Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 67: Isolated by the Whole World

"Gong Yun, now that we're at the door, can you tell us Xu Lingjun's real name?" asked the girl with pigtails.

"You'll be able to see someone soon, why are you asking so many questions?"

The girl with pigtails muttered, "You're really good at keeping us in suspense!"

Tao Yumo is very familiar with the Yanda Library. She came here often when she was a child, but she mostly went to the Literature and History Building. The library in front of her was newly built a few years ago, so she didn't come here very often.

A few people chatted and walked into the library.

After returning from dinner, Lin Chaoyang felt that his colleagues in the museum looked at him in a subtle way. He thought that Du Rong, the loud speaker, had already made the matter known.

Tu Mansheng ran downstairs from the library upstairs. "You kid, you kept it a secret from us! I was wondering when I saw Xu Lingjun's name in Weiming Lake a few days ago. He actually became the consultant of Weiming Lake. It turned out to be you! That's right, you have such a good relationship with those people in the Chinese Department."

Lin Chaoyang was laughing with him. Tao Yumo, who was passing by the Sunshine Hall, saw Lin Chaoyang standing at the front desk of the library.

She was about to go up to say hello to Lin Chaoyang when she heard someone shouting at the stairs: "Lin Chaoyang!"

The person who called Lin Chaoyang was a colleague on the second floor. Lin Chaoyang was not familiar with him, so he just nodded when they met. "What's the matter?"

"The curator wants you to go to his office."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Lin Chaoyang responded, said hello to Hu Wenqiong, and went straight upstairs.

At this time, Tao Yumo felt someone pulling her arm. She turned around and saw Gong Yun, who was unable to suppress his excitement. His face was red and hot, his eyes were shining, and his gaze was fixed on the figure walking upstairs, muttering to himself.

"It's him! It's him! It's him!"

Tao Yumo and the girl with pigtails were confused by Gong Yun's performance. The girl with pigtails asked, "What is he?"

"Xu Lingjun! Xu Lingjun!"

Gong Yun didn't even look at the two people beside him. His eyes kept following Lin Chaoyang until his figure disappeared.

The girl with pigtails hadn't thought about it in this way at first, and only realized it after hearing Gong Yun's words did she let out a low cry.

"He is Xu Lingjun?"

"That's right. My sister told me that Xu Lingjun's real name is Lin Chaoyang and he works in the library. There's no doubt about it."

Gong Yun finally withdrew his gaze. After hearing her confirmation, the girl with pigtails recalled the face she had just glimpsed, and the excitement she had felt when she came here disappeared.

"This Xu Lingjun is different from the one in the novel."

"Nonsense! Novels are novels. You don't really think the author looks like the protagonist of the novel, do you?"

"Why not? He even dares to call himself that!" At this point, the girl with pigtails felt inexplicably angry that she had been fooled. "Why should he call himself Xu Lingjun!"

Gong Yun glanced at his classmate speechlessly, "I think you are crazy! That's Xu Lingjun, the Xu Lingjun who wrote "The Shepherd"!"

"He is not Xu Lingjun!" The girl with pigtails seemed to be stuck in a dilemma, and no matter what Ren Gongyun said, he couldn't get around it.

"I don't want to bother with you, crazy woman!" Gong Yun turned to Tao Yumo who was standing beside her. Just when she was about to talk to her, she saw Tao Yumo standing there in shock. She was busy talking to the girl with pigtails just now, and Tao Yumo seemed to have no response for a long time.

"Yumo! Yumo!"

Gong Yun called out several times before finally calling Tao Yumo back to his senses. "What's wrong? You wouldn't lose your composure like this when meeting your literary idol, right?"

Tao Yumo looked at her classmates, opened her lips slightly, and then closed them again. The huge shock made her mind a mess.

Lin Chaoyang is Xu Lingjun? My brother-in-law is Xu Lingjun? The Xu Lingjun who wrote "The Shepherd"?
The huge doubts and disbelief were like a piece of gauze covering Tao Yumo's eyes, making them misty and making her feel upset.

"How could he be Xu Lingjun?"

The girl uttered the most sincere voice in her heart.

Gong Yun seemed to have heard something funny. "You two are really crazy! I'm a writer, not a stage actor."

She thought Tao Yumo was just as disappointed with Xu Lingjun's appearance as the girl with pigtails.

Tao Yumo shook his head and didn't argue with Gong Yun.

After getting over the initial shock, she finally regained some of her sanity.

The Chinese New Year dinner two months ago came to my mind, and I began to understand something.

