Back to 80: My Literary Life

Fang Minghua listened and thought carefully, it was true.

This era changes so fast.

"Minghua, the textile factory's efficiency is declining, and workers are starting to be laid off. It has become a social phenomenon that cannot be ignored, but literary works rarely pay attention to it. Your novel appears very timely."

"Haha, Bai Miao, don't rush to praise it. Wait until you review it and see if it meets your standards."

"Look at what you said, what you write, Minghua, must be a masterpiece."

The two chatted for a few more words, and Fang Minghua said goodbye and left.

Soon this "Textile Girl" was published in the editor-in-chief column of the new issue of "Yanhe" magazine.

Minghua started writing novels again!

Since Fang Minghua finished writing the novel "Skywalker", he suddenly became interested in prose, traveled to Tianhan in Qin Province and Baiyin in Gan Province, and wrote a collection of prose "Fragments of Civilization", which shocked the literary world and created the prose type of "cultural prose".

At one time, many writers followed suit. The most successful one was Yu Qiuyu, who resigned as the dean of the Shanghai Academy of Drama. His book "Cultural Journey" made the genre of cultural prose even more popular.

Later, he wrote several scripts in succession, "Raise the Red Lantern" and "Yenching People in New York", which became popular films and TV series on big and small screens.

Then he was busy with the World Chinese Literature Award. He did not publish a novel in China in two years.

Now he is finally back to his old job!

As soon as this short and sharp novel was published, it immediately attracted the interest of readers and critics.

Will Minghua lead the writing trend in the novel world like in the 1980s?

But I didn't know until I finished reading it.

No.

It can only be summarized as a new realist novel.

The tone of the whole novel is calm, but it describes the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness of contemporary textile workers with a gentle look.

Readers are surprised to find that textile workers, a group that was once proud of in the 1980s, have now become so miserable.

The famous critic Lei Da wrote the following comment:

"Minghua's novel reminds me of the article "Red Skirts Are Popular on the Street" he wrote ten years ago. In his writing, the group of textile girls were so bright, lively and full of vitality. Ten years later, they have become a group of women who are struggling for a living and even willing to lose face.

What happened?

Is it their fault, or the fault of the times?

No one answered.

At the same time, a reading experience was published in "Yenjing Youth", written by a student named Liu Jing from the Chinese Department of Yanshi University:

The title is "You are all my brothers and sisters"

I like textile workers

My mother is a textile worker. She has a group of close friends. When she was a child, she would always spend a day with her sisters during the New Year.

Women in textile factories, especially those in Xijing, are not like most Some people think that they are impetuous and irritable like a flock of sparrows. Of course there are bold types, but many are also gentle and quiet. Although I think they look rustic and even a little vulgar after dressing up carefully.

My mother is now 45 years old and has been laid off. In the past two years, when I went back during the winter vacation, I had to help my mother carry a bunch of medical expense reimbursement forms to her former unit. There was a long queue, and most of the people in the queue were textile workers.

Retired old women, middle-aged women who were on the job or laid off, and girls who were about my age who had just started working.

The story told by the writer Minghua is better than I thought. This is not Renoir's laundry woman, nor is it Italian neo-realism.

This is just the story of a woman facing death. In the last days of her life, what she wanted to do most was to see the only love she had in her short life. man.

I saw Zhang Li's kind husband carrying him on a bicycle to the dance hall to dance. Many girls in our class found it incredible and thought it was nonsense from the writer, but I knew it was true.

When my mother was chatting with others, she talked about someone from a certain family going to the dance hall to do something. I felt very ashamed when I heard it.

But this is reality.

Reality is more cruel than what the writer describes.

But I am a girl, I don't want to say these, I would rather regard this novel as a love story.

A very good love story.

We all think that life is so long and there is enough time to fall in love. We will love many, many people and experience many, many things. But in fact, most people may only love a handful of people in their lives, or like a textile worker, only one.

He and she, Missed in that era. He loved her all his life, she loved him all her life, but they chose to accept their fate like all people of that era.

Until she knew that her life was about to end, she finally didn't care about anything, she wanted to find him. She found him, she knew that he also loved her all the time.

They loved each other for a lifetime, but she was about to die.

I like Zhang Li, like those warm songs that appear in novels, and I also like Minghua to use his pen, as if with a pair of gentle eyes, to look at the Chinese in his mind.

Everyone is gentle, kind, and forbearing, just like Zhang Li's lines, Chinese people, don't they all live like this.

They are like Zhang Li, Zhao Luhan and Zhang Li's kind husband, these ordinary, poor Chinese, you are my brothers and sisters.

Fang Minghua also saw this article in the magazine. He didn't know this girl named Liu Jing, and he couldn't remember whether she became a writer later.

But it doesn't matter.

It's okay as long as it's well written.

Several magazines have reprinted the "Textile Girl" I wrote, and I have received many letters from readers.

Some of them came from textile workers' families, and there was even a laid-off female worker from Northeast China who cried about her experience in the letter, which made Fang Minghua feel sad.

To be honest, I can't do anything.

Why not send some money anonymously? After all, it's someone from my hometown.

Of course, it may just be a scam.

In this era, there are more scammers.

"It's okay to cheat. I'll be fooled once." Fang Minghua laughed at himself.

In this case, Fang Minghua decided to go to the post office tomorrow and send 5,000 yuan to the other party according to the address on the envelope.

At this time, Fang Minghua suddenly heard a faint knock on the door in the yard, followed by Xiao Dou Miao's barking.

Is there a stranger?

People who often visit Fang Minghua's house, such as Lu Yao and Jia Pingwa, all know that there is a doorbell installed on his front door, so there is no need to knock hard.

And Xiao Dou Miao also knows that they will not bark so fiercely.

Fang Minghua went downstairs and opened the door to the yard. As expected, she saw two young men, one of whom Fang Minghua knew.

Zhang Jiayi.

Since Zhang Jiayi played Sun Shaoping in "Ordinary World", he became famous and began to attack the big screen.

Last year, he played the leading role in a movie "Encountering Passion".

The other thin young man Fang Minghua had seen before.

Seeing Fang Minghua open the door, Zhang Jiayi immediately said in a respectful tone: "Teacher Fang, I'm sorry to bother you."

"Oh, nothing, Jiayi, what's wrong with you?"

"Teacher Fang, there is something."

"Come in."

Fang Minghua glanced at the silent young man next to him again and turned into the yard.

The two followed behind him and entered the living room on the first floor. Fang Minghua asked them to sit down and poured them each a cup of tea.

At this time, Zhang Jiayi said: "Teacher Fang, let me introduce you. This is Wang Quanan, the director of Xiying, and my classmate at Yandian."

Wang Quanan? !