Chapter 58: Either stupid or evil "It has to be Teacher Daohua, this...
"It has to be Teacher Daohua. The portrayal of foreign countries is so vivid. I don't know how Teacher Daohua did it."
The editor of People's Literature looked at the novels received and made special inquiries. He also knew people from the border and asked about what Li Daohua wrote.
Especially since the border is now facing many external dangers and everyone is a soldier.
"Yes, we are close to many places. To be honest, there are still some unfriendly external elements. It is much better now. When I was a child, it was more dangerous."
When talking about their hometown, most people would have endless topics to talk about, but this young man from Yunnan Province rarely discusses his hometown.
If he hadn't been asked this time, he wouldn't have said much.
When he talks about things like this, some people may think that he is exaggerating, while others may think that he is smearing the province and making everyone feel that his hometown is unsafe.
“We don’t know any of this.”
"Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
"Oh, Teacher Daohua wrote a novel called "In the Storm", which mentioned your province and said that the people of your province have made great contributions to the stability of the country."
The young man from Yunnan Province immediately became excited: "Did Teacher Daohua write a novel for our province?"
The editor of People's Literature was somewhat at a loss, and he carefully considered the words and said: "This novel mainly tells the story of an overseas Chinese. It mentions your province and also describes some of the local customs and practices."
"Can I...can I take a look? I don't have any other intentions. If it's inconvenient, I can take a look after it's published."
"The manuscript is not in my hands now. It is in the publishing house. However, the publishing house has decided to publish it soon. I will give you a copy when the time comes."
According to what Li Daohua wrote in the novel, the entire people of Yunnan Province were indeed silently guarding while everyone else was enjoying a peaceful life.
There are not many people from Yunnan Province who can work in Peking, and they are all very outstanding people. Yang Xue also went through untold hardships and passed through layers of selection. She was admitted to Peking from Yunnan Province and then stayed in Peking to work.
When I was in Beijing, I sometimes missed my hometown and my relatives there.
Li Daohua and her family can still take a train home once a year, although it takes a long time and is tiring, as they have to change trains several times.
For Yang Xue, this journey was much better.
Since he went out to study, he has never returned home and has only written letters to his family.
It was not easy to communicate by writing letters. There were not many people in their village who graduated from elementary school. The postman would help read the letters he wrote, but it was impossible for his parents to write to him.
Over the years, his parents only wrote him two letters. One of them was written by a primary school student in the village, and it contained a lot of pinyin and typos.
The second letter was written by a teacher they paid to be from the town, who had to walk the long mountain road with the children to the town school.
The letter just told him not to worry about his family and to work in Beijing. They had taken out the money he sent back. It was not easy for him in Beijing. When were they going to get married?
His parents didn't want him to go back to Yunnan Province. Beiping was much better than Yunnan Province and there were more opportunities. They felt that he could become a high-ranking official in Beiping.
Yang Xue plans to wait until Teacher Daohua's new novel is printed as a book, then he will buy a copy, circle the part about Yunnan Province after reading it, and then send it back home for his parents to read.
Let them see that everyone remembers them. People all over the country know them. They have not been forgotten.
As for whether the part that Teacher Daohua wrote that they omitted was good or not, Yang Xue was not worried at all, it must be good!
He is not a die-hard fan of Teacher Daohua. In fact, he seldom reads Teacher Daohua's novels.
Part of the reason was that he was poor and could not afford to buy books, so he could only read the famous books in the library. Another part was that he felt that Teacher Daohua’s novels were too far away from him.
Be it reform, house, or America, they are all too far away for the young man. What he has to do is to do well in every present matter so as not to let down his hard work in studying.
Unlike "In the Storm", this was the first time he wanted so badly to see what the story of the novel was all about and what his hometown looked like in the eyes of others.
After much anticipation, in December 1982, People's Literature published Li Daohua's "In the Storm".
There was no fanfare, as if everything was taken for granted. When readers who got the latest issue of People's Literature looked through the catalog, they were pleasantly surprised to find that Teacher Daohua was in it. So what are you waiting for? The first thing you should read is Teacher Daohua's novel.
Some people also want to put Li Daohua's novel at the end so that they have enough time to read it carefully. This is a novel by a Nobel Prize-nominated writer. It must be excellent and worth learning.
Most of Li Daohua’s previous novels were exciting stories. Even those with tragic endings had an exciting beginning.
