met free Chapter 8 Received a Reply
Chapter 8 Received a Reply
Ever since she sent the two manuscripts she had written to the post office a few days ago, Shen Anan has been having a very leisurely time recently.
When he had nothing to do, he would follow his brother Shen Yulin to the mountains to pick wild fruits and catch sparrows, or go digging wild vegetables with his two sisters-in-law.
Of course, she couldn't tell the types of wild vegetables even if she tried. Most of the time, she brought food with her and played while digging, just like she was on an autumn outing.
I have to say that the environment in the 1960s was really good. Not only was the air fresh, but the sky was full of shining stars at night.
Early this morning, Shen Anan planned to go to the post office in town to see if there was any reply.
Moreover, even though she strongly requested that the food be brought back last time, Wang Sufen only added a little white flour when making the steamed bread. She was the only one in the family who ate refined grains three times a day.
If the newspaper replied this time, she would have a reason to give out more supplies.
Apart from anything else, the Shen family is really good to her, and she also wants everyone to recuperate.
She has saved up a lot of sign-in times these days. This time she goes to the town, she can just replenish some supplies. There are more types of sign-in supplies in the town.
"Anbao, why don't you ask your sixth brother to go with you and send some food to your fourth brother's house."
"It's okay, Mom, just give me the food and I'll take it to Fourth Brother."
Shen Anan took the basket and looked inside. There were some vegetables, a piece of bacon weighing about one pound, and five eggs.
After leaving the village, she put the backpack into the space, then took out her bicycle and rode towards Anqi Town.
Yes, she finally has a bike!
This is the bicycle she bought at the Supply and Marketing Office the last time she submitted her manuscript. The White Rabbit bicycle she bought last time was not given away for nothing; the girl at the counter had indeed reserved one for her.
Although the 28-inch bicycles of the time were a bit heavy, they were of great quality and very convenient. With the bicycle, it only took about 40 minutes to get to town.
Shen Anan went straight to the post office in town. On the way, she happened to check in at the refresh points on the map. She received ten kilograms of noodles at the grain store, five kilograms of beef at the meat processing plant, and a carved cosmetic box at the secondhand shop...
It feels so good to be able to harvest a bunch of supplies just by signing in! Shen Anan simply can't stop.
After these few times, she also discovered that most of the first-level check-in points were basic supplies.
But she is already very satisfied. After all, in this era of material shortages, this is the biggest golden finger.
Apart from refreshing the second-level check-in point at the town police station last time, she has not refreshed any other high-level check-in points.
Thinking of the camouflage gift pack she got last time, Shen Anan was also a little curious. There were such good things at the second-level sign-in point. She wondered what she would get at the highest level.
After entering the post office, there was only a clerk with short haircut behind the counter, sorting letters. He was wearing an old blue military uniform.
"Comrade, I submitted an article to a newspaper a few days ago. Could you help me see if there's any reply from the newspaper?"
"What is your name?"
"Shen Anan."
The salesperson searched among the letters for a long time, found two and handed them over.
"Here, here are two. Why did you come to pick them up yourself? The postman will come to your village in a couple of days."
Shen Anan happily flipped through the two letters in her hands, one was a reply from the People's Daily of Sichuan Province, and the other was from the Children's Daily.
After looking around, Shen Anan took out a bar of soap from her bag and stuffed it into the salesperson's hand while no one was paying attention.
"Comrade, thank you for your hard work. I want to ask you for a favor. I'm contributing articles to the newspaper without my family's knowledge. I want to earn some money to save for my dowry."
"If there are any more letters from me in the future, could you please keep them for me? I can pick them up at the post office myself and I won't have to rely on the postman to deliver them."
After all, Shen Anan planned to use the royalties as an excuse to take out the supplies, and it would be inconvenient if she sent them to the village.
"Sister, just call me Sister Zhou. These are all trivial matters. How could Sister Zhou accept your things?"
Sister Zhou was about to hand over the soap, and Shen Anan quickly held her hand.
"Sister Zhou, I feel so close to you when I see you. We'll have many more interactions in the future. Put it away quickly. It won't be good if others see it."
Sister Zhou couldn't refuse and had to accept it.
Looking at Shen Anan's good looks, she couldn't help but hold her hand: "Anan, I heard you say you want to save up for a dowry. Are you engaged? If you don't have a partner, our neighbor's youngest son graduated from high school and just started working at the steel mill in our town this year. He comes from a well-off family and is a good-looking man. Would you like me to introduce you to someone?"
Shen Anan quickly waved her hand, "No need, Sister Zhou, I'm still young and want to stay with my parents for a few more years. I still have to go to the town textile factory, I'll come see you next time."
Sister Zhou looked at Shen Anan's fleeing back and smacked her lips with some regret.
There are not many girls who are so good-looking and can contribute to newspapers. Unfortunately, there is no suitable boy in her family.
Shen Anan left the post office and couldn't wait to open the envelope. Considering the policy changes in a few years, she was more conservative in the content of the article.
First, she opened the reply from the Children's Newspaper. She had submitted a fable of about 19.2 words. Inside the envelope was a 10 yuan fee, a receipt for yuan per thousand words, and a reply letter.
There was only a reply letter in the envelope from the Sichuan-De Province People's Daily, saying that the article she wrote was good, but it did not quite fit the content of their newspaper.
In the reply, the editor also provided the submission addresses of several other newspapers and encouraged her to try more.
Shen Anan was not discouraged when she saw the rejection. She remembered that the article she submitted to People's Daily was a travelogue describing a scenic spot in the town, which might not be appropriate.
However, you can study these newspapers more later, as the types of manuscripts each newspaper accepts are different.
She carefully folded up the children's newspaper payment slip and put it into the space.
No matter how many articles she published, as long as she had the payment slip, she finally had an explanation for the source of the materials she later produced.
The royalties during this period were indeed very good. The royalties for this article were equivalent to half a month's salary for an ordinary worker.
But now that there is a sign-in system, Shen Anan doesn't want to be too aggressive.
I can write a few articles when I have free time. It doesn’t matter whether they are passed or not. The main purpose is entertainment.
The feeling of winning without doing anything is really addictive!
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The textile factory is located in the north of Anqi Town. It is the largest factory in the town, with more than a thousand employees. Shen Yuanbang, the fourth son of the Shen family, lives in the tube building of the textile factory.
Relying on her memory, Shen Anan walked all the way to the downstairs of the tube-shaped building. She used the backpack to take out the vegetables, bacon and eggs prepared by Wang Sufen from the space, and added two handfuls of noodles, a roast chicken and two cans of milk powder.
As he recalled, when the original owner was in school in town, Shen Yuanbang would ride his bicycle to take him back to the village every Friday after school.
You need tickets to buy anything in the city, even vegetables, so Wang Sufen always asks Shen Yuanbang to bring some vegetables back.