Chapter 90 postscript

In March of this year, late at night in the capital, Lama Temple West Wudaoying Hutong, a friend gave me a book by Zhang Chengzhi.Touching this book, my heart is full of joy. The first page I opened and the first line I read made my heart beat faster, and my eye sockets were almost moist—— I stand at a watershed in my life. And I think, since the beginning, I have been standing on this ridge for a long time.However, anyone who wants to cross this watershed is as difficult as crossing the river of life and death. Therefore, the epilogue of this article should start with me looking at this ridge.

Just like the name "Siwang", in addition to the homonym that can be seen at a glance, it is also because of such a distant view. In 1985, I was just in the first grade of primary school. I was in North Suzhou Road Primary School in Shanghai, located in the alley beside the Suzhou River in Zhabei District, near Laozha Bridge (Fujian Road Bridge).In my memory, there is an old bungalow school building. My mother enrolled me in an art class, also in this elementary school, called Feifei Art School.A few years ago, the North Suzhou Road Primary School and the old house of my grandmother’s house where I lived were all demolished.

When I was in the third grade, I changed schools because I moved to Changshou Road No. 1 Primary School in Putuo District.Behind this school is the Suzhou Creek, and there is still a small bridge for pedestrians.When I was a child, I thought everything was tall, but when I grew up, I looked back and thought it was small.In the library of our elementary school, I read the first novel is Verne's, although it is an abbreviated picture book.Deep in the school is a winding path leading to a secluded place. Turning a dark passage, you can enter a small courtyard, where a three-story teaching building is hidden.I spent my fourth and fifth grades there.Next to the teaching building is a private house. I remember that there are many bamboos and fig trees planted outside the window of the private house, and there is a kindergarten next door.

In 1990, I entered the preparatory class of Wuyi Middle School in Putuo District. The Suzhou Creek is right behind the school. The entrance is a small playground. The teaching buildings are on the right and in front of the school. On the left is a cinder track and a row of two-story low houses.It's like a long island, far away from the teaching building and everyone.The infirmary is on the first floor of that row of houses. Every time I face the eye chart, I always have little confidence in myself, because I have dedicated my eyes to various novels throughout the holiday.There is also the physical education teacher's office. Boys always like to take physical education classes. Some of them have a good relationship with the teacher and practice long jump in the nearby sandpit.The music classroom is also there, the walls are soundproof, the doors and windows face the big playground, and you can overlook the light green teaching building.There is a very old piano in the classroom, the wood feels like an organ.On the first day of junior high school, there was a young and beautiful music teacher who had just graduated from a normal school and was assigned.Her surname is Zhu, and I still remember that nice name.Every music teacher can play the piano, and I wish the teacher can also play the piano well.At that time, the school didn't pay much attention to music and art classes, and they seldom took them in the third year of junior high school. My impression of music classes was that they were hidden in the back row,

Listening to her playing the piano.At that time, I was learning to play the flute at home, and performed twice at school, but Teacher Zhu didn't notice my specialty, and I never took out the flute because of my shyness.There are staves in the music textbooks in junior high school, and I used these notations to practice my flute for a long time.In the last music class exam, everyone sang a song with the piano accompaniment of Teacher Zhu.It stands to reason that the songs in the textbook should be sung. Several boys sang popular songs at the time, such as "New Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Dream", such as the Four Heavenly Kings, and Teacher Zhu calmly accompanied the piano.I chose "My Motherland" in the textbook. Although it seems very old-fashioned, I think the melody of that song is very beautiful.It's a pity that I was embarrassed to continue halfway through the singing, but Teacher Zhu felt that I sang well at the beginning, and seemed to give me a medium score.

