Wenhao: This child has been smart since he was young

Chapter 14 Go and rescue your friends

"Don't tell anyone. I promised Zhao Juan not to tell you." Fan Xiaotian said.

"OK, maybe I helped her and I want to say thank you." Gu Lu said.

"Why are you saying thank you? She must be interested in you," Fan Xiaotian gossiped. "Zhao Juan is one of the most well-behaved girls in our class five. She has a bright future, young man."

"Women will only affect my sword-drawing speed." Gu Lu said.

Boys often discuss who is the best behaved person in the class, and Wang Meiqi, Zhou Lin and Zhao Juan are often mentioned.

As for the school's recognized beauties in class, grade, and campus - I've never heard of anyone being recognized as such.

"Wait, what's behind you?" Fan Xiaotian pulled off a piece of note paper from behind Gu Lu.

It says [Bad luck charm, bad luck] on it.

"This handwriting... the scheming frog keeps touching your belly." Gu Lu said that Zhou Lin must have put that on him after school.

"What frog, what belly?" Fan Xiaotian asked curiously.

Oh yes, there is no Edogawa Ranpo, so how can there be Edogawa Conan? Gu Lu said, "In Japanese, it probably means there is only one truth."

Fan Xiaotian suddenly perked up, "Awesome, you know Japanese now. What kind of movies did you watch to learn it? Why did I only learn Yamedie and Damei?"

When the fat boss arrived, Gu Lu asked Fan Xiaotian to play for half an hour while he used the computer to type out the composition for the Bing Xin Cup.

Also didn't forget to log in to QQ mailbox.

He couldn't go to "Story Club" every day to see if there was any reply. Without any manuscripts to write, it was not cost-effective to go online.

Once every three days.

Gu Lu didn't know that Lao Li had already shown "Smash the Piggy" to the neighboring department in advance.

Lao Li is only in charge of reviewing, final review and objection. To put it more bluntly, when he wanted to reply to the author, he froze. He was not qualified to send this message.

"It's funny. I submitted a short story to Story Club and introduced it to our Literary Youth."

Xiao Chong, the editor of "Literary Boy", chuckled. The reason why he was called "Xiao" Chong was not because he was young, but because his head was indeed very small, despite his burly build, he had a small face.

Looking at the little bug, it's like sticking a teddy bear's head on Alaska's body, so weird that you can't help but take a few more glances.

Xiao Chong has the capital to be "arrogant". "Wenyi Shaonian" is the first magazine of original children's literature in China and is also a must-have magazine in the national designated magazine reading room.

"Okay, I'm tired of reviewing manuscripts, so I'll take a break." Xiao Chong said. He still had to give Lao Li some face. First, Art Youth and Story Club were both published by Modu Century Publishing, and second, Lao Li was also a veteran in the publishing industry.

"Smash the Piggy, the name is a bit too literal."

It’s not that Xiao Chong is deliberately picking on others, just look at the names of other submissions: Standing at the Tail of Fifteen, Monster Customizer, and Legend of Clouds and Birds.

[Dad refused to buy me a Fruity Robo Orange Transformer toy. Actually, Mom agreed to buy it, but Dad said I was spoiled. "Why should we buy him one, huh?" he said to Mom. "Why should we buy him a Fruity Robo toy? ...]
The child asked for toys but was rejected by his father because he thought it was too easy to agree to the child's request. The child would not understand the hard work of his parents and would develop a mentality of wanting to get something for nothing.

It was an ordinary beginning, but Xiao Chong already felt that the story was extraordinary. "So, my father didn't buy me the orange-scented toy, but bought me an ugly little porcelain pig with a flat hole on its back. In this way, I will grow up healthily and understand the hard work of my parents."

"Can a piggy bank help people grow up healthily? Why does it sound ironic? Is it my illusion?" Xiao Chong muttered. He gave up his relaxed attitude after just a few hundred words. To be the editor-in-chief of "Literary Youth", Xiao Chong's appreciation ability is definitely no problem.

