Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 867: My Twenty Years of Literature

"Chairman Fang doesn't agree to our conditions. How about we find someone else? Fang Minghua is not the only famous writer in the literary world." Xiao Liu came up with another idea.

"There are indeed many famous writers in the domestic literary world, but who is as famous as Fang Minghua? Is he as popular? More importantly, his lectures are well-received, easy to understand, and full of witty remarks. Otherwise, if we go to the Chinese Department of Yan University and find a professor at random, we will find that they are all well-versed in literature, but people don't like what they say. After all, they are not facing students of the Chinese Department but ordinary people!"

"This..." Xiao Liu was speechless.

"What if, what if Chairman Fang doesn't agree to our conditions?" Xiao Liu asked another question.

"Then we will modify the conditions and no longer insist on owning the copyright of his book." Xie Ruguang sighed and said, "Of course, I will call the leaders of the station to report this matter."

Xiao Liu didn't say anything after hearing this, but was secretly puzzled.

"Lecture Room" has been on the air for more than a year and has aired more than 60 episodes. This is the first time that we have to modify the contract for one person!
After the two left, Fang Minghua also returned to his home.

He doesn't care about this matter. It would be better if the other party disagrees with one less thing.

But I didn't expect that shortly after I got to work the next morning, I received a call from Jie Ruguang, who agreed to his request and no longer required me to own part of the publishing copyright in the contract.

"Chairman Fang, I'm at your unit now. Please come over to sign the contract." Xie Ruguang said with a smile on the other end of the phone.

This one
"Okay then." Fang Minghua agreed.

He went to the Writers Association again, met Xie Ruguang, and both parties signed the contract. Fang Minghua then went home and began to prepare.

Since you have agreed, you must prepare well.

I traveled through time to this era, which happened to be the early 1980s: the beginning of the golden age of literature. In the blink of an eye, more than 20 years had passed.

Over the past two decades, domestic literature has developed rapidly, going through one stage of development after another, and bursting with unprecedented passion.

Scar literature, educated youth literature, root-seeking literature, avant-garde literature, new realism novels, as well as obscure poetry, university student poetry school, and the third generation of poets
I was fortunate enough to be involved in it, and I also got to know a lot of influential figures in the literary world of this era: Wang Meng, Chen Zhongshi, Lu Yao, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi and many more.

They either call each other brothers or friends, and some even call themselves teachers. There are so many things worth writing about.

And this era is coming to an end, which is also worth recalling.

Let’s start from the time when I entered this era and first came into contact with literature, using poetry to dissuade that young student from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Liu Jianjun, who has now become my brother-in-law.

"My entry into the literary world was a very accidental event. I had just turned 20 that year, and had just returned to the city after working as an educated youth in the countryside. I was a security guard at the Yanhe magazine."

"One day, I met a man who claimed to be a student from NWPU. He brought a poem he had written and wanted to see our editor."

Fang Minghua narrates all the stories related to literature that he has experienced.

The first time I wrote a novel "Hidden in the Dust", the first time I received royalties to treat Lu Yao and others to mutton soup, and participated in a contemporary poetry essay contest
In each interesting little story, Fang Minghua also writes about the collision and changes of various literary schools in the literary world.

This is how Fang Minghua spent this summer.

Her daughter Fang Rui did not return to China. She called and said that she went to Los Angeles to visit Liu Yifei during the holiday and stayed at Amber Mountain Manor for a few days. The two girls, led by Liu Xiaoli, drove along California Highway 1, driving through the vast mountains and endless coastline, watching the romantic and healing orange sunset along the way.

She also sent a selfie of the two of them, with her pouting and making scissors hands, looking youthful and cute.

My son Fang Le joined the National Mathematical Olympiad Training Team and represented the country in Glasgow, England to participate in the Mathematical Olympiad. Under pressure from his mother Song Tangtang, he posted a photo of him in Glasgow, doing homework, with test papers and materials piled on his desk.

Song Tangtang is very busy with work at the company and often leaves home early and comes back late. Now, apart from the nanny doing housework, Fang Minghua is the only one at home, which is a good time for her to write quietly.

Song Tangtang glanced at what Fang Minghua wrote.

"Minghua, I feel like you are writing an autobiography."

"It's almost like that, an autobiography of my literary career," Fang Minghua said with a smile.

In early September, Fang Minghua sent the three speeches he had written to the CCTV "Lecture Room" program team in the form of an email for review. Soon in late September, Fang Minghua received a call from Jie Ruguang, asking him to go to the CCTV building in Yenching for the recording.

Fang Minghua naturally arrived as promised. He flew to Yanjing and stayed in a hotel on Fuxing Road.

At this time, the "Big Pants" had not been repaired yet, and the CCTV headquarters was still on the old site on Fuxing Road, next to CCTV Studio 1. This old building has a significant sense of history, and its iconic CCTV butterfly is very conspicuous.

After settling down, Fang Minghua contacted Jie Ruguang and rushed to the CCTV building to enter the studio to record the program.

The entire recording process went relatively smoothly, but it still took a full three days to record all three episodes.

After completing the work, Xie Xueguan invited Fang Minghua to dinner, but he politely declined.

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He was tired of drinking and all that.

After leaving the CCTV building and watching the street lights coming on, Fang Minghua found a small restaurant nearby and had a bowl of noodles with soybean sauce to fill his stomach, and then went back to his hotel.

He was enjoying his noodles when his cell phone rang. He opened it and saw it was Su Bin, the CEO of Shengshi Books, so he picked up the phone.

The two chatted for a while, and Su Bin got straight to the point: "Minghua, I heard that you are going to be on the "Lecture Room" column to talk about modern Chinese literature?"

Fang Minghua was surprised when he heard this. Apart from a limited number of people, few people knew about this matter, and the program had just been recorded and had not yet started broadcasting.

"How do you know? Did you hear it from my wife?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Haha, Mr. Song didn't mention it. It was a friend of mine from CCTV who listened to your lecture in the studio the day before yesterday and found it very interesting. He had never heard anyone talk about modern literature like this before. Now he mentioned it to me while we were having dinner, so I called to ask you."

"You are in Yanjing?"

"Yes, I'm in Yanjing now. How about coming over for dinner?" Su Bin greeted warmly.

"No, I just want to eat something and go back to the hotel to rest." Fang Minghua declined.

"Well, Minghua, the reason I called you is that I want you to edit the manuscript and publish it. The idea of ​​twenty years of literature is a good one, and I think it's time to summarize it."

"Yes. It's time to summarize." Fang Minghua also replied and agreed readily.

"Okay, I'll go back and revise it."

"Okay. I'll wait for your news."

(End of this chapter)