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

Chapter 124: Shock! My father-in-law is such a father-in-law?
Does my son-in-law have a new manuscript?

Feng's mother, who was listening in the kitchen, quickly wiped her hands on her apron and came out!
How could Li Xiaolin, who came from Shanghai, take away the good manuscript under his own nose? Even if he is a guest from afar, if you submit a manuscript, you are a competitor!
"Jiayou, is this really written by Xuemin?"

"You wrote so much?"

Li Xiaolin took the manuscript handed over by Feng Jiayou and found that the pen handwriting had not yet dried and the manuscript was several pages long. She couldn't help but ask in surprise again.

"Yes! Xuemin said that the novella he wrote earlier was not about the theme of 'reform and opening up'. He said that he had just come up with a new one recently, so he just wrote the beginning and let Sister Xiaolin take a look first!"

Feng Jiayou's eyes sparkled as he spoke to Li Xiaolin, but in his heart he was reminiscing about the article 'Parental Love'. He would have to urge for an update in the evening!
It's such a good manuscript, and it describes the love between his mother-in-law and father-in-law so well, why doesn't he dare to continue writing?
Could there be a 'knife' behind it?
Even if there is a "knife", Feng Jiayou, who is a rebellious person in Tiangang, also wants to see how her man uses the "knife"!

"Then I'd like to take a closer look!" Li Xiaolin nodded and muttered, "Is your Xuemin's hand speed so fast?"

"How long is it? It has to be three or four thousand words, right?"

Li Xiaolin flipped through the manuscript and estimated that the word count was at least three to four thousand, but how long had they been in there?
Got two hours?

"Hehe, Xuemin's hand speed is pretty good!"

Feng Jiayou responded modestly, thinking to himself that this is all... this is just the beginning!

You have really never seen his peak hand speed when he bursts out with all his strength. It is so terrifying and so cool.

Li Xiaolin nodded and did not say anything else. Instead, she concentrated on the manuscript in her hand.

"Chen Huansheng's Entry into the City"?
Li Xiaolin first glanced at the title of the article and roughly guessed that this article was about what the male protagonist saw and heard after entering the city.

But what does this have to do with reform and opening up?

Shouldn’t the themes of reform and opening up all be about the drastic reforms carried out in factories and the touching stories that took place?

"'Funnel Householder' Chen Huansheng, came to the city today."

After reading the first sentence, Li Xiaolin's mind was full of doubts. What does this "funnel householder" mean?
I didn’t ask the mother and daughter of Feng Jiayou who were around me. It might be useless to ask because the original author hasn’t come out yet.

Instead, continue reading with doubts!

"Just written?"

Feng's mother was also standing nearby. She glanced at the debt collector from her family, and when she saw Feng Jiayou nod slightly, she followed suit and looked too!

Before they knew it, the three women had been standing outside the yard reading the opening chapter of more than 4,000 words for nearly half an hour!

"Teacher Gu, what do you think of this manuscript?"

Li Xiaolin breathed a long sigh of relief, even though the manuscript had just begun and was not finished!
But from this, we can see that this is indeed a manuscript about reform and opening up.

It describes what Chen Huansheng, the owner of a funnel-shaped household, saw and heard when he came to the city. Through what the funnel-shaped householder saw and heard, it expresses the changes in the city after the reform and opening up.

At the same time, it was after the reform and opening up that Chen Huansheng, the owner of a funnel household, got rid of the label of a funnel householder through hard farming!
Li Xiaolin also understood what the funnel owner meant!
They are the hard-working families in rural areas who are in debt all year round.

The debt here does not refer to owing money, but the debt of grain. Farming every year and incurring debt every year.

"You only know that I don't have enough food to eat, but you don't know how much effort I have put in my life!"

The beginning of the article describes the suffering of the male host Chen Huansheng!

Li Xiaolin and Feng's mother may not be too touched by this funnel household owner. After all, when they were relocated, they went to a factory, not the vast countryside.

But this article about Chen Huansheng going to the city touched Feng Jiayou, a female educated youth who had returned to the city.

Because these educated youth were the ones who suffered the most from the daily hustle and bustle, they never got the full daily work points, and the food they were allocated at the end of the year was really not enough to eat.

There were quite a few educated youth who owed the production team hundreds of kilograms of food when they returned to the city.

Even Feng Jiayou, when he was about to pass the university entrance examination and return to the city, still owed Chengjiawan Brigade more than 90 kilograms of food, and had not paid it back yet!
So the article written by her man really touched her!
The sadness of these educated youth was truly written down on paper, which made Feng Jiayou's eyes red when she read it.

Fortunately, there is a turning point in the later part of the manuscript. After Chen Huansheng entered the city, he encountered a series of adventures after the reform and opening up, and finally took off the hat of the funnel household owner!
Of course, this was the play that Cheng Xuemin had just orally narrated to her in the room, and the script had not been written to that level yet.

