Hu Yueming and Tong Qingbing left halfway through the match. The student team came over to say hello after playing football and then left.
Gu Haiyang was left alone with a group of writers sitting on the edge of the playground chatting.
It was almost noon after the football was played, but no one was in a hurry to eat. When on the court, adrenaline was secreted, and no one felt tired. After sitting down for a while, the sequelae of lack of exercise became prominent.
Su Tong was the first to complain about backache, and was ridiculed by Ma Yuan and others.
Later, when everyone was preparing to go back to the hotel to take a shower, except for Bi Feiyu and Ruan Xiaohu, no one else walked steadily.
Ma Yuan put an arm around Ruan Xiaohu's neck. On the one hand, he really liked this kid, but on the other hand, his two buttocks were trembling and sore. If Ruan Xiaohu hadn't supported him, he would have been embarrassed.
After returning to the hotel and taking a shower, it was already past one in the afternoon.
At this moment, no one wanted to walk anymore, so they asked Gu Haiyang and the others to buy some food from outside, and then everyone gathered in Su Tong's room to eat box lunches.
The reason why we wanted to go to Su Tong's room was because their room had a large window and an open space where they could put on a good display.
Halfway through the meal, Ma Yuan suddenly asked: "Xiaohu, why did you come here this time? It's not because Professor Hu knew you were good at playing football and asked you to come here specifically to help out."
Ruan Xiaohu had food in his mouth. When he heard Ma Yuan's question, he swallowed twice, and then replied with a smile: "I have known Dean Hu for a while, and later I heard him say that several teachers are going to Yan Normal University.
When I came to have an exchange meeting, I asked with a smile on my face if I could come, but to my surprise, Dean Hu actually agreed."
"Don't call us teacher, Shengfen. Although you are much younger than us, you can still call me Brother Sheng. Just call me Brother Ma, and others can do whatever you want." Ma Yuan laughed, "Dean Hu likes young people.
If you recommend yourself like this, there is no reason for him to disagree."
"Well, Brother Ma." Ruan Xiaohu called out obediently.
Mo Yan was the fastest to eat. He had already put down his lunch box and lit a cigarette.
After lighting the cigarette, he looked at Ruan Xiaohu with a smile: "You can join the Writers Association at your age. You have produced many works before, right?"
"Just a few articles, all published in Youth Literature."
"That's not easy anymore." Yu Hua also lit a cigarette, "When I was your age, I was still playing in the mud."
"Are you still playing in the mud at this age?" Bi Feiyu said with a smile.
"I like playing in the mud, don't you?" Yu Hua took a sip from his cigarette and looked at Yu Dong: "On the playground just now, I heard you say that you know each other. How did you meet him? Did you meet him with Dean Hu?"
"You two know each other?" Ma Yuan also looked at Yu Dong curiously.
The expressions of the others were similar to Ma Yuan's. They did not expect that Yu Dong actually knew Ruan Xiaohu.
Yu Dong didn't want to talk about this at first, but he was already asked, so he could only explain, "When I returned to Jinling from other places, I met the little tiger on the train. It was just a one-time encounter at the time, but I met him again in Jinling later.
We got to know each other once and for all. He was working in Jinling at the time and often went to my place to play in his spare time."
"You actually have such a fate, but why didn't I know about this?" Bi Feiyu scratched his head, "I followed you not long after you went to Jinyi."
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Xiaohu got up early, so I can't touch you."
"That being said, I usually get up quite early."
Yu Hua curled her lips and said, "Based on foreign time, you got up early...so that means Xiaohu got to know Dean Hu through you?"
"No." Xiaohu shook his head, "When I met Dean Hu, I didn't know that Teacher Hu was Teacher Yu's teacher. At that time, I was working as a tour guide in my hometown, and I took Teacher Hu and the others on their trip. That's it.
We knew each other. It was only later that Teacher Hu told me that I found out that they knew each other."
After hearing Xiaohu's explanation, Yu Dong secretly slandered his teacher. When Hu Yueming called him, he clearly told him to tell Ruan Xiaohu himself, but the old man couldn't hold it back in the end.
Others didn't know the connection, but when they heard this story, they all exclaimed that it was destined.
