The Fourth Master is still asleep. It's still early, so it's probably not dark yet. The room is dark, the window is open, and the curtains are blowing in the wind. No wonder it feels so comfortable!
That’s right! It’s autumn, and it’s very cool in the morning and evening.
Maybe the Jin family was tired after working for so many days. There were all kinds of noises in the yard outside, but the house was quiet.
There are no chickens, ducks, or dogs at home, and with fields on one side, it is even quieter.
The fourth master turned over and raised his hand to touch, but no one was there. When he opened his eyes, he saw Tongtong sitting alone on the bed, with disheveled hair and a bit of confusion.
"Don't sleep anymore?"
Staying in bed before was indeed affected by illness and medication, but from a health point of view, the body has adjusted and going to bed early and getting up early is beneficial to health. Exercise is especially important.
Tongtong nodded, "Get up and move."
Can you move?
"I can start to move slowly." It must be done step by step.
Then let's get up! The fourth master was also full from sleep, so the two of them got up. The Jin family didn't have to fetch water. There was a pressure well at home, which saved a lot of effort.
I got up quietly and washed up, and my fourth master went to clean the yard. Tongtong went to practice Tai Chi first. Living in the countryside is a good thing. The air is really good when you get up early. You don’t need much space for activities, so you can’t move lightly.
Anyone who disturbs you can complete the activity. Get up early and do boxing, and then exhale in the direction of the sun, and the body's yang energy will naturally rise.
After practicing, she was covered in white hair and sweat, and she tidied up the room when she went back. But she didn't plan to cook, so we had to find something to cook for the whole family.
Take a basket and go to the vegetable garden. The autumn eggplants are so old that they will get even older as they grow. There are also beans that are about to be sold out, old cucumbers, and half-red and half-green peppers. To be honest,
Most of the things she grew in her yard were inedible. After picking them, she kept them where they were without bothering to move them. After the fourth master had cleaned up the yard and neatly arranged the entrance to the house, she put the vegetables away.
The basket was moved to the kitchen.
Looking around, Tongtong whispered to Fourth Master: "I want to eat tender corn."
I haven't eaten it in years.
In the last life, we couldn’t find corn, and neither of us could eat it. I can’t even remember it, but it’s true! In this season, you should eat young corn.
Wait! Next to it is the family's private land, where corn is grown. The fourth master carried a basket and went to look for corn.
When Yang Shuhui woke up early in the morning, she saw her daughter-in-law already up and standing in the yard smiling at her son's back.
Yo! Why did you get up so early? She said, "Why are you up? It's okay, there is nothing to do at home, just sleep if you want."
I'll take a nap in the afternoon and it'll be fine! Yang Shuhui can't figure out the temper of the wife here, okay! How do you feel comfortable? As she went to wash up, she asked: "What is the fourth child doing out there?"
"I wanted to eat the tender corn, but he went to break it off."
Yang Shuhui: "………………Okay! The tender corn is edible." But who is willing to eat it like this! But it doesn’t matter, isn’t it just eating corn? Eat!
The son of a prodigal picked up a dozen or so particularly good-looking ones and brought them back, "Two for each person." No need! Keep them all for your wife.
Fourth Master washed his hands and looked at his watch. It was not yet seven o'clock. He said to Tongtong, "After dinner, I have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative."
Lin Yutong looked at the tender corn and the endless autumn vegetables, "Do you want to collect the tender corn and autumn vegetables and send them out?"
Nowadays, you can make money by doing anything, but under the current conditions, you can only find ways to find ways within reach. Taking over is in a town, and you can't survive because of hunger, so you have to find ways to move around.
This is to solve their own problems, and it is also to help each family earn more money. Farmers will not die of hunger, but they just have less money to spend.
It is also profitable to go back and forth between the public and the public. There is no need to do this secretly, as long as you convince the units and many units and individuals who do it will make money, that's it.
The key is that the money he and Tongtong have is the one hundred and twenty yuan that Tongtong brought as dowry. This money... based on the living habits of himself and Tongtong, what is enough for him?
After Yang Shuqin washed up, she went to the kitchen. She boiled hot water and filled all the thermos bottles in the house before cooking. Her daughter-in-law kept choosing vegetables, while her son squatted beside him, holding a
A small wooden stick, used for making signs on the ground. I don’t know what to say to his wife.
