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Li Mingyu's biggest goal this year is to win the grand prize of the October essay magazine.

If he wants to hit the membership of the National Writers' Association this year, he needs a heavyweight to endorse himself, and obviously, the essay "October", the country's best-selling and most influential popular literature, is undoubtedly the best choice.

Therefore, for this time he was bound to win the grand prize, and he also made a lot of determination and made a lot of efforts.

But he didn't think Chen Beiming would be a threat to him.

On the contrary, he thought that if he regarded Chen Beiming as an opponent, it would be his own shame.

If someone reminds him of that, it is also a sarcasm for him!

He's an elephant!

Chen Beiming is just a newcomer.

If an elephant is so wary of an ant, then.... If it gets out, people will laugh out of their big teeth.

So he doesn't care about Chen Beiming, his opponent is another writer.

He wasn't even very vigilant about that writer, a Chen Beiming, how old is he?

This is not Li Mingyu's arrogance, this is just his self-confidence.

In fact, he is not the only one who thinks the same way, 99% of the people who follow this essay contest see it this way.

This is not - when Ma Youwei took Chen Beiming to visit the judges one by one, when Chen Beiming intentionally or unintentionally revealed that he hoped that everyone could support him and support him to win the grand prize, most of the judges' reactions were "ah", unbelievable.

When they looked at Chen Beiming's appearance, they obviously said, "Chen Beiming, your brain is not in the water, right?" You want to compete with Li Mingyu for the grand prize, do you know who Li Mingyu is? Do you know how many pounds and taels you have? ”

Of course, after coming back to their senses, most of the judges quickly restrained their emotions, pretended to be calm, and took the initiative to divert the topic.

It wasn't until the two of them visited Ma Youwei's teacher that the old man said bluntly: "Xiaoshan, since you and Ma Youwei are also acquaintances, then I will be blunt, I think, you can compete for the first prize, but the special prize is better not to think about it!"

There is not much difference between your "Bright Sword" and Li Mingyu's "Dark Night" in terms of the quality of your works, but can your popularity and influence be compared with Li Mingyu?

To put it mildly, this time the grand prize will only be awarded to those writers who have the greatest influence on the magazine, Li Mingyu has cooperated with "October" for almost ten years, he can bring hundreds of thousands of readers to "October", Xiaoshan, can you?

If you can't, why should someone give you the grand prize?

If you tell people that you want to compete for the grand prize, they will only laugh at you for not knowing the height of the sky, but they will think that you are not a solid person, but they will not support you! Xiaoshan, people, the most important thing is to see the reality clearly and recognize yourself. ”

Coming out of the old man's house, Ma Youwei patted Chen Beiming on the shoulder, and said seriously: "Xiaoshan, really, listen to me, hard work can work hard in the direction of the grand prize, but people, the most important thing is to see the reality clearly and recognize yourself." ”

What can Chen Beiming say about such words?

He could only pretend to smile lightly: "Teacher Ma, don't worry, I know what to do, I actually just do my best to do things well, as for the result..... I'm not going to leave him alone. ”

Ma Youwei listened and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that you can think like this." ”

But obviously, Chen Beiming can't think like this, the requirements of the system are extremely strict, and there is no room for negotiation.

It's just—

"Just by my single-handedness, can I really win the grand prize?"

Sending Ma Youwei away, Chen Beiming stood alone on the side of the road, raised his head, looked at the sky and sighed for a long time.

But the white clouds in the sky were long, and there was no response.

"Forget it, don't care, let's do our best first, if it doesn't work, let's borrow usury from the civet!"

When he lowered his head, he had already made a decision, so then, his steps were much lighter.

"Oh yes, it's time to get the photos."

When he walked to a shop not far from the General Political Department, Chen Beiming suddenly remembered something.

When he went to the Sword Commando a few days ago, he took a photo at the gate of the troops, and the day before yesterday he took it to a shop to rinse, and it happened to be available today.

"Boss, I'll take a picture." Chen Beiming walked into the store and shouted inside.

In a moment, two middle-aged men walked out, one of them was the owner of the shop, and the other was unknown to Chen Beiming.

Seeing Chen Beiming, the boss immediately laughed: "Yo, I really said that Cao Cao and Cao Cao will arrive!" ”

What do you mean?

Chen Beiming looked at the boss with some confusion.

The boss came over and introduced: "Xiao Chen, let me introduce to you, this is Yang Hetong, the editor-in-chief of Photography magazine, he accidentally saw the photo you took just now, and he likes it very much." ”

"Hello Mr. Yang." Chen Beiming immediately stretched out his hand.

The other party is the editor-in-chief of "Photography" magazine, so it is obvious that there may be opportunities to deal with him in the future, after all, he Chen Beiming also likes photography.

"Xiao Chen, hello, I appreciate this work of yours, can you please publish it in our magazine." After greeting for a while, Yang Hetong immediately got straight to the point.

"Published in your magazine?" Chen Beiming's heart moved.

Photography magazine is one of the largest professional photography journals in China, with a circulation of just over 500,000 yuan, but its influence in the photography industry is amazing. Many photographers are proud to publish their work on it. The most important point is that his works will be reprinted in many magazines!

"If that photo can be published in Photography, it may also bring some readers to my Bright Sword."

Thinking of this, Chen Beiming happily agreed.

"That's great!" Yang Hetong listened, waved his fist excitedly, and then said with a smile: "I have racked my brains in order to find such a work in the past few days, who knows, but I met the baby unintentionally, Xiao Chen, if you have a good work in the future, you must remember to publish it in our magazine!" ”

"Okay." Chen Beiming nodded.

"This is my business card, if you have a good work, remember to call me immediately." Yang Hetong said as he handed Chen Beiming a business card.

Chen Beiming carefully put it away.

"Oh, by the way, what are you going to call this work, and also, you write a short self-introduction to me." Yang Hetong said.

Chen Beiming's gaze froze, and after a moment, he said: "Teacher Yang, I have an idea, you think it will work, I want to add a poem to this work." ”

"With a poem?" Yang Hetong was stunned for a moment, and then nodded hurriedly: "Yes, you can talk about it." ”

Chen Bei meditated for a while and said: "The name of my work, I want to call it "I Stand Guard for the Great Motherland", and the content of the poem is like this:

With a steel gun in hand,

Dressed in ten thousand rays of light

I'm on the borderline,

Stand guard for our great motherland ......"