Chapter 37: Brave People Enjoy the World First

Modu No. 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory.

Sales Department Head Liang Lu was worried at this time. Seeing that the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival double holidays were approaching, there was no movement in the malls and pharmacies of various channels.

It wasn't like that during the Spring Festival. In order to find him to stock up, one by one, they called him "Brother Six" so affectionately.

Thinking of the inventory backlogged in the medicinal wine workshop, Liang Lu decided to find media to advertise again.

This time he chose *Wenhui Daily*, which had a large circulation and national influence.

The No. 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory had a wide variety of products and could be considered a big advertiser. Department Head Liang was also a frequent visitor here.

After entering, he first saw several editors gathered together looking at a manuscript. He greeted them and went to find Director Chen of the Advertising Business Department.

Hearing that Department Head Liang wanted to advertise for the Ginseng-Angelica Nourishing Wine, which was popular at the beginning of the year, Director Chen suddenly thought of a manuscript circulated by the editorial department in the morning.

"I read a novel, and I feel that novel is more effective than you advertising ten times."

"Ah, what? A novel?" Department Head Liang was a little confused.

Director Chen went directly out of the office and brought back a stack of manuscript paper. Behind him, someone shouted, "Director, hurry up, we haven't finished reading yet."

"Here, just this one, *The Spring River Water Warms, the Ducks Know First*. It talks about the medicinal wine from your factory. It's quite interesting, and the angle is also very novel."

Director Chen was not responsible for reviewing manuscripts, but he also liked reading. This manuscript became popular in the editorial department today, so he read it. It really had something; the key was that it fit the current policy and was a manuscript with great potential.

Department Head Liang received the manuscript in a daze and was attracted from the first paragraph.

Later, words like "No. 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory" and "Sales Department Head" appeared, giving Department Head Liang an illusion: "This, this couldn't be writing about me, right?"

However, the male lead's surname was Wang, and he had no name. He was just called Old Wang, Department Head Wang, Duck Prophet. His wife sometimes called him "Bastard."

Liang Lu: It's not me, it's not me; it should be talking about Director Wang Zhenxu.

As he read deeper, Department Head Liang sighed repeatedly. He hadn't expected that someone would write the story of their factory filming a TV commercial into a novel, and write it so well, even linking it to reform and opening-up.

This was too high-level!

When he saw the last paragraph, the brave little duck jumped into the Huangpu River first, playing happily inside, eating fish and shrimp, and the male lead said the sentence "Brave people enjoy the world first."

At this moment, as the youngest and most daring department head of the No. 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory, Liang Lu was struck by it.

He said to Director Chen: "Good, it's written too well!"

Director Chen was just about to agree, but Department Head Liang added: "It really doesn't need extra advertising. With this novel, it's enough!"

Director Chen: "..."

This mouth of mine, superfluous!

However, Department Head Liang also had a request for Director Chen: "Can you arrange for this novel to be published as soon as possible?"

"This..."

"Tonight on Nanjing Road, I'll arrange it."

Director Chen smiled: "I'll discuss it with the editor-in-chief."

"By the way, what is this writer's name? Where is he from?" Liang Lu asked.

"It seems he's from Jingcheng, but he left a phone number for the Writers Association guesthouse."

After leaving the Lover's Wall, Professor Qu and Sister Chen Chong didn't ask much about Gong Ying's situation. Women gossiping didn't distinguish by age.

Wei Ming said everything he should know and didn't mention what he shouldn't.

Chen Chong: "No wonder she's so pretty; it turns out she really is an actress."

"It's also not easy for a little girl to be away from home~" As a Modu person who was also a "Beijing drifter," Professor Qu sighed.

They walked north along the Bund. Wei Ming suddenly realized: "This seems not far from *Wenhui Daily*." He had come once when submitting the manuscript yesterday and had an impression: No. 149 Yuanmingyuan Road, also called Hami Building, or Sami Building. The front was an office building, and the back was a newspaper printing workshop.

Chen Chong encouraged: "Why don't you go ask if it passed?"

Professor Qu also said: "It's on Yuanmingyuan Road, right? I remember it's just around the corner from the front."

Wei Ming himself said in his novel that brave people enjoy the world first. Although only one day had passed, it was very likely that they hadn't seen the manuscript yet, but trying didn't cost money.

Maybe he would be the first to enjoy it.

After going upstairs, Wei Ming found the editor from yesterday.

"What, it already passed? And it will be published soon?"

Wei Ming signed his name in a daze and received the manuscript fee from the *Wenhui Daily* finance department.

When he came down from upstairs, he had a huge sum of 65 yuan in his hand!

Equivalent to more than three months of his salary!

Among them, 5 yuan was for his four-panel illustration. In this day and age, drawing illustrations and comic strips was still very profitable.

His high school classmate Liu Rulong's grandfather was a famous comic artist. Ten yuan a page; he was the richest single old man in their local area.

!

60 yuan was the manuscript fee for the novel, 15,000 words, totaling four yuan per thousand words.

Newspaper manuscript fees were always lower than magazines. The advantage was that the money came quickly, so this price was relatively high. For an unknown newcomer, it was a recognition of the quality of the manuscript.

The two sisters were also sincerely happy for Wei Ming. Professor Qu said: "Don't you always want to buy a watch?"

Sister Chen Chong laughed: "You, Little Wei just got money and you encourage him to spend it. It's better to save it to marry a wife in the future."

Professor Qu retorted: "He still has two novellas next. What's wrong with enjoying it now? And a watch is also very important for marrying a wife."

Chen Chong thought it made sense. Three turns and one sound—this watch was one of the turns. In Jingcheng, if you wanted to marry a wife, these were just basic configurations. Some families already required buying a TV.

Sister Chen added: "But I think a watch is not a necessity. It's better to buy a car first."

"A watch is also very important because time is priceless."

"But with a car..."

Seeing that the two sisters were about to quarrel over how to spend his manuscript fee, Wei Ming was between laughter and tears: "Let's not talk about buying a car or a watch first. What about the coupons? I don't have coupons~"

Although as long as you found the right channel, you could buy watch coupons with money, or even buy a watch that didn't need coupons directly, but with the 60-plus yuan in Wei Ming's hand, there wasn't much room for choice.

So this matter had to be put aside for the time being. Wei Ming thought about revising *Two Donkeys* as soon as possible, being brave one more time, and pre-drawing the manuscript fee from Editor Li.

This way, there would be more money, and he wouldn't have to consider whether to buy a bicycle or a watch first. I want both!

The three strolled for a day. Professor Qu was a little tired, so they returned home.

Returning to the guesthouse, the service girl said sweetly: "Writer Wei, there is a call for you, from Jingcheng, named Wei Anping."

"Thank you, may I ask what time it is?" Wei Ming asked for the time, confirmed that Uncle Anping shouldn't have left work yet, and dialed back.

Behind him, Professor Qu whispered to Chen Chong: "A watch is important~"

Chen Chong: "..."

On the phone, Wei Ming told the details of his experience capturing the human trafficker and answered several of Uncle Anping's questions.

Wei Anping laughed heartily: "Good boy, just wait for the award when you come back!"

Wei Ming was brave again at this time and asked: "Uncle, what will be awarded?"

"What do you want?"

Wei Ming: "Coupons, I want coupons!"

(ps: You all heard it~ coupons!)

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 38 =====