"This fate is not shallow. Three people in three places are bound together by chance." Ma Yuan sighed: "This world is obviously very big, but there is always a moment when it feels like it is extremely small.
.You see, if Xiaohu hadn’t come to Yanjing, we wouldn’t have been able to get to know him. Maybe if we missed this opportunity, we would never get to know each other in our lives.”
Mo Yan waved his hand and said, "Ma Yuan, you are looking down upon me. At such a young age, Xiaohu can publish a few articles in "Youth Literature". His future prospects are limitless. His name will definitely be left in the literary world. You don't even want to know him."
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"That's right." Ma Yuan nodded, "But I think, whether it's the fate between Yu Dong and Xiaohu, or the fate between Dean Hu and Xiaohu, they are actually foreshadowing, just to let him meet us. Meet us.
What are we doing? Hehe, that naturally makes us determined to form a football team."
Everyone rolled their eyes. Ma Yuan was really into it. As he talked, the topic turned to forming a football team.
However, Ma Yuan was the only one with a hot head, and the others showed little interest in forming a football team.
We are so far apart that it is not easy to sit together like today, let alone form a football team to compete.
Who has this time?
Besides, they all know their own playing skills. If the opponent hadn't let off the ball today, the goal would have been shot through. Ruan Xiaohu played well, but football is not about individuals.
Seeing that no one was talking to each other, Ma Yuan wisely did not continue, and then changed the topic and talked about Yu Dong, "Yu Dong has been very popular in the United States recently. He held a book signing event in the United States and signed a book in one day.
Ten thousand books, I heard about this when I was at the border."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No, it's just a lie. There are only a few thousand copies." Yu Dong waved his hand.
In fact, the reason why the number of more than 10,000 copies was circulated has something to do with Jimmy. At that time, Jimmy's news reported "nearly 10,000 copies", but later it was reported as "tens of thousands of copies."
However, a few thousand copies are enough to surprise everyone present.
Especially Mo Yan. His "Wine Country" was only released last year. At that time, the first printing was only 9,000 copies. There is no specific statistics on how many copies were sold, but the sales volume is definitely not good. It is estimated that at most two, three thousand copies were sold.
Book.
In such a comparison, the gap becomes clear. The books sold by Yu Dong at a book signing event can exceed the total sales of "Wine Country", and it may be far more than that.
Everyone else is about the same, and everyone's book sales are not very good. Except for Yu Dong, I'm afraid Liu Zhenyun and Yu Hua are the only ones present who are doing slightly better.
In fact, Liu Zhenyun and the others have quite complicated feelings. It is impossible to say that they are not unhappy about Yu Dong's sales. However, they also want to learn from Yu Dong and hope that their own books can also have good sales.
It's just that the books Yu Dong sold abroad were "Second World" and "Resident Evil", which had no reference significance for them.
After much deliberation, I could only think of Yu Dong as a popular novel writer.
It was difficult to continue talking about sales, but Yu Hua suggested having two tables of cards, and the scene became lively again.
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It wasn't until evening that Yu Dong found a chance to be alone with Ruan Xiaohu.
When alone, Ruan Xiaohu became even more shy. He lowered his head and rubbed his hands, like a student waiting to be scolded.
Seeing him like this, Yu Dong laughed inexplicably, "I have nothing special to do with you. I mainly want to catch up with you and catch up with you. Congratulations on joining the Writers' Association. I haven't even joined yet."
"Teacher Yu, you can definitely get in. Our Huizhou Writers Association can't even invite you if we want to," Ruan Xiaohu said hurriedly.
"I'm not from Huizhou, and I don't work in Huizhou, so why should I join the Huizhou Writers Association?"
"I'm just making an analogy. Writers' associations across the country will definitely welcome you. I feel that none of the people in our writers' association can compare to you."
Yu Dong shook his head and smiled: "This kind of comparison is unnecessary. Everyone has something worth learning from. You don't have to be too reserved in front of me. We are friends..."
"But in my heart, you will always be my teacher. Although I have not been with you for a long time, the things I learned during that time are something I will never forget in my life. They have changed me and will also
It has been with me all my life. In the story I wrote in "Little Tiger", the prototype of the protagonist is myself, and the gentleman with the manuscript is..."
