Chapter 77: Moment of Crisis
Chapter 77: Moment of Crisis
The story-carrying publication of the ‘Guangming Daily’ was issued twice a month. Yun Qinghuan’s serialized story had a basic fee of ten yuan per issue, so the basic gaofei alone was twenty yuan a month!
And that didn’t include any profit sharing.
It was almost equivalent to the monthly salary of an average worker in town.
You had to know that the original owner’s biological mother, Chen Pandi, worked hard in the city and only earned a little over twenty yuan.
And now, Yun Qinghuan would have a guaranteed twenty yuan a month just for writing over ten thousand words, something unimaginable for others!
Moreover, the letter also stated that in the future, as long as she had stories, she could give priority to submitting them to the ‘Guangming Daily’, and they would give her the highest gaofei.
Coincidentally, she wasn’t only writing this one story; she had another one as well. Once the first story was finished, she could seamlessly submit the second one.
Thinking of this, Yun Qinghuan’s lips curled up. She didn’t even bother with a nap and directly took out a piece of paper to write a reply to the newspaper. First, she thanked the editor-in-chief for their appreciation and expressed her professional ethics as a writer, her tone neither humble nor arrogant.
Because she was worried that various things might delay each manuscript submission, the editor-in-chief requested that Yun Qinghuan submit at least two issues’ worth of manuscripts at once each month, to which Yun Qinghuan had no objection.
Fortunately, she had been writing consistently during this period, and the first story was almost finished.
It was about thirty thousand words long, roughly three months’ worth of manuscripts.
She planned to take some time in the next two days to mail the written manuscripts, and also mail the signed contract.
The letter the ‘Guangming Daily’ sent her included a collaboration contract for two people, in duplicate, and she had kept one copy.
Just now, she had carefully read the details of the contract and signed her name after confirming there were no issues.
After everything was done, Yun Qinghuan looked up and realized that the sun had already hung over the western half of the sky. Clearly, it was already afternoon.
The courtyard was quiet, and no one had called her.
She quickly put down her things to check and found that Bai Naihan and An’an were not there. She then looked at the place where the pig feed basket and sickle were kept, and sure enough, the basket and sickle were also gone.
Carrying her own basket, she quickly walked towards the pigsty. Before she even arrived, she saw the man in the distance swinging an axe to chop pig feed. She didn’t know when he had come to cut pig feed; the trough was full.
Yun Qinghuan didn’t make a sound, but the man saw her.
At that moment, Yun Qinghuan felt that the man’s eyes were startlingly bright.
But when she looked carefully, she found that the man’s eyes were still as deep and dark as usual.
She helplessly rubbed her eyes. She had been looking down to write for a long time and then had walked quickly all the way here, busy and flustered, making her eyes blurry.
An’an had already finished cutting the grass and was squatting on the ground, using a foxtail grass to tease a grasshopper on the ground. She didn’t know where he had gotten the grasshopper, but it jumped very far.
Seeing Yun Qinghuan, the little guy threw the foxtail grass on the ground and stopped playing. He stood up and rushed towards Yun Qinghuan. “Mommy, Uncle and I have already finished cutting the pig feed!”
Yun Qinghuan ruffled his hair. “You’re so great!”
The smile on the little guy’s face became even brighter.
Bai Naihan finished the last bit of work in his hands, looked up at her, and said, “You didn’t need to make a special trip over here.”
“Why didn’t you call me just now?”
The two of them spoke almost simultaneously.
Yun Qinghuan and he were both stunned for a moment.
The man reacted first. “I saw you were busy, so I didn’t disturb you.”
“Thank you.” Yun Qinghuan wasn’t ungrateful and thanked him.
Since the work was already done, but she had come with a basket, she couldn’t just go back empty-handed. Yun Qinghuan planned to take a stroll in the mountains to see if she could find some wild vegetables.
Now the bamboo in the mountains was lush and green, the season for eating bamboo shoots.
Luckily, she really found quite a few bamboo shoots. After cleaning them, she could probably stir-fry two plates.
“It’s just a pity there’s no pork. These bamboo shoots taste better stir-fried with meat.”
Yun Qinghuan was a bit hungry for it.
The newspaper had only given her one meat coupon. She looked at it; it could probably buy a pound of pork. She had promised to make braised pork for the little guy, so she definitely couldn’t stir-fry it with bamboo shoots.
Just as she was regretting this, Bai Naihan suddenly gestured to Yun Qinghuan, signaling her to be quiet.
The man’s expression was unusually serious.
Although Yun Qinghuan couldn’t see what was behind her, she saw An’an suddenly widen his eyes in fright. He was about to make a sound but was immediately covered by Bai Naihan’s hand.
There was a rustling sound behind them, as well as the rustling of bamboo being blown by the wind.
It was extraordinarily quiet, so quiet that even the sound of dead branches and fallen leaves being stepped on could be heard clearly.
Yun Qinghuan only felt her whole body start to tremble.
She didn’t know what huge creature it was, but the feeling of it stepping made the surrounding ground faintly vibrate.
She saw the man’s nerves tense, his serious gaze fixed on what was behind her. And he slowly gripped the sickle placed in the basket.
Now she only felt fortunate that they hadn’t been lazy and left the sickle and basket at the pigsty earlier. Otherwise, they wouldn’t even have a handy tool now.
Seeing Bai Naihan grip the sickle tightly, Yun Qinghuan also subconsciously gripped the sickle, her whole body tensing up.
Although Bai Naihan was a man and had been a soldier, he was currently injured and in a wheelchair, making movement very difficult and restricting his actions greatly.
As for An’an, he was pale with fright at this moment, so small and looking extremely pitiful.
He probably knew he couldn’t call out, afraid of alarming the thing behind them. At this moment, he desperately covered his mouth to prevent himself from making a sound, tears welling up in his eyes but not falling.
Among the three people present, only she was a healthy adult. If she showed fear at this moment, perhaps all three of them would be finished.
Yun Qinghuan desperately suppressed the fear in her heart and slowly turned her head under Bai Naihan’s disapproving gaze.
What met her eyes was a shocking blackness.
Immediately following was the fierce gaze of a wild boar.
She was so shocked that almost every hair on her body stood on end.
She inhaled sharply.
It was actually a wild boar!
This thing could really eat people!
Why would there be a wild boar on this mountain? Especially since they hadn’t gone deep into the mountains; this was at the foot of the mountain, where many villagers usually liked to come to dig wild vegetables.
Regardless of what she was thinking in her heart, Yun Qinghuan’s face was calm.
She couldn’t afford not to be calm.
Now, the three of them were confronting this wild boar. If anyone showed a hint of fear, they would lose!
The three people and the boar confronted each other for a long time. Just as Yun Qinghuan felt her legs starting to go numb, the sound of people talking suddenly came from behind.
“Mingliang, when exactly are you going to my house to propose marriage?”
Xia Yuhua grabbed Gu Mingliang’s clothes, not letting him leave.
“I’m already your person.”
As soon as these words were spoken, Xia Yuhua’s face flushed slightly.
And it was this sudden sound that startled and enraged the wild boar. It let out a furious roar and charged directly towards Yun Qinghuan.
In that critical moment, Bai Naihan’s eyes suddenly widened, and his usually steady voice was unusually urgent. “Sister-in-law!β
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