Chapter 48 Wandering in Kyoto

Just as Paris became the Garden of Eden in the hearts of Western literati, Beijing, the capital of Chinese people, has long been a place where young people who pursue literature and art seek, realize, and romanticize their dreams. This thick and warm soil has always been It makes dream seekers flock to it, and makes me, a lost soul, dream about it for too long. As early as more than ten years ago, in 1990, I had to drop out of school due to the extreme poverty of my family. While working hard on the construction site, I exchanged more than ten hours a day for a meager salary of 5 yuan. Like squeezing toothpaste, I managed to squeeze out a sum of money from between my teeth, and signed up for the "Correspondence Class of Literary Creation" sponsored by Beijing's "People's Literature" magazine.I love literature so much. The life of extreme poverty and the spirit of pain and depression make me only take literature as my sustenance every day.As a student of the correspondence class, my two novels were favored and appreciated by Mr. Feng Xiaxiong, then deputy editor-in-chief of "People's Literature". Fiction pen club.When I carried a sum of hard-earned money that my mother borrowed from east to west, I rushed from my hometown to the capital all the way.Not long after I arrived in Beijing, I suddenly found that some thin banknotes in a book were missing.I was shocked. This negligible amount of money not only included my travel expenses back home, but also my food and accommodation expenses for the 7 days!The seven-day PEN meeting ended, and I was unaccompanied in Beijing, and I couldn't help feeling anxious.

At this time, Wang Yongjun, who was the director of the editor-in-chief of the "People's Literature" magazine and who was in charge of the pen meeting, took out 200 yuan and handed it to me on the spot after learning about my embarrassment, saying: "Little brother, don't worry. "People's Literature" is your home, and we will help you when you have difficulties, so take this money as travel expenses. As long as you work hard, you will surely accomplish a lot in the future..." I took the money and was speechless for a moment. With the help of teacher Wang Yongjun, I returned home smoothly.One month later, it happened that the South China Sea Fleet came to my hometown to recruit soldiers. I actively signed up and put on the blue navy uniform in December of that year. The coastal defense of the Beibu Gulf began my unforgettable military career.

When I went back to my hometown to visit relatives in the winter of 1997, I inadvertently learned that Mr. Wang hadn’t paid back the original 200 yuan!I was in a hurry, and as soon as I got back to Guangzhou, I rushed to the post office to remit the money, still feeling extremely ashamed.Yes, this mere 200 yuan may not be remembered by the enthusiastic and generous teacher Wang who is far away in the capital, because he always helps those literary youths from poor families like me. It is commonplace, but this incident has a pivotal significance for me.Therefore, I became good friends with Mr. Wang Yongjun.

Nine years later, Lu Xun Academy of Literature became my first place to stay when I came to Beijing for the second time.Lu Xun Academy of Literature is a school established by the state in the 1950s to cultivate writing talents, and it is also the only school in China that specializes in cultivating writers.It has been known as the cradle of Chinese writers for more than half a century, and its first dean is the famous female writer Ding Ling.Famous contemporary writers such as Deng Youmei, Jiang Zilong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Liu Zhenyun, Yu Hua, etc. have all studied here.After the reform and opening up, with the development of the market economy, this ivory tower of literature, which has always been admired in China, has also recruited self-funded students to the whole society.At the beginning, it was said that it was very strict. Later, due to the small number of people, some literature lovers in the society can easily enter this site only by paying several thousand yuan for registration fees based on their works published in local and county newspapers. Go to the gate of the college and feel the literary atmosphere here.But literature is a sacred career after all, and one can become a writer not just by reading a few literary books and writing a few self-righteous articles. The students at that time were inevitably mixed.However, there were still several literary talents among our students, such as young writers Shi Shuqing, Wen Yajun, Wang Jiming, Ma Fang, Shao Li, Huang Xiyao; young poets Gu He, Wang Miao, etc.Since last year, the Chinese Writers Association has carried out a comprehensive reform of the college. Students entering here must be members of the Chinese Writers Association, with a limited number of places. Every year, the local Provincial Writers Association and the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles recommend the best local literary talents to come here for further study. .The Feng Shui cycle turned, and Luyuan became the "Holy Temple" that ordinary literary youths could not reach.