As she was busy, she couldn't help but laugh out loud: "This little brat looks like a human being."
The three of them got up before eating. Jinyin was embarrassed and said, "I'm old. I'm exhausted after doing something."
Lin Yutong moved a small table and stool and prepared to eat, "Then take a rest after eating."
I can't rest anymore. I still have two sons who are not married, so I need to find money.
The sudden addition of a younger sibling to the family was not a very comfortable situation for the two young men.
Damin smiled sheepishly, "I was thinking that you guys wouldn't get up early. I also said that you should sleep a little longer to avoid disturbing others, but who knew you guys got up early."
"The two of us are the least tired these days!"
While eating, I steamed a bowl full of custard and pushed it over to Lin Yutong, "Eat quickly!"
But I can't eat so much! Lin Yutong pulled out a piece and set it aside separately, "I can't eat that much, these are enough."
Fourth Master helped put the rest in the middle of the table. Jinyin took a look and found that the piece was roughly one-sixth, and the child only ate her portion. Give Tongtong two corn cobs on the table.
Come here, I'm not polite, I gave Fourth Master one, and she was full after one.
No one is snatching it. No matter what, it’s just corn, so no one cares about it.
After dinner, Fourth Master really just rode his bicycle and went out. Tongtong did not go to the kitchen to clean up, but only helped bring the bowls and chopsticks in, and said bluntly, "Mom, you clean up. Sihai may have to go out these days.
Let me see if his Qiuli clothes are enough?"
Ah? Oh!
Yang Shuhui happily started to clean up the kitchen. She no longer had to worry about whether the little slut was worn by humans or ghosts.
The fourth master really had nothing to wear, and those clothes were not something he could wear when going out for his current job. She did have two pairs of new autumn clothes and long trousers. She took them out, washed them in the water, and dried them outside.
Then there was the coat! She found that there was a sewing machine at home, which made it easier. There were several pieces of material in the dowry, suitable for making men's clothes. It was simply a Chinese tunic suit, one blue and one black, which was a quick job to cut.
As long as you cut it properly, it's not difficult to sew.
Then Lin Yutong threw it to her mother-in-law, "Mom, I'm not very familiar with using a sewing machine. You can do it."
Ouch! How can you cut such good material by yourself? What if the cut is damaged? But I dare not say this, and we don’t understand it. Okay! Don’t you just tell me to start sewing? “You can rest and let mom do it.”
Lin Yutong really gave up! He wasn't really resting. He was just thinking about making some clothes for Lin Shuangchao. Either he didn't miss Lin Shuangchao, or when his daughter had no income, he would collect a new set of clothes and wear them out.
? No.
There are various magazines on the bookshelf that Fourth Master collected from the post office, some of which are already a year old.
However, the submission address will not change.
She first took out all these magazines and read them one by one. How should I put it? Most of the articles and novels from this period have very obvious characteristics of the suffering of the times. On the contrary, prose, good prose makes people feel very comfortable.
But prose is generally very short. If the prose can be published, how much does it cost for ten yuan?
Almost!
If he were to write this, Lin Yutong felt that it would be better to write about something about the changes of the times. Of course, there are good things and bad things in changes, and the good ones should be praised, but some things must be pointed out, even if they have some warning effects.
So what is to be praised now?
The courage to reform should be praised.
What should be criticized?
Complacency and rigid thinking should be criticized.
However, some radical and profit-seeking practices in reform are wrong, and some prudent practices in complacency and rigid thinking are worth learning from.
For example, the economy is very important, but there is a bottom line for development. Which bottom lines cannot be broken? In addition to the pillars of the national economy and people's livelihood, that is the protection of resources and the environment.
She took these as the keynote and made a fuss about it.
With a blueprint in mind, she was stunned as soon as she spread out the paper and started writing. She felt that she was writing very smoothly. She even seemed to see a woman at a book signing.
She stopped and looked at her hands, and for a moment she felt like she was an old hand.
Just as I was thinking about it, the fourth master came back.
How is it?
Fourth Master shook his head: The original person's reputation was too bad, and the company didn't dare to make such a fuss.
Tongtong took out all the money in his hand and said, "One hundred and twenty-seven yuan, let's take a look first... We don't have enough corn, let's look at the autumn vegetables! Everyone grows them, and if they really come to ask for them, I'll give you a basket for free.
