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

Chapter 154 Crazy! My wife Feng Jiayou is completely crazy (please order the whole book)
"Xuemin, you're back? Have you eaten yet? Mom left some for you in the kitchen, it's still warm!"

Cheng Xuemin pushed the cart into the yard and found his wife Feng Jiayou and their two children sitting by the fire and watching TV in the main room in the front yard.

Seeing Cheng Xuemin coming in, the two little ones didn't even turn their heads back and called him "Uncle" in a very perfunctory manner. It was obvious that they were engrossed in watching TV!
Feng Jiayou quickly stood up and came forward with an expectant look on his face.

"My wife hasn't eaten yet! Where are my parents, brother and sister-in-law? I see all the couplets have been posted?"

"It's cold outside, don't come out!"

Cheng Xuemin parked his bicycle aside, took off the briefcase hanging on the front of the bicycle, and quickly hugged Feng Jiayou into the house.

“You didn’t eat?!”

"I thought that since you came back so late, Mr. Wu would invite you to have lunch!"

Feng Jiayou rubbed his hands together and breathed out hot air, saying, "Dad and Li Wenliqin finished pasting the couplets this morning!"

"Look, now they have some free time, so they all go out for a stroll!"

"Xuemin, please sit down. I'll go and bring out the food for you!"

After saying that, he went to the kitchen to help Cheng Xuemin bring the hot food in the pot.

"No, no, wife, I'll just go to the kitchen and eat by myself!"

How could Cheng Xuemin dare to let Feng Jiayou move around? In her current condition, if she could lie down, she must not sit; if she could sit, she must not stand.

As for other things, Cheng Xuemin would do what he could for her, and would help with what he couldn't do.

Let her run to the kitchen to serve food, for fear that this clumsy daughter-in-law might trip over the threshold.

Then he smiled and said, "Old Wu did want to keep us for lunch today, but I thought you must be waiting anxiously at home, so I didn't stay for lunch 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!"

When she heard that Mr. Wu actually invited her man to have lunch, she thought it must be a good thing, so she quickly followed and said.

At the same time, he took the briefcase handed to him by Cheng Xuemin, opened it and looked inside, but did not see anything unusual.

It was basically the materials she prepared for her man in the morning, nothing else.

He hurriedly asked anxiously, "What's going on? Xuemin, what did Mr. Wu say when he called you over today?"

"Wife, I thought you could endure it a little longer!"

Cheng Xuemin took the food out of the pot and laughed at Feng Jiayou.

Given Feng Jiayou's personality, he should have started asking questions as soon as he entered the door.

Unexpectedly!

After coming in, he didn't ask me whether I had eaten or not, but asked me to serve him the meal, and he never asked what happened today.

I thought my daughter-in-law had changed and could now keep her composure.

"Hurry up and tell me!" Feng Jiayou asked hurriedly with a grin, "Xuemin, you look so arrogant, are you grateful for Mr. Wu's praise?"

"Yes, yes, my wife, you are getting better and better. You always guessed it right!" Cheng Xuemin gave a thumbs up while eating, and continued jokingly with a smile, "Mr. Wu did praise your man today, but it was just a verbal praise. He didn't even give him a certificate!"

"Is there really a compliment?!"

"That shows that your article is really well written, Xuemin. Now even the Tianjin Daily has almost no news about it!"

Feng Jiayou’s chubby little face looks so beautiful when she smiles.

Don’t say it yet!
The daughter-in-law said that Cheng Xuemin had become thinner because of eating too much, but she was actually getting fatter and fatter.

But it's normal.

It would be really troublesome if pregnant women don’t eat well and can’t gain weight.

And just as Feng Jiayou said, ever since Cheng Xuemin published those four articles, there has been no movement from Tianjin, and there has been no further news!

Also, Mr. Wu suddenly called him over today and wanted to make a collection of his short stories.

He didn’t include other manuscripts, but only the one titled “The Traitor”!
Does this have a special meaning or something?
Anyway, on the way back, Cheng Xuemin thought about it again, and felt that there should be some deep meaning behind publishing these four manuscripts together?
However, Cheng Xuemin didn’t dare to think further, nor did he plan to think about it further. This had nothing to do with him.

Now everything has basically died down. Once the People's Daily supplement is published on the second day of the Chinese New Year, many people will definitely try to figure out the government's intentions.

"Don't worry, wait until I finish my meal, okay?"

