Chapter 647 Still like the girl who wore a white shirt and a blue suspender skirt more than ten years ago and liked to recite poetry
As soon as this cousin came, she took up her own place?
Well, Fang Minghua had to go to the guest room.
It was late at night, the north wind was blowing outside, and the room was well heated.
Li Li was wearing the cotton pajamas Song Tangtang had prepared for her, and the two sisters were half lying on the bed chatting. .
"I think my brother-in-law is getting bolder and bolder, and he dares to write official novels! He adopts the structuralist narrative method from Tsvetan Todoro, and at the same time uses binary opposition. More importantly, in terms of the creation of the main characters There is no facial expression in literary works , those typical characters are difficult to comment on with labels such as good guys and bad guys
Seeing her cousin talking endlessly about the novel written by her husband, Song Tangtang couldn't help but interrupt: "Okay, okay, okay. , you can tell him these words tomorrow morning! Let me ask you, how are you living in the United States now? "
"I'll tell you as soon as you come back. It's pretty good, but it's still the same. "Li Li replied.
"The same thing? "
"Yes, I take classes, read books, translate novels, and occasionally go shopping with Demi. Oh, by the way, this summer, I took a train to Boston and Philadelphia in the United States alone, and also Spent a few days on the shores of Walden Pond. ”
"When I was passing through Iowa, I went to the small town of Winterset in Madison County and saw the Romance Covered Bridge mentioned in my brother-in-law's novel. I even took a photo by the bridge. It's there now. It has become a popular attraction, and many couples who are planning to get married go there to hold weddings. The priest in the town is busier than the farmers."
Seeing her cousin talking happily, Song Tangtang felt a little sad. Sigh.
"Lili, are you going to keep doing the same thing?"
"Yeah, sure, I think it's good." Li Li looked as if nothing had happened.
"It's better to divorce Chen Jian. I think his gay status will be known to his family sooner or later. You can't just keep pretending like this." Song Tangtang advised.
"His parents already know his sexual orientation." Li Li whispered.
"Then what do his parents say?"
"What can I say? This thing cannot be corrected at all. In September this year, his mother came to me and said, divorce or not, let me do it myself Choice."
"Then what else are you thinking about?"
"Actually, sometimes I feel that this is quite good. We are both happy. Although marriage is in name only, it is also a kind of marriage to a certain extent. Protection from annoying people.”
"Hey" Song Tangtang couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.
"Okay, cousin." Li Li hugged Song Tangtang's shoulders affectionately: "Don't worry about me. Maybe one day I will figure it out, divorce him, and live alone."
"Ah? Why don't you search again? Lili, you are still young." Song Tangtang hurriedly advised.
"Yeah, well, I will remarry if I find someone as good as my brother-in-law." Li Li joked.
Song Tangtang looked at her.
"Okay, cousin, let's stop talking. Go to sleep. You have to get up early to go to work tomorrow."
"Well, go to sleep. It will be Christmas in two days. Don't forget to come to my house and Lele Ruirui celebrates the festival!" Song Tangtang warned again.
"I know, good night."
Soon, the two of them got into their respective beds, and Li Li fell into a deep sleep not long after turning off the lights.
Listening to her cousin's even breathing, Song Tangtang stared at the ceiling with wide eyes, but couldn't fall asleep.
When Fang Minghua got up the next morning, Song Tangtang had already driven his two children to school. He asked the nanny who was cleaning in the living room.
"Where's Lili? Have you gotten up?"
"Sister Li has already gotten up and is washing up upstairs."
Within two minutes, I saw Li Li came down from upstairs.
"Come on, Lili, come with me to eat spicy soup outside." Fang Minghua greeted.
"Okay, I haven't eaten for a long time." Li Li replied happily.
The two of them put on their down jackets and went out together.
It was very cold outside. As soon as she went out, Li Li couldn't help but sneeze.
"What? Do you have a cold?" Fang Minghua asked with concern. "No, the winter in Xijing is colder than that in San Francisco. I was a little uncomfortable when I first came back."
"Wear more clothes." Fang Minghua glanced at Li Li, who was wearing a down jacket and only a pair of black tights and leather boots.
"Yeah." Li Lida was very obedient.
The two chatted while walking, and soon changed the topic to the novel written by Fang Minghua.
“Brother-in-law, although this novel has not been finished yet, I feel that this subject matter will definitely be welcomed by domestic readers.
Politics, officialdom, anti-corruption. Whether it is domestic or foreign , are all readers like to read. Take a look at "House of Cards". The novel is very popular. The BBC adapted it into a TV series and it was also well received. Even Americans like to watch it."
