In the beginning, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 11 Requesting a manuscript...

In 2002, mobile phones had actually become popular among college students, but they were still a rare item for Shen Xudong...

Nokia 8250 and 8310 are the two most popular mid-range phones today, with prices of 1790 and 2490 respectively.

Father Shen proposed to buy Shen Xudong one...

He rejected it himself - it was too expensive.

It's better to use the phone. There is a phone in the dormitory...

After Shen Xudong was admitted to the Chinese Theater Academy, he didn't have much contact with his former classmates. If he wanted to see him at home, he would call him directly. Occasionally, he would also use a phone card...

Originally, he planned to save some money to buy a mobile phone. This time he earned 3,000 yuan. Now that he has money, of course he will buy a mobile phone as soon as possible!

Zhao Linhai accompanied him...

I bought a Nokia 8250, then selected a number and charged 200 yuan for the phone bill...

After finishing their work, the two of them walked to school. Zhao Linhai taught him: "If you want to be a screenwriter and establish yourself in the capital, you must have a mobile phone and a car!"

"I know the cell phone, but the car?"

"Cars are convenient for traveling... For example, a film crew is filming in Huairou and asks you to revise the script. How will you get there?"

"Take a taxi..."

"What if it's three o'clock in the evening and you can't get a taxi for a while?"

Hearing this, Shen Xudong nodded: "Well, then my next goal is to buy a car!"

"...Buy a second-hand one first, it only costs 20,000 to 30,000..."

"Twenty or thirty thousand...it's so expensive!"

"We are now a freshman, so there are fewer opportunities to take on jobs... When we are a sophomore, we can participate in activities organized by the school."

Shen Xudong glanced at Zhao Linhai with curiosity: "Why do I feel that you attach great importance to school activities?"

"Of course! In fact, many of the creators of CCTV's sketch competition are students from major art schools!"

"real?"

"Of course, those who do well will be directly recommended to the Spring Festival Gala!"

"Then does our school have one?"

Zhao Linhai was a little embarrassed: "Our school is relatively small... because we work with major drama troupes... Therefore, the works are more serious, and the Spring Festival Gala sketches are mainly comedies..."

"oh…"

Zhao Xinlai said: "Military Art has produced many works that have gone straight to the Spring Festival Gala!"

"who?"

"Huang Hong's "Selling Calendars" and Sun Tao's "Picket" were both created during their military art days!"

Zhao Linhai next to him corrected: ""Selling Calendars" is the Liaoning Spring Festival Gala..."

"...If you want to go to the Spring Festival Gala, in addition to your works, you also need to be supported by noble people!"

Who is the noble person?

Some leaders of the Folk Art Association, so those cross talk actors can successfully transform into sketches...

Therefore, Jiang Kun's "Happy Dialect" is so boring that it breaks records, but it can still be included in the Spring Festival Gala!

One more thing, the Folk Art Association holds a bunch of folk gathering activities every year, with conference travel and accommodation for dozens of people at a time for four or five days. It also organizes folk gatherings like tourism, where dozens of people eat, drink and have sex. After the conference is completed, it must be at least several hundred thousand.

That’s not to say that the money shouldn’t be spent, but if you spend the money, it must at least have some effect, right?

So much manpower and material resources are spent every year. Not to mention too much, at least there are two or three new popular cross talk jokes.

There is Mao, the Spring Festival Gala was his own work more than ten years ago!

At least two of Niu Qun and Feng Gong's crosstalk "Thieves, Inc." are front-line personnel...

Zhao Linhai and Zhao Xin chatted about going to the black box to watch a drama in the evening - the black box is the experimental drama theater of China National Theater. Every night, sophomores and juniors perform some dramas...

You should need a ticket, but the wall is not high, so if you don’t have a ticket, you can turn over...

No one is checking anyway!

"How about calling Xiao Shen? He hasn't been there yet!"

"...He's going to the library tonight, right?"

The two of them glanced at Shen Xudong and found that he was on the phone: "Hey, yes, this is my number. If you are free, you can contact me..."

