1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 110 Wife, can you please listen to my excuse? !
When Cheng Xuemin and his wife came back, it was actually already very late!
When they entered the house, except for Feng's mother, everyone else, including her sister-in-law Feng Jiamo, who got home the latest from school, had returned!
The eldest sister-in-law Ke Yumei was helping to cook dinner in the kitchen, while the second sister-in-law Sun Juan was teaching her daughter and son in the house.

"Xuemin, are you free tomorrow?" Brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao greeted Cheng Xuemin and said, "Old Xie is almost done. Our Yanying Film Studio wants to talk to you, the author and screenwriter, in person!"

"Hello, big brother. Tomorrow, right?" Cheng Xuemin nodded and said, "Okay, there shouldn't be anything to do tomorrow. Call me tomorrow morning!"

Director Xie Jin wanted to work on the storyboards himself, and I heard that he stayed in seclusion in the Yanying Studio guesthouse all day long.

He kept urging Cheng Xuemin to find time and join him in retreat, saying that inspiration comes from collisions and is better to communicate face to face.

However, Cheng Xuemin has been busy with the atomic bomb these days. How could he have the time to accompany an old man like Xie Jin in his retreat?

"Dad, the manuscript has been published in People's Literature as a sample, and it has been reviewed by Mr. Wu. It will be published tomorrow morning!"

After entering the main hall, Cheng Xuemin mentioned to his father-in-law, Mr. Feng, what happened during his visit to Renwen Society today.

"Mr. Wu has approved it, right? If it's published in the newspaper tomorrow, then the first edition should have come out from the printing factory by now!"

Father Feng put down the newspaper in his hand, nodded, estimated, and said!

Because it has to be published in the newspaper tomorrow morning, People's Literature has already started printing at full capacity this afternoon, and it will have to be packed out of the factory and sent to the railway station in the evening to be shipped to all parts of the country.

After all, People's Literature has the word "people" in its title, and it is national in scope, and is not only published and sold in Yanjing.

"Also, Mr. Wu has also approved the October article. He will reprint the article in the supplementary edition next Monday!"

Cheng Xuemin continued.

"Huh? Really?!"

Father Feng was stunned. He had never expected such news. He soon understood and said with a smile, "It seems that your mother and Lao Liu had the opportunity to publish the new issue thanks to you. It can be said that their happiness was not in vain!"

They are all smart people in the industry. Now that "October" has just resumed publication, its influence has not yet been fully spread. Under such circumstances, there will be almost no opportunity to increase the number of issues!

After all, whether the magazine increases the number of issues or not involves a lot of funds, and the magazine cannot make the decision on its own and needs to ask for instructions from the higher authorities.

Only after approval can additional issues be published, and all funds for publication will be in place.

Otherwise, if he wanted to add more issues, Liu Xinwu would have to pay for it out of his own pocket.

Pay out of pocket?

The funds needed for an additional issue, just the royalties for the author, are as high as several thousand, and there are other expenses such as proofreading, printing, transportation, etc. It is impossible to get it without tens of thousands of dollars.

Therefore, without support from above, we feel powerless.

Now Cheng Xuemin suddenly said that Mr. Wu had approved the October publication and that the article could be reprinted, and the time was set for next Monday.

That was obviously all thanks to Cheng Xuemin. From now on, his mother and Lao Liu will have to thank him for this!
"I think so too!"

Cheng Xuemin didn't talk much. After chatting with his father-in-law for a few words, he went back to his room.

While Feng Jiayou was helping in the kitchen, Cheng Xuemin quickly hid the 300 yuan illustration fee into his own little piggy bank!
"Big Boss Cheng, please help me analyze this question... Big Boss Cheng, what are you doing secretly behind my sister's back?"

Just when Cheng Xuemin was about to stuff the "Marxism-Leninism" containing the private money back into the library, his sister-in-law Feng Jiamo suddenly rushed in and shouted behind him.

