1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Zhou Yan sat in room 318 for a while, then stood up and said, "I'll go back to the room first and come to see you later."

Shi Tiesheng glanced at the breakfast on the table and said, "Aren't we going to bring this breakfast to them?"

Zhou Yan shook his head and smiled, "Forget it, let them eat by themselves when they wake up."

……

When I returned to Room 202, as soon as I opened the door, I heard deafening snoring coming from inside. Mr. Feng was still sleeping soundly.

Zhou Yan originally wanted to say hello to Mr. Feng. After all, they were his roommates, and Mr. Feng came from his hometown. However, seeing the situation, he estimated that Mr. Feng would not wake up for a while, so he gave up the idea.

After a quick tidying up, Zhou Yan returned to 318.

Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun had both woken up and ran to Room 318 to chat with Shi Tiesheng, and Zhou Yan also joined in.

It was around nine o'clock before Yu Hua came over.

They chatted for a while, and at half past nine, Zhou Yan looked at the time and said, "It's almost time, let's go back."

He looked at Yu Hua again, "How about you stay here and I'll take Tie Sheng back first?"

Yu Hua waved his hand, "No, I'm going back too."

"Aren't you going to stay and play cards with them?" Zhou Yan said with a smile.

Yu Hua wanted to stay and play cards, but it was not appropriate to stay here and play cards all the time, so he decided to go back first.

"Go back first and come back tomorrow." Yu Hua looked at Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun again, "Do you two want to stay here?"

Liu Zhenyun smiled and said, "If we don't stay here, we'll go home with you. Will you treat us to a meal?"

"If you have nothing else to do, you can come with us. We will definitely take care of your meals. But it's not me who will do it, it's him." Yu Hua pointed at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan smiled and invited, "If you two don't attend the afternoon meeting, you can come to my studio. It's not far away anyway."

Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun looked at each other, and then Mo Yan nodded, "Then we will obey your orders. It's a good opportunity for us to visit your reading room."

Yu Hua smiled and said, "You want to go and see if the reading room has your books."

Liu Zhenyun laughed, "Don't say it out loud. It would be too embarrassing if we look back and find that our books are really not there."

Yu Hua smiled and said to Zhou Yan, "Did you hear that? If the reading room doesn't have their books, why don't you call them back and ask them to go to the bookstore to buy them. Let's walk slowly, we should still have time."

"Okay, I'll call you right away." Zhou Yan smiled and really took out his mobile phone.

But instead of calling the studio, he asked the driver to pick them up.

When they came, they brought Liu Zhenyun and the other four people in one car, which was just right. Now with Mo Yan, one car is not enough. Zhou Yan has to call another car or ask the driver to drive another car with more seats.

……

After arriving at the studio, Zhou Yan took them directly to the newly built reading room.

Xiao Hu from the logistics department was sorting the books on the bookshelf. When he saw Zhou Yan and the others coming over, he smiled and greeted them, "Boss, Teacher Yu Hua, Teacher Tie Sheng..."

Zhou Yan introduced them to him, "These two are Professor Mo Yan and Professor Liu Zhenyun."

When he heard the names of Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun, Xiao Hu showed a surprised expression. Obviously, he knew Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun.

Zhou Yan introduced Xiao Hu to Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun, "Xiao Hu is from the logistics department. He loves reading. After the reading room opened, he was in charge of it. Most of the books on the bookshelf were placed by him. He did a very good job."

Book management is not an easy task and requires certain skills. Xiao Hu himself does not know much about it, but for the sake of this reading room, he specially studied the management methods of libraries and some large bookstores and explored his own set of methods.

His approach may not be necessarily good, but Zhou Yan admired his work attitude and was relieved to hand over the reading room to him.

After being praised by the boss, Xiao Hu touched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "I just copied what others have said and learned from the library and bookstore. In fact, I don't understand many things myself."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll slowly understand and learn."

At work, Zhou Yan values ​​results, but is also willing to give employees opportunities to learn, especially for things like reading rooms, which offer many opportunities for trial and error and learning.

What Zhou Yan wants is not to achieve everything in one step, but to get better and better.

Mo Yan looked around the reading room and nodded, "It does look quite decent."

Zhou Yan winked at Xiao Hu, "Xiao Hu, take a few teachers to have a look."

Although Xiao Hu is young, he has good eyesight. When he saw Zhou Yan's look, he immediately understood and led them inside. "The reading room is divided into sections according to the type of books. The novel section is over here... The front row of bookshelves are all modern novels, and the upper rows are all the best-selling books in recent years."

