Time flies, and April has arrived in the blink of an eye.

The supplement, spearheaded by Shao Jingwen, was finally published, and Zhou Bingkun's two short stories were featured on the front page of the supplement.

Zheng Juan even went out of her way to buy this newspaper after get off work.

This supplement did indeed cause quite a stir after its release, at least in Jichun City, where it was snapped up by countless people and sales began to surge.

Zhou Bingkun's two articles were seen by many people, and he even received letters from some readers.

Meanwhile, the novel that Zhou Bingkun sent to "Story Club" was also accepted, and the price offered was even higher than that offered by Shao Jingwen.

The main reason is that Zhou Bingkun's stories are so novel.

As a person from later generations, Zhou Bingkun had a vast amount of all sorts of messy stories inside him, far more than people of this era could even imagine.

In addition, Zhou Bingkun's writing style, while not particularly good, was not bad either, fully meeting the standards of "Story Club". Therefore, "Story Club" directly gave Zhou Bingkun the top price, which was six yuan per thousand words!

For the same short story of about four thousand words, "Story Club" gave Zhou Bingkun more than twenty yuan, almost half more than what Shao Jingwen gave him.

So, Zhou Bingkun then mainly wrote articles for "Story Club" magazine, and occasionally wrote one or two articles for Shao Jingwen.

However, Zhou Bingkun still needs to continue practicing his writing skills. He plans to write one or two articles for "Harvest" when it resumes publication in the future.

Alternatively, Zhou Bingkun plans to hone his writing skills in his spare time while writing for "Story Club," and write one or two high-quality articles to submit to "Yanjing Literature and Art."

The reason for this is that Zhou Bingkun wanted fame in addition to money!

That's right, Zhou Bingkun also wanted fame!

Isn't Zhou Bingkun the worst of the three Zhou siblings?

Zhou Bingkun was looked down upon by Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong!

Even in Zhou Zhigang's mind, Zhou Bingkun was the most useless and least valued one.

Since that's the case, Zhou Bingkun wants to make a name for himself!

In this era, if you want to make a name for yourself, the first thing you need to do is become an official!

However, Zhou Bingkun didn't think he was cut out to be an official. At least he was definitely no match for Zhou Bingyi, who was a son-in-law who married into the family. Since that was the case, he decided to change course.

Zhou Rong has always considered herself a scholar, and she has always admired and liked Feng Huacheng. So Zhou Bingkun will become a more famous writer and a more famous scholar than Feng Huacheng.

At that time, Zhou Bingkun would see what Zhou Rong, Zhou Bingyi, and even Zhou Zhigang would say.

Of course, Zhou Bingkun only wanted to become famous and embarrass Zhou Zhigang and the other two; he didn't want to have much involvement with them.

And so, as Zhou Bingkun earned money by writing articles for "Story Club" while quietly honing his writing skills, time flew by!

In the blink of an eye, it was 1975.

"Bingkun! Bingkun! Come quick, Bingkun!"

Zhou Bingkun was quietly studying chemistry with his book when he suddenly heard Zheng Juan's startled cry outside, her voice even tinged with joy.

Upon hearing the noise, Zhou Bingkun rushed out immediately.

"Juan'er, what's wrong? What happened?" Then Zhou Bingkun saw Zheng Juan sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed), and next to Zheng Juan, Li Suhua, who had become a vegetable, had actually woken up and even sat up. However, because she had slept for too long and her body lacked exercise, her sitting posture was a little awkward. But Li Suhua had indeed woken up from her coma.

Looking at Li Suhua sitting up, Zhou Bingkun couldn't help but feel a little confused; he wasn't mentally prepared at all.

"Old man—" Li Suhua's somewhat muddled eyes lit up slightly when she saw Zhou Bingkun, and she called out to him.

"Oh, Mother, you're awake!!! That's wonderful." Zhou Bingkun quickly went over to her.

After all, Zhou Bingkun had indeed lived at home with Li Suhua all these years, even though Li Suhua had been in a coma and lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) in a vegetative state. She was still quite familiar to Zhou Bingkun.

Although Li Suhua waking up surprised Zhou Bingkun.

"Old man, you've grown up so much. Is this your wife? I didn't expect you to be married. What about your brother and sister? Are they married? And how is your father? Has he come back?" Li Suhua seemed to have a lot of questions to ask Zhou Bingkun.

Zhou Bingkun didn't deliberately hide anything; he just said what he knew.

"Zhou Bingyi wrote to me before, saying he planned to marry Hao Dongmei. As for Zhou Rong, she and Feng Huacheng have been married for a long time and have a daughter named Feng Yue. My dad is still supporting the construction in the Third Front..." Zhou Bingkun briefly explained their situation.

Li Suhua held Zhou Bingkun's hand and talked on and on for a long time before she finally noticed Zheng Juan sitting next to her.

"Oh my, this must be Bingkun's wife, she's so pretty. Is this my grandson? How old is he? What's his name?" Li Suhua's eyes lit up as she looked at Zheng Juan and the little Zhou Ran in Zheng Juan's arms, and she couldn't wait to hold her grandson.

However, Li Suhua had been unconscious for too long, so she had no strength at all. She couldn't even carry Xiao Zhouran. She could only let Xiao Zhouran stand on the kang (a heated brick bed) and then hold her in her arms.

Li Suhua's awakening surprised Zhou Bingkun, but now that she was awake, he had to inform the rest of the Zhou family.

So he wrote three letters to tell Zhou Zhigang, Zhou Rong, and Zhou Bingyi about Li Suhua waking up.

One can imagine that Zhou Zhigang would be overjoyed to hear that Li Suhua had woken up, and he would probably even return to Jichun City this year to spend the Lunar New Year with Li Suhua.

As for Zhou Rong and Zhou Bingyi—

Zhou Bingkun thought they would come back. After all, no matter what, they hadn't come back for so many years since Li Suhua became a vegetable. Now that Li Suhua had woken up, they should come, right?

Moreover, Zhou Bingyi will soon be getting married and starting a family, and Zhou Rong will also have a husband and daughter. The family should always get together and have a proper reunion.

The thought of them all coming back together gave Zhou Bingkun a bit of a headache.

On the one hand, Zhou Bingkun didn't like them much, and on the other hand, given the current situation of the Zhou family, there wasn't enough room for so many people to live in the house!

So Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan discussed and decided that during the Spring Festival, they would take Xiao Zhouran to sleep in Taiping Hutong to make room for Zhou Rong and Zhou Bingyi.

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