Chapter 71 Outsourcing Justice Bao
After making the decision, Liu Hongmin began to go over the plot of Shao Bao San in his mind. As a result, Liu Hongmin gave up at the beginning.
The beginning of Shao Bao San is really eye-catching. Bao Qingtian not only lost his memory, but also ran to a brothel in a border town to work as a prostitute. It's just nonsense. If Liu Hongmin wrote it this way, he would probably be stabbed by the audience in Hong Kong. This is much more serious than the plot in which Mr. Jin Yong wrote that Xiao Longnu was raped. Unless he doesn't want to go to Hong Kong again, this plot is absolutely not allowed to be written.
OK! It’s better not to write such a short story!
If Bao San hadn't been missing, Liu Hongmin could have written Justice Bao. Justice Bao has been filmed for more than 200 episodes, which is enough for Liu Hongmin to write for several years.
"Judge Bao" is not as good as Shao Bao in reasoning, so it will be written faster. In the first part, Liu Hongmin still plans to write seven stories, including the Case of the Execution of the Beauty, the True and False Number One Scholar, the Substitute Prince, the Story of the Two Nails, the Exploration of Yinshan Mountain, the Story of the Red Flower, and the Execution of Pang Yu.
After writing the outlines of the seven stories, Liu Hongmin felt a little bored. Justice Bao was not challenging for him, and he focused more on filming a TV series. If he published a book, it would definitely not be as successful as Justice Bao.
It happened that Zou Shifang came to the courtyard that day, chatted with Liu's father and mother for a few words, and then went into Liu Hongmin's study. Seeing Liu Hongmin staring at the outline, he couldn't help but feel strange.
"Why are you still in a daze? Haven't you finished writing the outline?"
Liu Hongmin sighed, "It's mainly because it's not challenging and not interesting to write."
After three years of intense writing, Liu Hongmin has temporarily entered a period of fatigue. Without some stimulation, it is difficult for him to start writing. This is the reason why he has not started writing "The Ming Dynasty 1566".
When Zou Shifang heard this, his eyes lit up, "Why don't you write it for me?"
"You write it?" Liu Hongmin was stunned. Isn't this ghostwriting?
Zou Shifang said: "When you were writing Shao Bao, I read almost every stage of the manuscript and I know your writing habits. Moreover, I will show it to you after I finish writing it, and you can guide me to revise it until it is correct."
He wanted nothing more than to learn Liu Hongmin's novel-writing skills. If he succeeded, even if he could not reach Liu Hongmin's level, he could still become a writer.
Ten years ago, he was dealing with words when he was working. He started publishing his works in 74. But after all these years, he still hasn't made a splash in the literary world. Otherwise, why would he have been following Liu Hongmin around and doing odd jobs for him all these years?
Liu Hongmin thought for a moment and said, "No problem. You can give yourself a pen name and use it when you publish your articles. I won't treat you unfairly. Justice Bao will still be published in Ming Pao and the remuneration will belong to you, but the rights to adapt the works into TV series and the publishing rights for the books will belong to me."
Zou Shifang nodded happily, "No problem!"
He didn't want to be paid at first, after all, he had learned writing skills from Liu Hongmin. But he didn't expect to get a surprise. He knew the Ming Pao's payment very well, the lowest was 10 Hong Kong dollars per thousand words, and the highest was 80 Hong Kong dollars per thousand words. Even if his writing was not good, with Liu Hongmin's approval, he could at least get 30 or 40 Hong Kong dollars per thousand words, right?
The seven stories in Justice Bao have almost the same number of words as the first one. After finishing them, I can earn at least 20,000 Hong Kong dollars! At the current exchange rate, it is about 14,000 RMB!
He became a millionaire all of a sudden!
Liu Hongmin wrote a contract and asked Ma Weidu and Ge Chaoguang to be witnesses. In this way, Liu Hongmin outsourced "Justice Bao" to Zou Shifang.
Ma Weidu was very envious, but it also made him more determined to hang out with Liu Hongmin. Zou Shifang had been hanging out with Liu Hongmin for three years and had the hope of becoming a writer. He would earn foreign exchange in the future. So did he have such an opportunity when he was with Liu Hongmin for three years? Liu Hongmin did not ignore Ma Weidu, and he handed over the matter of buying a house nearby to Ma Weidu.
Inspired, Ma Weidu was very serious. Every time he came to Liu Hongmin to buy something, he would walk around for half a day to find out who was selling a house. What's more, he actually found a quadrangle with two entrances.
The family was going to leave Beijing after the Chinese New Year due to a job transfer, so they wanted to sell the house and settle down somewhere else.
Liu Hongmin looked at the house and found it was well preserved because someone lived there. As long as the family moved out, they could move in immediately. Liu Hongmin was very satisfied with this. As long as they bought bedding, Ge Chaoguang and his family could move in directly.
What made Liu Hongmin even more satisfied was that this courtyard was right at the entrance of the alley, less than 50 meters away from the courtyard where Liu Hongmin currently lived. This courtyard with two entrances covers an area of 400 to 500 square meters, and there is a highway next to it, so it is completely possible to build an underground parking lot. In the future, when Liu Hongmin buys a car, he can park it directly in the underground parking lot of the courtyard with two entrances.
The owner wanted 20,000 RMB, and Liu Hongmin didn't bargain much. If you miss this Siheyuan, it will be difficult to buy it again.
After signing the contract, Liu Hongmin looked at the three-in-one courtyard between the two courtyards. If he could take this courtyard, he could connect the three courtyards, which would be more convenient.
Unfortunately, the owner of the courtyard house had no intention of selling the house.
Therefore, Liu Hongmin thought of a roundabout way to save the country. He asked Ma Weidu to continue to look for courtyard houses around, and if he bought a suitable one, he would exchange houses with this family.
In order to take over the courtyard in the middle, Liu Hongmin put a lot of effort into it!
As the weather gradually turned colder, the ice in Shichahai became thicker. Liu Hongmin took his younger brothers and sisters to play on the ice while his parents prepared New Year's goods.
In all these years, the family had never had such a prosperous New Year. If they had not had so many tickets, Father and Mother Liu might have bought enough food to last them a whole year.
The main reason was that Ge Chaoguang and his family were also at home for the New Year this year, and the amount of food consumed by more than a dozen people every day was not a small amount. Therefore, it was not unreasonable for Liu's father and mother to buy more food. However, they bought a little too much.
There are other reasons as well.
After leaving the countryside, Liu's father and mother inexplicably developed a sense of crisis, fearing that one day they would not have enough food.
This situation was very common in the 1980s.
However, the crisis for others was caused by the government's price adjustment, while Liu's father and mother were afraid of starvation and were worried about having no food at home.
Liu Hongmin persuaded him several times and stopped trying to stop him. Anyway, the family could store the waste, and it would be consumed very quickly, so it wouldn't last long.
(End of this chapter)
