Literary Master 1983

Chapter 224 He Came From Here, He Will Go There

On the other hand, Yu Qie worked hard for several days and finally replied to all the letters that needed to be replied.

"Operation Spring Rain" caused quite a stir, and even some of the spouses of old leaders and some former female revolutionaries donated money in a low-key manner. Yu Qi did not know the background of these people - it was impossible for him to know everything.

But Zhang Shouren had been in the capital for decades, so he knew who the people were and what the relationships were. This was something Yu Qie didn't know, so Yu Qie tried to reply to all the letters Zhang Shouren mentioned.

If there was really nothing I could write, Zhang Shouren and the editor of October would reply on my behalf, and I would sign my own name.

In Beijing, many small figures now have big backgrounds. This phenomenon is particularly severe in the art field - any recorder, camera operator, or editor in a publishing house must not be offended, as there may be an old ancestor in his family.

Sometimes Yu Hua would make a guest appearance and help Yu Qie sign his name. He imitated Yu Qie's signature very well. Some readers who don't know him well would mistakenly think that Yu Hua is Yu Qie's alias, just like Yu Qie's former pseudonym "Yu Shi".

Therefore, letters would occasionally be sent to Yu Hua. Such letters "written to Yu Hua (Yu Qie)" always made Yu Hua feel disappointed after opening them. After opening the letters, they said, "Dear Teacher Yu Hua, you are my best friend whom I have never met! You are the person I trust the most! I particularly like your work "Reunion"..."

Yu Hua was almost mad. He had to sign autographs for readers, signing "Yu Qie", imitating Yu Qie's tone to reply to readers, and then sourly mentioning "Yu Hua is an excellent young writer, he is only slightly worse than Yu Qie."

He lamented, "When will I be able to be like Yu Qie and be more popular than movie stars?"

"Beijing Evening News" published a donation ranking list in the Beijing area, and Zhang Li and Chen Xiaoxu happened to be at the end of the list.

The two of them were counted as one person and donated one thousand yuan. Their identities were also written in the newspaper, which was a small publicity for the two of them.

The report writer Xu Chi knew very well that two women had lived in Yu Qie's home a few days ago, but at Yu Qie's request, he did not write these things in the report. He was very interested in why Yu Qie asked these two people to donate money.

"Dream of Red Mansions is a big play. They will definitely become famous in the future. If you let them become more famous, it's just a matter of earlier or later. Is it worth donating money?"

Yu Qie said: "It is precisely because it is a big play that it is not easy for them to separate from the play. In the eyes of the audience, they may always be Lin Daiyu or Xue Baochai."

"Is not it good?"

"That's good, so please ask them to donate. If they do something else in the future, everyone will know that they are kind people like in the show, and they are willing to trust them."

Xu Chi was dumbfounded and said, "Yu Qie, you have a long-term vision. You have already planned out what will happen to others ten years from now. You are so thoughtful. Have you fallen in love with them?"

Listen to what Xu Chi said?

"Fall in love with them?"

This is not surprising. Xu Chi loved his wife very much and wrote articles to commemorate her. But after his wife passed away, Xu Chi really started to arrange a twilight romance and even obtained the consent of several children. It is not just Xu Chi, but also Wang Meng in the future.

They believe that it is already remarkable for a writer to be loyal to different people at different stages of his life. If he is in love with several people, he should not be blamed too much as long as he does not neglect anyone and the parties involved have no objection.

Xu Chi then asked Yu Qie why he allowed two women to live in his courtyard. Yu Qie told him everything, and Xu Chi was shocked again: "It's actually related to that serious criminal in Beijing last year! No wonder they are so close, they are already a relationship where they can trust each other with life and death. But if these things are written in the article, how can others believe it? It will have a bad reputation on them."

"Yes. So you might as well not write about it."

Xu Chi agreed.

Xu Chi has his own views on love, and he admires Zhang Li very much. To some extent, Xu Chi in the past is somewhat similar to Yu Qie today. When he was young, he was a very popular school teacher, a sports athlete, well-dressed, and had met a large group of revolutionaries. He had a bright future; and his wife had been completely devoted to her husband and children since she got together with him. No matter what difficult times he faced, no matter how miserable he was for a while, his wife never wavered and always believed that Xu Chi could make a comeback.