Looking back on these journeys in my youth, an ordinary farm boy ran all the way driven by his dreams because of his innate love and pursuit of literature.I remember that in the early 1990s, when I had just put on my blue military uniform and stepped into the barracks, the admission letter for the "Young Writers Training Class" jointly organized by Shanghai Fudan University and People's Literature magazine was also mailed to my door. As for the army, I think that even if it was a waste of money, I would try my best to go to Shanghai to study.Luyuan is located in the middle of a street in Balizhuang, Beijing. Two rows of evergreen trees stand between two green-painted gates. The edge of the playground is full of ivy, which occupies the entire outer wall of the five-story teaching building. For the spectacular.I arrived at the most wonderful time of the year. Golden chrysanthemums bloomed on the green grass in front of the teaching building, swaying in the wind.Sometimes bees fly and butterflies dance, and sometimes cicadas croak and frogs sound, quite an idyllic scene.

I lived in the same room with Wang Miao, a young poet from the Northwest, and Rong Rong from the Northeast.Here, although I can't fly around with all kinds of literary works like other students, but because I just hold the peaceful mind of self-cultivation, I don't seek fame and gain, I immerse myself in the magnificent world of various words every day, let Let your mind and soul fly.In this way, I let literature soothe my scarred body and mind.Perhaps, at this time, only literature is the panacea that can most comfort the soul. In the winter of 1999, after I left Luyuan, I became a wandering reporter again in Beijing, mainly collecting and writing news, and occasionally writing articles for some fashion magazines and newspapers.In this way, I also unknowingly became a freelance writer like Gu Qingsheng and Zhuang Xiaobin. In layman's terms, I am a freelance writer

Before that, when I saw someone resign from the public office to start a freelance writing career, most people held a sympathetic, regretful, and wait-and-see attitude, which is not difficult to understand.Even if there are a thousand things that are bad for living in the system, at least it will not bring about the worry of survival. Needless to say, those who are out of the system, only the survivors in the system, if their fate is also the result of selection, then, They can also be considered free, unless they follow the crowd and lose the courage and ability to choose. In fact, after the "May 4th Movement", Chinese intellectuals gradually broke away from the traditional doctor system, gained an independent status, and became an independent social class.They can not be attached to power like ancient intellectuals, but rely on writing, lecturing, editing, translation and other expertise to survive independently.While the identity tends to be independent, the economy is also gradually self-reliant.Some experts calculated Lu Xun's financial ability and said: "His annual income as a freelance writer is more than twice that of his annual income as a civil servant. Money is the economic basis for his persistence in 'fighting with tenacity'." But that is an old story after all, an old dream that is short-lived.

Today's freelance writers in Beijing face many difficulties. Their income is not fixed, and the usual economic pressure is only one aspect of survival oppression, and they have to face more challenges.Therefore, writers like Wang Xiaobo, Wang Yuewen, Gu Qingsheng, Laocun, Lin Bai, and Liu Qing, etc., who resigned in the early 1990s, are significant in that they provide another model of survival, which can be enjoyed as well or even more. The joy of writing, although poverty and loneliness are inevitable, but these costs cannot be compared with the gains. After the death of Wang Xiaobo, who shocked the literary world at home and abroad with famous works such as "East Palace and West Palace" and "My Spiritual Homeland", Li Yinhe, a famous scholar and wife of Wang Xiaobo, once made such an evaluation of him: "Xiaobo has become a free man. The feeling is very strong, it’s just great, it’s the feeling of being free. Didn’t someone just call a freelance writer a freelancer? Dealing with personnel relations. Every unit in China has these things. Xiaobo is not very good at interpersonal relations, so in terms of his personality, the time he needs, and the living conditions he needs, being a freelance writer is very important. His favorite way of life." This probably sums up the psychological feelings of many freelance writers. After the 1990s, with the loosening of the social environment, more and more freelance writers, such as Wang Yuewen, Zhong Jingjing, Han Dong, Wu Chenjun, Li Feng, Zhao Ning, Wang Wan, Lu Li in the field of novels, Zhian, Che Qianzi, Pompey, Zhu Yong, Zhang Yuanshan, Yu Jie, etc.

