In the open classroom, meet the writer
The dialogue and collision of ideas between the writer and the student
The first one
Cheng Yongxin's "If Only the First Sight" × Fudan MFA × creative writing at East China Normal University
Time: 2022.2.25 (Friday) 14:00-16:00
Location: 677 Julu Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, 2nd Floor, Writers Bookstore
Wonderful Trial Reading: Cheng Yongxin's Novel Collection "If Only the First Sight"
Novella "The Tale of Qingcheng Mountain"
Wonderful Trial Reading(1)
There is also a secret that Toyoko will never tell anyone else.
It was a sunny day, the mountain streams babbled, and yellow azaleas bloomed all over the hillsides. The front of the Yuanming Palace was crowded with tourists who came to the mountain to worship, Fengzi and the cloak were playing archery, and in the distance Niang picked up the water slope from the stream, only to see Wu Daoshi flashing out of the crowd, he pulled away from the crowd, an arrow stepped up, took the burden from niang's shoulder, and strode towards the squatter's house. Toyoko and The Cloak were squeezed by the crowd with bows and arrows, and the two of them were covered in sweat, and suddenly Toyoko felt hungry, so she left her cloak and trotted back to the squatter's room.
At the door of the squatter's room, he saw an unattended pair of buckets lying on the ground, and Toyoko threw her bow and arrow on the ground and crossed the bucket into the vestibule.
There was no one in the house, there was a long corridor from the front hall to the bedroom, Toyoko tiptoed along the corridor, and gradually heard a low cry and panting, he came to the wooden window, through the gap in the shutters, Toyoko saw a man's broad back and strong ass, the mother's two little feet hung in the air, trembling happily with the undulating cry, like two birds in the wind teasing each other, suddenly spasming each other, death is not separated...
Cloak heard Fengzi croaking, Wu Daoshi did not know when he appeared behind them, he pulled Fengzi's collar from behind and carried it to the Ancestral Hall, a strange sneer appeared on his face. Fengzi's two legs hung upside down in the air, and one palm desperately hit Wu Daoshi's arm. Wu Daoshi finally put down Fengzi, nodded one finger at his nose and said, "Call Daddy!" Hurry up! ”
Fengzi twisted her head, did not cry, squinted at Wu Daoshi, and her nose was closed, but she did not say a word. Wu Daoshi pressed hard and asked, "Is it called or not?" Calling or not calling? Don't call to throw you in the Five Dragon Ditch to feed the monkeys! ”
Fengzi "hummed" a little in his nose, turned his head and pulled his leg and ran, Wu Daoshi saw an arrow step forward to grab it, Fengzi screamed, and the palm of his right hand imitated the Daoist monks' boxing movements and swept past, silently reciting the incantation given to him by the old Taoists: "Heavenly Spirit Spirit, Earth Spirit Spirit, Green Dragon White Tiger Bite Together!" ”
Suddenly, the tall and tall Wu Daoshi slowed down, his body suddenly squatted down, his hands tightly covered his lower abdomen, the cloak saw the shape, came over and grabbed Fengzi's arm and ran.
After running for a while, they didn't see Wu Daoshi chasing after them, the two of them stopped, looked back, saw all the Daoists surrounding Wu Daoshi, Wu Daoshi frowned and pushed everyone away and slowly stood up, one hand still covered his abdomen and walked forward, staggering a few steps, did not want to fall straight down, and made a dull sound.
Afterwards, the Daoist monks all said that no one had seen Fengzi's palm touch Wu Daoshi's body, and I don't know how all this happened? In the distance, the old road stood on the stone steps, with a long whiskers fluttering, and his eyes were shining to see the whole process of the situation.
Wu Daoshi was bedridden for several weeks, constantly bleeding, the mother waited for the bedside all day, Lao Dao personally gave Wu Daoshi a pulse, and Lao Dao's diagnosis surprised everyone very much: Wu Daoshi actually unloaded a spleen.
A few months later, when Wu Daoshi was able to get up and walk, when Fengzi had officially worshiped Lao Dao as a teacher, every morning Fengzi got up early, led the Daoist monks to practice martial arts, went up the mountain to pick herbs all day long, and handed over the herbs with dew to his mother, he went to play archery under the old camphor tree, and occasionally when he got tired of playing alone, he would also come to the Yuanming Palace to serve tea for Lao Dao and Fengzi.
