Literary Master 1978

In this era that has not yet been corrupted by fame and fortune, the behavior of several teachers during dinner in the Tongzi Building of Yan'an Normal University was in line with Chinese people's imagination of the image of intellectuals.

After coming out of Teacher Hou's house, Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but sigh, how fast the world has changed!

"What are you sighing for?" Tao Yushu asked him.

"I'm sorry."

"What's a pity?"

"Several teachers only talked about it, but they didn't know how to write and publish those ideas to give my novel a strong momentum."

Tao Yushu was amused by him and laughed loudly, "You are so beautiful!"

"They can also get royalties, right? This is called mutual benefit."

The couple chatted and laughed and returned to Yanyuan under the starlight.

It’s Monday morning again, and the entrance to the library is lined up early in the morning with students coming to occupy seats. The weather in Yanjing has been getting hotter and hotter recently, and more and more students seem to be coming to the library, and many of them still have... Carrying breakfast, it seems that he wants to finish breakfast while studying.

Du Rong looked at the crowd of people at the door and sighed in her heart. She was quite busy this morning.

All morning, the front desk was busy registering and the library was busy looking for books. Everyone was busy in their own way.

Lin Chaoyang was in the library on the sixth floor today. He was so busy that he had no time to fish, and he was eagerly looking forward to the summer vacation.

Finally in the afternoon, he finally had some rest time. He picked up his pen and wrote a novel for a while. Before he could get into the mood, he got off work.

I packed my things and went downstairs. As soon as I walked to the door, I saw Zhang Dening waiting there.

"When did you come? Why didn't you call me?"

"You seem to be quite busy. I just came here a while ago." Zhang Dening explained.

The two were walking and chatting, and Lin Chaoyang asked, "What do you want from me?"

"I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for your wife."

"Looking for a jade book?" Lin Chaoyang was a little surprised.

Zhang Dening smiled and said, "Do you remember the collection of comments that Lao Li mentioned when you went to the editorial office?"

"Isn't it going to be published?"

Zhang Dening proudly took out a book from his bag and said, "Look!"

Lin Chaoyang took the book and exclaimed: "Did you really do it?"

"Wrangler Review Collection" is a blue booklet. It is not thick, with a maximum of 60,000 to 70,000 words. This is understandable. A review can only have 3,000 to 5,000 words at most. The collection of reviews contains an incredible 20 articles. You have to be a critic with some reputation.

"It's not us, it's mainly the support of the writers and publishers. As you know, Comrade Ding Ling is back now..."

Zhang Dening didn't go into too much detail, but Lin Chaoyang knew that the author's publisher's approval to publish this collection of reviews must have a lot to do with the review Ding Ling wrote for "Wrangler".

"Comrade Yushu's review has also been included. I came here today to send her a sample book, and the manuscript fee bill should be mailed to her within the next two days."

Lin Chaoyang laughed and said: "She will definitely be happy to know the news. Let's go for a walk and have dinner at home."

Zhang Dening looked at Lin Chaoyang's performance and smelled a hint of hepatic control in it.

"After all these visits, this is the first time you let me go to your house for dinner."

"The time was not suitable a few times before, but today it happens to be the right time to get off work."

If you tell lies with your eyes open, no wonder you can write a good novel, Zhang Dening commented in his heart.

Back home, Tao Yumo was very excited when he heard that Zhang Dening was the editor of "Yanjing Literature and Art" and that this time he came specifically to deliver sample magazines to his sister Tao Yushu.

"Brother-in-law, can you let me take a look?"

Lin Chaoyang gave the pamphlet to Tao Yumo, and she happily opened the review collection. The article by Tao Yushu included in the review collection was the one she had previously published in "Yanjing Literature and Art".

"Wrangler" Commentary Collection contains comments from mostly famous critics or literary figures, such as Hu Depei, Yan Gang, Ding Ling...

It stands to reason that with Tao Yushu's current fame and influence of comments, he is not qualified to appear in the same collection of comments as the above people, but who would let Tao Yushu have someone on it?

