Chapter 154 Crazy! My daughter-in-law, Feng Jiayou, is completely crazy (please order in full)
"Xuemin, are you back? Have you eaten your food?! Mom left it for you in the kitchen, it's still warm!"
Cheng Xuemin pushed the cart into the yard and found his wife, Feng Jiayou, and the two younger children warming themselves by the fire in the front hall and watching TV.
When Cheng Xuemin came in, the two little ones didn't even bother to bring their heads back. They called out uncle in a very perfunctory manner. They were obviously fascinated by watching TV!
Feng Jiayou quickly stood up and came forward with expectation.
"My wife hasn't eaten yet! Where are my parents, brother and sister-in-law? I see that all the couplets have been posted?"
"It's cold outside, don't come out!"
Cheng Xuemin parked his bicycle to the side, took off the briefcase hanging on the front of the car, and quickly put his arms around Feng Jiayou and went into the house to talk.
"Didn't you eat?!"
"I thought Mr. Wu would let you have lunch if you came back so late!"
Feng Jiayou rubbed his hands together to breathe in the heat and said, "Dad, Li Wen Liqin and the others posted the couplets this morning!"
"Well, now that they are free, they can all go out for a walk!"
"Xuemin, sit down and let me bring out the food with you!"
After saying that, he went to the kitchen and helped Cheng Xuemin bring the hot food in the pot.
"No, no, wife, I'll just go to the kitchen and eat by myself!"
How dare Cheng Xuemin let the young Feng family move around? In her current situation, if she can lie down, she must not sit, and if she can sit, she must not stand.
Whatever else Cheng Xuemin could do for her, he would do it for her, and he had to help out for what he couldn't.
Let her run to the kitchen to serve the food, lest this frivolous daughter-in-law not be disturbed by the threshold.
Then he also smiled and said: "Originally, Mr. Wu wanted to stay with us for lunch today, but I thought you should wait at home in a hurry, so I didn't stay for that meal and came back early!"
After saying that, he handed the briefcase in his hand to his wife and walked towards the kitchen.
"Then I'll go with you!"
Hearing that Mr. Wu actually kept his man for lunch, it must be a good thing, so he quickly followed up and said.
At the same time, he received the briefcase handed over by Cheng Xuemin, opened it and rummaged through it, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Basically, it was all the materials she prepared for her man in the morning, nothing else.
He quickly asked anxiously: "What's going on!? Xuemin, what did Mr. Wu say when he called you today?"
"Daughter-in-law, I thought you could endure it any longer!"
Cheng Xuemin took out the food from the pot and laughed at Feng Jiayou.
With Feng Jiayou's personality, he should have been asking endless questions when he came in.
Unexpectedly!
When he came in, he not only cared about whether he had eaten or not, but also greeted him and brought food to him. He just didn't ask what happened today.
He also said that this daughter-in-law has changed her gender and can really keep her composure.
"Come on, come on!" The Feng family quickly urged, "Xuemin, your arrogant expression is not worthy of Mr. Wu's praise?"
"Yes, yes, my wife, you are getting better and better now, and you can guess right!" Cheng Xuemin gave a thumbs up while eating, and continued jokingly with a smile, "Mr. Wu really praised your man today, It’s just verbal praise, and I didn’t even give your man a certificate!”
"What a compliment!?"
"That shows that Xuemin, your manuscript is really good. Now even Tianjin Daily doesn't have much voice!"
Feng Jiayou’s chubby face and smile really couldn’t be more beautiful.
Don’t say it yet!
This wife said that she, Cheng Xuemin, had lost weight because of eating, but she did become fatter as she ate more.
But it's normal.
Pregnant women will be really in trouble if they don't eat well and keep themselves fat.
And just as Feng Jiayou said, since the publication of Cheng Xuemin's four articles, Tianjin has ceased to make any noise!
Also, Mr. Wu suddenly called him over today and wanted to make a collection of short stories for him.
Other manuscripts were not included, but "The Traitor" was included!
Does this have a special meaning or something?
Anyway, on the way back, Cheng Xuemin thought about it again and seemed to feel that there should be some deep meaning in publishing these four manuscripts together?
However, Cheng Xuemin didn't dare to think about it any further, and he didn't intend to think about it anymore. This had nothing to do with him.
Now it has basically died down. When the People's Daily supplement is published on the second day of the Lunar New Year, many people will definitely have to figure it out.
"Don't worry, don't worry, wait until I finish the meal, okay?"
Later, the daughter-in-law asked Cheng Xuemin excitedly about the details of Mr. Wu’s meeting today, what he said, and how he verbally praised him!
