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Chapter 184: Xuemin, Give Us My Corps Years (Please Subscribe)
After the mother-in-law, Feng's mother, said this, the daughter-in-law, Feng Jiayou, looked at her husband again, and of course her eyes were full of small money.

She is supporting her man's career, so it doesn't matter whether she gets paid or not, as long as her man is happy, it's fine even if he gets it for free.

Unexpectedly!

The article her husband had already published could still be posted here.

Don’t say anything about reposting!

If possible, the royalties can be calculated based on the first release. Then based on seven yuan per thousand words, it would be a lot of money.

Because Feng Jiayou knew that her man's work "My Years in the Corps" was a long novel with more than 300,000 words.

For a word count of over 300,000, the price is 7 yuan per thousand words, which is more than 2,000 yuan.

At that time, her husband told Today that he didn't get any payment for the royalties he received for free. It would be impossible for Feng Jiayou, who was a money-grubber, to say that she didn't feel bad.

However, no matter how much you feel bad for your man, you still have to support his career unconditionally. Being a good wife requires this awareness.

But I didn’t expect it!
There was such a good thing waiting for them, and Feng Jiayou must have had ten thousand hopes in her heart, and her husband Laohan agreed immediately.

"Mom! I need to discuss this with Lao Chen later!"

"Although our Today magazine is a makeshift publication, we still need to ask for Old Chen's opinion before publishing our manuscripts here!"

Cheng Xuemin was also shocked when he heard what his mother-in-law said. Seeing his daughter-in-law kept winking at him, Cheng Xuemin pretended not to notice.

However, Cheng Xuemin also feels that whether it is to let his mother-in-law's "October" be reprinted or released first!

This is a good thing for both Cheng Xuemin and Today magazine.

Again!
Today magazine is just a start-up with an independent team and does not receive any financial support from above. The current situation is that there is no idea about the funding for the next issue.

So if I let my mother-in-law's October select a few good articles to reprint or first publish, that would be a disguised way of making some money, right?
Originally, they were not allowed to charge for the magazines they gave away; they were completely free to the readers.

But if the published article can be reprinted, the royalties earned can be fully used as the magazine's expenses.

As of now, it seems that only Cheng Xuemin's "My Years in the Corps" was favored by his mother-in-law, and Cheng Xuemin personally would definitely agree to reprint or publish it first.

Of course, this willingness is not the same as the one in the heart of his wife who keeps winking at him.

Because even though he authorized the work to his mother-in-law in October, Cheng Xuemin had no intention of taking the royalties home.

Instead, they planned to keep the money in the public account of Today magazine to be used as operating and printing expenses for the next issue of the magazine.

After all, asking individuals to pay for magazines out of their own pockets without being able to sell them is not a long-term solution.

Since Cheng Xuemin had given the manuscript to Today, he never thought about receiving royalties, so "using manuscripts to support the magazine" is not a bad idea, and he will try to make Today magazine go further.

After all, Cheng Xuemin really wanted to run Today magazine well and use it as his base after forming his own circle.

So life is a little bit difficult now!
As long as they can get through the first few issues and this year, perhaps the nationwide organization of magazines and newspapers by the end of this year, with each magazine or newspaper being responsible for its own profits and losses, will be a life-and-death challenge for the old magazines and newspapers, but for them, "Today", it is definitely an opportunity.

At the very least, we must increase our influence so that even if we are not formally recruited, we can still become a regular army.

Funding can also be obtained from other channels.

"That's right. Let's ask Old Chen what he thinks first!" Feng's mother nodded when she heard it, but did not ask her son-in-law to express his opinion on the spot.

"Mom, I've actually written a manuscript. I'll show it to you later!"

Cheng Xuemin has already paid tribute to the manuscript he prepared for his mother-in-law, which is also a short story of more than 40,000 words.

Now, Cheng Xuemin plans to give his mother-in-law a short story.

Even if the word count is more, it should be given as a short story.

As I said, my mother-in-law's "October" is a monthly magazine, which is not very suitable for serializing long or medium-length novels. It is better to give it to one-time short stories.

"Really?! Then turn around and show me!"

Now the mother-in-law was even more delighted and satisfied. This time the good son-in-law did not let her rush him and just prepared the manuscript for her obediently. Not bad.

"Xuemin, eat more vegetables! You usually have to take care of the family, tutor homework and write manuscripts, and now you are specially hired by Yanda to be a teacher. Look how thin you have become!"

When a mother-in-law feels sorry for her son-in-law, there is nothing to say.

Have you lost weight?

Not only his wife Feng Jiayou said that he had lost weight, but now even his mother-in-law noticed that he had lost weight?
impossible!

Cheng Xuemin now finds that he has started to gain fat around his waist, he must have gained weight.

Of course, if I really lost weight, it wasn’t because of the hard work of writing.

