With Gong Ying, a local, leading the way, Wu Jianye arrived at the "Shanghai Literature" magazine without taking any wrong steps. As one of the largest literary magazines in the country at this time, the office of "Shanghai Literature" was actually
Not big.
There are also many people who have submitted articles. When Wu Jianye first came here, he saw a lot of people walking around here.
The domestic cultural atmosphere has just recovered, and many people have started their own creative careers. For example, 26-year-old Mo Yan published his short story "Spring Night Rainfall".
When will this have to wait? Wu Jianye looked at the many people who came to submit articles and felt dizzy.
Gong Yin chuckled, stretched out his hand and gave me the manuscript.
Seeing this, Wu Jianye didn't know that she must have her own way here, so she quickly handed the draft of "Alive" to Gong Yin.
Sister Xue, thank you very much! Thank you in a Peking Opera accent.
Humph, I need to ask someone for help, even the title has changed, just wait! Gong Yi rolled his eyes at Wu Jianye, and then went in happily.
Wu Jianye was waiting outside, listening to the person closest to the door talking intermittently about foreign friends. It was so chaotic that Wu Jianye didn't hear clearly.
After a while, Gong Yin came out and said with a smile: Come on, come in with me and wait. Uncle Zhao is entertaining a reporter from the United States. Let's go to his office and wait for him!
On the way in, Wu Jianye learned that the Uncle Zhao Gong Yin was talking about was none other than Zhao Dehong, the editor-in-chief of "Shanghai Literature".
I didn’t expect Sister Xue and Zhao Dehong to be related! Wu Jianye said with a smile.
Gong Yin: Uncle Zhao is a family friend of ours. In fact, I have mentioned your book to him a long time ago, and he is very optimistic about it!
Wu Jianye was stunned, because Gong Yin had never told him about this matter, and sincerely thanked him: Then I really want to thank Sister Xue!
Wu Jianye and Gong Yin came to Zhao Dehong's office. Although the decoration here is a little simple, there is a lot of books. Many famous works in foreign languages can be seen here.
I heard Uncle Zhao say that what they lack most here is foreign language translators. The remuneration for a translation seems to be between 2 and 7 yuan per thousand words. This is a national regulation! Gong Yin introduced Wu Jianye.
Wu Jianye nodded, he really didn't know about this.
The two chatted casually, and after about ten minutes, they heard hearty laughter coming from outside, a deep and powerful man's voice, and a woman's voice like a delicate oriole's first twitter.
The two of them still communicated in English. What made Wu Jianye a little confused was that he always felt that the woman's voice sounded familiar, and for a while he couldn't remember where he had heard it.
Soon, the door to Zhao Dehong's office was pushed open, and an elegant man in his fifties wearing glasses walked in, followed by a foreign woman wearing a windbreaker.
Wu Jianye's expression changed drastically. He finally remembered where he had heard this voice, Yanjing!
Linda!
Linda and Johnson and others returned to the United States after visiting Yanjing City last year. After returning to the United States, Johnson took the two antiques that Wu Jianye sold to him and hurriedly found someone to appraise them.
And another 'antique' that he regarded as a treasure was bought by him alone, so he took it directly to his grandfather to offer it as a treasure. He knew that his grandfather loved Chinese antiques, and he hoped that he could rely on this piece.
'Antique' invites favor in front of his grandfather.
The result can be imagined. As a lover of Chinese antiques, the old man naturally knows about Chinese antiques. So when he got this 'antique', he thought it was his grandson for a while and wanted to make it convenient for him in the future.
It's time to take it easy and don't walk too much.
The subsequent plot is relatively simple. Not only did Johnson not show his face in front of his grandfather, he was also greatly embarrassed. When he learned that the so-called 'antique' turned out to be a chamber pot used by the Chinese for convenience, at that time
He would clamor to return to China to give Wu Jianye a good look.
But his grandfather gently gave Johnson a few hard blows with his cane to make him remember it for a long time. Then the appraisal results of the other two so-called antiques also came out. They were all fakes, and they were still that bad.
High street fakes......
Johnson's deeds have completely become the object of ridicule by people around him. Johnson has repeatedly said that if he has the opportunity to go to China again in the future, he must make Wu Jianye look good.
Linda naturally knew about it, but at this time Linda had already worked for a magazine in the United States. Since Linda had the experience of traveling to China, the manager of the magazine later sent her to the booming China to collect some information.
material.
When Linda walked into the room, she also showed a surprised look when she saw Wu Jianye. Although she only met Wu Jianye once, her impression of Wu Jianye couldn't be deeper. After all, she did
He was Johnson's associate at the time and one of the objects of ridicule.
There was a time when she also wanted to teach that hateful Chinese a lesson.
Wu! Linda shouted.
Ah, haha, the weather is nice today! Wu Jianye didn't say anything at all. This was the first time he encountered this kind of thing of being blocked in the room by the master of suffering. He casually said haha, and took Gong Ying's hand to ask for it.
Go outside.
Damn it, everything went wrong today, I didn’t look at the almanac when I went out!
Gong Ying was a little confused when Wu Jianye pulled her. What are you doing? Are people saying hello to you? She knew that Wu Jianye knew English.
What? Where is it? I remembered, there are other tasks in the studio today, we have to go back quickly! Wu Jianye pulled Gong Ying away without any explanation, please give up.
Wu, antique... Linda also saw Wu Jianye's embarrassment and the dissatisfaction in her heart. She didn't know why Linda felt so dissatisfied when she saw the extremely shrewd man behave like this now.
It has long since disappeared, but it is a bit funny.
In fact, this is also related to time. After all, almost a year has passed, and the anger has been almost exhausted.
Oops, isn't this Linda? It's been a long time since we last met! Wu Jianye knew there was no way to hide, so he had to shout and said haha.
So Wu, you have recognized me! Linda looked at Wu Jianye with interest.
What do you mean? Linda is such a beautiful woman, how could I forget it? I just didn’t expect to meet you here. I was so happy that I almost forgot about the business. When I have the opportunity, I’ll be your host.
How was the meal? There is indeed something going on today! Wu Jianye doesn't seem to have much entanglement with Linda here.
At this time, Zhao Dehong also realized it. Although he didn't know why Wu Jianye didn't want to see Linda, Linda was his guest. He had heard his niece say that there was a very good book before, so this young man must be the one.
That writer.
We are all here, if there is anything else we can do, let’s sit down and talk first!
Wu Jianye had no choice but to obey the order. After sitting down and looking at Linda's smile, he was speechless for a while. Alas, at the worst, he should pay them the money...