Back to 80: My Literary Life

On April 19, the "New Realistic Novel" seminar will be held at the foot of Mount Huashan.

In fact, it is not at the foot of Huashan Mountain. The meeting is arranged at the government guest house in Huayin County, which is nearly 5 kilometers away from Huashan Mountain.

At the foot of Huashan Mountain in this era, only Yuquanyuan had no decent hotels at all, so it was finally arranged in Huayin County.

It was the first time that so many writers and literati gathered in this small county. They immediately received strong support and help from the local county committee and government, and contacted the best local government guest house.

Led by the County Cultural Bureau and led by a local deputy county magistrate responsible for culture, a reception team was set up to ensure that the meeting's food, accommodation and transportation were convenient and fast.

Of course, Fang Minghua didn't have to worry about these things. The meeting was a matter for the society. As the main person in charge of the meeting, Bai Miao and several staff from the society rushed to Huayin a week in advance to contact the local government to arrange the meeting.

Today is the 19th. Early in the morning, the main leaders of the club, as well as Hu Cai, chairman of the Provincial Writers Association, and several vice-chairmen took the train to Huayin.

It took nearly two hours to take the train from Xijing to Huayin, and there was no need to buy a sleeper ticket. We all took hard seats and rushed there. Along with us were a deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee and the director of the Department of Culture, representing the front office of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government. Go to meetings to congratulate and give speeches.

Along the way, I looked at the scenery outside. There were green wheat seedlings everywhere, and it was quite lively talking and laughing.

The main content of the chat was what Lu Yao saw and heard during his visit to Italy.

In March this year, a delegation of Chinese writers visited Italy at the invitation of the Federation of Italian Writers. As a member of the delegation, Lu Yao followed the delegation to visit Rome, Milan and other cities, communicated with famous local writers, and met with teachers from the University of Rome. The student discussion lasted for more than 20 days. The two sides exchanged literature and enhanced mutual understanding and achieved very good results.

But what we are talking about now is not literature, but football.

When it comes to improving football, Lu Yao is very happy.

"I specifically watched a European Cup group match between the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy. The two sides were evenly matched. Italian striker Mancini broke the deadlock. Italy temporarily took the lead at 1-0, but three minutes later Germany relied on the Troika. One of the left backs, Bremer, scored a free kick to equalize the score. It was so fun to watch. It was much better than our national football team!”

"This year's national football team is just okay. At least it defeated the Japanese team 2-0 last year and entered this year's (1988) Olympic men's football finals. It can be considered the first time to successfully 'break out of Asia.' "The speaker was Director Zhang of the Department of Culture, who was sitting opposite him and was also a football fan.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yao glanced at him with some disdain: "So what if you break into the Olympics? At least you have some ability if you qualify in the group!"

"I think it's still possible for the group to qualify." Chen Zhongshi, who was smoking a cigarette rolled by himself on the other side of the aisle, actually came over and analyzed clearly.

"According to the draw, our Chinese team is in the same group as the Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden and Tunisia. We have no chance of the Federal Republic of Germany, but it should be no problem to defeat the Tunisian team. If we fight hard to defeat or draw with the Swedish team, it is still possible to qualify from the group. ”

"Zhongshi is right! Lu Yao, you look down on our Chinese football so much!" It was Jia Pingwa who spoke.

The literary world of Qin Province is composed of four people, three of whom share many interests.

Drinking, smoking, and one of them just loves football!

But the three of them like different teams. Chen Zhongshi likes to watch the British team, Lu Yao likes the Federal Republic of Germany, and Jia Pingwa has a soft spot for the Italian team.

The three often quarreled over this.

Under normal circumstances, Fang Minghua, the youngest person on the other team, usually remains silent. If anyone wants to mention Chinese football, he will go far away.

In his words.

"Don't talk about this, I still want to live a few more years."

Today I also heard a few people talking about football again, and the topic gradually turned to the Chinese team. I immediately changed places with the people in front of me, and one person leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to meditate.

Can you please just stop talking about this?

Italian art has long been famous, and the girls are even more passionate. Wouldn’t it be nice to talk about them?

Why are we talking about football?

Fortunately, the sitting time was not long, and everyone ended this topic when we arrived at Huayin Station.

There was an executive deputy director of the Propaganda Department in the car, so the local senior county official and the county magistrate personally came to the train station to pick them up, and brought a minibus to take everyone away in one car. However, they did not go to the county guest house, but directly to the Huashan Hotel. It is said that this is the highest-end restaurant in the county and it only opened last year.

Of course, it is to catch the wind and wash away the dust.

After lunch, everyone returned to the government guest house.

As soon as Fang Minghua checked into his room, he saw Bai Miao walking in hurriedly.

Fang Minghua was slightly drunk and asked while making tea for himself:

"Bai Miao, have everyone at the meeting reported?"

"They're all here, and there's one more person."

"One more person?" Fang Minghua was surprised.

There are always only a few people in meetings, some ask for leave and some can't make it in time, but there is one more person?

"A girl named Chen Hong came with Yu Hua. She seemed to have submitted a poem to us last year."

Chen Hong?

This Yu Hua

Fang Minghua didn't say much, but said to Bai Miao, "Call Yu Hua."

"good."

Not long after, Yu Hua followed Bai Miao into the room.

"Editor Bai, go ahead and do your business. I'll have a few words with Yu Hua," Fang Minghua said.

Bai Miao was a little confused, but she didn't ask any more questions before leaving the room and closing the door.

As soon as Bai Miao left, Yu Hua hurriedly explained: "Editor Fang, Chen Hong is not here to attend the meeting, but to play. He has not found a place to stay for the time being. He will find a hotel to stay in soon and will not occupy the meeting. funding.”

"I'm not asking you this." Fang Minghua looked a little serious: "I'm asking you, Yu Hua, what is your relationship with Chen Hong?"

"We are classmates."

"Yu Hua, you can deceive others but you can't deceive me, let alone yourself." Fang Minghua sneered: "Do you really have an ordinary relationship between classmates?! Don't think that everyone else is a fool!"

Yu Hua suddenly blushed and finally said:

"I admit, I like Chen Hong, but we are innocent now!"

"Oh, according to your point of view, mental cheating is not cheating, physical cheating is, right?"

Yu Hua was silent.

Fang Minghua sighed: "Actually, this is your private matter, I have no right to interfere, but we are the same age and friends, and we are also married men. Let me ask you, if you continue like this, what will happen to your wife at home?"

After hearing this, Yu Hua raised his head and looked at Fang Minghua: "Editor Fang, we are friends. Let me tell you the truth. My wife and I will divorce sooner or later. She and I can't talk about many things together, such as Kao Yan She is firmly opposed to the matter of graduate students.”

"I asked her to come with me and rent a small house. I would go to school and write at the same time to earn some royalties. As for her, we can survive by doing odd jobs. In the future, we may be able to create a world of our own in Yanjing. , but she doesn’t want to, she likes the comfortable life in Haiyan and doesn’t want to suffer hardship with me.”

"Chen Hong is willing?"

"Um!"

Fang Minghua was silent for a long time.

After a while, he said: "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Since Chen Hong is here, as a participating writer, I remember that Li Hongying seems to be living alone, so I will arrange for her to move in. I will tell Editor Bai."

"Thank you so much!" Yu Hua was immediately overjoyed.

"You're welcome. Just write well. Fortunately, you are not too famous in the literary world now. Otherwise, someone would call you Chen Shimei."