Chapter 223 The grand prize was awarded, and Cheng Xuemin got the award softly (please order the full version)
After calling Xie Jin in Shanghai, Cheng Xuemin went to the library again and met Chen Shumin.
After chatting about the reception of the second issue of "Today" magazine, Chen Shumin has not started finalizing the manuscript yet and is waiting for Cheng Xuemin.
This again put pressure on Cheng Xuemin to write the second manuscript of "My Corps Years" as soon as possible.
I went home for lunch and saw my sister helping to wash the little guy’s diaper.
It’s good to have a sister!
It's a pity that I can't help here for a few days. In the middle and late this month, she and her cousin will have to go back to take the college entrance examination.
Come back again!
We have to wait until they are all admitted to Yanda University and come over to report the start of school at the end of August.
Of course, this requires sending them to Yan University first.
After his sister went back, she didn't know who should help with the diaper washing.
Anyway, Cheng Xuemin thought that he would have to wash this thing for the little guy in the future, and it would be a big headache.
"How did you buy these?"
When Cheng Xuemin had lunch and came back from a walk, his bicycle was already loaded with all kinds of things!
When they were all piled on Feng Jiayou's bed, the woman's eyes were not too surprised when she saw that these were basically imported goods.
"I bought it for you and your son!"
Cheng Xuemin said as if he was offering a treasure: "This is the milk powder I bought for you and your son. Didn't you say you don't have enough milk?"
"From now on, you have to drink it three times a day, and your son has to drink it too!"
"This is a bottle for milk powder. Does this nipple look like the nipple he sucks from?"
Although Feng Jiayou had received milk, there was not enough to drink. Cheng Xuemin couldn't figure it out. The big granary was so full that it was as full as two large cantaloupes.
But the milk was not enough, which was really strange!
Didn’t drink secretly!
I really didn’t drink secretly!
Cheng Xuemin could definitely raise his hands and swear that he really didn't drink from his son's big granary.
Then, he took out another baby bottle and joked with Feng Jiayou.
"No formality!"
In return, the woman rolled her eyes and cursed.
Cheng Xuemin smiled bitterly, continued to take out the things he bought, and continued:
"This is French bread, this is chocolate, and this is refined sugar!"
"There are also these apples and bananas. Wife, you have to replenish them every day!"
Since the milk supply is not enough, it must be supplemented!
In addition to buying these milk powder and fruits, Cheng Xuemin also bought some fresh mutton and beef from the overseas Chinese store.
But I didn’t dare to buy more!
It's now June, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. If you buy too much fresh mutton and beef, it won't last long.
Think so!
I need to buy some decent appliances for my home!
It’s summer, so you must prepare your air conditioner. Unfortunately, I just checked it out at the Overseas Chinese Store, but it’s not for sale!
Even overseas Chinese stores can't buy air conditioners, which shows that in this era, air conditioners are definitely not available in China.
The same goes for the refrigerator, no!
At the Overseas Chinese Store, Cheng Xuemin also took a fancy to an electric fan and needed more than 100 foreign exchange coupons. He didn't have that many at the moment, so he had to wait until he went to the Foreign Languages Publishing House to get back the 6,000 yuan in foreign exchange royalties. Buy again!
And if you want to buy one, of course it’s not the one they have in their house!
If you buy one for every house, you have to have four or five, right?
"I'm asking you, where do you buy these imported things?"
"Overseas Chinese store?"
"But where did you get so many foreign exchange coupons?"
Feng Jiayou must know that these imported things were bought from overseas Chinese stores, but overseas Chinese stores only accept foreign exchange coupons, and only foreigners and foreign guests.
But her man, Cheng Xuemin, was in front of her, piled high with imported things that could only be sold in overseas Chinese stores!
How did you buy it?
Their family doesn’t have a penny of foreign exchange coupons, but how did they get these imported things?
"Foreign exchange coupons...foreign exchange coupons...I exchanged some from others!"
Knowing that if these things were brought home, they would be interrogated by the Feng family, Cheng Xuemin had already thought of an excuse!
It is impossible to sell my father-in-law!
If you sell your father-in-law, you will also sell him directly!
Cheng Xuemin will soon receive the royalties of up to 6,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons, but he cannot once again stage the great project of small treasury at this time. Seeing that he is about to succeed, another obstacle in the middle occurs.
"Get someone else to change it?!"
The Feng family was suspicious. While happily picking up the imported goodies on the bed, he asked again, "Who did you replace it with? How much did you replace? How much was used, and how much was left?"
"I just went to school in the morning and happened to meet some international students. I exchanged two hundred foreign exchange coupons with them!"
