"Teacher Yu, have a good trip."
In front of Jinyi's new gate, Hu Changqing held Yu Dong's hands with excitement and bid him farewell.
Yu Dong will have to catch a train soon to go to Xiamen to attend the Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award Ceremony.
He was originally planning to leave quietly, but Hu Changqing insisted on giving him some kind of farewell ceremony.
"Secretary Hu, isn't it just to receive an award? There's no need to make it so grand."
Hu Changqing laughed: "Looking at what you said, this is not a grand ceremony. We will hold a welcome ceremony for you when you come back."
Hearing Hu Changqing's words, Yu Dong felt a little big-headed.
"Okay, you go quickly, you won't be able to catch the train in a while." Liu Changmin said with a smile.
Yu Dong nodded, said goodbye to several teachers, and then waved to the students not far away.
There were about a dozen of these students, all members of the student union, who were brought to see Yu Dong off. When they saw Yu Dong waving, they shouted in unison in an organized and disciplined manner: "I wish Teacher Yu all the best and success."
"
Listening to the students' shouts, Yu Dong felt his scalp numb and quickly quickened his pace.
…
Yu Dong met Su Tong at the train station, and this time they were accompanied by Ye Zhaoyan. Another winner, Chu Fujin, was not in Jinling during this time. He went directly to Xiamen from somewhere else.
Ye Zhaoyan and Yu Dong hadn't seen each other for some time. When they met again, Ye Zhaoyan's attitude was much better.
Before, he kept looking at Yu Dong with his chin down, but now he finally looked at him with a straight face.
However, it doesn't matter to Yu Dong. Ye Zhaoyan is a bit old-fashioned in his thinking and has a serious sense of circle and seniority. The reason he looked down on Yu Dong before was because Yu Dong was a foreigner and had few works.
Now that Yu Dong has published novels in "Zhongshan" and "Harvest" one after another, it is no longer the same as before. Ye Zhaoyan naturally wants to take a high look at him.
Of course, Ye Zhaoyan was not too enthusiastic. He knew that he and Yu Dong were destined not to be friends, so he just wanted to avoid any grudges.
"As far as I know, you are the youngest among the winners this time." Su Tong looked at the list of winners and said to Yu Dong with a smile: "There were people about the same age as you in the previous awards, but these two
The winners each year seem to be all under thirty years old."
"Senior brother, aren't you even thirty?"
"I'll be thirty in one month."
"That's still not thirty." Yu Dong smiled and took the list of winners from Su Tong: "Do you know which of these people will be present?"
"How do I know this? I only found out after some acquaintances called me. Wang Anyi and Yu Hua are all going to go. Your Wang Xiaoming who went to Shanghai should not go..."
Su Tong gave an overview of what he knew, then looked at Yu Dong and said: "There have been relatively few domestic literary awards in recent years. The Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award has been reformed in the past two years, so the attention is still quite high.
.However, if more than a dozen people are given out every year like this, I feel that in a few years, this award may be of no use at all.”
Yu Dong didn't care about Su Tong's worries.
The Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award cannot be awarded for more than a few years. The frequency in the future will decrease a lot, and it will not be awarded to so many people as it is now.
Today's literary awards are very different from later literary awards. For today's writers, even unknown literary awards are very important, because literary awards basically have bonuses, usually ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands.
In an era when ordinary people's wages were one to two hundred, getting a few thousand dollars at a time was no longer a small amount.
The key is that writers' royalties are not as good as before, and literary award bonuses are an important source of income.
…
Yu Dong and the others arrived at Xiamen one day in advance. Su Tong originally said that he wanted to go shopping in Xiamen, but by the time they arrived at the hotel, they had completely given up the idea of ​​visiting.
The more than twenty hours of travel had exhausted all their passion, and their only thought was to have a good rest in the hotel.
Towards evening, Yu Hua also arrived.
He did not go to his room, but came to see Yu Dong first.
After seeing Yu Dong, Yu Hua was very happy, hugged Yu Dong, and said with a smile: "If I hadn't heard that you were coming, I wouldn't have wanted to come, so far away. And I was in Yanjing.
After spending winter, it feels like spending spring here."
Yu Hua is right. The weather in Xiamen has been very good these two days. The highest temperature during the day is around 20 degrees. It really feels like spring or even summer.
For Yanjing people, Jinling is considered the south.
But if we really want to talk about the south, it has to be the Xiamen side.
And it's very close to the sea, so you can smell the sea breeze in the old city.
