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

Chapter 312: Who can withstand this test on men?

Son-in-law Cheng Xuemin's remarks made his father-in-law, Mr. Feng, and his mother-in-law, Ms. Feng, toss and turn in bed, each of them feeling heavy-hearted!

"Old Feng, what do you think Xuemin meant by what he said last night?"

"How could this kid hide something from his family and not tell them the whole story?"

Mother Feng couldn't help it, so she turned over and asked Father Feng who was also unable to sleep next to her.

It was really because of what their son-in-law Cheng Xuemin said just now that they were so surprised and shocked!

Seeing her husband remained silent, Feng's mother continued to analyze and said, "Old Feng, do you think Xuemin intends to recommend you to the higher-ups for a career in government?"

"If you, Old Feng, can become a member of the Academy Committee, your room for advancement and advancement will be enormous indeed!"

"After all, everyone in your Foreign Language Bureau is assigned their own position, and you are about the same age as Old Zhou and Old Zhao. When you reach the deputy director level, you will have no advantage!"

"But Old Feng, if you can use the connections of Xuemin to jump out of the Foreign Language Bureau directly, if you can really become a member of the Academy Committee!"

"Then the room for improvement will open up immediately..."

Feng's mother gave her husband a very clear and logical analysis, and her eyes lit up when she got excited.

"sleep!"

"You should just think about the good things. I'm already old and will retire in two years. How can I have any room for advancement?"

Mr. Feng was fueled by his lover, so how could he say that he didn't have any thoughts?

Just now, when he heard that his son-in-law might be recruited into the hospital committee in advance, Feng's father was the first one to agree.

It can be seen and known!

Which man doesn’t have a desire for power?

Mr. Feng didn't seem to care much, but what he said could be interpreted from a completely different perspective.

Mr. Feng said that he is already old and will retire soon, which he feels ashamed of. But on the other hand, he is also about to retire, and if he doesn’t work harder, this may be the peak of his life!
Therefore, if there really is an opportunity in front of him, no man can withstand this test!

"Old Feng, you are so indifferent to fame and fortune, and you don't care about anything!" Feng's mother glanced at him and said, "What do you mean old? You have just passed the age of knowing your destiny, which is the golden age for a man to have a career in politics!"

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The father-in-law and mother-in-law in the front yard talked all night and couldn't sleep. The same was true for Cheng Xuemin and Feng Jiayou in the back yard.

They still didn't go back to the Overseas Chinese Apartment to sleep today, but slept in the master bedroom in the east wing of the backyard where they had been before.

Feng Jiayou had been waiting for the entire night. After finally washing up and coaxing her son to sleep, she was waiting for her husband to come back from talking in the front yard.

Now she listened to her husband reporting to her, and the instructions had already been given from above!
The 300,000 MiGold foreign exchange they earned from selling their new foreign songs was ordered by their superiors to be settled between the two of them according to the original settlement method.

It's just a surprise!

The royalties of 300,000 Mi Jin Foreign Exchange will be distributed to them individually in the form of foreign exchange coupons, without any deduction.

If you don’t want foreign exchange coupons, you can also directly exchange them into RMB.

Three hundred thousand!

That’s 300,000 Mi gold foreign exchange!

Thinking about the fact that we will soon receive 300,000 MiGold foreign exchange, converted into our own RMB, it will be more than 700,000!
Can Feng Jiayou sleep?
I was also tossing and turning all night long and didn't get much sleep. The next day I definitely wouldn't be able to get up until the sun was up.

"Not so fast!"

"When we were about to get off work yesterday afternoon, Mr. Wu told me that it was still uncertain whether the approval had arrived at my father's workplace!"

"Hold on!"

"Let's wait for Dad to come back from get off work today and see what he says!"

As soon as he got up, Feng Jiayou urged Cheng Xuemin to go to the People's Bank of China to withdraw the 300,000 yuan in foreign currency and put it in his pocket.

Cheng Xuemin said to the woman with a wry smile, how could it be so fast?

The approval letter just reached Mr. Wu yesterday, and it is not certain whether it has arrived at the Foreign Language Bureau today. This certainly cannot be rushed.

"Xuemin, how about we go back home and call dad to ask?"

Feng Jiayou's face fell when she heard this. She had to wait for her father to come back before she could know the news?

But she was tortured by excitement all night last night, and it would be torture for her to wait for a whole day!
An idea suddenly struck her, and she wanted to pick up the baby, ride her bicycle and go back to her home at the Overseas Chinese Apartment, call her father's workplace and ask whether the approval had come down.

If you come down!

She must have been with Cheng Xuemin. They both went straight to her father's unit to get the foreign currency payment receipt, and then went to the People's Bank of China to exchange the money and deposit it into their own passbooks.

