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Under the joint resistance of his wife and sister, Qin Sange regretfully gave up the plan of raising a lizard. He could only go to the family's house to take a look. "That guy is very well raised. It is not an ordinary thing on the roadside. He even made a cowhide coat for it and tied it with a rope. It is a Tyrannosaurus Rex..."
Dinosaurs are ancient extinct creatures, while lizards are like smaller versions of mini dinosaurs, and some even look like ancient five-clawed golden dragons, which are very "cool" in the eyes of men.
In Qin San Ge's opinion, such a pet is very cost-effective. It has never been seen in the north. On the island, you can just catch one on the roadside and raise it. You don't even need to feed it food. Just some cockroaches and earthworms can satisfy your ambition of "raising a dinosaur."
"That person's family not only raises dragons, but also snakes. They are well-raised, but they have a fishy smell."
Qin Yao hesitated to speak: "He is indeed a talented person."
On this point, Third Brother Qin reminded Qin Yao that there are not only cute little furry creatures like red pandas in the zoo, but also amphibians and reptiles like lizards and cobras.
It’s true that raising lizards and snakes is really worthwhile and low-cost.
Some lizards have pretty faces and they can transform into mini five-clawed golden dragons after some disguise. Taking the "little golden dragon" for a walk outside is as tempting to men as a beautiful woman.
Girls prefer to watch butterflies. They raise a bunch of colorful butterflies in the greenhouse. When the butterflies die, they can be made into specimens and sold for collection.
If Qin Yao could open a zoo now, she would like to meet this guy who is particularly good at raising "reptiles" as mentioned by Third Brother Qin.
But now...she didn't have the courage to go to someone else's house to see the "snake".
"What's the name of this person you're talking about?"
"Xu Xian."
"What?"
"Xu Xian, lives in the Overseas Chinese Farm, and just came back from Southeast Asia."
Qin Yao: “…”
"Oh, it is said that he has a foreign name, a very long one, I can't remember the exact name, but in China, his household registration booklet says he is called Xu Xian, not the 'Xian' character, but the 'xian' character for seafood. He changed his name himself. When people asked him his name, he thought he had a connection with snakes, so he called himself Xu Xian."
Unless they have a family background, some overseas Chinese who come back to register their names are very casual. They only have a surname and can choose any given name they want.
...But there aren't many people with the surname Xu here. I suspect this Xu was made up. It's also possible that his hometown is Suzhou or Hangzhou, and his ancestors went to Southeast Asia in the late Qing Dynasty, and now he has returned to China as an overseas Chinese.
Qin Yao memorized the name "Xu Xian". It was a name that she could not forget even if she wanted to. The image of a handsome young man appeared in her mind.
Xu Xian? This is ridiculous. Will he find another wife named Bai Suzhen?
Qin Yao was secretly surprised, and when Gu Cheng returned home, Qin Yao whispered to him in the bedroom about this strange thing.
"His name is Xu Xian, and he likes to raise snakes and reptiles. Isn't that interesting?"
Even though Gu Cheng rarely went home, the couple had been married for two years and had talked about all the personal matters they needed to talk about. Apart from their physical closeness, the couple mostly only talked about their children.
This is also the reason why many people's marriages gradually become dull. The two people are too familiar with each other and have nothing to talk about. They know each other's affairs and have nothing to talk about. There is a lack of freshness, and life becomes like plain water, repeating the same days.
The weather was hot, and Gu Cheng was shirtless in the room, revealing his muscular chest. He wore dark blue trousers on the lower body. His hair had just been washed and still had fine water stains, with some water drops sliding down his forehead.
His skin is neither white nor black, but more honey-colored. The color changes with the season, lighter in winter and darker in summer. Qin Yao likes it in the summer, as the darker color makes her more sexy.
Gu Cheng usually doesn't take off his pants and wear shorts when he goes out, haha, because his thighs are very white.
Apart from the problem of too much leg hair, his legs were long and beautiful. Qin Yao wanted to shave his legs, but Captain Gu looked at her strangely and firmly refused.
"Don't seduce me." Gu Cheng put on a vest and turned around to see Qin Yao wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts. She had two pigtails at home and her face was as clear as water, like a grown-up girl.
Married women generally don't wear two pigtails, or put their hair up in a bun, or just leave one at the back. But Qin Yao doesn't care about that at home. Her hair is long and it's hot, so she feels most comfortable with just two loose pigtails.
Qin Yao pulled her two braids and said, "How did I seduce you?"
After two years of marriage, she has become relaxed enough, wearing loose pajamas and two pigtails. How can this be seduction?
Does she look sexy like this? Qin Yao propped her chin up with her hand and looked at herself in the mirror.
