First update

"It doesn't matter. This is actually a good thing." Qin Yao pretended not to understand what Gu Cheng meant and said leisurely.

"Is it a good thing to separate from me?"

Gu Cheng grabbed her wrist and hugged her from behind. He knew clearly that she was a cunning little fox, but when he heard her nonchalant answer, he couldn't help but get angry.

Now that he is over 30, Captain Gu has been cultivating his character and rarely gets angry. Even though he criticizes others a lot on a daily basis, the times when he actually gets angry are very rare.

The only thing that made him anxious was the most special person in front of him, who was his family, his friend, his closest lover and his wife.

He was angry not because of what Qin Yao said, but because of the word "separation".

Gu Cheng couldn't bear to be separated from his wife.

For military officers, further study is a good thing, and it would be even happier if they could bring their families with them. I work from nine to five, and go home to be with my wife after class every day. There is nothing else to do, just like an ordinary student in university.

With his family around, he has more freedom to go out. He can spend a lot of time with his wife and children. When he is not in class, he can go out and walk around the city, visit the zoo with his family, take a walk in the park, and occasionally go to a state-owned restaurant for a meal...

If they live apart, all these comfortable fantasies will be shattered. How many days like this can he have in his life?

Even the calm Captain Gu could not accept such a training life.

"I didn't say I wanted to break up with you, you said it yourself." Qin Yao tilted her head slightly and looked up at him sideways.

Having seen his youngest son Mingming acting like a spoiled child many times, seeing Gu Cheng's anxious look now, although he still had such a handsome and cold face, it unexpectedly made people want to sigh.

"You are like the youngest son now."

"Sure enough, the child takes after his father."

Gu Cheng has lost his patience: "Don't change the subject. What do you want to do? I will never accept separation. I want to see you every day after school. It doesn't matter whether my son wants me or not, but I want my wife."

Qin Yao: “…” You really should let your two sons come and hear this.

"Alright, alright, listen to me. "

Qin Yao pursed her lips and said, "Recently, many companies have had some... uh, financial difficulties."

In fact, it is due to financial difficulties and money is stretched. Salaries are delayed by one or two months. Their salaries are even temporarily diverted to other places. Some state-owned units are unable to pay salaries.

Therefore, many units thought about saving themselves and finding ways to create benefits. This method is just a gray area at present, but many state-owned factories and companies do this.

For example, by cooperating with some communes, the commune would help make parts and the state-owned factories would buy them at low prices. Some communes could even generate millions of profits a year.

"Our unit has also come up with a way to save itself. It can't really be called self-help. The high-sounding thing is to promote literary and artistic work. Our cultural center is going to publish a literary and artistic journal."

Gu Cheng nodded: "Then you are planning to submit an article to this journal."

Qin Yao: "I guess so."

"Is this related to our previous topic? Are you planning to quit your job and concentrate on writing articles for publication in the future?"

If Qin Yao chooses this path, Gu Cheng will not only not refuse, but will also welcome it.

Qin Yao's annual royalties are quite a lot now. Even if she cannot earn any royalties in the future, she still has him in the family, and his salary is enough for the family expenses.

"No, this literary magazine has nothing to do with me. It was organized by Jiahui. You know, she has always been against me, and I don't want to get involved in their affairs."

Ever since the last drama competition, Jiahui has been holding a grudge against Qin Yao. This time, the cultural center founded a literary journal. Considering that Jiahui had a lot of communication with some authors, the task of reviewing manuscripts and contacting authors was given to Jiahui.

Qin Yao did not get involved in the founding of this journal, nor was she interested in scheming against Jiahui, but she was prepared to take this opportunity to start her own business. She would establish a monthly magazine and affiliate it with the cultural center. Perhaps she could even apply for some start-up capital. The entire editorial department would be under her control. Although the profits from the business would have to be turned over, she could set performance bonuses in line with the general trend of state-owned enterprise reform after next year.

In the future, we will wait a few more years, gradually become independent and complete the privatization transformation.

"I want to start a journal myself. I have discussed it with the cultural center. I will lead a team to start the journal. I can set it up wherever I want and recruit whomever I want. However, I can only get a few hundred or a few thousand dollars in start-up funds. I have to figure out the rest myself..."

This is Qin Yao's first attempt at starting a business. If Gu Chengruo is studying in the inland, she can open this editorial office anywhere. Many things are easier to do in the inland.

Qin Yao is planning to publish a fashion and lifestyle magazine, which will include domestic and international current affairs, interviews on domestic livelihood issues, and other beauty and hairdressing, fashion wear recommendations, and introductions to trendy movies and TV series... The content will be fashionable, closely follow the lives of young people, and lead the lifestyle trends.

Once such lifestyle magazines are established, they are most suitable for advertising, advocating lifestyles, and recommending consumer products... Most people are blind mobs, and after seeing such trendy advertisements, they will buy, buy, buy.

After the rise of the Internet era, people have become accustomed to reading advertising soft articles. Everyone has a pair of eyes that can discern advertisements, and is full of doubts deep in their hearts.

At that time, people born in the 1970s and 1980s had no experience in advertising. They could easily make a fortune by writing a few soft articles or customizing articles to advertise a few "hot products".

From another perspective, such lifestyle magazines can broaden the horizons of ordinary people and help them understand domestic and international trends, fashion, and especially beauty and hairdressing... Qin Yao has had enough of Gao Lili next door. She has a good face, but she ruins herself every day.

Every time I look at her, I can't help but complain.

The eyebrows she drew these days didn't suit her at all. Qin Yao tried hard to hold back and didn't write a special tutorial on beauty, skin care and dressing for her.

