Literary Master 1978

"This Lin Chaoyang is too greedy to be greedy. Our factory offered him a royalties of 8,500 and he is still not satisfied. He insists on saying that "Wrangler" is a good seller.

No matter how well "Wrangler" sells, it is still a film produced by your Shanghai Film Studio. What does it have to do with our Yan Film Studio?

Lao Xie, let me judge you. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the price of our factory is sky-high, right? "

Jiang Huaiyan said angrily.

Xie Jin listened to his words, feeling surprised and happy in his heart. He was surprised that Yan Film Studio actually gave Lin Chaoyang such a high royalties; he was happy that Yan Film Studio paid such a high royalties, but Lin Chaoyang did not agree.

He thought of the price he offered Lin Chaoyang yesterday, and felt a sense of luck in his heart.

It is estimated that if Yan Film Studio had not had conflicts with Chaoyang before, the adaptation rights would have been given to them long ago.

Eight thousand five hundred dollars!

While feeling secretly happy in his heart, Xie Jin felt a burst of pressure again. Your Yan Film Studio really dared to bid.

"Hey, Lao Xie, why are you going?"

"Something happened, I have to go see the actors!"

After chatting for a few words, Xie Jin couldn't control the restlessness in his heart, and left the main building of Yanying Factory with a casual excuse.

Jiang Huaiyan looked at his back with complicated eyes, Lao Xie, Lao Xie, old buddy of decades, you are too embarrassed.

Since you are in the first grade of junior high school, don't blame me for being in the fifteenth grade.

"Nine thousand dollars!"

Xie Jin stood in front of Lin Chaoyang and said decisively.

"Lao Xie, that's okay. You just thought about it after not seeing each other for a day?"

"Stop talking nonsense, nine thousand yuan, okay? Give me a nice word!"

Xie Jin endured his heartache, fearing that he would regret it.

"Okay. You old man has already opened your mouth, how can you not do it!"

After hearing Lin Chaoyang's words, Xie Jin's momentum that he had just mustered up was like a balloon with a hole in it, and it suddenly leaked out.

Nine thousand yuan! This is nine thousand yuan!

The intense heartache gave him a vicious thought: I won't let you change the script eight times!

"When will the script be finished?"

"Why are you so anxious? The adaptation rights were just decided today, and you still plan to take it away today!"

Xie Jin gritted his teeth and said, "My nine thousand yuan was not wasted!"

"Looking at your attitude, this is very problematic. Don't we screenwriters deserve nine thousand yuan?"

"Stop messing around with me. I haven't even gotten nine thousand yuan."

"That's because you didn't write a work like "High Mountain"."

For a director to talk to a writer, it's a bit of a trick. Xie Jin couldn't talk to Lin Chaoyang, so he brought the topic to the script again, "Can the script be released next month?"

"Isn't your request too high? One month?"

"Is the royalties of nine thousand yuan high?"

Lin Chaoyang thought carefully and said, "Not high."

He only earned 18,000 yuan in royalties from writing two scripts for Li Hanxiang, but Director Xie paid him 9,000 yuan for one.

This is Lin Chaoyang’s father!

Finally hearing some satisfying words from Lin Chaoyang, Xie Jin finally felt a little more comfortable and felt that his money was worth it.

"I will outline the script in the past two days. I will stay in Yanjing. After we have a good chat, you can start writing. It must be completed next month. The film must be completed this year." Xie Jin continued to give orders.

"You don't have to put so much pressure on yourself, right?"

"I've spent all my money, so don't worry about me!"

Xie Jin seemed like a rebellious young man who couldn't listen to any advice.

"Okay, okay, you are the director and you have the final say."

After receiving the royalties, Lin Chaoyang focused on having a good service attitude.

At that moment, Xie Jin took Lin Chaoyang to discuss some plots and characters of the novel, and put forward his own requirements for Lin Chaoyang.

The next day, Lin Chaoyang sent the outline of the script to the guest house of Yanying Factory. The efficiency was so high that Xie Jin was very satisfied, and then he packed his luggage and returned to Shanghai.

With Xie Jin's character, after completing a job, he must have a drink to celebrate.

But now that he has consciously snatched the rights to adapt "High Mountain", he feels guilty that he should not stay here for a long time.

