newbobooks Chapter 159 Reply to Tutoring
Chapter 159 Reply to Tutoring
The person in charge was quite shrewd; he said it was fine if they didn't take the chickens, but they couldn't raise them and had to get rid of them.
Without hesitation, Zhang Jianjun pulled out a knife and swiftly slit the chicken's throat.
That decisive and ruthless demeanor, at such a young age, with that cold gaze—the security guard will never forget it!
Qiao Erqiang was a little sad at that time, but Zhang Jianjun took him to the grove and comforted him. Qiao Erqiang then sincerely said that it didn't matter, and that the reeds were the best thing for the sisters to live in if they could provide them with some nutrition.
As the eldest brother-in-law, uh... no, not even the youngest brother-in-law, let's just say the second brother-in-law!
As the brother-in-law, Zhang Jianjun didn't want the relationship to become too strained. He found a pair of pigeons and gave them to Qiao Erqiang. Originally, someone wanted to give them to Wu Fenglan, but Zhang Jianjun intercepted them and gave them to Qiao Erqiang as compensation.
Qiao Erqiang was overjoyed; he no longer had to worry about the administrators coming to take them away. He could raise them openly and legally. Raising chickens wasn't allowed in the city, but it didn't say anything about raising pigeons!
The only downside was that the pigeon eggs were relatively small and didn't lay eggs frequently; they only laid five eggs in four months. Qiao Erqiang's plan to trade the pigeon eggs for gourmet food failed.
When Zhang Jianjun led Qiao Sanli and Qiao Simei in, Qiao Erqiang was feeding the pigeons. He couldn't bear to feed them grain, so he could only feed them bran. Luckily, the pigeons had small appetites and didn't eat much.
Qiao Erqiang does indeed have a bit of a saintly heart. Zhang Jianjun thinks that Qiao Erqiang's love for Ma Suqin in the original work is partly due to his saintly nature, coupled with the lack of maternal love since childhood, which makes Qiao Erqiang always unable to forget Ma Suqin.
"Come on! Erqiang, have an ice pop!" Zhang Jianjun raised an ice pop in his hand and waved it at Qiao Erqiang, who was looking over.
This immediately revealed Qiao Erqiang's second trait: gluttony!
Qiao Erqiang dropped the small handful of wheat bran in his hand and ran over quickly, but slowed down as he got closer. He carefully took the popsicle from Zhang Jianjun's hand and said, "Thank you, Brother Jun."
Zhang Jianjun was a few months older than Qiao Erqiang. When Zhang Jianjun was brought to the family, Qiao Erqiang wasn't even born yet. Therefore, Qiao Erqiang now calls Zhang Jianjun "Brother Jun." The word "now" is important.
"Go and continue feeding the pigeons!" Zhang Jianjun continued walking into the house.
As they entered the house, Wei Shuying was sewing clothes for Qiao Yicheng. "Aunt Wei, why don't you try some popsicles?"
At this point, you should focus on increasing your favorability rating, ideally to the maximum level.
"You child, you're wasting money! I don't eat these things!" Wei Shuying did want to eat them, but she was too embarrassed to show her cravings in front of her child.
"Aunt Wei, look! There's a big spider on the roof!" Zhang Jianjun pointed towards the roof beam.
Wei Shuying looked up, her mouth automatically opening. Zhang Jianjun, quick as a flash, shoved the popsicle into her mouth and turned to leave, ignoring Wei Shuying's whimpering calls behind her.
Back at Wu Fengying's house, Zhang Jianjun used the same method to stuff the last popsicle into Wu Fengying's mouth, with a similar effect to Wei Shuying.
Zhang Jianjun thought this tactic was called forcibly increasing favorability!
The favorability rating increased by a negative 0.5 percentage points!
"That brat! He almost choked to death on such a thick popsicle!" The two middle-aged women thought to themselves.
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A month later, Zhang Jianjun received a reply from the Youth Daily, saying that his submission had been published and he would receive his payment next month.
The signature is that of editor Zhang Xuesong.
Zhang Jianjun replied to his letter and also handed him a manuscript.
The two articles are very similar in content, belonging to the category of articles encouraging learning, which is very much in line with current trends and the characteristics of the Youth Newspaper.
In October, the payment for the manuscript finally arrived.
