1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 595 Making Wedding Dresses for Others

The call was from Xie Sutai, and Lao Rong left. After fighting against the illness for more than a year, he finally left.

Rong Shihui had come down from the position of deputy editor-in-chief of the Writer's Publishing House before his death, and the Writer's Publishing House was preparing a memorial service for him, and the time was set for the morning of the day after tomorrow.

Lin Weimin hung up the phone. Lao Rong had been sick for more than a year. He visited him many times. Every time he saw him, he was weaker than before, but his spirit was always optimistic. He always firmly believed that he could overcome the illness.

Unfortunately, manpower is sometimes poor.

"It's okay to lose your hair, it can grow back in the future, this is what the doctor said, it's not fake!"

"I'm a disaster caused by smoking. You must quit smoking. It's not difficult to quit. Don't believe in the nonsense of 'quit sugar' and 'quit tea'. The key is your own will. After a few days, you will get used to it. "

"This disease is really fucking painful, it hurts so badly! But it's getting better soon, so keep going."

"You're so busy with work, don't come here. Come pick me up on the day I leave the hospital, and I'll take your big car again."

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Lin Weimin recalled Rong Shihui's voice and smile in a daze, and his heart was full of sadness.

After waiting for a long time, he got up and called his colleagues from the editor-in-chief's office, and explained: "Ms. Rong Shihui, a senior editor of our agency, has passed away, and a memorial service will be held in the morning the day after tomorrow. When the family members of the agency come to post the obituary in the agency, you Let's go and inform our colleagues in the agency, if anyone wants to attend the memorial service, we will go together."

After explaining, Lin Weimin went to inform Cheng Zaochun again, and then went to the gate of the courtyard, and waited for more than half an hour. When Rong Shihui's son came, he brought an obituary.

Lin Weimin first took him to chat with Cheng Zaochun, and then the two of them posted the obituary on the bulletin board in the courtyard.

In less than an hour, the news of Rong Shihui's death had spread throughout the Guowen Society.

When the two posted the obituary, many people gathered around, their faces were heavy, and their words were full of regret and sadness.

Two days later in the morning, Lin Weimin went to attend Rong Shihui's memorial service.

Today is the weekend, more than 100 people came to the memorial service, apart from Rong Shihui's relatives and friends, the most were colleagues from the Guowen Society, and there were not many people from the Writer's Publishing House.

Rong Shihui spent most of his working time in the Guowen Society, and it was only a few years since he was transferred to the Writer's Publishing House.

After the memorial service was over, Lin Weimin waited for a while, and then came to the grief-stricken Xie Sutai, and after a few words of comfort, he was about to leave.

Xie Sutai called Lin Weimin aside, "Weimin, I need your help with something!"

"Sister, don't say that, just say it if you have anything to say."

Xie Sutai wiped his tears and said: "You know Lao Rong. He has been an editor all his life and has made wedding dresses for others all his life. He thought that he could leave some time for himself and write something when he was old, but no one thought of it... "

She said a few words, but before she got to the point, she choked up.

Lin Weimin roughly guessed what she was going to say, Xie Sutai paused for a few seconds, and continued: "Old Rong wrote a lot of things in the past few years after he retired, but he tore up a lot of things that he was dissatisfied with, leaving only His fables. I wonder if the society can consider publishing a book for him?"

After Xie Sutai finished speaking, there was pleading in his eyes, Lin Weimin said without hesitation: "No problem. I'll go pick up the manuscript when you finish your work later."

Lin Weimin's full promise made Xie Sutai burst into tears, and he took his hand and kept saying thank you.

After a few polite words, Lin Weimin left.

Promising Xie Sutai to publish a book for Rong Shihui is not only personal, but also public.

Rong Shihui has been an editor all his life, and he has handled many classics, a considerable part of which were edited by him.

His editing style is different from many others. He often makes extensive revisions to make his works better. Of course, this approach is thankless. It has nothing to do with him if his works are popular, and other writers will not accept his favor. When encountering writers who don't understand, they will even speak ill of each other.

Rong Shihui dared to revise the works of the writers he handled, so there is no doubt about his own writing style.

He created very little in his life, and only published "Five Fables" in "Contemporary". After "Five Fables" was published, Yanjing People's Broadcasting Station broadcast the soundtrack of this work for more than a year. In 1988, this work also won the National Excellent Fable Award.

Lin Weimin knew that after Rong Shihui retired, apart from occasionally doing the final review of novels for the writer's publishing house, most of his time and energy were concentrated on creation, and he created hundreds of fables intermittently. Most of them were deleted by him, leaving less than half.

Lin Weimin believed in Rong Shihui's creative ability and attitude, so he agreed to Xie Sutai, which could not be regarded as complete favoritism.

Two days later, Xie Sutai asked his son to deliver the manuscript instead of Lin Weimin.

The manuscript is very thin, a thin booklet, Lin Weimin counted, there are only 42 fables, each of which is short and concise, the total number of words is less than [-] words, but it is Rong Shihui's only work in his life.

The next morning, a pre-editorial meeting was held. The meeting was presided over by Lin Weimin, and the editors-in-chief of each editorial office in the agency attended the meeting.

"Balao's anthology is now published in volume No.17. It is difficult to collect a lot of information about the lost articles, creation talks, letters, and dates in the latter part. The idea of ​​our editorial office is to advertise."

It was Wang Yangchen who was speaking. He is not a leader in the agency, but he is old enough and diligent. He has been the editor in charge of Balao for many years. Responsible.

At the end of the 50s, Guowenshe published Balao's anthology, which only had 14 volumes at that time. Now that so many years have passed, Balao's creation is still going on, so the update of the anthology has become inevitable.

Lin Weimin said: "Let "Contemporary" help send out a solicitation letter."

