publication with Li Ye. Only then did he find that the manuscript that he had not read was missing.
It seems that the network is cut off in the middle of the chase.
However, it also reminds Dong Yuejin in a disguised way that a senior editor of his own can be hung like this by this novel. What would happen if ordinary readers read it?
It can be said that Li Ye's second half of the manuscript far exceeded Dong Yuejin's expectations, which also made him determined.
[Latent is a good book, and you must take it!]
He took out the contract, smiled and said to the people, "We have drunk wine and eaten dinner. It's time to talk about some business! This is the publishing contract for Latent in the community. Take a look at Li Ye..."
"What's the hurry?" Li Kaijian grabbed Dong Yuejin and said affectionately, "Editor Dong had a hard time getting clean water. Why did he let us entertain him for a few days? We have to continue drinking tonight......"
Dong Yuejin smashes it and smashes its mouth. He knows that there will be twists and turns in this matter.
However, he was also a responsible person and immediately said, "You can't drink any more wine. If you drink more wine, you will delay your work,
I will report to the community later and try my best to get a higher contribution fee. Do you think it is OK? "
Li Kaijian was stunned for a moment. He took editor Dong's shoulder and patted it hard. He said, "Old Dong, you are a quick guy. Anyway, I have made this friend."
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Dong Yue goes in and out of the hotel, insists on rejecting Li Kaijian's continued hospitality, and goes to the post office to call himself.
The process of making a phone call was not very smooth. The publishing house had a lot of opinions, claiming that "there is no such precedent".
Later, after Dong Yuejin said that "Dahe Publishing House intends to intervene", the editor in chief gave him a sentence: "If you are willing to take all responsibilities, you can toss and turn at will."
This sentence has a heavy weight. If Dong Yuejin insists on making an exception, unless the novel Latent is very popular, his future work will be affected.
Dong Yuejin walked around the county town for two times in dismay, and the more he thought about it, the more he got ahead.
At this time, the wine was also strong. It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, so I had to plan to stay first and talk with Li Ye after careful consideration tomorrow.
When he entered the Qingshui County Guest House, he saw a young man in front of the counter. While checking in, he asked how to get to the No. 2 Middle School of the county and how old the children in the re education class were.
Dong Yuejin was impressed and glanced at the other party's letter of introduction. Although he was myopic, he could not see clearly, there were three words of publishing house in the big red chapter.
[He said that the monster had seen the ghost.]
Dong Yuejin was so excited that he woke up after drinking.
He retreated quietly and went out of the guesthouse. Sayako ran to the second middle school of the county.