Literary Master 1978

Lin Erchun and his wife had just arrived in Yanjing. They felt that living in such a large courtyard in Mianhua Hutong was empty. Lin Chaoyang and his wife stayed in the east wing for a few days to accompany them.

The courtyard was renovated this year. It was quite comfortable to live in, but it was inconvenient to go to the toilet and use water.

The old couple were used to living in the countryside, so they had no difficulty adapting. It was Lin Chaoyang and his wife who really couldn't adapt.

Early in the morning, the water in the water tank was almost used up. Lin Chaoyang yawned and poured a pot of boiling water into the wellhead of the water pressure well, and then pressed it desperately. After a long time, water came out of the well.

He took a few buckets of water and poured it into the water tank in the kitchen. It was estimated that it would be enough for two or three days. After Lin Chaoyang was done, sweat was already on his forehead.

In the morning, Zhang Guiqin cooked porridge. He served a bowl and sprinkled some pickled vegetables in it. He drank it with relish, and then peeled a boiled egg. After eating it, he rode his bicycle to work.

Arriving at the school, Lin Chaoyang saw students watching the poster column. He curiously went up to take a look. It turned out that someone had written an article criticizing the dance party organized by the students.

In recent years, the western wind has been spreading eastward, and college students have always been the first to lead the trend. I don’t know when it started, but dance parties became popular among students of Yanda University.

An empty classroom and a tape recorder became the stage for these people.

From the perspective of the future, this is certainly not a big deal, but now the social atmosphere is not so open. This kind of dance party has always been criticized by some people in the school. Critics and criticized people have to debate on the poster column from time to time.

After taking a look at the excitement, Lin Chaoyang went to work in the library.

In the words of Comrade Lin Erchun, these students are "nothing to say".

As soon as he arrived at the library, he received a letter from Lu Wenfu. The content was very concise, just to inform Lin Chaoyang that the novel they had discussed before had been completed.

The novel was submitted to "Harvest". He received a letter from "Harvest" a few days ago, saying that the novel would be published in the first issue of the magazine in the new year.

After reading the letter, Lin Chaoyang happily wrote a letter back to Lu Wenfu, congratulating him.

In the morning, colleagues in the library chatted and talked about the third World Cup Women's Volleyball Competition being held in Tokyo, Japan.

This competition started on November 6 and lasted for 11 days. The Chinese women's volleyball team participated in the competition under the leadership of team leader Zhang Yipei, gathering the strongest strength of this generation of Chinese women's volleyball.

Deng Huifang, Yang Xi, Zhou Xiaolan, Lang Ping, Chen Yaqiong, Chen Zhaodi, Zhu Ling...

In the past few years, this group of elite athletes of the women's volleyball team has won one honor after another for Chinese sports.

In this World Cup Women's Volleyball Competition, the Chinese people have high hopes for this team.

In the eight days after the start of the game, the Chinese team won consecutive victories, defeating Brazil, the Soviet Union, South Korea and the United States successively, and will meet the powerful Cuban team tonight.

Although many people had high hopes for the Chinese team before the game, the women's volleyball team's record of winning all five games still surprised and excited the Chinese people.

Tonight is the semi-finals. If the Chinese team can defeat Cuba, its old rival, it can enter the finals. This not only refreshes the best record of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but also becomes a major breakthrough for the Chinese sports community in the world's three major ball sports.

This also makes this World Cup Women's Volleyball Tournament the hottest news in China in recent days. The streets are full of discussions by the people, and even the usually quiet Yanda Library is paying attention to this game.

When it was almost noon, Lin Chaoyang was getting up and preparing to go to the cafeteria. When he walked to the door of the library, he met Chen Jiangong, and his classmate Zhang Manling was beside him.

"Chaoyang!"

After saying hello, Lin Chaoyang was about to go out, but was stopped by Chen Jiangong, "I have something to ask you."

"What is it?"

Chen Jiangong glanced at Zhang Manling, "Manling wants you to help her with her manuscript."

Zhang Manling is also a member of the Chinese Department, but she is from the class of 1978 and is in the same class as Liu Zhenyun. She doesn't have much contact with Lin Chaoyang, and they are not close, so she specially called Chen Jiangong today.