"No, Lili, please don't compare my novel to "House of Cards", otherwise I will make a mistake!" Fang Minghua said, half joking and half serious.
“I understand, brother-in-law, I’m just telling you. When you finish writing, I will translate it into English for you and publish it in the United States! Who said that our country cannot write about officialdom and politics? It can still be done!”
"We've arrived at Lao Sun's house. Lili, how many vegetable boxes do you want to eat?"
"One is enough, I don't have a big appetite."
Only one.< br>
Fang Minghua suddenly remembered that one time they went to Xijing Foreign Languages Institute to visit Professor Mi Ruizhe, and when they came back they went to a street food shop to eat sour soup dumplings. Li Li couldn't even finish twenty dumplings, and even put some in her bowl. several.
But that was more than ten years ago.
The two ate slowly.
"Brother-in-law." Li Li said suddenly.
“Huh?”
"Although your official novel is good, I still like to read your warm-style novels, like "The Bridge of Lost Dreams" and "The Love of Ghosts" that you wrote in the United States a few years ago. "Yes." Li Li said.
"Do you like reading romance novels?"
"Not exactly, right?" Li Li swallowed the vegetable box in her mouth very gracefully, and then said: "Warmth and healing are more poetic. , I always feel that the world is beautiful.”
Huh?
Fang Minghua looked at Li Li in front of him.
Although he is over thirty years old, Fang Minghua still feels like the girl who wore a white shirt and a blue suspender skirt more than ten years ago and liked to recite poetry.
"Well, after this novel is finished, I will write you an article." Fang Minghua said.
“Yeah.”
1993 is about to pass, and if you look at the entire literary and art world, both the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan have entered unprecedented prosperity.
In the music scene, the 1993 Top Ten Golden Songs Awards Ceremony brought together almost all the big names in the Hong Kong music scene. From Michelle Yeoh to Vivian Chow, from Tony Leung to Nicky Wu, they are either current superstars or they become famous 20 years later. Huang An got ahead by singing "New Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Dream", and a Beijing girl named Wang Jingwen wrote Dou Wei's first masterpiece, "Unrepentant".
The singer Jacky Cheung's "Kiss Goodbye" sold 4 million copies, pushing Hong Kong pop music to the top. However, unfortunately, there are only three new songs in "Kiss Goodbye", and the remaining seven songs are all covers of old Cantonese works. The originality is insufficient and exhausted. Show. In a sense, Hong Kong Philharmonic is already close to the afterglow of songs.
Deep in the glory, there is also sadness, including two singers Beyond, Wong Ka Kui, who died young, and Chen Baiqiang, who died of brain failure.
In the Mainland, in addition to popular songs such as "Seeing Flowers in the Smoke", "The Sound of the Waves Still Sound" and "Xiao Fang" to compete with Hong Kong and Taiwan music, rock music has also ushered in its brightest days, and the Magic Rock Three Heroes were established , Dou Wei left Black Panther and began to create the album "Black Dream", and Zhang Chu released his second solo album "A Heart that Refuses to be Kitsch".
In the literary world, in the first half of the year, the "Second Eastern Expedition of the Qin Army" impacted the literary world, and in the second half of the year, the discussion of "humanistic spirit" was in full swing.
It took many years for people to understand that this vigorous discussion was actually the best annotation of the end of the short "golden age" of pure literature in the 1980s. ”
On the other hand, the "Social Realism Literature Seminar" held in Nanjing, a seemingly inconspicuous academic seminar, soon set off a boom in realist novels in the literary world, and a large number of outstanding literary works focusing on reality appeared one after another. The process of economic reform and political system reform since the 1990s as well as the problems and conflicts faced are written in a panoramic way. Later generations called this phenomenon the "shock wave of neorealist novels"
In Qin Province, the literary world also happened After some changes, Hu Cai, who had served as chairman of the Qin Provincial Writers Association for more than ten years, retired honorably. After the election at the Fourth Congress of the Provincial Writers Association, Chen Zhongshi took over the position.
Originally Fang Minghua was the loudest voice, but he firmly refused because he was busy with the World Chinese Literature Award held every two years.
In fact, I told my family in private, what is the point of being the chairman of the Writers Association? I have to work at work every day, read documents, hold meetings, and study. How can I, the nominal vice chairman, be so free?
Another thing is that Bai Miao, who was the president and editor-in-chief of "Yanhe" at the time, also resigned.
(End of this chapter)