In the spring of 1980, Lin Chaoyang finally became a formal employee of Yanda Library. The biggest advantage is that his salary increased from 47 yuan per month to 53 yuan.

However, this money is not very helpful to Lin Chaoyang at present. During the Chinese New Year, the couple returned to their hometown and spent more than 100 yuan. The first payment for buying a house was given to Lin Fugui for 4,000 yuan.

Now the couple still have 1,200 yuan left, which looks quite a lot, but there is still 6,500 yuan left outside and has not paid back the house.

During this period, I had to spend a few dollars to clean up the house of the Overseas Chinese apartment from time to time, and it would be a considerable expense.

Lin Chaoyang is now looking forward to the manuscripts of "Contemporary" and get the manuscript fees as soon as possible. In the past few days, he is also preparing for the next novel.

Before the news of "Contemporary" came, he received a sample book "The Wreath Under the Mountain" sent by Liang Junshu, editor of Warriors Publishing House.

In addition to sample books, Liang Junshu also wrote a letter to Lin Chaoyang, informing him that the single-line version of "The Wreath Under the Mountain" will be launched in Xinhua Bookstores in various cities in a few days, with the first printing of 300,000 copies.

The situation is similar to what Lin Chaoyang speculated. The first print of "The Wreath Under the Mountain" is 300,000 copies. It seems that the publisher is indeed very confident in the sales of this novel.

He replied to Liang Junshu with a letter and then put it aside.

Unexpectedly, after two days, Du Feng came to the Tao family with a happy look on his face. When he entered the door, he shouted: "Where is my brother-in-law? Where is my brother-in-law?"

The family was attracted by his voice, and Lin Chaoyang came out of the room, "What's wrong? Why are you so happy?"

"Hehe! Show you something good!" Du Feng took out a piece of paper from his arms excitedly, "Look!"

Lin Chaoyang took it and saw that it turned out to be a red paper.

"Notice on Organizing the Army to Read the Novel ":

After the novella "The Wreath Under the Mountain" created by the famous writer Comrade Xu Lingjun was published, it aroused strong responses both inside and outside the army.

This work successfully shaped the image of a new socialist person emerging from our army in the new era by expressing the struggle life of the Vietnamese ZWF attack. It is an excellent literary work on military themes and a vivid textbook for the education of patriotism, revolutionary heroism and communism for the troops.

We hope that all units will carefully organize the read and comment on this work, so as to better play the educational role of this work, further improve the patriotism and communist awareness of the majority of cadres and soldiers, and serve to promote modernization and regularize the construction of the revolutionary army.

While Lin Chaoyang was looking at the document, Tao Yucheng and Tao Yumo came over curiously. After reading the contents on the document, the brother and sister were shocked.

"Is this a red paper?" Tao Yumo said in surprise.

Tao Yucheng said anxiously: "The red papers are not important, what is important is the signature."

He asked Du Feng: "Is this really a document sent by the General Office?"

Du Feng shouted: "My old birthday boy eats arsenic - I think my life is long? How dare you joke with you with fake ones?"

He took the documents from Lin Chaoyang and showed them one by one to the Tao family.

"The notice issued by the General Department of ZZ and the Ministry of Culture will be replaced if false!"

Tao Yumo asked, "Brother, what does this mean? Do you want the entire army to learn?"

Du Feng laughed and said, "That's about it, but the novel is not the spirit of the document or the model, so it is called to read."

Tao Yucheng exclaimed: "I'm good! Chaoyang's novel is already popular enough, so I want to add another piece of firewood!"

"There's no way, who told my brother-in-law to write this novel well?"

Du Feng transformed into the first "Lin Chui" at this time. When he saw Tao's mother's eyes falling on the document, he wanted to read it but was afraid that he would be too eager to show it, so he handed over the document and shook his head and said, "Aunt, look! This is a call for the whole army to read."

Tao Mu took the document with the opportunity and looked at it casually, "It is also an honor for the whole army to read it."

"Of course it's an honor, and it's a great honor." Du Feng said in an exaggerated tone, "Anyway, since the founding of the country for so many years, this is something that has never happened before."

"Wasn't Chaoyang set a precedent?" Tao Yucheng said with a big laugh.

"Absolutely!"

The two of them sang and reconciled, which made the atmosphere of the Tao family lively, and everyone happily passed the documents.

After a long time, Du Feng put away the documents and reminded him: "This is because it is my brother-in-law's novel. My father made an exception and asked me to show you the documents. Don't spread the documents."

After saying that, he realized that he had made contributions to the good news today and said to Tao's mother: "Auntie, cook a few more dishes for me tonight."

"Mom, get the money, I'll go buy groceries!"

Tao’s mother gave money, Tao Yucheng went to buy vegetables, Tao Yumo asked, “Brother, brother-in-law, this novel has been called on the entire army to read. Is there any reward?”

"What a great honor is the whole army reading? What kind of reward is it? "Du Feng said as expected.

"Ah? Just verbal honor?" Tao Yumo was a little disappointed.

Du Feng's expression was a little awkward, "That... everyone reads it. My brother-in-law's novel has definitely not been sold. The grassroots soldiers can't guarantee that everyone can get one."

Tao Yumo's eyes rolled and asked Lin Chaoyang: "Brother-in-law, are you now getting a copy of the royalties?"

"Well, 2% of ten thousand volumes." Lin Chaoyang nodded.

