Chapter 143: So arrogant, my father-in-law secretly gave me a foreign exchange coupon!
Just finished reading it?
Cheng Xuemin was a little surprised after hearing this. His novella has 260,000 words, which is actually a long novel.
It was only sent to Zhang Guangnian of "People's Literature" at ten o'clock in the morning. With their review speed of only two or three months, they must have not finished the first review.
Although Cheng Xuemin took advantage of the back door and asked the editor-in-chief Zhang Guangnian to do something special, he also promised to read it before getting off work tomorrow.
But Cheng Xuemin didn't expect that he would get a reply after get off work today!
Doesn't that mean that Lao Zhang has been reading his manuscript all day?
Yes!
Feng's mother just mentioned that the manuscript had been published and it would be published in this issue, allowing Cheng Xuemin to take the time to collect the manuscript fee.
But he didn't say what Lao Zhang said on the phone.
So brilliant!
Lao Zhang praised her son-in-law so much on the phone that he really brought the heroine An Jie to life in the manuscript. It was so brilliant!
Apart from anything else, Lao Zhang also said on the phone that he would start reading after Xuemin came back from delivering the manuscript.
As soon as I saw it, I immediately got into it. I even forgot to eat lunch. I spent half a morning and an entire afternoon watching it, but I still only watched less than half of it.
But even after reading half of it, Lao Zhang immediately decided to submit the manuscript and sent the scholar to collect the manuscript fee for this issue.
He also said that he would take the rest home and watch it all night long to finish it all.
In the end, I was still on the phone, saying that Teacher Gu turned out to be this kind of Teacher Gu, and that your son-in-law directly painted it to life.
This made Feng's mother here feel a little embarrassed, so she deliberately explained that the "Anjie" written by her son-in-law was not the same person as her mother-in-law.
Her son-in-law is really not based on her!
But if you say it, will anyone believe it?
After dinner, the Feng family had finished their final exams and wanted to relax without doing any homework. They crowded into the room of Cheng Xuemin and the Feng family, either talking about buying a TV set tomorrow or what brand of bicycle to buy.
If you want the Phoenix brand, you also want the women’s style!
I heard that the Feng family was very worried and wanted to drive this noisy and clingy sister out, but she couldn't.
She also asked her brother-in-law, Cheng, to teach her how to write manuscripts to earn royalties.
Anyway, he is clingy to others, does not regard himself as an outsider, and does not go out. The Feng family is so angry that he really wants to hit others with a feather duster.
It is indeed too noisy!
After Xie Jin in Shanghai received the exact information, Cheng Xuemin also started writing the script of "Female College Student Dormitory" as soon as possible and mailed it to him.
There is also the West Film Studio. I couldn’t go back for the time being before the new year, but Cheng Xuemin will definitely go back after the new year!
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin planned to take advantage of the free time during the Chinese New Year to write the script of "Loess High Slope" and take it directly with him when he returns to northern Shaanxi after the Chinese New Year.
As a result, Cheng Xuemin has two scripts in hand that need to be drafted.
In addition to the two scripts, Cheng Xuemin also agreed to Lao Pan from the Art Editorial Department of the Humanities Society, and he also had ten comic books on hand from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that needed to be drawn.
Although Lao Pan did not require that all the paintings be completed and submitted within a month, he still had to hand in one or two volumes after the Chinese New Year.
In terms of manuscripts, Cheng Xuemin probably won’t have any big tasks in the near future.
"Yenjing Literature" has a novella that can be used for two issues, and Feng Mu's "October" bimonthly has a two-month cold storage period after this issue is published. There is no problem in starting the manuscript after a month.
So after calculating it this way, I only need to write a short story for "Shanghai Literature and Art" in the spare time I have for writing scripts and drawing novels.
This favor has always been owed. Cheng Xuemin has been thinking about paying it back, but he has never had time to write it.
Finally, he used his own private money to contribute articles to foreign publications and engage in foreign exchange.
Cheng Xuemin was thinking that he would get a lot of foreign exchange and then buy the apartment in the Overseas Chinese Apartment to give the woman a big surprise.
But if you calculate it this way, it may have to be postponed indefinitely for at least half a year.
After all, after finishing the scripts and manuscripts in my hands, I will go to the northwest with Xie after spring to shoot "The Wrangler" with Xu Lingjun.
By the way, in terms of manuscripts, I also have my "Today" long story "My Corps Years". I have only written 30,000 words now. I have to write 60,000 to 70,000 words as soon as possible and hand it over to Lao Chen for finalization and publication.