While introducing them to Mo Yan and the others, he took a copy of Red Sorghum from the bookshelf, "For example, Mo Yan's Red Sorghum."

Then he picked up another copy of To Live, "and Teacher Yu Hua's To Live."

It can be seen that he is very familiar with the books on the bookshelf and naturally found the representative works of several writers.

Mo Yan and the others were quite surprised to see Xiao Hu being so familiar with the situation. They thought that Zhou Yan's studio was truly full of talented people, as even a young man from the logistics department could perform like this.

If nothing else, it at least shows that Xiao Hu reads a lot of books.

Zhou Yan said, "Since you are here, please sign your names. I will frame it and sell it for a lot of money."

Xiao Hu was quick-witted and immediately took out a pen from his pocket.

In fact, Xiao Hu didn't need to look for a pen at all, as several of them carried pens with them. Nowadays, it is normal to carry a pen with you. Besides, they are all writers, and pens are their livelihood.

They not only carry pens with them, but also small notebooks in their pockets, like Liu Zhenyun and Mo Yan.

There was a bag hanging next to Shi Tiesheng's wheelchair, which contained a large notebook.

When Mo Yan and his friends saw that their books were really in the reading room and placed in a very conspicuous position, they were very happy and signed their books very readily.

After they finished signing, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Xiao Hu, find an empty space in the reading room and put a glass cabinet to store these signed books. In the future, put all signed books in the cabinet and display them for everyone to see."

Mo Yan laughed and said, "Isn't this a bit of an exaggeration?"

Zhou Yan waved his hand, "It's not an exaggeration at all. Maybe this cabinet can become a tourist attraction in the future. I will set up a gate later. Those who want to come in and see it will need to buy a ticket."

"Haha, I'm just worried that you won't be able to make back the money you spent on the gate."

Liu Zhenyun said with a smile: "If you want to attract people to read, you must be able to tell a story. Let's discuss and make up a wonderful story. After we have a unified tone, we can write it in the essay together, which will naturally arouse the interest of readers."

Yu Hua gave a thumbs up and said, "Teacher Liu, when it comes to crooked ways, you are the best."

Shi Tiesheng pushed up his glasses and said, "Actually, there's no need to make up stories. As long as you guys remain so famous, people will always make up stories for you."

"Stories written by others may not be beneficial to us. If we want a positive image, we still have to write them ourselves."

"Haha, that's true."

……

They chatted and laughed as they toured the reading room, and then Zhou Yan took them to the film studio and the music studio.

After going through the whole process, Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun were both deeply moved.

Although the current studio is not particularly large, they can see the vitality of the studio. After Zhou Yan's introduction, they also know the projects that the studio has handled. They are very clear that this studio will grow bigger and bigger. After the tour, it was time for lunch. Zhou Yan did not take them out to eat, so they just had a bite in the cafeteria.

After eating in the studio's cafeteria, Mo Yan felt very emotional. He finally understood why Yu Hua always mentioned the cafeteria in Zhou Yan's studio.

The description Yu Hua had given him before was not an exaggeration at all. The food in this cafeteria was even better than Yu Hua had described.

After lunch, Yu Hua and his friends formed another card game. This time they also invited Shi Tiesheng to join in, and the four of them continued to play mahjong.

Zhou Yan watched from the side for a while, then went to several recording studios and practice rooms to watch everyone rehearsing.

After walking around, Zhou Yan was about to go back to his desk to work for a while, but he heard Yu Hua ask, "Is Xiao Zhang here today?"

"Xiao Zhang? Are you talking about Zhang Zuoquan?"

"Ah."

When Zhou Yan heard Yu Hua ask Zhang Zuoquan, he knew what he was thinking and said, "He is here, but he didn't practice Xu Sanguan today."

"Oh, so that's it." Yu Hua was a little disappointed.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Although he himself did not practice "Xu Sanguan", the orchestra was rehearsing this piece today."

Yu Hua's eyes lit up and he sat up straight, "Really?"

"Why would I lie to you? It's in the big recording studio."

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Yu Hua threw the cards in his hand onto the table and said, "Forget this game. Let's go listen to some music."

Liu Zhenyun had a good hand in this round and was about to win big, but when Yu Hua threw away the cards, he suddenly got anxious and said, "Yu Hua, how can you be so bad at playing cards!"

As he said this, he was about to find out the cards that Yu Hua had thrown away.

Seeing that he was looking for cards, Yu Hua quickly shuffled the cards a few times, completely disorganizing them, and said with disdain, "All you know is playing cards. Can you come with me to listen to some high art and cultivate your sentiments?"