Su Tong saw Yu Hua hugging Yu Dong excitedly, and asked with a strange expression: "What's going on with you two? When did you become so familiar?"
Yu Hua smiled and hugged Yu Dong's shoulders, "You don't know too much."
Yu Dong smiled and explained to Su Tong: "Yu Hua went to Shanghai for a while before."
"that's all?"
"Not only that, Yu Dong also provided me with a lot of inspiration. He owes a lot to the novel "Alive"."
Su Tong looked surprised and said, "Really?"
“I can’t say I’ve done a lot of credit, but I did provide some advice.”
Su Tong still found it a bit unbelievable. He knew that Yu Hua was very conceited and had a unique personality. He rarely listened to other people's opinions.
But he didn't ask again. He was also happy that Yu Dong and Yu Hua could have a good relationship.
Although they only knew each other for more than a year, due to various coincidences and literary exchanges, Su Tong regarded Yu Dong as his younger brother, so he always liked to take Yu Dong with him when he had to do anything.
"Wang Anyi should be here too. Let's go have a meal with her later. It's rare for us to get together," Su Tong said.
"Well, I saw her when I came here just now, and she also said we would have dinner together tonight," Yu Hua said.
Su Tong looked at the time: "It's four-thirty now. Let's go find her at five o'clock."
With that said, Su Tong gave Yu Hua a cigarette, and the two of them started puffing away.
Yu Dong walked through the smoke, found melon seeds and peanuts in his backpack, and evenly mixed some for Su Tong and others.
Yu Hua clutched the melon seeds and said with a smile: "I think you will be called Yu Guazi from now on. You really carry these melon seeds and peanuts with you everywhere."
"You bring cigarettes, and I bring melon seeds, each other."
…
The awards ceremony the next day was very simple, everyone gathered in a conference room and sat together.
Then the eighty-year-old Zhuang Zhongwen presented awards to the winning authors one by one.
Because the place was small and there were so many winners, there was no acceptance speech at all. The writers came forward one by one to receive the trophies and certificates, and then took a photo with Zhuang Zhongwen and it was over.
After the show ended, Zhuang Zhongwen invited all the authors to have a meal, and the award ceremony was officially over.
After the ceremony, Ye Zhaoyan and Wang Anyi went back first, while Yu Dong and the others decided to stay one more day.
It was the first time for all three of them to come to Xiamen, and there wouldn’t be many opportunities to come back in the future, so they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to have a good stroll in Xiamen.
For this day's play, the three of them made a strategy map together.
Because time was tight and the task was heavy, they picked some more important scenic spots, and the last stop was Xiamen University.
All three of them believe that when going to a place, you must visit the local university.
The education of a country is the foundation of a country, and the education of a place is naturally the essence of a place.
That afternoon, after visiting Nanputuo Temple, the three of them went to the nearby Xiamen University.
Today, Xiamen University is not yet a famous tourist attraction, so there are not a large number of tourists at the door, mainly students from the school.
The three of them walked in swaggeringly, looking like they were leading the inspection work. As they walked on the road, some students even shouted "Hello, teacher" to them.
Xiamen University is not small, and we have visited several scenic spots today, so the three of us found a place to rest before we were even halfway through the tour.
After resting for a while, the three of them were about to go back. When they passed by the playground, they saw a bunch of people playing football. Yu Hua and his friends started to feel itchy again.
"How about we go and experience the football atmosphere of Xiamen University?" Yu Hua suggested.
Yu Dong scratched his forehead: "You guys have been gone for a day, can you still kick?"
"What do you mean? The muscles used for walking and playing football are different. No matter how tired you are from walking, you won't have any problems running." Yu Hua said confidently, then grabbed the arms of the two of them and pointed towards them.
Walking to the playground, "Yu Dong, you look friendly, help us to talk to them and see if they can add us."
"..."
Yu Dong had different opinions on the fact that his appearance was friendly, but he still did public relations work.
The students were also very enthusiastic. When they heard that someone wanted to join, they readily agreed, and they also thoughtfully assigned Yu Dong and the others to a group.
The result was naturally disastrous. The other teammates in Yu Dong's group were pretty good, but no matter how good they were, they couldn't withstand the drag of Yu Dong and his three rookies. In the end, their group lost by a huge score.
After it was over, Yu Hua wiped the sweat off his face, pointed to his shoes and said, "That means I wore the wrong shoes today, otherwise I wouldn't have lost."
