Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 523 Wang Xia suspects her husband is having an affair

"First, the authenticity and non-fiction of prose. Prose should be about real people, real events, and real emotions, rather than fictional characters like novels. This is a backlash against previous pseudo-prose and pretentious prose, and can also be said to be a spiral return to traditional prose.

“Second, prose should express the author’s personality, emphasize the author’s self-spirituality, express life experiences, and show the spiritual world.

3. The artistic form and artistic techniques of prose are fully free, and can be expressed freely, naturally, and at will by the author without being restricted by a model.
In the modern literary period, essays that advocate a leisurely mood, such as those by Lin Yutang, Lin Qingxuan, Wang Zengqi and others, will be valued again.

Cultural essays, as a newly emerging category of essays, will be sought after by writers and readers.

Poets turned to prose writing. In the past two years, poets such as Shu Ting, Xi Chuan, and Yu Jian began to enter the field of prose, and this phenomenon will develop further in the 1990s.

Fang Minghua spent a full two hours talking about his views on the development of prose in the 1990s. Although it seemed a bit off-topic, the delegates in the audience still listened very carefully.

After the meeting, Fang Minghua, at Lin Fei's request, edited the speech and published it in the magazine "Prose" founded by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House. "Prose" is the first pure literature magazine in my country that specializes in publishing prose works.

This is the first time since the 1990s that someone has expressed his or her views in public!

This conference, historically known as the Zhengzhou Conference, is of great significance in the history of the development of prose in the 1990s.

The few days of meetings in Zhengzhou were generally pleasant. Perhaps unlike the novel world, where there are many newcomers and young people, the participants in the meeting are mostly young people, while the prose world is still dominated by the older generation, so the tension is naturally less intense.

In fact, we can just let Shi Tiesheng, Chi Zijian, Zhang Chengzhi and Han Shaogong come.

Several of them are masters of writing essays.

Oh, why doesn’t Tie Sheng open a business in Yanjing?
In addition to holding meetings, they also organized everyone to travel around, including the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Songyang Academy, and the Erqi Memorial Tower. After a week, Fang Minghua returned to Xijing.

After returning to Xijing, Fang Minghua began to devote himself to intensive creative work again. Of course, he also had other things to do, such as going to Chaoyangmen to see how his small building was decorated, watching the World Cup held in Italy, and picking up his children from kindergarten on weekends.

This is the situation today.

In the study, Fang Minghua finished writing a paragraph and saw that it was almost five o'clock. He turned off the computer and went to the living room to pick up the car keys. He was too lazy to change his clothes and just wore a T-shirt and shorts. T-shirts were very popular these days, with a few words printed on the back or front:
"Don't bother me, I'm annoyed", "I'm a gangster, I'm not afraid of anyone", "Follow your feelings", "I eat the apple and you eat the skin"

It's very fashionable to walk around the streets.

Of course Fang Minghua would not be stupid enough to wear such clothes. Instead, she wore a T-shirt with a panda mascot named Panpan printed on it - because the 11th Asian Games was about to open in Yanjing, and the Provincial Writers Association gave each staff member one to celebrate the Asian Games.

When driving to the gate of the kindergarten in the military compound, Fang Minghua saw a white Mazda parked in front. It was the car of Zhao Hongjun's wife Wang Xia.

When Fang Minghua got out of the car, he saw Wang Xia and greeted her with a smile, "Sister-in-law."

Wang Xia didn't look very well today, and seemed to be worried about something. When she saw Fang Minghua, she forced a smile as a greeting.

Of course Fang Minghua didn't ask too many questions.

Wang Xia took the initiative to speak, looking a little hesitant: "Minghua, let me ask you something."

"Go ahead, sister-in-law."

"Hongjun. Hongjun, does he have someone outside?"

Huh?! Fang Minghua was surprised, and he quickly explained: "I have rarely seen him during this period. Since Shengshi Book Company moved to Hainan last year, I heard Tangtang say that he often went to Hainan, so I don't know much about it."

"Oh, I'm just asking casually. Don't tell anyone else about this."

"I know, sister-in-law, don't worry."

Fang Minghua was just about to ask Wang Xia why she had such a feeling when the kindergarten gate opened and she saw her daughter Ruirui and Zhao Hongjun's daughter Minmin running out hand in hand, followed by her son Lele.

Fang Minghua stopped talking, picked up her daughter and son and drove home.

At night, Song Tangtang went home. Fang Minghua remembered what Wang Xia had asked him and couldn't help asking, "Tangtang, what is the Red Army busy with recently? Why can't I see anyone?"

"He has been in Hainan. He will probably be back soon." Song Tangtang replied, "Really? Shu Bin has made Shengshi Books very successful. What is there to worry about? Why does he keep going to Hainan? In the end, he threw all the group's affairs to me. I still have to be responsible for Shengshi Film and Television."

Hearing his wife's complaints, Fang Minghua just said "oh" and said nothing more.

The next day was Sunday, and usually the young couple would take their children out to play. This time, they went to their sister's house to visit her who was pregnant, and also to visit their parents.

During the chat, Fang Minghua learned that the performance of the 631 Institute where his sister worked was getting worse and worse, and in some months it even began to delay the payment of employees' wages.

After hearing this, my mother just sighed and said that she would have let her daughter stay in Northwestern Polytechnical University to be a teacher.

"Mom, being a teacher is not popular nowadays. Don't you know that there is a popular saying now: Those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs, and those who hold scalpels are not as good as those who hold razors!" my sister retorted.

Perhaps because she didn’t want to make her daughter angry seeing her big belly, mother Zhang Fenglan didn’t say anything else.

Fang Minghua didn't have any good solution.

This situation will continue for several years. Others cannot do anything about it, but the younger sister always wants to help. Fang Minghua always gives money directly to her mother, and then her mother gives subsidies to her daughter's family.

After lunch in the afternoon, Fang Minghua and his wife drove home with their two children. They had originally planned to wait until the weather was cooler and go for a walk as a family, but Fang Minghua received a call from Zhao Hongjun.

"Minghua, are you free tonight? Let's go to Old Sun's BBQ Restaurant in New Town Plaza to watch the World Cup!"

You are a fake fan, not even a fake fan, and you actually want to watch the World Cup? !
Are you taking this opportunity to go eat some skewers?

However, Fang Minghua thought about the question Wang Xia asked yesterday and wanted to ask about it too, so he agreed.

Of course I have to tell my wife about it.

Song Tangtang usually doesn't object to such things. She is not like other women who control their husbands strictly. Fang Minghua can do whatever he wants.

Because she found that since Fang Minghua resigned from his position as editor-in-chief and did not have to go to work every day, he actually liked staying at home more and more.

Drink tea, write, read books, practice calligraphy and look at paintings.

How does this work?
Isn't this a lady from a noble family? !

(End of this chapter)