Spending fifteen thousand yuan to buy a courtyard house is a very luxurious expense for most people in this era, but it is nothing to Lin Chaoyang.

In the past two years, as his creative achievements have continued to accumulate, the royalties he has received have become more and more generous.

Not only newly released and published works have royalties, but also previous works will receive some royalties from time to time.

After returning home in the evening, Tao Yushu calculated the couple's current assets. In terms of fixed assets, they include an overseas Chinese apartment, a two-entry courtyard house in Mianmian Hutong, a three-entry courtyard house in Xiaoliubukou Hutong, and a motorcycle.

"Can't we forget about motorcycles? They won't be worth anything in two years." Lin Chaoyang interjected.

"Don't interrupt!"

Lin Chaoyang shut his mouth obediently, and Tao Yushu continued to calculate.

"After paying for the house in the courtyard house in Xiaoliubukou Hutong, I still have RMB 25,000 and HKD 6,060 in foreign exchange in the bank. This is in the bank.

We still have 2,011 foreign exchange coupons and 4,080 overseas remittance coupons in hand."

After settling the accounts, Tao Yushu felt much more at ease.

"Daughter-in-law, you haven't calculated the royalties for the publication of "The Master of Chess" and the royalties for the script of "High Mountain"."

"Have you not received it yet? Let's wait until we receive it."

"My collection should also be included, it will be worth a lot of money in the future."

"It can't be sold. Let's wait until it can be sold later."

…

Lin Chaoyang didn't have to wait too long for the script fee for "Garland Under the Mountain". The fee bill arrived the next day after he finished talking about it, which added another 9,000 yuan to the couple's savings. However, the publication of "The Chess Master" failed.

There seems to be no movement.

It turns out that Liu Xinwu said that the novel would be published in mid-April. Now that the time has come, there is no response from the publishing house.

Lin Chaoyang originally planned to ask Liu Xinwu about this matter when he had time, but he didn't expect that he came first.

Speaking of the publication of "The Master of Chess", Liu Xinwu became emotional.

"You have to blame yourself. We still underestimated the appeal of "Shutter Island" before. The last issue of "October" has sold 1.1 million copies so far. Do you know what this concept is?"

"What concept?" Lin Chaoyang asked casually.

Liu Xinwu said with a serious expression: "The sales volume of this issue is going to reach 1.5 million copies."

Lin Chaoyang has no feelings about the sales volume of "1.5 million copies" because the publication of his works has helped the magazine reach this number more than once.

But he also understands that this sales volume should be very important to "October".

"This is not an increase in sales from 1.2 million copies to 3.4 million copies, but an increase from 6.7 million copies to 14.5 million copies. The difficulty is different." Liu Xinwu emphasized.

Lin Chaoyang nodded and understood the difficulty. The higher the sales volume, the more difficult it would be to go further.

"One issue of "October" accounts for one-third of our office's paper consumption this quarter. The next issue of "October" will be released soon in May, and this quarter's printing paper consumption has exceeded 100%.

Now many topic selections in the club have been stopped, either waiting for the next quarter or waiting for further coordination with the club.

The sales volume of your "Chess Master" publication must be good, so we can only postpone the plan."

"October" has more pages and content among literary magazines. This can also be seen from the pricing. As both influential literary magazines, "Yenjing Literature" is priced at 30.2 cents, and "October" is priced at 30.2 cents.

》The price is one yuan.

The magazines at this time were all real, with high prices and rich content, otherwise one issue of "October" would not be able to accommodate a full-length novel.

After listening to Liu Xinwu's explanation, Lin Chaoyang didn't say a word. The printing paper in the domestic publishing industry has been tight these days. The difficulties faced by Yanjing Publishing House are also faced by many colleagues. This kind of thing does not matter to him.

Influence.

Liu Xinwu sighed and said: "We really didn't expect that your "Shutter Island" would become such a hit!"

This issue of "October" has been on the market for more than a month, and its sales have repeatedly exceeded the editorial department's expectations, among which "Shutter Island" has contributed most.

Upon closer inspection, suspense themes are not considered to have a broad audience among the broad categories of novels, and because they are highly popular, many works are not highly rated in the literary world.

The success of "Shutter Island" is due to its own quality, Lin Chaoyang's years of reputation accumulation, and the reading taste of the readers during this period.

From the late 1970s to the mid-to-late 1980s, whether in literature or film, suspense-themed literary and artistic works with strong plots were loved by hundreds of millions of viewers.

Take movies as examples: "Shark Fighting" in 1978, "Gunshots from the Security Bureau" in 1979, and "405 Murder" in 1980. In recent years, almost every year there is a suspense-themed movie that shines.

The hundreds of millions of movie-viewing times prove the appeal of this type of work among the public.

Unfortunately, later on, this type of movies often caused some social incidents, which led to the film bureau's increasingly strict review standards for this type of movies, and the glory of suspense movies was no longer there.

In terms of literature, during this period, a large number of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Conan Doyle and many other famous figures were introduced into the country, and almost every work achieved good sales.

Various factors have come together to contribute to the current popularity of "Shutter Island".

Not only that, more than a month after its publication, the literary circle has received more and more comments on this novel.