It's all because of your daughter Feng Jiayou that I lost weight.

But although Cheng Xuemin had evidence, he was not able to bring it out.

"Thank you, Mom! Actually, I haven't lost much weight. On the contrary, I feel a little fatter. The food you and your sisters-in-law cook is really delicious!"

No matter how many times flattery wears out, as long as the mother-in-law is happy, the whole family will be sunny and happy.

"Xuemin, you are right!"

"Then why don't we just count my mother's October issue as the first release? We can get more than 400 yuan in royalties, and then you will have a budget for the next issue!"

After dinner, Cheng Xuemin went back to his room and gave the written manuscript to his mother-in-law in the front yard to have a look, and then returned to his room.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law was already waiting here, Cheng Xuemin told her what he was thinking.

"My Years in the Military Corps" can be reprinted for her mother, but she may not be able to take the royalties to supplement her piggy bank. She talked about the funding situation of their "Today" magazine.

My wife was quite reasonable and nodded repeatedly to show her full support for him.

In order to get more funds for her man, she even "cheated" her mother's "October" and let her mother's October reprint it as the first release.

The first release costs seven yuan per thousand words, while the reprinted version costs only four yuan per thousand words, a difference of three yuan. The price of one issue differs by more than one hundred yuan.

"Thank you, my wife, for your understanding and support!"

Cheng Xuemin kissed the woman's dimple and smiled.

"Hey, old man, you... are you dirty..." Facing the sudden attack from his old man, Feng Jiayou pretended to be very disgusted and wiped the saliva off his face.

What? It’s only been a short while and you’re already starting to feel disgusted?

On the spot, Cheng Xuemin didn't care about anything and just grabbed the woman's little head and kissed her madly.

Feng Jiayou was extremely stunned and wanted to struggle away, but his body was too strong and he reacted violently.

But Cheng Xuemin knows when to stop and just have fun!

Feng Jiayou was so angry that she threw the pillow and told him to go and sleep on the nanmu bed outside and not on her warm kang.

This……

Normally, it is the woman who calls for a halt herself, telling people not to do anything too reckless and disturb the son in her belly.

How come Cheng Xuemin stopped on his own initiative today, but it became his fault and he still has to sleep in a separate bed?
Women, you are so double-standard!

You can sleep in separate beds if you want. Can a woman spoil you too much?
"Old man, I'm cold!"

But what made Cheng Xuemin speechless was that the cold quilt on his side had just warmed up, and the woman on the warm kang inside had not yet gone to bed, and she actually told him that she was cold.

How can this be?

Before going to bed every day, Cheng Xuemin would heat up the kang, making it very hot.

How could it be cold?
Could it be that the woman caught a cold and became sick?

The woman cried out that she was cold, and Cheng Xuemin was so frightened that he quickly came over and asked, "Wife, the kang is so hot. Why are you cold? Where are you cold? Are you catching a cold?"

After saying that, he nervously touched the woman's forehead. "Hehe, I just feel cold. I feel cold without an old man around!"

But before Cheng Xuemin could say that her forehead wasn't hot, the woman hugged her tightly and started acting coquettishly.

Row!
Feng Jiayou, you're almost a mother, and you're still so naughty!

……

"Xuemin, are you nervous?"

As soon as Feng Jiayou woke up in the morning, she began to pick up the clothes for Cheng Xuemin. With a blush on her cheeks, she said, "Today is your first public class after being specially hired!"

"I heard that not only all the teachers and students in our department will attend the class, but also the students and teachers from other departments will attend!"

Knowing this situation, not to mention the old man himself, even his daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou should not be too nervous.

"Wife, I think you are the one who is nervous, right?"

Cheng Xuemin smiled and joked about his daughter-in-law.

"How could that be?! How could I be nervous? What should I be nervous about?"

Feng Jiayou gave Cheng Xuemin a charming look and said in a relaxed and nonchalant manner.

"is it?"

"So you buttoned my buttons wrongly, and you buttoned them again, and now you button them wrong again, right?"

The woman prepared a Zhongshan suit for Cheng Xuemin, but when she helped him button it, she made the mistakes over and over again. And she still said that she was not nervous?
"Oh, did you tie it wrong again? Xuemin, why didn't you remind me earlier?"

Feng Jiayou's little nervousness was seen through by her own man, and she became furious and blamed Cheng Xuemin for not reminding her earlier.

"Brother-in-law, your class is the first class this afternoon, right?"

As soon as he cleaned up the place, his sister-in-law Feng Jiamo asked him a question.

"Yes! Your brother-in-law's class is the first period in the afternoon. What's the matter? Feng Jiamo, why are you asking this?"

Feng Jiayou, who followed out, asked her sister.

"Of course I'll go there to attend class in the afternoon!" Feng Jiamo said as a matter of course.

