Chapter 22: Rebirth, One Life, One Couple, Beiping Literature and Art and…
Beiping Wenyi and Dennis were connected, so after receiving Ian's call, Dennis also told Beiping Wenyi the good news.
Although they don't know whether it will be a best-seller or how it will develop in the future, they dare to promote this slogan just based on the remittance slip of 40,000 US dollars.
This is a new writer who has successfully entered the overseas market just one year after entering the industry, and he is also a new writer in the American market.
Li Daohua is only a few years old this year, just twenty years old. She still has a lot of room for creation and a long time to create. Even if her works are not selling well now, they will become so one day.
They even took photos of the remittance slips and conducted exclusive interviews with Dennis and Li Ziran, just to slap certain people in the face and, of course, to promote the trilogy.
Li Daohua’s family bought a TV, and it’s a color TV!
The news spread quickly in most of the alleys. Children followed Ouyang Yuan and Guo Weimin around, with color TVs pulled on their bicycles.
There are no installers at that time, so whoever buys it has to install it by himself. If you don't know how to install it, just read the instructions. If that doesn't work, find someone to install it. If you can't do this, then don't buy a color TV, because I'm afraid you won't understand it.
The children followed to the door of Li Daohua's house, stopped in unison, stood there and poked their heads to look.
Guo Weimin looked at the group of children and laughed: "The children in your alley are quite well-mannered. They all know not to enter other people's homes casually. This was not allowed in the alley where I lived.
Not to mention running around in the yard, they will go into your house even if the door is closed, rummaging around everywhere, and they will make sure the door is locked."
In a place like that, Guo Weimin was worried that his son would learn bad things, but fortunately they have moved now.
Ouyang Yuan turned his head to look at the group of children. One of the children was pushed intentionally by someone behind him. After accidentally coming in, he quickly retreated to the back.
The other children in the front row also began to be wary of being pushed.
"They are not well-mannered, they are just afraid of the rice flowers. Their parents must have scared them."
Then Ouyang Yuan told Guo Weimin what happened that day. Guo Weimin only knew that Li Daohua sent an old lady who took advantage of the alley to prison, but he didn't know the details.
I only now realize that there are children involved here. No wonder these children are so scared.
"I have to admit that your wife is very good at talking. Otherwise, how could she write articles? She is so good at talking.
We live in your house, and the neighbors around us are all praising our family to bits, and yet, not a single one says anything bad about your family."
"How can my wife be bad? She is capable and helpful." As for liking to quarrel with others, just don't provoke her and she won't quarrel.
Look at him, why doesn't Daohua quarrel with him?
In the past, what bothered Guo Weimin the most was neighborhood problems. He didn’t have a job at that time and had nowhere to hide.
Now I feel that the people around me are well-educated, enthusiastic, and all of them are good people.
After the color TV was placed in the room, Guo Weimin went up to the roof, set up the antenna, and slowly turned the pole while asking Ouyang Yuan if he was okay.
After a lot of busy work, the two finally managed to adjust the color TV. In a few days, someone would come to install a phone for them. They planned to write back to tell Li Sanzhu their phone number after the phone was installed.
By the way, tell them that they will go home for the Chinese New Year this year.
In the evening, Li Daohua turned off the TV reluctantly. It was useless to turn it off because there were no programs and the screen was full of snow.
However, this long-lost electronic device still made Li Daohua feel refreshed. She hummed songs while walking to eat for several days.
Ouyang Yuan contacted someone to buy her a bicycle so that she wouldn't have to walk to eat.
Li Daohua didn't buy it, not because she was reluctant, but because there was no need. Riding a bicycle is cold in winter and hot in summer. It would be better to walk. She would wait until she buys a car later.
Whenever she has something to do, she either takes the bus or asks Ouyang Yuan to take her with her.
Every time Ouyang Yuan rode his bicycle back, he would push it directly back home, and the utility room is now used to store bicycles.
If you don't push it home, it will be stolen in a matter of minutes.
Dong Yu was thinking about a novel at home. Unlike Li Daohua, he had not gone through the trials of hell, so his speed in writing novels was much slower.
He has only written the beginning of the novel he uses to criticize Li Daohua.
