I've been very busy lately, but it's very meaningful.
We have a reader named Wang Chengyao. To be precise, he is a pirated reader. I should have ignored it.
However, after seeing him in person, my spiritual world completely collapsed...
In a common sense, we have four limbs, but for Wang Chengyao, he only has two limbs or one and a half limbs. I can't imagine such an image.
When "The Wisdom of the Song Dynasty" was finished, I went to see him immediately...
A middle-aged man is curled up on the bed, with a computer beside the pillow and the keyboard propped on two books. His head is leaning on the pillow and he is typing with One Finger Zen...
The octogenarian father and a broken wheelchair leaning against the wall are extensions of his unconscious legs. The fire pit built in the room is his bedroom, study, dining room and playground...
It looked miserable, that was my first impression.
After exchanging pleasantries, I felt that I was much more miserable than him.
——What a spiritually rich person this is——
He is talking to me about ideals!!!!
What is the difference between a person without ideals and a salted fish?
Stephen Chow knows the truth, but we have long forgotten it. Most of the time when we talk about our ideals, it is like telling a joke.
He was serious, because his eyes lit up a little when he talked about his ideal. We generally call this kind of light longing.
That kind of light cannot be expressed in my eyes. If my eyes are shining, it must be something wrong.
The beasts galloping in the concrete forest can no longer have that kind of stubbornness, or some simple actions.
He took a book and asked me to correct it - "The Era of Post Roads".
This is a paperback book with a total word count of not more than 220,000 words. If it were published on the Internet, it would be a book that has barely reached the initial stage of being put on the shelves for sale.
After I opened it and took a quick look, I realized that this book is not suitable for online writing channels. This book is not even in line with the tastes of modern people——
Because it says on the title page - This book is dedicated to readers who understand the 1970s and 1980s and to people who review the rural areas of western China in the 20th century.
We are a group of people who have even forgotten our hometown. Who has the mood to understand those rural people on the dry plains of Gansu, even though this book is extremely true, simple and tender.
Longzhong is the most miserable in the world, but Ruo Liyuan is not included... In the book, Wang Chengyao's dreams are colorful, but this rainbow only exists in his books or his dreams.
In the world outside Ruo Li Yuan, there are spaceships in the sky, high-speed trains, feasting, love and hate, and drunkenness and dreaming. The only thing missing is the reality and innocence of Ruo Li Yuan.
Now!
He is also preparing to write online articles.
He has actually started writing online articles.
He wrote about 900,000 words with a pen!!! He was a little shy and told me that he typed very slowly, but he was very proud to say that he could keep up with the update speed of online articles.
He told me more than once that he would have no problem writing 7,000 words if we met each other.
The 900,000-word handwritten manuscript is two feet tall!
My scalp is numb!
I can hardly imagine the scene where the editor ruthlessly told him to delete the book!
Most traditional writers are unhappy when they venture into online writing, especially when the probability of their first book being eliminated is too high.
Our novels mobilize people's passion, while traditional writers work hard to analyze people's thoughts. It sounds like passion is also a part of thought, but the two are like polar opposites. The deeper the thought, the more the passion becomes.
Being criticized...
Wang Chengyao's thoughts are naturally rich.
However, his reality is very cruel. His father is old and can no longer work, so he wants to take over the burden of life to support his father and himself. According to him, three thousand yuan is enough!
Obviously, he does not want to continue to live dependent on his father. The land in Ruokasahara is fertile, but because there is no water, he still continues to plant according to the ancient method - that is, planting extensively and harvesting little!
Writing articles is the only job he can do, and online writing is one of the fastest ways to make money.
Because he had no choice, he started writing, and he wrote 900,000 words...
Which is more important, ideals or life?
"The Wisdom of the Song Dynasty" writes about ideals, but in front of the real Wang Chengyao, those ideals are as illusory as the mist that blocks the sun, which will dissipate after the sun rises.
Therefore, I wrote Wang Chengyao’s story as the final words of this book. The only purpose is to let everyone know how big the gap is between virtual ideals and real ideals!
If one day you see me crazily recommending Wang Chengyao's novel in my new novel "Silver Fox", please support me, not for anything else, but for the ideals and persistence we all had.