Chapter 133 "Parental Love"? About my parents? (Ask for monthly ticket
The second sister-in-law outside was roaring and crying. Cheng Xuemin and Feng's two children, who didn't know what happened, rushed out of their house and asked what happened!
Feng's mother was also wiping away tears, which frightened the young Feng family and turned even pale.
"The situation in the south has become tense. Your second brother's regiment is heading to the border!"
As the saying goes, before the war starts, food and grass go first!
Although the second brother Feng Jiacheng is not in the front-line unit, the process of returning to the city has been stopped, and he may be recruited to serve on the front line at any time.
When the news came from the south, the second sister-in-law, Sun Juan, was so frightened that she cried like a man.
Feng's mother, who felt sorry for her second son, was also looking forward to the letter from home, saying that it was almost their turn to return to the city!
But it's better now, because the situation in the south has become tense, and everyone is on standby.
Regardless of whether I will be on the front line or not, it is definitely impossible to come back to celebrate the New Year as originally planned!
Although Feng Jiayou was also very sad and worried after hearing this, she had to quickly comfort her second sister-in-law.
"Juan'er, eat first, don't cry! Don't scare the child!"
Seeing her grandchildren come back from playing outside, Feng's mother quickly wiped away the tears on her face and persuaded Sun Juan from the second family's house.
The situation in the south!
After dinner, Cheng Xuemin returned to the house. He must have remembered this war, but didn't he remember that it would not break out until later years?
I thought that the second brother of the Feng family could avoid it if he came back for the New Year.
But who knows!
What I remember is the news report. The real tension must have happened long ago.
In this way, the second brother was left there.
I just don’t know if I will be pulled directly to the front line. If I am to be pulled to the front line...
Cheng Xuemin could only say that it would be glorious for the whole family to just let nature take its course! It’s the second sister-in-law and the children who will suffer from it in the future.
But that was the worst-case scenario. The second brother Feng Jiacheng was not on active duty, so it shouldn't be his turn to rush to the key points unless he responded to the call and volunteered voluntarily.
Cheng Xuemin planned to write the manuscript for "Today" before returning to northern Shaanxi.
The theme he decided on was youth campus, and he tried his best to stick to "Female College Students' Dormitory", but there were no suitable and influential ones after he tried his best to choose from.
After all, I have just come back from ten years of humming, and I am not that liberal in my thinking.
Otherwise, Cheng Xuemin really wants to follow Guo Jingmin's path, leaving him with nowhere to go twenty years later.
Unfortunately, it’s a little early!
In the end, after much selection, Cheng Xuemin chose a manuscript that could resonate with college students of this era - "My Years in the Corps"
This is a long novel, with more than 300,000 words in total.
So in order to push his "Today" to the top and catch up with his mother-in-law's "October", Cheng Xuemin spent a lot of money.
Why did you choose a long story instead of the short story you were promised at the beginning?
After all, Cheng Xuemin still wants to really run the magazine "Today".
My Years in the Corps is a novel, which runs through the years when Feng Jiayou and other college students joined the army as educated youths, and returned to the city after the college entrance examination.
And it’s not just college students here, but also young people who have returned to the city.
If Cheng Xuemin slowly serializes "My Corps Years" in "Today" magazine, he will not only catch the attention of college students in major universities, but also catch the attention of people like Bai Ling of Yanjing Literature and Zhu Lin, the king of the daughter country next door. Young eyes return to the city.
Think about it, who has the most people in Yanjing City now?
You are young when you return to the city!
There are three to five million young people returning to the city in the city. Once Cheng Xuemin's "The Years of the Corps" is published, it will have a shocking effect and resonate with millions of readers.
You can imagine!
If it hadn't been serialized for a few issues, the influence and sales of "Today" would have definitely risen steadily.
As for sales, this time it is no longer like that of "Yenjing Literature" or "People's Literature", and has nothing to do with Cheng Xuemin!
The higher the sales of "Today" are, the greater the accumulated influence will be. In the future, Cheng Xuemin will benefit from the privatization of his own profits.
So we can’t just look at the royalties in front of us, we have to look at the overall situation in the next few decades!
From now on, "Today" can also be regarded as Cheng Xuemin's base of public opinion.
In the next few days, Cheng Xuemin focused on "Today" and wrote the first 50,000 words of "My Corps Years". At the same time, he went to his yard and started planning how to organize the bathroom and shower room.
"Xuemin, do you want to open up this room and build a toilet?"