"Ah! Jiamo! How can you walk without making any noise, cat-like person?!"

Cheng Xuemin was really frightened this time, and kept saying, "Besides, you came in without knocking, be careful your sister will scold you!"

He casually stuffed the "Marxism-Leninism" in his hand into the library!

"Master Cheng, you are being sneaky and you blame me?!" Feng Jiamo took a look at the book "Marxism-Leninism" that Cheng Xuemin stuffed in his eyes. A sly look flashed in his eyes. He didn't say anything else. Instead, he threw the review materials on the desk and said, "Take a look. Help me analyze how to solve this problem?"

Mathematical geometry is my sister-in-law’s weak point, maybe all girls are like this.

But that's it! It's just a basic math test at the level of a junior high school student or a senior high school student. This is really just a drop in the bucket for Cheng Xuemin.

Plus, after he was reborn, it seemed like his brain was undergoing a secondary development, so awesome!
Now Cheng Xuemin learns everything quickly. He can read three lines at a glance, which is the legendary way of having a photographic memory.

For exam questions my sister-in-law asked me about, I could just glance at them and get the answers quickly, just like scanning on Homework Helper.

Just take a quick glance and all the answers, right or wrong, will appear.

"You can't even answer such a simple question? You spend all your time meditating and cultivating in school!?"

"Come on, give me the pen!"

Cheng Xuemin looked down on his sister-in-law, snatched the newly bought pen from her, and casually drew an auxiliary line on the cube!

"No, no, no, don't use a pen to draw auxiliary lines! Don't we have pencils?" Sister-in-law Feng Jiamo saw that Elder Cheng casually drew an auxiliary line on her test paper, not using a dotted line but also using a pen. She said anxiously, "If this is drawn wrong, how can I correct it?"

"Draw it wrong?!"

Cheng Xuemin immediately felt that his authority was wantonly provoked and insulted by his sister-in-law, so he impatiently drove her away and said, "Go, go, go, go and ask for advice somewhere else so that you can draw correctly. I'm busy now!"

"Tsk, just go, I'll tell my sister, Boss Cheng, you're a whore now, how dare you not teach me and help me with my homework!"

This time, the sister-in-law Feng Jiamo was very playful and stuck out her tongue at Cheng Xuemin, asking him to wait for her to go to her sister to complain. It was rare that she did not continue to pester him.

"Tsk, I have a receipt for over 2,000 yuan worth of royalties in my hand, and I haven't told your sister yet. How can I be afraid that you will complain?"

"Believe it or not, your sister will also have to kneel down later!"

After driving his sister-in-law away, Cheng Xuemin also laughed and cursed in a low voice behind her.

Now, tonight, he, Cheng Xuemin, is the boss in front of the young sisters of the Feng family!

He then took out all the royalties that he was going to hand over to Feng Jiayou from his pocket and put them away until the evening, to give Feng Jiayou a little stimulation.

In order to stimulate her, Cheng Xuemin didn't say a word to Feng Jiayousong on the way home that he had received the manuscript fee bills today, and there was more than one.

I have to go to the bookstore to buy some rough paper later. Now I have to help Renwen Publishing House and Yenching Literature to draw illustrations, so I have to prepare some rough paper for illustrations.

And he had to do it behind Feng Jiayou's back, after all, it was a private job that couldn't be made public.

Not long after, mother-in-law Feng's mother also came back, and the kitchen also called for dinner. Cheng Xuemin packed up and went out. He happened to see Feng Jiamo's sister-in-law, who was whispering something with her sister Feng Jiayou. From time to time, the two sisters would come to him for whoredom!

You want to complain? Go ahead and complain!
Anyway, Cheng Xuemin has two thousand dollars in his hand, so no matter how big a complaint the sister-in-law makes, her sister will still have to kneel tonight.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin was actually looking forward to what his sister-in-law would say against him, and it would be best to warm up and stimulate her sister in advance.

Wouldn’t it be more exciting if it were reversed this way!

