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The eighth day of the first month.

In the capital where the prosperity of the festival has not subsided, on this day, many units have begun to officially go to work.

Of course, the holiday syndrome will definitely not heal so quickly, and it will take at least a week to adapt to it, and only after the Lantern Festival has passed, people can take a break from the excitement of the festival and seriously think about things at work.

However, at the National Writers' Association, a very important event kicked off on this day.

This event is the final selection of the Lu Prize.

The jury of each award independently selects the winning works, and after several rounds of voting, the list of winners of each award is finally released.

Lin Yuanxin got up early that day to wash.

After breakfast, he said goodbye to his wife, got on his bicycle and walked in the direction of the Writers' Association.

On this day, it was still very cold.

When Lin Yuanxin, chairman of the Lu Prize Prose Award Jury, came out of his home, it was only 7 o'clock in the morning, and his family lived in a family courtyard not too far from the Writers' Association, and it took less than half an hour to ride a bicycle.

There was no one on the street, and the wind blew the firecrackers on the ground, and the confetti swirled around Lin Yuanxin.

Lin Yuanxin is still in a good mood.

Because, after his struggle, the number of winners of the Lu Prize National Prose Award has increased a lot.

Strictly speaking, the Essay Award is divided into two parts.

The first part is the judges' collective recommendation award, which is mainly used to award those prose masters who have been well-known in China for a long time, and belongs to the category of the Lu Award Honor Award.

In this way, those old writers have a chance to win awards.

Furthermore. The official prose awards also made an exception, with the original set of 5 award-winning works. It can be increased on this basis, as long as more than half of the judges' votes are in favor. Then you can win a prize.

In this way, the work is much easier.

Lin Yuanxin arrived at 7:50 a.m. at the big office where the National Prose Award Jury of the Writers Association was located.

By this time, two or three other judges had already arrived.

Everyone said happy new year to each other, greeted each other, and said things that were not nutritious.

Soon, the other judges arrived.

The office became more lively.

It was at 8:01 that Cao Zi arrived at the award office of the prose award. He was added after Zhang Meng was disqualified from the judges.

He knew that the final winning entries would be selected today, so he also got up early this morning.

However, I wasted a lot of time because of a little family matter, and when I went out. It's almost seven o'clock.

There is a distance of about 20 kilometers from his residence to the National Writers' Association, and the road is not smooth, and he has to reverse when he takes the subway.

"Sorry, sorry! I'm late. Cao Zizheng walked into the office and apologized repeatedly.

"Teacher Cao, it's not too late. It's not too late, we didn't start the selection until half past eight, and there are still people behind you who haven't come. Lin Yuanxin said with a smile.

There were also people who were familiar with Cao Zizheng, so they beckoned him to sit down quickly. Take a sip of hot tea to soothe it.

Cao Zi was looking at the people present.

He knows all these judges, and he has been friends with Lin Yuanxin for many years. However, except for Lin Yuanxin. It's a nodding acquaintance with everyone else.

The relationship is average.

Cao Zi is thinking about how to canvass for Xiao Feila.

Xiao Fei is a student at Peking University. If a junior he appreciates can win the first Lu Prize. Even if it's an essay option, that's a big achievement. Peking University is followed with honor!

Cao Zizheng is serious and upright, but this does not mean that he is not sophisticated.

He knew that the cats in this award were still very tired.

Don't look at the hype in the media a year ago, what prediction Xiao Fei will definitely lose, there are unspoken rules on the jury; Why Xiao Fei is too young, the judges are destined not to vote for him, etc., public opinion has put great pressure on the jury.

However, the judges are all resolute-willed old men, and they are not so easy to succumb to public opinion.

They may still be disgusted by this, and then deliberately don't choose Xiao Fei!

It's all possible!

There is a lot of pressure on the selection of the Lu Prize Prose Award, to what extent? It is enough for those nominated works to pick out one of them to win the award, and the public can't make a mistake at all!

In this case, Xiao Fei did not win the Lu Prize, which is also a very normal thing, right?

It's not worth the fuss at all!

Because of this, Cao Zizheng wants to help Xiao Fei and push him onto the podium. Not for anything else, just because Cao Zizheng thinks that Xiao Fei's prose is definitely worthy of this award!

Cao Zizheng has read his prose carefully.

Although there is no great work, there is no majestic lyricism, and even, in the short and concise chapters of Xiao Fei's prose, thoughts and emotions are indifferent and insightful observations.

But his prose works are really too innovative and individual in the domestic literary world, and his observation of life and the things around him is breathtaking.

His words have a magical power to move people's hearts.

