Literary Master 1983

Chapter 228 Today, you shine brightly among the crowd (Part )

Inoue Yasushi's arrival made Yu Qie more confident that he had won the award.

In particular, Inoue Yasushi did not hide anything and directly said to Yu Qie: "When will you come to be a judge? I'm afraid you won't want to come in the future."

This was a joke that only Yu Qie understood, and the two of them knew it tacitly.

Yu Qie asked Inoue Yasushi: "Why did you come here specially to say it again?"

Inoue Yasushi said: "I have a Chinese friend who called me overseas and asked me what was going on. Can you guess who it was?"

There are some people who might be the candidate. Inoue Yasushi has many literary friends in China. But Inoue Yasushi also said, "You wrote your novel in his home."

There is only one answer left: Ba Lao, chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association!
There is a huge difference between the publishing industry and award selection in developed countries and China in the 1980s. Almost no one in China can cross this information gap. But there is an exception! Ba Lao publishes novels all over the world. Sometimes he spends most of the year abroad and is respected by fans as a "traveler"!
He just happened to be the one who could understand the information.

Jing Shang said: "I heard that Ba Lao is upright and honest in China, and is almost unwilling to make any compromises when judging awards. However, he also made a phone call for you to find out the results of the awards. I thought to myself, if you didn't get the award, facing the surging backlash in China, he would have thought of a reason for you and stood with you... At the end of last year, he and I completed the literary dialogue we had agreed on in Shanghai, but most of the time we talked about young people because we are all old!"

"Yu Qie!" Inoue Yasushi sighed, "I envy you for having such a teacher, and I envy him for having someone like you."

It turned out that Mr. Ba was worried that he would be harmed by fake news, and he didn't know his situation in Japan, so he could only ask Inoue Yasushi about the award.

It is not easy to make a transatlantic phone call. It took Yu Qie several hours to call Marquez. I don’t know how long Ba Lao waited. Thinking about him quietly waiting for a phone call in a wheelchair, so serious that he didn’t say a word, it makes people sad to think about it!

This time when I go back, I must write an article for Harvest! Ba Lao likes to collect books. Several walls of his house are covered with books he bought, so I should also find a few old books and give them to him.

Chen Xiru, the translator of the Shanghai Writers Association, translated Inoue Yasushi's conversation into Chinese. Chen Xiru did not say some words that he found sensitive, but by listening to it half and half, one can actually get a general idea of ​​the situation!

Qian Zhongshu, vice president of the Academy of Social Sciences, is fluent in many languages, but the only one he doesn't know is Japanese. However, he managed to figure out the whole picture through the conversation.

This old Japanese man, Yasushi Inoue, said that a Chinese friend called... Wait, ah, he also mentioned where the novel was written, where was it written? Shanghai, it should be Shanghai! He suddenly mentioned young people and old people... A thin writer wearing glasses from Jiangsu and Zhejiang appeared in everyone's mind.

Ba Lao.

The current leader of mainland Chinese literary world and a living legend.

Qian Zhongshu was stunned: Ba Lao seemed to be impartial on the surface, but secretly he made a long-distance call for Yu Qie? What did he think of the jury?

Is there any royal law like this?

Is this something that Ba Lao can do?

Ah! Yes! That's what he can do!
The current situation is that it is clear that Yu Qie is about to win the award, because Inoue Yasushi from the jury came to explain it in person! Let everyone feel at ease.

If this Japanese person acts like this, there is an 80% to 90% chance that he will win the award!
But what happens if you don’t win?
In this era when national self-esteem is particularly fragile, Yu Qie will definitely be affected.

It is conceivable that Ba Lao, who spoke so much at the annual meeting of the Writers Association and wrote the "Torrent Trilogy", would pour out all his anger on all those who made the mistakes!

How protective is he?
Even though Duanduan’s grades were so bad and she was unwilling to do her homework, he could still say, “This is definitely a good kid! There’s something wrong with the school’s education method!”

Ba Lao actually values ​​Yu Qie so much!
Ambassador Song from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also stunned: because he also received a call from home this morning, the news was passed through layer by layer, and when it finally reached him, he didn't know who it had passed through!
Another great god also found it on his head!
Ma Shi Tu, the chairman of the provincial writers' association, a frequent guest at the bridge game, and an old writer who has written biographies and memoirs for many people, asked him anxiously: "I found that there was a misunderstanding in the country, and people have already started celebrating! What's the point of this?! If Yu Qie fails to get the award, is there any remedy? He is innocent!"

