Early the next morning, Lin Chaoyang got up and opened the curtains. The outside became a world covered in silver, and the courtyard was covered with thick snow.

"It hasn't snowed so heavily in several years!" Tao Yushu said.

"Yeah, we have to clear the snow again."

As he spoke, Lin Chaoyang got dressed and came to the yard. He picked up the big broom specially used to sweep the yard and started sweeping away the snow.

The only disadvantage of living in a courtyard house is that you often have to clean the yard. The key is that their yard is quite big.

Tao Yushu made breakfast, while Tao Yumo stood under the eaves with Xiao Dongdong in his arms and directed Lin Chaoyang to work.

"Brother-in-law, we haven't even cleaned up over there."

"This piece, this piece is as good as a dog chewing it. Sweep it carefully!"

"My nephew wants to see a snowman. You can build a snowman for my nephew!"

Lin Chaoyang stood still and asked angrily: "Does your nephew want to see it, or do you want to see it?"

"It's all the same, it's all the same."

Holding his nephew in his arms, Tao Yumo had the courage to "hold the emperor in order to command the princes".

He couldn't get used to the following mistakes. Lin Chaoyang threw the broom away and came over to take the child from Tao Yumo's hand, "Go and sweep it!"

"Why should I sweep?" Tao Yumo said unconvinced.

"Fifty cents!"

"Do I care about your fifty cents?"

Tao Yumo is not happy with her mouth, but she is very honest physically. She works to make money, so she is not shabby!

When Tao Yushu came to call for dinner, Tao Yumo's head was smoking. It was really hard to earn 50 cents!

After dinner, Tao Yushu was getting ready to go to work. It was easy to fall while riding a bicycle that day, so she decided to take the bus to work.

Before leaving, she suddenly remembered something, took a set of Lin Chaoyang's old clothes from the closet, said hello to Lin Chaoyang before going out.

Arriving at the editorial office of "People's Literature", she said hello to her colleagues, and then went upstairs. There were two rooms specially reserved for foreign writers who came to Beijing to revise manuscripts, and Yu Hua lived in one of them.

There are two iron frame beds in the room with a desk in the middle. The conditions are not difficult, but they are indeed average.

"How was your stay last night?" Tao Yushu asked Yu Hua.

"It's good. There's heating here. It's more comfortable than where I live at home, but it's a bit dry."

After staying here for one night, Yu Hua's lips were so dry that he was a layer of skin. It was his first time coming to the north as a Zhejiang native and he was not used to the climate here.

Tao Yushu said: "If you feel dry, you can sprinkle some water on the ground to relieve the pain. Have you had breakfast?"

"have eaten."

After chatting for a while about life, Tao Yushu told Yu Hua some precautions for revising the manuscript. Yu Hua felt that it was very useful and thanked Tao Yushu.

"Okay, I won't disturb you anymore. You can revise the manuscript. If you have any questions, just come to me downstairs, or talk to other people in our editorial department."

"Okay, thank you, Teacher Tao."

Yu Hua was about to send Tao Yushu out. When Tao Yushu stood up, he pointed to a bag of things he had brought when he came in and said, "The clothes you brought are too thin and cannot be worn in Yanjing. These are my lover's old clothes. You should wear the same clothes."

Be urgent."

Listening to Tao Yushu's words, Yu Hua felt warm in his heart. If he couldn't correct the manuscript well, he would be sorry for Teacher Tao's care.

After Tao Yushu left, Yu Hua picked up the clothes she sent and checked them. He said they were old clothes, but they were newer than the clothes he was wearing when he came. The key was that they were still winter clothes, which were warmer than his clothes.

Much more.

Yu Hua tried on the clothes. Except for the cuffs, which were a bit too big, everything else fit him well. Considering the height of Teacher Tao's lover, it was normal for him to be a little bigger.

He took off his clothes and changed back into his own clothes. The temperature in the room was just right for him.

After trying on the clothes, he sat down at his desk and it was time to revise the draft.

Time passed by in the afternoon, and the editorial office of "People's Literature" was quiet. At this time, the editors were reviewing manuscripts carefully. Yu Hua knocked on the door and entered the office of the novel team.

When Tao Yushu saw him coming, she thought he had some problem. Unexpectedly, Yu Hua handed her the manuscript and said, "Teacher Tao, I have finished revising this manuscript, and I don't know if it is OK. Could you please help me take a look."

"

New authors are usually at a loss when revising a manuscript, and it takes them two days to get into the mood. Tao Yushu just thinks that he is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers and revise haphazardly.

Unexpectedly, when I picked it up and took a look, I found that the changes were very good.

She read it carefully and carefully, and her surprise became more and more serious. Looking at it, it seemed that the manuscript had really been corrected.

Tao Yushu raised his head, smiled happily and praised: "Okay, Yu Hua, I really didn't expect that you could do such a good job in revising the manuscript for the first time, and the key speed was so fast that you finished it in just one day!"