This novel is different. It is filled with depression from the very beginning. Even Li Daohua always uses words like warm, bright and gorgeous to describe the surrounding environment in the text.
But such a bright environment further highlights the darkness in the protagonist Yang Chuang's life, including the gradual darkness and distortion in his heart.
However, the description of Yunnan Province in the novel is of layers of trees, countless mosquitoes, and sincere and high-spirited compatriots.
In the border town, ordinary people work and sing folk songs, and the PLA patrols the border every day regardless of rain or shine...
Due to the lack of information, many people do not know the situation in Yunnan Province, or in other words, people nowadays tend to live in a state of mind that the world is around them.
The biggest source of information is newspapers. The newspapers report where the war is happening and from what time to what time. That is the confirmed time.
Newspapers rarely report on the lives of ordinary people.
The reason why popular literature, or local literature, has dominated the market for many years is precisely because it reflects the life around ordinary people.
Maybe it's not exactly the same, but I can always see some of myself or the people around me in a certain character and feel the same way.
After reading "In the Storm", Yang Xue had an indescribable feeling. In fact, not all people are optimistic and positive, but such people do exist.
His parents hoped that he could leave his hometown because it was too poor and miserable. In their words, the emperor was far away.
But the people on that land are indeed worthy of praise. Teacher Daohua did not sing about their suffering, but about their optimism and their contributions...
This is different from praising suffering. Praising suffering is only to make them willing to suffer more. Praising optimism and contribution is to let more people know that such excellent people exist.
They may be far away from us, working silently in places we can't see, but they also deserve to be known by everyone.
Yang Xue originally just wanted to circle the part that described Yunnan Province the most, but as she kept circling, she unknowingly circled all of them.
He felt that every section describing Yunnan Province was worth reading, and he was reluctant to see any part being forgotten, just as he was reluctant to see his hometown being forgotten.
"Is Yunnan Province so beautiful?" After reading this, one reader suddenly became curious about Yunnan Province.
In "In the Storm", Li Daohua praised some places in Yunnan Province highly.
If there were photos, Li Daohua would have wanted to throw the pictures in everyone’s faces.
Environmental pollution has already begun in the 1980s. With the reform and opening up and deepening industrialization, environmental pollution will become more severe.
Sacrificing the environment in exchange for economic growth is the pain that every country must go through when industrializing.
Our country is relatively lucky because industrialization started late, and various industrial equipment has made relatively great progress, and the pollution to the environment is not as serious as it was at the beginning.
Some old developed countries, pioneers of the industrial revolution, have demonstrated through their own actions how terrible industrial pollution is.
Because of this, the environmental pollution caused by the economic boom can be recovered at a very fast speed while vigorously restoring the environment.
Yunnan Province is indeed remote, but this remoteness also leads to less industrial pollution. Coupled with the small population, the province has many more excellent natural resources than other places.
"I really want to go to the south of the colorful clouds."
"Wake up, we are not close to Yunnan Province. You haven't even been to many places in the province, let alone the south of the colorful clouds."
"Can't I just think about it?"
"Is the Golden Triangle really that dangerous? Isn't it the Golden Triangle? It should be very rich."
This theory is like some people always think that San Francisco is a city built on a mountain of gold, with gold everywhere on the ground, and people don’t have to work, they can just bend down and pick up gold flowers.
If that were the case, America wouldn't have to travel across the ocean to other countries to make money.
"Everyone here deserves to die! If it weren't for them trafficking drugs, our country wouldn't have been plunged into war."
This is really an unfair accusation. They have just started. Drug trafficking is indeed wrong, but they cannot bear this blame.
"Well, actually, Yang Chuang should have changed in the end. He wanted to turn himself in, to repent, and to go home. It would be great if he could go home and see his mother."
"Are you okay? Are you okay? Teacher Daohua wrote so much, and you just saw his mother?"
"Teacher Daohua wrote that the PLA comrades who died never had the chance to see their parents and children again. Why didn't you say that?
When that PLA soldier named Wu Lin was captured by those scumbags and tortured, were you blind?"
"It's one thing for one thing, and no one is perfect."
The friend who was reading with him debated with him for a few sentences. When he heard that he was defending Yang Chuang, he thought that something was wrong with him and quietly went to other places.
Don’t make friends with people who have incorrect values. If you make friends with these people, you might get accidentally injured when thunder strikes.
People like this are either stupid or bad. No matter what, it's better to stay away from them.
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