In a small café closest to Yuanda Publishing House, Jia Youwei and Yuan Meng sat down by the window face to face. He still had a bottle of pure water, and she habitually ordered a cappucciro with a petty bourgeois flair.

Yuan Meng held a small stainless steel spoon in his right hand, and said with a smile while slowly stirring clockwise in the coffee cup: "Great writer, congratulations again." Our publishing house has decided to reprint your "Life" for the second time, 30,000 copies. ”

"In this way, I can get more than 60,000 yuan in royalties. Really got rich. This is the largest sum of money I have ever seen in my thirty-five years of life.

Without you, the editor, I wouldn't be where I am today. Your kindness to me is unforgettable. I'll treat you to dinner. ”

Jia Youwei couldn't help but laugh with the other party. His treats are genuine. Other than that, it's basically a joke.

Yuan Meng stopped the stirring action on his right hand, put the stainless steel coffee spoon on the small plate on the base, and said with a smile: "If you are grateful, I should be right to say to you."

Right now, you're the best and most promising newcomer writer under my belt. Of course, I don't have a handful of writers under my belt. ”

She paused for a moment, then added, "The last word is a joke, don't mind." I hope that you will be able to win a series of serious literary awards at home and abroad in the coming days.

Our small goal is the Lu Xun Literature Award, the highest literary award in China, and the Mao Dun Literature Award. Not only short and medium-length stories, but also long ones, all in one go. ”

"I'll try. I try not to disappoint you. Jia Youwei's body center of gravity fell backwards, leaned directly on the back of the chair, and said with a smile.

"In the beginning, the initial printing of Life was 5,000 copies, followed by the first 10,000 copies. Now, for the second reprint, 30,000 copies.

It's not bad that a serious literary work can have such a good score as yours. It is precisely because of the best-selling book "Life" in the world that my status in the publishing house has also risen with it. Seriously, I'm most looking forward to you coming up with a feature. Yuan Meng said truthfully.

"In a little while, I'll put a long story of over a million words in front of you. Jia Youwei is not following her words and saying downward, but has already started Lu Yao's "Ordinary World".

Yuan Meng's eyes lit up, and he asked with great anticipation, "Really?"

Jia Youwei nodded, showing that his words were not joking. In fact, my opinion on "Ordinary World" is that Lu Yao's masterpiece is based on the powerful and enhanced version of rural change created on "Life".

The two brothers, Sun Shaoping and Sun Shaoan, respectively represent the peasants who went to the cities to work and the peasants who stayed in the countryside to engage in sideline jobs. Or rather, to divide Gogarin in two.

It is not only a complete love with a rural girl, but also a complete love with a city girl. Of course, it's just love. On the issue of women, the ending of "Ordinary World" is tragedy.

Sun Shao'an's wife endured hardships all the way and witnessed the family getting rich, but she got cancer without enjoying the results.

Sun Shaoping's favorite reporter was washed away by the water and died in order to save people during a flood fight. Eventually, he returned to the coal mine and met his long-awaited widow and her son.

The widow was his master's widow after his death, and the son was his master's son. As for the dog, it was bought by Sun Shaoping for the boy.

The tone of "Ordinary World" is still the same as "Life", full of positive energy. At that time, these two works really inspired and changed the trajectory of the fate of many young people.

On the downside, "Ordinary World" has the limitations of the times, after all, the first edition was in 1986. Although the book reflects the migration of peasants to the cities to work, it does not say that the countryside will become what it is today.

Left-behind children, left-behind elderly, the decline of rural areas, the withdrawal of villages, the merger of villages, young people in rural areas do not know how to farm, nor do they want to farm, yearning for the city, fleeing the countryside.

This also mentions the limitations of another writer's work during the Cultural Revolution, but its value at the time cannot be overlooked.

For this reason, it also reflects the essence of Lu Yao's work. More than six years later, Lu Yao died in 1992. By the time he died of cancer, there were already big financial problems.

However, Lu Yao himself would have thought that his work would be made into a hit TV series more than 20 years later. "Ordinary World" also sells hundreds of thousands of copies of the original work every year.

Similarly, Jia Youwei also remembers very well that Lu Yao commented on Pushkin's poems as characters in the book in "Ordinary World" as if they were boiled water. On this one point of conjunction, you are the same as yourself. To be precise, I don't like poetry and don't have the right to speak.

What impressed Jia Youwei the most was that the third volume of "Ordinary World" devotes a large space to the life and work scenes of Sun Shaoping's coal miners in the coal mining area, allowing readers to see a dangerous and dirty job.

If we produce one million tons of coal, three people will die. China's annual coal output is more than 200 million tons, not including hundreds of millions of tons of coal mined privately.

Therefore, every year, it is not just those coal mine safety accidents that are reported in the news. Based on an average of three deaths per million tons of coal, the actual death toll in China's coal production is probably more than 10,000.

And that's just the coal mines. In addition to this, there are gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and many more. When Jia Youwei thinks of tin mines, he naturally thinks of a documentary made by the BBC, saying that Apple is a sweatshop.

It is about a country in Southeast Asia where people go to tin mining, not only illegally using a large number of child labor, but also from time to time people die because of this work.

Sun Shaoping clearly knew that the work of coal miners was dangerous, so why did he still do it? His mentality and ideas are not outdated today, and they are completely true.

On the one hand, the income is relatively high, and on the other hand, the biggest difference between workers and peasants is that they have a variety of perfect welfare systems. After retirement, there is a retirement fee to support the rest of the day.

When Sun Shaoping was working in a coal mine, he almost lost his life due to a safety accident, which left a deep scar on his face.

Losing one's life, being disabled, and almost daily grinding with the mental and psychological pressure of death is nothing to coal miners.

The army organized by the coal miners is the most combative, the most fierce, and the most tenacious, and no country is exempt from this.