Soon the news that Govin and Kitajima were going to start a magazine became an open secret in the courtyard.

Starting a magazine is a lot of work, and it's not a job that can be done by one person. Not to mention anything else, just the composition and design of the pages of the journal can exhaust a person to death, and the underground poetry journal "Today", which was compiled by Kitajima with only a few hundred copies, has already mobilized the strength of eight or nine people, and now it is an official magazine with a number.

So Kitajima saw that this kid was unwilling to contribute, and when he was in a hurry, he retorted with a strong retort: "Isn't this your magazine?" You're the editor-in-chief! ", and hit the idea on all kinds of elites in the courtyard.

Meng Ke and Shu Ting, who had compiled "Today" together, were both pulled into the editorial department of "Colleagues", which has no trace of Beidao.

People like Haizi, Gu Cheng, Li Xingmin, Jin Guantao, Li Danqing and others don't want to escape, each person must provide a manuscript, the content is not limited, original or translation, and the manuscript fee is also very picky.

In addition, a group of young people were recruited for free to do chores, photography, photography, typesetting, and school team ......

As for what Govin said about going to the veteran's house to collect style, Kitajima also contacted some friends to help, in short, the preparation of "Fellow Soldiers" moved forward in a tense and busy rhythm.

Such a situation is naturally known to everyone in the courtyard.

Leaving the founding of the magazine "Fellow" to Kitajima, Govin began to bust himself with his own business.

"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" has been published and distributed by the People's Publishing House, and Long Shao brought more than a dozen sets to Gewen in one go, occupying a large open space in the study.

In addition to placing two sets on the shelves, Govin mailed a set of books to Pa Lao.

On the title page, Govin wrote a paragraph in block letters, which meant to ask Ba Lao to taste and advise.

In addition, he personally took a few sets of books and sent them to some old-timers, Bingxin, Xiao Qian, Zang Kejia, Shen Congwen, Cao Yu .......

Of course, Ge Wen naturally will not forget Duan Wenjie and Wang Wenbin in Gansu, he also sent two sets of books to the past, and the package, as well as a letter from him, in addition to thanking the people of the Dunhuang Academy for their help, Ge Wen also encouraged Wang Wenbin and other young people, and swore that he would definitely go to Dunhuang to visit them in the future.

Naturally, in the courtyard, a set of books should also be put for everyone to read.

Govin was very inspired by the holding of the book club.

At the book club, Govin heard a lot of books that he had never heard of, and most of these books were treasured by everyone.

The books that everyone took out and shared were the source and motivation that had brought strength and belief to each other.

Many people have never even heard of these books, and some of them are clearly "white papers", "gray books", and "yellow books" printed before the Cultural Revolution.

Of course, a series of books imported from abroad also account for a considerable proportion, literary, historical, philosophical, scientific......

It was in the conversation with the owners of these books that Govin discovered a very interesting phenomenon.

After the liberation, there were many book banning campaigns in China.

With the reform and opening up, each rehabilitation brought about the lifting of the ban on a number of works, such as the re-evaluation of Hu Shi's historical status, which led to the lifting of the ban on Hu Shi's works; The rehabilitation of the "Hu Feng case" led to Hu Feng's articles appearing in various publications.

In addition, due to reform and opening up, China's maritime ban has also begun to be relaxed.

In the past, customs inspections were very strict, and it was difficult to bring back books and audio-visual products back to China, and even Van Gogh albums brought back by artists would be detained.

However, now, the control of many books and audio-visual products has been relaxed a lot, as long as it is hidden, books and audio-visual products can be carried in and out at will, although this can allow the excellent philosophy, thought, and literature of the West to flow into the country, but it also causes those Western dross to enter China at the same time.

In their inaugural issue, Reading magazine put forward the slogan "Reading is not off-limits", and Govin initially raised his hands in agreement.

However, as Govin came into contact with more and more young people, he found that the young people of this era are different from the future, and the young people of this era have access to too few books. Therefore, every time they get a book, they will read and absorb the knowledge and ideas in the book with hunger, and they don't judge whether the book is good or bad.

This raises the question that if the government does something unchecked, there will inevitably be a certain ideological divide among young people.

Even Govin has a hard time believing in the judgment of young people about books, let alone the government.

Therefore, in the past few years of reform and opening up, China has repeatedly cracked down on and banned books, and the books that were still sold in bookstores a few days ago may disappear from the shelves without a trace after a stage; The atlas, which was able to pass through customs yesterday, has become contraband today and is detained.

It's just that this practice is not systematic and unorganized, with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, like a bear breaking corn, throwing three and four. Today the books on the dregs of Western ideas are banned, but tomorrow they will be released, and the day after tomorrow even the most orthodox scientific works will be blocked.

Govin heard a young teacher at Peking University say something with his own ears.

At the beginning of 1983, a Hong Kong friend of this teacher mailed him a Chinese translation of Xia Zhiqing's History of Modern Chinese Fiction from Hong Kong, and he received it. Later, the book was borrowed and lost, and the teacher asked the Hong Kong friend to mail another copy, but the book was actually seized at the customs, saying that it was contraband.

This shows that customs standards are changing rapidly.

So Govin felt the need to build a reading room in the courtyard.

Previously, he had opened up the two rooms in the east wing of the backyard, dismantled the earthen kang, and placed desks and chairs to form a small conference room, and the reading club was held in this large room.

In the past few days, Govin found a few workers from the outside, opened up the brick wall of the east wing room in the front yard of the courtyard in two, and after removing the earthen kang, he found someone to paint the wall again, and then put a small number of chairs and a row of large bookshelves in the room.

Govin placed some of his collection in the reading room.

"Soldier Assault", "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", "Fu Lei's Family Letters", "To the World" series, "The Complete Works of Lu Xun", "The Complete Works of Ba Jin", "Bingxin's Works", Zhang Ailing's Anthology......

Before the crossing, Govin had always thought that Lu Xun's collection of works should be available in any bookstore in China, except during the White Terror period of the Republic of China.

Unexpectedly, after crossing over, he learned that China did not publish "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" until 1981, which was the first time that China published the complete works of Lu Xun in its entirety. This was the first time that the complete works of the writer were published, and then various complete works were continuously published.

In the reading room of the courtyard, as long as the books that Govin thinks are valuable in thought, they will appear on the shelves, and some books with problematic ideological tendencies are still stored in the study.

And as Govin did so, the young people who often came to the courtyard were very amused and actively followed suit.

Everyone, you have a book, I have a book, and it didn't take long to fill a room full of empty bookshelves.

As a result, in addition to various discussion activities in the backyard, the reading room in the front yard has also become a place where many people linger.

(To be continued.) )