Rebirth 1979: Marrying a poor girl at the beginning

"I earned it with my own ability, why should I quit!" Lin Zhengjun said confidently.

"Haha, shameless profiteer!"

Liu Xinwu laughed loudly: "Before, some authors wanted to return the food coupons and cloth coupons to readers, and even wanted to publish a notice to refuse readers to send money or food coupons! You have been obsessed with money all your life and can never get out of it. You are full of the stench of money, which is unbearable to the nose!"

Lin Zhengjun said sternly: "Brother Xinwu, you are wrong. I am doing this for the greater good, for the prosperity and development of the motherland's literary and artistic undertakings!"

"What do you say?" Liu Xinwu's eyes seemed to say "Let me see how you try to argue."

Lin Zhengjun said sternly: "Do you remember Lu Yao, the Shaanxi writer who attended the Writers' Congress?"

"Of course I remember, the editor of Yanhe! We have talked about this several times."

"When he was eight years old, he was sent to his uncle's house as an adopted son. Now he has to take care of both his biological parents and his adoptive parents, as well as many brothers and sisters."

Lin Zhengjun said: "With his monthly salary of thirty or forty yuan, it is not enough for him to spend. He often quarrels with his wife over spending money, so he needs to rely on writing to make money to supplement the family income!"

"But it's so difficult to publish works now. Many people spend three or four months revising a manuscript. It's good enough to publish one article a year."

"Moreover, they can't even get the maximum fee for their articles. Even if they do, it's only a few dollars. A 10,000-word novel only gets a few dozen yuan!"

"I can return the money and food coupons as you said, and even issue a notice announcing the rejection of these money and food coupons. It doesn't matter to me because I earn a lot of money from my writings and I also make money from the cooperative, but what about other authors!"

"Will you let people accept writers like Lu Yao in the future or not?"

"If they accept it, I will appear indifferent to fame and fortune, while Lu Yao will appear to be greedy and obsessed with money! If they don't accept it, they will even have to pay for the stamps to send it back to the readers. Life is getting harder and harder!"

Liu Xinwu: “…”

I was stunned by what Lin Zhengjun said!

Beside her, Sister Su Yu said with a smile: "Comrade Zhengjun, no wonder you are good at business, you are really good at talking."

Everyone was delighted.

Liu Xinwu laughed and said, "Hahaha, that does make some sense. To sum up what Zhengjun said, cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. It's really immoral!"

"That's right, rewards are a beneficial incentive for authors!" Lin Zhengjun said with a smile.

The same is true for later online writers.

Once he gets a reward from the Silver Alliance, he will immediately kneel down to worship his godfather and update the latest chapters like crazy, even the donkeys in the production team will admit defeat.

You understand what I mean...right?

After some conversation, at noon, Lin Zhengjun had lunch with Liu Xinwu, Su Yu and others in the publishing house cafeteria. In the afternoon, they went to see the courtyard.

Lin Zhengjun borrowed two bicycles, and the three of them rode on them, sparks flying all the way, and arrived at No. 3 Gongjian Hutong.

There are three steps at the entrance, a mottled vermilion lacquered wooden door, drum stones on both sides, blue bricks and gray tiles, and a dusty atmosphere. It is not at all magnificent.

It turns out that this is an annex of the imperial palace, where the eunuchs in the inner palace live!

He was in charge of ten things: wood, stone, tile, soil, building materials, eastbound travel, westbound travel, paint, weddings, and gunpowder, as well as rice and salt warehouses, construction warehouses, and imperial altar warehouses, and all matters related to the state's construction of official rooms, tombs, copper and tin cosmetic boxes, utensils, and ice kilns.

There is a Gongjian Ice House, which is still there in 2025, but has been converted into a private restaurant.

"Mr. Ye, I'm Liu Xinwu, Comrade Lin Zhengjun and I are here to take a look at the house!"

Liu Xinwu knocked on the copper ring on the door and shouted loudly.

The wooden door was mottled with red paint, the brass door nails and knockers were polished to a smooth finish, and there were two horse-tie stones on both sides of the door. The courtyard was made of gray bricks and black tiles, and had an antique feel.

The door opened, and an old man with neat features and vigorous spirit said with a smile: "Hey, Xinwu, this is Comrade Zhengjun?"

