Literary Master 1983

Chapter 196 You have to keep pace with him
Zhang Li raised her eyebrows and became angry. "Xiao Xu? How did you know?"

Chen Xiaoxu quickly comforted her: "Oh, the crew is spreading rumors! We only have one camera in the crew, it's so messy, there are so many women and idle people... What else can we do if we don't spread rumors? I also know that your tape recorder was bought by Yu Qie! Sweet, sweet..."

Chen Xiaoxu imitated Teresa Teng singing and said, "The Japanese tape recorder is really good, it's like Teresa Teng singing in front of people. Yu Qie gave you a good thing! I'm so envious!"

"You know this too? These people are so annoying, asking around! Come with me."

Zhang Li pulled Chen Xiaoxu to the corner and looked around.

"No one, oh no, no one! I'm watching! Why are you so nervous?"

"This is his business, it's a matter of great importance!"

After Zhang Li confirmed that no one was there, she whispered, "Yu Qie's book was indeed sold to Japan. The first round was sold out, and they have to print another 100,000 copies... But it's unlikely to win a prize. That's what he told me."

what?
Were Yu Qie’s books really sold to Japan?
This is not Southeast Asia where there are many Chinese. You have to know that there are tens of millions of Chinese in Southeast Asia, which is a huge market - but Japan is different.

Chen Xiaoxu was stunned and kept asking, "Is there a mistake? For example, this time the books were sold to Chinese people in Japan, or to our international students... Oh, I heard from Director Wang Fulin that people in Taiwan also read our novels. Maybe they have also read Yu Qie's books! I just don't know if it's true."

Zhang Li shook her head and said, "It's true! It was sold to Japan. Yu Qie told me personally, it can't be wrong!"

"Yu Qie said that?"

"He said so!"

Chen Xiaoxu felt relieved and had a strange feeling. On the one hand, she felt that Zhang Li was just Yu Qie's follower and believed whatever Yu Qi said.

On the one hand, she knew in her heart that Yu Qi would not brag about these things.

She looked at Zhang Li again: This Zhang Li is so stupid, she has no idea what her boyfriend did!

Does Zhang Li know how those novelists who became famous for writing novels treated their girlfriends later?

Let’s not talk about anything else, just take Zhang Xian, the author of "Corner Forgotten by Love". He became a playboy. Taking advantage of the opportunity of his novel being adapted into a movie, he looked for opportunities to attack actresses everywhere.

Zhang Xian even didn't let go of the female director. He went too far and forced his original wife to become a novelist. She even started writing novels and submitted them to magazines like Contemporary and October! She was competing with her husband!
Just to prove one thing!
Zhang Xian, there's nothing special about your ability to write novels. I can write novels too, and I don't need to rely on cheating to find inspiration.

It's no big deal that writers get bored with the old and love the new. What's most annoying is that they abandon the old and still have a lot to say about it.

Yu Qie is so famous, he is worth ten Zhang Xians, but Zhang Li is not nervous at all. It is really worrying.

Then, Chen Xiaoxu bought some tapes from somewhere for Zhang Li to listen to. Zhang Li put them in and listened to them. She heard some Japanese gibberish in them. She took out the tapes and found that they were Japanese learning tapes.

"Why are you buying these? Chen Xiaoxu, are you still learning Japanese?"

"You are such a fool. I bought it for you and told you to listen to it. You have to keep up with Writer Yu! You have to at least know a little bit about what he is learning."

Zhang Li said helplessly: "I know you have good intentions, but I don't know English yet! If I have to learn, I should learn English first."

"Then I'll go buy you some English tapes! If we don't have anything to do, we can just listen to them for a while. I also need to learn - after filming the movie, I need to get back to my life."

Chen Xiaoxu suddenly remembered: "There are so many people in our crew who are always asking about Yu Qie. I always feel that it is not just women's curiosity... Who knows what they are thinking in their hearts! They may be jealous of you."

