The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 34, Controversy over Manuscript Fees

On July 20, 1978, there were two exams in total: politics in the morning and physics in the afternoon.

The next day, there will be a math test in the morning and a chemistry test in the afternoon. The last day will be a Chinese and foreign language test. The foreign language subject is a self-selected subject and will not be included in the total score.

In other words, the college entrance examination consists of only five subjects, each worth 500 points, with a total score of .

Wang Duoyu was free after finishing his Chinese exam on the morning of the 22nd. He did not take the foreign language exam in the afternoon because Harbin Institute of Technology did not require candidates to take this subject.

After the exam, he did not return to Dahonggou Village immediately, but came to the post office hall, because after he came back last time, he informed Sun Shouyi not to help him pick up the letters, and he would come to pick them up in person after the college entrance examination.

The purpose of doing this is to be able to achieve true 'seclusion'.

"Great writer, don't you need to take the afternoon exam? Great, great! I wish you success. Oh, and here are your letters, twelve in all."

The postal worker happened to be standing at the door and saw Wang Duoyu from a distance. He immediately tried to get close to him with a look of joy on his face. He had already prepared the letters, because in the entire Shuanghe County, there were really not many people who would receive so many letters.

"So many?" Wang Duoyu was also surprised. After all, there were twelve letters, which was quite a lot.

After thanking the postal staff, Wang Duoyu walked out of the post office hall with the letters. He took a quick look and found that Zhu Ling wrote two letters, Liu Xiaoli also wrote two, the Chinese Academy of Sciences wrote one, and the remaining seven were sent by magazines.

Among the seven letters, two were sent by "Beijing Literature and Art". One was a letter written by Zhou Yanru personally to him, informing him that the novel he had revised in Beijing had been published, and asking him to send the manuscript if he had any other ideas recently. The other was a remittance slip for the manuscript fee.

Of the remaining five letters, three were remittance slips for royalties, one was a letter inviting me to contribute, and the last one was a rejection letter from a mathematics journal.

When Wang Duoyu saw the rejection notice, his eyes widened instantly. He had never expected that his paper would be rejected because he did not think his math paper was bad and he was of course very confident.

"The proof process is omitted, so it is rejected?"

After seeing the reason for rejection, Wang Duoyu fell silent. He had overestimated the editor of this journal. Could he be a fake?
In fact, his guess was correct. The editor responsible for reviewing his manuscript for another mathematics journal to which he submitted it this time was a graduate of the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. He did not understand these differential equations at all, let alone the calculation methods.

Wang Duoyu didn't want people to think that he was writing a paper with nothing to write about, so he simply omitted the simple proof processes. If he really wanted to write about these processes in depth, then let alone three pages, even six pages would not be enough.

Although he was very depressed about the rejection, he could only send it to another mathematics journal again. However, when he thought about being disturbed by Tao Fangqi again after sending it to "Science China Mathematics", he immediately became depressed and hesitant.

Wang Duoyu walked straight into the bank after taking out four remittance slips for his royalties. After he had taken out all his royalties and had the staff deposit them into his bankbook, he turned around and saw the stunned Du Jianping, Li Dongwu, and Liang Kangmin. All three of them were from Huaxi Village and had taken the college entrance examination together, so naturally, they were inseparable. It was because Li Dongwu had spotted Wang Duoyu that the three of them had followed him in stealthily.

"Duoyu, is this your half-month royalties? A total of 320 yuan?"

Du Jianping's voice was a little hoarse, and his expression of disbelief showed that he was extremely uneasy. That was 320 yuan. Many working-class families in the city only earned around 300 yuan a year, right?
However, this was only Wang Duoyu's income for half a month. How could Du Jianping and the others not be defeated?
Li Dongwu and Liang Kangmin were silent because the conversation between Wang Duoyu and the bank staff had reached their ears clearly, word for word, and that was how much Wang Duoyu earned in half a month.

And this is a manuscript that Wang Duoyu wrote while taking the college entrance examination. Now that the college entrance examination is over, how much can he earn?
"Um, you're all here. Haha, I was just joking. This isn't my income for half a month, it's my income for the past six months. Some of the manuscripts were written long ago, and I revised them before publishing them."

Wang Duoyu felt a little depressed and tried his best to explain.

It is a principle that must be followed that wealth should not be shown off. Although he is tall and strong, and although Lao Wang's family is the largest family in the village and even in Qingshan Township, he cannot withstand the cruelty of some people.

Next time, no matter how troublesome it is, he will not take out all the remittance slips for royalties at once, and he will also pay attention to whether there are any acquaintances behind him.

But this time it can't be hidden. If only Du Jianping knew about it, then Wang Duoyu could still ask him to help conceal it, but Li Dongwu and Liang Kangmin definitely couldn't do that.

His relationship with the latter was ordinary, even very tense. He asked them to help conceal it? He knew that even if he begged them, it would be useless, so he decided to make up for it from other places. As for whether they believed him or not, that was their own business.

"You're quite impressive, then. In fact, you don't even need to take the college entrance exam. Not only can you support yourself now, but you're also living a good life, better than any of us."

The social status of writers is very high, especially when they reach a certain age and have a certain level of experience. They can be invited to join a writers' association or even directly enter the system.

The key point now is that Wang Duoyu's royalties are very high, and it is more than just enough to support himself.

Wang Duoyu was a little depressed by the exposure of his royalties, but he didn't take it too seriously. After chatting with Du Jianping and the others for a while, he went to buy some candied haws, Changbai cakes, etc. to bring back to Dahonggou Village, because he believed that it wouldn't be long before everyone knew about his royalties.

Sure enough, when he returned to the village, the news had already been passed back. The speed was really fast. The reason was that when Li Dongwu and his team returned, they met the villagers of Dahonggou Village. With Li Dongwu's loudspeaker, of course everyone knew about it very quickly.

Xue Yuqing and the other little brats all gathered around him, very happy for him, especially the Changbai cakes and other snacks he brought back, which made them cheer even louder.

But at this time, his eldest brother's nephew Wang Xiangdong was walking towards him with gauze on his body, and it seemed that he was seriously injured.

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