After the squad leader left, Lu Yang wanted to open the envelope immediately and read the contract and the first sample book.

But at this time, there were two roommates in the dormitory. Lu Yang didn't want the story of his novel to spread and affect his life, so he suppressed his anxiousness and took the thick registration letter out.

When Lu Yang left, the two roommates looked at each other. The fat Shao Dahai said: "Lu Yang is so low-key, but he didn't expect there is a Taiwanese relative."

The thin Hu Gu nodded and agreed: "Well, seeing that the letter is so thick, maybe his Taiwanese relative sent him something."

"I don't know what it is, that boy Lu Yang didn't open it in the dormitory, and he took it out mysteriously. It's so fucking boring!" Shao Dahai was also very curious about what was sent from such a thick envelope.

Because of this registered letter, Shao Dahai and Hu Gu became more curious about Lu Yang.

...

Lu Yang habitually came to the teaching building No. 3, the top floor classroom he visited most often.

At this moment, there were only three students reading quietly in this classroom. The three students were nearly ten meters apart. They obviously didn't want to be disturbed. They were the ones who really wanted to read books.

The three of them were in the classroom, but there was no sound at all. Even occasionally flipping through books, they could not hear the sound.

Lu Yang likes this kind of atmosphere the most. When he goes in, he also walks lightly to the corner of the window at the end of the classroom, sits down at the last table, and then smiles with expectation and tear open the envelope seal and takes out the things in the envelope bit by bit.

As Lu Yang expected, what was sent inside was indeed a contract sent back by C Publishing House, and four sample books for the first and second episodes of "The Wasteland of Doomsday".

The return contract has been signed with the name of the editor-in-chief of C Publishing House and the official seal of C Publishing House is stamped.

After a few casual glances, Lu Yang put the contract aside, and then his entire attention was shifted to the four sample books.

The sample book is very exquisitely made, the cover paper is very thick, and the cover is made of comic techniques and gray tones, which draws a picture of a broken city ruins, a scene after the end of the doomsday. On the empty ruined street, a thin and tall boy walked in front with a long knife in his hand, followed by a graceful and beautiful girl.

Doomsday Wasteland, four large purple and red characters printed on the far right of the cover. Below these four characters, there are also a few small characters written in the flies - Wen Chou.

It is worth mentioning that these words are printed in traditional Chinese.

This is my work, my first work after my rebirth...

Lu Yang gently rubbed his right finger on the cover of the sample book, and he murmured in his heart.

The first work has a special status in every author's heart and has special feelings, which is difficult for outsiders to understand.

Just open the pages, just like Lu Yang's first published work in his previous life, the words in them are not only traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan, but also vertically arranged from top to bottom. When reading, you should also read from right to left, one by one.

The paper inside is very thick and white, and has a very textured texture, which is more than one or two grades better than Lu Yang’s textbook quality over the years.

Before he was reborn, Lu Yang gave many sample books to others, but in the end he had only one book left. He had only one book for more than ten episodes of the book, but he could not make up a complete set.

Lu Yang has always felt sorry for this, but unfortunately, the books have been sent out, and regret is useless.

But in this life, Lu Yang doesn't plan to do that anymore.

This is also one of the reasons why Lu Yang doesn't want his roommate to know that he wrote a novel too early.

If those roommates knew that they had written novels and had published them in Taiwan, and had two sets of sample books, those roommates would definitely ask him to give them one, or even a few.

I gave this one and that one. The two sets of sample books that the publisher promised to him could not stand it. In the end, there would definitely be only a few left that could be left in Lu Yang's hands.

There are only two sets of sample books, Lu Yang wants to keep one of them himself, and Lu Yang plans to keep the remaining ones, and give them to the most important people in his heart in the future.

As for those ordinary friends, I'm sorry.

After flipping through the four sample books in the classroom for about half an hour, Lu Yang still felt relieved and stuffed them back into the envelope with the contract, and then took them to Xingyu Internet Cafe outside the back door of the school.

The contract and sample book have arrived, and Lu Yang feels that the editor of C Publishing House should have sent him an email to tell him about this.

After opening the computer and logging in to the email address, Lu Yang found that there was indeed a new email from C Publishing House to receive the articles from Salmon.

After clicking on the email, I found out that C Publishing House had not only sent him the contract and sample books, but his first manuscript fee of 4,500 yuan had been transferred to the bank account written by Lu Yang in the contract.

A few days ago, Lu Yang had already sent the manuscript for the second episode. According to the rules, the manuscript fee for the first episode manuscript will be kept under custody, and the manuscript fee will be distributed from the manuscript for the second episode.

Lu Yang sent two episodes of manuscripts, and happened to get the first manuscript fee.

4500, in 2013, was nothing.

At that time, the RMB depreciated rapidly, and carpenters and bricklayers had to pay two or three hundred yuan a day, and they received six or seven thousand yuan a month, or even tens of thousands.

But in 2003, 4,500 was still a considerable amount for those at the bottom.

In 2003, carpenters and bricklayers only had forty or fifty yuan a day, or even thirty yuan a day. They could not earn a thousand yuan even if they worked hard for a month.

At this time, Lu Yang's tuition fee for two semesters was less than 4,000 yuan.

The living expenses for a semester are only 2,000 yuan, and the average monthly food expenses plus other expenses are only about 400 yuan.

In such an era, 4,500 is really a lot for Lu Yang.

The most important thing is that 4,500 is not his monthly royalty fee, it is just a 65,000-word royalty fee for a single episode.

With Lu Yang's current writing speed, more than 6,000 words per night, more than 60,000 words per night, and ten days, plus two or three days, it takes less than half a month to enter the text on the manuscript paper into the computer and make it into electronic document format.

In a month, Lu Yang can write at least two episodes of manuscripts.

One episode is 4500, two episodes are 9000.

In 2003, this was definitely a generous income that ordinary people would never dare to dream of.

Finally got the first royalty fee.

With this 4,500 yuan, Lu Yang can buy a laptop according to his own wishes. Without using handwriting, Lu Yang's speed of writing can increase at least one-third.

It also saves the time to enter the computer while reading the manuscript.

The so-called: If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.

In order to speed up the writing speed, Lu Yang knew that the computer could not save it. The first manuscript fee was not yet time to save it.

At that moment, Lu Yang went back to the dormitory, locked the registration letter into his desk drawer, then took the bank card and went to withdraw money to buy a computer.

It's just a pity.

Lu Yang forgot that in 2003, all brands of laptops were very expensive, and the general price was five or six thousand to go up.

Lu Yang wanted to buy a better one for the first royalty fee, but he didn't have many choices at all.

Moreover, not only the expensive price, the laptop configuration is speechless.

In the end, Lu Yang gave up the idea of ​​buying a computer and honestly deposited the money back to the bank. He decided to write it by hand as before, and then go to the Internet cafe to enter the manuscript on the computer.

On the way back, Lu Yang also figured it out.

Currently, no one in the dormitory has computers. If you buy a new computer and go back, everyone will definitely rush to play with it. It may not take long to get scrapped.

The environment in the dormitory is noisy most of the time and is not suitable for typing. If you take a notebook to the classroom to write a manuscript, the crackling sound of typing will also affect others' reading.

It also has a great impact on the fact that I want to keep my novel confidential.

I'd better wait for a while, and when the money is enough, I'll go out to rent a quieter house and buy a computer.
Chapter completed!