Chapter 114 Fame and fortune
The summer vacation is over, and it has not left much excitement or desire for Zhang Tan.
If he was a real half-aged man, he would definitely be crazy during the summer vacation, but Zhang Tan was not. For him, the summer vacation was not much different from going to school. Adults in their thirties had long had their own routines and would not be too much because of going to school or on vacation.
During this summer vacation, I can only say that I lived a leisurely and fulfilling life.
The fulfillment is because he is writing books and writing words seriously every day, and he plans to write 180,000 words a month. In fact, in July and August, he wrote more than 200,000 words, and did not take up too much time. He could complete the typing work in half a day. The remaining half day was his leisurely life.
Fishing, singing, going to the town for some barbecue, drinking beer, occasionally skating at the ice rink run by a junior high school classmate, or going to the billiard room with a few cousins.
There are often young women with bright hair dyed in the billiard room, avant-garde dress, and a pretty figure. If you invite her to have lunch, she will stick her whole body to you, entangle you for an afternoon, and it is too simple to reach out and take some oil.
You can invite her to have dinner again, and you can even hide in the corner with you, play kissing, and caressing games.
If you are willing to spend money for a few days in a row, opening a room is nothing.
In his previous life, Zhang Tan envied the little puppies in the town a lot, and the girls here showed off all day long. Because he was thin, he looked like a little radish head. No young woman came to him, so he could only stare at the round buttocks of those young woman, and swallowed saliva for a long time.
Even though I had about a hundred yuan for catching fish and shrimps in my pocket, I felt embarrassed to invite the young woman to dinner.
Moreover, the attraction that billiards at that time should have exerted greater than that of these swaying women's bodies.
Things in the world are easy to change.
Zhang Tan, who returned to these billiards rooms again, is no longer Wu Xia Amon.
A nutritious diet and uninterrupted exercise made his body grow up quickly like a crop, soaring from 1.65 meters to 1.72 meters. The T-shirt he wore in summer was attached to his body, and occasionally he could see his bulging pectoralis major muscles and concave abdominal muscles.
It's no longer the little carrot head of the past.
He also used tweezers to pull out the messy one by one, leaving only a neat circle, which looked much more pleasing to the eye. In addition, the mature temperament that was always exuding, the young woman in the billiards room would approach him without Zhang Tan taking the initiative.
Most of these young women are in their twenties and are young and beautiful. They dye their hair and then wear their clothes formally. I believe they are all sweet pure girls. Of course, there are occasionally one or two fat people, as well as men. But the popular ones are all beautiful.
"I tell you, don't attack my brother, he is still young." The cousin Zhang Qiang consciously blocked Zhang Tan's side and pushed the young women away.
"Hey, Brother Qiang, what do you mean? We just ask your brother for an autograph. I admire educated people the most." A young woman with a very serious face and a fair figure said with a smirk.
Another sloppy young woman echoed: "That's right, we'll ask your brother for the signature."
The cousin showed no mercy: "Everyone goes to the side, OK? Do you understand English?"
"So stingy." After hitting the wall, the young women turned around muttering.
Zhang Qiang said to Zhang Tan earnestly: "Don't pay attention to the women here, be unpretentious. It's best not to talk to them. People like them are accustomed to beating snakes and sticks, and it's a problem to get involved."
Zhang Tan really wanted to say: "Brother, let me deal with this kind of trouble myself."
But as a celebrity, you can't talk nonsense.
Zhang Tan just nodded: "Well, I know."
Now Zhang Tan has become a treasure of the old Zhang family and a key protection target. Everyone will unconsciously take Zhang Tan as honor and at the same time protect Zhang Tan. Zhang Tan has an immediate effect on improving the status of the old Zhang family in the Gangji Town. In the past, Zhang Henong, the only one in Zhang family was a retired cadre, and he had some influence.
Overall, there are still farmers' families that mainly farm. It's not about the farmers. They are all the protagonists of the country, regardless of their high or low status. But they will have a little inferiority. When they interact with those who are cadres and do business, they always feel that they are shorter.
Even Zhang Henong, who had been a state cadre, was not confident. His state cadre came back when he was young. During that turbulent decade, when he shot traitors, no one in the commune dared to shoot. He dared to take over. He relied on this fierce spirit, not the little ink he drank with his father-in-law.
After Zhang Tan rose, the old Zhang family finally stood up straight and could shout: "Our family is also a scholarly family. From Old Master He, he is an intellectual! A cultural person!"
If you don’t believe it, hehe, immediately carry Zhang Tan out.
"Does my grandson (son, nephew, brother) Zhang Tan know? Writer! He has bought hundreds of thousands of books after publishing books! Everyone in Hong Kong and Taiwan knows him!"
The Zhang family, where Zhang Henong is in charge, is still a very united family, and there are not so many intrigues between families.
In other words, no one dares to intrigue in front of Mr. Zhang.
The old man has been so powerful for half his life.
The topic is far from the bottom of the question.
No matter what.
Watching the girls turn around and leave, Zhang Tan understood one thing that he had to try to learn how to be a "celebrity".
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Zhang Tan went to school and Li Yan drove over to pick her up.
Li Yan's car was a newly purchased Fiat Pellio, which cost 70,000 to 80,000 yuan. Originally, Li Yan was reluctant to leave, but Zhang Tan's new book "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has signed out the copyright of Simplified Traditional Chinese. Conservative estimates alone can get at least one million in royalties, and her commission of three percentage points is more than 30,000.
More than 30,000 yuan was much more than she earned in a year at a publishing house.
I simply bought a car, which is more convenient when serving Zhang Tan.
She can see Zhang Tan's potential clearly than anyone else. Now that Zhang Tan is still young, she can write such a work, and will it be better in the future? Moreover, as long as the martial arts novel is well written, it will be easy to adapt film and television in the future. This is the way to make money. With such a money tree, Li Yan must do her best.
"How is the sales of The Legend of the Condor Heroes?" Zhang Tan asked in the passenger seat.
Li Yan replied excitedly: "At Anwei Literature and Art Publishing House, the 100,000 copies printed on it was sold out in a week, and the 200,000 copies printed on it have been sold out. Now the third edition of 200,000 copies are being printed. At the same time, the second volume is 300,000 copies."
Zhang Tan nodded: "Well, is this sales good?"
"It's not just good, it's simply exaggerating. Now "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is the most successful publishing case for the literary and artistic publisher this year. The publisher is preparing to increase publicity efforts and strive to make the circulation of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" volume exceed 800,000 copies!"
He raised his eyebrows, and Zhang Tan's joy could not be hidden.
He knew how great the potential this classic novel had. It was because of this book that Jin Yong was famous all over the world and made a lot of money. He finally started his own newspaper, Ming Pao. In the first year of Ming Pao, he continued to write the second "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the second part of the The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which made Ming Pao sell out several times and became one of the leaders of Xiangxiang newspapers.
Now that "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has the opportunity to increase sales of 800,000 copies, Zhang Tan takes it for granted, but psychologically, he can't help but want to be proud.
With traditional Chinese version, the single item must not exceed one million copies!
As soon as the Legend of the Condor Heroes came out, paper was indeed expensive!
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This chapter makes up for yesterday. I'm sorry.
Chapter completed!