Chapter 192

The name is very common.

However, short stories don't need to be named as tall stories. What really makes Wei long care about is the content. After several disappointments, now Wei long only hopes that Chu Kuang's manuscripts can keep the same standard -

as long as they keep the same standard.

Chu Kuang is a general!

Although there is a bonus from Feng Hua on the blog side, if the overall level of tribal literature is not bad, it is not without the power of World War I. anyway, short story lovers do not only read one novel, which is the only excuse Wei long can comfort himself.

Open it up.

Weilong starts to watch.

The story begins with a beautiful but poor woman who marries a clerk who has no great ability because of poverty. The couple live a tight life.

Women pursue material things.

Because of her shabby house, rough walls, old furniture and vulgar clothing materials, she is always full of sorrow. She dreams that she can wear gorgeous service, countless servants can help her at will, and enjoy the delicacies and delicacies

Wei long is thoughtful.

He roughly guessed that the purpose of the story of Chu mania was to focus on the topic of material, which was in line with the short story routine before Chu mania. He liked to use short stories to achieve a certain ironic effect, which was the high-level feeling in weilongyan, and his expectation was slightly increased.

Keep looking.

This day.

"The Minister of education has the honor to invite Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang to the party held in the headquarters building on Monday, January 18," he said

Mr. Wang thought his wife would be happy. This is the invitation he had to work hard to get.

There are so many colleagues in the Ministry of education, but not everyone can be invited to the party by the Minister of education.

However, the wife was angry for no reason.

At least the little clerk in the Ministry of education couldn't understand his wife's anger.

It turned out that Mrs. Wang felt that she had no decent clothes to attend the grand party.

The most humiliating thing in the world is to show your poor face among many rich women. 】

this is Mrs. Wang's explanation.

Mr. Wang is helpless, can only discuss to take out a sum of money, let the wife can buy a suit of decent clothes.

The wife said: "four hundred yuan is enough for me to have such clothes. 】

Mr. Wang's face is a little blue.

Because he has such a sum in his hand, he is going to buy a gun, so that he can go to the plain to shoot birds with some hunting friends on the weekend of this summer.

"Four hundred dollars?"

Weilong roughly converted some in his heart, and then found the era corresponding to money and value.

Although Chu Kuang's novels don't tell the story of which era, they can always find clues through the details of the articles.

It's just

Is Mrs. Wang too materialistic?

Mrs. Wang really has a morbid pursuit of material, because that is the dignity in Mrs. Wang's eyes. After making clothes, he even borrowed a necklace from a rich female friend of his -

this is a necklace made of diamond.

In Mrs. Wang's eyes, this necklace is really beautiful. It turns out that this is the origin of the title:

necklace.

Wei long can't help but think of a popular word today, which is called "money worship girl".

Anyway.

Mr. Wang is not much better.

He has 400 yuan in hand, but he only wants to buy a shotgun and go hunting instead of saving money to make his life more decent

Let's look at the previous article.

The couple even hired a servant at home.

Husband and wife live a tight life, even if they want to hire a servant?

A fat face.

Die to face, live to suffer.

This is Weilong's senses at the moment, which reminds Weilong of the article "the gift of Maggie".

It's also a couple.

But in that couple, both men and women are willing to give up their pursuit of material for the sake of each other, which is completely opposite to Wang's!

How can Chu maniac satirize?

Will this woman find a rich leader at the ball and lead to the abandonment of the man?

Maybe there will be a reversal.

The leader is tired of women, so he abandons them, and the women can only go back to the clerks

If that's the case, it's almost funny.

Wei long can't help worrying.

This is a habit that many people who read novels have, that is, subconsciously associating with subsequent plots.

At this point.

The party began.

Mrs. Wang was a great success.

She is more beautiful, fashionable, charming than the average female guest. She always smiles and is crazy with joy.The male guests all looked at her in a trance, inquired her name, and tried to lead themselves to her for introduction.

All the staff of the confidential Department of the headquarters wanted to dance with her, and the minister also paid attention to her.

She dances with intoxicated posture and excited action. She is intoxicated with joy. She is satisfied with the victory of her appearance and the glory of her achievements. She is surrounded by happiness.

However, after the dance ended, she had to be beaten back.

Her life has not changed because of this, and the glory of this night can only stay in her memory.