It needs to be completed during the Chinese New Year, and when major universities start school after the new year, their magazines will also be published.
Thinking of this, Cheng Xuemin said to the woman:
"Don't worry about the manuscript fee. I'll get it back when I finish drawing one or two volumes of villain books and send them to Lao Pan!"
Finally, the Feng family was driven away. After Cheng Xuemin settled down and did some work, he went to bed with the Feng family.
The woman asked when she was going to get the royalties back, Cheng Xuemin thought for a while and replied to her.
Although Lao Zhang asked Cheng Xuemin to go and collect the manuscript payment receipt tomorrow, he couldn't really go there tomorrow. It seemed that he was too anxious and too philistine.
"Okay, Xuemin, you're right. Don't be too hasty in getting the royalties. It will look like we are just focusing on other people's royalties!" Feng Jiayou also nodded repeatedly, feeling that his man was thoughtful.
She was different. When her mother said that she would collect the manuscript payment bill tomorrow, she wished she could accompany Cheng Xuemin to collect it early tomorrow morning.
After all, it is a novella with 260,000 words, which is actually a long novel.
If it's seven yuan per thousand words, how much is the manuscript fee?
More than 1,800 yuan!
Since the Feng family bought the two-bedroom courtyard home and spent 5,500 yuan in cash, the private money in their small treasury has shrunk significantly.
Now that we have added the renovations to the courtyard house and the purchase of a TV set, we have spent another eight or nine hundred yuan.
Although there were occasional payment bills later on, they were basically reprinting fees, not much around 180.
Therefore, the speed of money coming in during the recent period has been far behind the flow of money, and women’s private money is almost drying up.
There is an urgent need for such a big wave of royalties to come in to fill the void.
That's why I urged Cheng Xuemin when he would get the manuscript fee for the "People's Literature" novella and make up for it.
But just as her man said, you shouldn't be too impatient to receive the manuscript payment slip. If you go all the way to get it, it will look more like they are nothing!
So I would draw one or two volumes of comic books and send them over, and then I would get the royalties back, and everything would fall into place and I wouldn't be able to deal with it.
"Daughter-in-law, you are right!" Cheng Xuemin scratched the woman's nose, knowing what she was worried about, but she couldn't rush it.
Then he said with another evil smile: "The novella of "People's Literature" has just been sent over, so it's better to rush to get the manuscript fee."
"However, didn't I get two more payment bills today?"
"Daughter-in-law, you understand, shouldn't we have a proper celebration?"
In an instant, the young Feng family was so shy that she looked at him with red eyes. She was about to say that she didn't even get two hundred yuan for two manuscripts, and she wanted to celebrate your wonderful idea.
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Early in the morning, sister-in-law Feng Jiamo kept knocking on the window, urging Cheng Xuemin to get up quickly to buy a bicycle TV, which was really disappointing.
It's hard to sleep in during this cold winter, but my sister-in-law is just not sensible at all.
"Get up, get up! Are you making any noise so early in the morning?"
Feng Jiayou looked out the window angrily and yelled at her sister.
But soon, the big ones and the little ones started making noise outside their house, urging them to buy a TV set.
Cheng Xuemin got up and saw Feng Jiamo and two little ones, Feng Liqin and Feng Liwen, squatting at the door of their house waiting. He couldn't laugh or cry.
"Wait at home! Your brother-in-law and I will go buy it!"
After staying at home for two whole days, how could Feng Jiayou still be able to stay there? How could he still stay at home? Now he must be accompanying Xuemin to buy a TV set!
After washing up, Feng Jiamo was asked to watch the two children at home while they went out shopping as a couple.
If I’m not at home to see my nieces and nephews, I won’t buy a bicycle.
The Feng family was so angry that they went crazy. They were so angry that they could only stay at home and take care of their children.
But is Feng Jiamo someone who can stay at home?
As soon as her sister and eldest brother Cheng Qianqian went out, they took the two younger ones out to play with their good sister Zhu Shan.
At the same time, she also went to show off that her brother-in-law, Old Cheng, was going to buy her a bicycle.
Her brother-in-law is going to buy her a TV!
Cheng Xuemin took his wife to the department store to watch TV, but after a day of shopping, there were a lot of big and small bags.
Cheng Xuemin's driving skills were truly exceptional. The Feng family had to sit on the front bar to bring him back with his large and small bags, as well as a twelve-foot black and white TV set!