Xu Chi said: "You have a good wife and you seem to have a good friend who you bicker with, but it's a pity that these cannot be written down. They are also interesting and lovely people."

Zhang Li and Chen Xiaoxu did cause a small disturbance because of their donations.

On the one hand, after returning to Zhengding, the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" began to organize collective donations because of them, and director Wang Fulin called on everyone to support "our literary consultant, our non-existent feudal emperor actor Yu Qie"; on the other hand, Chen Xiaoxu's ex-boyfriend was shocked when he saw "Lin Daiyu donated 1,000 yuan" in the newspaper, and wrote to ask for a reconciliation, and if they could not reconcile, at least lend him some money.

Of course Chen Xiaoxu would ignore it. This man had only been with her for a few months, and they were in different places most of the time, so their relationship was very weak.

Think about how abstract this is?
Other people's partners can donate some money for themselves, even if it's just a side job, but the person she liked before has become like this. Or, the person she knew may have always been like this.

Parents are really thoughtful! Yu Qie is a person worthy of trust.

The money he donated was divided into two halves, half of which was given to himself. But think about it, in addition to money, even if he divided his time and emotions into two halves or one quarter... it would be better than many people. In Chen Xiaoxu's life, because of this comparison, he had never so obviously realized that Yuqie was very good.

And the "donation form" Zhang Li gave her worked. The names of the three people were written on it and stamped with a red seal, and the remaining money was between the two people. Chen Xiaoxu was a person who loved to think too much, and she couldn't control her fantasies:
Alas, Director Wang Fulin said that one day they will get married, what should I do then?
How can sisters compare to the intimacy of a married couple? They sleep together, they have children, how can I compare to that?
I don’t know what to do either!
Chen Xiaoxu was very confused.

After the crew in Zhengding set up the set, the actors often rehearsed their scenes in private, striving to be very proficient in one take when actually acting. It was still very cold in Zhengding at the end of February. Chen Xiaoxu wore a cotton coat and acted with Ouyang Fenqiang. This was the scene where Lin Daiyu first met Jia Baoyu.

In the third chapter of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu met for the first time, and both of them felt like they had seen each other before.

Lin Daiyu was shocked when she saw Jia Baoyu for the first time. She thought to herself, "How strange! I feel like I have seen him somewhere before. How familiar he is!" But Jia Baoyu said directly, "I have seen this sister before."

Chen Xiaoxu and Ouyang Fenqiang were rehearsing this scene. Chen Xiaoxu was pondering the lines in her mind and felt that they fit her current mood very well. When Ouyang Fenqiang said, "I've seen this sister before," she looked up and suddenly saw Yu Qie's appearance and was shocked!
Yu Qie, why are you here again? You're really haunting me.

Look carefully, it's clearly Ouyang Fenqiang! I've been thinking about it day and night, thinking too much!
Ouyang Fenqiang always has the temperament of a pretty boy, while Yu Qie is a real man!
"I've seen this sister before!"

Chen Xiaoxu kept repeating this sentence, and she suddenly felt that Yu Qie fit this sentence very well. He was far more qualified than Jia Baoyu to say that he had met this Chen Xiaoxu before.

Chen Xiaoxu recalled that Yu Qi always knew her situation very well.

Zhang Li knew she weighed 80 kilograms when she first met her. Who told her? Yu Qie told her.

She practiced some kung fu, and the whole crew thought she was really good at it, and she believed it herself, but Yu Qie exposed it at the beginning.

Her personality was sensitive and fragile, but she could be lively when she was happy. Yu Che knew all about it. Chen Xiaoxu enjoyed bickering with Yu Che, especially listening to Yu Che talking about literature, such as "Jane Eyre" and modern poetry poets. To Yu Che, they seemed to be "guests" that he could meet through time and space. Sometimes, these "guests" were not as good as him!
Chen Xiaoxu laughed in her heart, "Yu Che is so crazy", but at the same time she was infected. She gradually felt that the books she had read before were of little value and were not as good as the things written by Yu Che!

Zhang Li is Chen Xiaoxu's best friend, but she is not the one who knows her best. Chen Xiaoxu then started to read Yu Qie's novels again, starting from the first book and reading them one by one. This time she had no prejudice. Soon, in her heart, she felt that Yu Qie was the best mainland writer she had ever read, no doubt about it.

What is Jane Eyre? Why did I like it so much before?

