full-time artist

Wei Long was naturally cautious, for fear of touching Han Jimei's brow.

At this point, it has entered the review stage.

The writers I contacted before have sent their works one after another.

This is probably the last hope of tribal literature.

What if there are works of high quality among these manuscripts?

With this expectation in mind, many editors took the review very seriously.

The same goes for Weilong.

But after reviewing several manuscripts in a row, Wei Long's confidence was almost shattered.

These manuscripts are actually pretty good.

If it is normal, Wei Long may look quite happy.

But now, when he thinks of a mountain like Feng Hua standing opposite him, he feels——

not enough!

This group of people is not enough for Feng Hua to fight!

Wei Long also intentionally observed the reactions of other editor-in-chiefs. Everyone had a dignified expression, obviously they hadn't come across such amazing works!

Yes.

It must be amazing enough for tribal literature to compete with Feng Hua's blog for traffic, but how can such articles appear so easily?

Wei Long was in a heavy heart.

And at this moment, he saw a new manuscript received in his mailbox, which was sent by Chu Kuang, whom he had contacted before:

necklace?

Chapter 189 So What

The name is very common.

However, the short stories don’t need to be given a high-profile name. What Weilong really cares about is the content. After experiencing several disappointments, Weilong now only hopes that Chu Kuang’s manuscripts can maintain a consistent standard——

Just be consistent.

Chu Kuang is a general!

Although there is Feng Hua's bonus on the blog, if the overall level of tribal literature is not bad, it is not without the power to fight. Anyway, short story lovers don't just read a novel, this is the only thing Weilong can do. An excuse to comfort myself.

Click on it.

Weilong began to watch.

The story starts from the perspective of a beautiful but poor woman. Because of poverty, this woman married a junior clerk who was also not very capable. The couple lived a tight life.

Women pursue material things.

Because of the poverty of her house, the rough walls, the old furniture, and the vulgar clothing, she was always full of sorrow. She dreamed that she could wear gorgeous clothes, have countless servants at her disposal, and have delicacies from mountains and seas to her heart's content. enjoy...

Wei Long was thoughtful.

He roughly guessed that the purpose of Chu Kuang's story was to revolve around the topic of matter, which was in line with Chu Kuang's previous short stories. He liked to use short stories to achieve a certain satirical effect, which was the sense of luxury in Wei Long's eyes. His expectations were raised slightly.

Keep watching.

this day.

The husband proudly took out an invitation card and showed it to his wife: "The Minister of Education is honored to invite Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang to attend the party held at the headquarters building on Monday, January [-]."

Mr. Wang thought his wife would be happy. This was the invitation he had worked so hard to get.

There are so many colleagues in the Ministry of Education, but not everyone can be invited to the party by the Minister of Education.

However, the wife got angry for no reason.

At least this clerk working in the Ministry of Education couldn't understand his wife's anger.

It turned out that Mrs. Wang felt that she didn't have decent clothes to attend this grand party.

【The most embarrassing thing in the world is to appear poor among many rich women. 】

This is Mrs. Wang's explanation.

Mr. Wang had no choice but to negotiate a sum of money so that his wife could buy decent clothes.

The wife said: [Four hundred yuan is enough for me to own such clothes. 】

Mr. Wang's face turned blue.

Because he is saving such a sum in his hand to buy a gun, so that he can go to the plains to hunt birds with a few hunting friends on weekends this summer.

"Four hundred yuan?"

Wei Long roughly calculated some things in his heart, and then found the era when money and value corresponded.

Although Chu Kuang's novels don't tell which era the story is about, clues can always be found through the details in the article.

only……

Is Mrs. Wang too materialistic?

Mrs. Wang does have a morbid pursuit of material things, because that is what Mrs. Wang sees as decent. After he made the clothes, he even borrowed a necklace from a rich female friend of his—

This is a necklace made of diamonds.

In the eyes of Mrs. Wang, this necklace is really beautiful, so this is the origin of the title:

necklace.

