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

Chapter 224 Gong Xi's "Youth", the Youth of the Art Troupe (Request for full order)
After returning from the celebration ceremony of the General Political Department Art Troupe, Cheng Xuemin once again devoted himself to the creation of "The Wreath under the Mountain"!
The original manuscript of "The Wreath under the Mountain" is a novella of 120,000 words. According to Cheng Xuemin's daily progress of 10,000 words, the manuscript can be completed in about ten days.

And now, more than a week has passed since he started writing.

I have an 80,000-word manuscript in hand, and almost one-third of it is still unfinished.

Cheng Xuemin estimated that the manuscript would be basically finished by the time Mr. Wu notified him to hold the commendation meeting.

During this period.

Cheng Xuemin also finished drawing the Battle of Yiling and Emperor Baidi's entrustment of his son to the care of others for the comic book of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Together with the two volumes he had completed before, he now has three volumes in hand.

The comic book of Romance of the Three Kingdoms entered the post-Three Kingdoms era after Emperor Liu Bei entrusted his son to the care of others in Baidi.

In the end, only Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's "Six Expeditions to Qishan" and the last volume "The World Returns to Jin" remained.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin was not in a hurry to send the three finished books to Lao Pan at Renwen Press.

Instead, I will wait until I have almost finished drawing the last two volumes and then send them over together.

Let’s finish the one that’s outstanding first.

"This is a source of disaster!"

Cheng Xuemin hid the 6,000 yuan foreign exchange coupons. He felt a little uneasy, but more excited and happy.

This is 6,000 yuan worth of foreign exchange coupons. If converted into RMB, the small treasury he secretly created is much larger than Feng Jiayou's.

If his wife finds out about this, he'll be dead!
The most terrible thing is!

This time when I went to the Foreign Language Bureau to collect my royalties in foreign currency, I was given foreign exchange coupons, a total of sixty foreign exchange coupons worth one hundred-yuan bills.

If you can’t deposit it in the bank, you may have to keep it at home.

But keeping foreign exchange certificates worth 6,000 yuan at home will sooner or later become a bomb.

Once the thunderbolt was discovered, Cheng Xuemin couldn't imagine how powerful it would be.

Spend it, spend it quickly!

Cheng Xuemin thought to himself that this foreign exchange coupon must not be kept overnight and must be spent as soon as possible!
When I have time, I will go to the Overseas Chinese Apartments to take a look.

If the owner of the apartment that my wife Feng Jiayou likes has not yet made a move, can I lower the price to below 6,000 and spend all the foreign exchange coupons in my hand first?
After visiting overseas Chinese stores several times, Cheng Xuemin found that he might not be able to spend the 6,000 yuan foreign exchange coupons at all.

Relying on his wife and son to drink imported milk powder?

He spends 200 yuan on foreign exchange coupons a month, which is only 2,400 yuan a year. Add other miscellaneous expenses, and it comes to 3,000 yuan.

That is to say!

The 6,000 yuan foreign exchange coupons in Cheng Xuemin's hand can last for two years if he uses the milk powder for his wife and son.

Moreover, this was the case when Cheng Xuemin had not published a single foreign language article in the past two years, and had not earned a single penny in foreign exchange!

But, is this possible?
When Cheng Xuemin went to collect the 6,000 yuan foreign exchange coupons, Mr. Zhou from the Foreign Languages ​​Bureau gave him the foreign exchange royalties and three letters of invitation to write articles.

They were all sent by major international magazines.

In particular, the letter of invitation from Playboy mentioned that Cheng Xuemin’s previous article became a global hit, with sales increasing by more than 60% year-on-year!

This is definitely the sales increase brought by the article written by Cheng Xuemin.

A 60% year-on-year increase, what does that mean?!

Anyway, this directly alarmed the global editor-in-chief of Playboy, who wrote a letter to Cheng Xuemin requesting him to write an article.

The letter stated that the royalties for Cheng Xuemin's next manuscript would be calculated directly at a unit price of 15 cents per word, and he would also receive a share of the copyright sales.

The unit price of 15 cents per word is already the top level of royalties that one can get in China!
If Cheng Xuemin were to submit a novella of 100,000 words, wouldn't the minimum amount he would get be 15,000 US dollars? In addition, he would get a commission based on sales, so the total royalties would definitely be 40,000 to 50,000.

pity!

Playboy’s main theme is short, sexy and cool!

The manuscripts they receive are generally not too long, and there are very few manuscripts with more than 30,000 words.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin planned to directly write a 30,000-word foreign language manuscript and submit it. If he took into account the minimum guarantee and the profit share, he would at least get the current total royalties of 6,000 foreign exchange securities.

I also received commissions to write for two other major international magazines. Although they were not as popular as Playboy, they received good responses and sales.

This is why the arrogant magazine took the initiative to ask Cheng Xuemin, a new author from the East, to write an article.

Although the letter did not specify how the manuscript fee would be calculated, if Cheng Xuemin submitted another manuscript, the fee would not be lower than 1,200 yuan in foreign currency.

So, there is something to do!

