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

Chapter 42: Secretly, start the mode of exploding the small treasury (please read

"Thank you, Jiayou. When the manuscript fee slip comes in the mail, I'll treat you to the braised pork in the cafeteria!"

Cha Jianying nodded to Feng Jiayou a little shyly, his face filled with excitement!
"Hehe, then we are lucky this time! Unfortunately, Sister Bai Ling returned my manuscript to me and asked me to revise it!"

Huang Beijia smiled foolishly and talked about her manuscript, which was rejected by her editor Bai Ling. She was so unhappy!

It would be great if I could review and publish this work with Cha Jianying!
"Beijia, you are an old author of Yanjing Literature. It was you who introduced me to Sister Bai Ling! So if you revise it, Sister Bai Ling might give you the pass next time!"

Cha Jianying comforted Huang Beijia. She had previously submitted her manuscript to October, but after it was rejected, she listened to Huang Beijia and submitted it to Bai Ling, the editor-in-chief of Yenching Literature.

But in the end, Huang Beijia, Bai Ling's 'veteran' author, didn't have her manuscript accepted, but she, a newbie who had her manuscript rejected in October and submitted it to Yenching Literature for the first time, had her manuscript accepted!

Cha Jianying didn’t know how to comfort her!
"I hope so!" Huang Beijia sighed, thinking of Feng Jiayou, and then asked, "By the way, Jiayou, hasn't your mother given you that manuscript yet?"

"If it really doesn't work, why don't you just submit it to Yanjing Literature like Jianying did?! Look, Jianying made some random changes and Sister Bai Ling accepted it in one try!"

At the beginning, they actually didn’t know that Feng Jiayou’s mother was the chief editor of October magazine. When school started in September, Huang Beijia submitted her manuscript to Yenching Literature and Arts and it was published!

When Feng Jiayou and the others also started writing manuscripts, Huang Beijia saw that Feng Jiayou had written the manuscript for them to refer to. She thought it was pretty good and that if they submitted it to Yenching Literature together, it should be accepted!
However, Feng Jiayou submitted his manuscript to October, which had just resumed publication two months ago. People thought that they were short of manuscripts because of their resumption of publication in October, and Feng Jiayou was planning to take a shortcut and would definitely get his manuscript accepted.

But I didn’t expect that the manuscript that might have been accepted by Yenching Literature would be rejected by October, which had just resumed publication?!

This... didn't it almost shock Huang Beijia and Cha Jianying and the others!
Really!

If Feng Jiayou hadn't suddenly contributed articles to October, they wouldn't have known that October, which had been suspended for more than ten years, had resumed publication!

How come no one knows about this? It must be because submissions are scarce and the manuscripts must be easily accepted, right? !
They all regretted not having a finished manuscript, otherwise they would have submitted one too!
But who would have thought!

Feng Jiayou's manuscript was actually returned, this is impossible! October, which just resumed publication due to a lack of manuscripts, has such high requirements for manuscripts?

Later, when I asked Feng Jiayou, I found out that her biological mother was the chief editor of "October". The reason why her manuscript was not accepted was because her mother had high expectations of her, but the manuscript that could be used or not was returned by her mother!
Only then did Huang Beijia and the others realize that Feng Jiayou actually had a mother who was the chief editor of October magazine.

Later, I witnessed how Feng Jiayou was taken care of by her mother and was tortured by the repeated revisions!

Thinking about having such a biological mother as the chief editor, it doesn’t seem like a backdoor shortcut!

Did Feng Jiayou's manuscript go through five or six revisions?
It hasn’t been approved yet!
Huang Beijia and Cha Jianying really saw the strict requirements that the Yenching scholarly family has for their children.

"Hehe, I haven't told Beijia Jianying yet that I've also passed the manuscript!"

"And my mom brought me all the royalties after get off work yesterday!"

Feng Jiayou had originally planned to wait for the sample issue from her mother to come out and then bring it to school to tell them.

Now that he was asked, Feng Jiayou couldn't hide it anymore and said with a grin.

"Passed!? Your mom finally passed you!?"

"Do you have a sample issue? Is the sample issue out? I really want to know how the final draft looks like after your mother's strict revisions!!"

Huang Beijia was stunned when she heard this, and then she asked her for a sample copy to see. She was really curious about the level of the revision. Her mother finally approved it!
Anyway, with Huang Beijia's level, the first draft is actually pretty good and it might be passed with some revisions.

But Feng Jiayou's manuscript was rejected four or five times by her own mother... her own mother!