After graduation, I never saw Teacher Zhu again. The upstairs of the music classroom is the school library.A young female faculty member often comes and goes, I don't know if she is a teacher or a librarian?The deepest impression she left on me was that she was still wearing a miniskirt when it was very cold in winter, exposing her slender white thighs, which made the senior boys around scream.You must know that in that era, even in the hottest summer, there were not many girls wearing miniskirts on the road.In the first year of junior high school, I quietly walked up the steps on the second floor and got into the small library. There were only three or four rows of bookshelves in total, but it was enough for me.Excitedly looking at the yellowed spines, I selected a copy of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.I touched the book like a treasure, wrote down my name on the library card, and walked downstairs carefully.As a result, I was stopped by two senior boys at the stairs. They looked at my book and said, "I've read this book, it's very good!" So, I went back to the classroom with the book in my hands even more happily.

Not long after I graduated, Wuyi Middle School was demolished, and the outside became a nightclub, which is now a famous sensual venue in Shanghai. And my junior high school music teacher was assigned to other nearby middle schools because of school demolition.Later, one of the students that Teacher Zhu taught became a famous singer, Shang Wenjie. Later, I went to a place far away to study. At that time, it was still a desolate factory area. There was a blower factory next door. We often played football in school, and sometimes we had to pick up the ball after kicking it over the fence.I heard that the factory used to be a famous cemetery, where a generation of famous actress Ruan Lingyu was buried.

After that, I went to work. From 2002 to the beginning of 2007, I worked in the Post Office Building on the north side of Sichuan Road and Bridge by the Suzhou River, an eclectic building completed in 1924 with Corinthian columns and Baroque domes. After that, it was me you saw. Coincidentally, I have been living by the Suzhou River since I was born. This is my river of life and death. In June 2012, on a certain night, I went shopping with my family at Carrefour, and when I was eating at Yonghe Dawang, I suddenly thought about it—what was the child thinking in his heart?Bury secrets that adults can't imagine?Far beyond the child's life experience, or from another time and space - when the children are silent, they are recalling the past of their previous life.

I turned to imagine: In fact, each of us walked this way. Even if we drank Mengpo soup under the Naihe bridge by the water of Wangchuan, we still have the memory of the previous life when we were born, but we are growing up slowly. After being invaded and polluted by the so-called "education", everything in the previous life is gradually forgotten, from joys and sorrows to birth, old age, sickness and death... Thus, it began. Half a year later, when the book was 80% completed and 60,000 words had been serialized in the "World of Suspense" magazine, I suddenly thought of a better plan - a person you have never seen before, His name is Yu Lei, and as the name suggests, he is Julien in the movie. Only then did I realize that the real protagonist should be him. Why can't he cross the river of life and death?

So, I was faced with an extremely difficult and cruel choice-either follow the original writing outline and successfully complete the final ending; or change the protagonist to another person, and change most of the narrative perspective from the first person to the second person. The result, the three said, was a near-rewrite of the entire book, at the cost of dozens of sleepless nights. This is a dilemma I have never encountered before. It is like standing on a small watershed. Going back is a flat road, but it can only lead to Egypt when I came; Enter the land of Canaan promised by the Creator.

