Chapter 2: Institute of Literature
"Lin Weimin~Lin Weimin~" A soft call came from my ears.
Lin Weimin was sleeping very soundly. When he heard the sound, he wanted to get up, but he couldn't move.
"Lin Weimin!" The voice became louder and clearer.
Suddenly, Lin Weimin finally struggled to stand up.
He rubbed his eyes, half asleep. It turned out to be Huang Zonghan from the bed next to him calling him.
"You are such a sleepyhead. I wanted to talk to you all the way, but you fell asleep and you haven't woken up yet even though we are almost at the station."
Lin Weimin chuckled, "Young man, sleep well!"
Huang Zonghan felt that this kid was playing tricks on him. He was already 42 years old and his child was in middle school.
"Pack up, we'll have to get off the bus in half an hour."
"Okay."
Lin Weimin agreed. In fact, there was nothing to pack. He didn't take anything except a few sets of clothes.
To be precise, there should be nothing.
Inside the young body is a soul from the afterlife, also named Lin Weimin. He was staying up late watching a female anchor from the same city, but he unexpectedly died suddenly.
If Lin Weimin is given another chance...
He will never stay up late to watch the female anchors in the same city again.
He brushes during the day.
And Lin Weimin traveled through time and space to become Lin Weimin of this world today.
According to his memory, Lin Weimin knew that the two worlds before and after the time travel were almost 95% similar, with only a few differences.
Some people who did not exist in history appeared, while others who should have been recorded in history disappeared.
Lin Weimin had read a lot of online novels before he traveled through time, so he understood this situation, it was a fictional world!
Although the similarities are very high, they are different after all.
It is now March 1980, and the tide of reform and opening up is gradually emerging.
Lin Weimin was born in Fengtian City, Liaodong Province. His parents died one after another. He was the son of his parents in their old age. He had an older sister who married and moved to the south a few years ago. She lost contact with her family and no one knew whether she was dead or alive.
After his parents passed away, Lin Weimin became a little boy with no one to love him and even his life became a problem. The street office still provided him with relief in the past few years.
When he was 16 years old, the street office directly arranged for Lin Weimin to go to the countryside to work as a sent-down youth.
Lin Weimin is young and doesn’t understand the policies, let alone how to resist. He just goes if he is allowed to go.
He went to a rural area in Heilongjiang Province, a black soil area. The conditions there were better than in the rural areas in the south, and at least people could have enough food to eat.
He was just not rich. When the Chinese New Year in 1978 was approaching, most of the educated youths in the educated youth camp went home to celebrate the New Year. There were only four educated youths left in the educated youth camp. Among them, the others came from poor families and wanted to save some money, so they chose to celebrate the New Year in the same place. Only Lin Weimin had nowhere to go.
On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year, every household in the nearby production team was preparing for the New Year. The air was filled with all kinds of aromas, which made the boys staying at the educated youth center so greedy that their eyes turned green.
What does it mean to be so hungry that you become timid? We are all little brats who have lived through turbulent times. How can we behave ourselves at this time?
A few people discussed and decided to go and steal the chicken!
Ever since the establishment of the educated youth centers around the production team, the villagers have suffered greatly. During every festival, the educated youth centers have become the focus of surveillance by the villagers.
When I go to bed at night, I have to drive the chickens, ducks, and geese into the house before I can feel at ease.
Several people wandered around the production team in the dark for a long time but couldn't find an opportunity to take action. They could only sigh that the world is going downhill and people's hearts are no longer as they used to be!
After they thought about it, they decided that they could not rely on this brigade, so they went to the next brigade.
The next brigade was nearly ten miles away, and they were advancing in the dark. Lin Weimin accidentally fell into a ditch, hit his head and died on the spot. It was at this time that Lin Weimin, who died suddenly from staying up late in modern times, inherited this body.
Lin Weimin fell into a ditch and lost consciousness, which scared the other people so much that they had no time to steal the chicken!
Lin Weimin was carried back to the educated youth site, and someone was sent to inform the team leader, who was also called in to find the barefoot doctor in the team. However, before the doctor could perform his magic tricks, Lin Weimin woke up.
Having inherited all the memories of his original body, Lin Weimin was very clear about his situation and decisively chose to pretend to be sick.
At first he really fooled himself. The team leader approved his leave and sent him some comfort items. The educated youth at the educated youth site also took good care of him.
Unfortunately, the good days did not last long. After the Chinese New Year, the educated youth returned and the work in the production team began. It was no use for Lin Weimin to pretend to be sick. He still had to work.
How could he, a lazy and ignorant stay-at-home guy, adapt to such an environment?
I can only pretend to be sick from time to time and then study how to improve my working environment.
The best option is of course to return to the city and have the government arrange a job for you.
But the problem is, he has no parents and can be bullied by anyone. It is simply unrealistic to expect anything from him.
The three years from 1978 to 1980 saw a large wave of educated youth returning to the city. During the Chinese New Year, the educated youth who returned to their hometowns were all discussing returning to the city, but not many of them could actually go back. It took them a while to get back, let alone him.
This road is not feasible.
The middle option is to get married in the same place and become a live-in son-in-law. He has no parents in the city, so getting married and settling down is also an option. In particular, the captain of the third team in the team, his daughter Wang Erya, has a special liking for Lin Weimin, a young man.
But Lin Weimin was a time traveler after all. When he thought about how he would lose face among the other time travelers by doing so, he decisively gave up the idea.
The last resort is self-reliance, but this self-reliance certainly cannot mean labor, because labor is impossible.
He wanted to do some small business in secret, but after asking around, he was too scared to do anything. These days, speculation is no joke.
In this way, after much research, Lin Weimin found a direction - writing.
After the turmoil of the past few years, people's desire for knowledge is unprecedented, which has led to the literary heyday of the 1980s.
In an era when serious literature like "Anna Karenina" easily sells millions of copies and literary review magazines like "Reading" can sell hundreds of thousands of copies per issue, being a writer is definitely a happy thing.
After determining the direction, Lin Weimin first familiarized himself with the mainstream creative direction of that era. In the late 1970s, scar literature was very popular.
He wrote hundreds of thousands of words of drafts, which were rejected so many times that he had no idea how many times they were rejected. Finally, in the second half of 1979, he had his highlight moment.
The two short stories were published successively in Yalu River Magazine and Zhongshan Magazine.
Lin Weimin not only received 120 yuan in royalties, but also became a celebrity in the educated youth center and the production brigade. Even the leaders of the commune had heard of his name and specifically asked the team to give him some space for creation.
The leaders of the commune were proud of the fact that a writer emerged.
1979 passed in a flash, and in March of 1980, the commune secretary rode his bicycle to the team to find Lin Weimin and told him a great piece of news.
His novel "A Matter of One Cent" published in "Zhongshan" won the National Excellent Short Story Award in 1979. There was some delay in the transmission of the news, and he probably missed the award ceremony.
However, the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles sent him a transfer order, and he got an opportunity to study at the Central Institute of Literature.
After traveling back to the 1980s for a year, Lin Weimin finally saw his day of success and felt like crying.
It’s so difficult!
I received a temporary notice from the editor at night. In order to avoid the risk of review, the names of the characters and organizations in the book need to be modified. I worked until two o'clock in the middle of the night and finally finished the modification. From now on, the names of people and organizations will be based on the new ones. If there are any mistakes or omissions, please help point them out.
(End of this chapter)
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