"What conditions?" Lin Chaoyang asked.
"The 5% remuneration for a print run of 10,000 copies will only be paid after the sales of the work exceed 800,000 copies." Wei Junyi said.
800,000 copies? Old lady, are you too cruel?
Lin Chaoyang's eyes flashed with dissatisfaction, "Your requirements are too harsh. Ask yourself, how many works of your humanities agency can sell more than 800,000 copies a year?"
"Our humanities agency doesn't ask for 5% of the royalties on a print run of 10,000 copies. Didn't you say that your novel sales are high?"
The boomerang hit him between the eyebrows, leaving Lin Chaoyang speechless.
"Then you have to give me a basic remuneration of 12 yuan per thousand words." The more Lin Chaoyang thought about it, the more he felt he was at a disadvantage, so he put forward another condition.
"Okay." Wei Junyi changed his reluctance and agreed happily.
"I……"
Lin Chaoyang didn't expect Wei Junyi to agree so happily. It seemed that he had already made a plan in his mind. He thought about it suspiciously, did he make any omissions?
"Let's make it clear first. What I'm saying is that all sales exceeding 800,000 copies will be calculated based on 5% of the print run, but not the excess."
Lin Chaoyang thought for a long time and finally emphasized.
Wei Junyi glanced at him with disdain, "Can our publishing house with the prefix Guo play this kind of word game with you?"
"I haven't seen how generous you guys are."
Lin Chaoyang muttered to himself, which attracted a cross look from Wei Junyi.
"Now that you're here, let's sign the contract." Wei Junyi said.
After all the conditions were negotiated, Lin Chaoyang no longer hesitated and signed the publishing contract readily on the spot.
When he came out of the Humanities Club, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.
I have spent a long time working hard for this fee, which is really difficult.
It would be better in later generations. Writers receive royalties directly. Their base is not the basic remuneration, but a solid royalty.
As long as the work sells well, one work can achieve financial freedom.
It's not like what he is doing now. He spent a long time just spitting and making thousands of dollars more.
Lin Chaoyang comforted himself in his heart. After all, given the current environment, he was getting much more than other writers. He would think of ways to increase the manuscript fee when there is a suitable opportunity in the future.
When he returned home, Lin Chaoyang saw a strange figure standing on the balcony at home, and asked Tao Yushu in a low voice: "Are there guests?"
Tao Yushu winked at him, but Lin Chaoyang didn't understand what it meant.
Before he could ask again, the figure turned around.
"Brother-in-law, it's me!"
Tao Yumo's long hair that was originally shawl disappeared, and was replaced by short curly hair, which was densely packed.
She looked at Lin Chaoyang with a smile and asked, "Does it look good?"
Lin Chaoyang did not answer her question and turned to Tao Yushu, "Is the lion dog a spirit?"
"Brother-in-law~" Tao Yumo scolded, "This is called cauliflower head. I said it's very popular in the south."
Tao Yushu scolded: "What a cauliflower head, he looks like a monster at first glance. If you don't keep in touch with him in the future, you won't learn anything good!"
"Hmph! Old-fashioned! Your aesthetic vision really needs to be improved."
Tao Yumo was hit by the couple one after another and retorted in anger.
Tao Yushu was not angry and said: "We don't have good taste, so you go home and show it to your parents, okay?"
Listening to his sister's words, Tao Yumo felt a little guilty, "Your home is warm, I will stay at your home for a few days."
Under the control of Tao's mother, the Tao Yushu sisters have basically had long hair since childhood. Tao's mother disliked braids as being too tacky and never allowed the sisters to wear braids. The two sisters always wore long, beautiful black hair.
Show it to others and tie it with a rubber band when you find it inconvenient.
Now that Tao Yumo has such an unconventional hairstyle, she will be scolded if she dares to go home, so she plans to stay at her sister's house to avoid the limelight.
"You can hide from the first grade of junior high school, but you can hide from the fifteenth grade? Are you afraid that others will tell you if you do it?" Tao Yushu mocked.
Seeing that Tao Yumo didn't speak, she scolded Du Feng who was not present.
Tao Yumo got her haircut at the instigation of Du Feng, and it is said that he even paid for it.
Tao Yumo turned a deaf ear to her sister's lesson. After a while, she ran to the mirror to admire her beautiful hairstyle. The more she looked at it, the more fashionable she felt.
"Yu Mo, have you thought about a question?" Lin Chaoyang asked.
"What's the problem?"
"With such a hairstyle, what will you do when you sleep at night? Aren't you afraid that it will straighten your hair?"
Listening to Lin Chaoyang's question, Tao Yumo was stunned for a moment, and then started to think seriously. After thinking for a long time, he said distressedly: "Oh! It seems that it is really easy to get straightened up. What should I do?"
She asked Lin Chaoyang, "Brother-in-law, do you have any ideas?"
"Not staying is the best way."
"It's the same as not saying anything." Tao Yumo gave him a roll of her eyes, understanding that he was trying to undermine her confidence in her new hairstyle.
October has passed by in a hurry, and the weather has gradually become colder.
Taking advantage of the time in the morning, Lin Chaoyang went to the cultural relics store in Xinjiekou, intending to buy something. Unexpectedly, when he arrived, he saw someone chatting with several sellers who were lining up to sell things.
Lin Chaoyang had encountered this situation more than once. He was not in a hurry and slowly pushed the cart over.
Lin Chaoyang thought he had met another cultural relics dealer as usual, but after taking a closer look at the man's features, he suddenly felt that he looked familiar.
Half-cut eyebrows, small eyes, and a drake voice were so obvious that even though he was thirty or forty years younger, Lin Chaoyang could still recognize him at a glance.
