Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 203 People's Daily proves it for me

Lin Chaoyang walked out of the vice-principal's office and sighed towards the sky.

Just as I was planning to ride my bike to the Tao family, several students from the Class of 77 of the Chinese Department showed up from nowhere. Leading them was Liu Zhida, whom I had seen at the parade last night.

"Good boy!" Lin Chaoyang shouted as soon as he saw Liu Zhida.

Liu Zhida knew he was in the wrong. "Chaoyang, I'm sorry. The teachers forced me to say who was the first to shout the slogan, and I couldn't do anything about it."

Several other people also complained: "Zhida, you are too ungentlemanly. If this happened during the Anti-Japanese War, you would definitely be a traitor."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

The students of Yan University made such a noise last night that even Shuimu next door heard it. The school leaders were so worried that they didn't sleep well the whole night.

This morning, the students at the radio station were eager to see what was going on and announced once again what had happened last night.

Students gathering to march in the middle of the night was by no means a trivial matter in a prestigious university like Yanjing University, and the school leaders immediately began to investigate the causes and consequences of what happened last night.

As one of the leaders last night, Liu Zhida became the teachers' key target for breakthroughs, and he explained everything clearly as soon as he entered the office.

Lin Chaoyang was inconspicuous in the crowd last night, but he ended up having to give advice to the students.

When the school leaders saw that faculty and staff were involved, they thought they were killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.

Lin Chaoyang, who was on vacation, was found at home by his father-in-law Tao Jingfa. When he heard that the school leaders wanted to talk to him, he was confused.

I just joined in the fun for a while, it’s not that serious!
He said it was not useless, but the school leaders were afraid. Although the atmosphere in Yanda is very open now, they dare not be careless when it comes to sudden actions of students.

Lin Chaoyang was called to the school by his father-in-law, entered the school leadership office, and met Vice Principal Zhang Longxiang, who was in charge of student affairs.

Last night, the students suddenly rioted after watching the game, which scared him so much that he couldn't sleep well the whole night. Now there are dark circles under his eyes.

"Tell me, you are a faculty member after all, do you have any sense of the overall situation?"

"The students are making a fuss, and you join in the fun? And you're even giving them advice?"

"With so many people here, what if something goes wrong in the dark?"

Zhang Longxiang started to scold Lin Chaoyang, saying that students are the treasures of the school and cannot be criticized or scolded. Can't I discipline a faculty member like you?

After criticizing Lin Chaoyang, he said, "This matter is not over yet. Don't think that it is over after the criticism."

"Principal Zhang, that's not necessary. I just shouted a slogan casually. Besides, it was a patriotic slogan!"

"It has nothing to do with patriotism, it's a matter of behavior and nature. I've been talking for so long, but you don't realize the seriousness of the problem at all!"

Zhang Longxiang looked at Lin Chaoyang as if he was looking at an unrepentant criminal.

"What punishment will the school give me?"

Zhang Longxiang stared at him with a serious expression, as if he was going to sentence Lin Chaoyang to death, and he uttered two words.

"warn!"

I was so scared by the look on his face that I thought he was going to shoot me.

Lin Chaoyang complained in his heart.

As if afraid that Lin Chaoyang would not understand the severity of the punishment, Zhang Longxiang explained: "During the warning period, you cannot be hired for a position higher than your current position; you cannot be rated as excellent in this year's assessment; and your professional title evaluation will be postponed for one year."

Lin Chaoyang nodded. Very good. This punishment was tailor-made for him and had no impact at all.

"Principal, I can actually take a break from my work," Lin Chaoyang suggested.

Zhang Longxiang stared, mistaking Lin Chaoyang for a sarcastic remark, and angrily said, "Don't bring emotion to me! Do you still feel that I have wronged you?"

"No, no." Lin Chaoyang waved his hands quickly. He said that he was not suspending work because of emotion, he just wanted to take a vacation.

If you say you don’t want to let it go, then don’t let it go. Why are you so anxious?
"Chaoyang, I'm sorry. Can I treat you to dinner tonight as an apology?" Liu Zhida said.

"Come on."

Lin Chaoyang was not really angry with Liu Zhida. There were so many people there last night, even if he didn't say anything, someone would have said something.

The main reason is that these school leaders are too careless. Students are their treasures and cannot be touched, so they just pick on him as a weak point.

If you mess with me, you're like kicking cotton.

After chatting with Liu Zhida and others for a while, Lin Chaoyang came to the Tao family.

When he saw him, Tao's father asked, "Are you done being scolded?"

Lin Chaoyang nodded.

"What punishment?"

"warn."

Father Tao nodded slightly and asked with a smile: "Are you feeling emotional?"

"No. It's just a warning. It won't affect anything. It's just that the school doesn't care. Those students were having so much fun. Nothing happened. I just thought of a slogan for them..."

"You are a faculty member after all." Father Tao said with a smile.

Lin Chaoyang opened his mouth. His life as a teacher was so miserable. He was even worse than the students.

Tao's father did not take the school's punishment seriously, and Lin Chaoyang did not take it seriously either. When they returned home, even Tao Yushuo gloated over the incident.

"You're just yelling at them for no reason!"

At night, Lin Chaoyang turned his grief into strength and sat in his study writing furiously.

It's no wonder that he was inspired to write this novel by "A Game of Chess That Has Not Been Finished", which has a touch of the main theme. Last night, he was inspired by his students and his ideas flowed like a fountain. The next day, thinking that the "holiday" was only four or five days away, Lin Chaoyang planned to concentrate on writing the manuscript.

Unexpectedly, at around ten o'clock, Chen Jiangong, Liang Zuo and Liu Zhida suddenly ran to his house, with happy faces.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

Chen Jiangong waved the newspaper in his hand, making a loud noise. "Chaoyang, we are on the People's Daily!"

