Early the next morning, Zeng Chuipu and Yan Chengxiu got up, but their eyes were red and they stayed up late.

Yan Chengxiu asked Zeng Chuipu, "What should I do?

Zeng Chuipu also had a headache, glanced at Zeng Wei, who was still sleeping, and found that his face was white and red, and he was quite healthy, so he said, "Let's see the situation." ”

"So, what about that?" Yan Seungxiu then asked.

Zeng Chuipu naturally knew what she was asking, and after thinking for a while, she said: "Actually, what Sanwa said also makes sense. I heard Brother Chui Yu say that the wages of the cigarette factory have risen rapidly in the past two years. Although I am a contract worker for the time being, I can also find a way to become a regular, and go back to the second uncle and the third master to say hello to the leaders of the factory, and the problem of becoming a regular should not be big. ”

The second uncle in Zeng Chuipu's mouth is Zeng Weigao, Zeng Chuiyu's father, and the third master is not his own family, he is a colleague of Zeng Wei's grandfather back then, and his name is Ran Longce, and Zeng Wei's aunt and mother-in-law's family are the family, which is Zeng Wei's cousin's great-grandfather. With this relationship, he had a good relationship with Zeng Wei's grandfather, and he helped a lot with Zeng Wei's fairness and retort at the beginning, so the two families got closer.

Zeng Wei remembered that this old ancestor had retired from the position of deputy commissioner of the Gudan region, but now he still holds the position of deputy director of the regional people's congress, and has a certain influence in Gudan County and even in the Gudan region.

In the previous life, with the death of Zeng Wei's grandfather for a long time, and the status gap between the two sides was too large, the two families gradually became estranged.

But now, the two sides still maintain a certain contact, at least every New Year's Day, Zeng Wei's family will go to pay New Year's greetings. In this case, it should be no problem to ask him for help.

"Okay, you see it's done. Yan Chengxiu saw that her husband's mind had been decided, and she didn't say anything more.

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When Zeng Wei and Zeng Tong went to school after breakfast, Zeng Chuipu also went out of the house, but instead of going to work in the fields, he went to the village committee to call Zeng Chuiyu.

In 1992, when black-and-white televisions were high-end luxury for the villagers, it was impossible for any family to install the telephone, and the whole village only had one telephone in the village committee, and the villagers had to go to the village committee if they wanted to call.

If things don't change, the first telephones installed in the village themselves won't appear until five years later, in 1997.

After the phone was connected, Zeng Chuipu briefly told Zeng Chuiyu that he decided to enter the cigarette factory, and then hung up the phone at the point when the time was about to arrive.

Even though the telephone is owned by the village committee, it costs money to use it, and it is very expensive, one dollar per minute, and you can't even owe it.

The village committee has no other collective economy, and the income from the use of telephones by residents is an additional source of income for the village committee.

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Zeng Chuiyu's efficiency was good, and the next day he asked someone to bring a letter to Zeng Chuipu, saying that he was asked to go to work in the tobacco factory.

So, when Zeng Wei came home from school the next afternoon, he found that his father was no longer at home.

Zeng Wei learned that his father had entered the city, so he said to his mother very happily: "Mom, you will soon find out that this is a wise decision that cannot be more wise!"

Yan Chengxiu didn't feel surprised by her son's big idea, she glared at Zeng Wei angrily, and said: "Wise or not, it's hard to say now, but there is one thing that is certain, the work at home is too busy, in the future, you and Zeng Tong will have to carry back to beat pigweed!"

Zeng Wei was dumbfounded, isn't his heart right, is this considered a cocoon?

However, the work of beating pigweed is not a chore, such as he is small, so he can beat a little less each time, and then go back home.

In fact, for rural children at this time, it is basically a common phenomenon to help the family beat pigweed after school, and it is said that the big star Sister Song did this job when she was a child.

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So, from this day on, Zeng Wei came home from school every day, and he could no longer write novels quietly at home alone as before, but carried a small basket on his back and went to the ground with his second sister Zeng Tong to hunt pigweed.

In this very hard life, the days are slowly passing, and Zeng Wei is also thinking about finding a way to liberate his mother from the land. Because only in this way can he get rid of this work.

It's just that if you want to persuade your mother to give up the land, the difficulty of this task is not at the same level as the difficulty of suggesting that your father go to work in a tobacco factory, which is definitely hellish difficulty. Because Zeng Wei, as a reborn person, couldn't be clearer about how deep his mother's obsession with the land is.

This matter can really only be slowly figured out.

And in the process, the National Day holiday has also passed. Today's National Day holiday, although not as long as seven days as in later generations, has three days. The eldest sister Zeng Jiao and her father, who had just gone to work in the tobacco factory, also came back during this period.

