Back to 80: My literary life

Chapter 278 The long novel written by Lu Yao was rejected

Seems to be?
I said this a few years ago.

When we arrived at the photo studio, we started taking wedding photos.

These days, taking wedding photos is far less sophisticated than later generations. You will not be allowed to go out to take outdoor photos. It will be in the photo studio. At most, there will be a curtain with different scenery painted on it in the back. Young men and women will stand or sit in front. The photographer Just grab the camera and start clicking.

However, the wedding photos have already appeared. When Song Tangtang put on a white wedding dress, put on makeup and walked out, she immediately stunned everyone. She was a real star.

More beautiful than Gong Xue and Zhu Lin on the calendar!
Paired with suits and leather shoes, Fang Minghua looks like a talented man and a beautiful woman.

Fang Minghua was satisfied with the two people's outfits, but the photographer's insistence that they both hold a bouquet of plastic flowers made him feel that the quality had been lowered.

But this is popular now, there is no way.

Flowers?

Sorry, where can you find flowers in Xijing City in winter?
Although she was very stunning in the wedding photos, when she chose the main wedding photo, Song Tangtang still wore an 85-style green military uniform and held Fang Minghua's arm tightly, giving her a unique kind of beauty.

At that time, Lu Yao made three requirements to the editorial department of "Contemporary": first, publish the full text in one issue; second, headlines; third, large font size.

Hey, on this day, I might as well go to Jia Pingwa's house and drag Lu Yao and others along to play a few rounds of mahjong.

Why did you drag Lu Yao along?

Seeing her husband like this, Linda also felt distressed.

She is responsible for the purchase of all electrical appliances. Pengcheng is a special zone. There are many types of electrical appliances, and the prices are cheaper than in the mainland. Especially Japanese products are very affordable. After purchasing, they will be shipped to Xijing.

These days, it is not appropriate to buy the "three golds" when marrying a wife, but according to the rules of Xijing City, you have to buy some clothes for the bride, so the four of them went to the largest Minsheng Department Store in Xijing City to buy whatever the girl likes. buy what.

Fang Minghua originally planned to buy the color TV and refrigerator in Xijing, but his aunt Song Tangtang, who was far away in Pengcheng, said so on the phone.

However, Lu Yao was not in Fang Minghua's good mood at this time, sitting alone at home smoking a cigarette.

As the woman, Song Tangtang will also buy Fang Minghua a suit to wear on the wedding day. Of course, it is the most fashionable one in this era - Pierre Cardin.

After returning from Tongchuan, I have lost several times.

It stands to reason that it is such an honor to have just been elected as the vice chairman of the Provincial Writers Association, and he should be as high-spirited as Jia Pingwa and Fang Minghua. However, the first novel he worked on for a year and a half was published by "Contemporary" An editor named Zhou rejected the manuscript directly!

As for purchasing electrical appliances and various industrial coupons, Fang Minghua didn't have to worry at all. Song Tangtang's aunt and uncle were both division-level cadres in Pengcheng, so it was easy to get a few coupons.

Although he is not very good at playing mahjong, he still likes to play mahjong, but he has a good character and never defaults on his debts.

In the past few years, the relationship between husband and wife has been better than before. There are no messy relatives and friends like Lu Yao to borrow money and have to pay bills. With Lu Yao's royalties and Linda's salary, life is better than that of ordinary families in Xijing City. many.

Although Fang Minghua hates shopping in shopping malls the most. But this was a major event in his life, not to mention that the three girls including Song Tangtang were having a great time shopping, so he had no choice but to accompany him.

But the other party refused based on these three requirements. Of course, he said it very tactfully: "Chairman Lu, "Contemporary" has recently accumulated too many articles, and it is difficult to meet your three requirements, so I'm sorry, we can't publish it."

Now that we have a house, we have purchased a color TV and a washing machine one after another. When we prepare to buy a refrigerator next year, we will have the three major items.

In addition, Lu Yao was elected as the vice chairman of the Provincial Writers Association, and as a daughter-in-law, she also had a bright face.

So seeing Lu Yao's gloomy look, Linda persuaded him: "The outstanding domestic magazines are not just "Contemporary". Don't you know Wang Weiling, the deputy editor-in-chief of China Youth Publishing House? That article you wrote back then "Life" was recommended for publication by her. Can you contact her?" "I have, but I haven't heard back yet. I'm still worried."

Linda said oh and said nothing more.

"I heard that Pan Qingping, the editor of Writers Publishing House, will come to Xijing after the holidays to request manuscripts. I'm going to take it over and let her have a look." Lu Yao expressed his thoughts.

"Okay, it will definitely work this time!" Linda said.

Seeing that her husband was in a better mood, Linda said again: "Stop smoking! If you have nothing to do, go and tutor Xiao Yuan (Lu Yao's daughter) with her homework!"

"Okay, okay, I'll go." Lu Yao twisted out the cigarette in his hand and walked to his daughter's room.

After New Year's Day, everyone starts to go to work, but the Chinese New Year is only a little more than a month away, and everyone is starting to buy new year's goods.

Materials these days are naturally not as abundant as in later generations, and you may not be able to buy some things even if you spend money.

Fresh vegetables, hairtail fish, and Fuqiang noodles all need to be prepared in advance.

Of course, Fang Minghua doesn't have to worry about this. He has a diligent mother, so he only needs to pay for it. His mind is on his newly renovated house.

Since the area of ​​commercial housing is not large, about 80 square meters, he bought two sets of door-to-door sets on one floor in one go. Later, he found a decorator to open a door in the middle wall, so that the two sets of houses became one.

Furniture and electrical appliances were moved inside. More importantly, the thousands of famous calligraphy and paintings I bought from the museum last spring must be well preserved and cannot be left in the woodshed forever.

So he asked Yan Bingchu, a collector in Xijing - the two of them were friends for many years now - for advice on how to collect famous people's calligraphy and paintings.

The most important thing is to control the indoor temperature and humidity, so Fang Minghua simply arranged a special room in his new house to place these celebrity calligraphy and paintings.

For this reason, air conditioning is also installed.

However, the wires in commercial buildings these days are all aluminum wire, and the load cannot carry the air conditioner at all. As a last resort, Fang Minghua hired an electrician to replace all the wires in the house with copper wires. All air conditioners use dedicated wires. Anyway, these days the wires are all open wires exposed outside the wall. Easy to change.

The electrical appliances that Song Tangtang's aunt had just bought from Pengcheng had been consigned to Xijing. Fang Minghua paid for someone to bring them back to his new house, and he also had to find someone to install the air conditioner.

But Fang Minghua doesn't have to run around for these things. Zhao Hongjun knows a lot of people, and he helps find electricians and plumbers.

Today, the two of them were watching the workers install the air conditioner in Fang Minghua's new house.

"This air conditioner is really good. After next spring, I will also install one in my office so that I don't have to use that broken electric fan in the summer." Zhao Hongjun said with a "Greater China" in his mouth.

"Of course, Tangtang's office also needs to install one, so we can't let our sister-in-law suffer."

Fang Minghua remained silent.

He said that regardless of the company's specific operations, he would not comment on these matters.

Besides, he still has his wife to look after him.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man wearing a woolen coat and sunglasses walked in, with an artificial leather briefcase tucked into the creaking nest.

It turned out that Lu Yao was here.

(End of this chapter)