Xie Daoyuan just arranged for someone to communicate with the school and transferred the books from Xinhua Bookstore. There are 50 books in total, half of which are "Lai Zi's Summer" and half of which are "The Death of Van Gogh" from the "Contemporary" special issue.
Xie Daoyuan originally wanted to distribute these books directly to the students, but he was stopped by the old man who was talking to Lin Chaoyang, "How can we do it without signing the author's name in person?"
His suggestion won applause from the students, and Lin Chaoyang had no choice but to sit down and sign his name on the title page of each book, and write a blessing by the way.
The students were overjoyed when they got the book signed by him.
In less than an hour of communication, they have been deeply attracted by Lin Chaoyang's conversation, and are even more interested in his works. Now that the book is in hand, the students can't wait to read it.
After the exchange with the delegation from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lin Chaoyang returned to the library desk. It was almost time to get off work. His return naturally aroused some ridicule.
"Oh, the great writer who went abroad is back!"
"I never expected that Chaoyang would now have an international reputation."
Lin Chaoyang calmly interrupted everyone's joking, "Let me correct you, Xiangjiang is an inalienable part of our motherland. There is something wrong with your statement."
After chatting for a while and dawdling for a few minutes, it was time to get off work. Lin Chaoyang rode his bicycle back to the Overseas Chinese Apartment.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Wu Zuoren and his wife walking in the courtyard supporting each other. He greeted them warmly.
"I haven't seen your father for a long time? When will he come next?" Wu Zuoren asked.
"He can't worry about the land at home. He has to wait until the autumn harvest before he can come."
"It's a good thing for people to have thoughts, but it's weird to think about him."
"I will tell him when I write a letter later that you miss him and ask him to come to Yanjing as soon as possible." Lin Chaoyang said with a smile.
Wu Zuoren smiled like a naughty boy and said: "Ask him to bring something, don't come empty-handed."
"Ask him to bring you a pheasant."
"I can't eat any more meat, so bring some hazelnut mushrooms. The hazelnut mushrooms over there are delicious."
After joking with Wu Zuoren for a while, Lin Chaoyang went upstairs to go home and saw Zhang Dening sitting in the living room again.
"You come very often."
"I don't want to come either. Don't I have to talk about novels with you?"
"What to talk about?"
Zhang Dening said: "The style of your novel has changed a bit. It is not the realism of "Little Shoes", nor the stream of consciousness of "Lai Zi's Summer". It is somewhat similar to "Wreaths Under the Mountain", but in the story
The processing is more extreme."
"What's the editorial board's opinion?" Lin Chaoyang asked.
"The novel is good. The plot has ups and downs and makes people feel excited when reading it. However, the final plot is a bit exaggerated and feels distorted. Is Jiang Nansheng's prototype Wu Qingyuan?"
Lin Chaoyang frowned when he heard this, "Why do you think Jiang Nansheng is Wu Qingyuan?"
"You wrote it yourself! Jiang Nansheng loves chess as much as his life, and has defeated nine Japanese Go masters in a row. In reality, the only person we can think of is Wu Qingyuan."
Lin Chaoyang shook his head and said: "I also wrote that Jiang Nansheng repeatedly refused the Japanese solicitations! He is a patriot and is fundamentally different from Wu Qingyuan."
"I didn't say that Jiang Nansheng was Wu Qingyuan. What I meant was that this character was based on Wu Qingyuan's experience?"
"No. How could I use Wu Qingyuan's experience when writing about a character like Jiang Nansheng? Isn't it awkward when you think about it?"
"Then the character Jiang Nansheng was completely made up by you? If that were the case, it would be really easy for him to be criticized." Zhang Dening murmured to himself.
"It's not that there is no prototype." Lin Chaoyang said.
Zhang Dening immediately asked: "Is there a prototype? Who is it?"
"This..." Lin Chaoyang hesitated. His prototype had not yet achieved a record of consecutive victories against 11 Japanese chess masters.
"Is it true? You're not talking nonsense, are you?" Zhang Dening asked suspiciously.
“Does it matter if you have a prototype?”
"Of course it's important. Let me tell you, your last plot is exciting to read, but it's also easy to be criticized.
If there is no prototype reference, people will inevitably criticize it as an obscene work.
Actually, I think it’s good to use Wu Qingyuan as the prototype, and there’s nothing wrong with applying his record to Jiang Nansheng.”