Beijing, a city with prosperous culture and advanced information, has not only become a geomantic treasure for actors, singers, and poets since the 1980s, but also quickly became a distribution center for those who sell their articles for a living—that is, "freelance writers."Among the freelance writers who have lived in the capital for a long time, besides Yi Fu, Li Dawei, Mei Zhe and other Beijing natives, there are more people from other provinces, such as Gu Qingsheng, Zhuang Xiaobin, Jiudan, Liu Qing and others.No matter where the home is, everyone is faced with the problem of how to expand their living space.

Forced to make ends meet, after graduating from the Luyuan Academy, I joined a weekly magazine run by a central government agency in Zhongguancun as the director of the interview department and chief reporter.During the days when I rented a house in Zhongguancun, I also got to know a group of wandering literati. They had no fixed jobs and incomes, and they lived a kind of floating life.Everyone drank as soon as they met, and when they were half drunk, they pretended to be crazy and talked nonsense, and even danced and cried like children;My heart is sad. In the wandering and stumbling with reality, it seems to have been patched layer by layer to wrap up the part that is shining with romantic light. It turns out that love and warmth are fragile on the road of wandering.

Due to my unremitting efforts, I was unknown in Beijing and gradually became famous in the news circle. Over the past few years, I have worked in news units such as "Science Times·Jin Zhoukan", "Capital Public Security Daily", "Cultural Times", "Workers' Daily", "Jinghua Times", "Legal Daily" and other news organizations.But I still enjoy vagabondage and earn a living freelance. In those few years, various magazines sprung up in various provinces and cities across the country, but for comprehensive cultural and leisure publications organized by the Communist Youth League, Women’s Federation, and Social Sciences, the normal manuscript fee standard was generally around 30 to 300 yuan per thousand words. Of course, there are also magazines and magazines that are high, with thousands of words and thousands of yuan, good manuscripts are even higher, and many of them reach ten thousand yuan per article.Other magazines, such as Shenzhen Youth, Part-time Job, Love, Marriage and Family, etc., that I have usually asked me to write for, the good ones cost 600 yuan per 1,000 words.There is a huge disparity in the cost of newspaper contributions. In addition to the famous "West China Metropolis Daily", the others include "Nanfang Daily", "Southern Weekend", "Chutian Metropolis Daily", "Qilu Evening News", "Jinan Times" and "Shenzhen Times". Legal News, etc., I usually get 500-800 yuan for each manuscript.Magazines can only submit one article at a time, while newspapers, with the exception of "West China Metropolis Daily", can publish one article in each province and city.Of course, some manuscript fees are very low.I also once received 5 yuan as a manuscript fee from a newspaper in Inner Mongolia—although it is too low, it is much better than those who send out your manuscript and never give you the manuscript fee.Some people also criticize that it is immoral to vote for more than one manuscript, but I think it is normal for a newspaper news to vote for one newspaper in a province. Also removed.I remember that in 2001, a certain newspaper in Guangzhou reposted two long articles of mine from the front page of the Worker's Daily, but neither signed my name nor paid any payment. Some people may say that some people who sell literature for a living also buy houses and cars.Once, when I went to playwright Wu Shuang’s house, she said to me: Yifu in Beijing used to be a reporter, and later he wrote articles independently, focusing on news in the entertainment circle, which had been published in recent years. Not only drove a car, bought a house, but also got a secretary.If you feel that being a reporter in a newspaper is not very satisfactory, in fact, with your strength and military style, you can also be a freelance writer. The portraits of all living beings who sell literature in Beijing have been reported to varying degrees by many large and small newspapers, and their living conditions have attracted the attention of Chinese people.Among the many freelance writers in Beijing, Gu Qingsheng and Zhuang Xiaobin are probably the most turbulent and saddened. In Beijing, when it comes to freelance writers, I believe no one will bypass Gu Qingsheng.Although many freelance writers have emerged in Beijing, Gu Qingsheng is a representative writer no matter in the 1990s or now.He is a Hakka, his ancestral home is Jiangxi, and he was born in Daye, Hubei.He used