Era: 1979 From mountain man to richest man

Chapter 133 Three-year lease, green glow, new contract brought by the editor-in-chief
As soon as Song Chaoyang woke up from bed the next morning, he heard the sound of rain falling outside.

He looked out the window and found that it was dark and raining heavily outside.

The previous precognitive dream only said that it would rain near Qingsong Bay.

Unexpectedly, the heavy rain fell over a wide area, including the county seat.

Before dark yesterday, there were not many clouds over the county.

As a result, within one night, there was such a heavy rain brewing outside.

I glanced at the clock on the wall and saw that it was already past seven or eight in the morning.

Getting up from the bed, Song Chaoyang moved on the spot.

This bed is much softer than my own bed, and my waist felt uncomfortable after sleeping on it.

Song Chaoyang felt at this moment that he felt as if the wild boar couldn't eat the fine chaff.

This is considered to be a shame for the publishing house.

Although it is only a small space, this is a national newspaper, and its coverage is larger than that of provincial magazines.

This time he brought a newspaper.

Song Chaoyang invited Editor Jin to eat together.

After sending Editor Wu off, Song Chaoyang continued to have breakfast.

Editor Jin had already arrived with a lunch box and a bag of fried dough sticks.

Then he walked out with an umbrella.

This breakfast is quite nutritious.

When leaving, he left his umbrella with Song Chaoyang.

The editor-in-chief of Oriental Publishing House would not arrive until noon, and Song Chaoyang took advantage of this time to go out and finish the house matters.

He said that this was the first time that information from Oriental Publishing House appeared in such a national newspaper.

Editor Jin waved his hand and said:

The rain now is lighter than before.

"This is an unprecedented event."

But seeing Editor Wu so happy, I know that this matter has more symbolic meaning for their publishing house.

As they talked, the two returned to the room where Song Chaoyang lived.

Just when Song Chaoyang was about to go out looking for the umbrella at the front desk of the guest house.

Old Wu was extremely happy.

In addition to the fried dough sticks brought over, the lunch box also contained freshly baked soy milk.

It can be regarded as the first time that a provincial publishing house has been noticed by such a major newspaper.

After seeing Song Chaoyang, he immediately invited him to have breakfast.

"It's okay, it's okay. You are now a great contributor to our publishing house. Not to mention buying you breakfast, I am willing to cook it for you myself."

As a result, just after Editor Jin left, Editor Wu came over again.

The other party said that he had already eaten.

He brought these from outside.

It was the national newspaper "New Youth Daily", which had the same content as Song Chaoyang's precognitive dream last night.

This time I brought breakfast specifically.

Editor Jin didn't ask him what he was doing, but just told him to come back at noon.

It's raining heavily outside. If you want to go out, you have to borrow an umbrella.

Song Chaoyang didn't expect Editor Jin's service to be so good, and he would even serve him breakfast so early in the morning.

"You're too polite. I can just go out to eat by myself. It's troublesome for you to do it so early in the morning..." Song Chaoyang took the lunch box and fried dough sticks handed over by Editor Jin and said to him.

After Song Chaoyang had breakfast, he told Editor Jin that he planned to go out to do errands today.

A small section of the newspaper reported on the third consecutive printing of the latest issue of "Children's Magazine".

After washing up, Song Chaoyang put on a slightly thicker tunic suit, opened the door and walked out of the room.

Song Chaoyang didn't feel that there was much fluctuation. After all, the page was really small and its influence was not too great.

"I estimate that the publishing house will directly increase the printing volume of the next few issues and put more into the market at once."

"You don't know that "Children's Magazine" was printed for the third time last night. After five o'clock this morning, it was already at Xinhua Bookstore and various newsstands."

Then no one else came to disturb him.

Song Chaoyang had breakfast, washed his lunch box, and then sent it to the front desk of the guest house downstairs.

"This issue you wrote alone has set several records for our publishing house."

Editor Jin even had two boiled eggs stuffed in his pocket.