The woman in the mirror is as plump and attractive as a peach. It is no exaggeration to say that she is as beautiful as a peach or plum. She has a pair of peach blossom eyes with a light pink at the corners, and her eyes are bright and beautiful when she looks around.
A woman is different after giving birth. Even if her waistline returns to normal, her breasts will be several sizes bigger.
Qin Yao admired her body as a woman and regretted not having a daughter. She pinched her own breasts and felt they were so soft and nice to the touch.
"Raising a lizard, you said it yourself, little dinosaur." Third Brother Qin was the vanguard, and Gu Cheng thought he was raising a lizard, so he went to take a look himself. Now he doesn't even have the chance to take a look.
Now he heard that there was someone named "Xu Xian" who could keep reptiles and snakes, which made him envious.
Perhaps every man has been interested in dinosaurs when he was a child.
Gu Cheng had seen someone in the army secretly raising lizards, but he had never raised one himself, so he became curious.
Qin Yao stared at herself in the mirror for a moment, then subconsciously said, "Don't use such an ambiguous word as seduction. This is at most temptation."
Gu Cheng nodded: "Okay, you seduce me."
"I... I seduced you?" Qin Yao stood up, suddenly feeling angry. "You've been married for two years, and this big wife in front of you is not as good as a lizard in seducing you?"
Gu Cheng laughed: "I didn't say that."
Qin Yao threw a pillow at him and turned her back to the guy, too lazy to pay attention to him. Her words were weird and became more and more ambiguous.
"Angry? Wife, are you really angry? Weren't we just talking about Xu Xian and reptiles and snakes?"
Gu Cheng smiled and kissed her on the cheek, "I said the wrong thing. That wasn't seduction just now, but it is now."
"Seduce, come and seduce me."
Qin Yao was speechless: "Don't be so shameless, Captain Gu."
Comrade Qin Yao raised her hand and twisted his face. They had been married for two years, and this guy was becoming more and more shameless with this face. He was so shameless.
"When you are not serious, your face is sunny and handsome, like a rich young master; when you are cold, you are a flower of Gaoling. No matter you are a young master or a flower of Gaoling, you can't say such shameless and vulgar words."
Gu Cheng hugged her from behind: "All men are like this."
"Is this shameless? There are even more shameless ones..."
Gu Cheng rubbed his face against hers. Sometimes he felt helpless. He had to bear the burden of being an idol in public and in front of his wife. "I just said a few sincere words to you casually, and you reminded me, 'Captain Gu, you shouldn't say such things.'"
"Yaoyao, what kind of image do I appear to you?"
Qin Yao raised her hand and waved it in front of her nose, pretending to be disgusted and said, "It smells, it smells, a smell of a middle-aged man."
"Please stay away from this young woman in her early twenties. There is a generation gap between us."
Gu Cheng's face darkened immediately. He pretended to be fussy and glared, then he pressed the woman in front of him into his arms and kissed her face fiercely. "It smells, doesn't it? It smells like a middle-aged man like me."
Qin Yao wiped the saliva off her face and made a serious criticism: "Childish."
"Are you competing with your son in saliva? You childish middle-aged man."
Gu Cheng lowered his head and bit her nose. Captain Gu was very angry, but his anger was of no use. He could neither hit nor scold the woman in front of him. He just glared at her, but she was not afraid at all and jumped around in his minefield.
It makes people love and hate it.
He had no other means to resort to. Apart from leaving teeth marks on his saliva, there was no other "torture".
"I'm going to be vicious." Gu Cheng said coldly.
Qin Yao: “…”
Why do you soldiers speak so eccentrically?
Gu Cheng leaned close to Qin Yao's ear and gave a vicious blessing: "When your son grows up to four or five years old, I will catch a few lizards to raise, and let you catch cockroaches every day to feed them-"
Qin Yao raised her hand to cover his mouth: "You are so vicious."
What kind of demonic whisper is this?
Qin Yao kicked him several times, ran out of the bedroom, washed her face, and went to find the two little guys at home.
The two little ones are over one year old now, and they walk unsteadily, like two little penguins. The older son Ruirui is obviously more obedient. He looks elegant at a young age and sits very quietly.
Mingming is like the silly son of a landlord. His baby teeth have grown, and they are all white. He looks like an idiot when he smiles.
Although his facial features are very similar to his father, his temperaments are completely different.
"Mother!"
Qin Yao kissed her youngest son. She was healed by this silly boy and temporarily forgot about his "vicious" father.
Qin Yao played with her son, and Gu Cheng helped her check the manuscript, add details, and fix bugs.
Qin Yao knew a lot of information from Gu Erjie, but as a liberal arts student, she could not avoid making common sense mistakes when writing. Gu Cheng was a military fan and a master of military chess. He was very familiar with many things. With his rigorous revision of details, the story became more real and moving.
