In Songjiang City, which has a population of 8 million, there are no more than 80 people who work like Bian Xuedaogan.

Bian Xuedao is a reviewer for Songjiang Daily, and unlike a book reviewer at a publishing house, he has to work night shifts for many years.

What are the characteristics of a newspaper, especially a reviewer of a daily newspaper? To put it simply, it is necessary to be conscientious, attentive, attentive, and at the same time have a considerable amount of reading and political literacy. In short, reviewing is not just about picking on typos and punctuation, it's a job that sounds inconspicuous but requires a lot of personal ability.

Bian Xuedao, 33, has been working as a night reviewer for seven years, working from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Day after day, day after day, day after day with words, day after day reading the shriveled car talk in the daily newspaper, his body is in a sub-healthy state, he becomes a little untalkative, and his mentality is much older than his actual age.

There are a total of 5 reviewers in Songjiang Daily, but only 4 of them are working. Bian Xuedao is the youngest of the five and the only contract worker, and the other four are all career establishments. At the beginning, Bian Xuedao was very unbalanced for this, and then gradually thought about it, not to mention the delay in retirement is very noisy, there are still 32 years before his retirement conservative estimates, and then what policy is not clear at all, just read the decline of the newspaper day by day, he feels that the paper media may not even survive 5 years, will be swallowed up by the Internet and mobile phones, and completely die.

At this time, it is really impossible to take another 10 or 200,000 yuan to buy a establishment with the leader.

Sitting and waiting for death is not the character of Bian Xuedao, and the profession and quiet night accompanied by words make him good at thinking and planning.

A year ago, Bian Xuedao began to discuss with his wife Xu Shangxiu what to do after the newspaper was not good, and after thinking about it, he found that he had no skills to make money except for reading more newspapers and driving. The wife who was a teacher in the university comforted him and said that there was nothing wrong with him, although the number of students was getting fewer and fewer year by year, but even if the newspaper was yellow, the university would not be able to fall for a while, and there was still a wife.

The newspaper office is lit up as day, and the internal telephone rings one after another.

Bian Xuedao finished reviewing the second version of the several versions he was responsible for tonight, and wore a headset to listen to the song to pass the time.

Bian Xuedao has just made a B-level mistake.

The two-color balls just opened in the evening, the numbers are 1, 7, 8, 11, 21, 31, 1, a very special set of numbers.

The first time I handed it over, I went to the lottery website to check the numbers as usual, and it was no problem.

However, the second time it was sent, the numbers became 1, 7, 8, 11, 21, and 31.

Basketball "1" was accidentally deleted by the group moderator.

If this is issued, according to the newspaper's latest reward and punishment methods, Bian Xuedao's night shift this week will be in vain. Bian Xuedao called the group member with an inside line, telling him that the two-color ball number was wrong, and asked him to quickly check it on the Internet and change it.

I started ringing in my ears again! I got up from my seat and walked to the window, and I did a few stretching movements to feel more comfortable.

"It's almost 12 o'clock, and the few layouts that have been handed in are still being adjusted, and it's not early today. Standing in front of the window and looking at the dark night sky outside, he thought to himself.

Tomorrow is the day when Songjiang Metro Line 1 and 2 will be opened, and some leaders of the newspaper are as excited as if they have been beaten with chicken blood, and they must make a beautiful issue of the newspaper. Bian Xuedao felt very speechless, a newspaper with less than 10 copies a day is so good-looking and ugly, who should it be for? The leaders of the city? They only read the first and second pages to see if they have left their own reports behind, and to see who has published the officials in the front and back, who is small, high, and low.

"Mr. Bian, have you finished reading my version?"

Behind Bian Xuedao is a female editor of the current affairs department, 31 or 2 years old, who has been in the newspaper for 3 years, and I heard that she has not signed a labor contract, no insurance provident fund, no year-end bonus, and even some small benefits that she usually has.

Looking at the glamorous newspaper office is becoming more and more impersonal, it is obviously a sunset industry that leaks everywhere, but it always has an inexplicable sense of superiority. If it is said that the store is bullying people, it is only bullying people who have no roots and no bottom and can come in, and the life of inbreeding people is called a comfortable life. In a newspaper group, there are only 300 front-line editorial staff for several newspapers, but nearly 2,000 people receive money for food and welfare.

Bian Xuedao admires the tenacity of the female editor and sympathizes with her, because if it was 10 years earlier, her patience would still be valuable, but it is difficult to say now.

"After reading it, I just asked the moderator to take it back and change it. ”

Sitting back in his seat, he couldn't get into the state of reviewing for a while, and he thought about what the female editor was doing here, and he also thought that if he continued to work here, even if the newspaper was not yellow, he would definitely not live to be 65 years old when he stayed up late every day.

It's already 1 a.m.

The whole city is silent, except for the occasional whizzing of dirt cars. There is no light in the surrounding buildings, except for the 5th floor where the Matsue Daily is located, which is still brightly lit.

It's almost done, and then you just need to pay attention to the changes. Bian Xuedao leaned back in his chair as relaxed as he could, listening to music with his eyes closed.

Except for one who can still receive a salary as usual when he takes sick leave all year round, the hobbies of the four reviewers are completely different. When I have time, the eldest Wang likes to play mahjong on the computer, Lao Li likes to study lottery charts, Lao Jiang likes to watch TV series, in the early years, he likes to watch American dramas, and then he gets tired of watching it, so he listens to songs with a headset with excellent effect. Watching American dramas and listening to English songs night after night, plus Xu Shangxiu, who taught English at the university, made his English level not too degraded compared to when he was in college, and many English songs were sung very slippery.

