50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 53 Forbidden City
After a while, Nannan fell asleep in Aunt Chen's arms, and she held on to Aunt Chen's clothes and refused to let go.

Aunt Chen signaled to Sun Zhiwei with her eyes, "Nannan will sleep here today," and then gently carried Nannan back to the bedroom.

What could Sun Zhiwei do? He could only agree to stay at Old Sun's house that night. Oh, now he couldn't call him Old Sun anymore, he had to call him Godfather.

Well, there's nothing wrong with sleeping at my godfather's house for a night.

Afterwards, Sun Zhiwei presented the lyrics and music he had written. After seeing them, Mr. Sun hummed them softly over and over again.

You can tell at a glance that he is very satisfied, even happier than when he adopted a godson (Sun Zhiwei's godson was adopted by his daughter, commonly known as a "datou").

"It's really well written. How about I publish it in a magazine for you?"

"Ah, publish? Publish where?"

"There's a new magazine coming out soon, and I think this song would be perfect for it."

Hearing it was a new publication, Sun Zhiwei stopped asking: "Have you decided? I have another copy."

"Okay, I'll tell you after it's published."

"By the way, you should bring Nannan here more often in the future. Your godmother loves Nannan so much."

"Okay, I'll bring my daughter here every week. She usually lives on campus."

"I know Beihai lives on campus, but it's still too conspicuous. Oh, forget it, it'll only be next year, and I'll be fine once I start elementary school."

Sun Zhiwei also knew what he meant, but the educational conditions there were really good, and he wanted to see his daughter receive a good education from an early age.

At night, Sun Zhiwei stayed at the Sun family. The poor Principal Yuan had to rush to the security compound overnight to inform Lao Zhang, so that Lao Zhang would not think that his two children had been abducted.

The next day, Nannan and her godmother Aunt Chen were so close together that they didn't want to be apart. Her godmother really loved Nannan so much that she even ignored her youngest son, Sun Quanlai.

In her words: "It's better to raise a boy in a rough environment, otherwise he will become spoiled in the future."

Sun Zhiwei had no choice but to stay for another night. It was not until the third day when Nannan had to go to school that the godmother personally sent Nannan to the gate of Beihai Kindergarten.

At the end of October, one weekend, Sun Zhiwei came to visit his sister.

That’s right, now Nannan has officially moved in with Aunt Chen, and he no longer has the job of picking up and dropping off his sister at kindergarten every week.

Aunt Chen now personally picks up and drops off students, and even if Sun Zhiwei goes with them, he can only carry the luggage at most.

When he came this time, Mr. Sun handed him a magazine, which was the newly established "Human Studies" magazine.

This surprised him. He didn't expect that the poem "Youth" could be published in the first issue of "Human Studies", which is a top domestic journal that has been at the top for a long time and has been unique since its inception.

This magazine is a sample issue, and along with it comes a bill of royalties, which clearly states 20 yuan for lyrics and 20 yuan for composition.

这应该是当前歌曲类的最高稿费了，是按第一套币来计算的。现在的稿费标准已经出台：文艺类作品每千字10一20万元，诗歌每20行算1000字，曲艺每40行算1000字；
歌曲的词曲作者各10一20万元；电影剧本每部3000万元一8000万元，也有超过1万万元的。

Newspapers at all levels have corresponding standards based on their levels, and most of them pay per article based on category, such as news, correspondence, etc. Editors and reporters within the newspaper are not paid for articles published in the newspaper.

Sun Zhiwei felt that in addition to the fact that the song was indeed excellent, the factor of Mr. Sun was also involved. Otherwise, it would be impossible for a newcomer like him to receive such a high fee for his contribution.

He was very happy with the 40 yuan he earned this time. This was the first legal income he had earned since he came to this era. Since then, his cash balance has increased to more than 60 yuan.
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At the beginning of November, an urgent notice was issued, calling on all units and individuals to actively participate in the defense of the Forbidden City and protect the national cultural heritage.

The notice was written in a very flowery language, and Sun Zhiwei didn't understand what the protection method was.

As a result, not long after the Chinese New Year, the brigade issued a notice asking everyone to take half a day off every day to participate in the cleaning of the Forbidden City.

It turns out that since the Qing emperor moved out in the 24th year, the place has been abandoned. It is now overgrown with weeds and no longer looks like the largest palace in the world.

Not to mention anything else, the loss of cultural relics alone has reached tens of thousands, and this number was obtained after several large-scale protection efforts.

Some of these lost cultural relics were sold, some were stolen, and some were treated as ordinary objects and scattered around the Forbidden City. Many were even scattered in various corners of the palace and buried in dust.

Today's Forbidden City is like an old house: the less people live in it, the more it tends to fall into disrepair. Over 20 years later, without funding or maintenance, many buildings are rapidly decaying.

In fact, no matter whose house it is, as long as there is someone living in it, it is difficult to damage no matter how it is used. But once no one lives in it, it will damage quickly.

Logically speaking, it should be destroyed faster when someone lives there, but the opposite is true. I don’t know what the reason is.

Nowadays, a large number of people should have come to this dilapidated former imperial palace, bringing various tools to clean up this old house.

Some of them cleaned, some washed, some maintained, and some repaired. Each of them performed their duties, making this palace, which had been silent for many years, bustling again.

The team that Sun Zhiwei was in was assigned to do basic cleaning work in the Qianqing Palace, which was actually chores like weeding, plastering, and washing the floor, similar to the general cleaning in school.

This time, Sun Zhiwei was the designated team leader of the brigade. After he assigned everyone the tasks, he held a short meeting to explain what should be paid attention to during cleaning.

"Students, this is where the ancient emperor worked and slept. Some of the things here may look ordinary, but they could very well be precious cultural relics, so we must be extremely careful."

"Don't splash water directly on the floor, walls, furniture, or pillars. When we clean the first time, if there are places that can't be cleaned, don't force it with a shovel. Instead, make a note and wait for other staff to do the second cleanup."

"Why do I say that? For example: this red pillar, the paint used on it is very expensive."

"If you see a black spot that's hard to wipe off, just scrape it off with a shovel, and at the same time, scrape off the red paint underneath it."

"As a result, it will need to be repainted later, which will cost the country a lot more money."

"For example, if you see an old book with a lot of dirt on it, if you wipe it with a wet towel, it is very likely to damage the text and content inside."

(End of this chapter)