1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 494 The Embarrassed Old Tan
It was three days after Phillips called Lin Weimin again. During this period, he went to Spielberg again to talk about Lin Weimin’s concerns. After some negotiation, the two parties finally agreed to limit the authorization period of the novel’s film adaptation rights. Been here for 5 years.

Within 5 years, if Spielberg does not start the film adaptation of "Life is Beautiful Anyway", then Lin Weimin will take back the film adaptation rights for free.

In this way, Lin Weimin's concerns were resolved, and Spielberg also obtained the right to adapt the film.

One of the advantages of cooperating with Spielberg, a big Hollywood director, is that the adaptation fee of "Nothing" set a record for the film adaptation of Lin Weimin's novel, and he received 80 yuan.

The reason why Spielberg is willing to pay a sky-high price of 80 yuan to obtain the right to adapt it is naturally because of the popularity of the novel "Nothing" in the United States and Lin Weimin's current reputation in the United States.

Before "Nothing", "Farewell My Concubine", "The Man on the Horse", "The Lover", "Chasing the Murderer", and "Burning" were all published in the United States.

Among them, the sales volume of "Chasing the Murderer" is the worst, with a sales volume of only more than 20 copies. Now it is rarely seen in bookstores in the United States.

Then there is "Burning". Although this novel won the National Book Critics Association Award, Naihe's novel tells the story of Asian immigrants, and the content is mostly critical of American society. It is relatively small, and readers in the United States Most of them focus on ethnic minorities and ZY groups.

But fortunately, with the blessing of the National Book Critics Association Award, this novel sold more than 40 copies, and Random House also made a lot of money, which can be regarded as a work that has both fame and fortune.

The sales situation of "Lover" and "Horse Man" in the United States are somewhat similar, but the sales curve of the former is "U"-shaped, while the sales curve of the latter is "J"-shaped.

When "The Lover" first landed on the US market, it was titled "The Far Eastern version of "The Great Gatsby", which attracted the attention of a wave of readers. Unfortunately, Lao Mi was not too interested in this kind of lingering love story. The sales of the novel It went down all the way, and then stopped printing like "Chasing the Murderer".

As a result, last year Lin Weimin won the Goncourt Prize for "The Lover". Random House took advantage of the heat and republished 50 copies. Millions of copies have been sold.

If "The Lover" borrowed the wind from the Goncourt Literary Prize, then "The Man on the Horse" borrowed the wind from "The Kite Runner". "The Kite Runner" was well received on Broadway and won another It won the Tony Award, and the value of "The Horseman" as the original book doubled immediately, and now the total sales volume has exceeded 150 million copies.

Among Lin Weimin's works, "Farewell My Concubine" is the most popular among American people. Since it was published in the United States in 83, it has been lukewarm for the first two years.

But with the passage of time, the word-of-mouth effect of the novel continued to expand, and the author Lin Weimin became more and more famous in the United States, and the sales of the novel increased day by day.

In recent years, it has been a frequent visitor on the "New York Times" bestseller list, and its sales in the United States have approached 300 million copies.

If counted as sales in China and other English-speaking countries around the world, the total sales volume is approaching tens of millions.

Published novels, Broadway performances of plays, Tony Awards, National Book Critics Association Awards, Goncourt Literary Prizes, and Academy Awards, Lin Weimin's novels and plays have built his reputation in the United States step by step.

With more and more readers and audiences seeing his works, coupled with the blessing of several awards, complementing each other, Lin Weimin's name has become more and more familiar to the people of the United States.

It is precisely because of the blessing of these auras that after Random House published the novel "Nothing" this year, the novel was on the "New York Times" bestseller list in just half a month, and it ranked all the way. Climb up at a rapid speed.

The first printed 50 volumes of the novel were sold out within half a year. According to the current situation, the sales volume is expected to exceed one million volumes by the end of the year. This is the first time Lin Weimin has ever published a novel in the United States.

It took several years for the other several novels to reach the total sales volume of over one million.

Lin Weimin waited in Yanjing for half a month, and signed the contract for "Nothing" with the lawyer sent by Spielberg.

In late November, Yanjing Ruixue.

It was the weekend, and Lin Weimin drove to the entrance of Ertiao Hutong in Beichizi.

Lin Weimin got out of the car and walked into the alley. There was a layer of snow on the ground, and the puddles on the road were frozen, and the snowflakes were still falling from the sky.

He walked to the gate of a courtyard and pushed open the half-covered gate of the outer courtyard. At this moment, the snow in the courtyard had been swept away.

The nanny who was cleaning up the slag came out and saw Lin Weimin smiled, "Writer Lin, are you here?"

"Where's Teacher Qin?"

"I'm discussing the manuscript with Teacher Meng."

Lin Weimin thanked the nanny, entered the main room, and saw Tan Chaoyang and Meng Weizai gathered by the stove with their heads bowed to discuss the manuscript.

Although the two are retired, sometimes they can't be idle, and occasionally they are in charge of the final review of some novels.

"Old Qin, how have you been these two days?"

The two people who were discussing the manuscript with their lowered heads raised their heads and laughed when they saw Lin Weimin. Tan Chaoyang said, "Why are you here?"

