Literary Master 1978

Tao Yushu gave birth to a 7.2-pound daughter. The happy old father showed his back teeth, and he didn't even care about the biggest hero coming out of the delivery room.

"Go see your daughter?"

Tao Yushu's face was pale, and her eyes were even whiter.

Lin Chaoyang licked his face and held the newborn girl to her side, "Look, our daughter!"

His words resolved Tao Yushu's jealousy, and he looked down at the little meat ball that had just emerged from her body, and felt pity.

"Is it a little fat?"

"Children are all puffy, and they will grow up."

"The nose bridge is high, like you."

The couple commented on their daughter's appearance, and the family members looked at the little girl with smiles on their faces.

"Let me see, let me see my sister!"

Little Dongdong eagerly pulled the adult's trouser legs. He was brought to the hospital by Zhang Guiqin. Usually everyone at home loved him, but no one cared about him now.

Tao Yucheng picked him up happily, "Come, uncle will hold him for you to see."

After being picked up, Xiao Dongdong saw a little meat ball lying on the hospital bed, with half-closed eyes and lips trembling from time to time.

He was full of curiosity, is this his sister?

So ugly!

Suddenly, the little meat ball cried loudly, and the cry was so strong that Xiao Dongdong even saw the little tongue in her throat through her big mouth.

What a terrible child!

"Get down! Get down!"

Xiao Dongdong quickly asked Tao Yucheng to put him down, and ran to Tao Yushu for comfort.

"Are you hungry or urinated?"

Tao's mother came forward with concern, opened the swaddling clothes holding the little girl, and saw that she had urinated.

After cleaning up, Tao Yushu fed her milk again, and soon excreted meconium again.

The adults were busy cleaning up the little girl. Xiao Dongdong sat on the stool and swung his short legs to watch them busy. He felt that children were really troublesome.

After observing the hospital for a night and confirming that everything was normal, the doctor let Tao Yushu and her daughter leave the hospital.

Confinement in winter is a pain in other people's homes, but Tao Yushu doesn't have such troubles. Her home is warm as spring.

The only thing that makes her feel uncomfortable is that the air is too dry and she can't take a shower.

"I miss Hong Kong a little now." Tao Yushu said to Lin Chaoyang at night.

"I miss Yanjing in Hong Kong, and I miss Hong Kong when I return to Yanjing. Why don't you practice the art of clones." Lin Chaoyang teased her.

Tao Yushu sighed and said, "I don't know how Yumo is doing in Hong Kong?"

"Didn't I say in the letter that everything is normal."

"That was more than half a month ago. Mom is right, this girl is heartless."

Lin Chaoyang smiled and asked, "Is this the first day you met her?"

Tao Yushu frowned, "I just don't feel at ease."

"I think you are not worried, but you can't stay idle, right?" Lin Chaoyang broke her mind with one sentence.

It has been more than a month since the couple came back, and the baby has been born. Tao Yushu's ambition to win has started to stir again.

"No." Tao Yushu's answer was not very confident.

Lin Chaoyang said, "You have to wait until the confinement is over. Besides, the baby needs someone to take care of it."

"I said no." Tao Yushu was exposed by him and started to get angry.

Lin Chaoyang changed the subject, "Have you thought of a name?"

"Then you have to choose a nickname, right? It's been a week since the baby was born, and there is no nickname. Our daughter is pitiful!"

Before the birth of the baby, the couple agreed that Lin Chaoyang would name the boy and Tao Yushu would name the girl. They had thought of a lot before.

But after the baby was born, Tao Yushu was entangled again. She felt that all the names were good, and all the names were not good enough.

These two days, Lin Chaoyang kept urging her, but Tao Yushu couldn't make up her mind.

"Let's call her Yanyan." Lin Chaoyang said.

Tao Yushu was anxious, "It was agreed that I would name her."

"Okay, then I have a suggestion, how about calling her Yanyan?"

Tao Yushu nodded slightly, "Yanyan is good, then I will name her Yanyan."

