Chapter 4: Committing to the Hidden Newspaper

Song Chi has suffered from autism since he was a child and has weak social skills. When the illness is mild, he will ignore people for a day, and people will be groggy. When the condition is severe, it will take care of people for more than a month.

After graduating from college, Song Chi stayed at home and was reluctant to go out to find a job. Later, my mother and uncle found a master and calculated a hexagram, saying that this child was actually kind in his heart, and he might have some shadow to rest on his laurels. Song Chi likes to read quietly by himself, and the master suggested that he should be allowed to do some work related to words.

Later, with the help of his uncle Zhou Yucheng, he found Song Chi a job as a librarian and newspaper proofreader, and let him choose by himself. Song Chi thought about it and chose the job of proofreading the newspaper.

After Song Chi was reborn, he had to go to work at the newspaper every day. Everyone knows that proofreading work is extremely boring, but I can't disobey the opinions of my family.

The office of Law and Ethics is located on the culturally rich Beijing West Road. A Spanish-style three-story small bungalow, with gray walls and red tiles, like a gun hole in a bunker during the Anti-Japanese War. On both sides of the entrance gate, there are two altars of pleasing flowers and plants. Nourished by the soil full of cigarette butts, the growth is gratifying.

The small bungalow has three floors, with the front desk and conference reception room on the ground floor, the proofreading, distribution and advertising department on the second floor, and the editorial and administration departments on the third floor. Song Chi works on the second floor, and he is a proofreader who works as a proofreader for word recognition such as typos, typos, missing words, and missing words.

Every morning, Song Chi always arrived at the company at 9 o'clock, and then laboriously found the punch card machine in many express packages such as Tmall, No. 1 store, Jingdong, and Yixun. Pressing the fingerprint on the index finger and hearing a "beep", Song Chi was considered to have successfully punched in.

He always takes the subway to work, and drives out a Land Rover of more than 1 million, which seems too high-profile.

The proofreading team of the newspaper, counting Song Chi, a newcomer who has just been working for two months, has a total of 4 people. The team leader, He Haibo, known as He Lao, retired from the position of editor-in-chief two years ago, and was rehired by the newspaper as a proofreader.

He Lao served as the editor of the "Law and Ethics Daily" when it was founded, and he was a veteran and important minister, and he was highly respected in the newspaper and had a wide range of contacts. He is very knowledgeable, kind, never loses his temper, has no slightest, and is only occasionally greedy for small gains.

The seventh uncle's original name was Huang Hao, and he is 65 years old this year, and his son abroad has always persuaded him to retire as soon as possible and enjoy his old age. But this old man has a very stubborn temper and a very traditional mind. In the eyes of people today, this is pedantic and stubborn. He doesn't care about money and remuneration, just to shine and make some contributions to this society. Uncle Seventh is not in good health, with more than 30 diseases such as heart disease, lung disease, stomach disease, cholecystitis, cardiovascular disease, gallstones, etc., and he takes more medicine than food every day. He also has one of the biggest problems, which is forgetfulness.

Whenever he borrowed money, his colleagues instantly forgot to bring their wallets.

The only woman in the proofreading team, everyone calls her Sun Erniang, her real name is Sun Hong. Her life is very legendary, she used to make steamed buns in the newspaper canteen, and later the newspaper was restructured and the welfare canteen was canceled. In the job placement work, she claimed to have a correspondence master's degree from Harvard University in the United States, coupled with her ability to speak well, the leader's eyes were dark, so she went to the proofreading team.

It was later confirmed that the certificate of Harvard University in the United States was Harvard University on the island of Saipan. The school's signboard hangs directly on the coconut tree.

Sun Erniang is in the newspaper office and has good popularity, but she is more fond of vanity, and sometimes she is more snobbish when she speaks. She always said that her home, before the relocation, lived on Wanping Road in Xuhui, and belonged to the "upper corner". also said that he had "someone above", his cousin was a big leader of a state-owned enterprise, and his cousin was a bureau-level cadre. She also claimed to have adopted many stray dogs and cats, but the whereabouts of these cats and dogs have been unknown......

Song Chi, as usual, sat in his seat when he arrived at the office. Usually by this time, there is already a thick stack of black and white proofreading manuscripts on the table.

A newspaper is usually interviewed and written by reporters, then edited and selected, and then handed over to the design department through the process, and the United States arranges and produces a sample draft. Then the printed black and white sample is handed over to the proofreading team to check for typos, correct titles, and wrong political orientation.

Proofreading is generally based on deletion and revision, and rarely takes the initiative to add content. Usually the proofreading work has to go through twice, divided into one school and two proofreading, zuihou handed over to the proofreading team leader, that is, He Lao went through it again, and when the editor-in-chief signed it, it could be delivered to the printing house for printing.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, proofreading seems to be a bit "redundant". But within the industry, it is a meticulous and important work, which is indispensable. A haode proofreader is equivalent to a goalkeeper on the field, for the smooth publication of the newspaper, firmly guarding the Zuihou level.

To a certain extent, meticulousness also means boring, and the most important thing about proofreading is to avoid mistakes as much as possible. Every time Song Chi reads the manuscript for half an hour, he will take out eye drops, one drop in his left eye and two drops in his right eye.

The layout of a newspaper, due to the reader's habitual reading, usually places the pictures on the left and the text on the right. In this way, the tiredness of the right eye will be higher than that of the left eye, so the protection of the right eye should be doubled.

There are a lot of manuscripts to be proofread today, and they haven't stopped at all in the morning, Song Chi kept looking at the manuscripts, and it wasn't until it was close to noon that he stretched a big lazy waist.

Song Chi thought to himself, before he was reborn, he was also a majestic policeman. Now it's good, it's a closed-door proofreading. This boring job is almost killing me.

At this time, Sun Erniang came up from the chair on the side and said with concern: "Song Chi, what about eating at noon, don't go to that Suzhou soup dumpling restaurant to eat!" ”

Song Chi put down the manuscript in his hand and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" Could it be that they use gutter oil at home? ”

"It's good to pour gutter oil, I'm in this stomach now, I don't eat gutter oil, but I'm uncomfortable." Sun Erniang pretended to whisper mysteriously: "I was eating there at noon yesterday, and a customer at the next table, the wallet was inexplicably stolen. ”

There are all kinds of people in this kind of snack bar, and it is not a sensational event to steal a wallet, drop a mobile phone or something.

Sun Erniang saw that Song Chi was a little deaf, and then said: "This matter is too mysterious, I will sit next to that person, he ordered Yangzhou fried rice, and the wallet is on the table." But in the blink of an eye, the wallet was gone, as if it had grown legs. Do you say that the evil door is not an evil door? ”

Soon Sun Erniang's words resonated, and Uncle Seven also came over to confirm: "There are often people who are stolen in that store, last week, edited Dashan, and the mobile phone was stolen under the nose when he was eating, and he also reported to the police at the time, no matter how he checked, don't you think it's strange?" ”

The wallet and mobile phone on the table will disappear in front of everyone's eyes? If someone really steals, then this thief's stealing skills can be said to be amazing!

Sun Erniang and Uncle Qi said so vividly, which was also a good intention for Song Chi. "Xiexie reminds me, I listened to Erniang's words, and I will eat somewhere else at noon today. I'm only afraid that the thief won't be able to look down on this little money in my own wallet! After saying that, he laughed to himself.