Literary Master 1978

Since the party at Chen Rong's house that day, Li Tuo has become a frequent visitor to Lin Chaoyang's house.

There were still two months to go before the release of "Crossing Guandong". In order to preview it, he would come to Xiaoliubukou Hutong every morning to do some cooking and go home after dark at night. He had never worked so hard at work.

Then there are Liang Zuo and his sister. Liang Zuo has to go to work during the day, so he brings his sister to Lin Chaoyang's house for two or three hours in the evening, just in time to meet Li Tuo, so no one is delayed.

After seven or eight days of hard work, Li Tuo finally finished watching "Enter Guandong". He felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction, and he chatted with Lin Chaoyang until late that night before leaving with unfinished content.

Lin Chaoyang thought that the matter was over, but he didn't expect that Chen Jiangong came to his house again the next day.

"Why are you here?"

Chen Jiangong said: "Li Tuo said you still have the manuscript of "Crossing Guandong", let me take a look!"

If Li Tuo were here, Lin Chaoyang would have scolded him: You guys, you really don't have any shame.

"Look, look!" Lin Chaoyang waved his hands helplessly and followed Chen Jiangong's toss.

He already had a premonition that their family might not be able to be quiet in the next period of time.

Two days later, Li Tuo happily ran to Lin Chaoyang's house again. Lin Chaoyang wanted to call an army to hold him accountable as soon as he saw him.

"You still have the nerve to come!"

Li Tuo interrupted him, "Stop talking now and read my article!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and handed over some pieces of manuscript paper. The first line of the first page of the manuscript paper was the title of the article, "Crossing Guandong: A Shocking Art Peak."

This title...is too flattering, right?

Although he hadn't read the content yet, Lin Chaoyang still said to Li Tuo, "Isn't this too exaggerated?"

Li Tuo read the article and then looked at Lin Chaoyang, "Is it an exaggeration? I think it's quite realistic!"

How realistic!

"I'm telling you, Chaoyang..."

Li Tuo has always admired Western modern literature. When he usually writes passionately and points out the world, he doesn't like many famous works of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. He believes that many widely praised famous works are just the result of fate. Just an official meeting.

But for "Crossing Guandong", Li Tuo loves it from the bottom of his heart.

In Li Tuo's opinion, there are only a handful of novels in the modern and contemporary Chinese literary world that can integrate the storytelling, literary and ideological aspects of novels into a highly unified whole, and "Crossing the Guandong" must be one of them.

He kept talking to Lin Chaoyang for a long time, and finally said with unfinished content: "I really hope that your "Crossing the Guandong" will be published soon, so that this review of mine can be shown to others soon!"

His good attitude made Lin Chaoyang unable to bear to argue with him about Chen Jiangong. Lin Chaoyang said, "Let's stay home for dinner later."

"Then you make two more dishes tonight!" He asked without any politeness.

Lin Chaoyang instantly felt the urge to kick him out of the hospital.

The first month passed just like that, and as Lin Chaoyang expected, the number of friends who came to their house to borrow manuscripts to read not only did not decrease as time went by, but actually increased.

What's even more outrageous is that these people still want to eat after reading the manuscript.

As these people read the manuscript, the story of "Crossing the Guandong" also began to spread in the Yanjing literary world.

This phenomenon occurred not only in Yanjing, but also in the Guangdong literary world where "Flower City" is located.

During the Spring Festival, Li Shifei talked about "Crossing the Guandong" with everyone he met. He highly praised this novel. It has been fermenting for more than a month. The reputation of "Crossing the Guandong" has almost spread throughout the literary circles in South China, and is still spreading outwards.

As for literati, their nature of gossiping is heavier than that of ordinary people.

The novel "Crossing Guandong" has been widely circulated as a magical novel, which has invisibly attracted everyone's curiosity about it.

But the vast majority of people only know about Scale Feather through the mouths of friends in the literary world, which makes them even more itchy and they can't wait for the novel to be published tomorrow.

