Literary Master 1983

Chapter 182 I Have Stole Time
Since the mainland is aware of this, should it get involved?

That’s what Cha Liangyong asked.

Yu Qie said: "Of course I can participate, but I am not an official, so I cannot make a promise as a representative. This is something that politicians need to consider, and the government's decision will prevail."

"How do you hope for yourself?"

Yu Qie smiled and said, "How can I hope so? This is my personal feeling. I hope that starting from tomorrow, the British who represent the colonization will leave this land. How can I hope so?"

"But how did the mainland know? It's difficult! Because even today, the negotiations are still going on, and we don't know when there will be a result?"

Before Yu Qie went to Japan, the American actor president was visiting the mainland, and then Ma Shi Tu went to the capital for a meeting, during which a negotiation was quietly taking place. It was extremely difficult and long, and both sides were exhausted physically and mentally. Together with the "going into business fever" that occurred in the first half of the year in the mainland, it constituted one of the longer-term memories of the 1984 era, and eventually affected the whole world.

Yu Qie said in a deep voice: "How do you know there will be no results?"

"So, what kind of result will we reach?"

"It must be a result that makes the countrymen happy."

Just two months later, the statement that shocked the world was released. The world media was shocked that the Iron Butterfly failed to gain any advantage. All the prerequisites it had promised to the parliament and the huge negotiating team it led got nothing.

Cha Liangyong had already understood the key difference between the two.

He felt a chill. Although Yu Qie had not made any personal attacks throughout the process, he felt that Yu Qie's eyes were hurting his heart. It was a look that did not trust him at all.

Even... maybe you want to hinder us, please just watch carefully from the side and don't do anything, because if you do anything, it would be better not to do it.

How overwhelming is this?

Cha Liangyong stared into Yu Qie's eyes and felt like he was about to be burned!

This surging vitality and self-confidence made him realize almost immediately that this person was different from any character he had ever seen. No wonder Wen Ruian chose to write this person as the male protagonist of his novel. Yu Qi is even more courageous than Qi Shaoshang himself.

Qi Shaoshang was still indecisive, but Yu Qie immediately stood up and canvassed for votes from the audience:
"One day, all these things will be resolved! Friends, if you have heard what I am saying now, you should know that I am not here to deny this matter. In fact, I am denying their (British Hong Kong) ability and credibility!"

"Please read my novel "The Way Out", in which a young man and a young woman left home for half a century and finally returned to their roots. A few days ago, I wrote another novel "Reunion", in which the mainland economy has developed, Hong Kong has long been returned, and the young people who came to work hard have become middle-aged people. They have no time to feel sad about the passing of time, and they are celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival..."

"Is this a beautiful wish or the most optimistic fantasy? My friends all say this to me. In fact, they don't know that I have come from the future to the present. Do you believe me? I have stolen time, so I wrote this novel!"

Yu Che's provocative parallelism and poetic language immediately caused a stir in the studio. No one felt that Yu Che really "stole time", but rather that he dared to be merciless to the public.

This is very different from Cha Liangyong, who has already entered politics.

One is cautious in his words and deeds, the other is sure in his words.

In the studio, several comrades from Xinhua Society were invited to watch the whole process.

Lesbian Peng Yan exclaimed: "Our mainland writers are so good at making TV programs? I have been in Hong Kong for a short time, and the locals always say that we mainlanders are too shy and have not seen much of the world. Mr. Cha is an influential person, but he is completely lost today?!"

Han Li laughed and said, "We were also criticized by Yu Qie! It was you who first said 'good wishes', but Yu Qie said that this was going to happen, he stole time, he saw it a long time ago!"

Peng Yan's face flushed: "I should apologize to Yu Qie! My ideological awareness is not as firm as his!"

"You should reflect on yourself, but you should also write about the process of his creation of "Reunion" in the newspaper so that everyone can see it. After the novel "A Way Out" became famous overseas, how Kowloon Walled City was connected with the Chinese society has been included in many university Chinese department classes and held several seminars..."

At this point, Han Li suddenly realized, "His "Reunion" should be the sister work of "The Way Out". I was wondering why he didn't write about Hong Kong, but only about Southeast Asia?"