The husband writes novels and the wife writes reviews, and it is also a good story if it is spread.

Who dares to say this is a back door?

There were guests at home, and Tao's mother had to cook more. She called Tao Yumo to help, and she reluctantly put down the collection of reviews in her hand.

Lin Chaoyang chatted with Zhang Dening for a while before Tao Yushu came back. She was equally happy when she heard that Zhang Dening was here to send her a sample of the review collection.

The few of them chatted for a while, and when they were about to eat, Zhang Dening asked Lin Chaoyang, "Have you conceived any new novels recently?"

It’s not just an idea, it’s almost finished.

Lin Chaoyang decided to give her a preemptive strike, "Tell me, how long has it been since you came to talk to me about creative matters?"

Zhang Dening looked confused, what do you mean? Do you think I'm idle?

"I'm almost finished writing my new novel. But Liu from "October" came to talk to me twice before and gave me a lot of ideas.

This novel...is given to them. "

There was a thunderbolt from the blue, and the expression on Zhang Dening's face froze.

Finished writing the new novel?

New novel for October?

I haven't been home for a long time... and you were taken advantage of when I wasn't here?

"You gave it up after coming twice?" Zhang Dening squeezed out these words through his teeth.

"Hey! We are all acquaintances, what can we do?" Lin Chaoyang said without any psychological burden, and then complained about Zhang Dening, "You said you were the same, and you didn't know to come to me to push the manuscript. The novel is already out. Now, if someone comes to ask for a manuscript, can I still lie and say I don’t have it?”

Zhang Dening felt a mouthful of old blood in his chest. Do you blame me?

The fierce look in her eyes did not last for two seconds, and finally turned into pleading, "Chaoyang, you are an author trained by our "Yanjing Literature and Art", you can't just fall to "October" like this!"

"How can we say that we are leaning towards "October"? Look at what you said." Lin Chaoyang refilled some tea for her and comforted: "It's just the right time to give the manuscript to Lao Liu. I will definitely think about it when I have manuscripts in the future. Your "Yanjing Literature and Art".

Lin Chaoyang's promise made Zhang Dening feel more at ease, and he asked again: "What is your novel about?"

"A war-themed novel based on the battle over there."

"Tell me more about it."

"Probably..."

Lin Chaoyang briefly narrated the content of the novel to Zhang Dening. After listening to it, she looked thoughtful and said, "The structure is very good, but you have never been exposed to the theme of war before. Can you grasp it?"

Lin Chaoyang felt that she just wanted to trick his manuscript into reading, "It will be finished soon and will be left to the editorial department for a decision."

"How about I check it for you first?" Zhang Dening suggested.

At this time, she acted like a laihan who was thinking about the village widow.

"No need." Lin Chaoyang refused, "Come on, come on, let's eat first, let's eat!"

After coming to Yanyuan several times, Zhang Dening finally had a meal at Tao's house, but this meal made her forget about food and tea. Her mind was filled with Lin Chaoyang's novel, and she felt filled with regret.

If I had known... If I had known... I should have come more often!

The next morning, Zhang Dening told Zhou Yanru the bad news as soon as he got to work, and she immediately became furious.

"I know it! I know it! When I participated in the May 4th Literary Society of Yan'an University last time, I saw that Liu Xinwu had no good intentions. Sure enough, he took advantage of our unpreparedness to pry the manuscript!"

Zhou Yan was circling around the office in a hurry, and she complained: "You are the same. I went to Chaoyang so often before, why haven't I made two more trips recently?"

Zhang Dening looked aggrieved, "I'm busy too!"

"You..." The accusatory words stopped on her lips. Zhou Yanru thought about the daily workload of the editorial department. Everyone has been working very hard in the past six months or so.

"Oh! Forget it. We can't take advantage of everything. We also got "Little Shoes"."

Hearing what Zhou Yanru said, Zhang Dening felt a lot better.

She had listened to the outline of Lin Chaoyang's new novel yesterday, and she didn't think it was as moving as "Little Shoes". Moreover, Lin Chaoyang had no experience in writing war-related works, so the response might not be that good.

