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

Chapter 302 Copyright is settled, waiting to harvest US dollars crazily (please order the whole book)
Things are going very smoothly for Cheng Xuemin and his son-in-law.

After all, my father-in-law, Mr. Feng, is already the deputy director of the Foreign Languages ​​Bureau, so there is no need to report such a small matter to his superiors.

All you have to do is go to the office, make an international call to the New York office, explain your intention, and fax a telegram to them.

When they receive a fax or telegram from China, they will register as an agent as soon as possible.

and!

When Cheng Xuemin and his colleagues sent this fax, it was around 10 o'clock in the morning in New York, which was working hours on a weekday.

If it goes quickly, Cheng Xuemin and the others can sleep tonight and know the result tomorrow morning.

After doing all these things, Feng's father still couldn't calm down. He talked a lot of his heart out to Cheng Xuemin and didn't get home until after midnight.

Because it was too late, Cheng Xuemin's mother and elder sister, along with their nephew, went to the Overseas Chinese Apartment and slept with Feng Jiayou and her son.

So Cheng Xuemin slept in the yard all night.

When Cheng Xuemin got up, Feng's father and the others had already gone to work, and his wife Feng Jiayou had not yet come from the apartment.

Maybe they won't come over in the morning. Now his mother and sister are over there, so they will start cooking for breakfast.

"Hey? Good morning, brother-in-law! Are you home? Didn't my eldest brother say yesterday that you would stay in a hotel tonight?"

Cheng Xuemin was just about to go out to the Friendship Hotel to meet up with Xie Jin and others to start today's reshoots for the movie, but before he even left the house, he ran into his sister-in-law Feng Jiamo.

Seeing Cheng Xuemin actually coming out of the house, Feng Jiamo asked in surprise.

"Good morning! I had something urgent to do last night, so I came back!" Cheng Xuemin nodded to his sister-in-law and replied with a smile.

"You're going out, where are you going?"

Seeing that his sister-in-law was pushing a bicycle and seemed to be going out as well, Cheng Xuemin asked her out of concern.

Now my sister-in-law has finished the college entrance examination and received the admission letter from Yenching University. She is just waiting to report to Yenching University across the street on September 1st.

So during the summer vacation, I had a lot of fun and I heard that I hardly ever went home.

She spent the whole day having fun with her classmates, and most of the time she stayed in her sister's new apartment at the Overseas Chinese Apartment to enjoy the air conditioning.

"what!"

"Brother-in-law, are you home? Zhu Shan and I have made an appointment. We were supposed to go to the Friendship Hotel today to watch you and her sister film a movie!"

Feng Jiamo stuck out her tongue. She went out so early today because she had made an appointment with her best friend and childhood friend Zhu Shan to go to the Friendship Hotel in the city to watch her sister and brother-in-law filming a movie.

Thinking of giving her brother-in-law a big surprise.

But who would have thought that she would run into her brother-in-law before she even went out. Feng Jiamo looked a little unhappy and worried.

She was afraid that her brother-in-law wouldn’t let her go.

"Come and watch us film a movie? What's so good about it!" Cheng Xuemin shook his head dumbly. He didn't stop them from going, but said, "But if you want to go, let's go and watch it together. Anyway, you can't stay idle at home!"

"Hehe, really? Brother-in-law, you want me to go?!"

Feng Jiamo didn't expect that her brother-in-law would be so straightforward this time and agreed without even thinking about it.

"It's up to you guys!"

"It's getting late, I have to leave!"

Cheng Xuemin looked at the new watch his wife Feng Jiayou bought for him. It was already past eight o'clock.

"Okay, okay! Then brother-in-law, let's go together!"

"Where's your bike?"

Feng Jiamo was not too happy to hear that, thinking that she could go with her brother-in-law, but she didn't see Cheng Xuemin pushing the bicycle, so she asked in confusion.

"My bicycle is at Yanying Studio. I took a taxi back last night!" Cheng Xuemin smiled and said first.

"Then brother-in-law, let's go together! Take me with you on my bike!" Feng Jiamo blurted out and shouted again.

Cheng Xuemin paused for a moment after hearing this, but soon shook his head and continued walking, saying, "Forget it, I'd better take a taxi! It's too late, Director Xie and the others must be waiting anxiously at the hotel!"

If I ride a bicycle from home to the hotel in the city, it will take at least 40 to 50 minutes. And if I take Feng Jiamo with me, I may not be able to reach the Friendship Hotel before 10 o'clock.

So Cheng Xuemin thought about it and decided not to save that little bit of taxi money, so he quickly took a taxi and left.

"Jiamo, will you go with me in the car?" he asked casually.

