Chapter 170: Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households and Little Readers (Guaranteed 2 updates)

Wei Lin guaranteed that he was definitely not intentionally provoking the little girl. He was just curious about what the little girl was watching, and she was so focused that she didn't notice a handsome big brother sitting not far from her.

So after eating, Wei Lin went around behind Jiang Shan and took a look, and then saw the illustration of "One Ear" whose ear had just been knocked off.

The first part of "Black Cat Detective" mainly talked about the detective fighting the warehouse-moving mouse. Black Cat Detective Mimi met his nemesis "One Ear" at this time.

"Is this story good?" Wei Lin was very curious about his little reader's attitude toward this story, especially a female reader.

Jiang Shan was fascinated. Suddenly hearing someone ask her from behind, she turned her head and saw a big handsome guy. She was stunned for two seconds, then nodded.

"Especially interesting!"

"How is it interesting?" Wei Lin sat next to her and asked.

Jiang Shan: "It feels especially sci-fi, and the Black Cat Detective is drawn well, with big eyes and very spirited. There is a cat like this in our courtyard, and it catches mice especially well!"

The little girl mentioned "sci-fi," which was also intentional by Wei Lin. In the story, many "prophetic" sci-fi concepts were interspersed, such as smart phones, electric cars, AI intelligence, etc.

Although it was for children to watch, Wei Lin also hoped to carry the Tao with literature and sow the seeds of science in the story.

In addition to these futuristic sci-fi concepts, Wei Lin would also popularize some cold knowledge in the biosphere in later chapters. For this reason, he also bought a set of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" series books and made sufficient knowledge reserves.

Hearing Jiang Shan's answer, Wei Lin was satisfied and left. It seemed that this novel should be stable.

As soon as he left, Cai Ming immediately leaned over and asked.

"Little Jiang Shan, who is that person?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know and you still chat so happily?"

Jiang Shan: "People came to chat with me, I can't have a straight face, right."

Cai Ming was speechless, which also made sense. However, who exactly was that person? With this image, he should also be an actor, right?

Wei Lin watched documentaries for half a day and took a lot of notes.

Until it was time for the Beijing Er Yingchang to get off work, Factory Director Wang Yang came to find him personally.

He told Wei Lin: "We have already read the script. It is both serious and funny, and it is very good. There are also many martial arts scenes. Our Beijing Er Yingchang is indeed a bit difficult to be competent. A co-production might be the most suitable choice. I will contact Ms. Xia Meng personally. It is best to hire a Hong Kong director and martial arts team."

Wei Lin: "I have another suggestion. Are you willing to listen, old man?"

"You kid, stop selling off."

Wei Lin: "Several main actors, especially actors with fighting scenes, can be found from martial arts teams to act. This way, whether it is early preparation or formal filming, a lot of time can be saved."

Factory Director Wang thought for a while: "Filming fighting scenes does save time, but I'm afraid the drama will delay the time back."

"That's better than the impact of actors getting injured while filming. If the main actors get injured while filming, the delayed time will be a lot. Using professional athletes can minimize injuries to the greatest extent."

Using a Hong Kong team is also the same reason. They have filmed this kind of thing for decades and know how to minimize the harm to actors on the premise of filming well.

Wang Yang nodded: "We can discuss this with the partner later."

Now Wei Lin had to discuss another important question.

"Then the royalties..." In the past, Wei Lin, who had thousands of yuan in his hands, wouldn't be in a hurry to ask for money. Now he was a man preparing to buy a house.

Wang Yang laughed: "The note has been approved for you. Go to finance to collect the royalties quickly. If you go late, they will be off work."

Wei Lin got up and left quickly.

The royalty amount written on the note was also 1,600 yuan. The Beijing Er Yingchang was comparing with the Shanghai Er Yingchang and had to press them.

After this money was credited, Wei Lin's cash flow broke the 10,000 mark for the first time.

Returning to 1979 for more than half a year, he finally became a ten-thousand-yuan household by diligent writing!

Now the Shanghai Animation Er Yingchang still owed him the money for a feature film script.

However, this was still a huge gap from buying a house, and he still needed to work hard.

Oh, there was also "Er Niu"! Let's earn this screenwriting fee first.

After returning to school, Wei Lin saw Pu Shu again.

He was holding "Children's Literature" in his hand.

Wei Lin knew he was looking for him and asked: "Shu, what's the matter?"

Pu Shu asked somewhat shyly: "Brother Ming, have you already finished writing the next part of 'Black Cat Detective'?"

"This really doesn't exist. You wait for another two months. Didn't Aunt Xiaoyan send you a copy of 'The Book of Heaven'? You can relive it again."

Hearing that he had to wait for two months, Pu Shu felt very uncomfortable, because Wei Lin left a hook of "One Ear." This mouse, which was more cunning than ordinary mice, had not been caught yet. Like Pu Shu, there were many children, such as Pan Ying, who was one year younger than Pu Shu. He was a child born and raised in the hutong of Xicheng Dashilan. His father was a policeman, and he was sent to learn painting by his father since he was a child.

