Chapter 5: Three Generations in the Same House
In this way, in the past few days, there has been no news from the Yanhua brothers, but Fang Tianlu is not a little worried, anyway, the contract has been signed, and he must debut this year, at least one record next year.
On the side of Xinggu Literature, Journey to the West has uploaded 40,000 or 50,000 words, Fang Tianlu also has nearly 200,000 manuscripts, and news has been sent from the background of the website, and some fantasy editors have read the book and are ready to sign a contract.
Journey to the West is indeed not like a martial arts novel at all, it is completely a mythological fairytale, and it is understandable that it is favored by fantasy editors.
The day before his father-in-law and mother-in-law arrived, Fang Tianlu mailed out the novel contract.
The courier and the website are very fast, sending the contract in the morning, and the website will highlight the novel in the afternoon, indicating that the novel has been signed.
However, in the past few days, Journey to the West has not caused a sensation, and the score data has been tepid.
Until the new week arrives.
In the morning, Fang Tianlu drove to pick up his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and when he arrived at the airport, he was simply dumbfounded.
The father-in-law and mother-in-law had large and small bags, as exaggerated as moving, there were three large suitcases alone, and three other cloth bags, if it weren't for the clean and tidy clothes on the two of them, they would be exactly the same as the people who fled.
"Dad, Mom, what's the matter...... Why so much luggage?"
The father-in-law did not smile, and said solemnly: "We are going to live for three months, and there are gifts for the little grandson." ”
Three...... For three months, Fang Tianlu felt that his life would not be peaceful.
Especially after returning home, seeing Fang Yiqiu talking on the phone, repeating 'good', 'good', and 'I know', Fang Tianlu realized that it seemed that things were developing in a worse and worse direction.
"Husband, my father-in-law and mother-in-law said that they would also come from August County. ”
The couple was talking, the doorbell rang, Fang Tianlu was helping his father-in-law and mother-in-law carry their luggage, and it was Fang Yiqiu who went to open the door.
I heard Fang Yiqiu very surprised: "Mom, Dad, didn't you just call me, why are you so fast?"
Fang Tianlu was startled, put away his luggage and ran to the door.
He never imagined that he would meet his parents so soon, he was not mentally prepared at all, and he was even a little weak-hearted.
After all, to live in the world instead of other people's sons, it is inevitable that the heart will be empty.
Now the family has three generations in the same house, which can be regarded as a whole.
His father-in-law's surname is Yu, called Yu Guangzhong, a university professor, and a very strict person.
Mother-in-law has her husband's surname, called Yu Xiaomei, a literary writer who has many best-selling literary works.
The two live hundreds of kilometers away in the neighboring province of Cao Xiang in the city of Xering.
Fang's father's name is Dawei, Fang's mother's single name is a 'Hua' character, the two are authentic rural people, living in August County, Linshi Township, Yutai City, planting vegetables and fruits for a living.
"Tianlu, why didn't you go to work today?"
The family gathered, and the mother-in-law and Fang's mother had already gone to the kitchen to make lunch, and the father-in-law asked questions.
Today is Monday, after Fang Tianlu sent his son to kindergarten in the morning, he went directly to the airport to pick up the plane, and at this time naturally he would not say that he had resigned, so he lied.
"You weren't here today, so I'm taking a leave of absence. ”
This reason is reasonable, and no one doubts the authenticity.
However, when these two in-laws meet, it may be because of their personalities, the father-in-law and father-in-law don't look at each other, one is too old-fashioned, and the other is old and indecent.
From just making a phone call and immediately appearing at the door of the couple's house, it can be seen how unreliable Fang Dawei is.
Just now it was a surprise to his son and daughter-in-law, just now there was only surprise and no joy, if it was replaced by only Fang Yiqiu who was at home alone, and was taking a bath or doing other inconvenient things, how embarrassing would it be?
And this old man is not ashamed, he snatched the remote control and replaced a speech program that Yu Guangzhong was watching with a concert of a beautiful girl group, and his mouth was still shouting: "Come on, young ladies, come on, young ladies......"
Yu Guangzhong frowned, took the remote control, and then switched to the speech program, and then saw the faces of a beautiful girl and an uncle on TV for a while.
"How old are you, you still watch this kind of show, you dress so revealingly, and you don't know the shame. ”
"What do you know, this is called acting, how pleasing to the eye, and you don't know how to appreciate old antiques, then again, I'm older than you, how can you live more and more?"
Watching the two arguing, Fang Tianlu had a question, 'How could I have such a father'.
Forget it, out of sight is clean.
"Dad, you guys are watching TV here, although I have taken a leave of absence, but I still have to work from home, so I will go to work first. ”
As soon as he confessed, Fang Tianlu ran up to the second floor, closed the door of the study, and locked it.
The world is finally quiet.
He turned on the computer and logged in to the background of Xinggu Literature, and the collection of more than 100 suddenly skyrocketed to more than 3,000.
Fang Tianlu wondered if there was an error in the background, so he refreshed the web page.
As a result, the collection rose by dozens again.
"I'll go. ”
Only after opening the message record did I know that the book Journey to the West was recommended on the homepage, and it was the cover recommendation on the second screen of the homepage.