At the dinner table, Feng's mother was still smiling as she talked to Feng's father about the extra issue of her unit today. She also said that the extra issue was made possible thanks to her son-in-law Cheng Xuemin, and that Old Liu was going to come to their house to thank him in person.

But he has to oversee the production of sample issues at night, so he doesn't have time to come!

What could Cheng Xuemin say? He was definitely polite!
"By the way, Lao Liu wanted to return the manuscript fee to you, but I didn't let him!"

"Lao Liu opened another one for you later, keep it!"

Feng's mother handed the manuscript fee receipt in her pocket to... Cheng Xuemin!

Yes!

In the past, the royalty receipts she brought back were usually given to her daughter Feng Jiayou, but today was completely different!
For the first time ever, he bypassed her daughter and handed the manuscript fee receipt directly to Cheng Xuemin!
This signal...the family's status has risen again!
"Mom, is there another bill for the manuscript? Let me see it!"

But before Cheng Xuemin could make his move, Feng Jiayou, who was standing next to him, was quick-witted and snatched the manuscript fee slip from the table. He grinned at Cheng Xuemin and said, "Haven't you already given me this manuscript? Why are you giving it to me again?"

Then I looked at the payment slip in my hand to see how much it was!
"People's Literature gave me another one today, and it's also priced at 7 yuan per thousand words, so when I stopped by my mom's workplace, I returned that one to Teacher Liu!"

Cheng Xuemin explained to his money-obsessed woman.

"People's Literature also gave it?! Then I really have to return the royalties to my mother, October!" Although he was a money-grubber, he knew that he couldn't accept double the money. Feng Jiayou nodded and looked at the royalty receipt in his hand, and asked, "One hundred and twenty-one yuan?"

Feng Jiayou went over the amount of the royalties several times but still couldn't figure it out. Which article was the royalties for?
"For the reprint of our October extra issue, Lao Liu paid the highest reprint fee in the industry, four yuan per thousand words!"

Mother Feng glared at her debt collector in annoyance, secretly blaming her debt collector for being too quick. After all, you, a man, should at least let him pass first. How could he just snatch it directly?

"Four dollars per thousand words? Old Liu is really generous this time! He was always stingy with his royalties before, but this time he's giving it away!"

Feng Jiayou was smiling so happily. He didn't expect that he could receive reprint fees for an article. How could he not be happy!
"You are the only ones who think that what we paid in October was too little. It's the industry standard for royalties. There's no such thing as rare or not rare!"

Feng's mother couldn't bear to hear her debt collector say such things. If she hadn't been behind the scenes and instigated her husband to join Yenching Literature, her son-in-law's article "The Shepherd" would have been their October publication long ago!

If what they published last month in October was their son-in-law’s first reflective article on literature, “The Horse Herder”, and the first draft became popular along with their influence in October, it would definitely have gone up as well!
As for this atomic bomb, Mr. Wu can’t use the excuse of lack of influence, so he has to replace someone else and send the charge first!

If this atomic bomb was released exclusively in October, combined with the influence of "The Horse Shepherd" before it, Feng's mother could not imagine to what heights their influence in October would be pushed by her son-in-law.

Sadly, that’s all I think about it!
Therefore, whenever Feng Jiayou, the debt collector, said that October was bad in this way or that way and was stingy, she would be very unhappy.

"Yes, yes, it's my fault, it's all my fault. From now on, whenever Xuemin publishes a new manuscript, I will send it to your room immediately. Is that okay?"

Feng Jiayou happily collected the manuscript fee, ignoring the eager look from her younger sister Feng Jiamo next to her, and then coaxed her mother with something.

"Don't just stare at Xuemin, what about yourself?!"

"You said you would give me the manuscript this month. Where is your own manuscript? I haven't read a single word of it yet. You are a Chinese major at Yanda University. Aren't you ashamed?"

The debt collector was a liar and Feng's mother refused to believe him no matter what!

