Literary Master 1983

Chapter 26: Weiming Lake
"Okay, can you take care of things?"

"My name is Luo Yihe, and I'm the vice president."

"Vice President, let me ask you directly," Yu Qie flipped open "Unnamed Lake" and jumped to the page where his novel was published. He pointed at "College Entrance Examination 1977" and asked, "My friend found that my novel was published here, but I didn't even know that I had authorized you. Since everyone is creating literature all day long, shouldn't we have the minimum respect for literature? Let the creator of the text know."

Luo Yihe immediately knew what was going on. He said, "Are you Yu Qie? We couldn't contact you when we published the article."

"I'm in class every day. If you can't contact me, it means I don't want to publish, right?"

"Yu Qie, I'm sorry, I will definitely not do this next time."

How else can you say Luo Yihe has a good temper? He took the blame directly.

Here's the thing:

Yu Qie became famous as soon as he came in because he had published a novel in a provincial magazine and wrote a very famous college entrance examination report. Several literary societies wanted to win him over, but they didn't know what Yu Qi looked like.

But everyone knows that there was a freshman named "cot" who wrote a novel that was published in "Sichuan Literature".

Everyone likes to follow the trend. Some people, such as Yu Minhong, think that Yu Qie writes well. Others, although they cannot write novels, can be book reviewers and comment on Yu Qi's novels.

The most hateful thing is to use Yu Qie's book and write your own words.

Yu Qie can in no way be called a writer who supports educated youth literature.

Because there are not only good but also negative educated youth literature, but writers cannot be considered as those who do not support educated youth literature, because many big names have experienced the hardships of educated youth, which is a hundred times more powerful than the Latin American literature circle.

Therefore, Yu Qie can only be a novelist now. He writes novels and gets paid for them.

Yu Qie said: "Since you have already published it, I can't delete my memory, but I have a few requests: Don't publish my work without my permission in the future; secondly, don't comment on my work, because I am still alive and you don't know me; finally, if I allow you to publish it, you must pay me, even if it is only one dollar or ten cents."

"This means that I don't create to complain, but to get paid."

The poets of the May Fourth Literary Society were very disappointed with Yu Qie. Luo Yihe was also unhappy. He said: "Literature should not be restricted by expression."

Yu Qie spread his hands and said, "This has nothing to do with whether there are restrictions or not. It only matters whether I know about it or not."

“People thought you expressed in your book…”

Unable to continue talking to these people, Yu Qie asked Yu Minhong... Eh? Where is Yu Minhong?
Why is he running last?

Yu Minhong was dragged to the front by Yu Qie. "This is Yu Minhong. He is a junior in the Spanish Department, Class C."

"There are six people in their dormitory. Except for Senior Brother Yu Minhong, everyone else has read the novel College Entrance Examination 1977. Senior Brother Yu, do you think this is true?"

Ah? They don’t read novels…

"That's it!" Yu Minhong could only say this, he didn't know what Yu Qi was going to do.

"Think about it. These are six people. This novel was originally published in Sichuan Literature and other publications. They all have to pay for the manuscript. If you publish my novel, other people will not buy these books. How many dormitories are there in Yenching University? How many copies of the publications can these dormitories buy? How many schools can Yenching University influence?"

"If this continues, then college students across the country won't buy Sichuan Literature anymore. Will I still get paid for my work?"

What kind of twisted logic is this? This guy is just looking for trouble!
At this point, the May Fourth Literature Society finally couldn't take it anymore. Luo Yihe tried to maintain everyone's emotions, but some people had already shouted out: "Literature is not about money! We don't want copyright for our school publications!"

"Poetry, not money!"

They waved their fists and rushed towards Yu Qie. Yu Qie dodged in a few moves, turned around and ran, with a large group of people chasing him. Seeing this, Yu Minhong also started running wildly. He didn't want to be the last one, but he couldn't run as fast as Yu Qie, so all the fists hit Yu Minhong like raindrops.

"Stop, stop!" Yu Minhong jumped into the lake to avoid the punches. As a result, his glasses were knocked off. He desperately fished out his broken glasses. After finally fishing them out, Yu Minhong shouted:
"I just met Yu Qie today, I really don't know anything!" "Bullshit! You are Yu Qie's accomplice!"

"I really don't know Yu Qie!"

"This Toad Mirror has been lying all the time. He is Yu Qie's accomplice! Beat him up!"

The 1980s was a time of active thinking and flamboyant personalities. Poets had heated discussions on life, ideals, social reality and other topics, often using passionate words. When emotions were high, they would sometimes turn into physical fights.

The shore of Weiming Lake has become a witness to arguments and conflicts, and the safe house is the nearest teaching building. No matter how badass someone is, they cannot start a fight here.

Yu Minhong finally picked up his glasses and, relying on the slight vision provided by the broken lenses, followed the blurry little man who had already run far away and entered the teaching building.

Yu Qie immediately closed the door and locked it with his back turned.

When the poets saw this, they made a fuss for a while and then left.

"Yu Minhong, are you okay?"

"I ran too slow and they broke my glasses."

"I'll get you a new pair of good ones. Luckily you ran slowly, otherwise I would have been the one to get beaten."

"thanks, thanks……"

Yu Minhong was speechless: What do you mean, it’s not me who runs slowly, but you who get beaten?

He didn't refuse because he had no money and he needed a new pair of glasses.

"Yu Minhong..." Another voice came, this time from inside the teaching building.

A pretty girl was so scared that she dropped her book. After picking it up, she said with disgust, "Yu Minhong, is this what you have become? Look at what a horrible person you are!"

Yu Minhong didn't recognize the girl because he wasn't wearing glasses. He gasped and asked, "Who are you?"

"Bah! I will never talk to you again, Yu Minhong!"

The girl left behind a disappearing figure.

It seems that she is a pretty senior girl, and Yu Minhong has pursued this girl before. Now the girl is unwilling to give Yu Minhong another chance.

Yu Qie gave Yu Minhong time to calm down before asking, "Who is that?"

"I really do not know."

"You don't know again. How can you not remember who it was that you pursued?"

"Yu Qie," Yu Minhong wiped away the water or tears that kept dripping from his body, "I have chased 25 people, but none of them agreed to accept me, nor did they look at me straight in the eye. I really don't know which one of the 25 was the one just now."

"Twenty-five? You're pretty impressive..." Yu Qie was convinced. "But this woman will definitely remember you. She will also remember you ten years later, because you didn't recognize her just now! What do you call that? Disdain."

Yu Qi's eyes met Yu Minhong's, and both of them suddenly couldn't help laughing.

Yu Minhong said: "I have been in school for three years, reading novels all the time, and everyone laughed at me. No day has ever been as refreshing as today!"

"It means you have a bad temper, you just suppress it, Yu Minhong."

　I don't know if Luo Yihe is the vice president, there is no credible information
　　
　
(End of this chapter)