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Chapter 83: I will only teach you once (510 first order please!)

Hearing his wife praising him so much, Wei Ping'an was confused: "No, is it really that good?"

Wei Ming also said in fear: "Aunt, I am still young, you can't flatter me to death."

Inwardly: Please say a few more words, I’d love to hear them!

Lv Xiaoyan: "It's just that Xizi and Lele fell asleep. Otherwise, let them watch it. Their comments are the most convincing."

Lu Xiaoyan's evaluation just now was made by combining the perspectives of children and editors.

From a child's perspective, this story is so interesting. The characters are vivid, the story is lively and interesting, and even the villains are memorable.

From Lv Xiaoyan's personal perspective, this is a very thoughtful work, which carries infinite hope amidst the regrets, and is expected to become a classic.

When Lv Xiaoyan confirmed her evaluation again, Wei Pingan said to his nephew: "You don't know, your aunt was under a lot of pressure because of your work. Now she can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

"Ah? What's going on?"

"Why are you saying that?" Lv Xiaoyan patted her husband. "It's nothing. My colleagues in the editorial department think we are relatives, and they think your works are abuse of power. So I think it may be difficult to promote your novel in the November issue."

Wei Pingan said, "Your aunt is just too stupid and honest. She told her colleagues about her relationship with you. They will definitely seize on this to make a fuss."

"What can I not say? Even if they are relatives, I will definitely not accept them if the quality is not up to standard. Now that The Book of Heaven has been published, I wonder who dares to reject this work. If anyone really objects, just listen to me and vote for Youth Literature in Shanghai. They will definitely welcome it with open arms and feet."

In Lv Xiaoyan's opinion, Wei Ming's first two works were already above the average level of "Children's Literature" articles, and "The Magic Book" was much higher than those two. If even such works were pushed out, then "Children's Literature" would be overtaken.

Wei Ming was very moved when he thought that Aunt Xiaoyan was still under such pressure for her work. He would definitely treat Lele as his own sister in the future!

Lu Xiaoyan continued, "This time you can discuss with the editor-in-chief and ask an outside illustration expert to provide you with illustrations."

"Oh, that's not necessary," Wei Ming quickly took out Liu Rulong's illustrations, "I have prepared the illustrations myself."

"What? Prepared it yourself?"

"Well, my classmate helped draw it. He majored in animation at the film school."

The first thing Lv Xiaoyan saw was Dansheng eating pancakes. Her eyes widened: "Director Wei, look, why do I feel that this character is a bit like Xizi?"

Wei Pingan: "Oh, it seems like it is true!"

Wei Ming smiled and said, "You read it right. My classmate created this character based on Xizi. He even praised Xizi for her spirituality. If this work is to be made into a movie, Xizi is very suitable to play the leading actor."

Lv Xiaoyan said with both pride and disdain: "He is nothing, he only knows how to eat and play."

She looked at several illustrations carefully and was more and more surprised: "Are you drawing illustrations or animation originals? The details are so rich, far exceeding our illustration standards!"

Wei Ming laughed: "My classmate wanted to color it, but I told him that the magazine was in black and white."

"Great, great!" Lu Xiaoyan said, "With this novel and these illustrations, I really don't know how to lose!"

Lu Xiaoyan said that the magazine would be published in three parts, so Wei Ming found two more suspenseful points to break the chapter.

He is a professional at breaking up chapters. When he wrote TV scripts in the past, the most important skill was to leave a hook for the next episode to keep the audience watching.

After looking at it, Lu Xiaoyan also said that his judgment was clever, even a little weird.

"By the way, Auntie, if the illustrations are approved, please remember to issue a separate bill for the payment. I will write down the name and address for you."

"Okay."

~
It was already quite late when Wei Ming returned to the dormitory, and no one was asleep.

Seeing Biao Wenhua excited, Wei Ming asked with a smile: "How are you two doing in the English corner?"

Biaozi: "Nod yes and shake your head no."

Mei Wenhua: "Come is come and go is go."

Wei Ming lay down on the bed: "It's good to master some basic terms. They may be useful in the future. After all, we often receive foreign guests at Peking University."

Mei Wenhua remembered something: "Oh, by the way, we met your lover in the English corner."

"Ah, what lover?"

"The one with red hair is even whiter in person than in the photo!" Biaozi said excitedly, "And she's so tall that even Mei Wenhua doesn't dare to stand next to her."

"Go away, stop talking about me." Mei Wenhua said dissatisfiedly. In fact, he is also over 1.7 meters tall.

Wei Ming did not refute the rumors about his lover. They probably didn't believe that Wei Ming could hook up with a foreign girl. They were just trying to make fun of him and make fun of you, Brother Ming.

Wei Mingle said: "Oh, didn't she teach you this little English?"

"Oh, no, she's busy."

"What are you busy with?"

Mei Wenhua said, "She has a lot of foreign songs on tape. She records them for people and charges five dollars for each tape. She's really ruthless. Oh no, I mean she knows how to do business." Wei Ming asked, "Does anyone buy these five-dollar tapes?"

