Chapter 50: , great talent

The follow-up manuscript of "To Live" is about 95,000 words, divided into three stacks.

Each stack is about 30,000 words.

Chen Xiaomi didn't finish reading the first stack so quickly, so Zou Ping could only wait anxiously.

Seeing the other party bored, Li Heng took the initiative to chat with him.

The content of the chat was unlimited, astronomy and geography, economic current events, including literature, chatting wherever it went, the topic never stopped.

Not chatting, not knowing, this chat, Zou Ping felt more and more wrong, more and more admired Li Heng's profound knowledge.

Knowledge is something, if you have it, you have it, you can't temporarily pretend to fill it.

He couldn't help thinking, is the other party really only 17 years old?

Why did Li Heng's words and deeds, his temperament, and his foresight on many things make him feel that the other party was an old scholar talking eloquently?

Why would an ordinary chat make him feel such great pressure?

Would make him feel ashamed?

Gradually, Zou Ping finally understood why Li Heng could write such a masterpiece as "To Live"?

Zou Ping, who usually considered himself half a cultural person, felt small at this moment. Compared to Li Heng, who could pick up and use it, he was like a child who had just been born, really childish and ridiculous.

Zou Ping's posture became lower and lower, and his chat became less and less confident.

Chen Xiaomi, who keenly felt this, raised her head and glanced at him, then glanced at Li Heng, and slowly fell into deep thought: Is this the real Li Heng? Didn't have a chance to show it before?

She also secretly listened to the content of the chat between the two just now, and the impact of the eloquent Li Heng on her was great.

She secretly pondered: So this bastard is really an all-rounder.

Besides coaxing women and playing with his mouth, pretending to be gentle also looks like it, no wonder Zijin still misses him.

Zou Ping cautiously asked a question that Chen Xiaomi was sprayed with: "Teacher Li, besides textbooks, how many books have you read?"

Yo!

Even politely calling him teacher, quite capable of doing things.

Wang Runwen and Chen Xiaomi also paid more attention to this question, looking at him one after another.

Li Heng recalled, half-true and half-false: "I don't remember exactly how many books, but I have loved flipping through the hundreds or thousands of books my father kept since I was a child."

He was telling the truth. Influenced by his parents who loved reading, he really read those books that Comrade Li Jianguo regarded as treasures.

It's just that these were things that happened in his previous life. The books he picked and read in this life were at most a hundred, and they were all read during winter and summer vacations to avoid labor.

It's called loving learning.

In fact, Tian Run'e knew his little thoughts very well, but she had a preference for boys over girls, and her son was her lifeblood, so she didn't bother to break it.

Hundreds or thousands of books? Zou Ping was a bit surprised, couldn't help but open his mouth: "May I ask, Uncle is...?"

Li Heng understood: "My old father used to work in education."

Oh, so that's how it is, then many things can be explained.

This time, unlike facing Chen Xiaomi alone, he also generously talked about the deeds of his second grandfather in his hometown. And told them that the source of his inspiration was this.

Chen Xiaomi came from the same place as him, so she was very familiar with Li's second grandfather. After thinking about it carefully, and comparing it with the story in the book, eh! Really found that there were shadows of the second grandfather in many places, but life was artistically processed.

At this point, she believed it.

She was convinced that this book was really written by Li Heng.

Convinced that Li Heng was overflowing with talent and had super strong literary talent.

Thinking and thinking, for a while, she didn't know if she was envious, or sour, or had a trace of regret, various complex emotions mixed together, which could be described as a mix of five flavors.

Half an hour later, Chen Xiaomi's first stack of manuscripts appeared in Zou Ping's hands.

As Zou Ping couldn't wait to enter the state of reading, Li Heng didn't stay idle anymore, taking out Chinese test papers from his schoolbag and starting to brush problems.

This move of his made both editors dizzy.

During this period, Chen Xiaomi saw that the test paper was marked with Capital No. 4 Middle School, and immediately knew that this test paper must have been sent to him by Zijin.

Around 1:30 PM, Chen Xiaomi and Zou Ping finished reading the remaining manuscripts of "To Live" one after another.

Li Heng observed for a while, and seeing that both were still immersed in the book, he had a count in his heart.

He put away the test paper at the right time, straightened his body and asked Zou Ping: "Editor Zou, is the follow-up part still satisfactory?"

Facing such a literary masterpiece that could touch the soul, Zou Ping, as a senior editor, didn't play tricks, and sincerely raised his head and said:

"Good! Besides 'good', I can't find other words to describe its greatness for a while."

Li Heng nodded with relief, and opened his mouth straight to the point: "Good is good. Since both of you are very satisfied, then I won't be fake.

Editor Chen and Editor Zou came here from thousands of miles away, so they should be prepared. I want to hear how much manuscript fee you two can offer?"

Here it comes!

Talking about money again.

Hearing this, the English teacher who had been accompanying turned her head.

In her heart, this student had many attractive highlights, but he was obsessed with money, which really destroyed the romantic beauty of literature.

Just as Zou Ping was pondering how much to quote, Chen Xiaomi glanced at the other party and had already preempted:

"The latter part of 'To Live' is more exciting than the previous 40,000 words, and it far exceeds my expectations. I can represent 'People's Literature' to give the industry's highest manuscript fee standard, 30 yuan per thousand words."

Since the country restored the manuscript fee policy, the manuscript fee has risen several times in the past ten years. Now, the manuscript fee for a normal new writer is 12 yuan per thousand words.

And as Chen Xiaomi said, 30 yuan per thousand words has reached the top.

Even for those top-tier writers in the country, the manuscript fee standard cannot exceed this number.

The reason why Chen Xiaomi raised the manuscript fee to the top in one breath is actually her only way.

It is also the last and only way.

She knew that Li Heng didn't like her and had a great prejudice against her. Now he could still allow her to be here and hadn't kicked her away, the purpose was to use her to raise the price.

As he wished, Chen Xiaomi, who saw through his thoughts, directly capped it in one breath.

There was no room for Zou Ping to bargain at all.

She wanted to see, since she was so sincere, and blocked all roads before the competitor opened his mouth, would Li Heng hand over "To Live" to her under the same conditions?

She is putting him in check!

Using her niece Chen Zijin to put Li Heng in check!

You can have opinions about me, you can ridicule and satirize me in words, I endured all these.

After all, I have done the same thing, after all, I was wrong first, so, as a mature social person, as a person who pursues a career, Chen Xiaomi accepted the humiliation to pay for her past mistakes with tears.

However, public is public, private is private, the grievances between the two are private, and the publication matters being negotiated now are public.

If Li Heng doesn't distinguish between public and private, if Li Heng hands over "To Live" to the other party under the same 30 yuan per thousand words.

Then she has nothing to say.

Then she will pack her bags and leave!

Then she will use all her strength, will use this matter to mobilize all the Chen family to stop Zijin from being with him.

Not only Li Heng holds a grudge, she as a woman also holds a grudge, and always has.

In fact, to put it bluntly, she is gambling, gambling that Li Heng hasn't forgotten Zijin and still cares about Zijin.

This is also her only remaining possibility and winning chance.

Sure enough, Chen Xiaomi's momentum of opening with a king bomb caught Zou Ping off guard.

He was still hesitating just now, whether to play all his cards in one breath? Didn't expect the other party to be more straightforward than himself!

This made Zou Ping, who was one step behind, feel annoyed.

Li Heng glanced at Chen Xiaomi, secretly saying that this woman can bend and stretch, in order to achieve something, she can endure what ordinary people cannot endure, and she can be considered a powerful character.

(End of chapter)