Chapter 585 "You are all my brothers and sisters"
Fang Minghua listened and thought carefully, and it was indeed true.
This era is changing so fast.
"Minghua, the efficiency of the textile factory is declining day by day, and employees are starting to be laid off. It has become a social phenomenon that cannot be ignored, but little attention has been paid to it in literary works. Your novel appeared very timely."
"Haha, Bai Miao, don't rush to praise me now. I'll see if you can judge me after you finish the review."
"Look what you said, what you Minghua wrote must be excellent."
The two chatted for a few more words, and Fang Minghua said goodbye and left.
Soon this article "Textile Girl" was published in the editor-in-chief column of the new issue of "Yanhe" magazine.
Minghua is writing a novel again!
After Fang Minghua wrote the novel "Skywalker", he suddenly became interested in prose. He traveled to Tianhan in Qin Province and Baiyin in Gan Province, and wrote a collection of essays "Fragments of Civilization", which shocked the literary world. , created the prose type "cultural prose".
For a time, many writers followed suit, the most successful of which was Yu Qiuyu, who resigned as the dean of Shanghai Theater Academy. The film "Cultural Journey" made the genre of cultural prose even more popular.
Later, he wrote several scripts in succession, such as "Raise the Red Lantern" and "Yenjing Man in New York", which became popular films and TV shows on both large and small screens.
The next thing is the Busy World Chinese Literature Award. I haven’t published a novel in China in two years.
Now I’m finally back to my old business!
As soon as this short and concise novel was published, it immediately aroused the interest of readers and critics.
Will Minghua lead the writing trend in the novel world like he did in the 1980s?
But you won’t know until you finish reading.
No.
It can only be summarized as a new realistic novel.
The tone of the whole novel is calm, but it uses a gentle look to describe the joys, sorrows and joys of contemporary female textile workers.
Readers are surprised to find that female textile workers, a once proud group in the 1980s, have now become so depressed.
The famous critic Radar wrote this comment:
“This novel by Minghua reminds me of the article “Red Dresses Are Popular on the Street” he wrote ten years ago. In his writing, the group of textile girls were so bright, lively and full of vitality. Ten years later, they turned into a group of women who were struggling to make a living, even at the cost of losing face.
What happened? < br>
Is it their fault or the fault of the times?
No one answered.
At the same time, a review was published in "Yanjing Youth", written by a college student from the Chinese Department of Yanjing Normal University named Liu Jing:
The title is "You are all my brothers" Sisters》
I like female textile workers
My mother is a female textile worker. She has a group of sisters who are best friends. During the Chinese New Year when she was a child, there must be one day left for her sisters.
Women in textile factories, especially those in Xijing, are not as hot and dry as a flock of sparrows as most people think. Of course there are bold types, but many are also gentle and quiet. Although after they are carefully dressed, I think they look earthy and even a bit gaudy.
My mother is now forty-five years old and has been laid off. In the past two years, when I went back during the winter vacation, I would help my mother carry a bunch of medical expense reimbursement forms to her old workplace. There would be a long queue, and most of the queues would be female textile workers.
Retired old women, middle-aged women who are on the job or have been laid off, and girls about my age who have just started working.
The story told by the writer Minghua is better than I imagined. This is not Renoir's washerwoman, nor is it Italian neorealism.
This is just the story of a woman facing death. In the last days of her life, what she wanted to do most was to meet the only man she had ever loved in her short life.
I saw Zhang Li's kind-hearted husband carrying him to the ballroom to dance on his bicycle. Many girls in our class found it incredible and thought it was the writer's nonsense, but I knew it was true.
When my mother was chatting with others, she mentioned that someone from a certain family went to the dance hall to do something. I felt very ashamed when I heard it.
But this is reality.
The reality is more cruel than what the writer described.
But I am a girl and I don’t want to say this. I would rather regard this novel as a love story.
A very nice love story.
We all think that life is so long and we have enough time to fall in love. We will love many, many people and experience many, many things. But in fact, most people may only love a handful of people in their lives, or like a textile worker, only one. He and she missed each other in that era. He had loved her all his life, and she had loved him all his life, but like all the people of that era, they had chosen to accept their fate.
Until she knew that her life was about to end, she finally didn't care about anything and she wanted to find him. She found him, and she knew that he had always loved her.
They love each other for life, but she is about to die.
I like Zhang Li, I like those warm songs that appear in the novel, and I also like that Minghua uses his own pen, as if he is looking at the Chinese people in his mind with a pair of gentle eyes.
Everyone is docile, kind and tolerant, just like Zhang Li’s lines, aren’t all Chinese people like this?
They are the same as Zhang Li, Zhao Luhan and Zhang Li’s kind husband, these ordinary Chinese people with little money, you are my brothers and sisters.
Fang Minghua also saw this article in a magazine. He did not know this girl named Liu Jing, and he could not remember whether she later became a writer.
But that’s not important.
Just write well.
The "Textile Girl" I wrote has been reprinted by several magazines, and I have also received many letters from readers.
Some of them came from families of textile workers. There was even a laid-off female worker from Northeast China who cried and complained about her experiences in the letter. Fang Minghua felt sad when she read it.
To be honest, there is nothing I can do.
Why don’t you send some money anonymously, it’s someone from your hometown after all.
Of course, it could just be a scam.
In this era, there are more and more scammers.
“You can lie to anyone. I’ll be fooled once.” Fang Minghua laughed at himself.
In this case, Fang Minghua decided to go to the post office tomorrow and send 5,000 yuan to the other party according to the address on the envelope.
At this moment, Fang Minghua suddenly heard a faint knock on the door in the yard, followed by the wild screams of Xiaodou Miao.
A stranger is here?
People like Lu Yao and Jia Pingwa who often visit Fang Minghua's house know that there is a doorbell installed on the door of his house, so there is no need to knock hard at all.
And Xiaodou Miao also knows that they will not scream so fiercely.
Fang Minghua went downstairs, opened the door to the yard, and saw two young men, one of whom Fang Minghua knew.
Translated by Zhang Jia.
Ever since Zhang Jiayi played Sun Shaoping in "The Ordinary World", he became an instant hit and began to attack the big screen.
Last year, I filmed a movie called "Encounter with Passion" and played the male lead.
I have never seen another thin young man named Fang Minghua.
Seeing Fang Minghua open the door, Zhang Jiayi immediately said in a respectful tone: "Teacher Fang, I'm sorry to disturb you."
"Oh, it's nothing, Jiayi, what's wrong with you?"
"Teacher Fang, something happened."
"Come in and talk."
Fang Minghua glanced at the silent young man next to him again, then turned and entered the yard.
The two followed them into the living room on the first floor. Fang Minghua asked them to sit down and poured them each a cup of tea
At this time, Zhang Jiayi said: "Teacher Fang, I will give Please introduce me, this is Wang Quan’an, the director of Western Film and Television, who is also my classmate at Yan Dian.”
Is Wang Quan safe? !
(End of this chapter)