A widower's entertainment

Chapter 255 [Lecture] (Subscription Request)
Beijing, Xinghua Hutong.

Although Yanjing Film Studio is preparing for the filming of "My Brothers and Sisters", the time background of this movie is winter, so naturally the filming will not be carried out at this time. After all, in this era, when shooting snow scenes, one would not think of artificial snow scenes, so the filming will have to wait until winter.

Although Lin Zhaomei will star in the movie, the children do not have many roles, and the filming will continue after the winter vacation. As for now, they are enjoying their summer vacation without any worries.

When the summer vacation is over, a new semester begins.

By that time, Lin Zhaoxi would be in the third year of junior high school and would take the high school entrance exam later. Lin Zhaoqing would be in the first year of junior high school, Lin Zhaomei would be in the fifth grade, Lin Zhaoman would be in the third grade, Lin Zhaohuan would be in the first grade, and Lin Zhaole would be in kindergarten.

Lin Youcheng did not pay much attention to his child's academic performance. After all, in this era, most people adopt a laissez-faire approach to children's education, and have not yet started the internal competition or forced education approach.

Of course, Lin Youcheng was not particularly worried about the grades of the children. Even Lin Zhaoqing's grades did not make Lin Youcheng worry that they would be so bad that he would be held back, after all, he had his elder sister Lin Zhaoxi watching over him.

"Xier, you will be in the third grade of junior high school when school starts next semester, and then you will take the high school entrance exam, and then the college entrance exam."

When Lin Zhaoxi heard what Lin Youcheng said, he couldn't help but ask, "Dad, am I really not going to take the technical secondary school entrance exam?"

When Lin Youcheng heard what Lin Zhaoxi said, he shook his head. He knew very well that technical secondary schools nowadays were very good and most of the students who went there were students with good grades. You should know that students who successfully graduated from technical secondary schools would be assigned jobs by the state and would be included in the establishment of public institutions. At the same time, their household registration could be transferred to the city where the public institutions were located, so the treatment was quite generous.

However, it is obvious that this is the capital, Beijing, and Lin Youcheng does not need his daughter Lin Zhaoxi to go to a technical secondary school to reduce the burden on the family.

"Listen to your father, study hard, get into high school, and then get into college. Since you want to be a doctor, then apply to a medical university. Yenching Medical University is a good one."

"Yenching Medical University?"

After hearing what Lin Youcheng said, although Lin Zhaoxi didn't know much about Yenching Medical University, she realized that this medical university must be a very good school. She nodded and said, "I will study hard."

Lin Youcheng smiled and nodded. He knew that Lin Zhaoxi had never given him any worries.

Although children will eventually leave home when they grow up, Lin Youcheng thinks that even if Lin Zhaoxi takes the college entrance examination, he should not go to another place. It is best to stay in Beijing. After all, this is the capital that millions of students want to come to.

As for the Yenching Medical University mentioned by Lin Youcheng, which was formerly the Yenching Medical College, it will merge with Yenching University in the future to form a new Yenching University. Of course, the Yenching Medical University will later be officially renamed the Yenching University School of Medicine.

In addition to Yenching Medical University, there are also Peking Union Medical College and Capital Medical College, which are medical schools that students aspire to.

In fact, this is also the reason why Lin Youcheng wanted to bring Lin Zhaoxi and his sister to live in Beijing.

Lin Zhaoqing on the other side heard what Lin Youcheng said and said, "Dad, I want to go to college in the future too."

When Lin Youcheng heard what Lin Zhaoqing said, he did not laugh at Lin Zhaoqing's simple thinking. He just said, "Then you have to study hard and make sure you work hard. After all, it is very difficult to get into university."

Lin Youcheng didn't know whether Lin Zhaoqing still remembered his dream of becoming a scientist. In his opinion, Lin Zhaoqing's grades were average, and if he could really get into college in the future, he might have to burn some incense for his mother, asking her to bless him in the underworld.

After all, taking the college entrance exam nowadays is like a huge competition among thousands of people.

However, the current low admission rate will rise little by little in the future. No one would have thought that universities would expand enrollment in the future, and the admission rate would rise to 2019% in 81.

Lin Zhaoqing listened to Lin Youcheng's words and said with a smile: "I will study hard. My math grades have improved. I will definitely be admitted to university."