With three days left before Women's Day, Lin Chaoyang received a letter from Lu Wenfu from Jiangsu.

The two have known each other for several years. Although they don't meet often, they write letters quite frequently and send each other gifts from time to time.

Lu Wenfu's personality and behavior are relatively old-school. He loves tea, wine, and food, so he and Lin Chaoyang have similar interests.

When writing a letter to Lin Chaoyang this time, Lu Wenfu mentioned two things. One was that spring was coming again and he planned to send some Longjing to Lin Chaoyang this year.

Second, there are recent rumors in Jiangnan literary circles that Lin Chaoyang has written a masterpiece, which has attracted the attention of many enthusiasts in the southern literary circles. Everyone has spread the word about this work, and Lu Wenfu is also very curious and asked a few questions.

After reading Lu Wenfu's letter, Lin Chaoyang was surprised. He did not expect that "Crossing Guandong" had already caused such a stir in the literary world before it was published.

While he had time, he replied to Lu Wenfu.

"Brother Wenfu:

Letter received. Haven’t seen each other for a long time, I miss you so much..."

After writing the letter, Lin Chaoyang planned to go out to deliver it, but Liang Zuo happened to walk into his house with his younger brothers and sisters.

Usually Liang Zuo comes with his sister Liang Huan, but today for some unknown reason there is an extra Liang Tian.

As soon as he saw Lin Chaoyang, he took the initiative to call "Uncle Lin". Lin Chaoyang smiled and asked, "Why are you free to come today?"

"I came to see you if I have something to do."

"Oh?" Lin Chaoyang was slightly surprised. He didn't expect what Liang Tian would do to him.

"Our Literary and Art Association is going to hold a national symposium on rural novel writing in Hebei, and we would like to invite you to participate." Liang Tian said excitedly.

He is currently working as a handyman in the Literary and Literary Association's Liaison Department, and it is within the scope of his job responsibilities to invite writers to participate in activities.

Today, their department issued a list and asked them to invite writers from all over the country to participate in the event. When Liang Tian saw Lin Chaoyang's name on the list, he took the initiative to take over the matter.

"The symposium..." Lin Chaoyang's tone was deep and Liang Tian didn't know that he was never interested in such meetings.

Just as he was thinking about how to refuse, an acquaintance walked in at the door of the courtyard. When he entered the courtyard and saw Lin Chaoyang, he laughed and said, "Chaoyang, I just have something to ask you."

Lin Chaoyang looked at Zhang Guangnian and asked, "Are you going to Hebei to attend a symposium?"

Zhang Guangnian looked slightly surprised, "Who told you?"

While he was speaking, his eyes noticed the three brothers and sisters of the Liang family next to him. When he saw Liang Tian, ​​his expression suddenly dawned, "The children of the Chen Rong family are in the External Relations Department, right?"

"Hello Secretary!" Liang Tian said hello.

Zhang Guangnian nodded, understanding that it must have been Liang Tianlai who told Lin Chaoyang about this.

Seeing that Zhang Guangnian had something to say to Lin Chaoyang, Liang Zuo took his younger brother to the side room.

"This is a major event of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the higher ups attach great importance to it. You are now a representative figure in our literary world, so you can't miss it!"

Zhang Guangnian put a high hat on Lin Chaoyang as soon as he came up, and said: "The meeting is in Zhuoxian County, which is also close to Yanjing. It takes two or three days to go back and forth.

And there are a lot of friends you know, so it’s more like a gathering of friends than a meeting.

You heard Wang Meng say that you haven't been at work recently. "

He said several words in succession, blocking all the reasons for Lin Chaoyang's refusal. Lin Chaoyang said helplessly: "You came prepared!"

"It's not easy to recruit you. Of course, I have to do my homework. Recently, your movie "Enter Guandong" became popular before it was released. I just happened to go to the meeting this time to share my creative experience with everyone." Zhang Guangnian encouraged.

