Literary Master 1983

Chapter 72 Joining the Writers Association
Hu Daiguang treated this as a major homework on cotangent, and as long as he wrote it satisfactorily, he would get a high score.

After Yu Qie, he asked for more and more leave, and he often needed Hu Daiguang's approval. This thesis had to be written well.

This fellow is indeed quite perceptive.

I myself was not careful and I just used concepts proposed by others.

Why doesn’t Yu Qi want to be involved in the “dual track system”?
Because this matter did not have a good reputation in the 1980s and it still failed to prevent inflation, no think tank dared to say that they proposed it.

Also, because Bolivia was very successful shortly afterwards, many people, including those within the system, believed that they had made a mistake and should just get off track and fly freely.

A full ten years...

Then, after Russia paid a heavy price, these ideas were reversed, and it was believed that the "dual-track system" was the reason why the economy did not collapse. So the think tanks who dared not admit it at the beginning jumped out one after another to take credit, saying that they were the ones who proposed this suggestion. This was after the 1990s.

In this way, Hu Daiguang's assignment is not entirely a bad thing. If he really does something wrong, he will be the one to take the blame, while Yu Qie will only be given the title of "If Yu" in a dozen years, which means "If he had not written novels, he might have been a great economist..."

At this moment, Yu Qie touched his left cheek and felt a golden line.

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At the end of March, Yanda University was holding various activities. The previously frozen Weiming Lake was now sparkling again. International students came out to bask in the sun. They were not wearing much, and both men and women were lazily lying on the lawn, which was a unique landscape of Yanda University.

Yu Qie got his "Writers Association Membership Card" from the mailbox: a red leather cover with his own portrait and name inside. He has become a glorious member of the Chinese Writers Association.

The title is the China Writers Association instead of the local writers association. That's great.

This membership card later became worthless. It was said that someone could get it for you for a thousand yuan, but it was still very valuable at that time. Now I am fortunate to join the China Writers Association, which means I have a regular position and can receive some guaranteed income every month.

There are writers' associations from the county level to the local level, but only the national writers' association can get a minimum fee.

But whether it is a provincial or county-level writers' association, the biggest benefit is free food, accommodation and travel activities:

Go swimming in Taiping Lake in Huangshan, watch the sunrise at the Welcoming Pine, swim at Baiyukou Resort in Dianchi Lake, and travel around Qiongdao Island... The Writers Association covers all expenses. The authors can eat and drink for free and have fun, and if they write a travel note or express gratitude, they will also receive royalties.

The writer Yu Hua wrote an article titled "Stars" and published it in this year's "Beijing Literature and Art". Because he is not a member of the Writers Association, he could only awkwardly write on the address book: Yu Hua, male, 23 years old, working in a health center.

Yu Qie is just 21 years old this year and has already become a member of the Writers Association, which is a good position comparable to that of his position as a student at Yan University.

A few days ago, Yanda University selected a group of students to participate in the National Day Science and Education Team in October. The students signed up enthusiastically, and finally dozens of people were carefully selected as the reserve team.

Mainly among them are juniors and seniors in the Department of Biology - supposedly because the 21st century is the century of biology.

Soon, the school discovered that Yu Qie was not in this team, and someone came to ask Yu Qi what he thought: Now you are the most famous student writer of Yan University, and the president of the literary group "New Reality"... Do you want to go to Tiananmen Square and show the style of our Yan University students to the leaders and the general public?

Yu Qi was of course happy, but then he found out that he had to set aside three months specifically to practice and go through a series of procedures.

Well, let's leave this charm to others.

I will just be a member of the crowd watching the expressions in the square. However, he got to know many people in the student organizations because of this. The seniors who were practicing marching would take the initiative to say hello to him when they saw him.

"Hello Yu Qie!"

"Hello to you too!"

"Why don't you come to our team?"

"I don't have time."

"Can we still talk to you about literature?"

Damn! Nowadays, biology students’ heads are full of literature.

Yu Qie said, "Of course that's fine. Feel free to join our New Reality Club. Especially those who want to play table tennis, I especially welcome them."

The students went back satisfied.

After Qiao Gong's trip to the south, writers like Yu Qie felt that the spring of literature had indeed arrived. Not only were literary journals reprinted again and again, but literary themes were also gradually broadened.

In the past, they were afraid of any controversy when publishing some works, but now they are gradually returning to their original literary criticism without any other meanings.

These days, Zhang Shouren has found a lot of military literature about the Vietnam War for Yu Qie, many of which are controversial, some even more controversial than "The Garland under the Mountain".

In the first issue of October, there was a novel called Ruan Thi Dingxiang. The author, Xu Huaizhong, was like Yu Qie. He was temporarily called by the General Political Department to experience life on the front line for a month, and then came back to write a military novel.

As a result, the scale of the "Nguyen Thi Lilac" he handed in was so large that it was shocking even in later times:

The heroine of the novel is none other than this Vietnamese woman named "Nguyen Thi Dang Huong"!
He chose a female soldier from a hostile country as the protagonist of his novel. In that conservative era, it was very likely that she would be accused of building a monument for the enemy by some people with rigid ideas or ulterior motives!

Writing about this kind of subject is inherently dangerous. Xu Huaizhong also said that during the "climax of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Vietnam in 1965," he entered southern Vietnam as the leader of a field reporting team and had close contact with Vietnamese officers and soldiers.

Therefore, he found that "the Vietnamese soldiers were also brave, resourceful and tenacious. It was only because they were deceived by the Vietnamese Le Duan group that the Sino-Vietnamese hostility emerged"...

This... I can only say that it is no wonder that it is "October". I am afraid that some people who read this kind of novel will think that Xu Huaizhong should be shot immediately.

Zhang Shouren hoped that Yu Qie could write about the truth, kindness and beauty of human nature, but Yu Qie was not interested in novels that described war through the humanity of enemy soldiers. He temporarily focused on love to see if there was anything worth writing about after seeing the front line.

In early April, after a simple packing, Yu Qie boarded a train to the south. He was going to get off in Guangxi Province, then transfer to the border and then to the Laoshan front line.

At this time, the troops had already launched artillery preparations against Laoshan, Zheyinshan and other places. Yu Qie and others had to complete the mission of a writer in this situation.

　Xu Huaizhong was originally a teacher in the military writers' class, and had taught Li Cunbao and Guan Moye.

　　The climax is here, and this copy is the originally planned ending of the first volume.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)