After traveling to this era, Govin discovered a fact-

The vast majority of writers in this era simply cannot live on their own works, or that the royalties of their works alone cannot make a writer live a rich life, which is why most writers have formal jobs and have additional income to subsidize their lives.

This is no exception even for Sanmao, who is well-known in the entire Chinese circle outside the mainland.

In the mainland, there are really very few writers from outside the system like Govin and Wang Xiaobo.

What is Wang Xiaobo's situation, Ge Wen doesn't know, but he knows that the reason why he can live so chic, and do whatever he wants, is more cheap is brought about by the identity of a traverser.

If it weren't for the traverser, he wouldn't have published so many works in more than a year, and if he wasn't for the traverser, he wouldn't have been able to get so much praise for each of his works, let alone sell them all.

This is also a key reason why Govin does not take money seriously, because he knows that with his own ability and familiarity with the future, it is easy to make money. Because there are no material constraints, he can obtain time and mental freedom, so he wants to realize the ideal in his heart.

Therefore, Govin took out the royalties of "Soldier Assault" to fund Chen Hongjun to establish the Jiangdong Livestock Farm, and he personally supported the establishment of Wei Jianguo's Veterans Poverty Alleviation Foundation......

Therefore, a few days ago, he gave a speech at Beijing Agricultural University, and after learning that Professor Le Tianyu, the first president of Beijing Agricultural University, had returned to his hometown of Ningyuan, Hunan Province, to organize the first private university after the founding of New China at his own expense, he once again generously donated the royalties for the translation of Walden.

This private school, called Kuzhishan Academy, used up the savings of Mr. Lotte Yu.

In four years. Mr. Lotte Yu insisted on eating, living and working with all the teachers and students of the school. He leads by example. Live in a ruined temple. eat coarse vegetables and light rice; He was unpaid, lectured himself, and often worked late into the night.

There is no electricity or traffic in Jiuzhi Mountain, and the conditions for running a school are extremely difficult.

There was no school building, so they borrowed the simple wing room of the Shundi Mausoleum Temple, and even used the shade of the General Tree as a school building. If there are no desks, they use mounds and stones as desks and chairs. There is no normal source of funds, and Le Tianyu took out all the 50,000 yuan reissued by the state after the "Cultural Revolution". Afterward. He also used his monthly retirement salary of 350 yuan for the establishment of the college in addition to 50 yuan for living expenses.

On July 15, 1984, four years after Mr. Lotte Yu's journey, he dedicated the last trace of light and enthusiasm to his hometown, and exhausted his last efforts for Jiuyishan College. When he died, people were saddened to find that he was wearing a torn shirt and a trouser belt made of three strips of cloth.

Wooden walls and paper-pasted windows, a bucket room upstairs in the wind and rain!

And the death of Mr. Lotte Yu did not affect the continuation of Jiuzhishan Academy. His eldest son, Le Yansheng, Du Diankui, former deputy commissioner of the Lingling Administration, and Wu Fang, former deputy director of the National Commission for Private Higher Education, ...... Many colleagues who were influenced by him took over his baton and the spirit of the old man's hard work.

Teachers don't get paid. Only low-standard food and pocket money of 5 yuan per month are required. Teachers eat and live in school, get up early and stay late, and lead by example. When my throat is hoarse in class, I drink a glass of water casually; Chalk ash is sprinkled all over the hair and clothes, just take a few shots after class; The school moved, and in order to save money, they insisted on self-reliance and self-reliance......

The story of Jiuzhishan Academy moved Gewen extremely much, so in his speech, he told the story he had just heard, and called on everyone to study seriously and be a useful person to the motherland and society in the future.

When the speech was over, Govin rushed back to his residence as soon as possible, and then returned to the Agricultural University with the manuscript fee for "Walden" given to him by Long Shao, and personally asked the president of the Agricultural University to transfer the deposit slip to the teachers of Jiuzhishan College.

Govin used the pen sent by Ba Lao to write down his feelings on the paper - a spark is lit at the foot of Jiuzhi Mountain, and the torch is not enough!

