Chapter 248: Lao Feng, something is wrong with you, why are you panicking? (Request full order)
At home, Cheng Xuemin chatted with his grandfather all afternoon, while Feng’s mother and grandma were in the house with the Feng family’s young mother and son.
The old sister, the second sister-in-law, and the others came back quite early today because they had the last subject of politics in the afternoon.
However, since the exam has just been completed, it will take two days before the results are available.
"Go, go, go, it's so hot, it's so hot, let me blow, let me blow!"
When my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo came back, she saw her nephew Feng Liwen, niece Feng Liqin, Qingwa and the others, blowing an electric fan and watching TV in front of the main room.
He rushed over, pushed the three little guys aside, and sat in front of the electric fan, holding the clothes in his hands and shaking them.
In an instant, a strong wind blew in front of him. Feng Jiamo enjoyed it greedily. He shouted without feeling too comfortable: "It's such a strong wind, so comfortable!"
"Is this an electric fan!?"
The elder sisters Cheng Wenxiu and Qin Xiaolian who were following behind also came up to feel the cool breeze blowing in front of them, so don't be too surprised.
"You three little guys have been playing all afternoon. Go watch your TV. I won't compete with you for the TV today!"
Seeing that the little niece and the others who had been driven away were squeezing in front of the electric fan to blow the wind, the Feng family began to drive them away again without politeness.
"Crack!"
The little niece Feng Liqin gave her a blank look and pressed a button with her little hand!
In a flash!
The electric fan that was originally destined to die in front of Feng Jiamo actually started to swing on its own!
"Huh? Liqin, you...which button did you press?"
Feng Jiamo was dumbfounded by his niece's manipulation.
I originally wanted to occupy the entire electric fan, but I didn't expect that the electric fan would automatically shake its head when my niece pressed it.
In an instant, everyone around could hit the electric fan!
"Tch, sister-in-law, there are a lot of things you don't understand!"
"As promised, I will give you my seat, and you are not allowed to compete with me and Li Wen Qingwa for the TV again!"
Feng Liqin should not be too arrogant and despise her sister-in-law Feng Jia's last sentence, she is simply invincible.
"Well?!"
Feng Jiamo was speechless and could only fiddle with the electric fan in his head.
Snap!
After pressing a button, the wind from the electric fan became noticeably smaller.
"Sister-in-law, this is the third gear, the wind speed is the lowest! You have to press the first gear, you are so stupid!"
Feeling that the wind was getting weaker, Feng Liqin scorned her sister-in-law again, which made Feng Jiamo roll his eyes in anger and kept trying the functions of several buttons on the electric fan.
The eldest uncle, second uncle and others in the back also had to ask how they bought this electric fan.
I heard that only overseas Chinese stores sell them, and with two to three hundred yuan of foreign exchange coupons, my family actually bought two of them directly?
Cheng Xuemin, who felt guilty, glanced at his father-in-law, Father Feng, and explained again.
At the dinner table in the evening, Cheng Xuemin mentioned to his family that his sister and Xiaolian would take the train back to northern Shaanxi tomorrow.
The whole family was shocked.
Feng's mother also kept complaining why she was so anxious all of a sudden? At least let Wenxiu and Xiaolian go back after the Dragon Boat Festival!
She didn't even prepare anything for them to take back!
About this!
Cheng Xuemin also explained that he was going back with Lao Hu and the others from Yanhe Literature. Lao Hu would be in the provincial capital and arrange for someone to escort the elder sister and the others back to the commune.
Feng's mother and the others suddenly understood and nodded. This was indeed a good idea.
Otherwise, the family would really not feel at ease if their elder sisters Wenxiu and Xiaolian were to go back like this. After all, it was their first time traveling alone, even back to northern Shaanxi.
"Xuemin, didn't you say that an electric fan costs a thousand yuan? I think I only gave you nine hundred yuan yesterday, right?"
