Literary Master 1978

The sister-in-law is very angry, so angry that Lin Chaoyang needs to bring her a game console as a gift from Hong Kong to calm down.

In fact, it’s okay for her to be angry. The key is that this little girl "holds the emperor hostage to command the princes", and Lin Chaoyang dare not provoke her.

Last year, when Lin Chaoyang came back from Hong Kong, he brought back a game console. It was originally bought for the Tao Xiwen brothers, but it ended up being Tao Yumo’s toy.

The sister-in-law became a heavy game enthusiast. The game console is fun, but the only drawback is that there is only one game.

Tao Yumo knew that Nintendo released a new game console in the second half of last year, which can be adapted to different games. She has always been envious. This time Lin Chaoyang is going to Hong Kong again, so she naturally can’t miss this opportunity to blackmail her.

Of course, the blackmail is not for nothing. In the next year, Tao Yumo will have no salary to take care of the children. After all, a game console still costs hundreds of yuan.

After Tao Yushu learned about her sister's request, she couldn't help but scold her: "Look at you! How can you be so unlucky! How can you be so angry and ask for gifts? If you talk to him nicely, how can he not bring you one when you come back?"

After being enlightened by her sister, Tao Yumo reacted immediately.

Yes, last year, her brother-in-law went to Hong Kong and brought back a bunch of gifts for the family. How could he not bring one this time?

Tao Yumo regretted that she wanted to hit the wall when she thought that she could have gotten the game console for free but was stupid enough to exchange it for a year's labor.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law..."

Tao Yumo's call was sincere and pitiful, but Lin Chaoyang didn't buy it.

Buying game consoles to take care of children, you chose it!

There was still half a month before going to Guangzhou for the work seminar. Lin Chaoyang had nothing to do these days, so he simply focused all his energy on the renovation of the East Courtyard.

The renovation of the Siheyuan is different from the construction of a house. It is not only a meticulous job, but more importantly, it is necessary to preserve the traditional cultural characteristics as much as possible.

The West Courtyard where Lin Chaoyang and his family live now is basically the original style of the old courtyard in Yanjing, without too many facilities adapted to the urban style.

He plans to take advantage of the renovation of the East Courtyard this time to add some facilities to the courtyard while maintaining the traditional characteristics.

For example, water and electricity renovation, kitchen and bathroom renovation and adding kitchen and bathroom appliances, air conditioning and heating boilers in the bedroom and living room, and adding green plants in the courtyard...

It doesn't cost much to repair a house, but Lin Chaoyang's renovation will cost a lot of money, and the electrical appliances are undoubtedly the most expensive.

These electrical appliances are probably a hassle to buy one in the homes of ordinary people, but Lin Chaoyang has no pressure at all, because he has so many foreign exchange coupons and overseas remittance coupons in his hands that he can't spend them all.

"When the East Courtyard is repaired, we will move to the East Courtyard. If friends come to the West Courtyard in the future, let them live here.

Separated by two walls, everyone will not affect each other."

Lin Chaoyang looked forward to the planning of the courtyard in Xiaoliubukou Hutong to Tao Yushu.

In March this year, when those writer friends stayed at home to read the manuscript of "Crossing Guandong", Lin Chaoyang felt that everyone seemed uncomfortable and was afraid of affecting each other.

He thought it would be better to move here after the East Courtyard was packed up, and the West Courtyard would be used to entertain guests. How good it would be.

"Okay, you think very well."

Tao Yushu was reading the documents carefully and was very perfunctory about Lin Chaoyang's prospects.

Lin Chaoyang sighed helplessly. You didn't treat me like this when we just got married.

Time flew to the end of July. That night, Tao Yushu was packing Lin Chaoyang's luggage for a business trip. CCTV news on TV was broadcasting the news that the Chinese delegation stayed in the Los Angeles Olympic Village.

1984 was the Olympic year, held in Los Angeles, California, USA. This was also the second time that Los Angeles held the Olympic Games. The last time was the 10th Olympic Games in 1932.

The schedule of this Olympic Games started on July 28 and ended on August 12, a total of 16 days.

The number of participating countries and regions reached 140, exceeding the scale of any previous Olympic Games.

It is worth noting that this Olympic Games is also the first time that China has returned to the Olympic Games since 1952. Sports are an extension of politics. China's return to the international sports arena is of course closely related to its diplomatic honeymoon with the United States.

In this Olympic Games, China sent a sports delegation of 225 people to participate in 16 major events.

For a developing country that has been away from the Olympic Games for more than 30 years, such a large sports delegation obviously gives enough face to the United States.

Similarly, this is also a good opportunity for China to show the world the new atmosphere of reform and opening up.

"There are so many people. How much money will it cost!" Zhang Guiqin sighed as she looked at the picture on TV.

"Old women have long hair and little knowledge. That's the Olympics, it's to win face for the country, how much does the round trip fare for a team of two or three hundred people cost?"

From the production team leader to the landlord, Lin Erchun has not been out of breath for half a year, and it is not difficult to go up to the fifth floor. He is energetic and high-spirited, and his words are full of arrogance.

"I just don't know how many gold medals I can win. I heard that the gold medals in the Olympics are not easy to win. The athletes' faces are purple, but they may not win." Lin Erchun said to himself.

The next morning, Lin Chaoyang came to the Capital Airport with his luggage and boarded a plane to Guangzhou. In addition to him, there were Li Tuo, Feng Mu and Tang Zhi on this plane. The three of them were invited by Huacheng to Guangzhou to attend a seminar.

Li Tuo is needless to say, he is as familiar with Lin Chaoyang as can be, and they can't help but make fun of each other when they meet.

Feng Mu is the editor-in-chief of "Wenyi Bao", a heavyweight in the domestic literary world, and has always admired Lin Chaoyang.