Although it was just a beginning, he had already contacted like-minded authors. As soon as he published it, everyone would give Li Daohua a heavy blow.
After Li Daohua's "Dong Le's Success Theory" was published in Peking Literature and Art, he always felt that people around him were secretly laughing at him.
But he did read the novel, and to be honest, it was really well written. He even asked his friends about it, and they said that it would have been impossible to write the novel without actually going through the hardships at home.
Moreover, many people may not tell the truth even if someone in the family has had this experience. After all, it is not a glorious thing, and if they tell it out loud, they will be laughed at.
"Boss, Boss, something's wrong!"
Dong Yu looked through the window and saw a friend holding a newspaper in his hand.
"Boss, look!"
My friend unfolded the newspaper breathlessly. In the newspaper was an interview published by Peking Literature and Art Press, and the interviewee was Dennis.
Dong Yu also saw the part that his friend wanted him to read. Li Daohua’s adventures were actually published in America and earned $50,000.
"Ah!" Dong Yu overturned the table, and the manuscript papers on the table were scattered all over the floor.
"I don't believe it! I don't believe it! She's making it up!" When his friend saw him acting so crazy, he got scared and went back home.
The biggest point of rebuttal by Dong Yu and others is that what Li Daohua wrote was fictional and that the description of foreign countries was false, even narrow-minded and biased.
As a result, they also criticized two other novels, "Reform to Earn Foreign Exchange".
But now, Li Daohua's book has been published in America, which shows that Americans agree with Li Daohua's adventures.
They were still cheering for America, but America had already secretly colluded with Li Daohua.
This was the biggest shock to him. Looking at the photo of the remittance slip, Dong Yu felt his eyes go dark. With a thud, he lost consciousness.
"Make way, make way, make way!" Several doctors and nurses jumped out of the ambulance and quickly pulled Dong Yu into the car.
Dong Yu was shouting in the room, scaring the neighbors to come out to see what was going on. They saw him faint, so they quickly ran to the store and called 120.
"What's going on here?"
As soon as the ambulance left, a group of people gathered together to ask why he fainted.
"I don't know. I just heard him shouting something. I don't believe it. It's scary."
Suddenly, someone noticed the newspaper being brought outside, which said that Li Daohua’s new book “Adventures on Wall Street” was officially published in America, with a royalty of 51,300 US dollars.
Those who know the inside story feel that they should know the truth.
"I'm telling you, please don't tell anyone else." Once a secret is told, it is no longer a secret.
Soon, everyone nearby knew that Dong Yu had fainted and was hospitalized due to Li Daohua's anger.
"What does it have to do with me? He is narrow-minded and can't stand seeing others succeed. How can it be said that I made him faint? He should have fainted because he was angry at himself."
Li Daohua spat out the grape seeds and skins. At this time, the grapes were still of the original variety, with thick skins and large seeds, but full of flavor.
On the National Day, there were people everywhere, but Li Daohua simply didn't go out to join the crowd.
After this period of time, she took the backup options that Liu Jie and his team had given her when they were looking for a house and went to have a look.
Now she doesn't have to worry about money at all. Her foreign exchange coupons are more valuable, and many people are willing to exchange them for prices higher than the market price.
In addition, after the adventures were published overseas, the sales of the trilogy reached a new height.
After the report on Peking literature and art, now Peking literature, newspapers and periodicals from other places also reported on it.
Regions that were previously reluctant to sell the trilogy for fear of making mistakes have now relaxed their controls and have taken the initiative to approach Peking Literature to purchase goods.
As a last resort, Peking Literature had to reprint the books again. However, the money Peking Literature could earn from this reprinting was much less. The more reprints it made, the more money it had to pay Li Daohua.
Li Daohua can now make money just by lying in a rocking chair. She hasn’t thought about writing a new novel yet. As expected, people become bad once they have money.
But it doesn’t matter. Just wait. Who knows when and who will show up and wait for her to write.
In addition to buying a house, she also has to prepare things to go home for the New Year. Now it is October, the end of December, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications will be on holiday, so they will go home.
