Chapter 235: The Last Leaf
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In the courtyard, an old tree is blooming with new shoots, and the dense foliage blocks the sunlight and forms a green shade under the tree.
Under the shade of the tree, an old rattan chair and a small bench are being placed, there are people on the bench in the chair, an old man, a child, the old man is very tough, the child is not too small, is looking at Zhang Xiang with expectant eyes, to be precise, at the bag in the hands of the middle-aged man with happy eyes.
"Dad, the book is back." Seeing his old father and son behaving like this, the middle-aged man stepped up slightly and walked over, saying.
"It's good to buy it back, come, my grandson and I are going to read the book." The old man stood up, put the bag in the middle-aged man's hand on the stone table under the tree, opened it, and took out the books inside.
"Grandpa, grandpa, give me one first, I want to read a new book with a full moon." The little grandson on the side shouted.
"Right now." The old man answered, and handed the book in his hand that he hadn't seen the name clearly to his grandson, not to mention anything else, but the grandson was his guide to see the full moon of Mr. Zijin Cheng.
"The Peacock Feather of the Seven Weapons, what is the Peacock Feather?" Taking the book, the grandson looked at the cover and looked up to ask his grandfather.
"Peacock Feather, you will know it when you see it." The old man said, taking out all the books in the bag.
Take a look.
"Huh, six books? Peng Fei, why are you buying so many books? And this packaging? The old man wondered.
"Dad, this package is a luxury version, I don't have to buy it today, I only bought it for more than two hours today, and this batch of limited editions of the ordinary version may not be able to be bought, so I bought this. But, Dad, the quality of this deluxe version is much better than the regular version, and there is also the author's signature in it. Buying so much, the main thing is that I want to see it too. The middle-aged man surnamed Peng explained the confusion of the old man.
"Oh, this kind of packaging should be a lot more expensive than the normal one, right? Hey, wait, you want to see it too, haven't you always liked these things? The old man said.
"Hehe, Dad, it's only a little expensive, it's fine. Mainly curious, before the bookstore opened today, the people at the door of the bookstore were crowded and the admiration of the people waiting for the bookstore to open, which made me very interested, anyway, it was not expensive. The middle-aged man surnamed Peng said.
"Well, look at it, then look at it, it's rare that you're interested in martial arts." The old man nodded and said.
After speaking, the old man was not talking, he posed on the old rattan chair, opened the plastic packaging outside the book and looked at it.
Seeing that the old father and son were immersed in the book and didn't speak, the middle-aged surnamed Peng didn't procrastinate, he moved a chair to the house and took out a book in the shade of the tree and read it.
The courtyard was quiet again, and people of three ages from different eras held the books in the book and read them carefully. On the horizon, the sun's path is already about to enter the range of the setting sun, and it may not be long to read under the trees. However, the scene of reading, the scenery in the courtyard and the shadow of the sunset looming in the sky, this picture is really beautiful, enough to move people's hearts, and make people sigh at the beauty.
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Kyoto, the official seat of the Jinzhou Golden Cup Literary Competition.
In Gu Qing's office, Ma Shu, who had been busy all day, was reporting to Chairman Gu Qing.
“…… Chairman, that's the progress of today's work, do you think there are any more questions? "Ma Shu was very serious at work.
The public should be upright, and the private should be done.
"Well, today's work situation is very stable to a certain extent, yes, stability is a good thing, stability equals progress." Gu Qing nodded, opened the document handed over by Ma Shu, looked at it, and expressed his opinion. As a special formal essay contest, the speed of review and approval does not have to be fast, but it must be stable. There are many examples in history that prove the problem of the phenomenon of seeking speed, of course, there are good and bad ones, mainly negative examples. Therefore, the word 'stable' is the first rule for the judges of the Jinbei Literary Contest to review the text.
"Chairman, since you have no comments, please sign it." Ma Shu said.
"Hmm."