Also, don't stare at and exploit your man all day long. At least combine work and rest. Haste makes waste. They have an atomic bomb in the October supplement, so there is no rush for the next issue. Your son-in-law has plenty of time to think about it slowly!
I will try to publish another article about Big Satellite, and let them also exclusively release a Big Satellite in October!

"Hehe, are you writing?" Feng Jiayou collapsed on the spot when he heard that, and tried to argue, "I just submitted a manuscript to Yanjing Literature. I have to think about the new manuscript carefully first, don't you think so? "

"Okay, then take your time to think about it and try to get it in the next issue! That way, you two can publish at the same time, and it will be a good story of husband and wife singing in unison!"

Feng's mother also started to worry. This son-in-law is too outstanding!
Before, she completely looked down on this uneducated son-in-law, thinking that her daughter was a top student in the Chinese Department of Yan University, and that an illiterate man was not worthy of her, so she had complaints about everything.

But now the situation is reversed. This son-in-law has become so dazzling and outstanding that Feng's mother is now beginning to worry that her debt collectors can't keep up.

Therefore, we must strictly control this debt collector and must catch him and chase him.

Whether you can catch up or not is not the question now, but you must catch up. It doesn’t matter if you are one step slower or two steps slower. The thing to be afraid of is that if you are one step slower, you will be slower every step and will never catch up, and the gap will get bigger and bigger!
So, don’t think that just because her man can earn royalties, she can just sit back and relax.

"Really?! Mom, are you really going to include our manuscripts in the next issue?!" Feng Jiayou's eyes lit up when he heard that. He was so surprised and delighted.

"The premise is that your manuscript must be solid and there is nothing wrong with it. Otherwise, people will say that October was opened by our family and got in through the back door. I will make you pay!"

Feng's mother continued to glare at the debt collector and told him not to write anything casually to fool the ghost.

"Okay, okay, with your son-in-law by your side to help you with your writing, how bad can your daughter's manuscript be?"

"I always get the votes I cast for Yenching Literature. Isn't that amazing?!"

Feng Jiayou started getting carried away before he even started writing the manuscript!

"Yen Jing Literature, Yen Jing Literature, could you please mention it less? Otherwise, you might as well just live in Yen Jing Literature!"

Uh!
As she was talking, she started to lose her temper again. She is really like a mother-in-law. This is also a daily routine for them!

After dinner, Cheng Xuemin came back to the house from outside to get hot water, and saw his sister-in-law Feng Jiamo and her sister, the cat, together again!

"Xuemin, Jiamo just said that you are doing something behind my back, is that true?!"

Feng Jiayou fixed his eyes on Cheng Xuemin and asked with a smile!

"No, Jiayou, don't listen to her nonsense. She must have just complained that I didn't help her with her homework, right? "

When Cheng Xuemin heard that it was indeed his sister-in-law who complained, he quickly explained and questioned Feng Jiamo, "Don't worry about it. I just want to ask if I helped you draw that auxiliary line, right?"

"Big Boss Cheng, let's not talk about whether the auxiliary line is right or wrong. Just tell my sister the truth and tell her what you have been hiding from her!"

"Just now you were alone in the room, and you were sneaking around!"

Feng Jiamo put his hands on his hips, glanced at Cheng Xuemin, and asked smugly!

"How can I be sneaky in my own room? Feng Jiamo, stop talking nonsense and ruining my reputation!"

"You're not going to admit it, are you?!"

"Sister, it's this copy of Marxism-Leninism. He was just hiding it. There must be something fishy in it!"

As they were talking, the sister-in-law Feng Jiamo took out the "Marxism-Leninism" that Cheng Xuemin had hidden in his secret treasury!
"No, my dear, listen to my explanation!"

In an instant, Cheng Xuemin's face changed drastically, and he tried to make excuses.

……

It’s the last day of this month, I’m still asking for monthly tickets, thank you!

(End of this chapter)