Lin Chaoyang shook his head, "Forget it about sharing experiences, I'll just go and have a quiet meeting."

Zhang Guangnian smiled broadly and said, "Okay, okay, it's good to go."

What he was thinking was, is it up to you whether to share or not?

A few days later, when it was time to gather for the meeting, Lin Chaoyang carried a bag and walked to the train station to join the large group of the Cultural Association.

Only after this meeting did they realize that Zhang Guangnian was right.

Wang Meng, Li Tuo, Chen Jiangong, Zheng Wanlong, Zhang Chengzhi, Liu Xinwu...

Almost all the young and middle-aged writers whose names were known in the Yanjing literary circles came, and it really felt like a gathering of friends.

Zhuoxian County is only 70 to 80 kilometers away from Yanjing, and it takes less than two hours to get there by train.

After arriving in the county, the Yanjing Literary Association and the group were arranged to stay at the Taoyuan Hotel in the county, which was already filled with writers from all over the country.

Among them are many friends Lin Chaoyang knows, such as Lu Yao and Cheng Zhongshi from Shaanxi, Jin Ying from Hebei, Jiang Zilong and Zhang Manling from Tianjin...

Once there are more acquaintances, the atmosphere becomes lively.

It was only noon when Lin Chaoyang and the others arrived. After having a welcome banquet arranged by the local government, everyone went out for a walk in the afternoon.

The county seat of Zhuo County is no different from most northern counties these days. The square county seat is dotted with party and government agencies, post offices, restaurants, hotels and other buildings.

After shopping around for half an afternoon, everyone lost interest. A few drunkards bought a few bottles of liquor and snacks outside, and ran back to the guest house to drink.

While chatting, Lu Yao heard Li Tuo and others talking about Lin Chaoyang's new work "Crossing the Guandong". The implication was that the excellence of this work had surpassed the scope of ordinary literary works, so he couldn't help but curiously asked Lin Chaoyang. Details about "Crossing Guandong".

In the past month, Lin Chaoyang could not avoid encounters like this as long as he had friends in the literary world around him. However, he could not refuse everyone's questions bluntly, so he could only answer them patiently again and again.

Listening to Lin Chaoyang's brief description, Lu Yao's mind was shaken. It was not that he could tell that this was a great work just by Lin Chaoyang's words.

Rather, he found that Lin Chaoyang's construction of the work was very grand, far exceeding the content content of an ordinary novel. Such a majestic novel coincided with the temperament of the work he was planning to create. .

But the difference is that Lin Chaoyang's novel has been completed, but his work has not yet been written.

"Chaoyang!" Lu Yao suddenly called Lin Chaoyang.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Yao looked at him solemnly, "You may not know. I have decided to write a large-scale book. In my imagination, if this future book is not my most satisfying work in this life, it will at least be It should be the largest work.”

When he said this, there was some unconfidence in his eyes, "It sounds a bit mysterious. I don't know if you can understand it. The reason for this decisive decision is probably an accidental dream when I was a teenager."

Lin Chaoyang listened to him quietly. Seeing Lu Yao's hesitant look, he nodded, "Of course it's understandable. For writers, grand narratives are like flowers on the edge of a cliff, full of unknown and dangerous temptations.

Hearing Lin Chaoyang's words, Lu Yao became happy, "You are so right!"

He continued excitedly: "I just finished shooting "Life" last year, and now I have been preparing for such a work. In my plan, its content is extremely rich, covering the social changes in China from the mid-1970s to the 1980s.

I heard from them that your "Crossing Guandong" has more than 600,000 words, and the time span spans 30 years.

You also know me. My longest work so far is "Life", which is only 130,000 words. At best, it is a medium-sized work with a large length.

To be honest, I have been preparing for several months now, and the more I prepare, the more confused I find myself. I am not sure whether I can be competent for this job that should be completed by a giant."

Lu Yao said with a low tone, and he looked at Lin Chaoyang sincerely, "I really can't imagine how you climbed such a mountain!"