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

Chapter 142: A novella was passed and the manuscript fee skyrocketed!
"Ah, ah, big roast duck, big roast duck! I knew that you, Old Cheng, would secretly give delicious food to my sister without telling me!"

Just as Cheng Xuemin and his friends sat down at the table, a younger sister-in-law suddenly appeared from her second sister-in-law's room.

"Jiamo, are you at home? When did you come back?"

Seeing his heartless good sister coming out of the house, Feng Jiayou was really shocked. When did she come back?
"Sister, I'll be back as soon as I finish the exam!"

"I just sneaked into the house and didn't shoot. I just wanted to see if Big Boss Cheng secretly prepared something delicious for you!"

"Look! Look! I caught you red-handed, right?"

Sister-in-law Feng Jiamo looked very proud.

There was a math test this morning. Although my sister-in-law Feng Jiamo did not hand in her paper in advance, she finished the test and went home from school at 10 o'clock.

They had originally agreed to ride Da Lao Cheng's bike home to cook and eat together, but she didn't bring any food to school at noon today.

But when she had just finished filling in the multiple-choice questions, she heard someone outside shouting for Lao Cheng to wait, and she knew that Lao Cheng had handed in his paper early and ran away!
There was no bicycle to borrow, and Feng Jiamo didn’t want to go hungry, so he had to go home by himself.

Fortunately, Zhu Shan also went home for dinner today, so I took her bike back.

When she came back, she didn't see Big Cheng. Seeing her sister reading in the room, she didn't disturb her and sneaked into the room, ready to catch her sister and Big Cheng in the act.

But who knew that she would really catch him in the act.

Old Cheng actually secretly bought a big roast duck for her sister to eat, no no no...

When sister-in-law Feng Jiamo rushed to the dining table, she found that the table was full of delicious dishes, all of which had just been packed back from Quanjude!

Don't let your sister-in-law drool too much.

"You didn't even say hello when you came back. You are amazing!"

Feng Jiayou glared at the heartless man in anger. He always came without saying hello. Today, it was a good thing that her brother-in-law didn't come back early.

If she comes back, given her brother-in-law's personality, he will definitely flirt with her for a while, but she will definitely see it, right?

"Don't fight with me, just let me do it!"

Seeing his little niece Feng Liqin directly taking action to tear off a big piece of duck leg, the foodie Feng Jiamo directly held down his niece's chopsticks and shouted.

"Uh……"

This made Ge You, who was standing next to him, want to pick up his chopsticks to tear the roast duck, but he didn't dare to.

"Wow!"

It also made my little niece Feng Liqin cry!
"Just eat it if you want. Why are you fighting with Liqin Liwen and the others for it? Is there any aunt like you?"

"There are guests here!"

Feng Jiayou rolled his eyes. What a heartless person. He had no respect for elders and younger ones. He was disrespectful to the elders and didn't give way to the younger ones. He was only concerned about eating by himself.

"It's okay, it's okay! I'll eat this too!"

Ge You immediately retracted his chopsticks, picked up a piece of Mu Xu pork in front of him, and smiled sullenly.

"What kind of guest is Old Ge? He often follows Old Cheng around and eats and drinks for free!"

"Come on, Liqin, don't cry, don't cry. I'll give you this duck leg. Is that okay?"

Feng Jiamo glanced at Ge You, totally ignoring her. Then he could only put the bitten duck leg back into his niece's bowl and coax her.

"No, no! You've eaten it, little aunt, but I won't eat anything that has your saliva on it!"

OK, you have been so hypocritical since childhood, it's definitely genetic. You are right not to eat it, and your aunt is instantly getting a bargain!
But this time my little niece cried even harder!
"Don't cry, don't cry! Liqin, don't cry. Let your uncle buy you a TV tomorrow, okay?"

Only Feng Jiayou, the eldest aunt, can coax her!

"Okay, okay! My uncle will go buy a TV tomorrow. I want to watch TV at home. I want to invite many, many friends to come watch TV at home."

Row!
When my niece heard that her aunt was going to buy a TV tomorrow, she burst into laughter and cheered. She even planned to invite the kids to watch TV at home after the TV was bought.

"Sister, Big Boss Cheng, are you going to buy a TV?"

Not to mention the two younger ones, even Feng Jiamo's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he asked, "Big Boss Cheng, did you get the TV tickets?"

