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

Chapter 72: The small treasury finally has some money (asking for monthly tickets)
The short story mailed to Shanghai Literature and Art was called "Female College Students' Dormitory", which paid tribute to Yu Shan's award-winning masterpiece.

First Prize for National Excellent Short Story in 1983!

The whole article has more than 26,000 words. The Shanghai literary and artistic community followed his lead and successfully sold the story, charging seven yuan per thousand words!

Cheng Xuemin was pushing his bicycle while reading the reply letters from Shanghai's literary and art circles!
In the letter, Shanghai Literature and Art said that in order to support Cheng Xuemin to continue to create better works, they made special arrangements to apply for the highest manuscript fee of 7 yuan per thousand words for him.

Who asked Cheng Xuemin to write in his submission letter:

I just returned to the city. My family is poor and destitute. I have to support my 80-year-old parents and five or six hungry children. I hope that the minimum price for my manuscript can be more than five yuan. If the manuscript can be accepted and the price is high, they, Shanghai Literature and Art, will be my bread and butter in the future. I will definitely continue to submit manuscripts to them.

Good!

Cheng Xuemin was only satisfied with the price of five yuan per thousand words, but Shanghai Literature and Art directly raised his price to the maximum of seven yuan per thousand words!
I can only say that Shanghai’s literary and artistic community is righteous!

From now on, they will be Cheng Xuemin's bread and butter. Whenever he has a good manuscript, he will definitely think of them first.

Along with the reply letter for the sample issue, there is also this manuscript fee invoice!

The remittance above is one hundred and ninety yuan!

In an instant, Cheng Xuemin was so happy that his small treasury business was finally officially launched and he received remittances!

At the same time, I am also looking forward to a submission to "Harvest" in Shanghai, as well as the article "Loess Plateau" in "Yanhe Literature" from my hometown!
Both of these articles are long and short stories with more than 30,000 words. If I can continue to be successful in selling the misery as usual and get the same price of seven yuan per thousand words, that would be really great!

Unfortunately, the short story and novella I have in my hand, which were completed or almost completed under the supervision of my wife Feng Jiayou, cannot be secretly put into his little treasury.

But it doesn’t matter!

Now his hand speed has caught up, and the information of the library in his mind is becoming clearer and clearer. In the future, there will be more and more articles paying tribute to him. Why should he worry about the failure of his small treasury project?

Moreover, Cheng Xuemin also began to pay attention to award-winning foreign works, to see if he could get through his father-in-law's back door as soon as possible and publish some foreign manuscripts to earn some foreign exchange coupons.

It is said that his article "The Horse Herdsman" is already going through the process of being published on the front page of "Chinese Literature" published by the Foreign Languages ​​Publishing Administration, and it is planned that Mr. Qian from the courtyard will translate it.

If Mr. Qian finally gets angry with Yenching Literature and refuses to translate it, then Cheng Xuemin will do it himself. Anyway, Cheng Xuemin has several foreign language versions of "The Shepherd" in his mind, so he can just pay tribute to it.

In this way, I can earn some translation fees, and I get them in the form of foreign exchange coupons.

Today is a good day. I have to go home and celebrate with my wife in the evening!
When he was about to reach the downstairs of Feng Jiayou's dormitory, Cheng Xuemin hid the sample letter and manuscript fee slip sent by Shanghai Literature and Art!
Don't let Feng Jiayou find out, otherwise the small treasury project will be blocked before it is completed.

"Cheng Xuemin, wait downstairs, I'll call Jiayou for you!"

Just as he arrived downstairs of Feng Jiayou's dormitory, he heard Huang Beijia's voice from upstairs. Cheng Xuemin replied, "Okay, thank you!"

Now the news of Cheng Xuemin has spread in Feng Jiayou's class, especially in her dormitory. Basically everyone knows that he is the lover and family member of freshman Feng Jiayou!

It is not uncommon for the new three generations to bring their family members to college.

Even in the 80th class after the new three classes, there were still many married college students who brought their families to study.

