Moonlight Variations

Yu Yao is the editor-in-chief of "Moonlight". "Moonlight" magazine has just been launched for less than half a year. The lineup of authors and painters are unstable. Every day, there are thousands of things waiting for Yu Yao to deal with, so she is definitely not like it. Lao Miao was so idle, she took over the second school of "The Book of Luohe", and it was Zhou Chuan who spoke in person, so she had to take it.

So compared to Lao Miao, Yu Yao needs more time to go to the second school, so after the matter was finalized, she made an appointment with Chuli that the first school should end on Wednesday after get off work, and she should be on Thursday. When I came to my seat at work in the morning, I saw a printed copy of the school trace.

Chuli didn't even want to agree directly: because when she begged Yu Yao on Friday night, she promised that there was nothing wrong with it.

It was announced on Saturday night that the editor of "The Book of Luohe" was decided. Lao Miao disappeared without a trace throughout the weekend. It was as quiet as a chicken... and this quiet continued until the Monday regular meeting. He finally found a chance. In the meeting room, I caught Yu Yao, who placed an order and sorted out the information.

So the two sat down and talked.

Facing Lao Miao’s suppressed anger for a day, Yu Yao actually didn’t know what to say, because she didn’t know where Lao Miao had offended Zhou Chuan—

It may be a sentence.

It may also be an emoticon.

After all, people like Lao Miao...

"I don't know why you are so obsessed with "The Book of Luohe"."

"You really don't know?" Lao Miao sneered, "That's Shiukawa—you think that only the author needs a masterpiece? Where did the gold medal editors come from? Right now, the best opportunity is right in front of me, but you live it up. Robbed!"

Yu Yao fell silent.

"Lao Miao, I told you a long time ago that Shiuchuan is not the same as the authors of the years you brought... I also reminded you before, beware of those young people who have become famous, they are generally difficult to engage." In the office, Yu Yao sat in a chair and looked at Lao Miao-she was plump, with flesh on her face, round eyes and short hair, and she was very shrewd. When she looked at people carefully, she always had an intriguing taste, "He is proud, literati Aogu, do you really think these things can only be used to describe Lu Xun?"

Lao Miao lowered his head irritably: literati arrogant? Not to mention whether it can be used to describe Shirakawa. Speaking of "arrogance", this person is probably the number one contemporary young author, right?

He was so arrogant that he was just one step away from reaching the sky, this Zhouchuan.

Lao Miao: "Then why did you give this book to a rookie editor who knows nothing? It was already inexplicable enough that you hired her in, and we have enough manpower here..."

Yu Yao: "I said, she has enthusiasm."

Lao Miao showed a smiley and disdainful expression: "Enthusiasm! Who are you fooling, what kind of enthusiasm is needed to do this business? Choose books, make books, sell books, and sell well. Isn't it the author's own strength and popularity — the enthusiasm of the editor? Can you eat it as a meal?"

"Yes," Yu Yao wrote lightly, "Does this break your job without blinking, talking and laughing?"

"..."

The conversation between the two finally came in with two cups of brewed tea at Chuli and had to be terminated, and then the Zhou regular meeting—

In the regular meeting, Lao Miao’s face was late in the first half of the process, especially when Yu Yao once again emphasized Chu Li’s role as the editor of "The Book of Luohe" and emphasized the importance of this book, the expressions on Lao Miao and Xiaoniao’s faces Very consistent...Yu Yao Rang must complete the proofreading work and hand over with her within three days of the beginning of the ceremony, and during this period, the "frontier planning" can temporarily come to an end. Yu Yao's original words are: "There are the original authors of the magazines every year, Adding the ghost that Chuli found is enough for now."

This means that Xiaoniao found three authors, and she only found one? Chu Li was surprised when he heard the words: "Hey, editor-in-chief, in fact, I can also..."

Yu Yao glanced at her: "For the time being, if you give you so many days, you can only find this person. If you waste a few more days, what miracle will happen? There is no need to get ahead."

Yu Yao’s words successfully saved Xiaoniao and Lao Miao’s face as black as the bottom of a pot, especially when Yu Yao finally handed the editor of "Hua Li" to Xiaoniao, her face showed that again. Sweet smile.

First gift: "..."

Chuli didn’t know why she was inexplicably slapped, she only knew that at the end of the meeting, the atmosphere in the whole conference hall was filled with a kind of "I’m not going to live with you but you can’t please." You are good and I get it. In the harmonious and beautiful atmosphere of "not bad"...it's quite a bowl of water.

... God's **** a bowl of water is smooth.

…

After the regular meeting on Monday, Chu Li held a thick a3 photocopy booklet, grabbed the red pen and began to work hard—

After proofreading a 400,000-word novel with 500,000 words in three days, it requires speed and quality... This is actually quite terrible. It is absolutely idiotic to expect it to be completed during normal working hours from the morning to 5:30 in the afternoon!

So Chuli didn't dare to delay for a second and moved.

From the first page—

"The Book of Luohe" is about a bear kid who loves to wear white clothes while plucking pearls by the sea. He accidentally found a magical book. The name of the book is "The Book of Luohe". The book is like the "Shan Hai Jing". It records that a long, long time ago, the birds and beasts that dominated this yellow earth before mankind—the bear child inadvertently used his own blood to summon a strange beast from the book, and the beast followed When the child bear grows up, he uses the other little monsters in the book together for the child bear to join the army to serve the motherland and quell foreign enemies. When the child becomes a big hero, the general in white, the beast turns into a handsome general and tells the child bear: dumbfounded There are at least nine creatures like me in the world.