The first article, over two thousand words long, earned him sixteen yuan, which wasn't a small amount. Moreover, he contacted an editor who was very interested in Zhang Jianjun's writing style; their new letters clearly indicated a desire to commission more articles.
Zhang Jianjun had this intention all along: to write a short story about a teenager who went astray, with the unborn Qiao Qiqi as the protagonist, and to pay the price for his momentary ignorance and impulsiveness with his entire life.
The Youth Daily is a weekly publication, and Zhang Jianjun estimates that it will serialize 1,500 to 2,000 words each week. Due to space limitations, the word count won't be too high. The entire novel is about 30,000 words long, and Zhang Jianjun completed it in a week, also drawing some illustrations. Qiao Qiqi's handsome appearance leaps off the page.
A month's royalties can be forty to fifty yuan, which is about the same as Qiao Zuwang's salary.
After asking Wei Shuying to mail the letter again, Zhang Jianjun went to school.
When school reopened, Qiao Yicheng finally went to junior high school.
Qiao Yicheng should have started junior high school in 1977, but due to a shortage of teachers, junior high classes were added. He spent that year in the same elementary school where he had been attending junior high. Even the authorities called this model a "hatted" middle school.
The man Qiao Yicheng met suddenly left!
Qiao Yicheng met Wen Qinghua in the second semester of fifth grade. However, Wen Qinghua resigned after only half a year in the "hat-style" middle school.
Therefore, the teacher-student relationship between the two did not last long, but this short period of time was unforgettable for Qiao Yicheng.
Wen Qinghua is a very scholarly person. His father was once the vice president of Yingtianfu University, and his mother was also a university professor, but because of her experience studying at an Ivy League university in the United States, she was targeted after the storm rose.
Unable to bear the humiliation, Wen Qinghua's mother chose to jump off a building to save herself.
Principal Wen endured it. After going through the whole process, the guards assigned him to clean. He did this for several years.
Later, when the wind was about to stop, Wen Qinghua was assigned to take over the class of a teacher on sick leave, and that's when he began teaching Qiao Yicheng.
When Qiao Yicheng first met Wen Qinghua, he was stunned. He had never imagined that a grown man could be so clean-cut, elegant, and refined!
This was unlike any other adult man Qiao Yicheng had ever met, especially far superior to his father! This was the kind of man he envisioned!
From that day on, Qiao Yicheng changed. He started studying seriously, and he washed his clothes very frequently, just like Wen Qinghua—clean, tidy, and mindful of his appearance.
Zhang Jianjun noticed the changes in Qiao Yicheng, realizing that Qiao Yi had grown up. It was time to begin training the three little ones. Every time he traveled through time, there was always someone around him who needed training; Zhang Jianjun felt he was practically ready to open a tutoring center! He had an exceptionally wealth of experience!
Spring has arrived, flowers are blooming, and the cold winter has once again departed. Zhang Jianjun brought half a roast chicken to Wei Shuying's house.
"Brother Yicheng! Are you home? I brought half a roast chicken, let's all have a taste! Where's Aunt Wei?" Zhang Jianjun first saw Qiao Yicheng, who was washing clothes.
Despite his cold and aloof character in the drama, the real Qiao Yicheng, without much pressure, is quite cheerful. "My mom's inside, just got back from get off work. Why did you buy roast chicken again? It's only been a few days since the New Year, and you've already bought it several times!"
"Since you asked, let me tell you about my plan!" Zhang Jianjun didn't go straight into the house. He heard that Wei Shuying had just returned home and was probably changing clothes, so he chatted with Qiao Yicheng outside. "Brother Yicheng, you see, Sanli and Simei are quite grown up, but they are both very thin. I'm afraid they will be bullied by their classmates when they go to school. So I'm thinking of starting to train them from tomorrow morning, and Erqiang will come along too!"
Qiao Yicheng agreed wholeheartedly, "You're right, we should exercise more. We didn't eat well the past two years, and now we're eating too much and we're afraid we'll gain weight!"
At this moment, Wei Shuying came out of the house, saw the roast chicken in Zhang Jianjun's hand, and began to complain, "Xiaojun, you should save money for yourself, don't waste money like this!"
"Aunt Wei, these are ones they can't sell, and the rest will spoil anyway, so I'm getting a discount. I've already kept half at home." Zhang Jianjun's excuse came off the cuff.
Wei Shuying glanced at the sky; it was still early, so she didn't expose him. However, her expression was rather complicated.