Literary Master 1978

"Disappear? When did I say that?" Lin Chaoyang asked in surprise.

"I read an article in the newspaper that said it was you."

"I just said it will decline. You should read the original article. The article I wrote about scar literature was published in October."

Gong Yun nodded with a shy expression.

Tao Yumo asked curiously: "Gong Yun, which newspaper is it?"

Gong Yun looked at Lin Chaoyang and hesitated to speak.

"Why are you looking at me like that? To put it bluntly, it's just an article." Lin Chaoyang said with a smile.

“The main content of an essay published in the Yanjing Evening News was based on my brother-in-law’s article in October.

I haven’t read my brother-in-law’s article. His article, um… doesn’t seem to be very friendly towards my brother-in-law. It is said that my brother-in-law is famous for scar literature, but he relies on belittling scar literature to gain attention and sensationalize... "

Gong Yun observed Lin Chaoyang's expression while speaking. Seeing that Lin Chaoyang's expression was as usual, she didn't stop. Unexpectedly, Tao Yumo on the side was unhappy, "Who is that person? How can you say that?"

Lin Chaoyang waved his hand towards Tao Yumo, "Yu Mo, Gong Yun is just passing on a message, why are you so excited?"

"Brother-in-law, this man has gone too far. You have no grievances with him, why does he say that to you? I think he is just trying to impress people!"

Tao Yumo's anger made people feel that it was not Lin Chaoyang who was being scolded, but herself, "Gong Yun, which issue is that evening newspaper from?"

Before Gong Yun could speak, Lin Chaoyang stopped Tao Yumo and said, "Okay, criticizing and being criticized is a normal thing in the literary world."

Tao Yushu also said at this time: "Don't worry about your brother-in-law."

Tao Yumo said unwillingly: "Then you can't just be scolded and not reply back!"

Lin Chaoyang shook his head and said with a smile: "What kind of scolding is this? When people criticize you, just listen to them if you want to hear them. If you don't want to listen, just pretend that you don't hear them. There are so many people in the literary world. If everyone criticizes me, I will reply to them. Just a few words, and you’re still going to tire me to death?”

Seeing Lin Chaoyang's relaxed tone, Tao Yumo's anger subsided. Gong Yun looked at Lin Chaoyang's performance and was filled with admiration.

This is probably the writer’s mind!

Tao's father looked at Lin Chaoyang's performance and nodded with satisfaction. It was extremely rare for a son-in-law at his age to be able to handle the situation calmly and calmly.

After Gong Yun and the others left, Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu entered the room. Tao Yushu said viciously: "He hurts people with his bad words. This person is really unqualified."

Being scolded by someone in an article was not what angered Tao Yu the most. The key was that it was clearly signed by two people's names, so why didn't he deserve it?

"It's just an opinion piece, it's not worth getting angry about, so isn't there still time to praise us?

I write a novel, and anyone can say a few words about it. But we can’t respond to every criticism, right? It’s easy to tire yourself out by having to deal with every criticism in the evening paper. "

Lin Chaoyang is not really generous, he is just showing off his attitude.

He wrote novels to earn royalties, and fame came incidentally. If someone criticizes him, let him criticize him. Isn’t this the money we earn?

Don't be like some celebrities in later generations who make a movie and earn money that ordinary people can't make in a lifetime, but they still have to wipe tears on the screen and talk about how difficult it is to make a movie. If your finger is broken, you can't wait to call an ambulance. Car, easy to buy a hot search.

Cheap or not?

"You have such a good attitude!"

"This is called the demeanor of a general!" Lin Chaoyang boasted.

"If you say you're fat, you'll gasp!"

The couple made a few witty remarks, and Lin Chaoyang stopped paying attention to the matter.

Early the next morning, Lin Chaoyang went to work in the library, and Tao Yushu also went.

She said it was cool to read in the library, but Lin Chaoyang didn't take her seriously.

When they arrived at the library, Lin Chaoyang went to work at the library desk, while Tao Yushu dived into the newspaper room.

"Yanjing Evening News... Yanjing Evening News..."

She muttered something while rummaging through a pile of newspapers.

After searching for a while, she finally found the newspaper Gong Yun was talking about.

"Refuting Xu Lingjun's so-called "inevitable decline of scar literature".

Tao Yushu read this article intently. The article was not long, less than two thousand words in total. The first thousand or eight hundred words were normal, but in the second half it became a bit out of shape.