"Besides the cost of buying these, there's just... so much left!"
Cheng Xuemin dug into his pocket and secretly kept an untouched foreign exchange coupon with a face value of one hundred. He took out the remaining bits and pieces and placed them in front of the Feng family.
"Exchanged two hundred yuan?! Where did you get so much money?!"
The young Feng family counted these scattered foreign exchange coupons and asked suspiciously.
"My wife, I didn't spend much of the 600 yuan you gave me before when I went south to express condolences. I just exchanged 200 yuan for foreign exchange coupons!"
Cheng Xuemin is now telling lies without any drafts for the sake of the great cause of the foreign exchange treasury!
If something happens one day, he will have to be skinned.
Those who refuse to change despite repeated admonishment will never be forgiven.
"Twelve 50 cents, and more than 180 foreign exchange coupons were used. Are these things so expensive?"
The young money addict of the Feng family did it again. He counted only a dozen yuan of foreign exchange coupons left, and spent more than 180 yuan. Don't feel too bad.
“As expensive as it is expensive!”
"And even if we have money, we can't buy these. We have to have foreign exchange coupons, specially for those foreign devils!"
Cheng Xuemin fiddled with the four cans of milk powder he bought. These four cans of milk powder alone cost him one hundred foreign exchange.
The other items also cost him nearly a hundred yuan in foreign exchange coupons. Things are indeed a bit expensive, but high-end imported goods such as milk powder can only be bought in overseas Chinese stores, so they are expensive for a reason.
But this is also relative!
For the woman Feng Jiayou, drinking a can of milk powder that costs up to 25 yuan in foreign exchange coupons is indeed too luxurious and petty bourgeoisie!
Especially when I heard that if mother and son drank this can of milk powder together, they would only be able to drink it for four or five days!
The Feng family was so frightened that they couldn’t afford to drink!
But for Cheng Xuemin, 25 yuan a can of imported milk powder is actually quite cheap!
To keep up with the nutrition of the Feng family, mother and child, they have to drink it every day, without stopping for one meal.
As an old man, he can still afford the foreign exchange money for drinking milk powder!
Don’t say anything else!
Even if mother and son drink one can every four days, it would only be eight cans a month and only two hundred yuan in foreign exchange coupons.
For Cheng Xuemin, who already has 6,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons, this is a trivial matter but he can afford it!
“That won’t work either!”
"Don't buy it until you finish drinking these cans!"
Feng Jiayou still felt sorry for Qian, and shook his head and said, "If the milk is not enough, I, I, I... I will eat pig's trotters stewed with soybeans every day. I heard that this milk will be enough!"
"Okay, okay, let's wait until we finish these four cans!"
Cheng Xuemin nodded repeatedly, did he want enough milk? What he wants is to cut off this kid's breast milk and drink milk powder directly, okay?
This boy occupies the big granary all day long, and the Feng family feels sorry for her son. She is really reluctant to let Cheng Xuemin greedy for milk!
That’s it!
Why don't we quickly wean this kid and free the big granary?
Target!
I was weaned when I was one month old, and my mother was also in her confinement period.
The days passed like this. After secretly receiving 6,000 yuan in foreign currency coupons from his father-in-law's foreign language publishing bureau, Cheng Xuemin hardly left the house.
He didn't even go to Yanda at all. There were no formal courses arranged for him in the first place.
In addition to the three-month delay in going south to express condolences, this semester is basically over!
There are still a few months left, so I might as well just take a long vacation at home, saying it is to prepare for the exam, but in fact I am still helping my sister and the others sprint.
By the way, Cheng Xuemin also calmed down and worked on the manuscript!
There are indeed many manuscripts in hand, so I have to prioritize them carefully.
Cheng Xuemin has already started writing "Garlands Under the Mountains" on the side of the General Political Department, and has written tens of thousands of words;
Cheng Xuemin has almost completed two volumes of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" comic strip from the Humanities Society;
Chen Shumin was embarrassed to urge me to write "My Years in the Corps," but Cheng Xuemin was also ready to write it.
Before going south to offer condolences, the "The Fission of the Qin Empire" promised to People's Literature must be placed after the college entrance examination.
The other mother-in-law's "Today" and Li Qingquan's "Yenjing Literature" have previously requested manuscripts from Cheng Xuemin, but they have been missed for several issues, so I might as well continue to miss two issues and then slow down.
Feng Jiayou also received several letters of invitation from "Harvest" and "Shanghai Literature and Art" in Shanghai during Cheng Xuemin's absence.
Apparently, those in Shanghai didn't know that Cheng Xuemin had gone south to offer condolences.