Hearing this, Yu Hua showed joy on his face, "Teacher Tao, is there really no problem?"

"no problem."

"Then...that..." Yu Hua hesitated, hesitating to speak.

Seeing his expression, Tao Yushu couldn't help but understand what he wanted to ask, "Once the manuscript is corrected, it will be published."

Yu Hua was immediately elated, "Thank you, Teacher Tao!"

"Why are you thanking me? You changed it yourself..."

Tao Yushu praised Yu Hua twice, which also aroused the curiosity of other colleagues in the office about Hua. It is rare for a newcomer to revise an unpublished work with such efficiency.

Cui Daoyi joked: "Le Yu, your revision is too serious, you won't get the subsidy money!"

The editorial department provides subsidies to writers from other places who come to Beijing to revise their manuscripts, two yuan a day, and accommodation arrangements, mainly to solve their dietary problems.

Cui Daoyi said this as a joke, but Yu Hua really regretted it after hearing it.

At this time, he had just started working for a short period of time, and he was earning more than 20 yuan a month in salary. He earned two yuan a day for revising drafts. So, wasn't that 60 yuan a month?

This is much more money than what he can earn from working!

"Old Cui, can you teach young people something good?" Tao Yushu complained to Cui Daoyi, and said to Hua: "Don't listen to his nonsense. The manuscript is revised very quickly, so won't you get the royalties early?"

Yu Hua felt that what Teacher Tao said made sense, but he had to get the two-dollar subsidy. Fortunately, he came here not to revise one novel, but to revise two.

He made up his mind to revise the remaining novel slowly.

After get off work, Tao Yushu returned home and saw Lin Chaoyang walking in the yard with a refreshed face, so he told him about Yu Hua's revision of the manuscript in less than a day.

"I think his speed of revising the manuscript is almost the same as yours."

"That proves that you are right, he is indeed a good seedling worth cultivating."

After dinner, Tao Yushu saw that Lin Chaoyang did not go into the study to revise the manuscript as usual, and asked: "You won't revise the manuscript today?"

"After the changes are completed, I will send it out tomorrow!"

Tao Yushu said with surprise on his face: "Ah! I was wrong. Your efficiency is much higher than that of Yu Hua!"

Lin Chaoyang's face was indifferent, "It's okay!"

The couple had been married for almost five years. Looking at him, Tao Yushu could not tell that he was pretending to be reserved, and he was not sure how proud he was!

At night, Tao Yumo rubbed her wrist and found Lin Chaoyang, "Brother-in-law, the manuscript has been transcribed."

It used to be Tao Yushu's job to copy the manuscripts, but now she is too busy at work and often comes back with manuscripts when she goes home at night, so this job was handed over to Tao Yumo.

So Tao Yumo is now working two jobs by himself, taking care of the children during the day and copying manuscripts at night. He is a bit tired, but the harvest is really high, which costs three yuan a day!

After a winter vacation, it would be enough for her to earn three months' salary, not to mention that she would still receive the salary from the school.

It’s so fragrant!

However, after making this money, there will be sequelae. Tao Yumo’s shoulder and wrist hurt badly when she was copying manuscripts recently. She said to Lin Chaoyang:

"Brother-in-law, I think you should buy a typewriter!"

Lin Chaoyang thought for a while and said, "Your suggestion makes sense. The typewriter in our library is fine for me to use. Unfortunately, I'm not used to using it when writing novels. It feels better to write by hand."

Tao Yumo said positively: "You can use it for me!"

Lin Chaoyang glanced at her, "For your use? We have to renegotiate the price of the manuscript."

Hearing this, Tao Yumo's face fell, "Ah? How can I be like you?"

"What's wrong with me? It's easy for you to use a typewriter, not for me. Otherwise, why don't you buy one? You can use it in the future anyway."

Tao Yumo's eyes immediately became alert and he almost tightened his grip on his money bag, "I don't have any money!"

Lin Chaoyang shook his head, "It's not that you don't have money, you love money as much as your life!"

"snort!"

There are still ten days left before the Chinese New Year, and the Spring Festival atmosphere in Yanjing City has gradually become stronger. Yu Hua has been in the editorial office of "People's Literature" for five or six days.

This time he came to Yanjing to revise two manuscripts, one was "The Stars" and the other was "You Are Leaving, So I'm Leaving", both short stories.

It took him one day to revise "Stars", but he learned that there was a subsidy for revising the draft, so he started to dawdle while revising "You Are Going, So I'm Going", which lasted three or four days.

For other newcomers, this efficiency would be normal, but as soon as Yu Hua arrived in the editorial department, he made a surprise move and revised a manuscript in one day.

In the second chapter, he suddenly slowed down. Not only did Tao Yushu feel something was wrong, but he himself felt it was a bit fake.
To be continued...