Cheng Xuemin felt anxious again. His daughter-in-law was still the same daughter-in-law, and she had not changed.
"Okay, okay, Xuemin, you eat first and listen to me first, okay?"
Feng Jiayou nodded repeatedly, with two dimples forming on his plump cheeks. They were so cute and moist, and Cheng Xuemin wanted to take a bite.
Immediately afterwards, Feng Jiayou said to Cheng Xuemin: "You didn't come back just now. I thought you were left to eat by Mr. Wu, so I went to the post office and called my parents just now to inform you that you were invited to Zhonghai for a meeting again!"
"After my parents heard the news, they really shouldn't be too happy and excited. The same goes for the old uncle next to me..."
Have you already called your wife?
Cheng Xuemin also knew that he was a little late in coming back. Calculating the time, his daughter-in-law was afraid that his parents would be waiting impatiently, so she called first.
"Okay, after dinner, I'll go to the post office and call them back!"
My daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou also said that the phone call has been made!
It was also obvious that he could hear the reluctance of his parents back home and wanted to hear his son Cheng Xuemin's voice.
So the Feng family took it upon themselves to make their own decisions and asked the two old men to go get the New Year's goods first. When they were ready to go back to the brigade, they would call her back and call her back.
Because he knew his parents were waiting for a call at noon, he waited all morning after entering the commune and didn't even go out to buy new year's goods.
So Feng Jiayou asked them to buy new year's goods first, and made an appointment at three o'clock, whether Cheng Xuemin came back or not, she would call again.
Anyway, long-distance calls are billed here, so the couple doesn't have to worry about the phone bill.
Of course, the Feng family is not sure whether there will be any charges for answering the phone.
There is also a charge for answering calls at the post office.
However, his parents used a commune phone, a government phone, and there was an old uncle who was working from the government next to him, so he shouldn't have to charge the 10 or 20 cents to answer the phone, right?
“It’s just difficult to make long-distance calls. I don’t know if I can get through when I get there!”
"I just waited for more than half an hour to get through!"
Immediately afterwards, Feng Jiayou mentioned something to Cheng Xuemin.
This is really hard to beat!
Originally, it was difficult to make inter-provincial long-distance calls in this era. It required continuous wiring up. After connecting to the switchboard in northern Shaanxi, it had to be connected down again.
The post office here in Yanjing is fine, but in their rural commune in northern Shaanxi, think about the switchboard connected to the province, how many hands must be passed between them?
So this is why Cheng Xuemin rarely calls home, even though there is a landline in their commune.
I still write a lot of letters. It will take another three or four years before making phone calls becomes truly convenient. After liberalization, outside technology is introduced, and automatic telephone switches come online. At that time, telephones will be automatically switched, and there will be no need to manually plug in wires one by one.
By then, maybe you can install a landline phone at home, which will be convenient in the future!
“Daughter-in-law, look at this!”
After eating and returning to his backyard, Cheng Xuemin took out the four-character inscription paper from his briefcase and said.
"What?! Do you have a bill of royalties?" Feng Jiayou's eyes lit up and he asked mischievously.
"Daughter-in-law, can't you be more successful?"
Cheng Xuemin was speechless!
What the little money fan was thinking about was the royalties bill. Just now she was looking through her briefcase and she must have been thinking about the royalties bill.
But now that almost all the royalties for outside manuscripts have been paid back, how can there be any royalties?
But my daughter-in-law, who is a little money-lover, is also right!
Logically speaking, if the supplement of this issue of "People's Daily" reproduces and publishes four of his articles on a full page, does it count as reprinting, and does it have to be paid for the reprinting?
Two articles in one article is fine, but this time it was four articles!
The total length of the whole article is more than 100,000 words. Even if it is reprinted at the lowest price of three thousand words, it is more than 400 words.
If the People's Daily really wants to pay this manuscript fee, Cheng Xuemin will be really humble if he receives it.
More than four hundred yuan!
It’s enough for him to take him back to the countryside in northern Shaanxi and pay homage to his parents. I really don’t want to make the couple too happy and excited.
certainly!
When Feng Jiayou planned to go back to celebrate the New Year before the year before, he had asked Cheng Xuemin to bring a thousand yuan back to the old couple to celebrate the New Year.
Therefore, Feng Jiayou, the daughter-in-law, had already prepared a thousand yuan in cash for her parents-in-law, waiting for Cheng Xuemin to take them back during the New Year.
So in terms of filial piety, my daughter-in-law really has nothing to say.
