The weather in late spring and early summer was already a little hot, and when the delicate sun rising from the east emitted a fiery light, Shangguan Tingzhi, who was drunk and lying in the gazebo, held his aching forehead, opened his confused eyes and looked at the messy table in front of him, and then recalled the scene of drinking yesterday, and sighed again.

But then Shangguan Tingzhi's face changed, he looked up at the sun that had already risen, shouted "Oops", jumped up and rushed into the room, washed as fast as he could, and then put on his clothes and began to run out of the door.

Outside the gate, there were already servants preparing horses for him, Shangguan Tingzhi flew on the horse, and then hurried to the Datang Daily where he worked, and when he passed through an intersection, he saw a bun stall, Shangguan Tingzhi drank wine all night, and his stomach was empty and uncomfortable, so he asked the stall owner to wrap a few buns for himself, put them in his bag, and prepared them for breakfast.

Shangguan Tingzhi was originally a student of Guozijian, but last year, he took a leave of absence from Guozijian, and then applied for a job in Datang Daily, becoming the most junior newspaper gentleman, so that he could not only better contact all aspects of society, increase his knowledge, but also hone his writing and knowledge, and when the imperial examination began, they could also participate in the imperial examination.

In fact, many scholars like Shangguan Tingzhi will choose to work in the newspaper office in the interval between the imperial examinations, because newspaper work can not only increase experience, but also contact more people and build some networks for themselves. And if they can report a sensational news, they can attract the attention of many people, which is for their future imperial examination. There are many obstacles that can be cleared.

Shangguan Tingzhi rode his horse and hurried slowly, but in the end he was a step too late. When he arrived at the newspaper office of Datang Daily, his old-fashioned boss was already standing at the sign-in desk with a furious face. There were also several colleagues his age who stood there with their heads bowed, apparently being caught late.

Seeing this situation, Shangguan Tingzhi had no choice but to bite the bullet, face the murderous gaze of his boss, stand very honestly with those colleagues who were in sympathy with the same disease, and then lowered his head and said nothing, ready to meet the next storm.

However, what Shangguan Tingzhi didn't expect was that he was not the last to be late, after him. Then two more colleagues arrived, and by this time his old-fashioned boss had a dark face and was about to wring out water.

Speaking of Datang Daily, as the first mouthpiece of the official, naturally many scholars want to come in and work, but correspondingly, the admission of Datang Daily is also very strict, for example, for example, more than 200 people came to apply with him at the beginning, but in the end only 15 were admitted, and among these 15 people. After a brutal and long internship period, in the end, only he and another person were left to become official newspaper gentlemen, which shows the strictness of Datang Daily's recruitment of personnel.

Such a strict recruitment system is naturally very tight on the management side. For example, the department where Shangguan Tingzhi is located is responsible for reporting on the interpretation of imperial court decrees, which can be said to be a very important and serious department. Equally. Shangguan Tingzhi's boss is also known for being old-fashioned and serious, and he is very strict with the management of his subordinates. Usually don't say it's late, even a typo appears in the article. will be reprimanded by him.

Originally, Shangguan Tingzhi thought that he was the only one who was late today, after all, he was afraid of the strictness of his boss before, and few people would be late, but he didn't expect that so many people would be late today, which surprised him at the same time, and he was also a little glad in his heart, after all, there are so many people who accompany him to be late, and the punishment must not be too heavy.

"Say, tell me why you're late, and if you can't satisfy me, you'll look good then!" The stern boss glanced at his group of young subordinates and asked with a look of hatred. In fact, he was also strange in his heart, he had always emphasized that he was not allowed to be late, and his subordinates were also very obedient, but today he was late for so many people at once, which made him feel very strange.

"Editor-in-chief Xu, in fact, I went out early, but I don't know what's wrong today, as soon as I went out, I was blocked on the road, I took several detours, and finally rushed to the newspaper office, but in the end I was still late!" The person in the first line immediately said with an aggrieved face, their boss's surname is Xu, and he serves as the editor-in-chief of the department, and everyone is generally referred to as the editor-in-chief Xu.

"Editor-in-chief Xu, I was also blocked on the road, you also know that my family lives far away, now the population of Chang'an is increasing, and there are more and more people going out to work every morning, and the road congestion is getting more and more serious, let's send an article to appeal to let the court pay attention to the traffic situation in Chang'an?" The latecomer, who was in second place, also spoke. This guy is very clever, and not only attributes his tardiness to traffic jams, but also to work, which makes everyone else admire him.

