A widower's entertainment

Chapter 285 [First Person] (Subscription Request)
Beijing, Xinghua Hutong.

When Zhao Gensheng and his party came to the capital, the elder Lin Youcheng naturally gave them a warm welcome.

Logically speaking, Lin Youcheng had two other courtyard houses in the alley, which had been renovated and basic furniture and items had been purchased gradually. However, Lin Youcheng did not let Zhao Gensheng live in the other two courtyard houses, but let Zhao Gensheng live in the old courtyard house.

After all, there are quite a lot of houses in the courtyard. Originally, one room in the main house was occupied by Lin Youcheng and Lin Zhaole. Later, when Lin Zhaole grew up, he lived alone in the other room of the main house. There were four rooms in the east and west wing rooms. Originally, Lin Zhaoxi and Lin Zhaomei lived in one room. Later, Lin Zhaoxi prepared for the high school entrance examination, so Lin Zhaomei lived alone in one room. Lin Zhaomei and Lin Zhaohuan lived in another room in the east wing. As for the brothers Lin Zhaoqing and Lin Zhaoman, they had always lived in one room, so one room in the west wing was left empty.

There are also two guest rooms in the back building. One is currently occupied by Song Ma, and the other is also empty.

In fact, this is also the reason why Lin Youcheng still wants to buy a courtyard house. There is no other way. For now, Lin Zhaoxi and Lin Zhaohuan can still live in one room, and Lin Zhaoqing and Lin Zhaoman can also live in one room. But when the children grow up, they will definitely want separate rooms, and the two single beds in the room will have to be replaced with a larger bed.

Of course, when the children grow up, they may not live here anymore.

The yard is very spacious. The children are eating popsicles and having fun under the pomegranate tree. The pomegranate tree is growing well. Soon the pomegranates on the tree will be ripe. The yard is green and full of fruits.

Jiang Xiulian looked at the pomegranate tree and said with a smile, "Uncle, this pomegranate tree in the yard is growing better and better."

When Lin Youcheng heard this, he smiled and said, "The pomegranate tree is growing better and better, and the child is growing bigger and bigger."

"That's right, I didn't even recognize Zhao Le when I saw him. He has grown so tall!"

Zhao Gensheng hadn't seen Lin Zhaole for a long time. Looking at his youngest cousin, who was already six years old, he thought of when he first arrived in Decheng, he was only one year old and couldn't even walk, but now he is running around the yard.

Zhao Gensheng and his group came from afar, so Lin Youcheng naturally wanted to take Zhao Gensheng and his group to have a good time in the capital.

After all, the original intention was to let Lin Zhaoping and Lin Zhaoan come to Beijing to play during the summer vacation.

In fact, for Lin Zhaoping and Lin Zhaoan, they have also visited Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, but it is obvious that they are still very enthusiastic about visiting them again. They will also not miss the Beijing delicacies, Beijing roast duck, copper pot shabu-shabu mutton, braised steamed buns, and donkey rolls, and they will take the group to taste them one by one.

Zhao Gensheng actually felt a little embarrassed. After all, he saw Lin Youcheng taking them to Beijing to eat and have fun, which was not cheap. However, he also knew that his uncle was a famous writer and was not short of money, otherwise he would have bought two more courtyard houses in the alley, and the price of those two courtyard houses would probably not be cheap.

Of course, outsiders were unaware that there were guests at Lin Youcheng's house. For this reason, comrades from the publishing house came to visit, wanting to talk to Lin Youcheng about the publication of the novel "The Hidden". After all, the "The Hidden" that Lin Youcheng published before had received quite a stir and was deeply loved by readers, but it was only published in the "People's Literature" magazine at first, and was later reprinted and published in other literary magazines, and had not yet been directly published as a set.

Zhao Gensheng naturally knew that the novels written by Lin Youcheng were quite popular. He had always been reading Lin Youcheng's novels, every one of them, and more than once. He was a little surprised that Lin Youcheng did not directly agree to the publishing house.

"Uncle, why didn't you just agree to the publishing house?"

When Lin Youcheng heard what Zhao Gensheng said, he smiled and said, "Because there is more than one publishing house looking for me."

