This excited shout immediately startled all the annoyed editors.
"Li Ying, why are you yelling? You're frightening me to death."
"You are a new editor, and you have only been with our Poetry Magazine for less than two months. How can you have any appreciation ability?"
"That's right! Li Ying, you are still young and have not read many poems.
What a great poem!
So you can be sure that it will be popular all over China?"
"Yes! Li Ying, you can't say such things casually.
Even if Xu Zhimo were alive again, he couldn’t guarantee that his poems would become popular all over China.”
…
Several editors who usually didn't get along well with Li Ying spoke out at this time.
Deputy Editor-in-Chief Tian Jian also frowned and gently scolded:
"Li Ying, young people should also be more stable.
If you are a poetry lover, there is nothing wrong with getting excited when you see a good poem.
But now as the editor of our Poetry Magazine, your aesthetics and senses represent the taste and level of our Poetry Magazine.
If any poem can make you cheer and shout like this, it will surely become popular all over the country.
It’s OK in our editorial department, but if outsiders saw it, they would doubt the overall level of poetry appreciation in our Poetry Magazine.”
"But... Deputy Editor-in-Chief Tian, this... this poem of mine is really good!
It’s so good that I… I don’t know how to describe or praise it.
Really! Just now, I was drowsy and almost fell asleep...
He opened the letter and slowly read the poem on it.
I immediately felt a sense of being watered by hope and nourished by happiness.
Every word and every phrase in this poem is so warm, it is the kind of beauty that everyone yearns for.
To use a fashionable word, it is very Platonic. After reading it, one's spiritual world feels an unprecedented sense of fullness..."
Although questioned by the senior editors present, Li Ying did not back down at all.
Instead, he continued to talk, carefully describing in beautiful language all the feelings and experiences he had when reading the poem.
This confidence does not come from himself, but from the song "Facing the Sea, Spring Flowers Blooming" in his hand.
It can be said that it is the best poem he has ever read in his life.
Even Li Ying felt extremely excited and honored at this moment.
Such a poem that could be passed down from generation to generation was actually discovered by a little-known editor like me.
"Hmm? Not bad!
Not to mention anything else, just these are the thoughts after reading that Li Ying just said.
This is already a good poetry appreciation.
But I don’t know what the original text of this poem is like, and whether it is worthy of Li Ying’s wonderful review after reading it.”
Editor-in-chief Yan Chen was also attracted by Li Ying's words. He nodded and said to Li Ying:
"How about this! Everyone stop what you are doing now.
Li Ying, please read aloud the poem you just saw in public.
Since you said this poem will become popular all over the country, let all the editors here act as judges.
If more than half of the editors think that the poem is of good quality.
Then, we don’t have to worry about the main poem for this issue.
Just use this poem!"
Since the editor-in-chief Yan Chen had spoken, naturally the other editors, even if they looked down on the new editor Li Ying, shut up.
However, they were still full of prejudice against Li Ying.
Does a new editor know what good poetry is?
Of course, the fundamental reason why they collectively rejected the new editor Li Ying was not because she was new.
Rather, Li Yingjin got the job at Poetry Magazine through connections, while the other editors all came from cultural and artistic units, or were famous writers or poets themselves.
However, this young girl, Li Ying, had just graduated from college as a "literature and poetry lover" and got a job at Poetry Magazine through connections.
How can this convince these old editors?
The fact that a young girl who has just started out can sit in the same office with them to review manuscripts really lowers the standards of these editors and literary artists.
They were just waiting to mock Li Ying, the new editor who got in through connections!
However……
Li Ying also felt everyone's questioning gazes and their desire to laugh at her.
But she was not afraid at all. With a poem like this in her hand, what was there to be afraid of?
She cleared her throat, swallowed, gathered her emotions, and recited with great passion:
"From tomorrow on, be a happy person.
Feed the horses, chop wood, and travel the world."
The first two sentences sound unremarkable when read out loud.
There is no rhyme and no literary beauty.
There was no rich emotion at all. After listening to it, they only got the content of the statement, which did not cause any emotional waves among the experienced editors present.
Even the editor-in-chief Yan Chen frowned in dissatisfaction.
After all, with time being so tight, Li Ying, the new editor, actually used such a mediocre poem and wasted all the editors' time.
"Haha! I told you! How can someone who got in through the back door have any literary appreciation?
Just these two sentences, I can write a hundred different ones a day."
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