Editor-in-chief Xu, who has an old-fashioned personality, also ate this paragraph, and his face was a little pale when he heard the words, and he thought about it and said: "This suggestion is good, the traffic situation in Chang'an in recent years is indeed too serious, our Datang Daily, as the mouthpiece of the imperial court, also has the obligation to make suggestions for the imperial court, I will report this matter to the president, see what he means?" ”

Editor-in-Chief Xu then looked at the others, all of whom also defended themselves, almost all of them were victims of this road congestion, and according to one of them, when he came, he found that even a section of Suzaku Street was blocked, and hundreds of large carriages blocked the wide Suzaku Street, and he also took a long detour to get to the newspaper office.

After the others finished talking about the reason for their tardiness, Editor-in-Chief Xu finally looked at Shangguan Tingzhi, but at this time, his face was very bad, and his tone became more stern: "Tingzhi, other people are late because the road is blocked, your house is so close to the newspaper office, it can't be because the road is blocked, right?" ”

Shangguan Tingzhi smiled bitterly in his heart, Editor-in-Chief Xu was a good friend of his father, and the two families lived very close, and they came to the newspaper office on the same road, so Editor-in-Chief Xu naturally knew whether there was congestion on the way he came, which made Shangguan Tingzhi unable to even lie, and finally could only honestly admit it: "Editor-in-Chief Qiqi, I was late because I overslept this morning, please punish the editor-in-chief!" ”

"Humph! When you are young, you know that you can sleep lazily, and what will happen in the future, go back and write me a letter of admitting mistakes, and punish you not to go out for interviews for ten days, and stay in the newspaper office to proofread articles written by others, can you be convinced? Editor-in-Chief Xu did not let him go because he was friends with Shangguan Tingzhi's father, but his punishment of Shangguan Tingzhi was more severe.

For example, although it is very difficult to go out for interviews, in order to interpret some decrees of the imperial court, their departments often need to send people to interview some ministers of the DPRK and China, which is a good opportunity for the readers of the newspaper to get acquainted with the officials of the DPRK and China, which will be very conducive to the imperial examination in the future, so the general people are scrambling to go out for interviews.

In addition, there is proofreading other people's articles, which is a drudgery, and you don't have the credit for proofreading well, if you make a mistake, the proofreader has to bear the main responsibility, which is a thankless role.

Hearing the punishment of himself, Shangguan Tingzhi could only reluctantly agree, after all, whether it was public or private, he did not dare to disobey the words of Editor-in-Chief Xu. However, he also slandered in his heart, thinking that Editor-in-Chief Xu had some personal vendetta in the communiqué, and the other party was indeed a friend of his father Shangguan Yi, and Editor-in-Chief Xu also had a daughter, who wanted to be allowed to be his wife to Shangguan Tingzhi, but Shangguan Tingzhi had already known his son at that time, and he really couldn't tolerate other women in his heart, so he refused this family business, and since then, Shangguan Tingzhi has felt that this Uncle Xu is much more strict with himself.

After receiving the punishment, those who were late were reprimanded by Editor-in-Chief Xu a few more times, and then returned to their seats. Originally, Shangguan Tingzhi still had an interview task today, but now it can only be handed over to others. And before he sat down, the other colleagues around him fell into the well, smiled and handed him the manuscript they had written before, and told him to finish proofreading as soon as possible, and they were still waiting for the manuscript to be delivered.

Looking at the half-foot-thick stack of manuscripts in front of him, Shangguan Tingzhi wanted to cry without tears, it was only one day, there were so many manuscripts, when would he be able to proofread it?

Although he complained in his heart, Shangguan Tingzhi still worked very hard to start working, he first made himself a cup of strong tea, drank a few sips to lift his spirits, and first finished writing the book of confession, as a person who eats by the pen, there is naturally no pressure to write this kind of thing.

Next, Shangguan Tingzhi began to proofread the articles of his colleagues, which is a very painstaking and laborious work, not only to correct the typos in the article, but also to correct some sentences that do not make sense, or where the dictionary is wrong, but also need the proofreader to correct them one by one. Shangguan Tingzhi had just proofread a few articles, and he already felt that his brain was a little swollen.

I saw Shangguan Tingzhi rubbing his temples, just at this time he also felt a little hungry, he looked up and found that no one was paying attention to him, so he secretly took out the buns he bought on the road from his bag, and read the manuscript while eating.

Just when Shangguan Tingzhi was solving his stomach problem, suddenly there was a commotion outside the newspaper office, someone came in and said something to the editor-in-chief Xu, and then the editor-in-chief Xu, who had always been calm, trotted out regardless of his identity, and some editors-in-chief of other departments followed, which caused the entire newspaper to be very surprised, not knowing what was going on outside.

But then a well-informed person went outside to investigate, and soon ran back, shouting excitedly in the newspaper office: "Princess Jinyang has arrived, everyone hurry up and prepare to greet you!" (To be continued......)