After the home telephone was installed, they wrote to Li Sanzhu and others, telling them the home phone number so that they could call at any time. Most of the time, Li Daohua was at home and she also talked about going home for the New Year.
Ouyang Yuan also wrote letters to his mother and brothers and sisters, telling them their phone numbers.
I told them not to worry about me, that I was doing well in Peking recently. My wife Li Daohua had become a famous writer, and that they must read the books I sent them and try my best to get into Peking.
If he really couldn't pass the exam, Ouyang Yuan asked Guo Weimin if their boiler factory could arrange one or two job vacancies for him.
If all else fails, he can ask his wife for help, and she will definitely have a way.
Ouyang Yuan was very happy and had more energy to work.
"Xiaoyuan?" Sometimes, people are prone to become sad because of excessive joy.
Hearing someone calling him, Ouyang Yuan turned around, his face immediately darkened, and he turned around to go do something else.
"Stop right there, is this how you treat your dad?"
Ouyang Jian came here to relax. After he married his current wife, he lived in his wife's house and had a job that was found for him by his father-in-law.
My wife has twin sons, who are in their rebellious period and sometimes speak without restraint.
Only when he was scolded would he remember the kindness of Ouyang Yuan and the others, so this time he wanted to come and talk to Ouyang Yuan.
When he arrived at the staff building, he found that Guo Weimin and his family were living in the house. No matter what he asked, Guo Weimin was unwilling to say anything. In the end, he simply locked him outside the door.
He had to ask around in the building before he found out that Ouyang Yuan had brought his rural wife with him.
His rural wife is called Li Daohua, the Daohua who has become very famous recently and wrote the trilogy on reform.
Ouyang Jian cried out that he had miscalculated. If he waited a little longer, he wouldn't have to suffer the humiliation and could still be arrogant at home. It wouldn't delay his return to Peiping and make him rich.
It’s not too late. At this time, Ouyang Yuan’s family can become his support, and his wife’s family will also treat him better.
"I don't have a father, I only have a mother." Ouyang Yuan lowered his voice, not wanting to disturb the students in the library.
The two of them went outside and had a big fight.
In fact, it was Ouyang Yuan who was the one-sided attacker. In addition to accusing him a few times at the beginning, Ouyang Jian also mentioned Ouyang Yuan's mother. After that, Ouyang Yuan kept insulting him in various ways.
What a modern-day Chen Shimei, a living vampire… He sucked his grandfather’s blood in the first half of his life, and then looked for another blood bag in the second half.
After scolding him, Ouyang Yuan felt refreshed.
In fact, when he found out that his father had abandoned his mother and came back, he really wanted to beat his father up.
Now that I have scolded him, I feel much better. Suddenly I remembered that no wonder my wife likes to scold people. It turns out that scolding people makes me feel so good.
After scolding, Ouyang Jian was left in a daze and quickly asked for leave and ran back home.
He was worried that Ouyang Jian would stop him and ask him to go home with him, thus disturbing their happy life.
"Why did you come back so early today?"
"My dad came to my house, and I scolded him, so I asked for leave to come back."
As he spoke, Ouyang Yuan turned around and looked behind him to make sure no one was following him.
"Look at how cowardly you are." Li Daohua walked out with a swagger and looked left and right.
"Even if he really comes to my house, what can he do? Are you still worried that I will be bullied? Think about why your father has not been scolded by me."
Li Daohua despises people like this who abandon their wives and children.
Wait a minute, here comes the material. I just said I didn’t have any ideas recently, so I’ll write about Ouyang Yuan’s father.
It comes as a surprise, the name of the story is "Rebirth: One Life, One World, One Couple". Ouyang Yuan's father is the scumbag husband that the heroine met before her rebirth.
"Come on, tell me your parents' story in detail, preferably starting from when they met."
Ouyang Yuan didn't know much about this. He had just graduated from junior high school when he went to the countryside. Most junior high school students at that time were still little kids.
He doesn't understand much about love, so naturally he doesn't know his parents' love story.
What he knew, what he saw with his own eyes, was the memory from elementary school to junior high school.
Looking back, from childhood to adulthood, it was his mother who took care of the family, and his father's biggest role was decorative.