The bear child was quite shocked, and has since been opened the door to a new world—

In the past, people were hit in battles. Since the beasts turned into human forms and told him the truth that the miraculous things in the world had gone away, his main goal of fighting has changed from hitting people to monsters.

…

The book is quite promising.

Reading and proofreading at Chu Li—

Turn the page with one hand with chopsticks and the other when eating;

Doze a little while looking at your head while holding your lap during the break;

When you enter the pantry to make milk, wait for the water to boil and watch;

Also watching when standing outside the toilet door waiting for the pit;

After get off work, put it in your cloth pocket and go home to continue watching...

When I sleep, I can't wait to get up and watch a wave of sleepwalking and find a few typos.

All of a sudden, the proofreading book turned into a Chuli baby and was taken to the world, eating and sleeping, I wish I would put a plastic wrap when taking a bath, and then hurry up and look at two more lines. Fortunately, Chuli was from Hikawa. Wen’s fan, if this is something you don’t like, I guess she can’t help but jump off the building until Tuesday morning...

But with the passage of time, Chuli found that the current "boring" and "time pressing" are not the most serious problems. The most serious is that during the proofreading period, I occasionally encounter ambiguous sentences or problems that can't be solved. I need to ask the day. What happened to Chuli himself, and the response of the other party made Chuli validate his previous guess-

This person, Shiukawa, really belongs to the most damned "random" party in the author group...

【first round】

Chu Li: "Teacher, let me ask, your protagonist fights monsters in order. The first said that the boss is a strange bird, the second is a turtle, the third is a white tiger, and the fourth is a dragon... Why did he suddenly arrive at the back of the text? When the third child is mentioned, the third child becomes a nine-colored deer? Is it a white tiger or a nine-colored deer?"

Shirakawa: "Whatever you want, keep the description and change it in another place."

First gift: "..."

Hirukawa: "Not witty?"

First gift: "..."

【second round】

Chu Li: "Teacher, didn't you say that the male lead and his mother died from a serious illness? Why did it appear later!"

Zhou Chuan: "You delete the sentence that says his mother is dead?"

First gift: "..."

[The third round]

Chuli: "Teacher, can you use less dashes?"

Hirukawa: "I don't."

First gift: "..."

【Round Four】

Chu Li: "Teacher, the problem is still the same. You spent about three thousand words in front of you to write the old fourth and the old eight of the ten transfiguration beasts fighting in their nests... I won't say whether this prototype is the protagonist of Qingchuanwen, why? In the front, it is clear that the fourth beast beat the fourth beast to death, but people in the back say that it was the fourth beast that beat the fourth beast to death..."

Jiuchuan: "You can find a place in there and add a sentence,'The protagonist thought: These people are so confused between right and wrong, they actually reverse the facts. It is obvious that the fourth beast beat the beast to death. Why are they so stupid!"

Chu Li: ".....................Jan?"

Hikawa: "Whatever."

【Round Five】

Chu Li: "Teacher, you said before that the protagonist is very vigilant and the house is sealed except the door. Why does he suffer from insomnia in the middle of the night leaning against the window and looking at the moon in the middle of the night?"

Hikawa: "You can pay attention to such details."

Chu Li: "...I am a professional proofreader."

Hikawa: "But the reader is not."

First gift: "..."

【Round Six】

Chu Li: "Teacher, you know that the ‘de’ in the three words ‘dead’ is more expressive, and ‘say well’ is not ‘say land (emphasis on the fourth tone) is good’."

Zhou Chuan: "??? Are you doubting my literary literacy?"

Chu Li: "...Don't dare, I was wrong." (While talking, he drew a circle on the word "地" with a red pen, and marked "得" with a correction mark)

【Round Seven】

Chu Li: "Teacher, the word'out of nowhere', the high school teacher pointed out that the key point of the college entrance examination is to describe the spread of things, there must be a cause, not'fabricated out of thin air.'"

Hikawa: "A screenshot of Baidu Encyclopedia."

Screenshot from the book: "The wind comes from nowhere", an idiom, the original meaning is that there is a cave before wind comes in (from Song Yu's "Feng Fu"). Metaphorical news and legends are not completely unfounded. They are now mostly used to mean that news and legends are unfounded. ("Modern Chinese Dictionary" 2012 6th edition, page 742, printed at the 517th time in January 2015)

Hiukawa: "Which year did you go to senior year in high school?"

Chu Li: "…………"

Chu Li: "I'm not able to keep up with the times, I'm sorry."

…

Above, so and so.

When the proofreading was completed by 50% the next day, Chuli felt that as a fan of Shiukawa, he was going to be blind. According to this author's state of letting himself go, he could climb to today's height in the line of "writer". , The one who is really riding a horse is...

There are nobles in the hit, and the ancestors enjoy the meal.

...I don't know which temple where the high incense was burned.

The author has something to say: the author really has some people like this

…At least I sometimes my editor may be really crazy, it hurts

I remember most clearly that I was at an editor’s house and the book was in a hurry to submit the manuscript. The editor was proofread, but the computer broke down, and then I watched her re-proof the 400,000-word book?? That night, I slept all night. Yes, when I woke up, she was still sitting next to the computer in a pose and told me

"Actually I think your ending will be better if Balabala Balabara is changed this way. Balabala Balabara this article will become a better Balabala Balabala??"

I:"…"

After the silence of the fan.

Me: "Oh."

Turned over and continued to sleep to death.