Opening the door, I was looking at a cherry tree in the yard next door.Probe again and see a small piece of green sea through the gap between the two houses.This is Qingdao in May, and the red cherry and green sea are all in the small wind from the south. A letter from a friend asked for my short stories to be printed. I searched for it: there were fifteen or six articles, one or two of which were messed up due to the move, and had no beginning and no end, so they were simply picked out; there were three or four very boring ones, which were also picked out and thrown away.There are ten articles left, which is not too much.Probably in addition to these fifteen or six articles, there should be at least two or three articles, because there are never any secondary manuscripts, and it is not always possible to read each article after it is printed, and they will be forgotten after ten and a half months; Fortunately, this is not a big loss, just lose it if you lose it.

A nineteen-month-old girl was born in Jinan, so she was named "Ji"; since these ten articles are going to be a collection, they naturally have to have a name; those who eat barbecue according to the recipe and were born in Jinan are named "Ji" , those who were born in Qingdao—these ten articles were almost all written in Qingdao—should be named "Qing" or "Island".But "Qingji" and "Daoji" are not pleasant to hear, so I looked outside the house, and then probed, "Sea of ​​Sakura" is not beautiful!With instructions.Now let’s talk about these ten works.

Although these ten articles have been carefully selected, I have to be honest, I look down on them.Don't ask me which one is better, I don't think they are good.Speaking of it, the story is long: I resigned from my teaching position at Qi University in mid-July last year, and went to Shanghai in August.I'm not going shopping, but I want to see if I can stop teaching and write to earn a living.I have long wanted to stop teaching.After living in Shanghai for more than ten days, my heart felt cold even though the weather was so hot.Why do you feel cold?The bottom line is: You can't get a living just by writing.

The second move is easy to decide, and I have to teach.So I came to Qingdao.Not long after arriving in Qingdao, my best friend Bai Dizhou died; I ran back to Peiping and wept. These two things—not being able to concentrate on writing, and the death of a good friend—deprived me of energy for a long time; what I wanted to do was not allowed to be done, and people who should live died instead.Yes, I know that to live a day is to have a day of romping and dancing, I work and write articles as usual, but there is something stuck in my heart, it is always there!Poorly written?Because my heart is blocked!I am a person who loves to laugh, I can't laugh!I have always written very fast, and although fast and good are not the same thing, it is a pleasure to write for a while after all; hmph, since last autumn, I have been unable to do so.I don't believe in the "exhausted talent" theory, and I don't believe that people who are nearly forty years old should be regarded as old people;However, the environment must allow me to write, so I can write and write well.It's not easy to be busy all day, to pick up a pen to write something during the break time, and to do well!I don't want to push out all the sins, I just say that I am smart.No, I never said I was smart; but the oppression outside really made me "less" smart.This must be said, and my own incompetence is at least half and half to blame for what makes me even less so.

This isn't meant to be an apology to the reader, either.There are some changes in style, which can be clearly seen from these ten chapters; this change is consistent with the mood.There is much less humor here than in previous works.Laughter cannot be forced.In terms of text, it is obviously more honest and delicate.Whether these changes were good or bad, I don't know, but there were changes.These changes are some of the colors given to the work by more than half a year of life, whether it is good or bad, or that sentence-I don't know.Some people like black, some people like white; but my color is determined by me and my environment.

There are a few articles that have enough material to be written into medium-length or long-length articles. Because I am busy, I write them very short. It seems that the noodles are not cooked well, so the steamed buns are small and hard.If I don't kill "busy", "busy" will poison all my works! When will I not be busy?! Having said so much, probably the biggest benefit is only enough to show that I am not bragging; then, fair business, gentlemen who visit bookstores, please taste before buying, so as not to be fooled! Lao She is prefaced in Qingdao.1935, May.