Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 497 Well written
A story line formed in Yu Dong's mind, but he felt that this story line was a bit thin, so after thinking about it, he added another story line, and then blended the two story lines together.

The first story line is naturally how Mr. Chang met his wife, how the two spent a difficult and happy half life, and Mr. Chang's loneliness later.

As for the other line, Yu Dong put the background in the present, and made some extensions from the perspective of digging Mr. Chang's story.

The second line tells the story of a newspaper reporter who accidentally received an old edition of "Border Town" one day, and found the passage written by Mr. Chang on the last page of the novel.

He was touched by the affection expressed in Mr. Chang's words, and at the same time, as a newspaper reporter, he also keenly discovered that this was news that could arouse readers' interest, so he followed the footsteps of this book and found a small town.

In that town, he found a bookstore.

This bookstore does not sell new books, and the store is full of all kinds of old books. The "Border Town" was leaked from this bookstore.

The boss was a paralyzed woman, exuding the aura of not being close to strangers all over her body. When she learned that the reporter was looking for the owner of "Border Town", the boss didn't give him any good looks, and only said "I'm no longer here."

Then no matter how much the reporter asked, she was unwilling to say anything more.

Although he didn't get any news from the boss, the reporter was not discouraged. He stayed in the town for two days. On the one hand, he wanted to investigate from nearby to see if there was any news about the owner of "Border Town". Be able to persuade the bookstore owner.

But to his disappointment, the surrounding residents don't know anything about the owner of "Border Town", and the boss doesn't even care about him.

Before leaving, the reporter thought that since he came here, he would not return empty-handed, so he bought a copy of "To Live" that he liked very much in a second-hand bookstore.

When he paid the money and was about to leave, the female boss asked him: Have you read this book?
He replied: I have seen it.

The boss asked him: Since I have seen it, why do I still want to buy it?

He replied: Originally, I couldn't muster up the courage to read it again, but since I saw it here again, I simply bought it and gave myself a reason to read it again.

The boss smiled: Hypocritical.

He said: just be hypocritical.

When he turned to leave, the boss stopped him again: Don't you want to know the story of the owner of "Border Town"?
Afterwards, the boss told the reporter the story of Chang Huaiying, the owner of the "Border Town".

The perspective of the book also shifts to the time when Chang Huaiying first met his wife, telling how Chang Huaiying saw "Border Town" in a bookstore, how the two wanted to love, and the story stopped here.

The perspective returned to modern times. The reporter heard that Chang Huaiying was in love with the girl, but the boss stopped talking.

The reporter had no choice but to go back with this bit of material.

Later, the reporter ran to the town every now and then, hoping to hear more stories about Chang Huaiying from the boss, but the boss never said anything.

But after going back and forth, the reporter fell in love with this second-hand bookstore, no longer just thinking about chasing ordinary Huaiying, but also calm down and read books in the bookstore.

This is Chapter 1 of this book, and its name is "Border Town".

And Chapter 2 of this book is called "Alive".

One day, the reporter came to the bookstore as usual, but found that the owner of the bookstore was lying on the ground and could not move, so he hurriedly helped her up.

After asking, I found out that she was trying to reach for a book on the bookshelf, and accidentally fell down, so painful that she couldn't sit back on the wheelchair.

The reporter asked her: Why didn't she call for help?Although there is no one in the bookstore, there are always people on the road outside the store.

She said: No need.

The reporter smiled and didn't ask any more questions. After getting along with him for a long time, he also knew the boss's temperament. He was very stubborn and had a very strong self-esteem.

But after this time, the relationship between the boss and the reporter eased a lot, and he told him two more stories.

The perspective turns to Chang Huaiying and his wife. After Chang Huaiying and his wife got married, they lived happily at first, and later gave birth to a son. The family of three was happy, but because of a turmoil, the child died early.

This is the first story told by the boss, a couple who lost their child, and the second story told by the boss, a child who lost his parents.

She didn't say whose story it was, but said that when a child was 12 years old, both parents fell into the water and died while on the ferry.

Later, when the child was working in a factory, he fell from a height and became paralyzed.

……

The book that Yu Dong wants to write has a total of ten chapters, and each chapter uses the title of a book as the chapter title, and the content is also related to that book.

The reporter had a lot of things happen in the old bookstore in the small town. Not only did he gradually understand the story of Chang Huaiying, but he also gradually understood the female boss.

