Li Xiaolin asked Yu Hua to finish writing "Alive" with peace of mind for the time being, and then take it to the club.
Hearing Li Xiaolin's words, Yu Hua felt relieved. Although the nominal editor-in-chief of "Harvest" is Ba Jin, in fact it is Li Xiaolin who manages everything. She is also the chief editor and deputy editor, and she is also Ba Jin's daughter.
Of course, Yu Hua felt very guilty for breaking the appointment this time.
After Li Xiaolin and the others left, Yu Hua was still upset: "I heard that Teacher Ba Jin is not good at walking and needs a crutch when walking. He usually doesn't go to the club at all. This opportunity to see him is really rare, but
Because I lost it myself.”
Ba Jin's health is indeed not good, as Yu Dong heard from Cheng Yongxing before. Now Ba Jin goes to the magazine less and less often. It is difficult for him to walk even with a crutch. Maybe he won't even be able to get out of bed in the near future.
.
Patting Yu Hua on the shoulder, Yu Dong comforted him and said, "If Teacher Ba Jin knew that you missed the opportunity to meet him because of his works, he would definitely not blame you. Isn't it also because of his works that he is willing to see you?"
Yu Hua raised his head and smiled, "Yu Dong, thank you very much. This time you booked a room for me and invited me to dinner. And if it weren't for you, this book wouldn't have changed so much."
"This is obvious. Creation is not easy and everyone supports each other."
Yu Hua leaned on the chair and was about to take out a cigarette to smoke. Suddenly he looked at Yu Dong and put the cigarette back.
Seeing his action, Yu Dong smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you smoke."
Yu Hua waved his hand, "Forget it, I'll smoke less. Where are your melon seeds? Do you have any more? Give me some."
"have."
Yu Dong returned to his room and brought out two red plastic bags, opened them and showed them to Yu Hua, "There are melon seeds and peanuts, so grab whatever you want."
"Then I'm welcome." Yu Hua laughed and grabbed a handful from each of the two bags: "Eating melon seeds in the summer is quite interesting. I used to only eat melon seeds during the Chinese New Year, just like Mo Yan.
It’s like eating dumplings only during the Chinese New Year.”
Mo Yan's "Dumpling Freedom" Theory Yu Dong heard Mo Yan say the last time we had dinner together in Yanjing. He said that he wanted to be a writer because others told him that being a writer would allow him to eat dumplings every day.
Then Yu Hua talked about some things from the past. When he was a child, he liked to go to the morgue when it was hot in the summer, because it was the coolest place and a good place to escape the heat.
Also, he later became a dentist, had many teeth extracted, and saw many teeth.
The room echoed with the crisp sounds of cracking melon seeds and peeling peanuts. The two of them chatted about some mundane things that had nothing to do with romance in this secular rhythm, which was not very interesting.
At eight or nine o'clock, Yu Hua sat at the table again and began to write additional works on "Alive".
Yu Donglin reminded him before leaving: "Don't write too late today, the room has been extended for you for a week, so don't worry."
…
The next morning, Yu Dong said hello to Yu Hua and then went home.
As soon as he got home, his mother Qin Fang said to him: "Your brother Liu Jiang came to see you yesterday evening. He didn't see you. He asked you when you would be back. I wasn't sure, so I didn't give him an answer."
Yu Dong fetched water in the yard, washed his face, and asked, "Did you ask for anything from me?"
"I didn't say specifically, but it's important to listen to your tone. Oh, by the way, did you know that he lost his job?"
Yu Dong shook his head in surprise, "I don't know. He said it himself yesterday?"
"It spread throughout the village that he was fired. I wanted to ask him last night, but he didn't look like he was fired. He looked very happy." Qin Fang sighed slightly, "Liu
Jiang is an old man. His mother passed away early and his father is old. If something goes wrong at work, what will he do in the future?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "You said he was very happy to see him, so don't worry about it. How many times can you trust the rumors in the village?"
"But it can't be just a rumor."
"Comrade Qin Fang, as a literature graduate, I must correct you. Groundless rumors mean that the rumors are well-founded. You used the wrong term."
Qin Fang raised her eyebrows, looked for it on the ground, then picked up a slipper and walked towards Yu Dong, "I paid to send you to study in the literature department, did you just ask me to quarrel with me, today -"
Yu Dong shrank his neck and ran out of the yard in a few steps, "I'm going to Brother Liu Jiang's house to have a look."
