Literary Master 1983

Chapter 139: The Grandmaster

After that, everyone became familiar with each other, and Chen Xiaoxu began to oppose Yu Qie on some small matters.

Chen Xiaoxu is a mischievous person who plays tricks on other people on the set every day. Director Wang Fulin also supports her and will find ways to get it back if Chen Xiaoxu loses face.

Zhang Li didn’t think that Chen Xiaoxu’s prank this time was any different from before.

For example, when Yu Qie gets up early in the morning to exercise, Chen Xiaoxu also gets up early to practice kung fu and compete with Yu Qie.

She was knocked down by Yu Qie in just a few moves every time, but she never gave up.

Yu Qie told her: "My teacher Ma Shi Tu also practices Kung Fu. He practices Tai Chi. I understand this as aerobics, but my teacher certainly doesn't think these things can really be used in a fight."

Chen Xiaoxu insisted: "There really is a kind of kung fu in this world that can defeat the strong with the weak."

Yu Qie's words confused her: "Why don't strong people learn the kind of kung fu you're talking about?"

There is a martial arts academy in Shichahai, and kung fu superstar Li Lianjie graduated from this school. In the evening, Yu Qie took the two of them to visit on his motorcycle.

When he pushed the door open, he saw thousands of students practicing martial arts inside. Yu Qie found a person in charge and asked them what moves they were practicing. The person in charge answered him: They were practicing the "Shaolin Martial Arts Textbook".

"Shaolin Martial Arts Teaching Material" turns out to be a textbook.

Yu Qie deliberately asked the person in charge: "Isn't there a secret manual of magical skills that can allow a weak person to defeat a strong person?"

The person in charge replied: "I don't know if there is such a thing, but generally speaking, if everyone practices Shaolin martial arts, the stronger one will definitely win."

"Kung Fu superstar Li Lianjie also came from your place. Was he invincible in Shichahai at that time?"

"He is not invincible, he is the most beautiful and fluent fighter. Comrades, martial arts is a sport today."

Yu Qie told Chen Xiaoxu: "Believe in science, don't do anything fanciful."

But Chen Xiaoxu still insisted on competing with Yu Qie. She stopped teasing others and beating Ouyang Fenqiang in the crew. She read books when she had free time, and she read Yu Qie's books - she said she wanted to study Yu Qie's weaknesses.

After watching "Da Saba" in one day, if Yu Qie is "Gu Yan", then Yu Qie's shortcoming is "too honest and loyal."

After reading "The Two of Us" one day, I cried. The story was so well written that I didn't bother to study Yu Qie's shortcomings. Chen Xiaoxu concluded on the third day: Although the book is about a woman, it can be seen that Yu Qie is a person who values ​​love and friendship, and this kind of person can be "deceived by a gentleman".

On the fourth day, because she didn't get a single ball when playing table tennis with Yu Qie, Chen Xiaoxu searched all over the floor for the ball.

So she overturned all the previous conclusions:

Yu Qie is a bastard!
What he wrote has nothing to do with himself.

Then, isn't a bad guy invulnerable?

Chen Xiaoxu fell into a dilemma and had to work hard to find Yu Qie, the part of his humanity that had not been extinguished.

Zhang Li felt all this was strange, so she came back and said to Yu Qie, "Why don't you let Chen Xiaoxu go for once? Otherwise, she'll be thinking about this every day."

Yu Qie said, “Why should I let her?”

"Ouyang Fenqiang, just let her go."

"We are all from Sichuan, but not every Sichuan man is soft-hearted."

Zhang Li smiled and said, "I know you are the best!"

Chen Xiaoxu's obsession with kung fu reminded Yu Qie of the movie "The Grandmaster". In this movie, the southern martial arts defeated the northern martial arts and swept the martial arts world. In his previous life, Yu Qie once believed it.

Later, I happened to see information about the Republic of China period, and learned that a martial arts conference was really held in the Republic of China. The result was that young and strong guys beat up the seventy-year-old master. Between the southern boxing and the northern leg, the northern leg is far better than the southern boxing, because the brothers from the north are generally stronger.

The great hero Huo Yuanjia was a "fat man" with a height of nearly 1.8 meters and a weight of 180 pounds.

The original protagonist of "The Grandmaster" is Ip Man. The Wing Chun that Ip Man practices is a kind of women's boxing. In history, Ip Man smoked and did all kinds of things, so how could he beat the Northern Leg?

However, the movie "The Grandmaster" also has its merits. In troubled times, even a martial arts master cannot go against the current.

Among the main characters, Yi Xiantian fell into poverty and became a barber in Hong Kong; Gong Er fell into poverty and became a bonesetter in Hong Kong.

Then Gong Er reminded Ip Man: If martial arts can be divided into north and south, can the country be divided into north and south?
This sentence simply elevates a rubbish movie to a higher level.

