Chapter 552 Meeting Yu Hua by chance
“Leave it to the foundation?”
“Yes, three million is definitely not enough. If these courtyard houses appreciate in value in the future, just sell them and the foundation will not have money. ?" Fang Minghua explained.
"So troublesome? I said I might donate to your foundation in the name of the company, but you don't want it," Zhao Hongjun said.
"I said that all the funds for this foundation will be provided by me and I will not accept donations from anyone." Fang Minghua said with a smile: "You want to donate money? There will be many opportunities in the future."
"Okay, okay, your name will go down in history."
Fang Minghua smiled and said nothing.
The next day, the two went to Manager Sun again. After some bargaining, they finally bought these six courtyard houses for 2.65 million. The average price was around 400,000, and the most expensive one was 600,000 in Dongdong. Forty-six.
Zhao Hongjun left this 600,000 yuan courtyard house, and a relatively good-quality courtyard house near Houhai for 480,000 yuan. The rest was left to Fang Minghua, totaling 1.53 million yuan.
The next step is to go through the transfer procedures, which is quite troublesome. Fang Minghua has no time to wait any longer, so he calls Song Tangtang in Xijing and asks her to come to Yanjing to handle the rest, while he rushes to Shanghai.
It's more important to do business.
When arriving in Shencheng, Fang Minghua first visited Balao who lived on Wukang Road and explained his intention.
Ba Lao listened and laughed and said: "The Lu Xun Literature Award has been organized since 1986, and we still have no idea. There are too many rules and regulations. I didn't expect you to organize this Chinese Literature Award so quickly. , I agree.”
Fang Minghua suddenly felt relieved when Balao agreed to this.
With the most prestigious boss in the literary world of this era sitting in the chair, the reputation of this literary award will greatly increase. What if Palladium hadn’t always been the director of the Mao Dun Award jury?
After inviting Palladium, Fang Minghua was not in a hurry to leave Shanghai. He also went to Harvest magazine and invited Xiao Dai, deputy editor-in-chief of Harvest magazine, to be a judge.
Fang Minghua met Xiao Dai very early, in 1983, when Xiao Dai asked Fang Minghua to write a novel about the stream of consciousness.
Fang Minghua wrote the "The Legend of Wukong".
Due to the domestic environment, it was not published in "Harvest" at that time. Instead, at Xiao Dai's suggestion, it was published in the "Ming Pao" magazine of Mr. Jin in Xiangjiang.
The two have known each other since then.
Xiao Dai is the deputy editor-in-chief of the top domestic magazine (the editor-in-chief was Palladium until his death.) The editorial level is obvious to all, and since he is here, the invitation in person seems sincere.
Arrived at the "Harvest" magazine office on Julu Road, Fang Minghua met Xiao Dai, explained his intention and emphasized that Ba Lao had agreed to be the honorary chairman of the jury.
Xiao Dai laughed loudly after hearing this.
"Ba Lao serves as the honorary chairman, so how can I refuse? OK, I agree!"
Fang Minghua left after chatting for a few words and walked out of the corridor. He was about to go downstairs. He saw a familiar man face to face.
Wearing a jacket, his hair is a bit long and he looks a bit unruly.
"Yu Hua?!"
"Teacher Minghua!"
Yu Hua was also very surprised to see Fang Minghua: "You came to Shanghai?"
"Yes, I have something to do with Editor Xiao. Let me talk to Yu Hua. I told you not to call me teacher. Just call me by my name. You were pretending to be my second cousin when you were in Shanghai!"
Yu Hua immediately laughed sheepishly after hearing this.
It turned out that in the autumn of 1983, Fang Minghua was invited to Shanghai to participate in the "Symposium of Young and Middle-aged Writers in Northwest and East China".
After Yu Hua heard about this meeting, he came to Shanghai from his hometown of Haiyan to find Fang Minghua with the new work "Stars" he had just written.
It was already evening when he arrived in Shanghai. After he arrived at the hotel for a meeting with writers, he asked the front desk clerk Fang Minghua's specific room. The waiter was worried that he would affect the writers' rest, so he kindly reminded him.