to be engaged in geological exploration, publicity and other public positions. In 1994, he resigned and went to Beijing to engage in professional writing.He stepped into wandering writing with the attitude of a geological team member, integrating wandering, life, and writing into one, creating a unique and personalized walking literary text.He has published more than a dozen novels such as "Chasing Soros", "2038" and essays "Yellow River Bends the Yellow River", "Wandering in Kyoto", "Left Roast and Right Stew Soup". Although Lao Gu and I are both from Daye, we didn’t meet him until 1999, when I came to Beijing for Lu Yuan.As early as the early 1990s, Gu Qingsheng came to Beijing from our hometown of Daye, Hubei with a 386 computer, and started a career of selling articles for a living for more than ten years, becoming a famous freelance writer in Beijing.After that, he participated in the writing of "China Can Say No", which became very popular.Most of the time, he coded in a humble rental house in Beijing in obscurity to earn manuscript fees. I remember that when I first arrived in Beijing in the autumn of 1999, I got in touch with Gu Qingsheng, who lived in Fengtai at that time.On the phone, he encouraged me to read more good books and write frequently.When Luyuan was about to graduate, I rushed to Fengtai from Shilipu at his invitation.Although I and Lao Gu are both from Daye, I knew that he was a very diligent and talented young writer in Daye, but we had never met before this.But we hit it off right away, and we really hated seeing each other later, and we talked about everything.The two of us were in a small Sichuan hotel nearby, eating Sichuan food and bragging happily.We ate from noon until about 8 o'clock in the evening, which shows how much we are interested in talking. After Lao Gu learned about my undercover adventures in the south, he clapped hands repeatedly and immediately encouraged me to write these stories into a book.He said, you came out of the Chinese Marine Corps and never went to any university, but you can finally make your own way in Guangzhou, a city full of talents and extremely fierce competition. It is really not easy, respectable Sorry.If you don’t have the special experience of being a farmer or a soldier, it may be impossible to go deep into the black den of Guangzhou Railway Station, sneak into the underground casino of a big hotel and other places that other reporters dare not go to for undercover adventures. At the same time, Lao Gu and I have also discussed that we are going to travel the Yellow River and Yangtze River together at our own expense.I specialize in writing news, and he writes prose essays.Lao Gu also likes to take risks. Now that I am a little fellow who came out of the Marine Corps and worked as a wandering reporter in the south for several years, I really want to go out together. Later, at the beginning of 2000, Boku.com and China Youth Publishing House co-sponsored the "Walk the Yellow River" social and cultural investigation. The writers participating in this activity were Xu Bei, Hu Shouwen, Chen Haozeng, Huang Bintang, Tang Yun, and Gu Qingsheng. , He Xiangyang, Hong Ke, Zhang Shishan, Long Dong, Lin Bai, Li Jingze and other 8 domestic powerful writers.Of course, writers walking the Yellow River is just a form. The real purpose of Boku.com is to promote the network and website through this activity. The impact of the Internet age. Since someone paid for him to go to the Yellow River, it is of course much better than our own expense.I later dismissed this idea, because I had no money in my hands, so I decided to be my reporter first, to solve the survival problem first and then wait for the opportunity.So, I joined a newspaper office as a reporter. When Gu Qingsheng walked the Yellow River, he wrote the walking literary work "The Yellow River Bends and the Yellow River Is Long".Maybe he has traveled a lot. He is familiar with delicacies from all over the world, and he can cook a few.Over time, some people even called him a gourmet in the capital.His food prose is very good. In this regard, Shen Hongfei, who has written a food column for "Southern Weekend" for several years, may not be able to compare. Shen's fame is only due to the help of a few famous media. The attachment, I think, his gourmet prose may not necessarily have the popularity of ancient times.Of course, this is not because Lao Gu and I are fellows of Daye, and we deliberately praised him. There are facts to prove it: In 2003, the Writers Publishing House published his book "Left Roast and Right Stew Soup". It can be seen that many chapters are written by him. The product of eating and drinking on the road; a blind pepper, he wrote dozens of essays on chiliism in his pen, and it occupies