When it is time to go to work, there are more pedestrians on the road.

When he arrived at the gate, he said hello to Lao Tantou, asked about the specific location of the front room, and then walked onto the street with an umbrella.

It's better to be in the city on a rainy day than in the countryside. You don't have to worry about getting stuck in the mud when walking on a cement road or a stone road.

The first place Song Chaoyang went to was the nearby post and telecommunications office.

It's not work time yet.

But there were already several people queuing in front of the gate.

Some people are waiting to send letters, and some are waiting to make phone calls and send telegrams.

After waiting at the door for about a few minutes, it was time to go to work.

Several people walked in.

After Song Chaoyang sent the letter, when he was about to leave, he met someone who came to collect the translation fee.

He was a man in his mid-twenties, wearing a Chinese tunic suit, his hair was meticulously combed, and he had a shiny watch on his hand.

The people at the post office were extremely polite to him.

The staff also praised him for being very capable, and he was able to translate at a price of RMB 18 per 1,000 words.

For 60,000 words, you can directly get 1.08 yuan.

The man even counted all the money in front of the counter very coquettishly.

Then he went out and got into the back seat of a jeep, and drove away under the envious eyes of everyone.

After he left, someone curiously asked the post and telecommunications office staff who this person was.
The female staff member who was working for him just now said with admiration that this person is the young section chief of a certain unit.

He just got divorced some time ago, and now many girls are staring at him.

Well, who said there are no divorces now?

Isn't this another one?

After hearing this, others immediately became interested and started gossiping.

Song Chaoyang was not interested in these tidbits, so he left the post and telecommunications office under his umbrella and headed directly towards Chengnan Junior High School.

Song Chaoyang also passed a newsstand on the way.

I saw my own issue of "Children's Magazine" for the first time on the shelf of the newsstand.

He couldn't help but spend 8 cents to buy a copy.

You can take this home as a souvenir.

Just after Song Chaoyang bought it, before he could go far, several children came and asked for money to buy the gourd book.

The boss skillfully gave each of them a "Children's Magazine".

Song Chaoyang really didn't expect that even though this was the third edition, there would still be so many people buying it.

Even a rainy day didn't stop these children from buying.

Song Chaoyang walked forward and after turning around a street, he saw the gate of Chengnan Junior High School in the distance.

It is still summer vacation time, and the school door is closed.

However, one could still see signs of activity in the school through the large iron gate.

Those are teachers and teachers’ families living in the school.

After looking at the environment near the school entrance, Song Chaoyang walked forward for about two hundred meters and saw a row of closed-door facade rooms.

According to the previous description of Lao Tantou, it should be here.

This place is pretty good, close to the school and in a good location.

The road on the street is still a new cement road, and there are no puddles on rainy days.

Then Song Chaoyang found someone nearby to inquire about the location of the street office.

It didn't take much effort to find the street office here. After Song Chaoyang entered, he stated that he was here to rent a house on the street.

Then he took out his writer's certificate and showed it to the person at the street office.

Seeing that he was a contracted writer from Oriental Publishing House, the aunt at the street office immediately changed her attitude to an enthusiastic one.

I took Song Chaoyang to see the store.

There are a total of ten rooms in the facade of Cocoon Standing here, all of about the same size.

first connected.

Later, in order to facilitate rental, it was specially partitioned into the current five rooms, and the two facades were connected together. However, despite this, the rooms are also very spacious.

The basic layout is similar.

The front facade, the warehouse in the middle, and a small courtyard at the back are the living area, with a kitchen and separated bedrooms.

If it is really used to house people, it can indeed house a lot of people.

There is electricity, sewers and toilets.

The only drawback is that most of them don't have running water.

As for water, only the largest shop has water, and the others can be paid by the water company to take over.

You can also carry a bucket to a nearby well to fetch water.

Song Chaoyang asked about the price. The one with the largest area was 25 per month, and the others with similar areas were 21 per month.