"I know that people will love someone especially, but when they misunderstand him, they will hate him especially! But Yu Qie is really innocent. I know clearly that he is not a boaster! He is talented!"

"If Yu Qie is criticized and misunderstood because of the mistakes made by others, should I be the same?"

"What misunderstanding is there? The Xinhua News Agency that released the news, certain institutions in Japan that should be aware of the situation, and the media that cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood and are only concerned with pouring hot oil into the hot pot should clarify the misunderstanding. They should not only apologize to the people of the country, but also apologize to Yu Qie himself!"

Ma Shi Tu was already so anxious that he was angry. He had rarely lost his composure like this before. He was almost about to point at someone's nose and curse!

Before Yu Qie, Ma Shi Tu had a disciple named Robin, who was the author of "Red Rock". He and Ma Shi Tu did not have a clear master-disciple relationship, but they just happened to have a teacher-student relationship in school.

But Robin, like Ma Shi Tu, was first an underground d and then a writer, so they appreciated each other and developed a teacher-student relationship. Ma Shi Tu's home had a red flag with only one star on it, which was the real thing that Robin and others had embroidered in Zhazidong!

This flag was given to Ma Shi Tu! Could they have an ordinary relationship?

Robin died prematurely, but Yu Qie was the first and last disciple that Ma Shi Tu accepted after he was promoted. The distance between Yu Qie's home and Ma Shi Tu's home was less than 90 kilometers, which was equivalent to the distance between the second and fourth ring roads in Beijing. He never knew that he could live to be over 100 years old. In his eyes, Yu Qie was the last literary fire he could see in his life.

Ma Shi Tu still practices hard to play bridge well, and reads tirelessly to chat about literature with Yu Che. He always recalls the "literary dialogue" between him and Yu Che, and Yu Che's excited words in front of him, "Young people need me, and I will strive to make the people of the world need me too!" He can still remember it vividly. How could he let Yu Che's reputation be ruined? Let tragedy happen in front of him again?
In my life, when I was young, I gave up my family property to join the revolution. When I was middle-aged, my daughter disappeared and was not found until many years later. During this period, I was betrayed in many ways... I finally made it through, was it just to let my last disciple be bullied while I’m alive?
This kind of rage can make Ma Shi Tu lose his mind and use up all his connections. It is not uncommon for him to play bridge in the capital and suddenly tear up the cards, curse it is unfair, and cry "let my disciples go".

Then, his friends, fellow villagers and old bosses would throw down their cards to comfort him, saying, "What happened that made our old Ma so wronged?"

When the ambassador thought of these things, cold sweat broke out like needles and he felt like he was about to collapse.

Ma Shi Tu is already a difficult god to please! There is actually a Ba Lao hiding behind him. This Yu Qie can actually get so many people to speak for him!

He immediately shook Yu Qie's hand and said, "I am here to clarify the facts. Even if the result is not satisfactory, it has nothing to do with Comrade Yu Qie. It was a mistake in work publicity!"

"Even if we don't get the award, we will publish an announcement about the incident, make a self-examination to the organization, and minimize the impact on Comrade Yu Qie!"

"And now!" The ambassador couldn't help laughing. Now he didn't worry about offending anyone. "Since everyone has decided not to make corrections, and the result of the award has been announced, and Yu Qie is the winner, we should make a big deal out of a small matter, unite, and settle the score after returning home."

A Japanese Crown car stopped in front of Yu Che, which was owned by Iwanami Publishing, the publisher of "Happy Hunting". This car was going to take Yu Che to the Central Hotel in Sensoji Temple. This place is a newly built luxury hotel in Japan, but it was not the best at that time. Later, after the Tokyo landmark Sky Tree was built in Japan, the Central Hotel became one of the most luxurious hotels because it was adjacent to this landmark building.

In the past few years, the Akutagawa Prize winners have been called before the award ceremony to notify them to come to the ceremony venue to receive the award. They then have to attend a press conference, be interviewed by various media, and accept a celebratory tea party from a group of editors from print media, etc. Writers often don't have a chance to rest until two or three in the morning.

But writers are happy to do it. The reason why it is called "ascending the dragon gate" is that once the Akutagawa Prize is won, all the works of the writer throughout his entire career will receive extraordinary attention, thus solving the economic problem once and for all.