However, I believe that if a writer can encounter such a crossroads, no matter how he chooses, it is a kind of great luck. I chose the most difficult path. It was the Spring Festival of 2013, I gave up all the rest, and immersed myself in the second creation, that is, rewriting it from beginning to end. So, this is the story you see. At the end of March, the first draft was finally completed. I was so excited that I mistakenly wrote the date of completion as 2014. It seemed that my life had traveled a year later with Si Wang. That night, I posted a Weibo—— You're done, I really want to cry aloud!It was as if I had crushed my own heart, glued it together and crumbled it again, and finally stitched it together.Ups and downs, knowing the changes in temperature.Listening to "Meng Po Soup" by You Hongming.For the last sentence of the novel, please allow me to quote Gu Cheng's poem.Tonight, I think, life is endless, novels are endless, and pens are never closed. You have already seen the poems of Gu Cheng mentioned here at the end of this book. Thanks to Motie Books, the publisher of this book, Mr. Shen Haobo, the publisher, Liu Yi and Budi, the planning editors, and you who read this line. I would also like to thank every character in the book, you are all standing in front of me alive, experiencing life, old age, sickness, death, joy, anger, sorrow and joy in my heart.When Police Officer Huang Hai died in the line of duty, I was also typing on the keyboard while crying along with Si Wang, as if cold raindrops were falling into my eyes. Last night, my friend came to visit me from Beijing.Out of excitement, I took him past my alma mater, which is also the gate of the elementary school mentioned in the Chinese novel, and turned around to the bank of the Suzhou River—the location of the jeep where Si Wang found the corpse hidden by the river. There is a walking bridge here. We stepped on the steps and overlooked the water of Suzhou River.In the middle of the night, when the spring breeze blows, you can't see the water waves clearly in the dark, but you can only imagine the still water flowing deep under the bridge. The son said on the river, the dead are like husbands, never giving up day and night. Cai Jun Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at the Suzhou River in Shanghai press conference report On the afternoon of July 26, a special signing ceremony was held in the Creative Industry Park of Desheng International Center.This is the signing ceremony between Beijing Motie Books Co., Ltd. and the "first person in suspense" in China - Cai Jun and the release ceremony of Cai Jun's new book. First release in Beijing, Cai Jun strides towards a new level of personal writing This book is a work that Cai Jun has carefully conceived for five years. It is also the work that Cai Jun values ​​most so far. It is a new writing field that Cai Jun has explored on the basis of 15 years of creative experience.For Cai Jun, this part of his work is like water.As Cai Jun described - "I stand on the watershed of life. I have been standing on this ridge for a long time. However, anyone who wants to cross this watershed is as difficult as crossing the river of life and death." The time span of the novel is wide, from the 1980s to today, it tells about the desolate "little fate" in the "big era", the strange rebirth after death, the love spanning past and present, heinous crimes and perfect revenge .But the core part of it is warmth and redemption, like light in darkness and despair: Even if everyone abandons you and you are completely desperate for the world, you still have to live!Because the person who loves you the most said: You have to wait for me to grow up! Cai Jun is working hard to improve the quality of Chinese suspense literature Mr. Shen Haobo, the founder of Motie Books, said that Cai Jun's new work is a very important work of his own. In this work, he has realized the beginning of turning from genre literature to real literature writing.It is no longer just a suspense work, but also a literary work with suspense as the frame and human nature and emotion as the main focus. The host Meng Fei said that the excitement of the movie is no less than the highest level of Keigo Higashino. Well-known publisher Wang Xiaoshan, as the Bole of Cai Jun's early works, was also invited to attend the launch ceremony.He said: "Rather than paying tribute to Seicho Matsumoto, it is better to say that the work exudes the strong humanistic care in Keigo Higashino's novels." Cai Jun himself said that it is his most important work so far. He hopes that suspense novels will no longer be equated with ghost stories and vulgar street stalls.Like the really excellent suspense novels abroad, such as Stephen King's, Matsumoto Seicho's and other works, they have reached or even surpassed the height of serious literature.He will be committed to uniting more people in the same industry to jointly promote Chinese suspense literature and make its development reach a new height. Sa Dingding came to help Many characters in Cai Jun's works left a deep impression on readers, such as Ye Xiao, Ouyang Xiaozhi, Chun Yu, Gao Xuan, but the most special one is Sa Dingding.When Sa Dingding talked about the relationship between the two, he said that he has always been a reader of Cai Jun. When he saw this work, he was deeply moved by the story.When conceiving, Sa Dingding once talked with Cai Jun about the strange story that happened to her. Cai Jun felt that Sa Dingding's temperament fit the temperament of the characters in the story, So her name was used in the novel.At the opening ceremony, Sa Dingding came to help out and presented golden barley to Cai Jun, wishing the barley well.Cai Jun invited Sa Dingding to play Sa Dingding in the movie he is planning.