During a live-fire training exercise, Yan Lianke scored 10 rounds of 10 bullets in the magazine with a staggering score of 100 rings. The regimental commander said he was not convinced, and gave him another 10 rounds of ammunition, this time he hit 99 rings. The regimental commander made a decision on the spot for him to represent the recruits in the division's competition.
Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Tianhu Town, Song County, Henan Province, an extremely poor village. Yan Lianke, as the oldest and youngest in the family, should have set his parents' favor in one, but the family was really poor, and his father and eldest sister were bedridden for many years, and he did not enjoy any special treatment.
When yan Lianke was a child, he went to school and read, mowed grass and herded cattle, and watched his parents' hard work at sunrise and sunset in exchange for hunger, and he had the idea of fleeing the land and the countryside urgently.
At that time, the eldest sister was bedridden for many years, although she could not go to school, but the bedside was full of mainstream literary works.
Yan Lianke has been going to his eldest sister's bedside from time to time since he was in elementary school, and when he was in high school, he suddenly picked up his pen and began to create.
During the day, he went to a high school a few miles away to study, lay in bed at night to conceive, went home on weekends to work in the field during the day, and lit a kerosene lamp at night to create "Blood and Fire in the Mountains".
However, when the story was written to more than three hundred pages, the eldest sister's waist pain suddenly worsened, and the family could not afford the daily expenses, so Yan Lianke had to drop out of school in the second semester of high school and follow his uncle to the Xinxiang cement factory hundreds of miles away to work.
Because they were temporary workers, Yan Lianke and his cousin could only do the heaviest and hardest work, walking to the train station every morning and dragging tons of coal or sand back to the cement factory.
Two months later, when my uncle saw Yan Lianke walking in the factory, one shoulder high and one shoulder low, and his body was a little crooked, he asked him, "Why do you walk like this?" ”
Yan Lianke hurriedly said, "This is how I walk."
The cousin on the side bowed his head, raised it again and said, "Pull the cart to pull."
The uncle didn't say anything more, and left with tears in his eyes.
Later, his uncle entrusted Yan Lianke with a relaxed errand, and he had time to pick up his "Mountain And Country Blood and Fire" again.
When I thought I would spend my life, I suddenly resumed the college entrance examination. Yan Lianke rushed home immediately after receiving the news, and after four days of revision, he took the college entrance examination.
Yan Lianke felt that his composition was well written, filled in the volunteer times and went to Peking University, but he fell off the list.
In the winter of 1978, Yan Lianke's father approached the commune secretary and gave Yan Lianke a quota as a soldier.
On the day of changing into a new military uniform, Yan Lianke happily walked around the village. Unexpectedly, when I was ready to go to the armed forces department the next day, the new uniforms neatly stacked at the head of the bed disappeared.
Seeing that the assembly time was approaching, his father asked someone to borrow an old military uniform for him to wear, and Yan Lianke was considered to be a soldier without danger.
After coming to the recruit company, Yan Lianke worked hard to train, but the results were not satisfactory. Fortunately, he wrote a good hand, and the company commander put him in the board newspaper group.
During a live-fire training exercise, Yan Lianke hit 100 rings with 10 bullets in the magazine. The regimental commander said he didn't believe it, called him out, and gave him 10 more rounds of ammunition on the side, and Yan Lianke hit 99 rings.
The regimental commander made a decision on the spot and decided to let him represent the recruits to participate in the shooting competition organized by the division.
On the day of the match, Yan Lianke played 98 rings, tied for third place with another recruit.
In order to commend Yan Lianke, the regiment gave him a third-class merit, which made Yan Lianke suddenly have the idea of "Tigan marrying a daughter-in-law with a town hukou".
Fate was always biased towards those who worked hard, and Yan Lianke was favored by the instructor before the company was taken in by the instructor and brought to the battalion headquarters as a correspondent.
This position gives Yan Lianke more opportunities to play his specialty - creation. It also gave him key news - publishing five articles in provincial newspapers and periodicals can achieve third-class merit.
As if grasping the straw of life, Yan Lianke finally published five articles at the end of the second year of his military career, and was once again awarded the third class merit, so that the conditions for promotion were met.
But just when he thought his dream was about to come true, a document knocked him to the bottom — soldiers who had not been trained in military academies were not allowed to do so.
"Since you can't do it, let's go home!" Yan Lianke thought to himself.
Just as he was boarding the train returning home with a gift he had bought for his family with a discharge fee, the regimental commander suddenly rushed into the platform in a jeep and told him, "You're done."
Yan Lianke, who looked confused, became a platoon officer, but when he was promoted to instructor again, he chose to study in the Department of Military Arts and Literature without hesitation.
Perhaps the "literary dream" in his heart has never been sent, and he is eager to use the pen in his hand to show his ambition.
After graduating from the military arts, Yan Lianke stayed in the Second Artillery Television Center as an editor. During this time, most of his works were mainly in the army.
Later, he rested at home due to problems with the lumbar and cervical vertebrae, and read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" again. After his illness, his works gradually changed their style, and eventually formed "theosophy", such as "Explosion Chronicle" and "Daylight Flow Year" and other works.
In 2003, Yan Lianke's "Living" was published, alarming the literary world, and he took off his military uniform for 26 years and joined the Beijing Writers Association.
Many years later, Yan Lianke's cousin died, he rushed home to mourn, in the spiritual shed, a cousin said to him, "Brother Lianke, you have written so many things, why don't you write about our family?" ”
His cousin's words made him instantly think of his father and uncle, and the difficult days.
After returning to Beijing, he wrote "My Father and Me".
At the time of the first edition, the printer in charge of printing and sorting it out into an electronic version cried and said, "Teacher Yan, I finished printing with tears." ”
Yan Lianke's son sent him a message after receiving the electronic version, "After reading it, I am bitter." ”
A 16-year-old girl wrote to Yan Lianke after watching "I and my father": "I have a good academic performance, but I never know how to get along with my parents, after watching "I and my fathers", I understand the difficulty of my parents, and I also learned how to communicate with my parents."
Some readers said: I am a book that resonates with my father and father, and people who have not experienced it will have a sobering book.
Some readers also said: My father and I are a book that my children want to give to their parents after reading it, and I am grateful to our fathers. It is also a book that parents want to give to their children after reading it, please know your parents.
I have a deep affection for my fathers
