Chapter 230 Li Ye: You must correct your aesthetics
When Li Ye met Zou Zhiguo, A Qiang and Pan Xiaoqing, he was also very surprised. He just asked Zou Zhiguo to take A Qiang to watch the flag-raising ceremony, so why did they even attract reporters?
What’s this going on?
Li Ye had no choice but to receive the three people while asking Sun Xianjin to quickly call Li Huaisheng.
Now Li Huaisheng is still the president of the literature society!
Pan Xiaoqing looked at the young Li Ye and asked with shining eyes: "My dear classmate, what kind of cultural cooperation do you have with Hong Kong Island?"
Li Ye smiled and said, "Let's talk about this after the president of our literature club comes!"
Pan Xiaoqing smiled and said, "Tell me about it first!"
Li Ye waved his hand: "It's inconvenient, it's inconvenient. I don't know many details."
Although Li Ye was the matchmaker this time, it is better to leave things like dealing with reporters to veterans like Li Haisheng and Yang Yumin.
Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin arrived soon. When they saw that Li Ye had no intention of "stealing the limelight", they both felt that "Li Ye is a kind person."
But actually! Li Ye didn’t need this kind of publicity opportunity, and he also wanted to downplay the relationship with Talang Literature Publishing House on the surface to avoid being criticized.
Li Huaisheng had already communicated with Li Ye, so he naturally understood what Li Ye meant by asking A Qiang to come to Beijing.
"We invited Mr. Huo to come here so that he can deeply understand the profoundness and splendor of flower-growing civilization.
Let him have a clearer understanding of the historical background of "Hometown Lonely Army", so as to facilitate the creation of related comics."
"You may not know that there is no unified regulation for history textbooks in Hong Kong Island. School teachers can freely choose textbooks, which has caused Hong Kong Island students to lack knowledge of the history of flower planting."
"So we decided to give Mr. Huo some history courses first, and then let him feel the vastness of the motherland and see the cultural relics left by our ancestors, such as the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Terracotta Warriors in Chang'an."
"Yes, there is also the Great Wall outside the Great Wall and the Yumen Pass where the spring breeze does not reach."
Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin were talking to reporter Pan Xiaoqing. A Qiang, who was listening, opened his mouth wider and wider and his eyes became more and more confused.
He just wanted to finish this job quickly and return to Hong Kong to ask his boss for a promotion and a raise!
But look at what these people said?
Let me study history in class? If I like studying in class, do I need to make a living by drawing pornographic comics?
And looking at his enthusiasm, do you really want me to travel around the beautiful land of our motherland?
Li Ye looked at Ah Qiang's embarrassed expression and added calmly, "We should also go and see the Memorial Hall of the War to Resist Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea by the Yalu River."
“.”
"We must go, we must go and see. We are not only strong since our ancestors, but we are also strong now. We cannot let others think that our country is weak because of our habitual humility.
Let Mr. Huo see how the British Royal Infantry Brigade was captured by our soldiers. "
“.”
Aqiang is almost going crazy.
Just now he was warmed by the kind-hearted people around him, but now he was numbed by a few "nationalists".
The Great Eagle Empire's infantry brigade was captured? How come I haven't heard of it?
Love is what it wants! Anyway, I am alone in the wolf's den, and I am a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and I have no right to resist.
However, after the interview, Aqiang felt that warm feeling again.
Peking University students gave Aqiang a warm welcome. Not only his classmates from the Literature Society, but also students from the Student Union and the Youth League Committee came over to express their friendly attitudes towards Aqiang.
And after learning that Aqiang was an orphan, this attitude instantly rose to the level of care.
"Stay at Kyoto University first, and feel free to ask for any problems or requests you may have."
"Okay, okay, but I have booked a hotel today, thank you, thank you."
Zou Zhiguo had already told Aqiang in advance that he would take him out to stay tonight, so Aqiang tried his best to decline Jingda's kindness.
When they left Beijing University in the evening, Aqiang asked Zou Zhiguo: "The last person who shook hands with me just now, wasn't he a student?"
Zou Zhiguo said as he pushed his bicycle, "He's not a student, he's the director of the school."
Ah Qiang was shocked and said, "Director? The kind of director who is the police commissioner?"
Zou Zhiguo glanced at Aqiang sideways, said nothing, got on the bike and started pedaling.
The Commissioner of Police of Hong Kong Island is commonly known as the "number one in the police force". It is an exaggeration to say that he is extremely powerful, but he is definitely a big shot in Hong Kong Island.
But Zou Zhiguo didn't want to explain, so A Qiang sat on the back seat of the bicycle, staring blankly at his palms, which still felt warm.
Zou Zhiguo rode his bicycle to Zaojun Temple and met Li Ye.
Li Ye smiled and said, "Pei Wencong told you about my situation, right?"
A Qiang nodded and said, "I've told you that here, everything is up to Mr. Li."
When Aqiang came, Pei Wencong reminded him not to offend Li Ye in any way, but also not to be overly respectful in front of outsiders.
"Sit down!"
