Lu Yao said: I seem to have a feeling that I was born an adult. The harsh living environment made my childhood look at this world, this society and this yellow land with the eyes of an adult.
Lu Yao is very famous, especially after the publication of Life. It can be said that it is famous all over the country!
Lu Yao was very famous, so famous that he was hospitalized, which directly alarmed the secretary of Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and directly instructed him to see a doctor. In order to be optimistic about the illness, the governor went directly to the hospital to visit.
Luyao is very famous. During the period of seeing a doctor, the Writers Association directly submitted an application report for allocating medical expenses to the provincial government, and the provincial government quickly instructed that the medical expenses of 50,000 yuan should be implemented immediately.
Lu Yao is very poor, from poor to big, no, poor to death!
The reason why he is poor is not complicated: one is that he doesn't earn much, and the other is that he spends a lot.
Lu Yao's salary is not high. 199 1 at the end of the year, that is, shortly after "Ordinary World" won the prize, he was rated as "national expert with outstanding contributions" and "expert with outstanding contributions in Shaanxi Province" and began to enjoy the national expert allowance and the expert allowance in Shaanxi Province, which was very limited. The state allowance is 100 yuan per month, which is not much in the province.
So is Lu Yao's manuscript fee much? Not much! Less than you expected. Many of his works have won prizes all over the country. Let's take a look at his payment:
The novella "A thrilling scene" was written by 500 yuan,
The novella Life 1300 yuan.
The million-dollar masterpiece Ordinary World cost 30,000 yuan (30 yuan per thousand words).
In addition to these, there are also copyright remuneration for film and television works. According to friend Haibo's memory:
1989 One day, I went to see him. He said, "Today, I can't sit at home and talk. I have to go to the hostel of the Fourth Military Medical University. If you are not busy, come with me. Let's talk while walking. " I left with him without asking him what to do. Only after I went did I know that I was meeting the cast of CCTV's Ordinary World. After the meeting, the other party didn't say much, but gave Lu Yao an envelope and said, "This is your copyright reward." . Lu Yao didn't answer it himself, and motioned for me to put it away. After we left there, we went to a restaurant for dinner, took it out and counted it until we reached 680 yuan. I said, "That's it?" He just smiled bitterly.
Lu Yao is poor, but generous, surprisingly generous. He is a heavy smoker, smoking more than two packs a day, all of which are good cigarettes. He likes to drink coffee, and all he drinks is good coffee.
Lu Yao attended the meeting and never ate breakfast arranged by the organizer, even if the food was good. I have to go to a coffee shop to have a western breakfast. In the 1980s, there were few coffee shops, and they were very expensive, about 5 yuan at a time. Although Lu Yao's monthly salary is only about 40 yuan, he doesn't care. He said, "The biggest enemy of people with our background is to look down on themselves. They need an extra publicity to offset their extra inferiority."
He will stack the received manuscript fees into a small stack of ten yuan denominations and press them under the pillow, touching one every day. If one day disappears, it's not that he spent it all, but that his lover let him go, because he still has a home!
1990 One day, he was so poor that he found his friend Haibo and asked him if he could find something to earn money or write reportage.
Lu Yao's poor began to take private jobs!