"Wife, is it that urgent?"

"Hold on steady!"

"Let's wait for Dad's notification!"

Cheng Xuemin knew in his heart that it was safest to put the money in pocket, but he couldn't be too hasty.

Anyway, the approval has been given from above, and it will only take two days or so. There is no need to make them so anxious, as if they are waiting for the money to buy rice.

Just like that, Feng Jiayou could only nod angrily and start another day he had been looking forward to.

Cheng Xuemin has finished all the dubbing work for Yan Film Studio, director Xie Jin has returned to Shanghai, and Yan University has not started yet, so he is really free now.

I stay at home and play with my wife and son, and write some articles in my spare time.

The manuscript that Cheng Xuemin is currently writing is the foreign language novella manuscript that his father-in-law wrote for the Foreign Language Bureau.

Although the Foreign Language Bureau had made a huge foreign exchange profit of 300,000 MiGold due to the popularity of a popular song, they were not in a hurry to urge Cheng Xuemin to submit this foreign language manuscript.

However, ever since Cheng Xuemin came back from the Northwest after filming the movie "The Shepherd", he has been busy with his manuscripts.

So it is basically nearing the end, and the manuscript will be completed in these two days.

As for the rest, I haven’t started any new drafts.

I did send a popular martial arts novel, "Heroes of the East", to a literary magazine in my hometown. It's been a while, and I think I should get a reply soon.

We have to keep someone at the Overseas Chinese Apartment for the next two days, as the reply call may come at any time.

Then there is "The Wreath under the Mountain" from the General Political Department. This is the only manuscript of Cheng Xuemin that has been revised. It has now been sent to "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" for the final review.

If there are no problems, "The Wreath under the Mountain" will be published in the middle of next month, just in time to celebrate the motherland's 30th birthday.

Besides these!

Some things started to happen at home, mainly Cheng Xuemin's mother, Qin Guilan, who had been in Yanjing to see her grandson for more than twenty days!

After seeing her grandson and touring Yanjing City, she began to worry about the old man at home, as well as her two pigs and two acres of private land.

In a word!

Mother Cheng began to feel anxious and uncomfortable living in Yanjing and wanted to return to northern Shaanxi.

This put Cheng Xuemin and his wife in a difficult position! When they came here, Cheng Xuemin and his wife took it together, and they were on their way.

But if Cheng's mother wants to go back now, she must send someone to accompany her back. Otherwise, let her take the train alone and then transfer to a long-distance bus. Is it okay for her, an illiterate woman from the countryside?

Mother Cheng kept saying that she could do it!

I have been to Yanjing twice now. Now I can go back with my eyes closed. I will definitely not get lost.

These words!

Cheng Xuemin and his sister Cheng Wenxiu are children, believe it!

You have to believe it even if you don’t believe it!
But the two of them really didn't have the courage to do so, so they really let her mother go back alone.

Originally, according to the previous arrangement!

The plan was to let his mother stay until the National Day. By then, Cheng Xuemin would have two days off, and then he would take the opportunity to ask for a few days off from school and personally send his mother back to his hometown in northern Shaanxi.

Then he could also fulfill his promise to his fellow villagers and buy flour mills, oil presses and other equipment and bring them to the village, so as to set up a flour mill and oil press in Chengjiawan Brigade.

But now if his mother really insists on going back, who will take her there?

Cheng Xuemin doesn't have that time. At this critical juncture, he has to stay at home and be on standby. He might get a call from above at any time and be called into the hospital committee.

My sister can’t take it anymore because it’s already August 26th!

There are only a few days left before Yenching University starts. This trip back to my hometown in northern Shaanxi will take seven or eight days, and I will definitely miss the registration date.

The same goes for my daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou, who also has to go to school.

other people!
Those who work go to work, and those who can’t walk can’t walk. There is simply no time to spare.

no way!

No matter how much Mother Cheng missed the old man at home, she could only let her stay for a few more days. She had to wait until Yan University officially started school. After she was done with the busy first few days of school, Cheng Xuemin would see if he could find time to take a leave and send her back.

No need to wait until National Day!
Judging from the situation, he can’t even wait until National Day.

But even so!
The strong-willed mother Cheng still wanted to go back alone, as long as Cheng Xuemin could help her buy the train ticket.

She even vowed to Cheng Xuemin and his wife, "She will take the train back home, and ask Cheng Xuemin and his wife to take her to the train station. After she gets on the train, she only needs to take it to the Xi'an train station in their provincial capital, and then change to the train back to northern Shaanxi!"

"When we got to northern Shaanxi and exited the train station, we took the bus back to their county at the long-distance bus station next door!"

