Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 46
There were five poles, Jiang Ning and Xu Xiuli each occupied two, and there was also one pole to dry clothes. When everyone in the dormitory comes, these poles would be even more crowded.
Those days, Jiang Ning was used to being woken up by Mother Jiang before dawn to go to the brick factory. Although she did not go to the brick factory but went to catch crayfish, her biological clock was set. She still woke up before dawn and took a shower. She brushed her teeth and ran two laps on the playground before the first ray of sunlight pierced the crow-green clouds.
At that time, there were quite a few people running and reading on the playground. Everyone was running and reading, and some were mumbling while running. Everyone was quiet and did not disturb each other.
The canteen was not open yet, but the cafeteria was open. The steamed buns were still steaming in the steamer. The chefs were still frying fried dough sticks, leek boxes, and glutinous rice cakes. The wonton and noodle chefs were also pouring out the water for cooking wontons and noodles.
The boys, who were already hungry, basically went to buy fried dough sticks and glutinous rice cakes. Each of them walked to class with one in hand, all holding books in their hands.
They were all high school seniors who were about to enter their senior year of high school and had not had a vacation throughout the summer. The second-year students in high school had also been enrolled for a month, and there were only freshmen in high school, so they were still relatively free.
When Jiang Ning had breakfast and made a pot of hot water, Xu Xiuli had just gotten up.She put down the hot water bottle and greeted Xu Xiuli, “I don’t know what you like to eat, so I didn’t bring you breakfast. I kept the water bottle here. If you want to drink water, pour it yourself.”
Xu Xiuli pursed her lips and smiled, “Good morning. I’m going to buy hangers later. Do you want to come with me?”
Jiang Ning hesitated for a moment, saying, “You go ahead, I want to read some more.”
In fact, she was short of money and didn’t have enough to buy hangers.
She planned to write the manuscript first, wait for the bank to open, and go to the bank to have a look. If there was still no news after sending it to Story Club and Wuxia magazines, she would resubmit the two manuscripts.
Fortunately, she took the drafts.
At about eight o’clock, the school entrance was busier than before. People who did not come to register the day before were all there. Whether it was the Academic Affairs Building, the Finance Office, or the registration office of each freshman class teacher, there were long queues. Some students themselves were lining up, and some had their parents line up for them. The students in the second and third grades upstairs were still in class as usual.
Seeing that it was almost time, Jiang Ning took her latest 45,000-word manuscript and the manuscript she had previously sent to the story club to the bank at the school gate.
There were also a lot of people queuing up at the bank window at that time because many people were withdrawing money from their bankbooks to pay for school fees.
Jiang Ning waited in line for a while before it was her turn and handed over the passbook, “Please help me check if there is any money in the passbook.”
The staff took the passbook and saw the balance inside, which was 200 yuan.
But she checked it for her dutifully and found that two remittances came in. She printed out the two remittances on her bankbook, told her the balance, and asked her, “There are two remittances. Do you want to withdraw money?”
“Withdraw one hundred.” Jiang Ning quickly asked her, “Where did the two remittances come from?” The staff quickly went through the withdrawal procedures for her and said, “The same place.” Jiang Ning took the bankbook and discovered that the amount of the two remittances was actually twice as different. She didn’t know what was going on and didn’t have a phone number to ask.
She calculated the manuscripts she had sent, including several short stories. The longest one was 8,000 words and was sent to the storytelling club. The one with nearly 5,000 words was from a close friend. All the manuscript fees had been received, and there were two more. For short stories, one was from Readers and the other was from Youth Digest, which should be the royalties of 40 and 60 received in the bankbook.
For now, Zhiyin magazine had the highest royalties.
No matter how she calculated, these two royalties were wrong. She could only guess that they were the royalties from the only novel she sent out. For Catcher in the Song Dynasty, she didn’t know why the two royalties were so different.
Since the manuscript was accepted, she sent the 45,000 words she had written. Thinking that the other party was offering two royalties, she didn’t have much left in her hands, so she sent it.
The address she sent the letter to this time was the school address. It was not convenient to leave the school phone number. She went to the Internet cafe to apply for a Yahoo email number and put it at the bottom of the letter paper.
She solved the problem of two different royalties, and also sent a short story.
There was no way Zhiyin’s manuscript fee was high.
She just didn’t expect that the story would be so difficult to draft. In this case, Jiang Ning decided to slightly change the story, give it a name that fit the Zhiyin style, and send it to try.
That matter was not urgent. With the two royalties from Wuxia, Jiang Ning’s financial situation suddenly became less tense.
These two royalties, one was four hundred and the other was eight hundred, which added up to a thousand and twelve.
Jiang Ning planned to go to the small commodity market to buy some daily necessities.
Taking a cab from the station cost one yuan, but taking a tricycle from the school gate to the commodity market only cost 50 cents.
This time she did not skimp on the 50 cents. She took the tricycle directly and bought two locks, a lockable canvas box, clothes hangers, soap, slippers, towels, toilet paper and other personal items at once for convenience. She usually wrote in bed and so she bought a small desk lamp.
When she came back, she saw an Avon store on the roadside, so she went in and bought sunscreen, facial cream and facial cleanser.
Military training was coming soon, so she even went to get a haircut. The hair that had been cut by a knife before looked like a leopard’s hair, was flattened and turned into an inch.
Walking on the campus, everyone thought she was a boy.
Their military training lasted for a week. When Jiang Ning returned to the dormitory, she found that several other girls in the dormitory had arrived. They were surprised to see her. Their parents and younger brothers who sent them to the dormitory all looked at Jiang Ning blankly. Looking at her hair and face, they tried to determine whether she was a boy or a girl. Later they saw her huddled under the mosquito net and continued writing without any concern of what was going on outside the window.
Her grandfather passed away due to illness eight years later. She didn’t know how he was doing. She wanted to continue making money, make money quickly, and then take him over for a physical examination.
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