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

Chapter 98: Just a big front door, you want to buy me off? (ask for monthly ticket)
It is impossible for the flood to happen. The old and dilapidated courtyards and shanty towns are connected together in large areas. If the flood starts in this heavy snowstorm, the whole Yanjing city will be warm.

"Old Xie, everyone says you're a heavy smoker, this is too much, isn't it? How much do you smoke?"

"And you guys are really careless. There are so many books in this room. If they were to catch fire, wouldn't Old Qian be crying to death?!"

In a panic, he rushed into his son-in-law's room with a basin of water and found someone inside, smoking!

After figuring out it was a misunderstanding and knowing it was Old Xie from the Shanghai Film Studio who came over to help clean up the house, Feng's mother really had nothing to complain about!

This is her daughter and son-in-law's 'new house'. Her daughter didn't come back to live here tonight, and the two of them made such a mess.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Gu! It's really because the script written by your son-in-law is so good that I was so engrossed in it that I forgot I was not at work. I'm sorry!"

Old Xie, who was chatting with Feng's father in the main room, was embarrassed and apologized to Feng's mother again and again. This was really inappropriate.

"If it's not at work, then do you suck so hard at home?"

"You are old now, please take care of your health!"

Mother Feng rolled her eyes at them and said, "Old Feng, you should smoke less. My son won't be home tonight, and you don't know how to control yourself!"

"Okay, you guys chat! I'm going to make dinner!"

Seeing that Old Feng also started to smoke, Feng's mother complained even more, saying that she never saw Old Feng smoking when the debt collector was at home.

Don't smoke one cigarette after another without restraint when guests come today.

"Where is the fire?! Where is the fire?! Mr. Feng Gu, where is the fire in your house?"

Lao Qian just came back from outside. The bus broke down on the road today, so he walked back one step at a time!
As soon as I got home, I heard that there was a fire in the backyard of Old Feng's house! I was so scared that I quickly ran to the backyard with a basin in my hand, shouting and asking.

"Where's the fire? It's Old Xie and Xuemin who are in his room, smoking with the door closed!"

"By the way, Lao Qian, why did you just get home?!"

Before Feng's mother entered the kitchen, she saw Lao Qian running over. She couldn't help but wink at him and asked.

"It's not a fire! You guys almost scared me to death!" Old Qian was stunned when he heard that. His tense face instantly relaxed. He looked at Feng's mother and said, "Teacher Gu, Old Feng, you... kept it a secret from me!"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier that your Xuemin was the author of The Shepherd?!"

Today, Li Qingquan and the others really gave Lao Qian a big surprise.

"Old Qian, you know now, don't you?!" Mother Feng raised her eyebrow again and said, "Besides, if I had told you earlier, would you have gone to the symposium today to help out?"

On the way back home with my lover Lao Feng, I already knew that Lao Qian had praised her good son-in-law, Lao Xu, the author of The Horse Wrangler, at the symposium today.

Moreover, when Lao Liu from the company was returning home, he happened to meet them after get off work, and he didn't say much. But the resentment in Lao Liu's eyes was indeed a surprise today!

However, Feng's mother did not give him the opportunity to continue to complain. After seeing Lao Liu's reaction, she left with a sense of satisfaction and went home to cook dinner for her son-in-law. Although her daughter was not at home at night, as a mother-in-law, she still had to prepare dinner for him tonight to reward him.

Say it again!

Her son-in-law even gave their magazine "October" an atomic bomb. Is it necessary for Old Liu to be so resentful?

And later on, Feng's mother heard from her husband, Old Feng, on the road that Old Liu was pretending a lot at Yenching Literature today, and he even made Li Qingquan look embarrassed!

Li Qingquan was so proud that he had another excellent long novel in his hand, but he found out in the end that it was the one left over by Lao Liu. How could Lao Liu not show off? Lao Li was so angry that his face turned purple.
"Don't! If I had known it was written by Xuemin, I would have gone there even if it was snowing heavily today!"

Lao Qian waved his hands repeatedly. He would not fall into this trap. However, he still had to say something to save face, and he did go to show his support today!
Being stubborn and foul-mouthed is just a thankless job.

"Okay, okay, okay! Thank you, thank you, Old Qian!"

"Old Xie happens to be here. Old Qian, go in and chat with them. We can have dinner together tonight!"

Mother Feng was so happy that she was waiting to see how the newspapers would praise her son-in-law tomorrow morning.

"Old Xie?! Which Old Xie?!" Old Qian didn't react and walked towards the main room in confusion.

"Old Qian, Old Qian! I just found out that you, Teacher Gu, and Old Feng live in the front and back yards!"

"Besides, you don't look like a landlord at all!"

Old Xie had been listening to Old Qian talking outside in the main room. He always felt that Old Qian was lacking in energy, as if he was avoiding Teacher Gu.

