After chatting with Liu Heping, Yu Dong called Zhang Yimou, but no one answered the phone.
Zhang Yimou is different from Yu Dong. He travels around the country every day and does not have a mobile phone, so it is normal to not find him.
Originally, Yu Dong came to see him because Liu Heping mentioned him and asked him about his plans for his next movie. Since no one answered the phone, Yu Dong dropped the matter.
Putting down the phone, he was about to go to the study to work for a while, when Uncle Zhou's voice rang outside.
"Less than, are you there?"
"exist."
Yu Dong replied and went over to open the door.
Uncle Zhou and Xiao Fang were holding four plastic bags in their hands.
"This is yours."
Uncle Zhou handed the largest plastic bag to Yu Dong, "Let's get these two days' letters."
"So many?" Yu Dong took the snakeskin bag in surprise, opened it and looked at it. There were at least thirty to fifty letters.
Now more and more readers know that he teaches at Jinyi, so more and more letters are sent to the school.
Under normal circumstances, there are more than a dozen letters a day, and sometimes there are twenty or thirty letters a day.
I went away for more than a month during the summer vacation. When I came back, the backlog of letters in the communication room alone amounted to nearly two sacks, and it was just for him.
In addition, there are quite a few letters from Yu Hua, Bi Feiyu, and Ruan Xiaohu.
"Please give me a ride. Just give it to us when we pass by the communication room." Yu Dong said with a smile.
"It's not that I haven't waited for you to go out for the past two days. I was afraid that one of the letters would be urgent and delay your work." Uncle Zhou said with a smile.
However, the reason he mentioned is not very valid. Nowadays, communications are becoming more and more developed, and people no longer write letters when something urgent happens. I guess he is a little bored staying in the communication room every day, so he found an excuse to come over and wander around.
Most of the letters here are sent by readers, and some are sent by magazines or media.
Yu Dong looked at the other bags in their hands and said, "These must belong to Yu Hua and the others. Why don't you leave them here and I'll send them to them later, so I don't have to trouble you to make a trip."
Uncle Zhou smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay, let's go for a run."
After saying that, he took Xiaofang and went to deliver a letter to Yu Hua and the others.
After they left, Yu Dong sat on the sofa and took out the letters from the bag. He put aside the letters from magazines or media units. There were about ten such letters, and they were basically from unknown small publishers.
Large units either call him directly or contact Deep Space, and rarely write letters.
Then there are letters from readers.
It is difficult to identify letters from readers. You may not be able to tell from the envelope. You can only tell after opening it and reading it.
Yu Dong only glanced at these letters from readers. After all, there were too many. If he read every letter carefully, he would not have to do anything every day but just read the letters.
In addition to sending it directly to Jinyi, several magazines with more cooperation will also send his letters from time to time.
Looking at it, Yu Dong saw a familiar name: Golden Horse and Jade Rooster Veteran.
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows. The veteran of the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster had not replied to him for a long time. The last time he received a letter from the veteran of the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster was in spring.
Every time he received a letter from a veteran of the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster, Yu Dong responded quickly. Basically, he received it the day before and would send the reply the next day. However, it took a long time to receive a letter from a veteran of the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster.
On the one hand, the place where Golden Horse and Jade Rooster veterans now teach is relatively remote, and it is not as convenient to send letters as it was when I taught at Jiangcheng University.
On the other hand, although the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster veteran did not say it, as Yu Dong became more and more famous, the relationship between the two also changed from before.
The most obvious thing is that in the past, veterans of the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster would often talk about the troubles they encountered as teachers in their letters, but then they stopped talking about it and just talked about some literary matters with Yu Dong. When I met Yu Dongfa
She will also express congratulations on the new book.
Sighing slightly, Yu Dong opened her letter.
This letter is very long, five pages long.
No header, just text.
[After thinking about it for a long time, I wrote this letter to you. The speed of obtaining information in the mountains is relatively slow. There are many things that I always find out after a long time. For example, you published "The Crowd" last year, and it was not until April that I found out about it.
just saw……】
[Another excellent work. I am very happy for you. This novel reminds me of the time when I just corresponded with you. At that time, you would tell me some things about your visit to Shanghai, and some of them seemed to be included in
In the novel...]