He also liked to read "Children's Literature" very much. He didn't know many characters, so he started to imitate the illustrations inside. The previous "The Book of Heaven" was his favorite work, but now he liked "Black Cat Detective" even more. In his opinion, the detective was cuter than Dansheng.

He had now mastered the drawing method of the detective, and the story had been told twice by his father and mother, so he urgently wanted to see the next story.

Because Black Cat Detective and these children made an agreement, this agreement was called "Please see the next issue," which was also the last illustration of this novel.

Also because this "Please see the next issue" had a special meaning, the editorial department specifically placed "Black Cat Detective" at the very end of the magazine as the finale. Turning to the last page was the "Please see the next issue" of Black Cat Detective, which was also attracting little readers to continue subscribing.

This issue of "Children's Literature" was a bit conservative because the serialized "The Book of Heaven" was finished, and the first printing was only 400,000 copies. However, according to this trend, it felt like it had to be reprinted.

Now many children across the country who received "Children's Literature" had started to write letters to Brother Wei Lin, and the enthusiasm for writing letters was even higher than that of "The Book of Heaven."

In Dongfang County, Hainan, this place still belonged to Guangdong now.

A little boy named Huateng was preparing to write a letter to Wei Lin after reading "Black Cat Detective."

Although he was only a primary school student, he had loved astronomy since he was young and also liked new things very much.

!

Today, he accidentally saw a copy of "Children's Literature" from a classmate, and a "Black Cat Detective" inside opened his eyes.

In this story, the detective could complete communication and watch TV at the same time using something called a "mobile phone."

The cars they drove were all rechargeable, and they could be fully charged after being plugged in for a while.

There was also a "Smart Brain" in the police station, which knew all the knowledge of all things in the world and was a good helper for the detective to solve cases.

This story put wings on little Huateng's imagination. He urgently wanted to share his thoughts with Brother Wei Lin, so he did it as soon as he said it.

Wei Lin, who returned to the school dormitory, also did it as soon as he said it, and started to create a script for the Xi'an Er Yingchang.

The movie title needed to be more attractive. The attractiveness of "Er Niu" was a bit poor. Wu Tianming actually wanted to change the movie title.

Wei Lin had already thought about it, just call it "Cow and Cow Er." If he didn't like it, he could change it again.

When he went to work the next day, Wei Lin started to review the knowledge for the college entrance examination. The textbooks were found for him by Uncle Ping'an.

Seeing him reviewing, Yang Hao immediately leaned over again and asked in surprise: "You want to take the college entrance examination again?!"

Wei Lin shook his head. If he took the college entrance examination again, it would not be difficult for him to get into a university, but it would be almost impossible to get into Peking University.

Poor math grades were fatal. He was even worse at physics and chemistry in science.

Another thing was that he, a student who was biased toward liberal arts, didn't like to study politics, but politics happened to be one of the three major subjects at this time, and both liberal arts and science had to be tested, which determined that he couldn't get a high score in the college entrance examination.

Furthermore, going to university properly required four years, and Wei Lin thought about walking around when the environment was relaxed in two years. He didn't want university to become his limitation.

So just taking a correspondence course is enough.

At noon, Wei Lin rode his bicycle to a Xinhua Bookstore near Peking University and Tsinghua University, wanting to see the sales of "Animal Ferocity" and "The Book of Heaven."

Because this bookstore mainly served teachers and students of the two universities, Wei Lin's influence was far above Wei Lin. A blackboard was hung directly outside the store, indicating that Wei Lin's collection of medium and short novels "Animal Ferocity" was on sale.

Wei Lin was covered tightly and didn't ride a motorcycle, so he wasn't recognized.

I saw the staff behind the counter guarding a large pile of newly opened "Animal Ferocity," handing them one by one to the college students queuing outside the counter.

Although many people had already read all of Wei Lin's novels in various magazines, there were very few people who could afford to collect all the magazines. A copy of "Contemporary" cost more than one yuan, and a copy of "Harvest" cost more than one yuan. Poor students couldn't afford it!

But "Animal Ferocity" only cost five cents, which was just the meal money for a day. Gritting his teeth, it passed.

And in the children's literature area, there were not so many people, almost all of them were parents, and some even brought children. Eight out of ten were buying "The Book of Heaven."

The effect of advertising in "Children's Literature" was still very obvious.

And because the bookstore was not well prepared, the one that first appeared in short supply was "The Book of Heaven," which was illustrated with pictures and texts.

The next day, Wei Lin rode his motorcycle into the city and turned to several bookstores. The sales of the two books were very considerable. If it didn't go well, he could still eat the money from the reprint.

When he returned to school by motorcycle, the first batch of letters from little readers about "Black Cat Detective" had already been sent to "Children's Literature," basically all little readers in Beijing.

However, Aunt Xiaoyan had already taken Xizi to Ningxia, and no one brought them to Wei Lin.

At the same time, the packages Wei Lin sent to those readers had already started to be received one after another~

(Does everyone have any songs from that era that you like to listen to? Let's communicate. You can just say it, and I will take notes~)

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