"Feng Jiamo, Feng Jiamo, come here and help your brother-in-law get off the bicycle!"
Fortunately, I saw Feng Jiamo wandering around the door of the yard from a distance. Feng Jiayou, who was sitting on the bicycle bars, hurriedly greeted her.
"Oh my God! Old Cheng, you are... awesome!"
Feng Jiamo also looked forward to her sister and eldest brother Cheng coming back soon. They had promised to come back in the morning!
But it was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and her sister and elder Cheng were not seen back.
She couldn't wait any longer, so she and her two little ones, Zhu Shan, who had come to join in the fun, were waiting at the door. But when she heard her sister's greeting, she quickly looked over, but she was suddenly confused and couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Mom of the family... You, your brother-in-law, Lao Xu, bought so many things?"
Zhu Shan next to him looked at it and exclaimed with a look of shock and disbelief.
"What are you looking at? Help your brother-in-law stabilize the bike!"
"Yeah, yeah, it's fallen, it's fallen, it's fallen, hurry up and hold the TV! Hold the TV!"
I'm going!
What's all the fuss about?
Cheng Xuemin didn't even say that he was going to fall. Sitting on the horizontal bar, Feng Jiayou kept shouting, making her man look like a ghost!
We only celebrated twice last night, right? !
Don’t say it yet!
Cheng Xuemin also discovered that since his rebirth, in addition to his better and better brain memory, his physical fitness has also been subtly improving. In fact, he really doesn't pay much attention to exercise.
But his physical fitness is really improving, and Cheng Xuemin can clearly feel it!
Anyway, Cheng Xuemin felt that he was very awesome after his rebirth!
"Where's the bicycle? Where's the bicycle?! Sister, didn't Dacheng agree to buy a bicycle?"
Here, as soon as Cheng Xuemin stopped the bicycle and helped Feng Jiayou down from the horizontal bar, his sister-in-law exploded when she saw that there was no bicycle.
"Didn't I buy a TV set?"
"Your brother-in-law doesn't even have time to get your bicycle ticket with you now. You can buy it later!"
Feng Jiayou helped Cheng Xuemin push the bicycle up the steps into the yard while dismissing her anxious sister.
"Don't look back! Da Laocheng, you said you would stop by Pigeon Market today and ask the ticket seller to get me a bicycle ticket!"
"If I had known, I asked Lao Ge to get one yesterday!"
It is true that you have to get a bicycle ticket first, but when Dalao Cheng went out this morning, he said that he would go to Pigeon Market to buy bicycle tickets first, and then go to the department store to buy a TV and a bicycle.
But why did she just buy the TV set, and why didn’t she buy the bicycle that she had been thinking about so much?
“Isn’t it true that a ticket seller is not allowed to verify his tickets beforehand?!”
"Your brother-in-law was originally going to the pigeon market to look for bicycle tickets first, but the TV ticket was not verified to be authentic, so he went to look for it again. What if it was a fake ticket?"
Feng Jiayou also said angrily to her sister.
Cheng Xuemin also said: "Don't worry, family, the tickets are real, and the ticket seller is reliable! I will install the TV for you later, and then go to the pigeon market to buy it!"
The Feng family was still worried about finding fake tickets, so they went to buy a TV first, but the shopping lasted all day.
"Okay, I'll go with you, Old Man Cheng, later!"
Sister-in-law Feng Jiamo was also afraid of long nights and dreams, so she took advantage of her sister and elder Cheng's high mood to buy back the bicycle they had agreed to.
Otherwise, we don’t know how her mother will suddenly change her mind and refuse to buy it at night.
Anyway, last night, her mother just didn’t want to be too partial!
My sister told her elder Cheng that she wanted to buy a TV, and without saying a word, she directly gave them 500 yuan. In exchange for buying a bicycle for her, it was not a matter of today and tomorrow, and tomorrow the day after tomorrow.
Now that I want to move to Yanda, I simply refuse to buy one because the road is so short that I don’t need a bicycle.
But what does it have to do with whether buying a bicycle is close to the road or not?
"Just spoil her!"
"This TV only cost us four hundred and fifty yuan. If we help her find a bicycle ticket, it will cost us at least twenty or thirty yuan, right?"
"With the five hundred yuan my mother gave me, how could I still have the money to buy her a bicycle?"
Feng Jiayou was so angry that she had nothing to say when she heard her man say that he would buy it for her soon.
It is said that brother-in-law spoils his sister-in-law, but he is not so spoiled, okay?
Give me whatever you want!
