Red Child's new work | my name is Red
Published in Beijing Daily on August 6, 2021
My name is Red
Red Child
Another female writer, Black Child, whose real name is Geng Renqiu, was the editor of the magazine "Youth Literature" in the 1980s. She was beautiful and talented, and she was in the same office as Ma Wei at the time. I remember that in the late 1980s, she and Zhao Mei in Tianjin and Zhou Peihong in Shanghai came up with a set of essays, which fascinated me. Later, I met the old writer Zhou Ming, knew that he had a very good relationship with the black child, and wanted to know the black child through him. Zhou Ming said that the black child went to Japan and it was not easy to contact. I said, I can write letters, call, send messages. In this way, the black child and I became very good friends. Since last year, Black Child has successively published novellas and novellas in important journals such as Harvest, Qingming, and Beijing Literature, which have attracted the attention of the literary circles. I asked the black child, you are not honest in Japan, desperately writing to publish in The country to make money, you are also too cruel, right? Black Child laughed and answered: There are many literary newspapers and periodicals in China, and the circulation is also large, and the fee is much higher than that in Japan. In a word, the domestic economic development speed is fast, which makes people envious. I said, in that case, you should go back to China.
The black child is a few years older than me, and naturally she grew up watching red movies and singing red songs. I didn't ask her what songs she liked to sing, she was born in the northeast, and if one day she had a phone call, I would sing her the famous "Ussuri Boat Song." The Black Child once asked me, when did you get your name Red Child? I joke that when you go black, I start to turn red. After that, you will affectionately call me red. Of course, I'm not going to call you black.