Chapter 23: He is not scholarly. He is illiterate.

Chapter 23: He is not scholarly. He is illiterate.

The whole morning, everyone in the office was rushing out the drafts.

Zhou Changchun did not only asked Dong Xuebing to write a draft. To be safe, he asked everyone in the office to draft out a speech, hoping Bureau Chief Yang would be satisfied with one of them.

Dong Xuebing wrote confidently. Although he had not met Yang Yizhong before, from the rejection of Tan Limei and the rest drafts, he concludes that Bureau Chief Yang must be a "scholarly" person since he was so fussy about his speech. So, Dong Xuebing wrote the draft using flowery words. He put in some idioms and references from Classic literature into his drafts.

Dong Xuebing stopped typing at lunch. He looked at his monitor and nodded.

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Dong Xuebing went upstairs to Yang Yizhong's office with his speech draft. He took in a deep breath and knocked on the door confidently.

"Come in."

Dong Xuebing entered the room and saw Yang Yizhong. Dong Xuebing was shocked by his appearance. Yang Yizhong looked nothing "Scholarly" as he imagined. He looks rugged. But Dong Xuebing thought that looks can be deceiving. Maybe he had a "Scholar" living underneath this appearance.

Yang Yizhong frowned, squeezing his thick eyebrows together. "Who are you?"

Dong Xuebing replied politely: "I am Dong Xuebing. I am new to the General Affairs Office."

"Oh. Is the speech ready?" Bureau Chief Yang stretched out his hand. "Let me take a look."

Dong Xuebing excitedly passed an A4 paper to him and stood there waiting for praises. He wants to claim this credit, and everyone in the office will look at him differently when he returns.

But in just 3 seconds, Dong Xuebing's daydreams were shattered. Bureau Chief Yang threw the draft back at Dong Xuebing.

"What are you writing?" Yang Yizhong had a dark expression, and he banged the desk. "Rubbish!"

Dong Xuebing's face turns green. "Ah?" Have you even read it?

Yang Yizhong shouted: "What is wrong with the General Affairs Office? I just wanted a simple speech. What's so difficult? Especially you! I wanted you to write a speech according to my topic. What did you write?" Yang Yizhong pointed to the first few lines of the draft. "Knowing honor and stop to achieve prosperity. What are you talking about? Ah? What the fuck are you writing?"

Dong Xuebing weakly replied: "Bureau Chief Yang, you misread it. It is 'Knowing Honor and understanding shame to achieve prosperity.'"

Dong Xuebing had touched Yang Yizhong's nerves with that sentence, and he burst out in anger: "What's wrong?! I only have primary school standard of education and does not know many characters!"

Dong Xuebing was in a daze. Fuck! Was this a joke? This guy was not the "Scholarly" type? Doesn't he have high expectations of his speeches? Primary school standard? Damn! He was an illiterate and not a scholar!

Oh shit! I am in trouble!

Dong Xuebing knew he had offended Yang Yizhong and immediately shouts: "BACK!"

...

The shouting ceased.

Zhou Changchun walked out of his room quickly. "It's done, and I was about to send them to you. Xiao Tan, Xiao Chang, bring the drafts over."

With Zhuang Zhi and the other two Guo, there were a total of 5 drafts.

Yang Yizhong took the drafts and scanned through: "No.... Wrong.... This is also not right... What is this? This too.... Cannot...." Within a minute, all the drafts were rejected. "Old Zhou, your General Affairs Office can't even write a simple speech?"

Tan Limei and the rest lowered their heads.

"Bureau Chief Yang, we..." Even if it were one rank higher, heads would roll. Furthermore, Yang Yizhong was several ranks above Zhou Changchun. If he was unhappy with Zhou Changchun, Zhou Changchun might not be able to be the Deputy Chief for long. This was why Zhou Changchun tried to establish a good relationship with this new Deputy Bureau Chief. But now, his plans were in jeopardy.

Zhou Changchun was also getting pissed, but he could not show it in front of Deputy Bureau Chief Yang. He stared at Guo Shunjie and the rest. All of his subordinates seem capable and eager on regular days, but during crucial times, all of them were useless.

"Bureau Chief Yang." Dong Xuebing took the printout from the printer. "My draft is done."

Guo Panwei looked at Dong Xuebing and thought to himself. Was this idiot fearless or ignorant? You hand up your draft now? Are you looking for a scolding from Bureau Chief Yang?

Yang Yizhong had lost his patience and did not say a word when he took the draft from Dong Xuebing.

Everyone in the office sighed in their hearts and closed their eyes, waiting for another round of scoldings.

1 minute...

2 minutes...

3 minutes...

No scolding was heard. After a while, everyone was shocked. Yang Yizhong laughed. He raised his right hand and hit on the draft a few times. "Look at what he has written. This is the speech I want."

This outcome had made everyone in the office speechless.

Yang Yizhong patted Zhou Changchun's back: "Old Zhou. Seems like your General Affairs Office have strong potential. Not bad..." Yang Yizhong turned and look at Dong Xuebing. He nodded: "I remember your name is Dong... Dong Xuebing right? Good job. In the future, you will be in charge of writing my speech."

"Thank you, Bureau Chief Yang." Being able to leave an impression with the leaders was rare. Dong Xuebing straighten his back to try to look as smart as possible.

The office was in chaos after Yang Yizhong left.

Tan Limei was the first to ask: "Bing Zhi, what did you write? Why is Bureau Chief Yang so happy?"

Changjuan laughed: "Our office has Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons."

Guo Panwei stared at Dong Xuebing with jealousy.

Guo Shunjie was not looking too good either. Why was that picky Bureau Chief Yang satisfied with Dong Xuebing's speech and the rest of them who had sent over 10 drafts were rejected?

Dong Xuebing could not tell the rest that Yang Yizhong had a limited vocabulary. If Bureau Chief Yang knew he was the one who told others about this, he would be in trouble. So, Dong Xuebing explained that Yang Yizhong likes simple and clean words.

After all of them saw the draft on Dong Xuebing's monitor, they understood what the meaning of "Simple and Clean" words was.

Tan Limei was deeply impressed. She gave Dong Xuebing a thumbs up: "Terrific."

Zhou Changchun also did not expect the problems lies in Yang Yizhong's education levels. He was impressed with Dong Xuebing's attention to details. He patted Dong Xuebing's back: "Good work. You have done a great job." Zhou Changchun felt what the General Affairs Office lacks was someone like Dong Xuebing. Someone who would stand up and save the situation in critical moments.