Is it even more annoying?
If my previous writing life in college seemed like a dream, then my current life in junior high school is a reality of dire straits.
The days are really like years!
However, someone who has been a poor student really has no psychological burden about being a poor student. Maybe there will be some psychological burden at the beginning, but gradually, after he finds the direction of his efforts, studying becomes dispensable!
Someone even calls it respecting the trajectory of life.
In the first semester of junior high school, Xiao Yu occasionally wrote novels but could not publish them. Publishing them was probably not something a twelve-year-old boy could do. So he saw a business opportunity in the hands of a classmate.
Draw comics.
Since he had drawn many manuscripts when he was working in the animation industry, he decided to give it a try and submitted a short story and a few serialized pictures.
The title of the series was "Cannot Become a Spirit After the Founding of the Nation," and the development idea was probably derived from the Book of Friends that he had read before. At that time, he had thought about making a similar Chinese comic.
The story, in the simplest terms, tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy from a mountain village. His grandfather, who he depended on for survival, passed away. While sorting out the belongings of his grandfather, who was a barefoot doctor, he found some strange things.
It is these strange things that give him the ability to talk to animals.
Of course, the content is not about these things. It involves more Chinese medicine, folk customs, inheritance, Taoism, Buddhism, ancient martial arts, etc.
Anyway, when submitting the manuscript, Xiao Yu had already thought about it. If the other party did not ask for a manuscript, he would write the story as a novel, save it, and then publish it in the future.
Luckily, he received a reply two weeks later. As the author had previously stated that he was a student and was in dire need of living expenses, the other party directly put 500 yuan in the express letter sent to him.
The letter stated that if his stories could maintain their current level for more than five short stories, his royalties could be increased to 150 yuan per piece.
If there are more than ten short stories, the price can be increased to 180 per sheet.
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Sometimes, it is really unintentional that he succeeds. He had published articles in junior high and high school, but he polished them over and over again. In the end, none of them were published.
However, when I was in high school, I casually published a dozen broadcast scripts and received a reward of ten yuan for each one.
Since the other party had said so, Xiao Yu naturally couldn't miss the business opportunity. A week later, after everything was ready, he sent the other party three drafts that had been drawn long ago.
Together with the first three articles, they would have reached a total of five articles of the same standard, with a standard of 150 yuan per article. He also sent them a bank card that he had obtained using his father's ID card and a temporary employee.
Thanks to the fact that the current banking mechanism is not as "inhumane" as in later generations, the bank card was successfully obtained without the owner's knowledge.
"The next step is signing the contract." Xiao Yu was full of excitement, enjoying the secret of becoming a millionaire.
However, due to publishing issues, the editor only brought up the contract issue near summer vacation, as the five comics were published and became popular. Xiao Yu had been planning for several months and was naturally prepared long ago.
This time, Xiao Yu did not look for strangers. After all, the amount involved might be quite large. If the editor told it out, with the per capita income of this small town, he, a teenager, might be targeted by others if he was not careful.
After much deliberation, he chose Aunt Xiao. Mainly because she was quick-witted and quiet. Afterwards, feeling guilty, she would never say a word in front of Xiao's mother.
Coincidentally, he also heard that the other party was a little short of money recently.
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Aunt Xiao was very easy to talk to her nephews, and she would never go west if they asked her to. Especially her eldest nephew, in order to make her look good, he even took her to a high-end clothing store in the city to buy two beautiful dresses and a set of silver jewelry.
Xiao Xiaogu was poor, but she loved to dress up. Two dresses costing a few hundred yuan, plus a set of silver jewelry worth one or two thousand yuan—silver bracelets, silver necklaces, silver earrings, and hairpins—plus a hairdo and makeup done at the photo studio before going out, instantly shed the intimidation brought on by poverty and became full of confidence. When she faced the editor, she bargained with ease according to her nephew's instructions.
Stage fright? Xiao Xiaogu touched her beautiful hairpin. That was absolutely impossible.
"Oh, your aunt has received so many benefits. If your mother sees this, she will definitely be angry." Aunt Xiao's eyes were full of smiles. She was said to have received a lot of benefits for her nephew today, and she was very happy.
"Aunt, if you don't accept it, I'll ask my aunt for help next time."
"That's too much."
"This is a long-term business. As you can see, any single manuscript I write costs thousands of yuan, and I can't possibly only draw this one. And since you signed for me today, you're taking a risk. Of course, it's mainly hush money, so remember not to say a word to my mother. Otherwise, I, your nephew, won't be able to save any money, and you won't be able to have beautiful dresses in the future."
Aunt Xiao smiled so hard that her teeth were visible: "Okay, then I will go home more often and help your mother with some work."
"Oh, please don't do that. You are just being too cunning."
"So what about these clothes and jewelry? You know I, your aunt, love to show off. Besides, they're gifts from my nephew. There's no way I wouldn't wear them. If your mom gets mad at me for this, your dad will definitely scold me."
"Well, I'll buy her a set directly, and you can take it back to her and tell her that you met an old classmate of yours who happens to be in the silver jewelry business. This bracelet is only over a hundred yuan, and you think it's nice, so you buy it."
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