Seeing him coming over here, he quickly stood up and went to greet him, jokingly saying!
"Hey, who am I, Old Xie? Why is it Xie Jinni? Why are you here? And why are you running ahead of me?"

Old Qianmao was Xie Jin, and he couldn't help but look down on him and greeted him in a bad mood.

What does lack of vital energy mean?

Let you, Mr. Xie, become neighbors with Teacher Gu, and write another critical article for her son-in-law. Give it a try!

"Xuemin Jiazhao and I rode our bicycles back here! Didn't you take the bus, Lao Qian?! Why are you still behind?"

Xie Jin also greeted him with a smile, and held Lao Qian's hand and said, "Watch out for the steps!"

"Go away, I'm only two years older than you, but you're acting like I'm a generation older than you!" Old Qian came in and started to complain to Feng's father, "Old Feng, you're such a bad friend. You even kept it a secret from me!"

"Well... you know the situation in my family, Old Qian!"

"Come on, come on, have a cigarette!"

Father Feng also handed him a cigarette with an apologetic look on his face, knowing that he would be held accountable when he got home from get off work today.

So Mr. Feng brought back the best welfare from the unit and handed it over!

"Hey! Foreign cigarettes with handles? Old Feng, you must be prepared!"

Old Qian took the imported cigarette handed over by Father Feng, and his eyes lit up, but he quickly changed his expression and said, "Just this one, are you going to get rid of me?"

"This... is all for you, just this one bag!"

Father Feng had a miserable look on his face, and reluctantly put the half pack of foreign cigarettes in his hand into Old Qian's palm.

"Hehe! Lao Feng, you have calculated this! But Xuemin, you..."

Without Old Qian saying anything, Cheng Xuemin quickly took over and said angrily, "Old Qian, I understand! I'll pay you when I get the royalties. It's a deal!"

"There's only one Daqianmen. I want to buy you some foreign cigarettes, but I can't get them!"

Speaking of Daqianmen, Mr. Qian was still weighing the foreign cigarette in his hand, and his appetite was whetted, hinting at Cheng Xuemin.

How could Cheng Xuemin be fooled? He immediately insisted on going to Daqianmen. Where could he get the foreign exchange coupons for these foreign cigarettes?
This kind of foreign cigarettes is only available in foreign units, or Friendship Stores and Overseas Chinese Stores, and you have to use foreign exchange coupons to buy them!

With that money, Cheng Xuemin could build four or five Daqianmen roads.

"I didn't tell you to do this!"

Lao Qian knew that he was a little greedy. If his mother-in-law, Teacher Gu, found out, he might even lose the Daqianmen he had agreed on.

"The bus broke down on the road, so we had to walk all the way back!" Old Qian then responded to Xie Jin and said, "If I had known earlier, I should have come back with Xuemin!" Indeed!

When the symposium was over, Cheng Xuemin and Feng Jiazhao made an appointment and asked Lao Qian to go back with them, but on this windy and snowy day, Lao Qian chose to take the bus.

But who knew that the bus would break down and stop in the middle of the road!
"You're in trouble, Old Qian! But we also walk and ride a lot, and we fall a lot!"

Old Xie mentioned it jokingly.

"Okay, I feel much better now!" Old Qian thought a little earlier and felt much more balanced when he heard that they had also fallen.

As he gathered around the stove, he finally remembered to ask, "Xie Jin, why did you come to Old Feng's house? Didn't Yanying Studio arrange a guesthouse for you?"

"It's arranged!" Old Xie nodded, and then said, "Xuemin has already written the script for The Shepherd and left it at home! I'll follow him here and take a look at the script first!"

"What?! Xuemin, you wrote the script yourself!?"

"How is it? How is Xuemin's script?"

Old Qian was really surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that Old Feng's son-in-law was so awesome?

You can write such an excellent article as "The Horse Shepherd", and you can also write the script yourself?

"What?! Anyway, I think that Lao Teng from Yanying Studio, who wrote it himself, would write something like this at best!"

Xie Jinzhi shook his head. He hadn't even said anything about this kid, but he had already finished drawing his storyboard drafts!
Moreover, with his painting skills, he can really be regarded as an art screenwriter in the Shanghai Film Studio. He is a very talented all-rounder.

"Is this the best that Old Teng can write?"

The flesh on Old Qian's face kept twitching. Isn't Old Feng Gu's son-in-law too awesome?

While roasting a fire and chatting, the eldest sister-in-law Ke Yumei and the second sister-in-law picked up the children. The youngest sister-in-law Feng Jiamo was not seen often and went home one after another.

Seeing that there were guests at home, they all went to the kitchen to help, and also bought vegetables for Feng Jiazhao.

