Rebirth begins with studying hard

Chapter 36: The Royalties Have Arrived

Lu Jie never expected that his cousin was a fan of his books.

Hearing this conversation, he probably guessed that his cousin had read "Battle Through the Heavens" because he thought it would help with his essay writing.

Online novels are a rare and niche thing nowadays, and in Aunt Si's mind, they were just extracurricular reading materials.

Given that this cousin had received royalties before, he should not be opposed to such extracurricular reading materials, and it is permissible for him to read them.

Hong Zhen's subsequent words confirmed his idea:

"Lu Jie, you should read the book Xiao Hao recommended. Learn from it!"

"If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask him for help."

"Xiao Hao has published articles and received royalties. I can't speak for other aspects, but he can still guide you in this area."

"Battle Through the Heavens is your role model."

"But Xiao Hao, why is the title of this book so strange?"

Listening to his cousin hurriedly explaining the profound meaning and symbolism of the book title to his mother word by word, Lu Jie almost burst out laughing.

I was going to say something, but then I thought about how my cousin had such a controlling mother, and it must have been tough for him, so I didn't expose him or say anything.

After hearing her son's explanation, Hongzhen simply said "oh" and praised the book title as excellent. Then she wanted to continue showing off her son.

But he was interrupted by a knock on the door before he could finish speaking:

"Is this Lu Jie's house? Is Lu Jie home?"

Hearing someone call his name, Lu Jie got up and went to open the door.

A person in a postal worker's uniform outside the door said:

"Are you Lu Jie?"

"Yes." Lu Jie nodded.

"Do you have any identification?" the postal worker asked again, still somewhat uneasy.

"Wait a moment, let me get my ID card." Registration requires identification information, and since I'll need my ID card for the exam later, Lu Jie went to get it done while he was at it.

After receiving the ID card and confirming that it was the person in question, the postal worker handed over a green slip:

"Thank you for your cooperation. The amount on this remittance slip is too large, so we need to confirm that it was signed for by the recipient."

It was a manuscript fee of 10,000 yuan that Qidian remitted.

"Okay, you're welcome," Lu Jie said politely after glancing at the remittance slip.

He had received a remittance slip in his previous life when he saw a call for submissions in college and submitted his work out of boredom.

He received a prize of 500 yuan, and later, after the publication of his award-winning works, he received a royalties of more than 2,000 yuan.

They were all mailed using money order slips.

Although they all required signatures, the reception office clearly didn't take it very seriously.

It's probably because the amount is relatively small.

Back at the dinner table, he heard his mother ask with a frown:

"Xiao Jie, what's this remittance slip? And the amount is quite large?"

Hong Zhen immediately replied:

"Lu Jie, you can't do anything shady! And whatever you do, don't borrow money from outsiders."

"It's not easy for your mom to sell fruit at her stall, so you need to be considerate and make things easier for her."

Lu Jie glanced at his fourth aunt.

There's nothing particularly sarcastic about it, but the way it's being said makes people very uncomfortable.

"It's royalties. Mom, I told you before, I wrote a novel that's being serialized, and they're paying me royalties."

He handed the remittance slip to his mother, which had a note indicating that it was for royalties in May.

Gu Yunshu remembered that she had indeed signed a document for Lu Jie a few months ago, which was some kind of authorization. At the time, Lu Jie explained to her that he had written a novel that had been signed and was going to be serialized, and that he needed his guardian's signature to agree.

She didn't pay much attention at the time, but just told him not to let it affect his studies.

There was no follow-up to this, and since Lu Jie made great progress in his studies, she was so happy that her son had become more sensible, studied hard, and made great progress that she forgot about the serialized novel.

Even when Hong Zhen mentioned Lu Hao's royalties, she didn't think of it.

Upon receiving the remittance slip and seeing that the note indicated it was for royalties, she was completely relieved.

But when she saw the amount, she couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:

"So many?!"

Hong Zhen had just boasted that her son had received royalties, but she never expected that Lu Jie would also receive royalties.

Moreover, the postman delivered the money order to their door right in front of them.

She felt somewhat uncomfortable about it.

Upon hearing Gu Yunshu's surprised words, she couldn't help but say:

"How much can a manuscript fee be? Don't make a fuss. My Lu Hao has received several..."

As she spoke, she craned her neck to look at the remittance slip, then abruptly stopped as if her throat had been choked.

His previously beaming face froze, revealing a hint of embarrassment.

She was going to say that Lu Hao had received the money several times and that his accumulated royalties were almost a thousand.

Unexpectedly, the amount on the remittance slip was ten thousand.

They are completely incomparable.

Even though Gu Yunshu wasn't one to compare herself to others or to boast or be competitive, she still felt somewhat uncomfortable listening to Lu Jie's fourth aunt's boastful words.

But since she was a guest from afar, and her son's grades were indeed not as good as the other party's son's, and he had never received any royalties, she could only keep him company.

But unexpectedly, just as they were talking about this topic, the postman delivered the money order for his son's royalties.

And the amount is still so large.

In a simplistic way of thinking, whoever receives more royalties is definitely more skilled.

Lu Hao had only received a few hundred yuan in royalties a few times, but Lu Jie had received tens of thousands.

They're not even in the same league.

That really gave her face.

"Not bad, not bad!" Her words were simple, but she couldn't stop smiling.

He handed the remittance slip to his son, telling him not to spend it recklessly, and then began talking to Hong Zhen, following up on the topic:

"Xiao Jie is much more sensible than before."

"My grades have improved a lot this semester. I was in the top ten in the class in the last monthly exam."

"It's much less troublesome than before."

Hong Zhen smiled somewhat awkwardly: "Oh really? That's pretty good."

"Keep it up, Lu Jie."

Seeing his mother proudly showing him off in front of relatives, Lu Jie smiled and felt quite happy.

I feel a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

He can now become a source of pride for his mother during her leisure time.

Unlike before, when the elders would talk about the children, the mother could no longer find anything to say.

After being distracted by this incident, Hong Zhen became much more restrained and stopped saying anything boastful.

Later, when she stayed at his house, her attitude became much more polite. Even when he sometimes made offensive remarks without any sense of boundaries, she would quickly explain.

The politeness made Lu Jie feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Indeed, only great strength commands respect.

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After receiving the remittance slip, Lu Jie went to the post office and withdrew all the money. Since the post office had started offering banking services, he opened a Post Office Bank card and transferred the money directly into the card.

Then he spent half a day visiting several top-tier hospitals in Feicheng to learn about their physical examination policies and procedures.

Back in 08, physical examinations were still a relatively new thing, and it wasn't until the new campus of Anhui Medical University that I was able to find out about physical examination services.

He took notice after learning that he could pay in advance by making an appointment and then call to confirm the specific time of arrival one day in advance.

The organization that serialized his novel gave him a parent-child health check-up package, and the mother was asked to come for the check-up because both the parent and child had to come together.

In his mother's eyes, this was free, and she would definitely agree to come so that he could have the medical check-up.

Thinking about it, he paid for two of the most expensive medical check-up packages.

I then asked GG Company to produce an explanation and introduction of the free medical check-up.

Feeling that there were no flaws, he excitedly went to find his mother.

As he expected, although his mother still felt that it was unnecessary for him to have a physical examination, she took his health very seriously and insisted that he have one.

After hearing that this was a family package and both people had to go together to use it, I agreed to go as soon as I finished this busy period.

After Lu Jie finished doing the most important thing since returning to this world, the day came for the final exam results to be released.

The class assignment results are in.