Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 254 Novice on the Road
Tao Yushu's registered residence is in Yenching, and after graduation he first reported to the Yenching Municipal Education Commission.

The morning after graduation, she was dressed and ready to go.

"We now have two working people in our family." Lin Chaoyang sighed and asked her, "How is it? You're going to work soon, how do you feel?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

Tao Yushu's face showed some excitement, "It feels good."

"I wish dear Comrade Tao Yushu a good day at work!" Lin Chaoyang said jokingly.

"Thank you, dear Comrade Lin Chaoyang."

The couple left home, one ran to Yanda University, and the other rode a motorcycle to the Education Commission's College and Technical School Student Allocation Office to report.

The assignments for graduates have already been determined, so this registration is just a formality and all Yenching graduates have to go through it.

After leaving the Education Commission's assignment office, Tao Yushu rode his motorcycle towards West Chang'an Avenue.

"Yenching Literature" was originally located on Xia Gongfu Street behind the Yanjing Hotel on East Chang'an Street, which was also the location of the old Yanjing Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The editorial office was hidden in a large courtyard with a winding and intricate pattern at the bend of 17 Li.

Amid the buzz, "Yenching Literature" moved with the Yenching Federation of Literary and Art Circles to the Cultural Bureau compound at No. 7 West Chang'an Avenue, next to a corner under the loudspeaker of the Telegraph Building.

The Federation of Literary and Art Circles building stood there alone, and Tao Yushu stood at the door. This was not her first time to come to the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building, but the feeling this time was completely different from before.

Lao She, Zhao Shuli, Hao Ran... When Tao Yushu thought about how those names she had only seen in books before had traveled back and forth here, and that she was now about to become a part of this place, she felt an irrepressible excitement in her heart.

Taking a deep breath, Tao Yushu walked into the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building and found Zhao Mingwei, the deputy in charge of personnel affairs of the Federation.

While the two were chatting, Zhao Mingwei asked someone to help Tao Yushu complete the employment procedures.

After a while, someone knocked on the door. Zhao Mingwei said "Come in", and saw Yang Mo push the door open.

"I heard that our college students are here!" After entering the door, Yang Mo said jokingly with a smile on his face without even having time to say hello.

Zhao Mingwei also laughed, "You're watching me closely, are you afraid that I'll hide your baby?"

He then said to Tao Yushu: "Comrade Yushu, I won't introduce you to me. You must be more familiar with me than I am."

Yang Mo said: "That's it."

After some jokes, Yang Mo said to Zhao Mingwei, "Are the formalities completed? I can take the person away now."

"It's done. Go ahead." He shook hands with Tao Yushu and said, "Comrade Yushu, welcome again to join our big family of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles."

After leaving Zhao Mingwei's office, Yang Mo led Tao Yushu to the editorial department of "Yenching Literature".

The Federation of Literary and Art Circles is the abbreviation of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Its member units include more than a dozen literary and artistic units such as the Writers Association, Drama Association, Film Association, Artists Association, and Calligraphy Association.

It was fine when the Federation of Literary and Art Circles was just restored a few years ago, but now these literary and artistic units have occupied so much of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building that the office environment inside the building is extremely crowded.

Yang Mo took Tao Yushu to the office door with a plaque that read "Editorial Department of Yenching Literature" and pushed open the door.

What caught my eye was an office with outdated facilities. There were many desks scattered against the wall, and piles of manuscripts on the desks and on the floor. The editors were buried in the manuscripts.

Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, someone looked up and discovered Yang Mo and Tao Yushu standing at the door. This immediately triggered a chain reaction among everyone, and everyone looked up at the door.

"Comrades, please stop what you are doing and come and see Comrade Tao Yushu, the new force in our editorial department.

Comrade Yushu is a top student at Yanshi University. She has excellent academic performance during college and has published many commentary articles in the past two years. Her arrival is like adding bricks and tiles to our editorial department!"

Yang Mo's voice was clear and contained a hint of excitement.

The editors are no strangers to Tao Yushu. In recent years, her comments have been published in publications from time to time. She has also visited the editorial office several times. Her lover Lin Chaoyang also has a good relationship with Yenching Literature.

