Time passed little by little, and it was almost half past nine, and the award ceremony was about to begin. Several directors of the jury, deputy directors and leaders of the Cultural Association walked onto the rostrum.

The directors of this jury are Mao Dun, and there are three deputy directors, namely Zhou Yang, Ba Jin and Liu Baiyu, and Zhang Guangnian and others from the literary association.

After several people came to the stage, Mr. Mao Dun first spoke. The old man is now the leader of the Cultural Association and the director of the current jury. He made his speech legitimate.

"As the director of the award committee, I have done very little work. Let me state that because of my poor eyesight, I only read a small number of works. Most of the work was done by other comrades, and I have only heard many reports.

I think this award is very good. Among the 27 comrades who won the award, there are old people, middle-aged people, and most of them are young people. They start writing later, are new forces, and are the future successors of our literary career.

They took the first step of the Long March in literature and art. I believe that among these people, the future Lu Xun will be produced..."

When Mao Dun talked about this, Zhang Guangnian on the side said: "The future Mao Dun is also produced."

A burst of laughter suddenly sounded in the venue, and the originally serious atmosphere became relaxed and active due to his jokes.

Lu Guo Mao Ba Lao Cao, after so many years of founding the country, both Lu Xun and Mao Dun have long established their status in modern and contemporary literature.

Mao Dun didn't mind his interruption at all, and continued to finish his speech with a smile, and then Zhou Yang, Zhang Guangnian and others spoke again.

After the speech, the award time was awarding. The stage was on the show and the writers below came on stage one by one, and took the award certificates and souvenirs from several award presenters such as Mao Dun, Ba Jin, and then took photos as a souvenir.

Although the awards were divided into first, second and third prizes, everyone came on stage together when awarding the awards.

Lin Chaoyang went on stage with the award-winning writers and stood in the middle. His "The Wrangler" is the work with the highest votes and experts this year's award-winning readers, so Mao Dun was the first to present him, and then the guests behind him presented the award to others.

Everyone was busy presenting awards. Ding Ling looked around the stage with the certificate in his hand, but couldn't find the target. He asked, "Is Comrade Wang Qinglai here?"

Zhang Guangnian, who had just given the award to someone on the other side of the team, immediately ran over and pulled Ding Ling to Lin Chaoyang, "Just give it to him."

Ding Ling was a little stunned, "Are you the one who takes the lead?"

Zhang Guangnian laughed and said, "What are you responsible for? He is the author!"

Upon hearing this, Ding Ling was surprised.

When people around him heard Zhang Guangnian's words, they looked over. Their eyes first stayed on the certificate in Ding Ling's hand for two seconds. It was indeed written on the name of the award-winning writer "Wang Qinglai".

Is Wang Qinglai Lin Chaoyang?

Then everyone's eyes were on the certificate in Lin Chaoyang's hand.

Xu Lingjun and Wang Qinglai were both Lin Chaoyang?

What's the situation?

This emergencies shocked everyone on the stage. The guests in the rostrum could not hear clearly what Zhang Guangnian said just now. They only saw everyone saluting Lin Chaoyang collectively, their faces full of shock. Such a strange situation immediately aroused everyone's attention and discussion.

Everyone on the stage was watching the fun, and the buzzing sounds were constantly under the stage, which made the originally harmonious and smooth situation in the venue mess.

The organization of the National Excellent Short Story Award was all under the responsibility of the editorial department of "People's Literature". Seeing that the scene was a little confused, Zhang Guangnian went forward and bent down and held the microphone.

"Hey hey hey! Everyone is quiet and keep the venue discipline."

Zhang Guangnian's control of the venue temporarily restores order in the venue, and the award ceremony on the stage continues.

After everyone received the prize, it was time to take a photo. After finishing the photo, Lin Chaoyang was left on the stage by Zhang Guangnian.

"Some little episode happened on the stage just now, and everyone must be very curious.

Let me explain to you, are you seeing Comrade Chaoyang getting two certificates, right?

One is the award certificate for "The Wrangler" and the other is the award certificate for "Qiu Ju's lawsuit".

It is because these two works were created by Comrade Chaoyang, and ‘Xu Lingjun’ and ‘Wang Qinglai’ are both the pseudonyms of Comrade Chaoyang.”

As soon as Zhang Guangnian finished speaking, a loud noise occurred in the venue, and hundreds of guests were all surprised.

It is not uncommon for writers to have two pseudonyms, but they won two pseudonyms in one award. Both works won awards, and they were national awards. Such deeds are too legendary and anyone who hears them will be shocked.

The National Excellent Short Story Award is the first national literary award in New China. The organizer is an authoritative organization like the Literature Association and "People's Literature". The judges will include literary masters such as Mao Dun and Ba Jin.

Even among the award-winning group, there are famous artists like Ru Zhijuan, Deng Youmei, Wang Meng, and Gao Xiaosheng.

It is already a rare thing for ordinary people to be included in the awards, and it is almost certain that they will have a place in the Chinese literary world in the future.

But who would have thought that someone could win two dollars in such an authoritative and grand award!

Hundreds of eyes gathered in the venue on Lin Chaoyang, making him feel that even the air was burning.

"Next, Comrade Chaoyang will give his comments!"

Zhang Guangnian said, handing the microphone to Lin Chaoyang.

According to last year's practice, the first-place writer has the opportunity to speak, and Liu Xinwu spoke last year.

"The Wrangler" is the first place in the award this year, so this opportunity naturally fell on Lin Chaoyang.