When she said this, Chen Xiaoxu felt like she was talking about herself, and her face suddenly turned red!
Zhang Li, oh Zhang Li, please don't stay here like this.

Zhang Li was touched, thinking that Chen Xiaoxu was very angry, and wanted to hug her: "Xiaoxu, you are so good to me! If you were a man, I think you would be only a little bit worse than Yu Qie." Chen Xiaoxu smiled and said: "Then you have to marry me, right?"

"No, Yu Qie is still ahead!"

"It's Yu Qie again. You always listen to him. You, you." Chen Xiaoxu gently scratched Zhang Li's nose with her ring finger and pinched the flesh on Zhang Li's face. Zhang Li was younger than her. After leaving home, she was well protected by Yu Qie, who actually treated her as a sister.

Chen Xiaoxu gradually fell silent and stopped smiling.

She thought: Zhang Li is such a little woman, she lets Yu Qie make all the decisions, I am afraid I really can't do it. When I was thirteen or fourteen years old, I never thought of relying on one person like this.

The two were seen learning from the tape by other members of the crew. Someone reported it to the director Wang Fulin, who came to see if it was true.

That's exactly what happened.

As soon as the show was over, the two of them were learning English, muttering to themselves while holding a dictionary in their hands, openly slacking off.

On the left, "How are you?", and on the right, "Nestumi Rabbit Oil."

Wang Fulin pretended to be angry and threatened them: "What are you learning? Have you learned all of Dream of the Red Chamber?"

Chen Xiaoxu was not afraid at all: "Director, we are still learning - Dream of Red Mansions is going to be introduced to the world. Maybe an English version will be released many years later. We can do the dubbing then!"

Wang Fulin was amused: "You are really good at talking. If the performance is not good, I will hold you responsible... Zhang Li is usually very well behaved. I think it must be your idea!"

"——It was my idea. Zhang Li learned it from me." Chen Xiaoxu admitted generously and stood up to protect Zhang Li.

Wang Fulin burst out laughing.

Chen Xiaoxu really has a boyish personality. When she is on stage, she looks like Lin Daiyu, who is so delicate. When she is off stage, she plays pranks all day long and teases others everywhere. Sometimes she seems very gloomy, but if you ask her, she will say that nothing happened.

Exactly the same as the men's.

I heard that she had a boyfriend, but they broke up not long after they started dating.

Wang Fulin said half seriously and half jokingly: "You two have become real sisters now, inseparable all day long. Even though Zhang Li already has a boyfriend, you are not in a hurry at all and don't have any contact with men... If Zhang Li goes home with Yu Qie in the future, Chen Xiaoxu, what will you do?"

Chen Xiaoxu said without hesitation: "I will continue to be Zhang Li's sister. I will move next to Zhang Li. Can Yu Qie still separate me? I am a woman!"

"Yes!" Zhang Li nodded heavily.

The new advanced training class of Lu Xun Academy of Literature is about to start, and the Writers Association held an impromptu meeting to discuss who should become teachers and who should get the opportunity to study.

The Writers Association has high hopes for this advanced training class at the Academy of Literature, hoping that it can cultivate some writers who can keep up with the trend.

Some of Yu Qie's old friends were at the meeting. After voting, female writer Ding Ling, poet Jiang Zhenghan, Wang Meng, Wang Zengqi and others were selected as teachers. They have free time in class, mainly talking about their own literary ideas, and to some extent, become guides for new writers.

The actual lecturers were a group of literary theorists - they were not very good at writing novels, but they had a high level of appreciation for novels.

For example, Feng Mu (editor-in-chief of Literary Gazette), Xie Mian (professor at Yenching University, flag bearer of Misty Poetry), Chen Huangmei (scholar of literary adaptation films), etc. Yu Qie's editor Zhang Shouren is also among them. In addition to being an editor, Zhang Shouren himself is also a good Russian translator.

(End of this chapter)