Literary Master 1983

Chapter 103 Great Wall Hotel
"Where's your snake?" Yu Qie grabbed the old man's collar and gnashed his teeth, making sure only the old man could hear his voice. "I want you to show up right under my nose."

The old man was almost exhausted, so he grabbed the basin and threw it on the ground. "I am practicing Qigong..." the old man said.

"Use your internal energy?" Yu Qi shouted after hearing this, "I'll help you!" He slapped the old man on the back, making him almost suffocate.

Yu Qie urged him loudly again: "I have already sent you my power, you should use it quickly, your power is not as good as mine, mine is stronger than yours, you just need to exert a little more strength..."

Cha Haisheng's heart surged as he listened to this, staring intently at the large basin...

Then, Yu Qie whispered in the old man's ear, "If you dare to cheat again, I will have to slap you a few more times. Hurry up."

"It will change immediately, it will change immediately." The old man panicked. He did something and turned over the basin. A round-headed snake twisted its waist and crawled out.

This round-headed snake was sticking out its tongue, looking a little cute. It raised its head and looked at everyone, and everyone gathered around to look at the snake.

"Ah!" Cha Haisheng was overjoyed. A soul-stirring feeling made his whole body numb. "Oh my God! It turns out that he really has Kung Fu, and you really have Kung Fu too. You both know it."

Yu Qie said, "You are wrong! It is because we have practiced the eye exercises. I am better at it. Don't you think so?"

Cha Haisheng was surprised and asked, "Yu Qie, is what you taught me so powerful?"

"Ask him whether he is strong or not!" Yu Qie stretched out his fist and let the old magician speak.

The old man looked at Yu Qie's sandbag-sized fist, closed his eyes, and admitted defeat: "This young man has real kung fu, I surrender."

Yu Qie asked again: "Who created that snake?"

"I... No, it's you. You helped me create it." The old man spoke without thinking.

Cha Haisheng looked incredulous. But then, he had to believe it.

This was a standard competition between masters. In front of Cha Haisheng, Yu Qie defeated another master.

It turns out that "eye exercises" are so magical! I must learn them well in the future.

Because of his creations and some childhood experiences, Cha Haisheng's thoughts are no longer correctable, and the poet Cha Haisheng is a madman from beginning to end.

Luo Yihe was wrong to try to understand him, respect him, and let him go. Cha Haisheng was a "great poet" who achieved success quickly without mastering the basic skills of poetry writing. He knew nothing about common sense of poetry such as imagery, context, and pseudo-narrative, which made most of his poetry texts difficult to read carefully.

In addition to the well-known poems, Cha Haisheng also has millions of words of poems that have not been widely circulated. Those poems were the product of his madness, and his excellent works are the combination of his mental disorder period and normal period: "I met this soul in a trance on the lamp, jumping into the sea, and the sea surged on the granary..."

"From tomorrow on, take care of food and vegetables. I have a house facing the sea, with flowers blooming in the spring."

What is the imagery? What is the logic?

But this is also the greatness of Cha Haisheng. Normal people cannot write this kind of poetry, but people always have abnormal moments, and at that moment they will appreciate the beauty of Cha Haisheng's poetry.

Yu Qie's impromptu performance at the Temple of Heaven Park completely fooled Cha Haisheng.

He felt that he was inspired to write poetry. He compared the Temple of Heaven to the chaos before Pangu created the world, and Yuqie to Pangu holding an axe. In the evening, when the sun was setting over the Temple of Heaven, he thought that the gushing sun would burn people.

"Turning around and throwing myself into the Big Bang, ten suns kicked into the human body and soul, inside and out, putting on and taking off the sky, how many times have I dreamed, the shroud is full of the sad eyes of the stars..."

Luo Yihe suddenly heard Cha Haisheng reciting these inappropriate poems and thought Yu Qie was so awesome: It has to be Yu Qie again.

Just as Cha Haisheng himself admitted, only Yu Qie truly understood him.

Moreover, it provided a harmless outlet for Cha Haisheng's "crazy" energy. Luo Yihe thought: Maybe Cha Haisheng had some kind of mental disorder, and he had been lacking a kind of foreplay that he firmly believed could help him enter the stage of poetry creation, and this eye exercise was just right for him.

They also parked a bicycle at the east gate of the Temple of Heaven. Luo Yihe asked the short Cha Haisheng to sit on the back seat while he carried him. The three of them rode hard, and Luo Yihe said, "Where are we going to eat, Lao Mo?"

"Don't say Lao Mo anymore, Lao Mo is out of date." Yu Qie said.

"Where to go?"

"The Great Wall Hotel. Let's go there to eat butter cake and some Western food. Lao Mo is not called Western food, Lao Mo is Russian food."

The Great Wall Hotel is one of the first five-star hotels in Yanjing, built as a joint venture between China and the United States. It has not yet officially opened for business, but the lobby of the Great Wall Hotel is already open and you can buy food there.

In April, the president of the United States visited Yanjing and stayed at this hotel. The news broadcast some clips truthfully, such as the Great Wall Hotel has a roof garden and tennis court, and the hotel has a large glass curtain wall from the roof to the ground.

Many Chinese people were surprised to see these things for the first time, which led to a new trend among Chinese citizens to eat at the Great Wall Hotel after the president left.

When we arrived at the Great Wall Hotel, we first exchanged US dollars, and then Yu Qie treated us and ordered three servings of "Linz Fruit Butter Cake".

In the lobby, there were some foreign guests, Chinese people, and many local nouveau riche people who came to see the world. Everyone looked at the decorations and ornaments inside with curiosity.

Chinese people observe how foreigners eat, while foreigners observe how Chinese people react when they see "Western food".

Foreign journalists stationed in Beijing came to the Great Wall Hotel to collect materials and said: "In such a low-rise bungalow, a lighthouse suddenly stood up..."

While eating cake, Luo Yihe was uneasy about this change: "Yu Qie, in this place, only the dust outside the window is Chinese."

Yu Qie asked him, "Yihe, do you think the cake is delicious?"

"good to eat."

"That's it, why do you care so much?"

Cha Haisheng also supported it, saying, "The best thing in my hometown is Gonggao. My family is not well off, so we can't even have one during the Chinese New Year. We have to share it with several people... I originally thought that after coming to Yanjing, I would be able to eat Gonggao as much as I want! Now I realize that there are so many more delicious things."

Yu Qie asked Cha Haisheng: "Have you realized your dream now?"

Cha Haisheng said something very philosophical: "The more things I see, the more dreams I have, and the further I am from new dreams."

Yu Qie comforted Cha Haisheng: "You live in a good era. You are now a teacher at the University of Political Science and Law. Don't mess around in this life. Your life will not be bad in the future."

Luo Yihe associated eating cake with literature and nation: "Is butter cake really better than Gonggao?"

Fuck, what kind of era is this? Even someone from a family as well-off as Luo Yihe has expressed such sentiments.

Can I still enjoy the cake?

Contrary to what Luo Yihe thought, the four directions of the Great Wall Hotel are indeed some low-rise buildings now, but in the future they will become large houses, shopping centers, commercial buildings, Raffles, Taikoo Li... After 30 or 40 years, it is the Great Wall Hotel itself that will eventually become dust. Times will swing back and forth, but its swinging cycle is relatively long.

Thinking of this, Yu Qi suddenly understood where he should start with his courtyard house.

Buy it from those who sold their courtyard houses abroad.

(End of this chapter)