Chapter 832: Little Fatty, Very Bad
I will climb to the top of the mountain and look down on all the other mountains.
Baiwang Mountain does not have the grandeur of Mount Tai, but its beautiful scenery has a unique charm.
It took the group more than half an hour to climb the mountain. After enjoying the beautiful scenery for more than twenty minutes at the top of the mountain, they gathered together and went down the mountain.
It is said that going up a mountain is easier than going down, and everyone felt this particularly deeply when they were carrying Shi Tiesheng on their backs.
"Tie Sheng, you really need to eat less in the future."
When Mo Yan, the third person to carry him down the mountain, raised this question, Shi Tiesheng finally couldn't help it and grabbed Mo Yan's shoulder and shouted, "Put me down!"
"Look, we are just giving you a sincere suggestion."
"That's right, we are doing this for your own good." Yu Hua echoed.
Shi Tiesheng glanced at Lin Weimin and Yu Hua. These rascals were so bad that in order not to admit that they were physically weak, they actually made up the weight of a disabled person like him.
He called Tong Zhonggui to replace Mo Yan, "You two should take a rest. Zhonggui has good stamina, so he can just carry me on his back."
Lin Weimin and Yu Hua, who had just taken advantage of the situation and acted like a good kid, stopped talking, and neither did anyone else. Shi Tiesheng's wave of sarcasm was really too much.
Several people stared at Tong Zhonggui's strong thighs, full of jealousy.
We were all acquaintances, so we joked around and chatted and laughed as we went down the mountain, all of us feeling very tired.
Going down to the foot of the mountain, the old people, women and children present another harmonious pastoral scene.
Everyone greeted each other and just sat down, before they could eat, they heard a burst of crying.
Everyone looked over in the direction of the sound, only to see the chubby boy Yu Haiguo lying on the ground crying loudly. In front of him, the little bean bun was holding a piece of chocolate with a confused look on his face.
No one knows a daughter better than her mother. Tao Huimin thought that Xiao Doubao had not changed his bad habits and was bullying other children. She ran over and yelled at him, "You are bullying your brother again!"
"I didn't bully him!" Xiao Doubao argued.
"You didn't bully your brother, how could he fall down?"
In previous gatherings, Xiao Doubao would make Yu Haiguo cry from time to time. Now Tao Huimin saw that she was still stubborn and wanted to spank her twice in anger, but was stopped by Cheng Hong in time.
"It's okay, it's okay, just a kid."
After being stopped, Tao Huimin glared at Xiao Doubao fiercely and said, "Why don't you apologize to your brother right away?"
Xiao Doubao was often punished at home. Although he felt wronged, he still admitted his mistake decisively and said obediently, "I'm sorry, Brother Guoguo."
He apologized, but the little bean curd's big eyes were staring at Yu Haiguo.
The little fat boy was frightened by her glare. After accepting the little bean bun's apology, he fearfully threw himself into his mother's arms, not daring to look at her.
"Okay, okay, it's okay." Tao Huimin comforted him.
After the episode ended, when Lin Weimin wasn't paying attention, Xiao Doubao ran to his legs with a look of aggrieved look on his face.
"Dad~"
Lin Weimin picked her up and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Doubao leaned over and whispered in his ear.
It turned out that it was Xiao Doubao who was holding the chocolate. The chubby Yu Haiguo asked her for it, but she didn't give it to her. Yu Haiguo stared at the chocolate in her hand with envy, walked without looking at the road, and fell to the ground.
"This little fat boy is so bad!" After Xiao Doubao finished his complaint, he did not forget to summarize it.
Lin Weimin also agreed: "This kid is really not a decent person. He didn't clarify it when he saw you were wronged. Like father, like son."
Xiao Doubao looked fierce, "Yes, I think he deserves a beating."
Shi Tiesheng looked at the father and daughter silently. Don’t you really want to reflect on why others didn’t help you clarify the matter?
After the picnic at noon, everyone walked around the park for another two hours in the afternoon and set off at around three o'clock.
On the way back, Xiao Doubao clamored to take Lin Weimin's car.
She was held in Shi's arms, and he called her "Grandpa" affectionately, making Shi's father unable to close his mouth.
When the car passed by Gaojing Hutong, Xiao Doubao saw the residential houses that were about to be demolished.
"Dad, look at this place, does it look like an amusement park?"
Lin Weimin was driving and glanced casually out the window, then he reacted immediately.