The couple pursued procedural justice and substantive justice, and both sides got what they needed.

"What's the nickname?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

"The nickname is also Yanyan."

"Isn't it bad? I think it should be a cute name, such as Xiaohuajuan?"

Tao Yushu frowned immediately, "No, no. How can you name a child after food? Just call her Yanyan, it sounds good."

Lin Chaoyang compromised, anyway, he had already got the naming rights of the full name.

Finally, the child was named, Tao Yushu came to the little girl who was already asleep, looking at her petite and cute face, with maternal brilliance between her eyebrows.

"From now on, you will be called Lin Yanyan, does it sound good?"

The sleeping baby smiled, and Tao Yushu also showed a soft smile on her face.

With the addition of a new member, Lin Chaoyang's home has been very lively in recent days, and close friends and relatives have come one after another.

On the morning of November 18, a rare guest came to Xiaoliubukou.

"Old Nie, why are you here?" Lin Chaoyang was a little surprised to see Nie Weiping.

Nie Weiping smiled, showing his iconic big teeth, "I heard that you recently had a daughter, and I came to congratulate you."

After a few pleasantries, Lin Chaoyang was concerned about the situation of the challenge match.

In two days, the last game of the first China-Japan Go Challenge will be held in the Yanjing Gymnasium. In the past few days, TV and newspapers have reported on this game repeatedly. This game has long become the focus of attention of the people of Yanjing and even the whole country.

The competition lasted for more than a year until the last player was left. Now the winner is finally determined.

Not only has the confrontation in the Go community reached a fever pitch, but the attention of the two peoples is also far beyond that of ordinary sports.

"I came here today for this matter. You must go to the game in two days and cheer me up!"

Lin Chaoyang said with a smile: "Come on! You have already defeated Kobayashi Koichi. Fujisawa Hideyuki is old and poses no threat to you."

"Good words for you!"

The two chatted for a while, and Nie Weiping said goodbye.

Tao Yushu was full of regrets. She still had to stay in confinement. In this cold season, she would definitely not be able to watch the game.

On the morning of the 20th, today was the day for the last game of the China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament. There were crowds of people in front of the Yanjing Gymnasium.

To this day, people from all walks of life in China are paying attention to this game. Wherever you go, people are talking about Go, even in Hong Kong and Macao.

Today's game not only touched the hearts of millions of Yanjing people, but also touched the hearts of countless Chinese and Japanese people.

In the Beijing Gymnasium, the first China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament, which lasted more than a year, ushered in the peak showdown - the final battle between the Chinese main player Nie Weiping and the Japanese main player Fujisawa Hideyuki.

Before the game, the media of the two countries had already set the atmosphere to the point of attracting everyone's attention. Even the lineup of referees for the game was described by the Japanese media as "absolutely super luxurious".

The chief referee was Chen Zude (ninth dan), the first generation of Go national players in New China, the current vice chairman of the Chinese Go Association, and the director of the Go Department of the Sports Commission. The outstanding Chinese women's Go players Rui Naiwei (seventh dan) and Yang Hui (sixth dan) served as recorders and timekeepers.

In one game, the total rank of the three referees was as high as 22 dan. Such super luxury is unprecedented in any Go game between China and Japan.

In order to interview the players of both sides before the game, more than 40 reporters from China and Japan blocked the entrance of the Yanjing Gymnasium early in the morning.

Today, Nie Weiping and Fujisawa Hideyuki are the superstars of China and Japan. They walked into the gymnasium surrounded by reporters, and Lin Chaoyang also followed the crowd into the gymnasium.

He was a guest invited to watch the game and was arranged in the game room. Dozens of Chinese and Japanese reporters also entered the game room with them.

The game room, which was originally very empty, became crowded because so many people poured in at once. The chief referee Chen Zude kept speaking to maintain order.

Fifteen minutes later, the game officially started, and Nie Weiping played black first.