"I heard that you were sick, so I came to see you."

Lin Weimin sat down familiarly, and said again: "Look at you, you still have the energy to read manuscripts, it seems that you have recovered from your illness?"

"It's just a cold and a little bit of pneumonia. I went to the hospital for a few days and got a bottle, and I'm almost fine."

Lin Weimin nodded, "That's good!"

Meng Weizai looked Lin Weimin up and down, and asked, "Did you come empty-handed to see a patient?"

"How could it be empty-handed? I came here with full sincerity!"

"You are getting more and more perfunctory when dealing with us retired old comrades."

"You old comrade, your thinking needs to be further reformed! Comrade friendship is worth a thousand gold, understand?"

After a few jokes, Meng Weizai chatted with Lin Weimin about the recent issues of "Contemporary".

The tenth issue of this year's "Contemporary" released Yu Hua's "Screaming in the Rain", and the No.11 issue of "Contemporary" published the first half of the fourth volume of Er Yuehe's "Emperor Kangxi". No small response.

"Shouting in the Drizzle" is Yu Hua's first novel for many years since his debut. The style is still full of avant-garde, carrying the banner of "pioneering novels", and has not disappointed many readers who love him.

Since 84, "Kangxi the Great" has been published in "Contemporary" at a rate of one per year. This year, this brilliant historical novel with a million words has finally come to an end.

Meng Weizai said: "I think the editor of the paragraph you wrote is good-hearted, but the effect is too small. It's better to write a complete review article on the novel "Kangxi Emperor" to calm down debate."

Lin Weimin waved his hand, "I wrote that editor's note for my favorite readers. It's just a brief explanation of our "Contemporary" position. If you contribute articles to the journal, it will easily turn into a war of words. There is no need for that. If you are willing to discuss Discussion, as long as it is not on the line, it is not attacking and slandering, we welcome it."

Hearing what he said, Meng Weizai showed a somewhat gratified smile on his face, "Not bad, not bad, really mature, it seems that this deputy editor-in-chief is not in vain."

Qin Chaoyang also teased Lin Weimin a few words. When they were chatting and laughing, they heard the nanny talking to someone outside.

After a while, five or six middle-aged men walked into the main room.

Tan Chaoyang was stunned when he saw one of the men, "Guilin, why are you here?"

"Uncle, my colleagues and I are on a business trip to Yanjing, and we are here to see you."

The person who came was Tan Guilin, and he was Tan Chaoyang's cousin in Huanggang's hometown.

Qin Guilin introduced the colleagues behind him to Qin Chaoyang. The leader was the county magistrate of Huanggang in his hometown, as well as people from the Education Bureau and the "Enterprise Management Committee".

Lin Weimin and Meng Weizai planned to say goodbye, but Qin Guilin and the others heard Qin Chaoyang introduce his and Meng Weizai's names, and immediately held their hands with enthusiasm.

Meng Weizai is the former president of the Chinese Literature Society, and after retiring, he enjoys the treatment of a servant. Even Lin Weimin, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Chinese Literature Society, is two levels higher than the leader of the county magistrate who is leading the team today, let alone their literary names.

Faced with the enthusiasm of Tan Guilin and others, Meng Weizai and Lin Weimin had no choice but to sit down again, and then listened to the few people chatting with Tan Chaoyang about the situation in their hometown.

Qin Guilin and the others went to Beijing to do business, and they purposely found Tan Chaoyang here, without asking, they knew that they must have been hooked up through Tan Chaoyang.

It's a pity that Tan Chaoyang has spent his whole life in the publishing and cultural circles. He frowned after listening to Tan Guilin and the county magistrate Gong talking about the situation.

"I'm afraid I can't help you with this matter."

Disappointment flashed across the faces of several people present when they heard the words, and Tan Guilin said anxiously: "Uncle, I know this is embarrassing for you, but there is nothing we can do about it. Yanjing's yamen is too big, and we are from a small place. I have no acquaintances, let alone work..."

When Qin Guilin said this, he noticed that the comrades who came with him gave him winks, and saw that Tan Chaoyang's face was not very good-looking. He knew that what he said was very inappropriate, so he kept quiet and stopped talking.

The atmosphere in the room fell into embarrassment for a moment.

Lin Weimin understood Tan Chaoyang's character, and if within his ability, people from his hometown asked him, he would definitely be willing to help, but asking him, an old man who had buried his head in books for decades, to help him out, would really be embarrassing for him.

Seeing Qin Chaoyang being brought there, Lin Weimin sighed secretly, and said, "County Gong, just now I heard that one of the tasks of coming to Yanjing this time is to secure the construction funds for several schools in the county?"

The county magistrate, who was already ashamed, suddenly became alive when he heard the words, "That's right, that's right, Mr. Lin, you..."

　Distracted by back pain, I can't sit or stand, so I just lie down hard, but I can't type on the computer when lying down, so I can only use my mobile phone to type, and I wrote [-] characters all day long.

　　In the past few days, try to ensure that there are two updates. If there are too many, I dare not say it. Wait until the waist is better and write more.

　　I hope everyone understands!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)