Today is the day of Mr. Lin Yutang's death, and we gather here with grief to see Mr. Lin on his last journey!"

"Mr. Lin Yutang was born in the 21st year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, a native of Longxi, Fujian, and studied in the United States and Germany in his early years, obtained a master's degree in literature from Harvard University, and a doctorate in linguistics from the University ......of Leipzig, and taught at Tsinghua University, Jingcheng University and Xiamen University after returning to China.

Li Zhuomin, the founding president of Chinese University on the stage, mourned Lin Yutang's life and deeds in a deep voice.

Subsequently, some relatives and friends close to Lin Yutang came to the stage to mourn the past.

Huo Yaowen, who was sitting on the stage, looked at the portrait in front of him, and sighed slightly, this Mr. Lin's achievements can indeed be regarded as a generation of literary masters, and what is even more rare and valuable is that he has also invented many things that are useful for the spread of Chinese characters.

In addition to the "Contemporary Chinese-English Dictionary" compiled a few years ago, he invented the now popular Chinese typewriter, which uses his original "upper and lower shape detection method" to design keyboard codes, which can type up to 50 words per minute and can be operated without training.

You must know that the earliest Chinese typewriters are extremely difficult to operate, hundreds of commonly used Chinese characters in rotation, ordinary people are dazzled, if not after long-term training, it is difficult to complete the printing independently.

The birth of this Chinese typewriter provided a lot of convenience for practitioners at that time and also made great contributions.

Lin Yutang invented many things in his life, in addition to the well-known typewriter, he also invented a toothbrush that can squeeze out toothpaste.

In later generations, Huo Yaowen also bought this kind of "tap toothbrush" that can automatically fill toothpaste on the Internet, and at that time he thought that the person who invented this toothbrush was too boring.

This kind of "tap toothbrush" is nothing more than placing the toothpaste on the bottom of the toothbrush, then squeezing the "grip", and then connecting the middle space of the toothbrush head, a white toothpaste will emerge.

After buying it, I didn't think it was very convenient to use it a few times, but because I used it too hard from time to time, I squeezed more toothpaste, which caused his mouth to be full of foam, and then he discarded it.

After a long time, Huo Yaowen saw in an article on the Internet that the earliest idea of the original "tap toothbrush" was invented by Lin Yutang!

The article also mentioned that Lin Yutang had made many small inventions, but almost all inventions except for the typewriter were useless, and the author also said a relatively novel point of view, that is, the source of Lin Yutang's late life was his small inventions.

Because after inventing the Chinese typewriter, Lin Yutang obtained a patent in the United States and began to set up a factory to manufacture the typewriter he invented, but because of the high cost, ordinary newspapers and companies could not afford it. Lin Yutang invested a lot of money in this regard, but he couldn't promote this machine at all, and he lost all his money.

As a well-known master in the literary world, Lin Yutang must have the ability to make money, but he has invested huge sums of money in these novel inventions that cost a lot of time and time again, but have little effect, even Boss Ma can't stand it!

When he saw this novel point of view at that time, Huo Yaowen also pondered the possibility, maybe he was greedy for money in his later years, but it was difficult to hide his behavior.

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More than an hour passed.

When the memorial service ended, Huo Yaowen followed Zhang Chengyi to comfort his family, and then retreated into the crowd.

Soon, someone carried the coffin out of the door, boarded a funeral car and headed towards the port, and sent it to the port, because the burial place arranged by the Lin family for him was Lin Yutang's former residence in Taiwan.

The guests who came came went out to see each other off.

Seeing the funeral car go away, some people simply said words of comfort to their families and left one after another.

"Alas, Mr. Lin's "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" is one of my favorite books. ”

Looking at the departing car, Zhang Chengyi sighed slightly, although he was not familiar with Lin Yutang, but in his early years in Chinese University, he also dealt with several times, and it is not good to say much about this evaluation.

"yes, it's a very well written book. ”

Huo Yaowen nodded, he can be said to be the only person in the world who knows that Lin Yutang has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twice, except for the jury.

Some people may not know the selection process of the Nobel Prize, except for the Peace Prize, which announces the nominee and the winner at the same time, the rest of the awards have a 50-year confidentiality rule for the nominee list.

If you want to know who gets nominated each year, it will not be announced until 50 years later! Lin Yutang was nominated twice, in 1940 and 1950.

sighed for a while, Zhang Chengyi knew that Huo Yaowen was going to fly to the UK in the afternoon, and was about to go in to say goodbye to his family, when someone suddenly shouted in the back: "Mr. Zhang!"

Zhang Chengyi looked back and saw that the person who came was Yu Guangzhong, and immediately smiled: "You are also here in the light." ”

Yu Guangzhong sighed: "Yes, Mr. Lin passed away, and I, as a junior, naturally want to come over to see him off for the last time." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Huo Yaowen, smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, this must be your proud student Huo Yaowen." ”

"Not bad. Zhang Chengyi nodded and introduced: "Yaowen, this is Mr. Yu Guangzhongyu, a professor of the Department of Chinese of Hong Kong Chinese University. ”

In the afterglow!

Huo Yaowen didn't expect that the middle-aged man in front of him, who was wearing glasses and combing his oily hair, was actually in the afterglow of writing "Homesickness"!

smiled and shook hands with him and said, "It turned out to be Mr. Yu, the song "Homesickness" you wrote a few years ago is really good!"

Yu Guangzhong, who is only in his 40s, is not as famous as later generations, but he has long become famous in the literary circles of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the poem "Homesickness" written in 72 years has been praised by many literati writers.

Yu Guangzhong smiled slightly, and said modestly: "Mr. Huo is polite, I also like the song "Hometown" you published in "Ta Kung Pao" very much, although it is only a short sentence, but it is also full of nostalgia. ”

"Where, where, clumsy, clumsy. Although Huo Yaowen's face has become thicker and thicker after so many years of being a demon reformer, this song "Hometown" has really not changed a word.

"Okay, okay, you two don't be modest, I think you both write very well. ”

Zhang Chengyi laughed, he studied philosophy and had the ability to appreciate literature, but he couldn't write a good article, and said with a smile: "Guangzhong, I recently heard that you have written a new prose. ”

Yu Guangzhong said: "It's still being revised, and when the time comes, I'll show it to Mr. Zhang." ”

"Good. Zhang Chengyi responded and said, "By the way, you can also participate in this exchange meeting." ”

"Of course, the principal has already instructed me. ”

“……”

Looking at the teacher and Yu Guangzhong chatting, Huo Yaowen didn't interject, just listened to the conversation between the two silently.

Speaking of which, Huo Yaowen likes Yu Guangzhong's works very, very much, especially when he was in college to study screenwriting, he liked the prose and poems written by Yu Guangzhong the most.

It can be said that it satisfies all the fantasies and beauty of literature for Huo Yaowen, who suffered from excessive literary youth at that time.

"I remember that you loved me, maybe I remembered it the other way around. ”

"People will grow up one day, why mature too early and lose too early. ”

"Turn around - it's the wind blowing black hair, and looking back again, it's snowy and white. ”

“……”

There are so many short poems like this.

What touched Huo Yaowen the most was that in the letter written by Yu Guangzhong to his wife Fan Wucun, there was such a paragraph:

"Don't ask me if I have you in my heart, I have you in my spare time!"

A love poem of only a dozen words, a pun, and even his own name, it is terrifyingly romantic!

These romantic poems make Huo Yaowen, who is sick, as hungry and thirsty as nectar after a long time!

He is often called: writing poetry with his right hand, writing essays with his left hand, romantic poets, and nostalgic writers.

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