But the more you are afraid of something, the more it will come.

While he was packing his things, Jiang Huaiyan, Chen Huaikai and Cheng Yin blocked his door.

"Lao Xie, what are you doing here? Didn't you say you want to audition for actors?"

"Ah, it's all done, done." Xie Jin said perfunctorily, planning to leave the room.

"Congratulations, the work was successfully completed. What's the matter? Are you guys going to have a drink with you?"

Xie Jin quickly waved his hand, "No, no, there's something else at work, I have to go back and deal with it quickly."

"It won't take long, let's go."

The three of them almost carried Xie Jin to the restaurant. They ordered food and poured wine. Jiang Huaiyan muttered, "Old Xie, you are in the first year of junior high school and your brother is in the fifteenth year. Don't blame anyone. If you want to blame, blame Lin Chaoyang." This guy is so greedy!”

Xie Jin was confused by his strange behavior, "What do you mean?"

Cheng Yin really couldn't stand it anymore, "Lao Xie, you are so clever that you are fooled by your cleverness, and you have fallen into other people's traps!"

"What's the meaning?"

"Did Lao Jiang tell you that he wanted the rights to adapt "High Mountain" for 8,500 yuan, but Chaoyang didn't give it to him?"

"yes!"

Xie Jin looked at Cheng Yin, then at Jiang Huaiyan, and then at Lin Chaoyang, who was feeling guilty, and a realization came to his mind.

"Okay, you guys..."

Lin Chaoyang waved his hands quickly, "It has nothing to do with me, I didn't let him raise the price!"

Jiang Huaiyan said confidently: "You came to our Yanying with impure motives this time. I'm giving him a taste of his own medicine."

Xie Jin pointed at Jiang Huaiyan, feeling angry, aggrieved, and a little unwilling.

"The extra money you spent was to teach you a lesson, but you hurt the hearts of our old brothers this time." Jiang Huaiyan said.

"Bah!" Xie Jin was so angry that he almost jumped up and down, "How dare you be sad? You set up a trap to deceive me, how dare you be sad?"

"Did you play tricks on us first?"

"That's right, Old Xie, you are not right in this matter no matter how you say it!"

...

Several old comrades who are more than 200 years old in total quarreled, and naturally there was no result.

Lin Chaoyang, who was standing aside, laughed at the scene. When the snipe and the clam quarreled, I, the fisherman, would never come up empty-handed.

It would have been better if he didn't say anything. When he did, several people immediately pointed their spears at him.

The competition between the two studios was so fierce, and he was the culprit.

"I'll treat you to this meal today!"

After being scolded for a long time, Lin Chaoyang finally calmed everyone's anger with one sentence.

After all, no matter how much the royalties are paid, it is public money. The wine in the stomach is actually for your own enjoyment.

These old comrades are still too low in consciousness!

Inviting the four old men in the film industry to dinner, these people have some personal grudges. They only order expensive dishes and only drink Xifeng, especially Xie Jin, who can drink a glass of wine with gritted teeth.

"Are you going to drink all the money back in one meal?" Lin Chaoyang looked at Xie Jin drinking one glass after another, and couldn't help but sarcastically said. His words were undoubtedly arrogantly rubbing salt on Xie Jin's wounds.

Xie Jin tilted his neck to drink a glass of wine, and his eyes looking at Lin Chaoyang revealed a bit of dangerous aura.

"Write the script well. If it's not well written, you have to revise it several times."

Listening to his naked threat, Lin Chaoyang was not worried at all, "I've received the money, isn't it my duty to revise the manuscript? Just don't complain that I'm slow."

"You kid..."

Xie Jin plans to finish filming "High Mountain" this year, so of course he can't leave much time for the script, so Lin Chaoyang is fearless.

Seeing Xie Jin's defeat, Jiang Huaiyan gloated over his misfortune, and Xie Jin shifted his attention to him again.

After beating Lin Chaoyang up, Xie Jin left Yanjing with a bit of depression and heartache.

After Xie Jin left, Lin Chaoyang spent a day finishing the novel he was writing, and didn't care about which magazine to send the manuscript to, so he devoted himself to writing the script for "The Wreath under the Mountain".

He has to do things after taking the money. He is a very principled person.

He is not in a hurry to publish a novel, but someone else is.

