After he finished apologizing, He Xian finally let go of the resentment in his heart.

"Go to bed early, it's already one o'clock."

Li Shifei nodded. He Xian thought he was going to bed, but then he heard Li Shifei say: "You go to bed first, and I'll write something."

He Xian was immediately dissatisfied when he heard this and asked: "What else are you writing? You don't even look at what time it is! Are you desperate? Do you think you are still a young man in his twenties or thirties?"

His wife was so aggressive that Li Shifei didn't dare to stroke his beard. He could only explain in a gentle voice: "I just finished reading the manuscript and while my mind is clear, I have to write down my feelings quickly. Now that I am older, I am not as old as before.

I forgot everything in one night."

You can forget it in one night, which is of course Li Shifei's excuse.

The reason why he insists on staying up late to write is because his body is still moved by the novel and his soul is still trembling. Only what he writes at this time is closest to his true reading experience.

After convincing his wife by saying "write for half an hour and then go to bed", Li Shifei came to the desk and turned on the lamp.

He took a deep breath. He was in his fifties, and after staying up for several nights, his body was indeed very tired, but when he thought about the novel he had just read, his spirit was extremely excited.

Five days ago, the editorial department of "Flower City" received a manuscript that was five centimeters thick, and the sender was none other than Lin Chaoyang.

The first time they received the manuscript, everyone in the editorial department was a little surprised. Everyone knew that Li Shifei and Lin Chaoyang had two manuscript appointments last year.

One is the already published "Crossing the Boat", and the other is according to Li Shifei. He and Lin Chaoyang discussed a big plan, and he wants Lin Chaoyang to create a magical realism movie like "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

book.

When the editors first heard this statement from Li Shifei, they were not optimistic about it.

Since Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature, magical realism literature has become a fashionable literary genre in China.

But no matter what, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is the most dazzling pearl in the crown of the literary genre of magical realism. You can write whatever you want. Even if this person is Lin Chaoyang, you can't be so unreasonable, right?

But later Li Shifei told everyone his thoughts, and everyone understood.

Magical realism is hot right now, and Lin Chaoyang’s willingness to try it is a good thing.

It is impossible to write a work like "One Hundred Years of Solitude" all at once, but "it depends on what is above and what is in it". With Lin Chaoyang's creative ability, it would really take three to five years for him to calm down and spend three to five years.

It’s time to come up with a work.

Not to mention reaching the level of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", there is no problem in surpassing his own level and that of contemporary literature.

Wouldn't it be nice to publish such a work in "Flower City"?

After the publication of "The Story of a Ferry", the sales of "Flower City" once hit the record of 2 million copies for a single issue, which made everyone feel reassured.

The single volume of "The Story of a Crossing Boat" was published in November. Just two months before the Chinese New Year, sales reached an astonishing 860,000 copies.

Unlike the sales of magazines that are bought and sold in one go, the sales of books can be said to be slow and steady. With the potential shown by "The Crossing Boat", it is another super best-seller that may sell millions of copies.

In at least three years, this novel will become a hen laying golden eggs for Huacheng Publishing House.

At first, everyone thought that giving Lin Chaoyang a basic royalties of 20 yuan for 1,000 words and 7% for 10,000 copies was too high, but now it seems that it is not high at all.

Compared with the millions of revenue that the publishing house may gain in the next few years, what is the fee paid to Lin Chaoyang?

Because of the success of "The Story of a Crossing Boat", everyone at Huacheng Publishing House is full of expectations for Lin Chaoyang's second work.

According to Li Shifei, this novel must have taken several years of time and effort, and everyone agrees with this statement.

But no one expected that they would receive Lin Chaoyang's novel manuscript before the Spring Festival of 1983.

Calculating the time it took to complete the draft of "The Story of a Crossing Boat", it was less than a year!

The editors of "Flower City" looked at the manuscript, which was almost as thick as a dictionary, and had only one feeling in their hearts.

What kind of octopus is this?
Chapter completed!