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Chapter 22 Yuelu Academy
Ye Kai stood in front of the window of the reception room, holding a teacup in his hand, looking at the scenery outside the window.

Today's sky is a bit hazy, dark clouds block the sun, but it doesn't affect the singing of birds in the forest. Some leaves are starting to turn yellow, making autumn more intense.

"Dong dong!" Someone stood outside the door and tapped on the wooden door.

Ye Kai lowered his teacup and asked, "Hi, are you Editor Zhou?"

"It's me, I hope I didn't disturb your pleasure of watching the scenery."

"No such thing."

Zhou Kaiwen shook hands with Ye Kai and said, "I never thought that Mr. Ye is so young. I have read your masterpiece three times, but I really didn't expect you to contact us first."

"Where is it, a little clumsy work, which made Editor Zhou laugh."

"Let's not be polite, sit down and chat, drink tea."

Zhou Kaiwen's appearance is a typical literati, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, combing his hair meticulously, and growing a small beard, his whole person exudes a refined atmosphere.

After a few compliments, and then started to talk about business, Zhou Kaiwen said: "Since Mr. Ye wants to publish directly, why didn't he publish a physical book in the first place."

"The novel was not finished when I uploaded it, and I didn't know if it would attract readers, so I posted it on the Internet to test the waters."

In fact, Ye Kai did not understand the rules of Qichuang, and thought that he could only sign the electronic copyright.

"See if this is okay." Zhou Kaiwen said. "The fairy sword on the website can no longer be updated. To cooperate with our publicity, we can give you three types of royalties for your manuscript. It depends on your choice."

Ye Kai said: "Please tell me."

"The first is buyout, the second is based on the standard of 80 characters per thousand, and the third is based on royalties, which are [-]% royalties."

"As far as I know, the royalties for newcomers are generally around 5% to 8%. Although you gave me a high price for newcomers, the book Immortal Sword has already proved itself on the Internet. The risks you take are actually not as high as you imagined." high.

So I think 15% copyright should be more reasonable. "

How could it be possible not to understand the market before deciding to publish.Although Ye Kai himself has no friends in this industry, but Qiandu Google is so developed, as long as he is interested, he can find out anything for you.

Ye Kai's asking price is not high, 15% is the asking price of ordinary veteran authors.

But in the final analysis, Ye Kai is just a new author. The two discussed for half an hour, and finally both sides took a step back and signed a 12% contract.

Now on Qichuang Chinese website, Legend of Sword and Fairy has more than 4 collections, some of which are found through Weibo, but more are still readers of Qichuang.com.

Wait a few days until the time is ripe, and then tell readers the news of the physical book.

It was still early for Ye Kai to read, so he decided to go to Yuelu Academy to have a look.

If there is any place in Changsha that can get system rewards, it must be Yuelu Academy.

This academy has a history of thousands of years, and has preserved a large number of historical inscriptions, such as the "Lushan Temple Stele" inscribed in Tang Dynasty, and the "Yuelu Academy" inscribed in Ming Dynasty.

Going out from the publishing house to take the subway, you only need to take two stops to get to Yuelu Academy.

In the passageway of the Yuelu Academy subway station, Ye Kai heard someone playing the guzheng. This ancient musical instrument originated in China has had an astonishingly low appearance rate in recent years.

It has only appeared in martial arts or historical film and television dramas.

The teacher who played the guzheng was a woman who looked about 40 years old, her figure was still in shape, she was wearing a lavender cheongsam, and she was playing the strings with an intoxicated expression.

There are two cardboard boxes next to her seat, which are full of CD records in the style of 20 years ago. The person on the cover is this teacher. There is a sign behind her, and the records can be collected for free if you are interested.

But the current CDs can only be used for collection, and it is more convenient to listen to songs on the mobile phone, so there are many onlookers, but it is difficult to send out the CDs in the carton.

Ye Kai picked up a record, on the cover was a photo of a young musician playing the zither, and on the back was written the zither music on the record.

Today, Chinese musical instruments are on the decline.

Due to a lot of learning from foreign singing genres, most of the instruments used are western instruments. The stage of the singer is so big, and the accompaniment team is so strong, but if you want to use Chinese instruments, you have to go to the Conservatory of Music to find them again.

After listening for a long time, Ye Kai bought a bottle of water for the teacher before leaving.

This teacher is different from other singers in the subway station store. She is not doing it for money, she just wants to let more people enjoy the sound of Guzheng.

This is worthy of admiration.

When we left the subway station, the weather was not good, and it started to rain lightly.Ye Kai stood at the entrance of the subway station and waited for a while, looking at the ticket office not far away, he simply walked over in the rain.

This kind of scenic spot sells 50 tickets, Ye Kai personally thinks it is a little expensive, but after entering, he found that this academy is actually very big, not just a few buildings as Ye Kai imagined.

Such an antique building is Ye Kai's favorite, but the crowds coming and going still slightly spoil the atmosphere here.In ancient times, scholars studied here, and the sound of reading was heard every day, but now it can no longer be heard.

Now this is the affiliated college of Hunan University, and the residents are postgraduates, doctoral students and other highly educated people.But they did not have the temperament of the ancient scholars.

Turn a corner at the door, and you will arrive at the corridor. It is raining now, and many people stay in the corridor to hide from the rain.Watching the raindrops fall from the eaves is also a rare artistic conception.

Ye Kai regretted that he didn't bring a camera, he really wanted to take pictures of raindrops falling from the eaves into the soil.

Going forward along the corridor, there is a forest at the end. The leaves and rain fall together and stick to the ground. There is a man-made river in the middle of the forest, and a small stone arch bridge is built on it.

After passing the stone arch bridge is the main viewing place of the scenic spot. There are rooms introducing the history of the academy, and there are rooms where ancient teachers teach and students attend classes.

The entire Yuelu Academy is full of various plaques, and the characters on the plaques also have their own charms, but Ye Kai confidently feels that his own characters should be better.

The best season to watch Yuelu Academy is now.After walking through this area of ​​buildings, you can see a large area of ​​extremely bright red maple leaves.

When the wind blows, the maple leaves are like flying butterflies, falling to the ground slowly, with a different kind of poignant beauty.

The last scenic spot is the Aiwan Pavilion, which is mentioned in many poems, such as Tang Bohu's I painted the river in the south of the Yangtze River, and the maple leaves on the Aiwan Pavilion.

Walking to the edge of the Aiwan Pavilion, there is a stone tablet introducing the origin of the name of the Aiwan Pavilion. It is said that it comes from the famous song Parking and Sitting in the Maple Forest, and the frost leaves are red in February flowers.

The shape of Aiwan Pavilion is double eaves and eight columns, glazed green tiles.

A flying dragon is engraved on the corner of the pavilion on the top, with its head upturned towards the sky, looking as if it is about to fly away at any time. The plaque is the three big characters of Aiwan Pavilion gilded on a red background.

[You have watched Yuelu Academy, your understanding of books has improved]

Ye Kai waited for a while.

Gone?

That's it?

Ye Kai couldn't even remember how long he hadn't read a book. It seemed that he hadn't read a book since graduating from university?E-books should also be considered books, right?

Otherwise, Ye Kai really couldn't think of the use of this reward.

After leaving Yuelu Academy, Ye Kai wandered around Hu Nan University, and went back to the hotel to code when he felt bored. Now he had to write the book he had conceived.

After thinking of the name, I named it after a list in the book, called Langya List.

(End of this chapter)