Chapter 421 After taking medical leave, Lu Yao wrote a novel for the first time
About 80,000 words, one novella.
The background of the story takes place in the Guanzhong area. Fang Minghua used a lot of Guanzhong dialect in the novel to add a sense of life to the novel.
As a native of Xijing, he is also familiar with this.
The first draft is completed, and of course the first reader is my daughter-in-law Song Tangtang.
In the evening, the couple first went back to their parents' place to have dinner and see their children, and then returned to Xingfu Community at almost nine o'clock.
"Tangtang, help me take a look."
"Okay."
The daughter-in-law went into the study and sat at the computer and read the novel on the screen carefully. Fang Minghua stood At the desk next to him, he spread out the "Monument of Yu Gonggong", picked up a brush, and started practicing seriously on the newspaper.
The work unit subscribes to a lot of newspapers, but in the end they are sold to scrap collection stations. It is better to take them back and practice calligraphy.
After practicing for more than an hour, Fang Minghua felt his wrists were a little sore, so he closed the copybook and looked at the handwriting on the newspaper, feeling somewhat satisfied.
A bit like Ouyang Xun.
At this time, Song Tangtang had also finished reading, and she turned her head to look at Fang Minghua.
"Minghua, I think your writing style has changed."
"Changed?"
"I used to like to write avant-garde novels such as stream of consciousness. Although they are good, they are too obscure and difficult to understand, and I think they are a bit showy. But this book is very simple and unpretentious, with realism and cultural criticism. This is what you said A new realistic novel, right?"
"You can say that."
"It's very good, and it will be better when made into a movie. Minghua, the director named Zhang Yimou didn't film it. "No one left behind"? I feel like he is very good at filming this kind of story about rural people, so let him make it into a movie. It will be great."
Thinking so far?
“We’ll talk about it after it’s published.” Fang Minghua said with a smile.
"Okay, you can think about some words and sentences in the novel." Song Tangtang stood up and stretched out gracefully.
“I’m going to learn English.”
After saying that, Song Tangtang left the study, and soon he heard Song Tangtang’s beautiful voice coming from the living room.
Straybirdsofsummercometomywindowtosingandflyaway.Andyellowleavesofautumn,whichhavenosongs,flutterandfalltherewithasign.
(Summer birds, fly to my window to sing, then fly away. Autumn leaves, they have nothing to sing, only sigh With a sound, it flew down there)
Fang Minghua sat at the computer and started revising it seriously.
In the following days, Fang Minghua carefully revised the novel twice. Only when he was satisfied did he print it out and prepare to give it to Bai Miao.
The next morning, Song Tangtang drove to the company, and Fang Minghua still rode his 28-inch permanent big bumper to work.
This was the first time Fang Minghua bought this bicycle when he came to this era to receive royalties. He has been riding it for eight years. Except for changing the chain once, nothing else has been broken.
The quality is indeed outstanding, and now I have feelings for it.
Arriving at the magazine compound, Fang Minghua greeted his colleagues at work, parked his bicycle in the carport, went up to the office building and came to his office, where he wiped the table, fetched water, and made tea, which were the three essential steps in the morning.
Just after making a cup of tea, someone knocked on the door and came in. It was Bai Miao.
He held a stack of manuscripts in his hand and handed it to Fang Minghua: "Editor Fang, this is a new short story written by Lu Yao. Take a look."
Written by Lu Yao? !
"Okay, you sit down first and pour the tea yourself."
Fang Minghua said, picking up the manuscript and reading it carefully.
It is also a rule of law novel written in response to the call of the province. It is not long and only about 30,000 words. It tells the story of a grassroots ordinary judge who has the courage to protect the rights of ordinary people with the law when they are wronged. But in the end he faced a dilemma between love and law. The more Fang Minghua watched, the more he felt it looked a bit like "Justice", an American movie released in the 1970s?
This film tells the story of Arthur Kirkland, an upright and brave lawyer who tries to reform the corrupt practices in the judiciary and provide justice for the common people, but he falls into a moral and legal dilemma.
The film seems to have won an Oscar.
Lu Yao has seen this movie?
It is possible that although these films have not been released in the Mainland, as video recorders have gradually become popular in urban households in the Mainland, many pirated tapes have appeared, and this kind of Oscar-winning movies are very popular.
Fang Minghua also bought a cassette and watched it at home after he came to this era, so he had some impressions.
But he didn't say anything, but asked Bai Miao: "What do you think?"
"If it were written by another writer, it would be quite wonderful, but it's Lu Yao." Bai Miao did not hide her thoughts:
"This novel cannot be compared with the novels he originally wrote, let alone "Life". I think Lu Yao chose a legal subject that he is not familiar with this time, so it seems a bit reluctant."< br>
That’s true.
Fang Minghua nodded.
"Okay, leave the novel with me for now. Lu Yao is going to visit Italy soon. I will talk to him when he comes back and let him revise it." Fang Minghua expressed his opinion.
At the beginning of the year, a delegation from the Chinese Writers Association was invited to visit Italy and gave a quota to the Qin Provincial Writers Association. Several leaders of the Writers Association discussed it and simply gave it to Lu Yao.
Going out to relax is more conducive to physical recovery.
Besides, I also have this qualification.
Of course Bai Miao knew about this, so he agreed. Just as he was about to leave, the office door was pushed open and he saw Lu Yao walking in hurriedly.
“It’s really about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here.” Fang Minghua said with a smile:
“Lu Yao, Bai Miao and I discussed waiting for you to come back from your overseas visit before we talk about this novel with you. , I didn’t expect you to be here now, why don’t we just talk now?”
Unexpectedly, Lu Yao said: "Let's not talk about it. I don't want to publish this novel. I'm going to take it back."
"Why? I think it's okay. I can publish it after revising some parts." Fang Minghua said.
"Forget it." Lu Yao shook his head: "I have revised this novel several times, and I don't know where to revise it. To be honest, I watched an American movie called "Justice", I was inspired to write it. Now it seems that I have overestimated myself. I am not very familiar with the profession of judge. It is a bit too blunt. It is better not to publish such a novel to save others. I, Lu Yao, am seriously ill. Now I am in good health. My brain is broken.”
Fang Minghua knew that Lu Yao was struggling with this issue, so he returned the manuscript of the novel to him without saying anything.
Lu Yao took the manuscript and said to Minghua again. "Minghua, I still think the idea you mentioned some time ago is good."
"Some time ago?"
"It was that time when we came back from China. You told that story. Under an old locust tree on the Qinbei Plateau, the happiness and suffering of several young men and women seemed to be like those on the Loess Plateau. Adam and Eve wrote about the Loess Plateau, which I am familiar with."
Um, did you really write this?
Fang Minghua did say this. Before he came to this era, he saw a post on the Internet, saying that after Lu Yao finished writing "The Ordinary World", he chatted with a friend about the next one. The subject on which he wanted to write.
But it didn’t come true, and Lu Yao died of illness soon after.
There is no way to tell whether the post is true or not. I didn’t expect Lu Yao to actually write this now.
Lu Yao left, saying that he would start writing after returning from his overseas visit.
Fang Minghua's article "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" was officially published in "Yanhe" in March.
(End of this chapter)