The next day, before dawn, Govyn, with dark circles under his eyes, got up early. He took out a pen and paper, wrote a few notices, pasted them outside the doors of each room, and then went back to his study to plug in the door, and lay down on the table to catch up on sleep.

Everyone who was staying overnight got up and looked at the notice posted outside the door, and they all laughed.

I saw that the notice read-

If you stay overnight in Beidao and Jianghai, it is strictly forbidden to stay with others!

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The story about the courtyard house is really intelligible.

Many years later, Govin would occasionally recall the days when he scolded Fang Xuan and the dung in the courtyard of the year.

At that time, some of these people in the courtyard had passed away, some had not been heard from, and some could often be seen in newspapers, magazines, television, movies and other media, and at that time they had become the indispensable elite of New China, the vanguard of the times, and led China forward in a certain field.

Recalling the original time, Govin was extremely embarrassed.

Because of Govyn's generosity, many people will bring something to Govin when they go to the courtyard. Sometimes it's a book, sometimes it's a bottle of wine, sometimes it's a rare little object, sometimes it's some ingredients.

Gowen still remembers that there was a student at Beijing Normal University, and he wore glasses, a kind of retro round glasses, which were called monopoly or Zuan. When he came to the courtyard, he carried a big dog.

The dog was dead, and when everyone asked Zu An strangely what he was doing with the dead dog, where did the dead dog come from, Zu An just smirked and didn't say the reason.

Then it dawned on the people.

Zuan carried the dead dog directly into the kitchen, and after half a day, everyone in the yard was attracted to the kitchen by a strong fragrance.

Pushing open the kitchen door, I saw Zu An holding the lid of the pot in one hand and a large spoon in the other hand and tasting the taste of dog meat in the spoon.

Seeing everyone come in, he put down the spoon and pot lid in his hand, wiped his hands on the placket of his jacket, looked at Gowen, and said with a sincere smile in Mandarin with a rich southern accent: "It's been many days, and I've been coming empty-handed, so I'm embarrassed." This time, I got some dog meat for everyone to eat......"

Seeing that Govin was still looking at him stupidly, he was a little anxious: "My ancestors all killed dogs to make meat, and this dog meat is delicious......"

Govin still misses the noon dog meat feast that day, it was the best dog meat he had ever eaten in his life!

Years later, once Govin stumbled upon a memoir by Long Shao in a magazine, and the two had already laughed at each other. Long Shao wrote in his memoirs: Govin had a nosebleed on the spot when he ate dog meat!

And Ah Cheng.

The relationship between the two began in 1983 when Govin was still a trainee editor at Harvest magazine in Shanghai. Ah Cheng's Virgo "The Chess King" was submitted to "Harvest", and Govin was the editor of this novel. The novel shocked the literary world when it was published, and it won the 1982-1983 National Award for Outstanding Novella.

Since then, the two have kept up with each other.

Govin came to Beijing, and Ah Cheng made it easy for Govin to meet him often. After buying the courtyard, Ah Cheng became the earliest guest of the courtyard.

When the courtyard had not yet become a cultural circle of young people in the capital, when Ah Cheng came to the courtyard, he bought half a roast duck and a bottle of rice wine in Quanjude, which he wanted to share with Gewen.

Ah Cheng likes duck breasts, and Govin likes duck heads, wings and legs.

Ah Cheng said that the breast meat of chicken and duck is the most expensive part of his body abroad, and Govin shook his head and said that the worst taste of breast meat is that the duck legs are chewy.

Both of them have their own place.

It was a few days after the courtyard house was bought, and the weather was already very cold, and Govin had not yet solved the heating problem of the courtyard at that time.

The room was very cold, there was still a strong wind outside, the roast duck had become cold, and even the rice wine was cold.

Halfway through the meal, Govin ran to the toilet.

When Govin came back, Ah Cheng smiled: "Well, this is the taste of duck legs!" ”

Govin also smiled, and he asked Ah Cheng: "You say, which is more enjoyable, reading or writing?" ”

Ah Cheng thought seriously for a long time before he said, "Of course, writing is more enjoyable than reading!" ”

Govyn patted his thigh and said, "Yes, diarrhea is more pleasant than eating!" ”

After the courtyard became a cultural salon in the capital, there were too many people coming and going in the courtyard, but Govin thought that Ah Cheng was the most storytelling and godlike protagonist of all people, except for himself, I am afraid that only Beidao could compare with it.

