Chapter 24 Buying a Car and New Inspiration
"Thank you, Mr. Dave, I've made up my mind. ”
"Oh, has it been decided, that's good. ”
Now that Kim Hyun Tae has made a decision, Dave will not continue to introduce it, but bring up another matter.
"By the way, Xiao Jin, you mentioned to me on the phone the other day that you have written a new novel, right?"
Kim Hyun-tae is in the United States, Dave is a person he is more familiar with, and he doesn't know anyone else except Dave.
So, every once in a while, Kim Hyun Tae will call Dave and talk a little about work and life.
And in the course of these calls, Kim Hyun Tae also revealed that he 'created' a new novel, so Dave immediately took a liking to it.
However, Dave never had a chance to ask in detail, and this time he finally had a chance.
The sales of "A Song of Ice and Fire" still did not show explosive growth, but they were very stable.
At this time, it is already mid-October, and it seems that it is about to be November, and the sales of the novel "A Song of Ice and Fire" this month have been counted and have remained stable at 1.8 million copies, and by the end of the month, it is no problem to reach the sales of 2.1 million copies last month, and even slightly more than a little bit.
Therefore, how could Dave not look forward to the new novel that Kim Hyun-tae, who was able to write a blockbuster novel like "A Song of Ice and Fire", who was able to write a blockbuster novel, and recently 'created'.
Maybe it's another big-selling novel.
Kim Hyun-tae saw Dave asking, and he couldn't hide anything, so he replied to Dave, "It's a work of fantasy fiction." ”
Fantasy genre novels?
Dave's eyes lit up, and his heart tickled as if he had been scratched by a cat.
In recent years, the market for fantasy novels in the United States has gradually become popular, and many people like to buy fantasy fiction books.
If Kim Hyun-tae's novel is of good quality, then the publisher can make another profit.
And this possibility is extremely high, so Dave can't help but take this matter seriously and look for an opportunity to bring it up.
So, Dave immediately said to Kim Hyun Tae, "How much have you created enough to publish a volume and start selling it? If so, I want you to give the novel to a California publishing house for publication." “
Kim Hyun-tae took the phone and smiled, to be honest, he didn't want to hand over this novel to other publishers, and the novel "The Lord of the Rings" has long been pirated, and even "The Hobbit" has been pirated and started to pirate "Harry Potter".
However, Kim Hyun Tae did not say that he had done it all, after all, it would be unwise to say so.
Just like the novel "A Song of Ice and Fire", Kim Hyun-tae also completed all the pirated copies, but the manuscript he handed over to Dave Publishing House was only enough to publish three volumes, not all of them.
And these three volumes alone are enough to be published for three or four years.
You know, in another time and space, "A Song of Ice and Fire" took twenty years to publish a total of seven volumes before it was completed.
Therefore, the three manuscripts of Kim Hyun-tae's "A Song of Ice and Fire" are expected to be published by California publishing houses in three or four years, which are all small.
"I'll go back and sort it out, and if the numbers are enough, I'll send it to you by email. “
This kind of response is basically promised to be handed over to the publishing house, so Dave is very pleased.
"Okay, you have time to go to the publishing house, take the manuscript of the novel with you, don't send it by email, I've seen the manuscript and if you can, we'll sign a publishing agreement." “
That's fine, and Kim Hyun-tae doesn't object to it.
"Okay, I'll go to the publishing house tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Kim Hyun-tae agreed very coolly.
After ending the call with Dave, Kim Hyun-tae took his daughter and set off to buy a car.
There are many ways to buy a car in the United States, depending on what you want to buy.
Most of the ordinary young people choose the second-hand car market to buy those second-hand cars that are affordable and of good quality, after all, the price of second-hand cars is more than half cheaper than that of new cars, and some can even be as low as 20% of the price of new cars.
If you're lucky, you'll be able to buy luxury second-hand sports cars in the second-hand car market.
But for Kim Hyun-tae, the used car market is not very attractive, because he is not short of money at all.
In terms of his current income, there is not the slightest pressure to buy a new car.
The 4.2 million cash in the bank, after paying up to 35% of the personal income tax, actually fell into the hands of Kim Hyun Tae, and now it is only 2.73 million yuan.
But even the 2.73 million yuan is a 'huge amount of money', at least for ordinary American families, this is indeed a huge amount of money.
To be clear, the United States is a credit system society, everyone is accustomed to spending in advance, more than 40% of American households, without a little bank savings, live a life of consuming the next few days' salary today.
This is completely different from Asians, especially Chinese.
In China and even in Asia, almost every household has some savings to prepare for unexpected needs.
Therefore, this kind of savings can also be called 'emergency savings', and the attitudes of the East and the West are very different in this regard.
Then, the savings limit of 2.73 million in Jin Xiantai's bank account is very eye-catching.
This shows that he has a high degree of credit, super purchasing power, and basically belongs to the customers who are liked by all types of merchants.
Of course, although Kim Hyun-tae is in the United States, he still adheres to the tradition of the Chinese people in terms of some concepts of life, as well as the concept of wealth consumption and management.
You don't need a credit card, you won't overspend in advance, and you will save part of the money you earn, and the rest will be used for consumption.
There are unforeseen circumstances, and I have encountered alien elementary school students in my previous life, so in this time and space, the ghost knows if he will encounter such strange things.
