At this time, there was not much in the teahouse.

Xiao Fei and Li Tianran went up to the second floor, sat down against the window, and asked for a pot of two plates of dim sum melon seeds in front of the Ming Dynasty.

The fragrance of tea lingers, and there is a faint background music in the store, which is quite a leisurely afternoon. Outside the window was a shady road, with few cars and people passing occasionally.

"Mr. Xiao, when will that manuscript be written?" Li Tianran looked absent-minded, he had no intention of drinking tea, let alone looking at the scenery, and he couldn't relax at all.

He didn't want to come to the teahouse.

According to his original intention, he hoped that Xiao Fei would find a place to write a creative speech as soon as possible, and write it out quickly, so that he could take it back and hand it over.

Maybe after this testimonial, there will be nothing else to do about the book "Brothers", right?

"Teacher Li, don't be impatient, write that quickly, alas! All right! I'll write one for you now. Xiao Fei said with a smile. He looked at Li Tianran's uncertain appearance, and said in his heart, maybe the task assigned to him by the leader is really urgent, and he should not torture his nerves anymore.

"Good, good, good! I carry paper and pens with me. When Li Tianran heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out the special manuscript paper and a heroic gold pen from his bag.

Li Tianran has also put a lot of thought into Xiao Fei's book these days.

The writers' club has indeed put this "Brothers" in the operation of this year's key book in the club, and they try their best to make this book perfect.

Just like the practice of publishing houses asking writers to change their manuscripts, generally speaking, this is a very normal thing, even if it is a big-name writer, they will generally cooperate.

Even after Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain" was favored by the People's Literature Publishing House, the writer was directly invited to the capital by the publishing house, stayed in a hotel and changed the manuscript for a long time, and finally finalized and published.

It is also said that it took a lot of twists and turns for "White Deer Plain" to win the 4th Contradictory Literature Award.

Because there are a lot of plots in this book that deal with that kind of thing, and it's written very explicitly. It was considered that this had a very bad impact, and later, Chen Zhongzhong specially revised out a pure water version and published it again. It was only with this version that it was recognized by the judges of the Mao Award, and it narrowly won the highest literary award in China.

Li Tianran didn't expect that although Xiao Fei was only a small character, when the club asked him to revise the manuscript significantly, he flatly refused.

Even. Xiao Fei also said that if the revision is too large, he would rather give up his cooperation with the writers' club.

This remark made the leaders of the writers' club very unhappy.

But there is nothing to be done.

Although Xiao Fei is young, he is indeed one of the most appealing writers in China, and his works have been published as a bestseller.

Just like this "Brothers", the writers' club has high hopes for it, hoping that it will become a hit in the book market before the Spring Festival.

Therefore, the writers' club still accommodated Xiao Fei.

Xiao Fei took the pen and paper handed by Li Tianran and smiled: "Teacher Li is so well prepared." ”

"Huh!" Li Tianran smiled awkwardly and looked at Xiao Fei with blank eyes. "Mr. Xiao's wonderful pen is full of flowers, and a creative talk must be done in one stroke, which is amazing all over the world."

"Teacher Li has won the award, I'm not that good."

Xiao Fei smiled, spread out the manuscript paper, held the pen in his hand, thought for a while, and wrote a title on the paper: "From the Narrow Gate to the Edge of the Sky".

Li Tianran sat opposite Xiao Fei and watched him put pen to paper. He breathed a sigh of relief, from the narrow door to the edge of the sky? What does this mean?

Speaking of which, Xiao Fei hasn't created with a pen for a long time.

So, he started writing on paper. It's a little jerky.

But soon, he got used to it, and he wrote quickly for a while, and the smooth lines of writing flowed out of the pen line by line.

This pen is still a good use.

It only took about ten minutes for Xiao Fei to write more than one page and less than two pages of manuscript paper, and put the pen on the cap. put it on the table, looked up and said to Li Tianran, "Okay." ”

"Ahh So fast! Mr. Xiao is really like a god, and the pen is sprinkled with joy, and you are so agile and talented that you are rare in China! Li Tianran patted Xiao Fei's ass with his hand.

However, he was really surprised in his heart.

He had long heard that Xiao Fei was a writer with quick thinking and fast writing speed, and today he witnessed Xiao Fei's fast writing style for the first time.

In just fifteen or sixteen minutes, he actually wrote a creative testimonial of seven or eight hundred words.

It's fast enough.

Li Tianran actually had a faint regret in his heart, he felt that if Xiao Fei could write a little more and write a few thousand words, then it would be enjoyable, right?

Li Tianran often deals with writers, and he knows that many writers can't put away their pen when they write creative testimonials, and even a testimonial can write 10,000 or 20,000 words.

