On the first day of class after the holiday, our homeroom teacher Li Xin also returned to teach.
However, she looked paler and more haggard, and her spirit was obviously not as strong as before. It seemed that she had not recovered from the death of her fiancé.
It seems that she needs to speed up the progress of her novel. The novel she is writing is adapted from the true events of Li Xin and her fiancé. She doesn't know whether Li Xin can read her novel, but she decided to go all out and pour her understanding of life and delicate description of emotions into her pen.
I hope that after seeing this, Li Xin can find some comfort, even if it’s just a moment of peace and relief.
She knows that words have the power to transcend pain and connect hearts, especially when they come from real and deep emotional experiences, the feeling will be even more profound.
I have been writing 20,000 words by hand every day for eight days. The novel is almost finished and will be finished in two more days. I will revise it and rewrite it, and it will be finished by the end of this month.
Now Zhang Qiurui is considering which magazine to submit his manuscript to.
She now has four goals in mind, one of which is "Yanhe"
"Yanhe" is sponsored by the SX Provincial Writers Association. As early as the 1980s, Shaanxi produced a group of writers and works with national influence. For example, the masterpieces of literary masters such as Jia Pingao, Chen Zhongshi, and Lu Yao have been published in "Yanhe". This magazine undoubtedly has a profound literary heritage and a broad readership base. Submitting articles here may allow your works to receive more attention and guidance from literary predecessors.
Moreover, "Yanhe" is known as the "Little People's Literature".
The second choice is "Harvest", which mainly publishes medium-length and long novels, but it is a bimonthly magazine and is temporarily listed as the last choice by Zhang Qiurui.
The third is Mengya, founded only five or six years ago. It's China's first original youth literature magazine. In 1999, Mengya joined forces with 13 prestigious universities to co-host the New Concept Essay Competition, China's most prestigious essay competition. The competition has since unearthed cultural icons of the post-80s generation, including Han Han, Guo Jingming, and Zhang Yueran. Mengya has earned the title "the cradle of post-80s idols."
Zhang Qiurui's novels are characterized by delicate emotional depiction and profound understanding of life, which coincides with the positioning of "Sprout".
The last choice is the "Xiaoxiang Magazine" in the urban area, which is located in Xingcheng.
Faced with these four choices, each with its own merits, Zhang Qiurui fell into deep thought.
Zhang Qiurui actually wanted to submit her work to Yanhe. She believed that as a magazine with a deep literary background, Yanhe would be better able to understand and appreciate the emotional depth and literary value of her work.
Finally, Zhang Qiurui decided to submit the manuscript to Xiaoxiang Magazine because she didn't know whether she needed to revise the manuscript. If she needed to revise it, it would be convenient for her to go to the city herself.
Because in that era, if you wanted to travel far away, you had to ask the production team to write a letter of introduction. She was originally from Xingcheng, so going to the city saved her a lot of tedious procedures.
On September 30th, Zhang Qiurui finally finished writing the novel, revising it, and copying it.
Before mailing it out, Zhang Qiurui also "copied" three poems and a novel and mailed them together to Xiaoxiang Magazine.
There are three poems, one of which is "To the Oak Tree". Later, this poem was included in the high school Chinese textbook, which shows the quality of this poem, but now it belongs to her.
This poem has thirty-six lines, and if each line costs seventy cents, it would make more than twenty yuan, and there are only a few words in each line, which shows that writing poetry can make money quickly.
The second poem is "Facing the Sea, Spring Flowers Bloom". The reason why I "copied" this poem is that if the poet had not written this poem, he would not have died accidentally, and I could be said to have indirectly saved a person.
The third poem is "Homesickness". This poem was later included in Chinese textbooks, which also proves its literary value and far-reaching influence.
When Zhang Qiurui was copying these three poems, ripples appeared in his heart, as if he was having a conversation across time and space with those poets he had never met.
It seems that I am too shameless.
After completing all this, Zhang Qiurui carefully placed the manuscript into an envelope, affixed a stamp, and dropped it into the mailbox. At that moment, she felt both nervous and full of anticipation.
As for the subsequent rejection or acceptance of the manuscript, the magazine wrote back to her, and the address and recipient Zhang Qiurui were the address and name of her third brother's shoe factory.
Early this morning.
"Third brother, does anyone usually write to you or mail you things?" After Zhang Qiurui sent out the manuscript yesterday, the reply address was her third brother's shoe factory. She didn't want to tell her third brother about submitting her novel for the time being, so she asked quietly.
"Basically, no. Why are you asking these questions?" Zhang Wenmin asked curiously.
"After a while, if the deliveryman sends you a letter, don't open it, it's from me. Don't ask, I will tell you when I want to." Zhang Qiurui blinked mysteriously, with a sly smile on his lips.
Zhang Wenmin, though filled with curiosity, suppressed his curiosity when he saw his sister's reluctance to speak. He nodded in agreement. "Okay, I'll remember that. If there's a letter, I'll keep it for you, unopened."
Zhang Qiurui secretly breathed a sigh of relief and looked at her third brother with gratitude. She knew that although her third brother had a straightforward personality, he was always very tolerant of her.
"Aunt and uncle, these mushrooms are getting bigger and bigger. Can we sell the first batch tomorrow? The second batch of mushrooms planted in the grooves have been there for nearly ten days and are growing well." When Zhang Mingqi was watering the mushrooms, he found that the first batch of mushrooms they planted had grown into a round and plump shape, with layered umbrella caps like delicate little paratroopers, neatly arranged, and even more vibrant under the morning dew.
Zhang Mingqi couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment.
"Third brother, these mushrooms can be picked and sold tomorrow." Zhang Qiurui walked over and took a look.
Now they have planted three batches of mushrooms. The first batch is three wooden troughs. The mushrooms collected from the three wooden troughs weigh about 7 or 8 kilograms but less than 10 kilograms. The second batch is six wooden troughs. The mushrooms collected from the six wooden troughs weigh about 17 or 18 kilograms.
The third batch is the cabin in the backyard, which is also the largest sowing area.
There were a total of twenty-two wooden troughs of different sizes, and the batch of mushrooms harvested weighed at least sixty or seventy kilograms.
However, the second batch was planted only ten days ago, and the third batch was planted only seven days ago. If you want to wait for the second and third batches of mushrooms to be harvested, you have to wait until at least around October 20th.
"Do we really have to sell this on the black market?" Zhang Wenmin's face showed excitement, but then he hesitated when he thought of this.
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