In addition, Feng's mother wanted to give her son-in-law a snack, so she took a detour to the pigeon market to buy it, which took a lot of effort.

In the end, we had a big table of dishes!

The adults sat at the table drinking, while the children and women stood around eating, and in the end they were all drunk.

Originally, Xie Jin wanted to go back to the guesthouse, but how could they let him go back in this weather? He might freeze to death on the way.

Just arrange for him to stay in a nearby guesthouse!

However, there happened to be an empty bed in Lao Qian's front yard, so he let him stay there for the night.

The next morning, Xie Jin and his elder brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao went to Yanying Studio with the script.

Cheng Xuemin also went to Yanda High School early in the morning with his sister-in-law Feng Jiamo. Last night, Mr. Zhang, the head teacher of the repeater class, asked Feng Jiamo to give him a message.

Be sure to let Cheng Xuemin go to class and see him today.

"Lao Xu, Lao Xu, please sign my name for me!"

"Feng Jiamo, it turns out that your brother-in-law is the horse herder Lao Xu? Why didn't you tell us earlier!"

"Sign, sign. Lao Xu, I admire you so much! I wrote you a letter, why don't you reply to me?"

"Yeah, yeah! I wrote it too, I wrote it too!"

When Cheng Xuemin first arrived in the class, he attracted many students from Yanda High School, especially the female students. They all heard the news and ran to their repeat class to follow and watch the horse shepherd Lao Xu.

This should actually be imaginable!

After all, Yanda High School is only one or two streets away from Yanda. If the news spreads to Yanda, it will naturally spread to the High School as well.

It's only because Cheng Xuemin came to class today, otherwise after school this afternoon, some brave female students would rush to his house to "chase stars".

"Old Cheng, you are actually the horse herder Old Xu?"

When his skinny deskmate saw Cheng Xuemin coming in, he slammed the table and roared, expressing his extreme shock.

It was too chaotic, too noisy and too enthusiastic. Cheng Xuemin was totally overwhelmed. Fortunately, the head teacher, Lao Zhang, heard the news and rushed into the classroom to coax those female students away!
"The Horse Wrangler was written by you, Xuemin?!"

After sending all the students away, Lao Zhang came over, looked at his student in disbelief, and asked with the same look of disbelief.

"Ah! In my spare time, I wanted to earn some royalties to supplement my family's income, so I wrote an article and submitted it to the journal!"

Cheng Xuemin nodded angrily. It was understandable that those female students were so excited and fanatical.

Why do you, Old Zhang, look so... fanatical?

"Did you really write it? The first person to reflect on literature?" Lao Zhang's tone suddenly became tense, and he was breathing heavily, obviously excited.

"Ah?!" Cheng Xuemin asked back again!
"Today's Yenching Daily, Workers' Daily, and Yenching Youth Daily are all reporting on your symposium yesterday, and they are praising your "The Shepherd" as the number one article in "reflective literature"!"

"Within two days, Wenhui Daily and even Xinhua News Agency will reprint this article!"

Old Zhang got so excited that he spread out all the newspapers in his hands behind his back in front of Cheng Xuemin and said.

As expected, the Yenching Daily, the Workers' Daily and other newspapers and periodicals that attended the symposium yesterday actually published the contents of the symposium overnight.

In particular, Qian Lao's commentary on the first person in "reflective literature" was published in a special edition.

"Okay, hurry up and follow me to the principal's office. Old Yang has been waiting for you for the past two days and he's gone crazy!"

Without waiting for Cheng Xuemin to speak, Lao Zhang directly pulled Cheng Xuemin and rushed to the principal's office!

The principal wants to see him?
Cheng Xuemin was stunned for a moment. Yesterday, Lao Zhang asked his sister-in-law to convey a message, was it because the principal had been waiting for him for the past two days and had gone crazy?

"Old Ge, Old Ge, I have a favor to ask of you! You are familiar with Yanjing City, please help me find a house!"

Before going to the principal's office, Cheng Xuemin did not forget another important thing to do in class today. He asked his classmate and deskmate Lao Ge to help him find a house.

Lao Ge is from the Zhenghong compound in the old city of Sijiu, so he must be familiar with Old Yanjing. If I ask him to help me find a house, I shouldn’t go wrong!

"Old Cheng, you want to find a house?! Okay, I'll take care of it! No, are you really the Wrangler Old Xu?!"

"Didn't we agree to submit the manuscript together? Why did you run so far ahead all of a sudden?"

The skinny Ge You was completely devastated. He had often boasted in front of Cheng Xuemin that he had loved literature since childhood and was determined to become the second shepherd Lao Xu.

But who would have known that his desk mate Lao Cheng accidentally became the horse shepherd Lao Xu!

How could this person hide so deeply? !

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(End of this chapter)