"This question... sounds like it's my fault. Actually, I wanted to give you a surprise."
"What surprise?" Tao Yushu asked.
Lin Chaoyang slapped the iron frame bed under the two of them with one hand, and there was a slight creaking sound.
"Our bed is so ugly. I planned to change it to a better bed and buy a spring mattress, but unfortunately I never got the ticket."
After listening to her husband's words, Tao Yushu felt funny and a little moved. She remembered that Lin Chaoyang did mention this matter in the first few days after coming home.
But she didn't expect that he would really keep it in her heart.
"It's just a bed, is it worth putting so much effort into it?"
"Eating and sleeping are two important things in life and cannot be ignored. They are directly related to the happiness index of our lives." Lin Chaoyang said righteously.
Tao Yushu joked: "You are indeed my father's son-in-law. On this point, you two have very similar ideas."
"That's right, Master Taishan is my role model to learn from."
"If you say you are fat, you will gasp."
Tao Yushu stretched out his hand, "Where's the royalties?"
Lin Chaoyang felt a big stone fall in his heart, he finally got over it.
He took out the money from his inner pocket and handed it to Tao Yushu.
"Just leave it here? Aren't you afraid of being discovered by me?"
"Just discover it if you find it. I don't really want to hide it from you." Lin Chaoyang said confidently.
Tao Yushu counted the money and said, "This money is wrong."
Lin Chaoyang's heart skipped a beat, "What's wrong?"
""Wrangler" is only 17,000 words long, how come it costs more than 100 yuan?"
The remuneration payment system in China has completely collapsed. Last year, the National Publishing Administration issued the "Notice on the Trial Implementation of Press and Publication Remuneration and Subsidy Measures."
The notice stipulates the implementation of a low remuneration system, and a one-time remuneration will be paid based on the quality and word count of the work. The remuneration is 2 to 7 yuan per 1,000 words for a work manuscript, and 1 to 5 yuan per 1,000 words for a translation manuscript.
Therefore, the general standard of remuneration for submissions to publications in the past two years is three to five yuan per thousand words, and six or seven yuan is already the standard for famous writers.
Tao Yushu also contributes manuscripts himself and is very clear about the current standards for manuscript fees.
Lin Chaoyang breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time secretly complained, Did you read it for a long time just now to check the word count?
"You forgot, I also published a creative talk in "Yanjing Literature and Art", and the editorial department even gave me an increase in the manuscript fee. "Wrangler" is five yuan for one thousand words, and the creative talk is seven yuan for one thousand words. Together,
113 yuan.”
"I said so."
Tao Yushu was happily about to put a bunch of banknotes into his pocket. After thinking about it, he pulled out a big bill from it.
"This is yours."
"This is mine."
Lin Chaoyang was originally a little distressed about the money that he had been holding on to for a few days, but looking at Tao Yushu's appearance of being obsessed with money, for some reason, he suddenly felt happy.
After receiving the royalties, Tao Yushu looked at Lin Chaoyang again, his eyes filled with admiration.
"Tell me, how did you write such a wonderful novel? I have never heard of you saying that you have written a novel before. The first time you wrote it, it was published in "Yanjing Literature and Art", and there were so many publications
Big name!"
If you mention this, I won't be sleepy anymore.
Tao Yushu's attitude made Lin Chaoyang feel a little high-spirited, otherwise they would say that a woman's admiration is the best aphrodisiac for a man.
"At first I wanted to write, but I didn't have any ideas. Then I saw a report published by the Workers' Daily, about a couple of college students in Ningxia who refused to inherit huge assets from overseas relatives and resolutely stayed in
Built in remote areas of the country.
This report inspired me, and I happened to have some free time at work in the library every day, so I looked for some information and came up with some ideas, and I had the basis for "Wrangler"."
As early as when he came up with the idea of ​​writing the novel "The Wrangler", Lin Chaoyang had already thought of the wording. No matter readers, family members or editors, they would inevitably ask about the origin of his creation in the future. This is called preparing for a rainy day.
"Then you can write it right away? No difficulty?"
This is what Tao Yushu finds most curious.
It’s not that she looked down on her husband’s junior high school education, but literary creation didn’t mean that you could write and that you were good at Chinese. Any novice would inevitably encounter various problems in the initial stage.
"That's right. The writing was not smooth at first, and I was stumbling. I think the key is to be patient. Once you get through it, you'll be fine."
Lin Chaoyang's answer was very simple, but Tao Yushu majored in Chinese and is now writing literary criticism, so he knows the difficulty of it.
My husband has never had any experience in creative writing. He was able to complete a wonderful novel of tens of thousands of words in such a short period of time. Ultimately, this must be due to his talent.
She couldn't help but think back to the time when the two first met.
At that time, she was still working in the queue in Xiaoyangtun. Lin Chaoyang was fair and fair, and he was quite polite. The two of them worked together occasionally on weekdays, so they knew each other, but they couldn't tell anything.
It was not until later that he lost a lot of blood trying to save her and finally recovered. She was grateful to Lin Chaoyang for saving his life and took care of him with all his clothes on.
Slowly, she discovered through contact that Lin Chaoyang was actually a very talented person, especially in literature, with keen feelings and insights.
Others thought that she was only with Lin Chaoyang because of the grace of saving her life. This was certainly one of the reasons, but it was not the main reason. She, Tao Yushu, was not such a pedantic person.
Only she knew that she and Lin Chaoyang had similar interests.
In the blink of an eye, it has been almost a year since the two got married. Tao Yushu is very aware of the opinions and disapproval of people around her about her marriage to Lin Chaoyang. Even her mother is opposed to it, but she still persists.
Thinking back on this year's experience, Tao Yushu felt his nose was a little sore.
Tao Yushu suddenly buried his head in Lin Chaoyang's arms. At first, he thought that his wife could not restrain her inner admiration and threw herself into his arms, but it was only when he felt the wet warmth on his chest that something was wrong.
Lin Chaoyang gently held up that pretty face, and saw Tao Yushu crying so hard that one couldn't help but feel pity for her.
This crying made him feel a little flustered and he didn't know what was going on.
"What's wrong? Why are you still crying?"
The crystal tears were filled in his eyes before they fell. Tao Yushu sobbed and looked at Lin Chaoyang without saying a word. He became even more anxious.
"What are you talking about? Were you bullied at school? Or someone at home made you angry?" Lin Chaoyang felt distressed and wiped away Tao Yushu's tears.
Only then did she sniffle and say, "They don't understand. Only I know that you are a nugget of gold."
The anxiety in her heart turned into softness around her fingers at this moment. It turned out that this was why she was crying.
Bits and pieces of the past year flashed through Lin Chaoyang's mind. From the day she chose herself without hesitation, she must have been under a lot of pressure, right?
"Silly girl, there is nothing to cry about." Lin Chaoyang wiped away her tears again, "Your husband, I am not just a nugget of gold, but a gold mine."
Tao Yushu burst into tears and laughed, this smile was bright and full of flowers, "Arrogant!"
After laughing, Lin Chaoyang said with a guilty look: "I'm sorry!"
Tao Yushu thought he was apologizing because she had been wronged, "We are husband and wife, why are we talking about this?"
"Hey, let me ask you, how did you come up with the character Xiuzhi?"
"You didn't even notice this, I just followed what you wrote!"
"Hmph, sweet talk, what about Qingqing? Why is it my daughter?"
"Don't you like your daughter? I thought you liked your daughter!"
"I like both my son and my daughter."
"Then let's build one!"
Chapter completed!