The name is very ordinary.

However, the short story doesn't need to be a tall name, what really makes Wei Long care is the content, after experiencing a few disappointments, the current Wei Long only hopes that Chu Mad's manuscript can maintain a consistent level-

As long as the standard is maintained.

Chu Mad is a general!

Although there is Feng Hua's bonus on the blog, if the overall level of tribal literature is not bad, it is not without the strength of a battle, anyway, short story lovers don't just read one, this is the only excuse that Wei Long can comfort himself.

Tap it on.

Wei Long began to look.

The story begins with a beautiful but poor woman who marries a small clerk who also doesn't have much ability because of poverty, and the couple lives a tight life.

Women pursue material things.

She was always full of sorrow because of the coldness of her house, the roughness of the walls, the obsolescence of the furniture, and the vulgarity of the clothes, and she dreamed that she could dress herself in splendid service, that she would have countless servants to support at will, and that she could enjoy the delicacies of the mountains and the sea......

Wei Long was thoughtful.

He roughly guessed that the purpose of Chu Ma's story was probably to revolve around the topic of matter, which was in line with Chu Ma's previous short story routine, and he liked to use short stories to achieve a certain ironic effect, which was the sense of luxury in Wei Long's eyes, and his expectations were slightly raised.

Keep watching.

this day.

The husband took out an invitation card with some triumph and showed it to his wife: "The Minister of Education has the honor of inviting Mr. and Mrs. Wang to attend the evening party to be held in the main building on Monday, January 18. ”

Mr. Wang thought that his wife would be happy, and this was an invitation that he had worked so hard to get.

There are so many colleagues in the Ministry of Education, but not everyone can be invited by the Minister of Education to attend the party.

But the wife was angry for no reason.

At least the little clerk at the Ministry of Education couldn't understand his wife's anger.

It turned out that Mrs. Wang felt that she did not have decent clothes to attend this grand party.

[The most humiliating thing in the world is to show your poor face in the pile of many rich women. 】

This is Mrs. Wang's explanation.

Mr. Wang had no choice but to negotiate with him to come up with a sum of money so that his wife could buy a decent dress.

My wife said, "Four hundred dollars is enough for me to have such clothes." 】

Mr. Wang's face turned a little blue.

For he had in his hand a gun to buy, so that he could go to the plains to hunt birds with a few of his hunting friends on weekends this summer.

"Four hundred dollars?"

Wei Long roughly converted it in his heart, and then he probably found the era when money and value corresponded.

Chu Crazy, although he will not say which era the story is, but through the details in the article, he can always find clues.

It's just that......

Is Mrs. Wang too materialistic?

Mrs. Wang does have an almost pathological pursuit of materialism, because that is the dignity in Mrs. Wang's eyes, after he made clothes, he even borrowed a necklace from a rich female friend of his own-

It is a necklace made of diamonds.

In the eyes of Mrs. Wang, this necklace is really beautiful, and it turns out that this is the origin of the title:

Necklace.

Wei Long can't help but think of a popular word today, called "gold worshipper".

Then again.

Mr. Wang is no better.

He obviously had 400 yuan in his hand, but he only thought about buying a shotgun and going out hunting, instead of saving the money to live a more decent life......

Let's take a look at the previous article.

The couple even hired a maid at home.

The husband and wife live a tight life, and they even have to hire a servant?

Keep up appearances.

To die is to save face and suffer sin.

This is Wei Long's senses at the moment, which reminds Wei Long of the article "The Gift of the Magi".

The same couple is the main character.

But in that couple, both men and women are willing to give up their material pursuits for the sake of each other, which is completely opposite to the Wang couple!

How will Chu Mad be sarcastic?

Will this woman find a rich leader at the ball, causing the man to be abandoned?

There may be a reversal.

The leader was tired of the woman and abandoned it, and the woman had to return to the junior staff......

If so, it feels almost meaningless.

Wei Long couldn't help but be a little worried.

This is a habit that many people will have, that is, subconsciously associate the follow-up plot.

At this time.

The party began.

Mrs. Wang was a great success.

She was prettier than the average woman, stylish, charming, constantly smiling, and crazy with joy.

The men looked at her with fascination, inquired for her name, and tried to get someone to introduce them to her.

The personnel of the Confidential Division of the Headquarters wanted to dance with her, and the Minister paid attention to her.

She danced with intoxicated gestures, danced with excited movements, she was intoxicated with joy, she was satisfied with the triumph of her countenance, she was satisfied with the glory of her achievements, she was surrounded by happiness.

However, after the ball ended, she had to be beaten back to her original form.

Her life has not changed because of this, and the glory of this night can probably only stay in her memory.

