Chapter 19: The Trilogy's Counterattack "Are you satisfied with the house? ...
"Are you satisfied with the house?" Ouyang Yuan took off the scarf from his neck, squatted beside Li Daohua, and tilted his head to see what she was writing.
Li Daohua drew a simple diagram, a rough blueprint of the courtyard house, which made it convenient for her to mark what each house was used for and how it should be decorated.
"Why do you live in separate rooms?" Ouyang Yuan couldn't understand. They were husband and wife, and he could understand living with separate quilts because it was cold in winter, but it was too much if it had evolved to living in separate rooms.
He felt very aggrieved. When he didn't have her, she tried every means to get to him, but when she got her, she threw him aside. It turns out that beautiful women are unreliable, especially when they are talented.
"Don't you know that pornography is not allowed in Jinjiang?"
"We are a legal couple with a certificate. Why should Jinjiang control us?"
In the end, under Ouyang Yuan’s strong protest, they did not separate the rooms, but they still divided the quilts, because she did not want to be involved in pornography yet.
Their room is in the main hall, with the living room in the middle and Li Daohua's study on the other side. They even have to build their own bookcases.
The householder has nothing extra at home. Almost all of his belongings are needed. If he can't take them away, he will sell them. Even a little bit of money counts.
Li Daohua originally wanted to see if there were any second-hand items worth buying in his house, but after looking around, she found that there was really nothing worth buying.
Many pieces of furniture appear to be made of solid materials, but they are actually remodeled from old furniture and are not made of expensive wood.
The two rooms on the left, on the same side as the toilet, will be used as storage rooms and garages first.
There are two rooms on the right, one is used as a kitchen and the other as a guest room, so if friends and relatives come over, there is a place for them to stay.
In the middle of the yard, plant a cherry tree so you can eat cherries in the spring and provide shade in the summer.
"Why don't we rent out this house when the time comes?" They probably wouldn't live there anyway.
There are a lot of people who want to rent a house now. Their single room is much better than those where a family lives together and is only separated by a curtain.
"Rent it out...why not rent it to Weimin and his family? Weimin always says he wants to move to another place, saying that the courtyard they live in is too crowded and it's not convenient to go to the toilet at night."
The toilet in their courtyard house is a public toilet at the end of the alley. No one cleans it. It is okay in the winter, but it is almost impossible to enter in the summer.
At night, he could only put a toilet at home and take it out every morning to empty it. Otherwise, Guo Weimin would not be able to sleep, and his wife and children would have to accompany him to the toilet.
At least there are toilets on every floor of their building, and they are flush ones. You can go to the toilet by yourself at night, and there is no smell. It is much cleaner.
The rent will definitely be more expensive than that of a courtyard house, but there is a reason for the high price. Many young couples would rather rent such an expensive house than suffer.
"It's all fine." It doesn't matter who he rents it to, and Guo Weimin is not the kind of person who would cause trouble.
Before Ouyang Yuan could talk to Guo Weimin, someone in the building asked about their house, and also wanted to rent one.
I was very sad to hear that someone was already living in their house.
There are also some who are jealous. Li Daohua and her family are about to move into a big house, and before they have even got their share of the house, some people have already started to set their sights on it.
I think that since Li Daohua and his family have bought the house, it should be taken back and redistributed to those in need.
At that time, the reason why many people would rather rent a house than buy one was that if they bought a house, those who already had a house would be excluded first when the unit distributed the houses.
It is indeed rare to see people who want to buy another house after being allocated a house, and there has never been such a precedent in their unit.
Theoretically speaking, as long as Ouyang Yuan is still working in the unit, he will always live in this house. When he retires normally, he will also live in this house. It is his business who he wants to live in it.
Fortunately, this person asked secretly, otherwise if Li Daohua knew, nothing good would happen.
In the 1980s, everyone's furniture was hand-made, from wood, it was turned into furniture bit by bit. There was very little plywood, sawdust boards and the like. All furniture was pure solid wood furniture.
After the house was transferred, Li Daohua and his family contacted a craftsman to make furniture for them. All the bookshelves, tables, chairs and benches had to be made from scratch.
The house also needs to be repainted, the toilet renovated, the ground leveled, tiles laid, and the yard hardened.
The royalties for the first print run of 50,000 that Liang Ning sent were not enough.
Half a month later, Liang Ning and several colleagues visited her home. When they saw the minimalist style of her house, they realized that they were preparing to move and many seldom-used items had already been moved to the new home.
After the things in the house were taken out, the house looked much bigger and no longer so cramped.
"Are you planning to move?"
"Yes, I've found a house, but it hasn't been renovated yet. I'll move in once it's finished."
Li Daohua was unusually unkempt, with messy hair. This was because she had just been counting the accounts and her head was giving her a headache.
