1980 My literary era

"The pen name Ergyuehe was given by Teacher Lin."

Fang Qi looked surprised, "Really? Teacher Yuehehe's pen name was given by Teacher Lin? No wonder everyone calls Teacher Lin the 'writer among writers'."

Immersed in the fantasy of her idol's glorious experience, she did not realize that the director was holding up a whiteboard to remind her.

This part talks too much about Lin Weimin. Although Lin Weimin is very famous and is now a literary master, "I Study on an Island" is a variety show after all, so how can we just talk about one person!

After some reminders from the director, Fang Qi finally realized the problem and turned the topic to the book collection.

Yu Hua and Su Tong are novelists and Xi Chuan is a poet. In addition to the topic of creation, the book itself is also a topic worthy of discussion.

As they chatted, Yu Hua mentioned his experience of moving books when moving, and Xi Chuan sighed: "Books are the most difficult to move."

"I left the Chinese Literature Society in 10 years. After staying in Yanjing for many years, I just wanted to go back to Haiyan. After packing, I had fifty or sixty boxes of books. At that time, I did the stupidest thing So, burn all the letters."

Everyone exclaimed.

"Oh! You are really..."

"Too stupid!"

Yu Hua's tone was full of remorse, "Tiesheng wrote me more than ten letters, and Mo Yan also wrote me many letters..."

He added: "I hadn't come to Yanjing at that time. I remember that Tiesheng wrote me a letter. He told me the good news that he had been allocated a four-bedroom apartment. What impressed me deeply at the time was that he A phone was installed at home, and he left me a phone number. The end of the letter was: I am the luckiest person in the world."

Su Tong said deeply: "He is a person who always praises the world."

"Generally, people who have had an experience like his will have a distorted understanding of the world. Tiesheng is a person who has no malice towards the world. He has no complaints and is full of love for the world. He is such a person."

Fang Qi asked again: "Is the relationship between Teacher Tiesheng and Teacher Lin particularly good?"

"The two of them are close friends, not brothers, but better than brothers," Yu Hua said.

Su Tong teased Yu Hua again: "He is often jealous of Tiesheng and Mo Yan, and always wants to compete for Teacher Lin's favor."

Fang Qi found it very funny when he thought of a great writer like Yu Hua vying for favor in front of Teacher Lin, and his face was full of smiles.

When several people said this, the director reminded everyone to change the scene and sit down to continue chatting.

Everyone strolled to the pavilion on the beach, with the sea breeze blowing on their faces, and Yu Hua hugged his arms, feeling relaxed and comfortable.

"I just chatted with some teachers, and I realized that you are such interesting people. It turns out that you are not so far away and difficult to reach," Fang Qi said.

Yu Hua joked: "What about Teacher Lin? Your literary idol!"

Fang Qi looked shy when he heard the name, "Teacher Lin is still unattainable. He is like a lighthouse in my life."

Su Tong asked: "Hey, I'm quite curious. In what year was Fang Qiqi born?"

"I was born in 1993."

"1993. So reading Teacher Lin's works should have happened after 2005. He didn't write much at that time."

Fang Qi nodded slightly, with a regretful look on his face, "This is what I feel most regretful about. I feel like I missed the golden age of a great writer."

Yu Hua said: "You can't say that. Teacher Lin's works are still left, and his golden age is there."

"Yes, fortunately he left so many good works." Fang Qi was very excited when he said this, "My favorite is "Farewell My Concubine" by Teacher Lin. I remember that I was still in junior high school at that time. First of all I watched a movie directed by Cheng Kaige. The movie was so good. Then I found a novel. The novel was better than the movie. I watched it for two days in a row. At the end, when Cheng Dieyi swung his sword and killed himself, I My voice became hoarse from crying.”

"You are really engaged in reading the novel."

Fang Qi asked: "I heard that "Farewell My Concubine" was written by Teacher Lin in a week, right?"

"This is true." Su Tong replied, "At that time, Teacher Lin had just graduated from the Institute of Literary Studies and was assigned to "Contemporary" as an editor. He lived in the guest house in the back building of the Chinese Literature Society. It was full of people from all over the country. All the writers here come to revise their manuscripts.”