On the contrary, looking at "Little Shoes" which has been released for more than a month, the sales volume alone directly outsold "Yenjing Literature and Art".

Before Li Qingquan came, the sales volume of "Yanjing Literature and Art" was stable at 20,000 to 300,000 copies per month, with little fluctuation.

Then Li Qingquan came, and "Yanjing Literature and Art" first published "The Herdsman", which had a great influence on the domestic readership group in the name of scar literature; then it successively published works by Wang Meng, Fang Zhi and others. The works have consolidated the magazine’s sales and influence.

Until last month, "Little Shoes" was officially released, boosting the sales of "Yanjing Literature and Art" to one million copies.

This figure not only breaks the sales record of "Yanjing Literature and Art" since its inception, but is also the highest sales volume achieved by a domestic literary magazine so far after Bingbing.

Counting the 200,000 additional copies printed just last week, the printing volume of this year's fifth issue of "Yanjing Literature and Art" has reached 1.1 million. Based on observations at the previous stage, Zhang Dening is not worried at all that these additionally printed publications will be unsaleable. .

This was the late 1970s when printing paper was in short supply. The sales volume of over one million copies undoubtedly proved the influence and appeal of "Little Shoes".

"What are you talking about? It's so lively?" While Zhou Yanru and Zhang Dening were talking, Li Qingquan passed by the office and asked.

Zhou Yanru then told the story about Lin Chaoyang's manuscript being cut off by "October". Li Qingquan shook his head, "No one can avoid this kind of thing. Just communicate with the writer in the logistics department."

His words were not criticism, but they were better than criticism. Zhang Dening nodded aggrievedly.

After finishing the topic of the manuscript, Li Qingquan said to Zhou Yanru: "I have been thinking about whether to publish a stand-alone version of "Little Shoes" for the past two days. Readers have been very vocal about this matter recently."

"Little Shoes" has been widely welcomed by readers since its publication, which can be seen from the exaggerated increase in the magazine's sales.

Thousands of letters from readers flew into the editorial office of "Yanjing Literature and Art" like snowflakes, most of which were readers' praise and praise for the works and writers.

Li Qingquan recently read through these letters from readers and found that many people have expressed the hope to buy the single volume of "Little Shoes" for reading and collection.

Zhou Yanru frowned when she heard this, "Are you looking for a writer's publisher? They are not willing to publish a collection of reviews. If it weren't for Ding Ling's sake..."

Today's printing paper is allocated by the state according to plans, and each publishing house's annual printing consumption is planned. Writers Publishing House is a well-known publishing house in China. It uses hundreds of tons of paper every year, but it also has a lot of publications to print.

The last time "Yanjing Literature and Art" planned the "Wrangler" Review Collection, it used the printing paper planned by the Writer's Publishing House, which was equivalent to occupying the printing volume of the season. It was very troublesome to coordinate. Thanks to the Ding Ling article in the review collection. article.

"Well... I've also considered this issue. We won't take the lead this time. I'll say hello to Renwen Publishing House and see if they are willing to publish this single volume."

At this stage, "People's Literature" is under the management of the Literary Association, but the publishing is handled by the People's Literature Publishing House. Li Qingquan is a veteran of "People's Literature" and can talk to Renwen Publishing House.

Zhou Yanru nodded. Although doing so is a bit of a favor to others, who made Lin Chaoyang the writer they strongly support in "Yanjing Literature and Art"?

"This brat really needs to thank us!"

Li Qingquan smiled and waved his hand, not taking credit for himself.

"It's mutually beneficial. Look at how good our magazine's sales were last month!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Yanru couldn't help but smile, "That's because Little Shoes is so popular, it's a great contribution."

"De Ning, you..." She turned around and was about to say something to Zhang Dening, but stopped and said to herself: "Forget it, I'll go talk to him."

Zhang Dening naturally knew who Zhou Yanru was talking about "he". Feeling the leader's distrust, she felt bitter in her heart.

If I had nothing to do, I would harass him, Lin Chaoyang, every day!