Literary Master 1983

Chapter 131 Voyager 1

Who can be invited?
At present, the general friends that Yu Qie can contact in the circle mainly come from three lines.

The first was Yanda University, where he made friends with some translators, poets, and authors. But most of the authors were studying abroad and were not suitable to be invited.

The second is the Yenching Writers Circle related to October. He was indeed able to invite a few people. Qu Tiening and Yu Hua, his two pen pals, were good candidates.

The third line is military writers related to "Military Literature and Art", among whom there are indeed talented people. Guan Moye will definitely be called by Liu Jiaju because Liu Jiaju knows Guan Moye's teacher.

If you do the math, it's not that many. At most, you can add Alai. Alai's later famous work "Dust Settles" is both pornographic and violent, and actually has a bit of "magical" realism.

So Yu Qie wrote these letters and sent them out to heroes, having them delivered directly or indirectly to me.

After discussion, the date of this West Lake Conference is tentatively scheduled for November, yes, there is still half a year left.

At that time, it took enough time to organize a conference of writers from the north and the south.

"Shanghai Literature" did not expect him to act so quickly, and gave Yu Qie a month's salary for revising manuscripts - 90 yuan, three yuan a day, allowing him to play in Shanghai for another month.

Yu Qie returned the money: "I didn't come here for the money, and Yanda has entered the exam season, I have to go back first."

After he said that, the others couldn't persuade him anymore, but they still gave him the ninety yuan.

When Kobayashi, a member of Iwanami Shoko, or Iwanami Bookstore, learned that Yu Qie was going back to Yenching, he planned to go with him to continue urging him to submit his manuscript.

"Don't worry. I'll write you a short story in just a few days on the train. I'll write the story while I'm on the train, and I'll send it to you once I get to Beijing."

Xiao Lin didn't believe it, and actually went to the train station to see if Yu Qie had the conditions to write a novel. The result surprised him: It actually takes two or three days for Chinese people to travel from one big city to another?

Japan is a long and narrow country. Although its area is not large, its absolute length is not low. It takes nine hours to travel from Hokkaido to Tokyo. They use the Shinkansen.

Xiao Lin was deeply distressed: "How can a writer create under such conditions? Teacher Yu, I will buy you a plane ticket."

"I'm afraid you can't buy it."

Because you need a letter of introduction to buy a plane ticket at that time, the beginning is "xx Civil Aviation Ticket Office: I would like to introduce comrade xxx to buy x tickets from xx to xx on x month x day. Please contact us."

As a result, this Japanese guy actually got the plane ticket through his connections in the China Chamber of Commerce.

The air ticket was quite "cheap", exactly ninety yuan.

Yu Qie had two more days in Shanghai, and this time, he had to write the novel and give it to Iwanami Bookstore. Li Xiaolin heard about this and went back to talk to Ba Lao, who let Yu Qie stay at Ba Lao's house for two days.

Ba Lao advised: "What kind of creative environment do you need? Come and see my home, maybe you will like it here."

He spoke this to Yu Qie in Sichuan dialect, and Yu Qie did not refuse.

Comrade Lao Ba has lived in many places in his life, and there are several "Lao Ba's Former Residences", but Shanghai is the only place where he has lived the longest and is most comfortable.

Beautiful indeed.

The three-story villa is hidden in the garden: Magnolia grandiflora, Japanese late cherry blossoms and wisteria bloom alternately, which is especially beautiful in June.

Ba Lao had a son named Li Xiaotang, who worked as an editor in the Shanghai Literature and History Data Editing Office. He had just arrived and did not dare to reveal his identity, so he lived in a public institution. Yu Qie was temporarily living in the place where this man had lived before.

There is also a little girl in the family named Duanduan, who is Li Xiaolin's daughter. Mr. Ba dotes on this little girl very much. Duanduan's grades are not good, and Mr. Ba says it is because the homework is too damn difficult, and it is not the child's problem.

From Ba Lao's home, Yu Qie learned how to decorate his own courtyard house and how to increase its influence.

The first is a sufficient reserve of books. In Ba Lao's home, there are nearly 80 bookshelves and bookcases. The third floor, the north auxiliary building, and the south auxiliary building are filled with books, some of which are rare books that may not be available in the city's libraries. Although Yu Qie's courtyard is not a three-story building, the number of rooms is even greater. His courtyard is a combination of two courtyards, the middle can be used as a garden, and the empty rooms can be used to collect famous calligraphy and paintings.

The second is to make friends. Musical instruments can be seen everywhere in his house, such as piano, violin, and saxophone. This is not because Ba Lao himself can play these instruments, but because he originally wanted to train his daughter to be a musician. Some of Ba Lao's friends can also play musical instruments. During the two days that Yu Qie stayed, Ba Lao's friends often came to play with him. Some of them would show off their skills to everyone.

At this time, they could borrow musical instruments directly from Ba Lao, which was naturally very convenient.

One night, Yu Qie couldn't resist the urge to play the piano, so he sat there and played the piano.

Li Xiaolin was surprised when he saw it: "Yu Qie, you can also play the piano?"

“I learned some things after I came to Yanda.”

Li Xiaolin said: "Learning the piano is so difficult. It sounds good, but it is very difficult to learn. I didn't expect you to learn it."

After she said this, everyone in Ba Lao's family came to listen to Yu Qie play the music.

The piece is not difficult, it is the most common "Canon in D Major", which is at the level of a piano beginner.

But this piece of music is very pleasant to listen to. Since it was written in 1680, it has been known as the most healing piece of music in the world.

This song was on the Voyager 1977 launched by the Americans in 1.

"At present, this spacecraft has left Saturn and is heading for Neptune and Pluto." This is how Yu Qi explained to Ba Lao when he was asked by Ba Lao where the spacecraft was now.

After listening to this, Ba Lao said, "What about our Chinese spacecraft? Don't we explore those stars?"

“China will have it in the future.”

“I don’t know if I’ll ever see that day.”

"If you take good care of yourself, this day will come."

Ba Lao laughed and said, "My secret to staying healthy is smoking, drinking and not exercising. How long do you think I can live?"

Li Xiaolin didn't want Ba Lao to say such discouraging words, and criticized Ba Lao: "Just listen to the music, don't think about other things."

Ba Lao asked again: "Is there any Chinese music on this aircraft?"

"Yes, on the golden record in this aircraft, there is the Guqin piece "Flowing Water" played by Mr. Guan Pinghu. It is more than seven minutes long and is the longest piece in the entire record, much longer than this "Canon"."

Ba Lao was overjoyed: "This shows that our ancient music art was very brilliant."

"Yes, but unfortunately I can't play 'Flowing Water', and the piano I use is also made of steel."

Ba Lao asked Yu Che to play Canon again, while he watched from his wheelchair. After Yu Che finished playing again, he told Li Xiaolin: "Actually, this was bought for you by your mother, but I was the one who learned it at first, but I couldn't learn it, so I could only appreciate it."

Li Xiaolin smiled and said, "Dad, it turns out you also have a dream of music."

This time of playing gave Yu Qie new inspiration.

There is a short story that can be used to describe his complex emotions at the moment: He was playing German music on a steel piano, but he was thinking about his own national culture.

Moreover, this novel can also be used as a representative of wasteland literature and sent to Japan for publication while it is still popular, but of course it needs to be revised.

After he got the inspiration, he started writing day and night.

(End of this chapter)