Literary Master 1983

Chapter 106: Thoughts Like a Spring
In this book, everyone's every word and action is under constant surveillance. Their freedom of thought is deprived, and they are accustomed to being enslaved both physically and mentally. All their emotions are admiration and love for the only leader, "Big Brother".

"Big Brother is watching you!" This is a famous line from "1984".

Anti-Sovietism was the right thing to do at the time, not only in the United States, but also here. Lucy read the Little Red Book, and of course she did not support Big Brother's ideas.

Lucy came to Yu Che to discuss literature: "This is a novel written for the Soviets, don't you think?"

Yu Qie looked up and said, “No, I think it’s addressed to the Americans, because Americans are against Americans.”

Lucy asked again: "The highly centralized economy has caused division among people and controlled their thoughts. It seems that everyone is not living in the same world. Isn't this what the big country in the north of you is talking about?"

Yu Qie said: "With the development of high technology, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, technology will not only extend people's senses, but also extend people's thoughts, and finally completely replace them - people voluntarily give up thinking... What exactly is this talking about?"

He also concluded: "It is not terrible that we are destroyed by what we hate, because we will resist instinctively. What is terrible is that we are destroyed by what we like... Instead of watching "1984", it is better to read another book "Brave New World", because the endless entertainment culture eventually makes the lower class lose the courage to strive forward."

Then, Comrade Lucy felt that Yu Qie was very thoughtful and dared to criticize the United States. She even asked Wang Qiang to write a love letter to Yu Qie: "Yu, you are a person who is good at thinking. I think about the future of the world in the same way as you do. We can be friends."

Damn, friends or what kind of friends?

Why are Americans so casual?

It is conceivable how speechless Wang Qiang was.

After Yu Qie rejected Lucy several times, Lucy got mad: "How could you reject me? You are Chinese, and Chinese people never reject me!"

This statement shows that Lucy is a fake pink. She has no sense of class brotherhood and is still an American who looks down on her poor brothers.

Yu Qie put on a big show. He acted out on the spot the scene where the Americans shook their fists at South Vietnamese government officials who boarded a helicopter in Saigon after their defeat in the Vietnam War.

"Hurrah, hurrah... helicopter!"

"Bang!" Fist!
"Bang!" The South Vietnamese were shot down from the helicopter.

Yu Qie's performance was vivid and lifelike.

The Vietnam War affected a generation of Americans, and this episode, which took place when Americans were retreating in a hurry, was called the "Saigon Iron Fist". The photo taken of this scene won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. It can be regarded as the national pain of Americans at that time.

Lucy's defense was broken, and she turned and walked away: "Damn Chinese."

"——Do you understand?" After the farce ended, Yu Qie comforted Wang Qiang again: "She is basically an American hippie. She doesn't really hate America, nor does she really love China. You are just her object of curiosity."

The dog licker Wang Qiang said frustratedly: "I would rather be her dog."

As a result, Lucy came to Yu Che again the next day to apologize, saying that she should not have used such harsh words. She also hoped to talk to Yu Che about literature, and if possible, they could have a long talk all night in the empty classroom of the New Reality Club.

Of course Yu Qie refused, because he would not go to a place that others had just been to. But Wang Qiang thought Lucy had changed her ways, so he went back to ask, but was kicked away.

He came to ask Yu Qie what was going on?

Yu Qie said, "You have forgotten what I said at the Weiming Lake at the beginning. Americans worship the strong. Why is the Little Red Book so popular instead of Gandhi or Nehru's theory? The fundamental reason lies in this." Wang Qiang was stunned: "Yu Qie, you are a person without rules. Royal power, wealth, and national differences... It seems that they don't exist for you."

A new group of North Korean table tennis players have arrived at the International Students Apartment. They will stay in Yanda for a few days and then fly to Pakistan to participate in this year's Table Tennis World Championships.

There was a North Korean female player named Li Fenji who defeated all the other players in Yanda University. So the students of Yanda University invited the amateur table tennis king Yu Qie to play against Li Fenji.

Yu Qie used a bad trick of blocking the serve, and because men's serves have greater power and spin, Li Fenji was unable to catch the ball.

And then nothing happened. When the table tennis ball returned to Li Fenji, the amateur king was badly beaten.

The North Korean athletes then traveled to Pakistan, where they were watched on television as they beat South Korea in the qualifying round of the team event and then the Japanese in the semifinals.

At that time, the North Korean women's team only relied on Li Fengji, who was strong, while the other main player Zhao Zhengji was relatively weak. The game entered the match point and was very tense.

The host suddenly exclaimed: "Li Fenji served an amazing ball! The Japanese team is eating up the serve like crazy, eating two..."

This ball is a complete tribute to Yu Qie: the ping-pong ball is blocked by the arm, almost sticking to the trajectory of the palm, and then it is given a huge rotation when it touches the ball, but from the front, it looks like an ordinary straight serve.

"The North Korean team won!" Yan University students said excitedly.

"Li Fenji beat the Japanese team, which is equivalent to the Yuqie beating the Japanese, which is equivalent to the Chinese beating the Japanese!"

Yanda is now full of vitality, and everything is booming. In this environment, Yu Qie's thoughts are flowing like a spring.

By the end of the month, he had completed the revision of the single volume of "Da Saba" and the novel "Together with You".

"Blood Battle at Laoshan" is also half done. This is a novel of more than 300,000 words, which needs to describe the causes and consequences of the medical soldier "Zhang Xingwu" joining the army, his family, and design a large number of veteran characters.

In history, Zhang Xingwu saved a total of 47 people, and several of them are worth writing about. Shi Guangzhu and He Zhiguang are both worthy of being written about.

Military Literature and Art sent Yu Qie a sample issue of last month, which contained the short story "Kiss of Death". It was a large package, which also contained many letters from frontline soldiers. Yu Qie still took the trouble to reply to them as much as possible.

Many soldiers regard Yu Qie as the person they trust the most. When they open their mouths, they say, "Dear Teacher Yu Qie, I have a secret to tell you..."

Along with the package came a letter from Liu Jiaju: "Yu Qie, the novel Kiss of Death has received rave reviews and has a good sense of scale. It is a must-read for those on the front line."

"What you mentioned before, the method of using art works to directly propagate to the enemy has worked. A company of the 119th Regiment captured a Vietnamese colonel, who said that the homesick songs, novels and sketches on the front line have corrupted the will of their army!"

"I have to express my gratitude to you at this point. The Vietnamese have been fighting for more than a decade, how could they be more tolerant than us? Life in Maoerdong is bad, but the Vietnamese are worse. We didn't think in this direction before, but now we do, and the effect is very good."

It was only natural that Liu Jiaju hoped that Yu Qie could authorize Death Kiss to be adapted into a comic strip. Of course, this book would be much shorter than Letters from the Fiancee, and probably even shorter than the Wreath under the Mountain comic strip.

"Once you finish writing 'The Bloody Battle of Laoshan', we will have a long military comic strip. I look forward to the day when you finish your work."

"Finally, please pay attention to the latest issue of the Military Daily. We have written a documentary article for you. My article and Zhu Shimao's article are also published there."

(End of this chapter)