Literary Master 1978

On the third day after Zhang Dening came, Tao Yushu received the manuscript fee for her review that was collected and published, which was still 6 yuan per thousand words, a total of 18 yuan.

There is no happier thing than writing a manuscript and earning money twice.

That night, Tao Yushu finished her studies and sorted out the family's small treasury.

Since the beginning of this year, the family's income, in addition to Lin Chaoyang's salary and her student aid, is basically the manuscript fee of the two of them.

Among them, the "New China Monthly" reprinted "The Shepherd" and received 51 yuan in manuscript fees. Her review was published twice, which was another 36 yuan. The biggest one was the publication of "Little Shoes", which brought the family 408 yuan in income at once.

The couple's part-time income in the past six months alone was 495 yuan, which is rounded to 500 yuan.

Adding the surplus of this year's salary and subsidies, as well as the money saved last year, the money in their hands has reached an astonishing 1464.6 yuan.

This does not include the article "The Inevitable Rise and Fall of Scar Literature" that Lin Chaoyang submitted to "October". The manuscript fee slip for that article has not been received yet, and she has not included the manuscript fee for the novel that Lin Chaoyang is about to write.

Lin Chaoyang listened to Tao Yushu's account calculation, and did not care about writing the novel. She asked in surprise: "Do we have so much money now?"

Tao Yushu's face was full of smiles, but he still said rationally: "It should be 964.6 yuan, 500 yuan was given by my mother, and I have to return it to them in the future."

"That's not a small amount. I can buy a house, right?" Lin Chaoyang asked suddenly.

"Buy a house?"

Tao Yushu was stunned for a moment. In this era, no one has the concept of buying a house. They either live in the dormitory of the unit or wait for the unit to distribute houses. Unless there is really no other way, they will think of renting a house.

"Yes! If you have money, buy a house. Buying a house now..."

Lin Chaoyang wanted to say "cabbage price", but thinking about the current per capita income, it is actually not a cabbage price.

We can't be bad landlords. We buy houses to fight inflation.

Yes, fight inflation!

"It's hard to buy, isn't it?"

The Tao family of 9 people squeezed into a 50-square-meter house. Compared with the conditions of most people at this stage, it is already very good, but people are not satisfied. When they don't have it, they hope to have it, and when they have it, they hope to have a better one.

And Tao Yushu felt that there were too many people in the family, and it was indeed a bit noisy. Other things are fine, but Lin Chaoyang needs a quiet environment for creation.

Lin Chaoyang touched his chin and thought about it. He has been in Yanjing for more than half a year, and he has never heard of anyone around him buying or selling a house. The word real estate has not been invented yet.

"It's really hard to buy." Lin Chaoyang also had a headache.

"Let's take our time. Maybe there will be a chance in the future?" Tao Yushu comforted him.

"Yeah."

After the couple finished talking, Tao Yushu turned to memorize English words. After a while, she said a little depressed: "These English words are really hard to memorize!"

Tao Yushu was an excellent student in school. He was good at all professional courses, but he always failed to learn English.

In her words, the word was like having legs. She had just finished memorizing it, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared.

Lin Chaoyang always teased her that she was too pure and too red to learn the words of foreign devils.

When she watched "The Chase", she thought of Japan's post-war reconstruction; when she watched "Swan Lake", she thought of "The Red Detachment of Women".

You deserve your poor English!

However, he loved his wife, so Lin Chaoyang had been thinking about making a tape recorder for Tao Yushu recently, preferably a portable one, so that she could take it to school and learn wherever she went.

He remembered that the thing had been available for the past two years, but it was rarely seen in China.

Lin Chaoyang's first thought was to ask the little foreigner A Mao for help, but he hadn't seen him recently, and he didn't know where the little foreigner had gone, so now he just had this idea.

A few days later, as July was approaching, the atmosphere in the Tao family became tense.

The Ministry of Education issued a document early this year, and this year's college entrance examination was scheduled from July 7 to July 9.

With Tao Yumo, a senior high school student, everyone naturally became cautious at this stage, fearing that they would disturb Tao Yumo's studies.

After a boy turns three, even dogs hate him. The two children of the Tao family are just at this age. As long as they are at home, there is no quiet time. Recently, they have been beaten a lot.

That evening, Tao's mother and sister-in-law Zhao Li were cooking. In order to prevent the two children from disturbing Tao Yumo's studies, the eldest brother-in-law Tao Yucheng and Lin Chaoyang took them outside for a walk.

Tao Xiwen is seven years old and Tao Xiwu is four years old. They are old enough to play by themselves. Lin Chaoyang and the others only need to watch them from a distance.

The two of them gathered together and smoked. Tao Yucheng suddenly asked Lin Chaoyang: "When are you going to ask Yushu for one?"

"Yushu is still studying, how can he have time!"

"What you said is true. You are studying now, and you have to work in the future. As for time, you can always find it if you squeeze it."

The elder brother-in-law's words were full of wisdom, but if Tao Yushu heard it, he would probably say that he was talking without any pain.

"Objective conditions do not allow it. Let's talk about it in two years." Lin Chaoyang said.

That morning, Lin Chaoyang ran to the Chinese Department to take a class. The class was Lin Geng's "Chuci Research".

The old gentleman was full of energy in class, with a straight back and his head held high. He was wearing a rare Chinese silk shirt, which was neat and elegant. Lin Chaoyang could imagine how much the old comrade would attract attention when walking on the campus of Yanda University in this outfit.

