Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 384 It’s your choice!
The sister-in-law was very angry, so angry that Lin Chaoyang had to bring her a game console as a gift from Hong Kong to calm her down.

In fact, it’s nothing that she’s angry. The key point is that this little girl “uses the emperor to command the princes”, and Lin Chaoyang doesn’t dare to provoke her.

When Lin Chaoyang came back from Hong Kong last year, he brought back a game console. He originally bought it for the Tao Xiwen brothers, but it ended up becoming Tao Yumo's toy.

My sister-in-law has become a heavy game enthusiast. The game console is fun, but the only drawback is that it only has one game.

Tao Yumo knew that Nintendo released a new game console in the second half of last year that could be adapted to different games, and she had always been envious. Now that Lin Chaoyang was going to Hong Kong again, she naturally could not miss the opportunity to blackmail him.

Of course, the extortion was not in vain. In the next year, Tao Yumo would have no salary to take care of the children. After all, a game console still costs several hundred yuan.

After Tao Yushu learned of his sister's request, he could not help but scold her: "Look at how little you have achieved! How can you ask for a gift when you are angry? If you talk to him nicely, how can he not bring it back for you when you come back?"

After being enlightened by her sister, Tao Yumo reacted immediately.

Yes, last year my brother-in-law went to Hong Kong and brought back a bunch of gifts for our family. How could he not bring some this time?

Tao Yumo felt so regretful that he wanted to bang his head against the wall when he thought about how he was stupid enough to exchange a year's work for a game console that he could have gotten for free.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law..."

Tao Yumo's call was sincere and pitiful, but Lin Chaoyang didn't buy it.

Buying a game console for your children is your choice!
There is still half a month before going to Guangzhou for the work seminar, and Lin Chaoyang has nothing to do these days, so he simply focuses all his energy on the renovation of the East Courtyard.

The renovation of a siheyuan is different from building a normal house. It is not only a meticulous job, but more importantly, it is necessary to preserve the traditional cultural characteristics as much as possible.

The west courtyard where Lin Chaoyang and his family live now is still basically the original style of the old Yanjing courtyard, without many facilities to adapt to the urban style.

He plans to use the renovation of the East Courtyard to maintain its traditional features while also adding some facilities to the courtyard.

For example, water and electricity renovation, kitchen and bathroom renovation, adding kitchen and bathroom appliances, installing air conditioners and heating boilers in bedrooms and living rooms, and adding green plants in the yard...

It doesn't cost much to renovate a house, but Lin Chaoyang's renovation will cost a lot of money, among which electrical appliances are undoubtedly the most expensive.

If these electrical appliances were placed in ordinary people's homes, it would probably be a lot of trouble to buy one, but for Lin Chaoyang, it was not stressful at all, because he had so many foreign exchange coupons and overseas remittance coupons that he could not spend them all.

"When the east courtyard is repaired, we will move there. If friends come to the west courtyard in the future, we will let them stay here.

There are two walls between us, so we don’t affect each other.”

Lin Chaoyang talked to Tao Yushu about the planning of the courtyard in Xiaoliubukou Hutong.

In March this year, when those writer friends stayed overnight at his home to read the manuscript of "Crossing the Guandong", Lin Chaoyang felt that everyone seemed uncomfortable and was afraid of disturbing each other.

He thought it would be better to move here after the East Courtyard was cleaned up, and use the West Courtyard to entertain guests. That would be great.

"Okay, you have a very good idea."

Tao Yushu was carefully reading the documents and was very perfunctory about Lin Chaoyang's prospects.

Lin Chaoyang sighed helplessly. You didn’t treat me like this when we first got married.

Time passed quickly and it was the end of July. That evening, Tao Yushu was packing Lin Chaoyang's luggage for a business trip. The CCTV news on TV was broadcasting the news that the Chinese delegation had checked into the Los Angeles Olympic Village.

