Chapter 678: Brick Making Machine

The 1980s can be said to be the best era for writers and poets. Unlike previous years, when they were criticized for their high remuneration, they were also not like living in distress due to rising prices. Now, relatively high remuneration and relatively low prices can Let them live a more comfortable life at home.

At the same time, due to the resumption of the college entrance examination, it has driven people's respect for knowledge and yearning for reading, allowing writers and poets to enjoy a higher social status. No matter where they go, they will be yearned for by a large number of literary youths. , like Gao Xiaosong, he can visit any university in the country with his name and works.

Once in the university, there are students who are willing to take him in to live in their own dormitory without having to find a place by themselves, and some female students who are willing to take care of food and drink, and even agree with each other with their body; It is not impossible to accept the kindness of multiple women at the same time.

In the future, when many netizens read the biographies or interviews of Lu Yao, Haizi and others, they will feel that the lives of these people are very difficult, and feel that these writers and poets are poorer than each other.

This is not the case. These writers and poets are so poor. Let alone Haizi, his tragedies are more derived from his character. In fact, many poets and writers' tragedies are derived from his character.

And Lu Yao has been rumored on the Internet that he has been poor all his life. For example, he only received 1,300 yuan in manuscript fees for publishing "Life", and he had to borrow 5,000 yuan to get the money to win the Contradictory Literature Award for "Ordinary World". Jingcheng accepted the award, sent the money to Lu Yao, and begged his brother: You don’t want to win any more awards in the future. If you win the Nobel Prize for Literature, I won’t be able to find foreign exchange for you; Said a word: Japanese fucking literature!

In the end, the prize money for the Contradictory Literature Award was only 5,000 yuan. After returning, the province rewarded 5,000 yuan. "The Ordinary World" was only paid 30 thousand characters. This million-dollar masterpiece only gave him 30,000 yuan. The manuscript fee, plus the bonus, is only 40,000 yuan.

1,300 yuan and 40,000 yuan don't sound like much, and the first impression is that Lu Yao is really poor, but that was 1,300 yuan in 1983 and 40,000 yuan in 1991. Purchasing power is definitely not comparable now.

In 1983, ordinary workers only earned tens of yuan a month, and 1300 was almost equivalent to the income of ordinary workers for two years. Converted to 100,000 or 20,000 now; in Bing Xin’s diary, she has detailed expenses in 1983, including One, advance the nanny Song Auntie's salary of 20 yuan in February, and 1,300 yuan is equal to 65 months' wages of the nanny of Bing Xin's family.

In 1991, the average salary in Beijing was more than 200 yuan a month, and now it is more than 8,000 yuan. Lu Yao took 5,000 yuan to go to Beijing, which is almost equivalent to the current 200,000 yuan. It is almost enough to go to heaven and earth.

A bonus of 10,000 yuan is equivalent to the current 400,000 yuan, and the sum of the 30,000 yuan manuscript fee is more than one million yuan, which is enough to buy a house in Xi'an today; of course, the housing prices in Xi'an were lower at that time, and 40,000 yuan was enough for him He bought several sets. If he bought several sets to store letters from readers like Zheng Yuanjie did, it would be no problem at all to double the number by ten or dozens of times.

Moreover, Lu Yao not only has income from manuscript fees, but at the end of 1991, shortly after "Ordinary World" won the award, he was named "National Expert with Outstanding Contribution" and "Expert with Outstanding Contribution in Shaanxi Province", and began to enjoy the national expert allowance And Shaanxi Provincial Expert Allowance, plus these, Jedi was a wealthy middle class at that time.

Perhaps the money is not too much, and it is actually not worthy of Lu Yao's works, but Lu Yaoqiong is not because of the low manuscript fee, but because of his consumption habits. He is very addicted to cigarettes, smoking more than two packs a day, and the They are all good cigarettes, he likes to drink coffee, and all he drinks is good coffee.

Lu Yao attended the meeting,

Never eat the breakfast arranged by the organizer, even if the food is very good. I have to go to a coffee shop to have a Western-style breakfast. In the 1980s, there were few coffee shops and they were very expensive. It cost about 5 yuan a time. Although Lu Yao’s monthly salary was only about 40 yuan, he didn’t care. Said, "The biggest enemy of people of our origin is that we look down on ourselves, and we need an extra publicity to offset our extra inferiority complex."

Converted to the current concept, it is almost equivalent to a gold-collar worker with an annual income of one million. It is a bit difficult to eat a kaiseki meal of tens of thousands of yuan and smoke high-end Cuban cigars.

Shen Long took the pen and signed his name on Liu Jianguo's notebook. This was the first time he signed someone's signature. Liu Jianguo was very happy after getting the signature. When the next issue of "Harvest" arrives, he can Take the autograph to show off to your friends, maybe you can win the favor of a certain girl by this.

"Mr. Sun, when the sample magazine arrives, I'll send it to your home!" Liu Jianguo said courteously, completely opposite to his attitude towards ordinary office workers.

"Thank you, but there's no need. I left my address at Mr. Jia's "Yellow Plains Literature and Art". Mr. Jia will pass it on to me when the time comes." Shen Long politely declined, and left with a thick stack of money.

In the new week, in the middle of the week, it suddenly rained continuously, and the construction site had to stop working. Shen Long got a rare vacation. He wandered around the street during the day, and went to department stores to see what was suitable for gifting. Tian Xiaoxia's gift, I always accept Xiaoxia's gift, no matter what I have to give back one or two.

I went back to the cave at night, lit the oil lamp and continued writing. I finished "Old Well" soon, and started thinking about a new story. What work should I choose this time?

Do you want to copy "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit"? Or "Not One Less"? Tsk, why do I always look for Zhang Yimou's works to squeeze wool? Shen Long couldn't help grinning, it's better to change the subject.

Whether it is "Yellow Earth" or "Old Well", these two novels have a strong taste of the past. Shen Long still hopes to write some more positive stories. The story of entrepreneurs reflects the changes in the new era of rural areas, just like Shao'an.

Now that we have a specific direction, Shen Long has not yet decided which work he should choose to rewrite. This time he does not plan to copy as much as "Yellow Earth" and "Old Well", but intends to integrate many real experiences. Then refer to some classic works on this theme to recreate.

It was the weekend in a blink of an eye, and Tian Xiaoxia came to him in the autumn rain with a happy mood, which meant that they stayed for a whole day.

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After eating and chatting about literature for a while, Shen Long suggested, "Shall we go out for a walk?"

He wanted to take this opportunity to settle the matter of the brick making machine.