He provided too little useful information, and the writing was not attractive enough. Li Daohua decided to write it herself. She felt that what she wrote was more interesting than what Ouyang Yuan said dryly.
Ouyang Jian, who was left there by Ouyang Yuan, took a long time to recover. In the past, Ouyang Yuan and others respected him, and he was the one who had the final say at home.
It hasn't been long since Ouyang Yuan became like this.
"Humph, after spending so much time with his country wife, he has become a country bumpkin, without any manners at all."
No, he had to go to their house. They had moved, and if Guo Weimin didn't tell him the address, he didn't believe that the people in the building didn't know where they lived now.
"Oh, this is where Ouyang Yuan and his family live now... I know that..." Many neighbors in the staff building knew Ouyang Jian, and some even had a good relationship with him in the past.
The good relationship could not support them to tell Ouyang Jian the address.
They didn't dare to bet that when Li Daohua asked Ouyang Jian who told him the address, Ouyang Jian would keep his mouth shut and not give them away.
Once the confession is made, if Li Daohua is unhappy, it will not be Ouyang Jian who will suffer, but them.
Ouyang Jian asked around in the building, but no one was willing to tell him Ouyang Yuan's address.
He remembered that the people in this building were not so united before.
"Do you still have "The Reform Trilogy"? I want two copies!" As soon as the ban on sales was lifted in some places, local people flocked to the books, as if they wanted to make up for the lost time.
"This... why do I feel... so similar to our factory?"
"Look, is it?"
"Right! Look at this, the policy is different from what they said, they are lying to us!"
"Then...what should we do about this?"
"Let's sue them! Keep suing until someone takes care of it!"
A few men wearing ragged clothes, with red faces from the cold, were holding the Reform Trilogy that they had bought with their own money.
Originally, they bought this book to scold the author and to see what tricks the author used to trick their factory into reforming.
In the end, the reform resulted in all of them being laid off, without even receiving any layoff pay.
After watching it, I found that the reform in their factory was exactly the same method used by the protagonist in "Maybe in Wall Street" to embezzle state-owned assets.
So, it’s not the reform that is wrong, it’s the reform in their factory that is wrong.
They originally thought that the country supported their factory, but now it seems that the factory was deceiving its superiors and subordinates.
They should unite to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.
"Let's go find someone!"
In October, the weather has gradually become colder, but no matter how cold the weather is, people's hearts are cold.
In November, the Northeast Daily published a report that a state-owned enterprise, in the name of reform, embezzled state-owned assets and misappropriated over 100 million yuan in employee pensions.
At present, all the persons involved have been arrested and 86 million yuan of state-owned funds have been recovered.
The whistleblower discovered the tricks of factory reform based on "Machinery Adventures on Wall Street" and thus avoided greater economic losses.
This case served as a great warning to the whole country, and all localities began to conduct self-inspection and self-correction to prevent similar situations from occurring.
Various news about the "Reform Trilogy" grew like a snowball.
Zhang Bo, the editor of Shouhuo, came to Li Daohua again to ask for an article. This time, no matter what Li Daohua wrote, they would ask her to write according to the highest standard of ten per thousand words.
All they can hope for is that Li Daohua’s next novel will bring them rewards.
Li Daohua had a strange look on her face. She had already decided to write "Reborn: One Life, One World, One Couple" as her next book. This novel... was not very suitable for harvest.
Not to mention any gains, she was even prepared that Peking Literature was not suitable for her. If Peking Literature did not accept her, she would submit her work to Story Club.
Anyway, the story club originally published some easy-to-understand stories, as well as various folk legends.
But her expression made Zhang Bo mistakenly believe that she didn't want to be published in Harvest. After all, she had originally submitted her previous novel "Dong Le's Success Story" to Harvest, but the 1,000-word quota offered by Harvest was too low, so she switched to Peking Literature.
"Don't worry, we are absolutely sincere this time. As long as it meets the publication standards, we will charge ten per thousand words."
That’s amazing! The only thing Peking Literature gives Li Daohua is 8,000 words.
"Okay..." It seems that this rebirth literature must be written carefully and the harvest must not be disappointed. She is a person of credibility, and she can ask Peking Literature about this.
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