Chapter 17: The Dragons
At dinner time, Ye Li sat at the dining table, with sumptuous dishes in front of him, but he, like his parents, did not move his chopsticks.
His father's hair was a little messy, he didn't see Ye Li as a little boy who was only fourteen years old, his face was full of unexpected cruelty, this was the expression on his face after knowing that Ye Li had been expelled.
It is also the temperament formed by the head of the family and the editor-in-chief for many years.
Ye Li secretly glanced at his father, he felt his father's eyes fall on his arm, obviously, his father was about to get angry. At this moment, the fear of his father hidden in his heart in the two lives came up.
No matter how warm he is, when his father is angry, he still has palpitations.
"There are always thresholds that are difficult to cross, Ye Li is still young," the mother tried to calm his father'......s anger before he had a seizure.
"At our age, we had to travel dozens of miles every day to go back and forth to class." The father's expression was not angry and arrogant, but obviously getting angrier.
"At a young age, I know how to be in the limelight, and I don't know how to judge the situation......" His father's voice was torn, and it was even more buzzing in Ye Li's ears.
At this time, Ye Li remembered his first year of high school in his previous life, when he was slapped heavily by his father because of his bad grades, and blood spilled from the corners of his mouth at that time.
Just because of his lack of nutrition, when the family stewed up the tonic for himself, he was unwilling to live or die because it was too unpalatable, and his father was so angry that he smoked and scolded himself for nothing.
At this moment, his father suddenly stood up, leaned forward, and approached Ye Li's body, and the sound of hot breathing was hot on the tip of Ye Li's nose.
"Is he going to hit me?" Ye Xuan thought that in the face of his father's pressure, he couldn't breathe, and his whole body was cold.
"Don't ......" The mother desperately pulled away from her father on the side, and blocked her body in front of Ye Li.
She was so uneasy at the moment, so weak, and after knowing that her husband had left her job, and knowing that her son had been dropped out of school, that kind of lonely helplessness covered her eyes with a layer of fog.
The father took a step back, slammed his chopsticks on the table, and said in a deep voice: "The better he is protected now, the more he will lose his direction to the future, lose his vigilance against everything, and one day we will not be by his side, and when he knows that he can no longer regret it, when he knows that no one can help him, when he goes in the wrong direction, that is the real cruelest!" ”
The father continued coldly: "When the time comes, he is the one who really finishes everything, even if you cry loudly for him, it is useless. ”
The tighter the green tendons in his hands, he said coldly: "A teacher's corporal punishment can make you lose your judgment of the school and lose your knowledge absorption?" Are you alive for the teacher? ”
Father walked out of the room and slammed the door shut.
The mother hesitated for a moment, stopped talking, and finally gently took Ye Li's hand, shook her head and said: "Child, your father is very strict, you may not understand his words now, but sooner or later, you will understand, what he said is right......" She suddenly burst into tears. Even so, she didn't want her family to be torn apart like this.
Ye Li closed his eyes gently: he said in his heart: Yes, I know that my father loves me, and I know everything, but I can't tell you about my affairs......
His heart was filled with shame for his father and mother. He has lived a new life, and he has so much knowledge, so many novels and music that this shijie has not given, but he can't explain all this. He wants to always be the child in the eyes of his parents, not a monster, and he doesn't want that kind of estrangement.
"I'm sorry ......"
At the request of his mother, Ye Li hurriedly ate some food and walked into his room.
It's still that kind of unspeakable loneliness, but Ye Li can't care about it anymore, a Wukong biography is not enough, far from enough, he has to quickly write a new novel to make a name for himself, and then he will become a genius in the eyes of others, only then will his parents be proud of him and no longer worry about him.
He calmed down, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and he thought of countless novels.
But he immediately frowned.
In comparison, most of the novels are too far away from him, there is no accumulation of life, he can't write novels with that kind of connotation, and he doesn't want to be questioned by Shijie.
If he wants to write a work that suits his mood and age, there are not many novels he can choose from.
Shijie's betrayal of me, my loneliness, and my efforts.
Suddenly, Ye Li suddenly remembered a fragment from a novel.
- "Oh, I forgot, you never feel like you're alone. It's so sad...... In fact, the more terrible thing than loneliness is that you don't know that you are lonely, or you are clearly lonely, but you deceive yourself into believing that you are not lonely. ”
This is what others say about the protagonist.
This work, called "Dragon Family", in his previous life, its writer Jiang Nan relied on the 2012 Best Fantasy Novel "Dragon Family" Little Golden Man trophy, with tens of millions of royalties to enter the seventh Chinese writers rich list. And this Jiangnan, in his previous life, was the editor-in-chief of a large literary magazine "Kyushu Chronicles", and once stepped into the literary world with the novel "The Boy Here", which recalls the life of Peking University.