"If you sell a million copies, you can get twice the royalty fee."

Du Feng shook his finger, "Not only, there must be more than one million copies. I dare to bet with you!"

Tao Yumo gave him a blank look, "You think I'm stupid, are you? There are two or three million troops in the army!"

"Hehe, it's really not stupid."

The brother and sister were laughing and making fun of each other, and Tao Yushu was also muttering to Lin Chaoyang, if "The Wreath Under the Mountain" could really sell one or two million copies, wouldn't the holes in the couple's buying a house be filled in one go?

Tao Yushu thought it was a bit unreal. He could repay the remaining thousands of dollars by counting the royalties in a novel?

This unexpected joy made her feel a lot more relieved.

Two more days later, Lin Chaoyang was working and met Zhu Changsheng.

Before the Chinese New Year, Lin Chaoyang handed over his newly written novel to "Contemporary", which has been almost a month in a flash.

When Zhu Changsheng saw Lin Chaoyang, he exclaimed: "Chaoyang, this novel is really well written!"

Lin Chaoyang is now extremely wary of the editors of "Contemporary" including Zhu Changsheng.

These old guys were as sweet as the eunuchs in the previous dynasty. He was really afraid that one day he would accidentally get their words.

"What's the good thing?" Lin Chaoyang asked bluntly.

Zhu Changsheng didn't expect Lin Chaoyang to ask this question. He hesitated for a moment and pondered.

"Your novel is a typical literary work of stream of consciousness. Under your delicate brushstrokes, the story is like a prose poem flowing in the summer heat.

It makes people's thoughts wander in a free manner, a sense of unreality that is like a dream, but at the same time there is a deep emotional resonance. This is my overall feeling after reading the novel."

Zhu Changsheng paused for a moment when he said this, and then said, "If you want to say it in detail, I feel that the text of your novel is very similar to a soft sponge, full of emotional moisture, making people feel like they are tightly wrapped in a rich emotional atmosphere."

"I don't know how many stream of consciousness novels you have written before, but I think you have a very unique talent in the creation of stream of consciousness literature.

Your text always has a microscope-like ability, which meticulously reveals subtle changes in the inner world of the characters. This feeling is very similar to what I felt when I watched "The Wrangler" and "Little Shoes" before.

As a creator, you can accurately capture every emotional change and inner turmoil of the characters in the novel. This precise portrayal of the characters' psychological state far exceeds that of most contemporary writers I know.

This allows readers to follow the characters' thinking and experience the rise and fall of their emotions when reading your novels, as if they are in the depths of the characters' consciousness and empathize with their joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness.

There is also the poetic construction of words…”

Lin Chaoyang thought Zhu Changsheng was just polite, but he didn't expect that he could organize his language in a moment, narrating the novel incessantly and his feelings after reading it. What's even more rare is that he has a meaningful and accurate vision.

Although they flatter, they are indeed on the spot.

"Okay, okay, I'll be embarrassed if you praise me again."

Zhu Changsheng was interrupted by Lin Chaoyang, and he smiled and said, "The novel is indeed well written! What's even more rare is that this is a rare stream of consciousness work in China. Your novel should be the first stream of consciousness novel in the true sense in China, and it can be said to be a pioneer."

Lin Chaoyang waved his hand, "It's not that exaggerated. It's been half a century since foreign writing. We are just picking up people's wisdom."

In the past few years after the reform and opening up, Chinese people have gradually learned to open their eyes to the world, especially in the cultural world, where such a trend is even heavier.

It was a good thing to open your eyes to the world, but many people inevitably overcorrect them in this process. They became blind and self-deprecating to foreign countries, especially Western countries, to the point where they were extremely respected.

In Lin Chaoyang, Zhu Changsheng did not see any such thing. Although he wrote about stream of consciousness, he seemed to only regard him as an ordinary literary style, a tool that could be used.

He thought about the reason why Lin Chaoyang would behave like this. After thinking about it, he finally fell into the word "confidence".

Only by truly being confident from the heart, being confident in one's own literary foundation, and being confident in national culture can one contact and accommodate those imported things with an equal and humble attitude, and only by having this sober cognition and attitude.

After chatting for a few words, Zhu Changsheng told Lin Chaoyang that his novel has been reviewed by "Contemporary" and will be published in the second issue of "Contemporary" this year in the form of headlines, that is, in the April issue. This is his purpose today.

"The royalties..."

"Thousands of words and ten yuan!"

Li Shuguang had long told Zhu Changsheng that Lin Chaoyang was more concerned about manuscript fees.

The quality of the novel is beyond words, and it is a rare stream of consciousness literature in China. Although the concept of stream of consciousness literature was introduced to China earlier, it has not developed ideally, and no influential works have been born so far.

On the public level, readers know even less about this type of literary works. Since the end of last year, "Foreign Literature and Art" began to introduce this literary genre to readers in an organized manner and planned manner.

Lin Chaoyang's novel was reviewed by the third review by the editors of "Contemporary" and the editor-in-chief Wei Junyi. Everyone generally believes that this is a masterpiece that is not available even in foreign stream of consciousness literature.

After the novel is published, it will definitely bring new opportunities and a large number of readers to the development of stream-of-consciousness literature in China.

Therefore, "Contemporary" did not have too much trouble in the remuneration standards, and directly gave Lin Chaoyang a top standard.

After hearing the royalty standards exposed by Zhu Changsheng, Lin Chaoyang smiled happily.

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