Unlike many suspense works that are not favored by the literary world, "Shutter Island" has been praised by many people in the industry, especially in the circle of literary theory research. This novel has been praised and unanimously recognized by many experts and scholars.

Lin Chaoyang followed Liu Xinwu's words and joked, "Then you will have to give me a higher royalties next time!"

"Is it still going up?" Liu Xinwu's eyes widened and he said with fear: "If it goes up again, will it stop people from living?"

"Pretend! You are pretending to me! I don't believe you guys can't figure out this account. How much money did my novel make for your magazine?"

Liu Xinwu smiled sheepishly after he exposed his little thoughts.

"You can't do the math like that. Most of the money we make doesn't go to the editorial department.

The editorial department has certain rules for its annual manuscript fee expenditures. If more is given to you, less will be given to others. If this continues, it will not be conducive to the development of the magazine."

"That's something you need to communicate with your superiors. I don't believe that your magazine has generated so much revenue for the publishing house, and they still want to keep this small amount of royalties."

When Lin Chaoyang said this, he was still thinking about how honest Lao Liu used to be, but now he no longer speaks the truth.

Seeing that Lin Chaoyang could not speak, Liu Xinwu changed the topic and asked: "Are you ready for the lecture content?"

Some time ago Liu Xinwu came to Lin Chaoyang and asked him to be a lecturer at the Yanjing Literature Institute.

At the beginning of the month, the literature class had started. The first class was taught by Wang Meng, the second class was by Qin Chaoyang, and Lin Chaoyang was in third place. There were still five days before he went to teach the students.

"It's almost ready."

In fact, there is nothing to prepare for this kind of lecture. It is nothing more than drawing up an outline. It depends more on the lecturer's daily study and creative accumulation.

A few days later, Lin Chaoyang arrived at the Municipal Working People's Cultural Palace early in the morning.

Today is the weekend, and it is also the third public lecture of the novel workshop of the Yenching Literature Institute. The auditorium of the Cultural Palace has been bustling with activity since it opened at 7:30 in the morning.

Arriving at the Cultural Palace, Lin Chaoyang met several comrades from the Cultural Association who were in charge of workshops, including a familiar face.

"Why are you everywhere?" He looked at Li Tuo in front of him and couldn't help but ask.

"The unit is short of manpower and has too many students. Let me come over and help."

Li Tuo's reason is quite reasonable.

Last month, the Literary Association specially announced the opening of the novel workshop in the Yanjing Daily. As soon as the news came out, many literature lovers in Yanjing gathered in Jingcong.

These people are worried about how to improve their creative abilities, publish works, and break into the literary world. This class of the Literary Association provides them with a shortcut.

In less than half a month, the novel workshop has admitted 200 formal students and more than 700 auditors, which is much more students than the Literary and Art Association initially expected.

However, there are advantages to having more people. After holding one class, the Literary and Art Association received a soft hand in tuition fees.

It costs 12 yuan for formal students and 7 yuan for audit students. The total tuition fee for these many students is 7,500 yuan.

As for the Literary and Art Association, in organizing this kind of creative class, except for the teaching fees, the rest is almost a net profit. It can be regarded as a good business to generate income.

There are nearly a thousand people in the creative class. I don’t know if anyone will come later, but there must be no ancient people in front of it.

With so many students present, it is normal for the Literary and Art Association to send more people.

After chatting with Li Tuo for a while, seeing that the time was almost up, Li Tuo went on stage first to guide the process.

The auditorium of the Palace of Culture was very large, with thousands of seats. The students from this workshop almost filled the auditorium. After Lin Chaoyang walked onto the stage, he looked at the seats and saw only a mass of heads.

There is a table and chairs on the rostrum of the auditorium. The table is covered with red cloth, and a microphone and teacup are placed on it.

The rostrum was very large, and the desks and chairs lined with it were solitary. Especially since there were nearly a thousand students sitting under the stage, it seemed even more insignificant in this small area.

When Li Tuo finished his opening remarks and invited Lin Chaoyang to come onto the stage, the audience burst into warm applause.

As Lin Chaoyang walked up to the rostrum, many students who were originally sitting stood up. The rostrum was some distance away from the audience seats. The students sitting in the front row could still clearly see Lin Chaoyang's appearance.

Only the silhouette of a person can be seen in the back row.

In order to see Lin Chaoyang's appearance clearly, the students in the audience suddenly became commotion, startling Lin Chaoyang and Li Tuo on the stage.

"Everyone, be quiet! Don't move around randomly and pay attention to the rules of the venue!"

Li Tuo took the microphone and shouted loudly. After more than ten seconds, the students calmed down and once again expressed their welcome and love for Lin Chaoyang with enthusiastic applause.

Nowadays, there is no Internet communication. For readers, writers are full of mystery and have a sacred aura.

Many of Lin Chaoyang's novels have a strong influence among amateur writers and readers. It is the first time for most of the students present to see this popular writer. It is normal for them to be a little emotional.

After the students in the audience calmed down, Lin Chaoyang officially started his lecture.

"Hello, fellow students! Some time ago, the Literary and Art Association came to me and said that they wanted me to give a lecture to you. I only have one class time. To be honest, I don't know where to start, so that everyone can make it worthwhile.
To be continued...