1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 574 The Efficiency of Sending the Plague God
During the Spring Festival, in addition to New Year's greetings, it is about eating, drinking and playing mahjong.

This is the case in future generations, and it is similar now.

Lin Weimin doesn't have many relatives in Yanjing, but he has many teachers and friends. During New Year's greetings, each family only stays for 10 minutes, and he has to walk for two days. The time is basically lost on the road.

"If things go on like this, within a few years, Yanjing will be stuck in traffic."

Lin Weimin was driving a car, with Lao Meng and Lao Qin in the car. He had just come out from their home after paying New Year's greetings. While chatting, they came across Rong Shihui who was in the hospital, and they decided to go see him together.

"More private cars prove that more people are getting rich, and the life of ordinary people is easier." Meng Weizai said.

"Only a small group of people get rich. If we don't achieve common prosperity, problems will arise sooner or later!" Tan Chaoyang retorted with a different opinion.

"Get rich first, then you will get rich later!"

"Who gets rich first can lead to riches later? Then the tenant farmers of the landlord's family have already turned themselves into masters!"

The older they get, the more stubborn they become, neither of the two old men can convince the other, and they hate each other.

When the car arrived at the hospital, the three of them came to the ward together. Rong Shihui was lying on the hospital bed, and his wife was feeding him porridge.

"Old Rong!"

When Qin Chaoyang and Meng Weizai saw the skinny and weak Rong Shihui on the hospital bed, they couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.

When Rong Shihui saw the three of them, a rare smile appeared on his face, "Why are you here?"

"Come to wish you New Year's greetings! Happy New Year, Lao Rong!" Meng Weizai said with a smile.

"Happy New Year! Happy New Year!" Rong Shihui tried his best to bow his hands to several people.

He has been undergoing chemotherapy for more than half a year. This treatment method can effectively curb cancer, but at the same time, it also greatly damages the functions of the human body.

He is now weaker than when Lin Weimin came to see him half a year ago.

Rong Shihui looked at Lin Weimin, "Weimin, congratulations. The last time Liu Yin came to see me, she said that you have become the editor-in-chief."

Lin Weimin responded with a smile, feeling uncomfortable.

Rong Shihui was very weak now, and after talking for a while, he began to pant. Lin Weimin and others had no choice but to say goodbye.

Before leaving, Lin Weimin held Rong Shihui's hand, "Old Rong, persistence is victory!"

Rong Shihui smiled, his lips turned white, "Persistence is victory!"

Qin Chaoyang and Meng Wei sighed after leaving the hospital, and Lin Weimin also sighed.

Last year, Lao Rong also said that he would be discharged from the hospital in his car. I am afraid that he will not wait until that day.

After driving Meng and Tan home, Lin Weimin also returned home, and when he entered the door, he saw Tao Huimin chatting with the guests.

"Mr. Lin!" Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinhe stood up, "Happy Chinese New Year!"

"Happy New Year! Happy New Year!" Lin Weimin said with a smile, and asked them to sit down.

Wang Xiaobo is shy and unreasonable by nature. Today, Li Yinhe brought Wang Xiaobo to pay New Year's greetings. She said, "Thanks to your help, Xiaobo can do his writing work as he wishes."

"It's a small favor to say, he wrote it himself." Lin Weimin suddenly remembered, "By the way, Xiaobo, I bought two collections of your novels in Xiangjiang last time."

"Ah! Really?" Wang Xiaobo responded with an unnatural expression.

Lin Weimin fully understood the reason for Wang Xiaobo's unnatural expression. The novel was published in Xiangjiang, and he must have received the sample book.

The title of the book is "The History of Wang Er's Love", and the most exaggerated thing is the cover, which is directly intertwined with two bodies, a man and a woman. At first glance, it looks like the heroes and heroines Wang Er and Chen Qingyang in "The Golden Age". Designed.

The publishing house is basically publishing salty and wet novels, which is very in line with the urine nature of Xiangjiang people.

Lin Weimin ignored the title of the book and asked, "How is the book selling?"

"It's not bad. It's about two to three thousand copies a month."

"The market in Xiangjiang is small, and [-] to [-] copies a year is also a very good result."

Wang Xiaobo nodded. He has no material needs. If he really wanted to pursue material things, he would not return to China.

"Stories of the Tang Dynasty" and "Wang Er's Romantic History" were published successively. He received a lot of manuscript fees, and he was already very content with supporting himself and his family with the manuscript fees.

"By the way, I saw that you posted a few essays during this period, and it seems that the response has been good." Lin Weimin asked.

Speaking of this incident, Wang Xiaobo showed a somewhat helpless expression on his face.

He has been writing novels for so many years, and he has published very few works so far, but his essays have been published smoothly.

Especially after full-time writing, posting one after another, almost without stopping, is indeed very popular.

Also because of the popularity of essays, in the past two years, Wang Xiaobo's influence in domestic ideological circles is much greater than in literary circles.

In the literary world he is just a nobody.

"Writing essays is just to get some royalties, and I didn't think of it."

Lin Weimin knew that Wang Xiaobo's ideals were in literary creation, not in academic research.

"It so happens that I know a publisher in Bay Island. I'll ask you in a few days to see if your novels can be published in Bay Island."

Guo Feng's Xindi Literature Publishing House has introduced works by mainland writers on a large scale in the past few years, causing a "mainland fever" in Wandao. Lin Weimin recommended "White Deer Plain" to Guo Feng faithfully.

