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

Chapter 22 is a bit long. Is it okay? I have revised it six times!

The next morning, Cheng Xuemin was awakened by the sound of Feng Jiayou arguing with her mother!
What's going on here!?

Cheng Xuemin crawled out of the warm bed and just in time saw Feng Jiayou coming in angrily from outside!
"What's the matter!?"

Cheng Xuemin pointed outside and gestured in a low voice.

"What else can I do? She is targeting me and trying to embarrass me on purpose!"

Feng Jiayou angrily threw the wash basin in his hand onto the shelf, and then shouted out of anger, "I won't change it! Whoever wants to change it can change it!"

Uh!
Is this another case of the manuscript being returned without approval? Isn’t the mother-in-law’s hand speed too fast? !

Feng Jiayou was a hard worker last night. He was very introverted and stayed up very late to make revisions.

Cheng Xuemin was worried that if she continued to make such changes, it would be bad for the development of the baby in her belly.

Advise her to take more rest and there is no rush to improve herself.

But the woman still revised the manuscript overnight and said she would send it to her mother early in the morning. She said it would definitely pass this time.

Who would have thought that the manuscript would be returned to me just as I was brushing my teeth?
Plus one for feeling sorry for the woman!

"Wife, why don't you also apply to Yanjing Literature?"

Cheng Xuemin also started to rebel, instigating Feng Jiayou to abandon her mother and join Yenching Literature.

Didn’t Feng Jiayou herself clamor before that she would not submit to her damn October Journal and would submit to Yenching Literature instead?
She asked Cheng Xuemin to join Yenching Literature last night, so she might as well join as well. After all, if one person betrays, it is betrayal, and if two people betray, it is also betrayal.

Cheng Xuemin was indeed afraid of her mother's high-intensity and almost harsh requirements for manuscripts!
"You don't want me to? I really regret it now!"

Feng Jiayou sat at the head of the bed, unrolled the manuscript that her mother had just returned to her, and took a look at it.

He crossed out several paragraphs with a big red pen and asked for changes!
Moreover, this is the latest to appear, and there was no requirement to change the previous paragraphs!

"Can't you just mark out for me what needs to be changed at once? You're just deliberately making things difficult for me by changing a few at a time!"

I'm so angry!
How can you review a manuscript like this? All the revision comments are not marked out at once. By the time she has finally finished revising these, new comments pop up in other places.

Her short story has only a little over 10,000 words in total, but she changed almost every paragraph and every word!

Moreover, the manuscripts were rejected in batches and revised! If this is not intentional embarrassment, then what is it?
"Yes, yes, I am deliberately making things difficult for you, is that okay?"

"Don't you even look at what you've changed?! You changed the front and ruined the back, the words don't make sense, they're not coherent, and it's full of redundant nonsense. If you don't read it through, you won't understand it!?"

"You blame me for not marking it right away. It's obviously you who are so stupid. I don't know how you got into Yanda University, and you're studying Chinese!"

Her mother's mouth is very sharp, the mother and daughter are completely in the same blood!
"Why is it so incoherent? It was obviously you who did it on purpose!"

Feng Jiayou was still trying to argue back, but when she read through the paragraphs that her mother had crossed out, she couldn't say anything more!
It was like this when I was revising the manuscript. Deleting one more word would be like cutting flesh and killing her. When I was revising the manuscript, I had the confidence that I would pass it this time.

But I am in this mountain and I don’t even know what I have changed into!

"Wife, calm down! I think this is pretty good. It's not as exaggerated as mom said. It's just a small problem. When I have time in school, I will help you polish the manuscript!"

Cheng Xuemin took the woman's manuscript and glanced at it. He had to say that his mother-in-law was indeed a professional and her review skills were quite good.

However, Cheng Xuemin is not that straight. He directly said to his wife, "Wife, your manuscript has indeed become worse and worse because of the revisions you made!"
Be more tactful!
Also, we can't let this woman suffer any more because of this article.

Cheng Xuemin was ready to help her revise the manuscript himself.

