Chapter 17:

Kindly give us your advice

My beautiful female editor in chief


"Director Liu flatters me. I still need your advice. I still focus on learning..." I said modestly.

"Jiang Feng, don't be modest. Working in a newspaper office is different from playing with people in an office. Newspapers rely on business. As a reporter, whether they have real skills can be seen in a month. They can't write or write well. They can't write well. They just reveal their secrets directly." Liu Fei chuckled: "The agency is mainly playing with people. As a reporter, we have to play with words in addition to playing with people... I think you have great potential..."

I couldn't help laughing when I heard it. I know little about government agencies and units. I think newspapers are government agencies, although they are public institutions.

"Because this manuscript was arranged by the boss himself, and the boss specifically proposed to review it. I sent it to Director Mei this morning, and she said to wait for the boss to come back and show it to the boss," Liu Fei added: "Your manuscript is shouldering the boss's important political mission, ha ha..."

Leadership satisfaction is the greatest politics. During Liu Yue's time with me, he mentioned this to me many times. What I remember most clearly is when Liu Yue reviewed my manuscript and signed it while saying to me, "Jiang Feng, as a reporter for the Party newspaper, we must talk about politics. What is politics? Leadership satisfaction is the greatest politics..."

Liu Yue's words often reverberate in my ears. Now that Liu Fei said so, I am more aware of the rationality and importance of the words.

At the thought of the boss going to review my manuscript in person, I suddenly felt a lot of pressure in my heart.

After sitting in the office for more than half an hour, the office's internal telephone rang. Liu Fei answered it and said to me, "Jiang Feng, Secretary Ma is back. He is reading your manuscript in the office. Director Mei called and asked you to go to Secretary Ma's office."

My heart suddenly became nervous. The boss summoned me for an interview. It was no small matter. I couldn't tell whether the boss was satisfied with the manuscript. I didn't know whether it was good or bad. The two companies almost fought and went to the secretary's office on the second floor with anxiety.

I was born in a poor family, the son of a farmer, and three generations of poor farmers. Before I started working, I had never seen any senior officials. The only one I saw was the deputy head of the village in charge of family planning. That was when he took the family planning team to the village to catch women of childbearing age. After taking part in the work, I kept seeing all kinds of county-level and deputy county-level cadres, and even often felt their hands. I no longer had to look up to see them. I often feel the great changes in my heart. I really have a feeling of earth-shaking generosity and turning into a serf as the master.

Rao, Secretary Ma summoned me personally, but it still made me nervous. As I went downstairs, I kept swallowing saliva.

At the door of Secretary Ma's office on the second floor, Mei Ling was standing at the door waiting for me.

When she saw me, Mei Ling smiled vaguely and enchantingly. Her charming and flirtatious eyes made my heart wander.

Shit, this woman's eyes are too attractive! I said something in my heart.

"Ma Shuji is waiting for you. Come on." Mei Ling approached me and patted me on the back naturally. She looked warm and close. Her tone was very gentle, and she didn't have the arrogance at first sight.

I can smell Mei Ling's body emitting a musk smell, like the smell of aphrodisiac in the legend.

I didn't have time to taste Mei Ling, because at the moment, my inner tension has overwhelmed my feelings. Besides, I don't want to taste Mei Ling. I don't want to cause trouble. I firmly remember Liu Yue's warning to me.

Mei Ling pushed open the door of Secretary Ma's office. Ma Shuji was sitting in the tall black leather swivel chair inside. In front of him was a boss's table as big as a table tennis table.

When Secretary Ma saw me come in, he raised his head and looked at me with deep eyes.

"Secretary Ma!" After I came in, I stood in front of Secretary Ma and gave a respectful cry. I was shocked by the majesty of Secretary Ma at the moment. I completely lost the feeling of having dinner with Secretary Ma the other day.

Secretary Ma nodded at me without saying anything.

"Jiang Feng, come and sit down!" Mei Ling did not go out, pointing to a chair opposite Secretary Ma, and motioned for me to sit down.

After I sat down, I looked at Secretary Ma cautiously and waited for him to speak.

Secretary Ma then looked down at the manuscript and stopped looking at me as if I didn't exist.

I sat on the chair silently and awkwardly, with a straight body, a humble and restrained expression, and a nervous mood. I felt the majesty of power and my own insignificance.

Mei Ling came over and walked with light steps. The white high-heeled shoes made a clear sound on the floor, and the round and white calves showed from the skirt hem, which was very sexy.

Mei Ling first picked up the cup on Secretary Ma's desk and gave him new tea. Then she poured a cup of tea with a disposable water cup and put it in front of me. She smiled at me with a sweet smile.

I looked at Mei Ling gratefully and relaxed a little.

Then Mei Ling sat down on the back sofa to read the newspaper and stopped talking.

The room was very quiet, only the swing of the wall clock was heard.

Secretary Ma looked intently at my manuscript and held a pen in his hand.

