Chapter 043: Please Eat
It didn't take long for the novella "Border City" to be published in "Jingbei Literature". Jian Jian and Tang Weiwei not only sent congratulations to Jia Youwei as soon as they knew about it, but also other members of the QQ group of the reading club also sent congratulations one after another.
Jia Youwei knows best that "Border City" is not his original. He held a copy of "Jingbei Literature" in his hand, opened it and looked at the manuscript published on it, and couldn't help but think of the group of children that Shen Congwen had captured when he was a bandit.
For a moment, the adults could not tell which of the children they had money and who did not. For this reason, Shen Congwen came up with a good way to starve these children for a few days, and then make a fish for everyone to eat.
If you eat and chew on the meat on the back of the fish as soon as you come up, you are undoubtedly a child of a poor family, and you will just let it go. Even if you force their parents to death, you won't have any money to redeem the child.
If this child eats the meat of the fish's belly as soon as it comes up, he will be closed for a few more days and observed.
Valuable children, of course, will not let go easily. The kidnapping blackmail letter will appear in the child's home as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will be released.
If one of the children comes up and goes to the crescent moon meat at both ends under the cheeks of the fish, it must be the children of rich families.
In addition to definitely not letting him go back easily, he has to ask his family to take a large ransom, after all, such a child must be the most favored at home.
One of Wang Zengqi's representative works, "The Chronicles of Da Nao", adopts the framework structure of his teacher Shen Congwen's "Border City".
The unconventional thing about "Border City" is that both men fall in love with the granddaughter of the old man who ferries at the ferry. According to the fierce folk customs and traditions of Xiangxi, this is a duel between two men.
As a result, they did not duel, but Shen Congwen introduced romantic writing techniques, and the two sang songs to touch Ah Mei's heart. The one who won got married, and the other one who lost silently left along the river.
Mo Yan wrote about bandits in "Red Sorghum Family", which was well written, unlike those writers who wrote about the Anti-Japanese War in the past, only the content of the text added two snobbery.
He introduced the third snob of the Anti-Japanese War, that is, bandits, and thus achieved his own path as a writer and was able to emerge. However, he did not become a bandit, but worked as a clerk in the PLA army.
Shen Congwen really had such a bizarre experience as a bandit. Therefore, it once again proves that great writers either rely on extremely high talent, or they have to rely on bizarre experiences, and the more bizarre the better. If you don't have enough talent, only the latter can remedy it.
Jack London is also a world-class American writer who has a bizarre experience in this category. In his early years, he not only did all kinds of low-level work, but also inhuman hard work, tiring work, and dirty work.
This also provided a constant source of inspiration for Jack London's future work. There is a reaction in his semi-autobiographical novel "Martin Eden".
The content of the book is written about an obscure writer to fame. In the end, he chose to go to sea in silence in a small boat, and ended his life by committing suicide.
Shortly after the release of Martin Eden, Jack London also died of an overdose. This, of course, does not rule out speculation of his suicide.
Jack London's most familiar work to the general Chinese public is the novella "Love of Life", which appears in excerpts from Chinese textbooks on the one hand, and on the other hand, when Lenin was on his sickbed, he specially asked someone to read it aloud and gave this novel a high evaluation.
In addition to "Martin Eden" and "Love of Life", Jack London's representative works include "Call of the Wild", "White Fang", "Sea Wolf".
As a writer of the working class, he was able to read and write with great pain and hard work under the contempt of the mediocre bourgeoisie, and finally stood out, not only by talent and bizarre experience, but also by diligence, extreme diligence.
Ever since he made up his mind to start writing, Jack London has slept only four hours a day. In addition to the necessary social interactions, he is either writing diligently, reading books, thinking.
Jia Youwei's mobile phone rang suddenly. So, he took his phone out of his right trouser pocket, and without looking at the name on the caller ID, he connected the phone directly.
"I'm the person who doesn't like to owe someone the most. I owe you a meal, and I'm having trouble sleeping. If I continue like this, I'll get depression. Tonight, let's put this matter to an end!" Tang said slightly bluntly.
Jia Youwei knew who it was as soon as he heard the voice. He didn't like to be treated by women, after all, he didn't develop a habit in this regard. I didn't want to provoke the other party too much, nor did I want to get too close to her, which was beyond the scope of ordinary friends.
"Don't refuse me, you should celebrate your new work "Border City" in advance. As far as I know, it received rave reviews in the literary world as soon as it was published.
If you dare to refuse Miss Ben, I will make dozens of phone calls every day to harass you, like a loan shark collecting debts. Tang Wei saw that he was silent, and threatened impatiently.
Jia Youwei is convinced that she can say it and do it. I had to reluctantly agree: "Yes, yes."
However, it will be a little later. I always have to prepare my daughter's meal first and watch her eat it before I can leave the house for the appointment. ”
The corners of Tang Weiwei's mouth couldn't help but turn upwards and said, "Eight o'clock in the evening, it should be no problem!"
Jia Youwei blurted out a good word, and then said: "Where is the location? Don't be outside the Third Ring Road, then I won't be able to come on time." ”
Tang Weiwei originally said that he drove over to pick him up. On my own thought, although the evening rush hour from 17 to 20 o'clock is about to pass, I don't make sure that there is no traffic jam on the road.
The most annoying thing about this cosmopolitan metropolis is the traffic jams. Once you get stuck in traffic, you can get into a mental breakdown.
As the popular saying goes, if you only eat, you will not be willing to enter the third ring road from outside the 5th Ring Road to eat such a meal unless you are a friend of life and death.
Moreover, she took the initiative to take the initiative, and she couldn't be too active, and she didn't want any reserve of children and children. From the bottom of my heart, I still hope that Jia Youwei can take the initiative.
"The place is not far away, the five-star Tianyu hotel in the second ring road. At that time, I will personally greet you at the gate.
If you can't find it and don't know the exact location, I'll pick you up by car. Tang Wei smiled more and more sunny.
"No, I know it's there. We'll see you before eight o'clock in the evening. Jia Youwei has long developed a good habit of punctuality.