"This manuscript... has only just been written, what can we expect from it?"

"Xiaolin, let's talk about the manuscript later. Let's eat first!"

Feng's mother rolled up the manuscript and spoke to Li Xiaolin as if she didn't care.

"Teacher Gu, why do I feel like you are trying to steal my manuscript?"

"Jiayou has told Xuemin that this manuscript should be given to us by Harvest!"

Colleagues are enemies!
Li Xiaolin is also a smart person. How could she not know what Feng's mother, Teacher Gu, is doing?
Just steal her manuscript openly!

At first glance, this manuscript is another representative manuscript about "reform and opening up". It is written from the perspective of a large farmer.

Completely breaking away from the framework of "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office", this is another breakthrough manuscript by his son-in-law. Li Xiaolin can see it, so how can his mother-in-law, Teacher Gu, not see it? !

She must be thinking of stealing her manuscript and publishing her "October". How could Li Xiaolin do that?

This is what her son-in-law said in front of her just now that he wrote "Harvest" for them. Why did her mother-in-law take the manuscript away after taking just one look at it and refuse to give it to them?

"Girl... it's just a beginning. If you think it's good, I'll give it to you. Is that okay?"

Feng's mother was so embarrassed and ashamed by Li Xiaolin's blunt revelation that she stuffed the manuscript in her hand back to her again!
How did the manuscript get stolen? Who stole the manuscript? Who stole whose manuscript?

You don’t know how hard it is for a mother-in-law to feel like this!

Her son-in-law has written so many articles and published so many influential articles, but not one of them was given to her, the mother-in-law!

We finally got an atomic bomb, but it was snatched away by Mr. Wu above and given to People's Literature.

Everyone says that Gu Xueqing has found a good son-in-law. Yes, he is a good son-in-law!
His mother-in-law asked him to write an article, but either he was not in the mood today or he did not have the inspiration tomorrow. He needed to find the inspirational state!
But as soon as the father and daughter, Mr. Ba from Shanghai, came over, their inspiration immediately exploded. In half a morning, they came up with another groundbreaking manuscript on the reform and opening up!

With such a son-in-law, who can I complain to?
If she talks too much, everyone will feel that Teacher Gu Xueqing is getting too proud and complacent.

With such an excellent and capable son-in-law, he will receive a steady stream of manuscripts in the future, but he still complains in front of them. Isn't that being arrogant?
"Hehe, Teacher Gu, your son-in-law is so outstanding, there will definitely be a steady stream of good manuscripts in the future!"

"Give me this one first, and I'll ask Xuemin to give you a few more later!"

"Anyway, I envy you, Teacher Gu. Whenever you need a manuscript, you have a good son-in-law by your side. It's so convenient to get materials locally!"

Li Xiaolin happily took the manuscript and complimented Feng's mother. Without waiting for Feng's mother to regret, she happily went back to the main room to show the manuscript to her father again and finalized it.

again!

After hearing this, Feng's mother felt even more upset. It made everyone think that Gu Xueqing had gotten so many of Cheng Xuemin's manuscripts for free!
But she really didn't have any, really not even one!
It’s not easy to tell Li Xiaolin in front of me!

She said that she gave her son-in-law to everyone except her, the mother-in-law.

"Mom, mom! Xuemin made a big one for you in the back!"

Feng Jiayou understood his mother's feelings best. Before she could explode at him, he quickly stepped forward, hugged her arm, and said, "Originally, the beginning of the novella written by Xuemin was going to be secretly submitted to Shanghai Literature and Art. It was the kind of story that was about crying over the poor!"

"But I just wrote the beginning of the manuscript, and it was so good that I couldn't bear to let him show it to others, so I asked him to finish writing another beginning at the last minute!"

"Such a good manuscript must be given to mom first!"

"Mom, don't you think so?"

Feng Jiayou rubbed up and down on her mother's arm, looking fawning and trying to please her. Her husband was really not a good man!
He secretly submitted so many manuscripts, but he didn't submit any to his mother-in-law's magazine "October".

The mother-in-law didn't explode now because the guests were still here and it was difficult to explode! But when the guests left, who knows what kind of earth-shattering will happen.

"Really?"

As expected, when she heard that her debt collector had snatched the best and left it to her, she felt a little relieved, her face relaxed a little, and she asked, "Really, really! Mom, I swear, if you read this manuscript, you will be moved to tears!"

"Mom, did you see that? I was so moved that my eyes turned red when I saw it just now!"

As she spoke, Feng Jiayou looked up mischievously and let her mother see her red eyes.

"Then show it to me later!"