No wonder Du Feng begged his brother-in-law to help him write a love letter. He must have known his brother-in-law's other identity a long time ago.

Tao Yumo recently thought of her sister. At that time, she had asked her sister Tao Yushu what she saw in her brother-in-law. Although she did not answer at that time, Tao Yumo had already determined the answer - talent.

Before, Tao Yumo discovered that her brother-in-law Lin Chaoyang helped Du Feng write love letters. Although she felt that he was not as ordinary as he seemed, no matter how hard she tried, she could not imagine that her brother-in-law was actually a writer who could publish novels, and that he was a famous writer all over the country.

Everybody knows about it, so you're just hiding it from me, right?
Tao Yumo also felt a sense of anger at being fooled, but the reason for her anger was different from that of the girl with pigtails. She felt isolated!
It is said that women's intuition is the most accurate, and Tao Yumo's answer is correct.

She was indeed isolated at home, but not by Lin Chaoyang and his wife.

This is a case where the answer is correct, but the solution is wrong, which is very consistent with the usual style of our female compatriots.

"What are you doing! Are you still going to look at Xu Lingjun?"

Gong Yun secretly took advantage of the lunch break to bring two good friends to the Yanda Library to see Xu Lingjun, but he didn't expect that their reactions were more extreme than each other.

Isn't it just that he's not handsome enough to be direct? Is it as for your attitude?
How superficial!

Inwardly, Gong Yun despised his friends and complained, "I brought you to see someone out of kindness, but you have such an attitude."

Seeing that she was a little angry, the girl with pigtails argued, "We were just a little surprised when we met in person for the first time."

Gong Yun didn't believe her nonsense, but still asked, "So are you still going to watch it or not?"

"Look at it for a while longer. I didn't see it clearly just now."

The girl with pigtails also felt that she was a bit arbitrary just now. It was only a few seconds and she didn't look closely. Maybe it would become more beautiful as she looked at it?
After all, that was Xu Lingjun!

Now it doesn’t matter to Tao Yumo whether she sees him or not. She just wants to run back home and get things clear.

Is it true that everyone knows that my brother-in-law is a writer, and I am the only one who is foolishly kept in the dark and knows nothing?

"curator!"

Xie Daoyuan motioned Lin Chaoyang to sit down. The two looked at each other, and Lin Chaoyang already had a rough guess in his mind.

"I heard that your work has been published? Is it The Horse Herder?"

Lin Chaoyang nodded, "Yes, I sent it some time ago."

"It's hidden quite well." Xie Daoyuan's eyes were meaningful.

Lin Chaoyang smiled modestly, "Director, I can't let the whole school know about my publishing of a novel, right?"

Xie Daoyuan also smiled and asked, "Then how did people know about it this time?"

"It has spread among the students and can no longer be concealed."

Xie Daoyuan nodded. "It's right not to show off. The library is your job, and writing is just a hobby. You can distinguish the main from the secondary, which proves that you have a clear understanding."

Today's writers are different from those of later generations. Most writers have their own jobs, and only a few who are senior enough, famous enough, and have many works are qualified to be full-time writers.

Xie Daoyuan then asked: "Are there any new works recently?"

"There is a novella that has been confirmed to be published in the May issue of Yenching Literature and Art."

"I also read Yanjing Literature and Art. There are some good works in the recent issues."

"Yes, the readers' response to the recent issues has been very good. They just changed the person in charge, his name is Li Qingquan."

"I have some impression of him. He used to work for People's Literature, right?"

"Ah."

The two chatted for a while, and finally Xie Daoyuan said: "In the past few days, there will be some gossip in the museum. Don't pay attention to these things."

It feels really good to have someone in the court protecting you. Lin Chaoyang responded, "I understand."

After saying that, he walked out the door and prepared to go back to work.

"I'm coming!"

The girls finally waited for Lin Chaoyang to come down from upstairs. Seeing Xu Lingjun, the man of her dreams, again, Gong Yun couldn't hold back her excitement and stared at his eyes carefully.

The distance is a bit far, I really want to get closer to take a look!
"It seems to be true." The girl with pigtails was still muttering.

Gong Yun was about to retort when she noticed that Tao Yumo had run behind them at some point.

"Yumo, why are you running back?"

Gong Yun reached out to pull Tao Yumo, but she jumped away as if she had encountered something disgusting.

"What are you doing?" Gong Yun felt insulted.

What can I do?
Tao Yumo didn't want Lin Chaoyang to see her, and she was even more afraid that others would know that she even knew that her brother-in-law was Xu Lingjun through others.

Who can understand this feeling of being isolated from the whole world?
(End of this chapter)