It was only when Feng Jiayou had just had dinner that she learned that there was an electric fan in the front yard. Her husband bought two electric fans today.
But it seemed like she clearly gave Cheng Xuemin money for an electric fan last night!
"Yes, my wife, I haven't had time to tell you about this yet!"
Cheng Xuemin had already made up his mind. He was waiting for his wife to take the initiative to ask, so he quickly nodded and said, "What a coincidence, the price of the electric fans at the Overseas Chinese Store has actually been reduced!"
"Daughter-in-law, I added another 150 yuan to the nine hundred yuan you gave me, which can be exchanged for foreign exchange coupons to buy two electric fans!"
"Really?! The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the price of the electric fans in the overseas Chinese store can actually be reduced?"
Why does Feng Jiayou sound so suspicious?
Shouldn't it be that as the weather gets hotter, rare items like electric fans become more and more expensive?
Although our domestic prices are fixed and sold in fixed quantities, they do not include imported foreign goods in overseas Chinese stores.
The prices of imported items in overseas Chinese stores will fluctuate, mainly because the purchase price of imported items from outside fluctuates.
Therefore, Feng Jiayou was not wrong!
The imported items in overseas Chinese stores, unlike those in our department stores, are all priced at the same price across the country.
Even if the price needs to be adjusted, it will be adjusted uniformly from above.
Only the imported items in overseas Chinese stores have a different market price and can fluctuate by a factor or two at any time.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the price of electric fans has changed.
What makes Feng Jiayou unexpectedly suspicious is that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, shouldn't the price of electric fans become more and more expensive?
Why is the price reduced?
“This thing is stupid, and it only accepts foreign exchange coupons, so no one buys it at all!”
“So it’s normal to reduce the price!”
Cheng Xuemin teased the little guy on the bamboo mat bed, pretending to be very normal and calm, and replied without even raising his head.
"That's true!"
This reason was very strong. When Feng Jiayou heard this, he didn't think much about it. He teased his son together and said with a smile: "Look! Now let's look at how beautiful your son is. It's cool, right?"
There is an electric fan, the room is no longer so stuffy, and this little guy is not so restless. He is so well-behaved!
“That wife, I paid one hundred and fifty yuan!”
Seeing that Feng Jiayou didn't even mention a word about the one hundred and fifty yuan he had 'paid', Cheng Xuemin reminded him.
Woman, don’t pretend to be confused!
Although this is also a false account reported by Cheng Xuemin secretly, is it true that two electric fans were obtained for you and your mother?
Daughter-in-law, you can’t pretend to be ignorant. At least make up for the one hundred and fifty yuan that was falsely reported, right?
“Well, let’s talk about it later!”
Feng Jiayou pretended not to hear it, hummed softly, and will talk about it later!
"Then you have to remember, it's not easy for me to get some pocket money, I just spent it all here!"
Cheng Xuemin said bitterly, of course he reported this false account, and he never thought that the Feng family would reimburse him additionally.
What Cheng Xuemin wants is for the woman to know about this, to know that he paid for it with his own money, and to let her know that Cheng Xuemin really has no pocket money now!
The next day, Monday!
Those in the family who went to work went to work as usual, and those who went to school still went to school. Sister-in-law Feng Jiamo even took everyone's tasks and went to school happily.
The second sister-in-law and the others were all looking forward to Feng Jiamo going to school to inquire about their test scores.
"Dad! This is a manuscript for Lao Zhou. Please help me take it over!"
Cheng Xuemin finally finished the foreign language manuscript for Playboy last night. He secretly handed it to Feng's father early this morning and asked him to help take it to Lao Zhou of the Foreign Languages Publishing House.
"Did you finish writing?"
"good!"
Father Feng glanced at Cheng Xuemin in surprise, and quickly stuffed the manuscript into his briefcase, as if he was afraid that his family would see it.
No, no, no!
Seeing his father-in-law's reaction, Cheng Xuemin thought in his heart that it couldn't be like this, right? If you are so afraid of being discovered by your family, how much money have you made using foreign exchange coupons?
