Two-in-one
"Old lady, forget it. Do you think anyone can make money by writing? Many poor scholars in ancient times starved to death. It's not easy to do this job. There are many people who are poor and destitute. You have to think it through."
Old Mrs. Ge is really overthinking it. There was only a brief period of flourishing literature and art in the 1980s, but not many people made money from it. Even fewer people will make money from writing online articles in the future. Most people not only fail to earn any royalties, but are also ripped off and have to pay a lot of expensive training fees.
Qin Yao knows a friend who does this kind of wicked thing. He first buys a few public accounts with fans, and makes them look very presentable, but in fact, few people visit them, and even fewer have real fans.
This wicked friend also joined the Writers Association. In fact, the threshold for joining the Writers Association is not high. She used these titles to conduct external training and teach writing classes. The registration for her writing classes cost between 6,000 and 10,000 yuan. Qin Yao originally thought that no one would sign up, but it turned out that there were a lot of people who signed up. Most of them were mothers who wanted to work part-time. They foolishly paid thousands or tens of thousands of training fees, and this wicked friend started to teach them how to write articles for public accounts.
After teaching, I gave the students a list of several public accounts (these wicked friends’ own accounts) and asked them to submit their articles. As long as they wrote something random, these public accounts would accept their articles, and the fee would only be around 50 to 100 yuan per article.
After collecting thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in writing course fees, they can get rid of the students with just a few hundred dollars, and they still make people crazy. I can only say that it is probably easier to make money by writing than by being a scammer.
It is very easy to make money with this kind of scam, and they specifically fool fools. Everyone has a dream of becoming a writer. The deceived people are willing to do it, and no matter how much they are persuaded, they happily advertise everywhere that they have made money by writing articles for public accounts... With just a few dozen or a hundred yuan in royalties, it is barely enough to earn back the cost of the writing course.
"Don't scare me, you can obviously make money." Old Lady Ge glared at her, but Qin Yao's words touched her heart. A poor scholar, a poor scholar, it seems that those who read and write are indeed poor.
Qin Yao spread her hands and said, "Just because I was able to make money before doesn't mean I can make money in the future. Old lady, do you know what 'running out of talent' means? I'm not sure if I can write good articles in the future, let alone teach others."
"If you want to do good for your granddaughter, you should tell her to study hard and find a decent job in the future."
After Qin Yao poured some cold water on her, Old Lady Ge calmed down, but she still wanted to hold on. Maybe Qin Yao wanted to scare her.
Seeing this, Qin Yao said, "Old Lady Ge, do you know how many people of the T culture in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, have committed suicide?"
"How many?"
Qin Yao sighed and pretended to be melancholy: "People who like to write are quiet and tend to immerse themselves in their own world. If they think too much, they will become unable to think straight."
"The world of fantasy is wonderful, but the real world is a mess. The author is omnipotent in the book, but in reality he is just an ordinary person. Old lady, do you know how it feels to be hit like this?"
Qin Yao made a gesture of wiping her neck: "It's like you dream every day that you are an emperor, but when you wake up you find yourself eating coarse food. Can you bear this blow?"
Old Lady Ge swallowed her saliva: "..."
In fact, she could accept the fact that she dreamed of becoming an emperor every day. Besides, even if she woke up from her dream and had to eat coarse food, she was the "Empress Dowager" in the family and had long been "a daughter-in-law who had been a daughter-in-law for ten thousand years and finally became a mother-in-law."
"That's why many poets and writers love to commit suicide. They can't accept the gap between fantasy and reality. It's good to be an ordinary person." Qin Yao smiled slightly.
Old Mrs. Ge thought to herself, I don’t want my granddaughter to be ordinary. I want her to marry a high-ranking official, just like Qin Yao in front of her.
"Auntie Qin, can I write in the book that I can fly? I want to be a fairy!" seven-year-old Jiang Xue asked foolishly.
Originally she didn't want to learn writing, but now she started to fantasize. Little girl Jiang Xue didn't want to be an emperor, she wanted to be a fairy!
Qin Yao: “…”
This is good. Qin Yao didn't need to say anything. Old Lady Ge was shocked and said, "Don't talk nonsense, little girl."
Old Mrs. Ge is a shrewd person and has seen a lot in the countryside. Fairy is not a good word. Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were countless people in the village who said they were "fairies". They were either liars or crazy people.