Feng Jiamo didn't even think twice before he heard this, and he immediately agreed, saying, "Okay, okay, brother-in-law, I'll go with you in the car!"

"I'm dying from the sun riding my bike in this hot weather!"

If there is a car, of course you take it.

But when the two of them hailed a taxi and agreed on a five-dollar fare to go to the Friendship Hotel, the taxi had not been driving for long when Feng Jiamo, who had realized it late, shouted again: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, I forgot about Zhu Shan! She must be waiting for me to meet her at home!"

He had indeed forgotten about Zhu Shan, and Cheng Xuemin had no choice but to pay the minibus driver one dollar more and ask him to take a detour to Zhu Shan's home and pick her up as well. This cost Cheng Xuemin another two dollars per person in fare.

"Zhu Shan, your sister knew you would come here today, right?"

When they arrived at the entrance of the hotel, Cheng Xuemin asked Zhu Shan a question when getting out of the car.

"Brother-in-law Xuemin, my sister doesn't know about this! Jiamo and I made a private agreement and planned to come here secretly!" Zhu Shan said shyly with a blushing face.

This little girl looks very pure, thin-skinned and easily shy.

But everyone who knows her knows that this little girl is a reserved and reserved person.

How could she be so thin-skinned as she seemed to be, since she borrowed the name of her deskmate's childhood best friend Feng Jiamo to write a love letter to the author of The Horse Wrangler, Lao Xu?
"You two!"

"I heard from your little sister that you two had a blast this summer, right?"

Cheng Xuemin smiled and shook his head, making fun of them.

But the two cheap sisters-in-law didn't listen to his words at all. As soon as they got out of the car, they were deeply attracted by the luxurious atmosphere of the Friendship Hotel.

"My dear Zhu Shan, I have a task for you. How about it?" Seeing this, Cheng Xuemin had another idea and shouted to the two of them.

"Okay, okay! Brother-in-law, just give us any task we need!" Feng Jiamo and Zhu Shan nodded, eager to try.

"Most of the people staying in the Friendship Hotel are foreign guests. In order to improve your communication skills with these foreigners!"

"I'm giving you a task now. From now on, don't speak Chinese. Say hello to those foreigners in a foreign language. Can you do it?" Feng Jiamo and Zhu Shan both have a good command of English and both scored above 90 points in the college entrance examination.

But it is only on paper and I have not had any actual communication with foreigners.

Today, since both of them went to a place where foreigners gathered, it was a good opportunity for them to practice their communication skills.

"what?!"

But as soon as Cheng Xuemin finished speaking, Feng Jiamo and the other girl both became as listless as eggplants hit by frost.

"Xuemin, here we come!"

"Have you finished talking about what happened last night?"

Seeing Cheng Xuemin coming into the hotel, Xie Jin and the others who were waiting there hurried forward to greet him and asked.

"Uh, you are... you are... Jiazhao's little sister, right?"

There were two girls next to Cheng Xuemin again. Xie Jin had seen one of them before. She should be Xuemin's sister-in-law. He had seen her before when he was having dinner at home.

As for the other person next to him, I don’t quite know him and have never seen him before.

"Director Xie, we've settled everything about yesterday!" Cheng Xuemin nodded and greeted him. Knowing that Xie Jin was asking about the song last night, he introduced them, "Jia Mo and the other two came here for fun, to see how we make a movie!"

"Oh, this is Zhu Shan, Zhu Lin's younger sister. They have been friends since they were little!"

"Oh, yes, yes, it's Feng Jiamo, Feng Jiamo, I've seen him before when I went to his house for dinner!"

"Your name is Zhu Shan, right? Zhu Lin's sister?!"

"Your sister and the others haven't come yet, let's go in first!"

Only then did Xie Jin remember the name of Cheng Xuemin's sister-in-law. Zhu Shan next to him also greeted her.

"Hello, Director Xie. Actually, I've wanted to come here to watch you guys filming a movie for a long time, wondering if I could show my face there, but my eldest brother and brother-in-law wouldn't let me!" Feng Jiamo smiled brightly, and asked Cheng Xuemin mischievously, "Brother-in-law, can we talk to Director Xie and the others without speaking foreign languages?"

Just now, her brother-in-law forced her to greet those foreigners in a foreign language, but neither she nor Zhu Shan could open her mouth.

Now that I come in and meet people I know, I have long forgotten the rule that you cannot speak Chinese and can only speak foreign languages.

"Whatever!" Cheng Xuemin rolled his eyes and gave her a chance to practice, but she just couldn't open her mouth. There was nothing she could do about it. She would have to practice more in the future.

"Okay, okay, there's a chance, there's a chance! From now on, you follow your brother-in-law and big brother Jiazhao, how can you miss the opportunity to show your face?!"

