1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 13: Earn royalties from writing novels and buy a courtyard house for a woman
scare?
When Cheng Xuemin heard Feng Jiayou say this, he was shocked on the spot!
Was this courtyard house at the foot of the imperial city bought by the old man Qian in the front yard with the royalties from his novels?

Is it really that profitable to write novels in this era?
In an instant, Feng Jiayou's words opened a new door for Cheng Xuemin to this era.

Cheng Xuemin's original plan was to live in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi for a few years, and then start a speculation business after the economy was officially liberalized. He would get rich first and then trample on the rich later, thus achieving financial freedom by doing nothing.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin felt that in this era, with his foresight, speculation was the most profitable way!
I really never thought of becoming a cultural person who writes novels.

But now that Feng Jiayou reminded him of this, there were really too many things flashing through his mind.

"Swallowed Star", "The Great Ruler", "Battle Through the Heavens", "Global High Martial Arts", "Douluo Continent"...

Of course, I cannot write about these things, and I dare not write about them. Given the current situation that has not been fully liberalized, writing about these things can only mean that Cheng Xuemin is courting death and is in a hurry to be reborn, especially "Devouring the Stars". So I can only wait a little longer. When the martial arts craze picks up in a few years, I can consider doing martial arts.

As for now, scar literature, right! ?

Cheng Xuemin took a look at the comments written by Feng Jiayou on the rejected manuscript, which said it contained scar literature. It turned out that Cheng Xuemin has something good!

"Horse Herder", "Director Qiao's Inauguration", "Wreaths under the Mountain", "Parental Love", "Our Generation of Young People", "To Live", "The Secret", "Lurking", "Ordinary World", "Xu Mao and His Daughters"...

These can be copied and paid tribute to, just like the old man Qian in the front yard, and a large courtyard can be built to give Feng Jiayou a home!

After having a direction in mind, Cheng Xuemin became more and more excited. He couldn't wait to start writing tonight. He would pick a classic to pay tribute to and test the waters!
"So profitable?! Are the over 500 yuan in your bankbook all from the royalties from writing novels?"

After a thought flashed through his mind, Cheng Xuemin asked quietly in a low voice.

The passbook that Feng Jiayou held was her private money. Her parents had no idea about it, and she didn't dare let her parents know.

Just now, when she heard that her mother was coming back, she hurriedly stuffed the passbook and money under her second sister-in-law's pillow, pretended to be calm as if she had done nothing wrong, and came out to say hello to her mother.

“…Well, I guess so!”

When suddenly asked this, Feng Jiayou's face instantly turned red with shame, and he just said "hmm" with no confidence at all!
What can she tell Cheng Xuemin about the money she makes from writing novels? !
Where has she published an article before? Where did she get the payment?

I have been revising the manuscript on hand for more than three months, but it was still returned by the damn magazine and needs to be revised further!
If she had not seen that almost all of her classmates at school had published articles and earned royalties, especially her roommate Huang Beijia, who had published articles in their local literary newspapers and magazines a few years ago and earned a lot of pocket money, Feng Jiayou would never have thought of writing novels.

Besides, she originally applied to the Chinese Department of Yanjing University, and she has only a few published articles. How can she have the nerve to call herself a student of the Chinese Department of Yanjing University?

Finally, from the very beginning, Feng Jiayou tricked Cheng Xuemin, who only wanted to stay in northern Shaanxi and didn't even want to go to university, to come to Yanjing to live with her. She urged him to prepare for next year's college entrance examination. This required enough money to prepare for the worst and elope from home.

Therefore, as soon as Feng Jiayou reported to Yanjing University, she started working on her first novel. She took advantage of the popularity of the article "Scars" written by Lu Xinwu, a college student from Shanghai in August this year, which almost caused a sensation throughout the country and aroused her creative passion.

But she didn't expect to be so trapped! Her manuscript was rejected four times by her mother's magazine.