Everyone also knows that Yang Mo and Zhang Dening have always wanted to bring Tao Yushu into the editorial department.

Hearing Yang Mo's words, Zhang Dening was the first to lead the applause, and everyone followed suit.

Tao Yushu bowed to everyone with grace and grace, "I just started working, and you are all my seniors. If there is anything I don't do well in my work, please criticize and correct me."

After Tao Yushu finished speaking, everyone applauded again, and Yang Mo stretched out his hand to press them down.

"Comrade Yushu has just arrived at the editorial department and needs some familiarity with the business. If anyone of you wants to have an apprentice, please volunteer."

As soon as Yang Mo said this, Zhang Dening immediately raised his hand high, unable to wait.

"Put your hands down. You have only been working for a few years? And you still want to be someone's master!"

After being criticized by Yang Mo, Zhang Dening put down his hand in dismay.

Yang Mo's eyes moved around several old editors in the editorial department, Chen Shichong, Zhou Yanru, Fu Yonglin...

Finally, she set her sights on Zhou Yanru. They were both female colleagues, so it would be easier to get along with them.

"Yan Ru, come and take care of Yu Shu."

Yang Mo is the editor-in-chief, and he arranged the work for her. Zhou Yanru naturally couldn't refuse, "Okay."

"Liu Heng, go talk to the logistics department and arrange a set of tables, chairs and office supplies for Yu Shu." Yang Mo ordered again.

Liu Heng is only 27 years old this year. Before Tao Yushu came, he was the least experienced person in the editorial department, so naturally he had to do all the dirty and tiring work.

After listening to Yang Mo's instructions, Liu Heng stood up and walked out without saying a word.

After making simple arrangements for Tao Yushu, Yang Mo said a few words to her and left the editorial department.

As soon as Yang Mo left, Zhang Dening came over and grabbed Tao Yushu, "You're finally here! I've been waiting for you for so many days." "You're still slow? I graduated yesterday and I'm here to report today. There should be no college student in Yanjing who reports faster than me."

The two chatted and laughed, and Zhang Dening took Tao Yushu aside and introduced his colleagues in the editorial department to her one by one.

Tao Yushu knew most of the people here, but she had never spoken to a few of them. Taking the opportunity of this introduction, she greeted everyone solemnly.

"With Yushu's arrival, our editorial department has become more prosperous!" Chen Shichong joked after greeting Tao Yushu.

"Yenching Literature" is a monthly magazine that has always been very popular and has huge sales, so the number of editorial members is relatively large in the industry.

There are quite a few female comrades, including editor-in-chief Yang Mo, Zhou Yanru, Zhang Dening, Wang Jie, and now Tao Yushu, and their number is almost equal to that of the male comrades.

As everyone was talking, Liu Heng, who had been out for more than ten minutes, brought some tables and chairs into the office.

The editorial office of Yenching Literature is not large, only about 30 square meters. It was already very crowded, and with the addition of Tao Yushu's desk and chairs, it became even more crowded.

Everyone moved the desks against the wall and squeezed out a place for Tao Yushu in the corner.

"It's a bit crowded, but we'll have to make do with it. Our building has become more and more crowded in the past two years, and there's not even a bit of extra space," said Zhou Yanru.

After arranging the office hardware facilities, Zhou Yanru told Tao Yushu about the work content of the editorial department.

"We are editors, and our most important job is to review manuscripts. You are familiar with the content of our magazine, which is a comprehensive literary magazine. We publish novels, poems, essays, reportage, and reviews, and each person is responsible for different things.

I am responsible for a variety of things. For example, Lao Fu is responsible for the novel group, and Lao Zhao is responsible for poetry...

Currently, the largest number of submissions to our magazine are novels. From now on, you will be responsible for the registration and preliminary review of manuscripts submitted by some amateur authors.

Liu Heng..."

As she spoke, Zhou Yanru called out Liu Heng.

