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

Chapter 260: My wife, please stop hitting me. I won’t dare to do it again next time.
"Xuemin, where did you get so many foreign exchange certificates to buy this house?"

The surprise is a surprise, and the excitement is also very exciting!

Her man actually bought a house in the Overseas Chinese Apartment right under her nose without anyone noticing!

According to the price they asked before, that was eight thousand foreign exchange coupons!

At that time, the housing price was an astronomical figure for the couple.

Even now, it is a price that the couple cannot afford.

because!

Even if the other party softens their stance and no longer requires foreign exchange certificates, the price may still drop.

But even if the price is reduced!

They don't want foreign exchange coupons, but that would be at least more than 20,000 RMB. Even if they took out all their savings, it wouldn't be enough!

Where did her man get so much cash, or so many foreign exchange certificates?

To know!
Her husband had just returned from a consolation performance, and it had only been a month, just like her confinement period.

Where did Xuemin get so much money in just one month?

Earn royalties by writing articles?

Even if she broke her husband's hand, it would be impossible for her to write an article that could earn her more than 20,000 yuan in royalties within a month, right?
And I had to write it secretly, behind her back.

I had to write it secretly in addition to the time I had to complete the novella "The Wreath under the Mountain".

But in fact.

After her husband completed the customized task, he started writing the second chapter of "My Years in the Corps" for his own magazine "Today", and now he is working on "Ordinary World" for "Yanhe Literature".

She has to rush to finish one manuscript after another. Even if her husband had three heads and six arms, he would still be too busy to write an article that could earn more than 20,000 yuan in royalties, right?
and so!
So how did her husband buy this house in the Overseas Chinese Apartment?
Where does money come from?

"Xuemin, you have to tell the truth, rather than lying to me in front of your son!"

"Xuemin, tell me the truth, have you been hiding your private money from me again?"

Feng Jiayou saw that her man, who had been very excited, was stunned and his eyes were rolling around when she asked him this question.

He was obviously about to quibble, but Feng Jiayou was not going to tolerate him and immediately exposed his mistake and asked.

At the same time, she picked up her son, Little Squirrel, and began to look around the house, waiting for her husband to give an honest account.

"Uh, my dear, how can that be possible!"

"How could I possibly do this secretly without your knowledge?"

Being exposed on the spot, Cheng Xuemin couldn't help but sigh that his wife was really a clear-headed person.

Such a big house was thrown in front of her, but she was not extremely excited. Instead, she questioned Cheng Xuemin, where did the money come from? ?
Is this a normal reaction of a daughter-in-law?

If it were any other woman, she would have been so overwhelmed with happiness by the generous surprise from her man!

How could his wife be like this? She is too clear-headed.

Then, Cheng Xuemin had no choice but to confess honestly and reveal the whole surprise.

Originally I had told him everything, thinking that I would wait until we were done and my wife was lying exhausted on the bed in the master bedroom before I would think of asking about the money.

"What? Xuemin, is this the house you just bought with 5,000 foreign exchange coupons?"

"Where did you get so many foreign exchange certificates?"

Feng Jiayou heard her husband confess that the owner of this house still only wanted foreign exchange coupons, but her husband had cut the price of the house from 8,000 to 5,000.

This was successfully achieved not long ago!
The price has been reduced from 8,000 to 5,000, which is indeed a steep price cut, but now is not the time to focus on this!
Now she is shocked, where did her man get the 5,000 yuan foreign exchange coupons?
Five thousand foreign exchange coupons is still an astronomical figure for them, because they have no way to earn this foreign exchange coupons, right?
But her husband actually said that he spent 5,000 foreign exchange coupons to buy it!
How could this not shock and confuse Feng Jiayou?

"Wife, to be honest, these foreign exchange coupons were all earned by me, your man!"

"Earned money? Xuemin, how did you earn money? We don't seem to have any channels right now. Can we earn foreign exchange coupons?"

"Foreign exchange coupons, doesn't the country have a special channel for earning foreign exchange?"

Feng Jiayou became even more suspicious. The foreign exchange coupons were not profitable now. If ordinary citizens like them wanted foreign exchange coupons, they could only go to the bank or exchange them for foreign exchange coupons.

And there is a limit every month, no more than one hundred yuan.

The source of the country's foreign exchange coupons is mostly some foreign exchange earning units engaged in some export product business.

So, this doesn’t seem to fit in with their family!
"My old job!"

"Wife, have you forgotten about Dad's Foreign Language Bureau?" Cheng Xuemin didn't care anymore and could only throw his father-in-law out and then try to make excuses to smooth things over.

"Dad's Foreign Language Bureau?!"