"Man, the price I give you is absolutely fair, and it is definitely higher than the price offered by the purchase point. If you buy things from them, they will give you a price of five yuan for ten yuan. If you sell them to them, you will lose a lot.
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When the man was talking to the seller, his eyes glanced at Lin Chaoyang who was approaching, and he immediately raised his vigilance and kept silent.
Lin Chaoyang said at this time: "Everyone, I am an antique collector. If you have something to sell, you can let me pass by and I can buy it with foreign exchange coupons."
Listening to Lin Chaoyang's words, the man understood that Lin Chaoyang was neither an acquisition point nor an investment manager, but was here to challenge the business.
Several sellers nearby ignored the man's reaction and immediately surrounded Lin Chaoyang.
There are not many people who come to sell things who are not short of money, and foreign exchange coupons are definitely more attractive to these people than RMB.
Half eyebrows looked at Lin Chaoyang surrounded by the crowd, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Is it great to have foreign exchange coupons?
They are all Chinese, why are they pretending to be thieves?
"Man, we have to agree on a first-come, first-served basis, right? I'm negotiating the price with someone right now!" he said out loud.
Ban Jiemei just took a fancy to a Ming Dynasty tooth-carved pen holder with a picture of a heron in a lotus pond, and has already made a bid for it to the seller.
After hearing this, Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "I'm sorry. That's okay, you guys can talk first."
The seller said to Lin Chaoyang: "He has finished bidding, and I want to hear your price."
Lin Chaoyang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Look at this..."
Banqiemei looked ugly and said nothing. The seller ignored him and took out the things to show to Lin Chaoyang.
After Lin Chaoyang finished looking at the items, the seller asked expectantly: "How was it?"
"The stuff is good, how about eight yuan?"
Hearing this, the seller frowned, with a hidden look of joy on his face. He had just offered the seller a price of ten yuan, and the other party offered eight yuan. Didn't he rush the seller to sell him the thing?
When he looked at Lin Chaoyang again, his eyes were less hostile and more contemptuous. He only paid eight yuan for such a good thing. He didn't have good taste!
As soon as this idea came to mind, Banzhemei muttered in his mind again. He gave ten yuan, and the other party gave eight yuan. Is there a possibility that this tooth-carved pen holder is really only worth eight yuan?
Thinking of this, I feel a little regretful because the price is too high!
"Eight yuan is too low, I'm paying ten yuan!" the seller said to Lin Chaoyang in disgust.
Lin Chaoyang said calmly, "I'm talking about foreign exchange coupons."
The seller suddenly became enthusiastic, "Foreign exchange coupons? You should have told me earlier!"
After saying that, he pulled Lin Chaoyang and started chatting passionately, which meant that he wanted Lin Chaoyang to add more.
"That's the price. If you don't want to, you can sell it to this little brother, or you can go to the purchasing point and ask."
Lin Chaoyang's words made Ban Zhenmei's face brighten slightly, but then the seller's words made him look ugly again.
"It's better to sell him than to sell you."
After saying this, the seller and Lin Chaoyang agreed on the money and goods. Lin Chaoyang used eight yuan of foreign exchange coupons to successfully pocket the tooth-carving pen holder.
The half eyebrows on the side just watched Lin Chaoyang read one thing after another, and then picked and picked up all the good things in the hands of the people in front of the purchasing point.
When the buying point was about to open, Lin Chaoyang was about to ride away, but was stopped by Ban Jie Mei.
"Comrade, I don't think you are a cultural relic dealer."
Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "Have you ever seen cultural relic dealers use foreign exchange coupons to collect things? This is purely a personal hobby of mine."
Half Eyebrow smiled and said: "What a coincidence, I also have a personal hobby, and we are also friends in the same hobby. What is your surname?"
"My surname is Lin."
Lin Chaoyang didn't cover up when he saw the half-breasted eyebrows. He knew the details of this boy clearly and was not afraid of the other party causing trouble.
"My surname is Ma, and I like to collect things. Do you come here often?"
"Come here once a week to see if there are any good things."
"Hey! That's my fault. I didn't know this is a place you often come to."
"It's okay, it's all fair trade."
While chatting, Ban Jiemei had been observing Lin Chaoyang. He had an ordinary appearance and simple clothes, and there was no sign of the arrogance that he had just used the foreign exchange coupons to collect things.
He didn't show much on the outside, but his temperament was quite elegant and his conversation was good. He asked: "Are you engaged in literary and artistic work?"
Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "I work in the school library and write some novels in my spare time."
"That's a coincidence. I also write novels, and my job is to be the editor of "Youth Literature"." When he said this, there was a bit of pride and showoff hidden on his face.
"Young and promising, young and promising."
After waiting for a long time, Ban Jiemei felt a little disappointed when she heard such a compliment.
He then said: "If you have any manuscripts that you can submit to our "Youth Literature" in the future, we have gotten to know each other today, and I will review them first for you later."
"Okay, thank you."
After a few words of foreshadowing, Ban Jiemei finally asked the question he wanted to ask: "Foreign exchange certificates are now hard currency. In fact, you can just use RMB to collect things, and they can still sell them to you."
Lin Chaoyang heard the subtext of half-mei, please don't disrupt the market and drive up prices.
Isn’t this to protect against acquisition points and peers like you?
Lin Chaoyang thought to himself, with a smile on his face, "Thank you for the reminder, I will try it next time."
The two pairs of smiling eyes looked at each other, confirming that the other party had received the information, and said with half an eyebrow: "I still have to go to work, so I'll see you next time."
"See you next time."
Chapter completed!