It seems that the editor is very optimistic about this book, and the facts prove that the editor has an eye on it.
"This is going to be sent!"
Sure enough, a good work, no matter what world it is in, will shine.
At this time, the editor sent a message: Congratulations, the results are good, according to this momentum, I estimate that the final collection can exceed 30 million.
The editor's estimate is not an exaggeration.
Because Star Valley Literature is a global website, supported in six official languages, there are not only Chinese novels, but also English, Western, French, Japanese and other novels, and the number of people who use Chinese in the world is at least three billion, so although 30 million collections are a lot, it is not an exaggeration.
However, Fang Tianlu was not proud or anything, and continued to calm down and write.
Now that there are 200,000 manuscripts, the foursome of them have already been gathered, plus a white dragon horse.
The four of them and one horse passed through the quicksand river and continued westward.
Fang Tianlu's heart also went west with him, and the more he wrote, the more comfortable he became, and when Fang Weiran came back by the kindergarten shuttle bus in the afternoon, another 20,000 words had been saved.
Now that the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren are under the same roof, Fang Weiran is very happy.
The children haven't seen their grandparents for a long time, and the four elders really brought gifts to him, all kinds of toys, and the most exaggerated is the grandfather, who actually bought the latest model of a game console.
Fang Weiran can't put down the game console, especially the pet games above, capturing pets, feeding pets, and taking pets to fight, this kind of cultivation game is the most attractive to children.
"Dad, you are really, Xiao Ran is so young, what kind of game console do you buy? ”
Saying that, Fang Tianlu snatched the game console and said, "This one is confiscated." ”
Regardless of Fang Weiran's crying, he hid the game console in the study on the second floor, where there was a secret compartment on the bookshelf, and only Fang Tianlu knew about it in the whole family, it was the place where he hid his private money before.
In the living room, Yu Guangzhong felt that he had lost to Fang Dawei, and snorted coldly, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart.
"Isn't it just a game console, Xiao Ran, tomorrow I will go to the Red Star Shopping Mall with my grandfather, and my grandfather will sell you whatever you want." ”
As a professor, Yu Guangzhong's salary is not high, but he can't stand having off-campus projects and academic projects, which are all money-making things, so the income is good.
Fang Dawei stuck out his tongue: "It's really rare for you to buy something, Xiao Ran, tomorrow grandpa will take you to eat delicious food, or go to the amusement park to play, how about it?"
Of course Fang Weiran liked his grandfather and grandfather's proposal, so he decided to let his grandfather and grandfather accompany him, and his grandson and grandson went out to play together.
That's good, for the other party Tianlu, tomorrow will be another quiet day.
But thinking that the three of them might go to the amusement park, the closest amusement park to Wutaichang is in Jingqi Township, a satellite city next door, it seems that if Fang Tianlu goes to the library in Jingqi Township tomorrow, there will be a danger of meeting his father.
I was thinking about what to do tomorrow and where to go, when the phone rang at home.
Now Fang Yiqiu's belly is very inconvenient, so Fang Tianlu got up to answer the phone.
"Lao Fang, I'm Mi Lili, the company arranged, you will start training tomorrow, it's a two-hour music lesson, as well as about the Voice of the World competition process, strategy, song selection, and also record a sample, which is the song you sang during the official competition. ”
After saying it in one breath, Fang Tianlu was happy in his heart, it was really good, someone sent a pillow for sleepiness.
Mom and Dad are at home, to keep the secret that they have resigned, hide in the library, sooner or later will be discovered, now the library is replaced with the headquarters of Yanhua Brothers Company in Yutai City, the possibility of being bumped into by the family is greatly reduced.
"Well, I've basically already selected the repertoire, and I'll show you tomorrow. ”
"I'm looking forward to it!"
The two agreed that tomorrow Fang Tianlu would take the tram back to the downtown area of Yutai City, and then go directly to the Yanhua Brothers Building, and Mi Lili would wait at the front desk.
However, because I had to start preparing for the competition, the time for writing was greatly reduced.
In the final analysis, after Fang Tianlu's debut for at least half a year, he is now counting on Journey to the West to make money, regardless of whether he is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands per month, in short, he can't let his family starve to death.
Fang Tianlu quietly told Fang Yiqiu about the arrangements of the Yanhua brothers, and Fang Yiqiu looked very nervous.
"You have to come on, husband, the whole family is counting on you. ”
Fang Tianlu gave his wife a reassuring look, and then went to arrange a room for the four elders to sleep at night.
At this time, the father-in-law and father-in-law quarreled again, the reason was who Fang Weiran wanted to take a bath with, Fang Dawei argued with reason, his grandson hadn't seen his grandfather for a long time, so he wanted to wash with him, and Yu Guangzhong did not back down.
"Your family lives in August County, you can take the train at any time if you miss your grandson, I live in Xie Ming City, and I still have to work, it's rare to come once, and you have to fight with me? ”
Fang Tianlu sighed with a sigh, scooped up his son, and walked into the bathroom.
"Don't argue, how old are you, don't be ashamed, of course my son wants to take a bath with me. ”
As he spoke, he closed the door with a 'snap', and then locked it back, closing out the annoying and painful sound.