So every time Ah Cheng arrives at the courtyard, it is another natural center with the aura of the protagonist in addition to himself.

He often spoke wittily until the wee hours of the morning, leaving people stunned, completely mesmerized, and even amazed when he mentioned it weeks later.

Chen Kaige once discussed Ah Cheng with Ge Wen: "Someone should carry a camera to follow Ah Cheng every day, it must be a great film." Gewen agreed on the spot, and after thinking about it, he felt that people like Ah Cheng probably still belong to the era of writing, and what will be passed down in the future must still be his words and his words.

After so many years, Govyn's deepest impression of Ah Cheng was his big pipe, but at that time, he had not yet started smoking pipes, and he still smoked cigarettes. At that time, his addiction to smoking was very great, and he started to smoke like a cloud.

Regarding smoking, Ah Cheng also said a joke:

He said that he had an old classmate named Fu Shi, surnamed Fu, the fourth in the family, this person was not very good at math, and he had made some jokes, so everyone sometimes jokingly called him 0-4.

The two hadn't seen each other in years.

One day, Fu Shi said to him: Ah Cheng, you have been smoking for more than ten years, you can buy a flying pigeon bicycle with this money!

Yes, Ah Cheng replied, you and I have the same salary.

Fu Shi said, it's the same.

Ah Cheng said, you never smoke, let me see where your bicycle is?

After the joke was finished, Ah Cheng laughed, took out a cigarette and lit another one.

Speaking of Chen Kaige, we have to talk about the movie "Soldier Assault" authorized by Gewen to be shot by Guangxi Film Studio.

A few months ago, Govin gave his novel "Soldier Assault" to Wei Bida, the director of Guangxi Film Studio, for a dime in royalties, and the only requirement was that the film director of the film should be co-directed by Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Li Shaohong.

After several months of intense filming, "Soldier Assault" has begun to enter the post-production stage. Therefore, Chen Kaige, Li Shaohong, and Tian Zhuangzhuang, who have a relationship with the Beijing Film Studio, sometimes return to Beijing to do business.

It was only after Chen Kaige knew the news that Govin was in Beijing that he slowly integrated into this circle. With Chen Kaige's guidance, Gu Changwei, Zhang Li and other alumni of the same level as him at the Beijing Film Academy also joined the cultural salon.

In addition to being a writer, Ah Cheng is also a painter, and he was one of the main forces in the Star Painting Exhibition five years ago. In addition, in 1983, some of the painters that Govin met at the "Real Yàn Painting Exhibition" at Fudan University, so many young painters appeared in this cultural salon.

As the courtyard has become the most famous cultural and artistic center in Beijing, with the spread of telephones, telegrams, and letters, many literary and artistic young people from other places will gradually come to make pilgrimages.

As mentioned earlier, many young people in this era will run around the country, they will be shy in their pockets, and when they get to a certain place, they have to find friends or friends of friends to spend the night, otherwise they will sleep on the streets.

And the courtyard is a good place to renovate.

Govin also remembers a wandering artist nicknamed Bitter Tea.

In Govyn's study, a portrait of Kucha that was painted for him back then still rests on the shelf to the right of his desk.

In that portrait, Govin smiling and sitting cross-legged on a low kang, the sunlight outside the window shining in his figure half bright and half dark. In the lower right corner of the portrait is written "Painting Govin Bitter Tea".

At noon that day, Govin and Kucha drank two bottles of "Lao Baigan" with just a few steamed buns and a stack of peanuts. Bitter Tea and Govin talk a lot about Fassbinder, even prophesying that he longs to die like Fassbinder.

Then, taking advantage of the wine, Kucha painted the portrait of Gowen.

The next day, Kucha didn't even say hello, and drifted away.

A few years later, Xiao Yanyan, a female painter praised by the Western media as being able to "draw color with a pencil", saw the painting in Govern's study, and then, silently, told Govin that Kucha had died in a car accident a year earlier, and he had drunk and ridden a motorcycle and crashed into a tree......

Over the years, news of the departure of friends such as Kucha has come every once in a while.

Another life full of possibilities comes to an abrupt end, they are like a stopped clock, the hour hand is forever fixed at a certain scale.

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In the courtyard, Govin and Liu Changle had a discussion about the rhetorical style of a critic.

Liu Changle said that this critic often uses sentences such as "we have always believed" and "we have always advocate".

Govin laughed and teased: he must be very excited, slapping his thigh while writing.