As I said, the past ten years have held back the ambitions of too many young people, and once the college entrance examination is resumed, thousands of people will rush to compete for the single-plank bridge.

If they fail the first year, they will take it again the second year. If they fail the second year, they will try again the third year. This goes on year after year, even some people in their thirties or forties are still taking the exam!
We young people must have the ambition to strive for progress, and keep fighting even after repeated failures.

"Young master, your wife is here to pick you up, downstairs!" Huang Beijia walked into the dormitory and said to Feng Jiaxiao, who was writing furiously on the table in front of the bed, "Are you still writing a review for The Wrangler? Young master, I don't usually see you being so enthusiastic about The Wrangler."

I took a quick look and it was the same article that was returned by Wenhui Daily, the one that commented on the Shepherd.

Feng Jiayou was not very enthusiastic about the shepherd Lao Xu in normal times. It was only after she and Cha Jianying suggested that they write a review for him that she wrote it together!
But now, they have been discouraged by the increasingly high requirements for manuscript approval and have given up the idea!

Currently, the worst people who can write reviews like Wrangler Lao Xu are all well-known writers and editors. Even Ding Ling was included in the reviews a few days ago!

Without ordinary readers like them, there is no chance for new writers, unless they write extremely well and their angles are extremely novel!

Huang Beijia and Cha Jianying felt that there was no hope, it was too competitive, so they didn't bother about commenting on the submissions anymore!
Now, it was Feng Jiayou, who was not very prominent but was still insisting on revising the manuscript, which made Huang Beijia look at him with new eyes!

"Tsk! Are you guys just enthusiastic? I think you're just too passionate and in love!"

Feng Jiayou's husband was waiting downstairs, so he quickly picked up the manuscripts on the table while making fun of Huang Beijia!

And she wasn't very enthusiastic!

Huang Beijia and Cha Jianying are very enthusiastic, even madly in love!

But one review made them back off and stop writing!

I just did it for real, wrote a letter to the author Lao Xu, mailed him movie tickets, and asked him to go to the movies together.

Can Feng Jiayou compare with them?

They backed out, it didn't matter! But who was the shepherd, Old Xu?
It really is her Feng Jiayou’s lover, Xu Lingjun!
Is it reasonable that Li Xiuzhi cannot write a comment for him?

So when Huang Beijia and Cha Jianying both gave up, she was the only one who persisted.

She's not fighting for money, she's fighting for face. Her husband has made The Horse Wrangler famous. Is Feng Jiayou really that bad? How could she, Feng Jiayou, write a review about her husband and still not get it approved and published?
"Hehe, Jiayou, why don't you show us how much you love someone? Your man is waiting downstairs!" "So, you are different from us!"

Huang Beijia raised her beautiful eyes and started to make fun of Feng Jiayou.

"Yes, yes, yes! Beijia, you are right. I am indeed different from you. Who says I am a woman with a family?"

Feng Jiayou packed his schoolbag, shrugged and said casually, "So I can only write articles and comment on them. The horse herder Lao Xu, our great talent Yan, will be left to you Beijia!"

"By the way, Beijia, if you don't have time to watch a movie with me on Saturday, don't tell me that you secretly made an appointment with the Wrangler Lao Xu!"

Before leaving, Feng Jiayou turned back and deliberately provoked Huang Beijia.

"... Go away, my dear, your wife is waiting downstairs. Who has made an appointment with Wrangler Lao Xu to watch a movie? My dear, please don't say anything nonsense!"

Huang Beijia was hit in the vital point by Feng Jiayou's "accidental hit", and was so embarrassed that he quickly drove the man away in a bad mood.

Feng Jiayou nodded at Huang Beijia playfully, and forgot what she wanted to say, so she simply turned around and walked out the door. She stuck her head out of the railing and found that her man was indeed waiting downstairs. She shouted downstairs, "Here he comes!"

"Slow down!"