"Everything started from Hong Kong and ended up back in Hong Kong. This is reunion. What is our ultimate way out? The way out is reunion!"

In Yu Qie's opinion, if the British Hong Kong government failed to handle this matter properly, it would leave a mess, and that was indeed the case later.

They left behind welfare bombs, concealed their own faults, and burned all the case files of Kowloon Walled City with a few fires.

The classic cyberpunk image in the cultural work "Kowloon Walled City" is actually the peak of the evil situation produced by British colonial culture. But Britain has become a non-stick pan, as if all this was created out of thin air by Hong Kong people.

In Cha Liangyong's view, he... and the current Hong Kong government can accomplish the demolition immediately.

No, not yet.

The key player has yet to appear.

Cha Liangyong gradually understood why Yu Qie came to Kowloon Walled City and why he could write such a novel. He felt bitter and wanted to find Wen Ruian to cry and complain:

"Brother Wen! You don't understand Yu Qie!"

"He came with a gun in the first place, and he has a problem with me!"

"Even if I hadn't published an editorial criticizing him, he wouldn't have let me go, because I got involved in this incident by accident and I blocked his way. It wasn't me who 'accidentally hurt' him, it was him who 'accidentally hurt' me! You think too little of him!"

Wen Ruian was sitting under the stage! He had no sympathy for Brother Cha, he was so excited that he took out a manuscript!

Comrade "Qi Shaoshang" from the mainland is brave, resourceful and decisive. It turns out that "Qi Shaoshang" is not a tragic hero who tries to stop a chariot with his bare hands. He has a powerful background behind him!

In the ending that Wen Ruian had originally planned, after Qi Shaoshang completed a thousand-mile chase, all his brothers and friends died, his confidant went mad, and he became disheartened and went to Liushenmen to work as a constable.

"Against the Cold Current" was originally one of the stories in the "Four Famous Detectives" series!

However, looking at it today, Qi Shaoshang is not such a fussy person at all.
How could he tell Xi Honglei, who had been with him for five years, "My life no longer belongs to myself" and reject her?

Qi Shaoshang will only reorganize Lianyun Village and fight again. All enemies who stand in his way will be hunted down to the ends of the earth, and he will repay double those who have helped him!
Qi Shaoshang is not doomed to fail! He just has a tough fate. Ordinary difficulties cannot wear him down, but others cannot bear it.

How could Wen Ruian care about his "Brother Cha" who had fallen into aphasia?
He buried his head in writing, and because he was so excited, his hands holding the pen were shaking!

The atmosphere of the show "Happy Tonight" has become particularly strange. It has nothing to do with the name of the show. Everyone is immersed in thinking and reminiscing.

When Yu Qie mentioned the history of the Chinese in the past, the Kowloon Walled City, a spectacle spanning a century, undoubtedly had an unknown heaviness.

Still at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Gao Kun waved his fist excitedly: "That's it, Yu Qie is revealing the past to people! Today you are already a new generation, you don't know what happened in the past!"

"My grandfather was a revolutionary and a patriotic poet! My father was one of the earliest international judges in China! My uncle was an astronomical researcher... and I am a tiny researcher."

"Chinese people are smart. I deeply feel that as long as we can get out of the 'Kowloon Walled City' and walk under the sun, whether it is writing poetry or doing research, we will never lag behind others."

The students asked him, "Gao Kun, why are you so happy? I thought you were British! Who are you?"

"I don't know who I am. I just think that Chinese people should not be bullied. I am fair. My children, my grandchildren... no matter who they are, as long as they are human beings, they should not bully others."

The students laughed and said, "Gao Kun, people like you are the most annoying. No one likes you."

Gao Kun suddenly looked solemn: "What can we learn from Yu Qie? Think carefully about his words and his experience."

The students responded, “I don’t know.”

"There are two!" Gao Kun counted on his fingers. "The first is not to fear power. Although Mr. Cha is famous for writing novels, he is not as good as others in debate. His thinking is also very naive. Maybe even as the head of the Chinese Department, he can't manage his doctoral students well. He thinks everyone will bow down to him..."

