Chapter 83

Hearing his wife praise him so heavily, Wei Ping'an was confused: "No, is it really that good?"

Wei Ming also said fearfully: "Aunt, I am still young. You can't kill me with praise."

Inner heart: Say a few more, I love to hear it!

Lü Xiaoyan: "It's just that Xizi and Lele are asleep, otherwise let them watch. Their evaluation is the most convincing."

And Lü Xiaoyan's evaluation just now was made by combining the two perspectives of children and editors.

From the child's perspective, this story is too interesting, the characters are vivid, the story is vivid and interesting, even the villains have very memorable points.

And starting from Lü Xiaoyan personally, this is a work with a lot of ideological quality, with infinite hope in regret, and it is a work that is expected to become a classic.

When Lü Xiaoyan confirmed her evaluation again, Wei Ping'an said to his nephew: "You don't know, your aunt is under a lot of pressure for this work of yours. Now she can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

"Ah? What's going on?"

"Why say those things," Lü Xiaoyan patted her husband, "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that colleagues in the editorial department feel that we are relatives, and publishing your works one after another involves abuse of power, so I think there might be some difficulty in pushing your novel in the November issue."

Wei Ping'an said: "Your aunt is just too silly and honest. She told her colleagues about her relationship with you. People will definitely seize this point to make a fuss."

"What's there that can't be said? Even if we are relatives, if the quality doesn't meet the standard, I definitely won't accept it. Now that *The Legend of the Heavenly Book* is out, I'll see who dares to reject this work. If someone really opposes it, you listen to me and submit it to *Children's Literature* in the Magic City. They will definitely welcome it with both hands and feet."

In Lü Xiaoyan's view, Wei Ming's previous two works were already higher than the average level of articles in *Children's Literature*, and *The Legend of the Heavenly Book* was much higher than those two. If even such works are pushed away, then *Children's Literature* can just wait to be surpassed.

Thinking that Aunt Xiaoyan was still under such pressure for his work, Wei Ming was very moved. In the future, he would definitely treat Lele as his own sister!

Lü Xiaoyan continued: "This time we can discuss with the editor-in-chief and ask an illustration master from outside to match illustrations for you."

"Oh, this is not needed," Wei Ming hurriedly took out Liu Rulong's illustrations, "I have prepared the illustrations myself."

"What? Prepared it yourself?"

"Yes, my classmate helped draw it. He is an animation major at the Film Academy."

Lü Xiaoyan first saw Dansheng eating a pancake, and her eyes widened: "Director Wei, look, why do I feel this character looks a bit like Xizi?"

Wei Ping'an: "Oh my, it really seems a bit like it!"

Wei Ming laughed: "You didn't see it wrong. My classmate created this character based on Xizi. He also praised Xizi for having spirituality. If this work is to be made into a movie, Xizi is very suitable to play the male lead."

Lü Xiaoyan said proudly and disgustedly: "How can he do it? He only knows how to eat and play."

She carefully finished looking at the few illustrations and became more and more pleasantly surprised: "Are you drawing illustrations or making original animation drawings? The details are too sufficient, far exceeding our illustration standards!"

Wei Ming laughed: "My classmate even wanted to color it. It was me who told him the magazine is black and white."

"Good, too good!" Lü Xiaoyan said, "This novel plus this set of illustrations, I really don't know how to lose!"

Lü Xiaoyan said the magazine should be published in three issues, so Wei Ming found two more points with suspense to break the chapter.

Breaking the chapter, he is a professional. In the past, when writing TV scripts, one of the most important skills was to leave a hook for the next episode, hanging the audience to keep watching.

Lü Xiaoyan read it and said he broke it cleverly, even a bit wicked, huh.

"Right, Aunt, if the illustrations also pass the manuscript, remember to issue a separate manuscript fee slip. I will write down the name and address for you."

"Okay."

By the time Wei Ming returned to the dormitory, it was already quite late, but everyone was not asleep.

Looking at the excited Biao Wenhua, Wei Ming asked with a smile: "How did you two learn at the English Corner?"

Biaozi: "Nod for yes, shake for no."

Mei Wenhua: "Come is e, go is go."

Wei Ming went to bed and lay down: "It's good to be able to master some basic terms. Maybe it will be useful in the future. After all, our Peking University often receives foreign guests."

Mei Wenhua remembered one thing: "Right, we met your sweetheart at the English Corner."

"Ah, what sweetheart?"

"The one with red hair. She is even whiter in person than in the photo!" Biaozi said excitedly, "And she is especially tall. Mei Wenhua doesn't even dare to stand with her."

"Go, go, go, stop talking about me." Mei Wenhua said dissatisfiedly. Actually, he is also over 1.7 meters tall.

Wei Ming didn't refute the sweetheart talk either. It's estimated that the two of them didn't believe Wei Ming could hook up with a foreign girl, just purely teasing and having fun, taking Brother Ming for fun.

Wei Ming laughed: "Oh, this bit of English of yours wouldn't be taught by her, would it?"

"Oh, that's not it. She is busy."

"Busy with what?"

Mei Wenhua said: "She has many tapes of foreign songs and records tapes for people. One tape costs five yuan. Really dark, oh no, I mean really knows how to do business." Wei Ming asked: "Five yuan per tape for recording, does anyone buy it?"