This author may be a senior lover of scar literature, or a creator. Later in the discussion, he could not control his resentment towards Lin Chaoyang for belittling scar literature, and his words were so harsh that it was beyond the scope of the discussion.

In addition to scolding her husband, she also ignored herself, damn it!

However, after reading the article, Tao Yushu was relieved.

The level of the article is average, and it is most likely an angry college student, or an amateur creator of scar literature. There is no need to worry about this kind of article, as it is unlikely to have much influence.

She put down the newspaper, but then she thought something was wrong.

To be honest, the content of the husband's article is pertinent, but it is not wrong to say that scar literature is bad. Scar literature is now popular in the country, and the husband's article is just like good medicine that tastes bitter and true advice that offends the ears. There are bound to be many People have opinions about him because of this, and there must be more than one such article.

She picked up a pile of newspapers and rummaged through them again. After about half an hour, she actually found another article.

The title was also against her husband's views, but this article was at least within the scope of discussion. Tao Yushu put it down after reading it.

She was thinking in her mind that this issue of "October" had not been published for half a month yet, and she found two objections just by flipping through it in the library.

You must know that newspapers have never been the main battlefield for discussing issues in the literary world. Those literary magazines and literary review magazines are.

Now that opposition voices have appeared in newspapers, it is estimated that in a few months, discussions in magazines will definitely be indispensable.

Some people are not afraid of just discussing, but what they are afraid of is the kind of article published in the "Yanjing Evening News". Although you can talk nicely, they have to use guns and sticks with you, and even use bad words to you.

Tao Yushu felt that she needed to prepare for a rainy day. Her husband didn't care about being scolded, but she couldn't help it.

It is obviously not advisable to scold the authors who wrote articles one by one. In the end, you will get nothing except making yourself half angry and wasting a lot of time and energy.

Tao Yushu thought to himself that it would definitely not work if the public opinion later criticized her husband one-sidedly. The best way was to muddy the water and let both sides talk about their own opinions. Naturally, no one would care about her husband's article.

She is not good at anything else, but she is still good at writing some commentaries. It just so happens that she can take this opportunity to exercise.

Lin Chaoyang, who was fishing in the library, did not know that his wife had already started to make preparations to defeat scar literature after reading only two articles. He took some time off from his busy schedule to write a novel of 1,800 words, and then received a small note from downstairs, saying Someone is looking for him.

When I went downstairs, I saw it was Zhou Yanru.

After greeting each other for a few words, Zhou Yanru said straight to the point: "The issue of the single volume of "Little Shoes" has been discussed. The novel is now very popular, and the humanities society is also very willing to cooperate. When you have time, come with me to their place. Take a trip.”

"Tomorrow, I'll take half a day off and go there in the morning."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you at the door of the Humanities Club tomorrow. Do you know the place?"

"No. 166 Chaonei Street, who doesn't know about it?"

Zhou Yanru nodded, the two chatted for a few more words, and then she left.

The next morning, Lin Chaoyang came to No. 166 Chaonei Street. The five-story building of the Humanities Society stood quietly on the street. At this time, in time for work in the morning, many people rode bicycles into the hospital.

Not far away, Lin Chaoyang saw Zhou Yanru waiting at the gate holding her bicycle.

"Lao Zhou, have you been waiting for a while?" Lin Chaoyang stepped forward and said hello.

"I just came, let's go!"

The two entered the hospital and came to the door of the reception room. Zhou Yanru shouted inside: "Old Zhai, register!"

Seeing that they were old acquaintances, the old master in the reception room took out a notebook to register Zhou Yanru and glanced at Lin Chaoyang.

"Young man, new author?"

"Does Xu Lingjun know?" Zhou Yanru introduced.

"Xu Lingjun, I've heard of it." Lao Zhai said as he took over the book that the two of them had registered.

When the two of them went upstairs, he glanced at the name on the book - Lin Chaoyang.

The boy's handwriting is quite good!

The contemporary literature editorial office of the Humanities Society is on the third floor. Zhou Yanru took him into the contemporary literature office. There were eight or nine desks surrounding the wall. There were a group of editors in front of the desks. Everyone's desk was piled with manuscripts, and even the floor was covered with manuscripts. There are also many manuscripts bundled in brown paper bags.