And her husband in the cold wind in a small car, two people back to the residence.

She had to face reality again.

But something more cruel happened than this scene.

I lost that necklace!

This is the turning point of the whole story.

At this moment, Wei long discovered the real intention of the title of necklace.

"Interesting..."

Weilong's eyes are bright!

It's not a betrayal of dog blood's family ethics.

What Chu Kuang wrote is probably a couple who paid a huge price for the vanity of that night!

It's true.

It's a necklace worth 40000 yuan!

Especially after Wei long thought about the price of that period, he deeply understood what a huge sum of money 40000 yuan was for the Wang and his wife at that time!

What to do?

Weilong thought about many possibilities.

Maybe the couple will default Maybe the couple will find the fake and return it Maybe the couple will go to court for this

None of them turned out to be.

as like as two peas, they bought a necklace just like that and returned it.

At this moment, Wei long has a little recognition of the Wang couple.

If he even has some insight:

material or not can not determine a person's moral character. When problems arise, Wang and his wife choose to face them.

Although the price is really too high:

in order to buy this necklace and return it to the owner, Mr. Wang borrowed countless money, almost covering the rest of his life, and both he and his wife showed amazing heroism.

They decided to pay off these debts in a word!

Mrs. Wang experienced the real life of the poor.

The poor couple fired their maid; moved; rented a cheap attic under the roof somewhere.

She began to do all kinds of rough housework.

She washed the dishes and jars, and worn the rosy fingers on the greasy bottom of the pots and pans.

She washed her underwear and dishcloth with soap and then hung them on the rope;

every morning, she got up early, carried the garbage downstairs, and then carried the water upstairs. Every time she finished a floor, she had to sit on the stairs for breath and dress like a civilian woman.

She took the basket and went to the vegetable store, the grocery store and the butcher's to bargain, to be scolded, and to defend her little change, copper by copper.

Every month, I have to take back some IOU and set up some new dates for the exhibition.

Her husband transcribed the accounts of a businessman in the evening, and often late at night, he had to transcribe the books with five copper coins.

This kind of life extends to ten years.

Yes.

Mrs. Wang's brilliant that night, the price is to let the couple live in the abyss of huge financial pressure for ten years!

Mrs. Wang seems old.

Now she had become a strong, tough and enduring woman of the poor.

She twisted her hair, tied her skirt askew, showed her red hands, spoke loudly, and washed the floor with a large basin of water.

But sometimes her husband went to the office, and she sat alone at the window, thinking back to the party.

The dance party, where she was so beautiful and happy.

If she hadn't lost the jewelry at that time, what would she have gone to now?

Who knows?

At this time, the story is not over, but Wei long only thinks that it is a good short story.

Chu maniac is still that Chu maniac.

With a necklace and a party, he outlined a young couple's sad half life.

"Excessive pursuit of material and vanity, the price is too big."

There are countless feelings in Wei Long's heart.

At the same time, Wei long also read the rest of the content.

He thought that the story had been finished after the couple had spent ten hard years.

But

That doesn't seem to be the case.

Mrs. Wang met her best friend who borrowed her necklace at the beginning, who was as charming as ten years ago.But at this time, Mrs. Wang has changed her appearance because of ten years of hard work, so that her friends can hardly recognize her.

They said hello to each other.

Friends can not help but feel shocked, why Mrs. Wang ten years into this look?

Mrs. Wang naturally said the reason with a wry smile.

But my friend was even more shocked. She took Mrs. Wang's hand and said, "Oh, poor sister, do you know that my diamond necklace was a fake one, which is worth 500 yuan at most?"

This is where the story ends.

But Wei long, who was reviewing the manuscript in front of the computer, seemed to be struck by thunder, so that his whole head was confused!

Fake

The necklace is fake!

So Wang's husband and wife almost set up their own life, but also to try to repay the debt, in fact, it is a mistake!

Thinking about this, Wei long suddenly felt numb!

He suddenly stood up, because the force is so strong that the chair behind him suddenly fell to the ground.

"Touch."

The chair suddenly fell one meter away. The sudden movement attracted the attention of countless people in the Department. Even Han Jimei in the inner office couldn't help pushing the door to see the situation outside.

When someone wanted to ask Wei long a few questions, Wei long suddenly called out in a rapid voice, which rang through the whole department:

"what about the troika!"