Home from scratch in another world

A few days ago, Shimeng just remembered the problem of not writing the new novel.

This morning, Ryunosuke Akutagawa walked over with his cell phone full of resignation, and Matsuura Fumichi's roar came from the microphone: "Uzuki Tokino! You can't write your next novel yet!"

Shi Meng turns her head with the toast baked by Fuheshier in her mouth, feeling guilty for a while.

Damn, since she blocked Editor Matsuura, she let herself forget about it.

I really didn't move a word...

The girl let go of her mouth, held the half-eaten toast in one hand and said "shh" in the other, signaling Akutagawa to tell the other side that she was not there.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa shook his head silently, and showed a screenshot of the ticket: "Editor Matsuura said, if you don't write it, he will go to the downstairs of the deep space to hold a sign, and use a loudspeaker to shout in a loop, and expose your profile on Twitter. identity."

Shi Meng was threatened by this middle-aged man. The other party did this to expose her true identity, and he wanted her to die in front of the employees!

She hurriedly picked up the phone and apologized for laughing. She placed countless pledges, and finally calmed down the other party for the time being.

……

In fact, Shimeng's "Exile Suite" has been slowly updating in his mind, and the outline in his mind is also an outline!There are occasional writings in the dream, and several versions have been revised successively.

The original version centered on the "Undead Legion" that Akimoto Yang participated in, and described several soldiers, officers and doctors in the legion. The stories of these people constituted a cold and cruel movement. Only the healing ability is Warm colors inside.

But Shimeng finally gave up on this version, one is because her perspective can only start from Qiu Yuan’s memory, which is not objective and comprehensive enough, and the other is——

She didn't want to include powers in a novel about the war.

This will change the topic of discussion in the novel from cold war to supernatural powers. Will many people come to the conclusion that wars are actually caused by supernatural powers?

In fact, Shimeng has no conclusion on this point. She thinks that in the world war, supernatural powers accounted for part of the reason, but not the whole reason.

Even if there is no ability, war will still break out...

What's more, the "immortality" ability is so terrifying, it overturns all her assumptions about "life and death". This ability makes life lose weight, death has no boundaries, and even makes people lose their respect for life.

— it makes a lot of things moot.

"Immortal" does not need to be described in the context of war. It involves more philosophy, ethics, and human nature... Discussing it in terms of war is too complicated.

And she wants to position her perspective on people.

She wanted to write a series of stories, about children who lost their parents to survive, businessmen who lost their wealth to save the country and the people, and soldiers who were forced to exile after the war... These people with different identities represented different movements of the suite, forming the "Exile" the "theme".

But this version, too much struggle!

It selects those things worth recording in the war, which makes the whole novel look exciting and exciting, and the style of this score is upward and high-spirited.

But in the war, most of them are just ordinary civilians, and their stories are just plain and ordinary, numb and helpless.

Shi Meng only wanted to be a simple recorder.

So the final draft was completely different from what she imagined. She never expected that this novel would become such an objective and true story.

[The beginning of the novel is a prosperous city, lively street scenes, and people in daily life.

The main character lives here. He is a pianist and has a wealthy and happy family.He was so young and the whole world was before his eyes.

However, war broke out in their country, gunshots and explosions sounded, only the sound of the piano continued...

——The piano is already his life. 】

The prototype of the male protagonist comes from Akimoto Yang. It should be said that when she thinks of a musician or a pianist, Akimoto Yang’s appearance appears in front of her eyes. He has a pair of sad eyes that don’t shed tears. He has the elegance and art of a musician. .

He respects art and loves music.

[But this is an era under artillery fire, wars are everywhere, wars are everywhere.Not long after, news of the country declaring war on the enemy finally came on the radio.

The mother cooked a big dinner for the family of six, and because of this declaration of war, they rekindled their hopes for a future of peace.

……

However, the sky failed, and the enemy quickly occupied the country and forced the people to live in the isolated area.

The male protagonist's family is also huddled in a small living room. Life is extremely difficult, their dignity is trampled under their feet, and it is difficult to resist the intensification of the enemy army. 】

This is a very understated story, and Shimeng didn't even exaggerate the hardships of life.

——just plainly trampled on human dignity.

What the war brought, brought apartheid, brought the Holocaust.

Isn't it a matter of course that the defeated nation has nothing, and the victorious nation is superior to others?

Under this inexplicable sense of superiority, people do not feel that they have become beasts.

Life is not precious at all in war, it can be taken away absurdly.

[However, the protagonist is weak, he is just a pianist, music is so cheap in wartime, nobility is not as good as a robber's sharp knife in battle.

He never resisted...

How should he resist?Fist at the mouth of the wooden cang, slash with father's violin and soldier's bayonet?

The people in the quarantine area chose to remain silent until the enemy intensified. Whether it was pregnant women, children, or the elderly, they were all held up by wooden warehouses and forced onto trains that never returned...

The defeated people were rushed to concentration camps, where there were poison gas, human research, and unannounced deaths...]

Maybe the main character is the main character only because he survived, because he had excellent luck and a tenacious hope of survival.Because of the hero's music, he was rescued by his traitor friend and narrowly escaped.

Why would anyone choose to save music?Shi Meng may have a little insight, but it is not clearly written in the novel.

She didn't describe too much where the car went, and only briefly mentioned the current situation of the concentration camp.

She felt that no further narrative was needed, as the results were already clearly written.

[The pianist's parents, siblings, never came back.This place has become an empty city, with ruins everywhere and no grass growing.

The pianist became a mouse in the city, struggling to survive.

One day, he was discovered by an enemy officer while hiding in an abandoned building.