Cheng Xuemin, who was downstairs, was so scared when he saw the woman's quick steps that he kept shouting to remind her!
What's there to be excited about? Why are you running around as a pregnant woman?!

"How is it? Xuemin, tell me...what did the leader say when he summoned you?"

Feng Jiayou had just gotten on Cheng Xuemin's bicycle and was passing through a small forest. While there were no familiar classmates around, he couldn't wait to ask in a low voice.

"I didn't say anything! I just got a notification that the manuscript was approved! But some parts need to be revised. I've already got the original manuscript back!"

While staring at the bicycle, Cheng Xuemin briefly told the woman what had happened in the Zhonghai leader's office today!
"What!? Xuemin, are you saying that Lian Mao and Teacher Ding Lingding will also come with you to help you review and revise the manuscript?"

"Moreover, the senior leaders asked us to revise the manuscript to be more profound, so that it can reflect the social requirements of reform and opening up new ideas?"

After listening to Cheng Xuemin's story, Feng Jiayou's eyes, which were already bright and shining, were now ringing like bells in shock!
Too shocked!

Even the literary giant, Leader Xiu Mao, came to accompany her and meet her man!

And the manuscript that her father thought was a bit hasty was said by the senior leaders to be a bit too conservative?
Want to change! ?
"Yes! Wife, do you know? This manuscript of mine alarmed the people over there!"

After leaving the gate of Yan University, Cheng Xuemin noticed that there was no one around, so he told Feng Jiayou the most important news in a mysterious manner.

"Who was alarmed?!" Feng Jiayou's face looked even more stupid!
Knowing the nature of her man, she usually saves the most important thing for last. How patient he is!
Both Mr. Mao and the depth of the manuscript had already shocked Feng Jiayou to the point of being completely shattered, and now her man is coming again in a mysterious way!
Is that okay?

She asked with an almost trembling tone, because she seemed to have guessed which side it was!
"It's over there at the plenary session!"

What the hell!

Feng Jiayou exclaimed in his heart, "Oh my god!" She actually guessed it, it was really over there!
This, this, this...did her man hear this?
"What do they say over there?!"

Shiver, tremble!
At this moment, Feng Jiayou hugged Cheng Xuemin's waist tightly, and all he could do was tremble and shiver!

"The official reviewer said that my article is timely!"

Cheng Xuemin was also a little bit arrogant. After traveling here for a month or so, he not only alarmed the other side, but also received personal comments from them.

It is conceivable that the future "pioneer of reform and opening up", an honorary title of great significance for one's career, will belong to Cheng Xuemin, the author of "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office"!

With such an honorary title, it is no exaggeration to say that it has made a name for itself in history.

After all, whenever we talk about reform and opening up, we cannot avoid the word "pioneer". Even if it is a pioneer in the literary world, it is still a pioneer!

"What? Oh my god! Xuemin, you are... so awesome!"

There were so many words to say, Feng Jiayou was so excited that he didn't know how to praise him anymore!

They have appointed the review as a timely rain, doesn’t that mean... the career capital that her man has earned this time has exploded?

You know, Feng Jiayou knew why her mother was so keen on her son-in-law's article. She hoped that her son-in-law could make some money before entering the official career, just like Liu Xinwu in her unit.

This is basically how the intellectuals in the literary circle go! So, her mother hopes that her son-in-law will go into politics in the future!

But I didn’t expect that I would really make a fortune this time!
"Comrade Feng Jiayou, please be low-key, modest, keep steady and hold on tight!" Cheng Xuemin was also very arrogant, but he was able to restrain himself to some extent. Feng Jiayou was really arrogant, and he was afraid that if she wasn't paying attention, she would fall off the bicycle.

"I know, I know, keep a low profile! My mom will definitely love you to death this time!"

Feng Jiayou was so excited that she nodded repeatedly and spoke incoherently. It was hard to imagine what expression her mother would have if she was present at the time. She must have been as excited as she is now!

Aren't you too satisfied with the son-in-law she chose? Now, she must be extremely proud of her son-in-law, right?

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(End of this chapter)