After Yu Hua woke up, she didn't see Yu Dong, so she went to wash her face, then sat by the bed and lit a cigarette.
Before he finished smoking a cigarette, Yu Dong opened the door and came in.
"You're awake." Yu Dong smiled.
Yu Hua nodded: "I just woke up and haven't finished smoking a cigarette yet. What time is it now?"
He looked outside and saw that it was already getting dark. It seemed that he had slept for a long time.
Yu Dong looked at his watch and said, "At seven-twenty, Editor Cheng and the others are at the hotel. We'll meet up there right away."
Hearing that it was already 7:20, Yu Hua touched his head and quickly put out his cigarette: "You should wake me up earlier, it would be bad to make them wait."
"Why don't I come back to call you now? They have just arrived. It's summer, so you don't have to eat too early." Yu Dong said with a smile.
Then the two of them left the hotel and walked towards the restaurant.
When we arrived at the private room, it was filled with smoke.
After Yu Hua passed by, he immediately joined the array. The three pipes became four, and the clouds in the sky became thicker.
Everyone knew that Yu Dong didn't smoke, so naturally no one gave him cigarettes. However, Yu Dong took out a handful of sunflower seeds from his pocket and started chewing them with a smile.
Several other people were chatting, and when they saw Yu Dong's actions, their eyes widened.
Cheng Yongxing flicked the ashes from his cigarette and said, "You are such a shameless person, why do you still carry melon seeds with you?"
Yu Dong smiled and said, "Every time you smoke and I don't smoke, then I have to find something to do."
Ge Fei glanced at Yu Dong's bulging pocket and said jokingly: "You are quite well prepared. As the saying goes, enjoying alone is not as good as enjoying together. You should offer your melon seeds and share them with everyone."
Yu Dong quickly covered his pocket, "Don't do this. I won't smoke your cigarettes, and you can't even think about eating my melon seeds."
Seeing Yu Dong's funny look guarding the melon seeds, Sun Ganlu said with a smile, "Stop teasing him, let him eat it. He has something to do, and we can smoke with peace of mind."
"That's right. I brought melon seeds mainly for your consideration."
After a few jokes, everyone turned the topic to Yu Hua.
Ge Fei smiled and said: "Yu Hua, didn't you say you wrote a new manuscript? Why didn't you bring it to us to see?"
"What kind of manuscript were you talking about during the meal? His manuscript must be in the hotel room. After dinner, we will go there and read it together." Cheng Yongxing said with a smile, and then looked at Yu Dong: "Have you already had a sneak peek?
How about it?"
"very good."
"this one?"
"this one."
"Forget it, let's go read it ourselves later." Cheng Yongxing waved his hand and said to Yu Hua: "You told me on the phone that the manuscript involves some sensitive content?"
Yu Hua nodded, "Yes, so I'll take a look at Harvest. If Harvest doesn't publish it, there's no point looking for other magazines."
Hearing Yu Hua's words, several others nodded.
At this point, "Harvest" does have an advantage, and the reason why it has this advantage is because their editor-in-chief is called Ba Jin.
Ba Jin has a high status and his daughter Li Xiaolin is very courageous, so they dare to publish some sensitive novels. Even if the articles are somewhat sensitive, when the relevant departments see Ba ​​Lao's name, they will forget about it and don't want to provoke him.
The more Yu Hua said the content was sensitive, the more curiosity Ge Fei and the others were aroused.
In order to see Yu Hua's manuscript as early as possible, several people ate very quickly. Yu Dong ordered a large table of dishes for them, but in the end they finished eating two bowls of rice as if they were eating fast food. In the end, Yu Dong also asked
The waiter packed several bags.
When they arrived at Yu Hua's room, Cheng Yongxing had quick eyes and quick hands and got the manuscript of "Alive" first.
The other two watched eagerly, waiting for him to finish reading a page before they could continue reading.
Yu Hua lit a cigarette and sat next to him, pretending not to pay much attention, but the glances he glanced at from time to time betrayed his nervousness.
Yu Dong was completely in the mood of watching a drama, and he took out a handful of melon seeds from his pocket. While nibbling the melon seeds, he admired Cheng Yongxing and others grabbing manuscripts and Yu Hua watching uneasily from the side.
At the reading speed of Cheng Yongxing and others, a 70,000-word manuscript would not take long.
In just over an hour, Cheng Yongxing finished reading the manuscript first.
He walked up to Yu Hua and patted Yu Hua on the shoulder, "You are right, no other magazine would dare to publish this manuscript except our Harvest."
Yu Hua raised his head and looked at Cheng Yongxing, "Are you sure Harvest will be able to publish this manuscript?"
Cheng Yongxing patted Yu Hua's hand and paused, "I'm not sure about this. It depends on the editor-in-chief's intention. The main reason is that it's too fierce. At least let Sister Xiaolin take a look."
Hearing this, Yu Hua lowered his head again. He originally knew that Cheng Yongxing should not be able to make the decision, but he still felt disappointed.
