Chapter 39: The Sixty Peasant Mother-in-law (16)
"Mother, how can this work, you quickly put away your things, you can keep this cornmeal for yourself!
When you are old, eating some fine grains is good for your health, and their children's families, it is okay to be hungry for a few meals, and you can just make up for it when you look back on the good year. ”
Qiao Hua looked at the bag of cornmeal of at least seven or eight catties, where she dared to take it, and hurriedly waved her hand to refuse.
"If you want to take it, take it!
I'll tell you the truth, this cornmeal was bought on the black market, no tickets, just spend some money, you mother and me, these decades have not been in vain, and now I have income!
Come and see what this is! ”
Qiao Mu wanted to give this cornmeal to Qiao Hua on a whim, she has been here for so long, the eldest son came over to ask for something once, the second son has never met, only this little girl still remembers to send some sweet potatoes in this year, if you compare it, it is really filial.
Qiao Mu is naturally willing to give something to her daughter, and at this time, she also happened to make a clear path for her to write an article, saving her money from being questioned about where she got to eat something good.
As he spoke, Qiao Mu had already taken out the replies sent by several literary magazines, including two deposit tickets that had not had time to withdraw money, and put them in front of Qiao Hua for her to read.
Qiao Hua looked dazed, she couldn't read.
"Mother, what are these?"
"Huh? Didn't you go to a literacy class a few years ago, why don't you know how to read? ”
Qiao Mu was also a little surprised, didn't everyone in their village go to a literacy class a few years ago? And after studying for half a year, why is her daughter still illiterate? He studied in the village literacy class for three months, got a certificate of completion, and learned about 1,000 words and a little arithmetic.
"It's faith!
Mother, you don't know me, I went to the literacy class to mix the days, by the way, mixed meals, and finally I didn't get the certificate of completion of the literacy class, most people in our village didn't get it, right, you got it!
Mother, you better tell me directly, I don't know these words, I have a headache when I see it! ”
When Qiao Hua heard Qiao Mu say this, she remembered that her mother was literate, and when the village carried out the village-wide literacy work, her mother was the first to get a certificate of completion, and she was rewarded with a piece of soap and an enamel jar.
"This is a reply from the magazine, saying that it has hired the articles I wrote to them, these two are deposit receipts, which were sent by the magazine, one is five yuan, and the other is eight yuan, which is the manuscript fee I submitted to them!
I got the money to buy cornmeal on the black market from there, and now I don't have to work much every month, I can spend two or three hours a day to write some articles, and I can get about forty or fifty yuan a month, enough to buy food! ”
As he spoke, Qiao Mu showed Qiao Hua the letter and the deposit receipt, and also gave Qiao Hua a click on the amount of money on the deposit receipt.
"Eh, mother, I know, this eight and five know, my God, mother, you are also a cultural person, you can write articles to make money, no worse than the past Xiucai master, in the past, the Xiucai in the next village had to copy books for many days to get a piece of the ocean, you are a ...... How many comes? ”
Qiao Hua counted her fingers, but she didn't calculate how many eight plus five was, she only felt that this number should be quite large, it must be the money of the young and old.
Qiao Mu was also stunned by her praise.
Originally, Qiao Mu had a stomach prepared in her stomach to explain the reasons why she was able to write articles, for example, after leaving the literacy class, she had been secretly studying hard by herself, and she was lucky enough to meet an old professor to guide her to write, and even thought that she had the talent to write articles, but who would have thought that her daughter didn't doubt it at all, so she accepted it so neatly.
Isn't that too receptive?
Isn't there anything to doubt about it?
Thinking of this, Qiao Mu immediately asked carefully:
"Don't you think it's weird that I can write articles and send them out to earn a pay?"
"What's so strange about this, mother, didn't you always say that you were very smart when you were a child, if it weren't for the poor family who didn't have money to go to school when you were a child, and married my father who worked hard all her life, and didn't have time to study, maybe you could be a female gentleman and a female professor?
I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't expect you to be so powerful, you can write articles and make money after half a year of literacy classes, oops, I knew that I worked hard to learn back then, maybe it will be done!
No, those stinky boys at home can't let them play at home anymore, they have to be sent to the school in the town, or it's easy for cultural people to make money, they have to be sent over! ”
Qiao Hua's thinking diverged quickly, and soon diverged from the fact that Qiao Mu could write articles to make money by reading books, and she was eager to go back and find a way to send her grandchildren to the town's primary school to study.
Qiao Mu was reminded by Qiao Huayi, and then from the depths of the memory of the original body, he turned out the past of bragging in front of the child, how can the original body really be smart, at most it can only be regarded as a little wisdom, sometimes the life is uncomfortable, so he complained in front of his wife and children, saying that if he didn't marry and suffer, what would happen, but it was probably bragging.
The reason why the literacy class worked so hard to get the certificate of completion within three months was that I wanted soap and an enamel jar, after all, the two things were worth four or five yuan at that time, and the original body was very envious of the captain's family a few years ago.
I have to say that the bragging about the past and the three months of studying hard in the original body are still quite useful for Qiao Mu, at least, with these two past things, it will not seem how abrupt it is for her to write articles and make money now.
At the very least, it's okay on the surface.
If the original body really hasn't even attended a literacy class, and he doesn't know a single big character, it really can't be said, but Qiao Mu is also clear about the original body literacy, and the Chinese characters he knows are not few, so he dares to make money by writing articles.
And the articles she writes also pay attention to the essence of the articles, they are all about writing some very simple things, writing some things in quotations, and definitely not involving things that the original body has not been exposed to in the past, let alone writing any messy things such as science fiction, all of which are written about some simple vernacular literature, which is not only not easy to go wrong in this era, but also will not make others doubt.
The old lady who was born in the countryside and learned some words through the literacy class writes all kinds of down-to-earth vernacular literature, no matter how you look at it, it is not a particularly strange thing, at most it can only be said that this old lady is diligent and studious, and she still knows how to learn at such an old age.
Spreading the word is also something to be encouraged.
Study hard and make progress every day!