The study room, which is not spacious, except for the bookshelves that occupy two walls, only has a desk of less than two meters. The room was now dark, and only the computer screen shone on Wang Lijian's face, reflecting his seriousness.

Squeak.

The door opened, Wang Lijian's wife Hu Qinglian walked in with a cup of tea, and when she saw Wang Lijian who was focused behind the computer, she shook her head and turned on the light in the room.

The room that brightened up in an instant made Wang Lijian feel uncomfortable for a moment, and he squinted his eyes, but he recovered immediately and shifted all his attention to the screen.

Hu Qinglian originally wanted to say a few words to him, but seeing that he was so serious, she couldn't bear to disturb him, walked to the table and gently put the teacup on the table, and then sat down quietly next to him.

Wang Lijian usually comes back to work in the study at night, and usually goes out to make himself a cup of tea in the middle. When Hu Qinglian saw that he hadn't come out for a long time today, she knew that he might have been busy with work and had forgotten, so she made a cup of tea and brought it in.

Looking at Wang Lijian's serious side face, Hu Qinglian was a little distressed, this guy never paid attention to his body when he was busy with work.

When she first came in, the room was dark, obviously Wang Lijian didn't turn on the lights in order to save electricity, of course their family didn't care about this electricity bill, but saving has become Wang Lijian's habit, so every time he uses the computer, he won't turn on the lights, sometimes saving is not to save money.

In Wang Lijian's words, China is still in the development stage, and if everyone can save social resources to the minimum consumption, I believe that China's development speed will be on a higher level.

What he said was not necessarily true, but it was respectable enough.

After about ten minutes, Wang Lijian finally leaned back in the chair and let out a long sigh of relief.

I saw him exclaim excitedly: "Amazing, refreshing." ”

Hu Qinglian saw that he was so excited, and said with a smile: "What makes you so excited?"

"Huh?" Wang Lijian looked surprised, and only noticed his wife beside him at this time, "When did you come?"

"Just when you're so forgetful. Hu Qinglian said with a smile.

"Haha, you know me, but today's book really gave me a lot of surprises, this author actually has a word and a word of detail to construct a perfect, brand-new world, I read for a long time, I didn't find a single language loophole, as if there really is this world, and there really is such a person. The language habits of the people in it are rigorous and in line with the setting, and there is never a situation where there is a mismatch or a logical inconsistency. Although I haven't seen more humanistic thinking until now, the book is not finished yet, and I believe that the rest will not disappoint me. ”

Wang Lijian said very excitedly, but after finishing speaking, when he saw his wife looking at him with a smile, he patted his forehead in embarrassment, "I'm really embarrassed, I'm so forgetful." ”

"It's been a long time since I've seen you so excited, and it seems that you really like this book. Hu Qinglian was happy for him.

Unlike Wang Lijian, a literature lover and amateur writer, Hu Qinglian is a typical scientific research practitioner, who stays with experimental instruments every day, if you talk to her about mechanical manufacturing automation, optoelectronic communication engineering, and even biochemical engineering, she can catch up with the conversation, but if you talk to her about literature, it is difficult.

In fact, Hu Qinglian usually reads books, but she is more biased, and generally only reads stories with a strong sense of storytelling, and she doesn't pay much attention to what literary nature is.

is like "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Journey to the West", between the two, she likes "Journey to the West" more, and when she watches it, she doesn't pay attention to its literary nature, just as a mythological story.

As for the works of the existing Chinese literary masters, she really can't stand it, for example, Gu Hongming, the most famous person in the Chinese literary world today, just published "Spring and Autumn Righteousness" last year, she flipped through the book in Wang Lijian's bookshelf, and she really couldn't read a word.

On the contrary, it was Maugham, a good friend of the British writer Gu Hongming, who also published "The Shackles of the World" last year, and she was still able to read a little bit, of course, just a little.

Although the two are husband and wife, they have no resonance in hobbies, so Wang Lijian usually doesn't discuss literary things with his wife, but today he is just too excited and a little selfless.

Wang Lijian also recovered his mood at this time, he nodded: "It's really been a long time since I've seen such a refreshing book, you know, Chinese literature is now in an embarrassing period, and the era in which everyone lives now is too much worse than ours, most of their works have a strong literary color, the vernacular is not too much, and the readers seem obscure and difficult to understand, so there is no interest." Two years ago, I met Mr. Cai Yuanpei at a meeting of the Writers' Association, and he had a lot of ideas about today's Chinese literature, but he was powerless to change them, and he even smiled and told me that it would be difficult for them literary workers to make successful works without physical suffering, and that the rapid development of material civilization in recent years also made him unexpected. ”

"Cai Yuanpei, is that Cai Yuanpei, who became the president of Yenching University this year?" asked Hu Qinglian.

"I can't believe you're still paying attention to this. Wang Lijian said with a smile.

Hu Qinglian also smiled, "For my alma mater, of course, I always pay attention to it. Most crucially, this is the first time that Yenching University has hired a literary figure to serve as its president. ”

This is also the determination of the state to show the Renaissance. Wang Lijian nodded.

Then he continued: "Mr. Cai and Mr. Kang Youwei, they are influenced by Western culture, advocate literary freedom, and want to use Western literature to revitalize domestic literature, but they don't know that foreign literature is also mired in the quagmire and cannot extricate themselves. A few years ago, the death of Mark Twain was also a heavy blow to the American literary scene. Not to mention how much Alexandre Dumas's death hit the literary world ten years ago. In recent years, there have been a lot of deaths of the older generation of writers in the Western literary world, such as O. Henry, Maupassant, Chekhov, Hugo, it has only been less than 30 years, and the giants of the literary world have left one by one. ”

As he spoke, Wang Lijian was a little sad, and sighed again and again, although the Chinese literary world is a pool of stagnant water, but the current environment of the world is like this, and no one can do anything.

Hu Qinglian also sighed, "There is no way to do this, the progress of material civilization sometimes does need to be at the expense of spiritual civilization." Over the past few decades, various countries have devoted all their energies to scientific research, and no one dares to relax the slightest, because everyone knows the truth that if they are backward, they will be beaten. Who still has the heart to develop the literary and artistic circles? Even now, if it were not for the bottleneck of science and technology, and the earth's resources, the country would have remembered that it was good for literature and art?"

"Of course not, and I certainly wouldn't be so naïve. Wang Lijian nodded, a little helpless.