Then my father told me that as long as I was not picky about food and helped with housework every day, I would get a one-yuan coin. When I shook the piggy bank and it made a clanging sound, I could buy an orange-scented transforming toy.

"Even if it's a small piggy bank, it would take about a hundred coins to fill it up," Xiao Chong estimated. "It's not my birthday, so it's really expensive to have a toy worth hundreds of dollars."

Xiao Chong put himself in the role of a parent. If the boy at home (five years old) also made the same request, he would refuse.

The point of the story of "Smash the Piggy" is not whether to buy toys or not.

In the following time, the importance of the piggy bank slowly changed in my mind. "In fact, this little porcelain pig is very cute, and its nose feels cool to the touch. When you put a one-yuan coin into its back, it will smile; when you put a five-cent coin in it, it will also smile. But the most gratifying thing is that even if you don't put anything in it, it will still smile. I named the little porcelain pig Gulu..."

At one dollar a day, according to Xiao Chong's calculation, it would take nearly half a year to fill the library. During this period, I treated the little porcelain pig as a friend and was often worried that it would break.

Can you really become friends with a toy? Xiao Chong wondered.

One day, Dad picked up the piggy bank and shook it, and was about to smash it as agreed, because it was full. Xiao Chong thought about it and realized that some piggy banks did not have outlets.

[Let Fruity Robo stay where it’s cool! I want to smash my friend’s head with a hammer? “I don’t want the Orange Fragrance Transformer Toy anymore,” I returned the hammer to my dad and said, “I’m satisfied with having Guru.” “You don’t understand.” Dad said, “It’s okay, this is a kind of education, hurry up, I’ll smash it for you.”……]
"Hiss——" When the story developed to this point, Xiao Chong realized that this article was definitely not ordinary. It might be Class Three or Class Four, but it was definitely not ordinary!
No matter how I begged, the father had made up his mind to destroy the piglet. He smiled with satisfaction and said that his child had learned to cherish things.

I begged my father to let me smash it tomorrow and got his consent.

"??"

The ending of the story left Xiao Chong with a lot of question marks in his head.

The doubt only lasted for a few seconds, and Xiao Chong suddenly patted his head, "So this is the reason why there is a generation gap between children and adults?"

[“Pigs love the wild,” I said to Gulu as I put him on the ground, “especially the forest. You’ll like it here.” I waited for Gulu to respond, but he said nothing. When I touched his nose to say goodbye, he just gave me a sad look. He knew he would never see me again.]
Yes, that’s right. The protagonist of the story put the piggy bank in the woods near his home. He wanted to save Gollum!

Losing over a hundred dollars in vain was Xiao Chong's first reaction, and also the reason why he was full of questions.

"For children, it's about saving their friends, but for adults, including me, the first reaction is that the money is lost. This behavior is too stupid, and the piggy bank has no life." Even though Xiao Chong was once a child, he has forgotten everything about his childhood.

“‘Literary Boy’ is about this kind of story. Although it is simple, it brings out the problems in family education in a light-hearted way.”

"It's like someone who is determined to smash a piggy bank, not caring about the child's feelings and just wants to teach the child what he thinks is good. This is something that most families often find themselves in. As a person with children, I think about my own education after watching this."

Xiao Chong looked at the author's name with unsatisfied feeling: Gu Lu
"Gu Lu and Guru, these are little Easter eggs played by the author. They must be specialized writers of children's literature. It would be a waste to submit them to the Story Club." Xiao Chong thought to himself.

This is what famous children's writers do. They write stories not only for children, but also for parents.

Before reading: Introducing the works of Story Club to literary teenagers? That's too high a target.

After reading the article: "Literary Boy" must have this article.

Xiao Chong temporarily put aside his review work and called Lao Li.

"Hey, Brother Li, this text you sent me..."

The initial review is very tiring, especially for children's literature. The initial review is to remove all content that may be harmful to children, but at the same time it is also important to discover good articles.

(End of this chapter)