1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 239 Behind the six big awards, just for a woman's smile (seeking full order)
Facing the commotion and heated discussions in the audience, Li Shuguang took the microphone and explained to the audience:
"The award ceremony has not yet ended. Please be quiet and maintain discipline in the venue!"

"Maybe everyone is confused about the little episode on stage just now. This is it!"

"You should have noticed that Comrade Cheng Xuemin was holding several certificates and souvenirs. You might think that Comrade Cheng Xuemin was accepting them on behalf of the award-winning writers!"

"Actually, it's not!"

“In fact, these award-winning works were all written by Cheng Xuemin himself!”

"There's no need to talk about Director Qiao's Taking Office and The Horse Herder. These are works by Cheng Xuemin, published in People's Literature and Yanjing Literature under the pen names Lao Qiao and Lao Xu respectively!"

"'The Grass is Deep' is also a work by Cheng Xuemin published in Yenching Literature under the pen name Lao Xu!"

"Others include Huangtu Gaopo, which was published by Cheng Xuemin under the pen name Huangtu Gaopo in Yanhe Literature, his hometown, Kuang Yalan, a female college student dormitory in Shanghai Literature and Art, and The Traitor, which was published in Harvest, are also works by Cheng Xuemin!"

“So our jury didn’t expect that Cheng Xuemin would have six winning papers this time!”

If Li Shuguang on the stage had not explained it this way, the commotion and heated discussions in the audience would have died down quickly. But after he explained it this way, everyone in the entire venue heard it clearly!
For a moment, all the participants who had not yet been informed and were still discussing and speculating about what was going on, suddenly gasped.

Were The Female College Students’ Dormitory and The Traitor in the Loess Plateau also written by Cheng Xuemin?

Doesn't that mean that he won six awards for his works in one go?

Then, the entire venue was in a state of excitement.

"Uh……"

"Let's take a photo first. Let's all stand over there on the rostrum and take a photo!"

Seeing that the audience was so excited by his explanation that they couldn't calm down at all, Li Shuguang could only take care of his comrades in the filming crew and take photos with the award-winning writers and judges first.

After a round of camera clicking, the excitement in the audience gradually cooled down, and all the award-winning authors left the podium in an orderly manner.

"Xuemin, wait a minute, wait a minute!"

"You haven't finished your work here yet, don't rush down!"

Cheng Xuemin had already stolen all the limelight, and after finally taking photos with everyone, he wanted to go downstairs and have some quiet time.

But who would have thought that it was Li Shuguang who grabbed him again, saying that his work was not finished yet!
Why isn’t it over yet?
Aren't there six certificates and souvenirs? I have already received them, and I have taken photos to commemorate the occasion.

Everyone has already gone down, but Old Li, you only left him on the podium, and you think that Cheng Xuemin is not in the spotlight enough?

"Teacher Li?!"

Then, Cheng Xuemin begged for mercy and asked Li Shuguang what work he would do next.

"An acceptance speech!"

"Xuemin, you have to represent everyone and give a speech about your acceptance speech!"

Li Shuguang pulled Cheng Xuemin to his side and explained in a low voice.

"Acceptance speech?"

"That's Teacher Liu or Teacher Wang's business, Teacher Li, please stop making trouble!"

Ask him to represent all the winning writers and give a speech? Cheng Xuemin was upset and quickly refused to let the senior teachers give a speech. How could he, a rookie who had just graduated, give a speech on behalf of everyone?
"What? Teacher Liu, Teacher Wang, you are a pioneer, you are the uncrowned first prize winner of this selection, if you don't give a speech, who is qualified to give a speech?"

"Six pieces! Xuemin, shouldn't you give everyone a speech about your six winning works?"

Li Shuguang explained in a low voice again, "You won six award-winning articles in one go. If you don't give a speech, who will?"

Let Liu Xinwu or Wang Meng come, and see if they would be embarrassed to come up and make a statement.
Just now, everyone was pushing for the award-winning position in the middle, and no one could convince the public. It had to be Cheng Xuemin, the pioneer of reform and opening up who was appointed to write the inscription.

He has the qualifications and ability. He gave a speech on behalf of all the award-winning writers, and the award-winning writers and participants were all convinced.

"I……"

"What do you mean by 'I'? I'm Xuemin. Don't be polite! If you're polite again and ask Mr. Wu and the others to wait, you'll be arrogant!"

It is better to provoke him directly, so Li Shuguang simply carried Mr. Wu out from the rostrum.

