Chapter 228 I lost it! Liu Xinwu, who gave you the courage to pry the manuscript? (Please order in full)
Cheng Xuemin also didn’t expect that Liu Xinwu from “October” would be with the Humanities Club.
This morning, his mother-in-law went to the work unit with medals and certificates, ready to show off to Lao Liu and the others.
In the face of everyone's curious inquiries, Cheng Xuemin just nodded and admitted that he did receive the award from the People's Hall yesterday. As for what award he received, it was hard to say clearly.
Li Shuguang and the others did not break the casserole to get to the bottom of the matter. Knowing that Cheng Xuemin won the award was already very impressive!
They also said that this gave them a cultural outlet and earned them a wave of honor!
They say they are both civil and military, but isn’t that what Cheng Xuemin is?
"Xuemin, you are the absolute protagonist of this awards ceremony!" Li Shuguang followed Cheng Xuemin and said, "Not to mention Lao Zhang People's Literature's "The Taking of Director Qiao", and Lao Li's "Yenjing Literature" "The Wrangler" and "The Heart of the Grass"!
"Xuemin, you may not know that your two manuscripts, "Wrangler" and "Director Qiao's Take-Off", plus Lao Liu's "Class Teacher" and Lu Xinhua's "Scars", as well as "Yanhe Literature" "Loess High Slope" is a strong contender for the first prize! ”
"And based on the votes from readers' letters, your "Wrangler" had more votes than "Director Qiao's Take-Off". It can be said to be far ahead!"
"As a result, our selection committee really couldn't make a specific judgment. In the end, Mr. Wu decided not to judge the first, second, and third prizes, but all excellence awards!"
"Xuemin, you have single-handedly broken our award-winning conventions, okay!"
Li Shuguang hilariously mentioned the inside story to Cheng Xuemin, which Feng's mother and Feng's father had mentioned to Cheng Xuemin before.
Now listening to Li Shuguang and others from the judging panel say this, it makes Cheng Xuemin a little bit arrogant!
With his own efforts, he broke the previous convention of awarding awards. That’s awesome, right?
The more awesome thing is yet to come!
Listening to what Li Shuguang and Zhang Guangnian meant, the jury only knew that Cheng Xuemin had published several articles in "People's Literature", "Yenjing Literature" and "October", and they all won awards!
I really don’t know that several of the articles he published in other places also won awards?
Especially Li Shuguang just mentioned "Loess High Slope" from "Yanhe Literature". From his tone, I didn't know it was written by Cheng Xuemin?
However, Cheng Xuemin didn’t dare to really get carried away in front of these teachers. He quickly smiled bitterly and said modestly: "Teacher Li, it’s all a fluke! It’s all thanks to the love and help of all the teachers. Let me I am a new author and have achieved this level of achievement today!”
"Here, I really want to thank Teacher Qingquan, Teacher Liu, Teacher Zhang, Teacher Li, and all the teachers. Thank you very much!"
Needless to say, Li Qingquan of "Yenjing Literature" was the author of Cheng Xuemin's debut novel "The Wrangler". It was he who made the decision under pressure to let him, a new author, appear on the front page of their Yanjing Literature;
The same goes for Liu Xinwu of "October". He also faced great pressure and appeared in Cheng Xuemin's "The Ascension of Director Qiao".
Although Zhang Guangnian's "People's Literature" was finally cut off and the manuscript was stolen!
This made Cheng Xuemin feel even more sorry for Lao Liu!
Zhang Guangnian of People’s Literature and Li Shuguang of Humanities Society are also teachers to whom Cheng Xuemin must be grateful.
Because, with the help of their "People's" brand name, Cheng Xuemin, a new author, has successively gained considerable influence, and has become the only rising star among new young authors.
Also, Cheng Xuemin earns the most royalties from the ‘People’s’ font!
Especially Li Shuguang's humanities club, the single volumes published by Cheng Xuemin are almost free of charge, and they are all free of charge for seven yuan per thousand words.
Food and clothing parents!
In this era of buyout of royalties, the editors-in-chief and teachers of these magazines and publications are like the adoptive fathers of readers. They are really Cheng Xuemin’s parents.
Therefore, these teachers really deserve Cheng Xuemin’s respect and gratitude!
"Xuemin, you are too polite and too outsider!" Li Qingquan took Cheng Xuemin's words and directly interrupted him.
We then led Cheng Xuemin to Li Shuguang and said, "Xuemin, we submitted all of "The Herdsman" and "The Heart of an Inch of Grass" that you posted to our Yanjing Literature last year, and both of them won awards!"
"Old Li, help Xuemin sign in!" Then he greeted Li Shuguang again.
"You guy... none of the other academics are floating around, but you are floating around!" Li Shuguang glanced at Liu Xinwu from "October" and said angrily to Li Qingquan.
"It's okay, it's okay. Our "Yenjing Literature" can't compare with your People's Publishing House, so Xuemin has won some glory for us!"
"We at Yanjing Literature have indeed benefited from the scholarship!"
Li Qingquan did not lie. This time, their "Yenjing Literature" also submitted ten manuscripts for selection. Unfortunately, only two of Cheng Xuemin's manuscripts were selected and won awards!
The other few articles all failed and did not win any prizes!