This kind of selfless dedication of "everyone collecting firewood and burning high" will definitely make the 'spark' of Jiuzhishan College become a 'prairie fire'! When handing the deposit slip to the president of Agricultural University, Govin said sincerely: "If I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely go to Jiuzhi Mountain to give voluntary lectures!" ”

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In fact, in this era, there are really many old people like Mr. Lotte Yu who are clean and sincere.

For example, Mr. Bingxin, whom Govyn has already visited.

After Govyn published "Taoist Tower", Mr. Bingxin wrote a commentary. In front of Gowen, Ba Lao once praised his old sister's works like this: "Generations of young people have read Bingxin's books and learned love: love the stars, love the sea, love the motherland, and love a beautiful thing. I hope that young people will read a little bit of Bingxin's books and have a sincere heart. ”

This old man, who was criticized during the ten years of turmoil, entered a new historical period in the motherland and changed his second creation Gao Yu Dynasty in his life. Even though she suffered a cerebral thrombosis first and then a fracture, she still did not give up creation.

After 1980, Mr. Bingxin's short story "Empty Nest" won the National Outstanding Short Story Award. She went on to create masterpieces such as "Everything is Superior" and "The Monk from Far Away". In terms of prose, in addition to "Three Sending Young Readers", he has created four series of articles in a row, namely "Write When I Think of It", "My Autobiography", "About Men" and "Miscellaneous Notes". The large number of works, the richness of the content, and the unique style of creation have made her literary achievements reach a new level, and a magnificent landscape of her later years has appeared.

As described above, Mr. Bingxin, together with Mr. Ba Lao and Mr. Xiao Qian, can be called the "Golden Triangle" of the Chinese literary scene in the 80s, and they are the three most important figures in the Chinese literary scene at this time. Despite their advanced age, they are all known for their prolific and active thinking, and they are not only leading figures in the intellectual world, but also shine in the literary world with the second creative peak of their lives.

Except for Mr. Bingxin. The same is true of Mr. Shen Congwen, whom he visited.

Mr. Shen Congwen is also one of Ba Lao's friends. So when Govin came to Beijing, he naturally had to visit this old gentleman.

Crossing the impression of the old gentleman before Gowyn. Only for later generations he has read Mr. Shen's novella "Border City", which is a little woman who lives and is immersed in the ancient customs and environment, and has buried her love thoughts for a long time.

Just like the image of the old gentleman that Ge Wen imagined from Shen Congwen's novel, the old man is an extremely calm and gentle person, although the two have only met for a few hours, Ge Wen can still feel that the old man has a kind of Xiangxi infatuation in his bones. Stubborn.

The old gentleman has a profound understanding of human nature, but he is very tolerant, and can understand both good and evil. Govin felt that it was appropriate to describe the old gentleman as wise and foolish. And this old man is actually pregnant with a childish innocence, which makes it really hard for you not to like him.

Many people in later generations said that Shen Congwen had exhausted his talents after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and this assertion was probably based on the fact that the old gentleman had few excellent literary works published after 1949, but Gewen felt that this view was really bullshit.

Even in his previous life, Govin knew about the "Chinese Language and Literature" major in college, and Mr. Shen's "Research on Ancient Chinese Costumes" published in 1983 was a compulsory course. Over the years, this book has been a well-known academic classic. Could this be Jiang Lang's talent?

After the crossing, because of Ba Lao, Ge Wen also knew more about Mr. Shen Congwen. Although this old gentleman was basically not engaged in literary creation after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he published a series of monographs on the study of cultural relics.

In 1957, Mr. Shen wrote and published "Chinese Silk Patterns". Soon after, he published academic works on history and culture, including "Tang and Song Bronze Mirrors" published in 1958, "Dragon and Phoenix Art" published in 1960, and later "Warring States Lacquerware" and other academic monographs. As for the huge work "Research on Ancient Chinese Costumes" published in September 1981, it can almost be called the crystallization of more than 20 years of academic research of Mr. Lao, and its research content involves the period from the Yin Shang to the Qing Dynasty, and the clothing problems of various dynasties in the three or four thousand years have been studied and discussed, and the whole book has 700 images and 250,000 words, which directly fills a gap in the history of Chinese culture, so that it is still a classic work in the academic circles in later generations.