"This is the only way! Thank you, Xuemin, for helping me revise it! I would rather eat more than revise this manuscript. It's disgusting!" Ugh!
Speaking of nausea, Feng Jiayou immediately had morning sickness. Cheng Xuemin quickly took the basin and patted her back, saying, "Wife, are you really that sick?"

"How could it be possible?!" Feng Jiayou finally caught his breath, glanced at Cheng Xuemin again, and muttered, "You big bad guy, just like my mother, you only know how to torture me!"

"Hey, I'll revise it, I'll revise it! Don't worry, my wife, I promise to revise your manuscript into something beautiful!" Cheng Xuemin touched his nose and said with a smirk.

"That's more like it!" Feng Jiayou winked at her again, then mentioned something to Cheng Xuemin, "By the way, Mom said you still have to go to the repeat class at Yanda High School!"

"Do you still want to go? Wifey, didn't you explain it clearly to mom? " Upon hearing this, Cheng Xuemin's face instantly fell again!
"I want to go!" Feng Jiayou nodded and agreed, "Mom is right this time. Xuemin, you don't have a junior high school diploma, so you can't directly apply for next year's college entrance examination!"

"But if you can get into the repeater class at Yanda High School, it will be considered as a high school graduate. The school will help you apply directly, and we don't need to use other connections!"

When handing in the manuscript in the morning, Feng Jiayou also mentioned to her mother that Cheng Xuemin did not want to join the class to repeat the year, and her mother rejected it!

Going to Yanda High School to repeat a grade and prepare for the exam was one reason, but the more important reason was actually to obtain the equivalent high school graduation qualification.

The reason why most of the educated youth who returned to the city tried their best to get into repeat classes was for the same reason: only by obtaining a degree equivalent to a high school diploma could they be eligible to directly apply for the college entrance examination.

Otherwise, if you stay at home and prepare for the exam on your own, many returned urban youth will not be able to pass the exam due to their academic qualifications.

"Xuemin, then let's go to Yanda High School to repeat our studies, right?!"

"Besides, the High School Affiliated to Yanda University is not far from Yanda University. Our original plan has not changed. You can still pick me up and drop me off at school, right?"

Feng Jiayou added another sentence.

"Okay! I'll listen to you, my wife!"

When it comes to Cheng Xuemin's entrance exam to Yenching University next year, Feng Jiayou puts it first, in complete sync with her mother.

Since the woman said so, Cheng Xuemin has to go even if he doesn't want to repeat the year!

Let’s first take a look at what the repeat class is like!

With Cheng Xuemin’s current foundation, he actually doesn’t need to go to class every day, but he is just thinking about it now and will see after he officially joins the class!
"Hehe, good luck Xuemin. When you get admitted to Yan University, you have to call me senior sister, okay?!" Feng Jiayou smiled and teased Cheng Xuemin.

"Okay, from now on we will talk to each other in school. I will call you senior sister and you will call me senior brother. Is that ok?!" Cheng Xuemin also joked with the woman.

"No, no, from now on you will be a younger brother, little junior brother!"

This is the confidence that comes from the fact that they have scored more than 400 points in five subjects. In their eyes, Yan University is within their grasp.

"Xueqing, just let her pass! Is it really that bad? How many times has it been revised?!"

Feng's mother and father were also talking about Feng Jiayou's manuscript.

Just because of this article, the mother and daughter have been at odds with each other all day long. Is it that necessary?

"She didn't put any effort into revising the manuscript. It kept getting worse and worse, and she blames me?" Feng's mother glared at her husband unhappily. Why was she blaming everyone now?

"Then just kill her! She's already pregnant, let her rest quietly and take care of the baby! If you keep doing this, I'm afraid it will upset the fetus!" Feng's father has a very positive outlook. If she can't pass it, just kill her directly, and don't suggest making a backdoor.

Mother Feng was stunned when she heard this. She was so angry that she forgot about it. Then she nodded and said softly:
"It's better to suffer a short pain than a long one. Next time she hands it in, I'll just kill it. It's really unbearable to look at. It won't pass at all!"

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(End of this chapter)