Liu Heng seemed to be prepared. He stood up happily, picked up the manuscript on the table and walked over. Before Zhou Yanru gave any instructions, he put the manuscript on Tao Yu's desk.

Before Tao Yushu came, he was the one who registered readers' letters.

This time, he is finally free.

Not only that, he could also hand over the task of writing rejection letters to Tao Yushu.

After more than two years of hard work, he finally made it!
“You have just arrived at the editorial department, so the work you are responsible for must be more diverse.

It is your job to register letters from amateur readers, write rejection letters, and conduct preliminary manuscript reviews. Once you are familiar with the work, you will also need to go out and solicit manuscripts and write reviews.

Listening to Zhou Yanru's words, Tao Yushu said nothing, but just kept them in mind silently. She has always been a strong-willed person, whether it is studying or working.

Zhou Yanru spoke intermittently for half an hour, and finally said: "You just came today, don't feel pressured, what I just said still requires you to learn and adapt little by little."

"I understand, thank you Teacher Zhou." said Tao Yushu.

Zhou Yanru smiled kindly, "Now that you've left school, don't call me teacher anymore. Just call me Lao Zhou."

Seeing Tao Yushu's tense expression, she knew that she would be nervous and at a loss on her first day at work, so she continued, "De Ning brought back two manuscripts from you a while ago, saying that you recommended them. I read the manuscripts and they are written in a very personal style."

"I read the manuscript and I thought it was pretty good. Although it has some dark and narcissistic tendencies, it's pretty good overall."

Zhou Yanru nodded. "In that case, you will be the author from now on. How do you think?"

On the first day at the editorial department, Tao Yushu was delighted to have a responsible author. He also relaxed a lot of the tension he had just felt in the unfamiliar environment.

After she finished her conversation with Zhou Yanru, Zhang Dening, who had been waiting on the side, finally had the opportunity to talk to her, and the two chatted for a long time.

When it was time for dinner, Zhang Dening took her arm intimately and took her to the cafeteria to eat.

In the afternoon, Tao Yushu officially started working. "Yenching Literature" is a nationally renowned literary magazine that receives hundreds of manuscripts from amateur authors every day.

The quality of the works varies greatly, and the quality of most manuscripts does not meet the standards for publication, but this does not mean that manuscripts from amateur authors are not important.

Whether in Yenching Literature or other literary magazines, manuscripts from amateur authors have always been the most important way to discover new writers.

It is certainly a good thing for the editor-in-chief to have the author resources of famous writers. However, if a magazine cannot discover and cultivate new writers, then its influence and vitality are destined to be limited.

Tao Yushu just started working today. She is very enthusiastic about reviewing manuscripts. She reads every letter she opens carefully, fearing that she will bury a talented writer because of her careless attitude.

After reading the manuscripts from amateur readers for more than three hours, she couldn't help feeling a little dejected.

The quality of the manuscript submitted by this amateur author is really... hard to describe!
She sighed softly, attracting Zhang Dening's attention, "Yushu, are you disappointed with the manuscripts submitted by these amateur authors?"

Tao Yushu didn't say anything, but answered her with his eyes.

Zhang Dening said with the tone of a person who has experienced it: "We review the manuscripts submitted by these amateur authors, which is like panning for gold in the sand. If we find good works, it is a pleasant surprise, and if we don't find any, it is normal. If you come across an author with potential, you should be secretly happy, because maybe after your discovery, he or she will become famous and successful."

At this point, she couldn't help but start chatting, "Now you know how surprised I was when I found your Chaoyang masterpiece among a bunch of amateur writers' manuscripts, right?"

There was a smug look on her face as she spoke, and it was obvious that she regarded herself as Lin Chaoyang's mentor.

Tao Yushu looked at her expression and wanted to say something to criticize her. "Chaoyang also told me about this. You guys were so slow in reviewing manuscripts. He said that if he had known that, he would not have submitted The Shepherd to you guys."

Zhang Dening said indignantly: "He is the kind of person who will destroy the bridge after crossing it!"

The two of them joked half-seriously and half-jokingly, and soon it was time to get off work. Tao Yushu's first day at work ended like this.

(End of this chapter)