When she arrived at the brigade headquarters, Su Mo found that the aunties chatting at the door looked at her a little wrong.
Seeing Su Mo coming, an aunt came up to her and said with a gossipy face: "Su Zhiqing, I have a package, a letter and two remittance slips for you."
Su Mo responded and hurried to the postman to sign for it.
The package was sent by Lu Changzheng. It was quite large. I didn't know what was included in it.
The letter was written by the editor of Haishi newspaper.
There are two remittance orders, one is 30 yuan, which is remitted by Lu Changzheng; one is 20 yuan, which is remitted by Haishi Newspaper Agency.
Su Mo was very happy after receiving the remittance from the newspaper. It seemed that her article had been selected.
Aunts are always the most curious. When Su Mo finished signing, they all gathered around and asked all kinds of questions.
"Su Zhiqing, who sent you these things?"
"Is he your man?"
"Or did your parents send you money again?"
Su Mo was very happy when her manuscript was chosen, but she was not impatient and answered them all one by one.
"The package also contains a remittance note from Changzheng, and the letter and another remittance note are from Haishi Newspaper Agency."
"Newspaper office? Is it the place where newspapers are printed? Why are you sending money?"
Su Mo curled her lips and smiled, this was what she was waiting for.
"Yes, it's the place where newspapers are printed. The fees paid to me are royalties. I am a non-staff correspondent for Haishi Newspaper. I write articles for the newspaper. Once the article is published, I get royalties."
The aunts gasped and looked at Su Mo in a different way.
Before, maybe it was just envy that Su Mo always had money to collect, but now it's full of admiration.
Basically, they have never read a book and have only attended literacy classes for a few days. They have a natural admiration for people who can make a living with a pen.
Although now is a special period, many people say that reading is useless, but that is more of an idea among young people. The older generation still admires scholars.
"Then, how much is the royalties?" an aunt asked.
Su Mo smiled and said, "Not much, only 20 yuan."
What? The aunts took another breath of air.
20 yuan is not much? How much did you take before that?
This Su Zhiqing, looking so silent, didn't expect that he was actually a powerful person.
It was Lu Changzheng who had a sharp eye and picked the best one at a glance.
All the aunts were envious, why didn't their own family have such good taste?
After Su Mo finished pretending, she was ready to go back, "Aunts, I'm going home first."
When the aunts saw Su Mo carrying a big package, they quickly gave way to let Su Mo pass.
After returning home, Su Mo first opened the letter sent by the newspaper editor. In addition to the letter, there was an industrial coupon and 2 pounds of national meat coupons.
Su Mo put away the tickets and unfolded the letter.
The first half is the editor's high praise for Su Mo for giving up work in Shanghai to support rural construction. I don't know whether he is sincere or not.
The second half is about the fact that their newspaper recently opened a column about educated youths going to the countryside. The manuscript sent by Su Mo was just timely, asking her to write more about this in the future, and he would try his best to get a higher remuneration for her.
The four articles Su Mo submitted before were all limited to just over a thousand words in length. She paid 20 yuan, which is calculated as a remuneration of 5 yuan/thousand words. She remembered that the original author had been paid 8 yuan per thousand words for a previous article. It seemed that she still had room for improvement.
After reading the letter, Su Mo opened the package sent by Lu Changzheng.
There was a brand new military coat inside, in a small size. It must have been specially changed for her by Lu Changzheng.
Su Mo tried it on and found that although it was a bit too big, it was just right to wear when it snowed in winter. Otherwise, she would only have a cotton suit and wouldn't have to change.
In addition to clothes, there are also canned meat, milk powder and toffee, all in double portions. Su Mo then put away one portion herself, and took the other portion to the old man when the time came.
There was also a thick letter. Su Mo opened it and found five pages of letter paper.
Lu Changzheng only briefly said at the beginning that he would go on a mission after returning to the army. He returned to the army half a month later. The next four and a half pages were written about his longing for Su Mo, all kinds of sweet words, and the corners of Su Mo's mouth twitched. But it is raised high.
Finally, I did not forget to tell Su Mo to write him more letters.
Su Mo thought that she would send out her recent manuscript tomorrow, so she took out the letter paper and wrote a letter to Lu Changzheng, telling her about recent events, especially the fact that Lu Boxing's health had improved. After thinking about it, I finally added "I miss you too" at the end.
While Su Mo was writing the letter, Liu Yuzhi, who had returned from helping others pack cabbage, saw Li Yuee washing things by the well, so he went up to her.
"Mom, I heard someone said that the third brother and sister received a royalties from the newspaper. It's 20 yuan." There is not much excitement in the countryside, but the news spread quickly.
"What?" Li Yue'e stayed home to clean up this morning and didn't go out, so she didn't know.
"Let's just say that the third brother and sister are some kind of reporters for the newspaper. They submitted an article to the newspaper, published it, and remitted 20 yuan in royalties." Those aunts didn't understand what "non-staff correspondents" meant, so they just called reporters.
"Is there still such a thing?" Li Yue'e stood up and said with a smile, "Xiao Mo is smart, so this is possible."
She is an old daughter-in-law, and the more she looks at her, the more she likes her. You can make money by writing articles at home. When you go up a mountain, you either encounter Coptis chinensis or dig wild ginseng.
What a lucky star!
Liu Yuzhi felt a little uncomfortable seeing Li Yuee'e so happy. When they were two daughters-in-law, Li Yue'e liked her better.
"I heard that my third brother also remitted money and sent packages back." Liu Yuzhi added.
Li Yue'e waved her hands, not caring much, "That's right. His wife is at home, so she is not allowed to send some money or things back."
Liu Yuzhi didn't say anything, but she was actually surprised inside. If it were her, her son would only care about sending things to his wife, and his parents would feel uncomfortable at all.
It seems that these three siblings are quite capable. They have only been here for a month, but their status in the mother-in-law's heart is already so high.
Liu Yuzhi suddenly felt a sense of crisis. It seemed that she had to think more about the elderly, otherwise her status as the eldest daughter-in-law would probably be lost.
After Su Mo finished writing the letter, she cooked a piece of bread, went to the vegetable field and grabbed a few spinach sticks, and had lunch with the wild boar meat left over from yesterday.
After lunch, Su Mo saw that the spinach in the vegetable field had grown mature and was ready to harvest it. Keep part of it for yourself and send the rest to the Lu family.
After all, this thing can't be stored easily, and she can't fit it all into the space.
Moreover, when they got married, they cleared all the vegetable fields. Even now, the food for the second and third bedrooms in the big house has to be replaced by the villagers. Although Li Yue'e later planted them for them, not many roots grew.
The plot of spinach was not big, so Su Mo pulled it all out in about ten minutes. She kept enough for three or four meals, and packed the rest in a backpack. She picked up the things Lu Changzheng sent and went to the Lu family.
When Su Mo passed by, Li Yue'e was taking advantage of the nice weather to dry out the bedding.
"Mom, my spinach has grown. I brought some over. You can also give some to the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law."
Li Yue'e hurried over and helped Su Mo take off the basket. When she saw the basket full of spinach, she didn't agree: "I brought them all over, so what are you going to eat?"
"I still have it at home, and it doesn't last long. When we got married, we cleared out the vegetable patch, and we didn't have much food to eat. So we can share it and eat it for a few meals."
Li Yue'e smiled broadly and said, "You are a generous person. Okay, my mother will help you divide it in a moment. I will send the basket back to you later."
Su Mo handed over the bag filled with things again, "This thing is from Changzheng, please keep it."
"Do you have any more?"
"Yes, it's all double portions." Su Mo said.
In this way, Li Yue'e also accepted it.
