Chapter 41 Wang Shuo

Wang Shuo Feng Tang Pulling the suitcase and walking past the newsstand at the airport, I caught a glimpse of the fourth issue of Sanlian Life Weekly in 2007. Wang Shuo had a big face, looking sideways at the void, occupying three-quarters of the cover, and couldn't hide his eyes.Sanlian Life Weekly is a chicken thief magazine, from five yuan a piece to eight yuan, from a semi-monthly magazine to a weekly magazine, making money from eyeballs.However, it and "Caijing" are the two Beijing magazines that are rare in China and are intensively cultivated. "Even though the production is cumbersome, I dare not save labor, and the taste is expensive, but I dare not reduce material resources."The cover story of Sanlian Life Weekly is particularly tricky. I heard from the person who is often the surgeon that it is written to be handicapped. Like writing a novel, it cures mental illness and causes impotence.Wang Shuo is also a well-known brand, established earlier than the brand of Sanlian Life Weekly.After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, after the Cultural Revolution, Wang Shuo and Wang Xiaobo balanced the wet writing of Yu Hua, Su Tong, and Ge Fei in the south, and the writing of beautiful women’s lower body, Han Han and Guo Jingming’s big sales constituted the three major social and cultural phenomena in the past 20 years, and Zhao Benshan and Guo Degang constituted the past The three major folk artists in the past twenty years.Personally, I think Wang Shuo has a temperament. I finished the first two of the four "Wang Shuo's Collected Works" published by Huawen Publishing House, but I couldn't read the third one, and the fourth one was rubbish.It was published by the People's Literature Publishing House. I finished the first and second volumes, but I couldn't read the second volume. I can't tell if it is rubbish.After the age of 30, strangers often ask me three questions. The first one is, why did you stop doing gynecology after getting a Ph.D.?Second, what is the relationship between your workplace McKinsey and McDonald's?Third, what is the relationship between what you wrote and Wang Shuo and Wang Xiaobo?My standard answer is, number one, I don't love women anymore.Second, McKinsey and McDonald's are both American companies.Third, both Wang Shuo and Wang Xiaobo and I grew up in Beijing, and we all use northern Chinese code characters.

Reason enough, pay for magazines, spend time, read. With pictures and text, 22 pages, after reading it in an hour on the plane, three key words about Wang Shuo emerged in my mind: fame and fortune, turning around, and shrewdness. Fame and fortune.A person with temperament, point right, step on a piece of watermelon rind, and soon become brilliant.Zhao Yun from Changbanpo, Gao Chong who picked the pulley, the young Wang Shuo, after writing millions of words a year, found that he could earn 10 yuan for a word, and sell a script for a million. , and even in the cultural circles, they can fall into the imperial court, not be famous for their affairs, and their film shoes and kitchen knives are in the palace. I don’t know where the upper limit of personal ability is, so I said I didn’t pay attention to writing it, so I couldn’t watch it for a long time except for garbage film and television scripts. to what he wrote.Fortunately, I didn't say I didn't pay attention to writing "Historical Records", otherwise the close-up on the cover of Sanlian Life Weekly would be even more beardless.

Difficulty turning around.Writing a novel is a "spray" of mental and physical labor.People who write novels, if it is for their own mental health, 100% should write, if they want to record human experience that cannot be recorded by other means, 99% of people should not write.Among the 1% of people who should write, about 90% of them spray one or two copies of three to five milliliters of Unforgettable, three to five milliliters of Ecstasy, three to five milliliters of Brain Pee Book, three to five million words, just right.Cao Yu, Qian Zhongshu, Shen Congwen, Kerouac, and Akutagawa Ryunosuke are all examples.Afterwards, turn around, you can keep your mouth shut like Cao Yu, you can do trivial and meticulous studies like "Guan Zhui Bian" like Qian Zhongshu, you can spray your love for women on the study of ancient costumes like Shen Congwen, and you can be like Shen Congwen. Drinking and taking drugs like Kerouac can be done like Akutagawa Ryunosuke.In addition, the 10% who are full of energy must fully understand themselves and adapt to their own temperament. Cults are okay.Those with a sunny temperament, such as Henry Miller, Philip Roth, Hemingway, and Wang Xiaobo, should raise their glasses to invite the bright moon, and stick to "I".Those with a negative temperament, such as Lawrence, Nabakov, and Kurt Vonig, should use the villain's heart and eyes to conceive a "not-self".In my heart, I have always hoped to see good Chinese novels with a Zen flavor. I originally pinned my hopes on Ah Cheng, but Ah Cheng, who originally planned to write the Eight Kings, wrote the Three Kings. Maybe he is a famous person, so he also wrote the script. Maybe it was "broken in speech", and I decided to kill the text, and I didn't write novels anyway.Up to now, it is still the most reliable, and it is even closer to "Thousand Paper Cranes" by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata.Wang Shuo is a person with a sunny temperament. Turning around this time and listening to the yelling, it seems to be discussing time, involving alkaloids, and bringing himself and all sentient beings to a higher level.I think it's difficult.

Full of savvy.From the young Wang Shuo to the middle-aged Wang Shuo, what has not changed is the shrewdness in his temperament.That is a kind of shrewdness on the streets of Beijing, which belongs to talent plus youthful skills. After ten years old, it is basically impossible to learn. Compared with Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang's shrewdness, it is smaller, gentler, and more limited, and Wei Xiaobao's similar.Compared with the shrewd ones in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, he is bigger, more concealed, and quicker and decisive, so it is estimated that when the new book comes out, Wang Shuo will not be like Yu Hua's promotion of "Brothers".The middle-aged Wang Shuo appeared in the Sanlian Life Weekly, with more than 20 pages of eloquence. It reads like listening to the speech of a state-owned enterprise leader with high morals, praying mantis, gossip, and Tai Chi. When the point is reached, all the foreshadowing that should be buried is buried. On the surface, it looks sharp and violent, but in fact it offends nothing that shouldn't be offended, and doesn't say a word that shouldn't be said.The middle-aged Wang Shuo scolded that it was either half-buried or developing.The ones who were scolded were buried in the ground, and those who were scolded could be seen as rubbish if they had an undergraduate degree, and those who were scolded were developing. If you carefully select, it is impossible to pull out half of the 26-year-old Su Tong.

Taking this unopened issue of Sanlian Life Weekly on the plane, I secretly hoped that there would be some naked ones to read. There are so many people around on the street, so it should look good.Squeezing into the crowd, there are those in charge of lighting, those in charge of recording, and those who maintain order. The one who runs naked is wearing gold trousers and a gold mask.