Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 59: Outlaw Successor

Tonight, Lin Chaoyang changed his previous state and sat at the desk, writing quickly and non-stop.

When they got into bed, Tao Yushu asked him, "I see you wrote a lot tonight."

“Well, full of inspiration!”

Abundant ass!

He had been slacking off before, but Liu Xinwu's visit to him during the day happened to give him a boost of motivation. He felt that the progress was almost enough, so he speeded up.

“That’s how creation works. You always need some deep thinking at the beginning, just to get your thoughts in order.”

Although Tao Yushu would usually put pressure on Lin Chaoyang, he would also pay attention to his creative state and communicate with him from time to time.

On Sunday, my brother-in-law Du Feng, whom I hadn’t seen for more than half a month, came again.

Lin Chaoyang thought he was here to "polish" his love letter again, and they greeted each other warmly.

"How's the pursuit of your girlfriend going?"

Du Feng smiled and said nothing.

"A few more love letters for you?"

"No need." Du Feng waved his hand.

Lin Chaoyang thought he had found his girlfriend, but Du Feng said, "Brother-in-law, I'm going to Yunnan soon."

"Yunnan is great, the four seasons are like..."

Lin Chaoyang stopped talking abruptly. He reacted and looked at his brother-in-law.

"Going to Yunnan?"

Du Feng nodded in a relaxed manner, "The battle is raging on the front line, and we, a group of art soldiers, can't just sit there and eat, right?"

"When are we leaving?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

"the day after tomorrow."

"So fast?"

"I was exiled by my father." Du Feng smiled bitterly and told the truth.

"What do you mean?"

"The captain discovered that I was in a relationship."

Lin Chaoyang asked: "You are not a student, what's wrong with having a relationship?"

"She's only 16."

Good man, you are an outlaw!

Lin Chaoyang didn't expect that he almost became an accomplice of Du Feng. After being shocked, he asked again: "What's the matter with going to Yunnan? It's just a relationship."

"My father won't let me find someone from the art troupe. You don't know, some people in our army specifically look for women from the art troupe as their daughters-in-law."

Lin Chaoyang nodded in understanding. He still remembered that there was a TV series called "Happiness is Like a Flower" in later generations, which probably told stories like this. It seemed that Du Feng's father could not stand the style of some comrades in the army.

"My dad said that the soldiers were fighting bloody battles on the front line, and I only knew how to talk about love, so he was angry and wanted to send me to the front."

"Your father is really willing to do this!"

Everyone can talk about patriotism, but when it comes time to fight and bleed, how many people can bravely step forward?
This is where our predecessors deserve admiration and respect.

Du Feng sighed, "He has been through a lot in his life. I have never seen him cry since he was a child. Sometimes I even wonder if his heart is made of iron."

He added: "But we are just there to offer condolences. It is not as dangerous as you think. The real danger is for the soldiers."

Du Feng comforted Lin Chaoyang, but his tone gradually became lower, and it seemed more like he was comforting himself.

Lin Chaoyang didn't know what to say, so he just patted Du Feng on the shoulder and said sincerely: "When you come back, I'll treat you to a drink!" Du Feng nodded heavily and took out a cigarette from his arms.

"What are you doing?"

"Thank you, the matchmaker."

Du Feng winked at Lin Chaoyang, "I said I wrote a self-criticism, I didn't say we are done with each other."

Lin Chaoyang laughed. The love of young people is like a sudden flame, burning fiercely. The more you try to stop it, the more it will add fuel to the fire. Sometimes you let it burn, and once the passion is gone, the two of you will break up.

After the two finished chatting, Du Feng left the room and told Tao's father and mother about the incident.

Although the two were worried about Du Feng, they were still calm. However, the little girl Tao Yumo started crying.

Even though she and Du Feng often quarrel, they grew up together after all.

"It's okay. I'm just going to perform. It's not as dangerous as you think."

After saying goodbye to everyone, Du Feng declined Tao's mother's invitation to have dinner together, got on his bicycle, waved to everyone, and left in a cool manner.

On this day, the Tao family was in a heavy mood.

The next morning, Lin Chaoyang was preparing to run to the big classroom to attend a class. When he passed the east side of the library, he saw Zhu Guangqian running again. It seemed that the old man was really undeterred by wind and rain. Today, there was even a blond curly-haired guy beside Zhu Guangqian.

The curly-haired boy is over 1.80 meters tall, and there is an inexplicable sense of humor in him following old Zhu, who is less than 1.6 meters tall.

There have always been foreign students in Yanda University, and they can be seen from time to time on campus, but Lin Chaoyang rarely sees this group of people in the library.

During class, Lin Chaoyang heard students from the Chinese Department discussing whether to go to the Workers' Stadium to watch the performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

In the past two years, China-US diplomacy has been in a honeymoon stage. The old man just visited the United States some time ago. The two countries will usher in comprehensive exchanges in the political, economic and cultural fields. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is visiting China for a performance against this background.

The orchestra first arrived in Shanghai on March 3. After exchanges and two performances in Shanghai, they flew to Yanjing. This news was reported in newspapers a few days ago.

There have not been many cultural exchanges in China in recent years. As one of the top ten symphony orchestras in the world, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's visit to China and performance caused quite a stir among the public through media coverage.

"Can you get the tickets?" Lin Chaoyang asked Liang Zuo, who was discussing Huan just now.

"You have to rob it, it's hard to say."

You have to grab tickets to watch a symphony orchestra performance, which is a sequelae of the poor spiritual life of the people in previous years.

Lin Chaoyang wanted to invite Tao Yushu to a concert. The couple seldom had the opportunity to go out on a date, so since the tickets were hard to get, they just gave up.

After finishing the class, Lin Chaoyang didn’t even bother to eat and went back to the library first.

As soon as he walked to the front desk, he saw Hu Wenqiong talking to a foreigner who was talking at cross purposes. The foreigner was the blond curly-haired young man that Lin Chaoyang saw in the morning.

There are many highly educated talents in the Yanda Library, many of whom can speak English. Hu Wenqiong's English is also good, but it is mute English.

The young man's Chinese is not very fluent and his pronunciation is not very standard.

The two of them were talking about their own things. Hu Wenqiong was so anxious that sweat was pouring down his forehead and he couldn't understand what was being said. He was about to go find someone.

Lin Chaoyang listened for a while, and after struggling to figure out what was going on, he said, "Sister Hu, he seems to be looking for the Golden Lotus."

"Sister Qing Peng, fight, fight, fight!"

The foreigner's broken Chinese was much fluent now, and he even came up to high-five Lin Chaoyang. It was obvious from his behavior that he was from America.

Lin Chaoyang's English is only at the CET-4 level, but fortunately he had many opportunities to put it into practice in later life, so his English was still acceptable.

After a few halting exchanges with the foreigner, I learned that he was indeed an international student from the United States. His English name was Matthew Mouw, and he also gave himself a Chinese name, Mao Tianci.

"You can call me A Mao."

Amao?

Lin Chaoyang shook hands with him. This name is very good, and it is very vivid when combined with Mao Tianci's hairstyle.

(End of this chapter)