"Doesn't it stink to death?"
The uncle who followed over heard that Cheng Xuemin was going to connect the small room where the sundries were stored with his master bedroom and turn it into a toilet, and he couldn't help but exclaimed!
“Brother, it won’t stink!”
"I'm not just planning to turn it into a toilet, I think it would be best to put a bathtub in it!"
"By the way, brother, I wonder if you have ever gone in to see the rooms in the Qianmen Hotel?"
Cheng Xuemin nodded. He didn't know how to explain to his uncle how he wanted to dress up. He just told him the suite in the Qianmen Hotel and modified it according to the bathroom layout there!
“I’ve been there before! I used to accompany the leaders of the factory, and I went there to meet with the leaders’ foreign guest exchange groups, etc. I’ve been there before!”
The eldest uncle Feng Jiazhao nodded and said without knowing why.
"Then brother, you must have seen their bathroom and shower room. I want to renovate this room into a bathroom and shower room according to the pattern in the hotel!"
"You don't need to open everything here, just open a door and install a door!" Cheng Xuemin pointed to the wall leading to the master bedroom.
As long as your uncle has been there, even if you haven’t, you can go and see it for reference.
Cheng Xuemin followed and continued to express his thoughts: "I plan to install a toilet here, and it would be just right to put a bathtub here!"
"By the way, brother, the toilet wastewater cannot be in the same pipe as the bathtub and bathroom."
"I'm going to dig a larger septic tank outside and inject the sewage from the toilet into the septic tank! Make a hole for the water in the bathroom tub and drain it directly into the river outside."
"By the way, it would be best if you can lay tiles. If there are no tiles, that's what I think!"
"You can go to the sand and gravel factory to buy more smooth and round pebbles and lay them on top!"
After Cheng Xuemin finished explaining what to do with the ground, he pointed to the top and said, a hole can be made here to connect a pipe, and a big bucket can be set up outside...
Cheng Xuemin explained his request again and again, which made his elder brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao feel frightened. He looked at his eldest brother-in-law with an idiotic expression on his face and asked stupidly: "Xuemin, these are the overseas Chinese that our children have seen." Over there in the apartment, what do you want?"
The eldest sister Feng Jiayou visited the Overseas Chinese Apartment first, and she has been struggling with the matter that she couldn't bear to leave. Her uncle Feng Jiazhao knew about it!
But they are asking for 8,000 foreign exchange coupons. How can a family like theirs afford it?
So, after buying this large courtyard, Feng Jiayou asked her husband to renovate and decorate it according to the decoration pattern of the overseas Chinese apartment? !
"No, no! This is all my own idea, and I haven't told my children yet!"
Cheng Xuemin waved his hands repeatedly and said, "By the way, brother, during the time when I am away in northern Shaanxi, my children will not come to see me!"
"So please, brother, please try not to tell the child first. After we finish the decoration, let her come over to see the effect!"
What Cheng Xuemin wants is this effect, so that the woman Feng Jiayou knows that after the toilets and bathrooms in our courtyard are renovated, it will be much more comfortable than living in an overseas Chinese apartment.
I don't want to live in a large courtyard because it's inconvenient to take a shower in the winter and get up at night, and it's uncomfortable to go to the toilet in the summer.
Now I can help women take care of the bathroom in their own suites, wouldn’t it be a pleasure?
"It's the next step to say it or not! But if Xuemin really wants to pretend like this, I have to go to the pigeon market and invite some master bricklayers to come over and do it. I will definitely not understand it! "
My uncle Feng Jiazhao shook his head repeatedly. He was not a master bricklayer. He usually did odd jobs and tidied up the debris. Let him do such a big project. What a fool!
"Yes, yes, brother, that's for sure!" Cheng Xuemin nodded repeatedly and continued to say to his uncle, "Brother, you are familiar with Yanjing and have a wide network of contacts. It will definitely take a lot of effort for you to hire a master bricklayer!"
"And when I'm not around, the supervisor here will have to ask you to come over often!"
Cheng Xuemin nodded, this must be the case!
He just asked his uncle to come over and help him, but he didn't really let him do it. Even if he really wanted to do it himself, Cheng Xuemin didn't dare to let him do it. After all, he was not a professional.
"It's easy to hire a mason, but Xuemin, what you want is either a toilet or bathtub tiles. This is not easy to do!"
Simply dig a hole, put up two wooden boards, and you may have a domestic hut!