Biaozi added: "Yes, it's quite a lot. She can probably make a hundred dollars tonight!"

Five yuan may be a lot of money for Liu Zhenyun, but Peking University is actually mostly populated by urban students, and many of them even come from wealthy families. It is worth it to be able to enjoy trendy music from all over the world for five yuan.

Wei Ming just thought it was funny. How come she could make money from everything? However, only foreigners could make this kind of money. If it were them, it might be a bit troublesome.

Biaozi added: "Originally, a few guys saw it while on patrol and wanted to report it, but we said he was your friend, so they gave us face and ignored it."

Wei Ming: Hey, am I a protective umbrella?
"By the way, Brother Ming, what is your lover's name? We don't know yet. We can't just call her sister-in-law." Mei Wenhua asked.

"Oh, we are from the same family as you, and our last name is Mei, Melinda."

Mei Wenhua slapped his thigh and said, "No wonder he is so good-looking and talented. It turns out that they were from the same family five hundred years ago!"

~
The next day, after getting up, Lu Xiaoyan asked Wei Pingan to make breakfast while she went to visit Professor Qu Yude at his home.

She came to borrow a book, and wanted to read "Ping Yao Zhuan".

After the excitement of reading "The Magic Book" yesterday, she began to worry about whether the original content of this novel would be low.

In order to avoid being used by her colleagues to attack her, she thought it would be better for her to read the original work first to be prepared.

However, Professor Qu told her: "The book is in my office. By the way, Xiao Wei borrowed it before and is going to adapt a fairy tale into it. Has he finished writing it?"

"I've finished writing it," Lv Xiaoyan also brought the manuscript over, "Actually, that's why I came here."

After understanding the situation, Professor Qu smiled and said, "Show me the manuscript, and I'll know."

"Yes, Sister Qu, please take a look."

Qu Yude started reading from the beginning. Because everyone had to go to work, she read it quickly and concluded, "It's very original. It's almost a brand new story. The characters and the theme have changed, but some of the characters have been retained."

Lu Xiaoyan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

Qu Yude: "If time wasn't limited, I would really like to take a closer look."

"Haha, then Sister Qu, you have to subscribe to our Children's Literature next month, and you have to subscribe for three consecutive months."

Qu Yude smiled bitterly and shook his head. Three months was too much torture. Couldn't it be released all at once? Moreover, I bought a magazine but couldn't see the end of the story and had to continue paying. Is this reasonable?
As soon as Xiao Lu left, Professor Jin brought up breakfast.

"You were just talking about Wei Ming's new work, right?"

"Yes, I didn't expect him to write it," Professor Qu said, "Although I haven't read it carefully, it's really well written. I feel like he is creating a new myth. Maybe in a few years, no one will remember "The Legend of the Demon King" and only remember "The Legend of the Heavenly Book."

"Oh, madam speaks so highly of it!"

"Don't you think highly of Xiao Wei?"

Professor Jin said angrily: "Now his reputation has dropped. He has never attended my class. I heard that there are not many professors in the Chinese Department who have not been taught by him."

After hearing this, Professor Qu couldn't help but laugh at his desk.

Unfortunately, Wei Ming still did not attend Professor Jin's class today. Apart from working, he planned to stay in the library, looking for information and doing preparation work for the official writing of "The Shepherd".

Many students wanted to get to know Wei Ming when they saw him, but seeing his serious look they had to resist the urge.

They don't want their disturbance to affect the birth of an excellent literary work.

~
At the same time, in the editorial department of Children's Literature, the outgoing editor-in-chief, Mr. Jin Jin, said "good" three times in a row after reading The Magic Book.

"I thought your nephew would stop writing fairy tales after becoming famous in the serious literary circle, but I didn't expect that he would come up with such a profound and sincere work!"

Because Lv Xiaoyan also likes to show off, the fact that Wei Ming is Wei Something is no secret in the editorial department of "Children's Literature". She revealed it when "Ideal" just became a little famous.

"No, editor-in-chief. Xiao Ming said that children's literature is his favorite career. I heard that we might reject his manuscript. He was planning to submit it to Juvenile Literature and Art."

"Nonsense, how could they reject a manuscript? If you reject such a good manuscript, you'd be a loser!"

Lv Xiaoyan chuckled and said, "Should the royalties be raised a bit?"

Editor Jin was laughing just now, but now he couldn't laugh anymore: "Xiaoyan, why are you leaning so far outward?"

“I am doing this to retain talent.”

Editor-in-Chief Jin: "The payment for the manuscript will still follow the rules, but I will recommend this story to the Shanghai Animation Film Studio."

"You said so before, but there is no movement."

Editor-in-Chief Jin blushed: "Okay, okay, I'll recommend it right away."

He called the Shanghai Animation Film Studio right in front of Lv Xiaoyan...

(End of this chapter)