Sometimes it was possessed by a bird fairy, sometimes it was possessed by a fox fairy...
"Let's go, let's go home. Be honest and study hard. As a girl, don't roll around in the mud like your brother. A girl should act like a girl."
"If it weren't for your father's hard work, you would still be picking up dung balls in the countryside. If you don't want to be clean, you will be asked to pick up cow dung in the production team. Now that you have a good life, you must cherish it..."
Old Mrs. Ge walked away holding her granddaughter, chattering incessantly, the epitome of the older generation.
Qin Yao covered her mouth and smiled. She also admired herself for the nonsense she had just said, but it didn't matter. No matter what method she used, as long as she could get rid of the person, it would be fine.
She was just a little worried. After sending Mrs. Ge away today, would there be other people bringing their children to ask her to teach writing tomorrow? This would be a big problem and quite annoying.
"Xiao Qin, I just saw everything. How about I help you refuse next time?" Sister Zaohua from the next door house came over with a basket and took the initiative to take the job.
At this time, the "renewed" Zaohua was happy to talk to people. She looked prettier and more confident.
Qin Yao smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, I won't be polite then. Please help me refuse."
"It's okay, neighbor. I remember what you just said. I will tell people the same thing next time."
Qin Yao hesitated for a moment, but in the end she didn't take it too seriously. She just said casually, things like this would soon be forgotten by everyone, so there was no need to dwell on it.
"OK."
At this time, Zaohua couldn't help asking, "Xiao Qin, do you think our Jiajia has a talent for writing?"
"It's hard to tell at the moment. He's too young."
Zaohua sighed regretfully, "Okay, I accept it."
Zhou Jiajia knew that she almost became a disciple, and she wailed in the yard: "My mom is so annoying. I can't even write a diary, and she still asked me to learn writing from Aunt Qin. Why doesn't she let me die?"
Political Commissar Zhou said angrily while smoking a cigarette: "You are a useless thing."
"Your father used to be a cultured person. I could even write poetry. I didn't inherit your father's artistic talent at all."
"How dare you mention your diary to me? You wrote in your diary that your father was dead!" It would have been fine if the daughter didn't mention the diary, but as soon as she mentioned it, she was filled with resentment against Political Commissar Zhou.
He admitted that he was busy with work and really had no time to take care of his children's studies. Occasionally, he wanted to be a competent father and check his daughter's homework.
This unfortunately led him to see a diary in which Zhou Jiajia wrote that her father had died. There was a black and white photo hanging on the wall, and she was so sad.
After reading it, Political Commissar Zhou was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.
Zhou Jiajia: "Don't we all write our diaries? I wrote this diary and the teacher praised me, saying that I wrote it with emotion."
"You still have feelings for me even though your father is dead. I think you are asking for a beating."
Zhou Jiajia snorted and complained, "Don't keep calling me old man all the time. Speak like Lao Lu. Do you still remember that you are a political commissar? Uncle Gu speaks much more politely than you."
"Why not let him be the political commissar?"
Political Commissar Zhou sneered, "He is still civilized. If he had scolded you right there, you would have wet your pants."
"Before getting married, people called him a cold-faced devil. After getting married, he became a henpecked husband. He puts on airs in front of your Aunt Qin, but behind her back -"
Zhou Jiajia shrank her head and pointed outside. Political Commissar Zhou turned around and found that Gu Cheng was staring at him.
"It's a sin. I shouldn't be your neighbor." Political Commissar Zhou said this and went back to the house.
Gu Cheng stood there without moving. Although he had been married for three years, he had heard people saying behind his back that he was dominated by his wife, but they seldom mentioned it in front of him, so he pretended not to hear it. But this Zhou actually said that he was dominated by his wife.
Zhou Jiajia was not afraid of Gu Cheng at all and waved at him: "Uncle Gu, I almost wanted to call you Grandmaster!"
Zhou Jiajia didn't understand why her father was afraid of Uncle Gu. In her opinion, Uncle Gu next door was quite gentle, he just looked fierce. Having been neighbors for several years, she had never seen him being fierce to Aunt Qin, he was always the one being fiercely scolded... This was a real tough guy with a tender heart, unlike her father, who pretended to be educated but actually couldn't utter a word and could only pick his toes at home.
If he is really so cultured, why is my writing so terrible?
"What's wrong?"
"Many people want to worship Aunt Qin as their teacher and learn writing from her. Even my mother is obsessed with her."
