Chapter 37 Chapter One

Some people think that writing novels is very difficult, that this kind of mental work must have some know-how that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words, or that it absolutely requires genius, aura, and imagination beyond ordinary people.actually not.There are stories anytime and anywhere in life, and you can almost find them at your fingertips.Look, there are so many people walking shoulder to shoulder on this main road, some are leisurely, some are in high spirits, some are looking around, some are burying their heads on the road without squinting, and some are in pairs. Backpacking, walking around like no one else... Not to mention the many, many people who ride bicycles, sit on the tram, stand on the bus and lean on the comfortable sofa of the car.You just have to keep an eye on any one of these tens of thousands of people. If you have a penetrating energy, a tenacity, and a stubborn temper that will never give up until you dig to the root and stare at the end, then you will definitely start from this place. People get one or even several interesting stories.If you record exactly what happened to him and what happened around him, it is a novel.

The difficulty is that you have to learn the ability to get into this person's heart, just like Monkey King can get into the belly of Princess Iron Fan.As soon as Princess Iron Fan's thoughts moved, Sun Wukong would know right away that he would not be fooled by her.Of course, there is no question of being fooled or not between the person who wrote the novel and the person being described, but there is a similarity in this principle.One is that without psychological description, your article will not be called a novel, but a news report; moreover, writing about the actions of characters but not the motives of the actions sometimes confuses readers.Only when you write out the most secret psychology of the characters and the flashes of the moment, will your novels be more vivid and interesting.Second, if you drill into his or her belly, you will find that the things hidden there are much richer and more interesting than what he or she shows on the outside.To be honest, the story mostly starts there, not with the facial expressions and behaviors that your eyes can see.

Let's say... good!Let's take a pair of young men and women at the entrance of that movie theater as an example.You see, a man and a woman dressed in the most fashionable clothes in the crowd are affectionate, and it seems that they are not married yet.Now, after they left the movie theater, the woman took the initiative to take the young man's arm, leaned half of her body weight on him, and walked towards the nearby fruit shop.Their faces are also like apples in the fruit shop, and all the ripe happiness is overflowing on the surface.But, wait a minute, if we drill into their hearts, you will find that: the woman didn't think about anything in a daze, she just kept indulging in illogical pleasure; Think about the actress in the movie you just saw.He said in his heart: "It would be nice if it wasn't her but her who was leaning on me!" He already felt a little uncomfortable with the intimacy of this silly girl beside him.

This is still a visible couple.Now let's turn our attention elsewhere.OK, let's find it in the bus.Fortunately, the train was not crowded and everyone had a seat.You see, the man sitting on the left and the woman sitting on the right are both in their thirties.They sat apart across the aisle, obviously not knowing each other.The woman was dressed plainly and elegantly, like a government official; she had a pretty face, with big expressive eyes, but there were a few imperceptible fine lines between her brows, it seemed that her marriage had suffered misfortune.The man could be seen as a teacher or a technician at a glance, with a gentle appearance and an introverted personality.The two of them glanced at each other now and then as the car rocked, not for more than a second each.Well, let's get into their hearts now.It turned out that both of them were very eager to know each other at this moment; both of them discovered in the glances from time to time, from the inner temperament that the appearance showed, that he was her and she was the person he had dreamed of for a long time.There is an invisible bioelectric magnetic field between them, what Goethe called "affinity", a kind of telepathy, which makes them feel that they can live together in a very harmonious and intimate way for a lifetime.

"Yes, year after year, day after day, secretly looking forward to only one thing - a happy affair." Ivan Alexei, a Russian writer in exile in Paris and later won the Nobel Prize for Literature Jevich Bunin has written many short stories in which he met by chance on the road, in a restaurant, or on a ship, and performed a lingering love story, such as "Heatstroke", "Three Rubles", "In Paris" etc.The above sentence is taken from the wonderful novel "In Paris".However, this poor couple couldn't continue the performance. The bus stopped at a stop, and the woman stood up, and got off the bus with a very firm step, without any expectation.In fact, her firmness is covering up the deep melancholy and regret in her heart.As Bunin wrote: "But in the end, I waited in vain..." And his and her faces will be imprinted in her and his minds for a long time.

Look, is this interesting or not? Well, now let's turn our attention to those characters sitting in the car.Let's just say this "Toyota" speeding past us.Sitting on the sofa behind that was a provincial cadre, with a slightly fat body, a square face, and a "Han official majesty" between his brows.He was going to attend an important meeting to discuss the redivision of the administrative districts of several commissions.If we drill into his mind, you will find that his mind is not on that meeting at this time, but an old joke.The joke goes like this: in the past, two neighboring magistrates, in order to divide their own jurisdiction, agreed that the next morning would start from their own yamen, and they would walk opposite each other on foot without taking a sedan chair or riding a horse. To, where is their county boundary.One county magistrate got up and ran before dawn, while the other magistrate slept until it was three o'clock in the sun before waking up. When he got dressed and hurried out of the yamen, he happened to meet the magistrate who was driving at night at the gate of the county seat.Therefore, the power of this lazy county magistrate can only reach the gate of his city, and the large area of ​​land and many people outside the city gate are ruled by that county magistrate.The leading cadre was thinking: It is not bad to use this method to resolve the division of administrative regions, so as to save protracted quarrels at the meeting.

Although he was the moderator of that meeting, he was tired of that meeting. Let's look at another car, the black "Volga".Sitting inside was a senior cadre of the foreign trade department.He came out of one of the biggest restaurants in the city.That restaurant is something ordinary people can't even pay attention to if they have money.He just finished entertaining several foreign businessmen.The food we eat, the wine we drink, the specifications of the table and the quality of service, we can use the word "advanced" to sum it up.But if you get into his belly, you will know that although he is picking his teeth on the surface, as if intoxicated with wine and food, what he is thinking about is neither the contract signed yesterday nor the contract he just signed. The table of wine and food he ate was the pot helmet baked by his mother every Sunday when he was in middle school.In the early 1940s, there were no canteens in middle schools in the county seat, and the rural students who lived in the school had to bring a bag of dry food to school every week, and they ate boiled water for six days.He was thinking, how nice it would be to turn back time and start life again!If that's the case, he will become a person who knows the future, can make fewer or no mistakes, and seize many opportunities that others cannot discover. At his age, he will at least become a member of the Party Central Committee and a vice premier of the State Council!

...and so on and so forth. If you are interested, we might as well experiment.You just pick a random person on this street, don't pick the men and women we just saw, and don't pick those characters sitting in the car, because the experiment must be carried out with the most common materials, so you'd better pick the most common people. The ordinary, the most ordinary, the most inconspicuous person, let us keep an eye on him and see if we can write an interesting novel following his whereabouts.