"What People's Daily?"

"Look for yourself!" Chen Jiangong handed him the newspaper.

Lin Chaoyang immediately saw the news release in the "Feature" column on the right side of the second page. The title was a sentence he was very familiar with -

"Let's unite and revitalize China!"

The report was not long, less than 400 words, and it took less than two minutes to read it. The content was about the student movement that took place in Yan University the night before. What impressed Lin Chaoyang the most were undoubtedly the last two sentences of the report.

"These eight words, first shouted out by Lin Chaoyang, a young employee of Yanda University, were sonorous and powerful, stirring up the strong patriotic feelings of the young people.

It is these eight short words that deeply integrate the national spirit and the spirit of the times. They will surely become the action declaration for the next generation of young people to serve the country and the value label of the collective memory of an era. "

After reading the press release, Lin Chaoyang felt relieved.

I just said, what's wrong with me shouting patriotic slogans? The students can't touch them, but I, Lin Chaoyang, can?
He now wants to run to Zhang Longxiang’s office with this newspaper and throw it in his face. Does he think that I, a faculty member, am easy to bully?

Did you see that? Even the People’s Daily cannot stand the perverse behavior of your school leaders. This proves it for me!

After Lin Chaoyang finished reading the newspaper, Chen Jiangong and the other two excitedly discussed it. Liu Zhida said, "Chaoyang, with the People's Daily's statement, you don't have to worry about the school's punishment."

Lin Chaoyang pretended to be nonchalant and said, "If they punish you, then they will punish you. It won't hinder our patriotism!"

When they heard this, they were filled with awe.

From instructing Liang Zuo on how to deal with the arrogant Japanese students some time ago, to hearing a few days ago that Lin Chaoyang had a conflict with Yan Film Studio because the script involved the glorification of the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War, to today.

Chaoyang has profoundly demonstrated what a patriot is with his actual actions!
The publication of this report in the People's Daily had a wide impact. What was originally just an ordinary student movement was publicized by an authoritative national media such as the People's Daily. First of all, its nature was determined to be a patriotic movement.

Naturally, the punishment that Yan University wanted to impose on Lin Chaoyang became nonsense.

As they were talking, Cui Daoyi from People's Literature came to Lin Chaoyang's house and told him the good news.

"Chaoyang, 'The Garland Under the Mountain' won the award!"

The award Cui Daoyi mentioned is naturally the National Excellent Novella Award. Judging from the time, the list of winners should be announced.

Hearing that his novel won an award, Lin Chaoyang said calmly, "Oh, that's a good thing."

Chen Jiangong, who was standing by, couldn't remain calm after hearing the news. He asked Cui Daoyi nervously, "Teacher Cui, are the results of the awards announced? Do you know the results of the short story awards?"

If Chen Jiangong asked the editors of other magazines, they might not know the answer. At most, they would know whether the works published in their magazines won awards or not.

But Cui Daoyi is the editor of People's Literature. The national outstanding medium and short story awards are sponsored by the Writers Association, but the specific implementation is the responsibility of the editorial department of People's Literature. Naturally, he is very clear about the award results.

At this point in time, colleagues in the editorial department were actively contacting the award-winning writers and magazines. Except for the fact that the list was not published in the newspapers, almost all of it had been made public, so Cui Daoyi did not hide it.

He asked, “Whose work do you want to ask about?”

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "He asked himself, did "Danfengyan" win an award?"

Cui Daoyi looked Chen Jiangong up and down, "Are you Chen Jiangong?"

Chen Jiangong was delighted when he heard his question. Cui Daoyi had an impression of him and his works. What did this mean? It meant that he must have won the award!

"Yes, I am Chen Jiangong."

Cui Daoyi laughed, "Congratulations, Comrade Jiangong!"

After getting the definite answer, Chen Jiangong jumped up and said, "I won the prize! I won the prize!"

Chen Jiangong was extremely excited. Liang Zuo and Liu Zhida beside him were also happy for him. On the other hand, Lin Chaoyang still had a calm expression.

Cui Daoyi looked at Chen Jiangong, then at Lin Chaoyang, and sighed in his heart that with this indifference and composure, Lin Chaoyang has already distanced himself from other writers of the same generation.

"Chaoyang, this time not only did your work "The Wreath under the Mountain" win an award, but your other work "Little Shoes" also won an award. "The Mountain" won the first prize, and "Little Shoes" won the second prize."

As soon as Cui Daoyi finished speaking, the celebration of Chen Jiangong and others stopped abruptly, and they looked at Lin Chaoyang in disbelief.

Another award? Two awards for one person?
Why does this scene seem familiar? It's so familiar!

Listening to Cui Daoyi's words, Lin Chaoyang's calm face finally showed some surprise, "Won two awards?"

"Yes, it's another double award for one person! You have replicated last year's brilliant achievement!" Cui Daoyi said with a smile on his face.

Last year, at the Second National Excellent Short Story Award, Lin Chaoyang was shortlisted for both "The Shepherd" and "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit". Winning two awards, he became the brightest star at the award ceremony and caused quite a stir in the literary world afterwards.

This is a national literary awards event, and winning the award can be considered a leader in the literary world.

The value of one person winning two awards is self-evident.

No one expected that what happened last year was just the beginning.

In the spring of 1981, Lin Chaoyang once again won two awards in the first National Excellent Novella Award.

Such an achievement can no longer be described as unprecedented, and it is unlikely that there will be one that can surpass it in the future.

Chen Jiangong was immersed in great joy when he learned that he had won the award, but when he looked at Lin Chaoyang, for some reason, that joy seemed to be offset.

He can't be happy anymore!

(End of this chapter)