And the female boss, because of the reporter's arrival, slowly opened up her heart and resolved her knots.

Of course, the story is not so simple. On the way, the second-hand bookstore was maliciously set on fire, more than half of the books in the store were burned, and the boss was almost burned to death. Fortunately, the reporter arrived in time to survive.

This story also extends to the two catastrophes suffered by Chang Huaiyi's books. The first time someone ransacked his home during a special period and destroyed many books. The second time was when he died and gave away the books.

In the end, the person who set fire to the second-hand bookstore was also found. It was a man who once loved the bookstore owner. He had decided to woo the bookstore owner, but he gave up because of an accident with the bookstore owner.

Later, he got married and had a family, but he still thought of the female boss from time to time. At first, he just watched from a distance, but later he found that the reporter and the female boss were getting closer and closer. He felt resentful and set off the fire.

And this chapter, put together with the story of Chang Huaiying receiving a gift from a strange woman in "Fortress Besieged", is also admired by another person, but the direction of the story is completely different from the ending. The title of this chapter is " A Letter from an Unknown Woman".

Throughout the book, the story switches back and forth between two time and space, but the theme around it is the same.

The reason why Yu Dong added the reporter and the boss line is to enhance the sense of time and space, and also to provide a set of comparisons, adding a little heart-warming healing to the pure love.

And there is such a line, an era, Yu Dong wants to tell people that the power of books is eternal, and they can affect not only one person, or even a generation.

Even people in different eras can connect with each other because of books.It can be said that what Yu Dong wants to express is not only the power of love, but also the power of books and literature.

……

Yu Dong sometimes discusses with Yu Hua and the others what is the best state for a writer when writing.

In the end, several people came to the conclusion that when a writer is writing, he forgets who he is, what he is doing, and all the real things, which is the best state.

Yu Dong, on the other hand, entered this state.

He originally thought that he would simply write out the outline of the book and find time to write the text later.

But when he sat at the table and started to write, he entered a very focused writing state.

It lasted intermittently for a long time, and when Cheng Yanqiu came out of the bedroom sleepily the next morning and called him, he realized that it was already the next day.

Seeing him writing all night, Cheng Yanqiu asked with concern, "Did you encounter any problems?"

Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, "It's written so smoothly."

He stretched himself, and then counted the manuscripts he had written, and there were 31 pages, more than [-] words.

Although it was the manuscript that was written just now, looking back at it, Yu Dong actually felt a strange feeling, as if these manuscripts were not written by him, but appeared out of thin air, a bit like the feeling of being fragmented after drinking too much .

"Don't forget, you still have class today." Cheng Yanqiu reminded.

Yu Dong patted his forehead and looked at the time, it was already 07:30.

It was too late to sleep now, and he felt that he was not too sleepy now, so he decided not to sleep at all, and went to class first.

"Why don't you sleep for a while, anyway, it's a literary literacy class, it's a morning class, it doesn't matter if you go late."

Yu Dong shook his head, "It's okay, I've had a good rest during this time, and I can still bear it if I stay up all night occasionally."

In fact, Yu Dong's schedule is very good compared to the others. Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu often do this kind of writing in the middle of the night.

After eating breakfast briefly, Yu Dong took the lesson plan and prepared to go to the classroom. After thinking about it, he brought the manuscript paper and ink.

Literary literacy classes have a very short class time, and the rest of the time is basically spent on answering questions or self-study by students.

Jin Yi attaches great importance to the literary literacy of the drama creation and acting students, and to improve the literary literacy can not only be achieved in a few classes, so usually both Zhang Xian and Cui Xinqin will let the students read more classics.

Therefore, some people often joke that studying screenwriting or acting at Kim Yee is no less than studying literature at other schools.

Yu Dong spent half an hour explaining last week's homework, and spent another half an hour explaining the literariness of drama to the students before letting them study by themselves.

As for himself, he continued to write his novel at his desk.

He would not do this kind of fishing at work before, mainly because the feeling of writing this time was really good, and he didn't want to miss it, so he couldn't wait to write it in class.

He originally thought that if he stayed up all night, his state would get worse, and it would be impossible to continue the state of last night, but what he didn't expect was that when he picked up his pen and started writing again, he entered a state of ecstasy again.