At this time, more than 2,000 spectators were sitting in the Yanjing Gymnasium. Comrade Fang, then Vice Premier of the State Council, came to watch the game in person. The huge scene of the gymnasium turned into an explanation hall at this time.

Several staff members put up a huge chess record for demonstration and explanation, which looked like the style of a martial arts novel.

At the same time, CCTV also broadcast this decisive battle live today for the first time. Countless audiences who knew and didn’t know chess waited excitedly in front of the TV.

Nie Weiping in front of the TV did not wear a suit as usual, but a sportswear with the word "China" printed on it.

All the Chinese who watched the game understood what he meant. He represented China in this game.

He could not lose!

This was not only a cherishment of national honor, but also a sense of mission for Chinese Go.

For thirty years, Chinese Go has been struggling to catch up with Japanese Go, which has long been professionalized.

From 1960 to 1966, in the 12 friendly Go matches between China and Japan, Chinese players did not win a single game, and even suffered a humiliating defeat of "Japanese old ladies sweeping the Chinese Go world".

After twenty years of hard work, Nie Weiping and his generation of chess players finally became popular, and it was finally time for Chinese and Japanese chess players to compete with each other.

In this game, only victory is allowed, not defeat!

This is not only the expectation of the Chinese people for Nie Weiping, but also Nie Weiping's spur to himself.

After the opening, Nie Weiping adopted a layout with a wrong small eye. He obviously took Fujisawa Hideyuki's world-famous opening fifty moves into full consideration.

The purpose was to extend the battle line, first get the real ground, and then fight with the opponent in the second half of the game.

On the other hand, Fujisawa Hideyuki leaned back on the sofa and closed his eyes for several minutes after Nie Weiping made the first move before he started to make moves.

Ten minutes after the start of the game, the reporters had taken all the photos they should have taken and recorded the video. The chief referee Chen Zude asked them to leave the game room.

There were more than half of the people in the game room, and there were only the sounds of two players making moves, and the atmosphere gradually became tense.

After the 35th move, the black chess gained a slight advantage locally, but it was behind, and the white chess grabbed the key point of the 8-position clamp, and the overall speed was slowed down by one beat.

Seeing this, many masters who have a thorough understanding of Go frowned. Fujisawa Hideyuki has always had an excellent overall view. If this continues, Nie Weiping may be at a disadvantage.

Go is a sport that tests the brain power extremely. Massive deductions require extraordinary memory and IQ, and more importantly, time.

Nie Weiping and Fujisawa Hideyuki are undoubtedly the top Go players in the world today. They are participating in such an ultimate battle that concerns the reputation of the Go world of the two countries.

Both of them are very cautious in every move, fearing that they will fall into the trap of the other party.

After the 48th move, Nie Weiping entered a state of long thinking and did not move for a long time. The whole morning passed in such long calculations and deductions.

After the game was closed at noon, the Chinese and Japanese players gathered together to discuss the gains and losses of the game just now, but Nie Weiping and Fujisawa Hideyuki were alone.

In such a war, any opinions from outsiders are interference to them, and they must maintain independent thinking.

Nie Weiping only ate two slices of watermelon during his meal, but Hideyuki Fujisawa ate a lot of dumplings and cantaloupe, and seemed to be in good spirits and appetite.

This makes the Chinese chess players and leaders feel inexplicably worried. It seems that the situation in the afternoon is still not optimistic!

In the afternoon, the two sides kept going back and forth.

By 3 p.m., the confrontation had lasted for six hours.

When Nie Weiping relied on 118, he did not counterattack decisively and fell into passivity. All the chess players watching the game felt cold sweat for Nie Weiping.

But no one expected that after ten moves, Fujisawa Hideyuki would make a slow move, allowing Black to grab five of Tiger's super officials.

"There is hope!" Lin Chaoyang heard Jiang Zhujiu murmur to himself in a low voice beside him.

Seeing this move, Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but clenched his fists.

I don't know if it was due to physical strength, but Fujisawa Hideyuki made a series of slow moves in the next official stage, and the black pieces formed a complete circle on the upper right.

