"Teacher Yu, have a good trip."

In front of Jinyi's new gate, Hu Changqing held Yu Dong's hands with excitement and bid him farewell.

Yu Dong will have to catch a train soon to go to Xiamen to attend the Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award Ceremony.

He was originally planning to leave quietly, but Hu Changqing insisted on giving him some kind of farewell ceremony.

"Secretary Hu, isn't it just to receive an award? There's no need to make it so grand."

Hu Changqing laughed: "Looking at what you said, this is not a grand ceremony. We will hold a welcome ceremony for you when you come back."

Hearing Hu Changqing's words, Yu Dong felt a little big-headed.

"Okay, you go quickly, you won't be able to catch the train in a while." Liu Changmin said with a smile.

Yu Dong nodded, said goodbye to several teachers, and then waved to the students not far away.

There were about a dozen of these students, all members of the student union, who were brought to see Yu Dong off. When they saw Yu Dong waving, they shouted in unison in an organized and disciplined manner: "I wish Teacher Yu all the best and success."

"

Listening to the students' shouts, Yu Dong felt his scalp numb and quickly quickened his pace.

…

Yu Dong met Su Tong at the train station, and this time they were accompanied by Ye Zhaoyan. Another winner, Chu Fujin, was not in Jinling during this time. He went directly to Xiamen from somewhere else.

Ye Zhaoyan and Yu Dong hadn't seen each other for some time. When they met again, Ye Zhaoyan's attitude was much better.

Before, he kept looking at Yu Dong with his chin down, but now he finally looked at him with a straight face.

However, it doesn't matter to Yu Dong. Ye Zhaoyan is a bit old-fashioned in his thinking and has a serious sense of circle and seniority. The reason he looked down on Yu Dong before was because Yu Dong was a foreigner and had few works.

Now that Yu Dong has published novels in "Zhongshan" and "Harvest" one after another, it is no longer the same as before. Ye Zhaoyan naturally wants to take a high look at him.

Of course, Ye Zhaoyan was not too enthusiastic. He knew that he and Yu Dong were destined not to be friends, so he just wanted to avoid any grudges.

"As far as I know, you are the youngest among the winners this time." Su Tong looked at the list of winners and said to Yu Dong with a smile: "There were people about the same age as you in the previous awards, but these two

The winners each year seem to be all under thirty years old."

"Senior brother, aren't you even thirty?"

"I'll be thirty in one month."

"That's still not thirty." Yu Dong smiled and took the list of winners from Su Tong: "Do you know which of these people will be present?"

"How do I know this? I only found out after some acquaintances called me. Wang Anyi and Yu Hua are all going to go. Your Wang Xiaoming who went to Shanghai should not go..."

Su Tong gave an overview of what he knew, then looked at Yu Dong and said: "There have been relatively few domestic literary awards in recent years. The Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award has been reformed in the past two years, so the attention is still quite high.

.However, if more than a dozen people are given out every year like this, I feel that in a few years, this award may be of no use at all.”

Yu Dong didn't care about Su Tong's worries.

The Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award cannot be awarded for more than a few years. The frequency in the future will decrease a lot, and it will not be awarded to so many people as it is now.

Today's literary awards are very different from later literary awards. For today's writers, even unknown literary awards are very important, because literary awards basically have bonuses, usually ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands.

In an era when ordinary people's wages were one to two hundred, getting a few thousand dollars at a time was no longer a small amount.

The key is that writers' royalties are not as good as before, and literary award bonuses are an important source of income.

…

Yu Dong and the others arrived at Xiamen one day in advance. Su Tong originally said that he wanted to go shopping in Xiamen, but by the time they arrived at the hotel, they had completely given up the idea of ​​visiting.

The more than twenty hours of travel had exhausted all their passion, and their only thought was to have a good rest in the hotel.

Towards evening, Yu Hua also arrived.

He did not go to his room, but came to see Yu Dong first.

After seeing Yu Dong, Yu Hua was very happy, hugged Yu Dong, and said with a smile: "If I hadn't heard that you were coming, I wouldn't have wanted to come, so far away. And I was in Yanjing.

After spending winter, it feels like spending spring here."

Yu Hua is right. The weather in Xiamen has been very good these two days. The highest temperature during the day is around 20 degrees. It really feels like spring or even summer.

For Yanjing people, Jinling is considered the south.

But if we really want to talk about the south, it has to be the Xiamen side.

And it's very close to the sea, so you can smell the sea breeze in the old city.

Su Tong saw Yu Hua hugging Yu Dong excitedly, and asked with a strange expression: "What's going on with you two? When did you become so familiar?"