Yu Dong waved his hand and stopped Ruan Xiaohu from continuing.
Yu Dong didn't want to find out whether what was written in "Little Tiger" was true or not. This was not a good thing for Xiaohu.
"You treat me as your teacher, then I will treat you as a student. As a teacher, let me teach you that there are many things in the world that you don't need to explain clearly, just keep them in your heart. Don't be too harsh on yourself, just raise your head and look forward.
Only then can you walk the right path."
Ruan Xiaohu nodded thoughtfully, and then asked expectantly: "Then can I just call you teacher in the future?"
"Okay." Yu Dong nodded, and then walked towards the house with his hands behind his back, "Come here, we will have a meeting later to talk about tomorrow's exchange meeting."
Ruan Xiaohu looked at Yu Dong's back, grinned, and then followed him.
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In the past two days, Yu Hua and the others were either playing cards or playing football. They had no idea what to do, so Yu Dong specially called everyone for a brief meeting in the evening to talk about tomorrow's exchange meeting.
The process of the exchange meeting is very simple. In the morning, Yan Normal University will send someone to take these writers around the school and show off their talents.
After lunch, teachers from the Chinese Department sat down with writers for a discussion meeting to talk about the recent development of the literary world.
The seminar lasted about two or three hours. After dinner, the writers went to the auditorium to share their experiences with the students. There is no specific time schedule for this session. It mainly depends on their own performance. However, because there is an interactive session, the time will not be short.
, it will probably take two or three hours to end.
Yu Dong held this meeting mainly to prepare the writers participating in the exchange meeting.
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Early the next morning, when Gu Haiyang brought two students to pick up the writers, he couldn't help but pat his head. Because of excessive exercise yesterday, most of them were walking with a limp today.
Especially when they were walking down the steps after leaving the hotel, Ma Yuan supported Ruan Xiaohu and yelled: "Hey, hey, hey, hey."
After strenuous exercise, it was okay to go up the stairs with sore legs, but going down the stairs was really life-threatening. However, everyone else deliberately endured it, and only Ma Yuan screamed out wildly.
When they arrived at the school, Hu Yueming and the others saw this situation and thought to themselves, what kind of school should they be taken to visit, so they decided to skip the visit to the school and directly hold a discussion meeting.
Of course, Ma Yuan and the others supported this decision with both hands.
The discussion meeting went very smoothly because we were all acquaintances and there was nothing frivolous.
There are four of the Five Pioneer Tigers, so it is naturally impossible not to talk about the avant-garde.
When the avant-garde was mentioned, no one else said anything, but a few representative avant-garde writers started to reflect.
To say introspection may be too much, it should be said to be a summary of experience.
After all these years, they all know the shortcomings of avant-garde literature, and their understanding is deeper than others.
After talking about avant-garde literature, everyone then talked about magical realism. Probably the most popular thing in China in the past few years is magical realism.
Shaanxi Army aside, many of the writers here are related to magical realism, and Yu Dong is among them.
Many people in the outside world believe that "Going West" is the best localized magical realism work in recent years, but some people think that "Going West" is the magical realism work that is least like a magical realism work.
The latter sentence is actually a bit contradictory, because it not only acknowledges that "Going West" is a magical realism work, but also wants to deny its magical realism characteristics.
Yu Dong did not express any opinion on what "Going to the West" is. He told Yu Hua that they are writers just to write things. As for what they write, it is up to the critics to judge.
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In the evening, everyone moved to Jingwen Lecture Hall.
At this time, the Jingwen Lecture Hall had not yet been renovated and looked a bit cramped and old. However, many students came, many of whom had no seats and could only sit in the aisles.
As soon as everyone entered, there was a roar of applause and cheers.
Ma Yuan and the others wanted to hold their heads high and respond to the cheers of the students, but after a few steps they showed their true colors again and started walking with a limp.
The podium was small, with a few chairs placed, and the writers sat down at the seats they had agreed upon.
Yu Dong was originally supposed to be placed in the middle, but Yu Dong refused.
He should be regarded as half the master at Yan Normal University, and since he was young, it was really inappropriate to sit in the middle. In the end, Tong Qingbing couldn't resist and arranged for Yu Dong to sit on the side.
Chapter completed!