Not to mention a basket of autumn vegetables on credit, eight cents and ten cents..."
That’s right! That’s what I thought.
If you add your own corn, it will be almost the same.
Lin Yutong stood up and said, "You go and do your work first. I'll go back to the Lin family. The Lin family has planted corn this year."
become!
Jin Yin watched his son come back and hurried out with his wife. He didn't know what was going on.
Old Mrs. Lin over there heard her granddaughter bumping her lips, saying that she was going to sell the unripe crops at home. Before she could say anything, Yu Rong clapped her hands and said, "Yes! My brother-in-law is so smart.
There's no reason why the stuff can't be sold. No matter which big factory you set up a stall in front of, it will work." She said, "I'll go to the post office and make a call. The Ninth Provincial Cotton Spinning Factory is a factory with 20,000 people.
Well, as long as you agree, you can drive directly to the factory over there!"
Yulian shouted: "Who else are you in contact with?"
Don't worry! Yurong ran away and came back with a smile on her face in ten minutes, "Qiucai said she didn't like it, and the farmers nearby went to sell it, but the corn wasn't available yet..."
"It's okay. I'll buy corn and send autumn vegetables."
Then this one will do!
With one hundred and twenty-seven yuan as the base, I harvested a lot of tender corn, and then hauled corn from the Jinlin family. Then I went door to door to harvest autumn vegetables, weighed them, and then issued an IOU. If I couldn't eat the vegetables, I would feed them.
It’s a pig. But feeding this to pigs is no better than eating wild vegetables. Therefore, this thing is still worth issuing an IOU? It’s so shameful. There are autumn vegetable sellers in the county, and 17 or 18 pounds of autumn eggplants only cost a few cents! For this
, I want another IOU, so I’ll throw it away!
When the fourth master gave someone an IOU, he was laughed at and scolded: "You are so young that you become a god or a ghost. A cigarette of yours is more expensive than this dish."
But Fourth Master still remembered it, and if he turned around he would probably change it to table salt and send it back.
It took two days to get a car together.
We set off from the town at four in the morning and arrived at the entrance of the cotton spinning factory in the provincial capital at seven in the morning. Gao Cheng, who had been an educated youth in the village and was still talking to Yurong, was standing at the door. He must have known the fourth master, and when they met
Gao Cheng laughed and said, "Fourth Brother, if I hadn't told you to come, I wouldn't have dared to admit it."
Fourth Master shook hands with him and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you this time."
Hey! Not an outsider.
After saying that, he told the concierge, and then drove directly from the factory, passed through the factory, and parked in the courtyard of the family members. At this time, it was when the evening shift ended and the morning shift started. The fourth master brought two people who were related to the original person.
The good young man helped, and there were two warehouse custodians from the supply and marketing cooperative, plus Gao Cheng called a few colleagues, and this was considered a support.
Good guys, it’s crazy! You get vegetables for free when you buy corn. Some people don’t want to buy corn but are too lazy to buy vegetables. If you think about it, it’s just a day’s worth of food. It’s all at the door, and the vegetables don’t count.
Bad, they are all grown by farmers, buy it! Most of the cotton mills are female workers, housewives, and they are very economical. Young corn is really not that common at this time. The children are at home during the summer vacation, and it is not yet the beginning of school.
, all thinking about giving it to the kids to try something new.
In less than an hour, I finished buying it.
There were a bag of tender corn, a bag of good vegetables, a box of cans with damaged outer packaging and a box of soap that had been set aside in advance in the driving building.
Cans and soap and transportation vehicles are the support given by the unit.
The fourth master gave these to Gaocheng, but Gaocheng didn't want them. "It's such a big deal, I can't take them."
"You're welcome, but if you ask for help, you can't help me in vain." He just left the things.
Before leaving, Fourth Master called to the two custodians, "Take out the broom and clean the floor."
I went out before dawn and got home at noon.
I haven't settled the accounts yet on how much I earned. It was agreed at the time that I would go in the name of the company and pay three yuan to each of the two people driving the car, four yuan to the vehicle for wear and tear, and I would have to refill the oil myself. I would then hand over twenty yuan to the company.
