Chapter 937 Extra: I am studying on the island (2)
"The pen name Er Yue He was given by Teacher Lin."
Fang Qi was surprised. "Really? Teacher Er Yuehe's pen name was actually given by Teacher Lin? No wonder everyone says that Teacher Lin is a 'writer among writers.'"
Immersed in her fantasy of her idol's glorious past, she didn't notice the director holding up a whiteboard to remind her.
This part talks too much about Lin Weimin. Although Lin Weimin is famous and has become a literary master, "I Study on the Island" is a variety show after all, so how can we just talk about one person!
After the director's reminder, Fang Qi finally realized the problem and turned the topic back to his book collection.
Yu Hua and Su Tong are novelists and Xi Chuan is a poet. In addition to the topic of creation, the book itself is also a topic worthy of discussion.
As they chatted, Yu Hua mentioned his experience of moving books when he moved house, and Xichuan sighed: "Books are the most difficult to move."
"I had left the Guowen Press 10 years ago and had been in Yanjing for many years, so I wanted to go back to Haiyan. After packing, I had 50 or 60 boxes of books. At that time, I did the stupidest thing, which was to burn all the letters."
Everyone exclaimed.
"Oh my! You are really..."
“How stupid!”
Yu Hua's tone was full of self-blame. "Tie Sheng wrote me more than ten letters, and Mo Yan also wrote me many letters..."
He added: "I hadn't come to Yanjing yet at that time. I remember Tiesheng wrote me a letter and told me the good news that he was assigned a four-bedroom apartment. What impressed me most was that his family had installed a telephone and he left me a phone number. The letter ended with: I am the luckiest person in the world."
Su Tong said with deep feeling: "He is a person who always praises the world."
"Generally, people who have had experiences like his will have a distorted view of the world. Tiesheng is a person who has no ill will towards the world, has no complaints, and is full of love for the world. He is such a person."
Fang Qi asked again: "Teacher Tiesheng and Teacher Lin have a special relationship, right?"
"They are close friends, not brothers, but better than brothers," said Yu Hua.
Su Tong teased Yu Hua again, "He is always jealous of Tie Sheng and Mo Yan, and always wants to win the favor of Teacher Lin."
Fang Qi found it very funny to think of a great writer like Yu Hua vying for favor in front of Teacher Lin, and his face was full of smiles.
When a few people talked about this, the director suggested that everyone change the scene and sit down to continue chatting.
Everyone strolled to the pavilion on the beach, feeling the sea breeze on their faces. Yu Hua crossed his arms, looking relaxed and comfortable.
"I just chatted with a few teachers and found that you are such interesting people. It turns out that you are not so far away and unattainable," said Fang Qi.
Yu Hua teased, "What about Teacher Lin? Your literary idol!"
Fang Qi blushed when he heard the name. "Teacher Lin is still out of my reach. He is like a beacon in my life."
Su Tong asked: "Hey, I'm quite curious, what year was Fang Qiyi born?"
“I was born in 1993.”
"In 1993. So I must have read Mr. Lin's works after 2005. He didn't write much at that time."
Fang Qi nodded slightly, his face full of regret, "This is what I regret the most. I feel like I missed the golden age of a great writer."
Yu Hua said: "That can't be said. Teacher Lin's works are still there, and that carries his golden age."
"Yes, fortunately he left behind so many good works." Fang Qi was very excited when talking about this. "My favorite is Teacher Lin's Farewell My Concubine. I remember I was still in junior high school at that time. I first watched the movie directed by Cheng Kaige. The movie was so good. Then I found the novel, which was even better than the movie. I read it for two consecutive days. When Cheng Dieyi swung his sword to commit suicide at the end, I cried so hard that my voice became hoarse."
"You really get into novels."
Fang Qi asked, "I heard that Teacher Lin wrote Farewell My Concubine in just one week, is that right?"
"This is true." Su Tong replied, "At that time, Teacher Lin had just graduated from the Institute of Literature and was assigned to be an editor at Contemporary Magazine. He lived in the guesthouse in the back building of the National Literature Society. At that time, the guesthouse was full of writers from all over the country, all of whom came to revise their manuscripts."
