Literary Master 1983

Chapter 168 Rich Fans
This first episode tells the story of several men and women who fled to Southeast Asia and experienced all kinds of hardships along the way and barely managed to gain a foothold.

The most dramatic conflict is that beautiful women are threatened and taken away as soon as they arrive, the rich are cheated out of all their money, and the strong are conscripted by the colonists to carry sandbags to build the docks.

They originally thought that Nanyang was a paradise on earth, but after arriving there they found it was another hell on earth.

Of course, the novel did not cause an immediate sensation after it was published.

Then one chapter is released every day. After the second and third chapters, the plot enters the first turning point: some people have accumulated original capital and plan to open a factory on their own; while others are ready to cooperate with the Japanese to make a fortune in the national crisis; the women are sold here and there and suffer humiliation.

After the fourth chapter, the foreshadowing was concluded. The funds for opening a factory on their own were taken away by unscrupulous businessmen, while those who cooperated with the Japanese became rich and took advantage of the women in their families. Women have begun to hold up half the sky, endured all kinds of hardships, and worked hard to live.

The book is simply a Grand View Garden of the Nanyang society, a place with serious racial discrimination, rampant corruption, and no laws and regulations... The Chinese can either unite and work hard bit by bit, or become traitors and get temporary peace.

People began to think: This novel is quite interesting!
In 84, Thailand's economy was much more developed than that of the mainland, so whether it was the vendors selling fruits at the stalls or the boatmen boating on the river, they all had money to buy a newspaper to kill time. These people were pure low-level manual laborers, and many of them had to take out dictionaries to recognize the words when reading novels.

In Bangkok's Chinatown, an old Chinese farmer who was selling smuggled goods was reading the novel "A Way Out" with his reading glasses, his eyes filled with tears.

Many years ago, his father worked himself to death, and his mother raised him and several other brothers and sisters bit by bit by washing clothes and begging. Despite financial difficulties, his mother always made sure the children learned cultural knowledge.

So when he grew up, the old farmer became a seafood dealer, and after years of hard work, he owned a Japanese-made van. Of course, he was still a small figure, but compared with his mother's generation, he had achieved a class leap.

Moreover, the brothers have a harmonious relationship. Once something happens, the whole family will rush to fight at the command.

This novel is simply about his family's past life. This writer named "Yu Qie" is really a good writer who understands our sufferings.

But he didn't know some of the characters, so he stopped a middle-aged man passing by and asked, "Excuse me, how do you read these two characters?"

"Yunyun means the air is filled with water vapor. For example, in Thailand, it often rains heavily, and it seems as if there is a hazy invisible veil between the sky and the earth. This feeling is Yunyun."

The old farmer understood and asked for the newspaper back: "Thank you, so this is what these words mean."

"You're welcome!"

The middle-aged man is called Xie Guomin, and he is the fourth child of this generation in the Xie family.

Xie Guomin was a man with bad luck. Twenty years ago, he was in the export business of chickens, ducks and eggs. However, China had to repay the loan from the Soviet Union at that time and exported a large amount of agricultural products. As a Chinese in Thailand, he also suffered losses and his company went bankrupt.

Fortunately, there were four brothers in the family who were starting their own businesses. When the other brothers were successful, they invited him back to be the general manager, and eventually he became the head of the company.

Since Xie Guomin was in the poultry business, he frequently traveled back and forth to the mainland. After the mainland opened up, it had the largest population and the greatest market spending power, so he could make profits from both feed and breeding chickens.

He has been tirelessly investing in the mainland and maintaining the mainland's political and business relations. He also donated a lot of money to a visiting delegation from the mainland that came to Thailand, although he himself is not a religious person.

Thinking of this, Xie Guomin suddenly felt that the name of the author of the novel seemed familiar.

The two characters "Yu Qie" are not names that ordinary people can come up with. In the "China Daily", news from the Chinese community and mainland China are often published, and occasionally martial arts novels imitating Cha Liangyong are published. Thais often use martial arts novels to criticize the government.

But he had never seen a novel with such rhetoric close to traditional literature, but with ups and downs in the plot and a strong story.

Xie Guomin was thinking about it while he was walking, while he was getting into his Mercedes, and while he was at the company and listening to his secretary’s report, he was still thinking about it.

