Chapter 13 Chapter One

The two offices of the foreign language group are a little further away from the offices of the other groups.Shanbao, Luo Hou, Jiang Min, and Yao Mi are in the outside room together.There is a big desk for the team leader, old and new desks, big and small, and a big empty bookcase.However, those few researchers with higher professional titles or higher airs do not work at work, but work at home. Only Xu Yancheng often goes for a walk.Fu Jin has his own office and has never been to the foreign language department.Taking advantage of Jiang Min's absence, Yao Mi has already asked Shanbao and Luo Hou to move back the new desk Shi Nina occupied.They replaced her with a half-new desk, and according to Yao Mi's request, they moved the desk to the corner of the wall next to the door.

This day was the first meeting of the foreign language group, and the stoves in both the inner and outer rooms were very active.The four people outside except Jiang Min have already arrived.Xu Yancheng was busy getting ready for the meeting early after eating, but Lilin suddenly remembered that Zhu Qianli's stinky pipe must have smelt all over her body.She changed into an old overcoat and an old sweater, thinking that the office would be cold, so she added a vest.Yancheng waited for her to toss about, while silently reading the secret agreement between him and Yao Mi: "We have to be smart." "Smart"?How clever?That is to say: they have to try their best to vote in a group, but they cannot be perceived by others.He suddenly realized that he had to be alert, careful, and cover up.

The couple arrived at the office earlier than others.After greeting them, Luo Hou and Shanbao said, "Mr. Xu hasn't been here for a long time. We have a new person here. You don't even know about it, do you?" When Yancheng entered the door, he saw Yao Mi in the corner.He was very "smart", he just turned his head and nodded to her, and was busy explaining that relatives came to the house, and he was a mess.Lilin went to welcome Yao Mi and asked her why she was sitting in the corner.Jiang Min happened to come in, and said, "Yao Mi likes to hide in the corner." Yao Mi just smiled and said, "I'm comfortable here, and I can doze off."

They all went into the inner room and found a seat to sit down.Shanbao also brought two chairs, and Yao Mi also brought his own chair.Lilin noticed that Yancheng and Yao Mi were just indifferent to each other.Yancheng didn't talk to her, and didn't pay attention to her, as if he didn't have much interest in her.Lilin felt that she was oversensitive in the past, and she was lucky not to "break him". When Yu Nan entered the door, he greeted Xu Du and his wife with a smile on his face, and only glanced at the rest of them.He sat down next to the team leader's large desk.Zhu Qianli came in and saw Yao Mi, smiled and said, "Hey! I heard that Ms. Yao has come to our team too! Today is the welcome party, right?" He saw an empty seat next to Lilin, so he quickly sat down.Yao Mi remained silent with a sullen face.Zhu Qianli didn't think it was boring, just asked: "How long have you been here?"

Yao Mi reluctantly said, "Four, five, six days." Yu Nan raised her thumb and said, "That's a good summary!" Just as they were talking, Shi Nina and Jiang Taotao came together.Nina had been to the group office and had taken over the new desk.Yancheng didn't know it, and when he saw the two people coming in, he stopped him loudly and said, "We're in a meeting!" Lilin was next to him and quickly pushed him twice. Yancheng ignored them, seeing them running in and sitting side by side at the team leader's big desk, he couldn't help but wondered, "Are you also in this group?"

Lilin hurriedly said, "Of course! The foreign language group!" Zhu Qianli smiled and said with a pipe in his mouth: "It's one-sided! The Soviets are not outsiders, and Russian is no longer a foreign language!" Yancheng felt embarrassed.He said: "I thought the Soviet group was not in the same group as us." Shi Nina grinned her big red mouth—the yellow teeth were covered with rose-colored lipstick—turned her head, smiled charmingly, and said in a soft voice: "It's inseparable!" She looked at her watch and looked around. At a glance, everyone is here.She tapped her pen on the table and said, "Now the meeting."

