The Happy Life of a Duchess

Mary's face was a little anxious, but she tried her best to hold it back.

She is a maid who has undergone professional training for a long time, and she also has a higher goal in this regard. Of course, she knows that as a servant, she can't always make a fuss, but because things are very scary, and it is especially bad for the young lady, as a She also felt very worried and embarrassed about the people who served Adele.

In the early days, there was a lot of discussion about the winners, because the competition was well done, and after a lot of publicity, naturally many people participated in the discussions. The discussion of different anonymous female authors is the most intense among them.

Everyone’s opinion is quite different. For example, a bold and talented female writer like Mrs. Du Pont who is very avant-garde in thinking, daring to love and hate, is very optimistic about the level of this cutting-edge female writer, and gives her works a relatively high level. Say a relatively high evaluation.

But many others, especially men, who account for a relatively large number, are dissatisfied with the results.

Firstly, they didn’t understand the meaning of “women’s orientation” themselves, and they still insisted on their original views; secondly, some of them naturally looked down on this kind of things for women, and maybe they simply looked down on female writers. Yes, they may also have their own supported works...

In the end, I saw that this novel named "Two Lines" actually won the first place, and of course I was a little dissatisfied.

But Adele and the others are very calm. The calculation formula and the votes of the final result are all made public. Although the voting results of the three specially invited judges are concealed, the only thing hidden is the votes of these three people. Vote specifically.

The votes of Adele and others, including the voting results of the members of the salon, are all displayed in an anonymous total, that is to say, the number of votes is very clear, and there is no shady.

Just in case, Adele and the others even kept the number of votes, including the votes of readers, all of which were recorded.

It is so calm, it is not afraid that people will use it to check, and Mr. Weihan personally arranges the bonuses and rewards. There is absolutely a bank certificate, and it is very clear, and there will be no possibility of being corrupted by the middleman.

The rewards that should be given to the shortlisted authors have already been given, and Adele even went to the cafe on the other side of the Rhine to meet all the award winners, the literary hero and poet Mr. Nerval.

Mr. Neval is young at heart, in his 30s, and he also loves to play with young people. He also often walks on the river bank or drinks coffee in the nearby coffee shop, discussing things of interest with them.

Since Adele has invested in these young people and opened a cafe there, as one of the directions of funding them, he is naturally no stranger to him.

The two sides chatted for a while, but it was an accidental speculation. At least many advanced-minded writers, especially the new school of romanticism rather than traditional rigid classical literature, they are more able to accept some equal and advanced ideas. There are also several outstanding and well-known female writers and critics. Their attitudes are relatively open, but it does not mean that discrimination does not exist——

After all, this is a matter of character and personal quality.

That's not to say that advanced-minded people don't engage in sexism, they also have shortcomings, and some even make some contemptuous and insulting remarks, but this is definitely a minority among them.

However, until this time, Adele still had people follow up on the public opinion situation, and the overall situation was within a controllable range.

Adele already knew that she held such a magazine for women and organized an essay contest, which included a column for "female orientation", which was very controversial in itself. People who are not used to it have already tolerated her for a long time.

But Adele is currently one of the ladies with the best reputation in the circle, and her reputation and other aspects of prestige are very high. It was also promoted by many ladies and ladies, and they personally recognized the "No. [-]" than the previous one. "A beauty" requires an outstanding noble lady, so naturally they can't just slap themselves in the face so directly.

And objectively speaking, women like this magazine very much. Although they may not understand the intention of holding this essay contest, most of them don't think so much. It's not bad if it's purely an event and a lively event. .

After all, there is always some news in the cultural circle, and ladies and ladies especially like to discuss these.

Since it is also gossip, like this kind of competition, there is a ranking, there are awards and money, and there is something like voting involved... It is appropriate and very suitable for discussion.

Adele already knew that it was impossible for everyone to agree.

Even if they are all women, their tastes are not necessarily the same. Just like the discussion of different tastes in the first newspaper, everyone has different tastes and preferences.

Even if everyone agrees and likes this essay competition, there will be authors who support each and articles they like.

These are normal and completely controllable, and their votes are frank and open, they are all visible to the naked eye and can be checked everywhere. There is no shady place, and it will not make people doubt the fairness. evaluation in.

However, things suddenly became strange one day.

During this period of time, Adele was a little distracted, and was also busy with various things such as counting the dowry, including promoting her clothing and brand during the preparations for the autumn social season, which wasted some time and left her no time to go immediately. Following up on the essay solicitation that she thought she could pass, an unexpected change occurred to her.

In fact, originally, the lingering sound of an essay call is only half a month and a month. Although there will still be discussions in the rest of the time, the controversy about the ownership of the champion will be much less controversial, and it will not appear after this. There will be a higher degree of discussion again, and in the later stage, the situation of public opinion will tend to be relatively unified, which means that everyone will no longer have so much controversy over the results——

Most people will accept this result, although different supporters may still express their own views.

But the discussion at this time should be based on the content itself, that is, the specific content of novels, essays, and poems, such as images, such as metaphors...

But now, it's getting weird.

According to Mary, one day, everyone suddenly started to object to the original outcome.

But if they really want to talk about what evidence they have, they can't say any real reason after the announcement of the absolute ironclad votes, so they start talking about things like equality between men and women.

Some people began to say, why give a "female-oriented" column and gimmick, this is a preferential treatment for women and so on.

There are also some people whose views are even more ridiculous. They directly questioned the shadyness of the readers' voting, or began to deny the reliability of the vote counting method, and found many untenable reasons to prove themselves.

Then there is another wave of people, those people are supporters of other contestants, they directly said that the current anonymous lady's No. Sex, description and various attacks.

It was clear that there were "love" and "female orientation" in the requirements of the title, but in the end they wanted to say that this kind of love story for a little girl does not deserve to be the champion, there is no scene, it is full of ridiculous fantasies, etc., all in all It is not worthy of No.1, only the works they support are No.1.

Knowing this, Adele almost immediately thought of certain people and their intentions.

But she still asked people to investigate immediately. She originally estimated that someone was not convinced that she was beaten down, dissatisfied with her backwardness, and wanted to pull down this No.1 position.

But what made her very puzzled was that the timing of the attack was not good. That is to say, the prizes and bonuses had already been exchanged, and it was impossible to get them back. Backflow.

The results they should have have come out, and their prizes for other finalists have also been issued. They have become one of the columnists of the magazine and have the priority to publish articles. Now they are so tossing around, no doubt they will offend them, and they will Touch on existing benefits you've already earned.

If there is no greater benefit, their move is completely thankless and asking for trouble.

And basically everyone knows that she is the one who organizes this magazine, and the participants are a salon composed of various high-status ladies or ladies with special talents——

The salon is the core, in a way.

The reason why Adele first put on the shell of a salon before continuing to start the magazine was precisely because she wanted to pull other ladies and wives with outstanding identities along with her.

Everyone has money, time, and ideas, and they get together to form a rope so that they can work hard.

With such a toss right now, almost all the members of the salon who participated in the voting, and of course they are also relatively core members of the newspaper office, have offended them all over and over.

What kind of background, or what kind of shelter behind it, can make them not care about the consequences of offending them...?

Adele vaguely felt that something was wrong, and there were many guesses in her mind, but it was not easy to verify.

Until Mr. Weihan also wrote to her, it seemed that the situation was more complicated than she imagined, and it had already affected their next issue.

Adele couldn't sit still any longer.