"But I haven't prepared any acceptance speech!"

Cheng Xuemin is in a difficult situation. If you had notified him in advance, Old Li, Cheng Xuemin could have prepared some speeches. But arresting him at the last minute and making him give his speeches, isn't that embarrassing?

"What's the point of preparing? Xuemin, just tell us casually, tell us casually how you feel about your six winning works!"

"Just saying it casually!"

Li Shuguang grabbed Cheng Xuemin, picked up the microphone and said to the participants below: "Next, please invite our reform pioneer Comrade Cheng Xuemin to give a speech on behalf of everyone!"

After Li Shuguang made this announcement, Cheng Xuemin had to speak out even if he didn't want to.

"Xuemin, come here and tell us what you think about your six award-winning works!" After Li Shuguang said this, he handed the microphone directly to Cheng Xuemin, defeating Cheng Xuemin.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

Cheng Xuemin took the microphone and began to shyly bow to the people in the audience one after another, saying thank you several times!

When the applause gradually died down, Cheng Xuemin officially said, "Really! Thank you very much to the teachers on the jury and readers from all over the world for your affirmation of me and recognition of my work!"

"I didn't expect... to win so many awards at once!"

Cheng Xuemin held high the certificate and souvenir in his hand, which immediately aroused warm applause from the participants in the audience again. Everyone wanted to know the stories behind these six winning works.

"Xuemin, I think everyone wants to know the stories behind your six award-winning works!"

Seeing the enthusiastic and continuous applause from the audience and someone shouting and making a fuss, Li Shuguang on the stage simply helped to pass the message and asked Cheng Xuemin.

"Actually... there's no story behind it!" Cheng Xuemin smiled awkwardly as he was teased by the audience and Li Shuguang, and continued, "Actually, I didn't think much about it at the time. I just thought it would be fun to have a few more pen names!"

Cheng Xuemin would certainly not tell anyone that he created several pen names in order to secretly set up a slush fund to hide his private money behind his wife's back.

Although every man would do this and it is tacitly acknowledged, it is not a good idea to make this embarrassing thing public at such a big award ceremony.

But Cheng Xuemin was too embarrassed to say it, because someone in the audience had already helped him shout, "Comrade Cheng Xuemin, I heard that you wrote under a pseudonym in order to hide your private money, right?!"

Immediately, the audience and the judges on the podium burst into laughter. Who? !

With such an awesome thing happening, who is trying to sabotage Cheng Xuemin from the backstage?

Unfortunately, that guy hid very deeply. After shouting once, he didn't shout again and remained dormant. Although Cheng Xuemin was standing on the stage looking down at him, he couldn't figure out who that guy was.

This really exposed Cheng Xuemin's true colors, making him laugh and cry. He could only bite the bullet and admit it, saying:
"Okay, I admit that at first I did want to write more articles to earn some pocket money so that I could buy my husband some new clothes for the New Year. It was already the end of the year!"

"But I never expected that it would turn out like this!"

Cheng Xuemin held up the award certificates and souvenirs in his hands again, indicating that he had used his private money to produce six award-winning works.

Good guy!
It would have been fine if Cheng Xuemin didn't explain, but his explanation instantly made the people in the audience stunned and confused!
From what Cheng Xuemin said on the stage, his original intention was to pamper his wife and buy her a new piece of clothing for the New Year, but he accidentally made such a big deal out of it.

So, the reason behind the six award-winning works was just to coax him and pamper his wife, just for a new piece of clothing to celebrate the New Year?
That’s fine!
Tomorrow the People's Daily will have the headlines on the front page, revealing a big inside story, the story behind the six award-winning works of Cheng Xuemin, the pioneer of reform and opening up, and his lover, all for a new dress? !
After a brief banter, Cheng Xuemin formally delivered his acceptance speech. He did not prepare a script in advance; he just spoke whatever came to his mind!

The final summary is just one sentence: Literature should be guiding and stimulating, and it should carry the message and educate people.

Literature should guide and inspire people's yearning for life and work, and their pursuit of beauty. It should help people establish correct cognition and distinguish right from wrong.

We must spread it in a way and through a medium that the people like, inject cultural soul and national spirit into the people of each generation, and let the people be proud of being upright, optimistic and positive, and hardworking and striving for progress...

Cheng Xuemin's acceptance speech once again received thunderous applause!

"You said you weren't prepared. Luckily your acceptance speech was at the end, otherwise you would have said everything that Mr. Wu and Mr. Mao had to say!"

