Really no more?!

This news fell on Yiyu and Bai Yi'an like a thunderbolt from the blue.

One person may have accidentally ignored it if he didn't find it, but two people confirmed it for so long but still didn't find it, and they were basically sure to be gone.

"But I haven't touched the original manuscript?" Bai Yi'an's forehead was bruised, and a few beads of sweat broke out.

Yiyu didn't know what to say to him, he originally thought that the willows were bright, but he was disappointed.

But do you give up because of this? It was obvious that they were all a little unwilling in their hearts.

"Let's figure it out tomorrow." She could only comfort her like this now.

The other editors around cast curious glances and whispered at their disappointed expressions.

"It's too miserable, isn't it?"

"Yes, intellectual property rights are the most difficult to maintain now, and now there is no evidence, and it is estimated that there is no way to defend rights."

"But we don't usually clear things from the computer, so why would it disappear so suddenly."

“…………”

"Ahem......" A stiff dry cough sounded.

Everyone looked at the door one after another, and the editor-in-chief walked in slowly with a pot-bellied belly and glanced inside.

The whispering editors immediately retracted their discussions, returned to their computer desks, and pretended to stare at their computer desktops.

"What gossip is you talking about during work hours, and you can tell me about it, just so that I can have fun." The editor-in-chief swayed his body and put his hands behind his back.

No one spoke out again, although it was almost time to get off work, but they all pointed to the work to eat, and where they dared to slack off, they all carefully reviewed the author's manuscript.

The editor-in-chief saw Bai Yi'an and Yiyu, who were not moving, "What are you two doing?" ”

"The original manuscript of the travelogue is missing, and we have been looking for a long time but have not found it." Yiyu replied.

"Oh—" the editor-in-chief raised his voice, dragging his voice out, "to my office. ”

Does the editor-in-chief already know about this? Yiyu and Bai Yi'an glanced at each other in unison.

In the office, the editor-in-chief sat on a large leather chair, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip slowly.

"Don't stand, sit down!" He motioned for them to sit in the chairs across from them.

"What's going on?"

"At that time, the original manuscript of our travelogue that we didn't pass was gone." Bai Yi'an said.

"If this is gone, it will be gone, and if you don't pass the draft, it doesn't matter if it's not, you still have to concentrate on your work."

"It's not the point, it's mainly that we found the same book in the bookstore that we wrote." Bai Yi'an continued.

"The same?" The editor-in-chief's tone was questioning, as if he was not convinced.

"Yes." Yiyu took out the book he bought at the bookstore this morning from his bag and handed it over with both hands.

The boss was stunned for a moment, and then raised his hand to take it.

He looked at it for a moment, and a look of surprise gradually appeared on his face, but there was nothing but surprise.

"You say, that and that...... The original, missing? The editor-in-chief asked.

"yes, we've been looking for a long time." Yiyu nodded affirmatively.

"This ...... If you want to defend your rights, it may not be possible, so what should you do? The editor-in-chief looked embarrassed.

"Editor-in-chief, do you remember a little bit of our content here, you see this is plagiarism, can you help us think of a way or something, after all, this also involves the interests of the company." Bai Yi'an said.

"I ...... It's hard to figure out how to figure it out. You said that you don't keep the original manuscript well, even if it is reasonable, there is no place to say it, what is the use of me having a little memory alone. ”

"But we haven't touched it, so let's see if we can find someone who knows a lot about computers and help recover the files or something."

Aren't there many people who are good at computers now? As long as you can find such a person, you may be able to recover deleted files.

But the editor-in-chief didn't think about it, and directly rejected their proposal, "Where can I find such a person, you can only admit that you are at a loss, eat a trench and grow wise, think about it from another angle, it's not a bad thing." ”

Experience teaches? This is such a big thing, and it was lightly overshadowed by the editor-in-chief's words.

Bai Yi'an clenched his fists, how many things he had seen in society. Now that I'm in the editorial department, I didn't expect that there would be such a careless leader here? But it's not just their interests that are at stake.

"You adjust your mood, or I can give you a few days off so you can go out and relax." The editor-in-chief twisted the lid of the teacup, as if he had said something good, and smacked his tongue with satisfaction.

"Then, I can give you some subsidies, so I should be relieved and relieved, and that's good, you should turn the page on this."

"No need." Bai Yi'an and Yiyu didn't want to say any more.

They walked out of the office, and the editor-in-chief was still behind and said loudly, "Then you guys are fine, don't think about it anymore." ”

Originally, I didn't expect my feelings to be answered, I just thought that I was a community of interests, and the editor-in-chief should not sit idly by, but they still overestimated the editor-in-chief, he was just a person who lived for his own interests, if the interests were not too much, he could only involve a little, and he could completely leave it alone.

