Chapter 200 How about you two have a fight?
Sure enough, Gu Weicheng's worries were right. As soon as the news that several publishing houses contacted Li Xia spread yesterday, people began to ask her how much money she had earned.
"Xiao Xia, I heard that your articles have been published, and several publishing houses are vying to publish your novel. You must have made a lot of money, right? This must be at least more than a thousand, right?" This is the mother of Deputy Captain Zhu.
"Mr. Li, I heard that your novel is about to be published. You are amazing. You see, I also like to write something, but I don’t know which newspaper should I submit it to. Can you recommend one to me?" Li Xia didn’t know this man very well and had never seen him before.
"Secretary Li, I heard that you submitted all the articles written by Jiang Xiaohao to the newspaper for publication. Why don't you teach my daughter how to write novels? My daughter is thirteen years old and can definitely write better than a seven or eight-year-old child." This is Captain Wang's wife.
When Deputy Head Zhu's mother heard this, she immediately laughed out loud: "Little Wang's wife, you are really calculating.
Your daughter's grades are so bad that she has been held back for two or three years and has not been promoted to junior high school. She is still in the fifth grade at the age of thirteen. She can't even write an essay clearly in school, and she wants to learn to write novels from Chief of Staff Gu's wife. Why are you so dreamy?"
Captain Wang's wife's face turned ugly after hearing this. She said, "How well my daughter writes is none of your business. Why are you here to find out how much the Chief of Staff Gu's wife gets paid? Aren't you hoping to get your daughter-in-law to write too?"
Deputy Head Zhu's mother: "So what? I can't ask. I didn't ask you either."
Captain Wang's wife: "I didn't ask you to teach me!"
Li Xia: “…”
Why don't you two have a fight?
Facing these people's inquiries, Li Xia insisted that she didn't have much money and it was just some hard work fee. When asked which newspapers her manuscript was submitted to, she didn't hide it and told them directly. Whether her manuscript could be accepted depended on the other party's ability.
As for teaching Captain Wang's daughter to write novels, Li Xia directly refused: "Writing requires talent and has nothing to do with age. Xiaohao wrote his own articles, and I didn't teach him anything."
Some people did not come to ask Li Xia, but went to Tao's place and asked, "You and Chief of Staff Gu's family are neighbors, and you have such a good relationship. You must know how much money Chief of Staff Gu's wife earns, right?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Tao directly retorted: "Well, I know you. Are we not close? Do I know how much money your family has in savings? I haven't seen you tell me. What's wrong? You don't treat me as a good sister anymore, right? You are being distant, right?"
When Mrs. Tao told Li Xia about this, Li Xia's shoulders trembled with joy.
He gave Sister Tao a thumbs up and said, "Sister-in-law, it has to be you."
"These people are just bored and have nothing better to do. How much money they make is none of their business.
And those who want to make money by writing novels after seeing you make money, don't they see how much better they are than Li Chunmei back then? If anyone can write, don't they think about how I can't write if I'm close to the water? Why not make money? I'm not a fool!" Mrs. Tao complained mercilessly.
"The one who is closest to the water sees the moon first." Li Xia said.
Although Mrs. Tao is not well-educated, she is indeed a very thoughtful and self-aware person. Li Xia feels it is her blessing to be a neighbor to such a person.
If she were someone with more things to do, she would probably be worried to death.
Fortunately, writing is indeed a matter of talent, and you can’t write just because you want to.
People who don't know how to write find it as difficult as banging their heads against a wall to write a few hundred words. Even if they can force themselves to write hundreds or thousands of words, what they write will still be unreadable.
Two days later, because of the arrival of the publishing house, everyone speculated about how much money Li Xia had earned, but the trend of making money from writing gradually weakened, and no one mentioned it after that.
Instead, An An came back from school with a piece of news: "Mom, our teacher said that the school is going to select people to participate in the city's essay competition, and two students from each of the third, fourth, and fifth grades will participate.
Originally, our second grade didn’t have a spot, but Teacher Xu heard that you had published an article in the newspaper and thought that I might be able to write a good article, so he came to ask me today if I wanted to participate in this competition. ”
At that time, influenced by the idea of "education revolution and shortening of school system", there was no sixth grade in primary schools.
"So do you want to participate?" Li Xia asked.
An An nodded honestly and said, "Mom, I want to. But I haven't written an essay yet, so I don't know if I can do it."
"It's okay, mom can teach you. And we can write it first and show it to Teacher Xu. If she thinks it's okay, then we can go and participate." Li Xia said.
"Okay!" An An said happily. Every time he saw his mother sitting at the desk writing, he was actually eager to try it.
The next day, Li Xia went to school to find Teacher Xu and told her about the essay competition. When Teacher Xu saw her, she smiled and said:
"I was thinking of looking for you after school today, but I didn't expect you to come. I heard that you work in the propaganda department of the army and have published articles in newspapers, so I thought about letting An An give it a try and see if our second grade can also win some awards."
A mocking voice came from the office, saying:
"Teacher Xu, I'm not trying to discourage you. Even if Gu Shian in your class has good grades, writing essays is not something that can be done simply by having good grades, nor is it something that can be done simply by having a mother who can write essays. It requires talent!"
Tsk, what a strong sour taste.
Li Xia frowned, looked at the person who was speaking, and found that it was actually an "old acquaintance".
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