"Once we get to the county, we'll be familiar with it. We can go back to the commune, the brigade, and Chengjiawan with our eyes closed!"

She swore that there would be no problem and asked Cheng Xuemin and his sister to buy the train tickets for her without any worries.

Yes!
What my mother said made perfect sense and the route was correct. She even remembered clearly which turn to turn after leaving the train station. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it.

But even so, Cheng Xuemin still didn't dare!

Now my mother's explanation is very logical and clear, but what if?
What if you accidentally miss your stop or get off the bus early?

That's not the provincial train station or the regional train station that her mother is familiar with. Wouldn't her mother be confused?
I won’t know where to find anyone when the time comes!

Moreover, this situation is not impossible to happen, but very likely to happen.

This is the reason why Cheng Xuemin and his sister, as well as the couple, discussed it all and refused to let go.

At last!
It was also Cheng Xuemin who expressed her opinion, saying that if her mother was really worried about the family, she could call the commune once a day.

It’s just a few long-distance phone calls, which is a small amount of money for Cheng Xuemin.

After much persuasion, his mother was finally calmed down and promised that she would take time off and send her back after school started.

After a whole day of talking and finally calming her mother-in-law, Feng Jiayou heard some noise in the front yard. She thought it must be her parents coming back from get off work, so she quickly picked up the little squirrel and went to the front yard.

When he was passing by the window, he kept making eye contact with Cheng Xuemin, asking Cheng Xuemin, who was sitting at the desk in the study, to follow him quickly.

Cheng Xuemin looked up, shook his head and smiled bitterly, put down the pen in his hand, organized the foreign language manuscript that was basically finished, then left the study and went to the front yard.

Mr. Wu acted quickly. I heard from Feng's father that the instructions had already been issued to their bureau when they got to work early this morning.

After receiving the approval from above, Lao Zhao from the bureau was very straightforward and directly signed a manuscript fee invoice for Cheng Xuemin for 300,000 foreign currency.

Originally, Old Zhao wanted to ask Feng’s father to bring it back!

However, Feng's father did not collect it on someone else's behalf. He asked Cheng Xuemin and his wife to get up early tomorrow and go to the unit with him to collect it, and to bring their family's passbook with them.

Feng Jiayou felt itchy when she heard this, and she complained about why her father didn't pick it up for her!

That was a bill for three hundred thousand MiGold foreign exchange. He must have wanted to get a sneak peek at what it looked like, and he definitely didn't want to wait all night.

Not to mention Feng Jiayou, the younger sister-in-law Feng Jiamo, as well as her elder brother-in-law, elder brother-in-law and his wife, also saw the situation and were worried.

They also discussed all night long that their brother-in-law earned 300,000 US dollars from a foreign song.

But even though the instructions were given, their father-in-law just didn't come back, so they waited the whole day in vain.

Anyway, even if they went to work today, they were still thinking about him, thinking that there would be news from their father-in-law as soon as they got back from get off work.

But who knows!

Their father-in-law, Mr. Feng, just didn't bring them back.

Even Feng's mother was surprised and resentful when she heard that the foreign exchange settlement of 300,000 US dollars had been made and her father Feng had not brought it back.

But soon Feng's father gave an explanation, and everyone was relieved. Feng's father was thoughtful, but they were a little disappointed that they couldn't see what the manuscript fee slip for 300,000 foreign currency looked like.

"Dad is right. The People's Bank of China is not far from Dad's workplace. We can go there to get the manuscript fee bill tomorrow and then go to the head office to settle the bill!"

"It saves us from all this back and forth!"

After dinner, Cheng Xuemin saw that his wife was still thinking about him, so he smiled and comforted her.

Feng Jiayou nodded when he heard this, but tonight was destined to be another sleepless night.

But Feng Jiayou got up early in the morning!

My sister-in-law and second sister-in-law also got up, and they all wanted to accompany Cheng Xuemin and his wife to collect their manuscript fee receipts.

See this!

Feng Jiayou simply took the little squirrel with him, and called his mother-in-law, Cheng's mother, his aunt Cheng Wenxiu, and his grandparents, to go into the city and have a good stroll together.

But my grandparents don’t like the hustle and bustle and don’t like to be active, so they didn’t go.

Cheng's mother did the same. She let the young people go out and play by themselves, and asked her daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou to leave her eldest grandson Little Shu at home and she would take care of him.

Unable to persuade the three old ladies, Feng Jiayou and the others had no choice but to give up, and by the way, they also kept their son Little Squirrel.

Unexpectedly.

Just because she left her son, the little squirrel, at home, she didn't suffer as a mother!

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(End of this chapter)