After November is over, the first thing to come is naturally December 1st, the day when Qidian announces the amount of each author’s last month’s royalties.
When Sun Quan woke up in the morning, he thought that he would be able to find out the amount of his royalties last month today, and he was a little looking forward to it. However, he took his mobile phone and looked at the time, and found that it was not yet 8 o'clock.
He flopped back into bed with a sound.
Qidian will not announce the remuneration data so early, at least until around 9:30 am.
But now that he was awake, it was difficult for him to fall asleep again, especially when he was always thinking about the amount of last month's royalties.
So, he used his mobile phone to send text messages to Yuan Shuiqing.
He remembered that today was Friday and Yuan Shuiqing had to go to class, so she should have gotten up early by this time.
"What are you doing?"
In a standard boring state, you can find someone to chat with.
A moment later, he received a reply from Yuan Shuiqing: "I just finished breakfast and am on my way to the office."
Sun Quan: “What’s for breakfast?”
Standard looking for something to say when you have nothing to say.
Yuan Shuiqing: "Noodles with mixed sauce."
Sun Quan: "Do you have classes in the morning?"
Fortunately, he didn't ask if the mixed noodles were delicious.
Yuan Shuiqing: "There is a class, do you have anything to do?"
Sun Quan continued typing with a smile, "Come over at noon! I will cook myself and make you some good dishes."
As a culinary graduate, it would be a waste not to use delicious food to pick up girls. In his previous life, he was a street writer. When most of his friends in the industry were single for 10,000 years, he was still able to date so many women.
, his cooking skills are of great help!
There used to be a saying: If you want to capture a man's heart, you must capture his stomach.
But in the new century and the new era, there are already many girls who can’t cook. Therefore, once a boy who can cook catches a girl’s stomach, he will often catch that person.
A girl who cannot be deceived by a hamburger may be deceived by a table of delicious food.
After this text message was sent, about two minutes later, Yuan Shuiqing replied: "Okay."
It’s concise and to the point, but that’s not important!
The important thing is that she agreed.
In other words, since she and Sun Quan met, except for the beginning, as they became more and more familiar with each other, she seemed to have never refused Sun Quan's request.
…
Yuan Shuiqing promised to come for lunch, and Sun Quan immediately felt motivated to get up.
Get up by yourself, get dressed by yourself, put on your shoes by yourself, go to the vegetable market by yourself and buy all the materials you will use at noon today.
Smiling the whole time.
It's not entirely because Yuan Shuiqing agreed to come over today, but also because he knows that the amount of royalties he earned last month will definitely not be small, and should be able to break his record of more than ten years.
While buying groceries, he was thinking about which dishes to cook for lunch today.
Yuan Shuiqing has mild anorexia, so in order to whet her appetite, he deliberately decided to cook some sweet, sour, bitter and spicy dishes.
The taste is bland, and she may not be able to taste anything at all.
Sweet and sour dishes…
The first things he thought of were hot and sour potato shreds, hot and sour soup, shredded apples, and shredded bananas.
But I felt that the cost of these dishes was too low and not high-end.
Then, he suddenly thought of a good choice - sweet and sour pork.
For pork, choose the tenderloin piece because this piece of meat is tender enough.
As for the pineapple needed for the sweet and sour pork... I'll buy it after I get out of the wet market.
Bitter dishes are rare, so Sun Quan didn't struggle with this dish. He bought two pieces of bitter melon and planned to make her a stir-fried bitter melon. Maybe she likes to eat it because she has anorexia?
Spicy... He thought about it and decided to make a spicy chicken dish, the kind that puts half a bowl of dried chili peppers into one dish. The spicy chicken should be strong enough, right?
In addition to the spicy chicken, he also bought a black fish weighing more than a kilogram, and planned to make a pickled fish. As for pickled cabbage, pepper, etc., he has them all in his store. They were all left by Kuang Longfei before, and they came in handy today.
…
After buying the vegetables, Sun Quan returned to the store and started making preparations.
When it was almost 10 o'clock, he went back upstairs, turned on his computer, logged into the Qidian Author Backstage, and checked his royalties for last month.
——33727.5 yuan
When he saw this number, he felt as if his heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat. He was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses.
In his previous life, he had received royalties of more than three thousand a month many times.
He has also received royalties of more than 13,000 yuan seven or eight times.
The highest record is over 18,000 before tax.
That is already the highest record!
For him, a poor boy who came from a rural area and graduated from a junior college, such a high record was already considered a very good achievement, but...how long had he been poor before that high record?
Year after year...
When he was at his poorest, one month, after paying his rent with his manuscript fees, he only had about 100 yuan left. Was that 2009? Or was it 10 years? He couldn't remember clearly. Anyway, he bought himself a lot of noodles that month.
And a bottle of Lao Gan Ma.
Lao Ganma is the one who cooks noodles in the morning, Lao Ganma is the one who cooks noodles in water at noon, and Lao Ganma is the one who cooks noodles in water in the evening...
After eating it for a month, the weight loss effect is particularly good!
He was so thin that his eyes became enlarged.
I successfully gave up breakfast because I couldn’t bear to eat boiled noodles three times a day. It would be better if I had two meals a day.
Someone may ask: Since he only had about a hundred yuan that month, didn’t he have any family or friends? Why not get some from home? Or borrow some from friends?
This involves a question of self-esteem and character.
He is a person with strong self-esteem. During the years when he was on the street, his family, relatives, friends... those who cared about him persuaded him to change his career and go out to find a job; those who laughed at him also persuaded him to change his career and go out to find a job.
Work; if you are indifferent to him, when you see him, you don't say anything, just give him a half-smiling look, which is enough to stimulate his self-esteem.
If he is short of money because he wants to do other things, such as buying a house, getting married, etc., he may be able to borrow some from relatives and friends.
But when he confuses himself until he can't eat, he won't be able to open his mouth.
During that time, when he talked to his family on the phone, he said on the phone that he was doing well. When he talked to his friends on the phone, he also laughed and laughed.
His self-esteem did not allow him to ask for help when he was in that situation.
When he ate boiled noodles repeatedly every day, he forced himself to swallow, and forced himself to remember the taste of boiled noodles, pushing himself in his heart - rushing to the street, this is the end!
Then when I sat back in front of the computer, I worked harder to code and ponder the plot.
…
In front of the computer, looking at his pre-tax manuscript fee of more than 30,000 yuan last month, Sun Quan found that he was not very surprised, but he felt in a daze that he could earn back the money he had not earned in this industry in his previous life.
This is what I deserve...
At the same time, the ambition in his heart suddenly grew a lot.
He wants to earn more! He doesn’t want this more than 30,000 yuan to be the highest record in his life!