0p0 Chapter 427: The Penman
Chapter 427: The Penman
Lin Chuyi knew that Lin Cheng was always willing to listen to her, but this matter concerned Lin Cheng's own future, and it was not easy for her to make decisions for his life directly, so she did not directly ask Lin Cheng to do as she wished, but just gave him this suggestion.
Lin Cheng is not a child anymore. He can understand his second sister's good intentions, so he did not give his answer quickly. He just said that he would go back and think about it carefully.
After careful consideration, Lin Cheng also thought it was necessary to travel and broaden his horizons, so he packed his bags, said goodbye to his relatives and friends, and embarked on a travel journey with Lin Wuyou.
Yes, Lin Cheng was traveling with his third sister Lin Wuyou. Ever since Lin Chuyi fulfilled his promise and personally took Lin Wuyou out for a trip after Lin Wuyou's twelfth birthday, Lin Wuyou's heart has become wild. She always likes to run out whether she has something to do or not, to learn more about the customs and cultures of different places.
After graduating from junior college, Lin Wuyou did not choose to enter a women's vocational college to choose a career to continue her studies. Instead, she told Lin Chuyi that she wanted to go out and become a female knight.
At that time, Lin Wuyou was still young, not very smart, and her kung fu skills were not very good. How could Lin Chuyi dare to let her go out on her own?
But Lin Wuyou had made up her mind, and Lin Chuyi couldn't persuade her, so she could only think of a roundabout way. She first let Lin Wu use her real name Lin Chuyi in Lulutong, leaving her a position as the second-in-command, and then threw Lin Wuyou to Lin Wu as his apprentice.
In this way, with the identity of being the younger sister of Lulutong's second-in-command, whether it is people inside Lulutong or other people outside, if they want to take action against Lin Wuyou, they must first consider whether they can bear the risk of the matter being exposed.
With the identity of Lin Wu's apprentice, Lin Wuyou can follow Lin Wu's team openly, travel around the country, and fight bandits.
Lin Wu and his team are in the logistics business, so they have to go to many places on a regular basis. Lin Wuyou follows Lin Wu, which not only ensures her safety, but also satisfies her curiosity through the strange stories she encounters along the way, and provides her with all the writing materials she needs.
Lin Chuyi originally gave Lin Wuyou the Lulutong call for papers flyer. Since then, a seed of writing was planted in Lin Wuyou's heart. The seed took root in her heart and soon grew into a towering tree, occupying half of her dream space.
So, Lin Wuyou began to pick up a pen to record every detail of his life and consciously improve his writing skills.
When traveling, Lin Wuyou did not just play around, but instead enjoyed the scenery along the way and observed the various new things happening around her. Before going to bed every day, she would write down what she found interesting.
Feeling that he had reached the right level, Lin Wuyou began to try writing various short stories. After finishing and revising them, he submitted the works he was most satisfied with to the local Wanjuanshu Publishing House.
After several unsuccessful submissions, a short story finally caught the attention of the Wanjuanshu collector, who published it in the next issue of a local weekly.
The royalties were sent to Lin Wuyou together with the current issue of the weekly newspaper. In this way, Lin Wuyou received the first royalties in his life and the first published work in his life through Lulutong's mailing service.
Although the remuneration was not much and the printed volume was not large, this success gave Lin Wuyou great encouragement.
After Lin Jinxiu and Lin Chuyi learned the news, they specially prepared a celebratory banquet for Lin Wuyou at home to celebrate his achievement.
Since then, Lin Wuyou seemed to have opened up her Ren and Du meridians. Her ideas flowed like a spring and she wrote with divine inspiration. One wonderful short story after another was born from her pen. The chances of her manuscripts being accepted continued to increase. Gradually, Lin Wuyou became a frequent contributor to short stories in local weekly newspapers.
As Lin Wuyou's short stories received extremely high market response, Liang Chaoqun, the local head of Wanjuanshu, personally met with Lin Wuyou herself, wanting to discuss with her about publishing a collection of short stories.
When they first met, Liang Chaoqun had not expected that the writer who gave himself such a domineering pen name as "Daobike" would actually be a teenage girl.
After carefully confirming several times and making sure that the girl sitting opposite him was indeed Daobi Ke herself, Liang Chaoqun got to the point in a daze.
Liang Chaoqun told Lin Wuyou that Wanjuanshu would select authors with both good writing skills and good reputation and sign long-term cooperation contracts with them.
After becoming a contracted writer of Wanjuanshu, the writer's works will enjoy priority publishing rights. If the manuscript is successfully published and the sales data of the published works reaches the specified standard, the profit-sharing contract can be revised.
In this way, as long as the author's works continue to sell, he will always get money, and the profit-sharing contract is not static. As long as the author continues to produce works and the works maintain a high standard and are popular in the market, he can accumulate points and unlock a profit-sharing contract with a higher share.
If the sales data is good, it can even break down regional barriers and change the author's works from being sold in a single county to being sold in multiple counties, the entire state, or even nationwide.
Lin Wuyou listened to Liang Chaoqun's description and was very excited about signing the contract. It was not because she wanted to get a higher salary. Since she and her siblings lived a good life, Lin Wuyou had never lacked money to spend.
In addition to the New Year's money given to her by her elder and second sisters every year, Lin Wuyou also often receives pocket money from her two older sisters.
She ate at home every day, lived at home, and didn't need to buy her own clothes, shoes and socks. She had nothing to spend money on.
Lin Wuyou only had money to spend when she occasionally went out to buy snacks or brought gifts for her family, but this part of the expenditure was really nothing compared to the pocket money she received.
Even when she grew up, Lin Wuyou did not change her nature of not liking to spend money. She did not like to dress up and did not have any shopping habits. Her greatest pleasure every day was to conceive new stories and put them on paper.
After receiving the royalties, Lin Wuyou did not mix them with her own pocket money, but kept them separately. When she had saved a certain amount of royalties, she took her whole family out shopping and eating. In just one day, she had spent all her royalties down to only a string of copper coins.
But Lin Wuyou didn't feel it was a pity, she just felt happy. This was the first time she used her own money to treat guests, which brought her great spiritual satisfaction.
It can be said that Lin Wuyou's spiritual needs far outweigh her material needs. For example, when discussing the publication of a collection of short stories, what she cares more about is not how much profit she can get from it, but what Liang Chaoqun just mentioned, breaking regional barriers and selling the works nationwide.