Yang Hui, the director of the Chinese Department of Yan University, once said: The Chinese Department does not cultivate writers.

But it cannot stop students from loving literature. In the Chinese Department of Yan University, there are many amateur novelists and poets who write and write, and there are many famous writers. Chen Jiangong is a typical example, because he won the National Excellent Short Story Award this year, and he was also published in the school newspaper.

However, writers like Chen Jiangong who have become famous on campus are a minority after all, and the vast majority of people are still at the stage of enthusiasts, such as Zhang Manling.

She has excellent grades, is keen on participating in campus activities, and is very famous in the Chinese Department of the Class of 1978. In the past few years in college, she has written a lot of things and submitted them to the student publications, but none of them have been officially adopted by newspapers and magazines.

The manuscript she brought this year is a novella called "Cloud". The novel was written the year before last. Zhang Manling showed it to her teacher Hong Zicheng at the time, and Hong Zicheng's attitude was ambiguous.

Later, she sent it to "October" and "Contemporary", but unfortunately they were rejected.

Zhang Manling's manuscript has obvious stream of consciousness characteristics. After reading it, Lin Chaoyang probably knew where her problem was.

Zhang Manling looked at him expectantly and asked, "Do you think it can be published?"

She didn't ask what needed to be changed right away, but asked if it could be published, which shows that she is very confident in her level. Just like what the novel expresses, she has a kind of self-confidence close to narcissism.

"It's not difficult to publish. The key is to meet an editor who appreciates you." Lin Chaoyang said truthfully.

Zhang Manling was happy to hear this. Her manuscript had a bad fate. She had shown it to many people and submitted it to several magazines, but no one recognized it. Today, she was relieved to get the affirmation of Lin Chaoyang, a well-known writer.

She looked at Lin Chaoyang with pleading eyes, and Lin Chaoyang guessed her thoughts.

"Want me to recommend it for you?"

Zhang Manling nodded impatiently.

Lin Chaoyang hesitated for a moment. The quality of the manuscript was online, but the technique was not mature and the style was darker. He thought about it and agreed.

"Okay."

Zhang Manling was overjoyed to get Lin Chaoyang's promise, and took out another manuscript from her bag, "Can you help me look at this one?"

Lin Chaoyang looked at the manuscript in her hand and was a little surprised. There was a second copy?

It took him half a day just to read a manuscript, and he was about to get off work.

But he thought, since he had already helped, he would help to the end. He smiled and said, "It's too late today. I'll take the manuscript back and take a look. If I think it's okay, I'll recommend it to you. If I don't think it's okay, I'll give it back to you."

"Thank you, thank you!" Zhang Manling said excitedly.

She knew that with Lin Chaoyang's current fame and status, if he recommended a work to a familiar editorial department, as long as the quality was not too bad, the editorial department would definitely give him face.

This was equivalent to endorsing her with his personal credit. She really didn't expect Lin Chaoyang to be so easy to talk to.

"No need to thank me. The premise of my recommendation of a work is quality. Your novel has shortcomings, but the advantages are more obvious."

Listening to Lin Chaoyang's evaluation, Zhang Manling nodded seriously.

After talking about novels, she said, "It's almost time to get off work, why don't we go have a meal together?"

Lin Chaoyang naturally understood what she meant, and he waved his hand, "No need to have a meal, it's just a small favor."

Zhang Manling wanted to persuade her again, but Chen Jiangong said, "Then wait for a chance in the future."

After speaking, Chen Jiangong took Zhang Manling out of the library.

Walking on Wusi Road, Zhang Manling felt that she was about to fly with joy, "I really didn't expect that Lin Chaoyang could be so easy to talk to."

"Didn't Chaoyang say that? The premise for him to be easy to talk to is that your manuscript is of good quality.

But Chaoyang is a kind-hearted person with a humble and gentlemanly demeanor. It's normal for him to be willing to help. Some people in the literary world have criticized his works, but no one has ever criticized his character."

Listening to Chen Jiangong's words, Zhang Manling's eyes flashed with longing. For her, an amateur author, the three words "literary world" are still too far away, like an unattainable dream.

But she thought again, this time with Lin Chaoyang's recommendation, her novel should be published.

She might try her hand at the literary circle in the future.

"Hey, you two are half classmates." Zhang Manling said enviously.