But this is either a flush toilet or a bathtub, all those capitalist things, which also gives my uncle Feng Jiazhao a headache, okay?
"Big brother, big brother! You don't have to worry about this. I will take care of these before I go back and buy them back in advance!"
These things that my uncle mentioned are basically not sold in pigeon markets or department stores.
To buy, you can only go to Friendship Store and Overseas Chinese Store.
It just so happens that the Overseas Chinese Store is not far from the Overseas Chinese Apartment, and it is originally a supporting facility. Cheng Xuemin had seen it before and asked about the price.
The one hundred yuan in foreign exchange coupons secretly given to him by his father-in-law was enough.
After my uncle has secured the master bricklayer here and transported the sand and gravel, he can buy it and start work directly!
“If you can handle it, then there won’t be any problem!”
Feng Jiazhao heard that if his brother-in-law Cheng Xuemin could handle the most difficult part by himself, he could invite other bricklayers and others over at any time.
"No, Xuemin, where did you get the foreign exchange coupons?"
Soon, his uncle Feng Jiazhao also realized that those things were only available in overseas Chinese stores or friendship stores, but all of them required foreign exchange coupons.
Brother-in-law Cheng Xuemin said this, then he will definitely be able to get foreign exchange coupons!
Where did it come from?
"I...had this plan before. It happened that Lao Zhang from the Humanities Club had a hundred yuan in foreign exchange coupons that he wanted to exchange, so I exchanged it for a hundred yuan!"
I haven't sold my father-in-law, and I can't mention it to my brother-in-law. Who knows if this filial son will sell his father-in-law!
“Zhang Guangnian!?”
My uncle Feng Jiazhao nodded when he heard this, not having much doubt about it.
"By the way, brother, do you want one in your front yard?"
"If you want to do it, I will buy it too?"
Cheng Xuemin thought that he should either not renovate it, or simply renovate the front and back yards together to avoid having to go back and go through the trouble again.
Moreover, the mother-in-law, the eldest sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law, and the others cannot find fault with her.
"The front yard..." Of course my uncle Feng Jiazhao was very moved, but when he thought that these materials had to be purchased with foreign exchange coupons, he felt a little embarrassed and reluctant to part with them.
And, there’s no suitable place in the front yard!
Like Cheng Xuemin, take a utility room and renovate it?
Come on!
It’s not that luxurious, unless you build a small house in the corner of the yard, but the amount of work will be even greater!
"No, it can't be done! The front yard is too far away from here, and it's difficult to drain the sewage! If it's blocked, the whole hospital will stink!"
Although my uncle Feng Jiazhao was moved, he thought of a fact and shook his head in refusal.
"Uh...it's really a bit far!"
Cheng Xuemin glanced outside and nodded as well. The front yard was indeed a little far away from the outside.
Under their current conditions, there is no such pressure tap water, so the sewage cannot be flushed out at all, and it will eventually block the entire bathroom.
It's still directly accessible from the backyard, with a separation of just over two meters leading to the outside.
Dig a septic tank outside, take sealing measures, and hire someone to clean it once a year and a half. The technical requirements are not that high.
"Brother, keep the door here and don't need to seal it anymore!"
Since the front yard currently does not have the conditions to be renovated, we can only do the next best thing and keep the original door leading to the yard outside. Originally, it was going to be sealed off and only the en-suite bathroom door to their master bedroom would be opened.
Keep it now, but you won’t have any privacy in the future. If you want the couple to take a bath together, you can only remember to lock the door leading to the front yard in advance!
Anyway, these are my general thoughts. As for how my uncle changes it, that is his business.
To this!
My eldest uncle Feng Jiazhao also told Cheng Xuemin that after he hired the master bricklayer, he would take them to the Qianmen Hotel for reference.
This makes Cheng Xuemin even more relieved!
This Friday, the symposium hosted by Mr. Wu on "The Taking of Factory Director Qiao" will go on as scheduled. Except for Cheng Xuemin, the original author of the family, he will be present.
The father-in-law, mother-in-law and his wife were also on the invitation list and attended on behalf of each unit.
Early in the morning!
The new Chinese tunic suit that Feng Jiayou helped Cheng Xuemin buy can finally be put to use!
“Not bad, handsome!”
Looking at the man she had thrown away, Feng Jiayou's eyes brimmed with pride.
However, this time I didn't ask Cheng Xuemin if he was nervous when meeting senior leaders. He would get used to it after seeing him often.
"Xuemin, didn't you say that the novella of yours has been written?"
