Lin Yi has always liked to read books by contemporary Chinese writers. The one who impressed him the most was Yu Hua's books. Among them, Lin Yi liked two of his novels the most, one was Xu Sanguan's Blood Sales Records, and the other was Living.

Xu Sanguan sells blood records and sells blood, but reading it makes people cough up blood.

Living means living is worse than living than living, but reading it makes people feel that life is worse than death.

The story of living is very simple. It is basically the bumpy life of the owner "Fugui" landlord Fugui, who was addicted to gambling and finally gambled all his family business and was penniless. In poverty, Fugui went to seek medical treatment because his mother was sick. Unexpectedly, he was captured by the Kuomintang troops on the way and was captured by the People's Liberation Army. When he returned to his hometown, he realized that his mother had passed away. His wife's family had worked hard to raise a pair of children, but his daughter unfortunately became a mute. The real tragedy began to gradually take place. The rare warmth in life will be torn to pieces by deaths again and again. In the end, only the old Fugui was left with an old cow to recall in the sun.

The key point is that Yu Hua was awarded the French Knight of Literature and Art in March 2004 for this novel.

In 1994, he was also filmed as a movie by the great director Zhang Yimou. Ge You even became the best actor in Cannes with this drama. It’s a pity that because the content of the film is too "sensitive", the film has never been released in the mainland, and many enthusiasts can only play the discs.

However, in 2006, mainland director Zhu Zheng adapted the novel into a 33-episode TV series. However, compared with the "seriousness" and "cruelness" contained in the ups and downs of the novel, the TV series seemed much more "warm". At the end of the series, it left Fugui's young grandson with a bitter root. Fugui also signed his name on the application letter for the contract, bringing a lot of hope to the audience. As for the screenwriter's explanation, since it is a TV series, it must be considered as the public's ability to accept it, and it cannot be too miserable, and it seems that people can withstand this gravity.

But Lin Yi felt that the essence of this novel is actually these "gravity" that is so miserable that it wants to tear people apart, thus revealing a theme that the people in China who have been in thousands of years are all "living" so hard.

Because he liked this novel, Lin Yi, who was a poor man, tried to collect all the versions of this novel, but soon he got away because it was too expensive.

Living was created by Yu Hua in 1992. After the creation was completed, it was given to major publishers, but no one was willing to publish it. Why, the subject matter was too much? It was a civil war, a great leap forward, and the Cultural Revolution, it can be said that all the most sensitive political elements in modern China were added. Unless any publisher had a brain in his mind, he would take the initiative to help Yu Hua publish.

So, Yu Hua, who was quite famous at that time, rode his bicycle around the streets and alleys of Beijing. In the summer, he even brought watermelon to the editorial department. When he met, he didn't dare to mention the matter of the book, but said: "It's hot, come and have a watermelon when you are old!"

The large publishing house in Beijing was unwilling to publish books, and was afraid of taking risks, so Yu Hua had to settle for the second best and found those publishing houses with a smaller number. At this time, the Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House contacted him.

The headquarters of the Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House is in Wuhan and is not very famous in the country. However, this publishing house has a "adventurous spirit" and is very bright in its eyes. It is easy to target some alternative writers, such as Liu Zhenyun, Su Tong, and Wang Xiaobo. So this time the publishing house contacted Yu Hua and said only one sentence, "We will publish this book."

So in 1993, Changjiang Literature and Art took the lead in publishing Yu Hua's novel alive, but only 3,000 volumes were published! The reason is needless to say.

It’s just a pity that the power of 3,000 volumes is too weak, which makes Yu Hua’s classic work not immediately popular. It was not until 1994 that Taiwan Mai Tian Publishing House signed a contract with Yu Hua to officially publish the book that this book was considered a real fire, and it was a flowering outside the wall and fragrant inside the wall.

Then, following the trend, many publishing houses began to look for Yu Hua with a smile on their faces. Yu Hua, who was happy about publishing matters, no longer had to hold Xigua to run to the editorial department.

Nowadays, the prices of each version are very different:

Yangtze River Literature and Art, in 1993, only 3,000 copies were printed, and the price was 180 yuan for the above nine grades.