Even though they are only worth a few dollars or tens of dollars, if you add them together, it's not a small amount.
"Then I'm here just in time." Liang Ning put the bag he had been holding in his arms on the table.
"I'm sending you the money for the reprinting. Because we reprinted too many copies, the rest is paid as 2% of the reprinting fee. The total is more than 4,600 yuan. Here is the remittance slip."
The first print run of 50,000 copies was completely in short supply, which made them realize that the trilogy still had a lot of room for development, and it was not like they had thought, that the room for development was reduced because of two published articles.
The remittance slip was only a thin piece of paper, but it seemed as heavy as a thousand pounds to Liang Ning, so she specially asked two colleagues to escort her.
The more than 4,600 yuan was a timely relief. It was enough for Li Daohua to pay off the rent with some left over. However, she didn't plan to pay it all off first. She would pay 3,000 yuan first and keep the remaining 1,600 yuan for decorating the house.
She took advantage of the New Year to write two more novels to make up the remaining one thousand yuan for rent.
"Before you move into your new home, you must tell me so that I can go and congratulate you on your move."
"Don't worry, I will never forget you." Liang Ning and Beiping Wenyi can be considered the major contributors to their house. The money for buying the house was all earned by them.
When leaving, Liang Ning gave himself a thumbs up for successfully getting the new address of Li Daohua's house. He was so smart!
After Liang Ning left, Li Daohua's previous irritability disappeared instantly.
For ordinary people, most troubles are caused by lack of money.
Money is not everything, but it can really solve many problems.
Li Daohua doesn't need to scrimp and save, thinking about how to save some money. Spend! Buy! Be willful with money!
The first print run of the Reform Trilogy was 50,000 copies, and those who bought it finished reading it very quickly. Recently, reviews have also begun to be published in newspapers.
There were many readers who sent letters to Beiping Literature and Art, but Li Daohua had no time to read them, so Beiping Literature and Art collected them and Li Daohua put them in her new home, which was also another form of warm home.
Many of the comments placed in newspapers are made by well-known writers who are usually active in newspapers and flock to the newspapers when something happens.
The recent reform literature is of course their focus. If the originator of reform literature does not appear recently, then Li Daohua, the pioneer of reform literature, will be surrounded by them.
Some of Li Daohua's books were also bought by them.
After reading Li Daohua's book carefully, Dong Yu fired the first shot, and others followed suit.
The focus of the siege is on the third part of the trilogy, "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street".
Most of the adventures describe America's extravagant life, luxury cars, beauties, villas, airplanes...
You can get a glimpse of the life of rich people that you can and cannot imagine in this novel.
The impact on ordinary people at that time was huge, and some people even couldn't believe that someone could live such a life.
These are all the lives that the protagonist, Li Lai Te, has enjoyed.
"If I could live like this, it would be worth it even if I died."
A young college student looked at the life described in the book with envy, as if he was looking at an illusory golden house.
"Li Lai Te did so many bad things, but in the end he just became a homeless man. It was really a good thing for him. So many people died because of him."
Different people have different opinions.
Dong Yu's perspective is also very clear. He believes that Li Daohua is maliciously smearing Americans and undermining international friendship.
In Li Daohua's writing, people in America are money-driven and profit-driven, and they are all slaves to money.
When you have money, everyone looks up to you. When you have no money, anyone can step on you.
This is totally inconsistent with America's national conditions. America is a developed Western country where everyone has the right to free education.
The people have a very high quality. Even when they are alone, they will be strict with themselves and will not do evil even if it is small...
It is a misfortune for the country and the nation that such an excellent country has been maliciously slandered by Li Daohua, a person who has never understood the country. Li Daohua is the sinner who hinders the country's progress.
In fact, Dong Yu has never been to America, but that doesn't stop him from imagining it in his mind. The America he imagines is such a perfect paradise.
Singing high-sounding slogans has always been a common tactic used by Dong Yu and his group. If you don't praise foreign countries, you are hindering the country's reflection and progress. If you praise foreign countries, you are a reactionary. If you don't learn from foreign countries, you are backward and will be beaten. If you learn from foreign countries, you will only know how to learn from others for your whole life...
In short, let them say both good and bad things.
Li Daohua is no pushover. Are you kidding? Liang Ning has already told her that ever since Dong Yu and his group published such articles in the newspaper, the sales rate of the trilogy has dropped significantly.
Some bookstores even proposed to stop selling the Reform Trilogy to avoid making mistakes. Of course, there are also bookstores that forge ahead bravely, most of which are in coastal areas.
Li Daohua has no sense of face. She made so many photocopies of Beiping Literature and Art, but in the end, she didn't sell any of them. How can we cooperate with each other next time? How will others view her Li Daohua's commercial value? How will her works be priced higher in the future!
Fight back, and fight back hard!
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