"TV tickets and air tickets!? Old Cheng, do you want to buy a TV?! I'll take care of the tickets!"

Ge You thought that he had no chance to show off, but when he heard that Old Cheng's family was going to buy a TV, he instantly became excited and said.

I quickly picked up a piece of roast duck fat and put it in my mouth. It was fatty but not greasy, so delicious!
"Old Ge, can you get the TV tickets?"

The sister-in-law was most excited by what Lao Ge said. She quickly turned her head to look at him and asked in a quick voice.

"Eat, eat, eat. Today we have plenty of roast duck!"

Then he picked up two slices of roast duck for Ge You, which made him feel flattered and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Sure, sure, I can get the TV tickets tomorrow!"

"Old Ge, don't listen to her nonsense. Xuemin already found a TV ticket yesterday!"

Feng Jiayou glared at his sister again and said, "Don't really treat Old Ge as an outsider. Is it so easy to get TV and plane tickets?

Even if Lao Ge can get it, it will still cost extra money.

"Shocked? Big Boss Cheng has already got the TV ticket? Does that mean we can really go buy a TV tomorrow?"

Sister-in-law Feng Jiayou's attention once again returned to her brother-in-law, Lao Cheng.

"You're so startled. Can you be more calm, Jiamo?"

"Eat, eat! Lao Ge, eat meat, don't be polite, just like you are at home!"

"Ah, ah, ah, okay, okay!"

Ge You was flattered again and nodded repeatedly.

On the way to school, sister-in-law Feng Jiamo still sat on the back seat of Cheng Xuemin's bicycle and did not go to find her good friend Zhu Shan.

After the final history and politics exams in the afternoon, I have completed the two-day final exams and this process is considered complete.

He still handed in the paper early, but did not go home immediately. Instead, he went to the yard first.

The bricklayer works very quickly!
My brother-in-law just hired the people yesterday and they entered the site this morning. The walls have been knocked down today and the septic tank outside has been basically built!

Cheng Xuemin stepped forward and explained to the masters that the septic tank must be well sealed and cement cannot be poured directly on the earth wall to smooth it out.

Instead, a brick wall should be built inside with red bricks, and then poured with cement. There should also be space for the end caps on top, and a thick cement board should be poured with cement and steel bars to cover it to ensure it is tight and seamless, so that the biogas inside cannot leak out.

Next was the layout of the bathroom, which Cheng Xuemin had also discussed with the bricklayers!
I'm going to be busy tomorrow. I have to go to the Overseas Chinese Store and buy all the bathtub, flush toilet, shower head and so on.

Then I took a look at the conditions of the other rooms. They were basically tidied up. As long as the bathroom on his side was finished, we could move in to celebrate the New Year.

Let’s try to move in before the New Year!

When Cheng Xuemin returned home, almost everyone had returned from get off work, and Feng's mother and sister-in-law were busy in the kitchen.

"What are you hiding?"

When he entered the room and saw Feng Jiayou hiding something, Cheng Xuemin asked curiously.

This should be a manuscript. It took almost two days to write, right?

"I'm not hiding anything!"

Feng Jiayou pretended to be calm and brushed the hair between her eyebrows, with an expression and tone that said I'm not hiding anything.

Then he asked, "By the way, Xuemin, have you taken out the two manuscript fee bills today?"

Today, Cheng Xuemin received two more bills for royalties, and he told the woman the truth during lunch.

Cheng Xuemin had no intention of keeping the royalties for himself.

He has already planned his future private money and plans to invest in foreign exchange.

Unfortunately, the editor of the foreign media publication that I contacted last month returned to his country to celebrate Christmas and New Year at the end of last month, and I don’t know if he has returned yet.

You can go back to the foreign guesthouse to find out more about the situation. It would be best to write the manuscript first and take it with you.

"got it!"

"I picked it up at Yanda University, and then I went to the courtyard. The bricklayer hired by my brother has already arrived today!"

Then Cheng Xuemin nodded to the woman and was about to take the royalties from his pocket and give them to her.

"Don't give it to me yet!"

"Xuemin, you should have 200 yuan now, right?" Feng Jiayou asked without taking the money from Cheng Xuemin. He then said, "I'll give you another 300 yuan. Go buy the TV tomorrow!"

"You don't know how noisy Liqin and Liwen were after you left this afternoon!"

