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Chapter 12, Tang Jianhong (Please collect)

On the morning of May 21, 1978, Wang Duoyu received a rejection letter and another acceptance letter from Science China·Mathematics.

"Yangtze River Literature and Art" still rejected Wang Duoyu's manuscript. The reason was not clear, but Wang Duoyu guessed it, because it was not dark enough, not perfect enough, and not radical enough.

Scar literature is the mainstream nowadays. Not every novel can be published like "The Pursuit of Happyness". It can only be said that different editors have different opinions. It is obviously a good article, but it was rejected because of the different preferences of the editors. The key is that it wasted more than ten days of Wang Duoyu's time. If I had known earlier, I would not have submitted it to "Yangtze River Literature and Art".

If the manuscript is rejected, then so be it. I just submitted it to People's Literature. I think this magazine will be happy to publish it, right?
In Wang Duoyu's opinion, since the other party is willing to publish "The Pursuit of Happyness", then there will definitely not be any big problems with the sister film.

He himself did not care much about the rejection of his manuscript, but Wang Meili and the others were very disappointed, because in their opinion, Wang Duoyu was a great writer and his manuscript would definitely not be rejected. Moreover, after the rejection, the villagers would start to criticize him again.

In particular, Liu Guihua and Hu Dawei, mother and son, are definitely the main force among them. After Wang Duoyu signed up for the college entrance examination last time, it was them, mother and son, who fanned the flames behind the scenes and kept cursing Wang Duoyu for not being able to get into university.

"Let's go, let's go to the small county town."

At the call of Wang Duoyu, more than ten people including Wang Duoshi, Wang Meili, Wang Meihe, etc. marched towards the county town in a mighty force.

Seventeen or eighteen kilometers is certainly not close, and it is not easy for some nephews and nieces who are only seven or eight years old to measure this distance on foot, so they need to borrow an ox cart or ride a tractor from the production team.

When they arrived at Shuanghe County, it was already a little after ten in the morning. After arriving at the destination, Wang Duoyu separated from his younger brothers and sisters. He went to the post office alone to mail a letter, while Lao Shi and the others went shopping.

The county town is not big, but it is definitely much larger than Qingshan Township, so they agreed to meet at a small restaurant opposite the cinema in an hour and a half.

In the post office hall, as soon as Wang Duoyu walked in, he ran into two acquaintances. One was his old classmate and rival Tang Jianhong, and the other was teacher Xie Zhenbiao. They were chatting and seemed to be having a good time.

"Duoyu, what a coincidence, you're here to mail a letter?" Xie Zhenbiao was facing the gate, his eyes immediately locked on Wang Duoyu, and he immediately said something polite with a smile. Tang Jianhong's eyes immediately lit up, and he could pretend to be cool again.

"Long time no see, Wang Duoyu. I heard you divorced your college-educated wife? I hope it didn't affect your exam preparations. Will you be able to get into university this year? Do you want me to help you with tutoring?"

When they were in junior high school a few years ago, Tang Jianhong and Wang Duoyu were in the same class. They often took turns to be at the top of the class, so their relationship seemed to be very good, but in fact they were competing with each other and their relationship was not very good.

Before, Wang Duoyu married Chen Qingwan, the most beautiful educated youth in Qingshan Township. Tang Jianhong was so angry that his back teeth were broken. After all, he was dominated by the other party, so of course he was very unhappy.

But what changed his luck was that Tang Jianhong also took the college entrance examination last year, and he was admitted to a university in Bingcheng. In comparison, Wang Duoyu, a college entrance examination failure, suddenly lost his sense of superiority.

Especially when he heard that Wang Duoyu and Chen Qingwan divorced in early May, Tang Jianhong was very happy. He had planned to go to Dahonggou Village to "chat" with Wang Duoyu and ridicule him severely, but he didn't expect that God would open his eyes and run into him here.

Wang Duoyu frowned upon hearing this. This guy was truly annoying, speaking in such a condescending tone right from the start. However, thinking carefully about their past relationship, it seemed understandable. Who made him go "downhill" now? "What a coincidence, Mr. Xie. Then you two can chat first, I'll send the letter first."

Ignoring Tang Jianhong, Wang Duoyu walked straight to the counter and started to get busy, but Tang Jianhong seemed not to hear him. He still came closer and called Teacher Xie to join him, insisting on reminiscing and chatting.

If they were really reminiscing about the past, it would definitely not be in the post office hall, but in a private setting, so Tang Jianhong's behavior was purely to cause trouble for Wang Duoyu.

"Wang Duoyu, are you writing to your ex-wife? I'd say you shouldn't bother. Your ex-wife is a student at Beijing University of Foreign Languages. You should know that universities in Beijing are different. The admission scores are usually higher."

Tang Jianhong stood aside, took a glance, and saw clearly that the address where Wang Duoyu sent the letter was Beijing. He immediately mistakenly thought that the latter was sending the letter to Chen Qingwan, wanting to win back his ex-wife Chen Qingwan, so Tang Jianhong couldn't help but persuade Wang Duoyu to face reality.

"Tang Jianhong, do you have nothing to do? Why are you so annoying? Who I write to is none of your business."

"Wang Duoyu, I'm doing this for your own good. Your most important task right now is to prepare for this year's college entrance examination. If you don't pass it this year, I estimate that the difficulty of the exams next year and the year after will increase. By then, it will be even more impossible for you to get into university. If you don't believe me, ask Teacher Xie if this is the case."

The old man Xie Zhenbiao standing by didn't really want to get involved in this matter. He also didn't like Tang Jianhong "lecturing" Wang Duoyu. After all, both of them were his students.

But Tang Jianhong was right. The most important thing for Wang Duoyu now was to get into college, not to win back Chen Qingwan.

"Duoyu, maybe Hongjian's way of speaking isn't right, but his words are true. If you were a college student, Chen Qingwan wouldn't have divorced you. It's a pity. You two are my favorite couple, but you...ah, so the teacher hopes you will work harder."

Xie Zhenbiao patted Wang Duoyu on the shoulder and said earnestly:

"Logically, I shouldn't be telling you this. After all, you're not a child anymore. I remember you're 22 this year, right? You should know exactly what you want right now. Getting into college is more important than anything else. And what Hongjian said just now wasn't meant to scare you. The college entrance exams next year and the year after are bound to get more difficult."

"So you need to think about it seriously. Don't waste your time on these things. Wait until you get into college, or even Tsinghua or Peking University. Who knows, you might find someone better."

Wang Duoyu heard this and shook his head helplessly, laughing:
"Teacher Xie, I know what you mean. I appreciate your comfort and advice. However, I am really studying hard, and there will be no problem getting into university."

"It seems that you don't have much confidence in me, teacher. But it doesn't matter. The college entrance examination is only two months away. We will know the result then."

At this moment, Tang Jianhong immediately interrupted, "Wang Duoyu, you really don't know how to appreciate kindness. You only scored 194 points last year. Where do you get the confidence to think you can get into university this year? The teacher advised you to review well, but you refused to listen. You are really a hopeless case. You deserve to be divorced by Chen Qingwan."

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