The officer pointed at him with the wooden barn, and under the dark wooden barn mouth, the civilian asked for a piano.

So before he died, he played a piano piece for the other party. It was also the first time he played the piano during the six years of his escape, from unfamiliarity to proficiency, from gentleness to haste.

……

In the ruins of the city in the middle of the night, a ragged and emaciated exile, accompanied by the leader of the enemy army, played a ballad.

For some reason, the officer chose to let him go, and took good care of him in the following days, until the arrival of reinforcements, until the end of the war. 】

What will happen after the war?

Shi Meng only wrote two things.

【After the war, the officer who rescued him went into exile in another country and was eventually executed. The pianist debated many times, but finally he was powerless.

The pianist returned to radio work and played the piano again. 】

Shi Meng revised to the last page of the novel, the story is so calm, she didn't add any more details to it.

She originally wanted to describe the war under the power, but in the end she only wrote the story of a pianist's life, and the encounter with him, and the story of many civilians fleeing for their lives.

Not at all heroic, not at all fighting.

She didn't talk too much about the battlefield, but this war spanned six years and many people's lives.

Shi Meng suddenly smiled, probably his novel will be criticized.

Because the end of the war in the novel is only slightly mentioned in a short paragraph at the end-from the struggles of many countries and peoples.

And the real reason for the end of this world war is the betrayal of the seven transcendents.

Not at all real.

But what truth do ordinary people need?

No matter what kind of war it is, they just go from peace and joy to nothing.

She wanted to write such a story about ordinary people without superpowers.

This is her most restrained novel.

She hopes that in the future, the world will always be peaceful, and the people will not have to be sacrificed.

Shimeng passed the "Suite of Exiles" to editor Matsuura, then lay on his back on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling light.

At this moment, my mind was wandering, thinking why she would write such a story...

For some reason, she suddenly doesn't want to go to the dreamland today, it doesn't matter if she misses a day of daily life, she wants to sleep well.

Get a really good night's rest.

she fell asleep...

……

And some time after that, in Yokohama, Matsuura Fumichi's home, he heard a specially marked ringtone at his desk, and quickly got up to turn on the phone, feeling angry or annoyed.

He took a deep breath before opening the mailbox, hoping this time it wasn't a half-hearted or pleading e-mail for an extension—he had really given her too many chances!

But when I opened it, I found that there was an attachment, so my anger turned into joy, and the questioning that was ready to go suddenly fell silent.

His wife brought him hot tea, and knowing that her husband was going to stay up late tonight to read novels, she quietly closed the door of the study.

Matsuura leaned comfortably on the back of the chair, browsing the novel called "The Exiles Suite".

The beginning of the novel is a warm-toned scene, with an elegant pianist playing, an immersed audience, and a lively family, living a warm and contented life.

Hey, is Teacher April going to write a novel about life?This style of writing has changed a lot!

The beginning is very dull, is there any special setting behind it?Like the sudden death of a pianist?Or participated in a game out of reality?

Matsuura Fumi had great confidence in Teacher April, took a sip of tea leisurely, and looked forward to the follow-up.

However, the latter plot is unexpected, it is still flat, restrained and uninteresting.

But there seems to be a sign, telling the outbreak of the war...

A long time passed, and Matsuura quietly sat up straight without knowing when.

Maybe it was seeing the humiliation marks on the defeated nation.

Maybe it was seeing the enemy soldiers using wooden warehouses to scare the poor into fleeing, and then opened the wooden warehouses to shoot.

Maybe it was ordinary people who walked into an unknown warehouse and never came out again.

Perhaps a mother crying, "Do you have any water? Save my child!"

Fumiichi Matsuura put down the water glass in his hand.

He turned the page and saw that the mother was afraid that the crying would attract the soldiers, so she stifled her child who was about to die of thirst...

Matsuura suddenly closed the document, he knew that as an editor, he shouldn't do this, but at this moment he couldn't read it at all, and his heart ached.

He's from Yokohama, he's 35 years old, he's... been through the war.

Killing and death, gunfire and ruins.

The war never stops.

When he saw this, he thought, what is the difference between him and a pianist?What is the difference between him and ordinary people in the war zone?

Their fate has long been arranged by the war, and the fear is nothing but-the future is known.

But the known things still happened. Matsuura Wenyi couldn't remember the faces of his parents clearly, and he didn't dare to recall the war seven years ago. He was content with his hard-won stable life and didn't want to break this piece of calm.

Until he opened the document again, he had to rest for a while every time he read it, crying uncontrollably.

Only then did he finally realize that those pains had always been there, but he didn't dare to think about them and deliberately ignored them.

In fact, less than seven years have passed since the war!

Yokohama is still a concession until now...

Fumiichi Matsuura thought Teacher Siyue was amazing, she faced the truth directly, and she wrote down the facts.

She wants everyone to know everything that ordinary people face under the war.

"The Exiles Suite" is so honest and introverted about the experience of a pianist. When Matsuura lamented how miserable he was, he found that he was already the luckiest one among his contemporaries.

Fumichi Matsuura is an ordinary person, but he is also the lucky one in this era.

And he cried so hard for this luck.

……

On the morning of the second day after finishing the novel, Shi Meng had breakfast and arrived in the deep space when he received a text message from Editor Matsuura.

"It's a great piece of work."

"I'll get it published!"

But today the weather is clear and the daylight is just right, Shi Meng puts down his phone, puts his pocket in his pocket and leans against the door to look over, the gentle wind, the swirling clouds, the rushing sky, and the people talking in the deep space.

Makes you want to smile slightly.

So the girl leaned against the door, looked at every smiling person in the room, and smiled softly...