"Lao Li, I've sent someone to you!"

Zhou Yanru's shout called out a square-faced middle-aged man wearing glasses. He stood up with a smile and opened his hand. First Zhou Yanru said hello, and then he held Lin Chaoyang warmly.

"Is this Comrade Xu Lingjun?"

"This is Li Shuguang, deputy director of the editorial office. Your novel will be in his charge." Zhou Yanru introduced.

"Just call me Lao Li." Li Shuguang said.

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "You can just call me Chaoyang. My real name is Lin Chaoyang."

A few people exchanged pleasantries, and Li Shuguang called "Xiao Yue." A young man in the office stood up. He looked about thirty years old. Li Shuguang introduced: "Yue Hongzhi, your editor. I am responsible for the second review, and the editor-in-chief is responsible for the final review." ”

After a brief introduction, Yue Hongzhi found two stools, asked the two of them to sit down, and was busy pouring water.

"Don't be busy, he has to go back to work, long story short." Zhou Yanru said.

In fact, there is nothing to talk about. The Humanities Society wants to publish a separate volume of "Little Shoes", and it is just for the author and editor to meet and get familiar with it.

The few of them chatted about daily life. When they heard that Lin Chaoyang worked in the Yanda Library, Yue Hongzhi was in awe. This is an amazing place.

After chatting for a while about the creation experience of "Little Shoes", a loud male voice came from the corridor.

"Is Xu Lingjun here? Where is he?"

The people who were talking stopped and looked toward the door.

I saw a serious-looking middle-aged man looking at the door. He glanced around the editing room and his eyes immediately focused on Lin Chaoyang.

There were two outsiders in the editing room, Lin Chaoyang and Zhou Yanru. Lin Chaoyang was even more unfamiliar, so he could naturally spot them at a glance.

Li Shuguang smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not done talking yet!"

"It's okay. You guys chat first, and I'll come over and take a look."

The middle-aged man said this, but his eyes were like a goblin staring at Lin Chaoyang after seeing Tang Monk's flesh.

Li Shuguang smiled at Lin Chaoyang, "You can become the meat and potatoes of our humanities club this time."

"Okay! There's nothing to talk about. Xiaoyue will contact you if there are any problems later. You deal with him first." Li Shuguang pursed his lips towards the door.

Four or five days ago, Xu Huaizhong, a military writer in the army, went to the editorial office of "People's Literature", found the editor-in-chief Zhang Guangnian, muttered for a while, and left a manuscript.

Zhang Guangnian assigned the manuscript to Cui Daoyi, who was in charge of the northern group of the novel, and asked him to review it as soon as possible.

The review system of the editorial department is a three-review system. Cui Daoyi is the head of the novel north group of "People's Literature". He is assisted by Wang Fu and others. Generally, after the editors under him do the first review, he will then give the second review.

Finally, it will be submitted to the editor-in-chief for final review. Some works that are relatively controversial or may cause influence will also need to be reviewed by the chief editor together.

Zhang Guangnian asked Cui Daoyi to review the manuscript as soon as he came up. At first, he thought someone was going to use the back door, and he felt very uncomfortable.

But within half an hour of reading the manuscript, he changed his mind.

After spending two days carefully reading the manuscript, Cui Daoyi can say with certainty that this is an extremely outstanding war-themed novel.

But he looked at the signature on the manuscript and had doubts again. Of course he knew Xu Lingjun's name.

Last year's "Wrangler" and this year's "Little Shoes", this writer can be said to be popular in the literary world, but why are his novels sent by the army?

Cui Daoyi went to Zhang Guangnian to understand the situation. Zhang Guangnian was unable to do anything after being questioned by him, so he told him that because the novel involved the ongoing war in the south, it was originally sent to the army for review. The army leaders thought it was very good after reading it. , I wanted to find an authoritative literary magazine to publish it, so I sent it to "People's Literature".

After understanding the situation, Cui Daoyi didn't say anything else, as long as he didn't go through the back door.

When people in later generations talk about the literary boom of the 1980s, the grace of famous editors is indispensable. At that time, there were four editors in Yanjing City who were called the "Four Famous Editors" by busy people in the literary world, and Cui Daoyi was one of them.

Cui Daoyi has his own insistence on his career. He certainly does not want works that are not worthy of the name to be published in "People's Literature", a prestigious publication of Chinese literature.