Chapter 250: The Pregnancy That Forces the Parents-in-Laws 7 If the test is passed, we will...
Qi Changxiao's ruthless rejection made Gu Yanni feel very embarrassed. She bent down to pick up the fallen drawing, biting her lips, looking pitiful.
Qi Changxiao remained unmoved. He stood up and moved slightly to the side, watching the last bit of sunlight dissipating in the distance, and waited patiently.
Gu Yanni stared at his back infatuatedly, silently clenched her fists, and wanted to say something else, but saw Xiao Wei coming out of the art department. She had no choice but to bite the bullet and turn around and leave with the draft in her arms.
Xiao Wei saw her coming downstairs and couldn't help but jokingly said, "Wow, you're so active, you're even working overtime. Did your boss give you a raise?"
Gu Yanni forced a smile and said, "I'm not working overtime. I was just looking at the drawings. You're overthinking it."
"Then why don't you come to me? Do you think my skills are not good enough?" Xiao Wei curled his lips. "That's where you're wrong. Although my painting is not very good, I can appreciate it. Come on, show it to me."
Gu Yanni didn't want to offend this colleague, so she silently handed over the sketch. Xiao Wei glanced at it casually and exclaimed, "It's quite good. Is it the illustration for Hong Ri's novel?"
"How do you know?" Gu Yanni was a little surprised. Red Sun is a novel that is about to be published. The author is a writer from the provincial capital. His surname is Chao and his pen name is Chaotianque. The story tells the story during the Anti-Japanese War. The heroine comes from a scholarly family. When the family fled south, they met a young marshal of the Republic of China. Under his protection, they fled to Shu together. Along the way, the three sisters developed feelings with the young marshal one after another.
When Xiao Wei first saw this, he thought that the next story would be about three sisters fighting for one man, but the plot took a sudden turn. After the heroine knew about her sisters' feelings for the young marshal, she left her big family and joined the war of resistance. Later, she met a young officer of the Communist Party. While fighting side by side, they developed feelings that went beyond revolutionary friendship and eventually got married.
When her elder sister learned about her younger sister's deep love for the Young Marshal, she also chose to leave and went to the anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines to help her fellow villagers rebuild their homes. Two years later, she joined an underground party member and devoted herself to intelligence work.
The younger sister was left. Seeing that her two elder sisters had given up their happiness for her, she could not feel at ease to be with the young marshal. So she asked around for the whereabouts of the heroine, her second elder sister, and also joined the revolution. In the end, the younger sister became a battlefield nurse and was reluctant to get married.
After experiencing all kinds of ups and downs, the young marshal finally realized the backwardness of the Republic of China's troops and was ready to give up his status as a young marshal and join the Communist Party. However, he was betrayed by his former colleagues, and when he was leaving, a bullet shattered his beautiful expectations for the future.
At this time, the eldest and second sisters already had children. They couldn't bear to see their lonely younger sister, so they took turns introducing her to potential partners.
Unfortunately, the younger sister could not let go of the young marshal and refused to get married. She turned and went deep into the mountains and worked as a nurse in the border areas. Later, due to a mountain flood, the younger sister was buried alive and was eventually rescued by a teacher in the border areas. Out of gratitude, she married this man and gave birth to three daughters and two sons.
At the end of the story, the three sisters returned to the original site of their destroyed home, looked at the rising red sun, and made a vow to be sisters in the next life.
The overall tone of the story is to praise the greatness of the Communist Party. The three sisters who are trapped in love all gave up the young marshal who represents the old forces and old ideas and chose the revolutionary team.
In general, this novel has been sought after by many lesbians, and many people lamented the death of the Young Marshal, saying that this meant that the group of people in the Republic of China could not lead the Chinese nation into a new life. Just like the Young Marshal, even if they realized their shortcomings, it was too late to turn back.
This book was originally serialized in a daily newspaper in the provincial capital. Now that the serialization has ended, their publishing house has chosen to publish it.
