Xiao Fei quietly left Xili Village early in the morning on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

During the three days he spent at home, he did everything he could to be impeccable. He thinks it's time to escape the hustle and bustle of the New Year and calm himself down.

He went back to his cabin at school.

The teacher's family area was still relatively deserted at this time, and many teachers had returned to their hometown for the New Year, and there were not too many people who really spent the New Year here.

Xiao Fei simply cleaned up the cabin, sat down in front of the computer, turned on the computer habitually, then lit a cigarette, leaned his body on the wide back of the chair, and began to adjust his chaotic mind.

The holiday syndrome is sometimes extremely difficult to overcome.

And everyone has inertia in their bodies, and once laziness and possession become a habit, it is sometimes difficult to be diligent.

For example, Xiao Fei is in chaos now, and he doesn't know what he is worried about or what he is thinking.

He turned off his phone.

Stood up and paced back and forth in the room.

Say to yourself over and over again: Xiao Fei, you have to struggle, you have to move forward, you can't stop, because you still have a greater mission to shoulder.

In fact, it doesn't matter about the mission.

It should be driven by ambition, so that Xiao Fei can't stop moving forward.

He wants to write his own strong stroke in the annals of the country's history, and only continuous success can make him feel at ease.

After smoking a cigarette, Xiao Fei's mind calmed down.

Finally, the distractions and hustle and bustle of the outside world are squeezed out of the body like toothpaste.

Then. The computer has also finished booting up.

Xiao Fei returned to the chair in front of the computer, sat down, and skillfully opened a word document. With both hands on the keyboard, he began to type quickly.

Title: "Brothers".

Author: Xiao Fei.

I'm sorry, Yu Hua's senior, Xiao Fei apologized in his heart to this writer he admired very much.

That's right, what Xiao Fei is going to write, oh no, has to be copied out of his head. It will be Yu Hua's "Brothers".

This work is also the most important novel after Yu Hua entered the new millennium, and it was published in two parts. Up to 500,000 words.

There is no doubt that Yu Hua is a talented person who is very good at telling stories and can tell stories in a fascinating way.

His storytelling skills and his writing feel are superb, both in China and in the Chinese-speaking world.

This brother, Yu Hua only started writing in 2004. At the beginning, Yu Hua just wanted to write a small long story to practice writing and find the feeling of writing a novel.

You must know that since the launch of Xu Sanguan Selling Blood in 1995, Yu Hua has not written a long story for nearly ten years.

He is a casual person who does not deliberately force himself to sit down and write when he has no creative passion. That's why he hasn't released a new work for many years.

Yu Hua himself later said that the novel of the brother was obtained by accident.

At first, he was going to write. It's not "Brothers" at all, it's another novel, but it's written. He found himself controlled by his own narrative.

By the time he reached 100,000 words, Yu Hua found that his novel had reversed his original train of thought and turned into another book.

And this book, that is, brothers.

His whole being was possessed by an unprecedented creative passion. His emotions are controlled by his own narrative, to use a later internet buzzword. That is, as if chewing Xuanmai, I can't stop at all.

This writing is a super long story, and there is this "Brothers".

The first half of "Brothers" was published in 2005.

After its publication, it immediately aroused wide attention from the circle to the vast number of readers in China, and suddenly became a bestseller of the year.

Yu Hua, who has not produced a new work for ten years, has once again become the focus of this country, and "Brothers" has become a cultural phenomenon.

After the second half of "Brothers" was released in 2006, the upper and lower parts sold more than one million copies in a short period of time.

This kind of hot sales is simply a peculiar phenomenon in this time period.

You know, pure decay is even more pronounced in the new millennium. There are only a few writers with market appeal.

Especially the pure pure feature, which sells well, except for the recognized classics, it is almost impossible for a new work.

Of course, after Yu Hua's "Brothers" came out, it also had mixed reviews, and like his previous works, it was fiercely criticized.

Some people even think that "Brothers" is a kitsch work with no ideology and value, its story is exaggerated, its suffering and destruction are tragedies rather than meaningful tragedies, and on the whole, "Brothers", like Yu Hua's previous works, lacks something at all, just a novel with no value and no sex.

Xiao Fei spent three hours in the morning typing out more than 10,000 words on the keyboard.

That's not slow.

But compared to dictating shorthand, it is still more than a little bit slower.

But this book, Xiao Fei didn't plan to ask Liu Bei to help him record it, he wanted to type it out word by word, which is also a tribute to the classics.

He saved his papers, closed his computer, and ordered himself a bowl of dumplings that he had brought from home.

