Literary Master 1983

Chapter 25 Yu Minhong

He explained: "Why am I crying? Because I repeated my senior year for two years and took the exam three times before I was admitted to Yanda University. The third time, my family was so poor that we couldn't even afford to eat, so we had to buy a lot of money on credit... I handed in my English paper early, and the teacher thought I was not doing well and slapped me in the face... So I wanted to cry when I saw this, it was really hard for me!"

As he said this, he burst into tears again.

The old man cried so miserably that everyone around him looked over.

Yu Qie comforted him: "A hero is not judged by his origin. You have been admitted to Yan University. You will definitely have a bright future. Don't be too sad."

"Anything?" The man shook his head and sniffed. "I don't even believe I can be anything. I'm studying Spanish. When we were divided into classes at school, I was in the worst class, Class C!"

"My English wasn't good either, so I memorized words every day. In the past two years, I finished memorizing an Oxford dictionary. I can point to any page and tell what it says... I finally thought I was good enough, but guess what?"

"You were so nervous that you forgot?"

"Of course I was nervous, but this is even more humiliating! Before I even finished a sentence, everyone started laughing and saying my accent was old-fashioned. Not to mention Americans, even Chinese people didn't understand what I was saying! Only fools would memorize a dictionary! I feel like a loser!"

"I'm a junior now, and I've never had a girlfriend. The female students at Yanda are all very picky, and none of them look down on me...Looking back on my three years at college, I didn't accomplish anything. How can I feel that I have a future?"

He moved his finger over and pointed at the novel College Entrance Examination 1977 again. "This novel is well written. The best part is that his pen stopped at the moment before the exam... Because some people fail to pass, and some people who pass are outdone by others who pass! After entering college, there are tragedies everywhere."

"In the end, I found that everyone is happiest and most promising when they get their acceptance letter. That's why he writes so well... Alas, I have been reading books every day in the past few years. I have read so many that I can evaluate novels myself."

Yu Qie said, "So what do you think of this novel?"

This person perked up, as if to recommend him. "This author is simply the Maupassant of China. College Entrance Examination 1977 is like Boule de Suif... I'm so excited. I'm sorry to make you laugh. I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm a junior student in the Spanish Department, Yu Minhong."

"I'm Yu Qie, from the Economics Department, and I've only been here a month."

"What's Yu, what's Qie?"

"cot."

Yu Minhong laughed. This guy had a pair of very fat frog-eye glasses. He startled and the frog-eye glasses fell on his nose with a snap. Then he carefully picked them up again.

"Hey! You and the guy who wrote College Entrance Examination 1977 are both called Yu Qie. Your names are so easy to remember."

Yu Qie said: "I am the Yu Qie you are thinking of. The novel you are reading is written by me."

what?
Yu Minhong then turned the book over and flipped to the cover, which had three big characters written on it: "Weiming Lake".

The author is Yu Qie, Department of Economics.

It shouldn't be a coincidence that there are two people with the same name in the same department.

"I didn't expect you to be Yu Qie. I'm reading your novel. You write really well!"

Yu Minhong quickly wiped away his tears.

It was a bit too embarrassing to cry in front of the author, who is my junior.

The magazine "Weiming Lake" is organized by Yan University students themselves. It mainly publishes poetry from students on campus, but also includes literary research, novels, and essays.

They formed the "May Fourth Literary Society", a poetry organization that was once very influential in the country, and later launched various literary magazines including "Weiming Lake", "Tian Fang", "The Third Party" and so on.

Weiming Lake is the oldest and has the highest requirements, and everyone is proud to be published in Weiming Lake.

However, not everyone likes poetry.

Yu Minhong, who came from the countryside, was only interested in reading novels. "I had never read Unknown Lake before, but I found a novel on it, so I took it." He said, "It not only contains your novel, but also comments on your novel. They said you expressed sympathy and helplessness, and you used this novel to criticize! Your creative method transcends time and space, and it also has a bit of 'subjectivism' meaning."

Huh? Yu Qie was also shocked. This was complete nonsense!
It’s fine if they pirated my novel, but why did they do my reading comprehension and recite their scriptures?

Yu Minhong was both happy and envious: "So you are Yu Qie! Our school has produced another talented person!"

But Yu Qie was not happy at all, he rolled up his sleeves. "I have never authorized the copyright of "Unnamed Lake". They have no right to publish my works without my knowledge, let alone use my works to support their poetry performances. I will go to them now!"

"Yu Qie, what are you going to do? Are you going to fight?"

"Of course I'm going to reason with you!" Yu Qie asked Yu Minhong, "Do you want to come with me?"

Yu Minhong was hesitating, so Yu Qie added, "Then you continue to read novels...wait for me to write "College Entrance Examination 1978" and "College Entrance Examination 1979" for you. Yu Minhong, good things have to be done by yourself."

Yu Minhong gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go with you!"

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By the Weiming Lake, a group of people from the May Fourth Literary Society were gathering to discuss poetry.

They would suddenly shout without paying attention to the people around them, reciting classic modern poems: "Oh, thunder! Your rumbling sound is the sound of your wheels rolling! I want to sing with you, with your voice, and with the vast ocean!"

I will also share my original works, "Sunflowers after the rain, sunflowers in silence. The petals are blooming in the rain..."

If you can attract the girl's attention, then you are completely successful.

Some of these guys are indeed talented, but there are also some who are just filling in the gaps. Some of them, in order to express their "poetic" nature, use performance art, such as jumping into the lake to swim naked, or fighting with each other when they get angry.

Sometimes it can cause girls to exclaim: "Ah! What are you doing?"

So the naked swimmer cheered up on the spot, "I'm creating something!"

Yu Qie led Yu Minhong to the shore of Weiming Lake in a hurry. He saw someone flirting with a girl in a rude way. He must have been very annoyed. He went over and shouted, "Is there anyone in charge?"

No one responded to him, everyone was immersed in their own emotions.

Then, Yu Qie's voice became louder: "Is there anyone in charge?"

"Snapped!"

Yu Qi rolled up the magazine "Weiming Lake" and weighed it back and forth like a baseball bat.

Everyone knew that this person seemed to be looking for trouble, and everyone looked over.

Yu Minhong quietly took a step back and swallowed nervously.

A handsome guy with a delicate appearance came over and asked in a good-tempered manner:

"Classmate, what's wrong with you?"

"Did you create "Weiming Lake"? " Yu Qi asked.

“We published it together.”

(End of this chapter)