After Wu Yafei came out of the box, the boy from before came over and said, "Old Wu, why did you come out so quickly? Why didn't you give them their order?"
"I said I wrote it myself and there will be no discrimination." Wu Yafei shook his head and said.
"You made a profit, Lao Wu!" The boy slapped Wu Yafei on the shoulder and shouted softly.
Wu Yafei didn't know what was going on and said, "What are you making? I was shocked."
The boy is good at picking up Wu Yafei, "Old Wu, Old Wu, how should I say hello to you? You said Dean Zhang and the others order their own dishes, so who will write the menu?"
"Then it should be the dean himself. After all, he is the host. What's wrong?"
"What's wrong!" the boy laughed angrily, "Do you know how many people want to ask for our dean's signature but they can't get it? Do you know that there are still people who spend money to buy students' final comment sheets? Just because it has the dean's signature on it.
Signature. Now the dean writes the menu himself. How many characters must be on it? Do you think you can still leave it if you send it out? Even if our dean doesn’t write it himself, the words of any character in it are still very precious."
Wu Yafei reacted now. He patted his head and said, "You are right."
"Right, then why don't you give me a reward? Give me another bottle of happy water?" the boy chuckled.
"Have you finished drinking all that happy water? Well, I'll give you another bottle of my rice wine. I'll keep it here and drink it for you next time."
"Okay, remember to show me the menu when you get it later."
…
After Wu Yafei got the menu rewritten by Zhang, he couldn't help but sigh, "It looks good, it looks really good. I feel like my menu design doesn't match the writing."
The happy water boy leaned over, looked at the words on it, and said, "You don't understand. This is called a strong sense of conflict in art, and it has more stories than serious words. The only shortcoming is that you
The name of our Orange Restaurant is not printed on this menu paper. Otherwise, if we take a photo of this menu and post it online, the restaurant will become famous. By then, let alone five private rooms, even fifty private rooms will not be enough.
"
"You have so many clever ideas. My restaurant is located in the school cafeteria. Even if I want to expand it, there is no way." Wu Yafei smiled and did not take the boy's words seriously.
He thinks this is good now. Although Happy Water boy's proposal is very tempting, it is also very risky if you think about it carefully. He doesn't think he can manage any big restaurants, as long as it is the five restaurants in his Orange Restaurant.
He would be satisfied if the box was full every day.
…
Zhang Zhong, who was in the private room, didn't know that a menu he wrote almost made Wu Yafei make a life-changing decision. He was chatting with Zhuang Yu and others about the research meeting of the Nanhua Federation of Literary and Art Circles the day after tomorrow.
Zhuang Yu said, "In order to encourage grassroots writers and stimulate their creative passion, many places have implemented a contract system in the past two years. Nanhuai Province is the first batch of contract systems that will start in 2020. The contract system is divided into one-year and two-year
, up to now, even if it is two years, it has reached the second round. However, the role of the writer contract system has not been fully reflected in the past few years. In order to complete the tasks, the works written by the grassroots writers who signed the contract are not ideal. Liu
They came here this time to discuss this issue."
Wang Yi followed up and said, "The writer contract system has its advantages, but it also has disadvantages. I think it is a bit fanciful to rely on this system to make literature prosper."
Zhang Zhong doesn’t know much about the writer’s contract system. After all, he has never been a writer “within the system.”
The so-called writer contract system was created to break the shackles caused by the previous tenure system for professional writers.
This is nothing new. As early as the late 1990s, a certain province in China was at the forefront of the times and proposed such a contract system in order to prosper local literature.
Writers no longer have a tenure-track professional tenure, where they only receive salary and no work, but are awarded once a year or once every two years.
Contracted writers will have corresponding tasks. As for the tasks, they vary from place to place, but they are all similar. They are to ration the contracted writers and stipulate how many works they need to write within the contract period, and which journals or materials these works need to be published in.
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Such a system full of "market economy" has indeed played a role in the past, at least providing some vitality to the literary market.
However, as time goes by, various places have begun to discover that the writer contract system is at best a shot in the arm and cannot fundamentally solve the problems faced by the literary world.
From the late 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century, there was still a reserve of talent in the literary world, but due to institutional problems, these talents were not utilized as they should have been. The writer's contract system came into being to help these grassroots writers.
I found a way to use my talents.
So no matter what, the contract system for writers is at least better than the tenure system for professional writers.
But with such a system, literature cannot rely more on it, because it can only accomplish so many tasks.
"Have any of you signed a contract with the local government?" Zhang Zhong asked.
The writers in China looked at each other, then shook their heads together, "No, not one."
This answer is already very illustrative of the problem.
Linde was very interested in China's writer contracting system. He asked, "If I sign a contract with the Federation of Literary and Art Circles you mentioned, will there be high remuneration?"
Wang Yi shook his head, "As far as I know, there is no such thing. There will be subsidies for writers who sign contracts, but this subsidy is dispensable for writers who can earn royalties. I don't know about Nanhuai, but I don't know about Bashu.
The subsidy is 2,600 yuan per month.”
"It's really rare, but it can be considered a guarantee for grassroots writers," Liu Yuan said.
"It depends on how you define grassroots writers. If you include those who can write articles, then the two thousand six hundred yuan is indeed a guarantee for them. But how can such a person be
Sign a contract?" Wang Yi said.
Llorente wondered, "If that's the case, why do those Zuo Jianji who can earn royalties still sign contracts? After all, they only have a monthly subsidy of less than four hundred US dollars, and they still have to accept tasks assigned by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In this way,
While I was under pressure, I also lost my creative freedom.”
Wang Yi explained, "For most signed writers, this is more like an honor. Selecting a few writers from hundreds of applicants is an affirmation in itself. And signed writers not only receive financial subsidies.
One advantage is that being affiliated with the Federation of Literary and Art Circles is like being in a group for warmth. The Federation of Literary and Art Circles will also use its own resources to help contracted writers publish their works. As for creative freedom, sometimes it may not be the first priority for some people.