"Teacher Lin's family relationship is relatively simple. It was the Spring Festival holiday, so he stayed alone in the dormitory for a week and wrote "Farewell My Concubine."

Yu Hua added: "Teacher Lin is a well-known fast shooter in the writer circle. At his peak, he easily wrote 20,000 words a day. And Mo Yan, Mo Yan is also very fast. He can write 10,000 words a day in handwriting. Many words.”

"Oh my God!" Fang Qi exclaimed in surprise, "Twenty thousand words a day. If it were me, my hands would be useless after writing for a day."

"So, people like Teacher Lin and Mo Yan are what God gives them."

At this point, Yu Hua pointed to Su Tong again, "By the way. When it comes to Mo Yan, Su Tong always claims to be Teacher Lin's direct disciple. He is a fake one. Mo Yan is Teacher Lin's real direct disciple."

Everyone looked surprised, "Where do you start talking about this?"

"Back then, Mo Yan was still publishing articles in local magazines. Teacher Lin saw his novel and thought it was good, so he went to the army to compile a manuscript with Mo Yan. Mo Yan was still in the army at that time.

Think about it, Teacher Lin was already famous all over the country at that time. He, a great writer, came all the way to ask for a manuscript. Mo Yan was so flattered!

Because of the long journey, Teacher Lin stayed at the army guest house and taught Mo Yan a lot of writing skills. Anyway, according to him, he benefited a lot. Ask Su Tong, did he learn any true teachings from Teacher Lin? "

When Yu Hua said this, he looked at Su Tong with a somewhat provocative look.

Su Tong looked at him funny, "I didn't learn anything? You did?"

Yu Hua suddenly felt extremely proud, "You learned it before you even said it was true."

Su Tong looked unbelieving. He knew that Yu Hua always talked about cheating.

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Yu Hua was not in a hurry, "Do you know how the story of "Alive" came about?"

After hearing what he said, Xi Chuan and Fang Qi immediately became interested.

When "Alive" was first published in the 1980s, the response was pretty good. After more than 20 years, this novel has become half a masterpiece in the Chinese literary world. As for the behind-the-scenes story of this novel, Nishikawa and Fang Fang Qi naturally wants to listen.

Su Tong didn't care about Hua's betrayal. He had known Yu Hua for many years and was an editor at "Contemporary". He knew very well about the creative background and process of "Alive".

The origin of the novel "Alive" is that one year Yu Hua, Teacher Lin and Tiesheng walked to the park on Nanlishi Road. There were many tents there, and parents from other places brought their children to Yanjing Children's Hospital for treatment. of.

When Yu Hua saw the scene in the park, he was deeply impressed and has not forgotten it many years later, so the story of "Alive" was born.

"It is said that Teacher Lin's "Farewell My Concubine" was published in "People's Literature" and caused a huge response in the Chinese literary world. I was still working as a dentist in Haiyan at that time, and I had just published several short stories and short stories at that time.

I was particularly impressed. I watched "Farewell My Concubine" from the evening to the afternoon of the next day.

When I saw the description of Cheng Dieyi slaying himself with a sword at the end, I felt a throbbing from the depths of my soul that made me tremble all over. At that moment, I realized, I understood that the most important thing is for a novel to be good. one of the factors. "

Seeing Yu Hua's seriousness, even Su Tong, who had been casual at first, became serious, "What factors?"

Yu Hua looked at everyone with a sincere expression, "If the novel wants to be good, people must die!"

Fang Qi and Xichuan looked stunned, while Su Tong looked incredulous.

"Have you realized this?"

"Of course it's not that simple. Now I'm just picking out the basics to tell you. How to write a dead protagonist is a very skillful thing. This scale is difficult to master and it is also a great test for writing skills. I will also follow the instructions. It took me a long time to think about Teacher Lin’s novel before I had any experience.”

Yu Hua's expression was serious, as if he was discussing some academic issue.