For this alone, Cao Zizheng felt that he should be greatly encouraged!

This is one of the reasons why he so readily agreed to serve as a member of the Lu Prize Prose Award Awards.

It's just that how to lobby these judges for Xiao Fei?

This made Cao Zizheng very difficult. He was afraid of exchanging interests with these judges, and he was even more afraid that if he did not perform properly, it would have the opposite effect on Xiao Fei's award.

Not to mention Cao Zizheng's entanglement.

At 8:25 a.m., the last judge finally came.

Lin Yuanxin beckoned everyone to sit down at the conference table, and Lin Yuanxin smiled and said the opening remarks that had been considered for a long time: "Teachers, after a period of nomination publicity, there is no problem with all the selected nominated works, so I called everyone here today to fulfill the responsibility of awarding." ”

"The first Lu Prize Prose Award is divided into two parts, as everyone must know, the first part is the honorary award of the Lu Prize Prose Award, awarded to the older generation of prose masters in China, and the second part is to select outstanding writers of prose works in recent years."

"So, let's first collectively recommend the honorable mention winners, everyone can nominate individually, and then collectively discuss and recommend the winners of this award."

"Alright, then, let's get started now!"

As a result, the judges began to recommend the best winners of the Lu Prize Prose Honor Award in their minds.

In fact, there are only a few old prose writers who have been fruitful and well-known for a long time in China, and their opinions are relatively easy to unify.

Soon, the honorable mention winners were released.

Bing Xin, a famous prose writer in China, Ji Xianlin, a famous professor at Peking University, and other six people won the Collective Recommendation Honor Award.

Next, the official Lu Prize prose awards began to be selected.

Lin Yuanxin first emphasized the rules of the award: "There are a total of ten nominated works, and the eleven judges can vote for all the nominated works, and each nominated work can only win the award if it is voted by more than half of the judges." ”

Ballots were distributed to each judge.

Cao Zizheng asked: "Mr. Lin, if all ten works have been voted by more than half of the judges, does that mean that these ten nominated works will all win the Lu Award?" ”

"Yes! That's what I have to say. ”

"This has to be clear, otherwise it won't be good to make a joke."

The other judges also said.

Lin Yuanxin smiled and said: "Of course, if all the nominated works are voted by more than half of the judges, it means that all these works are highly praised and difficult to choose, and it is not impossible to win all of them." ”

As soon as Lin Yuanxin said this, many people breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone said in their hearts that there was such a good result that everyone was happy about, and there was no need to fight for bloodshed at all.

That's for the best.

Cao Zizheng saw the expressions of these judges, he smiled in his heart, he knew that his question just now would give Xiao Fei a lot of help.

So, Cao Zizheng began to fill in his ballot.

Cao Zizheng naturally read all the ten nominated works carefully, and he pondered and screened them in his heart.

Prose: What is natural is to be chosen.

He Wei's "The Second Exam" and "Beethoven, the Musical Giant" are all famous prose essays, and they have all been selected as Chinese textbooks.

The old gentleman began to create in 1937 and has been writing for 61 years, and it is absolutely more than enough to win this Lu Prize Prose Award.

Cao Zizheng screened the works one by one, and in the end, he selected 7 works and submitted his vote.

Cao Zizheng's deliberation was slow, and it only took more than an hour.

Several of the judges may be familiar with all the nominated works and writers, and they submitted their votes in a matter of minutes.

In the end, before ten o'clock in the morning, all the votes were handed over to Lin Yuanxin.

As usual, it is a public roll-call.

In the end, the voting results of the ten works were all out at half past eleven.

Cao Zizheng took a look, Xiao Fei's essay collection "The Sunshine Burned Those Old Times" ranked first in the votes, and it was unanimously approved!

Cao Zizheng looked at it, and was surprised and delighted.

He never thought that all the judges would vote for Xiao Fei.

According to his assumption, more than half of the judges can vote for Xiao Fei, even if it is the best result, after all, Xiao Fei is too young, young to the point of jealousy.

Although there are many judges who are in charge of the elderly, there are many who appreciate young people and remind young people, but there are also many who suffer from ageism!

But in any case, Xiao Fei won the Lu Prize, which is a sure thing.

Cao Zizheng thought to himself, he couldn't call Xiao Fei to inform him of this result yet, so he had to wait for the Lu Award jury to approve the selection result and be approved by the leaders of the Writers' Association, and then tell Xiao Fei, which was a safe move.

But what he didn't know was that Xiao Fei had learned about the results less than half an hour after the selection results came out. (To be continued.) )