A widower's entertainment

Chapter 236 [Letter from afar] (Subscription required)
Beijing, Xinghua Hutong.

Lin Youcheng had already promised the director of Yanjing Film Studio to write the script for the movie "My Brothers and Sisters", so naturally he would not keep dragging it out. To be honest, although Lin Youcheng was often urged to submit his manuscripts by editor Zhang Wei, he did not drag his feet and would not submit the later parts. All the published novels were mailed to magazines after they were completed, and he was always urged to submit his next manuscript.

Lin Youcheng wrote the script for "My Brothers and Sisters". The story in the movie starts with the young female conductor Qi Sitian returning to China for the first time to hold a concert. In fact, she wanted to take the opportunity to find her brothers and sisters who had been separated for many years. The TV series version starts directly with the story of Qi's parents. Lin Youcheng naturally chose the movie, after all, the length of the movie is limited.

The pen is still skillfully crawling across the grid, telling a new story with every stroke.

Lin Youcheng was thinking that he would see if he could get a computer later, after all, typing on a computer keyboard would be faster.

In fact, computers have already begun to become popular. It can even be said that they have experienced a popularization earlier. In 1981, China Central Television, the Computer Popularization Committee of the Chinese Electronics Society and the Central Radio and TV University jointly organized a lecture on popularizing computer knowledge, teaching the BASIC language to the whole country. The number of viewers that year exceeded 100 million. From the following year on, the lecture was rebroadcast every year, with a viewing audience of more than 300 million.

You should know that in 1986, the Ministry of Electronics Industry established the Great Wall Company, built China's first microcomputer assembly line, and was the first in China to adopt the OEM brand production model, further promoting the popularization of computers.

The times are constantly developing and moving forward, just like a swift train roaring forward, carrying people forward regardless of anything.

Of course, this happened in the capital city of Beijing. Such information development was more obvious and real, which made Lin Youcheng come up with this idea. No one could refuse because they were all in the tide of the times.

"Dad, what are you writing?"

Little Radish-Head Lin Zhaole ran to Lin Youcheng, raised his head and asked curiously.

Lin Youcheng looked at Lin Zhaole who was hugging his legs and said with a smile: "I'm writing a story."

"What story?"

"It's about you brothers and sisters who were originally snowflakes floating down from the sky. No one knew each other, but after landing on the ground, you merged into one, turned into ice, and then turned into water, and you can never be separated..."

Lin Zhaole, who was not even five years old, did not particularly understand what Lin Youcheng said, but Lin Zhaohuan, who was playing on the other side, seemed to understand and said with a smile: "My sister and brother and I will never be separated."

Regardless of whether Lin Zhaohuan understood or not, he also said: "Don't separate."

Looking at Lin Zhaohuan, who still had a childish face and was talking and laughing, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but wonder, twenty years from now, when Lin Zhaole and the others have grown up, will they still be as close as they were when they were kids?

Although they will not be separated, they may go to different places and will no longer stay together in this small courtyard. After all, they all have their own space.

Lin Youcheng didn't think about this question any more and continued to write the script at his desk.

There was something else he didn't tell Lin Zhaole. What he was writing now was not just a script story, but also the property of the Lin brothers and sisters' current and future lives.

Just as Lin Youcheng was writing the script, Song Ma came in and said that a postman had come to deliver a package, so Lin Youcheng naturally had to go out to sign for it.

Lin Youcheng was a little curious about who sent him the package.

Seeing the address and the name of the sender, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but laugh. It turned out that Haizi had sent him some local specialties from Qinghai, and also a letter. "Comrade Lin Youcheng, please sign for it."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

The young and energetic postman naturally knew that Lin Youcheng, who lived here, was a writer, but it was obvious that he did not admire Lin Youcheng as much as Comrade Xiao Zheng from Chunfeng Lane in Decheng, and he was very calm.

Looking at the still young back of the postman who was delivering the letters, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but think of Comrade Zheng Yong who was delivering letters in Chunfeng Lane, Decheng. He wondered if everything was fine and whether he still loved literature.

Lin Youcheng took the letter and the package back. He didn't expect that it was a letter written to him by Cha Hailing, and he even sent a package specially. He was a little surprised.

Lin Youcheng naturally opened the letter from Cha Hailing and started reading. He knew that Cha Hailing had traveled to Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, and the snowy Tibetan area before, and this time he traveled to Qinghai and the snowy plateau again.

Looking at the letter, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but be moved.

In the letter, Cha Hailing recounted some of his traveling experiences and also mentioned that he had read the book "The Time Traveler's Wife" written by him.

This made Cha Hailing, or rather Haizi, sigh that some things seemed to be changing, everything was changing so rapidly, fortunately Lin Youcheng did not change.

The Time Traveler's Wife written by Lin Youcheng remains unchanged and is still about love.

As many readers agree, Haizi was also extremely surprised. The whole story written by Lin Youcheng is about time travel and even more about love. In addition, marriage, children, friends, literature, music, death, drugs, desire and faith are very cleverly combined together. It is both poetic and extremely simple.

Haizi was amazed by the love described by Lin Youcheng, and he liked this story about the complex interweaving of time and love between the male and female protagonists very much. He embarked on a romantic journey that is incredible to ordinary people, with a poetic feeling. This also made Haizi want to know whether he could meet such a soul mate, across mountains and rivers, across time and space.

Haizi thanked Lin Youcheng for letting him see poetic love again.

Seeing this, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but understand that Haizi also felt the development of the times and the absence of poetry, and this is why he wrote praises for Lin Youcheng's poetic love. Perhaps Haizi seemed to see or foresee that the darkness of poetry was gradually approaching.

Lin Youcheng knows that especially in the late 80s and early 90s, during an era of dramatic change and uncertainty, the "sense of the times" of poetry has faded, and it seems difficult to see waves of poetic thought as in the past.

Now time is moving forward little by little, and poetry has begun to walk into the dusk and night. It seems that the poet and his poem will be swept into the deserted night.

Looking at the letter on the table, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but recall his first encounter with Cha Hailing on the green train when he came to Beijing. The 20-year-old young poet had a blazing flame in his eyes as he talked to him about his published "Love Letter".

Compared with Haizi, Lin Youcheng can't be called a master of love at all.

Check Hailing, Haizi is the real poetic young man who always shouts "Long live love, long live literature".

And it has never changed.

(End of this chapter)