Liu Yue told me that Secretary Ma was transferred from the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, and now he is also the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee. He is a very talented, very good and thoughtful person. He was also a famous pen of the Jianghai Municipal Party Committee at that time.

Thinking of this, I lost my confidence and didn't know how Secretary Ma would send my manuscript.

After a while, Ma Shuji looked up at me and began to speak in a low and gentle voice: "Jiang Feng, did you write this manuscript yourself?"

"Yes, Secretary Ma! I wrote it myself!" I replied quickly.

"Has Liu Fei modified it for you?"

"No, Director Liu said he didn't change a word."

"Hmm..." Secretary Ma lit a cigarette and leaned back on the chair, exhaling a mouthful of green smoke and two words: "Yes!"

Fuck me, I'm finally ready! I was relieved, but didn't speak.

Mei Ling stood up and said to Secretary Ma, "Jiang Feng is a very capable young man at first sight. After only one month, I can get your approval for writing. It's not easy..."

Secretary Ma smiled, picked up the manuscript, weighed it in his hand, and looked at me: "It seems that you haven't followed Liu Yue for a month. The language and thinking of this article are very Liu Yue's style..."

Secretary Ma mentioned Liu Yue, which made me very excited. I was more happy than Secretary Ma praised me. I quickly said, "I followed Director Liu. Director Liu taught me by words and deeds, and earnestly taught me. Director Liu personally revised the manuscript for me, and personally gave me the idea of writing..."

"Ha ha... Liu Yue is the most capable director of the newspaper and the most dedicated reporter..." Secretary Ma said, "Alas, unfortunately..."

I am very happy that Secretary Ma can praise Liu Yue. I am very excited and excited, but I don't know what the pity is in Secretary White's half sentence.

At this time, I glanced at Mei Ling and found that her face was cold and her eyes were full of jealousy.

My heart sank.

Secretary Ma affirmed my manuscript and praised Liu Yue's one-month military work. I was very happy and even flattered. Although Mei Ling's face was not very good, I could not care.

Secretary Ma finally signed on the manuscript signature and handed the manuscript to me: "Just give it to Liu Fei directly and let him send it to the chief editor's office."

According to the newspaper's press release process, it is obviously unreasonable for Secretary Ma to sign directly for press release, but it seems that there will be no objection from the newspaper.

I remember Liu Yue and I said that there are three county level positions in the newspaper office, including secretary, president, and editor in chief. Because the newspaper office is a unit directly under the municipal party committee, it does not belong to the government sequence, and senior party officials are top leaders. Ma Xiaotian is a senior party official and president, and also serves as the deputy minister of the propaganda department of the municipal party committee. Naturally, he is the boss of the newspaper office. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Zhang Wenyuan, a gentle and amiable old newspaper man about 50 years old, who is the second in command.

"I took the manuscript with both hands, stood up, respectfully said goodbye to Secretary Ma, and withdrew from the Secretary's office.". Of course, she didn't forget to nod her thanks when she left.

Mei Ling looked at me with appreciative eyes and squeezed her eyes slightly, full of slight flirtation.

My heart jumped and I hurried off with a low eyebrow.

After taking the manuscript back, I found that the author's name was not signed on the title of the manuscript, so the worker wrote in the column of the author: our reporter Liu Feijiangfeng.

I know that this is the rule of the newspaper. No matter whether the manuscript is written by him or not, as long as the leader goes with you, it is generally necessary to sign the leader's name and sign it in front of him, which also reflects the writer's respect for the leader. Of course, when I go out with Liu Yue, my name will be hung on the back of the manuscripts written by Liu Yue. However, Liu Yue will delete her own name after every revision of my manuscripts, and only keep my own name. However, Liu Fei is not Liu Yue after all. I think it's better to be safe. So I wrote the author's name and then handed the manuscript to Liu Fei.

Liu Fei took the manuscript and looked at it. Suddenly, he smiled at me, took up his pen, drew a postscript on his name, put it behind my name, and said, "Jiang Feng, the manuscript was written by you, and your name should be put in the front, I can't make you cheap, hehe... This is your work..."

I also smiled: "Ha ha... Director Liu is really modest..."

I really don't know what to say. I think Liu Fei did the right thing. My name should be in front of my work. But there are too many unreasonable things in the world. I can't say that he did it right. So I can only say that he is modest and then laugh.

"When many directors of the newspaper office take reporters or editors down to interview, they are all soldiers' manuscripts. The directors drink and receive gifts, and then come back to sign their names in front of the soldiers. However, our News Department has no such rules, and Director Liu takes the lead in not letting them do so. This is also the work of a respected family, reflecting the true personal level..." Liu Fei said to me: "However, when Director Liu and the bosses go out, they all write scripts with the boss's name in front of them. This is also the rule, hehe..."

I think Liu Fei's words are very real and practical. They are all real things. Whether right or wrong, existence is reasonable. I am very pleased that Liu Yue has left, but the Department of Public Information has traces of Liu Yue everywhere, and the shadow of Liu Yue can be seen everywhere. In my heart, I always remember Liu Yue's teachings.