Yancheng stared.Lilin gently pushed him twice again. Nina went on to say: "Comrade Fu Jin can't come today because of something, so ask me to preside over this meeting on his behalf, and I'll pass on some instructions from the leaders." She took out a cigarette, offered Yu Nan a nearby one, and lit a fire for him. Yu Nan lit it, and she lit it herself, took a deep breath, held the cigarette between her fingers, and exhaled a burst of thick smoke. Zhu Qianli pulled out the pipe from his mouth and stood up.He is a small, dry man who feels small when sitting, so he stands up.He said: "I'm sorry. I have a question. I'm here for the first time for a meeting, and I'm not familiar with many things. I only know Comrade Fu Jin and the leader of this group, but I don't know who else is who? Shi Nina Is comrade the deputy team leader?"

Nina smiled even more charmingly.She said: "Mr. Zhu, please sit down and write a book—Comrade Yao Mi, you don't need to take notes." Yao Mi only said quietly, "This is my own notebook." Luo Hou's two thick eyebrows changed from "ten past ten" to "seven past ten." He opened his eyes wide and said, "Aren't the instructions from the leader not allowed to be remembered?" Nina said: "Hey, I'm just saying that the group secretary is in charge of the records of the group meetings. The instructions I'm conveying now are for discussion among comrades."

Chen Shanbao was the secretary of the group. He swiped his notebook and asked, "Do you remember?" Nina said: "I am answering Mr. Zhu, don't forget—Mr. Zhu, our president is Comrade Ma Renzhi, you should know this, right? He is the president and the head of the classical literature group Comrade Fu Jin is the vice president and head of the foreign literature group. The modern and contemporary group and the theoretical group each have a group leader, and there is no deputy group leader. The classical group is not full of staff, and a few staff continue to punctuate and annotate ancient books. Technical work, not research. In the past, Comrade Wang Zheng led this work, but now she has another high school job and is no longer in the club. The classical group held a meeting. If Comrade Ma Renzhi could not attend the meeting, Mr. Ding Baogui was the convener. What about me today? , even as a temporary convener." She paused, and the whole group listened quietly.

She went on to say solemnly: "Our group is relatively complicated. The other groups have been working for a while, but our group has not yet come up with a work plan--everyone's plan has been set, but the whole group is still working on it." Not unified." She flicked the ashes off the cigarette butt, took a puff, and said with an exclamation: "A skill can serve the people. However, the purpose is to serve the people, not to use a skill! For example, someone's plan is to study horses. What about Lamei's "Flowers of Evil". Of course, Ma Lamei is a great writer with international influence. But "Flowers of Evil", this kind of novel is inevitably decadent, right? How can it serve the people! ——This sentence I’m not targeting individuals, so I don’t want to give examples one by one. Anyway, most of our group studies the literature of capitalist countries. What is the essence that can be absorbed, and what is the dross that should be criticized, we must strictly distinguish, and we cannot accept everything. Let’s just talk about it In order to study bourgeois literature, one must have a correct standpoint and have a programmatic guidance. You study this writer, he studies that writer, it’s a mess, and you can’t knead it into a group, and you can’t get results. We have to learn from the big brother of the Soviet Union. According to the advanced experience of the Soviet Union in the history of world literature, select a few key points, organize manpower - let's organize everyone's expertise, so that we can work together and produce results. I am conveying the opinions of the leading core group for everyone See discussion."

