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The name is very common.

However, short stories don’t need to take many names. What really makes Wei Long care about is the content. After several disappointments, the current Wei Long only hopes that Chu Kuang’s manuscripts can maintain a consistent level.

Just maintain a consistent level.

Chu Kuang is a general!

Although there is Feng Hua’s bonus on the blog side, if the overall level of tribal literature is not bad, it is not without the power of a battle. Anyway, short story lovers are not only reading a novel, this is the only thing Weilong can An excuse to comfort yourself.

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Wei Long began to watch.

The story starts from the perspective of a beautiful but poor woman. Because of her poverty, this woman is married to a junior staff member who is also not very capable. The couple live a tight life.

Women pursue material things.

Because of the coldness of her house, the rough walls, the obsolete furniture, and the vulgar clothing, she is always full of sorrow. She dreams that she can put on gorgeous services, and there are countless servants who can help at will, and there are mountains and seas to enjoy Enjoy...

Wei Long thoughtfully.

He roughly guessed that the purpose of Chu Kuang’s story was about the topic of matter, which was in line with Chu Kuang’s previous short story routines. He liked to use short stories to achieve a certain ironic effect. This was the sense of high-level in Wei Long’s eyes. His expectations have slightly increased.

Keep watching.

this day.

The husband triumphantly took out an invitation card to show his wife: "The Minister of Education is honored to invite Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang to the evening party held in the headquarters building on Monday, January 18."

Mr. Wang thought his wife would be happy, and this was the invitation that he took a lot of effort to get.

With so many colleagues in the Ministry of Education, not everyone can be invited to the party by the Minister of Education.

However, his wife became angry for no reason.

At least this little staff member of the Ministry of Education cannot understand his wife's anger.

It turned out that Mrs. Wang felt that she did not have decent clothes to attend this grand party.

[The most humiliating thing in the world is to show poverty among many wealthy women.

This is Mrs. Wang's explanation.

Mr. Wang had no choice but to discuss a sum of money so that his wife could buy decent clothes.

The wife said: [400 yuan is enough for me to own such clothes.

Mr. Wang's face turned blue.

Because he had such a sum in his hand, he was going to buy a gun, so that he could go to the plains to shoot birds with a few hunting friends this summer.

"Four hundred yuan?"

Wei Long roughly converted some in his heart, and then Yomo found the era when money corresponds to value.

Although Chu Kuang's novels do not tell the story of which era, clues can always be found through the details in the article.

just……

Is Mrs. Wang too material?

Madam Wang does have a nearly pathological pursuit of material things, because that is what Madam Wang sees as decent. After he made the clothes, he even went to a wealthy female friend of himself and borrowed a necklace——

This is a necklace set with diamonds.

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

necklace.

Wei Long couldn't help but think of a popular vocabulary today called "women who worship gold."

anyway.

Mr. Wang is not much better.

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

Look at the previous article again.

The couple even hired a servant at home.

The husband and wife have a tight life, so they have to hire a servant?

Hit the swollen face to fill the fat man.

To die is to face and suffer.

This is Wei Long's senses at the moment, which reminds Wei Long of the article "The Maggie's Gift".

The same is a couple as the protagonist.

But in that couple, both men and women are willing to give up their material pursuits for each other, which is completely opposite to the Wangs!

How would Chu Kuang be ironic?

Will this woman find a rich leader at the prom and cause the man to be abandoned?

Perhaps there will be a reversal.

The leader got tired of women, so they abandoned them, and the women could only return to the staff...

If so, it feels almost meaningless.

Wei Long couldn't help but get a little worried.

This is a habit that many people who read novels will have, that is, subconsciously associate the follow-up plot.

at this time.

The party began.

Mrs. Wang was a great success.

She is more beautiful, fashionable and charming than the average female guest, smiling constantly, and going crazy with joy.

The male guests looked at her ecstatically, listened to her name, and tried to get people to introduce themselves to her.

The staff in the confidential department wanted to dance with her, and the minister also paid attention to her.

She danced with intoxicating gestures, danced with excitement, she was intoxicated in joy, she was satisfied with the victory of her appearance, satisfied with the glory of her achievements, she was surrounded by happiness.