However, because of Cheng Xuemin, two of their Yanjing Literature articles were selected. Among the various award-winning magazines and publications, they are the only three that have won more than one article, ranking third!
The "People's Literature" above has been selected for more than a dozen articles, which is worthy of being the top palace of "People's" fonts, followed closely by "Shanghai Literature and Art" and "Harvest".
Shanghai Literature and Art submitted three articles to the selection this time. "Harvest" only had one issue because it was republished two years ago, but it was also very capable and won two articles.
Therefore, Yanjing Literature ranks third, tied for third place with "Harvest". When this year's Excellence Awards are selected next year, "Harvest" will begin to exert its strength, and even their "Yenjing Literature" will be unable to catch up.
After all, "Harvest" dares to compete with "People's Literature".
"Look how proud you are!"
Liu Xinwu, who was standing next to him, said something to this guy, with mixed feelings.
Because Cheng Xuemin was their son-in-law in "October", but at the critical moment of selecting the grand prize, their son-in-law didn't even win a prize for them!
To say that she felt unhappy, Liu Xinwu felt more aggrieved than anyone else.
"Old Liu, Lao Liu, don't be sour! Didn't you even give you an award for "October"?"
Li Qingquan responded with another sentence, because he knew where Liu Xinwu was resentful!
Cheng Xuemin was obviously their son-in-law in October, but he helped them win two awards for "Yenjing Literature". Who can explain this!
But this is because Liu Xinwu failed to take the lead. The "Class Teacher" he wrote himself also won an award!
Moreover, it is also the pioneer work of scar literature and a strong contender for the first prize this time.
But his article "Class Teacher" was published in "People's Literature", but not in his "October".
"It doesn't hurt to stand and talk. When I published that, our "October" magazine didn't resume publication. Can it be the same?"
Liu Xinwu said something to Li Qingquan, and he was indeed right. When Liu Xinwu wrote "Class Teacher" and published "Class Teacher", his subordinates were still in the northwest and had not returned to the city to resume work.
He also had the courage to write "Class Teacher" and became the first person to write about the scars of that era. It was also because of the special significance of "Class Teacher" that Liu Xinwu got the opportunity to return to the city and was reinstated to work in charge of the resumption of publication of "October".
So what Liu Xinwu said is absolutely right. It was "Homeroom" that came first, and then "October" resumed publication, which is different from Cheng Xuemin's situation.
After angrily scolding Li Qingquan, Liu Xinwu angrily said to Cheng Xuemin: "Xuemin, this time only the manuscripts from last year will be selected until December!"
"If we can stop now, you will definitely have more manuscripts that can be selected for awards. Your mother-in-law, Teacher Gu, and I are waiting!"
"Last year, I let Lao Li's Yanjing Literature be proud and arrogant. This year, you have to help our "October" catch up and try to give your mother-in-law, Teacher Gu, a few more manuscripts, okay?!"
Cheng Xuemin was caught in the war of words between the two families, so it was no wonder that he was so embarrassed. And what Li Qingquan of Yanjing Literature said, Cheng Xuemin also discovered that this time, his son-in-law really didn't help his mother-in-law win a prize.
And this time, "October" seems to have also failed. Not a single article was selected. How about a duck egg?
After learning about this situation, Cheng Xuemin also lamented that his mother-in-law had indeed changed. Otherwise, the results of this award evaluation will not cause any trouble at home.
Especially his daughter-in-law Feng Jiayou, who was such a filial daughter at that time, insisted on not giving her mother a single manuscript for "October", just to gain a little bit of breath, and also for the extra dollar of manuscript fee.
It's fine now. I didn't expect that the first awards ceremony would be waiting here. So the mother-in-law did not go crazy at home, which really changed a lot.
Immediately afterwards, Cheng Xuemin also expressed his position to Liu Xinwu: "Thank you, Teacher Liu, for your support. In the future... In fact, my mother-in-law will polish the manuscripts for me as soon as I write them."
At this point, everyone understands, but because he has a mother-in-law who is an editor at home, Cheng Xuemin's manuscripts now have to be reviewed by his mother-in-law first.
In other words, the mother-in-law has the final say on future manuscripts. Lao Liu, are you worried about running out of manuscripts for "October" in the future?
"Okay, okay, Teacher Gu is helping to polish the manuscript? Then, Xuemin, how is the manuscript you wrote when you went south this time? Didn't you hear Teacher Gu talk about it?" Liu Xinwu immediately became excited after hearing this, and hurriedly Taking the opportunity to reveal his true colors, he asked.
Come, come, Liu Xinwu asked, Zhang Guangnian next to him instantly understood what old Liu was planning. It's a pity, Lao Liu, that your wishful thinking was just like his People's Literature, it was wrong!
The General Political Art Troupe doesn’t even look down on their People’s Literature, but can they look down on a second-tier publication of his, Old Liu’s? This time he didn't even win an award for one of his articles. Who gave Liu Xinwu the courage to compete with "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art" for a manuscript?
Just because of Teacher Gu, Cheng Xuemin, his mother-in-law?
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PS: This chapter was written on a mobile phone on the train. It is indeed a bit too short. Sorry! By the way, I would like to ask for the guaranteed monthly pass at the beginning of the month. I would be very grateful to all the adoptive fathers!
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