The habit of learning to listen to songs is a headache for some editors and group editors, because he also listens to it when he is reviewing, so whoever wants to use an inside line to find him, he often can't hear it, and he has to come to him.

Song Ming, the chief editor of the editor-in-chief's office, had already smoked half a pack of cigarettes in one night, and he still wanted to smoke it. This time the subway special issue, Song Ming took 5 editions, although a week in advance began to be completed, the leaders also reviewed several times, the title shrunk from 24 to 20 and then to 16, but to the day after the most reluctance, it was still adjusting the horizontal and vertical masthead.

Song Ming, who is less than 40 years old and has very little hair, feels very tired, and he can't bear it without smoking to refresh himself. Seeing Bian Xuedao leaning on a chair and listening to songs, Song Ming woke him up and glanced in the direction of the smoking room.

Lighting a cigarette, Song Ming took a deep breath and said, "It's too early today, it's been 4 or 5 days, it's really hard to learn! ”

Bian Xuedao took the cigarette and didn't light it, just pinched it back and forth, looked at the street lamp outside the window and said: "This is only Line 1 and 2, didn't you make the version of the master plan? There are Line 3, Line 4, Line 5 behind...... Even if there is no subway, it rains heavily, snows heavily, and winds blow, how can you not work overtime?"

Song Ming snuffed out the cigarette that he had only taken a few puffs, put it back into the cigarette case and said, "Yes, the subway is better, it's not disgusting to do." I really can't stand those things, heavy rain can pull the civilization of the city, heavy snow can pull the strength of the city, and strong winds can bring the warmth of the city, how can such a good city still have a brain drain and rank low in the same level of cities? The people we make up are disgusted like this, what do you say the people who watch it are disgusting?"

Bian Xuedao glanced at the door of the smoking room and said, "Be quiet, the editor-in-chief is here today." ”

Song Ming "cut": "If I hadn't had a child a few years earlier, I would definitely quit." Hey, you also saw the subway route plan on my version, if we had seen this thing 10 years earlier, no, 5 years earlier, we would have bought two houses around the subway entrance, whether it was sold or rented, would we still use this lamp every day to boil oil?"

"Di" sounded, and Bian Xuedao's mobile phone came to text message.

It's Seo Sang-so.

"Uncle, I'll sleep first, and when I come back to drive, pay attention to safety. ”

Xu Shangxiu and Bian Xuedao are the same age, and the two met by chance in 2009, and then were surprised to find that they were actually alumni of the class of 2001, and then miraculously became partners. Married for more than 4 years, the two respect and love each other, and they are a model couple in the circle of friends.

Xu Shangxiu often watches some Korean dramas, because Bian Xuedao's facial features, figure and temperament are eight points similar to the "uncle" in a Korean drama.

At 2 a.m., it was almost over. The editor-in-chief on duty reminded the review department to go through the last time.

"Version 1 is fine!"

"Version 2 is fine!"

"The 3rd version is fine!"

……

"The 11th edition is fine!"

"The 12th edition is fine!"

……

"The subway special issue is nothing to do!"

At 2:15 a.m., the sample was cleared.

Driving home in the middle of the night, there are few cars on the road, and it doesn't take more than 20 minutes. The subway special issue is finally over, and it should be easier to learn the Tao, but sitting in the car, he always feels a little bored.

Maybe it's been too much pressure lately.

Turn on the music, Shinedown's "Miracle" floats out, this is the habit of learning the Tao, driving at night to play some refreshing rock songs, not easy to get sleepy. In his car, there are two bands' albums, one is Shinedown and the other is Nickelback. Bian Xuedao has decided to take Xu Shangxiu on the weekend, call a few friends, and go to KTV to sing for one night.

It was only after work that he discovered that he had a talent for singing. In the first few years, he was unhappy at work and under great pressure, so he used singing to relieve pressure, and sometimes he went alone before getting married, singing what song was high, and he couldn't sing hard, and he shouted that he was hypoxic several times, until one time somehow, as if he suddenly opened a trick, and realized a pronunciation skill. Later, at the party organized by the newspaper trade union, he swept all walks of life within the group and several strong foreign aid with high-pitched songs for 3 consecutive years, and won the first prize of 10,000 yuan for 3 consecutive years, which became his first fund to buy a car.

When I was about to get home, I saw a car accident. An off-road and a taxi collided badly at the intersection, the off-road vehicle was fine, and the people in the taxi were visually choked. While learning the road, he slowed down, silently looked at the rearview mirror, and thought about the impermanence of life. Counting half a layman, he silently recited the "Nan Mu Di Zao King Bodhisattva" more than a dozen times to pray for the blessings of the two people in the car, and also calmed his heart.

When I got home, maybe because I saw a car accident, I didn't feel sleepy at all. Help Xu Shangxiu cover the towel quilt, tiptoe to close the bedroom door, after a simple wash, lean on the sofa, turn on the TV, press mute, and quietly watch the TV screen change silently.

"Hum", tinnitus again.

Bian Xuedao suddenly felt that he was in a strange state, the various perceptions of the body shrank back into the body like a tide, the TV picture gradually slowed down, every mouth shape and every movement of the characters in it seemed to use a special effect of 10 times deceleration, the picture gradually became only black and white, and then everything in front of him seemed to lower the resolution and gradually became blurry. He felt as if he had floated for a moment, and then for a moment, and then he had actually floated.