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

Chapter 28 We are Yanjing Literature. Thank your mother for letting us have the manuscript (Please read it later)
Bai Ling is Huang Beijia's editor-in-chief. Huang Beijia had also been asked to come to the Yenching Literature Editorial Department to revise manuscripts before. They had a very pleasant conversation and Huang Beijia learned that Bai Ling had just returned to the city from northern Shaanxi where she had been sent to work in the countryside!

It just so happened that Huang Beijia's roommate Feng Jiayou was also an educated youth who returned from northern Shaanxi. Upon asking, I found out that they were not only in the same commune in northern Shaanxi, but also both worked in the Chengjiawan Brigade.

At that time, Bai Ling learned from Huang Beijia that after she left Chengjiawan and returned to the city, Feng Jiayou, who was alone at the educated youth point, was admitted to Yenching University. She was extremely envious at the time.

Although she was the last to return to the city, Feng Jiayou was treated the best and was admitted to Yenching University. The others who were admitted to universities half a year before her, although they were all universities in Yenching, none of them were admitted to Yenching University Shuimu.

Bai Ling was even worse off. After returning to the city, her family did not let her take the college entrance examination. Instead, she took over her mother's job and was assigned a job in the Cultural Bureau. Now she is a small editor at Yenching Literature.

Similarly, Huang Beijia had already told Feng Jiayou that Bai Ling was her editor as soon as she got home, which led to Feng Jiayou telling Cheng Xuemin that there was a surprise.

After all, when they were in Chengjia Bay, Sister Bai Ling had many little thoughts about her man Cheng Xuemin!

After all, her man is the great grandson of the brigade secretary and the nephew of the commune cadre. It would be easier for her to work with him by her side.

In fact!
When Cheng Xuemin was in Chengjia Bay, he took good care of them both, and Bai Ling is still thinking about him now.

He actually said that he had written a letter to Cheng Xuemin?

Ok!

This guy had never mentioned it to her honestly!

Okay, I'll have to give him some good advice when I get back and ask him what the letter is all about!

A thought flashed through Feng Jiayou's mind, and then he saw Sister Bai Ling suddenly mentioned the pain of her manuscript revision. Zhang Dening and the others were looking at him in surprise. Feng Jiayou knew that the news had indeed spread, and they had misunderstood!
He quickly explained, "It's not that article! The Shepherd is not the one I wrote! The Shepherd was written by my wife Xuemin!"

"The Shepherd was written by you, Cheng Xuemin?!" Now it was Bai Ling's turn to be surprised and asked, "Cheng Xuemin, when did you learn to write novels? I remember you didn't even graduate from middle school!!"

"Sister Bai Ling, Cheng Xuemin is a talented person. Although he didn't graduate from high school, he learned much more than us in the two years he spent in the county!"

"I was able to get into Yanda University because he helped me study and tutor me all night long!"

Without waiting for Cheng Xuemin to respond, Feng Jiayou took over and explained for him.

But the more the woman tried to explain, the more he felt overwhelmed. What was the purpose of setting up this Shura Field for no apparent reason? !
Cheng Xuemin swore to God that he really didn’t know this person named Bai Ling!

"Is this true?! Tutoring all night long? Why does it sound so sour to me!?" Bai Ling rolled her eyes. Could she not hear the hidden meaning in Feng Jiayou's words?

Her belly was about to bulge, and it was too late for her to have any ideas! When she was in Chengjiawan before, why didn't she realize that Cheng Xuemin was an introverted type?

At that time, Cheng Xuemin, as the city people said, was a street urchin with no manners.

How come it’s like everyone has been transformed in just such a short time?
Bai Ling couldn't imagine what had happened to them during the time when she returned to the city and left Feng Jiayou alone to guard the educated youth point.
It actually caused such a huge change in both of them!
The two of them got married, which didn't surprise Bai Ling much.

After all, Feng Jiayou was unable to take the college entrance examination because of her background, and she had no hope of returning to the city alone at the educated youth center, so it was normal for her to marry a local farmer.

Bai Ling came back and found out that many female educated youth like Feng Jiayou basically found someone to marry in the local area.

But what Bai Ling didn't expect was the unexpected!
How could Feng Jiayou, an educated youth who didn't even have the qualifications to take the college entrance examination, be admitted directly to Yenching University?

Cheng Xuemin, a native man from northern Shaanxi, is even more amazing. He shocked their editor-in-chief, Mr. Li Qingquan, by writing "The Shepherd".

