Gong Mingjie carefully packed the original and translated copies into an envelope. He planned to mail them out the next day for the Foreign Languages Bureau to review, which would determine Xu Qinghuan’s professional ranking.
At three to five yuan per thousand words, the pay would be considered dirt cheap in later generations, but for this era, it was a very high translation fee. Of course, the rates for English and Russian weren't this high, mainly because there were so many people proficient in those two languages. If she achieved a high ranking, the rate would surely climb even higher.
Jiang Xingye felt happy for Xu Qinghuan, yet at the same time, he felt a profound sense of the gap between them—a chasm as wide as heaven and earth.
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