"Well, the mobile phone I just bought will contact you first..."

"Let's just send text messages. I heard that it's one dollar and two a minute to make a phone call..."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Xudong noticed his two brothers looking at him in surprise. He was a little at a loss: "What's wrong?"

"Who did you call?"

"Cao Xiwen..."

"Do you have her number?"

"Yes, she asked me to write it down before and tell her when I bought the mobile phone..."

"You want to pick her up?"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "No, I just want to make friends..."

Zhao Xin was confused: "Why?"

"what why?"

"It's very beautiful. Why are they not in the same place?"

"She doesn't have the feeling that as soon as I meet her, I will decide that I have to be her in this life!"

“…”

Zhao Xin was a little speechless and glanced at Zhao Linhai, who asked: "Then tonight..."

"Oh, go to the library...I want to read Bernard Shaw's "The Amateur Socialist" today..."

…

When Liao Gaoxiang returned to the dormitory, there were only two people in the room, Zhao Linhai and Zhao Xin.

"Where is Xudong? Went to the library again?"

Zhao Xin said casually: "A beautiful woman asked him to have dinner..."

"Really? That Cao Xiwen?"

"should be…"

"Tsk, tsk, this is what college students should look like..."

"By the way, what did your aunt say?"

"My aunt said that there has always been a lot of discussion about Jin Yong's martial arts characters, and three of Xudong's manuscripts were published...the manuscript fee is 300 per thousand words..."

"300?"

"Well, it was published in "BJ Youth Weekly". The "Culture" column is going to create a new sub-column called "Hua Jianghu". His article "The Irresponsible Linghu Chong" will become the first column..."

"I said, why are the royalties so high? It's a magazine, not a newspaper?"

Liao Gaoxiang explained casually: "Newspapers and periodicals also want it. The first two publishers were in newspapers and periodicals... By the way, my aunt asked him to write more content with novel views similar to "The Irresponsible Linghu Chong"..."

"Is this a manuscript invitation?"

"Well, I heard that the editor-in-chief of their newspaper also hates Linghu Chong very much... That article was very to his liking!"

"Then you call him and tell him...this is his mobile phone number..."

"Did he buy a mobile phone?"

Zhao Xin interjected: "Well, we at Xudong have great ambitions and are planning to buy a car next!"

He said this without any irony, but with full of relief.

Zhao Linhai also followed: "Sometimes, I wonder if I should learn from the fourth child..."

"Learn from him?"

"I visit the library every day...you are so attentive!"

"It's useless," Liao Gaoxiang waved his hand: "I'm telling you, we can't learn from Lao Si. His brain is different from others. If nothing else, let's talk about Jin Yong's martial arts. We have all watched "Swordsman" , we feel that Linghu Chong is bohemian, cheerful and open-minded, bold and unrestrained in his actions, informal, chivalrous and affectionate. But only he can write that Linghu Chong has no sense of responsibility and is disloyal, unkind, unjust and unfilial..."

Zhao Linhai nodded quickly: "Yes, he didn't write it. I didn't expect Linghu Chong to be so disgusting!"

"Especially the scene where Ning Zhongze was insulted... When I watched it, I didn't think there was anything wrong. When he pointed it out, he was stunned!"

This is the passage: "Linghu Chong hid in the grass, not daring to let the air out, thinking: "I haven't come back for so long, Yingying must be worried about me, and will come out to look for me. She heard the sound of digging, came over to check, I will save my wife. How dare these elders in the demon sect dare to disobey Miss Ren when they see her coming? For the sake of leader Ren, Brother Xiang and Yingying, it would be best if I could not take action with everyone in the demon sect. ." Thinking of this, I felt that the longer I waited, the better. Now that the lecherous Elder Ge had left, the master's wife was no longer in danger of being humiliated. ’

That's right, the wife of the master who saved him, raised him, taught him to care for him for decades, Linghu Chong, is not as good as Ren Woxing, Xiang Wentian and Ren Yingying.

Zhao Linhai nodded and said: "I guess he will become famous as soon as this article comes out!"