The 80s can be said to be the best era for writers and poets, unlike the criticism of high remuneration in previous years, nor like the embarrassment caused by rising prices later, now the relatively high manuscript fees and relatively low prices can allow them to live a more comfortable life in China.

At the same time, due to the resumption of the college entrance examination, it has driven people's reverence for knowledge and yearning for reading, so that writers and poets enjoy a high social status, no matter where they go, they will be yearned for by a large number of literary and artistic youths.

When he arrived at the university, he didn't have to find a place to live by himself, some students were willing to take him in and live in his dormitory, and some female students were willing to eat and drink, and even promised to each other; To exaggerate it, as long as he has this idea, it is not impossible to accept the kindness of multiple women at the same time as Gu Cheng.

In the future, many netizens may feel that the lives of these people are very difficult when reading the biographies or interviews of Lu Yao, Haizi and others, and they feel that these writers and poets are poor one by one.

This is not the case, these writers and poets are poor, Hai Zi will not say that his tragedy stems more from character, in fact, the tragedy of many poets and writers stems from character.

And Lu Yao is rumored on the Internet that he has been poor all his life, for example, he only got 1,300 yuan for publishing "Life", and he had to borrow 5,000 yuan to go to the capital to receive the award by relying on "Ordinary World" to win the Contradictory Literature Award, and sent the money to Lu Yao, and begged his brother: You don't want to win any more awards in the future, if you win the Nobel Prize in Literature, I can't find you foreign exchange; Before Lu Yao got on the train, he only said one sentence: Japanese fucking literature!

In the end, the prize money of the Contradictory Literature Award was only 5,000 yuan, and after he returned, the province rewarded 5,000 yuan, and "Ordinary World" only had a remuneration of 30,000 yuan for 1,000 words, and this million-dollar masterpiece only gave him 30,000 yuan in exchange for the manuscript fee, plus the bonus was only 40,000 yuan.

1,300 yuan or 40,000 yuan does not sound like much, and the first reaction to people is that Lu Yao is indeed very poor, but that was 1,300 yuan in 1983 and 40,000 yuan in 91, and the purchasing power of the renminbi at that time was definitely not comparable to what it is now.

In 1983, ordinary workers only earned a few dozen yuan a month, and 1,300 was almost equivalent to two years' income of ordinary workers, which was converted into 120,000 yuan now; In Bingxin's diary, there is a detailed expenditure of her in 1983, which includes an advance of 20 yuan for the nanny Aunt Song's salary in February, and 1,300 yuan is equal to 65 months' salary of Bingxin's nanny.

In 91, the average salary in Beijing was more than 200 a month, and now it is more than 8,000, and Lu Yao took 5,000 yuan to Beijing, which is almost equivalent to 200,000 now, and it is almost enough to go to heaven and earth.

The bonus of 10,000 yuan is equivalent to the current 400,000 yuan, and the 30,000 yuan manuscript fee adds up to more than 1 million, which is enough to buy a house in the current Xi'an money; Of course, the housing prices in Xi'an were even lower at that time, 40,000 yuan was enough for him to buy several sets, if he bought a few houses like Zheng Yuanjie to store readers' letters, there would be no problem at all if he had turned more than ten or dozens of times by now.

And Lu Yao not only has the income of manuscript fees, at the end of 1991, that is, shortly after the award of "Ordinary World", he was rated as "National Expert with Outstanding Contribution" and "Expert with Outstanding Contribution in Shaanxi Province", and began to enjoy the national expert allowance and Shaanxi Provincial Expert Allowance.

Maybe this money is not much, and in fact it is not worthy of Lu Yao's works, but Lu Yao's poverty is really not because of the small manuscript fee, but because of his consumption habits, he has a great addiction to smoking, he smokes more than two packs a day, he smokes good cigarettes, he likes to drink coffee, and he drinks good coffee.

Lu Yao attended meetings and never ate the breakfast arranged by the organizers, even if the food was very good. I have to go to a coffee shop to eat Western-style breakfast, in the 80s, there were very few coffee shops, and they were very expensive, about 5 yuan at a time, although Lu Yao's monthly salary was only about 40 yuan, but he didn't care, he said, "People like us, the biggest enemy is that they look down on themselves, and they need an extra publicity to offset the extra inferiority." “

Converted to the current concept, it is almost equivalent to a gold collar with an annual income of one million, and it is a little difficult to eat a kaiseki meal of tens of thousands of yuan and smoke high-end Cuban cigars at every turn.

Shen Long took the pen and signed his name on Liu Jianguo's notebook, this is also the first time he signed someone, Liu Jianguo was very happy after getting the signature, and when the next issue of "Harvest" arrived, he could take the signature to show off to his friends, maybe he could win the favor of a certain girl.

"Teacher Sun, when the sample is sent, I'll send it to your home!" Liu Jianguo said diligently, which is diametrically opposed to the attitude towards ordinary clerks.

"Thank you, but don't worry, my address is "Huangyuan Literature and Art" Teacher Jia, and Teacher Jia will help me transfer it then." Shen Long politely declined, and then left with a thick stack of money.

In the new week, it suddenly rained in the middle of the week, and the construction site had to be stopped, Shen Long got a rare holiday, he wandered around the street during the day, went to the department store to see what gifts were suitable for Tian Xiaoxia, he always received Xiaoxia's gifts, how could he give one or two in return.

When I returned to the cave at night, I lit an oil lamp and continued to write, and soon finished writing "Old Well", and began to ponder a new story.

Why don't you copy "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit"? Or "No One Less"? Tsk, why do I keep looking for Zhang Yimou's works to collect wool? Shen Long couldn't help grinning, it's better to change the theme.

Whether it is "Yellow Earth" or "Old Well", these two films have a strong flavor of the past, Shen Long still hopes to write a more positive story, he wants to write a story of a farmer entrepreneur, reflecting the changes in the new era of the countryside, just like Shao'an.

The specific direction is there, which work to choose to rewrite Shen Long has not yet thought about it, this time he does not plan to copy it in large quantities like "Yellow Earth" and "Old Well", but plans to integrate many real experiences, and then refer to some classic works on this theme to recreate.

In a blink of an eye, it was the weekend, and Tian Xiaoxia came to him with a happy mood in the autumn rain, which meant that they could stay all day.

After eating and chatting about literature for a while, Shen Long proposed, "Let's go out for a walk, shall we?" ”

He wanted to take this opportunity to solve the matter of the brick making machine.

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