But she was really feeling very frustrated. Everyone loves beauty, and there is nothing to laugh at. However, ordinary people do not have enough beauty quotient, so they have to rely on the big guys to summarize their experience. It was the 1970s and 1980s, not the future when there would be an influx of beauty bloggers. There were relevant dressing and beauty recommendations for all kinds of face shapes, single eyelids, double eyelids, yellow skin, black skin..., which allowed people to quickly improve their dressing standards.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Yao feels that lifestyle and fashion magazines have great potential at this time and will be welcomed by the vast majority of young people. People in the 1980s mostly yearn for freedom and new trends. After being imprisoned for a long time, they will be more vigorous when they are released.

Literary magazines are good, but Qin Yao does not essentially belong to this era. She is not interested in some of the poetry and so-called scar literature from the 1980s.

The audience for this kind of scar literature is very small. The educated youth went to the countryside and felt aggrieved about living in the countryside from the city. They said that they suffered hardships in the countryside... But at that time, most people in the country were farmers, and farmers had been living like this in the countryside. Isn't that even more aggrieved?

Her lifestyle magazine is suitable for everyone to read and watch. Although it covers domestic and international political news and hot issues in the lives of the people, it focuses more on the little people. For example, it covers the changes in the 1960s and 1970s, and interviews with the first batch of ordinary college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination, including secondary school students, normal school students, medical students, famous university students, ordinary university students, and technical colleges. Qin Yao plans to do a special topic to interview various college students about their experiences, daily life in school, various psychological issues, etc.

In addition to this topic about college students, there is also a topic about the lives of farmers in cities. After 1979, farmers were no longer tied to the land and could freely go to the city to work. We interviewed the lives of ordinary migrant workers, their daily entertainment in the city, and the changes in their lives...

This type of real interview with ordinary people's life can also provide ordinary young people living in towns and villages across the country with a window to open the outside world.

Qin Yao has a lot of ideas in her mind that she is ready to realize, but they are still very messy and need time to sort out. The only thing that has been confirmed is that she will do a special interview with the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination. This will probably have to wait until March or April of 1977 or 1978, some time after school starts.

There is no rush in terms of time, as it is still in the preparation stage, but Qin Yao is very confident that once this magazine comes out, it will be well-liked and sold out.

"You want to publish your own journal?" Gu Cheng was happy. His wife wanted to start a business, and he supported it very much. According to Qin Yao's plan, even if it was affiliated with a cultural center, the profits would need to be turned over, but she would have great autonomy in management, and she could be considered a small leader who could set up her own business.

Qin Yao nodded: "That's the case at the moment."

Now we cannot start our own business and can only be affiliated with an organization. In the future, many large enterprises will start from state-owned enterprises in their initial development and will gradually transform in the subsequent shareholding system reform.

"Okay, I fully support you. I can also write articles for you." Gu Cheng was in a good mood. He raised his hand and pinched Qin Yao's cheek. He thought proudly in his heart: After writing love poems for so many years, how could it be that they are not of publishable quality?

"It just so happens that I am studying and have a lot of free time."

Qin Yao: “…”

Comrade Xiao Qin thought: You are too proud, a certain poet Gu, but our small journal does not publish sour poems.

Thinking of this, she reluctantly said: "Allow you to be a special correspondent and assist in interviews and writing articles."

"Don't even mention being a special correspondent. You can even let me go in for reconnaissance."

Qin Yao squinted her eyes and said jokingly, "You're right. I want to interview the first batch of college students after the college entrance examination. Captain Gu, with your current appearance, if you change your clothes and pretend to be a college student, no one will say that there is something wrong with you."

Gu Cheng was speechless: "I heard that people in their thirties and forties are signing up for the college entrance examination."

Qin Yao: “…” I almost forgot that many of the first batch of college students who resumed the college entrance examination had families with them, and even couples were admitted to the same school.

To this end, many well-known universities have set up parenting classes and kindergartens specifically for the children of this group of college students.

Although we are poor now, we have great benefits. It is free to go to university and there is a certain amount of food allowance. After graduation, you will be assigned a job directly and a house in the future.

Even though people at that time suffered a bit, they were indeed not under much mental pressure. At least they did not have to take out a 30-year mortgage or a car loan. The Housing Authority had a large number of houses that were rented out to urban residents at low prices, and they did not have to pay property fees. No one ever thought that there was anything wrong with renting a house, because most of the houses they rented were state-owned and they could live in them for a lifetime, and even if they were demolished later, they would receive compensation.

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Qin Yao told her unit about her proposal, and the unit agreed. Qin Yao said that she would prepare slowly, and the unit also supported her to visit and study in various places for the time being.

"Comrade Qin, it's a good thing for you young people to have ideas."

"I think this life journal you mentioned is very interesting."

"Maybe we can really make a name for ourselves. Our cultural center really hides a lot of talented people."

After hearing Qin Yao's idea, the leaders of the cultural center highly appreciated her for trying it, and thought that Qin Yao was a person with ideas and creativity. From the very beginning, the cultural center decided to publish a journal, largely just for a basic task, and did not expect to make a name for itself. Its fame probably would not even go beyond the island. It just relied on local relationships and required other units to subscribe to a certain number of subscriptions. There would always be some sales every month, but it did not require anyone to take the initiative to buy it.

The lifestyle magazine that Qin Yao proposed was very interesting. Secretary Sun thought that if Qin Yao could run it well, it might really be liked by ordinary people and sold one copy after another in Xinhua Bookstores and newsstands.

Is that really effective?