Therefore, he needs to have some savings, in case he encounters such an accident again, at least he can leave some wealth to his daughter, so that she can live a better life in the future.
At the same time, it is also Kim Hyun-tae who is really not used to this way of spending in advance.
A large amount of cash has made Kim Hyun Tae have no headaches and troubles at all when it comes to buying a car.
It's not like the average American family, where you have to be selective when you buy a car, and then you have to compare the price and other aspects before you make a choice.
So, Kim Hyun-tae easily bought the car he liked.
Audi A8 black limousine.
The car is spacious, not uncomfortable to sit in, and it is also equipped with top-of-the-line equipment, and the price is only $260,000, which is really low to the point of being outrageously low.
The same model will be sold for more than 7 million in Huaxia.
(The parallel space-time area is large, the transportation distance is increasing, and all aspects are taken together)
Because he got his driver's license and the car dealer immediately gave him a California license plate, Kim Hyun Tae could pay and drive away in person.
Since Kim Hyun-tae gave cash, the dealer also provided a tank of gasoline for free very considerately.
Kim Hyun Tae was very excited to sit in his car, this was the first car he had in his last life and in this life, his own car, it would be fake to say that he was not excited.
Similarly, Kim Hyun-tae's daughter, Coco, was also very excited, and the little one danced excitedly from the moment she sat in the car, and looked around curiously, while screaming "oh oh" or screaming "ahh
Unlike his father, who owns his own car and is happy to be able to buy one, little coco is clearly excited to see something new.
Because she learned the traffic rules, her daughter Coco sat in the 'egg shell' that was removed from the stroller and was placed in the back seat.
According to the traffic regulations in the United States, children are not allowed to be placed in the front passenger seat.
And Kim Hyun-tae, who has already obtained a driver's license, of course knows this and will not violate this rule.
When I bought the car, the dealer gave me a set of CDs, all kinds of music, Kim Hyun Tae thought about it for a while, flipped through it, and found a special CD full of light music and played it.
After all, he needs to consider his daughter's feelings, so it's impossible to listen to music that is nrb or too loud.
The sound of soft and soothing music is played in the car's surround speakers, and the sound quality is very good, which makes people feel good.
Kim Hyun-tae, who was driving the car, did not take his daughter home immediately, but came to a local hot dog fast food restaurant located on the edge of a Hollywood movie and television theme amusement park, with circus clowns as signs and symbols.
The clown is very different from Kim Hyun-tae's original McDonald's clown, and the store sells hot dogs instead of burgers, but the store also offers some interactive games with children, which attracts many parents to bring their children to play.
Kim Hyun-tae also knows about this store, and today he brought his daughter to play.
There is no separate play area for children, no slides or other play equipment, but there are staff dressed as clowns who play and interact with the children in a specially created area of the store.
In short, although the two worlds are not the same, they both have fast food restaurants that take care of the children's play.
After parking the car and carrying the 'eggshell' baby basket, Kim Hyun-tae walked into the hot dog shop with his daughter, came to the ordering counter to place an order with the waiter, and ordered a hot dog package.
After a short time, he got the hot dog package he ordered, and Kim Hyun-tae took his daughter to sit on the edge of the interactive area between the clown and the children, and put his daughter's 'eggshell' baby basket in a good place to see, so that the little guy could see the funny college performance of the clown, and the little guy obviously liked to watch it, and her eyes naturally couldn't take her eyes off after seeing those funny clowns.
And around Kim Hyun-tae's father and daughter, most of them are also parents with children, but the children are of different ages.
Of course, there are also nine-month-old children like Kim Hyun-tae's daughter Keke, but there are too few, most of them are three or four-year-olds.
Those children are playing under the leadership of clowns, or running around a few clowns randomly, anyway, it is very noisy.
Here, children can play and frolic without fear of being harsh by their parents, and this is the territory of the children, allowing them to release their nature and energy.
Opening his hot dog package and taking a bite, Kim Hyun Tae looked at his daughter who was attracted by the clown with a smile and a gentle look on his face.
At the next table, a white couple in their thirties are reading fairy tales to their three or four-year-old sons, and the mother is responsible for reading the storybook to the children.
Kim Hyun-tae pricked up his ears and listened for a while, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, because the fairy tale he listened to was too strange and even a little dark.
Suddenly, an idea popped into his heart.
He has learned about the fairy tales of this world, and they seem to be stories of a dark and strange nature.
For the fairy tales of the countries of the Earth Federation in this time and space, Kim Hyun Tae didn't have too much in-depth understanding, after all, he didn't think it had much to do with him at the beginning.
But at this moment, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he felt that he might also have a lot to do in fairy tales.
Thinking of this, Kim Hyun Tae shifted his gaze from the middle-aged couple to his daughter, and secretly thought in his heart: "This dark and strange and cruel fairy tale in time and space, I don't want my daughter to watch these when she grows up, so is my father thinking of a way to change it in this regard for the sake of his daughter."
Of course, if you succeed, not only can you make some good fairy tales for your daughter in the future, but you can also use fairy tales to create greater benefits for yourself and your daughter. “
Originally, he just wanted to bring his daughter to freshen up, but Kim Hyun-tae didn't expect that he would have inspiration here, a new inspiration to create wealth......