"Teacher Lin's family relationship was relatively simple. It was the Spring Festival holiday, and he stayed alone in his dormitory for a week and wrote Farewell My Concubine."
Yu Hua added: "Teacher Lin is a well-known fast writer in the writer circle. At his peak, he could easily write 20,000 words a day. And Mo Yan is also very fast. He can write more than 10,000 words a day by hand."
"Oh my god!" Fang Qi exclaimed in surprise, "Twenty thousand words a day, if it were me, my hands would be crippled after writing for a day."
"So, people like Teacher Lin and Mo Yan are blessed by God."
At this point, Yu Hua pointed at Su Tong again, "That's right. Speaking of Mo Yan, Su Tong always claims to be Teacher Lin's direct disciple. His is a fake. Mo Yan is Teacher Lin's real direct disciple."
Everyone was surprised, "Where did you get this from?"
"At that time, Mo Yan was still publishing articles in local magazines. Teacher Lin saw his novels and thought he wrote well, so he went to the army to collect manuscripts from Mo Yan. At that time, Mo Yan was still in the army.
Think about it, Teacher Lin was already famous all over the country at that time. He was a great writer who came all the way to ask for an article. Mo Yan was flattered!
At that time, because the journey was long, Teacher Lin lived in the military guesthouse and taught Mo Yan many writing skills. He said he benefited a lot from it. Ask Su Tong if he learned anything from Teacher Lin? "
When Yu Hua said this, he looked at Su Tong with a somewhat provocative look.
Su Tong looked at him with amusement, "I didn't learn anything? You learned it?"
Yu Hua was immediately very proud, "Don't tell me, I really learned it."
Su Tong looked unconvinced, as he knew that Yu Hua was always talking nonsense.
Seeing that he didn't believe it, Yu Hua was not anxious, "Do you know how the story of "To Live" came about?"
After hearing what he said, Xichuan and Fang Qi immediately became interested.
When "To Live" was first published in the 1980s, the response was quite good. After more than 20 years, this novel has become a semi-famous work in the Chinese literary world. Xichuan and Fang Qi are naturally willing to listen to the behind-the-scenes story of this novel.
Su Tong didn't care about Yu Hua's keeping it a secret. He had known Yu Hua for many years and had worked as an editor at Contemporary Magazine. He knew the background and process of the creation of To Live in great detail.
The origin of the novel "To Live" came from the fact that one year Yu Hua, Teacher Lin and Tie Sheng walked to a park on Nanlishi Road. There were many tents there, which were filled with parents from other places who brought their children to the Yanjing Children's Hospital for medical treatment.
Yu Hua was deeply impressed by the scene in the park and had never forgotten it even after many years, which led to the story of "To Live".
"When Teacher Lin's Farewell My Concubine was published in People's Literature, it caused a huge response in the Chinese literary world. At that time, I was still a dentist in Haiyan, and I had just published a few short stories.
I have a particularly deep impression of this. That day I watched "Farewell My Concubine" from the evening until the next afternoon.
When I read the description of Cheng Dieyi slashing his own throat with a sword at the end, I felt a throbbing from the depths of my soul that made me tremble all over. At that moment, I realized one of the most important factors for a good novel. "
Seeing Yu Hua's seriousness, even Su Tong, who was originally careless, became serious, "What factors?"
Yu Hua looked at everyone with a sincere expression, "If you want a novel to be interesting, people must die!"
Fang Qi and Xichuan were stunned, while Su Tong looked incredulous.
"Is this what you realized?"
"Of course it's not that simple. I'm just picking out the essentials to tell you. How to write a dead protagonist is a very skillful thing. It's not easy to master this scale, and it's also a great test for your writing skills. It took me a long time to study Teacher Lin's novels before I had some experience."
Yu Hua's expression was serious, as if he was discussing some academic issue.