Yu Qie got inspired and modified the movie. He made up a story about a martial arts fanatic from Guangdong Province named "Chen Shi" who went all the way north to study and compete in martial arts. The total number of words was a little over 100,000, a novella.

Similar to the novel "The Chess King", Zhong Acheng wrote about "Wang Yisheng", a "chess fanatic" who was looking for people to play chess with everywhere, while Yu Qie wrote about a "martial arts fanatic".

Many people don’t know that the author of “The Chess King”, Zhong Acheng, himself does not know how to play chess. He doesn’t even understand the rules. Yu Qie also doesn’t know martial arts, but that does not affect his ability to write this kind of novel.

——The first person to see the novel was Chen Xiaoxu. She insisted on reading it. After reading it, she looked up and asked, "Yu Qie, you are a martial arts master? Ming Jin, An Jin, Hua Jin... There are so many levels of martial arts. If you haven't learned them, how can you say it so sincerely?"

Yu Qi laughed out loud: "The fact that you asked this question shows that you didn't understand the novel at all."

"So what is your novel about?"

"In fact, this novel just borrows the background of Jianghu to tell the story of the warlord separatism in the Republic of China and the unification of the country many years later."

Yu Qie counted on his fingers: "Wulin, Jianghu, country...they are the same thing here."

"Then why did you write about Chen Shi, who always loses to the martial arts master from the north?"

"Because we have to respect the facts. At that time, the martial arts world in the Republic of China was strong in the north and weak in the south. This is based on facts."

"Moreover," Yu Qie said, "although the martial arts world in the north was powerful, it was caught in the flames of war... no matter how great the masters were, they could not stop the Japanese planes and artillery shells, and they all fled to the south! So Chen Shi gradually realized that personal bravery was useless, and he had to handle the relationship between the individual and the times."

Chen Xiaoxu was very puzzled after hearing this: "Yu Qie, why didn't you get fooled and instead wrote a novel?"

Yu Qi laughed out loud, cooked a delicious meal at home and treated the two of them to a delicious meal.

"Chen Xiaoxu, is it delicious?"

"That's it, not that great actually."

"Then you don't want to eat anymore?"

"I just want to eat. Are you afraid that I will make you poor?"

Zhang Li said: "Xiao Xu, eat slowly, you can't eat that much normally."

"I'm here to take revenge on this Yu Qie! Don't feel sorry for him!"

No. 51 Dongxing Street, Chongwenmenwai, October Magazine.

Yu Qie took the new manuscript to find Zhang Shouren. There was a roar of the motorcycle and the people in the magazine looked out: Oh, Teacher Yu Qie is here.

"Teacher Zhang, Teacher Zhang!"

"what happened?"

"Yu Che came here on a motorcycle. What a beautiful motorcycle! Yu Che has also become stronger and is wearing a vest, like someone on American TV."

Zhang Shouren put down his cigarette and nodded to the person in front of him: "I'll excuse myself for a moment."

The person in front of him was Wang Meng, the editor-in-chief of People's Literature. Wang Meng said, "Since Yu Qie is here, I'll go with you to take a look."

When the two came out, they saw Yu Qie had just stopped the Yamaha, with a matte black motorcycle helmet hanging on the handlebars and locked, and the whole car handcuffed to the radiator in the corridor.

There are no electronic anti-theft locks these days, only mechanical ones, which mainly rely on locking the clutch and brake positions, making it impossible for thieves to get in.

The mechanical lock is rather troublesome to set up, and it took me half a minute to lock it.

Why?

Afraid of being stolen.

Zhang Shouren was not interested in Yu Qie's motorcycle. Wang Meng was a trendy guy who liked motorcycles very much. But his love for motorcycles was a bit exaggerated. He caught Yu Qie and asked him about the motorcycle's data and how he got it.

Yu Qi thought he had met an old motorcycle friend and talked to him happily.

"This car is not good. Why is it not good? It's too fast and it's easy to be noticed by others."

Wang Meng responded like a bosom friend: "My bicycle was stolen before, not to mention the motorcycle imported from Japan! Yours is a treasure, a luxury car! The German cars in the diplomatic department are not as good as yours!"

"Oh, that's not the case."

"Why not? If I wasn't old enough, I would really like to ride a motorcycle like you. Then we can travel together, just like those Westerners. What do we call it? A picnic."

The more Zhang Shouren listened, the more he felt something was wrong. How come Wang Meng and Yu Qie were acting like brothers?

There are simply no rules!
What exactly does Wang Meng want to do?
His concerns were soon fulfilled. After the two of them finished reading the manuscript of The Grandmaster, Wang Meng blushed and looked very excited. "It's a good novel, with a profound concept and strong interest... There have been no novels like this for many years. I have a humble request."

Damn it, then don't say it!
But Zhang Shouren did not object, because he asked Wang Meng to come over today to ask for a favor: to publish the series of novels about new realities in People's Literature.

On July 1st, the first part of the trilogy, "Da Saba", was published, and "People's Literature" was a very important publicity channel.

(End of this chapter)