Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 504 Let’s Go Dancing

The meeting officially began at 9 o'clock. Everyone stood up to play the national anthem, and then leaders at all levels spoke.

The chairman of the Writers Association, Palladium, did not attend the meeting due to health reasons, but sent a congratulatory letter to the meeting.

Feng Mu, vice chairman of the Writers Association, delivered a speech entitled "The Motherland and the People Place Their Hopes on You", which aroused warm applause.

In the afternoon, the conference delegates began group discussions, and the leaders of the Writers Association participated in the discussions of each group respectively. The person who came to the Northwest Group to participate in the discussion was Wang Meng, who had just stepped down as minister.

Wang Meng shook hands with the young writers who attended the conference. When it was Fang Minghua's turn, Wang Meng looked at him and said, "Minghua, have you resigned as the editor-in-chief of Yanhe? I saw that the editor-in-chief of your magazine has become Bai Miao in recent issues?"

"Yes, in April this year, my three-year contract expired. I did not continue to compete for the position. I transferred my personnel relationship to the Provincial Writers Association and left the magazine." Fang Minghua told the truth.

"Look, your editor-in-chief is doing a good job. Why do you just stop? It's such a pity." Wang Meng said with a hint of complaint in his tone.

Fang Minghua smiled and said, "Chairman Wang, you are doing a good job as the minister. Why do you want to quit? It's a pity."

Wang Meng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"You are so eloquent! I am almost sixty years old, and you are still young! But it is good to come to the Writers Association, so that you can calm down and write something. What have you written recently?"

"I'm writing a novel about teachers." Fang Minghua did not hide anything and briefly talked about his book "Skywalker".

"Write a good teacher. When I was sent to work in Yili, it was a frontier area with difficult conditions. The students and teachers in the school suffered. I heard that it is still like this now." Wang Meng sighed:
"So someone needs to write it down so that more people can know about it and the whole society can pay attention to it. Minghua, I will definitely read your book after it is published!"

"Thank you, Chairman Wang. I will definitely send you a copy when the time comes."

Wang Meng and Fang Minghua spent the longest time chatting, and others could only envy them.

It’s not that Fang Minghua is too famous, but I heard that he has a private relationship with her. Who can compare to him?
The discussion at the meeting was conducted in a harmonious atmosphere, and mainly focused on Feng Mu's speech "The Motherland and the People Place Their Hopes on You" and expressing personal thoughts.

In addition, there are some exchanges and discussions on literary creation.

In fact, everyone knows that this is not an ordinary literary creation discussion meeting. There is no need for verbal battles. The main purpose of gathering so many young writers here is to encourage them to work harder and for everyone to get to know each other and communicate with each other.

How could there be so many people in a real academic seminar?

During the day, everyone had meetings and exchanges, and at night, they had free time. Since they were all young people and stayed in several hotels arranged by the conference, it was a good opportunity to get to know each other and exchange feelings.
Some also took this opportunity to visit classmates, friends and relatives in Yanjing, for example, Lu Yao went to visit his father-in-law and his family.

Fang Minghua and Jia Pingwa live in the same room.

However, Jia Pingwa was not in the room tonight. He went to visit a friend in Yanjing, the literary critic Bai Ye.

Bai Ye is from Qin Province. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Qin Normal University. He stayed at the school to teach and was later transferred to the Chinese Social Sciences Press under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

The two knew each other very early, and after Bai Ye went to work at Yenching University, he was very supportive of Jia Pingwa's creation. In 83, Jia Pingwa published "Shangzhou Chulu", which was both an essay and a novel. The following year, he published his first novel "Shangzhou", which shocked the literary world.

Bai Ye spoke highly of his series of novels: "You are advancing into the depths of life and art. You have already established your own artistic territory - Shangzhou."

Including the Wasted City that Jia Pingwa is currently writing, in history, Bai Ye brought his manuscript back to Yanjing after he came to Xijing and handed it over to October Literature and Art Publishing House for publication. At the same time as the single volume was published, October magazine was published simultaneously. So this time when Jia Pingwa came to Yanjing, he said on the train that he wanted to talk to Bai Ye.

Jia Pingwa was not around, so Fang Minghua was lying on the bed watching TV alone.

I was watching "Desire".

As soon as "Desire" was broadcast, it became a big hit in the Yanjing area. At the strong request of the audience, Yanjing TV not only continued to broadcast it during the prime time of Channel 1, but also re-broadcast the previously aired episodes on Channel 2 at 7 pm. This was what Fang Minghua was watching.

This drama is indeed very popular in this era, but as Fang Minghua, a person from the future is watching this drama.

If we put it into perspective thirty years later, it seems a bit distorted.

Liu Huifang looked down on the working people and insisted on climbing up the social ladder. She deserved to be dumped.

Liu Huifang is having an affair with her best friend’s boyfriend. Is she a green tea bitch?

Xiao Zhuxin is just a mistress, pretending to be a good person on the surface. Now that Wang Husheng is married, she should disappear!
Luo Gang and Liu Huifang?! What the hell are they?! They are not good people!
But people of this era just like to watch this tune!
It only goes to show that audiences in later generations have become more and more obsessed with emotional cleanliness. If they encounter such a complex and confusing emotional line, they will probably collapse directly.

Fang Minghua was lying on the bed, watching and thinking about random things, when he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. He went over and found several people standing at the door.

Yu Hua, Chen Hong, Li Hongying, Qian Yuliang, Liao Runbo, and He Liwei were all graduates of the former Luyuan Training Institute.

"Teacher Fang, Liao Runbo invites everyone to dance in the ballroom, and we want to invite you as well," said Yu Hua.

Liao Runbo invites us to dance?
In Fang Minghua's impression, Fang Yuhua and Chen Hong like to dance. Fang Minghua knew this when they were in Luyuan Academy, but Qian Yuliang and He Liwei didn't seem to go often?
Especially Liao Runbo. During those months at Luyuan, I never saw him go to a dance hall. Apart from reading and writing alone in the dormitory, most of the time he was seen strolling around the campus with a cigarette in his mouth.

However, Liao Runbo has changed a lot now compared to two years ago. Not only is his personality much more cheerful, but the clothes he wears are also more fashionable.

Today I am wearing a blue ski jacket and jeans which were very popular during this era.

Could it be because of the money in my pocket?

Three books in the "Ghost Blows Out the Light" series written by Liao Runbo have been published, and the royalties for the last two books are 6%. Although this is not high, the sales of the books are huge.

According to Song Tangtang, Liao Runbo earned more than 60 yuan in royalties.

It's considered a style in this era.

Seeing Fang Minghua hesitate, Liao Runbo explained:
"Teacher Fang, we don't have anything to do at night. There's a dance hall not far away on this street. Let's get together."

Fang Minghua noticed that not only Liao Runbo had packed up, but the other young men had also changed their clothes. The two girls in particular seemed to have put on light makeup, unlike their plain faces when they attended the meeting in the daytime. It seemed that they had made careful preparations.

"Okay then, let's start together." Fang Minghua agreed.

We get together tonight, I wonder when we can meet again?
(End of this chapter)