"It doesn't look like an amusement park to me. It looks more like a hospital. Dad is building a hospital here. When you are sick in the future, you can come here, okay?"
Sister Doubao is not afraid of anything except getting sick and having injections and taking medicine. When she heard her father talk about the hospital, her face suddenly changed.
“No hospital, no hospital!” Little Bean Bun waved his hands repeatedly.
Shi Tiesheng and his son laughed out loud because of her. Xiao Doubao looked at Shi's father and asked, "Grandpa, aren't you afraid of the hospital?"
Father Shi smiled and said, "I am afraid. Grandpa is also afraid of the hospital. The injection is too painful and the medicine is too bitter. It is really painful!"
Xiao Doubao seemed to have found a soulmate at once, and she recounted to Shi's father the painful experiences of being hospitalized several times due to illness since she could remember.
"Once I had a fever, and my mother first gave me medicine, but it was too bitter. Then she took me to the hospital for an injection, and the doctor gave me an injection with a very long needle..."
Xiao Doubao measured a needle that was almost a foot long and told the story vividly.
After sending Shi Tiesheng and his family to the place, she greeted Shi's father with lingering feelings, "Goodbye, Grandpa Shi. I will tell you a story next time."
Shi Tiesheng couldn't help but complain, "Is it possible that your daughter also knows that she made it up? Like father, like daughter."
"Talent, it's all talent." Lin Weimin said with a smile.
After a weekend of leisure, it's another week of work.
In the new week, Guowen Publishing House published Zheng Yuanjie’s new work “The Pig King Takes Photos”.
This fairy tale is one of the "Twelve Zodiac Fairy Tales" conceived by Zheng Yuanjie. The concept of the "Twelve Zodiac Fairy Tales" first came about in 1985. In 1986, he published "The Drunken Ox King", and then successively published "The Rat King's Birthday Celebration", "The Snake King's Gold Digging", "The Dragon King's Trouble in the Sea", "The Rabbit King Selling Ears" and "The Dog King Sleepwalking".
More than a month ago, Lin Weimin successfully persuaded Zheng Yuanjie to reach an in-depth cooperation with Guowen Publishing House. Not only did he hand over the publishing rights of his works to Guowen Publishing House, but he also handed over a series of subsequent copyright developments to Guowen Publishing House.
Over the past month, the Guowen Society has been very active.
First, he contacted Shanxi and tried to acquire "The King of Fairy Tales", and then began to adapt Zheng Yuanjie's fairy tales into comics.
It just so happened that Zheng Yuanjie's new work "The Pig King Takes Photos" had just been completed. Guowen Publishing House took the manuscript and proofread it immediately. It took only half a month to complete the publication and distribution of this fairy tale.
On the eve of the release of "Pig King Photography", it is natural to promote it to show the sincerity and strength of Guowen Publishing House.
The book advertisement of this fairy tale was directly published in many publications of Guowen Publishing House, reaching tens of millions of readers.
The first print run of "Pig King Photography" was 200,000 copies, and 100,000 copies were sold in just one week.
When Zheng Yuanjie heard the news, he couldn't believe it.
200,000 copies, and half of them were sold so easily?
It has been 10 years since the creation of the Twelve Zodiac Fairy Tales, and 6 volumes have been published. These fairy tales have a good influence in Zheng Yuanjie's series of works. On average, each work sells about 200,000 to 300,000 copies each year. In recent years, the sales of some books have exceeded one million copies.
Now it is published by Guowen Publishing House, and 100,000 copies are sold in a week, which is equivalent to the sales volume in the previous half year.
Can changing a publishing house actually have such a huge impact on book sales?
No matter how surprised Zheng Yuanjie was, this was the reality. Guowen Publishing House's sound and huge distribution system and powerful publicity methods had indeed brought about a huge increase in the sales of his works. Following this trend, the sales prospects of his works in the future would inevitably achieve a leapfrog growth.
Before Zheng Yuanjie had time to be happy about the news, he received another piece of good news. The first draft of the script of "The Adventures of Shuke and Beta" that "The King of Painting" was adapting had come out, and the character images and concept designs had also been finalized. Wang Yongsheng notified him to go to the editorial department to review the results.
When he arrived at the editorial department of "The King of Painting", Zheng Yuanjie read the first draft of the script and some of the cartoonist's designs for the fairy tale.
