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

"Jiamo, what are you looking at so intently?"

"Your brother-in-law has a new work?"

At dinner time, the front yard is the most lively, and the whole family can gather together to eat!

After dinner!

When Feng's mother was helping to clear the dishes, she found that her little daughter had been reading a book since she sat down at the table. She was so fascinated by the magazine in her hand that she asked in confusion.

Could it be that it’s her brother-in-law again? Has her son-in-law published another masterpiece?

But she, the mother-in-law, didn't even know that her son-in-law hasn't submitted the manuscript for their "October" issue yet.

And I heard that the magazine edited by my son-in-law has been banned by the higher authorities and is no longer allowed to be published.

Then the last issue of "My Years in the Corps" must be released directly in their "October" debut, right?
I also haven’t seen the final draft of my son-in-law’s work.

Feng's mother wanted to urge him on, but she also felt sorry for her son-in-law who had been either busy with manuscripts or on the way to finish them for the past six months. It was really too hard.

I didn't have the heart to urge you to submit your manuscript.

But if the mother-in-law doesn't submit her own manuscripts first and gives priority to other magazines, then she, as the mother-in-law, will have to find fault with her son-in-law.

"Mom! It's a popular novel, not my brother-in-law's new work!" Feng Jiamo couldn't put it down and replied to her mother without even raising her head, "But I think it's better than my brother-in-law's serious works!"

If it wasn't a new work written by her brother-in-law and it was a popular novel, then there was no point in picking it.

But, Feng Jiamo, what do you mean?
What do you mean by better written than your brother-in-law’s serious work?
Can those popular novels that are not up to standard be compared with the serious works written by your brother-in-law?

Can these popular novels win major literary awards, or be adapted by film studios and made into movies for the big screen?
Can you please have some conscience, Mr. Feng? Your sister and brother-in-law still dote on you so much.

Immediately, Feng's mother didn't tolerate this heartless person and cursed, "What do you mean it's not as good as your brother-in-law's?"

"Can those popular novels be compared with your brother-in-law's works?"

"Do you think your popular novel can win a literary award? Or can it be adapted into a script and made into a movie by the Beijing Film Studio or Shanghai Film Studio?"

"Also, you are now a student at Yenching University! Can you follow the example of your sister and brother-in-law and write a few articles and submit them for publication?"

The mother-in-law now firmly stood by her son-in-law. Seeing that her little daughter was so heartless that she even stopped doing the work at hand, she simply threw the rag in front of Feng Jiamo and said, "You clean the table. I have spoiled you all day long and you have developed such a bad habit!"

"Mom! I just think my writing is better and more attractive than my brother-in-law's!" Feng Jiamo grumbled, unconvinced, and wanted to argue a few more words. Seeing that her mother had thrown the rag in front of her, she lost her momentum and grumbled again, "Besides, mom, I'm not a Chinese major like my sister, so what kind of manuscript can I write?"

"I don't need that little bit of royalties, and my brother-in-law has tens of thousands of foreign exchange and rice to earn, so why do I need to write articles to earn royalties?"

He said this with great confidence.

“Why don’t you write anymore?”

"Your brother-in-law is your brother-in-law, and you are the end of the Feng family. Can you still follow your sister and your brother-in-law for the rest of your life?"

"Write!"

"Feng Jiamo, I'm telling you, if you don't hand me a usable manuscript before National Day, I'll show you how I'll deal with you!"

Mother Feng rolled her eyes. Are you so self-righteous?

She also said that her brother-in-law was able to earn foreign currency and rice by writing articles, which was enough for her family, and that her royalties were not a problem.

Is that what you said?
Is that what you, a sister-in-law, would say?
Can you, Feng Jiamo, really follow your sister and brother-in-law for the rest of your life? !

"Then I will follow them for the rest of my life. What's wrong with that?"

"She is my sister, and he is my biological sister and brother-in-law. I will follow them for the rest of my life."

Feng Jiamo really argued with her mother and even spoke out her true feelings.

She is the youngest in the family. As the younger sister, she follows her elder sister and brother-in-law. So what?
"Mom, Feng Jiamo, I can hear you shouting in the backyard, what's going on?"

Originally, Feng Jiayou had finished dinner with her son in her arms, went to the backyard to clean up, and then returned to the Overseas Chinese Apartment to rest.

But just as she was about to go out, she heard her mother and Feng Jiamo arguing in the front yard. She could not help but shrug her shoulders helplessly and came over to interrupt and find out what was going on.
Soon after, the eldest and second sisters-in-law also came out, wondering why the mother and daughter started quarreling just a short while after they put down their bowls and chopsticks?
It seemed that because of the magazine in Feng Jiamo's hand, they heard a general idea of ​​it in the house.

"Sister! Mom forced me to write for them in October!"

