1980 My Literary Era

Chapter 22

Don't think that after entering the training of the Institute of Literature, you will be a great writer in the future.

For many of the writers trained by Lin Weimin, the training at the Institute of Literature and Literature has already been the highlight of their lives, and after that it has been all the way downhill.

Some people's literary talents have not changed much after finishing the training at the Institute of Literature. Newly created works can only be published in local journals, and some are not even published, and no one cares about them.

Therefore, students like Lin Weimin, who are still in the training stage of the Institute of Literature and Art, continue to produce works, and can be recognized by a large number of writers and classmates, are also the darlings of the teachers.

"Contemporary" is a literary magazine under the National Literature Publishing House. It was founded in 1979. The founder Meng Weizai was the former president of the National Literature Publishing House.

The first issue was published in June 1979, and 6 copies were printed and sold out.In the second issue, 11 copies were printed, which is still in short supply.In the third issue, 13 were printed, and each issue increased, reaching a maximum of 55.

At this moment, "Contemporary" has only issued a few issues, but it has become a first-line literary magazine in China. Even in the 80s, when magazines and newspapers flourished, it is still a unique existence.

Lin Weimin is not satisfied that his work can be published in such a magazine, but the final conclusion can only be made after the editor has read the manuscript.

The next day was Saturday, and the bathroom in the backyard of School D was open. As soon as class was over in the afternoon, the students flocked to the bathroom, especially the students from the south.

Burning boilers to supply hot water on Saturdays is the habit of school D, and now taking a bath on Saturdays has also become a habit of the students of the Institute of Arts and Sciences. Girls wash and boys wash.

The bathroom is not big, and there is a small transom on the ceiling, and people talking in it still echo.

Boys like to sing and act in the shower, and the bathroom with its own reverberation effect seems to be particularly able to arouse people's desire in this regard.

There are no popular songs these days. Everyone is singing red songs or local operas from their hometown. Among them, Jia Da is good at singing the loudest, which is completely different from his usual silent personality.

He is from northern Hebei, and he also sings the bangzi from northern Hebei. His singing voice is high-pitched, passionate and generous, which is unforgettable once he hears it.Lin Weimin didn't know what opera he was singing, it was probably an old man's singing.

When these people sang, Lin Weimin was listening. He is from the Northeast, but he can't sing Errenzhuan.Don't talk about little New Year's greetings, it's just a little hat, isn't it a joke to sing duets?
Taking a shower is like pressing a karaoke switch. After the shower, the switch is automatically turned off.

The old men who were crying and howling just now regained their composure and integrity in an instant.

Lin Weimin came out of the bathroom shaking his hair, and heard Qu Xiaowei say, "Tomorrow Wangfujing Bookstore will have a batch of the four major classics and foreign classics, let's go to the line early?"

Buy famous books?
Lin Weimin felt it was necessary. He had never read the original work of "Water Margin" before, and his knowledge of "Water Margin" was limited to familiar stories and various film and television adaptations.When Mr. Nie Gannu talked about "Water Margin", he listened in a daze.

He has read "Dream of Red Mansions" among the four great classics, but he has almost forgotten about it. There will be a course on "Dream of Red Mansions" taught by Wu Zuxiang, this time he has to make preparations first.

"Hey, I heard that the bookstores in Yanjing now have to queue up to buy books, one or two miles in a row." Cheng Shixu said.

Qu Xiaowei said: "That's right, there are so few books and so many people, it's not enough to buy."

"Then do we have to go there earlier and line up?"

"This……"

Qu Xiaowei hesitated for a moment, queuing up to buy books was normal for him, but he really didn't study how long in advance he had to wait in line.

"Why worry about these things, I'll queue up tonight."

"Tonight?" Qu Xiaowei resisted instinctively. If he queued up all night, he would suffer.

"Listen to me, that's right."

Lin Weimin made the final decision.

Back in the dormitory, other students heard that they were going to Wangfujing Bookstore to buy books, and they were ready to move, but when they heard that they had to queue up at night, they felt a little scared.

Lin Weimin rolled up his bed and came out of the dormitory. Seeing his posture, everyone was a little dumbfounded.

"No, Weimin, what do you mean? What are you doing with the bedding?"

"sleep!"

Qu Xiaowei pointed at his bedding, "Are you going to sleep while queuing up at the entrance of the bookstore?"

"What's wrong?" Lin Weimin was confident.

Qu Xiaowei gave a thumbs up, "You Xing, it has to be you! I'm not surprised by anything."

In the past two years, queues to buy books in the middle of the night at bookstores have occasionally happened, but Qu Xiaowei was the first to meet a bachelor like Lin Weimin who rolled up his bedding and went to the door of the bookstore skillfully.

"Are you still going?" Lin Weimin asked impatiently.

Everyone's hesitant mentality just now calmed down, "Then let's go together."

Lin Weimin said: "It doesn't take so many people. It's the same for students to help each other with a few books."

"Wei Min is right. We don't need to go to so many people, just pick a few people to go." Zhang Lin, the squad leader, began to make a fuss.

In the last discussion, there were seven people in the class, Zhang Lin, Jiang Zilong, Gu Hua, Cheng Shixu, Qu Xiaowei, Lin Weimin, and Abel.

Except for Zhang Lin and Jiang Zilong, they are all freshmen.

With the ardent expectations of the students in the class, the group of seven set off and boarded the No. 18 bus.

Among the seven, only Lin Weimin made a roll of bedding.In the car, the others subconsciously stayed away from him.

Can't afford to lose that person!
Wangfujing Bookstore is located at No. 14, Wangfujing Street. It has been 30 years since its birth. After two expansions, Wangfujing Bookstore officially opened last year. The total construction area is 6300 square meters, and the business area is 3600 square meters. The largest bookstore in the country.

In the 80s, if anyone who could read and write came to Yanjing and said that he had never been to Wangfujing Bookstore, it would be the same as coming to Yanjing for nothing.In the minds of scholars back then, the status of Wangfujing Bookstore was no less than that of the Forbidden City.

It was already past seven o'clock in the evening when Lin Weimin and his party arrived at the bookstore, and there were people queuing up at the door of the bookstore.

This discovery made Qu Xiaowei a little excited. When he came here, he was afraid that they were messing around, but he didn't expect that there were people who were full and had nothing to do, and came here to wait in line to buy books.

"Tell me, how free are these people?"

While complaining, Qu Xiaowei took up his position.

Lin Weimin next to him spread the blanket on the ground, and lay down in full view of everyone.

A few colleagues hurriedly stayed away from him, for fear of being misunderstood as a gang.

There are only six or seven people in front of them, and they will definitely not be afraid of not being able to buy books tomorrow morning.Standing or squatting in line behind Lin Weimin, chatting and chatting, and found that the line behind him gradually began to form a long line.

When it was past eleven o'clock in the evening, the queue could no longer see the end of the queue.

Cheng Shixu ran to the end to take a look, and when he came back, his tone was inexplicably excited, "They queued up and went for more than a mile!"

He had only heard of it before, but today he has opened his eyes!
(End of this chapter)