Xie Jin also spoke politely.

It’s a chance to show her face, even though she’s not the heroine, so for directors like them, it’s just a matter of a few words.

When they were at a ranch in the northwest, there weren't enough crew members around them, so didn't they ask local herdsmen to appear on the show?
Cheng Xuemin's sister-in-law wanted to save face, and Xie Jin had plenty of opportunities to give them.

and so!
In the subsequent reshoots, although there were no scenes for Feng Jiamo and the others, since the sister-in-law had spoken, Xie Jin took care of her to some extent.

So Feng Jiamo and Zhu Shan were arranged to be background extras and allowed to appear in the camera.

In order to please his sister-in-law, Xie Jin even arranged a hotel waitress for Feng Jiamo, who had two lines of greeting in a foreign language, which made Feng Jiamo so happy that he was almost flying into the sky.

Later, brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao and Zhu Lin and a few others rushed over from Yanying Studio. When they saw their sister was there, they were dumbfounded and complained a lot about the two of them going crazy and even came to their crew.

At noon, the scenes in Yanjing were basically reshooted, and there was one more scene in the afternoon.

When he had some free time, Cheng Xuemin called his father-in-law at the Foreign Language Bureau to ask if there was any news coming back from New York.
Logically, there should have been news when my father-in-law arrived at the office early this morning.

As for my father-in-law, Mr. Feng, he did get the news as soon as he arrived at the office in the morning. When he first arrived, Mr. Zhou from the Foreign Affairs Office, who had arrived early, rushed to find him and asked, "Mr. Feng, did you send a manuscript to New York overnight?"

"Is this the manuscript written by Xuemin? After he finished writing the manuscript, why didn't he let me see it and directly faxed it to New York?"

After hearing what Old Zhou said, Father Feng was instantly refreshed and asked, "Old Zhou, is there any news from New York?"

"It's a manuscript for a song, not the long novella he mentioned before!"

Seeing the confusion and astonishment on Old Zhou's face, Feng's father added an explanation.

"It's not that long novella? It's just a lyric?" Old Zhou suddenly realized it and nodded, saying, "There's news! Comrades in New York sent a fax this morning saying that the copyright of the manuscript you sent last night has been successfully registered!"

"Hey, this is the copyright registration certificate that was faxed over. It's all in English and I can't quite understand it!"

Although Lao Zhou is in charge of foreign affairs, he is not proficient in many foreign languages. He only knows a popular version of Russian and knows nothing about English.

After all, Russian seemed to be a compulsory course in their college years, and Sino-Soviet friendship was in its honeymoon period.

"It's done so quickly!?" Upon hearing this, Father Feng took the fax copy handed over by Lao Zhou, his face showing surprise.

"The registration procedure for text copyright in New York is simple, and since you only have one song lyric, it will be even faster!" Lao Zhou nodded. He has always been in charge of the Foreign Affairs Office and has been in charge of the text copyright work submitted. He knows that the procedures are not complicated.

But Lao Feng and his son-in-law, instead of writing the long or medium-length foreign article they agreed to write, why are they making foreign songs?

Can this song give us a cultural outlet and earn a few cents of foreign exchange?

Immediately, he hurriedly said, "Old Feng, you better hurry up Xuemin! This quarter is almost over. If we delay any further, it will be the end of the year. But you know our foreign exchange gap, Old Feng. All the comrades in the whole system are anxious!"

"By the way, Lao Qian just asked me about this!"

The Lao Qian mentioned by Lao Zhou is the head of their Foreign Language Bureau, Director Qian!

"Almost there!" Father Feng listened to what Lao Zhou said, but his eyes were all on the copyright certificate in his hand. He nodded happily and said, "Lao Zhou, don't underestimate this short song!"

"Do you know what Xuemin told me last night?"

Not only Mr. Feng himself, but also Old Zhou now completely underestimated the value of the equity copyright certificate in their hands.

If Old Zhou heard what his son-in-law Xuemin said to him last night, I wonder if he would be dumbfounded or would he be in a hurry to finish the long novella in Xuemin's hand.

"What did Xuemin say?" Old Zhou looked suspicious. He also noticed that Old Feng seemed to treasure the fax copy in his hand. He asked himself a question to keep him on the edge of his seat. He couldn't help but blurt out, "I'm not going to tell you, Old Feng, that our foreign exchange gap this year depends on this, right?"

After saying that, he shook his head and pointed at the fax copy in Feng's father's hand.

"Old Zhou, you're right. Xuemin told me this last night. Do you believe it?" Upon hearing this, Feng's father said seriously.

But it didn't make Lao Zhou burst out laughing, and he exclaimed: "Ah? Lao Feng, are you kidding me?!"

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(End of this chapter)