Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 678: The Convenience Store

As for warm and healing literary works, whether novels or movies, Japan produces the most.

Known for its unique warmth and healing feel.

Iwai Shunji's "Love Letter", Higashino Keigo's "The Little Namiya General Store", Ogawa Ito's "Camellia Stationery Store" and "Kikujiro's Summer" are all popular works.

Fang Minghua decided to move "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" here.

As an "atypical Higashino" work, there is no crime and no detective in the novel. Instead, the theme is the bond between people. It is warm, optimistic, and kind. It is the kind of believable, ordinary kindness.

Just write about him.

This novel is about a grocery store on a quiet street. As long as you write down your troubles and drop them into the letter slot on the roller door at the front of the store, you will get an answer in the milk box behind the store the next day.

Because her boyfriend has a terminal illness, the young girl Yuetu is torn between love and dreams; Matsuoka Kuro left home to pursue his musical dream, but found it difficult to move forward in reality; the young boy Kosuke faced a huge change in his family, struggling with the confusion of family affection and the future. They wrote their confusion into letters and threw them into the grocery store, and wonderful things happened one after another.

This novel is popular not only in Japan but also in China. It was later made into a movie (Japanese version) and received rave reviews.

Of course, the story of this novel takes place in Japan, and the five stories in it may not be completely in line with Chinese society and require a lot of revisions, but they cannot be changed into a later Chinese version of a movie.

In fact, this is a fantasy novel with a bit of supernatural elements, and it is very interesting to read. It would be even more interesting if some supernatural atmosphere was added at the beginning.

Sitting under the grape vine trellis in the small courtyard, Fang Minghua drank tea and watched the tabby cat Xiao Douya chasing a butterfly earnestly. He began to conceive the idea of ​​this novel and the parts that needed to be revised in his mind.

Once he had a general idea, Fang Minghua went upstairs, turned on his computer and started writing.

In the evening, Song Tangtang came back from work.

The assembly and debugging work of the studio near the TV tower on Chang'an South Road has been completed and it can be used for filming. Some indoor shots of "Face/Off" directed by Wu Tianmin and "The Piano in a Factory" directed by Wang Quan'an are ready to be shot here.

Zhang Yimou's "Raise the Red Lantern" has been completed and entered the post-production stage. Feng Xiaoning's "In the Name of People" has completed the preliminary preparations and is now entering the intensive shooting process, and the shooting location is in Xijing.

So now Song Tangtang is not so busy at work, but the company has moved to Chang'an South Road, so the commute home is a bit longer.

Mom hadn't gotten off work yet, but the two children had already finished school and were growling with hunger, so they started eating first and the babysitter left her food behind.

When she gets home, the children have already finished their meal and started doing their homework. After that, her daughter has to practice the piano, but she doesn't have to worry about these, as her husband will take care of them.

As long as Fang Minghua is at home, he will consciously take on these responsibilities.

After finishing her meal, Song Tangtang went upstairs to Fang Minghua's study.

Recently, due to the call for submissions for the second World Literature Award, Fang Minghua's study is full of manuscripts. Song Tangtang also comes to take a look when she is free. Some of the works have high literary value.

Today, Song Tangtang entered the study and found that Fang Minghua was not reading the manuscript but was sitting at the computer typing.

"Hey Minghua, have you finished reading the book "Parental Love"?"

"Parents' Love" was written by a military writer named Liu Jing. It tells the story of the 50-year love life of naval officer Jiang Defu and capitalist lady An Jie, in which they met, knew each other, fell in love and stayed together.

When Fang Minghua was watching it last night, Song Tangtang took a few glances and thought it was very interesting, so she wanted to watch it too. Of course, she had to wait until Fang Minghua finished watching it before watching it herself, so as not to affect his work.

I didn’t expect to finish it so quickly!

"I haven't finished reading it yet, why don't you write it down?" Fang Minghua said without turning his head.

"What are you writing?" Song Tangtang leaned over curiously and saw the title of a book "Sorrow-Relieving Grocery Store" on the screen. "What are you writing?"

"Didn't Lili say that you should write a novel for her? Give it to her after you finish it so that she won't call you to urge you to do so." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

Song Tangtang knew that Li Li wanted Fang Minghua to write a novel. She glanced at it and reminded him, "Write it according to Li Li's requirements. It should be warm and healing, not tragic!"

"Okay, I know."

Fang Minghua said as he typed on the keyboard.

"Hey, what's the main content of your book 'The Convenience Store of Sorrow'?" Song Tangtang was a little curious.

“It can be considered a supernatural fantasy novel.”

"Ah, supernatural? Could it be like "The Ring"? " Song Tangtang was horrified: "You can't scare Lili, she lives alone now."

"The Ring" is a novel written by Fang Minghua after he returned from Hong Kong in 86. After reading it, Song Tangtang was so scared that she didn't dare to turn on the VCR at home for several days, for fear that the protagonist Sadako in the book would crawl out of the TV.

Fang Minghua laughed and said, "How could that be? The supernatural is just an introduction. Otherwise, the story structure would not be established. I plan to write it this way."

Fang Minghua turned around and told the general content of the story.

The girl who had no education and went out on her own to make her way in the world, which led to her being in trouble;
A girl who is torn between love and career because her boyfriend is terminally ill;
The boy who left home to pursue his dream of music and ended up having trouble making progress in reality;
A teenager who is torn between love and freedom in the face of a major family change;
Because of a misunderstanding of her mother, she believed that her mother did not love her, and she lived as an orphan with resentment for many years...

Song Tangtang listened carefully.

After listening to it, he said, "I think it's interesting too. Lili will definitely like it."

"That's good, I'll continue typing." Fang Minghua turned around again.

Song Tangtang frowned.

She didn't like Fang Minghua saying the word "coding", especially since she started writing novels on the computer.

How can such a noble literary creation be called "code"? It feels like it's cheap.

But he said that, and there was nothing he could do.

Seeing that he was concentrating on writing, Song Tangtang did not disturb him. She left the study and took the book "Parental Love" with her. She went back to her own study, made a cup of coffee and read it slowly.

The protagonist's parents in the novel are a pair of soldiers. Song Tangtang feels a natural affinity for them because her own parents are also soldiers.

Can it be adapted into a TV series in the future?

Finish reading it first.

In the following two months, Fang Minghua's main work was to read the manuscripts according to the requirements of the reading class, and to write "The Convenience Store of Sorrow" on the other hand.

The original author of this novel wrote a total of about 21 words, but Fang Minghua felt that the text was a bit long-winded and the writing style was a bit lacking. It would be better to be concise and there was no need to write so many words.

Of course, the first reader of the novel was my daughter-in-law Song Tangtang.

(End of this chapter)