Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 338: Inside the nest

"Listen to me! Go home and have a good rest, and don't worry about work.

It's a library, so what if one person is missing? "

"I noticed that you haven't looked well lately. You must be tired. Young people should take care of their health!"

"I happen to have some wolfberries at home. I'll send them to Yushu's family and have Lao Tao give them to you."

……

Lin Chaoyang was sent out of the office by Xie Daoyuan in a daze. In addition to getting a bag of wolfberries, he also got a vacation.

its not right!
He stood at the door for a long time before he remembered that the curator didn't say when the holiday would end!

He thought about it again and remembered that Xie Daoyuan said "there is nothing to do during the summer vacation", which means that the summer vacation is his vacation?
In this case……

It doesn't seem to work either.

Take a vacation first, and then talk about resigning after the summer vacation.

When he returned home in the evening, he told Tao Yushu about his resignation today.

Tao Yushu smiled and said, "Uncle Xie is trying to buy time with you!"

Lin Chaoyang said cheerfully: "What does it matter? It's actually quite good this way."

Resignation was not a very urgent matter, and Tao Yushu didn't say much when he saw this.

On the weekend, the couple took Xiao Dongdong back to Tao's house for dinner.

Father Tao handed a bag of wolfberries to Lin Chaoyang, and he immediately understood what was going on.

"Dad, Uncle Xie is here to see you?"

Father Tao nodded.

"What did he tell you?"

"Nothing, I just want me to persuade you..."

Father Tao didn't say anything else. He said to Lin Chaoyang, "Don't feel pressured. It's not easy for the library to produce a talent like you. It's normal for Old Xie to want to keep you. He came to me just to complain."

"I understand. He also gave me two months off."

Father Tao laughed when he heard this, "He is quite skilled in using this little trick."

He added: "Just follow your heart and don't think too much."

"it is good."

The father-in-law and the son-in-law chatted for a few sentences, and then they heard Tao's mother muttering about how she disliked Tao Yumo for not being around all day.

During the last summer vacation of her college life, Tao Yumo had planned to have some fun while there were still some days left before the registration time. However, after just a few days of leisure, she had already fallen into the state of being disliked by everyone at home.

After the mother and daughter quarreled for a while, Tao Yumo was ordered by her mother to report to the School of Political Science and Law.

Compared with her older brother and sister who have gone to the countryside to work, she can be regarded as a flower in a greenhouse.

When she went out to play during the winter and summer vacations, she dared to go to Beidaihe alone. Changping was only more than 40 kilometers away from Yanjing, but when she was asked to report, she became timid and insisted that Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yushu take her there.

The couple agreed that she was not afraid of going to Changping, but she had not yet completed the psychological transition from a student to a member of society.

"If you ask me to say something good about you, you will become a bully!"

The next morning, Lin Chaoyang, Tao Yushu and Tao Yumo boarded the school bus of the School of Political Science and Law to Changping. Tao Yushu couldn't help scolding his sister.

There were many cadres and teachers from the School of Political Science and Law on the bus. Tao Yumo thought that these people might be her future colleagues.

She was scolded by her elder sister in such a shameful way, which might become a black history in the future, so she pulled her elder sister's hand and said coquettishly: "Sister, please stop talking!"

"Humph!"

Arriving in Changping, Lin Chaoyang and his wife first took Tao Yumo to register.

The lady from the school's personnel department said, "Just report before August 8th. You're here too early!"

Tao Yumo was delighted when she heard that. It wasn't even mid-July yet, so didn't that mean she still had more than 40 days of vacation?

But since they were already there, Tao Yushu still took her to go through the formalities.

The registration procedures were not complicated, including the dispatch certificate, graduation certificate, household registration certificate, medical record registration, library, logistics furniture, and about ten stamps, and it was completed in less than an hour.

Tao Yumo was only in her early twenties. She was young-looking and pretty. Following her sister and brother-in-law, she looked like a naive little girl. The eldest sister liked her as soon as she saw her.

I said to her, "I don't have anything to do right now. Leave me a phone number where I can contact you. If there is something going on at school, I will have someone contact you. You don't need to come during other times."

Tao Yumo suddenly became happy and called out sweetly, "Thank you, big sister!"

After completing the registration procedures, the three of them came to the staff dormitory arranged by the school for Tao Yumo.

The dormitory has water and electricity, a bed, a bookshelf, a desk, and a row of small coal stoves in the corridor outside for teachers and staff to cook. The conditions are no different from those in the tube-shaped buildings of most units these days.

“Okay, the formalities are complete, and the dormitory is ready.

Do you want to stay in school or go home?"

The lady from the Personnel Department just said that there was no need to come now, so Tao Yushu asked Tao Yumo for his opinion.

"I'm going home!" Tao Yumo said without hesitation.

"Okay then. Come home with me. Your nephew misses you."

"Ah?" Tao Yumo was extremely depressed when she heard that. She wanted to go back to Yanjing to have fun, not to take care of the baby who was still breastfeeding.

"What? Let's go!" Lin Chaoyang and the other two walked out of the school. It was a hot day and the trunks of the poplar trees on the roadside outside seemed to be bent by the sun, just like the security guards at the gate of the community saluting the pedestrians in a loose manner.

"It's too hot today, sister, let's find a place to have a meal first." Tao Yumo suggested.

The three of them went out early in the morning, spent more than an hour on the road, and then spent another two hours at school. It was already noon.

"Row."

Changping is located in the northwest suburbs of Yanjing. From a distance, the county town looks like a block of tofu, square and like most of the county towns in China today, it is dotted with similar restaurants, hotels, post offices, public toilets and party and government agencies.

