Lu Yao, a well-known name in China, his words have touched people of an era, and the awards he has won are hard to count. Ma Yun said:
"The person who influenced me the most was Lu Yao, and it was his work that changed me and made me realize that there is always a chance not to give up, otherwise I am still pedaling a tricycle."
However, such a great writer with outstanding literary talent and fame was actually called a "poor" dead person by posterity. What's going on?
Lu Yao has indeed been very "poor", although his monthly income was not small at that time, and there were many awards, but he was always facing the state of "no rice under the pot".
That year, his novel "Life" won the National Outstanding Novella Award, and he was notified to go to Beijing to receive the award. However, he did not have the money to go to Beijing, and finally had to ask his brother to borrow money.
Coincidentally, "Ordinary World" won the award again, winning the "Mao Dun Literature Award" in one fell swoop, but he still did not have the money to pay for the road. Lu Yao had to call his brother again, and his brother was stunned for a long time with the phone, because he didn't know how to tell his brother: I don't have any money.
However, this kind of award opportunity is too important for a writer, not only the opportunity to show his face, but also the rise of fame.
Therefore, the younger brother finally found Feng Wende, deputy secretary of the local Yan'an prefectural party committee, and put this reality and disk out. After considering the influence of Lu Yao's award on northwest writers, Feng Wende finally donated 5,000 yuan for him to receive the award.
The younger brother took the money and handed it to Lu Yao, and at that time he only said one sentence: "You don't want to win any more prizes in the future, if you win the Nobel Prize in Literature, I have no place to find foreign exchange for you." ”
At that time, how embarrassed Lu Yao was could be imagined, but he just laughed a little and then scolded.
This is the real life of a literati, who has worked hard for words all his life, but after winning the award, he can't come up with money to receive the award. Because of this, people will wonder, how much money does Lu Yao earn in a month? Why is there no money after winning so many awards? It's embarrassing to say: habits are deadly enough.
In luyao in the 1980s, the salary was indeed not much, only more than forty yuan a month, and in the 1990s, there were more than two hundred yuan a month. This money may be enough for ordinary people, but it is not enough to want to consume luxury things.
Of course, Lu Yao still had a lot of writing fees, and his income was a middle-class income group at that time, because it was basically this level in that era.
But Lu Is different, he is a literati, with the paranoia and ego of a literati.
Every morning, Western-style meals are indispensable, and coffee is indispensable.
Imagine that people who only have a few dozen yuan a month have to spend a few dollars a day to drink coffee and eat Western food, what is the state of consumption? But he said:
"The biggest enemy of a person like me is that he looks down on himself and needs an extra bit of bravado to offset his extra inferiority."
If this is placed in psychology, then Lu Yao is definitely a retaliatory consumer rebound in the heart. But in addition to Western food and coffee, he has a more unacceptable habit: smoking.
Moreover, he has the rough nature characteristic of northwesterns, smoking as if eating. More importantly, he used to smoke a cigarette when creating: congratulations on the New Year.
What kind of smoke is this? We don't know his price when we don't smoke, but when Lu Yao was writing "Ordinary World", because he was suffering from lack of inspiration, he could only light a cigarette in the end, so he soon began to create a famous book: in February and March 1975, on an ordinary day, the fine rain was sprinkled with snowflakes and snowflakes, which were pouring into the earth.
The book was written for six years, and Lu Yao lit up the book "Congratulations on the New Year" The total cumulative cost is more than 40,000 yuan, about 2-3 packs per day. It is said that there were not many books on Lu Yao's bookshelf at that time, but one of the boxes was full of cigarettes, and all of them were so good.
Someone roughly counted what the concept of 40,000 yuan in the 1990s was: at that time, the house price of the second ring road in Beijing was less than 2,000 yuan a square meter, and if 40,000 yuan bought a house in Shaanxi, it was estimated that three or five sets was not a thing at all. In such a redemption, Lu Yao unconsciously smoked a few houses when he was creating a novel!
Of course, after winning the "Contradiction Literature Award", Lu Yao also had some money, and he kept all the money in a passbook, totaling 10,000 yuan. And this ten thousand yuan is the only income that Lu Yao has saved in his life. Obviously, this is a huge difference compared to the cigarette money he smoked when he was creating.
Everyone remembers such a picture: when Lu Yao was preparing to use "realism" to create "Ordinary World", he put dozens of cigarettes and two cans of coffee into a cardboard box and went directly to the coal mine to find inspiration.
Lu Yao's friend summed up why he was so poor: "The reason why he is poor is not complicated, one is that he does not earn much, and the other is that he spends a lot. And he spent the most than cigarettes, and it is said that Lu Yao already had a fanatical love of collecting cigarettes, and various cigarette boxes would be collected after smoking, and there was his love for a cigarette.
He once bought all his month's salary into cigarettes, which is enough to show that the biggest reason for Lu Yao's final "poor death" is probably from his love for good cigarettes.
We often say that rebellion is a reward for growth.
Lu Yao's childhood and youth were in a state of poverty, and he said to his friends: "For more than ten years, I have eaten pig and dog food, and worked as cattle and horses...", so when he was able to consume, or wanted to consume, he chose to be different from ordinary people's paranoia.
Cigarettes seem to be just one reason for his "poverty", but the reality is that he returns this psychological desire. May each of us grow up with "abundance" and thus be free from the consequences of disdain for material things but longing for them.