The image of the protagonist also becomes clearer.
As a younger brother, Gu Cheng added "a lot of information" to the protagonist, and some of it was quite real "information", which could also be said to be a dark history.
Such a full dark history pieced together a more realistic protagonist.
In October 1975, the book "Towards the Blue Sky" with nearly 400,000 words was completed, and Qin Yao first sent it to her second sister.
After finishing it, Qin Yao felt a great sense of accomplishment. She had originally intended to keep it for her collection, but after taking it to the cultural center and letting Lan Baiyu and others see it, everyone in the cultural center was "astounded by it". A publishing house on the island even rushed to publish it, leaving Qin Yao at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"Whether to publish it or not, I need to ask my second sister first."
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On the other side, Gu Qing received Qin Yao's draft and was shocked. "So many? So thick?"
Qin Yao had been writing for several months, but never said she had finished. Gu Qing thought she just couldn't write anymore, but she didn't care too much because the first tens of thousands of words were so well written that she could just keep them as a collection.
Now more than half a year has passed, and Qin Yao said that she had finished writing and sent her a sample draft. Gu Qing thought that she had written about 100,000 words. In her opinion, 100,000 words was a lot, but...how much did Qin Yao actually write?
The heroine of Qin Yao's book "Towards the Blue Sky" is named "Gu Qing". When Sister Gu opened the manuscript, she was immediately fascinated by it. Halfway through reading, her face turned red and her heart beat faster.
Anyone who knows her knows that this book is about her, but is she really that good?
Continuing to read on, Second Sister Gu blushed and became fascinated again.
It was obviously a story she was familiar with and was based on her own story, so why did she find it so interesting and full of twists and turns? t
After reading it, Sister Gu was still not satisfied.
There is a small card at the back that says - To be continued.
Second sister Gu: “?”
Second sister Gu quickly called Qin Yao, "Why is it To Be Continued? Do you have to write more?"
"I don't necessarily have to write it, Second Sister. Your story is still going on, isn't it?"
Second Sister Gu said with satisfaction: "That's right, it's ok to end it like this for now."
After hanging up the phone, Second Sister Gu happily spread the news everywhere and circulated it among her apprentices and juniors.
The others were initially surprised and suspicious, but in order not to discourage Second Sister Gu, they pretended to scramble to read the book: "I want to take a look."
“Let me take a look first!”
"Come one by one."
The other people who were trying to grab the tickets didn’t take it seriously at first, but later they became fascinated and scrambled for them more fiercely than the other, with some even copying them by hand.
At that time, books were in short supply, and novels were even fewer. When you finally got a good novel, you would want to read it from the beginning.
And the protagonist of this story... is really cool, inspiring, cool, and immersive, so addictive!
The novel was in great demand, and Second Sister Gu brought another message to Qin Yao: "Sister-in-law, the story you wrote is so good. My old unit contacted me and said that the military region here wants to publish it for publicity."
"Okay, that's fine. We're on this island and they're planning to publish it, too."
Qin Yao discussed this with Second Sister Gu and decided to leave the rest to the publishing house. She would communicate with them separately on the details.
It is quite troublesome to publish it now. It will take at least the second half of next year for it to officially appear in Xinhua Bookstore.
If nothing goes wrong, Qin Yao can get several thousand yuan in royalties.
This is a pleasant surprise, and the exact amount has not yet been determined.
Qin Yao was not in a hurry to count the money for publishing, but Second Sister Gu had already printed a few copies and sent them to her friends and two copies to her home.
When the Gu family received the manuscript, they didn't know what it meant.
Mr. Gu is currently chatting animatedly with his old comrades-in-arms about a collection of his past memoirs. I heard that it will be sent to an exhibition hall. Mr. Gu doesn't say anything, but he is very happy.
"Not much, maybe two or three pages."
Chen Baozhen's grandfather, Mr. Qin, has been writing his autobiography in recent years. He wrote his own autobiography and memoirs, hoping to leave them as a memorial for his descendants. He has been working on it for several years, but has only written about 30,000 to 40,000 words so far.
Mr. Gu laughed at his writing skills, "With your snail-like speed, you won't be able to finish writing even if you lie in your coffin."
"I don't want to write an autobiography. I don't have much to say about my life."
At the family dinner table, Mr. Gu looked calm and composed.
"My aunt has a biography. She is so amazing." Little Gu Miaomiao is the first reader of the Gu family's manuscripts. Everyone in the family is busy, but she is the only student who has a lot of free time.
With Gu Miaomiao's literacy level, it was time for the teacher to encourage her to read novels.
Mr. Gu said disdainfully: "Bullshit, what kind of biography can she have."
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