There was a Japanese writer named Matsumoto Seicho who had no decent academic qualifications. After moving to Tokyo, his family was forced to live in a birdcage-like house. After winning the Akutagawa Prize, he moved into a house covering hundreds of square meters and covered with green grass in an expensive area of ​​Tokyo within half a year.

Chen Xiaoxu was actually worried that Yu Qie would have no money to spend in the future?

Yu Qi laughed secretly when he thought of this: No, he will never run out of money in the future.

Inoue Yasushi said another thing in the car: "Because after winning the award, the author often immediately falls into a carnival, so we choose Japanese restaurants, Hakoniwa hotels and other places to present the awards - and this time we chose a luxury hotel in Tokyo with a lobby that can accommodate many people."

Obviously, Yasushi Inoue once again emphasized that Yu Qie was the only winner.

Only when an international writer wins an award will there be such an influx of journalists - an entire hotel lobby is needed as a venue. Yu Qie's winning is a memorable moment for both China and Japan.

The Akutagawa Prize thus became a truly "international" award, and young Chinese writers went overseas for the first time.

At noon, NHK TV broadcast a program and invited Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, one of the judges of the Akutagawa Prize. The host said: "The selection of a Chinese writer to compete for the Akutagawa Prize this time has not only caused a sensation in China, but also caused a great impact in Japan... After winning the prize, Yu Qie will become the first foreign winner and the youngest Akutagawa Prize winner in history."

"It's amazing!"

"We think Yu Che has basically won the award. Judging from the current arrangements, there is almost no doubt that his novel will win the award. The series of operations of the Bungeishunju Awards Committee have already told the Japanese people the final result. We chose a luxurious hotel as the venue, and media from many countries came to reserve seats in advance. This has never happened before. We have a left-wing writers' awards committee, most of whom have been to China. It is unprecedentedly targeted. After Yu Che came to Japan, everything big and small was reported... I even heard that Mr. Yasushi Inoue took a car to pick him up this morning!"

“Yu Che is certainly an incredible writer, but why must it be him?”

Yoshiyuki Junnosuke explained it very simply: "If you understand literature and have read these novels, you will know that "Happy Hunting" is a novel that is innovative in many aspects, and its intention is so profound."

“Is it really completely incomparable?”

"There is absolutely no comparison!" Yoshiyuki Junnosuke said sincerely, recalling the founding of this award. "Kan Kikuchi, the founder of Bungeishunju, created this award in 1935 and set the requirement that any new writer who wrote in Japanese could be selected - perhaps this was to wait for someone like Yukiri half a century later."

"For fifty years no foreign writer has won the prize, so much so that we have forgotten that this is an international award, and now that such a person has come, how can we be so stingy?"

At 2pm, Yu Qie met his competitors for the first time: Yoshiyuki Rie and Shimada Masahiko.

Yoshiyuki Rie surrendered to Yu Qie directly, using the Japanese word "桑" (mulberry) as a suffix to express respect, and congratulated Yu Qie in advance: "Thank you for writing such a work. After reading your work, I have benefited a lot! I have no regrets at all."

Shimada Masahiko was a little dissatisfied. He closed his eyes and nodded gently. "You wrote really well."

Because of the continuous reports in the mainland, young literary people in the mainland may know these two writers better than the Japanese. The family relationship and major works of these two writers have been introduced to China. Even Yu Qie knows that Yoshiyuki Rie has several sisters and comes from a Japanese performing arts family. Shimada Masahiko has a nickname called "Prince of Literature". He is simply a Japanese replica of Yu Qie. Shimada Masahiko is very proficient in drama, literature, performance, etc. and has achieved remarkable achievements.

However, on today's literary stage, both of them know that they have no chance. They came here to witness this moment. The award that Yu Che participated in attracted many media, including some high-end newspapers and magazines in the political and economic circles, which elevated the significance of Yu Che's "award" to the relationship between the two countries. Last year, at the airport in Japan, Japanese college students who visited China waved Asian literature books and encouraged Yu Che in front of the camera. The scene was repeatedly played on national television.

It was as if Yu Qie's winning of the award had become something that everyone was happy about. Of course, the one billion people in their own country were happy, and the Japanese people were also very happy.

It’s a pity that Shimada Masahiko is not very happy now, but who cares about his opinion?

(End of this chapter)