Zeng Gaofei, a well-known writer who began to return to the literary world in the second half of 2019, presented a blowout state in his creation, following the completion of the novel "Nine-tailed Fox" in January, he recently completed the creation of this year's second novel "Peeping Bath", the manuscript has been handed over to the China Friendship Publishing House, and it is expected to meet with the majority of readers within this year.
"Peeping Bath" is a novel of youth emotional themes, focusing on the rural youth Wei'an returning home after the end of the college entrance examination, that special period of confusion, impulsiveness, struggle and struggle, the author with a humorous and heavy tone, telling "everyone has a ridiculous past, especially in a young age, this is the privilege of growth, but also the only way to maturity."
The content of the novel is summarized as follows:
After the end of the college entrance examination, Wei An returned to the village, and he longed for love, and he had an emotional entanglement with the girls next door, Xiu'er and Yan'er. What is love, what is friendship, what is love, what is sex, Wei An is still not clear. But all three young people want to go out and escape from their remote, backward, and poor hometowns.
Foreigners and their little black hair are coveted beautiful. Xiao Hei designed to kill Xiu'er's father, playing the benefactor of Xiu'er's family and being able to get close to Xiu'er. In order to repay Xiao Hei's kindness and debts, Xiu'er had to accept Xiao Hei, but she truly loved Wei An. Shi Shi talks to Xiu'er, which makes Xiu'er suspect that Xiao Hei murdered her father and launches a secret investigation.
Yan'er, who was born with a good voice, admired each other, and after a short trial, they began to fall in love with each other. Wei An made a hole in the wall to peek at Yan'er's bathing. Around this wall hole, the two launched an emotional offensive and defensive battle, and finally before Wei An joined the army and left home, Yan Er gave herself to Wei An.
Represented by the village chief, many men started the idea of Xiu'er. Wei An was obligated to become the protector of Xiu'er, and killed chickens and monkeys, beating the village chief, and the two generations of men formed a vendetta. In order to retaliate against Wei An and prevent him from developing, the village chief secretly burned Wei An's college admission letter; Wei An, who had been waiting for a long time without notice, had to go out of the village through the road of becoming a soldier, but the village chief also tried every means to obstruct it and was unwilling to sign and seal the political examination materials.
Xiu'er used her own body as bait to let the village chief sign and seal the political examination materials, helping Wei An fulfill his long-cherished wish to become a soldier and realize his dream of going out. After Wei An left the village, disheartened and desperate for life, Xiu'er drunk Xiao Hei, lit a mosquito net, and was burned to death with Xiao Hei, avenging her father and martyrdom.
After Wei An became a soldier, Yan Er found out that she was pregnant, but Wei An heard nothing. In order to protect the child, Yan'er eloped with the stone and left his hometown, and also realized his wish to go out.
After the training of the recruits, Wei An was sent to a certain highland in Tibet to garrison, and stayed for three years. Three years later, Wei An got his wish and was admitted to a famous military academy. Before going to school, Wei An returned home to visit the two girls next door who were closely related to his life and future, and looked forward to starting a new love life with Yan'er. But back home, Wei An realized that his hometown was already human, and the two neighbor girls, one dead, one ran away, disappeared.
When the soldier helped Wei An realize his desire to go out; Going to military school, he opened a smooth life for Wei'an, and put him on a normal life track, lifting him, changing careers, staying in Beijing, marrying a wife, having children, and promoting him. Career is smooth, feelings are flat as water. In order to remember Yan'er and that time, Wei An fell in love with lyrics and became a nationally renowned lyricist.
Nineteen years later, a stranger nicknamed "Girl Next Door" on WeChat asked to add Wei'an's WeChat, and Wei'an felt that it was Yan'er. The two chatted on WeChat, and sure enough, it was Yan'er. It turned out that Yan'er went to Beijing to send her children to school, and her children were admitted to the famous military school where Wei An once studied.
Two once unforgettable first love lovers have met, but different life encounters have worn them to the point that they are human, and there is no way to go back. Yan'er felt that they were "better to see each other than to miss each other". After leaving Beijing, Yan'er blacked out Wei'an and has never been in contact since.
