Chapter 41: Beginning to exert influence
The 30-year-old Chen Xingguo is a relatively young member of the "Liuchuan Daily", but the salary is not very high, only more than 2,000 yuan. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion may be a little better than most teachers www.biquge.info but the workload is definitely much more than that of teachers, and there is no winter and summer vacation. Soon after the New Year, he returned to work and began to review, revise, write, and so on. In general, there are several positions in the newspaper society, some are responsible for collecting and writing news reports, some are responsible for arrangement, some are responsible for reviewing, etc., but the reality is that most editors will be responsible for many things, and Chen Xingguo is often responsible for several positions. However, this phenomenon is not uncommon in China, and it is also the case for many other companies.
So Chen Xingguo can only complain a few words, although everyone complains in private about the large workload and low salary, but no one will be willing to quit this job, after all, this also belongs to the committee newspaper, and it is also a kind of iron rice bowl. Everyone believed that the salary would be higher and higher in the future, and sometimes the bonus would be very generous if you wrote a good article and made the newspaper sell well or have a good reputation.
Today he got off work very late and came home to see his wife playing on the floor with her three-year-old son.
"Coming back? Have you eaten it? My wife asked.
"Eat, isn't the little one still sleeping?" Chen Xingguo took off his shoes.
"yes, I'm in good spirits." My wife said, "If you're hungry, I'll give you hot dishes to eat." β
"No, I'm not hungry now." Chen Xingguo was ready to go over and tease his son.
"That's good." The wife smiled at his interaction with his son, and after a while she remembered something and said, "Have you heard of the New Thinking Essay Contest?" β
"I've heard of it, it's a very famous essay contest, and it can be said that it is the most influential essay contest in the country now. What's wrong? Why did you suddenly talk about this? Chen Xingguo said.
"No, I just heard Xiaoling talk about it today." Xiaoling is a child of Chen Xingguo's neighbor's family, and she is in her third year of junior high school this year, so she will come here to ask him some essay questions if she is fine. In fact, the neighbors around him knew that he worked at the "Liuchuan Daily", and they more or less wanted to be close to him, and occasionally let their children come to study with Chen Xingguo. She said that one of our students in the city won first place in the New Thinking Essay Contest, and that there was an article published in Shoots magazineγ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»
"What?" Chen Xingguo was a little stunned and interrupted his wife's words.
"Xiaoling said that it seems that we are students of Meizhu Middle School, and it is written in the article." His wife said.
"Really? Is it really from our city? Chen Xingguo said.
"I don't know, that's what she said. I didn't look at it either, but I just thought about it and wanted to tell you about it. Didn't you always say that there are very few writers in Guangdong Province who write good articles? In particular, there are even fewer Chaoshan people. But I heard Xiaoling say that this game seems to be quite powerful, so I'll tell you about it to see if it works for you. His wife said.
"It's just so useful." Chen Xingguo said a little excitedly, "If what you say is true, then this news is very valuable!" When did this happen? Has it been reported in any other newspapers? Yes, the game seems to be before the Spring Festival, and it's still on winter vacation, so not many people should know about it, and if it's true, I'll have to report it before other newspapers report it. β
Maybe it's Chen Xingguo's own personal opinion, but he really thinks that there are too few Cantonese people who are famous in terms of articles, and even less in Chaoshan. So he felt that this news was particularly important to the Chaoshan people, at least to Liuchuan City. He thinks that if he comes to cover and report on this matter, then "Rukawa Daily" will definitely be a big seller, and he can also get a very generous bonus.
"Really? Do you want me to borrow that magazine from Xiaoling? His wife was also pleasantly surprised, she didn't expect the news to be really useful.
"Yes, you go get it right now!" Chen Xingguo said. It's night, and it's clearly not appropriate to go out and buy a magazine.
"Okay, then you can take a look at your son first." His wife went out in a hurry. It didn't take long for me to come back with the latest copy of Shoots magazine. Chen Xingguo flipped through the magazine: "Which one?" β
"It seems like the one that said something." His wife was also a little anxious, she heard Xiaoling say the name of the article just now, but she didn't expect to forget it after walking such a little way.
"Qi Zhen Said"! See! Chen Xingguo found the article in the table of contents and quickly flipped to that page. There he saw the author's name: Zhou Chunwang. But it is not written that he won the first place in the competition. So he went to the study to turn on the computer, and after waiting for a while, he finally turned it on, and then finally searched for a little information, he saw Zhou Chunwang's name, in the list of first prizes in Group A, the region is written in Guangdong, and the school is Meizhu Middle School!
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Most of the time during the winter and summer vacations, there are no people in the school, but that's just for the students. In many cases, some teachers at the school have to go to the school a week or two in advance to arrange work. For example, who will collect tuition, who will arrange textbook assignments, and the work arrangements of all teachers in the coming semester, etc. Actually, it's quite a lot, but the winter vacation is a little better, and the summer vacation will be a little more.
On this day, the director of the school office of Meizhu Middle School came to work in the office at nine o'clock, but I didn't expect the phone on the desk to ring not long after I sat down. Although it was a bit unexpected that someone would call so early, he quickly picked up: "Hey, hello. β
"Hello, there's really someone here, I thought there was no one now." The person on the other end of the phone said happily.
Sounding like a young man - at least younger than himself, and a little presumptuous, the chief of staff frowned a little unhappily: "Who are you?" Is there anything wrong? β
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm a little excited." The person on the other side of the phone sorted out his emotions and continued, "Hello, may I ask if it is your Meizhu Middle School over there?" β
"Yes." said the head of the office.
"That's right, our side is the γ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ» of the Rukawa Daily"
"Rukawa Daily?" The director of the office said in surprise that it was a newspaper of the committee organ, although he himself was also the director of a high school and a leader, but he did not dare to put on a show in front of the newspaper of the committee organ. However, I realized that I had just interrupted the other party's words, and my tone was not very good at first, so I hurriedly said: "Hello hello, I didn't expect your newspaper society to contact us, is there anything wrong?" β
"I just want to ask you about someone, see if it's a student at your school, I want his contact information." The person on the other end of the phone said.
"Students from our school? What's wrong with him? Said the chief of staff.
"Do you know Shoots magazine? And the New Thinking Essay Contest? β
"Well, I don't know much."
"It doesn't matter if you don't know, "Shoots" is an original literary magazine for young people, and the New Thinking Essay Contest is a national essay contest held by them, which is very famous. Last night I just learned that a student from your school won first place in this competition, and I wanted to ask if it was true? If so, can you give me his contact information? We're thinking of doing an interview with him. β