"Hello, Mr. Ye!" Lin Zhengjun and Tang Xiaofu nodded.

"This is Comrade Lin Zhengjun, this is his wife Tang Xiaofu, and Chu Kuangren is the pen name they share!" Liu Xinwu introduced.

"Come in quickly!"

The three of them walked into the yard, shook hands and greeted each other.

"Let's see!"

Ye Junjian introduced: "The owner of the house before me was an official in charge of coal in the Qing Dynasty. After the Republic of China, the house gradually fell into disrepair, so he divided the yard and sold it. It originally had three courtyards, and this is the last one."

"I bought it for three hundred pieces of cloth and five pieces of cloth, blocked the front, and opened a side door, so it became a private house with its own courtyard."

"pretty good!"

Lin Zhengjun looked around: beautiful, elegant, comfortable and quiet!

A small courtyard house and a small building are two different concepts. Although it is called a small courtyard, it is actually very spacious.

Teacher Lin took a walk around and was immediately amazed at how well preserved the yard was!

The yard is about 400 to 500 square meters, with a jujube tree planted on it and another... also a jujube tree.

There is also a pomegranate tree and a persimmon tree.

Dry grape vines were climbing on the pergola, and underneath it was a large water tank planted with water lilies and lotus flowers, with a few plump koi carps swimming slowly in it.

He didn't even go into the house. He walked around outside for a few laps, his heart pounding, and then looked at Liu Xinwu.

As soon as Liu Xinwu saw his character, he knew he was on to something, so he suggested showing him the rooms.

Ye Junjian took Lin Zhengjun and Tang Xiaofu to visit each room.

The main house has five rooms, a living room, a study, a master bedroom and two secondary bedrooms.

There are four rooms on each side. One of the rooms facing the street was converted into a gatehouse and corridor.

Opposite the main house are four guest rooms and next to them is the toilet.

The roof is made of horizontal bricks and the ridge is tiled. The courtyard is paved with bricks and the corridor connects the doors of the houses.

"It's just that the wall is a little old. If you don't like it, just scrape it white!"

After walking around, Ye Junjian took the three of them to the living room, made some tea, and said with a kind smile, "I'll give you the whole set of furniture as well. It's just a little old, but the material is good, it's made of pine wood, and it can be used after polishing and varnishing."

"Mr. Ye, how much do you want to sell it for?" Lin Zhengjun asked after taking a sip of tea.

"Eight thousand yuan!" Ye Junjian said with a smile.

"You didn't ask for too much!" Lin Zhengjun said sincerely.

This price is definitely a good deal.

On the way, he asked Liu Xinwu and learned that the current transaction price of a Yanjing courtyard house is basically 500 yuan per room, but most of them are in poor condition, with cracked brick walls and leaking roofs.

"Are all the procedures complete?" Lin Zhengjun asked.

"complete."

Ye Junjian opened the drawer and took out the house certificate. He said, "After liberation, a certificate was issued, recognizing my ownership. After the four pests were eradicated in 76, when the house was returned to me, a new certificate was issued."

"Why do you want to sell it?" Lin Zhengjun said.

"Hey, I work for a company, I have a house, I live in a building!"

Mr. Ye holds many positions, including deputy editor-in-chief of "Chinese Literature" (English version), secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, etc. He is a very high-ranking figure.

Ye Junjian smiled and said, "Besides, my children also want me to live in a building. There is no heating here in winter, and we can only rely on the stove. It's quite cold. I'm old, and I can't stand it!"

"Also, I've seen your work and I really like it. I heard you bought a house, so I'll give it up!"

"Oh, thank you, old man!" Lin Zhengjun clasped his fists, full of social spirit.

Ye Junjian smiled and said, "Comrade Zhengjun, I have an unwelcome request!"

"You say!"

"Literature is revived nowadays, but not many people write children's literature. Great writers generally think that children's literature is childish and shallow, and are unwilling to write it. Can you find some time to write one?"

Ye Junjian not only translated a large amount of children's literature such as "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales", but also created children's literature himself. He is a master in this field, so it is normal for him to make this request.

Lin Zhengjun pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "To be honest, I do have an idea for children's literature!"

"oops!"

Ye Junjian was stunned for three seconds before he asked, "What kind of story? Tell me!"