Liu Changle said: He also frequently makes summaries, and likes to use "no doubt", "from this", and "all in all" as the beginning of a paragraph.

Govyn smiled: his thigh was about to be slapped red by him.

At this time, Liu Changle was still an editor of the Central People's Radio, and he didn't have the slightest trace of the temperament of the media tycoon in later generations.

In the courtyard, Govin listened to a poetess under the pseudonym Yan Yu Murmur relay a report on China's family planning campaign.

She said that in the report on the investigation of the family planning movement, there is a well-known couplet like this: Shanglian: Horizontal one heart, Lower couplet: Cut two tendons, Horizontal criticism: Fight a war of annihilation in family planning!

Many years later, Tianya magazine published a column called "Folk Language", in which this couplet was published.

On that day, another student poet with the pen name "Erwu Shiyi" also added some things that he had personally experienced.

He said that the peasants "dared not speak out" and were "not angry" at the city people running to the countryside and forcibly sterilizing the peasants.

The peasants complained to the cadres and doctors sent from the city: You have TV and movies to watch in the city, but we only have such a little "cultural life" in the countryside, and you still have to "click" us!

The student poet relayed the peasants' complaints in a Hunan accent while waving them in the air in a scissor-like gesture that made everyone present laugh.

Later, when Govin asked the student poet, he learned that the two letters in his pseudonym referred to the word "virgin", which was influenced by Govyn's words.

Yan Yu murmur and the virgin two Wu Yiyi finally didn't know why, and slowly faded out of the courtyard.

In the courtyard, Govin learned from a classmate that at this time, **'s works could be disposed of as waste paper. The young man excitedly described that he flipped through the whole house, found all the books of **, bundled them into a pile and sold them to the old man who collected the tatters at the mouth of the alley.

The young man said that he never wanted to keep the ** book again. The young man said that since he read some Marx and Engels, he felt that the writing of ** was dirty and poor. The young man said that he removed all the plastic covers of Mao Xuan, because Mao Xuan was a dime a penny, and the plastic cover was a dime and eight a catty.

Gowen still remembers that he listened to the words of the classmate and scolded him, and if someone next to him hadn't stopped him, he would have gone up and beat the kid hard. In the end, the kid left the courtyard in a gloomy manner, and never appeared again.

And Govyn's bookshelves also began to add various editions of ** works.

In the courtyard, Govin discussed Hegel's "intellectual analysis method" with Li Xingmin, the author of "The Exciting Age" in the first volume of the "Towards the Future Book Series".

Li Xingmin said: Intellect is not rationality, and intellectual worship is most likely to turn into dogmatism.

Govyn asked him: The old version of "Little Logic" translates "Cun Zài Theory" into "Existence Theory", which translation do you think is better?

Li Xingmin said: "Yes" is a very Chinese and mysterious word, and it has people's judgment in it; "Deposit" covers a large area, it is the world of objects.

Govin shook his head, isn't "saving zài" also a judgment?

Li Xingmin said: Whether there is a daily judgment or not, whether to save zài or not is a philosophical judgment.

That was in the first month of 1954.

In the courtyard, Govin once discussed avant-garde literature with the crowd.

The meeting was in full swing, and everyone chatted day and night. Everyone has a writing plan in their stomachs, and many people go crazy, talking about Marquez, Yasunari Kawabata, Hemingway, Faulkner, and fortune-telling gossip UFO alien Wild Fox Zen.

At that time, Shen Shanzeng was still relatively low-key, writing novels alone and practicing qigong in his spare time.

Many years have passed, the Nobel Prize was taken away by Gao Xingjian of France, and Shen Shanzeng has also become a qigong master.

In the quadrangle, Govin once criticized a novel published in October magazine, "On the Road."

Later, this matter somehow reached the ears of the author of "On the Road". The author of this pseudonym coolcoolme turned out to be a girl.

The girl inquired for a long time before finding the phone number of Govyn's house, and then called him to plead.

On the phone, coolcoolme at the end of hanging up the phone, dragged the opera with a pull, and shouted slowly: "Govern, Govyn, your words are so ruthless!" ”

Many years have passed, and Govin and this girl with a very sweet voice under the pseudonym CoolCoolMe have never been able to meet each other.

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The dragon sets that appear in this chapter are: Long Shao; bitter tea; Glasses oo monopoly; 0-4; 2541；coolcoolme； Pencil to draw colors

(To be continued.) )