She and her husband took a small broken car in the cold wind, and the two returned to their residence.

She had to face reality all over again.

But something even more cruel happened than the scene in front of me.

That necklace was lost!

This is the turning point of the whole story.

Wei Long only discovered the true intention of the title "Necklace" at this moment.

"Interesting......"

Wei Long's eyes lit up!

It's not a bloody family ethics derailment betrayal.

Chu Mad wrote it, and it is likely that a couple paid a huge price for the vanity of that night!

And that's exactly what happened.

That's a necklace worth $40,000!

Especially after Wei Long thought of the prices in that period, he deeply understood what kind of huge amount of money 40,000 yuan was for the Wang couple in that era!

What to do?

Wei Long thought about many possibilities.

Maybe the couple will pay their dues...... Maybe the couple will find a fake and return it...... Maybe the couple will go to court for this......

It turned out neither.

The couple actually bought an identical necklace and returned it.

At this moment, Wei Long had some recognition of the Wang couple.

He even realized:

Whether it is material or not, does not determine a person's morality, when the problem arises, the Wang couple chooses to face it.

Although the cost is really too great:

In order to buy this necklace and return it to its owner, Mr. Wang borrowed countless money, almost for the rest of his life, and both he and his wife emerged with amazing heroism.

They decided to pay off the debts in a word!

Madame Wang experienced the real life of the poor.

The poor couple laid off their maid, moved, and rented a cheap attic under a roof somewhere.

She began to do all kinds of hard work in the housework.

She washed cups, plates, and dishes, grinding those rosy fingers on the grease of the jars and pans.

The underwear and rags were washed with soap and dried on the rope by herself;

Every morning, she carried the garbage downstairs, carried the water upstairs, and when she had walked one floor, she had to sit on the stairs to catch her breath, and dress like a commoner woman.

She walked to the vegetable store, the grocery store, and the butcher shop with her basket in her hand, to negotiate the price, to get scolded, and to protect her pitiful change by copper dollar.

Every month, you have to collect a number of IOUs, and set up a few new dates for deferrals.

Her husband transcribed the accounts for a merchant in the evening, and often late at night, he had to transcribe the kind of books that were five copper dollars a side.

This life extended to a decade.

Yes.

Mrs. Wang's glorious night came at the cost of keeping the couple under tremendous financial pressure for a whole decade!

Mrs. Wang seems to be old.

Now she had become a strong, hard, hard-working woman from a poor family.

She pulled her hair in a mess, tied her skirt crookedly, exposed a pair of red hands, spoke loudly, and washed the floor in a large basin.

But sometimes her husband went to the office, and she sat alone in front of the window, and she thought back to the old party.

That dance party, there, she was so beautiful, so happy.

If she hadn't lost that piece of jewelry, what would she have been to now?

Who knows?

At this time, the story is not over, but Wei Long only feels that the aftertaste is endless, and he thinks that this is an excellent short story.

Chu Mad is still the same Chu Mad .

He used a necklace and a party to outline the sorrow of a young couple for half of their lives.

"The excessive pursuit of material things and vanity will inevitably pay too much price. ”

Wei Long had countless emotions in his heart.

While sighing, Wei Long also took the opportunity to read the rest of the content.

He thought that the story would have been told after the couple had spent ten years of hard work.

But......

That doesn't seem to be the case.

Mrs. Wang met her friend who borrowed her necklace again, and the other party was still as charming as ten years ago.

But at this time, Mrs. Wang has changed her appearance because of ten years of hard work, so that her friends are almost unrecognizable.

The two greeted each other.

My friend couldn't help but feel shocked, why did Mrs. Wang become like this in ten years?

Mrs. Wang naturally smiled bitterly and said the reason.

Unexpectedly, her friend was even more shocked, she took Mrs. Wang's hand and said, "Alas, poor sister, do you know that my diamond necklace is fake, and it is worth five hundred yuan at most!"

This is where the story ends.

But Wei Long, who was reviewing the manuscript in front of the computer, seemed to have been struck by lightning, so that the whole person's head was stunned!

Fake ......

The necklace is fake!

Therefore, the Wang couple almost took their own lives, and the debts they had to work hard to repay were actually a misunderstanding!

Thinking of this, Wei Long's scalp suddenly went numb!

He stood up suddenly, and the force was so strong that the chair behind him suddenly fell to the ground.

"Bump. ”

The chair suddenly poured out a meter away, and this sudden movement attracted the attention of countless people in the department, and even Han Jimei in the inner office couldn't help but push the door and look at the situation outside.

And just when someone wanted to ask Wei Long a few words with concern, Wei Long suddenly shouted in a hurried voice, and the voice resounded throughout the department:

"What about the troika!"