Later, the daughter-in-law excitedly asked Cheng Xuemin about the details of the meeting with Mr. Wu today, what he said, and how he verbally praised him!
Cheng Xuemin became anxious again, thinking that his daughter-in-law was still the same daughter-in-law, she hadn't changed.

"Okay, okay, then Xuemin, you eat first and listen to me first, okay?"

Feng Jiayou nodded repeatedly, and her chubby cheeks had two dimples, which was so cute and smooth that Cheng Xuemin wanted to take a bite of it.

Feng Jiayou then said to Cheng Xuemin, "You didn't come back just now, I thought Mr. Wu invited you to dinner, so I went to the post office and called my parents to tell them that you were invited to Zhonghai for a meeting again!"

"After my parents heard the news, they really shouldn't be too excited. My uncle next to me should be the same..."

Has my wife called?
Cheng Xuemin also knew that he was still a little late for his return. Calculating the time, his daughter-in-law was afraid that his parents would be waiting anxiously, 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 call has been made!

He also obviously heard the reluctance of his parents back home and wanted to hear the voice of their son Cheng Xuemin.

So Feng Jiayou took the initiative and asked the two old people to buy New Year's goods first. When they were done and ready to return to the team, she would call back.

Because I knew that his parents were waiting for the call at noon, I waited for the whole morning after entering the commune and didn't even go out to buy New Year's goods.

That's why Feng Jiayou asked them to buy New Year's goods first, and agreed that she would call Cheng Xuemin again at three o'clock regardless of whether Cheng Xuemin came back or not.

Anyway, the long-distance calls are paid for here, so there is no need to worry about the old couple feeling bad about the phone bills.

Of course, Feng Jiayou was not sure whether there would be any charge for answering the phone calls.

There is also a charge for answering calls at the post office.

But his parents use the commune phone, which is a public phone, and there is an uncle who works for the government nearby, so he shouldn't charge a few cents to answer the phone, right?
"It's just that long-distance calls are hard to make. I don't know if I can get through when I get there later!"

"I just waited for more than half an hour before I got through!"

Immediately afterwards, Feng Jiayou mentioned this to Cheng Xuemin.

This one is really hard to beat!

It was difficult to make long-distance calls across provinces in that era. You had to keep connecting upstream, and after connecting to the switchboard in northern Shaanxi, you had to keep connecting downstream.

Their post office in Yanjing is fine, but for their rural commune in northern Shaanxi, just imagine how many transfers it would take to connect to the provincial switchboard?

So this is why Cheng Xuemin rarely calls home, even though there is a landline phone in their commune.

Most people still wrote letters. It took another three or four years for phone calls to become really convenient. After the liberalization, foreign technology was introduced and the automatic telephone exchange was put into operation. At that time, the telephone was automatically switched, and there was no need to manually plug in the lines one by one.

By then, maybe I can install a landline telephone at home, which will be convenient in the future!
"Wife, look at this!"

After finishing his meal and returning to his backyard, Cheng Xuemin took out the four-character inscription manuscript from a document in his briefcase and said.

"What?! Do you have a payment slip?" Feng Jiayou's eyes lit up and he asked slyly.

"Wife, can't you be more capable?"

Cheng Xuemin was completely speechless!

The money-grubber was still thinking about the bill for the manuscript. She must have been thinking about the bill when she rummaged through her briefcase just now.

But now, almost all the royalties from outside manuscripts have been collected, so where is the royalty receipt?

But my money-loving wife is right!

Logically speaking, shouldn't the fact that the People's Daily reprinted his four articles on a full page in this supplement also be considered a reprint and he should be paid for it?
One or two articles would be fine, but this time there are four!

The entire article adds up to more than 100,000 words. Even if it is reprinted at the lowest rate of three per thousand words, it is still more than 400 words.

If the People's Daily really wants to pay this manuscript fee, it would be very worthwhile for Cheng Xuemin to receive it.

More than four hundred yuan!
It’s enough for him to take back to the countryside in northern Shaanxi and present it to his parents as a filial gift, but he doesn’t want the old couple to get too happy and excited.

of course!

When Feng Jiayou planned to go back home to celebrate the New Year before the New Year, he asked Cheng Xuemin to bring back 1,000 yuan for the old couple to celebrate the New Year.

Therefore, Feng Jiayou, the daughter-in-law, had already prepared one thousand yuan in cash for her parents-in-law, waiting for Cheng Xuemin to bring it back during the New Year.

So when it comes to filial piety, my wife is impeccable.