Lin Chaoyang said impatiently: "Okay, okay, stop mentioning Wu Qingyuan, always talking about a Japanese."
Zhang Dening said helplessly: "Aren't I afraid that you will be criticized?"
"It's approved. There are many people criticizing me."
Zhang Dening teased: "You don't have to worry about having too many lice, right? Don't tell me, I read another article criticizing "The Death of Van Gogh" in the past two days."
During this period of time, influenced by the conservative atmosphere, one or two articles criticizing "The Death of Van Gogh" appeared in the literary world from time to time.
"What did you say about me this time?" Lin Chaoyang asked in a relaxed tone.
"Isn't there a scene in your novel that describes Van Gogh's prostitution?"
Lin Chaoyang immediately understood the basis of the other party's criticism, "I wrote based on the data, okay? Besides, I didn't write about prostitution specifically, that was to create characters!"
Zhang Dening said: "After all, what is the original intention of people to control you? They say that your descriptions are too detailed and harmful to readers, and you are suspected of excusing prostitutes..."
Lin Chaoyang waved his hands completely speechless, "Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore."
Zhang Dening laughed and said, "I really thought you didn't care, but it seems like your concentration is not good enough!"
"The clay figurine is still angry. Who are these people?"
"Do you want to fight back?"
"I'm afraid I'll be covered in shit."
"A great writer, his words are really vulgar."
"Are you okay?"
"I haven't eaten yet!"
Zhang Dening came today mainly to chat with Lin Chaoyang about some inside stories about the creation of the novel. After digressing for a while, she talked about the novel again and asked about the details in the novel.
The character in Lin Chaoyang's novel does have a prototype. The reason why he can't tell him is because the other person has not yet reached his peak state.
In 1984, China and Japan jointly held the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. The tournament consisted of an equal number of chess players from both China and Japan. Each team had a coach. The final winner was decided in the form of an arena.
Victory or defeat.
At that time, there were many strong players in the Japanese chess world, and they had absolute crushing power against Chinese Go.
In the media predictions before the game, domestic "New Sports" and Japan's "Go Club" magazines both conducted surveys, and more than 80% of readers in both countries predicted that Japan would win.
Some people even suggested that the Japanese team could sweep the Chinese team with just three people and that the Chinese team would be successful if they met Kobayashi Koichi. No one was optimistic about the Chinese team.
In terms of formation, the Chinese team only has four ninth-dan players, and Wang Jianhong, the lowest-ranked player, only has six-dan players.
Japan, on the other hand, has six ninth-dan players, and its lineup can be said to beat China.
After the game started, the situation was indeed as expected by the media and most of the audience. Koichi Kobayashi, who was ranked third from the bottom, became an insurmountable mountain for the Chinese team.
At this time, the Chinese team only had Nie Weiping, the last ninth-dan player left. Nie Weiping played as the main player and defeated Koichi Kobayashi under tremendous pressure.
Then he defeated Masao Kato and Hideyuki Fujisawa, who is known as Japan's "Lifelong Go Master", and won the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. At the same time, it also achieved a major breakthrough for a Chinese player to defeat a super-class Japanese player for the first time.
In the next two Sino-Japanese Go Tournaments, Nie Weiping was still invincible, creating the myth of eleven consecutive victories against top Japanese players, and giving the Chinese team three consecutive victories in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournaments.
At the celebration banquet for three consecutive victories, Nie Weiping officially became the first chess master in Chinese history.
The nine-game winning streak of the protagonist Jiang Nansheng in Lin Chaoyang's novel, which seems to be out of touch with reality, pales in comparison to the real reality.
At this stage, Nie Weiping has swept the Chinese chess world, but he has not yet killed everyone in the Sino-Japanese Go competition, so Lin Chaoyang cannot directly say that he is the prototype of Jiang Nansheng.
Moreover, when Lin Chaoyang was writing the novel and the protagonist Jiang Nansheng, Nie Weiping's experience was only a reference. His novel actually combined elements from several works.
In shaping the protagonist, he referred to the protagonist Wang Yisheng in Acheng's short story "The King of Chess";
In terms of story structure, he refers to the battle against the Japanese in the kung fu movie "Ip Man". Although "Ip Man" is a commercial action film, the smoothness of the story structure is far beyond that of ordinary film, television and literary works.