Xiao Wei didn't quite understand at first. After all, the publishing house in the provincial capital was more famous and had a wider influence. After asking, he found out that the writer was a native of Yicheng, but later followed his parents to the provincial capital.
It seems quite touching that his homesickness made him choose the publishing house of his hometown, but Xiao Wei suspects that the writer was more concerned about the royalty rate of Yicheng Publishing House.
It is said that the provincial capital only gave 10%, while Yicheng gave 15%, which is very generous.
She returned the illustration to Gu Yanni and said with a smile, "I've subscribed to the provincial capital's daily newspaper for several years to follow the serialization of Red Sun. Look, this one is obviously the heroine. She was the only one of the three sisters to cut her hair short first, and she never had long hair again. This shot of the three sisters standing under the red sun is the final ending. And this man, wearing the uniform of a Republican warlord, is obviously the male protagonist, the Young Marshal."
Gu Yanni took the drawing with a smile: "Yes, what do you think of my painting?"
At first glance, Xiao Wei saw that the painting showed a man and a woman sitting on a hillside, looking at the land in the distance that had just been bombed. They snuggled together in melancholy and expressed their worries about the future.
In the distance, there was a brilliant glow of clouds, and the sun was about to set, making the blood-red earth look particularly desolate.
This is the scene in the novel where the heroine confesses her feelings to the young marshal for the first time. Xiao Wei said coldly, "This is the scene where the heroine confesses her love to the young marshal. It's very well drawn. But... why do I feel that this heroine looks a bit like you, and the young marshal looks a bit like—"
Before Xiao Wei could finish, Gu Yanni interrupted: "You saw it wrong, it's the angle. I won't say anymore, my mom is waiting for me to go back for dinner, I'm leaving now."
Her attempt to smuggle something in was seen through, and Gu Yanni fled in panic. She quickly rode her bike and disappeared rapidly in the darkening sky.
Xiao Wei curled his lips in disdain and walked to the middle of the stairs, looking at Qi Changxiao: "I really don't know how you offended her. You should take a good look at her illustrations. One of them is too much. If you let her pass, I'm afraid Editor Yao will be unhappy."
Qi Changxiao frowned: "Let's talk about it tomorrow, thank you."
"Do you need my help to talk to her in-laws? If we let her continue to make trouble like this, I'm afraid both your job and Editor-in-Chief Yao's job will be in jeopardy." Xiao Wei was actually quite willing to be colleagues with the couple, because they had no official airs and were very approachable when dealing with people.
If it were the original editor-in-chief and chief artist, going to work would be like going to the execution ground. She was really in pain and didn't want anything to happen to the couple.
Qi Changxiao pondered for a moment and asked, "Are you familiar with her in-laws?"
"Of course. My husband's brother works in the transport team and knows her husband." Xiao Wei reminded him, "Let his husband mess with her, and she won't have the energy to bother you guys. What do you think?"
"Okay, please." Qi Changxiao sighed silently, "I'll bring some toys for your child later, don't be disgusted."
"Okay, okay, I'm leaving now." Xiao Wei waved his hand and turned to leave.
Qi Changxiao continued to wait until half past six. Xiao Song's mother-in-law was worried that she had not returned home, so she came to look for her, and the door of the editorial office was finally opened.
Yao Zhizhi put down the manuscript in her hand and asked Xiao Song to go out and tell him. Xiao Song saw Qi Changxiao standing at the door, and quickly turned his head to look inside and shouted, "Editor Yao, your wife is waiting for you."
"Let him in." Yao Zhizhi continued to read the manuscript, and only the last point was left. Everyone had a manuscript in their hands, and after reading it, they passed it to the next person, and took another copy from the previous person. In this way, like passing the parcel, everyone had a manuscript to read, which made the best use of time and improved efficiency.