In the process of cooking, Xiao Fei was still thinking.

Why do the vast majority of pure fiction be abandoned by the general reader?

And why is the work of a pioneer fiction writer like Yu Hua loved by so many readers?

Where are these lofty things of value and meaning?

He thought that the reason why Yu Hua was popular was why "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" and "Alive" were so popular. The first reason, I'm afraid, is that the work is really easy to read and durable, right?

Geniuses such as Yu Hua can always find the most meaningful storyline and emotional details from their imagination in life, and narrate them eloquently.

Even ordinary readers who don't have much cultural accumulation can understand the story. Then I was moved by the story.

Isn't that the greatest success for a writer?

Isn't the greatest value of a work to be welcomed and loved by readers?

It is really sad that the so-called writers, who completely ignore the feelings of their readers and just live in their own fantasies.

The reason why Xiao Fei wrote "Brothers" at this time. It is because he wants to seize an opportunity, that is, the selection of the 5th Contradiction Award.

The selection cycle and objects of the 5th Mao Dun Award are novels published in China during the four years from 1995 to 1998.

Xiao Fei himself released two works in 1996, one "Fish Walking on Land" and the other "Bright Sword", both of which are very popular books, and both books will definitely have the strength to be recommended as candidates.

But Xiao Fei didn't think that he was sure of winning the award.

Many people know the award principle of the Mao Award, which focuses on factors such as reality and epicness.

But little is known about the principle of secrecy that has gradually developed in the Mao Prize. This principle is that the Mao Award is developing more and more in the direction of the Lifetime Achievement Award.

A young writer wants to win this award. That's just too hard, it's too hard.

Even if your work is really good, it will be directly given to Paz because of age.

There are many people in China who have participated in many Mao Awards, but they have always missed this award. Keep missing.

Like Mo Yan, many people think that Mo Yan should have won the Mao Award a long time ago, but it was not until the 8th Mao Award that he won the Mao Award for "Frog", a novel that was not so outstanding in his creative career.

Like Yu Hua, from "Alive" to "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", he has always been rejected by the Mao Award, and if he wants to win this award, Yu Hua doesn't know when he will have to wait.

According to this, Xiao Fei believes. If you want to win the Mao Award with two best-selling books, it is not an ordinary difficulty, but a difficulty like the sky.

That's what he's going to do now. Publish as many long-form masterpieces as possible, so that your creative achievements will continue to be full, so as to expand your reputation in China, and let yourself truly grow into a domestic super-first-class writer, so as to increase the probability of winning the Mao Award.

I want to ask why Xiao Fei is so obsessed with making a name for himself in China. is so persistent in the Mao Award, that's because. As a Chinese writer, if you don't gain a huge reputation in the land of China, how can you get yourself to the world?

You know, what belongs to the nation is what belongs to the world.

Those who are not accepted and recognized by their own nation are tantamount to losing the soil for their own survival, and it is impossible for them to develop and grow at all and occupy a position in the history of the world.

Therefore, Xiao Fei wants to launch as many important works as possible in the next few years, so that he can have a foothold on the altar of this country, so that people in China cannot bypass him no matter what when they mention Huaxia.

Well! He wants to be an evergreen tree in the country, not a meteor that flashes by.

He wants to make the people who like this country agree that if he doesn't award the Mao Award to himself, then there must be an ulterior motive in this award.

Only to this extent can it be done, right?

Of course, he also has to cultivate a good popularity for himself in this circle, who are the judges of the 5th Mao Award, he knows, in the subsequent time, it is not easy to build a good relationship with them?

Xiao Fei thought about it with a fluctuating heart, so much so that he came to his senses when the pot overflowed and the gas stove was extinguished.

In the days that followed, Xiao Fei spent the next few days in retreat writing books.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, when the school's graduation class and repeating class started early, he paused his writing and came out to have a meal with Yan Zhang, You Gui, Li Peizhen, Zhu Xiling, Wang Likai, Wang Fei and others.

On this day, it is also Valentine's Day in the Western calendar.

Although the small county town is not just this foreign festival now, students are the first group to open up the trend, and many people know about the festival of Valentine's Day.

Xiao Fei deliberately cleaned up his hut, arranged a candlelight dinner, and had a romantic relationship with Xu Fengjuan. This can be regarded as an antidote to his ascetic life.

But the next day, Li Tangqiu found Xiao Fei and said excitedly that the school received a call from Peking University, saying that a recruiting teacher would come to inspect Heyang No. 1 Middle School in a few days, and talk to Xiao Fei by the way. (To be continued)