The three people around were speechless for a while. Fang Qi was a loyal reader of "Alive". When she thought about how she was tortured by the plot when she read the novel, she couldn't help crying. It was entirely because the author Yu Hua realized this fallacy. , there was a growing anger in her heart.

She looked serious and asked: "Teacher Yu, you said that you realized from "Farewell My Concubine" that the character must be written to death to make it look better, but in "Farewell My Concubine", only one Cheng Dieyi was written to death. .”

Hearing her question, Yu Hua said very modestly: "With Teacher Lin's skills, killing one Cheng Dieyi can earn the tears of thousands of readers. I can't do it. I don't have enough skills. I have to kill a few more." That’s all.”

God, his skills are not enough!

Is this why you abuse your readers?

Is this the reason why you killed all the people in Fugui?

Fang Qi felt tears in his eyes, and his heart was full of grievances, grief and anger.

These writers really don’t treat their readers as human beings!

"Don't listen to his nonsense, he doesn't tell the truth!" Su Tong defined Hua.

Fang Qi deeply agreed with this, but she did not dare to say it. She only felt that Teacher Yu Hua had successfully broken his filter on writers.

"After Fang Qi heard what Yu Hua said, did his sense of mystery and curiosity about the writer disappear immediately?" Su Tong asked.

Fang Qi showed a slightly embarrassed smile, the meaning was self-explanatory.

Yu Hua laughed indifferently, and Su Tong continued: "Everyone used to say that the writer behind the work can be analyzed from the work. The writer is the shadow of the work. You have to really bring the shadow into reality. , he must be different from your imagination. That’s why everyone used to say that there is no need to meet the writer. Just like if you bring Marquez to me now, his mystery in my mind will immediately disappear... "

Fang Qi's expression was tangled. She considered herself a young artistic woman, but when it came to facing idols, she was even more of a fan.

"But I still want to see Teacher Lin Weimin!"

Xi Chuan said with a smile: "Fang Qi is a die-hard reader of Teacher Lin. Even if all the mystery and sublimity disappear, he still wants to meet his idol."

"Fang Qi is a little girl, so it's normal for her to want to see Teacher Lin so much." Yu Hua pointed at Su Tong and said, "If you think about it, Su Tong's appearance is outstanding among our male writers, but he It's far behind compared to Teacher Lin. Teacher Lin was very popular with thousands of girls back then. Before they saw him in person, many young and artistic girls were fans of his works. After seeing him in person, they were all fans of Himself.”

Speaking of Lin Weimin's appearance, Fang Qi became even more excited, feeling as excited as a star-chasing girl thinking about her idol.

"I have seen the photo of Mr. Lin on the cover of Time Magazine in the 1990s. He was really handsome, with particularly deep eyes, sharp eyebrows, and a refreshing and charming temperament."

Nishikawa nodded in agreement: "Teacher Lin is indeed a very charming person."

He was not familiar with Lin Weimin, and the few times they met were all because he wanted to publish a collection of poems for Haizi. For this matter, Xi Chuan had always been grateful to Lin Weimin.

"Hey! Teacher Lin's anecdotes can't be finished in three days. It was so interesting at that time." Yu Hua said with emotion.

Fang Qi asked: "Teacher Yu, can I ask what Teacher Lin is doing now? I have rarely heard from him in recent years."

"If you ask me, I don't know either. He is Xianyun Yehe now, and he is living a life like a god!"

Hearing this, Fang Qi looked disappointed and whispered: "It would be great if Teacher Lin could come to our show!"

"Haha, are you making this invitation on behalf of the program team? If so, I'll give him a call later."

"Really?" Fang Qi's eyes sparkled.

"It's just a phone call. I can't call him. You can ask Su Tong to call again. He is Teacher Lin's direct disciple." Yu Hua passed the blame in advance.

Su Tong said: "Didn't you also learn the 'Dragon Slaying Technique' from Teacher Lin?"

When Yu Hua was stabbed in the back, he immediately argued: "I learned this from Teacher Lin. If readers want to scold him, they can scold him first."

Everyone laughed happily, and their laughter carried far away with the sea breeze.