Chapter 192 So What

Chapter 192 So What

The name is very common.

However, the short stories don’t need to be given a high-profile name. What Weilong really cares about is the content. After experiencing several disappointments, Weilong now only hopes that Chu Kuang’s manuscripts can maintain a consistent standard——

Just be consistent.

Chu Kuang 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 power to fight. Anyway, short story lovers don't just read a novel, this is the only thing Weilong can do. An excuse to comfort myself.

Click on it.

Weilong began to watch.

The story starts from the perspective of a beautiful but poor woman. Because of poverty, this woman married a junior clerk who was also not very capable. The couple lived a tight life.

Women pursue material things.

Because of the poverty of her house, the rough walls, the old furniture, and the vulgar clothing, she was always full of sorrow. She dreamed that she could wear gorgeous clothes, have countless servants at her disposal, and have delicacies from mountains and seas to her heart's content. enjoy...

Wei Long was thoughtful.

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

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this day.

The husband proudly took out an invitation card and showed it to his wife: "The leader is honored to invite Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang to attend the party held at the headquarters building on Monday, January 18."

Mr. Wang thought his wife would be happy. This was the invitation he had worked so hard to get.

There are so many colleagues in the Education Bureau, but not everyone can be invited to the party by the leader.

However, the wife got angry for no reason.

At least this small clerk working in the Education Bureau couldn't understand his wife's anger.

It turned out that Mrs. Wang felt that she didn't have decent clothes to attend this grand party.

【The most embarrassing thing in the world is to appear poor among many rich women. 】

This is Mrs. Wang's explanation.

Mr. Wang had no choice but to negotiate a sum of money so that his wife could buy decent clothes.

The wife said: [Four hundred yuan is enough for me to own such clothes. 】

Mr. Wang's face turned blue.

Because he is saving such a sum in his hand to buy a gun, so that he can go to the plains with a few hunting friends to hunt birds on weekends this summer.

"Four hundred yuan?"

Wei Long roughly calculated some things in his heart, and then found the era when money and value corresponded.

Although Chu Kuang's novels don't say which era the story is about, clues can always be found through the details in the article.

only……

Is Mrs. Wang too materialistic?

Mrs. Wang does have an almost pathological pursuit of material things, because that is what Mrs. Wang sees as decent. After he made the clothes, he even found a rich female friend of his and borrowed a necklace——

This is a necklace made of diamonds.

In the eyes of Mrs. Wang, this necklace is really beautiful, so this is the origin of the title:

necklace.

Wei Long couldn't help but think of a popular word nowadays called "Gold Digger".

anyway.

Mr. Wang is not much better.

He obviously has four hundred yuan in his hand, but he only wants to buy a shotgun and go hunting instead of saving the money to live a more decent life...

Look at the previous article again.

The couple even hired a servant at home.

The husband and wife are living a tight life, and they still need a servant?

Hit the swollen face to pretend to be fat.

I will suffer at the cost of saving face.

This is Weilong's sense at the moment, which reminds Weilong of the article "The Gift of the Magi".

The same is a couple as the main characters.

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

How would Chu Kuang satirize?

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

Maybe there will be a reversal.

Bosses get tired of women and throw them away, and women go back to clerks...

If so, it always feels almost meaningless.

Wei Long couldn't help feeling a little worried.

This is a habit that many people who read novels will have, subconsciously associating with the subsequent plot.

at this time.

The party has begun.

Mrs. Wang was a great success.

She was prettier than the average lady guest, stylish, charming, constantly smiling, and ecstatically happy.

The male guests looked at her dreamily, asked for her name, and tried to get people to introduce themselves to her.

All the staff in the confidential department of the headquarters wanted to dance with her, and the leaders also paid attention to her.

She danced with an intoxicated posture, danced with excited movements, she was intoxicated in joy, she was satisfied with the victory of her appearance, 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 shape.

Her life has not been changed by this, and the glory of this night will probably only remain in her memory.

