Literary Master 1983

Chapter 33 Follow-up reaction
Last year, the phenomenal work in mainland China was a movie called "Shaolin Temple", which charged 1 cent per ticket and eventually earned more than million yuan.

The lead actress Li Lianjie became famous all over the country because of this. After developing her career in Hong Kong for many years, she even bought a red convertible sports car.

When he returned to the capital, he found that everyone recognized his face and his car. With the roar of his sports car, even if he obeyed the traffic rules, he would still be stopped by the traffic police.

There is a watchtower at every intersection in Yanjing. Every time Li Lianjie's car reaches a watchtower, it will be stopped and the driver has to go through three steps: get off the car, chat and sign autographs.

At the same time, before Li Lianjie is about to leave a post to go to the next intersection, the traffic police at the previous post will also notify the colleagues at the next post through communication facilities: "Li Lianjie is going to your place, hurry up!"

Yu Qi's "A Moment of Romance" fits the current social events and was extremely popular after its publication.

This work started to run wildly along the path of "Shaolin Temple". Fortunately, everyone only knew his novels but didn't know what he looked like.

However, if we narrow the scope to the literature lovers of Yanda University, it would be the waves on the Qiantang River. Yu Qie has quickly become famous - a big wave named Yu Qie came over and everyone saw it.

In order to promote his poetry collection "Small Station", Cha Haisheng borrowed money from everywhere to print it, and worked hard for many years before he became famous.

Yu Qie did it easily.

In the following month, the campus of Yanda University began to discuss Yu Qie and his works non-stop, which became a fashion.

"Yu Qie's new novel has been published, called A Moment of Romance, published by Red Rock. I saw it at home."

"Red Rock is just so-so. My family subscribes to People's Literature. Can you lend it to me?... Holy crap! Holy crap!"

The May Fourth Literary Society is the largest literary society in Yenching University, and many of its members have read A Moment of Romance within this month.

Some of them, especially the female members, had a huge change in their attitude towards Yu Qie:

Is Yu Qie the educated Hua Di?

No, he is better than Huadi in every way.

The way Yu Qie found someone to beat me up was so cool!
It turns out that a novel with a wonderful plot can be so touching!

Poetry, only poetry can express my love for "A Moment of Romance"!

There is a plot in "A Moment of Romance" where the male protagonist Huadi takes Qiaoqiao on a bicycle to escape from pursuit. Under the extremely tense mood, the man and woman in the car develop feelings for each other, which is simply a stroke of genius in writing the novel.

So, they composed a poem about this plot and read it aloud by the Weiming Lake:

"The wheel of fate takes us to the end,

The chasing whistle cut off our breathing.

In the rushing wind, I hold you tightly,
I am afraid that if I let go, it will be my fate to say goodbye forever!"

——As the vice president of the literature club, Luo Yihe was not happy with this rebellion: "Members of the May Fourth Literature Club! Have you forgotten our great wish to avenge Yu Qie?"

"We will never forget it for even a moment!"

"Then why do you write poems and sing praises to Yu Qie?"

"We wrote poems for A Moment of Romance. It has nothing to do with Yu Qie. We still hate Yu Qie!"

"Damn it! How good is A Moment of Romance? Why have you all changed? Show it to me too..."

Luo Yihe spent an entire night reading the novel and was stunned: Damn, it’s so good!

This novel has no artistic value at all, and does not use any cutting-edge creative techniques. It is just a love story that collides with ongoing major social events... But why can't I forget the people in the story?
The members asked Luo Yihe: "President, the new issue of "Unnamed Lake" is about to be published. Let's copy Yu Qie's novel. Anyway, we have offended him. Everyone is reading novels and it's almost too much to keep up."

Luo Yihe is far-sighted: "No, if he can't earn any money from his writing, what will he do if he stops writing in the future?"

"President, you..."

"Don't panic, let's be patient with him for a while."

"How long can you endure this?"

"Just wait till he writes a crappy novel, and then we'll copy it and distribute it everywhere!"

Professors would also mention the co-tangent as a little interlude to liven up the atmosphere.

In a large class in the Economics Department, the then Dean of the Economics Department, Chen Cong, was criticizing capitalism and linking it together with traditional Marxist-Leninist economic ideas.

"As a complete system, modern Western economics cannot serve as a guiding theory for the development of China's national economy; but we should also see that in the analysis of certain specific economic issues, there are indeed areas worthy of reference and learning... This is because there are fundamental differences between our system and the Western economic system."

Chen Cong suddenly changed the subject and talked about the remaining part.

"We have such a great writer at Yanda University. He wrote A Moment of Romance, which is a love story between a rich capitalist girl and a proletarian boy. I wonder how many people have read it?"

Many people in the audience shouted that they had seen it, and everyone looked at Yu Qie and laughed.

Chen Cong analyzed: "Yu Qie is a freshman in our economics department. It should be said that his novels also reflect his own ideas... In his novel, Hua Di died. Many people asked why he died? But I want to say, why not die!"

The professor slammed the blackboard loudly.

"The difference between workers is that they can reproduce themselves as a means of labor (referring to having children), so we have always had works that give rise to romantic fantasies, as if two people of unequal status can really be together!"

"However, in A Moment of Romance, Hua Di is bound to die because he does not have the ability to control the means of production, and the rich girl Qiao Qiao will meet many Hua Di..."

"When you fall in love with such a person, the result is that the capitalist side is just a journey to the past, while the poor person needs to give everything he has to achieve a temporary equal status."

"So, you see the writer praising love, and I see him criticizing capital. Fellow students, love is illusory, and class is eternal."

"Yu Qie, what do you think? Classmates, give him a round of applause."

There was a burst of applause.

Yu Qie stood up suddenly!

Damn, I’m the author, I don’t think that much.

However, he would not spoil the professor's interest in Chen Cong's class, so he could only say: "My theoretical knowledge is not deep enough, but I think that if Huadi wants to be with Qiaoqiao, he still has to rely on him to study hard and change his class status through studying."

"Correct!" Chen Cong waved his hand to let Yu Qie sit down and nodded with appreciation.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he was very nervous: "Study hard and become a dog for the capitalists is also a solution... As the saying goes, if you learn the literary and martial arts, you can sell them to the emperor."

(End of this chapter)