1978 Synthetic Writers

Chapter 266 "The Wreath at the Foot of the Mountain" published

Yan Minqiu blinked her eyes. Her makeup had not been completely removed yet, and her every frown and smile looked just like Chen Bailu.

"Of course no problem." Jiang Xian calmly pulled out a piece of paper and wrote "Good luck with the performance, Jiang Xian."

Yan Minqiu was very satisfied and wrote to Zhu Hong, "I wish you a happy life, Yan Minqiu."

Zhu Hong happily received the autograph she wanted.

"Thank you, Teacher Chen Bailu!"

"Thank you, brother-in-law!"

Yan Minqiu certainly would not be angry because Zhu Hong called her Chen Bailu. Instead, she was happy from the bottom of her heart.

As a new actress who plays Chen Bailu, she was able to play the character so well that it touched the hearts of the audience, which was the success of her performance.

In July, the cultural circle was still reeling from the shock caused by an article titled "Life" published in "Beijing Literature" last month.

"Life" brought flowers and applause to the author Wang Weiguo, and he received letters like snowflakes.

Among these numerous letters from readers, there is one from a young writer named Guan Moye.

Guan Moye just published his debut novel "Spring Night Rain" this year, and received his first payment of 72 yuan, so he bought the largest Majia old chicken and a bottle of the most expensive Liuling drunken wine in Baoding and went back to share it with his comrades.

After reading "Life", he was shocked and hurriedly wrote a 3,000-word letter to Wang Weiguo to discuss Gao Jialin's fate with him.

In addition to Guan Moye, Wang Weiguo also had to deal with all kinds of people, including those who asked for articles, interviews, and relatives and friends who came to him to ask for favors and asked him to help arrange jobs for their children. There were even some literary wanderers who traveled around the world without a penny and asked Wang Weiguo to pay for their travel expenses.

All in all, Wang Weiguo is really famous.

In the eyes of many people, Wang Weiguo’s fame is inseparable from Jiang Xian’s appreciation.

An article titled "Life" in "Beijing Literature" and a literary review by Jiang Xian complement each other, and the profound conversation between the two has become a beautiful story that many people enjoy talking about.

July 7th soon arrived, the day when the fourth issue of October in 10 was released.

Newspaper sales point at Baita Temple.

Wang Shuo was wearing sleeves and passed by here as usual.

He retired from the army last year and returned to Beijing, and is now receiving massive intravenous infusions at a pharmaceutical company.

What is a large infusion? It means buying and selling sugar saline and glucose.

Every day I stand at the counter, wearing sleeves and using an abacus, or go out alone to take orders or go to the Victory Cinema to watch a movie.

Thirty-six yuan a month is barely enough to make a living, and the work pressure is quite high. If you fail to meet the performance targets, you will be fired by your boss.

Fortunately, he is smart and can fool people.

This can be seen from the name he later gave to his work, "Stewardess", if you don't know it, you might think it's some other serial number.

"What to do?"

Wang Shuo stood at the intersection, watching the stream of bicycles passing by in the middle of the road.

His current state can be described in two words: confused.

In 78, when the navy was reorganized, he got off a ship and worked as a medic in a warehouse. Later, it became more and more fashionable to take college entrance exams, and he also wanted to take one. However, he was not good at math, physics and chemistry, so he tried to take the liberal arts exam. As a result, he found that not only were he not good at math, physics and chemistry, but he could only barely get by with his writing skills.

He certainly wouldn't count on writing, and making a living by writing seemed pretty ridiculous to him.

He wanted to trade with his childhood friends in the compound, and he called this job
——“Smuggler”.

That’s right, the word “道爷” in Chinese is Wang Shuo’s exclusive original creation.

Wang Shuo's mind is full of thoughts at the moment.

His childhood friend Ye Jing went to Guangzhou and brought back a bag of watches. Wang Shuo helped them sell them. The retail price was dozens of yuan, but the purchase price was only five yuan. The two brothers happily used the money they "earned" to eat mutton hotpot.

Later in 82, the authorities issued the "Decision on Combating Serious Criminal Activities in the Economic Field", commonly known as the "severe crackdown".

Wang Shuo was "killed" in this crackdown and had 36 yuan deducted from his 16 yuan salary every month until the fine was paid off.

Of course, at this moment he could not see the future waves.

He checked his watch and saw that there was still some time before the movie started, so he walked into the newspaper stand.

"Comrade, what new magazines are there?"

The salesperson looked at him and took out a few.

"This is Reader's Digest, this is Capital Literature, and this is October, a new product that arrived today."

Wang Shuo was not interested in little-known magazines like Reader's Digest. Among several other magazines, he was more interested in October.

"October" is a bimonthly magazine, published only once every two months, so readers have higher expectations for it.

"It's a rare opportunity to come across the newly released "October". How much is it?"

"piece."

Wang Shuo paid for it, glanced at the cover, and quickly saw the two words "Jiang Xian" clearly written on it.

Jiang Xian's new work? !