Biaozi added: "Yes, and quite a few. She can probably earn one hundred yuan in one night!"

Five yuan might be a large sum of money for Liu Zhenyun, but Peking University actually has more urban students, and quite a few people's families are not ordinary. Five yuan can enjoy trendy music from all over the world. It's worth it.

Wei Ming only took it as fun when he heard it. How can she earn any money? But this money can only be earned by foreigners. If it were the few of them, it might be a bit troublesome.

Biaozi said again: "Originally, a few buddies saw it while patrolling and wanted to report this matter. It was us who said this is your friend, and people gave face and didn't manage it."

Wei Ming: Hey, I became a protective umbrella?

"Right, Brother Ming, what is your sweetheart's name? We still don't know. We can't just go up and call her sister-in-law." Mei Wenhua inquired.

"Oh, she has the same surname as you, also surnamed Mei, Melinda."

Mei Wenhua slapped his thigh: "No wonder she is so good-looking and talented. It turns out they were one family five hundred years ago!"

The next day, after Lü Xiaoyan got up, she asked Wei Ping'an to make breakfast, while she ran to Professor Qu Yude's house to visit.

She came to borrow a book, wanting to borrow *The Legend of Conquering Demons* to take a look.

After the excitement of seeing *The Legend of the Heavenly Book* yesterday, she had another worry, which was whether the original content of this novel would be relatively low?

!

In order to avoid being attacked by colleagues with this, she felt it was best to read the original work first, so that she could be prepared.

However, Professor Qu told her: "The book is in my office. Right, Ma Xiaowei borrowed it before and wanted to adapt a fairy tale out of it. Is he finished writing?"

"Finished writing," Lü Xiaoyan even brought the manuscript over, "Actually, I came for this."

After understanding the situation, Professor Qu laughed: "You give me the manuscript to look at, won't I know?"

"Oh right, Sister Qu, you look quickly."

Qu Yude began to look from the beginning. Because everyone still had to go to work, she looked very fast and finally concluded: "The originality is very high, almost a brand new story. The character setting has changed, and the theme has also changed. It only uses some characters."

Lü Xiaoyan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

Qu Yude: "If time wasn't limited, I really want to look at it carefully."

"Haha, then next month, Sister Qu, you must subscribe to our *Children's Literature*, and you must subscribe for three consecutive months."

Qu Yude smiled bitterly and shook her head. Three months is too agonizing. Can't it be released all at once? And I bought a magazine but can't see the end of the story, and have to continue paying. Is this reasonable!

After Xiao Lü left, Professor Jin brought breakfast up.

"What you guys were chatting about just now is Wei Ming's new work?"

"Right, didn't expect he really wrote it out," Professor Qu said, "Although I didn't look at it carefully, it is really written well. I feel he is creating a new myth. Maybe after many years, no one will remember *The Legend of Conquering Demons*, only *The Legend of the Heavenly Book*."

"Oh, the wife's evaluation is so high!"

"Isn't your evaluation of Ma Xiaowei also very high."

Professor Jin said angrily: "Now the evaluation has dropped. He hasn't come to my class. I heard that there are not many professors in the Chinese Department who haven't been audited by him."

After hearing this, Professor Qu couldn't help but laugh while leaning on the desk.

It's a pity that today Wei Ming still didn't audit Professor Jin's class. Besides going to work, he prepared to soak in the library all the time, looking for materials for the formal writing of *Herdsman* and doing preparation work.

Many students saw Wei Ming and really wanted to get to know him, but seeing his serious look, they had to suppress this impulse.

They didn't want to affect the birth of an excellent literary work because of their disturbance.

At the same time, in the editorial department of *Children's Literature*, the old master Jin Jin, who was about to step down as editor-in-chief, said three "good" words in a row after reading *The Legend of the Heavenly Book*.

"I thought your nephew wouldn't write fairy tales after becoming famous in the serious literary circle. Didn't expect he actually brought out such a heavy work of sincerity!"

Because Lü Xiaoyan is also a character who loves to show off, so the fact that Wei Ming is Wei Shenme is not a secret at all in the editorial department of *Children's Literature*. When *Ideal* just became a little famous, she poked it out.

"Won't, Editor-in-Chief. Our Xiao Ming said that children's literature work is the career he loves. Hearing me say that we might reject the manuscript, he was even prepared to submit it to *Children's Literature*."

"Nonsense, how could we reject the manuscript! If such a good manuscript is rejected, that would be a prodigal son!"

Lü Xiaoyan laughed: "Then shouldn't the manuscript fee be adjusted higher?"

Editor-in-Chief Jin was still laughing just now, but now he couldn't laugh: "Xiaoyan, why are you turning your elbows out?"

"I am also doing this to retain talent."

Editor-in-Chief Jin: "The manuscript fee still follows the rules, but I will recommend this story to the Art Er Yingchang."

"You said that before, but there is no movement."

Editor-in-Chief Jin's old face turned red: "Fine, fine, fine, I will recommend it right now."

He directly dialed the phone of the Art Er Yingchang in front of Lü Xiaoyan...

(End of chapter)