The three people around were speechless. Fang Qi was a loyal reader of "To Live". When she thought about how she was tortured to death by the plot when she read the novel and couldn't stop crying, it was all because of the author Yu Hua who realized this kind of fallacy. She felt a kind of anger boiling up in her heart.
She asked with a serious expression, "Teacher Yu, you said that you learned from Farewell My Concubine that it is interesting to write characters to death, but in Farewell My Concubine, only Cheng Dieyi was written to die."
Hearing her question, Yu Hua said very modestly: "With Mr. Lin's skill, he can earn the tears of thousands of readers by just writing Cheng Dieyi to death. I can't do that. I'm not good enough. I need to write more people to death."
God, my skills are not enough!
Is this your reason for abusing your readers?
Is this the reason why you executed Fugui's entire family?
Fang Qi felt tears in his eyes, his heart filled with grievance and extreme grief and anger.
These writers really don’t treat their readers as human beings!
"Don't listen to his nonsense, he never tells the truth!" Su Tong defined Hua.
Fang Qi deeply agreed with this statement, but she didn't dare say it out loud. She just felt that Teacher Yu Hua had successfully broken his filter for writers.
"After Fang Qi heard what Yu Hua said, did the mystery and curiosity about the writer in his heart disappear immediately?" Su Tong asked.
Fang Qi gave a slightly awkward smile, the meaning of which was self-evident.
Yu Hua laughed out loud without caring. Su Tong continued, "Everyone used to say that you can analyze the writer behind a work from the work. The writer is the shadow of the work. If you really want to bring the shadow into reality, he will definitely be different from your imagination. That's why everyone used to say that you don't need to meet the writer. It's like if you bring Marquez to me now, his mysterious feeling in my mind will immediately disappear..."
Fang Qi had a conflicted expression. She claimed to be an artistic young woman, but when it came to her idol, she was more of a fan.
"But I still really want to meet Teacher Lin Weimin!"
Xichuan smiled and said, "Fang Qi is a die-hard reader of Teacher Lin. Even if all the mystery and sublimity disappear, he still wants to see his idol."
"Fang Qi is a young girl, so it's normal for her to want to meet Teacher Lin." Yu Hua pointed at Su Tong and said, "Think about it, Su Tong's looks are outstanding among our male writers, but he is far inferior to Teacher Lin. Teacher Lin was very popular among thousands of girls back then. Before they met him in person, many literary young women were fans of his works. But after they met him in person, they all became fans of him in person."
Speaking of Lin Weimin's appearance, Fang Qi became even more excited, as if she were a star-chasing girl who was excited when thinking of her idol.
"I have seen the photo of Mr. Lin on the cover of Time magazine in the 1990s. He was really handsome, with deep eyes, sharp eyebrows and bright eyes. He had a refreshing and charming temperament."
Xichuan nodded in agreement and said, "Teacher Lin is indeed a very charismatic person."
He was not familiar with Lin Weimin. The few times they met were all because of Haizi's poetry collection. In this matter, Xichuan was always grateful to Lin Weimin.
"Wow! All those interesting stories about Teacher Lin could not be told in three days. It was so interesting at that time." Yu Hua said with emotion.
Fang Qi asked, "Teacher Yu, can you tell me what Teacher Lin is doing now? I have hardly heard from him in recent years."
"If you ask me, I don't know. He is now a free and easy person, living a life like a god!"
Hearing this, Fang Qi looked disappointed and whispered, "It would be great if Teacher Lin could come to our show!"
"Haha, is this an invitation from the program team? If so, I'll give him a call later."
"Really?" Fang Qi's eyes sparkled.
"It's just a phone call. I can't call him. You can ask Su Tong to make another call. He is Teacher Lin's direct disciple." Yu Hua passed the buck in advance.
Su Tong asked: "Didn't you also learn the 'Dragon Slaying Technique' from Teacher Lin?"
Yu Hua was stabbed in the back and immediately argued: "I learned all this from Teacher Lin. Readers can scold him first if they want to."
Everyone laughed happily, and the sea breeze blew, and their laughter drifted far away with the sea breeze.
(End of this chapter)
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