Literary Master 1983

Chapter 29: Big Spread

The brawl on the shores of Weiming Lake initiated by Yu Qi directly resulted in more than a dozen people being injured.

The person who was most seriously injured was Yu Minhong. His glasses were broken again and he was kicked into the lake and half drowned. After being rescued by Yu Qie and his team, he was sent to the school hospital for an IV drip.

Yu Minhong was sleeping soundly during the period, his face was red. Wang Qiang was afraid that his roommate had died, so he repeatedly asked the school doctor: "Is Yu Minhong okay?"

"It's okay."

"Then why is his face so red after receiving an IV?"

"He was malnourished. The infusion caused his blood sugar to rise, causing skin redness and swelling, allergies, and other symptoms. Although we are Yanda University, there are still many malnourished students among the applicants."

What the hell!

Yu Qie was a little speechless. How could Yan University students be malnourished? What kind of era is this?

Yu Minhong's counselor also came to see him. After knowing that Yu Minhong was fine, he was still in the mood to joke with everyone:

"This is not the first time that Yu Minhong has fallen into a lake. Previously, he jumped into a lake to pursue a girl, forcing the girl to soften her heart and agree to his request. However, the girl watched him floundering in the water and was still unwilling to agree."

Yu Qie asked: "Then what?"

"Then Yu Minhong went on to pursue the next one! Tell me, what's the point of a relationship where you can't be together even if you die?"

Someone started to make a noise: "Teacher, how can I woo the pretty girl in the Spanish department?"

"The female students in our Yanda Spanish Department have high standards, and not everyone can get them! Unless you have plans to study abroad, we can be temporary comrades-in-arms, because everyone is going to the United States."

When we talked about the United States, there was a kind of lighthearted atmosphere in the ward. It was a place that represented advancement, beauty and the realization of dreams, and everyone was accustomed to it.

Not only did the students flock to it, even the principal was shocked.

The current president of Yanda is Ding Leisun, who just took office in October this year. Ding Leisun is a researcher who studied at Harvard University in the United States for two years. It is said that during his two years in the United States, he felt deeply that domestic university education was backward. After learning that he had taken office, he had a package of reform plans ready to be implemented.

His plan can be summarized as follows: students can be tolerated, but teachers must be dealt a heavy blow! The competent ones are promoted and the mediocre ones are demoted.

Yu Qie paid attention to the word "stage": "Why are couples studying abroad common comrades in arms at the stage?"

The counselor waved his hands and said, “I can’t say that, it’s not good.

"Wang Qiang? Do you know him?" Yu Qie looked for the friend he just met.

"Must I say it?" Wang Qiang didn't want to gossip.

"Go ahead. I just happened to think of a novel. Let's see if I can write a realistic novel about it. I'm a writer. I can't just do things when I come to Yanda. I can't forget my job."

At this point, Wang Qiang gave in. He first issued a disclaimer: "I am not targeting my former female classmates. I am just stating a fact... Okay, I will say it..."

"We have observed that whenever a man settles down abroad, he will try to bring his girlfriend abroad. Whenever a girlfriend settles down abroad, she will lose contact with her boyfriend. Even if they are married, they will disappear without a trace."

"If the man is ignorant and goes across the ocean to find the woman, the woman will usually be married to a Chinese or white man by then. She will say, please let me go, so that I can be free..."

This... seems familiar!

Yu Qie watched a movie in later life called "Big Scatter". The plot was roughly like this: a man sent a woman abroad, and another woman sent another man abroad. As expected, both of them lost their original wives...

Then, the two fell in love and got together.

Then, the woman wanted to go abroad again, and the man was sent away again.

This is the big let-go! It means not caring about anything, not worrying about anything, revealing a kind of desolate attitude of "Let it be destroyed, I don't care anymore".

This actually happened to many intellectual couples in the 1980s.

If Yu Qie were to write about this kind of thing, he would definitely not use exactly the same plot. This is a bit too cowardly of a portrayal of Chinese men.

Yu Minhong suddenly woke up, thrashing around: "I'm going to die!"

"Hello, Yu Minhong!" everyone said.

"I can't even see anyone, am I blind?"

"Your glasses are just broken again, just get a new pair."

Yu Minhong touched Yu Qie's hand, looked in Yu Qie's direction and said, "Yu Qie, from now on, you will be my role model."

Everyone burst into laughter. They were laughing at Yu Minhong who was beaten up like this but still wanted to be the boss, and they were also laughing at a loser who couldn't have a girlfriend and released his emotions by getting beaten.

Seeing that no one was worried, the counselor laughed for a while, then said, "The head of the literature department, Ji Xianlin, has learned about your case. He is in charge, Yu Qie, he wants to have a talk with you."

Seasonal forest?
Isn’t this the character in the textbook?

"Is it the old professor who is a master of Chinese studies and very good at Sanskrit?"

"That's him." The counselor said, "Mr. Ji is going to retire this year. You are the last student he will talk to. You should be prepared, Yu Qie."

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Now let's review the situation. The main participants in the Lakeside Brawl were the Summoner Yu Qie, a number of Spanish-speaking soldiers and the masses, and the enemy May Fourth Literature Society...

The main force among them was the May Fourth Literary Society, and it was also the May Fourth Literary Society that started the attack.

Therefore, the question of how to deal with this incident, which was not very harmful but extremely insulting, fell on the shoulders of Ji Xianlin, the head of the Department of Literature.

Ji Xianlin writes essays as a side job and does Oriental studies (specifically India) research as his main job.

There were occasional fights every day on the Yenching University campus in the 1980s, but it was rare for them to develop to this extent. It seemed that no one should take responsibility, and everyone felt that they had been wronged.

Ji Xianlin quickly found out that the person who fanned the flames was Yu Qie. If it weren't for this person, nothing would have happened. If "College Entrance Examination 1977" hadn't been on "Wenming Lake", nothing would have happened.

This cotangent is not simple!
Ji Xianlin, who was politically conscious, first consulted the newly appointed principal Ding Leisun in October. He stated, "Yu Qie did not fight or incite anyone. He was indeed giving a speech and then the fight started... But he certainly cannot be innocent."

Ding Leisun asked: "He didn't do anything, why is he not innocent?"

"Because Yu Qie's previous novel was published in Weiming Lake, probably because the reviews of his novel were not to his liking and he did not get copyright permission, he thought of a way to punish the May Fourth Society! These students were too young and were fooled in a few seconds!"

"Where's Yu Qie? I've never heard of this person. Isn't he a student?"

"Yu Qie is a freshman in the Economics Department." When Ji Xianlin said this, he also felt it was ridiculous.

Are poets born with a defective brain and easily fooled?

Principal Ding Leisun is a science and engineering man who studied mathematics. He doesn't think it's a big deal for a literary youth to be beaten.

He said with an expression that said, "We should not stop anything that complies with the law. We should run the school strictly, but we should also create a relaxed environment for students to grow. Everyone should be able to develop freely."

(End of this chapter)