Some say he's a fantasy writer, while others say he's the "head of neo-romance."
Jiangnan's "The Boy Here", which has been recited for a long time, uses characters from Jin Yong's novels, but there is no Jin Yong in this shijie, so even if Ye Li writes it, it is difficult for others to understand.
The novel of the dragon family has a lot of controversy, and has even been criticized by many readers.
However, when Ye Li carefully recalled the fragments of the novel, his eyes froze.
When the protagonist of the novel, Lu Mingfei, made up his mind after a lot of hard work, and before graduation, he told the projectionist uncle that he would help him play music and confess to the person he liked, but he mistakenly went on stage and was used as a prop for his confession by another boy.
When he wears a suit and leather shoes and imagines that he can say "I like you" loudly in front of the whole shijie, he becomes a lowercase "i" in the eyes of others, and "ILoveYou" when others confess. When he looked at the confessed girl and was emotional, he wanted to leave the stage, but others shouted: Go back! Get back! Without you, there would be no sentence.
He could only walk back to the screen slowly, keeping his head down and not looking at anyone, so the lowercase "i" looked very wilted from a distance.
Thinking of this, Ye Li suddenly felt deeply lonely in his heart, that Lu Mingfei was himself, not only in age, ideological realm, but also in common in terms of encounters.
He felt the same way, they were also abandoned by Shijie, and the difference was that Lu Mingfei was abandoned by Aiqing, and he never saw the purple-clothed girl playing the guzheng on the opposite floor again, and he was also abandoned by the school.
Be in the environment, feel the taste.
Yes, if that emotion is really written to the extreme, Ye Li believes that the book will definitely be very interesting.
And the book itself has countless foreshadowings, has a huge structure, the plot is bizarre, confusing and full of suspense, and the story itself is already very attractive, otherwise the sales would not have been a hot hit.
What's more, Ye Li stands on the shoulders of the times, rewriting this book, can abandon the shortcomings of the novel, portray the characters more distinctly, and refine the emotional and ethical issues of the dragon clan more profoundly, which makes the novel elevate to a higher level.
After hesitating for a moment, Ye Li put pen to paper, and finally wrote down two words heavily: "Dragon Clan".
The tip of his pen is like flying, writing about Lu Mingfei's depression and loneliness, writing about the protagonist's denial of his loneliness, and writing that the protagonist doesn't know what loneliness is.
Then Ye turned away from the tip of the pen and wrote another paragraph: "However, we often say, there is always another choice. ”
So the protagonist of the novel, Lu Mingfei, changed his fate and stepped into the mysterious shijie under the ordinary fog, and entered the shijie of the dragon clan.
In the novel, there are people they fantasize to become, like Caesar on high? Gattuso; There are things that we dream of, such as slaying a dragon, such as hugging a beauty; There are scenery that we are eager to see, such as the rapids of the Three Gorges, the gardens of Europa, and the shrines of Toei.
"No matter how declining a child is, he will always grow up, if you are destined to be the king of this shijie."
Writing this, Ye Li's heart began to heat up, and he seemed to see that this dragon clan allowed more people to learn to grow, and to observe and live in the light of this shijie from a broader spiritual perspective.
But he always felt that there was something missing.
"In comparison, what I lack now is the portrayal of the details of this shijie, which is not realistic enough. For example, in my Zuihou lesson, I rendered the details of the school's white walls, vines, etc...... I can't write that kind of realism and emotion right now......"
Thinking of this, Ye Li suddenly felt a burst of exhaustion, and then he looked at the clock, it was already twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.
He took off his clothes and lay on the bed, he had to nourish his spirit, and he had to meet tomorrow with the most haode mental state, meet his own dragon clan, and meet his own shijie fantasy.
Gradually, his body became heavier and heavier, more and more tired, and he felt that he couldn't lift his eyes.
In the dream, he chases his love and dreams, and lets Shijie open up a new world for him.
In his dream, he seemed to see that his father had calmed his anger and that his mother had stopped working for him.
In a daze, Ye Li heard the sound of the door lock opening, and he felt that the room was becoming lonely and dark, and it seemed that a figure was getting closer and closer to him.
This is the sound of my father's footsteps, one by one, with a frustration, like the edges and corners of my father's body.
"Did he think I was asleep and his anger hadn't subsided?" Ye Li's body shrank suddenly, but he pretended to be asleep.
The father walked towards the bed and stood at the head of Ye Li's bed.
But the father did not make any other moves, he just watched quietly.
Then the father said softly: "Ye Li, I'm sorry, I understand your feelings, I shouldn't pass on the pressure to you." I'm sorry, I'm your dad and I love you. ”
His father left the room in the lonely middle of the night, and Ye Li bit his lip after hearing his father's footsteps leaving.
On this day, it was the first time he cried after being reborn.