So if he's like this, is he going to give up? For them, this book is not only about their interests, but more about their hard work, in those days of travel, they braved the scorching sun to go out to visit, and when they returned to the hotel, they were tired and would carefully write out their daily feelings.

For what?

For the joy of feeling that they could write a book. In order to get more readers and the determination of their own works.

So now, even if there is no chance of winning, they are not willing to give up, so that the mood of others silently plagiarizing their hard work is incomparable to anything.

Outsiders regret it, but it is only a pity. Only they know their hearts. That complex emotion of anger, powerlessness, and sadness.

Yiyu was silent for a while, and then raised her head, she was now more determined.

The truth must be found!

"Will you give up?" Yiyu looked at Bai Yi'an, who bowed his head and didn't say anything.

"No, it won't." But he replied just as firmly.

"Then let's find the truth together." Yiyu patted him on the back, trying to transfer some strength to him.

He raised his slightly tired head, and his mouth didn't know how many days he hadn't shaved, with a bit of vicissitudes.

As they prepared to split up, she went to find out if she had any preserved manuscripts; He continued to search the editorial office for clues about the manuscript.

Yiyu returned home, and before he had eaten dinner in the evening, there was a faint pain in his stomach. She opened the refrigerator, found the leftover rice from yesterday, took an egg, and simply made fried rice in the evening.

The eggshell hits the rim of the bowl with a crisp sound. Her mind suddenly appeared with Bai Yi'an's tired face just now, and he must not have been doing well during this time.

She flipped out her phone, edited the text message and sent it: it is not so easy to find the truth, remember to eat well first and take care of yourself. But after thinking about it, it seemed that something was wrong, and she clicked the delete button and re-edited: remember to eat.

The egg fried rice had a faint taste, she ate it slowly one bite at a time, thinking of the egg fried rice that her aunt once made for herself, she had made it many times, but she couldn't reach her aunt's level. My aunt's fried rice was distinctly grained, and the eggs were also mixed in with the rice, which was about the same size. The most sumptuous dinner in the past was: egg fried rice and a small bottle of soda.

She walked to the gate after school and could smell the smell of eggs. As soon as she smelled it, she knew she could drink that little bottle of soda.

Although my aunt spoke harshly, she actually thought about it, and she used to do small things to improve her life. Yiyu suddenly felt like crying, and at this time, all she could think of was the egg fried rice made by her aunt, not the egg fried rice made by her mother.

Tears fell into the rice bowl unconsciously, and Yiyu wiped it with his hand, but he couldn't wipe it clean.

How do I find it?

It occurred to her that when she traveled, she would write down a manuscript with a pen every night, because she felt that writing by hand was more like writing, and she had always maintained this habit.

But when she came back, she couldn't remember where she had left those things, and she looked through the drawer on her desk, which contained so many things that she had written before, that it was a little difficult to find for a while.

The display screen of the mobile phone on the desktop lit up, and Yiyu saw that it was Bai Yi'an's reply.

She clicked on it and said, "Thank you, I'll have a good meal."

Their conversation is still a little distant. Yiyu smiled bitterly and turned off his phone.

Flipping through the manuscripts, her eyes suddenly lit up, and there was a fragment of a page, on which was written, as if she had written the words at the back of the impression, but she crossed out with a pen, but she remembered it clearly.

The saying is: if you have someone by your side who can hold an umbrella for you in the scorching sun, the journey may become happier and more moving......

She carefully pressed the page with the pen holder on her desk, which might be a little bit of evidence.

She flipped through it for a while, but didn't come up with anything else.

The next day, she went to see Bai Yi'an, took the manuscript with her, and Bai Yi'an said that he had made an appointment with a lawyer and they could consult together.

Just when they thought there would be some progress in the matter, the lawyer told them a brutal truth.

"This manuscript doesn't tell the whole story, and if the other side refutes the manuscript that you forged after the publication of The Travels of Youth, even if it is not true at all, we cannot disprove this claim. It is likely that he will also be charged with slander for no reason. ”

Yes, they did know this fact after listening to it, but there is only one manuscript at the moment, what can they do?

"If you think about it, who did your manuscript pass through at that time, and if you find any clues, it may become a turning point."

They nodded and thanked the lawyer.

"I'll go back and look for it, and I think it's not just this manuscript, we wrote a lot at the time." Yiyu said.

"Hmm...... There are some people I haven't asked yet, but tomorrow I'll find an opportunity to ask who those layers of review are. ”

They can only search for anything that might be relevant at the moment. However, the longer it drags on, the worse the outcome will be for them.