Just four or five hundred?
My father-in-law seemed to have said four or five hundred yuan last time, right?
But now Cheng Xuemin feels that it must be far more than that, otherwise he wouldn’t be hiding like this, right?
Cheng Xuemin has five to six thousand yuan in foreign exchange coupons and private money in a small treasury. He doesn't have such a guilty conscience. My father-in-law, you are really abnormal.
Of course, if you see it, don’t tell it!
Anyway, we are all in the same boat. We, husband and wife, can go along and cherish such a good time!
Wait until the incident comes to light one day...
We will both prosper and suffer, and no one can escape!
Furthermore, Cheng Xuemin also had a hunch that their incident might not be far away!
"Xiao Cui, you said this manuscript might have been written by Cheng Xuemin!?"
"He also submitted manuscripts to outsiders?"
At People's Literature, Xiao Cui held two foreign language magazines and placed them in front of Zhang Guangnian!
He whispered to Zhang Guangnian that the two foreign language manuscripts might have been written by Cheng Xuemin, which made Zhang Guangnian extremely surprised and asked questioningly.
Zhang Guangnian knew about the two magazines in front of him!
One is "Metropolitan" and the other is "Reader's Digest". They are both magazines from Lao Mi, and they are also the best-selling top magazines in the world.
Therefore, the manuscript requirements for these two magazines are also global and very, very difficult!
Anyway, as far as Zhang Guangnian knows, there are very few writers in our country who can meet their manuscript requirements.
certainly.
The fact that we rarely have manuscripts published does not mean that our writing is not good, but that the differences between Eastern and Western cultural texts are too big, and what we write is not suitable for others.
But now, Xiao Cui actually told him that the two foreign language manuscripts published in Metropolis and Reader's Digest were written by Cheng Xuemin?
When did Cheng Xuemin understand foreign languages?
And not only can I understand it, I can also write it!
Not only can you write, but you can also write so well that it can be published in the world's top publications like Metropolitan Reader's Digest?
Real or fake?
"Yes, Lao Zhang, yesterday I went to deliver application forms to Xuemin..."
"Old Zhang, I will only tell you this matter. Xuemin has repeatedly told you not to spread it outside!"
As expected, Xiao Cui, a fast-talking guy, only endured it for one night. He came to the work unit this morning and sold Cheng Xuemin directly!
Although I added a sentence at the end, asking Lao Zhang to keep it secret too!
But is this useful?
“Is it really written by Xuemin?!”
"He, he, he...he can actually write foreign language manuscripts? And he writes so well?"
"Xiao Cui, are you sure this is written by Xuemin?"
Zhang Guangnian quickly picked up the two magazines on the table and looked through the two manuscripts Xiao Cui pointed out, but they were all in foreign languages and he couldn't understand them!
“It should be!”
"Although Xuemin didn't say clearly yesterday what pseudonym he published the manuscript under, he did say that it was published in April this year!"
"I checked all the issues of Metropolis and Reader's Digest in the first half of this year, and only these two have submissions from our country!"
"Look, Lao Zhang, this should be Xuemin's pen name, I guessed it!"
"But I know this 'chian', and I'm also learning a foreign language. It means our 'China'!"
"'chian' China means that this manuscript was submitted and written by a Chinese writer. Isn't this exactly what Xuemin said?"
"And Lao Zhang, if you look at this manuscript, it also has the same pen name, and it also says 'chian', which means that the author is from the same writer in China!"
"One article is a coincidence, and both articles match up, so it must be written by Xuemin!"
Xiao Cui placed the two magazines in front of Zhang Guangnian and pointed out the foreign words with "chian" written on them to him.
"Is it really written by Xuemin?!"
After some analysis, the suspicious Zhang Guangnian was instantly convinced!
This must be the manuscript written by Cheng Xuemin, although he denied it in front of Xiao Cui yesterday and refused to admit it.