Gu Qing took a pen from the pen holder, signed and stamped it in the margins of the last page.
"Oh, today's work is over, this day is not light!" Putting away the documents processed by Gu Qing, Ma Shu said relaxedly.
"Hehe, those who can work hard! Hasn't Lin Feng's reply document arrived yet? Smiling, Gu Qing asked.
"I don't know, I specially asked people to search the folder with a search, and used the word 'Lin Feng', but there was no document of Lin Feng that we wanted. But I think he's supposed to have replied to the document, but he just hasn't found it yet. Ma Shu said.
Regarding the works of Lin Feng, the author of the first poetry in the audition and the first poetry in the top 1,000, the two are looking forward to it, and they are looking forward to it together.
Reading a good article is a kind of enjoyment, the first reading is a kind of enjoyment, and the first reading and criticism is the quadratic of enjoyment.
"I didn't find 'Lin Feng' when I searched for it? How about searching for other people's documents? Qi is not complete? Gu Qing frowned slightly and asked. He wondered if there was a problem in that aspect, and asked if there was any similarity, so that he could choose the right way to infer and deal with it. After all, the difference between the individual and the collective is too great.
"No problem with other people, although there are duplicate names, but they can all be searched, all of them. Only Lin Feng lacks one, and there are not many people with the same name among the thousand, there are only a few in total, and the number of people and names is very easy to remember. Recently, I received the manuscript, and the various groups and departments were busy, and I didn't let people check a thousand documents one by one, and sooner or later they would come out and not run away, so I didn't rush it, after all, it's too tiring to read one document at a time, and a thousand documents are more likely to look and find, and it will be very troublesome. Ma Shu said, a long list, and said all the questions that Gu Qing might want to ask next.
"Well, you're right, after all, you can't run away." Gu Qing nodded and said.
'How is Wang Sheng's article?' ”
"It's not bad, I've seen it, but I haven't started to write a criticism, comment, this child's idea this time is good, and there has been a big breakthrough compared with the last time, the last time I talked about people and mountains from the beginning of the people and mountains, this time it is from the tree nutrition transportation process, through the role of each big tree nutrition transportation level of the role of the analysis of life, the world, to write the entity, solid rooted in the topic, very good. As for the wording and writing, I don't need to say it, you also know that Wang Sheng's level has always been good, and this time it is the same as usual, no regression or progress. Ma Shu exclaimed, and seemed to be very satisfied with the answer that Wang Sheng handed over this time.
"Hehe, that's good, that's good, let's see if he can change from second to first this time, and after being the second child who can't reveal his name twice, I think he will work hard." Gu Qing said with a smile.
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As he spoke, there was a knock on the door.
"Please come in." As the owner of this office, Chairman Gu said in a straight voice.
Chirping!
There was an inaudible knock on the door, and a staff member walked in, holding a few papers.
"Chairman, just now when a colleague was grouping and selecting, he found Lin Feng's document, which is a printout that has just been printed." The staff put the Chinese piece on the table and reported to Gu Qing. As soon as Lin Feng's document appeared, he immediately reported it to me and sent it over. This is the order that Gu Qing gave to all the staff before the rest day of the day below the topic begins.
"Oh, I found it. Lin Feng wrote his name on the document? Although Lin Feng's reply was on the table, Gu Qing still said calmly. They are all people with status, and the face of people at the same level can expose their essence, but when facing people who are not at the same level, they must hold on to it, maintain the tall and mysterious, and it is a mutually beneficial and win-win thing.
"I wrote, I couldn't search it before because there was an extra space between the two of Lin Feng's document name 'Lin Feng', it is estimated that Lin Feng unintentionally typed it when he named it, this is three characters, and two characters are used when searching, so I can't deal with it." The famous staff member explained to Gu Qing in detail.
"That's right, I see. Thank you for your hard work, go get busy. After figuring out the reason for the matter, Gu Qing nodded.