, but in order to support this kind of income-generating behavior, the unit gave two boxes of goods with really damaged outer packaging in the warehouse and called them public relations. These things can be reported as damaged to the above, and the unit does not need to be regarded as a loss. It can also be regarded as a face to the leader.
Already.
Therefore, the employer doesn’t care how much you earn. In fact, the employer doesn’t lose anything. If you make money, you make money. If you don’t make money, the car you used for a day will be treated as nothing. The warehouse custodian has nothing to do all day long.
As for poker, if you give me three yuan, you will earn three yuan. If you don't give me... you can just take a day trip to the provincial capital.
But did you make money this time?
With a bag of dimes and coins in the cloth bag, Lin Yutong spread an old sheet on the kang, then poured it on top and arranged them one by one.
The fourth master watched Tongtong sort out the money. She looked like she had worked in a bank. She arranged the money neatly, even the front and back were in good condition, and they were separated into various denominations. The money for shopping for food was all in one piece.
Most of the denominations were cents. It took her an hour to sort out the cents. Then she was surprised, "Three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-two cents."
With that said, he took out one hundred and twenty-seven from it and said, "This is the capital."
Um!
"I took autumn vegetables from one hundred and three families, and took out another ten yuan and three cents. Now it costs three cents a pound of coarse salt, and I will give three pounds of coarse salt to each family, which is just right for the pickled vegetables." It can be considered as a meal.
Money.
"Manpower, four people following the car, three yuan per person, which is twelve, and then give the unit twenty, the total is thirty-two." Lin Yutong took out the money separately, wrapped it in paper, and wrote on the outside what money it was.
.Then he asked Fourth Master, "Where's the oil?"
How much did the oil cost?
"Use the gas stamps at home."
As a driver, Jinyin saved up this thing.
The fourth master said, "If you convert it into money, it's five or six yuan."
Lin Yutong took out six yuan. This was for his family. He couldn't always take advantage. After putting it away, he said, "The current unified purchase price of a pound of corn is 12.3 cents. I saw that the corn yields per mu of the two companies are also
It’s an average yield, converted into money according to the unified purchase price of mature corn. If a family can’t share 70, it will be calculated as 70. This is one hundred and four!” After calculating a little money, “There are still one hundred and thirty-nine left.
Thirty-two yuan." Then he took out another twenty from it and said, "This is for the second sister, she is the salesperson."
After doing this calculation, there are still one hundred and ninety-three cents left, which is what I earned on this trip.
Tongtong smoked another nine yuan and said, "A pack of cigarettes now only costs two to three yuan, three to four yuan. If you exchange all these for cigarettes, you will get points for every unit."
Tongtong put the capital of one hundred and twenty-seven and the one hundred that he earned into one piece, took out the seven-dollar bill, and put the remaining two hundred and twenty in a box and locked it up separately.
The fourth master just laughed, OK! He gave everyone the money in his hands, then bought a whole bag of coarse salt, measured it out with a bowl and gave it to the family. One bowl is a pound, three bowls per family.
The old lady of the Lin family looked at the corn money sent back by her granddaughter and the twenty yuan given to the second granddaughter alone, and did not refuse. Yurong wanted to refuse, but she stopped her, "Xiaotong is facing me, one yard is one yard. As long as
It doesn't matter whether things are done right or not." Don't look at the three kilograms of coarse salt, this is what people say, Jin Si handles things with spit and nail.
Lin Yutong laughed and said, "Don't worry about the work in the fields. He will call someone to do the work when he comes back. Plant a crop of radishes later and save trouble!"
Yes! There are many brothers in the Jin family, plus a few gangsters from the village who are dating the fourth master, so everyone is in a relationship. As soon as the work comes, just a little bit, it really only takes a long time.
.
When the old lady went to the field to deliver food, Sanling said, "Don't worry about it. This thing is easy to do. Just water it twice and thin out the seedlings when it's empty."
The old lady found out that her granddaughter got married like this, and she suddenly felt relieved.
No matter how busy she was, Tongtong never left the field. It took her ten days to complete the 80,000-word novella. Lin Yutong sent it to "People's Literature", and she left the contact address and phone number of Lin Shuangchao's work unit. That's it.
Rejecting the manuscript, she also hoped that Lin Shuangchao would see it. At least let him know that his child is not really unwilling to make progress. If he works hard, he will fail. What does it matter?