After that, Black jumped to the 147th position. The board had an advantage of nearly 10 goals, and the victory was obvious.

Nie Weiping was very close to winning the first Sino-Japanese Go tournament. The game room was silent, and the needles could be heard in the Yanjing Gymnasium.

Everyone understands that although Nie Weiping has a good chance of winning at the moment, Go is like this. You can never be sure of the outcome until the last moment.

Entering the junior official stage, Fujisawa Hideyuki made another mistake.

After seven hours and twenty minutes of fierce fighting, Nie Weiping finally won the game with a 3.5-eye advantage.

When the victory was finally sealed, Nie Weiping leaned heavily on the sofa and looked up to the sky with a sigh.

Everyone present excitedly waved their fists and hugged each other in greeting.

The stadium was filled with cheers of victory. Also cheering were the Chinese people in front of millions of TV sets.

On November 20, 1985, the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament finally came to an end 13 months after it started.

The Chinese team defeated the Japanese Go team with a record of 8:7. This was a landmark victory in the history of Chinese Go and a battle to establish the prestige of Chinese Go.

From now on, the offensive and defensive trends of Chinese and Japanese Go will be different!

As for Nie Weiping, who persisted to the end in this two-country chess hegemony and defeated the three top Japanese players in a row, he turned the tide and helped the building from falling.

At this moment, he is like a god descending to earth, standing on the top of Asia!

Firecrackers celebrating the victory rang out outside the Yanjing Stadium, and the cheers and applause inside the stadium continued for a long time. Nie Weiping had already finished greeting his opponents and celebrating with his Chinese colleagues present.

When he saw Lin Chaoyang, a bright smile appeared on his face.

"It's right to invite you! I win!"

Lin Chaoyang joked: "You use me as a mascot!"

Everyone around heard their conversation and laughed, the laughter was unbridled.

Since the start of the China-Japan Go Tournament last year, Lin Chaoyang and his "Chess Saint" have inexplicably had a placebo effect on the Chinese Go team.

Today, they finally won the arena competition. Who can say that there is no reason why Lin Chaoyang is not involved?

The higher the realm, the more feudal and superstitious it becomes.

At the end of the game, Nie Weiping was surrounded by reporters, enjoying the glory of the winner.

In the next two days, there were overwhelming news reports about the Chinese team’s victory in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament.

"Guangming Daily" published an article saying: The Chinese team's victory in the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament is as significant as the Chinese women's volleyball team winning the world championship, which greatly inspired the national spirit.

A commentary article in the People's Daily wrote: For the first time in more than a century, China defeated Japan in a Go game, completely rewriting the pattern of the Asian Go world.

In addition, many authoritative media such as China Youth Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and CCTV reported in detail on this victory.

The public opinion situation is so exaggerated and influential that it is even greater than when Chinese athletes won more than a dozen gold medals at the Olympic Games last year!

In the days after his victory, Nie Weiping continued to be interviewed, received by leaders, gave reports, and gave speeches. Everywhere he went, he was surrounded by huge crowds of people, and he seemed to have become a well-known national hero.

At a time when the whole country is paying attention, every time Nie Weiping is interviewed by reporters and asked about the secret to victory in this competition, Nie Weiping always mentions this sentence.

"I was reading a novel before, and there was a saying in it that was very good. If the country's fortune is prosperous, then the chess fortune will be prosperous!

The victory of the Chinese team is not a victory for me alone, but a victory for the entire Chinese people! "

Along with the reporters' reports, the saying "when the country's fortunes are prosperous, the chess fortunes are prosperous" spread throughout the country.

Many Go fans and literature lovers are familiar with this sentence. It is the highlight of the novel "The Master of Chess".

As the whole country celebrates the victory of the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, the novel "Chess Master" once again enters the horizons of hundreds of millions of people in this way.

In an instant, there was a rush to buy "The Master" in major bookstores across the country. Countless people in the country were eager to read this novel and wanted to see the charm of the Go novel that Nie Weiping praised!