"This is what should be done, goodbye chairman, goodbye judge Ma." The staff left after saying goodbye to the two. I don't know what the two respectable judges in the room are doing.
What are they doing? Eye.
Both of them didn't speak, they looked at each other with great momentum, although they didn't speak, but if there were other people who were in it, they would definitely be able to feel an inexplicable pressure, and it was normal to read more books to have an inexplicable momentum, not just reading other things. After proficiency, self-confidence appears, and the person will be refreshed, which is unusual. You must know that ability brings people not only material but also spiritual.
The mutual look in Gu Qing's office did not last long, Ma Shu was defeated, and he was still a little worse than Gu Qing.
Pushing the staff's printed manuscript to Gu Qing, Ma Shu raised his head and stopped talking, looking serious and serious.
After laughing, Gu Qing picked up the stack of manuscripts, retracted his smile, and looked at it seriously.
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The article that Lin Feng carried this time is not too many words, there are more than 4,000 words, but Gu Qing read it more carefully, and the time taken is slightly longer, but fortunately, people who have certain achievements in literature are not bad in cultivation, and they can endure loneliness. Ma Shu, who looked up at the ceiling, did not have the slightest anxiety, he was still serious, as if he could really see a flower from the ceiling.
"Ugh."
Gently putting down the manuscript in his hand, Gu Qing sighed.
Ma Shu moved his gaze from the ceiling to Gu Qing's face, and asked the common phrase that applies to all questions and judgments, "How is it?" Is it well written, or is it bad? ”
"Old horse, I suddenly have a feeling that I am going to be photographed to death on the beach, a generation of new people for old people, this short story written by Lin Feng is really good, quite good!" Gu Qing sighed, "When I was young, I didn't have this height, so let's take a look first." ”
"Hehe, it seems that Lin Feng has given us another big surprise!" Picking up the manuscript pushed by Gu Qing from the table, Ma Shu said while reading it.
"The last leaf? Is this topic small and big? A tree of this size takes only one leaf. Seeing the title clearly, Ma Shu's mind popped up with several nouns and formed a question. Then he read it with questions.
"The Last Leaf", also translated as "The Last Ivy Leaf", is one of the world's outstanding short stories.
This short story tells a story about life, the poor painter Qiong Shan is seriously ill, in the hospital room watching the ivy leaves on the opposite tree outside the window constantly blown down and extinguished, thinking of herself, she can't help pinning her fate on the ivy leaves, she thinks that the withering of the last leaf represents her own death, so as the leaves leave and disappear one by one, she gradually loses the will to live. The doctor thought that Joan Shan would die if this continued, and at the moment when death was approaching step by step, Bellman, a painter, after listening to Su Ai's story about her roommate Joan Shan, painted a "never withering" ivy leaf with the brush of his soul on a rainy night, establishing true faith for Joan Shan and allowing Joan Shan to regain hope in life, but he himself contracted pneumonia and passed away.
This is a story of self-sacrifice, the story of self-sacrifice for others is very common, or a lot, but there are not many people who can write flowers like this, and there are only a few people who write flowers very beautifully, Lin Feng thought for a long time this time that the "Last Leaf" was one of those people, the work of the king on the other side of the ocean where Lin Feng was located in the previous life. When you draw a tree, there are many things on the tree, and the largest and least of them are the leaves, and the leaves are not only on the kind of tree that you draw later. So Lin Feng, who chose the leaves, looked for the periphery of the leaves and found the ivy. Of course, there are some places that have changed the names of the American and Austrian regions of the world.
"I really didn't expect it, at the beginning of seeing the title, I thought that Lin Feng wrote a story about the life of the leaves that reflected the philosophy of people's lives, I really didn't expect that the story would be like this, if it hadn't never appeared in this article, I really doubt that Lin Feng copied it, and this kind of thing was created within three days, it's really ......" After reading the manuscript, Ma Shu exclaimed.