In addition, the works of many writers who have cooperated with Guowen Society have been introduced to Wandao by Xindi Literature Publishing House.

Wang Xiaobo never expected that such a good thing would come across just to pay New Year's greetings.

A smile appeared on his face, "Thank you very much, Mr. Lin."

Lin Weimin waved his hand, "You are now a full-time writer and the novel is published. Only with income can you devote all your energy to writing."

Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinhe were very moved when they heard the words. After leaving Lin's house, Li Yinhe said to Wang Xiaobo: "Mr. Lin is your bole!"

Wang Xiaobo's heartfelt gratitude is not only Bole, but also a confidant.

Taking advantage of the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, Lin Weimin drove Tao Huimin and Tao's father and mother to the Second Courtyard next to the Forbidden City, which had been vacant since Han Zhuangzhuang moved away.

During the two days of the Spring Festival, Tao Huimin had already communicated with Tao's father and Tao's mother. When she became pregnant, Tao's mother would come to Yanjing to take care of her.

The couple discussed that this courtyard next to the Forbidden City would be left for Tao's father and Tao's mother to live in.

"Dad, Mom! Weimin is afraid that you will not be used to living with us when you come to Yanjing. You can live here, not far from our place. There is another house in Tuanjie Lake, but it is a little far away from here. , in the eastern suburbs, if you are not used to living in courtyard houses, you can live there."

Tao Huimin led her parents around and said.

Tao's father and Tao's mother stood in the courtyard, looking at the courtyard wall of the Forbidden City, a little lost in thought, they never thought that they lived next to the Forbidden City in their life.

"Dad, Mom, what do you think?" Seeing that her parents didn't respond, Tao Huimin asked again.

"It's fine if you have a place to live, there's nothing to choose." Father Tao came back to his senses and said, he looked around the yard again, "This yard is too big, how can the two of us live in it?"

"There's nothing wrong with being bigger. Relatives and friends will have a place to live when they come, so it's settled." Tao Huimin said casually.

The holidays are over, and the streets of Yanjing City are full of traffic. The bicycle army of office workers is now mixed with a large number of motorcycles. Compared with the private cars that only a few people can afford now, the increase of motorcycles is more representative of the standard of living of ordinary people. promote.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Guowen Society received a reply from the Department of the "Reply on Approving the Resumption of the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House under the National Literature Publishing House".

The Guowen Society submitted the application for resuming the operation of the popular literature and art publishing house to the department more than half a month ago, and it was approved after the Spring Festival. The efficiency is not unsatisfactory.

Generally, the efficiency will only appear when sending the plague god.

The restoration of the popular literature and art publishing house is a happy event for the Guowen Society.

Over the years, the Guowen Society has owned many sub-brands, but few of them have really been able to carry forward and retain them until now. Since the reform and opening up, several sub-brands have become independent one after another. Popular Literature and Art Publishing House is the first sub-brand to regroup. society.

After receiving the approval, the first thing the Guowen Society did was hold a meeting to determine the organizational structure and rules and regulations of the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House.

This was done years ago, and this meeting is just a formality. Lin Weimin also serves as the president and editor-in-chief of the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House. Everyone is not surprised by this.

Because the approval of Jin Yong's collection of works was blocked, Lin Weimin approached the bureau to argue for it. Everyone has long known that the restoration of the popular literature and art publishing house is naturally no secret.

In terms of the remaining organizational structure, the administrative staff are basically concurrently held by the relevant departments of the Guowen Society, and only the business department has to set up a special editorial department.

The Popular Books Publishing House has been merged into the Guowen Society for decades, and the group of editors who were old and dead have passed away. It is impossible to use them again.

Lin Weimin considered that the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House had just been established, the books it produced were all popular books, the business volume was relatively small, and it was a sub-brand publisher. The editors in other editing rooms must be somewhat resistant to the transfer.

In the past when chatting with people, when you mentioned where you worked - Guowen Society, others had to take a high look; now when you chat, when you talk about where you work - Popular Literature and Art Publishing House, introduce yourself?
The gap is too big!
Lin Weimin discussed it with Cheng Zaochun. The Popular Literature and Art Publishing House had just been established, so there must be some benefits, otherwise why would everyone come here!
The two called the members of the job evaluation committee together for a meeting to discuss the number of titles. After a bit of arguing, the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House won the titles of two associate editors and two editors.

Then, Lin Weimin called the young editors who were in charge of compiling the collection of Jin Yong's works from the Second Editor Office of Contemporary Literature over to have a heart-to-heart talk.

From the Guowen Society to the Tongwen Society, the gap in status is inevitable, but with the sweetness of professional titles, under the persuasion of Mr. Lin, several young people readily agreed to change their families and joined the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House as editors. Ministry family.

When Lin Weimin was happy to accept a few younger brothers, Tong Zhonggui approached him and asked him to join the Popular Literature and Art Publishing House.

"You did a good job in "Contemporary", why did you come here?" Lin Weimin asked.

"I just want to work under your hand." Tong Zhonggui said.

Lin Weimin pondered for a moment, and then said: "Xiao Tong, I think you should continue to work in "Contemporary". You have been there for so many years, and you have done a good job. It is a disadvantage to be transferred to the popular literature and art."

Tong Zhonggui was a little surprised that Lin Weimin would reject him, but he also knew that Lin Weimin was doing it for his own good.

He nodded with some disappointment, "Okay then, I'll listen to you."

Although Tong Zhonggui was rejected, Lin Weimin was also inspired by him and picked up the phone.

(End of this chapter)