Under the meticulous service of his mother all day long, Wu Daoshi's injured body gradually recovered. Always able to get out of bed and walk, the mother helped Wu Daoshi to walk hard under the camphor tree in front of the ancestral hall, and from time to time apologized to Wu Daoshi, Who waved his hand and said frankly: "You have given birth to a great son, he is a rare strange person in the world!" ”
Wonderful Trial Reading(2)
A few days later, the wheat appeared at the gate of the camp again, behind her seven or eight hungry children, the cloak was a little difficult, but could not withstand the constant begging of the wheat, let the soldiers go to the camp room to get some rice balls and dried meat to distribute to the children, who knows that when the soldiers walked to these children with food, there was a strange scene: dozens of old people appeared behind the children, and the descendants of these people became rebels, leaving these old people hungry one by one, and they kept prostrating themselves to the wind. The cloak could not bear to see them, and took them to the big camp. These hungry old people are like a bunch of crazy people, more like a bunch of robbers, who have finished their cooked food and stuffed a lot of raw rice into their mouths when they see it.
There are more and more people. Later, the scene was completely out of control, and the hungry people who came to ask for food were endless, and the crowd could not help but loot the food in the kitchen, and snatched the grain from the granary, and several originally tall grain stacks were much shorter.
As the crowd slowly dispersed, the barracks were as chaotic as if they had been looted. In the evening, the cloak was kidnapped by Liu Xiufang's men and taken to the governor's tent.
The nature of this matter is serious. The strategy adopted by the rebel Fengzi inside the city wall was to encircle but not fight, the camp was originally short of grain and grass, Fengzi let the imperial court transport grain quickly, helplessly heavy rain, and the horse team transporting grain and grass could not move forward into shandong.
Liu Xiufang sat in a chair, did not say a word, and waited for Fengzi to dispose of it. Hu Yanting brought Liu Xiufang a cup of tea, and Liu Xiufang gave up and did not take the tea cup.
Toyoko turned her hands behind her back, closed her eyes, and looked up at the roof of the tent, her broad back exposed to the light and shadow that penetrated the gate of the tent.
After a few minutes of silence, Toyoko turned around and said softly with her finger on the cloak, her voice trembling slightly, "Are you, are you impatient with life?" ”
The cloak's head fell to the ground, and the sound was muffled, and he said, "General, it's all the cloak's fault, and the cloak is guilty!" ”
Toyoko said softly, like the tip of a needle falling to the ground: "This is a capital offense, you know?" ”
"General..." Hu Yanting's cry was almost tinged with tears. After all, the cape is not a horse! ”
"General Hu also said that it is a capital offense to distribute military grain without authorization according to the rules of the imperial court, but those hungry people will grab grain because they are hungry and faint." Liu Xiufang also seems to be interceding for the cloak.
"Liu Jianjun is clear about things, and the enemy is present, how can our army damage the general?" Hu Yanting said as he stole General Feng's face.
"The grain and grass in the army could not last for several weeks, but now most of them have been robbed, and I am worried that if the rebels cannot be suppressed, I and Fengdudu may find it difficult to make a difference to the imperial court." Liu Xiufang said slowly.
"Liu Jianjun, what do you mean by sentences from east to west..." Hu Yanting was anxious.
"Push out and chop." Toyoko said word for word.
Lotus Rong flashed out of the thorns in the tent, and knelt down on the ground, "Ask the general to forgive the cloak, the cloak once saved Lian Rong's life, if his sins cannot be forgiven, the concubine is willing to die for him!" ”
The scene was dead silent.
"Come on people! Tie this woman up for me!" Toyoko was furious.
"General, don't do it!" Madame need not say more, the disaster is my intrusion, I know, even if the master returns to the cape, it will inevitably die, I finally have a request, can I say a few words alone with the Governor? Cloak said awe-inspiringly.
Toyoko gave up, "You all back off." ”
There were only two men left in the tent, and cloaked mantle looked up and said quickly:
"General, the lotus flowers of Liu Mansion have been sent by me to protect them, right at Mount Qingcheng' place with my father." Now it is basically certain that the coachman of Old Master Feng was eliminated by Liu Juzhi's people. Liu Juzhi bought the coachman of Old Master Tongfeng, put a few bags of silver on the carriage in advance, and then killed people afterwards. I heard that the old thief was lying on the bed dying, and although the cloak died without regrets, he was sad and could not see the day of Liu Juzhi's destruction. The general must be wronged for the old case of Old Master Feng! ”
"You, you're such a jerk who messed up all my plans!" Is this providence? Toyoko closed her eyes and looked up at the sky and sighed.
"When a man dies, his words are good, and the court is unfair, so the general may as well rise up and establish himself as king!" The cape's eyes are shining.
"Stop talking nonsense! You have followed me for so many years, you and I are brothers and sisters, I will arrange everything in the future, your father and I will also take good care of it, you can rest assured that you will go on the road! Toyoko said.
"General! The rivers and lakes are sinister, you take care of yourself, you can't serve you anymore! The wind puffed out and fell to his knees, tears falling like rain.
About author:Cheng Yongxin, editor-in-chief, writer of Harvest Literary Magazine. He is the author of the novels "Aunt in the Cheongsam", "The Smell", the novel collection "It Snows Everywhere", and the essay collection "A Literary History of a Man".