"Why would you, a high school student, go to that class? Don't you have classes in the afternoon?"

Feng Jiayou directly retorted to her sister that her man’s first open class was already lively and crowded.

Why is Feng Jiamo, a high school student, joining in the fun?

"Uh...that's right! Sister, I'll just ask!"

Feng Jiamo also reacted, her cunning eyes disappeared, and she quickly shook her head and said.

"Sister-in-law, sister, my brother is giving an open class this afternoon. How about we go and listen to the class?"

"I've never seen my brother giving a lecture in class. What does he look like?"

After listening to the conversation between the two youngest sisters of the Feng family, cousin Qin Xiaolian also joined in the discussion and made a suggestion along with her second sister-in-law Sun Juan and cousin Cheng Wenxiu.

"What's so good about listening to Xuemin's class?!" Sister Cheng Wenxiu said indifferently.

"It sounds good!" Qin Xiaolian whispered, "Sister, I heard from my mother that many students in her school are eager to listen to my class!"

"Don't listen to Jiamo's words just now: she told me last night that they were going to skip class and attend the class!"

Very good, sister!
The whispers I just said under the covers last night were sold out early this morning.

Cheng Xuemin was unaware of his cousin's whispers and went to the front yard to have breakfast.

"Xuemin, I've read yesterday's manuscript. It's getting better and better!"

The mother-in-law is becoming more and more proud of her son-in-law. She finished reading the manuscript overnight and gave her son-in-law feedback immediately this morning.

Then he said, "Xuemin, please tell Lao Chen as soon as possible. I will also send the manuscript to Lao Liu for review and let him choose one."

Another choice between two!

If possible, my mother-in-law, Feng's mother, would certainly hope that both manuscripts would be used.

Let Lao Liu also create a column for her son-in-law.

Before, her son-in-law Cheng Xuemin was a newcomer and not qualified to have a special column, but now!
Feng's mother, on the other hand, stopped pretending and promoted the best person regardless of relationship. She thought that if possible, both articles should be published in this issue without having to choose between the two.

Both manuscripts are over 60,000 words long, which together is exactly the number of words published in their October issue, which is just right.

"Okay, Mom. I'll go to the library later and talk to Lao Chen about this!"

Cheng Xuemin exchanged polite words with his mother-in-law, and after breakfast he went back to the backyard to arrange homework for his second sister-in-law and his elder sister for the day.

So he took Feng Jiayou to Yan University for classes on time.

After dropping the woman off downstairs in her classroom, Cheng Xuemin went directly to the faculty building.

After Cheng Xuemin was specially hired, although he was not required to clock in at the office on time, he would show his face every day when he sent Feng Jiayou over, as a sign of checking in.

"Good morning, Mr. Xie, good morning, Mr. Dong, good morning, Mr. Cheng..."

After entering the office, Cheng Xuemin greeted the teachers and professors who had already arrived.

"Good morning, Teacher Xiao Cheng!"

Old professor Xie Mian and others also nodded and responded politely.

"Xuemin, you know what? You might explode in this class!"

Cheng Yuzhu, the Chinese Department's head teacher, came up to Cheng Xuemin and shouted, "Don't make too much noise."

"Indeed, Teacher Cheng, I heard that not only our Yanda University, but also many students from Huaqing next door heard the news and came to listen to your class!"

Old professor Xie Mian also nodded and joked with Cheng Xuemin with a smile.

"Mr. Xie, it's not just Huaqing next door. I heard that students from the National Taiwan Normal University, Renmin University, and Beijing Film Academy all come here specifically to listen to the lectures of the Wrangler Xu and the reform pioneer Qiao!"

"More importantly, the article you just wrote, "My Years in the Corps," really touched the hearts of those students!"

"So they all heard about it and came to listen to your lecture!"

Teacher Dong next to him also said this.

"Yes, Xuemin! You also wrote 'My Corps Years'? Why did you publish it on 'Today'?! I've never heard of it before!"

"Such a good manuscript, what a waste!"

"Now I'm so anxious that the students are about to come over and ask for updates in person!"

Cheng Yuzhu was also teasing Cheng Xuemin.

After hearing what they said, Cheng Xuemin was dumbfounded. It was just an open class, there shouldn’t be such a big fuss, right?
Even students from Huaqing University next door and Masters University and Beijing Film Academy were alarmed and wanted to come over to attend the class?

And it is very likely that he will hand a pen to Cheng Xuemin in front of him, urging him to write and update the rest of "My Years in the Corps" as soon as possible.

It is really too cruel that Cheng Xuemin left a broken hook.

But it has to be ruthless.

It's not cruel. With the three or four-month update period of "Today", readers would have forgotten the previous content and left long ago.

So Old Cheng and the others reminded Cheng Xuemin that he needed to prepare for the open class in the afternoon.

……

Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)