At 9 a.m. on March 5, Lin Chaoyang and Lin Erchun arrived at their hometown by train. As soon as the father and son got off the train, they saw a banner with yellow characters on a red background hanging above the exit of the train station——

"Warmly welcome the famous writer Xu Lingjun to return to his hometown"

Lin Erchun looked excited when he saw the banner. Just when he was about to say something to Lin Chaoyang, he saw several people looking around near the platform. He recognized at a glance that one of them was the one who went to Yanjing to invite Lin Chaoyang back home.

Director Zheng.

Director Zheng also saw the father and son, said something to the people around him, and they walked over together.

On the platform where people were coming and going, Director Zheng and his team of six people looked very impressive. The passengers who were busy getting on and off the train immediately made way for them.

"Comrade Chaoyang, welcome!"

"Let me introduce to you, this is our county magistrate Liu Xueyi, and this is the county government office..."

Director Zheng went to Yanjing to meet Lin Chaoyang, so he first introduced Lin Chaoyang to several leaders from the county who came to greet him.

The people who came to greet Lin Chaoyang were mainly people from the county government, including County Magistrate Liu Xueyi, County Party Committee Standing Committee Member and Office Director Director Li, Director of the Cultural Bureau, Director of the Propaganda Bureau and other officials, including Director Zheng, the deputy director of the Cultural Bureau, and there were six people in the group.

It looks quite grand.

A group of them gathered around Lin Chaoyang and his son to chat, attracting many passengers on and off the bus to watch.

The young man who had been chatting with Lin Erchun on the train was sitting by the window. Seeing such a scene, his face was full of surprise. He didn't expect that the person he was chatting with casually on the train seemed to have a good background.

The two parties shook hands and exchanged pleasantries for a while, then County Magistrate Liu proposed that Lin Chaoyang and his son should first stay at the county party committee guest house.

Lin Chaoyang was originally invited back by the county this time, so he naturally followed the county's arrangements.

After settling in the guest house, the father and son shared a room. Lin Erchun looked around the room curiously.

In terms of hardware conditions, the conditions of the overseas Chinese apartment in Yanjing are definitely better than this. However, it was his first time to enter the county party committee guest house, and he had a sense of sacredness in his heart, which was strange everywhere he looked.

While the father and son were talking, there was a knock on the door. It turned out to be Director Zheng of the Cultural Affairs Bureau.

"Comrade Chaoyang, Uncle Lin, I have been instructed by the leader to discuss the arrangements for these two days with you two."

"you say."

"You two have been working hard all the way. Let's take a good rest at the guest house during the day. In the evening, our county magistrate has arranged a reception banquet. The secretary will also come over then..."

The county really paid great attention to Lin Chaoyang's return to his hometown. They invited guests to dinner in the evening, and all the members of the two teams in the county came. It was just that the leader who visited Lin Chaoyang when he returned to his hometown for the New Year two years ago did not.

See.

After asking around, I found out that he had been transferred to the prefectural committee.

The next day, Lin Chaoyang took the special car arranged for him by the county, a Yanjing 212, and came to the county high school auditorium to give a speech to the students. He enjoyed the adoring eyes of the young students.

Before leaving, the high school leader also asked Lin Chaoyang to help write an inscription for the school.

In such an occasion, Lin Chaoyang naturally couldn't refuse. Fortunately, he was influenced by Tao's father and would practice calligraphy from time to time, so he was pretty good at calligraphy.

In the afternoon, the county organized a symposium. In addition to county leaders and cultural figures, there was also a deputy leader of the prefectural committee and several comrades from the city's Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The tables were full.

Before dinner, a separate interview with Lin Chaoyang was arranged for the city daily.

Another day, county leaders accompanied Lin Chaoyang to visit Hongqi Commune Middle School.

Lin Chaoyang has a junior high school education. He went to Hongqi Middle School for junior high school. Coming back this time can be regarded as a homecoming.

Before leaving, he had to inscribe something as a routine matter. This time he did not inscribe the name of the school as he did in high school, but also added an extra sentence - it takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. This immediately made the surrounding leaders understand.

expressed his feelings for his hometown school.

The county leaders have told Lin Chaoyangming that the main purpose of inviting him back this time is not only to connect with each other, but also for a more important purpose.

It was through Lin Chaoyang's return to his hometown that he applied for funds from above to build and repair the county high school and several junior high school buildings that were in disrepair.

Lin Chaoyang naturally wouldn't say anything about this, but was actually a little pleased.

It's just that he is still a little unsure of his influence, but the county leaders told him to relax, saying that as long as he can come back, this matter will be implemented.

Under official arrangements, Lin Chaoyang spent three busy days.

After participating in various government activities, Lin Chaoyang returned to Xiaoyangtun.

Lin Erchun came back with Lin Chaoyang, but after spending one night in the county party committee guest house, he returned to his hometown of Xiaoyangtun.

Yesterday, someone sent a message to Lin Chaoyang, telling him to go home as soon as he was done with his business.

Lin Chaoyang didn't know what kind of medicine the old man was selling in the gourd. He returned to Xiaoyangtun in Yanjing 212. Before he entered the village, he saw a huge crowd of people surrounding the big locust tree at the entrance of the village.

