Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 421: Lu Yao writes a novel for the first time after taking medical leave
About 80,000 words, one novella.

The background of the story takes place in the Guanzhong area. Fang Minghua used a lot of Guanzhong dialect in the novel to add a sense of life to the novel.

As a native of Xijing, he is also familiar with this.

After the first draft was completed, the first reader was of course my daughter-in-law Song Tangtang.

In the evening, the couple first went back to their parents' place to have dinner and see their children, and then returned to Xingfu Community at almost nine o'clock.

"Tangtang, help me take a look."

"Ok."

The daughter-in-law went into the study and sat down at the computer to read the novel on the screen carefully. Fang Minghua stood at the desk next to him, spread out the "Monument of Yu Gonggong", picked up a brush, and started practicing seriously on the newspaper.

The work unit subscribes to a lot of newspapers, but in the end they are sold to scrap collection stations. It is better to take them back and practice calligraphy.

After practicing for more than an hour, Fang Minghua felt his wrists were a little sore, so he closed the copybook and looked at the handwriting on the newspaper, feeling somewhat satisfied.

The quality is indeed outstanding, and I feel emotional about it now.

"changed?"

"Okay, you can think about some words and sentences in the novel." Song Tangtang stood up and stretched out gracefully.

"It's very good. It will be even better when made into a movie. Minghua, didn't the director named Zhang Yimou film "No One Less" written by you? I feel that he is very good at filming this kind of story about rural people. We might as well let him It would be great to make into a movie.”

Just after making a cup of tea, someone knocked on the door and came in. It was Bai Miao.

This bicycle was the first time Fang Minghua came to this era to buy it with royalties. He has been riding it for eight years. Except for changing the chain once, nothing else has been broken.

He held a stack of manuscripts in his hand and handed it to Fang Minghua: "Editor Fang, this is a new short story written by Lu Yao. Take a look."

It smells a bit like Ouyang Xun.

"I'm going to learn English."

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sign.
(The birds in summer flew to my window to sing, and then flew away. The leaves in autumn had nothing to sing, they just sighed and flew down there.)
Fang Minghua sat at the computer and started revising it seriously.

The next morning, Song Tangtang drove to the company, and Fang Minghua still rode his 28-inch permanent big bumper to work.

In the following days, Fang Minghua carefully revised the novel twice. Only when he was satisfied did he print it out and prepare to give it to Bai Miao.

"You can say that."

At this time, Song Tangtang had also finished reading, and she turned her head to look at Fang Minghua.

Arriving at the magazine compound, Fang Minghua greeted his colleagues at work, parked his bicycle in the carport, went up to the office building and came to his office, where he wiped the table, fetched water, and made tea, which were the three essential steps in the morning.

"Minghua, I think your writing style has changed."

Thinking so far ahead?
"Let's wait until it's published." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

"I used to like to write avant-garde novels such as stream of consciousness. Although they are good, they are too obscure and difficult to understand, and I think they are a bit showy. But this book is very simple and unpretentious, with realism and cultural criticism. This is what you said New realistic novel, right?”

After speaking, Song Tangtang left the study and soon heard Song Tangtang's beautiful voice coming from the living room.

Written by Lu Yao? !
"Okay, you sit down first and pour yourself some tea."

Fang Minghua said, picking up the manuscript and reading it carefully.

It is also a novel about the rule of law written in response to the call of the provincial government. It is not long and only about 30,000 words. It tells the story of a grassroots ordinary judge who has the courage to protect ordinary people's rights and interests with the law when they are wronged. However, in the end he is faced with the conflict between love and law. Dilemma. The more Fang Minghua watched, the more he felt it looked a bit like "Justice", an American movie released in the 1970s?
The film tells the story of Arthur Kirkland, an upright and brave lawyer who tries to reform the corrupt practices of the judiciary and provide justice for the common people, but he falls into a moral and legal dilemma.

The film also seems to have won an Oscar.

Lu Yao has seen this movie?

It is possible that although these films have not been released in the Mainland now, as VCRs gradually become popular in urban households in the Mainland, many pirated tapes have appeared, and these Oscar-winning movies are very popular.

After Fang Minghua came to this era, he bought a cassette and watched it at home, so he had some impressions.

But he didn't say anything, but asked Bai Miao: "What do you think?"

"If it were written by another writer, it would be quite exciting, but it's Lu Yao." Bai Miao didn't hide his thoughts:

"This novel cannot be compared with the novels he originally wrote, let alone "Life". I think Lu Yao chose a legal subject that he is not familiar with this time, so it seems a bit reluctant."

This is true.
Fang Minghua nodded.

"Okay, leave the novel with me for now. Lu Yao is going to visit Italy soon. I will talk to him when he comes back and let him revise it." Fang Minghua expressed his opinion.

At the beginning of the year, a delegation from the Chinese Writers' Association was invited to visit Italy and a quota was given to the Qin Provincial Writers' Association. Several leaders of the Writers' Association discussed it and simply gave it to Lu Yao.

Going out to relax is more conducive to physical recovery.

Besides, they also have this qualification.

Of course Bai Miao knew about this, so he agreed. Just as he was about to leave, the office door was pushed open and he saw Lu Yao walking in hurriedly.

"Really talking about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here." Fang Minghua said with a smile:

"Lu Yao, Bai Miao and I discussed discussing this novel with you after you come back from your overseas visit. I didn't expect you to be here now, why don't we just talk about it now?"

Unexpectedly, Lu Yao said: "Let's not talk about it anymore. I don't want to publish this novel. I'm going to take it back."

"Why? I think the writing is okay. I can publish it after revising some parts." Fang Minghua said.

"Forget it." Lu Yao shook his head: "I have revised this novel several times, and I don't know where to revise it. To be honest, I was inspired to write it after watching an American movie called "Justice". Now It seems that I overestimate myself a little. I am not very familiar with the profession of judge, and it is a bit too rigid. It is better not to publish such a novel, so as to prevent others from getting seriously ill, and now my body is good but my brain is broken."

Fang Minghua knew that Lu Yao was struggling with this issue, so he returned the manuscript of the novel to him without saying anything.

Lu Yao took the manuscript and said to Minghua again. "Minghua, I still think the idea you mentioned some time ago is good."

"Some time ago?"

"It was that time when we came back from China, you told that story, the happiness and suffering of several young men and women under an old locust tree on the Qinbei Plateau, it seems like Adam and Eve on the Loess Plateau wrote about the Loess Plateau, this is what I am familiar with of."

Oh my God, did you really write this?
Fang Minghua did say this. Before he came to this era, he saw a post on the Internet, saying that after Lu Yao finished writing "The Ordinary World", he chatted with a friend about the next subject he wanted to write about.

But it didn't happen, and Lu Yao died of illness soon after.

There is no way to tell whether the post is true or not. I didn’t expect Lu Yao to actually write this now.

Lu Yao left, saying that he would start writing after returning from his overseas visit.

Fang Minghua's "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" was officially published in Yanhe in March.

(End of this chapter)