Chapter 42: The Girl Downstairs
In a dormitory of the Peking University women's dormitory, Su Bai and the dormitory girls were discussing Liu Xinwu's new novel "Wake Up, Brother". Liu Xinwu's "Class Teacher" published in 1977 was the beginning of scar literature, and after "Class Teacher", he published the novel "The Position of Love", which also caused huge repercussions in society. "Wake Up, Brother" is Liu Xinwu's latest novel, but Su Bai and the others feel that this novel is not very well written, and the theme is a bit first, and there is no discussion.
Su Bai and the others were discussing energetically, and Liu Cancan in the dormitory walked into the dormitory excitedly, slapped "Film Art" in front of Su Bai, and said with a smile: "Su Bai, let's have a treat!"
Su Bai was stunned and said puzzledly: "Why do I have a treat?"
Liu Cancan smiled and said, "Your precious junior brother has published an article again, shouldn't you have a treat?"
Su Bai heard Xu Wangqiu's article, and he didn't care about Liu Cancan's ridicule of himself, so he picked up "Film Art" and flipped it over: "Is it really fake?" It's true. Su Bai quickly skimmed through the article, looked at the three words "Xu Wangqiu" on the title, and sighed lightly: "Wangqiu, this guy is really getting more and more powerful." ”
After reading Xu Wangqiu's article, Su Bai flipped through the other articles in the book, and his happy mood was shattered by the torrent hidden in the book. Su Bai grew up in a film studio and knows that movies are not only entertainment products, but are often used as ideological tools. The controversy in "Film Art" made her a little worried, because the articles supporting the New Wave line had an absolute advantage in terms of quantity, and some of the articles were even more obviously aimed at Xu Wangqiu, saying that learning from Hollywood was to accept cultural colonization, and some people even pulled Jiang Qing on it.
Su Bai was a little worried, afraid that the controversy would evolve from an academic issue to a political one.
There was a knock on the door. Su Bai looked up and found that it was Zha Jianying. She just wanted to ask Zha Jianying what was the matter, but she heard Zha Jianying say: "Su Bai, Wangqiu is waiting for you downstairs, go down quickly." Su Bai was slightly stunned: "How do you know?" Zha Jianying said: "I just met him at the door of the dormitory, and I happened to go upstairs again, so I helped him come over and call you." ”
Su Bai didn't know what Xu Wangqiu was looking for himself, but Xu Wangqiu had never looked for him, and now he must have something to do, so he rushed to Jianying and said, "Thank you Jianying, I'll go down immediately." Zha Jianying smiled at Su Bai and left. Su Bai didn't rush downstairs, but turned around and took out a small square mirror from under the pillow, looked at it in the mirror, and carefully sorted out his hair that was a little messy.
Seeing this, Liu Cancan smiled and said: "Su Bai, looking at your dressing up, I don't know and think I'm going to meet a lover!"
A red cloud appeared on Su Bai's face, glared at Liu Cancan, and argued: "I'm a senior sister, if I don't clean up and be sloppy, what will it look like." As she spoke, she took out the Pechoin from under the pillow, wiped it with her fingertips, and wiped it on her face.
Liu Cancan didn't dwell on this issue, and said with a smile: "We have always said to go to Nortel to see what your junior brother is like, you always don't let us go, and now that your junior brother has come to our Peking University, you can't stop us this time, right?" Several other girls also said: "Yes, yes, let's meet your junior brother!", "That's it, don't shirk this time." "I've always wanted to see what the legendary Grass Fire looks like!" ......
Su Bai knew that it would not work if he didn't take them down, so he said, "You can see them if you want to, what can't you see." ”
Xu Wangqiu's article was published in "Film Art" and received a salary of more than 100 yuan, and Liu Lin and the others all clamored for Xu Wangqiu to have a treat. Xu Wangqiu naturally would not shirk it, and planned to use the opportunity to go to the city to watch a movie to invite them to eat.
Since you have entered the city for a treat, you naturally can't forget Su Bai. Coming out of the Film Archive, Xu Wangqiu asked Xie Xiaojing and them to go to the restaurant first, and he went straight to Peking University. When she arrived at the girls' building, Xu Wangqiu was about to find the aunt in charge of the dormitory to help her call someone, but she didn't expect to meet Zha Jianying, she said that she went upstairs to help Xu Wangqiu call Su Bai.
After Zha Jianying went upstairs, Xu Wangqiu hurriedly left the dormitory door, and the gaze of the dormitory manager's aunt towards class enemies made him very stressed. He stood in the newspaper column outside the girls' dormitory and read the newspaper, and at the same time swept the side with his peripheral vision, and found several boys squatting around the dormitory door. Xu Wangqiu despised it very much in his heart, and criticized Su Bai in the same way, degenerate, degenerate, it's just too depraved, the dignified Peking University students don't study well and think about serving the motherland, but they squat at the door of the girl's dormitory, it's too depraved!
Xu Wangqiu waited downstairs for a long time, finished reading the newspaper, and finally heard Su Bai's voice: "Wangqiu! I've made you wait for a long time!" Xu Wangqiu said in his heart Su Bai, Su Bai, you said that you are a very cool girl, why does it take so long to go downstairs!
Xu Wangqiu noticed that Su Bai was followed by several girls, not to be precise, girls and aunts. He heard Su Bai say that she was the youngest in the dormitory, and the eldest was thirty years old, and he couldn't help but think to himself, Peking University girls are really far worse than our Nortel!
Liu Cancan touched Su Bai with his arm, and said in a low voice: "No wonder you don't let us see your junior brother, you look very good, you are worried about being abducted by us!"
