READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 12
Chapter 12
As soon as Su Fei heard about the remittance slip, she knew immediately that things were looking up. She knew that fate hadn’t brought her here just to starve.
Ningning also heard the words “remittance slip.” Although he hadn’t received one before, he could infer that Su Fei’s submission had been accepted. Money was coming!
When Ningning and Su Fei stepped outside, the postal worker was waiting not far away. They hurried over, filled with anticipation.
“Are you Su Fei? To collect the remittance slip, we need your household register. We need to verify your identity before we can give it to you!” the postal worker said formally. Public servants like him were very responsible nowadays.
“It’s over there with us, go get it. Ningning,” Su Fei said to Ningning, actually not knowing exactly where she had put it.
“Alright, got it.” Ningning hurriedly ran back home without asking how Su Fei knew where her household register was hidden.
After verifying everything, the postal worker handed Su Fei her mail and the remittance slip with a playful smile. “This is the first time I’ve delivered a remittance slip to this village. I suggest that if you plan to submit regularly, you should get a bank account. Then the money can be directly deposited into your account.”
Su Fei felt embarrassed as she touched her hair. “I never expected to succeed on the first try. I don’t even know when I’ll submit the next time. We’ll talk about it later.”
Ningning quickly dismissed the postal worker and they both took their remittance slip and mail back home to examine them in detail.
Ningning looked at the large characters on the remittance slip, feeling a bit unfamiliar, then asked directly, “So how much did you earn?”
Su Fei put down the letter in her hand and saw that it was a flat ten yuan bill. She felt quite excited. “Right, I remembered. The fee for this call for submissions, whether it’s a long or short piece, is 10 yuan.”
Ningning looked at the paper in his hand, which could be exchanged for ten yuan, and found it unbelievable. “So you’re saying that the fee for your writing can be exchanged for ten yuan. That’s really great. Have you sent out all those articles you wrote? Send them out quickly!”
Su Fei glanced at the letter and replied in agreement before continuing to read the encouraging words from the newspaper urging her to write more heartwarming articles.
Su Fei may not have known, but the editors at the newspaper had lost quite a few hairs over this article. You wouldn’t believe how many times they had worried about it. But after checking, they found nothing wrong with this type of article. Many editors even felt it was worth a try, a different style from the usual. And there were hints that the restrictions could be loosened a bit.
So after the head of the newspaper personally reviewed it, they decided to use this article. It was a bold attempt, and they decided to publish it and see how people would react.
Sure enough, as expected, after years of the same format, everyone’s aesthetic sense had become fatigued. Now, there was a bit of a response to the feeling of nostalgia for the beauty of rural first love portrayed in the article. It became very popular, and everyone responded very positively.
So in addition to the fixed fee given to Su Fei, they also included an extra 20 yuan in the envelope as a reward for her submission.
Seeing these two large bills, which were quite different from the usual, and the figures of the great leaders printed on them, Su Fei quietly tucked them away without making a fuss.
Su Fei noticed Ningning touching her deposit slip with reluctance. However, she had a bad feeling that Ningning might want to take it from her.
Su Fei quickly said, “Ningning, this fee is for me to keep.” But she didn’t dare to grab it back.
Reluctantly, Ningning handed the deposit slip back to Su Fei and said, “Why not keep it with me? What if you lose it?”
Su Fei was startled and quickly said, “No need, I’ll just keep it myself.”
Ningning let go, after all, he had said what he had to say, and then said to Su Fei, “Put it away quickly, and in a few days, we’ll go together to withdraw it and buy some New Year’s goods. Come on, hurry up and help with cooking now.”
With a sigh, Su Fei hurried over, and the two of them began to cook together in harmony.
The Ning Xiangxiang’s family was not very happy this year. The Ning family had two daughters, both of whom were considered old maids now, at twenty-four or twenty-five. But there had been no suitors for her two daughters. The women in their family were really poor and lazy, and the key was that they were very ugly.
They pinned all their hopes on Ning Xiangxiang, hoping he would marry a rich woman and bring back some dowry money. Then the two sisters could build a house and get married!
Ning Xiangxiang also wanted to leave this family as soon as possible, but he didn’t know what was wrong with the rich girl he found. She hadn’t visited him much lately. Was it because he hadn’t been giving her any sweet talk lately, so she was getting impatient?
Ning Xiangxiang thought that next time they met, he could give this rich girl some sweet words!
Su Fei also looked forward to the day when she could withdraw money for Ningning and buy him a new outfit. Thirty yuan should be enough, because Ningning still hadn’t bought himself a new outfit this year. But he had already made two new outfits for her.
So Su Fei wanted to repay him. Besides, he was her crush, so handsome, she had to dress him up nicely!