Feng Jiayou didn't reply to the letter, thinking that her man would come back from the northwest after filming "Wrangler" and it would be almost the same.
But who knew it would last three months!
In addition to the invitation letter, both of them recently sent a letter of introduction!
Won an award!
Cheng Xuemin's "Female College Student Dormitory" published in "Shanghai Literature and Art" and "The Traitor" published in "Harvest" both won awards!
The people from Shanghai sent a letter of introduction and asked Cheng Xuemin to take the letter of introduction to the selection office of the Humanities Society so that he could register in advance to participate in the awards ceremony on the 15th of this month.
Looking at the letters of introduction that were sent to him, Cheng Xuemin couldn’t laugh or cry. He actually won all the awards!
If this were added to a few other articles...
Needless to say, this award ceremony was specially held for him, Cheng Xuemin! ?
Immediately, Cheng Xuemin took the time to reply to everyone in Shanghai, explaining the situation!
There may be no manuscripts in the near future, maybe in the second half of the year at the earliest. At the same time, they were invited to Yanjing to participate in the awards ceremony.
I also received a letter from Lu Yao, the editor of Yanhe Literature in my hometown. It was not a letter of invitation, but also a letter of introduction!
It is said that Cheng Xuemin published "Loess Plateau" on their website. They submitted it to the first national outstanding short story selection this year and was selected for the Excellence Award!
Write a letter to inform Cheng Xuemin that he has won the award. The letter of introduction is for Cheng Xuemin to report to the selection office of the Humanities Society with the letter of introduction. He must remember to attend the award ceremony.
Of course, these are all just to say hello.
After all, Cheng Xuemin was the pioneer in reforming the inscriptions appointed by his superiors. The winning work this time was definitely not just their "Loess Plateau".
Lu Yao also mentioned that their other editor Jia Gaoping also won an award for his article published in "Shanghai Literature and Art" last year!
At that time, he and Lao Hu will accompany Lao Jia to receive the award and pay him a visit by the way!
Lu Yao, Jia Gaoping and Lao Hu are coming to Yanjing to receive the award?
After learning the news, Cheng Xuemin wrote back to them as soon as possible, saying that the letter of introduction had been received, and at the same time, he expressed his warm welcome and expectation for their arrival.
only!
Cheng Xuemin felt that Lao Lu and the others might not receive his letter.
Because they wrote to Cheng Xuemin at the beginning of last month, and it was already around May 10 when Feng Jiayou received the letter.
When Cheng Xuemin comes back and writes a letter, he will not be able to reach Chang'an in northern Shaanxi until June 10th.
But this time the awards are scheduled for June 15th, they may have already left early and set off for Yanjing!
But it doesn't matter whether he can receive it or not. Cheng Xuemin has sent out all his letters, can he still get it back again?
They will come over then and just explain it in person!
If you think about it this way!
All of the several articles Cheng Xuemin published outside actually won awards, including three!
They are "Female College Student Dormitory" by Shanghai Literature, "The Traitor" by "Harvest", and "Loess Plateau" by Yanhe Literature.
Yanjing hasn’t counted yet!
"The Wrangler" published in "Yenjing Literature" and "The Taking of Director Qiao" in People's Literature, these two articles must have won awards!
There is also "The Heart of an Inch of Grass" published in "Yanjing Literature". I don't know if it won an award. This was also published in December 1978.
As for other "Chen Huansheng's Entry into the City" published in "Harvest" and "New Year's Greetings" by Mother-in-Law in "October", although they are short stories and the response is not small, those published in January this year are counted as 1979!
If you want to evaluate, you have to wait until this time next year to get the results.
There are also several novellas published this year. Because this year’s selection is for outstanding short stories, they cannot participate in the selection.
Even if there is a selection of excellent novellas, Cheng Xuemin will not be able to catch up with this year's selection, because several of his novellas began to be published one after another after January this year.
If you want to comment, you have to wait until next year!
Moreover, starting from next year, the selection of national outstanding novellas will indeed begin, and Cheng Xuemin will also win awards and be soft-hearted!
I stayed at home for three or four days while helping my second sister-in-law and the others to review and write manuscripts!
The celebration party held by the General Political Department for the condolences group going south also arrived as scheduled!
Cheng Xuemin, as the number one contributor to this trip south to offer condolences, would definitely go there to participate.
Not only do you have to participate, you may even be arranged to perform in a theatrical performance!
What can be taken out may be the song that he wrote the lyrics and composed the music himself, and it has now been spread all over the country.
Even my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo sings almost every day!
At the end of today, Cheng Xuemin had to go on stage to sing this song again.
…
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)