In a blink of an eye, on August 13, Xiao Fei's long story "Fish Walking on Land" has also written more than 200,000 words.

With an average of 15,000 words per day, and new columns, story scripts and fashion magazine manuscripts, Xiao Fei works more than 8 hours a day.

On the most days, he wrote 30,000 words.

He really fought it.

While you're young, why not give it a go?

If you want to say bitter, it is really bitter.

On a hot day, in the middle of the night, people have fallen asleep, and he is still sweating like rain and writing hard, and he basically does not leave the house during the day, just stays at home and writes non-stop.

Sometimes at the end of the day's work, Xiao Fei's back hurts and his hands are shaking.

Even in addition to such high-intensity writing, Xiao Fei still did not give up the boxing and foot practice in the early hours of the morning and went to Lin Chunli's house to learn music after dinner.

Many times, he felt that he couldn't hold on.

But the hidden sense of mission in his heart urged him and made him grit his teeth and get through.

Early in the morning of the 13th, the loudspeaker in the village sounded, it was Liu Zhenhai who was personally broadcasting a news, Liu Xinmei's H University admission notice had been received yesterday, today, Liu Zhenhai wanted to feast guests, and invited relatives, friends and people in the village to celebrate his daughter.

Xiao Fei, who was sitting in the courtyard writing, listened to it and just smiled.

Liu Zhenhai made it clear that he wanted to take this opportunity to receive gifts.

Yesterday, the people of his family went door-to-door to inform everyone to invite everyone to dinner.

Can this rice be eaten for nothing? People who go to congratulate can't go empty-handed, right? I have to express it with everyone.

This year, because the cotton production in Xili Village is out of production, the villagers are even more impoverished, and every family owes a lot of debts (it costs a lot of money to spray and fertilize cotton, and most of them are owed on credit). How can you afford to follow the elements?

But if you don't go, you will offend the Liu family.

Therefore, most people will sell some eggs, sell a few chickens or a sheep raised at home, and raise some money to give gifts to Liu Zhenhai's family.

A tent was set up on the street in front of Liu Zhenhai's house in Xili Village, tables and benches had been set up, a large stove was built in the courtyard of Liu Zhenhai's house, and a cooking master was specially invited.

It's a big fight.

Since Liu Xinmei's confession to Xiao Fei was rejected that day, she has never come to Xiao Fei again. And Xiao Fei's family was originally worried that Liu Zhenhai's family would come over to find trouble, but in the end, they didn't come, and there was no conflict in the follow-up.

This time Liu Xinmei received the admission notice, Liu Zhenhai also personally came to Xiao Fei's house to invite him to the banquet on time the next day, Liu Zhenhai smiled, his mood seemed to be very good, and he also said a few words to Xiao Fei casually, and it seemed that there was no mustard at all.

No, Xiao Fei's father, Xiao Youjin, had already brought 50 yuan of gift money to Liu's house just now.

My mother and my brother and sister went to the cornfield to water it.

This year, there is a drought and little rainfall, and corn is the most water-hungry crop, but Xili Village is a sand nest that cannot store water, so it has to be watered every three or four days.

The good news is that the corn is growing well.

In just over a month, the corn plant has grown to more than half a person's height.

Xiao Fei writes at home every day and doesn't go down to help out, at first her mother complained, but later, under the persuasion of her brothers and sisters, she didn't care.

Xiao Fei's writing is not very good today.

Always a little uneasy.

Maybe it's the movement on the street that affects the mood? Or is it according to the law of newspaper and periodical manuscript fee distribution, and now it is almost time to receive the remittance order, so that you have an inexplicable expectation?

Not to mention that Xiao Fei is imagining at home.

Xili Village Primary School. At 9:50 a.m., Lin Chunli had just returned to the office next to the classroom after giving a math lesson to her fifth-grade students, when the postman from the township post office arrived.

"Teacher Lin, just got out of class, right?"

"Master Wang, that's right."

Master Wang, the postman, did not rush to pick up the letter from the mail bag this time, but asked with a surprised face: "Is there a person named 'Xiao Fei' in your village?" ”

Lin Chunli heard Xiao Fei's name and nodded: "Yes." ”

"Oops! This man is amazing! I envy the dead person, my annual salary is not as large as the amount on his manuscript bill! Master Wang said loudly.

"Oh, there's Xiao Fei's manuscript bill." Lin Chunli didn't show too much shock.

These days, she chats with Xiao Fei a lot.

She knew that Xiao Fei had been writing and submitting articles recently, and she also knew that Xiao Fei frequently published articles in the H Provincial Daily and the Z City Evening News. Xiao Fei also told her about the manuscript fee.

Master Wang took out a thin stack of letters from the mail bag and took out several remittance slips.

He put the letter on the desk, but he held the remittance slips and showed the top one to Lin Chunli.

Lin Chunli squinted her eyes and looked at the place where Master Wang's finger pointed at the amount of remittance, a long string of numbers, full of six digits.

4428.38。

Her eyes widened.

How many of them?

Just now Master Wang said that a manuscript bill was worth a year's salary, and she thought he was just exaggerating. But I didn't expect that the amount on this manuscript bill was really amazing.

Her current salary is only two or three hundred yuan a month.

It's only about 3,000 yuan a year, which is really a lot worse than the amount on this manuscript bill.

The gross income of ordinary people in Xili Village will not be more than this in a year.

Her first thought was: Could this be a mistake?

Looking at this list carefully, the remarks read "Story Club 1996 Issue 7, titled "Kitchen Knife Legend"" in small print.

It was actually the manuscript fee of "Story Club" instead of Z City Evening News or H Province Daily, and Xiao Fei actually contributed to the Story Club at the same time? She really hadn't heard Xiao Fei say this.

The fame of "Story Club" is not ordinarily big in China, although Xili Village is remote, there are some people who occasionally have one or two copies at home.

Now, it's amazing that someone close to me has published their work in this nationally acclaimed story magazine.

Also, Lin Chunli really didn't know that the manuscript fee for the story meeting would be so high, and the manuscript fee for a manuscript could reach more than 4,000 yuan, which was incredible.

"It's not just this one, there's more." Master Wang handed over several other manuscript bills to Lin Chunli to see.

Z City Evening News published a total of 8 articles in July, with a total manuscript fee of 1,200 yuan.

H Provincial Evening News July manuscript fee list, a total of 4 articles were published, with a total manuscript fee of 300 yuan.

People's Daily published a total of 2 articles in July, with a total manuscript fee of 200 yuan.

Qilu Evening News, 80 yuan.

Xinmin Evening News, 120 yuan.

Beijing Evening News, 100 yuan.

Yangcheng Evening News, 150 yuan.

A total of 8 manuscript fee lists, with a total manuscript fee of 6578.38 yuan. Lin Chunli silently calculated in her heart for a while before she calculated this astonishing total number.

received more than 6,000 manuscript fees at once, and Xiao Fei's image suddenly became unfathomable in Lin Chunli's eyes.