On February 3, Lin Chaoyang was not on duty and was writing at home. The security guard at the door called to say that someone came to visit the house. The visitors were Liu Xinwu and Wang Shimin.

"You are rare guests!"

Seeing Liu and Wang, Lin Chaoyang greeted them warmly.

After the three of them exchanged pleasantries for a while, Lin Chaoyang asked about the purpose of their visit today.

Liu Xinwu said: "I heard that your new work will be released soon?"

"Who told you?"

"Li Tuo."

"I knew it was him." Lin Chaoyang looked as if he had expected it, and said: "It's just finished."

Liu Xinwu immediately became excited, "You didn't promise it to others?"

"No."

"Give us October." Liu Xinwu looked at Lin Chaoyang with burning eyes.

"Well... Harvest and Contemporary are interested in my novel..." Lin Chaoyang showed a thoughtful look.

Having known each other for several years, Liu Xinwu thought he understood Lin Chaoyang and knew that the reason for his hesitation was probably because of the manuscript fee.

He and Wang Shimin exchanged a glance. They came prepared today.

Seeing Wang Shimin nod, Liu Xinwu said, "We can discuss the royalties."

Lin Chaoyang's face lightened up, "I have a lot of affinity with October. If the army hadn't insisted on giving High Mountain to People's Literature, we would have had the opportunity to cooperate long ago."

Liu Xinwu echoed, "That's right..."

Liu Xinwu was furious when he talked about this.

When High Mountain was written, he had already agreed with Lin Chaoyang, but the army insisted on making trouble, saying that their October was not influential enough and had to be published in People's Literature. Even with his good temper, he couldn't stand this humiliation.

Unfortunately, October was powerless at the time and could only watch High Mountain slip away. After it was published, not only did the sales of People's Literature explode, but it also boosted the influence of their magazine.

Since then, Liu Xinwu felt that he was plagued by bad luck. Every time he came to Lin Chaoyang to collect manuscripts, he always missed Lin Chaoyang's new works.

In more than two years, Lin Chaoyang's three novels, "October", did not get any, which really puzzled him.

This time, Liu Xinwu learned from the past lessons. When he heard that Renwen Publishing House had increased Lin Chaoyang's publishing fee, he immediately found the editor-in-chief Su Yu and proposed the idea of ​​increasing the standard of manuscript fees to get Lin Chaoyang's new novel.

Facing his request, Su Yu was a little hesitant.

Lin Chaoyang is now very popular, and the publishing fee is already the highest. If he raises his manuscript fee again, it will increase the cost of the magazine and easily cause opinions from other magazines.

"It's not us who raised it first. When "The Death of Van Gogh" was published, Renwen Publishing House gave him a manuscript fee of 12 yuan per thousand words. I heard that the manuscript fee for the number of prints has also increased."

Liu Xinwu saw that Su Yu was still hesitant, so he said, "Why don't you talk to Lao Wang?"

"October" is a magazine under Yanjing Publishing House. Wang Shimin is the head of the literary and art group of Yanjing Publishing House and the founder of "October".

Su Yu looked puzzled when he heard this, and Liu Xinwu explained, "Didn't our publishing house publish "Longing for Life - Biography of Van Gogh" last year? In more than four months, it sold hundreds of thousands of copies. I don't need to tell you, you know the reason, right?"

Su Yu nodded slightly. "Longing for Life - Biography of Van Gogh" is one of the few books published by Yanjing Publishing House last year that sold more than 500,000 copies. The reason why this book is so popular is naturally inseparable from the influence of "The Death of Van Gogh". This matter is very clear to the whole company.

"Nowadays, any novel with the three words Lin Chaoyang in it will sell well. Some time ago, Lao Wang wanted to take over the publishing rights of Lin Chaoyang's "The Chess Master" and asked Zhang Dening to pass on the message, but Lin Chaoyang did not agree.

He thought that Lin Chaoyang and Renwen Press had an old cooperative relationship and that the publication of his works had been handed over to Renwen Press, but in fact, it was not the case at all."

"What's going on?" Su Yu asked very cooperatively.

Liu Xinwu said: "Chaoyang is a talented person with a very upright writing attitude and a good temper and personality, but there is only one thing that does not match his image as a young talent..."