I submitted my article to "Shanghai Literature and Art" in early October, and now more than two months have passed. Even including the round-trip mailing time, the efficiency is still very worrying.
Lin Chaoyang used to think that the efficiency of "Yenjing Literature and Art" was slow, but now it seems that the editors of "Yenjing Literature and Art" are already very diligent.
Fortunately, although the editing efficiency of "Shanghai Literature and Art" was not good, the vision was still good. The manuscript he submitted was adopted as expected, and the editorial department even stated in the letter that the manuscript fee slip would be mailed out in a few days.
The second novel is about to be published, making Lin Chaoyang feel happy again.
Time seems to have arrived in late December, and there seems to be an unusual atmosphere surging in Yanjing City recently.
Early in the morning on December 24, Lin Chaoyang had just arrived at work when he saw Hu Wenqiong sitting at his workstation reading the newspaper with a serious look on his face.
Normally, she would be cleaning the table at this time.
Lin Chaoyang was cleaning the table when a newspaper was slapped on the table. He looked up and saw Hu Wenqiong looking at him with excitement.
"Sister Hu, what's wrong?"
"Good thing! What a great thing!"
Hu Wenqiong smiled broadly and showed the newspaper in her hand to Lin Chaoyang.
"Look, the old man's important speech was published in the People's Daily. After the rain, the sky has cleared up!"
Lin Chaoyang took the newspaper, which published the communique of the just-concluded Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the important speech of the old man. He said with a smile: "Everyone has been discussing this matter for the past two days, and this time we finally listened."
Hu Wenqiong nodded heavily. She pursed her lips and her eyes were red, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
Hu Wenqiong's gaffe was the norm on this day. Not only her, but Lin Chaoyang could feel that on the morning of December 24, 1978, the entire Yan University was filled with strong emotions.
During dinner, even my father-in-law poured himself a glass of wine.
After struggling in the quagmire for ten years, China's shambling giant finally shook off the mud and began to move towards the blossoming of spring.
If it were four months ago, Lin Chaoyang would probably jump with joy when he saw today's "People's Daily."
Things are different now. The original ambitions and ambitions have long been eaten up by soft rice.
New Year's Day is coming soon, and the first priority is to think about how to coax my wife.
Although it is not popular to celebrate foreign festivals like Christmas nowadays, New Year's Day still has to be celebrated.
"Wrangler" and the creative talks earned him two royalties totaling 103 yuan. Now that his coffers are full again, he plans to buy a gift for Tao Yushu.
In addition to meeting his daily expenses, the biggest role of the small treasury is to harmonize the family atmosphere.
But there was a problem. Lin Chaoyang's salary was paid to the government, and Tao Yushu only left him ten yuan as pocket money every month, which also included his daily lunch money at school.
From September to now, he has received his salary three times. Including the sixteen yuan that Tao Yushu originally left when he took away his small treasury, and excluding his lunch money at school, the value of this gift must not exceed twenty-five yuan.
Yuan, otherwise he wouldn't be able to explain the origin of the money.
After thinking about it, Lin Chaoyang found Hu Wenqiong at noon that day.
"Sister Hu, I heard you say before that your brother-in-law works at Xinhua Bookstore, right?"
"Hmm. What's up? Do you want to buy a book?"
Hu Wenqiong took the initiative to ask Lin Chaoyang before he could speak. Lin Chaoyang said: "Can you get the "Foreign Literary Masterpiece Series"? It's best to get a set."
"This book is not easy to handle."
Hu Wenqiong said in a deep tone, not daring to confirm.
The "Foreign Literary Masterpiece Series" has been planned and published for a long time. It was relaunched in 1978 and jointly published by People's Literature Publishing House and Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The works included are all world-renowned classics.
It has been sought after by countless readers.
Because the covers are all beige grids, it is affectionately called the "grid book" by readers.
"If you want one or two copies, it won't take much trouble. There are many..."
Lin Chaoyang asked: "It doesn't matter if it's not a new book. Ask your brother-in-law to help me find out. If you want to sell the book after reading it, I will give him two cents per book."
The "Foreign Literary Classics Series" is in extremely short supply on the market right now, and it's hard to find a single book. Even if Hu Wenqiong's husband works at Xinhua Bookstore, he can't guarantee that he will be able to get a set.
But if Lin Chaoyang is willing to spend more money, this matter will be easier to handle. Which bookstore hasn't suffered some losses? With the extra money, treat colleagues to dinner, wouldn't that be settled?
Lin Chaoyang handled the matter well. Hu Wenqiong did not feel embarrassed and agreed happily: "Okay, I will take care of this matter."
At noon after Christmas, Lin Chaoyang met Chen Jiangong and Wang Xiaoping while eating in the cafeteria.
After the two parties said hello, Lin Chaoyang heard Chen Jiangong and Wang Xiaoping discussing the "Today" first issue incident that had caused a stir in Yanjing's universities two days ago. This incident has been a hot news in Yanyuan these days.