Su Tong agreed: "Indeed, the shoes we wear are so disadvantageous."
Yu Dong rolled his eyes helplessly, these two noobs were not good at shoes, it was because their feet were too useless.
The students didn't blame the three of them for being too naive. A student from the first team just brought a few bottles of water over.
Yu Hua and the others were not polite, took the water, thanked them, and started drinking.
The student looked at them drinking water with a smile and asked: "Are you from the faculty team? I don't think I have seen you before."
"We are from outside the school. We passed by and saw you playing football, so we came over to join in the fun," Su Tong said.
"Oh, that's it." When he heard that it was from another school, the student seemed to lose interest.
He nodded and was about to leave when Su Tong spoke again: "Classmate, is there anything particularly interesting about your school?"
The student tilted his head and thought for a while: "I think they are all the same, not as interesting as the football field."
After hearing the student's answer, Su Tong and the three of them looked at each other and smiled, without asking any other questions. The student also returned to his team.
After a while, the student ran back again and said, "Can I ask what your names are?"
He asked the question suddenly, and Yu Hua asked with interest: "Can I ask you why you asked for our names?"
"I……"
"Do you think any of the three of us look familiar to you?" Yu Hua asked again.
The student nodded, then shook his head, "It's not me, it's a friend of mine. She thinks you three look familiar to her."
He pointed to the distance. There was a girl standing there. When she saw him pointing towards her, she turned her head shyly.
"She must be my girlfriend." Su Tong teased.
The student hesitated and said: "Not yet..."
"Go and tell your girlfriend that our three names are Su Tong, Yu Hua and Yu Dong." Su Tong said with a smile.
"Oh, Su Tong, Yu..." As he spoke, the students' eyes widened, "You are Su Tong... I know you, I have read your works, and my classmates and I like your works very much.
Why are you here?"
Then he shouted to the girl: "Xiuyi, come here quickly, come here quickly."
The girl hesitated for a moment and then came over.
The boy excitedly said to her: "They said they are Su Tong, Yu Dong and Yu Hua!"
"What do you mean we are? We are." Yu Hua pouted.
"Yes, yes, you are, you are." The boy was a little incoherent, and then asked the girl: "You said they felt familiar, did you recognize them?"
The girl said shyly: "I have seen the photos of Su Tong and Yu Dong in the newspaper before."
Others also noticed the movement here and ran over. When they heard it was Su Tong and the others, they were also very excited.
Even those who are not familiar with Su Tong and the others will feel that these three people are very powerful and get excited along with them.
"Wow, Su Tong, Yu Dong, Yu Hua."
After a few exclamations, they secretly asked: "Who are these three people?"
Su Tong and others were also surprised, because they didn't think they were celebrities, and they didn't expect to be recognized by people in Xia University.
These students all like to join in the fun. When the surrounding students saw a group forming here, they all ran over curiously.
Seeing the three people surrounded in the middle, although they didn't know who they were, they all subconsciously thought they were some big shot.
Soon, dozens of people gathered around the playground.
Someone in the crowd shouted: "Three teachers, are you coming here to give a lecture in our school? I didn't see any notice from the school."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm from the Literature Department and I haven't heard anything."
"Teacher Yu Hua, I especially like your new work "Alive"."
"Teacher Su Tong, your "Wives and Concubines" is particularly good, and the movie is also good."
"Teacher Yu Dong, you are so handsome!"
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Su Tong pressed his hands and said: "Students, we are just here for fun, not invited to give lectures. If you like our works, you can pay more attention to "Zhongshan", you can see us on it
Several works.”
Yu Hua in the back couldn't help but give a thumbs up secretly. Su Tong was worthy of being the editor-in-chief of Zhong Shan. At this time, he was still thinking of advertising for their magazine.
Yu Dong also lamented that this kind of scene where writers are recognized and watched may not happen in a few years.
In the future, literature will become more and more marginalized, and even college students will rarely pay attention to literature.
Unlike today's college students, who more or less buy magazines such as "Zhongshan" and "Harvest". This situation is related to the development of literature itself, and also to the development of society.
Today's Chinese people, especially intellectuals, although the domestic conditions are not very good in all aspects, the pressure in their lives is not too great.
Later, although there were more and more educated people, everyone was thinking about making a living and making money all day long. When they had some free time, they would either go shopping or spend time at home, watch TV dramas, use social apps, or play games.
There are so many things that can kill time, and most people are naturally unwilling to spend time on literature that requires their brains.
Chapter completed!