Shrinking in the cold wind, I took a small broken car with my husband, and the two returned to their residence.

She had to face reality again.

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

That necklace was lost!

This is the turning point of the whole story.

Only at this moment did Wei Long discover the true meaning of the title "Necklace".

"Interesting..."

Wei Long's eyes lit up!

It's not a bloody family ethics derailment and betrayal.

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

And it is true.

That is a necklace worth 40,000 yuan!

Especially after Wei Long thought about the prices of that period, he deeply understood what a huge sum of money 40,000 yuan was to the Wang couple in that era!

what to do?

Weilong thought about many possibilities.

Maybe the couple will default...maybe the couple will find a fake and send it back...maybe the couple will go to court over it...

It turned out to be neither.

The couple actually bought an identical necklace and returned it.

At this moment, Wei Long had a little recognition for the Wang couple.

He even realized something:

Material or not, cannot determine a person's character. When problems arise, the Wangs choose to face them.

Although the cost is indeed too high:

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

They decided to repay these debts with a single word!

Mrs. Wang experienced the real life of the poor.

The poor couple fired the maid; moved; rented a cheap attic under a roof somewhere.

She began to do all kinds of rough work in the house.

She washed the dishes, wearing away her rose-coloured fingers on the greasy bottoms of the pots and pans.

Underwear and rags were washed by herself with soap and hung on a line;

Waking up early every day, she carried the garbage downstairs and brought the water upstairs. Every time she finished walking one floor, she had to sit on the stairs to catch her breath, and she dressed like a commoner woman.

She went to the vegetable store, grocery store, and butcher shop with a basket on her arm to bargain, get scolded, and tried to defend her meager change, sou by sou.

A lot of IOUs have to be withdrawn every month, and a few new ones are set up at the same time to extend the date.

Her husband would copy out the accounts of a merchant in the evening, and often in the middle of the night, he would also have to copy books that cost five copper dollars a side.

This life extended to ten years.

Yes.

Mrs. Wang was brilliant that night, but the price was that the couple lived under huge financial pressure for ten years!

Mrs. Wang seems to be old.

Now, she has become a strong, tough and hard-working woman from a poor family.

Her hair was messed up, her skirt was tied crookedly, and she showed a pair of red hands. She talked loudly and washed the floor with a big basin of water.

But sometimes her husband went to the office, and she sat alone by the window, and she thought about the old party.

That ball, there, she was so beautiful, so happy.

If she hadn't lost that piece of jewelry at that time, what state would she have reached now?

Who knows?

At this time the story is not over yet, but Wei Long only thinks it has endless aftertaste. He thinks it is an excellent short story.

Chu Kuang is still that Chu Kuang.

He used a necklace and a party to outline the sad half life of a young couple.

"Excessive pursuit of material and vanity, the price paid is too great."

Wei Long had countless emotions in his heart.

While feeling emotional, Wei Long also took advantage of the opportunity to read the rest of the content.

He originally thought that the story had already been finished after the husband and wife spent ten years of hard work.

but……

It does not seem to be the case.

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

But at this time, Mrs. Wang has changed her appearance due to ten years of hard work, so that her friends can hardly recognize her.

The two greeted each other.

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

Madam Wang naturally explained the reason with a wry smile.

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

The story ends here.

But Wei Long, who was reviewing manuscripts in front of the computer, seemed to be struck by lightning, so that his whole head was stunned!

Fake……

The necklace is fake!

So the Wangs and his wife almost took their own lives, and they had to work hard to repay the debts. In fact, it was just a misunderstanding!

After figuring this out, Wei Long's scalp suddenly went numb!

He stood up suddenly, and the chair behind him suddenly fell to the ground because of the force.

"bump."

The chair suddenly fell one meter away. This sudden movement attracted the attention of countless people in the department. Even Han Jimei in the inner office couldn't help pushing the door open to see the situation outside.

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

"So what about the troika!"

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