"Chaoyang! Chaoyang!"

Today is already the third day of the last leg of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. In the morning, Lin Chaoyang was holding Yan Yan and basking in the sun under the window. His uncle Tao Yucheng ran in in a hurry.

"Brother, what's going on? Are you so excited?"

Tao Yucheng said excitedly: "Let me tell you something, "The Master of Chess" has been re-screened!"

"Re-screening?" Lin Chaoyang looked surprised, and then he immediately figured it out.

It must be that the recent Sino-Japanese Go Tournament has become too popular. Not to mention ordinary people, even the G-level cadres are very concerned about it. China Film naturally wants to take advantage of the popularity. This is also a good opportunity to show up in front of the leaders.

"They had a good plan!" Lin Chaoyang joked.

Tao Yucheng laughed and said, "That's not true."

"When did it happen?"

"Yesterday, it was released in the cinema yesterday, and I even went to see it. What a guy! It's even more popular than the new movie."

After talking about the re-release of "The Master of Chess", Tao Yucheng talked about the novel "The Master of Chess".

"Not only the movies, but your novels are also very popular right now. It's amazing! Nie Weiping and the others really won the competition after reading your novels and movies."

Lin Chaoyang waved his hand and said: "It has nothing to do with this, it's because they played chess well."

"Chaoyang, don't be humble. Doesn't it have a big effect or a small effect? ​​I think it has a somewhat motivating effect. The plot of "The Master of Chess" is so inspiring!"

Tao Yucheng's ideas are very representative and logical, making them irrefutable.

Ordinary people simply believe that "The Master of Chess" must have some effect on this game, otherwise Nie Weiping would just talk about it without any problem?

The fanatical public opinion aroused by the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament continues with great vigor. After this war, the situation of Japan's dominance in the Asian chess world has been completely rewritten.

The popularity of Go among the people has also spread since then. With the endorsement of Nie Weiping, a national hero, the novel "Chess Saint" has become an enlightenment reading for millions of Go beginners, and the movie of the same name has become a celebration for countless passionate young people. The most heartfelt way to win.

With the attention of countless people, novels selling like hotcakes, movies being re-released, Lin Chaoyang and his works have also become popular.

A few days later, Li Tuo excitedly ran to Lin Chaoyang's house. He was a spy in the Yanjing literary world. Any disturbance in the literary world could not escape his ears.

"Chaoyang, have you heard? The Cultural Association has held the second meeting of the Mao Prize."

"What's the meaning?"

Li Tuo reminded: "Award judging, the list of winning works will come out at this meeting."

After he said this, he pretended to be secretive and asked with excitement: "Do you want to know what happened to those novels of yours?"

Lin Chaoyang shook his head, "I don't want to."

"It's boring!" Li Tuo looked disappointed, "You are so boring!"

"You don't have to say it." Lin Chaoyang said.

Li Tuo held it in for a long time, but finally couldn't hold it in anymore, "I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else!"

"Then you'd better not tell me."

"You..." Li Tuo pointed at Lin Chaoyang, filled with indignation.

In the end, he had no choice but to compromise, "If I hadn't seen you as the person involved, I wouldn't have bothered to tell you."

Lin Chaoyang turned a deaf ear to his words. For a person like him, he couldn't hold it in even if you didn't ask him.

“For this year’s awards, 19 candidate works have been screened out in the early stage, and each judge can nominate no more than 10 works.

Only works with more than half of the votes cast by the total number of judges participating in the voting can be included in the nomination list. "

Having said this, Li Tuo emphasized again, "You are nominated for two more works this year. Which two do you think they are?"

""Crossing Guandong" and "Crossing the Boat"." Lin Chaoyang said the two names calmly.

Li Tuo was disappointed, "Where did you get the news?"

"Still using gossip? Given the Mao Dun Literature Award's judging style, could they choose "Shutter Island"?"

Li Tuo laughed mischievously when he heard this, "Don't tell me, it's true. "Shutter Island" is not bad, but it is still different from tradition."