…
Liu Jiang was watching TV at home. When he saw Yu Dong coming, he said in surprise: "Xiaodong, you are back. I went to look for you last night, and Aunt Fang said you were out."
"I just heard my mother say that you were looking for me, so I came here."
"Let's talk about it first." Liu Jiang pulled Yu Dong to his home, and after letting him go, he took out half a watermelon from the refrigerator, cut out two of them, and gave one to Yu Dong: "You, you, you are really enough."
You're so careless, why don't you ask about the subscription certificate?"
"Oh, I really forgot about this if you didn't tell me. How is it now?"
"It's not over yet, but according to my estimation, by the time it's over, your five cards will earn you 40,000?"
"Forty thousand?" Yu Dong said in surprise.
He was not pretending to be surprised, because the average price of the batch he bought was about 5,000 yuan each. On average, Liu Jiang's side earned 8,000 yuan per photo.
"How much can one earn?"
Liu Jiang smiled and said: "Not every ticket is so much. The main reason is that you are lucky. The five winning tickets are pretty good. For my own batch, the average is about 6,000 per ticket."
"Didn't we all buy them together? Why did I pick out the five pieces separately?" Yu Dong asked.
Liu Jiang finished eating a bunch of watermelons, then wiped his mouth and said with a smile, "I know what you are thinking. Do you think I gave you more on purpose? In fact, no, when I bought the subscription certificate, I
I took out your five cards separately, you are indeed lucky. Don’t worry, I won’t let you suffer, and I won’t let myself suffer. It will be as much as it is."
Yu Dong nodded and asked, "How much did you buy yourself?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Speaking of this, Liu Jiang couldn't suppress the smile on his face. He stretched out a palm and said, "Fifty pieces, I bought them at the beginning.
I bought 30 sheets, and then I heard some rumors near the end, so I quickly bought 20 more sheets."
Then he looked at Yu Dong and sighed, "Xiaodong, it's my fault too. You wanted to buy more, but I stopped you."
Yu Dong smiled and waved his hand, "It doesn't matter. I'm satisfied with earning 40,000 yuan. By the way, I heard that you no longer work in the bank. Is this true?"
"It's true. I quit my job and have money in my hands. Who will serve those gentlemen? In fact, I am hesitating whether to buy a house or go into business. The house prices in the city center are too expensive now, five to six thousand
Once it's flat, I always feel a little bubbly."
Yu Dong threw away the watermelon rind in his hand and said with a faint smile, "I see you didn't hesitate. Since you have resigned, doesn't it represent your choice? If you really wanted to buy a house, you wouldn't resign.
Already."
Liu Jiang looked at Yu Dong in surprise, "Xiaodong, you really surprised me. Yes, house prices have risen too high now. I have a lot of money, but I can't buy a big house. I used to
There is a customer who is the leader of Dashun Company. He has a good relationship with me. Now Dashun has too many orders and cannot handle them himself. I want to outsource them. I want to open a toy factory and take over the work from them. What do you think?
Sample?"
"I don't know much about business, but I think Brother Jiang has always been a person with ideas. Since you think it's okay, it shouldn't be a big problem."
Yu Dong really doesn't know much about business, but he knows that the current housing prices in Shanghai are indeed too high, and there is no need to buy one. If he wants to buy a house, there should be a better time in a few years.
"With your words, I have made up my mind. Your 40,000 yuan will be sent to you after I get all the money."
"No, don't you want to do business? Let me invest in some shares. You can give me the shares as long as you like."
"This..." Liu Jiang hesitated: "You are putting pressure on me. If I lose my own money, I will lose it. If you become a shareholder, then I must do something good...Okay,
I accept your investment, and your 40,000 yuan will be counted as ten points for you, and we will sign a contract at that time."
"Okay, I'll let you decide."
Yu Dong didn't care much about the shares. The main reason was that he had money in his hands and he really didn't care about this little money. However, Yu Dong was very happy to see Liu Jiang's fighting spirit return.
Growing up, Yu Dong always took Liu Jiang as his role model. Later, Liu Jiang became depressed, and he felt sorry for him.
…
After Yu Dong returned home after leaving Liu Jiang's house, he was mentally prepared to wait for his mother to ask about Liu Jiang, but unexpectedly his mother looked at him with a strange look on his face, "Xiaodong, are you dating someone?"
"What kind of partner is this?" Yu Dong said with a surprised look on his face.