Of course, it doesn’t matter whether the People’s Daily receives royalties for reprinting, but for the collection of short stories that Lao Li Humanities Society is going to publish, publishing royalties will definitely be given!
The manuscript fee price is the same as that of magazines, seven yuan per thousand words.
I have already received the fee for the single volume of "Director Qiao's Taking Up the Job", but I have not yet received the fee for the following three manuscripts. The total number of words is more than 100,000.
Seven or eight hundred yuan!
However, Li Shuguang from the Humanities Society did not mention the manuscript fee bill today. It seems that it will be after the new year!
"Yes, yes! Xuemin, I am your wife and I have no future. She is indeed too superficial!"
"Then tell me quickly, what on earth is it!?"
"A certificate of merit!?"
"Is it the same certificate that my father and mother received?"
Feng Jiayou gestured excitedly.
Because it’s the Chinese New Year, all units are handing out year-end certificates.
Feng's father and Feng's mother both took home a certificate this year, and even sister-in-law Feng Jiamo brought back a certificate for being a good student.
As for the two younger children at home, Feng Liqin and Feng Liwen, they both received their certificates during the winter vacation.
At that time, the certificates in each person's hands were exchanged for fifty cents of bonus pocket money in the hands of Cheng Xuemin, his uncle!
And her eldest brother, sister-in-law, and second sister-in-law all basically received certificates of merit.
It's a pity that Cheng Xuemin's repeat class doesn't evaluate the "three best students", otherwise he would have received one even if he didn't say much.
It seems that Yanda, where the Feng family is young, did not award certificates this semester!
So after doing this, the whole family came back with certificates, but the couple did not have a certificate.
Feng Jiayou, who loves to compare, is somewhat unbalanced in her heart. She is originally a very curly good student and a strong woman.
Therefore, if her man can get a certificate from Zhonghai today, it will really make the old Feng family proud!
"This is……?"
"Ah! Is this, this is... the word inscribed by the old leader himself?"
When Feng Jiayou received the manuscript paper handed over by Cheng Xuemin with excitement, confusion and anticipation, he found that it was not a certificate of award, and he felt a little confused and confused.
But when he saw the four big characters on the manuscript paper clearly, Feng Jiayou was stunned for a moment, changed to Pioneer?
Is this praising her man, verbally praising her man?
Just wait until you see the signature next to it!
Feng Jiayou's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he exclaimed in shock and disbelief.
"How's it going, wifey? This piece of manuscript paper of mine is much more impressive than the certificates my elder brother, sister-in-law and others received, right?"
Cheng Xuemin shaved this girl's nose and just stared at the royalties and certificates. Isn't it vulgar and superficial?
“Really?! Xuemin, is it really the person who wrote the inscription?”
"Is this really the poem dedicated to you, Xuemin?"
Feng Jiayou's eyes were filled with excitement, but she still couldn't believe it. This honor was really too shocking!
"How can it be fake?!"
Cheng Xuemin responded with a funny comment, "Can this kind of inscription be made fake?"
"Okay, okay, when my dad and mom come back later, they will know that there is an inscription for you, so don't be too dumbfounded!"
Feng Jiayou said yes again and again, already having an idea, and then said: "Wait a minute, my mother, I have to put this inscription directly in the center of where they put the certificate!"
"No, no, no, just sticking it up is not enough. My mother will definitely frame it and hang it high and in the most conspicuous place. It will definitely be like this!"
The manuscript paper in the hands of the Feng family's baby could not get enough of it.
Then he said with a pity tone: "Unfortunately, your name, Xuemin, is not on it, nor is your pen name!"
"There's just an inscription, and it doesn't say who it's for!"
It is true that there are only four big characters and a signature, but there is no information about Cheng Xuemin on it, which is a bit regretful.
"You really want to frame it and hang it?!"
After Cheng Xuemin heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched. He really guessed his daughter-in-law's reaction.
It’s not enough to stick them together with the certificates, they also need to be framed and hung in the most conspicuous place!
“Otherwise?! Then what is the question above for you?”
The baby of the Feng family looked at the treasure and gave Cheng Xuemin a flirtatious look. Even though there was no information about Cheng Xuemin's name, it was still a treasure!
“This is used as a book cover for my collection of short stories!”
"Mr. Wu called me over today to explain that the Humanities Society wants to put all of my revised manuscripts together into a collection of short stories. This is the book cover that Mr. Wu invited from above!"
"Moreover, Mr. Mao was invited to write the preface for this collection of short stories!"
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(End of chapter)