Seeing that the debt collector was indeed jealous and had tears in the corners of his eyes, Feng's mother couldn't help but wonder what the novella was about. How could it be so beautiful and touching?
"Okay, okay, after we finish eating, I'll let Xuemin show you!"

Feng Jiayou nodded quickly. Her mother was in a very bad mood right now. Whatever she said would come true and no one dared to provoke or disobey her.

As for whether her mother will beat her son-in-law to death after watching "Parents' Love", that's another story to be told later!

Cheng Xuemin was standing at the window and just happened to see Feng Jiayou looking towards him. He blinked to indicate that everything was settled.

I don’t know how this woman managed to get her mother to like her!
Anyway, just now in the room, Cheng Xuemin was reminded by Feng Jiayou and realized that he had accidentally offended his mother-in-law!

Feng Jiayou even said bluntly that everyone changes their aliases when submitting articles, and no one knows who you are. Why don't you submit your articles to his mother-in-law, but have to go to Shanghai instead?
Cheng Xuemin also reacted and immediately knew that he was doomed. He was so scared that he reflected in the house on how to appease his mother-in-law. He asked Feng Jiayou to send out the manuscript first and wait for her signal.

Now that he had heard the signal, Cheng Xuemin dared to step out of the house. Feeling guilty, he glanced in the direction of his mother-in-law.

Seeing that his mother-in-law didn't say anything and went straight back to her kitchen, Cheng Xuemin breathed a sigh of relief and went into the main room.

"Xuemin, is this another new manuscript you wrote? Xiaolin said you just started writing it!?"

Mr. Ba had already read the manuscript. Seeing Cheng Xuemin coming in, he handed the manuscript to Mr. Tang next to him and asked Cheng Xuemin.

"Mr. Ba, I have been thinking about this manuscript for a while. Sister Xiaolin happened to come over today to ask for a manuscript, so I will write the beginning first and let Sister Xiaolin check it out!"

After Cheng Xuemin came in, he nodded and spoke out the speech he had prepared!

"Can you tell me about the rest?"

Upon hearing this, Ba Lao also nodded and asked Cheng Xuemin whether it was possible or not.

The beginning is indeed well written, but it is just a beginning. Mr. Ba still wants to know how the rest of the manuscript will be written?
Or maybe you want to know Cheng Xuemin’s creative ideas, how to elevate a large funnel household to the level that is linked to the direction of reform and opening up.

"Mr. Ba, it's OK!" Cheng Xuemin took over the conversation, nodded and continued, "This is my idea!"

"I want to use the protagonist Chen Huansheng's adventures in the city to portray the peasants in a period of social change. Although they are burdened with the heavy burden of historical inheritance and have difficulty walking, they finally take the first step towards a new life. This vividly summarizes the gratifying changes in rural real life and the tangible benefits brought to the majority of farmers by the adjustment of rural economic policies."

"After reading the beginning, Mr. Ba, you will know that Chen Huansheng in the article has already taken off the hat of 'funnel household owner', 'there is rice in the village and clothes in the cupboard', and he can even go to the city to sell agricultural and sideline products when he has time.

As his material life improved, he began to desire a spiritual life and hoped to improve his status in people's minds. So he always wanted to "encounter something that no one has ever experienced before". This thing finally happened to him when he went to the city!
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Chen Huansheng's spirit may be related to Ah Q in Lu Xun's works, which reflects the theme of the work. Through the serious exploration of Chen Huansheng's spiritual world, it reflects the deep thinking about the fate of my country's farmers and sublimates the changes and improvements in the lives of farmers brought about by the reform and opening up..."

In one breath, Cheng Xuemin expressed his original intention of paying tribute to "Chen Huansheng Goes into the City", as well as his thoughts and ideas on the article.

Upon hearing this, everyone present, including Ba Lao, Feng Fu, Chen Shumin, and Li Xiaolin, fell into deep thought. Even the old man Tang, who was looking at the manuscript, looked up in surprise and looked at Cheng Xuemin.

"it is good!"

After a long while, Ba Lao said the word "good" very sparingly, and then he continued, "Xuemin, your manuscript has a profound idea. I hope you can finish it as soon as possible so that I can take it back and respond to the instructions of the propaganda department and publish it in the newspaper in the middle of next month!"

“It can be considered as our first masterpiece of 1979!”

Each issue of "Harvest" is published in the middle of each month. If Cheng Xuemin can finish the manuscript as soon as possible, he should be able to catch up with the publication of the latest issue, which is the first issue of January 1979.

"Okay, Mr. Ba, I will write the manuscript as soon as possible and send it to you!"

Cheng Xuemin nodded. "Chen Huansheng's Entry into the City" is a short story with only 15,000 words in total, and Cheng Xuemin has already written nearly 5,000 words!

So I work overtime in the afternoon and evening, and I can finish the manuscript and mail it out tomorrow morning!