The rental period starts from one year. If you rent for three years, you can save three yuan per month.

In addition, if you move in, you need to pay the street office 20 cents per month for garbage removal.

Domestic garbage is thrown at the door every day, and special people come to clean it in the morning.

Song Chaoyang silently calculated in his heart and finally decided to rent the largest room to the little girl.

Lease directly for three years.

Until the end of August 1982.

In this way, the monthly rent is 22 yuan, 264 yuan per year, and the total rent for three years is 792 yuan.

As for the garbage removal freight and so on, these can be paid together with the electricity and water bills later.

The aunt at the street office was also surprised to hear that Song Chaoyang actually wanted to rent for three years at a time.

I confirmed it to him five or six times.

He even reminded him that he should try renting it for a year and pay nearly 800 yuan in rent at one time, which is really not something ordinary people can do these days.

She even curiously asked Song Chaoyang if he was going to open a bookstore here?
When Song Chaoyang said that it was only intended to be used as a residence for his younger sister who was going to school, the aunt at the street office was immediately shocked.

She thought Song Chaoyang was joking, but she didn't believe Song Chaoyang was serious until Song Chaoyang took out the money, signed the contract and took his fingerprints.

After Song Chaoyang left, the aunt from the street office immediately spread the shocking news.

This matter immediately became a hot topic of discussion among uncles and aunties.

Song Chaoyang didn't care so much. After getting the key, he went to the locksmith to change the lock.

Then I went to a nearby department store to buy some daily necessities.

After working for more than an hour, Song Chaoyang bought everything in the kitchen and bedroom.

Then he locked the door with satisfaction and prepared to return to the editorial office.

The price looks really high now.

However, as the trend of reform and opening up swept here, self-employed businesses began to spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

This house is definitely more than this price.

On the way back, the rain had completely stopped.

There are also a lot more pedestrians on the road.

There are also cleaning staff from various streets on the street, using brooms to sweep away the accumulated water towards the sewers.

Everything seemed in order.

But on the way back, Song Chaoyang found a lot of people watching on another street.

Song Chaoyang felt curious, so he took two steps and looked in the direction of the crowd.

Then I discovered that it was actually a front house, and a jeep had actually been knocked into it. The wooden door had been smashed into pieces, and even a third of the red brick wall inside had been knocked down.

The jeep was badly deformed and the driver was no longer in the car.

Because it hit a facade on the street, everyone passing by was watching.

Song Chaoyang looked at the familiar license plate and immediately thought of He Chao's prediction in his dream.

After carefully recalling it, Song Chaoyang was sure that the car driven by He Chao last night belonged to him.

He drank a lot last night and originally wanted to send Su Yu and Luo Qian back, but they rejected him.

Then when this kid drove here, he made a turn and crashed into the front room of the house.

When Song Chaoyang came over just now, no one was around because it was raining, so he didn't realize he was here yet.

Now that I have seen the car, I finally understand the content of the precognitive dream.

Thinking of those three sluts last night, Song Chaoyang really couldn't sympathize with any of them.

Speaking of which, Lin Yong, who has very low emotional intelligence, is still making pornographic rumors today in his precognitive dream.

When Su Yu saw his background, he seemed a little tough, and he didn't know where he got the courage from being a cadre of a water plant.

Even if she doesn't cause trouble for him, if the rumors get to Su Yu's ears, the old boy will definitely live with it.

But looking at the way he pointed out the situation last night, Song Chaoyang could also guess that this person was just watching the sky from the bottom of a well.

I am used to it on weekdays in his one-third of an acre of land.

He is not particularly sensitive to the rules of the outside world.

Some things may only be understood in hindsight.

Just when Song Chaoyang was about to leave and return to the editorial office, he suddenly saw a slightly familiar figure.

That is Qin Tie's current girlfriend Shi Xiaona.

She was also among the crowd of onlookers, but there were two young men with long hair and floral shirts beside her.

The three people were talking and laughing, pointing at the accident scene.