Of course, it doesn’t matter whether the People’s Daily pays for reprinting the articles or not, but Lao Li Humanities Publishing House will definitely pay publishing fees for the collection of short stories it is going to publish!

The price of manuscript fee is the same as that of magazine, which is 7 yuan per thousand words.

I have received the royalties for the single volume of "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office", but I have not yet received the royalties for the next three manuscripts, whose total word count is more than 100,000 words.

Seven or eight hundred yuan!

However, Li Shuguang from Renwen Press did not mention the royalties today. It seems that we will have to wait until after the New Year!

"Yes, yes, yes! Xuemin, I am your wife and I am useless. I am indeed too superficial!"

"Then tell me, what exactly is it!?"

"A certificate of honor?!"

“Is it the same certificate as the one my parents received?”

Feng Jiayou gestured excitedly.

Because it’s the New Year, all units are issuing year-end bonus certificates.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Feng brought back a certificate this year, and even my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo brought back a certificate for being a three-good student.

As for the two younger children in the family, Feng Liqin and Feng Liwen, they both received award certificates during the winter vacation.

At that time, everyone used the certificate in their hands to exchange for 50 cents of bonus pocket money from their uncle Cheng Xuemin!
Moreover, her eldest brother, sister-in-law, and second sister-in-law all received awards.

It’s a pity that Cheng Xuemin’s repeat class did not have the award for three good students, otherwise he would have at least one.

It seems that Feng Jiayou’s Yan Da has not awarded any awards this semester!

So in the end, everyone in the family received certificates, except for the couple, who didn't get any.

This made Feng Jiayou, who loved to compare, feel a little unbalanced. She was originally a good student and a strong woman who was very competitive.

Therefore, if her man could bring back a certificate from Zhonghai today, it would really bring honor to their Feng family!

"This is……?"

"Ah! This is this is this... the words written by the old leader himself?"

When Feng Jiayou excitedly and expectantly took the manuscript paper handed over by Cheng Xuemin, he found out that it was not a certificate, and felt a little disappointed and suspicious.

But when he saw the four big words clearly on the manuscript paper, Feng Jiayou was stunned at first. Change to Pioneer?

Is this complimenting her man, verbally praising her man?

But wait until you see the signature next to it!

Feng Jiayou's eyes suddenly widened and he cried out in shock and disbelief.

"What do you think, my wife? This piece of paper of mine is much more impressive than the certificates of honor that my elder brother and his wife received, right?"

Cheng Xuemin scratched the girl's nose and just stared at the manuscript fee slip and award certificate. Isn't that vulgar and superficial?
"Really?! Xuemin, is it really the person who wrote the words?"

"Is this really a poem for you, Xuemin?"

Feng Jiayou's eyes were gleaming with excitement, but he still couldn't quite believe it. This honor was truly too shocking!

"How can it be fake?!"

Cheng Xuemin followed with a joking retort, "Can an inscription like this be faked?"
"Okay, okay, when my parents come back later and find out there's an inscription for you, don't be too dumbfounded!"

Feng Jiayou said yes repeatedly, already having an idea, and then said: "Wait a minute, my mom will definitely post this inscription right in the center of where they post the award certificates!"

"No, no, no, just sticking it up is not enough. My mother will definitely frame it and hang it high up in the most conspicuous place. That will definitely happen!"

The Feng family's little baby couldn't stop looking at the manuscript paper in his hand.

Then, with a tone of regret, he said, "It's a pity that there is neither your name nor your pen name on it!"

"There's just an inscription, but no one is told who it's for!"

Indeed, there are only four big characters and a signature, and there is no information about Cheng Xuemin at all on it, which is somewhat regrettable.

"You really want to frame it and hang it up?!"

After hearing this, Cheng Xuemin's mouth twitched. He actually guessed his daughter-in-law's reaction.

It’s not enough to stick it together with those award certificates, it also has to be framed and hung in the most conspicuous place!
"What else?! What are the questions above for you?"

Feng Jiayou looked so cute and gave Cheng Xuemin a seductive look. Even though there was no information about Cheng Xuemin's name, he was still a cute baby!
"This is for the cover of my short story collection!"

"Mr. Wu called me over today to instruct Renwen Press to compile all my manuscripts related to reform and opening up into a collection of short stories. This is the book cover that Mr. Wu asked for!"

"Moreover, this collection of short stories even invited Mr. Mao to write the preface!"

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(End of this chapter)