In this era that has not yet been corrupted by fame and wealth, the behavior of several teachers during dinner in the Tongzi Building of Yan'an Normal University was very consistent with the Chinese people's imagination of the image of intellectuals.

After coming out of Teacher Hou's house, Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but sigh, how fast the world has changed!

"What are you sighing for?" Tao Yushu asked him.

"I'm sorry."

"What's the pity?"

"Several teachers just talked about it, but they didn't know how to write down and publish those ideas to give my novel more momentum."

Tao Yushu was amused by him and laughed loudly, "You are so beautiful!"

"They can also get royalties, right? This is called mutual benefit."

The couple chatted and laughed and returned to Yanyuan under the starlight.

It’s Monday morning again, and the entrance to the library is lined up early in the morning with students coming to occupy seats. The weather in Yanjing has been getting hotter and hotter recently, and more and more students seem to be coming to the library, and many of them still have in their hands

Carrying breakfast, it seemed that he was going to study and make breakfast at the same time.

Du Rong looked at the crowd of people at the door and sighed in her heart, it was quite a busy morning.

All morning, the front desk was busy registering, and the library was busy looking for books. Everyone was busy in their own way.

Lin Chaoyang was in the library on the sixth floor today. He was so busy that he had no time to fish, and he was eagerly looking forward to the summer vacation.

Finally in the afternoon, he finally had some rest time. He picked up his pen and wrote a novel for a while. Before he could get into the mood, he got off work.

I packed my things and went downstairs. As soon as I walked to the door, I saw Zhang Dening waiting there.

"When did you come? Why didn't you call me?"

"You seem to be quite busy. I just came here a while ago." Zhang Dening explained.

The two were walking and chatting, and Lin Chaoyang asked: "What do you want from me?"

"I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for your wife."

"Looking for a jade book?" Lin Chaoyang was a little surprised.

Zhang Dening smiled and said, "Do you remember the collection of comments that Lao Li mentioned when you went to the editorial office?"

"Isn't it going to be published?"

Zhang Dening proudly took out a book from his bag and said, "Take a look!"

Lin Chaoyang took the book and exclaimed: "Is it really possible for you to do it?"

"Wrangler Review Collection" is a blue booklet. It is not very thick, with a maximum of 60,000 to 70,000 words. This is understandable. A review can only have 3,000 to 5,000 words at most. The review collection contains 20 articles, and there are still

You have to be a critic with some reputation.

"It's not us, it's mainly the support of the writers and publishers. As you know, Comrade Ding Ling is back now..."

Zhang Dening didn't go into too much detail, but Lin Chaoyang understood that the author's publisher's approval to publish this collection of reviews must have a lot to do with the review Ding Ling wrote for "Wrangler".

"Comrade Yushu's review has also been included. I came here today to send her a sample book, and the manuscript fee bill should be mailed to her within the next two days."

Lin Chaoyang laughed and said: "She will definitely be happy to know the news. Let's go for a walk and have dinner at home."

Zhang Dening looked at Lin Chaoyang's performance and smelled a hint of hepatic control.

"After so many visits, this is the first time you let me go to your house for dinner."

"The time was not suitable a few times before, but today it happens to be the right time to get off work."

If you tell lies with your eyes open, no wonder you can write a good novel, Zhang Dening commented in his heart.

Back home, Tao Yumo was very excited when he heard that Zhang Dening was the editor of "Yanjing Literature and Art" and that this time he came specifically to deliver sample magazines to his sister Tao Yushu.

"Brother-in-law, can you let me take a look?"

Lin Chaoyang gave the pamphlet to Tao Yumo, and she happily opened the review collection. The article by Tao Yushu included in the review collection was the one she had previously published in "Yanjing Literature and Art".

"Wrangler" Commentary Collection contains comments from mostly famous critics or literary figures, such as Hu Depei, Yan Gang, Ding Ling...

It stands to reason that with Tao Yushu's current fame and influence of comments, he is not qualified to appear in the same collection of comments as the above people, but who would let Tao Yushu have someone on his list?

When the husband writes a novel and the wife writes a review, it becomes a good story if it is spread out.

Who dares to say this is a back door?

There were guests at home, and Tao's mother had to cook more. She called Tao Yumo to help. She reluctantly put down the collection of comments in her hand.

Lin Chaoyang chatted with Zhang Dening for a while before Tao Yushu came back. She was equally happy when she heard that Zhang Dening was here to send her a sample of the review collection.

The few of them chatted for a while, and when they were about to eat, Zhang Dening asked Lin Chaoyang, "Have you conceived any new novels recently?"