He was deserting his post. He vaguely remembered that when he went to the mainland a few months ago, he heard about a popular military novel writer...

Wait, cotangent?
Xie Guomin jumped up in excitement. As far as he knew, Yu Qie was in the delegation visiting Thailand!

"Get me a novel written by Yu Qie right now. It's called 'The Way Out'. I happened to read it today... Even a peddler can read his novels with great interest."

The secretary's eyes widened: "You also know Yu Qie?"

"What do I know? Why, how did you know?" The secretary said, "Yu Qie is a writer from the mainland. Our Chinese newspapers have mentioned him. He has a good relationship with Princess Sirindhorn. Many people say that if Princess Sirindhorn was not much older than him, she might want him to marry into the family..."

Xie Guomin burst out laughing: "What are you talking about? No matter how good he is at writing novels, he is not worthy of the princess. He offended the Vietnamese, and we are afraid that he will be assassinated and become an international joke, so we are watching him all the time."

“Yu Che has even been on a local show!”

"programme?"

"In the program, he talked about the background of the novel "Letter from the Fiancée" and encouraged Chinese people to join the army, take the civil service exam, become police officers... and work in departments directly related to violence."

Xie Guomin found it even more amusing: "This Yu Qie is really an unusual mainlander. He says whatever he wants. Only we in Thailand can say that. If he were in places like Malaysia, he would be driven away."

After that, Xie Guomin spent some time reading Yu Qie's "A Way Out". After reading it, he scratched his ears and cheeks, feeling choked up. He couldn't sleep well and even woke up in the middle of the night!

As soon as he raised his head, the plot of the novel came to his mind: "What happened to those people in the end?"

Why is Xie Guomin so concerned about the development of the story?
Because the Xie brothers are a typical Chinese family that has worked hard to rise. First, they have parents who are willing to spend money on their children's education, and then the brothers help each other and support the most capable one.

Xie Guomin is the current general manager of the Charoen Pokphand Group, and the Charoen Pokphand Group is also one of the few Chinese groups where family members do not fight among themselves and unite against the outside world.

Could it be that his novel was based on our family's development?
He really wanted to know the ending of the story, so he asked about the delegation's itinerary in Thailand and learned that they would have several Buddhist exchange meetings, so he waited for that day.

During this period, "A Way Out" was serialized for several more issues, and it seemed that the story had come to an end: the good guys all got rewarded, and the bad guys all suffered from unhappiness in various ways.

But no matter whether it is good or bad, if they want to achieve anything, they have to rely on their own family, because they are a minority in the local area and outsiders cannot be trusted at all.

This is a bit like "The Godfather". No matter how powerful your Italian family is, to accomplish great things, you still have to rely on your sons and brothers to fight.

Why not say "Italians are the Chinese among Europeans".

There are only twelve issues of "Way Out". The penultimate issue is about the protagonists of that year. Today, they return to China as Chinese and overseas Chinese to recognize their relatives. They feel homesick and they don't know whether they still have a heritage.

Xie Guomin signed up for the meeting and was ready to donate money, but he was still thinking: What a coincidence, isn't this another reflection of his family?
In the 1950s, Xie Guomin's father sent his four brothers of that generation to study in mainland China, and they traveled to many places in Sichuan and Guangdong provinces. Because of this foresight, after the reform and opening up, his Charoen Pokphand Group was able to obtain the first foreign-funded group's business license in China.

He rushed to the Golden Buddha Temple, where there was a reception group of monks organized by overseas Chinese in Thailand, and a visiting group from the mainland. Apart from Sirindhorn and a few scholars, the most popular person in the audience was the young man who looked like a movie star.

"Yu Qie?" Xie Guomin couldn't help but shout out.

"What's cotangent?" A businessman who looked older than him asked in surprise.

Xie Guomin recognized Xu Shubiao, the current beverage king of Thailand. His "Red Bull" is a best-seller all over the world, and he has always wanted to set up a beverage production line in mainland China.

"Are you here to watch 'A Way Out' as well?" Xie Guomin asked him.

Xu Shubiao asked, "What is 'The Way Out'?"

"A novel written by Yu Che."

"Who is Yu Qie?"

Xie Guomin smiled helplessly.

Hi, maybe I’m the only one who came here because I read the novel.

(End of this chapter)