Wang Xiaoping is an avid poetry lover, and when he mentioned "Today", he expressed his admiration and admiration for it.
"Your article "Wrangler" is really popular now!" Chen Jiangong sighed to Lin Chaoyang in a low voice.
"It probably borrowed from the popularity of "Scar"."
"The novel itself is good enough, so don't be modest. At least those of us in the Chinese department who read it said it was good."
While the two were chatting, Wang Xiaoping joined in with a careless tone. Lin Chaoyang said helplessly: "Xiaoping, please keep your voice down."
Wang Xiaoping then remembered Lin Chaoyang's previous explanation and showed an apologetic smile.
Lin Chaoyang was a little worried because they were chatting so unscrupulously in front of him. He probably couldn't hide the "Xu Lingjun" vest for long.
After dinner, Chen Jiangong took out two movie tickets and handed them to Lin Chaoyang. After the May Fourth Literary Club was established, it often held activities. Watching internal movies was one of the benefits for the members.
It was said that it was an internal screening at the Xiaoxi Tianer Chinese Film Archive, and Lin Chaoyang accepted the movie tickets without ceremony.
He worked as a consultant for "The Unnamed Lake" purely for free, and watching some reference movies was considered as payment.
When he went home in the evening, Lin Chaoyang took out his movie tickets. Tao Yushu was also very interested.
She was at Yanzhou Normal University, and occasionally her department would organize viewings of internal reference movies. Students always flocked to them and cherished such opportunities.
"Where did you get them?" Tao Yushu asked the origin of the movie tickets.
"I usually hold seats for a few students from the May Fourth Literary Club, and I'm quite familiar with them. They gave me this as a gift."
Lin Chaoyang's lies are exactly the same as Nai's wife's.
"Okay, I have quite a wide network of contacts." Tao Yushu joked.
I heard that the two of them were going to Xiaoxi Tian'er to see internal reference films. My sister-in-law Tao Yumo's eyes turned red with envy, and she always hesitated to speak when looking at Tao Yushu.
The couple couldn't see the little girl's little thoughts, but they were of the same mind. The kid was afraid of power but not evil, so she couldn't always let her take advantage.
The next afternoon, the two went to Xiaoxi Tianer to watch a movie.
Because it was an event organized by the May Fourth Literary Society, many of the audience members of the film this afternoon were members of the literary society, including Chen Jiangong, Wang Xiaoping, Cha Jianying, Liu Zhenyun and several other acquaintances.
Everyone knew that Lin Chaoyang was the son-in-law of Professor Tao from the Department of History, but they had never seen Professor Tao's daughter. They had heard Zhang Yaozhong mention it before that Lin Chaoyang's wife was very beautiful.
When I saw it today, everyone's eyes lit up.
Seeing is worth hearing a hundred times!
Tao Yushu's appearance is bright and majestic, which is in line with the Chinese people's perception of the image of beauty. She is tall and stands out in the crowd.
"That is Professor Tao's daughter?"
"She's so beautiful. She has an outstanding temperament."
Wang Xiaoping was discussing with several female classmates around her. She was pretty and considered good among the girls at Yanda, but compared with Tao Yushu, she felt a bit ashamed.
Several boys nearby were also whispering, and their topic could be summed up in one sentence: Chaoyang, this guy, has something!
The movie shown today is "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," a French-Italian co-production.
As students of the Chinese Department, the names of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and Victor Hugo were well known to the students present, so much so that today's movie viewing activity unknowingly created a bit of a sacred pilgrimage.
The movie was shot in 1956, but today, more than 20 years later, it can still be called a masterpiece.
After the screening, everyone was still interested. Even Tao Yushu said that he wanted to review the novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" again.
Two days later, on the morning of the last day of New Year's Day holiday, Hu Wenqiong put a bag on the table as soon as she got to work.
"Chaoyang, take a look!"
Lin Chaoyang was immediately happy. He opened the bag and saw a stack of "grid books".
"Puppet", "Selected Poems", "Rose Garden", "Contemporary Heroes", "Hunter's Notes", "Anna Karenina", "Knights of the Crusader"...
Lin Chaoyang counted and found that there were 16 books, several of which were published in the 1950s and 1960s. It seemed that there were almost 85 or 9 new books. This surprised him. After experiencing such a buzzing
It's so rare that it can still be maintained so well in an era.
Lin Chaoyang expressed his gratitude to Hu Wenqiong and gave her the money he had promised in advance.
These books cost Lin Chaoyang 26.5 yuan in total, which was slightly over the limit, but not a big problem.
When he got off work in the evening, Lin Chaoyang was walking in Yanyuan with a bag of books. Recently, there were more windbreakers of the same style as Du Qiu in the school, and Mayumi's hats became fashionable. The cultural phenomenon caused by "The Hunt" is becoming concrete, and
Continuously expanding.
Chapter completed!