When I used to read books, I rarely paid attention to the author's life, let alone the process of creation, until I saw a passage like this:
After Lu Yao won the third Mao Dun Literature Award, he called his brother and said: "There is still no money to collect the award, the road fee is borrowed, but when you go to Beijing, you have to invite guests, and you have to buy 100 sets of "Ordinary World" to send people, can you help me think of a way again." ”
His younger brother Wang Tianle had no choice but to borrow 500 yuan in cash from Feng Wende, then deputy secretary of the Yan'an Prefectural Party Committee.
Lu Yao, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, couldn't even afford to buy his own books, let alone the money to receive the award!
Seeing this, I know Wang Tianle, who has been mentioned in many articles, that is, Lu Yao's younger brother.
Lu Yao's most grateful person is him, when Lu Yao was 7 years old, his father led Lu Yao to his uncle in the countryside of Yanchuan County to visit relatives.
Father said, tomorrow I will go out to catch the market and come back in the afternoon.
Young Lu Yao knew,
Once the father left him and left his uncle's house, he would not come back.
The next day,
Lu Yao watched his father hurriedly slip away from the village like a thief,
Tears welled up.
From then on, he began to live in his adoptive father's house.
20-year-old Lu Yao
However, this did not affect his relationship with his brother Wang Tianle, the two of whom were the closest since childhood.
At that time, Lu Yao, who was a little famous, did not know how many good words he had said in order to get his brother out of his status as a farmer, and arranged for his brother to work in the city, and later asked for someone to transfer him to Yan'an Bao and Shaanxi Daily as a reporter.
When "Ordinary World" won the award, in order to collect the award, or the younger brother went to borrow the road fee, at that time, the road did not even have the road fee to receive the award!
At that time, Wang Tianle said: If you won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I can't find you foreign exchange!
Lu Yao turned his head and went to the waiting hall.
Wang Tianle
And Lu Yao wanted to write a sentence at the beginning of "Ordinary World": I would like to dedicate this book to my brother Wang Tianle.
Wang Tianle said that I was also saddled with the sin of being famous when I wrote this, you are famous, your brother is also famous, and people will laugh.
So Lu Yao changed it to: "I would like to dedicate this book to the land and years I have lived in."
Later, Lu Yao lay on a hospital bed, and his younger brother Wang Tianle became his "logistics minister" until his death.
From left to right: younger brother Wang Tianle, writer Jin Zheng, Lu Yao
In these 6 years, "Ordinary World" can be created and completed, half of which is the credit of Wang Tianle!
After Lu Yao's death, his younger brother Wang Tianle wrote an article about him titled "Suffering is His Eternal Companion." It records the story of him and Lu Yao.
On May 25, 1988, the day Lu Yao remembered his life, "Ordinary World" wrote the last word and drew the last punctuation.
After that, the first thing he did was throw the pen out of the window. Walked to the bathroom mirror and looked at my old and emaciated self, tears streaming down my face.
The third left Jia Pingwa, the fourth left Lu Yao, and the right one Chen Zhongzhong
On June 1, Lu Yao, accompanied by his younger brother Wang Tianle, went to Beijing to deliver a third draft of the novel to the Central People's Radio.
There have been nearly two thousand letters from the audience, all talking about "Ordinary World".
Six years, three books, six volumes, one million words.
The Mao Dun Literature Prize brought him a prize of 50,000 yuan, but when he died in 1992, he left a passbook of 10,000 yuan and nearly 10,000 yuan in arrears.
How could he have imagined that more than 20 years later, catching up with the IP fever, "Ordinary World" would be developed into a film and television work with a total investment of more than 120 million yuan?
The cave where Lu Yao was born
But what Lu Yao wanted was not money, but hoped to leave valuable spiritual food for future generations, so when he first created "Ordinary World", Lu Yao was ready to sacrifice, spitting blood while writing, and he used his life to create spiritual food left for future generations.
Lu Yao's works are full of bright colors. After hard work, his protagonist has reached a realm of personality sublimation and spiritual maturity. Therefore, although he writes about suffering and struggle, what he gives people is always hope, is noble, is exalted, and is warm. This casts a poetic glow on his story that is higher than life.
According to statistics, in the past three decades, an average of one book about Lu Yao has been published every year. Academics, scholars and their writings on Lu Yao and Lu Yao's works also continued to increase.
More and more readers were influenced by his works, and they left Lu Yao's books to the next generation.
Pan Shiyi said that many people like to see the tenacity and hardship described in Lu Yao's novels, which is of course a kind of strength.
"Actually, what has affected me the most is the power of love. The love of his fellow citizens, the love of siblings, the love of lovers, the love of his fellow windows, in his writings, are the purest, most moving, most contagious forces in the world—this power penetrates into everyone's heart through books. ”
"Lu Yao's works have always been read and loved by readers. His voice remained in the hearts of generations of readers, and this man's life continued. Chen Zhongzhong said.
What Lu Yao left behind is not only the "epic poem of the laborer" that has been written with 1.04 million words and painstaking efforts, not only his enthusiasm and strength to pass through suffering with poetic brilliance above life, but also the spiritual echo of generations of Chinese strivers.
Reading Lu Yao is like reading yourself, and reading "Ordinary World" is like completing a redemption of life.
And after we read it, the biggest feeling is that we are inspired, which may be the reason why Lu Yao desperately wants to write this work, and he hopes to leave spiritual food for the majority of people!
Therefore, "Ordinary World" deserves to be everyone's pillow book, and it is even more worthy of being the strongest companion on the road of your struggle.
If you can only read one work in your lifetime, the first choice is "Ordinary World".