"If Aunt Qin hadn't refused, Uncle Gu, when you go back home, a lot of people will call you Master Gu."
Gu Cheng: "Isn't it wrong to call him Master?"
Shouldn’t the guru be the teacher’s teacher?
"The master's female spouse is the master's wife. Aunt Qin is a woman, so Uncle Gu, you are the master's father."
Gu Cheng: “…”
Zhou Jiajia was a very shy girl a few years ago, but now she is becoming more and more naughty. The two families have been neighbors for several years. Relying on Qin Yao's presence, she is not afraid of Gu Cheng at all.
He even gathered a group of children and called him Master Gu.
"I've been called Captain Gu for so many years, but now I'm not even a boss, but I've become a master-in-chief."
Faced with the teasing of the children, Gu Cheng did not care about it and went home to tease his wife.
"Yaoyao, when you accept a disciple, remember to tell me in advance. I still need to prepare."
Qin Yao came over and kicked him: "Don't be crazy here, wait until others stop calling you Captain Gu and everyone calls you Master Gu, and see if you will be anxious - Bah, what master, aren't you just taking advantage of me!"
There's something wrong with the word "shigong"! When hearing this word, one can't help but think of the image of an old senior with "childlike face and white hair" and "immortal-like appearance".
Gu Cheng couldn't help laughing: "Master, Master... you really call me old."
He is obviously just a man in his thirties and is not qualified to be a master.
"Don't be so ungrateful when you get the advantage."
With the help of Sister Zaohua, the apprenticeship crisis was finally over, and only a few officers occasionally teased Gu Cheng.
For this reason, Bai Qiuling went to Qin Yao to apologize.
"I'm sorry, Comrade Qin Yao, for causing you trouble." Having said that, Bai Qiuling was quite happy that her mother-in-law brought her daughter to give it a try. Before she was reborn in her previous life, she had a low level of education. She could teach elementary school Chinese, but she couldn't write an article if she was asked to.
After her rebirth, Bai Qiuling planned to seize the opportunity to make a fortune and make money in the 1980s. It would be a good thing if her daughter became a talented girl. If Jiang Xue could become Qin Yao's apprentice, Bai Qiuling would be happy to see it happen.
If it weren't for the fact that their family had a so-so relationship with Chen Baozhen's family next door, Bai Qiuling would have wanted her daughter to learn a musical instrument from Chen Baozhen, but her mother-in-law disagreed with this.
"Nothing, it's all over." Qin Yao looked at Bai Qiuling. As the heroine of the original novel, Bai Qiuling was a simple but fierce woman of mixed character. Having lived in the family compound for several years, she had also seen Bai Qiuling quarrel with the worst relatives in her family several times.
As for the heroine of a period novel, the standard configuration is to get rich and tear down the best. How can she tear down the best if she is not aggressive? A heroine like this has to fight back with tooth for tooth, blood for blood, and get slapped in the face and have her hair pulled on the spot, otherwise the readers will feel that the heroine is a coward and a fool.
It was fine when I was reading, but when I was watching in real life, the noise just made my head hurt.
Qin Yao was curious about how Bai Qiuling would become successful in the future. Has she become rich now? Can I take advantage of this opportunity and make some money from the heroine?
So Qin Yao pretended to talk about what she saw in the capital: "It seems that no one cares about the black market now. There are special small markets in the city, and everyone goes there to sell things."
"After the educated youth returned to the city, there were so many people that it was hard to control them."
What Qin Yao said was true. From 1976 to 1977, many black markets were almost becoming "open markets". They were covered up in the past, but now the officials don't care and the people don't report it. Many brave people come out to sell some things or exchange their extra food and oil coupons at home.
How come there are extra food coupons?
Yes, there are a lot.
At that time, the daily food coupon quota for women with urban household registration was almost one pound. Many women could not finish it and had some left over. However, for men with big appetites, the food coupon quota was not enough and they had to exchange it with female colleagues at work.
Many women can save a lot of food coupons in a year and exchange them for other things.
"Have all the educated youth returned to the city? Perhaps the college entrance examination may be resumed in the future. Comrade Qin, if you want to go to college, you can start reviewing now." Bai Qiuling reminded Qin Yao. She was reviewing for the college entrance examination herself and was not afraid of being found out by Qin Yao, but was afraid of being found out by her mother-in-law.