1984 was the year of the Olympics, held in Los Angeles, California, USA. This was the second time Los Angeles hosted the Olympic Games, the last time being the 1932th Olympic Games in 10.

本届奥运会赛程从7月28日开始，到8月12日结束，共16天时间。

There were 140 delegations from participating countries and regions, exceeding the scale of any previous Olympic Games.

It is worth noting that this Olympic Games is also the first time that China has returned to the Olympic Games since 1952. Sports are an extension of politics, and China's return to the international sports arena is of course closely related to its diplomatic honeymoon with the United States.

In this Olympic Games, China sent a sports delegation of 225 people to participate in 16 major events.

For a developing country that has not participated in the Olympics for more than 30 years, such a size of sports delegation obviously gives the United States enough face.

Similarly, this is also a good opportunity for China to show the world its new spirit of reform and opening up.

"There are so many people here. How much will it cost?" Zhang Guiqin couldn't help but sigh as she watched the pictures on TV.

"Old women have long hair and little knowledge. It's the Olympics, it's to win face for the country. How much does it cost to travel for a team of two or three hundred people?"

After changing his career from production team leader to landlord, Lin Erchun no longer panted when walking in the past six months, and climbing to the fifth floor was no longer difficult. He was full of energy and high-spirited, and even his words were full of arrogance.

"I just don't know how many gold medals I can win. I heard that Olympic gold medals are not easy to get. Even if the athletes' faces turn purple, they still may not win." Lin Erchun said to himself.

The next morning, Lin Chaoyang carried his luggage to the Capital Airport and boarded a plane to Guangzhou. In addition to him, there were Li Tuo, Feng Mu and Tang Zhi on the plane. The three of them were invited by Huacheng to attend a seminar in Guangzhou.

Needless to say, Li Tuo is very familiar with Lin Chaoyang, and they can't help but make fun of each other whenever they meet.

Feng Mu is the editor-in-chief of Literary Gazette and a heavyweight figure in the domestic literary world. He has always admired Lin Chaoyang.

This time, he was able to travel thousands of miles to attend the seminar on the work of "Chuang Guandong", which was more of a face for Lin Chaoyang than for "Huacheng". Lin Chaoyang had little contact with the other Tang Zhi, and only knew that he was a writer, critic, and a backbone of "Wenyi Bao" and the Wenxie Association, especially in the field of literary criticism.

"The Epic Nature of Contemporary Literature - On the Artistic Achievements of "Crossing the Guandong"", which was published in "Wenyi Bao" some time ago, was written by him.

After chatting all the way, after landing, Lin Chaoyang successfully found Li Shifei who came to pick him up at the entrance.

"Old Li, I didn't expect you to come here in person!" Coming out of the passage, Lin Chaoyang shook hands with Li Shifei and greeted them.

"You are the protagonist of this seminar, so of course I have to welcome you." Li Shifei said with a smile.

In fact, Li Shifei is not only going to meet Lin Chaoyang today, but also several other guests who are coming to attend the seminar.

When he saw Li Tuo, Feng Mu and others who got off the plane with Lin Chaoyang, he greeted them warmly and then took everyone to their residence.

Generally, publishing houses invite local guests to hold seminars, mainly for cost considerations. When the guests come, the publishing house will cover all the food, accommodation and transportation.

Huacheng Publishing House spent a lot of money to hold a work seminar for "Crossing the Guandong" this time, inviting many well-known writers, critics and editors from literary centers such as Yenching and Shanghai, which inevitably cost a lot of money on food, accommodation and transportation.

Huacheng Publishing House is not a wealthy organization, so of course they try to save money in doing things. For this works seminar, they borrowed two small villas in the Overseas Chinese New Village.

Overseas Chinese New Village is located in the northeast of Guangzhou city and was originally a barren hill.