When Equal East finished writing Chapter 2 "To Live" of this book, he looked up and found that the students were all staring at him blankly.

"What's the matter? Have you finished discussing the topics assigned to you?"

At this time, Liu Ye, the class representative, said eagerly, "Teacher Yu, the get out of class is over."

Yu Dong raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, "Is get out of class over yet? I didn't hear the bell for the end of get out of class... Hiss, it's already 12:30."

His literary literacy class lasted four consecutive sessions. Normally, the students would be let go at 11:30. Even if the school bell rang, it would be over by twelve o'clock.

This means that today's class has been overtime for half an hour.

Yu Dong patted his forehead and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, you should come up to remind me. Especially Liu Ye, you are the class representative, you should take the initiative to remind me, you shouldn't let the students wait for me here so long."

Liu Ye pursed the corners of his mouth and did not speak. The monitor, Zu Feng, said, "Teacher Yu, don't blame Liu Ye. He wanted to go up and remind me just now. A few classmates and I stopped him. It doesn't matter if we are half an hour late for dinner, but To delay your writing, Mr. Yu, would be a heinous crime."

"Heinous sin..."

Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, "It's too exaggerated, how about this, in order to express my apology and gratitude, I will treat everyone to dinner at noon today, in the cafeteria, you can order whatever you want, and I will pay for it today."

"Great!"

The students were very happy to hear that Yu Dong wanted to treat them to dinner. Those like Zhang Changjiang, who usually escaped, had already got up and ran outside, for fear that there would be no good food in the cafeteria if they went late.

……

After returning from the cafeteria, Yu Dong fell into bed and fell asleep, and didn't wake up until dark.

Although he was still a little sleepy, he knew that he couldn't continue to sleep. If he continued to sleep, it might be another sleepless night tonight.

After dinner, he sorted out the materials for a while, and before ten o'clock he forced himself to lie on the bed.

……

Just over a week later, on the evening of March [-]th, Yu Hua ran outside the window of Yu Dong's house and shouted, "Have you finished writing?"

During this time, Yu Hua and his brothers came to play with Yu Dong every day, either to ask him to play cards or to play football, but they were all rejected by Yu Dong, and they also knew that Yu Dong was writing a new book.

When Yu Hua came over today, he just asked a question as if "checking in". Before Yu Dong could reply, he was about to go back, but just as he turned his head, he heard Yu Dong reply from the room: "I'm done writing." .”

"Finished?"

Yu Hua went back to the window and leaned on the sill to look in, "Did you finish writing so soon?"

Yu Dong walked over with a smile, and smiled through the window: "Well, I finished writing, did you come to me today to play cards or football?"

Yu Hua took a look at the sky outside, it was almost dark, she curled her lips and said, "How do you play football at this point?"

"That's playing cards?"

Yu Hua scratched her head again, and said, "There are enough people tonight, and it happens that Lao Liu is free, so adding you will be enough."

Yu Dong rolled his eyes, "Then why did you come to see me?"

"Didn't I think you hadn't finished writing?"

Yu Dong was amused by him, "Hey, I said you are really interesting, since you think I haven't finished writing, but you want to come over and call me, there must be something wrong with you."

Yu Hua smiled: "You have the right to think that there is something wrong with me... After finishing writing, show me? You have studied semiotics for so long, and I want to see what you have written."

"I disappoint you. What I wrote during this time is not the one on semiotics, but another one."

"Another one?" Yu Hua didn't quite understand it. It's only been a few days. Last time, he said that he was about to start writing the text of the semiotics book. Why did he switch to another book in a blink of an eye?
"Then I have to take a look."

"Come in and get it if you want to read it. The manuscripts are piled up on the desk."

Yu Hua nodded, impatiently walked around to the door, and walked into the house.

After receiving the manuscript of the new book, Yu Hua nestled down on the sofa in the living room and began to read it.

……

More than an hour later, Yu Dong was fiddling with the shoe cabinet at the door, when Bi Feiyu ran over, "Mr Yu, did you see that guy Yu Hua? He said he was going to play cards, and the three of us were all in place, but he was the only one who was gone." gone."

Yu Dong pointed to the sofa, "Hey!"

Seeing Yu Hua reading the manuscript on the sofa, Bi Feiyu was about to complain when she suddenly heard Yu Hua slapping her legs and shouting: md, the writing is so nb, what the hell! "

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