As always, ignorance is bliss, and I am still as ambitious as when I said before that I wanted to be a scientist.

Lin Youcheng could only sigh silently in his heart that Lin Zhaoqing had such ideas, but he couldn't help but think about Lin Zhaoqing in his heart. What if Lin Zhaoqing really couldn't get into university in the future?
It seems that it is not a good idea for a son to follow in his father's footsteps?
He had not yet realized that his son Lin Zhaoqing had a talent for literature, nor did he know whether he had a talent for writing poetry.

If this is really a lack of talent, he feels it would be a bit embarrassing to ask Lin Zhaoqing to write a graduation thesis like Jia Xi'ao's daughter, "The Discourse and Meaning of Life - An Essay on Jia Xi'ao's Calligraphy and Painting Art," and then enter the literary circle.

Lin Youcheng couldn't help but think of the time when Lin Zhaoqing's physical education teacher once wanted Lin Zhaoqing to practice sports. For a moment, Lin Youcheng didn't know if his disapproval had changed the fate of a world sports champion.

However, when he saw Lin Zhaoqing running over and playing house with his younger brothers and sisters on the ground, Lin Youcheng felt that he was thinking too much.

……

Just when Lin Youcheng was thinking about the new semester starting and his children going to school, Lin Youcheng, as a father, also had to go to school. However, Lin Youcheng was not going to be a student, but a teacher, and he was a teacher to some writers.

Of course, before that, Lin Youcheng had to go to Yenching Normal University to give lectures.

This is also because Lin Youcheng's recently published "The Unreachable Lover" has caused considerable discussion in the literary circle. The Yenching Writers Association originally planned to hold a seminar on Lin Youcheng's "The Unreachable Lover".

However, since Dean Tong Qingbing of the School of Literature at Yenching Normal University strongly invited Lin Youcheng to give lectures at Yenching Normal University, Lin Youcheng naturally couldn't refuse. After all, Lin Youcheng would also give lectures at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature in the future, and Dean Tong Qingbing would also be the class instructor of the Lu Xun Academy of Literature's postgraduate creative writing class.

Lin Youcheng is going to give a lecture at Yenching Normal University. As soon as the news came out, it can be said that all the students in Yenching Normal University were excited.

It should be said that not only the students of Yenching Normal University, but also the students of the whole city of Beijing were excited. They all rushed to Yenching Normal University to listen to the lectures of the author Lin Youcheng, and they also wanted to ask Lin Youcheng in person what the ending of "The Untouchable Lover" would be like. Even though Lin Youcheng published an article in the magazine "People's Literature" and wrote some of his thoughts on the ending, it was obvious that readers did not accept it so easily. Now that they had the opportunity to meet Lin Youcheng, they naturally came to ask Lin Youcheng.

Quite a lively atmosphere.

It can be said that with the appearance of the author Lin Youcheng, the atmosphere in the entire Yenching Normal University Auditorium reached a climax, and it was really packed with people.

There is no way. In an era when the popularity of literature has not yet faded, these two beautiful things, love and literature, will ignite a spectacular cultural phenomenon in a hungry way like dry wood and raging fire. It can be said that all the young people who love literature in the capital rushed to attend the lectures.

Because they love literature and yearn for love, they also deeply love every touching romantic love literature written by author Lin Youcheng.

At this moment, the huge auditorium of Yenching Normal University was packed with people who came to listen to Lin Youcheng's lecture.

Not only students came here to attend the class, but also Yu Hua and Su Tong who were about to become students, and Tang Jun, the editor-in-chief of "UFO Exploration" magazine who came from afar.

They all came!
Tang Jun had not expected that after he came to the capital, before he had time to visit Lin Youcheng, he had already heard from Lin Jinglan of the Writers Association that Lin Youcheng would give a literature lecture at Yenching Normal University. Knowing this, Tang Jun naturally rushed to Yenching Normal University to listen to Lin Youcheng's lecture.

"Lin Youcheng's influence is really great!"

Tang Jun looked at the auditorium which was packed with people, and the corridors which were also filled with students, all of whom looked very excited.

Lin Jinglan, who was sitting next to him, smiled and said, "He was like this before at Yenching University."

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Because of Lin Jinglan's introduction, Yu Hua and Su Tong on the other side also knew Tang Jun, the editor-in-chief of the science fiction magazine. Yu Hua smiled and said, "Editor-in-chief Tang, you came all the way from Gansu Province, which is enough to show his influence."