He is the original author and has many concrete thoughts about the content of the fairy tale. When they first started communicating, he told the screenwriter and comic author in charge of the adaptation a lot of his ideas. Today is the time to verify the specific effects of his ideas.
After reading it, Zheng Yuanjie was satisfied with most of the script and design, but he still pointed out many areas that needed adjustment. They were all details and very cumbersome. It would take a lot of time and energy to execute them according to his ideas.
But "Painting King" accepted the request without hesitation, and its attitude was so good that Zheng Yuanjie felt a little embarrassed.
"Editor-in-Chief Wang, I'm sorry to trouble you." After finishing, Zheng Yuanjie said to Wang Yongsheng.
Wang Yongsheng smiled and said, "You are too polite. We are responsible for the comic adaptation of your work, and we must make it perfect."
Feeling the sincerity in Wang Yongsheng's words, Zheng Yuanjie felt touched and fortunate.
Cooperating with Guowen Publishing House seems to be an extremely correct decision.
After the meeting, Wang Yongsheng treated everyone to a meal.
During the dinner, we talked about "Fairy Tale King". This fairy tale magazine written entirely by Zheng Yuanjie has not been discontinued due to the cooperation between Zheng Yuanjie and Guowen Publishing House. During this period, Guowen Publishing House has successfully reached an agreement with Shanxi and spent 3 million yuan to acquire the magazine. Now it only needs to wait for the approval of the agency, and "Fairy Tale King" will be able to change its ownership.
"Fairy Tale King" is different from the discontinued "Picture Book King". Its sales of each issue can easily exceed one million copies, making it a best-selling publication. It is a bit cheap to buy this publication for 3 million RMB.
But this publication actually has little to do with Shanxi. When Zheng Yuanjie was planning to publish the publication, he was just borrowing a name from Shanxi. This kind of thing was very common in the 1980s and 1990s.
It would actually not be a bad idea if Guowen Publishing House directly poached Zheng Yuanjie to start a new business, after all, Zheng Yuanjie is the soul of this publication.
But Lin Weimin never likes to be scheming when doing things. He considers himself not a businessman, and Guowenshe is not simply a company that pursues profits, so he does not mind spending more money to do things well.
The Shanxi side was also very clear about the intricacies of this matter, and decided to quit while it was going ahead. After two rounds of communication, they decisively agreed to the request of the Guowen Society.
Wang Yongsheng invited everyone to dinner at a restaurant near the family building. Every evening, some people related to the Guowen Society would gather here.
They were eating when they saw Yu Dong and a few people from Wenhua Film and Television walking into the restaurant.
"Mr. Yu!" Wang Yongsheng greeted.
When Yu Dong saw Wang Yongsheng and others coming forward, he greeted them warmly. Wang Yongsheng introduced Zheng Yuanjie to Yu Dong.
"Let's eat together." Wang Yongsheng suggested.
Normally, everyone worked together and had a familiar relationship, so Yu Dong didn't hesitate to lead everyone to sit down.
"I heard that the box office of 'If You Are the One' has exceeded 70 million?" Wang Yongsheng poured Yu Dong a glass of wine and asked.
Yu Dong bowed and replied, "Yeah."
“Is there any hope of breaking 100 million?”
Yu Dong sneered, "What hope is there! It's almost the fourth week and it only took in 75 million. It's the last gasp of a dying force. It will have to be pulled off the screen in a week or two."
"Ah!" Wang Yongsheng sighed with a hint of regret, and then he said, "That's not a small amount. It will take at least 80 million after it's released."
"That's about right. It's still too difficult to break 100 million. Now we can only pin our hopes on Hero."
"Isn't Feng Xiaogang's new movie coming out soon? His last movie did so well at the box office, so there's a lot of hope, right?"
Yu Dong shook his head. "Not quite. Piracy has a huge impact on the box office in the middle and later stages of a film's release. Who would be willing to go to the cinema to watch a regular feature film if it's available on disc? Why are people so eager to watch Hollywood blockbusters? Isn't it because their scenes are grand and their special effects are realistic? So, if you want to have a stable box office, you still have to go the blockbuster route."
Wang Yongsheng pondered Yu Dong's words carefully and found that it was indeed the case.
Zheng Yuanjie, who was standing by, was listening to the conversation between the two. He usually did most of his creations alone, but now he had come into contact with the people from the Guowen Society, all of whom were engaged in the cultural industry, but each had their own focus and they worked together in a division of labor. It seemed full of vitality, which made him feel very fresh.
(End of this chapter)
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