Back to 80: My Literary Life

Fang Minghua certainly knows about the National Youth Writers Creation Conference.

It is called "Youth Creation Conference" for short. The first Youth Creation Conference was held in 1956 by the China Writers Association, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and other units, with Lao She as the director, Liu Baiyu as the deputy director, and Gong Mu as the secretary-general.

The second conference was held in 1965 by the China Writers Association and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League in Yanjing to jointly hold the National Conference of Amateur Literary Creators.

Among the more than 1,100 delegates attending the conference, the vast majority came from grassroots units such as factories, rural areas, and the army. Relevant leaders met with the delegates.

The third conference is being held now.

It was originally scheduled to be held at the beginning of the year, but due to various reasons, it was delayed to the end of the year. Except for Chen Zhongshi who was too old (over 40 years old), the other three of Qin Province's "Four Horsemen" received the meeting notice.

Fang Minghua, as a member of the Writers Association, naturally had to attend the meeting held by the Writers Association, but what the hell was the "Literature Night·Yenjing·89" party?

Fang Minghua called the Provincial Writers Association to inquire about the situation, and then he learned that the organizers were the Chinese Literature Foundation, Youth Daily, Workers Daily, Literature and Art Daily, Sports Daily, and the chief director was Zhang Xinxin of Yanjing People's Art Theater.

They are all official institutions, not knockoffs.

"Minghua, why do you want to hold this literary evening on December 31st?" Song Tangtang was also a little puzzled when she saw the letter.

"Maybe it's to say goodbye to the 80s and welcome the 90s." Fang Minghua said lightly.

On December 23, Fang Minghua, Lu Yao, and Jia Pingwa each carried a travel bag and boarded the train to Yanjing.

As representatives of Qin Province, of course there are more than three of them, there are also Gao Jianqun, Moshe, Wang Xiaoxin, and three more outstanding students from the Northwest University Writers Class, including Liao Runbo, who has a good relationship with Fang Minghua.

Although Liao Runbo secretly wrote two tomb-robbing novels in the "Ghost Blowing Lantern" series, he did not give up serious literary creation. During this period, he also wrote a novella "Who Opened the Door". Bai Miao, who has become the editor-in-chief, has published it in the "Yanhe" editor-in-chief recommendation column, winning praise.

They went together, sitting in a sleeper, and the round-trip fare was reimbursed by the Provincial Writers Association.

Liao Runbo slept on the upper bunk. At this time, he was sitting on Fang Minghua's bed on the lower bunk, chatting with Fang Minghua.

"Runbo, you will probably meet some classmates from the Luyuan workshop when you go to Yanjing this time. Yu Hua will definitely participate." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

"Yes. Graduated in 1987, more than two years have passed in the blink of an eye. Time flies so fast. The scene when I was studying at Luyuan seems to have happened yesterday." Liao Runbo sighed.

"Hey, Runbo, which song "Desire" do you like to sing?" Lu Yao next to him interrupted with a smile.

The TV series "Desire" has not been broadcast in Qin Province yet, but the theme song is a mess.

After hearing this, everyone laughed.

The long years

I want to talk about how confused I was in those days

It's hard to choose between the real and the imaginary

A female student took the lead in singing, and the carriage was filled with singing.

In Yanjing, Yu Hua was chatting with Chen Hong in his dormitory. It was cold outside and there was nowhere to go. It would be warmer to stay in the dormitory.

He and Mo Yan shared a dormitory in Yanshi University. Whenever Chen Hong came to see Yu Hua, Mo Yan would find an excuse to leave so as not to be a light bulb.

"Teacher Fang has already left for Yanjing, right?" Yu Hua said, "I miss you so much after not seeing you for more than a year."

"He should be on the train for a meeting the day after tomorrow, otherwise he will be too late. I guess Liao Runbo will come too." Chen Hong said.

"Yes, how could I forget him? Hello, is Li Hongying coming?"

"I don't know." Chen Hong shook her head: "I wrote her a letter a few days ago, but I haven't heard back yet."

"It would be great if she could come. It's been a year since we met at the Huashan Conference last year." Yu Hua said with emotion.

"I wonder if He Liwei, who has returned to Changsha, and Qian Yuliang, who is in the writer's class at Nanjing University, will come? I haven't seen them since the workshop ended."

"I hope to see both of them." Chen Hong clasped her hands in front of her chest. She didn't feel anything during the months in the workshop, but now that she's gone, she misses them a lot."

"Yes, both of them can come, and we'll say goodbye to the 1980s together.

Shanghai, train station.

A girl in a red ski jacket carrying a travel bag hurriedly ran to the ticket gate in the waiting hall.

She is Li Hongying.

I took the bus from school to the train station and encountered a traffic jam, and I was about to be late!

When the staff at the ticket gate closed the gate at the last second and prepared to leave, Li Hongying rushed over, and after checking her ticket, she ran to the platform out of breath with her travel bag.

Finally, she stepped on the train to Yanjing, which made her feel relieved. She didn't care about resting and quickly found her seat and sat down.

I will arrive in Yanjing tomorrow.

Yu Hua and Chen Hong must be in Yanjing now.

Liao Runbo will go too, right? And Li Tieling who returned to Tieling in Northeast China.

I can meet my former classmates from Luyuan workshop.

Of course, there is also the respectable and lovely teacher Fang.

Thinking of this, Li Hongying was delighted.

On this train to Yanjing, there was another excited young man, Ge Fei from East China Normal University.

He was also invited to attend this year's Youth Entrepreneurship Conference.

After Ge Fei published "Lost Boat" and "Brown Bird Group", he published "Green and Yellow" and "Dawn Track" and other short stories in one go, becoming another rising star in Shanghai after Wang Anyi.

He is known as the Three Musketeers of Jiangnan in the literary world together with Yu Hua who is studying at Yenching Normal University and Su Tong who works at Nanjing Zhongshan Magazine.

I heard that Yu Hua is attending the Master's Writers Class at Yenching Normal University. He must be in Yenching now. Su Tong will definitely come too, right?

Although the two are not far apart, one in Shanghai and the other in Nanjing, they have not been in touch since they met at the Young and Middle-aged Writers Seminar held in Xijing in 1985. However, they both pay attention to each other's published articles.

Su Tong is walking alone on the campus of Yenching Normal University at this time.

He graduated from here 5 years ago and has long wanted to come back to see it.

Lu Xun Relief, May Fourth Memorial Square, Teaching Building 9, Jingwen Lecture Hall, Lover's Hill Su Tong silently looked at these places where he once lived.

Finally, he stood in front of a dormitory building.

I heard that this is the dormitory of the postgraduate writer class jointly organized by his alma mater and Luyuan.

There live young people like him who are full of dreams for literature.

There are so many young people like this, and many of them are rushing to come.

Han Shaogong was taking a train from Huacheng to Yanjing. Haikou was far away, so he set off three days in advance.

Canxue came from Changsha.

Wang Anyi came from Shanghai.

Tie Niang came from Shijiazhuang.

Zhang Kangkang came from Harbin.

These young people from all over the country, together with young writers from Yanjing, attended this grand event to bid farewell to the 1980s and welcome the arrival of the 1990s.