It’s not just an idea, it’s almost finished.

Lin Chaoyang decided to give her a preemptive strike, "Tell me, how long has it been since you came to talk to me about creative matters?"

Zhang Dening looked confused. What do you mean? Do you think I am idle?

"I have almost finished writing my new novel. However, Liu from "October" came to talk to me twice before and provided me with a lot of ideas.

This novel...is given to them."

There was a thunderbolt from the blue, and the expression on Zhang Dening's face froze.

Have you finished writing the new novel?

New novel for October?

How long has it been since I was at home... Before I came, you were taken advantage of?

"You gave it up after coming twice?" Zhang Dening squeezed out these words through his teeth with difficulty.

"Hey! We are all acquaintances, what can we do?" Lin Chaoyang said without any psychological burden, and then complained about Zhang Dening, "You said you were the same, but you didn't know to come to me to push the manuscript. The novel is already out.

Now, if someone comes to ask for a manuscript, can I still lie and say I don’t have it?”

Zhang Dening felt a mouthful of old blood in his chest. You blame me, right?

The ferocity in her eyes did not last for two seconds, and finally turned into pleading, "Chaoyang, you are an author trained by our "Yanjing Literature and Art", you can't just fall to "October" like this!"

"How can we say that we are leaning towards "October"? Look at what you said." Lin Chaoyang refilled some tea for her and comforted her: "It's just the right time to give the manuscript to Lao Liu. I will definitely think about it when I have manuscripts in the future.

From your "Yanjing Literature and Art"."

Lin Chaoyang's promise made Zhang Dening feel more at ease, and he asked again: "What is your novel about?"

"A war-themed novel based on the battle over there."

"Tell me more about it."

"Probably..."

Lin Chaoyang briefly told Zhang Dening the content of the novel. After listening to it, she looked thoughtful and said, "The structure is very good, but you have never been exposed to the war theme before. Can you grasp it?"

Lin Chaoyang felt that she just wanted to trick him into reading the manuscript, "It will be finished soon and will be handed over to the editorial department for a decision."

"How about I check it for you first?" Zhang Dening suggested.

At this time, she behaved as if she was thinking about the village widow.

"No need." Lin Chaoyang refused, "Come on, come on, let's eat first, let's eat!"

After coming to Yanyuan several times, Zhang Dening finally had a meal at Tao's house, but she couldn't think about the meal at all. Her mind was filled with Lin Chaoyang's novel, and she felt filled with regret.

If I had known... if I had known... I should have come more often!

The next morning, Zhang Dening told Zhou Yanru the bad news as soon as he went to work, and she immediately became furious.

"I know it! I know it! When I participated in the May 4th Literary Society of Yan'an University last time, I saw that Liu Xinwu had no good intentions. He really took advantage of our unpreparedness to pry the manuscript!"

Zhou Yan was running around in the office anxiously, and she complained: "You are the same. You went to Chaoyang so often before, why haven't you made two more trips recently?"

Zhang Dening looked aggrieved, "I'm busy too!"

"You..." The accusatory words stopped on her lips. Zhou Yanru thought about the daily workload of the editorial department. Everyone has been working really hard in the past six months or so.

"Oh! Forget it. We can't take advantage of everything. We also got "Little Shoes"."

Hearing what Zhou Yanru said, Zhang Dening felt a lot better.

She had heard the outline of Lin Chaoyang's new novel yesterday, but she didn't think it was as moving as "Little Shoes". Moreover, Lin Chaoyang had no experience in writing war-related works, so the response might not be that good.

On the contrary, looking at "Little Shoes" which has been released for more than a month, the sales volume alone directly outsold "Yenjing Literature and Art".

Before Li Qingquan came, the sales volume of "Yanjing Literature and Art" was stable at 20,000 to 300,000 copies per month, with little fluctuation.

Then Li Qingquan came, and "Yanjing Literature and Art" first published "The Herdsman", which had a great influence on the domestic readership group in the name of scar literature; then it successively published works by Wang Meng, Fang Zhi and others.

The works have consolidated the magazine’s sales and influence.

Until last month, "Little Shoes" was officially released, boosting the sales of "Yenjing Literature and Art" to one million copies.

This figure not only breaks the sales record of "Yanjing Literature and Art" since its inception, but is also the highest sales volume achieved by a domestic literary magazine so far after Binghung.

Counting the 200,000 additional copies printed just last week, the printing volume of this year's fifth issue of "Yanjing Literature and Art" has reached 1.1 million. Based on observations at the previous stage, Zhang Dening is not worried at all that these additionally printed publications will be unsaleable.

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To be continued...