Li Ye asked Aqiang to sit down, and then said: "From your expression today, it seems that you are very surprised by the arrangement here. Do you think there is something wrong with it?"
A Qiang said: "This is definitely a surprise. I thought I would be back in a few days, but now it seems like even half a month is not enough."
"It has nothing to do with time," Li Ye denied. "If you are the right person, it may take less than half a month."
A Qiang was stunned. It seems that even though you welcome me so much, it may not be appropriate?
So he asked: "What would it take to be the right person?"
"Identify, identify from the heart," Li Ye said seriously, "We need someone who identifies with this land from the bottom of his heart to be the main writer and person in charge of this comic."
This is the reason why Li Ye insisted on asking Hong Kong Island to send a cartoonist to the north.
He was afraid that people like Naoto Nakamura would arbitrarily adapt "Homeland". He also did not have blind trust in Hong Kong Island.
It is now 1983, and external demonization propaganda does exist.
The ending of "The Lone Soldier Looking Back Home" is about the remnant soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions traveling thousands of miles back to their hometown. If a cartoonist who does not agree that the mainland is the authentic place to grow flowers, can he create that kind of soul resonance of a wanderer returning home?
It took Ah Qiang a long time to understand what Li Ye meant. After thinking for a while, he said, "I don't know if I am the person you need, but I don't agree with the British Hong Kong government. They have never regarded me as one of their compatriots."
Aqiang used the word "compatriots", but before today, he had no feelings about this word.
"Okay, show me your work."
Aqiang opened his luggage and took out seven or eight comic magazines and comic drawings.
Li Ye took A Qiang's work, opened it and looked at it carefully. As he looked at it, his expression changed.
Aqiang's painting skills are very good, but there are a lot of bad things mixed in these works.
Hong Kong comics used to have a salacious and violent style in the 1960s and 1970s, but later on, due to the publication of relevant mandatory regulations, things became much more restrained.
These works of Aqiang do not exceed the regulations, but the implicit and borderline style is very obvious.
And you can just dabble in it! It’s fine as long as you can grasp the “purity” and “desire”! But Aqiang’s works are too worldly, and it’s impossible for otakus to imagine the “goddess”.
"What a mess!" Li Ye said with a gloomy face: "Why did Pei Wencong recommend you? Do you know what kind of work "Hometown Lonely Army" is?"
Ah Qiang was startled by Li Ye's sudden burst of aura, so he could only whisper: "I know, it's the same genre as "North Wind Flying", and I have tried to write a similar novel."
"Show me the novel."
A Qiang quickly gave Li Ye the half of the novel he had written.
After reading for a while, Li Ye's gloomy expression eased a little. Aqiang's creative ideas on the novel were more in line with "The Lone Soldier Looking Back at Home".
He said to Aqiang seriously: "You must correct your aesthetic values and accept strict relevant knowledge learning. This comic book is not allowed to contain anything with bad connotations."
Aqiang felt a lot of pressure. He felt a little depressed and unhappy.
For many years, Aqiang wanted to be a real cartoonist, but he couldn't even find a formal job as a "cartoon assistant".
This time Pei Wencong asked him to go north to the capital, which was his opportunity and also a test.
Li Ye asked coldly: "Do you want to go back now?"
A Qiang was silent for a long time, without saying anything, and finally shook his head slowly.
"Then you should move to the Kyoto University dormitory tomorrow and study hard in class."
That night, Aqiang tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep.
As soon as he closed his eyes, he would see the enthusiastic gazes he saw during the day, especially the eyes of the little girl of seven or eight years old, which made him reluctant to leave.
. . . . . .
The next day, Aqiang arrived at Peking University with a pair of panda eyes, and then he saw two piles of books and picture albums like small mountains in the activity room of the Lone Army Literary Society.
Li Huaisheng smiled and said, "Hello, Mr. Huo Renqiang, this is historical data related to the mid-Tang Dynasty, as well as the armor, weapons, and clothing of the time. If you have any questions, you can raise them and we can discuss them together."
Aqiang: “.”
Aqiang felt like he was living a year in a day the whole morning.
Books in simplified Chinese were very difficult to read, and Li Huaisheng needed to explain them to him constantly. A Qiang suddenly felt like he was just an elementary school student.
Fortunately, Li Ye provided information in advance. The history textbooks of Hong Kong Island were seriously lacking in records of the history of flower planting. Otherwise, Aqiang’s poor academic performance would have been completely exposed.
In the afternoon, Aqiang became interested in those picture albums. He copied a few pictures at first, and then he couldn't stop, and didn't stop until dinner time.
After Li Huaisheng and several other classmates saw Aqiang's drawings, they all praised them highly.
"Mr. Huo, your painting style is very unique. I am also a painting enthusiast. Can you teach me?"
"Yes, Mr. Huo, can you tell us about the characteristics of comics and the differences between them and sketches?"
When several students sincerely asked Aqiang for advice, he, who had been feeling depressed for most of the day, suddenly felt that life at Peking University was not so hard after all.
(End of this chapter)
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