Taiwan wheat fields, one print in 1994, traditional Chinese version, price of 9 or above: 160 yuan.

Nanhai Publishing House signed copy, first edition in May 1998, with tens of thousands of copies printed, and a price of more than nine grades: 120 yuan.

The signature book of Writers Publishing House was printed in 2005, and the price is 100 yuan for the above nine grades.

Among them, Nanhai Publishing House has the most "signature books". It seems that the publishing house invited Yu Hua to conduct an autograph event at that time. Unfortunately, it is difficult to invite such a great man now.

In addition, most of the first overseas versions of Yu Hua's living abroad are priced at more than 100 yuan, which can be said to be very valuable for collection.

It is precisely because Lin Yi is very clear about the various versions of Yu Hua's living that when he took out the book from his woman's handbag, he was stunned because this book was "the first version of Yangtze River Literature and Art, with only 3,000 copies printed!"

It is strange enough to have a book stuffed into a girl's bag. What's even more strange is such a good version of the old book, which makes Lin Yi really confused.

Could it be that this girl is also a fellow traveler, either she is a genuine "literary youth", but she doesn't look like her heavy makeup?

Lin Yi, I don’t understand it any more.

When Lin Yi finished going to the bathroom and walked back with his bag, the man with a buzz cut that had been ruined by him before saw him coming out and sneered in the seat in the aisle. When Lin Yi walked to him, he suddenly stretched out his feet.

Lin Yi was reluctant to trip under his feet and staggered and fell directly in front. If a passenger hadn't been kind enough to help him, he would have fallen into pieces.

Lin Yi was furious and stood up with his hands on the chair, turned around and rushed towards the buzzing head, "What are you doing?"

The man with a buzz cut was picking his teeth with his fingernails, squinted at Lin Yi, and said in a blunt tone: "You don't have eyes, you've hurt my legs and haven't been asking you for trouble!"

Lin Yi glanced at him, "Did you mean it?"

"So what, I just don't like you!" The man with a buzz cut stood up, got up and rolled up his sleeves to repair Lin Yi.

Lin Yi was also considered to have seen big scenes with Teacher Huang, Cao Yidao and others. When a large group of gangsters besieged them without even blinking, how could they be afraid of this guy?

At this time, the people around him saw the incident clearly, and someone said to the man with righteousness: "Young man, you are wrong, how can you say this? It's clear that you want to trip someone up."

The man with a buzzhead turned his head and shouted: "Shut up, are you looking for a twitch?"

The man immediately became silent and retreated into the crowd.

There is no way, this is the world. Many people are used to seeking misfortune and avoiding good fortune. As long as they don’t care about their own affairs, they will hide.

Seeing that no one dared to care, the man with a buzz cut became even more arrogant and domineering. He stared at Lin Yi with vicious eyes and said with a smile: "Damn it, if you don't kill you today, I will take your surname!"

Lin Yi knew there was no way to avoid it. He really didn't understand where the train personnel who liked to check tickets from time to time were now. Someone was about to start the fight, but they didn't see half of them.

Others held their breath and watched the fun.

It is also quite exciting to see a living "life-and-death battle" on this lonely train.

Only those soft-hearted women looked at the gentle and gentle Lin Yi against the big-shouldered man with round waist and strong waist, and couldn't bear it and wondered whether to call the police quickly.

Time is tight

Just as Lin Yi was about to "tear off" Si Wen and the buzzing man in front of him, suddenly, a person next to him kicked him directly under the crotch of the buzzing man.

With a scream, the man with a buzzhead immediately covered his lower body and squatted on the ground, looking in pain.

Seeing him like this, Lin Yi was so distressed for him. When he looked at the brave woman, who was not the nervous woman?

I saw her clapping her hands, looking relaxed, and said to the wailing man with a buzzing buzz cut: "Grass! I have seen many people like you!"

Dizzy, what's going on?

Lin Yi was a little dizzy. Could it be that the beauty saved the hero? But he was not a hero, at best he was just a scholar. To be continued.

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