Feng Jiayou shook his head repeatedly. His head really felt like it was about to explode this afternoon!

They have been clamoring to watch TV, but where can Aunt Feng Jiayou get a TV for them to watch?

"Didn't the two of them go out to watch TV?"

Cheng Xuemin was also surprised. Hadn't the two little guys been away from home these past two days, basically watching TV outside?
"He went! He came back not long after, saying that they were not allowed to watch because they were too noisy!"

Feng Jiayou was speechless. She just wanted to make it clear today and buy it tomorrow.

But the child won’t wait for you until tomorrow. If you don’t let him go outside to watch, he will definitely make trouble for the adults when he comes back!
"Okay, I'll buy it back tomorrow!"

Cheng Xuemin couldn't imagine that now that he had finished his final exams, he would just stay at home and write papers.

If I didn't have a TV, I would be driven to death by those two little guys.

At the dinner table, Feng's mother once again conveyed some information to Cheng Xuemin and the others as usual.

"Xuemin, Mr. Xie in Shanghai called today and said that you have been selected for the script, and the fee is 1,600 yuan!"

really!

Today, when Ge You mentioned the movie "The Shepherd" during the day, Cheng Xuemin thought of Xie Jin and the script of "Female College Students' Dormitory" from the Shanghai Film Studio. He should have received a reply in the next two days.

Originally, Cheng Xuemin was waiting for the letter that Xie Jin would mail to him, but he didn't expect that he would call him directly from long distance!

"There are sixteen thousand?!"

Before Cheng Xuemin and Feng Jiayou could say anything, their sister-in-law Feng Jiamo shouted, "Old Cheng, you are so rich now, buy me a bicycle!"

In the past, the sister-in-law usually asked her father and elder brother for money, but now that she has met the richer Mr. Cheng, she acts like a spoiled child.

"We're moving to your Yanda High School soon. It'll only take you ten minutes to walk to school. What kind of bike do you want to buy?"

When Feng Jiamo heard her brother-in-law asking for a bicycle, Feng's mother glared at her and said, "Xuemin, don't listen to her. You're spoiling her!"

"Why don't you buy it for me? Dad, brother, you promised me to buy me a bicycle!"

"And Big Boss Cheng, you also said you would buy me a bicycle!"

Row!
So the three men in the family all promised my sister-in-law a bicycle, but none of them has fulfilled their promise yet?
"I didn't get a bicycle ticket!"

Brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao retorted angrily.

"Now that we've moved there and it's closer, we really don't need a bicycle anymore. Listen to your mother!"

As for Feng's father, after finally coaxing his woman into submission, he must stand on the same front and dare not hold back and spoil his little daughter anymore.

"Okay, okay, okay, you just can't bear to buy it for me!"

"Big Boss Cheng, tell me, will you buy it for me?!"

Feng Jiamo rolled her eyes at her father and elder brother, knowing that she could not count on them now!
The two of them just couldn't bear to buy it! If they were willing to buy it, they would have bought it for her long ago!
"Xuemin, don't listen to her. Are you spoiling her?"

Feng's mother repeated the sentence again, emphasizing that Cheng Xuemin, as the brother-in-law, should not spoil his sister-in-law too much.

"Mom! What are you doing? I'm not asking you to buy it!" Sister-in-law Feng Jiamo became even more anxious. Now she was counting on Lao Cheng to buy her a bicycle.

She immediately said in a coquettish and indignant manner: "Why can Boss Cheng buy a TV for Liqin Liwen but not a bicycle for me?"

"Ah?! Xuemin, you want to buy a TV with Liqin Liwen?"

Now, the second sister-in-law Sun Juan, who had been concentrating on watching the show and had not interrupted the conversation, was suddenly stunned!
what's the situation?
Jiayou and Xuemin want to buy a TV for their son and daughter?
Now the eldest brother Feng Jiazhao and his sister-in-law Ke Yumei did the same. They no longer watched Cheng Xuemin and Feng Jiayou as if it had nothing to do with them.

"Xuemin, are you going to buy them a TV?"

Mother Feng and Father Feng were also stunned. What was going on? How come they, as adults, didn't know anything about the addition of such a big item to the family?
"Mom, Dad, Big Brother, Big Sister-in-law, Second Sister-in-law!"