Seeing that the deck was already in disarray and unable to recover, Liu Zhenyun said unhappily, "You must have had a terrible hand."

Yu Hua chuckled and didn't answer, but his expression said it all.

If he had good cards, there was no way he would be willing to throw them away.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go listen to music."

Yu Hua stood up and pushed Shi Tiesheng out the door.

……

The orchestra did have to rehearse "Xu Sanguan" in the afternoon, but their rehearsal plan was only to strengthen some of the parts, and they did not prepare to rehearse the entire song.

This is how rehearsals usually go. For such a long piece, it is impossible to rehearse the entire piece all the time. The effect will be very poor, and any problems will be difficult to improve.

If we rehearse the whole song, we can only practice it a few times in one afternoon. Not only will everyone be tired, but there will be no effect at all.

Normally, when you encounter a problem, you will take out a certain part and practice it separately. After practicing this part well, you can then solve other problems.

And this is not just for new songs, but also for old songs that have been played many times.

However, since Yu Hua and the others came, the band changed their plan and composed a whole song for them.

The reason why Yu Hua brought them to listen to "Xu Sanguan" was certainly not because he had been dealt a bad hand and wanted to escape, but because he wanted to show off in front of them.

After the performance of "Xu Sanguan" ended, Yu Hua said with a smile, "It is said that art is interlinked. Isn't this a living example? When I heard Zhou Yan's piece, I felt it was tailor-made for "Xu Sanguan". If "Xu Sanguan" is made into a movie in the future, this piece will be used as the background music."

Facing Yu Hua's boasting, Mo Yan was quite considerate and said with a smile, "This piece of music won an award before. I saw it on the news. Everyone envied you. Looking at the literary world today, you are the only one who can receive such treatment."

Mo Yan's praise is genuine, and most writers would be envious when they hear this.

Who wouldn't want their novel to be set to music by a famous musician? And it's a symphony, and it won an award.

When this song was released, it meant that the novel "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" was different from ordinary novels.

Whenever someone mentions this novel in the future, they may mention that Zhou Yan composed a symphony for it.

This kind of thing is the most likely to be talked about and passed down as a good story.

Liu Zhenyun was also quite envious, but he couldn't help but make fun of Yu Hua, "The music is good, the novel is also good, but the author's character is not good."

For people he is not familiar with, Liu Zhenyun usually praises them harshly. Just a few words can make others lose their compliments.

But when it comes to people he knows, he is more mean.

However, Yu Hua was completely immune to this minor attack. He said with a smile, "Your tolerance is smaller than that of a toad. I estimate that if I lift up your clothes, I will see your bulging belly. It's just a hand of cards, why are you still complaining?"

"I may be narrow-minded, but I have good character."

Shi Tiesheng couldn't help but shook his head when he heard the two of them bickering. "Let's not delay the orchestra's rehearsal here. Let's go back."

"okay."

Yu Hua moved quickly and pushed Shi Tiesheng out.

He came the fastest and left the fastest.

After leaving the recording studio, Shi Tiesheng asked Mo Yan, "When will the meeting this afternoon end?"

"They said it would end at four o'clock, but the exact time of the end depends on the situation at the meeting. Why are you asking this?"

"Editor-in-Chief Zhang said he would come over after the meeting."

"Editor-in-Chief Zhang? Are you talking about Mr. Zhang Shouren?"

"Ah."

"What is he here for?" Mo Yan asked curiously.

Shi Tiesheng smiled and said, "He said he was going home in the evening and it was a good opportunity for him to come and take a look at Zhou Yan's manuscript."

"Zhou Yan's manuscript?" Yu Hua blinked. "It's not the manuscript we saw last time."

"That's it." Shi Tiesheng nodded.

"How did Editor-in-Chief Zhang know about that manuscript?"

"Is such that……"

Afterwards, Shi Tiesheng told them roughly what happened in 318 this morning. Finally, he said, "Editor-in-Chief Zhang said he wanted to come and take a look. I estimate he will be here around five or six o'clock."

When Mo Yan and the others heard that Zhou Yan had a new manuscript, they were also very curious.

"How about asking Zhou Yan to show us the manuscript first?"

It is normal for writers to read each other's manuscripts, but Mo Yan is not familiar with Zhou Yan after all, so he is not in a position to bring up this matter and has to let Shi Tiesheng and others bring it up.

Yu Hua said, "Okay, I'll ask him right away." (End of this chapter)