"Sister, please judge for yourself. I am not from your Chinese department, and I don't have to write any manuscripts. But my mother wants me to learn from you and write manuscripts too."

"But sister, do you know that I am the material for writing?"

"If I had known this would happen, I would have lived in the school dormitory instead of going home!"

Typical of avoiding the main issue and focusing on the trivial. The bad guys are the first to complain, right?
After hearing these heartless words, Feng's mother was really furious. If her daughter wasn't grown up, she would have picked up a feather duster and rushed over to beat her up.

"Stop, stop, stop. Go back to your school dormitory and don't stay at home and get in my way!"

"Day after day, you are so lucky that you don't even realize how lucky you are!"

Mother Feng glared at Feng Jiamo but she did not expose her younger daughter's shortcomings in front of her elder daughter, saying that her brother-in-law was not good enough behind his back and that his works were not as good as the popular novels she had in her hands.

If her sister Feng Jiayou knew about this, the two sisters would definitely have a quarrel.

Another thing is not to let your son-in-law know about it, as it would make him feel uncomfortable.

"Jiamo, I'm not saying anything bad about you. Just write what mom asks you to write. It's just a manuscript. Didn't you say shamelessly at the beginning that when you get admitted to Yanda, you can write manuscripts just by having hands!"

"Anyway, I believe in you. You will definitely be able to write a masterpiece that will impress Mom!"

Uh huh!

It turns out that my mother has started asking Feng Jiamo to write articles?

This feeling is good!

I recall that at the end of last year, a manuscript of mine was stuck in her mother's hands, and the process of revising it was so agonizing.

How did she, Feng Jiamo, come about?

He was making sarcastic remarks beside me, saying, "Isn't it just a manuscript? Isn't it enough to have hands?"
Row!
The spinning bullet finally hit you, Feng Jiamo, right between the eyebrows. Now it’s finally your turn, Feng Jiamo, right?

Then let’s see, my dear sister, how long can you hold out against your mother’s hands!
But don't play rogue and say that you don't have to write any articles because you are not studying Chinese. My mother is the deputy editor-in-chief of a big magazine in my family, so who shouldn't write an article to show her support?
"Sister, there's no one like you! I'm not in your Chinese department. I won't write it, I won't write it, I won't write it even if you kill me!"

Being teased and coaxed by her elder sister, Feng Jiamo immediately thought of her elder sister, who was also forced to write manuscripts by her mother. The scene of her elder sister revising the manuscripts to the point of ecstasy was still fresh in Feng Jiamo's memory.

Thinking about the fact that I’m about to go through the same mistake again, my scalp starts to tingle.

He immediately acted like a rogue and said he would not write anything. The popular novel he was reading suddenly lost its appeal and he was about to put it away and leave.

"You should write it at the end of the family..."

"Hey, Yulin Literature? Where did you get this magazine, Jiamo?"

Originally, Feng Jiayou was about to make a few remarks, but when he saw the Yulin Literature in Feng Jiamo's hand, his eyes lit up.

If she remembered correctly, her husband's popular novel "Heroes Huo Yuanjia" was submitted for publication in a local magazine in order to support the cultural output of his hometown.

I heard that it will be released soon.

Feng Jiayou originally thought that it would take at least one or two months for the magazine to be published in Yanjing. After all, it was a small local magazine and it would take a long time for it to cover the surrounding areas. Not to mention that it would take a long time for it to be published in Beijing.

But he never expected that Feng Jiamo would have a copy in his hands so soon, which really surprised and shocked Feng Jiayou.

I don’t know if my man knows that the manuscript he submitted to the local magazine has now appeared in Yanjing, and is in Feng Jiamo’s hands.

"My classmate brought it over from her hometown. She said there's a popular novel in it that's particularly interesting!"

"I didn't listen to it at the time. It's just a popular novel. How can it be better than the manuscript written by my brother-in-law?"

"I refuted it on the spot, saying that no matter how good the writing is, can it be as good as my brother-in-law's?"

"Oh, do you know my brother-in-law?"

"My brother-in-law is the horse shepherd Lao Xu, whom they admire and talk about so much, Xu Lingjun!"

"Yes, it's the horse herder Xu Lingjun!"

“I also told them that the book The Wrangler written by my brother-in-law has been made into a movie and it will be released soon and you can watch it in the cinema!”

"But sister, do you know how she reacted?"

Feng Jiamo speaks differently to different people. Feng's mother, who was standing next to him, really rolled her eyes when she heard this. She thought to herself that this heartless man was not that stupid. He did not say anything bad about her brother-in-law in front of her sister, and the manuscript he wrote was not even as good as the popular novel.