He Qizhi nodded, "No problem."

"I reviewed the set of "Fairy Tale Forest" in the foreign language room, and there is no problem. After the manuscript meeting, I will ask Xiao Zhang to send it to you, and hurry up to typeset and print it."

"By the way, Lao He, I think many readers have commented that the cover of "Contemporary" this year has lost its tradition, blindly using a dark background, with gaudy patterns, making people uncomfortable. Your editorial department communicates with the design side Let’s face it, it’s a good thing for publications to change, to introduce new ones, but we must take readers’ feelings into consideration.”

Lin Weimin communicated with the chief editors of each editing room in an orderly manner, and when the meeting ended, everyone dispersed.

"Li Xin!" Lin Weimin called to stop Li Xin from the first section of contemporary literature.

"Chief editor, what's the matter?"

Lin Weimin handed Rong Shihui's collection of fables to him, "This is a collection of teacher Rong's works during his lifetime, please review it in your editing room."

Li Xin immediately thought of Rong Shihui's death a few days ago, and knew that Lin Weimin must have been entrusted by favors, "Okay, I will hurry here as soon as possible."

After the meeting, at lunchtime, Cheng Zaochun and Lin Weimin sat together and asked, "Are you free in the afternoon?"

"what's up?"

"The printing factory has been found. If you have time in the afternoon, come and take a look with me."

"Okay." Lin Weimin agreed.

Some time ago, Xinhua Printing Factory wanted to eliminate outdated printing equipment, and the Guowen Society bought the equipment for less than 5 yuan.

But the easiest way for the Guowen Society without a printing house is to find someone to cooperate with.

A state-owned printing factory would definitely not work, so Cheng Zaochun set his sights on township enterprises.

After searching for almost a month, I finally found a village-run enterprise in Daxing.

After lunch, Cheng Zaochun and Lin Weimin took a few colleagues and drove all the way to Daxing.

Daxing is a district of Yanjing in later generations, but that happened after 2001. Now it belongs to the suburban counties around Yanjing. It is located in the south of Yanjing, more than 20 kilometers away from Yanjing.

Huangcun Printing Factory is a village-run factory with a small scale. The most usual business is printing perpetual calendars, wall calendars, and travel brochures. The output is not high, but the factory building is quite large.

After inspecting the printing factory, Cheng Zaochun asked Lin Weimin, "What do you think?"

"Printing equipment is not so delicate. There is enough space here, and the transportation is fairly convenient. The main thing is that the rules of the joint factory must be set."

Cheng Zaochun nodded, "I just like the fact that the scale is small and we can take control."

Cheng Zaochun is the president of the Guowen Society, and he is the plenipotentiary representative for the joint printing factory. He briefly communicated with Lin Weimin, and then he chatted with the cadres in the village and town.

Huangcun Printing Factory is very small, with an annual output value of only one million yuan and a profit of less than one hundred thousand yuan.

The Guowen Society purchased the printed printing equipment eliminated by the Xinhua Printing Factory at the scrap price, but it was not the same price when it was negotiated with the Huangcun Printing Factory.

The depreciation of this large number of machines would cost hundreds of thousands, while the total assets of Huangcun Printing Factory were only 50.

Finally, after some negotiations, Guowenshe became the major shareholder of Huangcun Printing Factory with a price of 60 yuan for printing equipment and 10 yuan in cash.

The Huangcun Printing Factory was no longer called the Huangcun Printing Factory. From then on, it was changed to the Yanjing National Literature Printing Factory.

The newly established Yanjing National Literature Printing Factory, thanks to the blessing of a large number of printing equipment from Xinhua Printing Factory, has doubled its production capacity by more than ten times compared to before, and its scale is comparable to some state-owned printing factories at the municipal level.

It’s just that the hardware conditions have been shabby for a while, whether it’s the factory buildings or printing equipment, there is a taste of “millet plus rifles”.

But as Cheng Zaochun said, first solve the problem, and then talk about it.

At least the establishment of the Yanjing National Literature Printing Factory allowed the Guowen Society to take part of the printing business into its own hands
In a short period of time, it can save a lot of costs by reprinting books from the Guowen Society and printing needs from the Tongwen Society.

If the development goes smoothly in the future, it may be possible to expand the scale and launch new equipment.

Even if the development is not going well, it is only an investment of 10,000+ yuan, and the printing cost saved in one year is saved, no matter what.

It is a good thing for both Guowenshe and Tongwenshe to have its own printing factory.

Jointly running a printing factory is not something that can be completed in a day or two. Lin Weimin didn't care about this matter after the inspection.

"Kyushu Heroes" is the first pure martial arts novel publication in China. Since the first issue was released in mid-July, it has been enthusiastically sought after by readers.

Especially the magazine's serial headline "No. [-] in the World", although the first issue only published [-] words, its grand story structure, twists and turns, and plump and three-dimensional characters have gradually unfolded, and have won the love of countless readers. , many readers specially wrote to the editorial department, praising this work as a rare classic among domestic martial arts novels in recent years, not inferior to Jin Guliang's works.

Readers' love is not empty talk, but reflected in the sales volume. "Kyushu Heroes" was reprinted three times within a month, and the circulation reached 110 million copies, breaking the sales record of the first issue in the domestic periodical industry.

The sales ceiling in the domestic periodical industry is "Popular Cinema", with the highest circulation of a single issue reaching 900 million copies.The ceiling of popular literature publications is "Story Club", the highest circulation of a single issue has reached 400 million copies.

Whether it's "Popular Movies" or "Story Club", their sales volume is good or bad, but no publication has achieved the feat of breaking the million copies of its first issue.

Tongwenshe, a little-known new publishing house, became famous in the domestic publishing industry with the first issue of "Kyushu Heroes", and became the focus of countless peers.

(End of this chapter)