When the car reached the big locust tree, Lin Chaoyang was about to ask the driver to stop when a sudden burst of loud firecrackers scared the driver and stepped on the brakes on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, someone came forward to open the door. Lin Chaoyang immediately recognized that it was the commune secretary he had just met yesterday. He quickly got out of the car and said a kind word.

Before the secretary could reply, the sound of firecrackers ended and the sound of gongs and drums started again.

Until now, Lin Chaoyang still didn't understand that this was a welcome ceremony organized by the commune and the village for him.

In the past two days, he went to various places under the arrangements of the county. He was greeted with greetings and flowers, but this was the first time he was so down-to-earth.

After a lot of fun, Lin Chaoyang returned home surrounded by fellow villagers.

After Lin Erchun and his wife went to Yanjing, the house and land at home were entrusted to relatives. When Lin Chaoyang came back again, nothing changed here.

Lin Chaoyang is now a distinguished guest in the city and county, and the commune cadres treat him with great courtesy and respect.

The leading secretary said: "Comrade Chaoyang is now famous all over the country and is the pride of those of us in my hometown. I heard that you were blessed with Lin'er two months ago. Now that you have returned to your hometown this time, it is time to set the table for full-moon wine..."

The secretary's reason was very clever, and the place where the wine was served was in Xiaoyangtun, so Lin Chaoyang couldn't refuse.

He grabbed Lin Erchun privately. He knew that the commune must have paid for the banquet, but he didn't want to take advantage of the government and asked Lin Erchun to replenish the money to the commune afterwards.

The commune banquet was placed at the village headquarters, with a total of eight tables, which cost a lot of money.

According to the reception standards of the commune, the treatment is beyond the standard.

The reason why the commune secretary spent so much effort was mainly because Lin Chaoyang's return to his hometown brought great benefits to the commune.

The county leaders have promised that after the funds are approved from above, the funds will be allocated to several primary and secondary schools in Hongqi Commune. After all, Hongqi Middle School produced Lin Chaoyang, a great writer, and there is also an elementary school where Lin Chaoyang once taught.

Seriously speaking, Lin Chaoyang's return to his hometown this time can be regarded as benefiting his hometown.

At the banquet, the commune leaders toasted Lin Erchun repeatedly. He drank one glass after another in the envious eyes of the villagers. He was very proud, and then he quickly became drunk.

Wine does not intoxicate people, people intoxicate themselves.

Although his son has been famous for several years, Lin Erchun still feels extremely happy and proud of his homecoming today.

After several days of various social activities, Lin Chaoyang was a little tired. After seeing off the commune leaders, he originally wanted to rest in Xiaoyangtun for two days.

But when they heard that this great writer had returned to his hometown, villagers from all over the surrounding villages wanted to watch the fun, just like watching a monkey show.

In desperation, Lin Chaoyang had no choice but to live back in the county party committee guest house. Every day, he immersed himself in the county archives during the day, searching for nearly a century of county annals, and returned to the guest house room at night to sort out information.

While Lin Chaoyang was disappearing in the county town, the influence of "The Crossing Boat" was still fermenting.

On the surface, "The Ferry Story" tells a challenging adventure story, but as long as readers finish the novel, they will understand that it is much more than that.

Full of legendary adventure stories, magnificent wonders of nature, the struggle and harmony between man and nature...

Many rich elements make up the novel's wonderful story, but its brilliance goes far beyond that.

The unique narrative structure of the novel makes the story complex. In addition to telling the story of drifting on the sea, it also intersperses the protagonist's growth and changes, and his profound reflections on life, human nature, death and existence.

Behind the layers of stories is the author's careful design, making this novel a multi-layered and multi-dimensional magical realism literary work.

After Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature, magical realism literature became widely sought after and popular among domestic literature lovers, and became a fashionable book that countless readers rushed to read.

It is a pity that there are not many Latin American literary works imported into China today, and even fewer magical realist literary works.

There are more wolves and less meat. Under such circumstances, it further encourages readers to flock to magical realism literature.

The publication of "The Story of a Crossing Boat" happened to catch up with this wave of craze, and the current issue of "Flower City" in which the novel was published showed far greater popularity than before after its release.

One week after the magazine went on the market, order information from Xinhua bookstores in various places was fed back to Huacheng Publishing House.

As a bimonthly literary magazine, the sales volume of each issue of "Flower City" has been stable at between 600,000 and 700,000 copies for more than a year. The majority of sales are concentrated in the first month of the magazine's publication. During this period, the magazine's sales can often be

to four to five million copies.

However, the first issue of the magazine in 1983 included a satellite. A week after the first printing of 700,000 copies went on sale, bookstores ran out of stock.

Less than half a month after its launch, the first printing of 700,000 copies of the magazine was completely sold out.

In the three years since Huacheng Publishing House was established, it has never seen such a hot situation. It adopted a conservative strategy in printing more copies of the magazine, printing 100,000 copies, 100,000 copies.

The direct result is that Xinhua Bookstore and the post office harass the publishing house every few days.

In 1983, the first issue of the magazine was released for a full month, with total sales reaching 1.55 million copies. Not only did it set a sales record for "Flower City" magazine since its inception, it also almost dominated the domestic literary journal industry.

In the 1980s, printing paper resources in the publishing industry were tight, and people's economic conditions were not well-off. Behind a literary magazine were often several, or even dozens, of readers.

"Flower City" sold 1.55 million copies in one month, reaching millions of readers, which naturally increased the influence of "Crossing the Boat".
Chapter completed!