Zhu Qianli's plan is to study Malamet's symbolic poems and Baudelaire's.He was holding his pipe, breathing cold air through his nose, and murmured: "Ma Lamei! The novel of "Flowers of Evil"! The novel!" But no one paid any attention to him.After listening to this transmission in awe, everyone stared blankly at Nina smoking. Yu Nan asked, "What key points did the leader mention?" Jiang Taotao said softly, "Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Miss Bronty." Yancheng waited for a while and asked, "It's over?" Jiang Taotao said: "Our manpower is limited, so we have to adapt to reality!" At this moment, Yancheng didn't stutter at all, and asked, "What about Soviet literature?" Shi Nina slowly put out the cigarette butt, and said slowly: "Mr. Xu, don't worry, the Soviet literature group is going to be formed separately, but there are not enough staff, and it has not yet been established at the moment, just like the classical group, it is under construction. " Jiang Taotao added a very literary note: "Soviet literature is now dissolved in the focus of every study." Zhu Qianli was surprised and said, "How did it melt?" Tao Tao said: "For example, what is the nature of the background of the times, how to divide the rising period and the falling period of the bourgeoisie, we can't talk about each other, we must have a unified and correct point of view." Xu Yancheng said "oh", the tone of his voice was obviously a bit strange.Lilin pushed him lightly again.Unconvinced, he turned his body, tilted his head and looked at Lilin, as if asking why she pushed me?Lilin looked down at her nose in embarrassment, and didn't dare to vent her anger. But Zhu Qianli took it up: "In other words, everything must be based on the Soviet Union's point of view. That is to say, the Soviet Union's point of view is above all research." Yu Nan corrected and said: "It's not about being superior, but for us to lean on—I think it's good to have a programmatic guidance. According to Comrade Tao Tao's explanation, we just focus on four points." Nina said, "Yes! Take four points. Divide into four groups." Yu Nan hurriedly said: "I think—I—just study Shakespeare. How about Comrade Chen Shanbao as my assistant?" Jiang Min didn't expect Mr. Yu to choose Shanbao and not her.She estimated the situation and said tentatively, "I will study Bronty with Mr. Du, does Mr. Du want me?" Du Lilin said obediently: "Okay, let's go together." Yancheng was secretly proud.He said calmly: "I just studied Dickens." Luo Hou said happily: "I am also Dickens." Yao Mi said hastily, "I am also Dickens." Zhu Qianli looked at Yao Mi and joked, "If you were Dickens, I would be Balzac!" He hoped to make people laugh.But no one has the leisure to joke. Shi Nina said: "Comrade Yao Mi, you understand French, and you are Mr. Zhu's assistant—that's it: we set up four groups, four group leaders, and four assistants. In the future, for all guiding discussions, only the group leader Just take part." Yao Mi said anxiously: "I'm not a French major, I just learned French." Zhu Qianli said, "I'll teach you." Nina said: "Experts give full play to their expertise, and assistants learn from them. We are like a master-apprentice system. The mentor leads the work, and the apprentice improves the business from the work." Luo Hou said: "I also know a little French, and I will be an apprentice with Mr. Zhu." Zhu Qianli said: "My major is not fiction, I study poetry and drama." Nina showed off her knowledge and said: "Mr. Zhu can study Balzac's "Human Comedy"!" Zhu Qianli said vigorously: "I have already stated that my major is not fiction! I also know English and have studied Shakespeare. I will join Comrade Yu Nan's group and be his assistant." Jiang Taotao muttered softly: "Isn't this making trouble?" Nina asked back, "What about Balzac? We can't live without Balzac!" Yancheng couldn't help but said: "There are many more! Not to mention Russian literature, German literature, Italian literature, but only French and English literature. What about Hugo? Stendhal? Flaubert? Molière What about Byron and Xuecai? Where's Fielding? Where's Thackeray? There's a Bronty!" Shanbao endured for a while, then said timidly: "My level is low, Shakespeare is superior to Asia Pacific, I——I—." Jiang Min hurriedly said, "I'll change it with you." Lilin laughed and said, "We simply canceled our group. I also learn from Mr. Yu." Yu Nan said: "I'm not an expert on Shakespeare! I learned from Mr. Zhu and Mr. Du." Nina knocked on the table with her pen and said: "Comrades, don't take a negative attitude, please give more constructive suggestions!" Zhu Qianli said: "Okay! I build! My wife—my wife and I have lived together in France for ten years. I invite her to be the team leader. I will learn from her!" "Which one is your lover?" Nina widened her Gaffiga-like eyes. "She's just a housewife, nameless." Jiang Taotao said angrily, "Isn't this an insult to women?" Luo Hou took the opportunity to say: "It's time to eat, I suggest that the meeting be adjourned, and we will hold it in the afternoon." Nina looked at her watch, it was indeed past noon.She took two deep breaths of the cigarette she had just lit, stood up gracefully and said, "Our meeting today was very successful. Comrades all spoke freely and expressed their opinions. I will definitely report to the leader. The meeting is adjourned now." ." "Is it still open in the afternoon?" many people asked. "I'm sorry, I'm not the leader." She smiled angrily, holding a cigarette in one hand and protecting Jiang Taotao with the other, letting those near the door retreat first.