The novel begins with the love tragedy of the three protagonists, but it reflects the youth memories of a generation, as well as the indomitable, hard work and struggle of the generation that grew up in rural China under difficult circumstances at the beginning of reform and opening up. The story makes people sigh, fate makes people sadistic, reading makes people immersed in it, empathy, unconsciously tears wet cardigan, can't help themselves.
This novel is based on the author's original short story "Voyeuristic Bath" and is a propositional composition. According to the author. Two years ago, Mr. Zhou Chengyun, a fellow entrepreneur friend who was working hard in Guangxi, came to Beijing, and a group of fellow villagers washed the dust for him, and the atmosphere during the banquet was warm. The same environment and experience, a common topic of birth is to reminisce bitterly and sweetly, and to lament the hardships of coming out of a remote hometown in those years. At that time, they did not eat and clothe, did not cover their bodies, did not understand, and had little future; But they did not give up, struggled in confusion, moved forward in groping, and finally left their hometown and survived to the day of their heads. Speaking of this experience, they were all emotionally excited, full of emotions, and unforgettable. Mr. Zhou Chengyun proposed that the author write a novel about the experience of that year to record that specific stage of growth.
This is the original intention of the novel. Subsequently, the author hastily wrote a short story "Peeping Bath", published on the Chinese Writers Network, but deeply felt that the length of more than 10,000 words was ashamed of that era, ashamed of youth, ashamed of the efforts of that generation, ashamed of the relatives, friends, and lovers who had contributed to helping them get out of that barren land, so he had the desire to pull the short story into a long novel.
At the end of 2021, when Mr. Lei Bin, the editor of China Friendship Publishing House, invited him to write, the author sent him the link to the short story "Peeping Bath", and said that he was going to rewrite the short story into a long story.
Half a month later, taking advantage of the return to his hometown in the countryside to accompany his parents for the New Year, immersed in the familiar customs and customs, the author began the first draft of this novel. It took half a month to smoothly outline the character relationship, character fate, story line, and plot layout of "Peeping Bath", which was regarded as the completion of the first draft creation.
After returning to Beijing after the New Year, the author began the creation of the second draft of the novel, insisting on two to three sections a day, five thousand to ten thousand words, and spent three weeks, writing the second draft of the novel, which is considered to be a friend, to that experience, to the era, but also to add a new chip to his creative career - "Peeping Bath" is the seventh novel created by Zeng Gaofei (including co-authored works), and it is also his seventeenth work, which is the seventh work created within three years after his return to the literary world in 2019.
It is reported that Zeng Gaofei is a well-known financial writer, essayist, novelist, and screenwriter on the mainland, who has published more than 6,000 literary, journalistic, and financial works, published novels such as "Born like a Summer Flower," "Red Dust Desire," and "Mobile Phone Jianghu," financial monographs such as "Decisive Right to Speak, Sankei Storm," screenwriters of the film "Nine-tailed Fox," participated in the screenwriting of the film "Dongfang Hong No. 1," and the TV series "One River Bright Moon And Blue Glass." The Hunan People's Publishing House will publish the essay collection "Everyone's Hometown, Are Wandering", the Writers Publishing House publishes the essay collection "Like Water Flowing Years, Hometown Taste", the series of novels "Our 70s", the first part of "Struggling Growth", the second part of "Youth Blossoms", and the China Friendship Publishing House publishes "Nine-tailed Fox" and "Peeping Bath".
From the achievement of financial writing back to literary creation, adhere to the "left hand finance, right hand literature, speak with works", it is really not easy, Zeng Gaofei spent a lot of time soaking on the computer keyboard, long-term sleep less than five hours a day. It is reported that he likes to start writing in the early morning and often gets up at four o'clock. Although literature is now a laborious and unflattering job, it is meritorious in the contemporary era, and the benefits are in the thousands, paying attention to responsibility and dedication. Zeng Gaofei hopes to live soberly, to "lie down and think, sit and write, stand and be a person, run and chase dreams", use words, record the times, reflect on reality and life, and make his own contributions to cultural rejuvenation.
Source: Pocket Changsha