Chapter 74 Manuscript received a response sample

Although Zheng Yunsheng and Gu Xiaojiao wrote two letters, at this time, writing to someone who was suspected of having problematic conduct was extremely risky.

If you don't handle it well, you might get yourself into trouble.

Therefore, for the Huo family, Zheng Yunsheng and Gu Xiaojiao are very kind to them.

Shen Guidong is the son of Huo Shaohuai's old comrade-in-arms.

The old comrade died in a battle many years ago, and before he died, he handed Shen Guidong over to Huo Shaohuai for care.

Huo Shaohuai couldn't even imagine how he would be able to meet his old comrades in the underworld if there hadn't been Gu Xiaojiao's letter and Shen Guidong had died in vain.

"Xiao Zheng, Xiao Gu, if you two have any needs, just let me know. If I, Huo, can do it, I will definitely do it for you."

"No need." Zheng Yunsheng and Gu Xiaojiao responded in unison.

Zheng Yunsheng said no because he had long-term plans for the future and hoped to have the opportunity to cooperate with Huo Shaohuai for a win-win situation.

Gu Xiaojiao, because she had taken several hundred yuan from Tong Di, thought that she was taking money to help others get rid of disasters.

She was a little uneasy before, thinking that taking several hundred dollars from Tong Dixin was a bit too much.

Now that she knew that her letter indirectly saved Shen Guidong's life, she could accept it with peace of mind.

As for the rest, Gu Xiaojiao didn't want to ask Huo Shaohuai for too much. She was not a greedy person.

Gu Xiaojiao wants a lot of things and is full of longing for the future, but now she has understood that she can only fight for what she wants by herself.

You have to work hard and strive for success. The most joyful thing in the world is to let your hard-working self encounter this wonderful world unexpectedly.

The happiest thing is that after a lot of hard work, everything starts to slowly become what you want.

Gu Xiaojiao has experienced that feeling before.

She will do better in this life than in her previous life.

In the end, the couple didn't ask for any help from Huo Shaohuai.

Huo Shaohuai had been seriously injured since the accident, and when he saw that Zheng Yunsheng and Gu Xiaojiao insisted on not helping, he gave up.

I thought that he would rise again sooner or later, and I would have the chance to repay his kindness.

Tong Dixin will not stay in the countryside anymore. Huo Shaohuai has arranged for her to return to the city, although she still cannot return to the Huo family in her own identity for the time being.

But she told Gu Xiaojiao her real name, which was Huo Yushi.

At this time, although the educated youth had not yet returned to the city on a large scale, those whose families had connections were still able to return to the city.

The family of three did not stay in Yueya Village for too long. They went to express their gratitude to Zheng Yunsheng and Gu Xiaojiao, and then drove away.

After seeing them off, Zheng Yunsheng went to work in the fields.

One month later.

The postman came to Gu's courtyard again, and this time he brought a thick envelope to Gu Xiaojiao.

She opened it and found a magazine inside. It was a magazine that had just been published this year and was called "October".

There was a notification letter tucked into the first page of the magazine.

After reading the content of the letter, Gu Xiaojiao learned that the article she sent to the newspaper was recommended by the newspaper editor to the editor of October magazine.

The letter also included the address of the magazine, and asked Gu to write an article at a price of 7 yuan per thousand words. Under the premise of ensuring quality, the maximum length of the article could be 20,000 words.

Gu Xiaojiao knew that this magazine was founded in 1976, which was just this year.

In the years that followed, many magazines withdrew from the market and declined, but October remained popular.

Before Gu Xiaojiao died in a car accident in her previous life, this magazine was still being published. It was a bimonthly publication, with one issue published every two months.

Generally speaking, it takes several months to get the sample issue fee after sending an article to a newspaper or magazine.

Gu Xiaojiao was luckier because October had just been launched and lacked popularity, so it received relatively few submissions.

Therefore, as soon as her manuscript reached the editor, it was officially confirmed for use and directly printed in the magazine published that month.

In addition to the sample letter, Gu Xiaojiao also found a remittance slip with green letters on a white background in the envelope, which read: "Remittance Notice of the People's Post Office of the Communist Party of China."

The column for the remittance amount clearly stated the remittance amount: 15 yuan. In the article that was sent out before, Gu Xiaojiao wrote more than 2,000 words in total.

With this remittance slip, Gu Xiaojiao can go to the post office to cash it in for the royalties she earned from writing.

Fifteen yuan is almost a worker's half-month salary, enough to buy a lot of things.

This was the first salary that Gu Xiaojiao had earned with her own ability after her rebirth, and she was extremely happy.

People always feel happy when they find opportunities to realize their self-worth.

Originally, Gu Xiaojiao wanted to cooperate with a newspaper and have her own column in the newspaper, which would be published every day.

According to the newspaper's minimum wage of 2 yuan per thousand words, and each article is 2,000 words, she can earn 4 yuan a day and 120 yuan a month.

(As for the standard of manuscript fees, I have looked up information. I did not expect that words were so valuable in those days. However, the authors in those days were still poor, because not every author could get the opportunity to publish every article. Often, the manuscript fee for one article would support one’s life for several months, so it would give people the impression that the writer was poor.)

But now that the newspaper has recommended her to a magazine, she may need to concentrate on writing a long article of about 20,000 words every two months.

Twenty thousand words, two months to write, and I can probably get 140 yuan.

Compared to working at a newspaper and earning 120 yuan a month, working at a magazine requires much less money, but the workload is also much less.

Twenty thousand words, it would take Gu Jiao a week to finish it.

This is better, writing doesn't take up too much of her time, and she can free up some time to do other things.

If she were to work with a newspaper, she would have to spare some time every day to write.

After putting the remittance slip away, Gu Xiaojiao opened the magazine and took a look. It was a sample issue that did not have a publication date printed on it.

After turning two pages, she came across the article she had written, "In My Dream, I Lived My Life Again."

The first two pages of the magazine are the table of contents.

I didn't expect that the article she wrote would be placed at the beginning of the entire book by the magazine.

Holding the magazine, Gu Xiaojiao was very happy. There were not many paper reading materials at this age. She could imagine how happy her parents would be if she showed the magazine to them.

In her previous life, Gu Xiaojiao had a column in a newspaper.

After she told Gu Dagan and Xie Jinxiang about that incident, her parents, who were always reluctant to spend money and were illiterate, subscribed to the newspaper in which she had a column for three consecutive years.

But she couldn't let them subscribe to this magazine, it was quite expensive!

What Gu Xiaojiao didn't know was that when she received the sample issue, the magazine had already been published for nearly half a month.

The magazine received readers' information from all over the country, which filled up the office of editor Ye Shouren.

October Magazine has been published for less than half a year, and this is the first time that we have received so much feedback from readers. And 90% of these readers are here for one thing:

The author 궝月娇阳 was asked to rewrite the ending of "In My Dream, I Lived a Whole Life Again" instead of writing about waking up from a dream, and let the author continue writing the story of rebirth.

궝月娇阳 is the pen name that Gu 궝娇 gave herself.