Chapter 348: It’s so refreshing!
Ye Chi's comrade's lover's surname was Huang, and she was the editor-in-chief of the Kyoto Youth Daily. It was she who did the interview when Gu Siqing was against Xia Yuan. Now, holding Gu Siqing's article, she couldn't help but praise it. "It's really not easy for such a young age to write such an article. If this is published, Ling Pingying doesn't know whether she will be angry or jealous."
"What are you mumbling about? What article?" her husband Chen Xiangdong came over and asked.
Director Huang handed Gu Siqing's article to him and said, "Ye Chi's sister-in-law wrote this and it will be published in our newspaper."
Chen Xiangdong took Gu Siqing's article and read it aloud involuntarily:
"Some foreigners look down on Chinese people, which is hateful. But some Chinese people look down on their own country, their own people, and their own people. These people are even more hateful. Most of these people who worship foreigners and fawn on foreigners have the following characteristics.
This kind of person is a cowardly, timid, and cowardly person. They've made kneeling a norm. It's fine if they kneel down themselves, but they also think all Chinese people should kneel down to a certain country. They constantly spew out all kinds of cowardly, unmotivated theories that undermine the self-esteem of the Chinese people to those around them.
Ms. Ling Pingying, what are your thoughts on my opinion? Foreigners are well-mannered, open-minded, and advanced-minded. Even a foreigner's fart smells good here. How ridiculous and lamentable!
In the world's 5,000-year history, China has stood at the top of the world for 4,800 years. Now we have just taken a nap, and there are people like you crawling on the ground and licking other countries. I am ashamed of you, and the Chinese people are ashamed of you.
After reading your article, I have been wondering: are you born with a servile nature, or are you bending over backwards for money, to flatter foreign countries like this?
"That's refreshing! Really refreshing!" Chen Xiangdong couldn't help but say after he finished reading, "In five thousand years of history, we've been at the top for four thousand eight hundred. Now we're just taking a nap. Well said, really well said."
Then he looked at Director Huang and said, "Publish. This article must be published."
Director Huang chuckled. "Needless to say? Even if I didn't consider Ye Chi's favor, I would have published this article. But this kid is really sharp, pointing out names."
"She bullied a child first, so you can't blame him for fighting back," said Chen Xiangdong.
He learned from Ye Chi what Ling Pingying had done and felt very disgusted with her.
Director Huang sighed, "Actually, she's not the only one advocating for the West right now."
After hearing her words, Chen Xiangdong couldn't help but sigh.
The next day, Director Huang showed Gu Siqing's article to the editor-in-chief of their newspaper, who applauded it. He also couldn't stand the way some people constantly praised the West. Although he had never been abroad, he didn't doubt that the world abroad wasn't as good as they said.
In a capitalist country, everything is based on capital. How can everything be good?
"Publish it," the president said. "Don't worry about Ling Pingying. Doesn't she advocate for freedom of speech in the West? Isn't this freedom of speech here? If she thinks Gu Siqing is wrong, she can publish an article to fight back."
"In my opinion, even if she fights back, it won't be as sharp as Gu Siqing's," said Director Huang.
That's right, Ling Pingying, you are Chinese. If you advocate the West again when fighting back, it would be equivalent to stamping out what Gu Siqing said before.
The two agreed, and Director Huang went to prepare for the publication. The article would appear in the newspaper tomorrow. But Director Huang did not expect that in the afternoon she received another article from Gu Siqing. This time the title was: The Pattern of China's Opening in the New Era
The main theme of this article is that, in reform and opening up, we must be open, inclusive, and innovative, but at the same time, we must remain true to our original aspirations. We should learn from the West's advanced practices, but we should do so with an equal and objective attitude.
After reading this article, Director Huang had to admire Gu Siqing's meticulous thinking. This article could be said to have blocked Ling Pingying's way.
In the previous article, if Ling Pingying fought back, she might have refuted Gu Siqing's conservative thinking, but after this article came out, what else could Ling Pingying say?
"Student Siqing!" Director Huang poured a glass of water and placed it in front of Gu Siqing, saying, "Do you plan to cooperate with our newspaper for a long time? What about the royalties?"
Director Huang was embarrassed to say more halfway through his words. Although the person in front of him was young, he was really not short of money.
Gu Siqing held the teacup in both hands and smiled brightly at Director Huang. "I also want to work with you for a long time, but I'm in school now and my schedule is tight. But if I publish an article in the future, I will definitely tell you first."
She lowered her head and blew away the hot steam from the water seriously. Her eyes were clear and smiling as she spoke. She looked like a teenage girl. No one would have thought that she could write such a sharp article.
Director Huang shook her head, feeling she couldn't understand the girl in front of her. But she didn't dwell on it and said with a smile, "Okay, let me know if you have any articles you want to publish in the future."
"Okay." Gu Siqing put down the teacup in her hand, then stood up and said goodbye. Director Huang sent her to the door of the unit.
Gu Siqing rode her bicycle home. It was spring, and the trees along the road had already turned a light green, but she suddenly felt melancholy. Before, Han Zhengping would have been the one to take her on his bike, but now she was all alone.
I miss classmate Han.
After riding her bike home, she went inside and took out some stationery to write a letter. Actually, she didn't write much, just chatting with him like she usually did, saying whatever came to mind. By the end, she found she had written seven or eight pages.
I really miss the internet of my previous life!
The next day, the Kyoto Youth Daily published Gu Siqing's article, which instantly caused a sensation within a small circle. In fact, when Ling Pingying and his ilk wrote articles to hype up foreign countries and belittle domestic ones, no one realized much.
In recent years of reform and opening up, foreign ideas and goods have flooded into the country. Many people really yearn for life abroad. Ling Pingying and others' articles promoting foreign countries have intensified everyone's yearning for foreign countries.
But Gu Siqing's article was like a bucket of cold water, sobering up many people. Is the overseas world really as good as Ling Pingying and the others wrote? But no matter how good overseas is, it's still someone else's country. There's no need for us to kowtow to them.
At the same time, the name Gu Siqing made more people remember it. There was no way, this article was so cool and satisfying.
Ling Pingying didn't know it at the moment, but Gu Siqing had singled her out in the newspapers. She was dealing with her parents and siblings when they came asking for more money. This time, they wanted even more, a hundred thousand yuan. Her eldest and younger brothers were going to start a business.
Where does she get 100,000 yuan?
Her royalties were not low, but they were nothing compared to Gu Siqing's hundreds of thousands of yuan in royalties. Furthermore, her parents and brothers often came to ask for money, and she had previously given them part of her royalties.
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