"Lao Liu is pressing hard, come back and give it to me as soon as possible!"
On the way to Zhonghai with my father-in-law and mother-in-law, the mother-in-law on a bicycle started to rush the manuscript with her son-in-law again!
"Yes, yes, mom, I have indeed finished writing! My children are helping to proofread the manuscript, it should be almost done!"
The manuscript is now in Feng Jiayou's hands, not in Cheng Xuemin's hands, so it's hard to guarantee when it will be given to him.
"What on earth did you write?"
She has been hiding it and refusing to show it, especially some time ago, when the debt collector made a mistake and said something, and she would beat them both to death if she saw it.
This made Feng's mother even more curious, what did her son-in-law write?
"It's just... it's similar to the Loess Plateau, what happened in those years of your generation!"
Cheng Xuemin can only say so much. No matter how much more he says, he can only wait until he comes back, mother-in-law, to take your time to watch and taste it!
If you have to take the role of the heroine yourself, then Cheng Xuemin, the son-in-law, can’t do anything about it.
"Things about our generation?!" Father Feng became curious and asked, "Are you still writing about your parents?"
"That's not true!"
Cheng Xuemin shook his head. This time I am writing about my mother-in-law and my father-in-law! However, the profession must have changed, but it does not affect their entry into it.
As for his parents?
Of course Cheng Xuemin has already had preliminary ideas. After finishing all the outstanding manuscripts, he will submit a novel to "Yanhe Literature"!
This time I really pay tribute to his father and mother’s generation. For "Ordinary World", the hammer king of northern Shaanxi will hammer you to death!
"Then you have to show it to me and your mother later, and don't even bother with proofreading the manuscript!"
"There are a few typos, won't your mother help you mark them out?"
After hearing this, Father Feng also got excited! If it’s not about his parents, then it’s about them!
That makes it a little bit clearer why my daughter didn’t dare to hand over the manuscript to her mother!
“Is it about me and your dad?”
Feng's mother also reacted, her face instantly became shy, and she asked uncertainly.
If a son-in-law writes about his mother-in-law, how will he write about his mother-in-law?
All of a sudden, Cheng Xuemin succeeded in seducing his mother-in-law's heart so much that she really didn't want to be too itchy.
If it hadn't been for the symposium organized by Mr. Wu today, she would have really wanted to brake, turn around and go back, so that her debt collector could obediently hand over the manuscript and have a sneak peek!
"It's not that...it was that era anyway. Mom and Dad, don't be too imitative. I'm afraid that if I don't write well, you will..."
Cheng Xuemin didn't dare to say anything further. It's still the same sentence. You can read it yourself and taste it slowly.
"It seems that Xuemin, you are... not sure at all!"
Father Feng originally wanted to joke that the son-in-law felt guilty, but he quickly changed his explanation.
Just from his son-in-law's reaction and his daughter's previous delay in drafting, Father Feng had already guessed it!
Maybe the son-in-law described his mother-in-law a lot in the manuscript.
As for how to describe him as the mother-in-law?
It can only be said that this son-in-law is really brave. He knew that he was going to give the manuscript of "October" to his mother-in-law, so he couldn't avoid it?
Writing about mother-in-law? !
No matter how you write, it is thankless. Anyway, if Feng's father is asked to write about his lover, he will definitely not dare to use that pen.
So I can only say that my son-in-law is really brave!
"What's wrong with this? Xuemin, since you wrote it, just take it out openly. What else can Mom do to you?!"
Feng's mother also noticed her son-in-law's reaction and knew that there must be a lot of bad things about her in the manuscript!
Maybe she was portrayed as an unruly, domineering and mean mother-in-law?
If this is the case, Mother Feng really needs to read it carefully.
"Yes, yes, mom, you are right!"
Cheng Xuemin nodded repeatedly and did not dare to continue. Feng's father and Feng's mother did not say anything anymore. They all rushed to Zhonghai with their thoughts!
After riding for more than an hour, the three of them finally arrived at Zhonghai!
Liu Xinwu of "October", Li Qingquan of "Yenjing Literature", Zhang Guangnian of "People's Literature", Li Shuguang of "Humanities Society", and many other newspapers, magazines and media were mainly responsible, and they basically arrived first. They were all waiting in the courtyard outside.
Seeing Cheng Xuemin, Weng and his son-in-law come in, they all came up to say hello, leaving Cheng Xuemin overwhelmed.
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(End of chapter)