Let outsiders know that she is preparing for the college entrance examination first, so that she can be admitted to university in one go next year without being suspected.
Bai Qiuling was not afraid that her rumor of resuming the college entrance examination would arouse suspicion. In fact, many people were speculating this privately, and quite a few people were secretly reviewing.
"I'm not interested in going to college. What's more, if the college entrance examination is really resumed, we don't know when it will be." Qin Yao waved her hands, and her tone did not show any concern at all about Bai Qiuling's "resumption of the college entrance examination."
Bai Qiuling felt amused and thought that Qin Yao was just like them. She would be shocked when the college entrance examination was resumed in December next year.
Qin Yao asked again: "Comrade Bai, have you ever been to the black market? If individuals are allowed to run small businesses in the future, would you be interested?"
Bai Qiuling was startled by her words and blurted out: "Do you know something?"
After that, she covered her mouth.
Qin Yao understood that Bai Qiuling was indeed secretly doing small business behind the scenes, and perhaps she had already become very successful in the "Ming City".
"So it's true." Qin Yao pretended to know something, but showed a simple and honest smile that belonged to a cultured person, "Then you have to be careful, in case something goes wrong in the future."
You have to know that the first person to open a private restaurant is prepared to go to jail at any time.
"You misunderstood, it's not me." The panicked Bai Qiuling cursed herself. She was secretly doing some small business to accumulate capital for the future economic opening. Now that the economy has not been liberalized, it is the perfect time to make money.
The sisters-in-law Jiang Xiaomiao and Xiao Pan collected the grain coupons and meat coupons. They also secretly raised pigs and sold them in the market. Bai Qiuling also got a share of the profits. If they were caught in the future, it would not be her fault.
Bai Qiuling couldn't do it herself, so she asked Jiang Xiaomiao to do it. After Jiang Xiaomiao married Xiao Pan, she was lazy all day long and didn't work or have children. She almost became a thorn in the eyes of the Pan family.
She found a good way for herself, secretly making money and becoming the goddess of wealth of the Pan family. Now the young Pan family all flatter her.
Bai Qiuling thought that no one knew about this, but she never expected that even Qin Yao had heard the news. It must be that damn Xiao Pan who couldn't learn to make a fortune in silence and ran to Qin Yao to show off.
The more Bai Qiuling thought about it, the more scared she became. She was afraid that Qin Yao knew that Xiao Pan and Jiang Xiaomiao were doing business and was deliberately deceiving her today to find out whether she was involved in their business.
Bai Qiuling had long known that Xiao Pan was unreliable. He had been jealous of Qin Yao since before they got married.
Bai Qiuling didn't know that she had wronged Xiao Pan this time. Xiao Pan was busy raising pigs to make money and had no time to show off in front of Qin Yao.
"Comrade Bai, how much money do you think you can make by doing this?" Qin Yao pretended to be ignorant.
Bai Qiuling smiled and said, "Don't let your imagination run wild. You need tickets to get money. If you don't have tickets, you can't buy anything even if you have money. It's useless to have so much money."
"Your family saves a lot every month, right?" Bai Qiuling knew that Qin Yao and Gu Cheng were the big dog owners in the family compound. Gu Cheng's salary was not low, and Qin Yao could write articles and earn royalties. The couple really saved a lot of money, probably tens of thousands.
There are many people who have this much money, but even fewer people can get rich in the 1980s. People like Qin Yao would not use the tens of thousands of dollars to do business in the 1980s, but would use it to buy color TVs, refrigerators and air conditioners.
If you buy some imported electrical appliances, you will spend tens of thousands of dollars. A small domestic black-and-white TV costs only a few hundred dollars, while imported color TVs from various countries can cost seven or eight thousand dollars.
Being a millionaire in the village is already a great achievement, but in big cities in China, tens of thousands of dollars are not enough to spend.
A bicycle for an ordinary person costs one or two hundred yuan, but a Santana costs hundreds of thousands of yuan, and other sports cars and luxury cars cost tens or even millions.
Qin Yao said vaguely: "I can save a little."
Bai Qiuling nodded and didn't ask any more questions. If Qin Yao still had money after a few years, she could get some investment from her.
The prerequisite is that Qin Yao doesn't spend all the money, Bai Qiuling felt a little contemptuous in her heart.
In the 1980s, commodities from more than a dozen countries flooded into the market. Chinese people had a strong desire to consume. After becoming wealthy, many millionaires bought some expensive things that made later generations "sigh with regret."
