Chapter 126 – Stop Publication for restructuring! (1/2)
You want to give us an answer? How are you going to do it? What answer are you giving us? What a joke! The Chief Editor and Deputy Editor Gong looked at Dong Xuebing. They want to see who he was calling. Public Security Bureau? The Public Security Bureau cannot do anything to them! Unless you are calling Beijing Daily Group. Those are their direct supervisors. Calling other departments are useless! All the reporters in the office were looking at Dong Xuebing as if he was a joke. They were enjoying this show. This was the first time someone came to their news agency to create trouble.
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Dong Xuebing was waiting for the other party to answer his call.
Ring…… ring…… ring……
Qu Yuxuan was touched to see Dong Xuebing came to get justice for her. But she was also worried that he would get into trouble. She quickly said: “Xiao Bing, go back with me. I have already prepared my resignation letter. I will quit this job. What’s the big deal? Come, let’s go.” Cao Ping was also making eye signals to Dong Xuebing. She was telling him to stop. Both of them felt Dong Xuebing does not have any connections that could influence Beijing Times news agency. They were afraid that he would get into trouble.
Dong Xuebing refused to listen. “Let me handle this. Don’t interfere.”
The call got through. “Hello? Xiao Dong?”
“It’s me.” Dong Xuebing quickly say: “I need your help here.”
“Oh. Wait a while.” Dong Xuebing could hear Xie Huilan talking to someone. “There is no need for that. Tell them to go to the meeting first. I will go later…… Xiao Dong. Tell me what happened.”
Dong Xuebing knew she was very busy with her work. He walked over to a quiet corner and said softly: “I have a friend working in a newspaper agency. A while ago, her leader wanted to matchmake her with his brother. But my friend refused, and that leader took revenge on her. That leader got a client to frame my friend and then demoted her from a team leader in the advertising division to a backend staff in the reporter department. He even sent her on a dangerous undercover investigation on illegal tour guides at Zhejiang. Because of this investigation, my friend was beaten up by that illegal tour guide. Now, that person still wants to send my friend to operate the lifts. How can he do this? I am now at the newspaper agency to reason with their leader, but that Chief Editor just ignores my complaints. He turned a blind eye to all these, and……”
“Which newspaper agency?”
“Beijing Times News Agency.”
“What is that leader’s name?”
Dong Xuebing covered the phone and asked Aunt Xuan. “What’s that Gong fellow’s full name?”
Qu Yunxuan hesitated and said: “Gong Wei.” Dong Xuebing then walked away from the other, and no one could hear what he was saying and who he was talking to.
“His name is Gong Wei.” Dong Xuebing also did not want to bother Xie Huilan. But he got no other choices. “Sister Xie, this matter……”
“Ok. I got the whole picture. Their Chief Editor is over there? Can you pass the phone to him?”
Dong Xuebing said yes and walked over to the Chief Editor to pass him the phone. “Answer it!”
The Head of the Newspaper agency knew about the commotion in the Reporter Department, and the Chief Editor was explaining to the head over the phone. He saw Dong Xuebing passing him his phone and replied without thinking: “I am not answering it!” He thought Dong Xuebing had gone to his Public Security Bureau leader. But Public Security had nothing to do with his newspaper agency. He does not need to give any face to the Public Security Bureau’s leaders.
Gong Wei looked at Dong Xuebing with a smirk on his face.
Dong Xuebing shrugged his shoulders and said into the phone. “Sister Xie, he refuses to answer.”
Xie Huilan, on the other line, paused for a few seconds before saying: “I know!” Tuuuuu……. The line was cut.
Dong Xuebing was stunned. What does she mean by she knows? She still has not told me what she will be doing. Why did she hang up? This matter was too troublesome for her to handle? Shouldn’t be. Even if she does not have any authority, she was also from the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China was the department that oversees the Beijing Daily Group. This should not be troublesome for her.
After thinking for a while, Dong Xuebing kept his phone.
Qu Yunxuan asked: “Xiao Bing, who did you called?”
“A friend.”
The Chief Editor finished reporting to the Head of the agency, and Deputy Editor Gong shouted to the two security guards. “What are you waiting for? Chase him out!”
The Chief Editor also waved his hand: “Get him out of here! Don’t let him create any more nuisance here!”
The two security guards heard the orders from their leaders. They hesitated for a while and looked at the police logo on Dong Xuebing’s ID card. But they still move closer to Dong Xuebing slowly.
The rest of the reporters were slightly disappointed that the show was ending.
Deputy Editor Gong pointed at Qu Yunxuan. “You are the one who brought him here? Kicking the desk?! Destroying our agency’s property?! Disrupting our work here?! Scolding the leaders?! Fine! Qu Yunxuan, you are very capable! I will not settle all these scores with that guy! I will settle all these with you! From today onwards, you will……”
Just when Gong Wei was scolding relentlessly and the two security guards trying to carry Dong Xuebing out, a young man ran out of the elevator. “Chief Editor! Chief Editor! We are in trouble!”
The Chief Editor frowned. “What’s there to panic? Tell me what happened.”
The young man panted and said: “There was a phone call to your office earlier. You are not around, so I answered for you. The higher-ups had issued an order. With immediate effect, our newspaper agency will stop publication for restructuring!”
“What?”
Everyone was dumbfounded!
The Chief Editor and Gong Wei were shocked. They did not care about Dong Xuebing and quickly took out their phones to make calls!
Soon, the whole newspaper agency knew about the order. Everyone who heard of the order were shocked. Stop publication? Why? Restructuring? They had restructured in the past. But stop publication for restructuring? This was the first time they heard of such order. Moreover, the order starts with “With immediate effect.” That means they had to stop publication more than one day. It might be one week or even one month! How can this be happening? That means everyone at the agency will be out of jobs for a month?
The other departments of the agency might not know the reason, but the people at the reporter department turned to look at Dong Xuebing after they got over the shock!
Qu Yunxuan was also in a daze. She asked: “Xiao Bing, this……. You are the one behind this?”
The Chief Editor and Gong Wei had not thought of Dong Xuebing. But when they heard Qu Yunxuan, they turned to look at Dong Xuebing.
Dong Xuebing was shocked too. Damn! Stop publication? Does she need to be so ruthless? He had only wanted to ask Xie Huilan to pressurize the leaders at the agency and settle his problem. But stopping publication was a bit too much. This…… was Xie Huilan doings? Beijing Times might not be some major newspapers, but it was still a newspaper with the word “Beijing” in its name. This was a word with weight. She could just ask them to stop publication just like that? Ask for restructuring without any reason?
Dong Xuebing was shocked, but he did not show it on his face. He pretended he knew what was be happening.
The Chief Editor does not believe it was Dong Xuebing that caused this to happen. It was because everything happened too fast. It was only a few minutes after Dong Xuebing hang up. Even if Dong Xuebing had gone to the leaders at the City’s Publicity Department, it was also impossible for the order to be issued so fast. Issuing an order like this without discussion or approvals? Who has the authority to order them to stop publication? No one! No one dares to give such an order! No one can take on this responsibility!