"Xuemin, are you saying that you submitted your manuscript to your father's Foreign Language Bureau?"

After being reminded by Cheng Xuemin, Feng Jiayou still asked suspiciously, "How come mom and I didn't know that you submitted articles to dad's Foreign Language Bureau? Dad didn't mention it to mom and me either?"

"Wife, is this true?!"

"I didn't submit my work to my dad's Foreign Language Bureau. I got in touch with Mr. Zhou, who is in charge of foreign language submissions at my dad's company!"

"When we went to the south for a consolation performance, we were able to review and approve several foreign manuscripts through Lao Zhou's help!"

"Old Zhou helped me submit several manuscripts to several authoritative magazines in the United States!"

Cheng Xuemin nodded and continued angrily, "Originally, these foreign manuscripts were written in my spare time, and I didn't have much hope when I submitted them. After all, Lao Zhou and others also said that there are very few foreign manuscripts in our country that are written with a local flavor, so the acceptance rate of the manuscripts we submit to foreign countries is extremely low!"

"So, I didn't hold out too much hope!"

"But who would have thought that as soon as I came back from the front, my father told me what Lao Zhou had said, saying that the manuscript I submitted to an outside publication had been accepted!"

"And there's also royalties. Let me go and collect them!"

"I was very surprised at the time. The manuscript I submitted to Lao Mi Magazine was actually accepted? And I got paid for it?"

"Then I went to collect my manuscript fee and found that it was actually in the form of foreign exchange coupons!"

Cheng Xuemin told everything in full without reservation, and confessed the whole cause and effect.

"That is to say..."

"Yes, my dear. That means I got a foreign exchange voucher worth 6,000 yuan a month ago!"

Without waiting for his daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou to continue asking questions, Cheng Xuemin quickly took over the conversation and continued to argue.

"Six thousand foreign exchange certificates?"

"Xuemin, you, you, you...how many foreign-language manuscripts have you submitted? How many have been accepted?"

Feng Jiayou turned around and asked with shock on his face.

"Wife, I wrote five essays and submitted them all, and they all passed!"

"According to the full copyright buyout price, one foreign-language manuscript is 1,200 yuan, and five articles are 6,000 yuan."

I wrote five articles, submitted five, and all of them passed?
This is what the scholars said. Lao Zhou and others are actually not optimistic because our writers simply cannot write manuscripts with a local flavor, and the acceptance rate is extremely low?

But how come with your Xuemin, I can write a few articles and submit them all and have them all accepted?

"Wife, it's true!"

"I had originally planned to go to my father's Foreign Language Bureau that day and give you all the money I received as soon as I got it back!"

"But at that time I found out that the royalties they paid were actually foreign exchange coupons, which made me... think that the surprise I could give you, my wife, might be even bigger!" "So, I took the initiative to not tell you, my wife, and waited to buy this house now. It just so happens that you are out of confinement, so I'll give you such a big reward!"

Cheng Xuemin only had one excuse for Feng Jiayou!
If the royalties were paid in RMB, he would have handed them all over at the time without keeping a single penny for himself.

This was the promise I made to my wife before, that there would never be a next time.

But what can I do!

What my father-in-law's company gave him was actually foreign exchange coupons, which is a different matter.

"Wife, look what this is, let me open it for you!"

After Cheng Xuemin had argued for a while, he found his daughter-in-law holding her son. He nodded, not knowing whether to agree or not, and said nothing more.

Instead, he continued to look at the house.

After his wife entered the master bedroom, Cheng Xuemin's eyes lit up, and he quickly took the lead to turn on the air conditioner installed in the master bedroom!

He spoke to his wife in a flattering manner, while closing the open window and pulling the curtains.

"Wife, this is the air conditioner!"

"The Economic Commission gave us the air conditioner as a reward to commend me. It's free!"

Cheng Xuemin followed up with another honest confession, but in fact, he said it in a deliberately flattering manner just to change the subject.

"Is this a reward given to us by the Economic Commission?"

really!

When Feng Jiayou heard that the thing emitting cold air into the room was the air conditioner, and that it was a reward given to them by the Economic Commission, her eyes suddenly lit up and she asked.

In fact, she should be more concerned about the ridiculously large bed in the master bedroom.

"Yes!"

"That's what Mr. Yang from the Overseas Chinese Store said to me when he came to visit a few days ago!"

Cheng Xuemin nodded and said.

"Wife, these beds, quilts, and new furniture were all bought on my own initiative!"

“When the previous owner moved out, this place was basically emptied out!”

Seeing Feng Jiayou staring at the two-meter bed in the master bedroom in a daze, Cheng Xuemin hurriedly spoke.

