Literary Master 1983

Chapter 41 Stay with me
"Where did you get the ticket? Isn't this only for foreign students?"

"The Man from Atlantis" is a science fiction series produced by the American HBO TV station. After Mr. Qiao visited the United States, the TV series was introduced from the United States and was broadcast on CCTV.

Once it was broadcast, this science fiction film caused a sensation.

However, there are no televisions in the dormitories of Yanda University, only TV rooms, and those are only in the dormitories for international students - you need a TV room ticket to watch the TV.

Luo Yihe said: "My girlfriend is 'living with' a foreigner. They have a very rich entertainment life and regularly give out tickets - they don't want to watch it anymore, so they give it to my girlfriend."

"Since you all know that I'm an intern editor at October, I'll tell you that I've been too busy to read it lately, so I'll just give it to you."

What did I hear, stay with me?

Yu Qie was confused: "I know 'accompanying study' and 'accompanying learning', but what the hell does 'accompanying living' mean?"

Luo Yihe looked as if he was asking, "Why are you making such a fuss and shocking your friends?"

"We were worried that foreign students wouldn't be able to adapt to our life after they came here, so we selected some students to live with them. Of course, the men lived with the men, and the women lived with the women... You don't know, because the welfare of foreign students is good, everyone is scrambling to live with them."

As everyone knows, Yu Qie spent the whole day looking for a place for Zhang Li to stay, and he was almost angry to death.

I'm a writer, and I went all over the city to help my girlfriend find a place to live. But my girlfriend, a serious actress, couldn't find a way to find a place to stay.

As a result, international students are even well-off enough to arrange "accompanying accommodation". How fucked up is that.

"You didn't know?" Seeing that Yu Qie seemed interested, Luo Yihe continued to explain:

"There are many benefits to being a resident student. The Office of International Students organizes a movie or a play for international students every week. Movie tickets are usually given to resident students, while theater tickets are more expensive and are often only available to foreign students."

"However, international students cannot watch the show for various reasons, so they transfer their tickets to their roommates or ask other friends who are not going to take out their tickets to transfer. In this way, there are still many opportunities for them to accompany their roommates."

"On Saturday, we watched The Man from Atlantis. On Sunday, we went to the TV room to watch the Chinese film The Mountain Country Storm - of course, foreigners wouldn't watch it!"

"On Wednesdays, we watch Charlie Chaplin's The Kid and The Idle Class - it's not our turn, they love to watch them."

"Also, there's Save Her, performed by the Changyi Drama Troupe, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, performed by the Qingyi Theater..."

Luo Yihe said, "Sometimes we couldn't go in to watch, and we had to call our foreign classmates and prove that our foreign friends were in the TV room before we could register and go in."

Yu Qie spread his hands and said, "Luo Yihe, I don't even know how to comment on our Yanda University's 'accompanying accommodation policy'."

"Finally, there's something you don't know?" Luo Yihe was rather proud and revealed some shocking news. "In my class, there was a girl who was dating a black Sudanese student. They were even discussing marriage, but her parents really didn't agree and didn't want their daughter to marry far away. The girl just cried loudly and that was it..."

A girl from Yan University and a black man from Sudan?
Yu Qie said: "Sometimes I feel that people born in the 1980s are a bit conservative, and sometimes I feel that they are too crazy."

Luo Yihe said, "Yu Qie, don't look down on others. Sudan's conditions are better than ours... They are all our foreign friends who came to study in China because they like China... Anyway, just take these two tickets first."

"Thank you, Luo Yihe."

Luo Yihe said, "I'll find a place for your partner to rest right away."

————Since Luo Yihe was an editor at October magazine, the person he was looking for was naturally Wang Shimin, the editor-in-chief of October magazine.

Wang Shimin is known as one of the four famous "editor" in the capital, with many connections and extensive personal network.

At that time, literary journals were all run by the Writers Association system. Publishing houses only had book numbers, and publication numbers had to be approved by the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Organization. As a result, some groups had been calling for the establishment of a journal for a long time but could not get an approval number.

Some publications never received regular military organization from their establishment to their demise, and continued to fight guerrilla warfare.

However, Wang Shimin dared everyone to start publishing October first. He would take care of collecting manuscripts and the publication number, and it was finally done.

Liu Xinwu, the editor-in-chief of "People's Literature", originally worked as an editor in the children's group of "October" magazine, but was later transferred. Liu Xinwu's novel "The Position of Love" was published in the inaugural issue of "October".

Being a writer is really a circle, isn't it?

Then, in 1977, when October was first published, it was very popular, but because they could not find enough pulp, they could only issue copies each issue. Post offices in various places often wrote letters asking, "Comrade, how can I order October?"

By 81, Yenching Publishing House had solved the pulp problem, and October tried to publish copies, then copies, and then copies...

In short, Wang Shimin and October magazine are very influential in the small circle.

So Luo Yihe went to the editor-in-chief Wang Shimin to explain the situation, and then asked: "Arrange a place for me to live."

Wang Shimin asked: "Who will be assigned to it?"

"To Yu Qie. Yu Qie is the author of A Moment of Romance. He is my classmate," Luo Yihe said, adding, "He and I have a very good personal relationship."

Wang Shimin understood immediately: "You want to poach Yu Qie from our magazine?"

Luo Yihe did not mention the unsuccessful things, but said: "Yu Qie can't always publish things in "Red Rock". He is from Sichuan and Chongqing, but he grew up in our Yanda University... Look, he has to run around even for a guesthouse. He is totally unworthy of his fame."

"Since we are in the capital, we still need local people to help us with some things." Luo Yihe's words were powerful. "He is from Sichuan Province, and in Yanjing, he is a Yanjing person!"

Wang Shimin was such a smart man that he understood. "Don't rush to ask him for an article. Keep in touch with him for a while. Yihe, you have to help people to the end, but you can't ask for anything right away. You have to wait for some time."

So, the guesthouse was arranged like this.

This place is where the Yenching Writers Association specially arranges writers to create works. It is affiliated with the Yenching Press, close to Yenching University and the Old Summer Palace.

It’s only two or three kilometers walk, about half an hour.

He can take Zhang Li to see movies without delaying her from going to training at any time.

Look, what a great arrangement! Yu Qie understood as soon as he arrived that Luo Yihe had far-reaching ambitions and that he owed him a favor.

Zhang Li had no idea about these things. She just thought Yu Qie was really powerful. "Brother Yu, I'm sorry to bother you all day today."

Yu Qi noticed that starting today, she no longer called him Teacher Yu.

(End of this chapter)