The three of them had not walked far when Tao Yumo saw an acquaintance from a distance. He waved and shouted, "Xiao Cha!"

There were also three people walking towards them, led by Tao Yumo's classmate Cha Haisheng. He was walking with two other young men, and all three of them were carrying luggage in their hands.

"Are you here to report today as well?"

"Yes, I've been in school for a week. If I don't leave now, I'll be kicked out."

Cha Haisheng said something to Tao Yumo, then greeted Lin Chaoyang and his wife, and then introduced his classmates to them.

"This is Liu Jun, this is Luo Yihe."

Liu Jun and Luo Yihe were a little nervous when they saw Lin Chaoyang. Lin Chaoyang smiled and said to Liu Jun: "I have seen you, classmate Liu Jun."

"You can call me Nishikawa. Yes, you have a good memory when the literature club invited you to give a speech last year."

Lin Chaoyang waved his hand and said, "It's better to meet by chance than to invite each other. You haven't eaten yet, right? Why don't you send your luggage to school first? We'll wait for you here and have a meal together."

Lin Chaoyang asked Cha Haisheng and a few others to deliver the luggage. The three of them waited under the tree. After more than twenty minutes, the three of them trotted out.

A group of six people walked on the streets of Changping County, and from time to time they could hear the beautiful music of "The Great Wall will never fall~" coming from the roadside shops.

In the first half of the year, "Heroes of the East" produced by Hong Kong Asia Television in 81 was broadcast on Guangdong Television, which set off a viewing frenzy in GD Province. It was then broadcast in turn on television stations in various places and became popular all over the country.

After walking for a while, they chose a small restaurant and went in.

After ordering the dishes, Lin Chaoyang saw Luo Yihe staring at the bottles of wine in the restaurant, so he suggested: "Two more bottles of beer."

Cha Haisheng and the other two waved their hands in unison, "No, no, no."

"It's okay. It's hot, just consider it as quenching your thirst."

After ordering beer, Lin Chaoyang said, "Haisheng and Yumo are classmates, and will work in the same unit in the future. You must take care of each other."

Cha Haisheng nodded shyly, while Tao Yumo said carelessly, "That's for sure."

"Xichuan is a pen name, right? I remember Haisheng's pen name is Haizi. Does Yihe have a pen name?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

"My pen name is Yihe."

Haizi, Xichuan and Luo Yihe, the three great poets of Yanda University in the 1980s, gathered together today.

However, the fame of the three is now limited to the campus, and Cha Haisheng is the most famous among the three.

Two years ago, with the support of Lin Chaoyang, his poems were published in "Yenching Literature". In the past two years, he has published several more poems. His poetry creation was ahead of later generations.

Lin Chaoyang spoke to the three people in a friendly and gentle manner. After chatting for a few words, Cha Haisheng and the others relaxed and started talking and laughing.

"Teacher Lin, did Du Sanjiang really eat his mother in The Boat Crossing?"

As they chatted, Xichuan couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked Lin Chaoyang a question.

It has been more than four months since the publication of "The Crossing of the Boat". It has received extremely good reviews from the literary community and readers have also responded very well. However, there is one voice that has always stood firm amid the overwhelming praise for "The Crossing of the Boat".

That is about whether the protagonist of the novel, Du Sanjiang, killed his mother and ate her flesh and blood.

If we look at it purely from the aesthetic perspective of critics, this metaphorical plot of "The Boat Crossing" fully demonstrates the helpless choices people make when facing desperate situations. Such treatment is undoubtedly extremely literary and artistic.

But this novel is ultimately not just for literary critics.

Most readers have no psychological burden in accepting this metaphorical plot, but for a small number of readers, plots such as matricide and even cannibalism are too cruel and make people feel horrified just by hearing about them.

Most of these readers are women, and many of them are mothers, so they have particularly strong resistance to this kind of plot. Previously, the editorial department of "Huacheng" wrote a letter to Lin Chaoyang specifically mentioning this issue.

But neither the author Lin Chaoyang nor the editorial department can do anything about this kind of concept.

"The Crossing of the Boat" was not written specifically to talk about cannibalism, but readers insisted on understanding it that way, and they felt helpless.

It wasn't that Xichuan felt uncomfortable with the plot; he was simply curious. There were so many metaphors in "The Boat Crossing".

He read it over and over again, and although he could guess most of the meanings, it was just a guess after all.

Today he finally had a meal with the author Lin Chaoyang, so of course he had to ask him some questions when he got the chance.

Listening to Xichuan's question, Lin Chaoyang pondered for a moment.

"The Ferryman's Tale uses a two-layer structure, and actually tells three stories. These three stories are just three possibilities."

Lin Chaoyang's answer was very simple, and he did not give a definite answer from the author's perspective, because he really liked the director Ang Lee's restrained approach in the film.

It is said that there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers. Every reader has a different understanding of the work. Appropriate blank space is not only the author's art, but also makes the work successful.

After hearing his answer, Xichuan nodded thoughtfully. This answer was reasonable, but also unexpected.

He said "within reason" because he had guessed the intention of the author Lin Chaoyang from a reader's perspective, and he said "unexpected" because he was surprised that Lin Chaoyang could restrain the author's desire to express himself even in front of him.

Xichuan writes poetry and novels. He is well aware that as an author, the desire to express oneself after conceiving a good story is difficult to suppress. Many good works ultimately fail due to the author's lack of restraint.

Looking at Lin Chaoyang's calm and silent appearance, he couldn't help but feel a bit of admiration in his heart.

Perhaps only a writer like this could write such a good work as "The Boat Crossing".

(End of this chapter)