Wang Shuo didn't expect that October would publish Jiang Xian's works, and he immediately became interested.

——"The Garland at the Foot of the Mountain."

I read the title of the novel and found out that it was not a reprint of other novels, but a new work that Jiang Xian had never published before.

"This is awesome." Wang Shuo couldn't wait to climb onto the guardrail holding the October magazine.

He found it only after a closer look.

The fourth issue of "October" in 81 not only published the novella "The Wreath under the Mountain" as the headline, but also published a brief introduction to the author Jiang Xian and Comrade Feng Mu's review article "The Most Magnificent and the Most Precious" at the same time.

Wang Shuo is also a literary youth. Of course, he knows Feng Mu's name and knows how valuable the novel is that can make him write a literary review.

He first read the review article. In his review, Feng Mu did not hesitate to express his love for the article "Wreath", calling it:
A thought-provoking masterpiece in the history of contemporary Chinese military literature.

"So exaggerated?" Wang Shuo frowned.

He is a very cunning person and likes to speculate about all kinds of things.

In his entire life, no military novel written by domestic writers could convince him.

Besides, Jiang Xian has never been in the army.

This made him doubt the truthfulness of Feng Mu's praise.

After reading the author's introduction and confirming that Jiang Xian had never been in the army, Wang Shuo's doubts grew even stronger.

He was worried that Jiang Xian would write a joke about military illiteracy, such as if he could pull an air force officer over and learn how to fly a plane, or pull a navy officer over and learn how to swim.

Whether it is a mule or a horse, you will know after taking it for a walk.

With complicated thoughts in mind, Wang Shuo turned to the headline and read the article "The Wreath under the Mountain".

Excluding the introduction, the novel "The Garland under the Mountain" can be divided into three parts: before the war, during the war, and after the war.

Many epic characters were created, but there are three main characters:
Company commander, Liang Sanxi.

Ordinary platoon leader, Jin Kailai.

Instructor: Zhao Mengsheng.

Before the war, the pampered "young master" Zhao Mengsheng came to the 9th Company. The company commander Liang Sanxi received him warmly, hoping that Zhao Mengsheng's arrival could share some of the burden with him. However, his real purpose was to make a "curve transfer."

Zhao Mengsheng was not used to the hard life in the army, and Jin Kaikan couldn't stand his style, so Liang Sanxi had no choice but to mediate.

This was the pre-war relationship among the three. Wang Shuo continued reading.

The team suddenly received a transfer order, and Zhao Mengsheng's transfer order also came down. As a result, Liang Sanxi, who had always been honest, scolded him harshly.

"The motherland is mine, but it is also yours!"

Zhao Mengsheng felt guilty, annoyed, and he also knew that leaving the army at this time would be the greatest stain on the title of a soldier. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow the army on the train to the border.

However, when he arrived at the front line, Zhao Mengsheng felt disheartened.

Here, even his mother had no magical powers to display.

After much thought, he decided to turn to General Lei, who was known as the "God of Thunder".

Zhao Mengsheng's mother saved the life of Lord Lei. She braved the hail of bullets and carried Lord Lei out from a pile of corpses step by step. She then hid him in a cave, taking care of him day and night, and even confronted a hungry wolf until dawn one night.

"On the day when 'Lord Thor' returned to the team after recovering, he held my mother's hand tightly and said, 'It is not a gentleman to fail to repay a favor. Even if I, Lord Thor, travel to the ends of the earth, I will never forget you, this heroine!'"

Zhao Mengsheng had an idea, so he quickly wrote a letter to his mother, hoping that she would ask Thunder God to help him transfer back.

During this period of pre-war training, another incident occurred:

——Jin Kailai, who was originally an ordinary platoon leader, was suddenly promoted before the war and was appointed deputy company commander.

Jin Kai said self-deprecatingly: "Before the war, I was given an official title to send myself to death."

The commando team is often led by a deputy company commander who rushes to the front.

The 9th Company is the spearhead company that carries out infiltration missions. It is conceivable that once the battle begins, Jin Kailai will lead the assault team to the forefront of the entire regiment and even the entire division.

Even so, Jin Kailai and Liang Sanxi said, "Don't worry, I will die a dignified death as deputy company commander!"

Zhao Mengsheng didn't care about these things. He was waiting for his mother, who was good at networking, to help him establish a relationship with the God of Thunder.

What no one expected was that Lord Thunder was furious. Not only did he ignore Zhao Mengsheng, he also threw his hat in front of all the soldiers and denounced this shameful behavior without naming anyone.

"Curse! I, Lei, am going to curse tonight!

My cannons are about to roar!

My armored vehicle is about to rumble in!
My army will kill the enemy! Will fight to the death! Will bleed!

But just now, there was a noble lady with great powers who was able to get a call to my frontline command post from thousands of miles away!

At this moment, every second of the call from my command post is priceless!
But why did that lady call?

She called me to ask me to open a backdoor for her son and to take care of her son!