But Xiao Cui found these two manuscripts, and after comparing them, they all matched!
It’s all written by us!
However, the number of domestic writers who can publish foreign-language manuscripts in Metropolis and Reader's Digest is rare, and they may not be able to publish one in a year and a half.
In fact, Xiao Cui also read through all the issues of these two magazines in the first half of the year.
If 'chian' represents our country, except for the two articles translated by Xiao Cui, there really is no one.
So, this goes without saying!
These two foreign language manuscripts must have been written by Cheng Xuemin, and he said so himself.
Good guy!
Cheng Xuemin is so proficient in foreign languages that his foreign language manuscripts can be published by the world's top magazines such as Laomi's Metropolis and Reader's Digest!
Awesome!
Zhang Guangnian gave Cheng Xuemin a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart. He was so secretive!
Moreover, he published two foreign language articles one after another, and that guy was so calm that he didn’t say anything, as if he didn’t care at all!
“No! Didn’t we receive feedback from the Foreign Languages Publishing Administration?”
"Xuemin has published two foreign language manuscripts, and they were both published in top magazines such as Metropolis and Reader's Digest. The Foreign Languages Publishing Administration didn't say hello to our People's Literature?"
Soon, Zhang Guangnian reacted again!
Cheng Xuemin has always kept a low profile. No matter what he has achieved, he likes to publicize it!
But what does their foreign language bureau do for food?
They all have writers there, and they have published two foreign language manuscripts in succession, and they are also published in the world's top magazines such as Metropolis and Reader's Digest, but there is no movement at all from the Foreign Languages Publishing Administration?
There was no feedback or greeting to them at all, and no People's Literature was given to them. It seems that their Foreign Languages Publishing House is not so low-key, right?
"It seems, there shouldn't be one, right?" Xiao Cui was also confused by the question. He couldn't handle this matter, so how could he know? !
But even if he doesn't succeed, if there is feedback and greetings from the Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, not to mention their People's Literature, even the entire building including the Humanities Club upstairs will have to be alerted, right?
So there is no movement at all, it must mean there is no feedback to say hello!
“No?”
"How could it not be?"
Zhang Guangnian glanced at Xiao Cui in confusion, and stopped talking nonsense. He directly picked up the landline phone on his desk, answered the call and said, "Hello, call me the Foreign Languages Bureau...the Translation Office!"
When the call came into the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Zhang Guangnian didn't know for a moment which person in charge he should contact for this matter.
It just occurred to me that Cheng Xuemin and his father-in-law, Lao Feng, were from the International Publishing Group!
Moreover, the deputy director of the Translation Department of the Foreign Languages Publishing Administration that Lao Feng just mentioned not long ago has the same level and salary as Lao Zhang, so I still have to ask Lao Feng about this matter.
"Hello, I'm Feng Jingren, where are you?"
Soon the call was connected, and Lao Feng's questioning voice came from the phone.
"Old Feng, it's me, Zhang Guangnian!"
"Let me ask you something, Lao Feng! Your son-in-law Xuemin published a manuscript outside. Is this true?"
Zhang Guangnian went straight to the point and asked straight to the point.
"Ah?! Lao Zhang, do you know?"
"Ah! I know! But I just heard from Xiao Cui that your scholar has published two foreign language articles in Metropolis and Reader's Digest!"
"What? Why doesn't our People's Literature get feedback from you?!"
"It has been published outside. Should we translate it quickly and publish it as well?"
"By the way, Lao Feng, something is wrong with you! Your son-in-law has published two foreign language manuscripts, but you, the father-in-law, are not active at all. What's going on?"
"The Translation Office of the Foreign Languages Publishing House should quickly translate it so that we can help your son-in-law promote it. This is the world's top magazine. Xuemin has quietly released another big one for us!"
Zhang Guangnian was talking non-stop here, but Lao Feng on the opposite side was so anxious that he was breaking out in cold sweat!
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