Before preparing for the college entrance examination, Cheng Xuemin submitted a manuscript of about 30,000 words to Playboy, and earned some foreign currency to provide money for his son and his wife's milk powder.

As for the other two publications that actively asked me to write an article, I also thought about submitting one during the summer vacation after the college entrance examination.

Anyway, a foreign language manuscript has 10,000 or 20,000 words, which is easy for Cheng Xuemin to write with his hand speed.
Moreover, in the future, Cheng Xuemin also plans to focus on foreign language manuscripts!
The minimum buyout price for a foreign language manuscript of only about 10,000 words is 1,200 yuan, which is much less expensive than writing a domestic manuscript.

How many words do I have to write to earn 1,200 yuan in royalties in China?
Nearly 180,000 words!

No, no, no, it’s more than 180,000 words!

Because the 1,200 yuan in foreign currency royalties that Cheng Xuemin earned from these 10,000 words is foreign currency gold!

Converted into our own money, it is more than three thousand.

More than three thousand!

Cheng Xuemin would need to write 300,000 or 400,000 words, and his hands would have to break from writing, just to earn this 3,000 yuan.

Well! ?

Ok!

Cheng Xuemin went over it in his mind again and it seemed that this was not the correct calculation!
It seems that the royalties earned from a foreign article are actually about the same as those earned from a long or medium-length article published by Cheng Xuemin!

Although a foreign article with tens of thousands of words can earn 1,200 yuan in foreign currency as royalties, this is a one-time buyout price.

Cheng Xuemin can actually get double the royalties for his long and medium-length articles published in China!

One is the manuscript fee for the first publication of a magazine, and the other is the manuscript fee for a single volume given by a publishing house, both are seven yuan per thousand words!

If you add it all up, a long novel has nearly three thousand words, which is actually about the same!
If it becomes a big hit and is reprinted by other magazines, you can earn a lot of royalties.

However, a novella, which is often tens or even hundreds of thousands of words long, will rarely be reprinted by a magazine even if it becomes a big hit, and it may be almost impossible for any magazine to reprint it.

Like "Parental Love" published by Cheng Xuemin in "People's Literature" at the beginning of the year, it was very popular, right?
I haven’t seen other magazines reprint it!

Even Yenching Literature, which has a good relationship with Cheng Xuemin, does not have the courage to reprint his works, and the higher-ups will not approve it.

After all, today’s magazines are all under the same department and their funds are allocated uniformly.

How can there be two ways of paying for the same manuscript?
It's okay to reprint a short story for a dozen yuan, but you directly reprint a long or medium-length novel of more than 200,000 words?

Even if I report it, the higher-ups will definitely not approve it.
Cheng Xuemin still feels that writing foreign language manuscripts can make more money. He can write a short story of 10,000 words a day and earn at least 1,200 yuan in foreign currency a day. It is really so cool and comfortable.

I write articles for China and work very hard for more than half a month or a month, but this is just the amount of money I get.

suddenly!

Cheng Xuemin discovered that writing articles for China suddenly didn’t seem to be that interesting anymore!
Of course, this thought only flashed through his mind. Now he was the pioneer in the imperial inscription. Could he just not write it if he wanted to?

If he doesn't write, there will be tasks assigned to him from above, asking him to write!

For example, Cheng Xuemin spent a week writing the article for this visit to the south to express his condolences.

Moreover, when they went to the General Political Department Art Troupe to attend the celebration party, Li Shuanggang and others started to make a fuss and asked Cheng Xuemin whether their southern consolation delegation would be included in the draft.

Hearing Li Shuanggang's words, Gong Di, Han Qiaoyue, Lao Ge and others also echoed them, and curiously asked Cheng Xuemin whether he would include them in the book.

At that time, Cheng Xuemin answered them like this: No!

In "The Garland Under the Mountain", there is originally no plot about the cultural and art soldiers of the consolation corps, and it is impossible for Cheng Xuemin to use backdoors for them and add more roles for them.

At that time, I heard that Gong Xi and the others were disappointed. It was obvious that they all wanted to be written into Cheng Xuemin's book.

Seeing how disappointed they were, Cheng Xuemin waved his hand again, and when he was happy, he said directly that it would not be written into this manuscript!
But he already had an idea to write a manuscript specifically about the deeds of their art troupe's visit to the south to express condolences!
He has already thought of a name, it's called "Youth"

A manuscript specifically about the stories of their General Political Department Art Troupe instantly aroused applause from Gong Xi, Han Qiaoyue and others.

The old troupe leader and the political commissar were so surprised that they came over to inquire curiously. They learned that after Cheng Xuemin finished writing this manuscript, he would also write a manuscript specifically for their art troupe!
Ok!

On the spot, Political Commissar Hu made the final decision, and the matter was settled!

I hope that after Cheng Xuemin finishes writing the condolence manuscript in his hand, he will also write the manuscript about their art troupe as soon as possible!

No other guarantees!
The article written by Cheng Xuemin will definitely be published in "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" to let all the soldiers in the army see the glory of their General Political Department Art Troupe.

So, what should be written should still be written!