Many courses in the Chinese Department are taken together by the Class of 1977 and the Class of 1978. In recent years, when the first and second level professors in the department are teaching, Lin Chaoyang often goes to the class and always sits with the students of the Class of 1977.

"We are not classmates at all. He just comes to listen to the lectures of the professors. Chaoyang's knowledge reserve in literature is much deeper than ours.

You will know if you get in touch with him. At least I think his theoretical level is not worse than that of Teacher Hong and Teacher Xie."

Teacher Hong is Hong Zicheng, and Teacher Xie is Xie Mian. One of them studies contemporary literature and the other studies contemporary poetry. They often organize students in the Chinese Department to participate in the activities of the May Fourth Literary Society, and have a good reputation among students in the Chinese Department.

Xie Mian, in particular, has been widely welcomed by students because his research focus in recent years has been on Misty Poetry and he has even opened a class on Misty Poetry.

The two of them, together with Sun Yushi, can be said to be the backbone of the Chinese Department, second only to those respected senior professors.

"He has such rich theoretical knowledge and such powerful creative practice. I really admire him! Compared with him, I feel that we have wasted our four years in college." Zhang Manling said with emotion.

Chen Jiangong chuckled and said, "Others can say that, but you are wrong. You have always been so good at studying. If you have learned in vain, what are we?"

The two chatted and laughed all the way. Zhang Manling proposed to invite Chen Jiangong to have some dinner, but he declined and said, "Wait until your novel is published before inviting you."

"Okay, then I'll give you a good word!"

In the evening, Lin Chaoyang rode his bicycle back to Mianhua Hutong. Zhang Guiqin had already prepared dinner, and Tao Yushu had just returned. After the family finished dinner, Li Tuo, who had not seen him for a long time, came to the door.

"Oh, it's really not easy to find you."

After riding a bicycle for more than two hours, from Dongcheng to Haidian, and then back to Xicheng, Li Tuo's face was frozen.

After drinking a cup of tea to warm up for a long time, he explained his purpose.

It turned out that Lu Yao from Shaanxi came to Yanjing to revise the manuscript. The day before yesterday, he went to the Overseas Chinese Apartment to visit Lin Chaoyang, but was turned away. He then went to Li Tuo's house instead.

Knowing that Lin Chaoyang was not at home, Li Tuo went to Yanda to find him today. As luck would have it, he arrived at school a little late and missed Lin Chaoyang. After asking Chen Jiangong, he learned that Lin Chaoyang had recently moved to Mianhua Hutong.

"I came all the way here and wanted to visit you, but I didn't expect you to disappear." Li Tuo complained, but his eyes were on the house, "Is this the yard you bought?"

As he spoke, he walked around the house in a familiar manner, "Well, this yard is really nice, much better than the bungalow we used to live in."

"Nonsense, you didn't spend money there, but I spent money here."

"Otherwise, you are rich!" Li Tuo teased, and talked about the specific reason why Lu Yao came to Beijing this time.

Last year, Lu Yao's novella "A Thrilling Scene" was published in "Contemporary" and caused quite a stir, and was also praised by the editor-in-chief Qin Chaoyang.

In March this year, Lu Yao successfully won the National Excellent Novella Award with this novel. It was at this award ceremony that Lu Yao met Lin Chaoyang, Li Tuo and others.

It was also at this award ceremony that Wang Weiling, a senior editor of China Youth Publishing House, asked Lu Yao to write an article, which aroused an idea that Lu Yao had been brewing in his heart.

After returning to Shaanxi from Yanjing, he carried a military travel bag and returned to northern Shaanxi. He lived in the Ganquan County Guesthouse near Yan A and began to create a new work.

After writing the novel, Lu Yao sent the manuscript out, and soon he received a reply from Wang Weiling, who enthusiastically praised his novel and made some revisions to the novel.

Lu Yao revised the manuscript repeatedly for two months, but the effect could not satisfy Wang Weiling, so Wang Weiling specially invited Lu Yao to Yanjing to revise the manuscript.

He was placed in the best guest room in the compound of China Youth Publishing House, and spent about a week revising the manuscript. This time the manuscript finally satisfied the editorial department.

After revising the manuscript, Lu Yao felt relieved and thought about visiting his friends before returning to Shaanxi.