Chapter 78 It's New Year's Eve
Xu Nuoqidao.
"You won't stay at school to write?"
"No, I have saved enough manuscripts. I just saved a few more days. I have decided to work full-time, so I don't have to wait for the Spring Festival to write them."
After Tong Yao finished speaking, she looked at Zheng Jia and asked.
"By the way, when are you going to leave?"
Unlike Tong Yao, Zheng Jia and Tong Yao have increased monthly fees, and "Three Thousand Years of Ghost" is becoming more and more popular. As soon as the book becomes popular, editors value it more. If the editors value it, they will arrange better and more intensive recommendations.
Arranged better recommendations means you have to add more. Once you add more, you will earn more. For a poor man like Zheng Jia, she simply wishes she could write 24 hours a day and post 24 hours a day.
In addition, there are many readers of her books. Once there are many readers, there are many rich readers offering rewards, such as asking for a reward of 100 yuan and asking for an additional chapter.
In order to get the money, Zheng Jia had to update more every day, so her manuscripts were the best.
By the 18th, Tong Yao had already put 200,000 words in her hand to save the manuscript, while Zheng Jia only had 50,000 words in her hand, so there was no need to ask, Zheng Jia would not be able to leave today.
"I plan to go home on the 28th..."
"On the 28th? It's New Year's Eve on the 28th!"
"Um……"
Zheng Jia nodded, Tong Yao rolled her eyes and reminded her with a wry smile.
"Jia Jia, you never thought that the school would be closed by then? Auntie the building manager also has to go home for the New Year. How could you let you live until New Year's Eve?"
"ah?"
Zheng Jia exclaimed, and her face turned red again. She had never thought about this, and she was so anxious that she suddenly turned red and at a loss.
"Oh, okay, I'll ask you all. The aunt said that the students in the building can only live until the 23rd at the latest. You, hurry up and save the manuscript these days. If it really doesn't work, I'll post 4,000 words every day. Don't add updates. It's not too late to write it after the New Year."
Tong Yao advised him a few times, and Zheng Jia just said oh, not knowing whether he listened or not.
The three of them returned to the dormitory, and Tong Yao and Xu Nuo began to pack up.
After lunch, the two of them carried their bags and said goodbye to Zheng Jia, and left.
After getting off the bus at the county bus station, Tong Yao felt a lot of emotion. At this time last year, she held a huge sum of money and even sold the copyright and received 80,000 yuan during the Spring Festival to pay off her debts.
But this year, from National Day to now, her three-month royalties totaled only more than 4,000 yuan. After deducting her usual expenses, she only has 3,500 yuan on hand until now. If she wants to buy a lot of things in a luxury, she is a little reluctant to leave.
So after she arrived at the county town, she did not dare to stay, but returned to Mingyue Town, which was a lower-level level, and dared to buy Xu Nuo.
In addition to the essential items to use during the Chinese New Year, she bought her mother a new outfit and a bunch of pirated pop songs and opera tapes.
Xu Nuo did not escape in the end, but was met by his parents on the street. Before he could even put his luggage, he was caught and guarded the stall. Tong Yao took a big bag and returned to the village with a three-bangzi.
When the house was dark the day after tomorrow and I had been separated from my mother for more than three months, the mother and daughter were naturally happy to meet each other.
Tong Yao kept showing her what she bought, while her mother kept holding a sumptuous meal in her bowl. After she finished displaying it, the bowls were piled up in hills.
The next day, Tong Yao was promised to be forced to help at the temporary stall in Mingyue Town until the morning of New Year's Eve.
The Spring Festival after a young age is a rare day for Tong Yao to eat good food, wear new clothes, and get 50 cents of New Year's money every year. It is the most anticipated, happiest and happiest day of the year.
The Spring Festival now is just the opposite. It has become a life when she wants her mother to eat good food, wear new clothes, and give her money.
She thought, maybe this is growing up.
However, the Spring Festival has no special significance to their family.
Here, they have no relatives or friends, so they don’t have to go to other people’s houses to pay New Year’s greetings, and no one comes to their houses to pay New Year’s greetings. So when they eat dumplings, set off firecrackers and watch the Spring Festival party on New Year’s Eve, the year means that it is over.
Since the first day of the Chinese New Year, except for eating better than usual, there seems to be no other activities.
The promise was different. From the first day of the Chinese New Year, she was assigned to her relatives' house, her aunt's house, her uncle's house and other relatives' houses to pay New Year's greetings one by one, and then these people turned over and came to their house to pay New Year's greetings.
But this is all after a young age. Now Xu Nuo has grown up and doesn’t like to show up in public. Of course, the main reason is that she no longer looks down on the 50 cents given by her relatives during the New Year. She feels that going to pay New Year’s greetings is not worth it, so she naturally hides if she can.
Since she was twelve years old, the main task of the New Year was to squander the large denomination New Year's money given by her parents and grandparents, because she felt that if she didn't spend it, the money would sooner or later be confiscated by her mother in the name of keeping it on her behalf.
It is precisely because of this that since the age of twelve, Tong Yao officially started eating and drinking with Xu Nuo to celebrate the New Year.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Nuo knocked on the door early in the morning and pulled Tong Yao, who had not yet woken up, and rushed straight to Tianyun County.
"Hey, you don't have to get up so early when you go shopping, right?"
"What do you know? It's going to be troublesome if you don't go."
"What's the trouble?"
"Of course it's fun! Today is the first day of the New Year. There are 550,000 people in our county town, and there are tens of thousands of people working outside. We are back for the New Year. We have to squeeze out KTVs and Internet cafes in the city. If we go late, we can't even get in. Let's go around, don't be in the ink, and I will pay for the consumption today."
Xu Nuo said as he pulled Tong Yao and was about to leave. Tong Yao grabbed the door frame with her hands and didn't loosen, and she was so anxious that she cried.
"Hey, hey, no matter how anxious I am, I have to let me wear a pair of autumn pants. Today is minus thirteen degrees..."
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After arriving at the county town, the two girls had breakfast, went straight to the Internet cafe, went to the Internet, went to KTV, and went out of KTV to the flower and bird market, clothing street, snack street, etc. The shopping was so lively.
When he was about to go back at 4:30 in the afternoon, Xu Nuo saw a circle of people around him, and pulled Tong Yao in without saying a word.
As soon as he entered, he called out to Tong Yao.
"Hey, look, "Three Thousand Years with the Ghost""
Among the crowd was a street stall set up by a middle-aged woman, selling pirated books.
This street stall is really simple and unreasonable. There is a piece of plastic cloth on the ground, and a bunch of books are piled up on it, most of which are pirated and second-hand books.
This kind of street stall is also available in Mingyue Town. After a young age, Tong Yao and Xu Nuo often like to watch it, but it is not common now.
There are a lot of books sold on street stalls. As for what books to sell, it depends on what books can be picked out from the scraps received by the scrap purchase station.
Chapter completed!