It simply means that in the future, when it comes to domestic manuscripts, I will be a little lazy and write slower, and I don't have to work as hard and be as productive as before. Of course, the excuses to the outside world must be that I have to be meticulous and strive for perfection. So isn't it normal to write slowly?

Therefore, spend the foreign exchange coupons in your hand as soon as possible, and don’t hide them at home. In case Feng Jiayou finds them one day, they will be a bomb sooner or later.

You have to go and take a look at the Overseas Chinese Apartments next door. The prices are almost enough for you to buy a second property.

In this day and age, if you have money, what else can you do if you don’t buy some real estate?
Just deposit it in the bank and wait for it to depreciate rapidly?
"Xuemin, it seems that my sister-in-law has been taking medicine for more than a week!"

"Why is there still no movement?"

Feng Jiayou was able to get out of bed. While basking in the sun in the backyard, she suddenly spoke to Cheng Xuemin.

“How can it be so fast!”

Cheng Xuemin glanced through the window at the woman lying in the yard and smiled amusedly.

What he brought back wasn’t a miracle drug!

Cheng Xuemin also made some estimation, and the next day after he took out the prescription, his mother-in-law went to give it to her eldest daughter-in-law in person, got the medicine according to the prescription and boiled it for her!

Three meals a day, not a single meal should be skipped!

Except for the morning and evening meals which I drink at home before going to work and then drink before going to bed, the lunch meal is prepared in the morning and asked my sister-in-law Ke Yumei to take it to the company to drink!

Anyway, except for the lunch, Feng's mother has no control over the other two meals. She has to keep an eye on the old man and only feel at ease when she sees him drink it with her own eyes!

So from this we can see how much hope the mother-in-law had in the prescription brought back by her son-in-law Cheng Xuemin?
Not only the mother-in-law had great hopes, but also Feng's eldest brother and his wife!

It’s even worse for Feng Jiayou, the nun!
Because her son was not able to give birth to her elder brother and sister-in-law, although they did not say anything on the surface, there must be a rift in their hearts.

If her husband Cheng Xuemin didn't help her sister-in-law get pregnant, this gap might never be resolved.

Therefore, in the entire Feng family, perhaps the youngest Feng is more eager than her elder brother and sister-in-law to hope that the folk remedy her husband brought back will definitely work!
This is not!

It's only been a week and half a course of medicine, but Feng Jiayou can't wait to see what happens!

"Aren't I in a hurry?"

Feng Jiayou was really worried about her elder brother and his wife, and said worriedly, "Xuemin, you said you gave your elder brother and his wife such high hopes, but what if it doesn't work out in the end!"

"Then my elder brother and sister-in-law will blame me even more, right?"

It's the typical case of worrying about gains and losses. It's only been a week and Feng Jiayou is already worrying about this and being afraid of that!

"If it doesn't work, you can just give the kid to them!"

"Anyway, I don't want to change this kid's shitty diapers anymore!"

Cheng Xuemin sniffed and smelled a foul smell coming from the little guy lying next to Feng Jiayou.

obviously!
He didn't say a word again, and it was over!

He is really good!
Sometimes, Cheng Xuemin really wanted to send him directly to be raised by his elder brother and sister-in-law.

"Hehe, Xuemin, are you serious?"

"Don't talk nonsense. I'm still writing the test paper in the living room. If she hears us, she will tell mom about us when she goes back to take the college entrance examination!"

"Wouldn't mom be so scared that she would take a train to Yanjing right away and take her great grandson back home to raise him?"

Feng Jiayou was immediately amused by Cheng Xuemin's words. He said a few words to him in a bad mood and just wanted to look at his son beside him.

Seeing that the boy was smiling at him, Feng Jiayou felt even happier and said, "Besides, you are really willing to give away such a cute and well-behaved son, Xuemin..."

"Oh my, Xuemin Xuemin, your son has pooped again!"

"No wonder he was smiling at me like an idiot. It turns out he has done something bad again! Xuemin, hurry up! Your son has pooped again!"

This silly woman, the Queen Mother realized it too late!

Cheng Xuemin could smell the stench of that kid's shit from a distance, and he was still grinning at his mother. What an amazing guy!
It’s actually different from other little ones!
Generally, when other little ones have to poop or pee, or feel uncomfortable down there, they will cry non-stop.

But this one in his family is so good, he just keeps laughing with his mother!
"Wow wow wow!"

But he didn't laugh for long, maybe because his mother Feng Jiayou was annoyed by his poop and pee, and the noise she made was too loud, which made him very unhappy!
He started crying loudly again on the spot.

"Pulling again!?"

His aunt Cheng Wenxiu heard the noise inside and asked outside. Seeing Cheng Xuemin was about to come out, she quickly waved her hand at Cheng Xuemin and shouted, "Xuemin, don't move, don't move, just concentrate on writing your manuscript!"

"Let me do it, let me do it. My little squirrel has pooped again. Auntie, come here to help you change your diaper!"

Cheng Qingsong, because this year is the Year of the Rat, his nickname is Xiaosong, with the word "rat" added after it, becoming Xiaosongshu.

When he pulled her like that, aunt Cheng Wenxiu put down her homework and rushed over to take care of her nephew's poop and pee and change his diaper.

……

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