Now seeing Feng Jiamo talking nonsense with her sister like this, Feng's mother knew that Feng Jiamo must have been showing off in front of her class when she reported to school today, talking about who her brother-in-law was!
Her brother-in-law is the horse herder Old Xu, Xu Lingjun!
This heavy bombshell news hit their class of freshmen, with the force of an atomic bomb. They immediately bowed down and worshipped Feng Jiamo as the big sister, the class monitor?!
She also knew what her sister liked to hear, so there was nothing wrong with her praising her brother-in-law in front of her sister Feng Jiayou.

as predicted!

Her sister Feng Jiayou was indeed successfully aroused by her nonsense and asked repeatedly, "What's your reaction?"

Feng Jiamo's words indeed successfully aroused Feng Jiayou's curiosity. It was only because she was not a new student, otherwise she would have boasted in class just like Feng Jiamo.

However, Feng Jiayou would definitely not be as boastful and straightforward as her sister and say that the horse herder Xu Lingjun is her man and her brother-in-law.

In class, Feng Jiayou would constantly bring up the topic of the horse shepherd Xu Lingjun, and constantly reveal Xu Lingjun's alias, causing the new classmates in the class to worship him in a wave of higher and higher tones.

Wait for classmates to find out from the side!
Damn, the horse herder Xu Lingjun turned out to be your lover?
Jiayou, why didn't you tell me earlier that the shepherd Xu Lingjun is your lover? I thought you were my best sister, and I asked you to edit and give me some comments on the love letter I wrote to the shepherd Xu Lingjun.

God!

I actually wrote a love letter to Xu Lingjun in front of the horse herder Xu Lingjun's lover Li Xiuzhi. This, this, this... How can I face people?
If Feng Jiayou had this opportunity, she would definitely play it this way. Just thinking about it, the scene must be very exciting.

No one is as direct as Feng Jiamo. She has no imagination at all. No wonder her mother asked her to write the manuscript. It was more painful than killing her.

All I can say is that a dried-up soul cannot think of anything interesting, and this is indeed true.

"Although she was surprised that her brother-in-law was my brother-in-law, she still said that she wrote better than my brother-in-law!" I thought Feng Jiamo would say that all the new classmates in her class were shocked and admired her brother-in-law.

But who would have thought that Feng Jiamo would actually say this!
In an instant, not only was Feng Jiaxiao greatly surprised, even Feng's mother, who had been standing by the side all the time, was also very surprised.

I really didn't expect that there are still readers who don't admire her son-in-law, and they are female readers and female college students. This doesn't seem very scientific.

"Is this true? Jiamo, is there anyone in your class who is not a loyal reader of your brother-in-law? And she's a female college student?"

Sun Juan, the second sister-in-law next to her, has already asked Feng's mother and Feng Jiayou's mother and daughter about the reason, which they also want to know.

"Yes!"

"It means that her writing is better than my brother-in-law's!" Feng Jiamo nodded firmly, and said angrily as if he were in the same situation again, "Then I will be unhappy, I will definitely not accept it! No matter what, I will make her say why her writing is better than my brother-in-law's!"

"She didn't bother to talk to me. She handed me the magazine and told me to read it first!"

"Wait till I finish reading it, and then I'll tell you honestly how it's written. Is it as good as my brother-in-law's?"

"That's fine! I said at the time, that's fine! I'd like to read it carefully to see who is this monster who can write better than my brother-in-law!"

Feng Jiamo spoke with such dignity that her second sister-in-law, eldest sister-in-law and Feng Jiayou, who were unaware of the situation, were all impressed by her righteousness in speaking up for her own people!
A biological sister is a biological sister. When her brother-in-law has something to do, this biological sister will really take care of him.

"You read the last one, what do you think of it?"

Knowing what would happen next, the second sister-in-law and the eldest sister-in-law couldn't wait to ask.

"Just this magazine?"

"Could it be the hero Huo Yuanjia mentioned above?"

Feng Jiayou could not help but confirm whether the popular novel that her classmate mentioned, which was better than the one written by her brother-in-law, was "Heroes Huo Yuanjia".

"Ah! It's this article about the great hero Huo Yuanjia!"

"Sister, how did you know?!"

Feng Jiamo nodded. It was this story about the hero Huo Yuanjia that made him so fascinated that he even forgot to eat.

"How was it? How did you deal with your classmate after you saw it?" Feng Jiayou asked with narrowed eyes.

"Yes, Jiamo, how did you respond later?" the second sister-in-law asked again.

I thought Feng Jiamo would be righteous and say whatever she criticized back, but I didn't expect Feng Jiamo to just say:
"I'm not saying anything bad! I've been reading this novel till now and I found that it is indeed better than my brother-in-law's!"

“Actually, what they said was not wrong!”

I go!

There was no escape on the spot. Feng Jiayou swung a palm-leaf fan and hit the heartless man on the body. "We've been talking about this for so long, and you, Feng Jiayou, finally said this?"

Is this still human language?

...(End of chapter)