Humanistic thinking, social impact, philosophical height...which one can compare with Yu Qie's novels!

What Yu Qie wrote is indeed better than this book.

Zhang Li was worried about Yu Qie's trip to Japan. She didn't read novels much, but she cared about the reputation of novelists. Zhang Li didn't dare to ask Yu Qie, fearing that it would affect Yu Qie's state, but she read the latest newspaper news every day. Zhang Li did everything she could to get the two Japanese novels that competed with Yu Qie. She read them with a sad face and said, "The novels written by Japanese are so boring. I almost fell asleep!"

Chen Xiaoxu said: "That is all serious literature, not meant for ordinary readers."

Zhang Li asked Chen Xiaoxu: "Can Yu Qie win the award?"

Chen Xiaoxu said: "He will definitely be able to get it. If he can't get it, who else is qualified to get it?"

"Xiao Xu, you didn't say that before. I thought Yu Qie was hard to get. Because you always said that Yu Qie's novels were just that."

"I lied to you! The more I learn about literature, the better I find Yu Qie to write." Chen Xiaoxu was so excited that he blurted out the truth. "But don't tell Yu Qie what I said, or he'll laugh at me. He's a very rude person. If he can say one thing about me, he'll say ten things about me. I'm not in good health to begin with, and he'll make me die of anger."

Zhang Li smiled and said, "Let him say a few more words to you and give you some peace of mind, and you'll be fine."

In the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, where an immigration reservoir was built in later generations, one of the newly built three-story buildings was Yu Qie's home. Many people visited his home. The Sichuan TV station, which had worked with Yu Qie on the Laoshan front, sent a crew to film "Yu Qi's Footprints".

Wanxian now governs the entire northeastern Chongqing, which is far larger than its later administrative scope. It ranks third in Sichuan Province, second only to Chengdu and Chongqing. It has a population of millions and is a well-deserved big city.

The program team shot a lot of materials:
The news of Yu Qie's visit to Japan has become a regional carnival in this place. People's Literature, October and Red Rock are the most popular literary magazines here. Yu Qie has replaced the local writers he mentioned in the past. He is now the real literary giant in this small place. Many local middle schools will select Yu Qie's novels as extracurricular reading materials. Chinese teachers proudly say: "This is something written by our own people."

Yu Qi's novels were also excerpted and used as Chinese language test papers. The teachers had to print the papers themselves. They would first write the test questions on wax paper with an iron pen, then fix them in the mimeograph machine and print them out one by one using a roller soaked in ink.

The program crew went to the middle school where Yu Qie once studied and filmed Yu Qie's father, Yu Yuejin, who was a math teacher. Old Yu recently printed a test paper for a Chinese teacher. There was a reading question on it, and it was the last scene of "Little Shoes": the tears of the little boy Ali fell on the pool, and the goldfish kissed Ali's scarred feet.

The title is: What kind of thoughts does this scene express?

There are two meanings here. One is that Ali's scars will be healed and Ali will still be a strong little boy.

Another layer is to use this scene to imply that Ali will eventually break through the poverty brought to him by his family and the times, and he will become a person who escapes from fate.

This is why Guan Moye couldn't help crying after seeing this scene: because he could only write the first layer!
This is far from a technical issue, but a difference in talent.

Working in the same era of scars, Yu Qie has gone far beyond the "scar literature". Everyone who reads this novel is convinced that Yu Qie is the well-deserved king of novels.

The TV reporter asked Yu Yuejin: "Your child will soon win glory for the country by competing for Asia's second-largest literary award. The Akutagawa Prize is one of Japan's most important and influential literary awards, and the winners are known as the "entrance to the dragon gate." That is to say, if a writer can win this award, he will soar to the sky and will no longer be an ordinary writer."

"I just read the novel "Little Shoes", and I suddenly thought of Yu Qie's life experience. Is he just like the little boy Ali? The misfortune in his childhood has promoted his personal growth. Because we know that suffering is often a great beginning."

"Do you have any wishes for Yu Qie?"

Yu Yuejin was very confused:

Damn, his family is a dual-income family, he was never treated badly since he was a child, and he was tolerated for staying at home for several years in the 1980s. God knows how Yu Qie could write such a novel. It's as if he had lived a hard life for many years!
Should I agree with what the reporter said?
(End of this chapter)