Back to 80: My Literary Life

Fang Minghua thinks Shang Zhongmin is a pretty good person, not as arrogant as Wan Xia. Being able to travel all the way to Xijing to "discuss poetry and swordsmanship" with him shows that he truly loves poetry.

Although the two have different poetic concepts.

The two chatted while eating.

"Shang Gong, are you prepared for this attack on Beidao Shuting and the others?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Yes, we have been planning it for a long time." Shang Zhongmin was honest: "Although the creative ideas of poets in Shu Province are not exactly the same and we quarrel with each other, our attitude towards Misty Poems is the same: we are willing to cut off our bodies and want to kill them. The emperor pulls down the horse!"

Fang Minghua shook his head and said:

"Every generation should challenge the previous generation, just like Bei Dao and the others challenged Ai Qing, but your method is too brutal."

"I don't agree with it either, but I can't make the decision. Our poetry circle in Sichuan Province is also full of mountains." Shang Zhongmin said with a smile: "To be honest, I don't agree with their behavior of shouting slogans in front of other people. It's really too much. Shame on you."

"Okay, let's not talk about this. I didn't go to the Xinsheng Theater to participate in the event today. I just wanted to try your Chengdu hot pot." After speaking, Fang Minghua picked up a piece of meat in the rolling pot.

"How's it going? Does it taste good? The hot pot here is very delicious." Shang Zhongmin also smiled.

Fang Minghua left Chengdu at noon the next day and returned to Xijing. Zhao Muchun hurried back three days later and arrived at Fang Minghua's office as soon as he got to work, looking excited.

"Editor Fang, I gained a lot from this trip to Chengdu. Take a look at these poem manuscripts!" Zhao Wuchun raised the manuscript in his hand.

Fang Minghua took it and looked at it carefully. There were "August Sleepwalker" written by Bei Dao, "Disappearance" by Gu Cheng, and "On the Mountain" by Li Gang. They were all new poems written by the "Top Ten Poets" just selected!

"Beidao is very grateful that you spoke for them at the discussion. I originally wanted to have a chat with you, but you hurried back to Xijing," Zhao Muchun said.

"There are a lot of things at home." Fang Minghua replied, and handed him the poem manuscript, "You arrange to publish these poems in magazines one after another."

"There's another poem." Zhao Muchun took out another poem and handed it to Fang Minghua.

"It was written by that Wan Xia."

oh?

Fang Minghua took it and looked at it carefully.

"Nature"

first and last time

People are not perfect after all

Too many opportunities left for mistakes

But we make progress in happiness

The highest and most perfect are some incomplete parts

Between two events we perfected

All this is just a process

What you pray for and get

Only my corrupt side

Enough for you to enjoy a lifetime

Chengdu

Only your disappearing side

It's enough to give me a lifetime of glory

It looks a bit familiar.

Fang Minghua suddenly remembered that Jia Zhangke quoted this poem at the end of the movie "Tale of 24 Cities".

"Editor Fang, Wan Xia asked me to bring you a message. Do you dare to publish this poem?" Zhao Muchun said.

"Up!" Fang Minghua laughed and said, "As long as he writes such a poem, "Yanhe" will be up!"

It was mid-December, and the last issue of "Yanhe" this year was published as scheduled. In addition to "1986" written by Yu Hua recommended by the editor-in-chief, several poems in the poetry column also aroused readers' love, especially Wan Xia's " Nature".

Fang Minghua held the new issue of "Yanhe" and looked at the last few lines of Wan Xia's poem. He suddenly remembered the song sung by Zhao Lei in later generations.

"Chengdu"

Different approaches but similar results.

The publication of the last issue of "Yanhe" brings a perfect end to the work of the editorial department this year. Now Fang Minghua is thinking about another thing.

The second part of Lu Yao's "Ordinary World" has been completed.

In fact, according to Lu Yao's plan, it should be completed by the end of September, but health reasons delayed the completion until late November.

But it was not continued to be serialized by "Flower City".

This was what Zhao Hongjun called to tell him, and Fang Minghua was not surprised by this.

That's how history is.

"Red Army, have you signed the copyright for the second part with Lu Yao?" Fang Minghua asked on the phone.

"I signed it a long time ago. I personally went to the guest house of Tongchuan Coal Mine Hospital and signed the contract on the spot. The content is the same as the first one."

"Okay, prepare to publish it. Don't print too many copies for the first printing, just ten or twenty thousand copies." Fang Minghua said.

"Okay, but Minghua, I have to tell you. When I saw Lu Yao this time, I found that his face looked very bad. Did he have some disease?"

Fang Minghua's heart sank, but his tone was calm: "I don't know, I'll go to his house at night to have a look."

"Okay, I told him to take it easy."

After hanging up Zhao Hongjun's call, Fang Minghua sighed slightly, whatever is supposed to come will come.

In the evening, Fang Minghua and his wife went back to their parents' place to have dinner together, then drove home and walked outside with his wife for a while, then sent her home before preparing to go to Lu Yao's house.

Lu Yao's family lives very close to Fang Minghua. It turns out that in January this year, after Lu Yao signed a contract with Shengshi Graphic Publishing Company and "Flower City" to publish the first part of "The Ordinary World", the total remuneration paid to him by both parties was more than 10,000 yuan. .

After discussing with his wife Linda, we directly bought a 100-square-meter house with three bedrooms and one living room in the Xingfu Community where Fang Minghua lived. They had just moved here.

Fang Minghua went up to the fourth floor and knocked on their home. The person who opened the door was a little girl wearing a red scarf. She was Lu Yao's daughter, Lu Yuan.

"Far away, is your dad at home?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Uncle Fang, my father is not at home, but my mother is." The little girl answered crisply.

Soon, Linda walked out of the bedroom, looking haggard.

When he saw it was Fang Minghua, he forced a smile on his face and greeted warmly: "It's Minghua, come in quickly."

Fang Minghua sat on the sofa and asked again, "What are you doing, Brother Lu?"

After hearing this, Linda sighed deeply, looking sad.

"Hey, Lu Yao has returned to Qinbei."

"Back to Qinbei? Visiting his parents?"

Linda shook her head, as if she was hesitant to speak, and then looked at her daughter next to her: "Far away, go back to your room to do your homework."

The little girl returned to her room obediently. Linda went over and closed the door before saying: "Minghua, Lu Yao treats you like a brother, so I won't hide some things from you. Lu Yao went to Qinbei not to visit. Parents, go see a doctor instead!"

It turned out that Lu Yao had initially completed the second draft of "The Ordinary World" and when he was revising it, he discovered that he had a physical problem.

I feel weak all over, and I feel sick when I see the lard and meat.

But in order to insist on writing, I never went to a large hospital for treatment. I just asked the doctor at the Coal Mine Hospital to prescribe random medicines until I completely completed the second draft, returned to Xijing, and then went to the hospital for examination.

"The doctor said that liver cirrhosis has caused liver ascites, which is very serious."

"Then go to the hospital for treatment quickly. Why are you running to Qinbei?" Fang Minghua didn't understand.

"The doctor said that it is very difficult to completely cure his current condition. Later, he heard that there was an old Chinese medicine doctor named Zhang Pengju in the Yulin area who was very good at treating this disease, so he went to Yulin."

Why.

There are Xijing Hospital and Tangdu Hospital in Xijing City. These excellent hospitals that are ranked among the best in the country don’t go to Yulin for treatment, instead of going to Yulin? !