Wei Long couldn't help but think of a popular word nowadays called "Gold Digger".

anyway.

Mr. Wang is not much better.

He obviously has four hundred yuan in his hand, but he only wants to buy a shotgun and go hunting instead of saving the money to live a more decent life...

Look at the previous article again.

The couple even hired a servant at home.

The husband and wife are living a tight life, and they still need a servant?

Hit the swollen face to pretend to be fat.

To die is to face and suffer.

This is Weilong's sense at the moment, which reminds Weilong of the article "Magi's Gift".

The same is a couple as the main characters.

But in that couple, both men and women are willing to give up their pursuit of material things for the sake of each other, which is completely opposite to the Wang couple!

How would Chu Kuang satirize?

Will this woman find a rich leader at the ball, causing the man to be dumped?

Maybe there will be a reversal.

Bosses get tired of women and throw them away, and women go back to clerks...

If so, it always feels almost meaningless.

Wei Long couldn't help feeling a little worried.

This is a habit that many people who read novels will have, subconsciously associating with the subsequent plot.

at this time.

The party has begun.

Mrs. Wang was a great success.

She was prettier than the average lady guest, stylish, charming, constantly smiling, and ecstatically happy.

The male guests looked at her dreamily, asked for her name, and tried to get people to introduce themselves to her.

All the staff in the confidential department of the headquarters wanted to dance with her, and the minister also paid attention to her.

She danced with an intoxicated posture and excited movements, she was intoxicated in joy, she was satisfied with the victory of her appearance and the glory of her achievements, she was surrounded by happiness.

However, after the ball ended, she had to be beaten back to her original shape.

Her life has not been changed by this, and the glory of this night will probably only remain in her memory.

Shrinking in the cold wind, I took a small broken car with my husband, and the two returned to their residence.

She had to face reality again.

But something more cruel than the scene in front of him happened.

That necklace was lost!

This is the turning point of the whole story.

Only at this moment did Wei Long discover the true meaning of the title "Necklace".

"Interesting..."

Wei Long's eyes lit up!

It's not a bloody family ethics derailment and betrayal.

What Chu Kuang wrote, it is likely that a couple paid a huge price for the vanity of that night!

This is true.

That is a necklace worth 4 yuan!

Especially after Weilong thought about the prices in that period, he deeply understood what a huge sum of money 4 yuan was to the Wang couple in that era!

How to do?

Weilong thought about many possibilities.

Maybe the couple will default...maybe the couple will find a fake and send it back...maybe the couple will go to court over it...

The result is neither.

The couple actually bought an identical necklace and returned it.

At this moment, Wei Long had a little recognition for the Wang couple.

He even realized something:

Material or not, can not determine a person's character, when problems arise, the Wangs choose to face them.

Although the cost is indeed too high:

In order to buy this necklace and return it to the owner, Mr. Wang borrowed countless money, almost spending the rest of his life, and both he and his wife showed amazing heroism.

They decided to repay these debts with a single word!

Mrs. Wang experienced the real life of the poor.

The poor couple fired the maid; moved; rented a cheap attic under a roof somewhere.

She began to do all kinds of rough work in the house.

She washed the dishes, wearing away her rose-coloured fingers on the greasy bottoms of the pots and pans.

Underwear and rags were washed by herself with soap and hung on a line;

Waking up early every day, she carried the garbage downstairs and brought the water upstairs. Every time she finished walking one floor, she had to sit on the stairs to catch her breath, and she dressed like a commoner woman.

She went to the vegetable store, grocery store, and butcher shop with a basket on her arm to bargain, get scolded, and tried to defend her meager change, sou by sou.

A lot of IOUs have to be withdrawn every month, and a few new ones are set up at the same time to extend the date.

In the evening, her husband would copy out the accounts of a merchant, and often in the middle of the night, he would also have to copy books that cost five coppers a piece.

This life extended to ten years.

Yes.

Mrs. Wang was brilliant that night, but the price was that the couple lived under huge financial pressure for ten years!