"Alright, alright! Bai Ling, you guys have been jealous for days, okay?" Zhang Dening, who was standing next to her, was surprised to find out that the couple in front of her were the authors of her book "The Shepherd". They were actually Bai Ling's acquaintances!
Now she wanted to say a few words to her author, but Bai Ling was chattering away beside her, reminiscing about the past, so she couldn't get a word in.

If I let her continue reminiscing about the past like this, wouldn't she be the one seducing me, the new potential writer I've discovered?

He immediately took the opportunity to interrupt Bai Ling's sourness and laughed jokingly.

"De Ning, why don't you let me feel jealous?! I only took a whole morning off that day and missed the submission of an old acquaintance. This is "The Horse Wrangler", am I at a loss?!"

Bai Ling felt cheated when this matter was mentioned. She and Zhang Dening had a clear division of labor. Both of them were editors who conducted preliminary review of manuscripts. They agreed that the manuscripts on odd days would be Zhang Dening's, and those on even days would be hers, Bai Ling's. Whoever discovered the manuscript would own it!
The author of the manuscript who was discovered while taking leave to fill in for the job is also considered the person who was discovered.

So that day, Bai Ling was forced by her mother to go on a blind date and took a leave of absence and wasted the whole morning. This allowed Zhang Dening to discover "The Shepherd", an extremely excellent manuscript that even the editor-in-chief praised.

Bai Ling was jealous for several days. If she hadn't asked for leave, the article "The Horse Shepherd" would definitely have been hers!

"Okay, okay, okay! Then you stay aside for a while, I have to receive my author here!" Zhang Dening made a very unkind joke, and then asked Cheng Xuemin jokingly, "So, Cheng Xuemin, you are Xu Lingjun? And Feng Jiayou is your Li Xiuzhi, right?"

Bai Ling shouted so loudly just now, Zhang Dening knew who was who between them without Cheng Xuemin and Cheng Xuemin introducing themselves!
"Hehe, hello Teacher Zhang, I'm Li Xiuzhi, also known as Feng Jiayou! He is my lover Cheng Xuemin, and also Lao Xu, the author of "The Shepherd"! " Feng Jiayou introduced himself to Cheng Xuemin and showed their love.

"Hello, Teacher Zhang, we are here to revise the manuscript!" Cheng Xuemin also greeted him.

"Hello, hello, hello, please don't call me Teacher Zhang. I can't bear it! You can all call me Dening, right?!"

Zhang Dening looked a little embarrassed, and he repeatedly called out to Cheng Xuemin and the other two, "Come and sit down, come and sit down. Our letter was just sent out yesterday, and I didn't expect you to come so soon!"

I really didn't expect that Lao Xu, the author of "The Shepherd", would come so soon. He had told me in the letter that I should come before the final version of the manuscript is published on the 20th of this month.

"Bai Ling, Bai Ling, stop being jealous and help me pour a cup of hot tea for the two comrades!" Zhang Dening had already picked up the kettle to pour water and asked Bai Ling to take it over.

"Jiayou, do you still consider me a sister? Don't you know that I'm in Yanjing Literature? Cheng Xuemin submitted his manuscript, but you submitted it to Zhang Dening instead of me?!"

"When I was in Chengjia Bay, I was so eager to help you with the work, and you hurt my feelings like this!?"

When Bai Ling took the hot water poured by Zhang Dening and handed it to Feng Jiayou, she said sourly again.

"Sister Bai Ling, you can't blame me for this! He was so focused on writing and submitting articles, and I only found out about it today!"

"Besides, my mom doesn't even know that he submitted his manuscript to Yanjing Literature. It would be fine if the manuscript doesn't get accepted, but I don't know how he will explain it to my mom if she finds out!"

"By the way, how's the quality of his manuscript for 'The Horse Herder'? If it's just barely passable, you should either reject it or he won't be able to explain to his mother-in-law!"

Women, women, women, please keep acting, keep acting!
Cheng Xuemin clearly wanted to submit the manuscript to her mother's "October", but she instigated him to turn against her and submit it to "Yenching Literature" instead. Why is he submitting the manuscript now without her knowledge?

And Cheng Xuemin obviously wanted to save some postage, so he sent the submission over personally, but you, a woman, told me to mail it and there would be a surprise!
Now it’s all Cheng Xuemin’s fault, woman, you are really something!

"The Horse Wrangler was written by Gu Xueqing's son-in-law?! I have to call her and thank her for letting me write the manuscript!"

Suddenly, a female comrade came out from the inner room. She might have heard that the author of "The Shepherd" was coming outside and had eaten another big melon, so she couldn't help but say.

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(End of this chapter)