"Hehe, I don't care anyway! Sister, you and Da Laocheng promised me, you can't buy it!"
Feng Jiamo looked proud, he wanted to buy it anyway.
"Put it in my house, put it in my house!"
When they entered the yard and moved the TV inside, sister-in-law Feng Jiamo got excited again and begged Cheng Xuemin to move the TV into her house!
"What are you thinking about?"
The Feng family simply rolled their eyes. The couple bought this TV set, and they had to put it in their house.
However, the space in their house is small, and if they put a TV, they would not be able to squeeze through it.
And that’s it!
If the TV was put in their room, the last three of the Feng family, Feng Liqin, Feng Liwen, would have to occupy their room all day long, making trouble to death, and writing nonsense manuscripts.
So before buying the TV, Feng Jiayou and Cheng Xuemin had already decided that the TV would be placed on the long cabinet in the main room for everyone to watch together.
Moreover, after the TV is moved to the new house over there, it is planned to be placed directly in the main room in the front yard, not in the backyard of the couple.
Again, if you want to watch it, just sit together and watch it.
When I don’t want to watch it, I don’t want the two little Feng Liqin and Feng Liwen to be noisy in their small world of two people every day.
And when conditions permit, just buy a TV.
Installing the TV was said to be simple. Cheng Xuemin could have done it in two steps, but the TV signal in this era was really poor.
I have to fiddle with the antenna to receive CCTV and Yanjing TV. It seems that these two channels are still the same regardless of the left and right.
Maybe he could only receive these two radio stations. Cheng Xuemin didn't want to bother anymore, so he just fixed the antenna outside.
Anyway, he doesn’t have much demand for TV channels. Children can also watch TV.
Later, when they move to a new house and have their own independent space, they can buy another TV in the house.
When the time comes, Cheng Xuemin will have to do it himself, make a universal antenna, and try to capture a certain channel signal on the Xiangjiang side.
Rumor has it that in this era, the channels in Xiangjiang would play extremely touching three-pole films after midnight, or even adult educational films directly.
Then let this woman Feng Jiayou open her eyes and learn hard!
"What time is it!? Can't we go again tomorrow?"
The TV set here had just been installed, and everyone was watching TV in a hurry. However, the Feng family started to make trouble again, and was noisy to Cheng Xuemin to take her to buy a bicycle.
The young Feng family couldn't stand it anymore, so they just wouldn't let him go.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow!" Cheng Xuemin was really in a dilemma, and in the end he definitely stood firmly on his wife's side.
His wife, Feng Jiayou, wouldn't let him go, and it was impossible for him to take Feng Jiamo out alone.
They were noisy and reluctant again. After a while, they were just watching TV and were enjoying themselves, so they stopped begging.
Cheng Xuemin didn't join in the fun. Today's TV programs are too monotonous!
For Cheng Xuemin, it was completely unattractive.
But Feng Jiayou, Feng Jiamo, Zhu Shan and the others are different. Just like the two little ones Feng Liqin and Feng Liwen, as long as there is TV to watch, even the TV news will be good to watch!
Of course, there were no TV ads in this era, otherwise the ads would have been eye-catching.
Cheng Xuemin went back to his house and began writing "My Years in the Corps" again, hoping to hand it over to Lao Chen for finalization tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
I stopped by the overseas Chinese store in Yanda and bought all the materials needed for the bathroom in the new courtyard.
I originally planned to buy it today, but Feng Jiayou was always around today, and Cheng Xuemin had no time to spare.
When everyone comes back in the evening, because there is a new TV, it is necessary to have some fun.
Even though he hasn't been at home much recently, I heard that Mr. Qian, who was going to his son's place to help take care of his grandson, came back and heard the noise and ran over to join in the fun!
Zhu Lin, who came to see his sister Zhu Shan in the evening, also joined in the fun.
When the show was over, my father-in-law, Father Feng, suddenly and secretly gave Cheng Xuemin 60 yuan in foreign exchange coupons, saying that it was a foreign manuscript of "Wrangler" that would be published in this issue of "Chinese Literature".
This was the foreign exchange royalties for reprinting "Wrangler", and he still couldn't tell his wife, Feng Jiayou.
Otherwise, not only would Cheng Xuemin be exposed, but his father-in-law would also be exposed, and the whole family would really be ruined.
After all, the father-in-law had just coaxed the mother-in-law into a good relationship, and he was so brave that he dared to secretly give his son-in-law private money in foreign exchange coupons at this time.
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(End of chapter)