"The sample issue won't be available for another two days. I was planning to bring it over to you guys after it comes down so we can talk about it together!"

Feng Jiayou raised his eyebrows, it turned out that having an article approved and published was such a cool thing!

"Then congratulations, my dear! You have to treat us to a nice meal. We have agreed that whoever gets his new manuscript published will treat us to a meal to celebrate!"

Cha Jianying also published the manuscript, so she was a little bit tough. She had played and written with Feng Jiayou and Huang Beijia before, and they agreed to publish the manuscript together, so she was a little burdened.

After all, Huang Beijia has already published articles in Yenching Literature and is considered an old author; although Feng Jiayou has never published anything, she has a mother who is the chief editor of "October" magazine, so she also has an advantage.

But since she was a newcomer, this agreement seemed to take advantage of them a lot.

But now that she has also passed the manuscript, her mentality is completely different!

"Of course. My wife is also in the library these two days reviewing for the exam. Let's have lunch together in the cafeteria at noon. It's our treat!"

"My husband still remembers you and wants to thank you, Beijia, for showing him the way that day! He has always wanted to treat you to a meal!"

Feng Jiayou giggled, and was ready to officially introduce her man in front of her two good sisters!

If they knew that the front-page headline of this issue of Yanjing Literature was an article written by her man, I wonder how shocked they would be!
"Your lover is here too? He should thank me! Jiayou, you may not know that your lover was standing outside our classroom waiting for you that day..."

The three women are acting out another drama, talking as they walk further and further away!
Cheng Xuemin dropped Feng Jiayou off and rode his bicycle to the library, but he did not start writing his manuscript right away.

Instead, he entered the library and began searching through the newspaper and magazine section.

If he wants his manuscripts to be approved more easily and wants to enrich his own coffers, he must first sharpen his tools before he does his job well. Cheng Xuemin must have a general understanding of the manuscript usage trends of the major domestic newspapers and magazines.

Although scar literature is a trend nowadays, any of the famous writers and works that Cheng Xuemin has in mind may be accepted for publication if he pays tribute to them.

But there is more to Cheng Xuemin’s mind than just some scar literature!

Manuscripts that only publish one type of topic are a bit monotonous and boring. We need to think more widely and change our minds.

"People's Literature", "Chinese Youth", "Liberation Army Literature", "Yenching Literature", "October", "Shanghai Literature", "Harvest", "Yanhe Literature", "Jiangcheng", "Yellow River"...

Cheng Xuemin flipped through some well-known magazines, both national and local. He also flipped through some newspapers and magazines and got a general understanding of the styles of each newspaper and magazine.

Cheng Xuemin paid special attention to newspapers and magazines in Yanjing, and also confirmed the manuscript requirements of various publishers that Feng Jiayou had mentioned to her.

I found that the quality of manuscripts accepted by Yenching Literature and October is indeed lower than that of People's Literature, and they can be regarded as the second tier of Yenching newspapers and magazines.

The first tier is the national-level "People's Literature", "China Youth" and "People's Liberation Army Literature", which can be distinguished at a glance just from the prefixes.

I heard from Feng Jiayou that her classmates have started to challenge "People's Literature"!

But for Cheng Xuemin, it's just a joke!

Anyway, the royalties are unified across the country. It's not that you can get 7 yuan for more than 1,000 words just by successfully challenging People's Literature. It's just that you can earn some fame. After all, it's a national newspaper and magazine with a great influence and can make you famous quickly.

But what Cheng Xuemin wants now is a small treasury, and being famous is not a good thing!
So his next target was to set his sights on local publications with similar influence to "Yenching Literature" and "October", such as "Shanghai Literature and Art" and "Harvest", or "Yanhe Literature" in his hometown in northern Shaanxi.

Just choose a place that is far away. Even if you get a little famous, it will only be a local fire. It won't spread to Yanjing for a while, and it will not be discovered by Feng Jiayou, that woman.

That’s it!

Cheng Xuemin immediately began to plan for the small treasury. From then on, when he was in the Yanda Library in the morning, he would write more of the novella about Feng Jiayou's supervision. In the afternoon, he would secretly set up his own small treasury, and then continue to be supervised at night.

With Cheng Xuemin's writing speed, he estimates that he can submit at least three or five short stories in a month. If he submits them separately, he can make three or four hundred yuan in pocket money.

The three or four hundred yuan of pocket money every month is enough for Cheng Xuemin to have a good time. It’s wonderful just to think about it!

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(End of this chapter)