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In terms of the core of the story, Lin Chaoyang is completely opposite to "An Unfinished Game of Chess", focusing on growth and patriotism.
The character Jiang Nansheng in his novel comes from a privileged family and is extremely talented in the game of Go. He has loved chess since he was a child and rarely meets an opponent.
At that time, China was in turmoil, but the Japanese chess scene was booming. His father originally wanted to send him to Japan to continue his studies, but Japan brazenly launched a war of aggression against China, and his further studies came to nothing.
After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, Jiang Nansheng's family fell into decline and had to make a living by playing chess.
By chance, he met Kondo Jiro, the second son of the Honinbo family who came to China to work as a labor force following the Japanese chess report to Congress. Kondo Jiro came from a Go family and was easily defeated by Jiang Nansheng.
Kondo Jiro saw that Jiang Nansheng was young and had excellent chess skills, so he began to recruit Jiang Nansheng. Jiang Nansheng loved chess as much as his life, and longed for a paradise where he could play chess quietly in troubled times.
He was moved by Kondo Jiro's solicitation. Just when he was about to agree to the Kondo family's solicitation, he met a beggar on the roadside of the Chenghuang Temple begging for alms from passers-by. The Japanese businessman gave alms to the beggar, but the beggar not only did not accept it, but cursed him.
Even though the yellow-mouthed beggar knew the hatred between the country and the family, Jiang Nansheng felt ashamed and refused the Kondo family's solicitation. However, he did not want the Japanese businessman to hold a grudge because of the beggar's insults and called the Japanese military police to arrest him.
In order to save the beggar, Jiang Nansheng could only find Jiro Kondo for help. Kondo Jiro took this as an opportunity to recruit Jiang Nansheng again. In order to save the beggar, Jiang Nansheng wanted to agree to Jiro Kondo's invitation, but he was rejected by the chess report member of Congress.
The difficulties faced by the Japanese traitor chess player Li Zhuo.
In order to save the beggar, Jiang Nansheng had to play chess with Li Zhuo. After winning the game with Li Zhuo, Jiang Nansheng thought he could save the beggar.
But what waited for him was only the cold corpse of Beggar. It turned out that Beggar had been brutally killed after he was caught by the gendarmerie. However, the Japanese did not attack on the spot because there were people watching on the street.
In anger, Jiang Nansheng questioned Kondo Jiro, but whether it was the life of the beggar or the life of the Chinese, they were nothing in the eyes of Kondo Jiro. He recruited Jiang Nansheng purely because he could use him.
Seeing through the Japanese ambitions, Jiang Nansheng's heart was filled with hatred, but there was nothing he could do about it.
At this time, in order to create a false image of goodwill, the Japanese invaders wanted to hold a Go competition to promote the friendship between the two peoples. On the Japanese side, the Japanese chess report was played by the Congress, and on the Chinese side, the Go masters were pieced together by the Japanese.
In the arena competition, the Chinese chess players either actively or passively lost the game, while the Japanese chess players killed everyone and showed off their power.
Jiang Nansheng loved Go all his life. Seeing all kinds of ugliness in the game, coupled with the excitement of the murder of the beggar, made him hate the Japanese so much that he challenged the Japanese players.
He went all the way and defeated many top players in the Japanese chess world. The people rejoiced and the Japanese were angry. At the same time, they also looked at him with admiration and wanted to recruit him again, and advised Jiang Nansheng not to challenge him anymore.
But Jiang Nansheng had long understood the cruelty and hypocrisy of the Japanese. From the moment he issued the challenge, he never thought of escaping.
Jiang Nansheng's refusal and the defeat of the two Japanese chess players again completely angered the Japanese. Faced with the intimidation and inducement of the Japanese, Jiang Nansheng was undaunted.
He also left a sentence: "When the national fortune is prosperous, the chess fortune will be prosperous. The decline of China's national fortune is all due to the weakness of our generation. I have nothing else to do in my life. The only thing I can do is this chess skill, and I should serve the country with this."
The ending arranged by Lin Chaoyang for Jiang Nansheng was that he was shot and killed by a Japanese officer before he challenged the tenth Japanese national champion.
"Ten" is the number of perfection. Although it is a pity that Jiang Nan died before Dacheng, it also fits the precarious state of China at that time.
Jiang Nansheng's national integrity and righteousness are the "one" that escaped. Combined with his nine victories, he can be called the chess master and spread throughout the world.
Chapter completed!