The 1970s Educated Youth

Chapter 69

◎Purchasing◎

Then he walked around the downstairs of the family room and recognized Cheng Yanzhou's colleagues. Gu Guanning and Gu Guanning went to the cafeteria to eat.

Compared with breakfast, the dinner in the cafeteria is extravagant. There are three meat dishes alone, including stir-fried pork with lettuce, braised pork and minced pork and eggplant.

"I want to eat fried and braised pork, as well as cabbage vermicelli." Gu Guanning looked at Cheng Yanzhou.

Both dishes were leftovers from lunch. Cheng Yanzhou said: "The fried meat is leftovers. How about replacing it with minced meat and eggplant?"

Gu Guanning rolled his eyes and asked: "Will the leftovers be cheaper?"

Cheng Yanzhou: "... No."

"Then change it to minced pork and eggplant." Gu Guanning nodded and went to take a seat to wait for Cheng Yanzhou to come back with food.

The two of them brought their own lunch boxes, and the chef in the cafeteria had almost no tremors in his hands and filled the lunch boxes to the brim.

They arrived early and had already finished half of their meal before others came in one after another. They were all soldiers who had completed their training. They were orderly, quiet and silent. They lined up to take their plates and go to the window to eat.

One of them knew Cheng Yanzhou, and after saying hello a few times, he couldn't wait to sit aside and eat some food.

There were more and more people in the canteen, and Gu Guanning subconsciously speeded up his meal. After finishing the meal, there was still half of the braised pork left. Cheng Yanzhou put it away and said, "More lunch tomorrow morning."

After eating and washing the lunch box, Cheng Yanzhou said, "There is a reading room in the camp. Let's go there?"

"Go!" Gu Guanning wanted to look for it. Recent newspapers, a characteristic of this era, generally all major and minor events can be found in newspapers.

Scattered information like manuscript invitations are found in the middle and corners of newspapers.

The reading room is quiet and bright. The newspapers and books here are arranged according to time, and the latest newspapers are at the front of the bookshelf. After a while, Gu Guanning found the news about the March 4th contract draft.

Two of them were invitations from newspaper publishers. The themes of the invitations were Autumn Harvest and National Day. The length of the articles ranged from 800 to 1,000 words, which was exactly the word count for a high school Chinese composition.

Gu Guanning, who had vowed never to write again after the college entrance examination in his previous life, was shaken because the last remuneration standard stated: If the manuscript is accepted, a salary ranging from 50 cents to 80 cents will be paid depending on the writing level.

Even one yuan can buy five kilograms of flour, enough to feed two people at home for two days.

There are also several pieces of information about manuscript requests from different publishing houses. Among them, a publishing house affiliated with a university in this city has been soliciting translation manuscripts of several major foreign language textbooks for a long time. If accepted, the manuscript remuneration will start at three yuan per thousand words, and the upper limit of the manuscript remuneration is actually Twenty thousand words.

I guess there is some kind of government subsidy.

Write down this key point.

The textbooks were difficult to get, so we had to ask Cheng Yanzhou and Gu Heting for help.