Feng Jiayou nodded and greeted everyone one by one, saying, "Yesterday Xuemin bought a TV ticket at the pigeon market. I thought it was not good for Liqin and Liwen to go out to other people's houses to watch TV every day!"

"Just this afternoon, they kicked me out because I was too noisy!"

"So I discussed it with Xuemin. It just so happens that the new house should also have a big loud item. So I thought of asking Xuemin to buy one tomorrow!"

Feng Jiayou had just finished speaking when her mother said, "Tell me and your father about this big thing! If Jiamo hadn't mentioned it, would you have kept it to yourself?!"

After saying that, Feng's mother stood up, turned around, and went into her room to everyone's surprise.

Before she could react to what Feng's mother was going to do, Feng's mother came out again, holding her wallet in her hand.

In an instant, sister-in-law Feng Jiamo looked at her mother's wallet with her eyes shining brightly.

Is this the money to buy her a bicycle?

"Here are five hundred dollars, use it to buy a TV!"

Mother Feng glanced at the eldest son, Feng Jiazhao, and saw that he lowered his head and did not make eye contact. She then glanced at the second son and simply passed him by without giving him any hope.

He took out a stack of big unity notes from his wallet and handed it to Feng Jiayou.

In those days, there were no hundred-yuan banknotes. All there were were ten-yuan banknotes like this. They were called "Great Unity" because they were printed with "The Great Unity of All Nationalities in the Country".

"Mom, we can't take this money!"

Feng Jiayou directly pushed the money back and said, "I had discussed the purchase of the TV with Xuemin, and I didn't intend to ask my family to pay for it!"

Although the woman is money-loving, she actually doesn't use her parents' money much, except for relying on her parents for food, clothing, and shelter.

Especially now that her husband can earn royalties, let alone!
The woman also doesn't want her man to feel uncomfortable about having a live-in son-in-law who is living off her.

You could also say that she's just as obsessed with face as her mother!

"Mom! Mom! Mom! If my sister doesn't want me, I will! I can just buy a bicycle!"

The other little girl was different. Looking at the piles of big solidarity, she was so excited that she kept rushing to grab them.

"Feng Jiayou, what's wrong with you? Just take it if I give it to you! If you don't want this or that, then we might as well not move there!"

Of course, Feng's mother knew what this debt collector was thinking!

But you also have to think about your parents, your brother and sister-in-law. You don't want this or that, so the whole Feng family has to rely on her man?

"Get off and drive!"

He angrily pushed away another debt collector, Feng Jiamo, which made his sister-in-law so dumbfounded that she burst into tears on the spot.

Isn't this too biased?

"Ugh! That's a lot!"

Feng Jiayou didn't expect her mother to be so angry. She couldn't accept it or not, so she could only count it and said with a smile, "Don't say anything, I understand! I'll buy you a bicycle with the extra money!"

Seeing that her mother was about to speak again, Feng Jiayou quickly said OK to show that she understood, and then added a sentence.

"Sister, really? You're going to buy me a bicycle?"

Sister-in-law Feng Jiamo, who had just been secretly wiping her tears, immediately wiped her tears again and asked excitedly.

"You said your brother-in-law promised you, so I'll buy you one. I said so!"

Feng Jiayou nodded. Her husband had mentioned to her before that he wanted to buy a bicycle from Feng Jiamo.

The cause was that Feng Jiamo had quarreled with his family several times, and also quarreled with Cheng Xuemin, his brother-in-law, and Cheng Xuemin agreed without thinking.

However, at that time, Feng Jiayou, the elder sister, did not agree because she was reluctant!

Just like what her mother said, they are going to move there and it's only a few steps away from Yanda University and Yanda High School, so why would they buy a bicycle?
But what Cheng Xuemin didn't expect was that the woman actually agreed to buy it again!
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin took a special look at Feng Jiayou, thinking that maybe the woman had also noticed something?

"Just spoil her!"

Seeing that the child was wiping tears out of grievance just now, Feng's mother couldn't break the rules and stop him from buying the ball, so she could only complain.

Then he mentioned another matter and said, "Oh, Xuemin has another matter!"

"When I got off work this afternoon, Mr. Zhang from People's Literature called me and said that they have used that novella. It will be published in this issue at 7 yuan per thousand words. You can go there and collect the payment slip when you have time!"

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(End of this chapter)