Li Shuguang also clapped in confusion. After Cheng Xuemin finished speaking and handed the microphone to him, Li Shuguang finally reacted. He slapped Cheng Xuemin on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"No, no, Mr. Li, I just said whatever came to my mind, just casually!"

Cheng Xuemin handed the microphone to Li Shuguang and without waiting for Li Shuguang to make any more jokes, he hurried off the stage. He couldn't afford to be left alone on the stage by Li Shuguang and steal the spotlight.

"Is this just a casual remark?"

"Then go back to the Institute of Literature and Arts, Xuemin, and give another lecture to everyone!"

Li Shuguang whispered to Cheng Xuemin's back, "With Cheng Xuemin's level, why does he want to be a student at the Institute of Literature?"

It’s enough to just go there and become a teacher!

Li Shuguang already had an idea in his mind. A few days ago, Ding Ling and Wang Meng both came to him and asked him to recommend a list of young writers who would become students at the Institute of Literature.

Cheng Xuemin is the first one!
Now it seems that it was a waste of Cheng Xuemin's talent to be a student at their Institute of Literature.

not to mention!
Don’t be fooled by the fact that Cheng Xuemin is young, just in his early twenties. He is now a distinguished lecturer in the Chinese Department of Yan University and a teacher at Yan University!

"Teacher Li, let's talk about it later!"

Sure enough, there was more to come. They wanted to invite him to be a teacher at the Institute of Literature? Cheng Xuemin ran even faster when he heard this. He knew his own weight!

It would be fine if he could just improvise to deal with it, but would he really be asked to go to the Institute of Literature to give lectures to those young award-winning writers and outstanding young writers recommended from all over the country?

Come on!
Cheng Xuemin still stayed in his Yenching University, giving lectures to those college students. Besides, he had to go to university and become a student himself first.

"Xuemin, what you said was really great. Lao Jia and I were so excited listening to it!"

"You are right. Those of us who hold pens and write articles must give the people positive energy!"

Cheng Xuemin had just come down and passed by Jia Aoping and Mo Shen. Mo Shen stood up and held Cheng Xuemin's hands, shaking hands and sighing.

"Yes, Xuemin, what you said just now was really good. It expressed everything that was in our hearts!"

Jia Aoping also nodded repeatedly and said to Cheng Xuemin.

"No, no! Lao Mo and Lao Jia, I really didn't prepare anything today. I just spoke whatever came to my mind!"

Cheng Xuemin was also in the audience, constantly responding to everyone's exclamations and compliments. The conference on the stage was basically coming to an end after the award ceremony.

It was almost eleven-thirty in the morning, and everyone was arranged to meet in the Great Hall of the People. After lunch, there was a symposium in the afternoon!

The content of the symposium was interactive communication between the judges on the rostrum, award-winning writers, heads of various publications, and staff from other cultural fields.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin was inevitably the focus of everyone's attention and was the subject of repeated discussions.

"Xuemin, come to our lecture hall and be a teacher. I think everyone likes to listen to your lectures. The time for the symposium is limited, and you are still not satisfied!"

At the end of the symposium, some of the older judges left one after another, including Wu Lao, Mao Lao, Ba Lao and others.

Ding Ling, the person in charge of the lecture hall who was about to start, finally spoke up and invited Cheng Xuemin.

"Yes, Xuemin, come and be a teacher at our Institute of Literature!"

Another person in charge, Wang Meng, also extended an invitation.

"Uh?!"

"Old Wang, didn't you invite Xuemin to be a student at your Institute of Literature a few days ago? How come he suddenly became a teacher?"

Li Shuguang, who seized the opportunity, exposed Wang Meng's shortcomings on the spot and made a joke.

"Old Li, please don't make a fuss. If Xuemin were to become our student and he sat in the classroom, I would ask you, Old Li, if you dare to start teaching on the stage?"

Wang Meng directly retorted to Li Shuguang, because Li Shuguang was also an invited teacher of their Institute of Literature and Art, and would also give lectures to the new students of the Institute of Literature and Art!

When the time comes, Cheng Xuemin sits there and asks you, Li Shuguang, if you can speak?

"You two stop making trouble and let Xuemin speak for himself!"

Deputy Director Ding Ling next to them rebuked the pair of funny guys in a bad mood, then looked at Cheng Xuemin and told him to make his own decision.

"Teacher Ding Ling, Teacher Wang... Actually, I'm still a student. I'm still preparing for the college entrance examination!"

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)