Everyone came to the brigade headquarters. Li Mancang turned on the stove and started to boil water. After the water boiled, he began to make tea. The tea leaves were picked from wild tea trees in the mountains. After drinking a bowl of hot tea, everyone felt their whole body warmed up.
Li Mancang also had more than a dozen large pots brought from the villagers' homes and set them up in the yard of the brigade headquarters. Except for the pots used for cooking, the rest were all used to boil water. He planned to let Grandpa Zhang and the others wipe themselves and relax.
After arranging everything, Li Mancang called Xu Jianguo to his side, then took out a package and a letter from the table and handed them to him, saying, "Jianguo, a few days after you went into the mountains, the postman delivered this package. I received it for you, and a few days later, another letter arrived. Last week, I went to a meeting at the commune, and the president said that someone named Yan Wenhua from the Xinhua Bookstore in the prefecture called him and told him about your translation. He said he still hadn't received your translation manuscript and you hadn't replied to his letter, so he wanted to inquire about the situation. The president then told him about your hunting trip into the mountains, and that person asked you to contact him as soon as you return."
"Okay, Uncle Mancang, I understand." Xu Jianguo said, and then opened the package in front of Li Mancang. What came into view was an envelope, and under the envelope was a book of parrot materials. Judging from the cover, it was about the principles of mechanics.
Xu Jianguo picked up the envelope and poured out the contents. Li Mancang, who was standing next to him, looked at the contents of the envelope, his eyes widened immediately, and then a relieved smile appeared on his face.
There was a blue-covered ID card in the envelope. Xu Jianguo opened it and took a look. There was a photo of him on it, which was the one taken when he was in the office. The photo was stamped with the seal of the Longxiaguo Compilation Bureau. It was different from those ID cards with red seals. In this era, the units with stamps on the work permits are not ordinary units, and people will look up to them when they go out.
Xu Jianguo was actually a little puzzled. He didn't expect that a part-time translator in the Compilation and Translation Bureau would be issued a certificate. It was not until he saw the title "Junior Translator" written in the position column on his work permit that he understood what was going on.
Xu Jianguo never expected that he would become a junior translator just by translating a book on architecture with more than 100,000 words.
Li Mancang, who was standing next to him, was so angry at Xu Jianguo who was in a daze that his teeth were itching. He thought to himself, "I'm so anxious that I'm dying, and you're still sitting here in a daze?"
She snatched the work ID from his hand and looked at it.
Xu Jianguo looked at his empty hands, then looked at the proud smile on Li Mancang's face next to him, and immediately understood what was going on. He didn't care and continued to look at the other things in the envelope.
There were more than twenty tickets and two pieces of white paper in the envelope. After opening one of the pieces of white paper, I found that it was a post office remittance slip with an amount of 540 yuan.
Xu Jianguo did a rough calculation and, based on the 3 yuan per thousand words paid to non-staff translators, he concluded that the book Introduction to Architecture he had previously translated should have 180,000 words.
After putting the remittance slip and ticket into the envelope and putting it in his pocket, Xu Jianguo picked up another piece of white paper and began to read it.
Inside the white paper was a letter written to him by Yan Wenhua, telling him that his superiors were very satisfied with the manuscript he had translated. After the content was verified by architectural experts from Longxia Country, no problems were found, so the top management of the bureau decided to change Xu Jianguo's level from a non-staff translator to a formal junior translator. In addition to the translation fee, he would also receive a salary of 23 yuan per month. Taking into account his actual situation, the bureau allowed him to continue to complete the translation work of the manuscript at home.
He picked up another envelope, which was still from Yan Wenhua. Seeing that Xu Jianguo had not replied after mailing the new translation materials and royalties for such a long time, he wrote to inquire about the situation, hoping that he could contact him and complete the translation of the new manuscript as soon as possible.
"Jianguo, have you really become a state employee?" At this time, Li Erniu's voice came from the side. Xu Jianguo turned his head and looked. He didn't know when he came over. At this time, he was holding the blue certificate and asked with surprise on his face.
"Yes, Uncle Erniu!" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
Li Erniu's eyes were red. He patted his shoulder and said with a choked voice, "Okay, okay! This will make your parents proud!"
"Why are you so embarrassed? Aren't you afraid of letting the children laugh at you?" Li Mancang said unhappily from the side.
Li Erniu did not refute, but just smiled foolishly at the certificate. Seeing his happy smile, Li Mancang's mouth corners also curled up unconsciously, and finally both of them burst into laughter.
When everyone finished dinner, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Old Man Zhang was taken back to his home by Xu Jianguo to sleep, and the other hunters were also arranged to stay in the villagers' homes.
Since there was only one room with a stove, Mr. Zhang and Xu Jianguo slept in the same room. This also reminded him that Wen Sitian would come to their home during the Chinese New Year, and one stove was obviously not enough. He had to go to the county to buy one and go to the post office to withdraw his royalties.
The old man chatted with Xu Jianguo for a few words and then fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning at six o'clock, Xu Jianguo woke up, looked around, and found that Mr. Zhang was not there. He didn't know where he had gone.
He sat up from the kang, put on his clothes, got up from the bed, and looked into the yard. He found that the old man was exercising. Xu Jianguo did not disturb him, but began to prepare breakfast.
He first took the enamel basin and filled a large basin of hot water from the space water heater, leaving it for the old man to wash up later, then took out the white flour, eggplant and pork tenderloin, and took two eggs.
Make the eggplant and pork tenderloin into a stew and put it in a pot, then start making hand-rolled noodles. After the noodles are cooked, take them out and fry two eggs. Finally, move everything into the house and put them on the kang table.
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