Lin Geng likes to ask questions during his lectures. He suddenly said, "Why did Qu Yuan create Chuci? Why did he reach the pinnacle at the beginning? Why did there hardly any successors? Why is Qu Yuan almost equal to all Chuci?"

A series of three questions, nearly 200 students from the Chinese Department of the 77th and 78th grades stared blankly, unable to answer any of the questions.

No one even attended the whole class, how could they answer such difficult questions.

But in fact, Lin Geng did not want everyone to answer questions, but just to arouse everyone's curiosity and listen to the class seriously.

After he asked a few questions, everyone really got very excited.

"The emperor's son descended to the northern bank, his eyes were dim and worried about me. The autumn wind was curling, and the waves of Dongting Lake were falling with leaves."

When it came to the emotional part, the old comrade couldn't help but recite loudly, his voice full of sadness, bringing everyone's emotions into the situation, and then he talked about the forerunner of sad autumn literature, and how the autumn wind and leaves became poetic images that appeared repeatedly in later poems.

Everyone present was moved by his emotions and the content of his lectures, and felt the unique charm of literature from thousands of years ago.

When the get out of class was over, Chen Jiangong muttered: "Those who write modern poetry should come and listen to Mr.'s class!"

Lin Chaoyang agreed with his words. It seems that anyone can write modern poetry, but it is more difficult to write poetry and beauty than to write regular poems and quatrains.

Because it does not talk about rhythm and parallelism, these requirements are not only constraints, but also make the creation regular within certain rules.

Lin talked about Chuci, and the most admirable thing was that he could talk about the beauty of Chuci, and this beauty had not been strictly carved by regular poems, but it was actually similar to the creation of modern poetry.

If you really think about the meaning of Chuci, how difficult would it be to write modern poetry.

In the afternoon, Zhou Yanru came to Lin Chaoyang to talk about the single volume.

Unlike the collection of reviews of The Shepherd by Yanjing Literature and Art, Lin Chaoyang is full of enthusiasm for publishing a single volume of Little Shoes.

The reason is simple: pay!

The collection of reviews contains other people's reviews, which have nothing to do with him as the original author. But the single volume is different. The novel is published first and then published. Kill two birds with one stone and collect royalties twice. How can he not be happy? How can he not be active?

After knowing each other for more than half a year, Zhou Yanru has become accustomed to Lin Chaoyang's greed for money.

However, this matter is only an idea at the moment, and it needs to be recognized by Renwen Press. After Zhou Yanru got Lin Chaoyang's support, she asked Lin Chaoyang to wait for her news, and Lin Chaoyang nodded and agreed.

Wait, just pay.

At the end of June, Lin Chaoyang finally completed the novel promised to Du Feng, and rode Tao Yushu's bicycle to deliver the manuscript to the military compound at the foot of Shijingshan. The next thing is to wait.

Of course, it was not just waiting. He had another novel to write, which was the one he promised to write for Li Xiaolin of Harvest.

This time he wrote it under the pseudonym of Wang Qinglai, so he could only write a little in the library during the day. The progress was not fast enough, and he had not yet completed half of the creation.

Two days later, Du Feng ran to Tao's house. When he saw Lin Chaoyang, he excitedly grabbed him.

"Brother-in-law, is the protagonist of your novel based on me?"

Lin Chaoyang was confused, "What do you mean?"

"Your protagonist, that young master!"

"Ah!" Lin Chaoyang understood.

He wanted to tell his brother-in-law that it was not, because the original work was written like that.

Besides, if he said that Du Feng was the prototype of the young master in the novel, wouldn't it be the same as putting his father and mother in it?

"This... literary creation is all based on life. This character is created by mixing the experiences of many people."

"Is that so?"

Du Feng's face flashed with disappointment when he heard this, but he soon became happy again.

Anyway, that young man's experience is somewhat similar to his, and others haven't!

"Brother-in-law, I read the novel, it's so well written, my dad's eyes are red after reading it!"

"You kid, you observe carefully enough!"

"Well, I'm just concerned!"

Lin Chaoyang asked: "When will the review be completed?"

Du Feng shook his head, "I don't know, I just know that there is no problem here in the military district, and I have to report it to the higher-ups."

It's troublesome enough!

But it's understandable, after all, it's such a sensitive topic.

"Don't worry, I will definitely tell you first if there is news."

Lin Chaoyang thought about buying a recorder for Tao Yushu, and asked Du Feng if he had any way. He was at a loss after hearing Lin Chaoyang's request.

A recorder as big as a brick? He had never seen one.

Seeing that Du Feng, the second-generation military officer, didn't know, Lin Chaoyang was a little disappointed. It seemed that he was expecting too much.

"I haven't been here for a long time. Stay at home for dinner tonight."

"Of course."

During the meal, Tao Yucheng pulled open Du Feng's clothes and scanned them. "You came empty-handed?"

Du Feng said helplessly, "Brother..."

"Just kidding!" Tao Yucheng smiled and patted his shoulder.

After joking for a while, Du Feng asked Tao Yumo about the college entrance examination.

Tao Yumo was under a lot of psychological pressure recently as the college entrance examination was approaching. Her family basically didn't talk about the exam in front of her.

Du Feng brought up all sorts of issues, and the two of them started arguing after just a few words.