Chapter 39 Young friends come to meet
"Come on, Gao Jialin, come up and read your article to everyone!" Liu Yujia waved her hand.
"Um, okay!" Gao Jialin walked up to the podium, took the newspaper and began to read aloud.
The students listened attentively. Liu Yujia also walked down from the podium, sat down in the back row, and listened with the students, nodding slightly. Gao Jialin's Mandarin was very standard, without any accent at all.
It is not easy to learn standard Mandarin these days. Most teachers in different places have accents, and tape recorders for listening to the radio are not yet popular, let alone televisions.
Many students from small places may not meet a teacher who can speak standard Mandarin from primary school to university. In such an environment, how can we expect them to speak without an accent? Gao Jialin does not have this problem. His Mandarin is not only without an accent, but also clear and rhythmic. With these, he is qualified to be an announcer at the school radio station.
The normal speaking speed of a person is between 100 and 200 words per minute. Gao Jialin read neither fast nor slow. It took him 20 minutes to finish reading the article of more than 3,000 words.
It was time to end the get out of class, so Liu Yujia walked back to the podium and said, "Okay, everyone, take a break first and think carefully about the advantages of this article. We will discuss it next class."
As soon as he left the classroom, Gao Jialin was surrounded by people, even girls came around, and they all asked, "Jialin, how did you publish this article?"
“Galin, can you tell us how you came up with this article?”
Their eyes were full of envy. This was the status of writers in the 1980s. Even if they had only published one article, they could become the focus of everyone's attention.
"I was lucky!" Gao Jialin told the story again, attributing the success to Zhang Lifeng's guidance. "Teacher Zhang asked me to write out my true feelings, so I did as he said. I didn't expect it to be published!"
At this time, Liu Yujia just returned to the classroom. Hearing this, he couldn't help but praise, "Well, Gao Jialin, you said it well! The biggest advantage of your article is the sincerity of emotion!"
"Literary appreciation should start with the characters, storyline, language, and text structure, but these are just details. The most important thing is the emotions and thoughts contained in the article. Gao Jialin's article expresses very sincere emotions. Based on this point, even if the article has some flaws in the plot and language, it is still a good article."
Through this article, Liu Yujia began to tell the students the key points of literary appreciation.
"Literature is an art of language, and it is a symbolic criterion for judging a writer's maturity. When we get a work by a famous writer, we can tell who wrote it just by the language style, without looking at the title or the author. For example, Lu Xun's language is concise and clear, his writing is sharp, his syntax is unique, and his jokes, anger and insults are all turned into articles, forming the unique 'Lu Xun style'; Lao She's language is full of Beijing flavor and is all 'plain language'."
"MAX once said that only by creating a 'typical character in a typical environment' can this character image become an immortal image and be passed down through the ages."
While explaining the principles of literary appreciation, he took out Gao Jialin's articles for analysis and verification. In just one short class, he gave students a preliminary impression of literary appreciation.
This class brought Gao Jialin some more fame. Gradually, teachers and students of Pujiang College learned that Gao Jialin was not only able to send county governors to prison, but could also write articles.
In the next few days, Gao Jialin, like other students, spent almost every day in busy study, and only relaxed a little on the weekend.
We still have a six-day work week, with only one day off, which is Sunday. Early on Sunday morning, my roommates can’t wait to get up early and squeeze onto the bus to go downtown to appreciate the prosperity of Shanghai.
After arriving in the city and strolling around for a while, everyone separated and went in groups of three or four to visit the places that interested them. Gao Jialin was not very interested in the buildings on the Bund, as he had seen them a long time ago and had even lived and eaten in them.
He first went to a bookstore and bought a few popular magazines, then found a carpenter's shop and walked in. "Master, can you make a small table like this?"
"Let me take a look!" The shop owner, who was in his thirties, put down the saw, took the drawing from him and started to look at it.
"This thing is not difficult. The materials are all ready-made. It can be made in no time!"
"It's good to be able to do it. How much does it cost? How long will it take?"
The shop owner scratched his head and estimated the price based on the materials and labor. "Do you want to paint? Paint slowly, it needs to dry, and you have to pay an extra fifty cents. If you don't paint, it will only take half an hour, so you can take the two dollars!"
Nowadays, a large piece of furniture would cost at least ten dollars. Gao Jialin only charged two dollars and fifty cents for this little thing, so he didn't ask for too much.
"Let's paint it! That'll be two dollars and fifty cents? I'll wait here!" Gao Jialin took out the magazine he had just bought and sat in the store to read it.
Fortunately, this store is run by an individual business owner, so as long as it can make money, everything is fine. If it were a state-owned unit, how could it be so easy?
The boss took out the materials and started sawing, planing, drilling and painting quickly. By the time Gao Jialin finished reading a magazine, others had finished making the work.
Four legs are supported by a thin wooden board. Just reach out and grab the legs and snap them together. This is the lazy table that was popular in university dormitories in later generations. The owner also carved grooves for pens and ink on the table top according to the drawings to prevent them from slipping.
"Not bad, not bad, very good! Master, if you want to make money, you can make a few more and sell them in front of the university. There will definitely be students who want them!" Seeing that his craftsmanship was good, Gao Jialin gave him a chance to show him around.
There are tables in university dormitories, but several people squeeze around one table to read or do homework, which is not as comfortable as lying on the bed and enjoying a small table alone.
"That's what I told you!" The shop owner slapped his thigh. "I was just wondering what this table was used for. It turns out it's for doing homework on the bed! Hmm, university dormitories really need this thing!"
The shop owner thanked Gao Jialin repeatedly and did not even take the money. He patted his chest and assured Gao Jialin that if he wanted to make furniture again in the future, he could come to him and he would guarantee to make it for him for free.
Gao Jialin's idea can make him a lot of money, so he has to show his appreciation, right? And next time he comes, maybe he can come up with something to make money again?
He carried the small table back to the dormitory, put it on the bed, took out the manuscript paper and pen, and wrote the title of his second submission at the top of the manuscript paper - "Young Friends Come to Meet".
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