However, in the past three days, Zeng Wei did not have time to play, and he and his two sisters had to help the family.

Taking advantage of the three-day National Day holiday, Zeng Wei's family took back the rice in the field, but it was an important thing.

With the end of the National Day holiday, my father and sister returned to the city, and Zeng Wei and Zeng Tong also started to work again while going to school and helping the family.

In this hard life, the time entered the second half of October.

At noon that day, Zeng Wei, who was at school, received a remittance slip and a letter.

The remittance slip and the letter were sent by the magazine "Legend of the Ancient Times", and the content of the first chapter of "Sou Shen Ji" sent by Zeng Wei was adopted by the editorial department of the magazine, and the editor told Zeng Wei in the letter that his novel was very innovative and of good quality, and had been published in the November issue of "Legend of the Ancient World".

"Legend of the Ancients" magazine has been very popular in recent years, with a single issue printing and sales of up to 500,000 copies, and the magazine attaches more importance to Zeng Wei's high-quality novel, giving a price of 15 yuan for 1,000 words, with a total of more than 13,100 words in the first chapter, and 13,000 words in the whole number, so the total remuneration is 195 yuan.

In the letter, the editor asked Zeng Wei if he would like to continue to publish the subsequent chapters of "Sou Shen Ji" in the magazine "Ancient Legends", and if so, the remuneration could be increased as appropriate.

In addition, the letter was accompanied by a copy of the sixtieth issue of the magazine "Ancient Legends" issued in November 1992, in which Zeng Wei saw the contents of the first chapter of "Sou Shen Ji" published under the pseudonym of Zeng Sanshao.

Speaking of which, the pen name taken by Zeng Wei has some bad tastes, and the source is naturally the first god of Dianniang's online novels. happened to be the third in the family, so he gave himself such a pen name.

Of course, in this era, no one knows about this bad taste, after all, that third young man is now just an eleven-year-old little kid, maybe he is dragging two big snots to play with his little friends in the mud.

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Zeng Wei is actually dissatisfied with the remuneration given by "Ancient Legends", don't look at 15 yuan for 1,000 words, it looks pretty good, after all, many signed authors in later generations have not yet reached this level. In the later generations, if there is a remuneration of 15 yuan for 1,000 words, even if they only write 6,000 words a day, their monthly income will be 2,700 yuan, which is already considered a middle income. If you are a little more diligent and write 10,000 words a day, your monthly income will be about 5,000, which is very considerable.

However, the current situation is not the future generations, especially since the magazine "Ancient Legends" is a bimonthly magazine, and it only publishes one issue every two months. Even if I publish a chapter in each issue, it is about 12,000 words, and the remuneration has risen slightly, for example, 20 yuan per thousand words, and the average is only 120 yuan per month.

However, Zeng Wei quickly thought of a question, now it is 1992, not 2012, not 2018, the gold content of these 120 pieces is very high.

You must know that my father went to work in the Gudan cigarette factory, and his monthly salary was even only 85 yuan, which was much lower than this. Moreover, my father is a full-time worker, working 256 days a month, and he is just an amateur.

Thinking like this, Zeng Wei found that in fact, the remuneration offered by the magazine "Ancient Legends" was already very sincere.

Especially considering that the number of words in the whole "Sou Shen Ji" is as high as 1.6 million words, and the income is more than 30,000. If you add the second "Wild Story", the total number of words is close to 4 million, and the income must be 70,000 or 80,000 yuan.

Of course, at this rate, it would take more than 50 years for these four million words to be published, which seems unrealistic.

Do you send more manuscripts to the "Ancient Legends" magazine every issue to speed up the publication?

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Zeng Wei has not yet decided whether to speed up the publication for the time being, but he is now facing a problem, that is, how to get the remittance.

Although there is no bank account number on the remittance slip at this time, and there is no ID number or anything, it is used as a voucher to withdraw money from the bank, but I am afraid that there is a problem with a seven or eight-year-old child who takes a remittance slip of 195 yuan to withdraw money.

Well, even if you consider that the cashier of the bank is your aunt's cousin, you don't have to worry about the remittance slip being corrupted, but if you want to hide it from your mother, it is impossible.

And if this money falls into the hands of my mother, not to mention how big the impact will be on her, I am afraid that I don't want to get a penny.

However, the money had to be withdrawn, so it couldn't just be left to sleep in the bank.

After some struggle, Zeng Wei still decided that this matter of withdrawing money would probably have to go through his grandfather's hands. The old man feels sorry for himself the most, and he trusts himself unconditionally, so there should be no problem in asking her to help. And it just so happens that I haven't visited the elderly for more than a month, and this time I can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Zeng Wei said secretly: Well, this matter was decided so happily!