Tang Jun smiled and said, "Luckily I made it here, otherwise I would have missed his lecture."

Yu Hua and Su Tong obviously had the same idea. Although they were about to enter Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Lin Youcheng might also give them lectures, it was naturally a good thing that they could not miss to listen to Lin Youcheng's lectures now.

Lin Youcheng is actually used to such literary lectures. You know, the previous lecture he gave in Xiangnan was really attended by a huge crowd of people. Countless young literary comrades came to see him and shouted in unison, "Long live literature, long live love." Lin Youcheng still remembers that scene vividly.

Of course, that was also because it was Lin Youcheng’s first literary lecture in this world.

In fact, Lin Youcheng has never made any special preparation for the lectures, because they are all about communication.

“I am very happy to come to Yenching Normal University and have literary exchanges with you all.”

Lin Youcheng smiled and said, "I know that many people want to ask me about the ending of the novel "Untouchable Lovers", but I actually want to say that the ending of this novel is what I wrote in the magazine "People's Literature", which is an ambiguous answer. Of course, it is also written in the article, the ending I originally thought of -"

"That was the fifth time Zhou Xian and Lin Yin met. In 1990, Lin Yin wrote a letter to Zhou Xian to organize him to go to the scene of the car accident. So in 1990, when Lin Yin was about to move out of the house, Zhou Xian walked up to her with a smile and picked up the puppy. Lin Yin asked, 'Excuse me, who are you?'"

"Zhou Xian took out a letter written in 1990 to Zhou Xian in 1988 from his pocket, smiled warmly, and said, from now on, I will tell you a very incredible story, will you believe me?"

As Lin Youcheng told the story, it was obvious that the readers of "Unreachable Lovers" were all very excited, as if this was the ending they wanted, because this was the love ending they longed for.

"But the reason why I chose the original ending is because it left a suspense. The ending needs to be imagined."

"In fact, I want to say that literary creation requires not only keen observation and special sensitivity, but also rich imagination and fantasy. Of course, many literary works are documentary, but more literary works are fictional. Even realistic literary works will have fiction and imagination. Just like "The Sound of Wind", although the plot is fictional, the work is realistic, because during that period of time, there were comrades who had been waging a silent war underground."

Lin Youcheng thought for a moment and continued, "I know that many literary critics say that my novels like The Time Traveler's Wife and The Intangible Lover are not serious literature, or are not avant-garde enough, but are popular literature. But in fact, I said a long time ago that no writer will write for a literary genre, and similarly, no writer will write for a label. They will only write according to what they think in their hearts."

Hearing Lin Youcheng's words, literary creators like Yu Hua in the audience were naturally moved.

Because they know very clearly that what Lin Youcheng said makes a lot of sense, because the so-called literary schools and literary labels are nothing but constraints, and literary creation should be like what Ba Lao said, creative freedom.

"In many cases, the creation and innovation of novels are endless. A writer's fascination with novels is precisely because of the endless possibilities of novel creation and innovation. Regardless of the type of literature, imagination is actually very important. In many cases, literary critics find fault with current literature. Some people say that literature lacks blood, some say that it lacks ideas, and some say that it lacks culture, but in fact, I think the more important thing is the lack of imagination."

"In addition, I think no matter how well a novel is written, if it cannot be grafted and connected with the reader's imagination, then the novel will not impress the reader. Our works can only truly move the reader if they trigger the reader's associations through artistic charm and connect the writer's imagination with the reader's imagination."

"As for the fact that some literary critics think that The Untouchables is not sci-fi enough, I actually want to say that the imagination of time travel should not be limited to mailboxes."

"We can imagine what would happen if the object that could travel through time and space was not a mailbox, but a telephone or a walkie-talkie? What kind of story would that be?"

Obviously, Lin Youcheng's words instantly aroused the curiosity of everyone present.

Tang Jun was so excited that he sat up straight, staring at Lin Youcheng on the stage and listening to what Lin Youcheng said.

What would happen if the place you could travel through was not an empty mailbox but a telephone or an intercom, what kind of story would there be?

Obviously, no one knew that teacher Lin Youcheng would create a real literary storm at Yenching Normal University!
(End of this chapter)