Qin Fang pointed to the phone in the room, "There was a girl calling you just now."
"Girl?" Yu Dong thought for a moment. The only one who knew his phone number and could still be called a girl was Cheng Yanqiu. "Oh, that's my colleague."
"Colleague?" Qin Fang said suspiciously, "I didn't say anything, you already know which one it is?"
"Because she is the only one who knows my home phone number."
"Is it possible to develop into an object?"
"have."
Qin Fang raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Then develop quickly."
"There's no rush."
Yu Dong said there was no need to be anxious, but Qin Fang was anxious, "Why, you are already a grown up."
"Now I mainly want to do a good job, and then serve my mother and my father well. As the saying goes, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, and the child wants to support but cannot be loved. Of course I want to spare more time to support my children. Is it possible for my mother?
Sir, are you so eager for your son to leave you and build his own small family that you don’t have time to take care of our big family? My second elder has raised me for so many years, so it’s me who should..."
"Don't do this to me, I'm telling you..."
Yu Dong ducked into his room, quickly sat down at the table, took a pen and said seriously: "Ms. Qin Fang, your son is about to start literary creation. Please don't disturb him and close the door."
Seeing Yu Dong playing with treasures, Qin Fang shook her head helplessly, and then helped him close the door.
…
Yu Dong rested at home for a few days and went to the hotel where Yu Hua stayed again.
After meeting Yu Dong, Yu Hua told him that he had perfected the manuscript yesterday.
"Since you have perfected the manuscript, why don't you take it to the magazine and show it to Editor Li and others?" Yu Dong asked curiously.
"I want to show you first. In a sense, this novel was written by the two of us, so you should read it first." Yu Hua said seriously.
Yu Dong smiled and waved his hand, "Brother Yu Hua, this is unnecessary, I didn't do anything."
"Take a look." Yu Hua gave the manuscript to Yu Dong, and then took a pack of melon seeds from the bedside table: "After you left, I also bought some melon seeds, which saved me a lot of cigarettes. That's it.
I ate too many melon seeds in two days and got a little angry."
Yu Dong took the manuscript with one hand and grabbed a handful of melon seeds with the other, "Then I'll read it again."
In fact, Yu Dong was also curious whether what Yu Hua wrote this time was different from the previous life.
It is not difficult to read the new manuscript, because Yu Hua has marked the additions and modifications, so Yu Dong does not need to read much of the content again.
Reading the whole thing takes less than an hour.
The new manuscript is basically the same as the previous novel "To Live". Some details are different, which is reasonable. Yu Dong couldn't help but nod. It seems that Yu Hua had no idea about these additional plots before, otherwise it wouldn't be possible.
It's possible to be so similar.
"I think it's very good." Yu Dong put the manuscript on his legs, put his hands on it, and said, "It's impeccable."
"If you agree, then it won't be in vain for me to burn the midnight oil and fight for several days." Yu Hua stood up with a smile, "Let's go to the club and accept the real test."
Yu Dong nodded and returned the manuscript to Yu Hua, and then the two of them rushed towards the "Harvest" magazine office. Yu Dong went not only to accompany Yu Hua, but also had his own "Chaos Diary" manuscript with Cheng Yongxing.
, I went over today to ask for my opinion.
Unfortunately, when Yu Dong and others arrived at the magazine, Cheng Yongxing and several other club leaders were having a meeting in the conference room, and it was Yu Dong's editor-in-chief Wang Yu who received them.
After pouring tea for Yu Dong and the others, Wang Yu said with a smile: "Teacher Yu, Editor-in-Chief Cheng showed me your manuscript, and he also gave instructions. The manuscript will be in the next issue or the next issue. As for Teacher Yu Hua's manuscript,
We may have to wait until several editors-in-chief have a meeting before we can make a decision."
Both Yu Dong and Yu Hua nodded, expressing their understanding. The latter asked Wang Yu, "What meeting are they having today? Is it convenient to disclose it?"
"I don't know the specifics." Wang Yu pushed up her glasses, "It seems to be discussing the positions of Editor Xiao and Editor Cheng. Aren't they both acting deputy editors now? Since the death of Editor Xiao Dai a few years ago,
Editor Li is the only real deputy editor in our agency."
I heard that they were discussing this, but Yu Dong and the others were not interested. Anyway, regardless of whether they are agents or not, the current people in charge of the magazine are Li Xiaolin and the others.
Chapter completed!