Unexpectedly, Yu Hua replied: "I am Fang Minghua's second cousin!"
Just like that, under the watchful eye of the waiter, Yu Hua swaggered upstairs. Yu Hua later talked about it when he was giving a lecture in Luyuan, drinking and bragging with his classmates, and later spread it to Fang Minghua's ears.
Fang Minghua couldn't help but laugh after hearing this. The two even compared their ages. It turned out that Yu Hua was born in April 1960. Although he was the same age, he was a month older than Fang Minghua.
So, a classmate joked with Yu Hua behind his back, saying that your little cousin came to class
Now Yu Hua smiled sheepishly when he heard Fang Minghua mention the embarrassing things from back then.
"Yu Hua, have you graduated from the graduate class of Yan Normal University?" Fang Minghua asked again.
"Well, well, I graduated in March. I wrote a novel and submitted it to "Harvest" during my studies. The editor Cheng Yongxin asked me to talk about it.
"Novel? ! "
"Oh, it's a novel, not a short or medium story, it's called "The Shout and the Drizzle"" Yu Hua hurriedly explained.
Hmm. That's pretty much it.
According to the great agreement signed at the Xijing Conference in 1985, short stories and short stories must be submitted to "Yanhe" first!
Novel novels are not included in this scope.
But, "Shouting and Drizzle" should be called "Shouting in the Drizzle", right?
I heard that the name was changed later.
This is Yu Hua's first full-length novel. The novel begins with a woman's "lonely helpless cry" that emphasizes the sense of individual loneliness. Its transcendent narratives are all about the bonds of various social relationships.
The writing is quite good, and Yu Hua was awarded the French Chevalier des Lettres et des Arts for this novel.
Of course the literary quality is not as good as "Alive" he wrote.
"Okay, Yu Hua, you go talk to the editor, I'm going back." Fang Minghua said and left.
"Minghua, don't leave in a hurry. Since you have come to Shencheng, I want to do my best to be a landlord." Yu Hua said quickly. "Wait a moment, I'll go see the editor. How about we have dinner together later?"
"That's okay, you go ahead and I'll wait for you outside." Fang Minghua agreed, thinking to himself: Okay, let’s find an opportunity to talk to you about your next novel.
After leaving the magazine, Fang Minghua estimated that Yu Hua would still be discussing the manuscript with the editor for some time, so he had nothing to do, so he just walked around.
Going eastward along Julu Road, this road is full of private residences, "Jufu Chang" (abbreviation for the three roads in Shanghai - Julu Road, Fumin Road, and Changle Road), all of which were built during the Republic of China. A place where old bungalows from the period are concentrated.
It is said that on this road, in later generations, a garden house changed hands, with a total transaction price of about 310 million yuan! The transaction unit price was approximately 1 million yuan/square meter, setting a new high.
Of course it is very cheap now.
Would you like to take a chance and buy one too?
However, Fang Minghua doesn't like the climate in Shanghai very much. It's too humid, cold in winter, and sauna day during the rainy season in summer. It's not as dry and refreshing as Xijing in the northwest.
At the end of Julu Road, walking further west is the famous Pudong New Area. However, in 1990, Pudong New Area had not yet been established. Although the new area had not yet been established, opening up had already begun.
After walking around in a big circle, Fang Minghua returned to the magazine office and saw Yu Hua standing at the door waiting anxiously.
Yu Hua saw Fang Minghua coming and hurriedly greeted him: "Minghua, I thought you were leaving without saying goodbye?"
"Am I that kind of person? I just walked around the neighborhood casually. "Fang Minghua replied.
"Let's go, let's take a bus to Hengshan Road." Yu Hua said.
Fang Minghua was a little puzzled after hearing this:
“And take the bus? Let’s just find a small restaurant nearby and order two dishes to eat. Why go so far?”
"Hey, isn't Li Hongying studying at Fudan University? She hasn't graduated yet. I just called their school and contacted her. She heard that you were coming to Shanghai and wanted to see you. She made an appointment in Hengshan See you at the southeast gate on the road."
This guy.
Fang Minghua glanced at him.
"Okay, let's go to Hengshan Road."
(End of this chapter)