This time, he was able to travel thousands of miles to attend the "Crossing Guandong" work seminar, which is more of a face for Lin Chaoyang than for "Huacheng".

Another Tang Zhi, Lin Chaoyang has less contact with him, only knowing that he is a writer, critic, and the backbone of "Wenyi Bao" and the Literary Association, especially in the literary criticism circle.

"The Epic Nature of Contemporary Literature - On the Artistic Achievements of "Crossing Guandong"" published in "Wenyi Bao" some time ago was written by him.

After chatting all the way, Lin Chaoyang successfully found Li Shifei who came to pick him up at the entrance of the passage after landing.

"Old Li, I didn't expect you to come in person!" Lin Chaoyang shook hands with Li Shifei and greeted him after coming out of the passage.

"You are the protagonist of this seminar, of course I have to welcome you." Li Shifei said with a smile.

In fact, Li Shifei had to meet not only Lin Chaoyang today, but also several other guests who came to attend the seminar.

When he saw Li Tuo, Feng Mu and others who got off the plane with Lin Chaoyang, he also greeted them warmly, and then took everyone to their residence.

Generally, publishing houses mainly invite local guests to hold seminars, mainly for cost considerations. When people come, the publishing house has to cover all the food, accommodation and transportation.

Huacheng Publishing House has invested a lot of money in holding a work seminar for "Crossing Guandong" this time, inviting many well-known writers, critics and editors from literary centers such as Yanjing and Shanghai, and inevitably spending a lot of money on food, accommodation and transportation.

Huacheng Publishing House is not a wealthy unit, so of course they do things as economically as possible. For this work seminar, they specially borrowed two small villas in Huaqiao New Village.

Huaqiao New Village is located in the northeast of Guangzhou city, and was originally a barren hill.

In 1955, in order to arrange for the return of overseas Chinese, the Overseas Chinese New Village covering an area of ​​680,000 square meters was built here. There are 177 garden-style villas and 291 apartment buildings. It is one of the largest residential areas built after the founding of New China.

It is midsummer, and the Overseas Chinese New Village is shaded by trees, birds are singing, and flowers are fragrant. It is a scene of paradise. Li Tuo and others couldn't help but admire it after entering the community.

Li Tuo said to Lin Chaoyang: "Hey, Chaoyang, this is much better than your Overseas Chinese Apartment."

The first house Lin Chaoyang bought was the Garden Bridge Overseas Chinese Apartment near the West Third Ring Road of Yanjing. It was also a house built for overseas Chinese, but the Garden Bridge Overseas Chinese Apartment was compared with the villa group of the Overseas Chinese New Village. It was simply weak.

Not only were they small Western-style buildings, but every family also had a small garden, with an elegant and quiet environment.

Enter the villa to allocate rooms, young people live upstairs, and old comrades live downstairs.

After a break, Lin Chaoyang met several other guests from Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, some of whom were acquaintances of Lin Chaoyang.

For example, Li Xiaolin, deputy editor-in-chief of Harvest, complained as soon as she saw Lin Chaoyang.

"You haven't submitted your novels to Harvest in recent years. I came here to ask you if you are dissatisfied with Harvest?"

Li Xiaolin joked half-truthfully. Since Parents' Love, many of Lin Chaoyang's novels have not been submitted to Harvest. She really coveted those manuscripts.

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but there are too many acquaintances. Everyone wants to ask for manuscripts, so I can only focus on Yenching's publications first."

"You have a close relationship with Yenching's publications, so what about Huacheng?"

Lin Chaoyang pulled Li Xiaolin and whispered, "It's not... they pay more money!"

Li Xiaolin couldn't help but smile, "It's been so many years, why are you still so stingy about the manuscript fee?"

"I can't help it, I rely on this to make a living!" Lin Chaoyang spread his hands.

After chatting and laughing with Li Xiaolin, Lin Chaoyang greeted Cong Weixi and Li Hangyu.

Li Hangyu is a young writer who has just started out. He was not qualified to be invited to attend a seminar of this level.

After Lin Chaoyang proposed "Root-seeking Literature", he was the most active writer in China to respond. A few months ago, his article "Sorting Out Our Roots" caused a lot of repercussions in the literary world.

This article made him one of the representative figures of root-seeking literature. "Crossing Guandong" bears a clear and profound imprint of "root-seeking literature", so it is natural for Li Hangyu to appear at the seminar on such a work.

That evening, Huacheng Publishing House arranged a welcoming banquet for the guests.

The seminar on "Crossing Guandong" lasted for three days. In addition to one day of seminar, the remaining two days were field trips, which was a benefit.

The seminar was held in the conference room of Huacheng Publishing House. Nearly 20 well-known writers, critics and editors in the literary world gathered together. The scene was grand. This kind of seminar was held for the first time in the history of Huacheng Publishing House.

If you count carefully, it has been more than three months since the first part of "Crossing Guandong" was published, and more than a month since the second part was published. This time is not long for the influence of literary works to ferment.

But "Crossing Guandong" is not an ordinary literary work. As the most popular phenomenon-level novel in the Chinese literary world in 1984, its influence has broken the shackles of time.

The sensation it caused is extremely rare in the contemporary literary world in recent years.

During this period of time, the literary world has been flooded with praise for this novel. When the seminar was held, colleagues also praised it.

This is not because everyone is complimenting intentionally, but it is really necessary to praise it. Everyone can't go against their will to find fault with it, right?

There is nothing to praise more, and the whole day's seminar ended just like that.

Lin Chaoyang was chatting with Feng Mu next to him and was about to get up when he saw a young man whispering a few words to Su Chen, the president of the publishing house. Su Chen's face suddenly became ugly.