"Wife, try it. This is a Simmons bed. I bought it from the Overseas Chinese Store. It's imported!"

"Wife, please sit down. It's very flexible!"

"Give me the little squirrel!"

Seeing that his wife was holding her son and simply pressed the mattress with her palm, he quickly took the son who was in the way and motioned Feng Jiayou to sit down and lie down to try.

Feng Jiayou pressed her palm on it and found it was indeed very elastic. She then handed the son in her hand to her man and sat down tentatively.

"Xuemin, you you you...don't crush the little squirrel!"

"Wife, the little guy is already asleep. Isn't this much more convenient than going to the guesthouse?"

……

Being able to endure so many arguments with his wife is already Cheng Xuemin's limit!
After seeing Feng Jiayou enter the master bedroom and sit on the big bed, he discovered that the little one in his arms had already fallen asleep.

What are you waiting for? It will be over an hour later.

"Xuemin, you mean that we only spent 5,000 foreign exchange certificates on this apartment, right?"

Feng Jiayou lay sideways, letting his little son, who had just been woken up, drink milk beside him, and asked weakly.

She felt something was wrong just now, but unfortunately, before she could figure it out, she was executed on the spot.

I really didn't tire her out!

Now I finally came to my senses and realized what was wrong!
The money doesn't match!

The foreign exchange bond article fee was 6,000, and the house only cost 5,000, so doesn't that mean there is 1,000 left?
"Yes!"

"Wife, this house did cost five thousand foreign exchange coupons, and there is still one thousand foreign exchange left."

"But you can see, my wife, that all the new things we bought are imported goods from overseas Chinese stores, and they were all bought with foreign exchange!"

"Just this big bed cost us over 150 foreign exchange coupons, and the sofa outside also cost 100..."

"Oh, by the way, wife, I need to keep a record of all these, and I wanted to let you take a look at them!"

"You're going to die! Put on your clothes first!"

Seeing her man getting up naked and rummaging through boxes and drawers looking for an account book, Feng Jiayou shouted, "Don't be too embarrassed."

"There are no outsiders in my own home!"

"Now, this is our world, we can play however we want!"

The daughter-in-law was embarrassed. Cheng Xuemin laughed at her, then found the account book on the desk and handed it to Feng Jiayou.

"The Simmons bed and mattress are 150 yuan, and the sofa is 100 yuan..."

Feng Jiayou gave him a shy and coquettish look and said nothing more. After all, she herself was only covered by a thin sheet, and the same went for her inside.

To be honest, this air conditioner is really very comfortable. It feels like winter in the middle of summer and it’s so cold that I need to cover myself with a blanket.

Then he flipped through the account book, counted in his mind, and asked casually, "How much did you spend in total, 490 foreign exchange coupons?"

"Then, Xuemin, do you still have 510 foreign exchange certificates in your hand?"

"Not that many. The two electric fans I bought before were also from the one thousand foreign exchange coupons. I only have a few dozen foreign exchange coupons left!"

Knowing that his wife would definitely check the accounts, Cheng Xuemin recorded in the account book even the foreign exchange coupons used to buy imported cigarettes for his grandfather.

But the two electric fans were bought earlier, and I didn’t think about keeping accounts at that time, so they were missed!

Cheng Xuemin hurried to fill the gap, otherwise he would not be able to make up for the shortfall of more than 400 people.

But as they were talking, Cheng Xuemin felt that the atmosphere was not right!

Cheng Xuemin, who was originally teasing the little one and squeezing him to stop him from drinking, suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not right and quickly looked up!

He found that his young wife was looking at him with a smile.

No, what's wrong?
Aren’t all the foreign exchange coupons worth 6,000 yuan correct?
Nothing seems to be missing?!
"Eh? Ah!"

"Wife, please listen to my explanation first..."

"I...I didn't touch a cent of the money I spent on the electric fan. I hid the 1,000 yuan at home. We will return it all to you when we get back!"

"Wife, I really didn't move at all!"

His wife didn't say anything, but looked at him with a smile. Cheng Xuemin was confused for a moment, then he suddenly realized!
The foreign exchange coupons used to buy the electric fan cannot be counted in the 6,000 yuan of foreign exchange coupons!

Because at that time, Cheng Xuemin took 900 yuan in cash from his daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou.

The nine hundred yuan in cash has now become Cheng Xuemin's private money and certainly cannot be counted in the six thousand yuan in foreign exchange coupons!
Whoops!
It turns out that one should not be too complacent. After feeling so great, he even forgot about this fatal thing.

Now, not only has all the private money been wiped out again, but he has also been made to suffer a stubborn and unrepentant behavior!
……

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