Mr. Shen Congwen is like this, but Mr. Cao Yu is just the opposite.

During the days when he was taking care of Ba Lao, Gewen helped Ba Lao tidy up his study, and when he was sorting out the letters exchanged between Ba Lao and his friends over the years, Gewen saw the letters written by Mr. Cao Yu to Ba Lao.

In a 1979 letter to Ba Jin, Cao Yu wrote: "After getting married, I still want to write and live up to the hopes of many friends. In 1981, he wrote "An empty belly, I will seek". In 1983, he wrote: "I'm just ashamed, you want me to write something more, I still look at the blank paper, and I can't write a word." ”

Reading the old gentleman's letter, Govin felt extremely bitter in his heart.

Govin could sense the old gentleman's inner struggle in these letters. The old gentleman was tormented by aging and illness, and had many unfulfilled dreams. He suffered a lot in the "****" and left huge scars on his body and mind, but he did not forget his mission, he had a sense of responsibility for the nation, a sense of responsibility for the country, and felt that he should write good things, which were all revealed in his letters to Ba Jin.

But ten years of turmoil have devastated his body and mind, and his mind has dried up.

A generation of literary masters had to remain silent.

What an unwillingness!

He wrote "Thunderstorm" at the age of 23, and was recognized as a highly talented person in the modern and contemporary Chinese literary scene.

Reading these letters, everyone's feelings are poignant.

In fact, looking at the letters written by Mr. Cao Yu to Mr. Ba Lao, almost every one of them is very literary and full of passion, but he himself said that he could not write a single word in his creation, I am afraid that in addition to the influence of historical factors, Mr. Cao's personal health problems are also a big factor.

Govin visited Mr. Cao Yu three times, but he couldn't see the old man, and the last place to meet the old man was actually the theater.

From the secretary who took care of the elderly, Govin learned that the old gentleman had to participate in various social activities almost every day at noon and afternoon, and even at night he had to watch the play, and when he returned home, he was exhausted, and where did he have time to write.

From this point of view, in fact, the old gentleman's exhaustion of coping with external activities caused him no less pain than the devastation suffered during the **** period.

In addition to Bingxin, Shen Congwen, and Cao Yu, Ge Wen also visited Ji Xianlin, Ding Ling, and Zang Ke's house...... These old people have different personalities, some are amiable, some are calm and calm, and some are violent and violent.

That's right, it's a violent personality.

When Govin met with Mr. Zang Kejia, he was scolded by the old gentleman, on the grounds that Gowen's hazy poetry exhibition and "Rising Poems" published in Harvest magazine were a retrogression of modern poetry. The old gentleman said that hazy poetry would lead to the return of modern poetry, and that Govin was playing the piano indiscriminately......

Originally, Govin wanted to argue with the old gentleman, but the old man's daughter Zang Xiaoping looked at him vigorously, thinking that before seeing the old gentleman, Zang Xiaoping said that the old man was not in good health and could not be too excited, so Govin had to smile bitterly and bow his head and remain silent, allowing the old man to scold.

And when the old gentleman gave vent, patted Gowen on the shoulder and said happily that it had been a long time since he had taught people such a refreshing lesson, Gowen looked dumbfounded.

"Boy, you're not bad, except for poetry, the prose is pretty good!" Finally, the old gentleman concluded.

(To be continued.) )

PS: Start to wrap up the previous little foreshadowing, and then start a new copy.

The little paragraph of the old gentleman of the Zang Ke family is a small foreshadowing left by the plot of the hazy poetry exhibition in the previous article (the old man's character is what I imagined).

It was originally planned to write about these predecessors in large paragraphs, but for the author, one of the selling points of the book is the interaction between those historical celebrities and the protagonists. However, considering that the updates in recent days are too slow, I am afraid that everyone will find it boring, so it will be condensed into a chapter. Later, some plots will be slowly passed through to show the temperament of these great people.

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