Chapter 76: Follow Me to Eat Delicious Food and Drink Spicy Drinks!
Chapter 76: Follow Me to Eat Delicious Food and Drink Spicy Drinks!
Walking back, she hummed songs all the way.
Yun Qinghuan’s voice was as light and melodious as a nightingale’s, and even her soft humming of unknown tunes sounded incredibly pleasant.
Grandma Chen and Bai Naihan were both in the Bai family’s courtyard. An’an was by the chicken coop, picking wild vegetables to feed the chickens, and they heard Yun Qinghuan’s singing from afar.
Grandma Chen stopped talking and listened for a while, then couldn’t help but smile. “This sister-in-law of yours is still quite young, still like a child. Later, you have to pretend you don’t know she got her submission accepted, just listen to her talk about it, otherwise the surprise will be gone.”
“I know, Grandma Chen,” the man nodded.
Hearing her say that, a smile also touched the corners of his lips.
Indeed, Yun Qinghuan was only twenty years old. If the college entrance examination hadn’t been suspended, she might still be in university at this age.
Just now, when the post office person came to deliver the letter, Grandma Chen had curiously asked a question, and coincidentally, she had also pointed the way for the post office worker. That person was also very kind and, perhaps seeing that Grandma Chen was a good person, directly said that the manuscript submitted to the ‘Guangming Daily’ by a comrade named Yun Qinghuan should have been accepted, and now the ‘Guangming Daily’ had sent a reply letter.
Grandma Chen had also studied in her youth and was a knowledgeable little old lady. She naturally knew the status of the ‘Guangming Daily’ in the newspaper industry. Hearing this, she was so happy that she immediately ran to the Bai family to share the good news with Bai Naihan.
At this moment, she put her hands behind her back, smiled, and turned around. “Then I’ll go first.”
She happened to run into Yun Qinghuan at the door.
The song Yun Qinghuan was humming stopped, and she greeted her awkwardly, “Grandma Chen.”
“Hmm.”
The little old lady nodded and walked away kindly.
Yun Qinghuan was a bit confused. She entered the courtyard and curiously asked Bai Naihan, who was sitting in the wheelchair, “Did Grandma Chen come over for something?”
“No, she just came by to chat.”
“Oh.”
Yun Qinghuan didn’t ask further. That’s how it was in the countryside; people liked to visit and chat when they had nothing to do.
She happily took out the letter and showed it to Bai Naihan. “Guess what good thing happened to me today?”
“Hmm…” the man pretended not to know and guessed, “Did your friend send you a letter?”
“No, guess again.”
The man guessed several times, but none were correct. Yun Qinghuan shook her head even more vigorously.
Bai Jin’an thought the adults were playing a game and excitedly joined in.
Seeing them guess further and further off the mark, Yun Qinghuan didn’t hide it from them anymore and said directly, “The manuscript I casually submitted to the newspaper was accepted! I’ve earned money! In the future, you can follow me to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks!”
Her tone was quite bold and generous!
She deliberately held the ten-yuan bill in her hand, a small hint of pride showing on her fair face.
An’an was very supportive, his eyes lighting up. “Wow!”
He had never seen so much money before!
During this time, Yun Qinghuan liked to teach An’an to recognize some characters and count numbers when they had nothing to do. The child was smart and could already recognize numbers from one to twenty and even write them.
So, he recognized the ten-yuan bill.
“Mommy, this money can buy so many, many meat buns!”
The little guy’s mouth watered a bit as he thought of the meat buns he had eaten at the state-run restaurant in town last time.
Yun Qinghuan chuckled. “Meat buns are nothing! Mommy will make you authentic braised pork!”
So bold!
She also took out a meat coupon from inside.
This was also considered part of her gǎofèi. They had issued one of each coupon for essential goods, including a meat coupon.
The smile on Bai Naihan’s face widened, and his low voice was magnetic. “Congratulations.”
“Thank you.”
Yun Qinghuan was also very happy. This meant she had a way to establish herself in this era, so she was naturally happy.
“But why aren’t you surprised at all?”
After being happy, Yun Qinghuan found Bai Naihan’s attitude a bit too calm.
She knew that just now, when Liu Yuzhi learned that her manuscript had been accepted and she could earn money, her eyes had glistened with tears of joy. If there hadn’t been so many people present, Yun Qinghuan felt that the tears hanging in Liu Yuzhi’s eyes would have definitely fallen.
The man raised an eyebrow, his eyes full of smiles, and placed the things in his hand on the nearby chopping board. This time, even his voice was a bit louder. “Of course, I’m very surprised.”
His expression was so fake that Yun Qinghuan couldn’t bear to watch and quickly waved her hand. “Forget it, just don’t talk anymore.”
Too much flattery seemed fake.
Bai Naihan: “…”
An’an covered his mouth and giggled beside them, looking up at his mother with a soft voice. “An’an knew Mommy was the best! She said she could let me eat meat every day, and Mommy did it!”
Yun Qinghuan suddenly remembered that she seemed to have said this when she saw An’an craving meat buns some time ago.
She felt a bit awkward for a moment. She had only earned ten yuan, and there was only one meat coupon. It seemed impossible to let him eat meat every day.
But who didn’t have dreams?
Although she only had ten yuan gaofei now, she was still writing, and who knew, she might earn more money.
Eating meat every day wouldn’t be a problem then.
She touched the little guy’s head and said with a smile, “Mommy will work hard to let An’an eat meat every day!”
After talking to the uncle and nephew, Yun Qinghuan went into the house to carefully read the letter in her hand.
Just now outside, she hadn’t dared to take it out and read it too carefully, as so many people were watching.
Although she had skimmed it, she had vaguely seen something about payment being distributed proportionally.
To be honest, she didn’t really like getting a fixed fee. There was no surprise in that, and no matter how popular her story was, the payment wouldn’t change, so she naturally had no motivation.
Yun Qinghuan still preferred the fee sharing model of later generations, where the amount of money received each time was different, and there were different surprises.
Fortunately, the ‘Guangming Daily’ probably really liked the manuscript she wrote. They said they would give her the highest treatment because the story she wrote was a new type of serialized story, published every half a month.
Each issue would be about four to six thousand words, and each issue would give her a gaofei of ten yuan, plus one of each basic living goods coupon.
Taking ten yuan as a unit, if her gaofei increased in the future, for every ten yuan increase, the corresponding number of various coupons would also increase by one.
Moreover, this ten yuan was just the basic author’s payment. If the circulation of the issue publishing her manuscript exceeded a certain number, for every additional ten thousand copies sold, her gaofei would increase by one yuan.
Don’t underestimate this one yuan. There were so many people in the country. Although not everyone would read the newspaper, the base number was there, and the total number of newspaper readers wouldn’t be too small.
If her story attracted many people to buy the newspaper, this extra one yuan would be considered her share.
The more people who read it, the more she would earn.
The letter also said that their newspaper originally didn’t pay gaofei in advance. They had to wait for the author to confirm that they wanted to cooperate with them before paying. However, the editor-in-chief of the ‘Guangming Daily’ particularly liked the article written by Yun Qinghuan, so they sent the payment for the yet-to-be-published manuscript in advance.
They also told Yun Qinghuan that the editor-in-chief greatly appreciated her and that if she had any more stories in the future, she could directly submit them to the ‘Guangming Daily’, giving Yun Qinghuan a green channel and the highest treatment.
Yun Qinghuan carefully read the letter word by word, the smile on her face never fading.
She had only one feeling now: she was going to get rich!
[T/N – We’re gonna get rich! 😎]
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