Everyone in the venue had just been baptized by the news that Lin Chaoyang won two awards alone. At this time, Lin Chaoyang wanted to speak, which naturally made everyone full of curiosity.

When I went to the editorial department of People's Literature before, Lin Chaoyang was told that he would speak at the award ceremony, so he was prepared.

He stood on the rostrum, looked at the heads below the stage, took out the workers to explain the status of the PPT, and the heads below the stage immediately turned into garlic heads.

“Thanks to all readers and the jury for their affirmation of my personal and work.

Just now, the gentlemen reviewed the difficulties and development history that the Chinese literary community has faced over the past years. Compared with those, I am still a primary school student, so I dared to stand in the last year of the 1970s and look forward to the 1980s.

The 1980s I imagined should be an era full of change and ideals, an era of turbulence in ideas and culture.

In recent years, because of the suppression of the past, the people have developed great demands and preferences for literature. I think this trend will continue in the 1980s.

This is a blessing for our literary circle, but it also requires us to be treated with caution.

Literature is like a mirror, reflecting not only the people's tenacity and courage in the turning point of history, but also the responsibility and exploration of our literary workers in social development.

I always believe that the most important value of literature lies in mirroring. Criticism, praise, exposition and praise are not enough to summarize the value of literature.

The boundaries of literature should be vast and boundless, and the love of the people is the basis for its roots and sprouts. The people also draw strength from literature.

We literary workers must have a determination, that is, literature should give strength to the people!”

Lin Chaoyang's speech was brief, but every word was carefully considered and powerful.

As soon as he finished speaking, warm applause immediately erupted from the audience.

If Mao Dun, Zhou Yang and others' speeches were even more official, then Lin Chaoyang's speech was full of personal color.

Especially the ending sentence "Literature should give strength to the people", which was deafening and made many people present feel a little excited after listening to it.

After finishing his speech, Lin Chaoyang's mission was also completed. He walked off the rostrum with two certificates and souvenirs.

The rostrum was less than twenty meters away from the seat, and everyone's eyes followed him.

At today's award ceremony, no one was more popular than him, even those literary masters could not do it.

As soon as he finished his seat, Liu Xinwu said in an exaggerated tone: "Chaoyang, it's so hard for you to hide it from me!"

Lin Chaoyang smiled and communicated with him a few words, and the eyes of the people around him were all on Lin Chaoyang.

Everyone knows that "The Wrangler" has won the votes in this year's awards, and the expert judges have the highest recognition. Lin Chaoyang, the winner, has already attracted much attention.

When it comes to the award ceremony, Lin Chaoyang has two pseudonyms and two works won honors at the same time. He seems to be the brightest star at the award ceremony today.

The award ceremony is over and today's award ceremony is coming to an end.

At the end of the show, Zhang Guangnian grabbed Lin Chaoyang and introduced an old comrade who was nearly 60 years old with glasses.

"This is Director Xie Jin!"

Today, there were hundreds of people in the art world who came to the award ceremony, so it was not surprising that there were film directors.

The domestic film industry has always been closely related to the literary world, and many classic film works are also adapted from novels.

Under Zhang Guangnian's introduction, Lin Chaoyang and Xie Jin exchanged a few greetings.

Because there was a symposium in the afternoon, the two of them didn't talk much, so Xie Jin only said to find an opportunity to visit.

The afternoon symposium is actually more like a meeting.

Unlike the big scenes of hundreds of people in the morning, the afternoon symposium is basically based on the jury and the award-winning writers. The topic of the symposium mainly revolves around the award-winning process and the award-winning works.

When talking about using "The Wrangler" as the first work of this year's awards, several judges expressed their opinions.

"I personally think that "The Record of Director Qiao's Takeover" should be selected as the first article. It has a significant advantage over "The Wrangler" which is that it has social effects and ability to interfere in life, and has the combat effectiveness that literary creation should have.

However, in terms of the crowd's voice, "The Wrangler" is indeed higher."

Since its publication in July last year, "The Record of Director Qiao's Takeover" has been widely welcomed and heated discussions from the readership and literary circles.

It has created the category of "reform literature" and has a great influence. It is not surprising that there will be fans on the judges.

Sha Ting said: "Each work has its own focus, such as "The Traitor", which has clear love and hate, talks about things based on things, and is written a little casually. "The Record of Director Qiao's Takeover" focuses on reform, has a grand perspective, and is also of good artistic quality. The benefits of "The Wrangler" are very similar to "The Director Qiao", but it has a little bit of strength in each of the strengths of "The Director Qiao", and it is natural to list them as the first one."

In front of many award-winning writers, many judges reviewed the review situation at that time, without any shyness of personal subjective views, and discussed the matter at all, so that many writers present could listen with relish, even those who lost their ranking did not feel resentful.

For many young writers who have won awards today, it is a very honor to be able to communicate with these literary predecessors and masters in close contact.

Lin Chaoyang's "The Wrangler" is the work with the highest number of votes and experts' voices this year. In addition, his feat of winning two awards alone is naturally the focus of everyone's attention and discussion.

Among the judges, Ding Ling and Feng Mu, also wrote comments on his works, and everyone has a high opinion of Lin Chaoyang.

Ba Jin also called Lin Chaoyang to his side and asked with a smile: "Do I call you Comrade Wang Qinglai, or should I call you Comrade Xu Lingjun?"

Lin Chaoyang smiled, "You might as well call me Chaoyang."
To be continued...