"Xuemin, how many days can you finish writing it? How many words are expected to be in it? If it's not too long and can be finished in one or two days, my dad and I can wait in Yanjing for another day or two!"

Seeing her father's high evaluation, she wanted to jump the queue and publish her work in the latest issue of "Harvest" as the first masterpiece of the next year. Li Xiaolin, who was listening nearby, was very moved and couldn't help asking Cheng Xuemin when he would finish the manuscript.

If time is tight, she would rather wait for two more days in Yanjing. Otherwise, if she waits for him to finish writing and then send it to Shanghai, she is afraid that it will be too late. After all, there are only two days left in the end of the month!

"Sister Xiaolin, the article isn't long, about 15,000 words! If I write quickly, I can hand it in tonight!"

"puff!"

This time, Ba Lao had just taken a sip of tea, but was choked by Cheng Xuemin's words and spat it out!
"Dad! Are you okay?"

"Ba Lao, are you okay?"

When Li Xiaolin and Feng's father saw this, they turned pale with fright and expressed their concern anxiously!
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay!" Ba Lao waved his hands and sighed in confusion, "Young people are to be feared!"

"Mr. Tang, Xuemin's hand speed reminds me of Mr. Huanzhu Louzhu!"

"Ahem, I thought so too! When I think of Mr. Huanzhu Louzhu in his past, this kid is just as arrogant as he is now, right?!"

More than 15,000 words, and the manuscript can be completed and submitted in the evening. Do you really think creation is as easy as drinking water?

Even if you have detailed ideas, you can only think about them in your head. If you really want to write them down...can you not be so arrogant?
Mr. Tang was so stupid that he couldn't help but shake his head and laugh!

"That's right!"

Ba Lao also clapped his hands and spoke to his old friend with a smile.

The manuscript issue was basically finalized. During lunch, Feng's mother asked Cheng Xuemin to go to the front yard and invite Mr. Qian to come and have a drink together!

When Mr. Qian came over and saw Mr. Ba and Mr. Tang, he was also confused!
He didn't expect these two big shots to enter his yard. How come he didn't hear any noise?
After three glasses of wine, the older generation started talking, and it was a different kind of drinking table culture. Anyway, the younger generation like Cheng Xuemin couldn't get a word in!

When they left after dinner, Li Xiaolin remembered to hand over the manuscript fee for "The Traitor" to Cheng Xuemin.
Cheng Xuemin passed her on to Feng Jiayou, who was so beautiful that women were unable to resist her!

"Xuemin, you handed in a lot of private money today, right?"

After seeing off Ba Lao and the others, Cheng Xuemin walked for a while with Feng's father and son-in-law. For the first time, Feng's father made a joke about his son-in-law and asked!

"Yes, there are nearly three thousand!"

Speaking of this private treasury, Cheng Xuemin felt miserable. He would definitely cry and complain in front of his father-in-law!
"How many?!"

Father Feng was stunned when he heard this. Aren't they just three manuscripts? And they were all short stories. At most, they would only be worth 500 or 600 yuan. Father Feng must have an idea of ​​the amount.

But unexpectedly, my son-in-law directly asked for nearly three thousand. What a joke!
"Dad, I have a little over three thousand!" Cheng Xuemin continued to cry bitterly, saying with a bit of exaggeration, "In addition to the few pocket money I saved from writing manuscripts, the bulk of my income comes from drawing comic books and illustrations for single-volume books, which is over two thousand!"

There are more than two thousand. Although the manuscript has not been submitted yet and she has not received the royalties, once it is exposed, it will all belong to your daughter!
"Xuemin, are you still drawing picture books and comic strips?!" Feng's father was also speechless after hearing this, thinking to himself, is this kid really that capable?
The articles are well-written, the scripts are flawless, and now even picture books and comic strips can be played?
"I just painted casually to change my mind and find some inspiration. It happened that Director Pan of Renwen Press thought it was good, so I submitted a few of my works!"

Cheng Xuemin said bitterly, now all of it has been used as dowry for your daughter, how miserable!

"Xuemin... take this! Don't tell Jiayou. It's safe. As long as you don't tell anyone, I won't tell anyone!"

Mr. Feng didn’t know how to comfort his son-in-law. As someone who has experienced this, he could only feel sympathy!

And let’s encourage each other!

"Dad, this is... a foreign exchange voucher?!"

When Cheng Xuemin opened the thing his father-in-law stuffed into him so mysteriously, he couldn't help but exclaimed!
"These are the royalties for reprinting The Horse Herder and Director Qiao's Taking Office. You can keep them for yourself. Your family and your mother don't know about this, so don't spread rumors!"

"Ah!? I know, I know, Dad, I understand, I understand, I understand everything!"

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(End of this chapter)