Perhaps this novel was closely tied to the pulse of the times, and I thought it would take three to five months, or even half a year, to get any news, but I didn't expect that half a month later, Lin Shuangchao received a phone call as soon as he went to work in the morning. The other party was
Verify the information. It says it will be published and the royalties will be mailed. You need to verify the address and relevant person here.
Lin Shuangchao asked again: "The pen name is Xiaotong, the contact number left is this number, and the address is the address of the county government, right?"
Yes! Yes, "I wonder if it's you?"
"It's my daughter, I will tell you."
Okay! Okay, "In addition, we also want to make an appointment with Comrade Xiaotong for a manuscript. Please note your mailing address. The delivery methods for the requested manuscript are different."
Okay! Lin Shuangchao's hand holding the pen was shaking a little. After confirming again and again that everything was correct, he said goodbye to the other party and hung up the phone.
Then he slowly sat down and realized that the hand holding the phone and the pen were covered in sweat.
The sample magazine didn't come, the remittance slip didn't come, and he didn't tell anyone! But every day when he went to and from get off work, he would go around and ask the mailroom, "Pay attention to the letters from Beijing and..."
and what?
"It's nothing, just pay more attention to letters and other things from the capital."
OK! Leader.
Even the top comrades asked Lin Shuangchao, "Are you going to the capital to report some problem?" This was a very serious matter.
"No!" Lin Shuangchao said with a bit of humility, "My little daughter loves to write articles. I don't know what she wrote. Some people didn't know that she sent it to "People's Literature" a few days ago.
I called and said I wanted to verify the address. This kid’s address is mine! I’m afraid it’s inconvenient to send and receive messages back home. The editor-in-chief called me to tell me that he had chosen it, but I didn’t know if it was true or not. She kept asking, this
No, just ask a few more questions to push me."
Nowadays, there is no concept of fraud! If people say it is a choice, then it must be a choice.
The leader pointed at Lin Shuangchao and said, "Old Lin, this is a good thing! Is this the daughter who just got married?"
Yes! "The child is a bit eccentric. Everyone is rushing to go to college, but she got into the pile of books."
No wonder Lao Lin was looking for old books before! They are for the children of sentimental people!
The literati of this era are so popular! People also said, "If it is really published, our county's cultural and history museum will welcome such young comrades! This is a talent."
Lao Lin laughed and said, "Now that we are married, our son-in-law is in the supply and marketing cooperative and we have to consider the family."
The leader felt reassured and thought that next time he went to a regional meeting, he should tell Lao Wang of Changqing County that if a local scholar comes out, he will be taken seriously wherever he goes. This does not violate the employment policy.
Another week passed, and Lao Lin finally waited for the sample issue and the remittance slip.
Nowadays, this is a considerable amount of money. The lowest remuneration is ten yuan per thousand words, but obviously, they are not calculated based on ten yuan. The highest remuneration is fifty yuan per thousand words, and they take a mid-range, based on one thousand words.
The settlement was settled at word thirty.
Eighty thousand words, twenty-four hundred yuan.
Lin Shuangchao's salary at this level is only 120 per month.
How much is the fourth master’s monthly salary in the supply and marketing cooperative? Forty!
With such an income, does it mean much if I go to which unit I don’t go to?
Lin Shuangchao suddenly felt flattered by this compliment and that compliment. He was impatient when people complimented him. But he never got tired of hearing such compliments. In the office, he called the supply and marketing cooperative and said, "Xiao Jin, sample booklet and remittance."
The orders have arrived. Look, should I send them to you, or should you come and pick them up?"
If I wanted to send it, I sent it, so why would I call and say, "Let's go over and pick it up! I happen to have something I want to ask your opinion on."
OK! Come as soon as possible.
He spoke loudly and loudly on the phone in the office, which could be heard clearly outside.
After the excitement subsided, he flipped through the content. It was 80,000 words long and had to be serialized. This time, one-third of the publication was allocated to publish Xiaotong's article.
Once I saw it, I really took it in, and I finally understood why people asked for manuscripts.
This is a very in-depth novel that touches the pulse of the times.
He wants to wait until the serialization of the novel is finished, and he wants to recommend it at the meeting! It’s good, it’s good, and it’s not just because my daughter wrote it that I think it’s good! Am I still afraid of what others will say?