Xiao Fei is good, he only wrote such a little bit to deal with the errand.

He thought that what he said at the beginning was not right, and he shouldn't have told Xiao Fei that it would be good to write hundreds or thousands of words.

"Teacher Li, let's take a look." Xiao Fei handed over the written creative testimonial.

"Hmm! I can't wait to read it. Li Tianran said and took the manuscript.

I saw that at the beginning of this, I briefly described the motivation for the creation of the book "Brothers".

Xiao Fei said to himself that since he was a child, he loved to read and listen to the stories of the old man in the past, and after going to junior high school, he read a lot of literary works during the Wenge period, and also deliberately learned a lot of true stories about the Wenge period.

These stories touched him, and he wanted to write a long novel about Wenge.

However, trapped by the lack of life experience, he found that he was unable to control such a long narrative.

But the material for the book had been brewing in his mind, and over the years, countless more materials were added, until one day, when the enthusiasm in his chest could no longer be suppressed, he began to write again.

In this novel, the first volume is written about the period of literary songs, and the second volume is written about reform and opening up, and what connects these two eras is the two brothers.

Wenge, it was a "time of spiritual fanaticism, instinctive repression, and tragic fate, equivalent to the Middle Ages in Europe"; After the reform, China was an era of "ethical subversion, impetuousness, and all living beings, even more so than in Europe today."

A Westerner can only live for 400 years to experience two worlds apart; The Chinese people only need 40 years to experience these two earth-shaking eras. Four hundred years of turmoil in China have been condensed into forty years, which is a precious and wonderful experience!

A pair of brothers in the novel, "their lives fission in fission, their joys and sorrows explode in explosions, their fates are as upside down as these two eras, and in the end they must reap the consequences of their grievances"!

Finally, Xiao Fei said in this testimonial that according to his original plan, the size of this brother is about more than 200,000.

However, when he began to write, he found that the narrative dominated his writing, and as the writing unfolded, the length continued to expand, and by the time it was completed, the whole work had far exceeded expectations, reaching more than 400,000 words.

Xiao Fei sighed for this: Writing is so wonderful, starting from a narrow place, often writing to a wide place, starting from a wide place, but writing narrow, this is so similar to life.

So Jesus said, "Go through the narrow gate." He admonishes us, "For wide is the gate that leads to destruction, and the way is great, and many are going." Narrow is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and few find it. ”

The article concludes: "I think that whether it is writing or life, the right starting point is to walk through the narrow door. Don't be fooled by the wide gate, where the road is not very long. ”

The article is not long, and Li Tianran read it quickly.

He was shocked again.

Although this creative testimonial is short, the content is quite rich, and it writes about the writing process, the main meaning of the work, the wonderful feelings and some insights in the creative process.

It can also be seen that Xiao Fei's language is so refined.

His ability to write rich words in concise and short language is a rare talent.

"It's so well written, Mr. Xiao, I really admire it, in such a short time, you have written such an excellent creative talk, and our editor-in-chief will definitely be satisfied." Li Tianran said.

He hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Mr. Xiao, I don't know when the second half of "Brothers" will be handed over to me?" ”

In fact, the best situation is that if the two parts of "Brothers" are printed and published together, it will be the best, but Li Tianran knows that this is impossible.

The upper part of "Brothers" was first published on "Harvest", and the lower part will definitely be published on Harvest.

Only after the harvest has been issued, can it be the turn of the writer's club to publish a single book.

The autumn and winter volume of the 1997 novel special issue of "Harvest" is so popular and popular with readers, Li Tianran also knows it, and the leaders of the writers' club are also very envious of it.

It would be nice if we could get a single book to be published at the same time as the publication of "Harvest".

""Brothers" has been preliminarily determined to be published in the spring and summer volume of the 1998 novel special issue of "Harvest", and the manuscript can only be handed over to you after they are published." Xiao Fei said with a smile.

"Oh, why don't you just post it in the sixth issue of Harvest this year?" Li Tianran asked.

"The main journal can only publish about 400,000 words in total, but the lower part of the brother has more than 300,000 words. Xiao Fei said.

"So, can we release a single book at the same time as the "Harvest" novel special issue of the spring and summer volume of '98?" Li Tianran asked.

Xiao Fei smiled and spread his hands: "This, why don't you discuss it with Editor-in-Chief Xiao, is it done?" ”

"That's fine." Li Tianran said.

can get the creation of "Brothers", he has completed the task today, as for the fact that "Brothers" can be launched at the same time as the harvest, he feels that it doesn't matter much whether it succeeds or not. (To be continued.) )