Idol (short story) Zhang Baotong 2016.12.9

Yali is a young and beautiful girl who has never admired anyone, but there is a man who makes her deeply infatuated. This person is in his early forties, handsome and free-spirited, personable, is a dazzling superstar in the literary world, has just won China's "Mao Dun Literature Award", he is the vice chairman www.biquge.info of the provincial writers association, young writer Wang Xiaodong.

There is a picture of Wang Xiaodong on Yali's computer screen, which is a large photo of Wang Xiaodong receiving the award at the Mao Dun Literature Award ceremony. It's a photo she took a lot of effort and almost a whole day to find online. In fact, Yali has a lot of photos of Wang Xiaodong, which she usually finds and collects from the Internet, not to mention forty or fifty photos, and puts them in a folder on the desktop, which can be opened and enjoyed at any time.

In addition to photographs, Yali also has many works and books by Wang Xiaodong, including almost all of Wang Xiaodong's essay collections, Zhongzhi novels and published novels. Some of these boxes were purchased from local bookstores, but most were purchased online. Because Wang Xiaodong's works are not often seen in ordinary bookstores.

Yali's room is not big, estimated to be less than ten square meters. However, Wang Xiaodong's works and books occupy almost all places. On the desk, on the bedside, on the small bookshelf, and on the computer desk, as long as she wants to read it, she can get a copy at hand.

Yali is a literary young man who has been obsessed with literature since she was a child and aspires to become a well-known writer. She has read almost all the masterpieces of Chinese classical literature and modern literature, and some have even read them several times. Because of her obsession with literature, she has been seriously biased since she was a child, except for a little interest in Chinese classes, other classes are basically reading novels. Therefore, in every exam, her Chinese score is always the first in the class, but mathematics and other subjects are always a mess, and sometimes she often eats duck eggs. In junior high school, this phenomenon is even more serious, and every exam is always at the bottom of the class, which makes parents very headaches. As a result, after graduating from junior high school, it is impossible to enter a general high school. Fortunately, her parents took out tens of thousands of yuan to find her a private school, so that she could go to school for five consecutive years from high school to junior college before she got a college diploma.

After graduating from junior college, Yali is twenty-one years old, which is the girl's beautiful and proud years. In addition, Yali herself is tall and long-legged, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, a moving and slim appearance, and a strong literary temperament, so the railway unit recruits Sister Gao, the aviation unit recruits flight attendants, and the municipal department recruits subway crews, all of whom take a fancy to her. However, she felt that although these units were good and the salary was high, they could not guarantee her time for writing. Because her dream is to be a writer, not a high sister or a flight attendant. To be a writer you have to have enough time to write, and without writing time, being a writer is an empty word. Therefore, she prefers to choose the kind of job that earns less money but has more time. So, she chose to work as a clerk in a private company. This kind of work is nothing more than typing, writing documents, which are very specific jobs, and there are not many tasks. It's just that the salary is very low, only 1,500 yuan per month. Once you eat and drink, pay the room fee, and buy a few books, you will run out. However, she can sit in her office every day and read a book, and even find time to secretly write something.

The dream of being a writer is really very mysterious, not to mention that there are only a few literary journals in the whole country, and they are all half-dead and struggling. Because there are so few literary publications, almost all the pages are occupied by all kinds of celebrities and writers, so it is really more difficult for amateur authors who have no name and no share to get a manuscript than to climb to the sky. Yali didn't know the market here, but it didn't shake her faith. Because she had heard that before Wang Xiaodong became famous, there were two or three sacks of returned manuscripts. Compared with Wang Xiaodong, how many drafts has she written? She will continue to follow Wang Xiaodong's creative path, and one day, she will also stand on the podium of the China Mao Dun Literature Award like Wang Xiaodong.

Wang Xiaodong is the most famous young writer in the province, his writing style is clear and delicate, gentle and elegant, giving people a warm and euphemistic warmth and pleasure. This feeling was felt by Yali when she read Wang Xiaodong's works, but it was only after meeting Wang Xiaodong himself that she really raised this perceptual understanding to a rational level.

One afternoon last spring, she went to the Lishan Hotel to attend a literary creation report held by the Provincial Writers' Association. The report meeting lasted for two whole days, and Zeng Yan, a literary giant from Beijing, Fang Yingzan, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, and several other famous writers gave lectures and speeches at the report meeting. However, what had the deepest impact on Yali was the lecture given by Wang Xiaodong, deputy editor-in-chief of the provincial "Qin Yun" literary editorial department. His lecture speech was simple and to the point, close to reality, and convincing and impressive.

So, she wrote an essay on his lecture speech called "Echoes from the Depths of the Heart" and submitted it to the editorial department of "Qin Yun", but she did not have any illusions about the publication, because she had submitted articles to the "Qin Yun" publication many times, but the result was that the mud cow entered the sea and disappeared. However, to her surprise, one day, she received an email from the "Qin Yun" literary magazine. She opened it and saw that it was a "Qin Yun" publication that exuded the fragrance of fresh ink, and when she opened the catalog, she saw the words "Echo from the depths of the heart", the author was naturally Wang Yali.

She was very happy, knowing that her manuscript could be published, and Wang Xiaodong's recommendation and help would definitely be indispensable. She read her 2,000-word work three times in one go, and felt that it was really well written. On the one hand, she felt admiration for herself, and on the other hand, she was sincerely grateful to Wang Xiaodong. So, she called to say thank you. The phone called the editorial department, and as soon as someone heard that she was Wang Yali and wanted to find Wang Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the editorial department, they told her Wang Bidong's phone number. So, she directly called Deputy Editor-in-Chief Wang on her mobile phone.

At first, she called for several minutes without anyone answering, so she waited until nine o'clock in the evening to call again. At this time, a mild-mannered man asked her, "Who are you?"

She said in a very respectful tone, "Editor-in-chief Wang, I am Wang Yali. ”

Editor-in-chief Wang immediately said politely, "I saw that the manuscript you wrote was very well written and very literate. ”

Famous writers all say that she has literary literacy, which makes her happy. She said, "Editor-in-Chief Wang, I have read your collection of essays "on the Moon" and your collection of short and medium stories "Qingming Night", as well as your novel "Dream of Returning to Hometown", I have read it twice in a row, and it is really well written. ”

Editor-in-chief Wang said, "Yes, you like my work, it makes me so happy." ”

Yali said, "My work can be on "Qin Yun", I want to thank you well." One day, when you are free, I will invite you to dinner. ”

Editor-in-chief Wang said, "Okay. (To be continued.) )