"My grandfather was the first person in the village to earn 10,000 yuan. But when others made money, they bought land and built houses in the city, but he only spent money to buy a car, which has now become a piece of junk. He left nothing for me..."
"My dad is stupid. He was the richest man in the village. He used his money to buy ..."
After sending Bai Qiuling away, Qin Yao sighed. She was conflicted. Although she was not a greedy person, if she didn't gain something from the great development in the next few decades, her travel through the book would be in vain.
Comrade Xiao Qin is not a person who regards money as dirt, and she has never experienced what it feels like to be the richest man.
Qin Yao was not confident enough to make her own fortune. Even though she had the ability of foresight, she could invest in the original heroine Bai Qiuling, which was a good business that would never lose money.
Of course, that’s not necessarily the case. She’s just afraid that this big butterfly will fan Bai Qiuling to death.
You should know that Jiang Xiaomiao in the original book did not marry Xiao Pan. According to Bai Qiuling's performance just now, Qin Yao guessed that Jiang Xiaomiao led Xiao Pan's family to do business and made a fortune.
Xiao Pan’s sisters and their brothers-in-law are all troublesome!
People's hearts are fickle, and the heroine Bai Qiuling has been given a bunch of bad relatives, which increases the difficulty of her starting a business. I guess there will be more quarrels.
Brother Qin San was allocated a new house from his company, with two bedrooms and a living room. He invited Qin Yao and his wife and their children to have a warm family meal. There were no other relatives on the island, only his sister and brother-in-law's family, so he invited them over to join in the fun.
Qin Yao agreed and chose a date. Gu Cheng was free that day, but he would not be back until the afternoon and would not be able to make it in time for lunch. Third Brother Qin invited a few colleagues to his home for lunch at noon, and then had a warm home-cooked meal with his sister and brother-in-law's family in the evening.
Brother Qin San's new house is on the second floor. It is a six-story staff building shared by several units. Brother Qin San was lucky enough to be assigned a room with two bedrooms and a living room, about 40 to 50 square meters. There is no common area, but it looks quite large. The rooms are all quite big.
The house was decorated by the unit, with terrazzo floors in the corridor, blue floors inside the house, and white squares on the walls of the toilet and kitchen.
A pot of firewood was placed in the kitchen and was still burning in the evening.
After moving to a new house, Brother Qin San should have been in a good mood, but an uninvited guest came at noon, making him feel uncomfortable.
When her daughter was over one year old and could walk, Xie Hongni carried her daughter to the sofa and poured tea for Qin Yao and his wife.
Third Brother Qin came over and said, "Persuade your sister-in-law not to cause trouble again. She actually wants to do business again... I only mentioned this at home."
When Xie Hongni went to the countryside to work as a farmer, she often went to the black market. Later, she stopped, but she was very familiar with the movements of the black market.
According to Xie Hongni's guess, she thought that the management was not strict enough now and there was a chance to relax.
"A small market has long been formed in the south, and everyone goes there to sell things. Everyone knows about it, but they just keep quiet, and the law doesn't hold them accountable."
"I observed that Guan Lao San made a lot of money." Xie Hongni hugged her daughter and couldn't help sighing in her heart. She didn't know why, but she was addicted to making money.
Even if she threw away the money she earned, she still felt happy and fun. She felt jealous when she saw others making money.
Qin Yao smiled and said, "Third sister-in-law, you don't have to be anxious. The first bird to stick its head out gets shot. It won't be too late to try again when things become clear in the future."
After hearing this, Xie Hongni thought that this was the truth.
She is not considered brave, there are others who are brave.
Third Brother Qin brought the last of the meal to the table. There was another knock on the door. Third Brother Qin and Xie Hongni looked at each other, both speechless. After knocking for a while, no one answered. As expected, the man hurriedly said, "Sister, brother-in-law, open the door for me!"
The two people outside were Xie Hongni's younger sister and brother-in-law. They came and brought some trouble.
It is related to Xie Hongni's mother's family. Her mother is the daughter of a capitalist. The Feng family is a large family. Some of the family members remain in the country, and some of them are overseas. Recently, the family has been in contact with overseas families and unexpectedly learned that some of the investments in Hong Kong Island in the 1940s and 1950s still exist, and there are dividends every year. The amount accumulated over the years is very considerable.
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