Now only the last one was left. She didn't even bother to greet Qi Changxiao, but continued to read and annotate carefully. In the end, she scored 73 points, with two points deducted for the neatness of the paper.
After reviewing it, she looked up at Qi Changxiao and said, "You go back first. The children will be worried. Come pick me up after you finish eating."
"Isn't it almost done? Let's do it together." Qi Changxiao refused. He moved around behind the others and finally stopped next to Wu Wei, looking at the manuscript in his hand.
Although there was no name written on the manuscript, he could tell at a glance that it was definitely Yao Zhizhi's.
He couldn't help laughing. Others wrote things like "My lover is so-and-so", but only his wife wrote "My lover is the motherland".
This immediately elevated the entire article to a higher level. No wonder other people gave his wife high scores, with the lowest being 88.
I don’t know who gave the highest score, but it was a perfect score.
Qi Changxiao couldn't help but read it carefully, and after reading it, there were only two words in his mind - admiration!
There is not a single word about love affairs in the whole article. It is all about her own experience, writing about what she has seen and heard with her own eyes and ears, about the rapid changes in the motherland, and about the benefits she has gained from it. She even mentioned her uncle, whom she met only once when they got married. However, she did not write about her uncle, but mentioned the Duku Highway through her uncle's mouth.
How did she come to the idea of the Duku Highway? It all started with a small gap in the road she took every day to get to work. It was bumpy every time she walked there, so she started to think about the challenges of the Duku Highway and reflected on herself: if she hadn't been so frustrated with the road, she might have thought about what she could do.
After reading it, Qi Changxiao couldn't help but clap his hands: "This is the best article. Whose is it?"
Wu Wei smiled and turned back: "I think it's very good too. I guess it's Editor-in-Chief Yao's, but I'm not sure because Xiao Jiang and Ye Zheng's handwriting is also very beautiful and of high quality."
Qi Changxiao smiled, found a corner to lean against, folded his arms, and waited patiently.
Yao Zhizhi ignored him and waited until the last person had finished grading, then began to let everyone claim their own manuscripts and register their scores.
The final results showed that Zhang Datong had the lowest score and Yao Zhizhi had the highest score.
Yao Zhizhi calmly looked at the score summary in her hand and said, "I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time today. I'll make it up to you tomorrow. Now, I just want to ask, if anyone is dissatisfied with my position, please speak up."
Everyone shook their heads, and Zhou Juan became even more excited. "Editor-in-Chief Yao, that's not our intention. But it's good for you to prove yourself. It can shut up those who are talking. Tomorrow we'll recopy these manuscripts and give them to the art department for their grades."
"Yes, we can have them grade it as well. True gold fears no fire." Xiao Song also agreed with this approach and took the initiative to say, "No need to wait until tomorrow. I'll take a few copies back tonight for transcription."
"I'm willing too." Xiao Jiang also raised his hand.
In the end, Zhang Juan, Xiao Jiang, and Xiao Song divided the food among themselves and each took a few portions back home.
Yao Zhizhi stood up and looked at Qi Changxiao who had been waiting for a long time: "Let's go home."
The next day, the Art Department received the manuscripts and used the same method to score them, and the final results were consistent.
After grading, Qi Changxiao wrote the name of each manuscript.
He took the one with the highest score and looked at Gu Yanni: "I think everyone knows who is so jealous of my wife. Instead of waiting for this person to make a move and then do something, why don't I go to Director Yuan and explain the situation myself. Okay, that's it. Everyone, get busy. I'm going to the office."
The next day, Lu Yuan saw the furious Gu's mother and couldn't help but wonder, "What happened? Did the plan not go well?"
"I don't know what the editorial and art department were thinking. They actually wrote a joint letter to Director Yuan, guaranteeing that Yao Zhizhi has the real talent. Director Yuan said he would personally assess her this afternoon to set the record straight." Mother Gu sighed. "What should we do now? If she passes even Director Yuan's assessment, we won't be able to do anything to her."
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