Yu Hua smiled and hugged Yu Dong's shoulders, "You don't know too much."

Yu Dong smiled and explained to Su Tong: "Yu Hua went to Shanghai for a while before."

"that's all?"

"Not only that, Yu Dong also provided me with a lot of inspiration. He owes a lot to the novel "Alive"."

Su Tong looked surprised and said, "Really?"

“I can’t say I’ve done a lot of credit, but I did provide some advice.”

Su Tong still found it a bit unbelievable. He knew that Yu Hua was very conceited and had a unique personality. He rarely listened to other people's opinions.

But he didn't ask again. He was also happy that Yu Dong and Yu Hua could have a good relationship.

Although they only knew each other for more than a year, due to various coincidences and literary exchanges, Su Tong regarded Yu Dong as his younger brother, so he always liked to take Yu Dong with him when he had to do anything.

"Wang Anyi should be here too. Let's go have a meal with her later. It's rare for us to get together," Su Tong said.

"Well, I saw her when I came here just now, and she also said we would have dinner together tonight," Yu Hua said.

Su Tong looked at the time: "It's four-thirty now. Let's go find her at five o'clock."

With that said, Su Tong gave Yu Hua a cigarette, and the two of them started puffing away.

Yu Dong walked through the smoke, found melon seeds and peanuts in his backpack, and evenly mixed some for Su Tong and others.

Yu Hua clutched the melon seeds and said with a smile: "I think you will be called Yu Guazi from now on. You really carry these melon seeds and peanuts with you everywhere."

"You bring cigarettes, and I bring melon seeds, each other."

…

The awards ceremony the next day was very simple, everyone gathered in a conference room and sat together.

Then the eighty-year-old Zhuang Zhongwen presented awards to the winning authors one by one.

Because the place was small and there were so many winners, there was no acceptance speech at all. The writers came forward one by one to receive the trophies and certificates, and then took a photo with Zhuang Zhongwen and it was over.

After the show ended, Zhuang Zhongwen invited all the authors to have a meal, and the award ceremony was officially over.

After the ceremony, Ye Zhaoyan and Wang Anyi went back first, while Yu Dong and the others decided to stay one more day.

It was the first time for all three of them to come to Xiamen, and there wouldn’t be many opportunities to come back in the future, so they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to have a good stroll in Xiamen.

For this day's play, the three of them made a strategy map together.

Because time was tight and the task was heavy, they picked some more important scenic spots, and the last stop was Xiamen University.

All three of them believe that when going to a place, you must visit the local university.

The education of a country is the foundation of a country, and the education of a place is naturally the essence of a place.

That afternoon, after visiting Nanputuo Temple, the three of them went to the nearby Xiamen University.

Today, Xiamen University is not yet a famous tourist attraction, so there are not a large number of tourists at the door, mainly students from the school.

The three of them walked in swaggeringly, looking like they were leading the inspection work. As they walked on the road, some students even shouted "Hello, teacher" to them.

Xiamen University is not small, and we have visited several scenic spots today, so the three of us found a place to rest before we were even halfway through the tour.

After resting for a while, the three of them were about to go back. When they passed by the playground, they saw a bunch of people playing football. Yu Hua and his friends started to feel itchy again.

"How about we go and experience the football atmosphere of Xiamen University?" Yu Hua suggested.

Yu Dong scratched his forehead: "You guys have been gone for a day, can you still kick?"

"What do you mean? The muscles used for walking and playing football are different. No matter how tired you are from walking, you won't have any problems running." Yu Hua said confidently, then grabbed the arms of the two of them and pointed towards them.

Walking to the playground, "Yu Dong, you look friendly, help us to talk to them and see if they can add us."

"..."

Yu Dong had different opinions on the fact that his appearance was friendly, but he still did public relations work.

The students were also very enthusiastic. When they heard that someone wanted to join, they readily agreed, and they also thoughtfully assigned Yu Dong and the others to a group.

The result was naturally disastrous. The other teammates in Yu Dong's group were pretty good, but no matter how good they were, they couldn't withstand the drag of Yu Dong and his three rookies. In the end, their group lost by a huge score.

After it was over, Yu Hua wiped the sweat off his face, pointed to his shoes and said, "That means I wore the wrong shoes today, otherwise I wouldn't have lost."

Su Tong agreed: "Indeed, the shoes we wear are so disadvantageous."

Yu Dong rolled his eyes helplessly, these two noobs were not good at shoes, it was because their feet were too useless.

The students didn't blame the three of them for being too naive. A student from the first team just brought a few bottles of water over.
To be continued...