Zhao Gensheng understood instantly and nodded repeatedly, with full admiration in his heart. He said, "Uncle, you are really awesome."

Lin Youcheng smiled and said nothing. He turned to look at Zhao Wenjie who was squatting in the yard playing house with Lin Zhaole, and suddenly said, "Gensheng, you have also seen the capital, and you know that the capital and Decheng are still very different. To be honest, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can still come to the capital." When Zhao Gensheng heard what Lin Youcheng said, he naturally knew that the capital and Decheng were still different after all, especially what he had seen and heard in the capital during this period of time. These made him very clear that they were really very different.

"I'm afraid there won't be such a good opportunity, and the housing prices in Beijing are really high!"

Because of the time he spent in Beijing, Zhao Gensheng also learned about the housing prices in Beijing. The average price is more than one thousand yuan. His monthly salary in Decheng is only about one hundred yuan. If he were asked to buy a house of dozens of square meters in Beijing, it would be a sky-high price.

In fact, Zhao Gensheng didn't say that it's not just the housing prices that are ridiculously high, but that prices of commodities have also risen a bit. Of course, that's all within the salary range and is nothing.

“The price will go up after this.”

Hearing Lin Youcheng's words, Zhao Gensheng couldn't help but wonder to what extent the price would rise if it continued to rise.

Lin Youcheng glanced at the nephew who called him grandpa, and just reminded him, saying: "Come to Beijing when you have the chance. Wenjie may be able to go to a university in Beijing in the future."

After hearing this, Zhao Gensheng just nodded.

Naturally, Lin Youcheng would not say much. After all, only Zhao Gensheng himself could make the decision on such matters, and Zhao Gensheng was doing well as a teacher at Decheng No. 1 Middle School. He was just thinking that housing prices in Beijing were rising so fast, and he had to hurry up if he still wanted to buy three courtyard houses. In addition, if he also wanted to buy commercial housing, the same would apply.

In addition to the house, there was also Lin Zhaomei's idea of ​​making a movie and his own idea of ​​setting up a film and television company.

Lin Youcheng thought again about the publishing house that approached him to discuss the publication of the novel "The Hidden". In fact, what they gave was just the basic royalties. To be honest, the novel that made Lin Youcheng the most money in the past few years was "The Devotion of Suspect X", which won an award in the island country. The other two books "Love Letter" and "Strange Things in the World" published later were also very popular. Although they were not as good as "The Devotion of Suspect X", they were definitely not bad. The key point is that the stamp duty signed in the island country is the royalty, which is the real golden house of best-selling books.

As for the popular novel "The Hidden" which has more than 100,000 words, "People's Literature" only paid Lin Youcheng 30 yuan per thousand words, totaling 6,000 yuan in royalties. Of course, such a royalty would take several years to earn compared to the average salary in Beijing, and there are also royalties from reprints in other magazines. However, considering that the novel is published, it is only the basic royalty fee.

But this point is really far less than the royalties from publishing in the island country and Hong Kong.

Of course, Lin Youcheng himself is in the Writers Association and has a stable salary from the association, and royalties are another source of income.

A thought flashed through Lin Youcheng's mind, and he remembered that the publishers of his previous works "The Unreachable Lovers" and "The Time Traveler's Wife" only paid basic royalties, and he couldn't help but think of the domestic royalty system.

Speaking of which, the domestic royalty system was proposed by Wang Lu.

Even so, it was not until 1992 that Huayi Publishing House was going to publish Wang Qi's Collected Works. At that time, Wang Qi required Huayi Publishing House to implement a royalty payment system. Before that, the publishing house only paid royalties to domestic writers, and there was no such thing as royalties. Although it was a bit incredible, given Wang Qi's huge market appeal, the publishing house finally agreed. Of course, in the end, the publishing house also made a lot of money and published copies. This was even in the case of pirated books, so the result was a win-win situation.

When Lin Youcheng thought of this, he suddenly realized that there were already several publishing houses that had approached him to discuss the publication of the novel "The Hidden Corner". He could also bring up the idea of ​​a royalty system. After all, the market appeal of his novel was extremely strong.

He can also be the number one in the domestic literary world.

(End of this chapter)