In 1955, in order to accommodate returning overseas Chinese, an Overseas Chinese Village covering an area of ​​68 square meters was built here. It has a total of 177 garden-style villas and 291 apartment buildings. It is one of the largest residential areas built after the founding of New China.

It was midsummer, and the Overseas Chinese New Village was shaded by green trees, with birds singing and flowers blooming, giving it a picture of a paradise. Li Tuo and others could not help but admire it after entering the community.

Li Tuo said to Lin Chaoyang: "Hey, Chaoyang, this is much better than your Overseas Chinese Apartment."

The first house Lin Chaoyang bought was the Huayuanqiao Overseas Chinese Apartment near the West Third Ring Road of Yanjing. It was also a house built for overseas Chinese, but compared with the villa complex in the Overseas Chinese New Village, the Huayuanqiao Overseas Chinese Apartment was simply weak.

Not only do they have small Western-style buildings, but every house also has a small garden, and the environment is elegant and quiet.

After entering the villa, rooms were assigned, with young people living upstairs and older people living downstairs.

After resting for a while, Lin Chaoyang met several other guests from Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, some of whom were acquaintances of Lin Chaoyang.

For example, Li Xiaolin, the deputy editor-in-chief of "Harvest", started complaining as soon as she saw Lin Chaoyang.

"You haven't submitted your novels to our Harvest in recent years. I came here this time to ask you if you are dissatisfied with our Harvest in any way."

Li Xiaolin joked half-seriously that since "Parents' Love", Lin Chaoyang's many novels had not been given to "Harvest", and she was indeed coveting those manuscripts.

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, it's just that I have too many acquaintances and they all asked me to write for them, so I can only focus on Yanjing's publications first."

"Yanjing's publications have a close relationship with you, so what about Huacheng?"

Lin Chaoyang pulled Li Xiaolin and whispered, "This is not... because they gave us a lot of money!"

Hearing this, Li Xiaolin couldn't help but smile, "It's been so many years, why are you still so stingy about the royalties?"

"I have no choice, I rely on this to make a living!" Lin Chaoyang spread his hands.

After chatting and laughing with Li Xiaolin, Lin Chaoyang greeted Cong Weixi and Li Hangyu.

Li Hangyu is a young writer just starting out, and he was not qualified to be invited to attend a seminar of this level.

After Lin Chaoyang proposed "root-seeking literature", he was the most active writer in China to respond. A few months ago, his article "Sort Out Our Roots" caused quite a stir in the literary world.

This article made him one of the representative figures of root-seeking literature. Crossing the Guandong bears a clear and profound mark of "root-seeking literature", so it is natural for Li Hangyu to appear in the seminar on such work.

That evening, Huacheng Fang arranged a welcoming banquet for the guests.

The "Crossing the Guandong" work seminar will last for three days. In addition to one day of seminar, the remaining two days are for field trips, which is considered a benefit.

The seminar was held in the conference room of Huacheng Publishing House. Nearly twenty well-known writers, critics and editors in the literary world gathered together. The scene was grand. It was the first time that a seminar of this scale was held in the history of Huacheng Publishing House.

If you calculate carefully, it has been only more than three months since the first part of "Crossing the Guandong" was published, and more than a month since the second part was published. This time is not long for the influence of a literary work to ferment.

But "Crossing the Guandong" is not an ordinary literary work. As the most popular phenomenal novel in Chinese literary circles in 1984, its influence has broken the shackles of time.

The sensation it caused is extremely rare in the contemporary literary world in recent years.

Over this period of time, the literary community has been flooded with praise for this novel, and at seminars held, colleagues have also been voicing praises.

This is not deliberate compliment from everyone, but we really have to praise you. We can't just find fault with something against our will, right?

There was no point in praising it any more, the whole day's seminar ended just like that.

Lin Chaoyang was chatting with Feng Mu next to him and was about to get up when he saw a young man whispering something to Su Chen, the president of the publishing house. Su Chen's face suddenly turned ugly.

(End of this chapter)