Chapter 6: A set of ancient health-preserving exercises...
Chapter 6
Lin Mujin's life is very regular now. She gets up at 6:30 every day and then does ancient exercises for half an hour.
I learned this ancient exercise method from an audio and video in my previous life, and the effect is quite good.
I didn't choose running because there was no safe place, and exercises like burpees are too intense. Although my brain is not damaged, I have been bumped and bruised after all, so it is better not to do strenuous exercise in the near future.
Mail the letter after exercising. If you send it early, it will arrive on the same day.
When I get home, I have breakfast. Now the food conditions at home have improved significantly.
You can eat meat every day, and dinner should at least have one meat dish, one vegetable dish and one soup.
There is no way around the sumptuous dinner because there are so many people here.
After breakfast, I start to work on my manuscripts. Now I have to write 5,000 words a day.
Four thousand of them are for submission and one thousand are for storage.
"The Lustrous Spring in the Red Mansion" has been published for three issues and has received good responses, so Editor-in-Chief Wang asked her to mail 4,000 words every day.
This kind of tabloid is characterized by flexibility and sharpness. If a novel becomes popular, they will immediately update it more frequently, while if an unpopular novel becomes unpopular, it may be cancelled the next day.
She was still very confident in her novel, and the length would increase in a few days, so she had some manuscripts saved up to prepare in advance, so that she wouldn't be overwhelmed if Editor-in-Chief Wang asked for too much at once.
She also planned to write these 5,000 words, 2,000 in the morning and 3,000 in the afternoon. She would take a few minutes' break after writing two sheets of paper to exercise her fingers and wrists to avoid tendonitis.
Another thing to do in the morning is to make a phone call. It can't be too early because the editor-in-chief hasn't come to work yet. She usually calls around ten o'clock and buys some vegetables at the same time.
Now she and her cousin make lunch, and Lin Muli will also help with dinner, so it doesn’t take up much time.
Regular life + proper exercise + adequate nutrition, in just a few days Lin Mujin found that her complexion had improved and she had more energy.
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It was another morning. Lin Mujin glanced at her chipped digital watch and said, "It's almost nine o'clock."
She decided to make a phone call and buy some groceries at the same time, mainly because the weather was too hot and the sun was too strong after ten o'clock.
Or discuss with Editor-in-Chief Wang to change the call time to the evening before they get off work.
As for buying groceries, you can do it when you receive the mail. There is a morning market nearby, and the vegetables are fresher and cheaper.
Lin Mujin put on a long-sleeved sweatshirt. Since she didn't have sunscreen, she could only use physical sun protection, and the sweatshirt had a hood that could cover her face.
He took another cloth bag, said something to the old man and went out.
This time she changed direction, wanting to go to another newsstand to make a phone call.
The old lady (who was guarding the newsstand) was too gossipy. After hearing the conversation between her and Editor-in-Chief Wang, she pulled her aside to ask her about it.
On the way, she met a group of gangsters playing and bragging in the middle of the road. She immediately leaned against the wall and lowered her head, not wanting to get hit on the head again.
Hong Kong's economy is developing rapidly in this era, but the public security is a bit poor. There are too many gangs, factions, and even collusion between police and criminals.
But she can't control these things and doesn't have the ability to do so.
Now she just wants to earn more money and rent a house in a safe community and move as soon as possible.
This place is close to Kowloon Walled City, which is a real lawless place and it is common for people to die there.
She can't afford to offend so she has to hide.
They quickly found a newsstand with a public phone. Lin Mujin dialed the familiar number, and the call was quickly connected. "Editor-in-Chief Wang, it's me. Did you receive yesterday's manuscript? ... Yes, that's good. The novel has been well received, great! I'll tell Uncle when I get home and make him happy. If you add another two thousand, that would mean six thousand words that day... That should be about right. Okay, I'll mail the six thousand tomorrow. By the way, Editor-in-Chief Wang, I'll call again this afternoon; it's too hot this morning. Okay, I'll urge Uncle to finish the manuscript. Goodbye, Editor-in-Chief Wang."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Mujin clenched her fist and uttered a soft "yes".
Starting tomorrow, her daily income will be eighty-four dollars.
This daily salary is not much different from that of white-collar workers.
She paid her boss a dollar for the phone bill and took two newspapers, both of which were among the top three newspapers in Hong Kong Island.
In addition to rushing to finish her manuscripts, she has a lot of spare time every day, especially at night. Because the lighting in the subdivided apartment is dim, she is afraid that it will affect her eyesight, so she does not write at night. She can use this time to conceive a new novel.
She loves writing small, broken articles, but she loves reading them even more, and she definitely doesn't want to keep writing this.
Apart from anything else, if her family saw the content, she would be socially devastated.
So we have to "get ashore" as soon as possible.
Lin Mujin had never been here before, so she asked the boss where the vegetable market was and went to buy some vegetables.
We are out of eggs at home, we need to buy some more.
Buy some beef and potatoes today and make beef and potato stew in the evening.
The price of beef is not particularly expensive, just a little more expensive than pork, which is acceptable.
She has been the one buying groceries these days, and she has experience in how to choose vegetables and how to bargain.
After buying the vegetables, Lin Mujin didn't delay at all and went home quickly.
She gave the newspaper to the old man to read first while she was rushing to finish the manuscript. Fortunately, she had enough time in advance so she didn't feel too stressed.
She will try to see if she can produce 10,000 yuan a day today. She has a feeling that the number of manuscripts will increase in the future.
So she also wanted to see where her limit was, and then if Editor-in-Chief Wang increased the amount, she would have a standard to measure and know whether to agree or not.
Because she had to make 10,000 yuan a day, she didn't help with lunch, which was all cooked by cousin Lin alone.
Lin Mujin completed 10,000 words at 5:45 pm.
"My arms are so sore."
He rubbed his right arm with his left hand and shook it from time to time, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.
I used to feel that the monthly salary was an insurmountable mountain, but it’s actually not that bad.
The main thing is that she doesn't get stuck in the writing. After all, it's a small novel, and the focus is on describing the erotic scenes, while the other plots are not so demanding.
"I have to make dinner. It's getting late."
He also said he would stew beef in the evening.
Just as she finished processing the beef and put it into the casserole to stew, Lin Muli came back.
I quickly assigned him a task, "Brother, go beat two eggs and make an egg custard. Oh, and chop the cabbage to make vinegar-fried cabbage."
She used a fan to fan the stove so that the fire would be bigger and the beef would cook faster.
I don’t have a pressure cooker at home, otherwise it would be cooked through in twenty minutes.
Oh, there are so many things missing at home.
Lin Muli washed his hands and quickly went to work as instructed, but his mouth was not idle. "Sister, today a master in our pharmacy corrected a child's bones. He just touched the bones and straightened them while talking to the child. The child didn't even have time to cry."
Lin Mujin echoed her brother's words, "That's quite impressive."
With the help of the supporting actor, Lin Muli was even more excited. "Sister, Chinese medicine has a lineage! Let me tell you..."
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