Damn it, what a noble lady, what a slut!

She is so bold!
How dare you take the back door and come to this battlefield where I bleed and sacrifice!

I, Lei, don’t care whether she is the wife of Lord Heaven or Lord Earth!
You dare to use the back door to lead me to this battlefield where blood and sacrifice are shed, without any hesitation!

I, Lei, will let her son be the first one to carry the explosives and blow up the bunker!

Go blow up the bunker!!!"

"Awesome!" Wang Shuo slapped his thigh when he read this. His chest rose and fell, his blood was boiling, and it seemed as if the earth-shaking curse of Thunder God was really echoing in his ears.

"Son of a bitch!"

He had served in the army, so he cherished the honor of being a soldier.

He still remembers that during the war, their navy voluntarily signed up to go to the battlefield, but unfortunately they were suppressed by their superiors, who said: It is not yet time to dispatch you.

As a fellow child of the compound, Wang Shuo was so indignant when he saw Zhao Mengsheng, a lowly bastard who only wanted to be transferred back home, that he disdained to associate with him.

However, in the novel, after this incident, Zhao Mengsheng finally ushered in his own transformation.

Faced with the soldiers' discussions and accusations, he felt extremely humiliated, like the teeth of a poisonous snake, gnawing at his heart.

This also stimulated his self-esteem and patriotism.

Facing the company of more than a hundred people, he shouted wildly:

"From now on, if anyone dares to say that I, Zhao Mengsheng, am afraid of death, I will fight him to the death! Whether he is a hero or a coward, we will see on the battlefield!"

After saying that, he bit his middle finger and wrote three exclamation marks on the paper with blood.

The battle began, and the movie that Wang Shuo was planning to watch had also begun.

However, at this moment he no longer cared about the movie and focused his eyes directly on the novel "The Wreath".

The Ninth Company is the blade of a steel knife and the tip of a dagger.

The superior's order was: on the day the battle began, march at full speed, arrive at the front of the enemy's Hill 364 at 364 p.m. that day, capture the enemy's Hill the next day, and hold the hill tightly.

However, it was difficult to march in the tropical jungle, and superiors who did not understand the actual situation criticized the 9th Company for its slow marching speed. Jin Kailai was very dissatisfied with this blind command.

"All they know is to use a ruler to measure the map!"

Liang Sanxi ordered the troops to march lightly, and during the forced march, bugler Xiao Jin died of exhaustion.

After a bloody battle, the 9th Company occupied the high ground and repelled three attacks of the enemy on the main peak. However, due to lack of water, the soldiers' combat effectiveness decreased. Jin Kailai decided to violate discipline and led people down the mountain to cut sugarcane. As a result, he stepped on a landmine halfway. Before his death, his only wish was to take another look at the photo of his wife and children.

There was an enemy mortar position on the main peak. Liang Sanxi decisively decided to occupy the enemy's artillery position. During the battle, "Little Peking" fought bravely, but lost the opportunity because of several stink bombs and was killed by the enemy.

The 9th Company finally stood on the main peak of the high ground. When everyone was celebrating the victory, the remaining enemies shot them coldly. Liang Sanxi was shot while saving Zhao Mengsheng. Before he died, he took out a bill.

It was a blood-stained bill of exchange that detailed every loan, totaling six hundred and twenty yuan.

The battle was over and the troops returned home.

Zhao Mengsheng was awarded the first-class merit.

But he was in a heavy mood because Jin Kailai violated discipline and was not eligible for credit.

So he gave his first-class medal to Jin Kailai's wife, and lied that it was a medal awarded to Jin Kailai.

At the same time, the soldiers' relatives came to the troops one after another.

The soldiers told Zhao Mengsheng that the relatives of "Little Beiping" had been found.

When Zhao Mengsheng met him, he realized that the father of the brave "Little Beiping" was none other than the God of Thunder.

Zhao Mengsheng and his comrades originally planned to have the company pay for Liang Sanxi's debt, but Liang Sanxi's mother declined the soldiers' kindness and insisted on using the pension and family money to pay off the debt.

[
The morning sun has an olive-green crown of clouds on its head, and the rosy glow covers the green mountains and green waters with colorful clothes.

Zhao Mengsheng led all the comrades of the Ninth Company and me, carrying wreaths woven with fresh flowers, and slowly came to the Martyrs' Cemetery.

Everyone laid wreaths in front of the martyrs' tombs one by one.

The most magnificent gems and the most dazzling colors in the world are all gathered under these towering green mountains.]
Wang Shuo stared at the last few lines of the novel for a while.

His heart was still churning.

Jin Kailai, Liang Sanxi, bugler Xiao Jin, "Little Peking".
Each name and each character made him unable to hold back his tears, his eyes reddened and his throat became dry.

"It's so well written." Wang Shuo wiped his eyes and exclaimed.

Tears had already moistened his eyes without him noticing.

"Damn it."

He cursed with a choked voice.

"I spent 20 billion to raise a wolf cub."

(End of this chapter)