Seeing him like this, Yu Dong kneaded the melon seeds and gave them to him, "It's okay, I think it will work."
Yu Hua took the melon seeds and smiled at Dong. Although he knew that Yu Dong was just comforting him, he wanted to feel more relaxed.
As for the melon seeds that Yu Dong gave him, he kept holding them in his hands without eating them.
After a while, Ge Fei and Sun Ganlu also finished reading the manuscript.
Ge Fei breathed a long sigh of relief and praised: "Wonderful."
Sun Ganlu agreed: "It is indeed very wonderful. This novel is very bold and in-depth. I think Yu Hua is at the forefront of literature this time."
Both of them spoke highly of the book, but were a little worried about its fate. They were also not sure whether the manuscript could be published in Harvest.
Although "Harvest" has always been bold in style, there were times when it fell short of the draft.
"Even if I don't get the draft, if I can get your approval, it's not in vain." Yu Hua said with a smile.
Although Yu Hua said this, everyone knew that he was trying to comfort himself. Which writer doesn't want his work to be published and exposed to the public?
If he could really be so free and easy, he wouldn't have to come all the way here. He could just send the manuscript to the magazine and wait for the news in Yanjing.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, Ge Fei and the others did not say any more words of comfort and just discussed the book "Alive".
After chatting for more than two hours, it was almost midnight, and the three of them said goodbye and left.
After they left, Yu Hua collected the manuscript and asked Yu Dong: "You don't seem to have talked about this manuscript much today, but I feel that you should have something to say."
Yu Dong did have something to say, but he had been thinking about whether he should say it or not.
"Alive" was originally going to be turned into a feature-length novel, and the key figure who turned it into a feature-length novel was Zhang Yimou.
Zhang Yimou wanted to make a movie, so he suggested that Yu Hua expand the writing, and finally the novel "Alive" with more than 100,000 words was created.
But because of Yu Dong's arrival, Zhang Yimou is currently busy preparing for the filming of "Death of a Widow" and has no time to come see Yu Hua.
Then it is very likely that there will no longer be a full-length "Alive" in this world.
After pondering for a while, Yu Dong finally spoke, "I have some ideas."
Yu Hua stopped what he was doing and looked at Yu Dong seriously, waiting for his next words. Perhaps it was precisely because Yu Dong had said too little before that Yu Hua was particularly concerned about Yu Dong's thoughts at this moment.
Yu Dong pointed to the chair, "Let's sit down and talk."
Seeing that Yu Dong's intention was not something that could be finished in just one or two sentences, Yu Hua pulled up a chair and sat down, then took out a cigarette and was ready to talk to Yu Dong in detail.
But after lighting the cigarette, he stood up and walked to the window and opened it wider to let the smoke out of the room as quickly as possible. He also leaned against the window edge and blew out the smoke from his mouth.
"I think "Alive" can be written a little more," Yu Dong said.
"Additional writing?" Yu Hua sniffed, "Which part of the content do you think is weak?"
"It's not that it's weak, I just think some additions can be made in some places to improve the smoothness of the whole story, such as..."
Yu Dong compared the two versions of "Alive" and then talked to Yu Hua according to his own ideas.
"For example, when describing going to the countryside at the beginning, you can write about some special events in the countryside. It doesn't have to be a lot of ink. A few strokes can bring about unexpected changes."
"Another example is wg and dyj. The transition is a bit hasty..."
"And Fengxia, you wrote that she got married at the age of thirty-five, but I don't think there is any need to specifically describe the character's age. To give readers an overall impression and make people feel that she has always been young and young, then her death is also
It will bring more shock.”
"And Jiazhen..."
Yu Hua guessed that Yu Dong would talk a lot, but he never expected that Yu Dong would talk in such detail.
Is this something you can do after just reading the manuscript once?
I can keep up with Yu Dong's thoughts because I wrote this book myself, but what about Yu Dong? How good his memory must be to be able to remember all these plots.
And the key problem is that Yu Hua actually thinks that everything Yu Dong said is right.
He had been troubled before. When he was writing this novel, he always felt that something was missing, but every time the missing thing was hovering in his mind, he could vaguely see it, but he couldn't see it clearly.
Now Yu Dong seemed to have lifted the veil in his mind, allowing him to see clearly.
After Dong finished speaking, Yu Hua rubbed his hands and walked around the room, his whole person in a state of excitement.
"That's great, that's great. You seem to have opened up the two channels of Ren and Du for me, making me suddenly enlightened." Yu Hua couldn't help but press Yu Dong's shoulders and said excitedly, "Yu Dong,
You are simply my benefactor!”
Yu Hua's eyes were burning, and the hands holding Yu Dong were even trembling slightly.
"I just gave you some ideas, I hope it will be useful to you."
Yu Hua let go of Yu Dong's shoulders and walked back and forth in the room again, "It's so useful! A lot of things suddenly popped up in my mind. No, I have to write them down now."
Chapter completed!