In the first two pages or so, she wrote about things related to Yu Dong's works, which puzzled Yu Dong because the beginning of the letter was "I have been thinking about it for a long time...".
If it were just these things, would it take a long time to think about it?
However, Yu Dong's doubts were soon solved. Later in the letter, she talked about Yu Dong donating money to charity.
It turned out that her school encountered some insurmountable difficulties. She really couldn't find anyone to help, so she had to ask Yu Dong.
It can be seen that she feels a lot of psychological burden to open this mouth. She has written so many words and still doesn’t know how to speak.
Perhaps she felt that the pen pal relationship with Yu Dong was very pure, but if she asked for money, it would change.
In fact, Yu Dong and she have different ideas on education construction.
There are too many backward areas in China now, and the educational problems in these places cannot be reversed by one or two people.
It is a good thing that intellectuals are willing to teach, but as a university teacher, the veteran of the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster can better utilize her talents in the university.
But Yu Dong still respects and respects her choice.
And having said that, supporting education requires sensibility and impulse. If everyone thinks like Yu Dong, it will be difficult for education in backward areas to develop.
If you want to help her, it's actually very simple. Donating money directly is the easiest way.
But Yu Dong did not do this. Instead, he told Yiliang about the matter and asked him to send someone to inspect the situation of the school where the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster veterans attended and evaluate a plan suitable for their school.
If he had time, Yu Dong would actually like to go and see it himself.
He has known the Golden Horse and Jade Rooster veteran for so many years, and it is impossible not to want to know what she looks like.
Moreover, between the two of them, Yu Dong still suffers because he is now a public figure and the other party knows a lot of information including his appearance.
This time I had a phone call with Yu Liang, and Yu Dong also asked him to negotiate for the film adaptation rights of "The Story of Qin".
It's better to get this kind of thing as soon as possible. Even if you don't take it this time, it will be useful in the future.
…
There are only six shabby tile-roofed buildings in Lichaocun Primary School, and only one side of the school's earthen wall is still intact.
Zhang Yueying stood hunched in front of the earth wall. Although it was only September, she always felt that the weather was getting colder day by day.
"Cough cough, cough cough, cough cough..."
A gust of cold wind rushed to my throat, causing an unstoppable cough.
A teenage girl came out of the tile-roofed house, carrying a washbasin, and asked with concern: "Sister Yueying, are you okay? You've been coughing for several days. Why don't you go to the hospital?"
Zhang Yueying looked at the girl, smiled and waved her hands, "It's an old problem. I know it myself and don't need to go to the hospital. Do you still remember the questions I told you last night?"
Speaking of last night's question, the girl scratched her head and said sheepishly: "I can't remember everything."
"It's okay, I'll take a look at it later today."
Zhang Yueying looked at the road in front of the school again and said, "Go in and let me see how the preparations for today's class are going."
"okay."
The girl's name is Lin Lan, another teacher at Lichao Primary School.
They are the only two teachers in the entire Lichao Elementary School.
Lin Lan has not graduated from high school, and she is not familiar with a lot of knowledge herself, and she has to teach several subjects, so Zhang Yueying teaches students during the day and takes time to teach Lin Lan at night, hoping that she will grow up as quickly as possible.
During this time, Zhang Yueying had been thinking about the letter she sent to Yu Dong.
After she sent the letter, she felt a little regretful. She had no position to ask Yu Dong to do anything for these students.
Even though Yu Dong also does charity, there are too many places in the world that need help. Can he get help earlier than others just because he and Yu Dong are pen pals?
But she really couldn't think of any other way. After staying in the mountains for several years, she felt more and more how little her personal power was, and what she could bring to the children was not as much as she had expected.
The fate of most students has not changed because of her arrival.
But the longer she stayed here, the more inseparable she became, because she knew that even if her power was not strong enough, she could still bring hope to the students.
Chapter completed!