"Who said it wasn't, when I saw the title, the direction of my thinking was, the things or the world before and after the last leaf, I didn't expect Lin Feng to choose this way to see the big from the small, the leaf is not the leaf on the topic, just the leaf." Gu Qing said.
"And this story is still so simple, not complicated at all, high! Especially the layout and design of the story that reverses at the end. In the foreshadowing, foreshadowing, outlining the contradictions, and finally at the end of the sudden reversal of the psychological situation created by the previous text, unexpected changes occurred, both unexpected and reasonable, such a dramatic plot design, resulting in a unique artistic charm is absolutely evocative! "Ma Shu analyzed the structure and layout of the article, which is very professional.
"It's a good thing to learn." Gu Qing patted the case and said, "Well, when it comes to this technique, I think of some works that are very hotly discussed on the Internet now. ”
"What?" Ma Shu asked, this is talking about this last leaf, where are you going to pull!
"Reasoning, the way the reasoning is narrated, and the reversal of the reader's reasoning at the end, isn't the end of some wonderful reasoning in line with the 'unexpected and reasonable', although this last leaf is very different from the reasoning, but the difference cannot hide the common denominator." Gu Qing also analyzed.
"Well, that's right." After thinking about Gu Qing's words for a while, Lao Ma nodded, "Then it seems that if Lin Feng writes reasoning, he will definitely not be bad." ”
"Generally speaking, the ability to write reasoning and this type of short story cannot be equated. However, for Lin Feng, I really don't dare to say that he can't write it, and I even suspect that there are Lin Feng's works in the 100 articles that are in full swing in this reasoning contest today. Gu Qing speculated.
"It's unlikely, it's good to be able to write, and you can still get into a hundred?" Ma Shu couldn't believe it.
"It's hard for anyone to say, have you ever seen someone who is participating in a music competition and still writing such a wonderful short story?" Gu Qing asked.
"Hehe, that's what I said, Lin Feng can't speculate with common sense. Well, let's talk about this article, what do you think is the biggest impression of this article? Ma Shu said.
"Although the length is not large, but after reading the whole book, readers will still worry about the fate of the seriously ill female painter, and are still pleased with the pure friendship in the story, of course, the most touching place in this story is the fraternity of the old painter, reading to the end, I feel a shocking power, I have to be moved!" Ancient Qingdao Road.
"My dear, this leaf is Bellman's masterpiece. It was on the night when the last leaf fell that he painted it. The hero sees the same thing, in the most prosaic and ordinary question and answer, the final secret is revealed, the things revealed in the ordinary are shocking, the leaves drawn by the brush from the heart, what a leaf! Ma Shu nodded, indicating that he also agreed.
"I think you can dig deeper, Qiong Shan actually connected herself with Ye Zi on the hospital bed when she got sick, I think her illness is in my heart. Sick in the heart, this phenomenon is ...... now," Gu Qing said.
"It makes sense, and in addition, the life of this painter of Bellman is also of the same kind, and I think ......" Ma Shu also opened the mind.
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The two people who have just read the experience are more and more energetic, you analyze it word by word, it seems to be more than the number of words in this "The Last Leaf", if Lin Feng is here, he will definitely be amazed by the expansion of the two judges, a simple short story, praising the nobility of ordinary people, how can it be related to sociology and psychology.
"Wang Sheng lost again this time." The two were discussing Huan, and Ma Shu suddenly pulled out such a sentence.
"Uh, yes, I ran into Lin Feng, alas. Although the first has been decided, the others still have to be seriously criticized and commented, don't affect the criticism and evaluation of other articles because of Lin Feng's article, sixteen out of a thousand, our task is still very heavy, the sunset has set halfway, let's get off work. Gu Qing looked out the window, the infinitely good sunset, and said to Ma Shu.
The meaning of the words has been set for the top 16. Yes, there is nothing to dispute anymore.
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