Deputy Station Head Jia knew that Zhāng Yě had to get this Silver Microphone Award, for he was the only son of the Station Head’s old war comrade. Hence, he said, “Since it’s an error made by the jury staff, we shouldn’t have it affect our station’s newcomer award winner because of this! That would be too unfair for Zhāng Yě! You can’t do that!” Fairness? When they were pushing Zhang Ye to a cliff, refusing to give him a nomination, they had never thought of the meaning of fairness. But now, once it affected their own interests and relations, they began shouting about fairness!
The old judge was very unhappy with their tone. In terms of qualifications, he was an old veteran in the circle, and was one grade more senior than the Station Head and Deputy Station Head Jia. “Isn’t Zhang Ye from your radio station, too?”
Deputy Station Head Jia flatly said, “No way can it be Zhang Ye! It has to be Zhāng Yě!”
One of the five judges, a younger judge, stared at Deputy Station Head Jia, “Please keep your tone down and don’t scare us again. Now that we are discussing how to resolve the matter, must we go to the point of making such a fuss? Zhang Ye and Zhāng Yě are both comrades from your radio station. I have some impression of Zhang Ye. If I remember correctly, his results are much better than Zhāng Yě’s, right? So this should not be a huge difference for your radio station.”
The judge’s tone had changed. They seemed to have the intention to leave the mistake uncorrected and make the best of it.
Actually, Zhāng Yě was chosen by them. Among the five, four votes were given to Zhāng Yě, while one abstained. Under normal circumstances, the jury would of course respect the views of the radio station, but the problem now was that the circumstances were now not normal. The trophy and certificate were all wrong, and even the host had announced the wrong name. It was not easy to deal with this situation. And with the Golden Microphone Awards about to be broadcast live, where did they have the time to make a new trophy for Zhāng Yě?
“But…” the Station Head said with a long face.
The old judge said, “We will take it into consideration. Can those who are uninvolved please return to your seats?”
The Station Head could not say certain things, so Deputy Station Head Jia decided to say it, “This Zhang Ye has a character problem. That’s why our station did not recommend him. He definitely doesn’t deserve to win this award!”
As their voices were a bit loud, and Zhang Ye was sitting in the front area, and was pretty close by, he could hear clearly what the Deputy Station Head said!
I have a character problem?
I don’t deserve this trophy?
Zhang Ye laughed from extreme anger. He never expected that these so-called Leaders would not only trample on him for no good reason and push him aside, they would even smear him now!
The old judge looked at Zhang Yuanqi, who was still onstage smiling and chatting with the host, before looking at Deputy Station Head Jia’s eyes, “Character problem? An exception was made for Zhang Ye’s nomination by our jury. Are you questioning our jury’s level or are you questioning our jury’s basic distinguishing ability?” Seeing that they still wanted to add on further, he waved his hands and put it to a stop, “I’ve already said that uninvolved people should please leave!”