Zhou Mubai also breathed a sigh of relief.
Even if the price of this novel is 3 yuan per thousand words, which is 8% of the commission, he dared to guarantee that the newspaper would make a profit.
Zhang Cheng added: "But I have another condition. Mr. Ximo needs to serialize the entire novel in our publishing house, and it can only be serialized in our publishing house."
Su Luo said calmly: "If your company pays the manuscript fee on time, then I will naturally not submit to other companies."
Zhang Cheng nodded and asked Zhou Mubai to draft the contract.
After Su Luo finished reading the contract, she added a few more clauses at the end, stating the ownership of the copyright of the famous novel, and also specifically noted that after the entire serialization was completed, within two years, if the newspaper had no intention of using the book again, the author could take back the copyright and submit the entire work to another newspaper for publication as a whole.
When Zhang Cheng saw that she skillfully proposed these terms and made detailed annotations and explanations for some unclear parts of the contract, he knew that she must be an old writer who had been dealing with publishing houses and newspapers for many years.
But he had never heard of the pen name Ximo. Perhaps she had other pen names in other newspapers and publishing houses.
Finally, after modifications and adjustments by both parties, the new contract was printed out, both parties signed their names, and the contract was made in duplicate and their fingerprints were pressed.
Su Luo smiled and said, "Editor-in-chief, I wish us a pleasant cooperation in the future."
Zhang Cheng's face was not very good. He thought that she was a young girl and he could take advantage of her. But now he didn't get a penny. He could only hope that he signed a money-making tree.
He nodded, put away the contract, made an excuse that he was busy, and left Zhou Mubai to continue entertaining Su Luo.
Seeing that he finally had a chance, Zhou Mubai quickly explained, "Mr. Ximo, please don't misunderstand me. I didn't know in advance that the editor-in-chief wanted to buy out your copyright."
"It's okay. Everyone is happy with the final result." Su Luo smiled and raised the contract.
Zhou Mubai also laughed. He was worried that she was young and ignorant, but he didn't expect that she could turn the tables. He couldn't help but admire her even more: "Mr. Ximo is a capable person."
Su Luo said: "From now on, you will be responsible for my serialization. Please give me your guidance, Editor Zhou~"
Zhou Mubai's eyes were filled with excitement and anticipation: "Please give me your guidance, Mr. Ximo."
Su Luo added: "But I have something to tell you. Because I am a woman, unmarried and with children, I don't want anyone to know that I write novels. I may send you my novels in the form of letters. Please transfer my royalties directly to this bank account. Let's try to reduce the number of times we meet."
Zhou Mubai nodded to show his understanding. If others knew that an unmarried woman with a child had such a high income, she would definitely be envied.
Su Luo added: "Just give me today's manuscript fee in cash. I will come to the newspaper office once a week, so you can tell me if there is anything."
Zhou Mubai nodded, went to the finance department, handed Su Luo today's manuscript fee of 54 yuan, and said: "The commission is calculated once a month. The commission will be calculated based on the number of magazines sold that month and directly transferred to your bank account."
Su Luo: "Thank you, I'll leave first, see you next time."
"Okay, goodbye." Zhou Mubai saw them both out the door.
Su Luo got the money and winked at Gu Yi: "How is it, did mom lie to you? I said there would be money, right?"
"Hmm! So much money!" Gu Yi said excitedly, "I've never seen so much unity!"
The Great Unity is a ten-yuan note, and is also the largest denomination banknote at present. It is jokingly called the "Great Unity". Five Great Unity notes, plus four yuan, mean a good harvest today, and I have enough money to pay the chicken farm in the afternoon.
Su Luo roughly calculated that if one chapter is published per week, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils has about 50 chapters, which means it will take about a year to serialize. At least in this year, they will earn 54 yuan per week, which is more than 200 yuan per month.
Already very rich.
However, she still had to start making the braised food first. Once the braised food was ready and stable, she could think about finding the child.
The mother and daughter returned home with a full load and put everything away first.
Su Luo saw Gu Yi busying around happily and said with a smile, "As for you, before school starts, you can help out at home. How about we each do half of the housework?"
Gu nodded: "Okay!"
Su Luo grinned and rubbed his head: "So good~"
She did not deliberately spoil the children, but tried hard to make it up to them by doing everything for them, serving them meals, and helping with their laundry and cooking.
In fact, if parents want to build relationships with their children, they can let their children share housework within their ability. This can not only help them quickly build relationships with their parents, but also cultivate their sense of family participation and responsibility.
The chicken farm delivered 8 chickens in the afternoon. They were all processed and weighed a total of 16 pounds, which means the cost was 9.6 yuan.
Su Luo paid the money, put the chicken in a bucket and brought it to the kitchen, and called Gu Yi to come over to help.
If the quantity is large, you can’t do it the next morning, it will be too late.
There was no refrigerator at home, so she could only process the chicken, put it into barrels after braising, and hang it into the well to keep it fresh with the help of the low temperature in the well.
She also found a small cart and planned to push it to go to town with Aunt Niu the next day.
Aunt Niu's cart was relatively small, and it had to hold the large steamer for steamed buns, the steamer for dumplings, the soup and bucket for cooking vermicelli, and a small stove for burning coal.
If she had less stuff, she could put it in there, but her 16 kilograms of braised food, after adding ingredients and soup, weighed almost 17 or 18 kilograms, and she also had to put in a stack of oil paper and a bundle of thin ropes.
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