Su Bai glared at Liu Cancan, and generously introduced to his roommate: "This is my junior brother Xu Wangqiu, don't you always say that you want to meet him, but now you do! But you are not allowed to bully him!" and said to Xu Wangqiu: "Wangqiu, let me introduce you, these are my roommates, this is Liu Cancan, this is Li Yuling, this is Huang Ying, this is Zhang Lu......"
Xu Wangqiu put on the appearance of a good young man, and said obediently: "Hello sisters, I heard Su Bai talk about you, she said that you are all good, and you treat her like a sister." ”
Su Bai thought that this guy Wangqiu was really good at talking, and asked with a smile, "Wangqiu, is there anything wrong with you coming over?"
Xu Wangqiu smiled and said, "Can't I come to you if it's okay?"
Su Bai looked angry: "It's okay, have you come to look for me?"
Xu Wangqiu shook his head and sighed: "I want to come, but I don't dare to come, what if I run to your school twice in three days and make the boys in your school misunderstand? His eyes glanced to the side: "Look at the way those boys look at me, if I come every day, can I still leave Peking University alive?"
Hahaha! Su Bai's roommates all laughed, and a ****** girl said to Su Bai: "Su Bai, your junior brother is so funny!" Liu Cancan squeezed his eyes at Xu Wangqiu: "Your senior sister is very popular in our school, and many people write love letters to her!"
Xu Wangqiu said bitterly: "If I were the president of Peking University, I would have to expel them, and I would write love letters to my senior sister, no, I don't study hard, and I write love letters to girls all day long." Is this still a college student in the new era? I don't want to study hard, I don't want to contribute to the four modernizations, I don't want to serve the motherland, and I think about falling in love all day long, which is simply disappointing. ”
Several girls burst into laughter like silver bells, and Liu Cancan looked clear: "Why, you don't want your senior sister to fall in love?"
Xu Wangqiu nodded without hesitation and said eloquently: "Of course." If my sister had a partner, she would be with her all day long, and she would leave me alone, and then no one would wash my clothes. ”
Several girls laughed and trembled: "Su Bai, your junior brother is so funny." ”
Su Bai first chuckled, and then glared at Xu Wangqiu with his eyes: "My senior sister is a laundry washer in your eyes?"
"Of course not. Xu Wangqiu looked at Su Bai and said sincerely. Su Bai smiled when he heard this, thinking that this was about the same. But Xu Wangqiu's next words almost didn't make her angry, "Senior sister, of course you don't wash clothes, you still have to help me wash my socks!"
Su Bai stepped on Xu Wangqiu's instep without hesitation: "You are really owing more and more!"
"I'm kidding. It's really a joke!" Seeing that Su Bai was on the verge of going berserk, Xu Wangqiu immediately changed the topic, "I'm here to invite you to dinner." Recently, I wrote an article and got the manuscript fee, and I will definitely invite a few animals in the dormitory to eat. I went into the city today to watch a movie, and it was a North Korean movie in the evening, so I didn't have anything to see, so I stopped by to treat you. I've all entered the city for a treat, so I must invite you, senior sister!"
Su Bai snorted and said with a straight face: "You still have a little conscience." ”
Xu Wangqiu said to Liu Cancan and them: "Sisters, let's go together, there are more people, and my senior sister is young, and I usually thank you for taking care of her, and I always want to invite you to dinner to express my gratitude!"
A few girls sneered, my senior sister is young, please take care of it more, is this what the junior brother should say? But for Xu Wangqiu to invite everyone to dinner, the girls naturally will not refuse. Liu Cancan smiled and asked, "Where are you going to eat?"
Xu Wangqiu said: "Lao Mo, our classmates in the dormitory are waiting for us in Lao Mo, let's leave quickly!"
A group of people walked out of the school gate with laughter and got on the bus to advance towards Lao Mo.
Sitting on the bus, Su Bai's roommate chattered in the front row, while Su Bai talked to Xu Wangqiu about the special number of "Film Art" and expressed his inner anxiety and worries.
Xu Wangqiu knew why Su Bai was worried, after all, the movement had just ended, and the film system was particularly miserable in the movement. As a reborn, he knows that this debate about the language of cinema is only an academic battle, and will not turn into a political struggle, let alone involve the safety of life. However, he couldn't explain these words to Su Bai, so he could only say: "It's going to be fine, movies are not that important, and with the rise of television and other entertainment activities, the importance of movies will become less and less, so the debate in the film field will only be the debate of filmmakers, and it will not be like before." ”
At this moment, Xu Wangqiu saw a twenty-four-five-year-old man on the side of the road with long shawl hair, wearing bell bottoms, riding a bicycle, whistling triumphantly, with an expression of "I'm cool, praise me" written on his face.
After the end of the movement, more and more foreign tourists visit China, and foreigners walking on the street always attract the attention of many people, and young people can't help but feel envy when they look at foreigners dressed in bright clothes. As a result, many people imitated the appearance of foreigners, imitating Elvis Presley's appearance, with big sideburns, bell bottoms, and carrying tape recorders to swagger through the market, and bell bottoms began to become popular all over the country.
Xu Wangqiu was lamenting that the times had changed, but he didn't expect that a few pickets wearing red armbands suddenly came out of the oblique stabs, dragged the long-haired young man out of the car, held it down, and picked up big scissors to cut his long hair and bell bottoms. The young man struggled and loudly defended: "You have forgotten what your ancestors were like, Chinese have long hair and wear big ......pants since ancient times."
Looking at the scissors in the hands of the pickets and the bell bottoms on the young man, Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but think to himself, now in an era of great change, there are constant conflicts in all fields, and the struggle is fierce!