Including this time today, this is the fifth time!
If she had known earlier, she should not have given the manuscript to her mother, the chief editor of October magazine, for review.

After her mother read the manuscript, she submitted it directly to their magazine October, and started a crazy process of rejecting and revising manuscripts. There was really no backdoor or humanity at all!

Feng Jiayou even suspected that her mother had noticed her intention to earn royalties and deliberately made harsh demands on her and refused to approve her manuscripts.
Is the article she wrote really that bad?

If I had known this earlier, I should not have disturbed her mother and submitted the manuscript to other magazines. Maybe it would have been published long ago!
"Great, great! Then you have to revise this manuscript carefully and publish it as soon as possible to earn royalties!" Cheng Xuemin really thought that women were amazing. She made more than 500 yuan just by writing novels. If he had known that writing novels was so profitable in this era, he should have started as soon as he came here. He wasted more than half a year in vain.

But it’s not too late to do it now. Write novels and earn royalties to exchange for a big courtyard house. Good job!

"I know, I know. Isn't it already being changed? Did mom wash the vegetables for you? Also take out the roast duck from the room, or those two little guys like Liqin and Liwen will steal it again!"

What should I change? It’s so confusing!

Feng Jiayou was very annoyed, but she couldn't go back on her words, so she could only impatiently push Cheng Xuemin aside, telling him to stop bothering her!
"Okay, you work hard on the revision. I'll go help mom wash the vegetables and cook!" Cheng Xuemin was very optimistic about the woman. After all, she was a great writer who had earned more than 500 yuan in cash by writing novels!
Cheng Xuemin himself had to catch up quickly and make sure to catch up with Feng Jiayou in the shortest possible time. After he finished writing and published the novel, he would throw the earned royalties in front of the woman and give her a big surprise!

"Just go ahead and lose! Look at all the money you've lost. What are you going to eat later?!"

Just when Cheng Xuemin was whispering with Feng Jiayou and was about to ask Cheng Xuemin to take out the roast duck that he brought back from lunch.

Feng Jiayou's mother came out of the room and started complaining to them, which instantly confused Feng Jiayou and Cheng Xuemin. What had irritated her? !
But when little Feng Liqin came out of her grandmother's room and was tiptoeing into her room, Feng Jiayou realized that someone had reported it!

"Feng Liqin, come here!" Feng Jiayou called out to his little niece fiercely!

"Aunt!" Feng Liqin's body, which was walking in a hunched position, suddenly stiffened. She looked towards Feng Jiayou, forced a little smile and shouted!
"Come here, what's that in your hand!?"

Feng Jiayou was sharp-eyed. He saw something hidden in his niece's sleeve. After asking a question, he immediately rushed forward like a mad calf, took out the money from her sleeve, and asked, "Feng Liqin, did you steal my money?!"

"I didn't steal it, I didn't steal it. I was just showing the money to grandma! My new uncle-in-law gave a lot of money to my aunt, and I showed it to grandma!"

Being caught red-handed, the little niece shouted in panic.

"Have you shown it to grandma?!" Feng Jiayou's face fell when she heard that. Why was it so difficult for her to hide some private money?
She was hiding so well just now, how come this little guy saw her? !
"Grandma has seen it!" the little guy nodded.

"Then what did grandma say!" Feng Jiayou asked again.

"Grandma told me to put the money back and not to tell anyone!"

The little fellow told Feng Jiayou everything.

"What else did you say to grandma?" Feng Jiayou did not let go and continued to "interrogate".

"I also told grandma that my new uncle-in-law is so nice to us. He treated us to roast duck today! He also said that he will take us to eat roast duck tomorrow!"

"Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat. You even stole my money. There's no roast duck for tomorrow!"

"Wow……"

Feng Jiayou's fierce behavior scared his little niece to tears. She was mainly crying because she was crying about the big roast duck tomorrow, which was gone!
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(End of this chapter)