In contemporary Chinese literary circles, what is tradition?

Four words - realism.

If you write fantasy literature, it is all deviant. Historical literature must be written like "Li Zicheng" to be called orthodox.

He continued: "In the nomination stage, a total of 10 works were shortlisted. Then a second round of voting was held among these 10 works. Each judge voted for no more than 6 works. This time, the number of votes was required to exceed 2/3 of the total number of judges. Only those who won the prize will be given a nomination award.”

"Nominated for an award?"

When Lin Chaoyang heard this name, he immediately thought of the various so-called nominated and award-winning works that would come out to gain popularity on the eve of the selection of the Mao Dun Literary Award.

"That sounds ridiculous to you, right? If you win, you win, and if you don't win, you don't win. What kind of award is a nomination award?" Li Tuo also expressed disapproval of this kind of operation in his tone.

He added: "But I heard that someone made a temporary motion to cancel the nomination award."

Lin Chaoyang nodded. There are still some sensible people among the judges. If they really win the nomination award, it will be nothing but pork.

The highlight came next. Li Tuo asked habitually: "Guess which works won the prize?"

Seeing that Lin Chaoyang did not answer, he took the initiative to say: "Your "Crossing the Guandong", Li Zhun's "The Yellow River Flows East", Zhang Jie's "Heavy Wings", Liu Xinwu's "The Bell and Drum Tower"."

Lin Chaoyang nodded, his expression was not surprised at all. Except for him, the variable, the rest was exactly the same as he remembered.

Li Tuo finished telling the news he had finally found out, but saw Lin Chaoyang's face was indifferent, and he couldn't help feeling frustrated.

He said resentfully: "I shouldn't have told you if I had known."

"I've already said it. OK, thank you!"

Lin Chaoyang patted Li Tuo's shoulder, like an old man thanking the young man who helped him cross the road.

"I'm reporting good news anyway, you should at least show some appreciation!"

"Stay home for dinner tonight."

This meal is free, it's so frustrating.

A few days later, Tao Yushu had just finished her confinement, and the People's Daily published the results of this year's Mao Dun Literature Award.

"Crossing Guandong", "The Yellow River Flows East", "Heavy Wings" and "Bell and Drum Tower" were listed. Li Tuo's gossip was still very accurate.

As soon as this news came out, Lin Chaoyang's house suddenly became lively again.

The reason why I say "again" is because a few days ago, Tao Yushu gave birth to his second child, and a group of friends just came to congratulate him.

This time, Lin Chaoyang won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for the second time, so naturally we have to congratulate him.

With so many people coming, it is inevitable that everyone talked about some inside stories of the award. The sources of information are different, and the true and false information is mixed, which makes people confused.

Some people said that several writers of shortlisted works in this award have invited guests to dinner, and some people said that some local literary associations have begun to regard the Mao Dun Literature Prize as a political achievement, and the winning writers are given suites...

Not only acquaintances around, but also the literary world and countless literary enthusiasts are paying attention. The announcement of the Mao Dun Literature Prize winners has become the most watched event in the literary world during this period.

As a result, the controversy caused by "The Truman Show" has been reduced. What everyone is more concerned about now is that Lin Chaoyang won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for the second time with "Crossing Guandong".

The Mao Dun Literature Prize has only been held for the second time, and Lin Chaoyang has won the prize again. He is not even 30 years old this year, and the next ten years will probably be his peak creative period.

According to this trend, will the Mao Dun Literature Prize be won by him in the future?

And it is rumored that this time Lin Chaoyang has two works that have reached the final nomination stage. His strength is really a bit of a dimensionality reduction attack in the Mao Dun Literature Prize.

Now everyone is thinking about a question, that is, if Lin Chaoyang wins the third Mao Dun Literature Prize in a few years, what will the jury do?

Various disturbing news in the literary world continued to spread and ferment, and time gradually came to the day of the second Mao Dun Literature Prize Award Ceremony.