However, after the ball ended, she had to be beaten back to her original form.

Her life hasn't changed because of this, and the glory of this night may only stay in her memory.

He and her husband hit a small broken car in the cold wind, and the two returned to their residence.

She had to face reality again.

But something more cruel than this scene happened.

That necklace was lost!

This is the turning point of the whole story.

Wei Long discovered the true meaning of the title "Necklace" at this moment.

"Interesting..."

Wei Long's eyes lit up!

It is not a betrayal of family ethics that is not dog-blood.

What Chu Kuang wrote was probably because a couple paid a huge price for the vanity that night!

This is indeed the case.

That is a necklace worth 40,000 yuan!

Especially after Wei Long thought of the prices of that period, he understood deeply what a huge sum of 40,000 yuan was for the Wang family of that era!

How to do?

Wei Long thought about many possibilities.

Maybe this couple will go to court... Maybe this couple will find a fake to return it back... Maybe this couple will go to court because of this...

The result is neither.

The couple actually bought an identical necklace and returned it.

At this moment, Wei Long had some recognition of the Wang family.

If he even realized:

Materiality does not determine a person's character. When problems arise, the Wangs choose to face them.

Although the cost is indeed too high:

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

They decided to pay off these debts with a few words!

Mrs. Wang experienced the real life of the poor.

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

She started to do all kinds of hard work in the housework.

She washed the cups and dishes, and rubbed the rose-colored fingers on the greasy bottom of the pots and pans.

She washes her underwear and rags herself with soap and then hangs them on the rope;

Every morning she woke up, carrying garbage downstairs, and then lifting water upstairs. Every time she walked a floor, she had to sit on the stairs to catch her breath, and she dressed like a civilian woman.

She carried the basket to the vegetable shop, the grocery store, and the butcher shop to negotiate prices, to be scolded, and tried to protect her poor change, copper dollar by copper.

I have to collect a lot of IOUs every month, and set up a few new renewal dates.

Her husband transcribed the accounts for a businessman in the evening, and often late at night, he had to transcribe the five-copper book.

This life was extended to ten years.

Yes.

Mrs. Wang’s brilliance that night was brilliant, and the price was that the couple lived under tremendous financial pressure for ten years!

Mrs. Wang looks old.

Now she has become a strong, tough and hard-bearing woman of the poor.

She twiddled her hair, tied her skirt crookedly, exposed a pair of red hands, spoke loudly, and washed the floor with a big basin of water.

But sometimes her husband went to the office, and she sat alone at the window, so she recalled the previous party.

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

If she hadn't lost that piece of jewelry, where would she be now?

Who knows?

At this time, the story is not over yet, but Wei Long only feels endless aftertaste. He thinks this is an excellent short story.

Chu Kuang is still that Chu Kuang.

He used a necklace and a party to outline the sad half of a young couple's life.

"Excessive pursuit of materiality and vanity will cost too much."

There are countless emotions in Wei Long's heart.

While sighing, Wei Long also read the rest of the content along the way.

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

but……

It does not seem to be the case.

Mrs. Wang met the friend who lent her necklace back then, and the other person was still as charming as ten years ago.

But at this time, Mrs. Wang had changed her appearance due to ten years of hard work, so that her friends could hardly recognize her.

The two greeted each other.

My friend couldn't help feeling shocked. Why did Mrs. Wang become like this in ten years?

Madam Wang naturally said the reason with a wry smile.

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

The story ends here.

But Wei Long, who was reviewing the manuscript in front of the computer, seemed to be struck by lightning, so that his entire head was confused!

fake……

The necklace is fake!

Therefore, the Wangs and his wife have almost caught up in their lives, and the debts that they have to work hard to repay are actually a misunderstanding by mistake!

After figuring this out, Wei Long suddenly numbed his scalp!

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

"bump."

The chair suddenly fell out a meter away, and this sudden movement attracted the attention of countless people in the department. Even Han Jimei in the inner office couldn't help but push the door to look outside.

And just when someone wanted to ask Wei Long a few words of concern, Wei Long screamed in a quick voice, which resounded throughout the department:

"How about a troika!"