"What about the second thing?"

"I have a keen eye and am good at summarizing, just like Yu Qie thought of Chinese history from a Kowloon Walled City. Before I started researching optical fibers, everyone used metal wires, which were very expensive and had high losses."

“I thought to myself, is this how it should always be?”

"Then!" Gao Kun recalled, "I found a material that was light, cheap, and could transmit far... It was quartz fiber, which was originally used to make glass and plastic."

The students replied: "Gao Kun! You are amazing! Stop talking, you deserve a Nobel Prize!"

Gao Kun disagreed: "I published the results in a paper, and many people were surprised. I asked them if this was normal. They said it was not normal, it was extraordinary... There are many realities in our society that are easily visible, but countless people have walked through them without discovering the truth in them."

"Today, I let you watch this debate so that you can learn this one thing."

"Got it!" the students said, "But Gao Kun, when you developed optical fiber, Yu Che was just born. You didn't win the Nobel Prize, but Yu Che did, right? Or he won it earlier than you? You know, he is more famous than you now!"

Gao Kun's face flushed immediately: "Although I support Yu Qie, I also know that it is difficult to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has not even entered the door. As far as I know, he has not won an international award..."

"Doesn't he have the Thai King's Medal?"

“That’s not a literary award!”

"You didn't take anything, Gao Kun! A few years ago, you were still working for an American company!"

Gao Kun wanted to explain, but then he shook his head and laughed: "You are all students, what do you know! It takes decades to see the achievements of a great achievement... It's the same with everything! I just need some time to settle down."

"The cotangent time is also longer than yours! Gao Kun... Teacher Gao, Teacher Gao, why are you silent?"

"Hey! You, Gao Kun, are really boring."

The program is coming to an end, and the host "Fat Sister" asked both parties if they wanted to continue the conversation?

Cha Liangyong was disheartened: "Do we have enough time to talk?"

"The program has already reached the top of the ratings. As long as you are willing to continue talking, how can you not have time? One out of every two or three people is watching our TV program. Kowloon Walled City was originally a story about 50,000 refugees. After today, all of Hong Kong will pay attention to it!"

"I……"

Cha Liangyong wanted to say, I think I can still talk about something?
What I just said was because I was not well prepared. I also have good intentions and ambitions that are no less than others. I did not enter politics to cause trouble.

But he suddenly began to waver about going into politics.

Whether it was the cause and effect of the matter, the plan, or the slogans and speeches that had fallen to the level of "strange and lewd techniques", he couldn't come up with any of them. Was he not suitable for these jobs?
He is still the master of martial arts novels and still a top-notch commentator, but once his writings are used in political situations, it is like comparing a dragon-slaying sword to a Gatling gun; they are in completely different dimensions.

If we continue like this, won't we be making more and more mistakes?

Wait! Why am I doubting myself?

Cha Liangyong shook his head and said, "I may need more time to study."

"Where's Mr. Yu?"

"Didn't you call me Yu Sheng?"

"I called you Yu Sheng last time because people in Hong Kong call you that. Now I call you Mr. Yu because you can take on the responsibility. What do you think, Mr. Yu?"

Yu Qie said: "It's not a conversation if only one person is talking. I respect Mr. Cha's idea. But we don't know if we have enough time..."

Cha Liangyong keenly caught this sentence and asked, "What do you mean?"

Was he saying that I had a short life, or that he was going back to the mainland soon and had no time to do an interview? Or something else?

"Don't misinterpret it, it means exactly what it says." Yu Qie smiled but did not explain.

It took Cha Liangyong many years to understand the meaning of this sentence.

“Then, Happy Tonight will end here. Today we have witnessed how Mr. Yu wrote the legend of Kowloon Walled City with his pen, and learned how Mr. Cha became concerned about the historical problem of Kowloon Walled City after he entered politics…”

Fei Jie paused here and said to the camera: "Use laughter to withstand the hardships of life, and use applause to warm up the coldness of human nature. Every stage and every light is lit for you."

"Thank you to the 'invisible hero' in front of and behind the scenes, and thank you to you and me in front of the TV..."

"Happy night, never ending!"

(End of this chapter)