The intimate look he showed made some people around him look at him strangely.

Song Chaoyang frowned slightly when he saw this scene.

To be honest, Shi Xiaona, a woman, looks like a rotten girl at first glance.

She had been switching boyfriends frequently before, but now she was directly involved with the second-rate people in society.

After thinking about that kid Qin Tie, Song Chaoyang shook his head.

I always feel Qin Tielu's glow.

But the most I can do is go back and tell him about this matter. As for how he wants to deal with it, it is beyond my control.

But Song Chaoyang still wants to say: This is not fucking love!

Then Song Chaoyang left the scene directly and returned to the editorial office.

When he arrived at the door, he said hello to Lao Tan.

He said that his house has been rented.

Thanks for the information.

Lao Tan looked flattered.

He kept saying you're welcome to Song Chaoyang.

Then Song Chaoyang did not go back to where he lived, but walked into the second floor of the editorial office and went directly to Editor Jin.

When we got to the second floor, we found that the door to their office was closed.

Song Chaoyang went to other offices and met the two painters who had dinner together last night. After asking them about it, he found out.

It turned out that He Chao was in the hospital due to an accident. After they learned the news, they went to visit him.

There are only so many writers under A-level contracts.

When something goes wrong, they should all go and visit.

It was only early ten o'clock in the morning, and the provincial editor-in-chief was probably not going to arrive for a while. Song Chaoyang was watching them work in the artist's office.

Their main job is to illustrate pictures for various magazines, including content pictures and advertisement pictures.

Oriental Publishing House actually has many magazines.

There are not enough painters in the province, and they in the counties also have many tasks.

The workload of two painters is actually quite a lot.

Song Chaoyang studied sketching for a period of time in his previous life, and he had some knowledge of painting.

The style of painting these days has the characteristics of the 1950s and 1960s.

It looks very festive.

It reminded Song Chaoyang that the painting style of Calabash Baby in his previous life was similar.

He guessed that if a comic book was really going to be published, he would probably have artists draw it, and it would be similar to the one in his previous life.

This style of painting had to wait until Neon Country’s animation entered the country before domestic artists were impacted by foreign culture and began to make changes.

Song Chaoyang thought about it and calculated that Astro Boy will be broadcast on CCTV next year.

This animation is a product of Neon Culture Abroad and is exported to many countries.

It can be said that it has influenced a good generation of people.

It can be regarded as the first generation of Neon Country’s cultural export project.

Projects that can be regarded as cultural exports here will have to wait until the Hong Kong film era in the 1990s.

At that time, there was a new outbreak of animation in Neon Country.

Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, these familiar ones continue to explode all over the world.

This is called taking one step first and taking each step first.

Just when Song Chaoyang was really thinking about whether he could give those classics to future generations and copy them out in advance, there was an engine sound coming from the yard outside the window.

Song Chaoyang looked outside and found that Editors Jin and Wu were driving back.

Then another car came in from behind.

The two men immediately greeted him.

"Editor Fang is here!" One of the painters stood up and said to Song Chaoyang.

After saying that, the two of them put down their pens and went down to greet him.

Seeing this, Song Chaoyang followed them downstairs.

Soon they met the editor-in-chief Fang who came from the province.

After Editor Jin introduced the two of them, Editor Fang enthusiastically came up and held Song Chaoyang's hand.

Tell him that you came down to see him with a mission.

The publishing house of "Calabash Brothers" has already asked him to start making comic strips, and this time he decided to set the style of painting.

In addition, in addition to finalizing the comic book work this time, I also hope to sign a new contract with Song Chaoyang.

This contract is to give Song Chaoyang higher benefits and deepen the cooperative relationship with Oriental Publishing House.

The content is probably very simple:
The three subsequent works written by Song Chaoyang were all published first by Oriental Publishing House.

The benefits given to him by Oriental Publishing House were front-page headline treatment, high unit price royalties, and high commissions from comic books.

(End of this chapter)