more than a quarter of the space.Some critics said: This book can be said to be the "criminal evidence" of a gluttonous person who has accumulated decades of indulging in folk delicacies. He has already become famous in the food industry in recent years. CCTV's food column has invited him to be a column many times, and he has traveled around the country many times, tasting delicious food from all over the country, not only will he not spend a penny of money , and can even be reimbursed for the entire travel expenses. I think that among the current wandering writers and freelance writers in China, writers who can live a free and easy life like Lao Gu are really rare. Lao Gu said to me many times: Shi Ye, after your lawsuit is over, let’s go outside for a walk together. I believe that the two of us are the best "partners". As long as we go out, we will definitely be able to write a lot The article came.His experience is to choose his own direction, such as a topic, such as his food series, which has been written for five years, and usually writes a thousand words by a thousand words, and now it is integrated into a collection. Books are accumulated by usual collection. Over the years, the old treasured sword has remained the same. Not only have various columns been published in many newspapers and periodicals across the country, but one or two new books are released every year. I pale in comparison.Now, my two new books have finally been finalized, and the other two manuscripts "News Scene-My Beijing Journalist Career" and "Trial Hospital" will be finalized soon.When my first new book "Undercover Adventure--My Fourth Narrow Escape" was just finished, Lao Gu became my first reader, and specially wrote an article for me entitled "Who Has Preface to "The Pen Can Make a Knife". In October 1999, I met a writer from Heilongjiang, Zhuang Xiaobin, at the subway entrance in Xidan, Beijing.At that time, his wife was peddling his prison work "The Naked Life" among the commuters.Lao Zhuang's face was full of vicissitudes of life, and the corners of his eyes were covered with wrinkles. Both his and his wife's faces were tanned, and the couple each held up a book and peddled it.When I and the passers-by who followed me heard them yelling to the passers-by without any scruples in the noisy bustling area: "The painstaking work of China's first prisoner writer" "I am the prisoner writer Zhuang Xiaobin..." Zhuang was a worker in Heilongjiang. In the early 1970s, because he was dissatisfied with the chaotic "Cultural Revolution" environment at that time, he and his brother wrote letters to relevant domestic and Hong Kong news media to report the situation. "crime" and was imprisoned, his brother was sentenced to death, and Zhuang was sentenced to life imprisonment.After Zhuang served for 13 years, the unjust case was brought to justice. After being rehabilitated and acquitted, Zhuang Xiaobin received only more than 1,300 yuan in compensation from the local government.After he was released from prison, Zhuang wrote an autobiographical novel "The Naked Life" based on his misfortune, which became a bestseller immediately. Like many passers-by with emotion, I couldn't help lingering around this couple who shared weal and woe for a while.Although it was very difficult for me to eat at this time, I still gritted my teeth and sold two books, and I even asked Lao Zhuang to sign his name on the title page.When I was about to leave, I couldn’t help but look back, and when I saw their backs still sweating like those hawkers selling old corn, ice cream and mineral water, loudly selling their own works, I felt sore in my heart. Almost shed tears. I really admire the courage of him and his wife.This is an unpretentious courage to face life.In the past few days, I saw this couple still selling their works on the streets of Xidan and Wangfujing.It is said that the stories of Laozhuang and Zhuang moved those urban management gentlemen. They would yell at the peddlers who gathered there, either expel them or fine them. People thought that he was very familiar with the urban management people. Whether it was out of awe or to flatter them, a few peddlers also paid for Lao Zhuang's books.But most passers-by turned a blind eye to it.I saw those fashionably dressed passers-by who simply ignored the existence of a weather-beaten writer, and their eyes and expressions, movements and words were also indifferent. Zhuang Xiaobin wrote in "Letter to Readers": I am not the best writer in the world, but I am definitely the most difficult writer in the world.Yes, this is a very legendary writer, after this meeting, we became friends.But our second meeting was more than a year later.At that time, his virtuous wife, his venerable sister-in-law, who was close to him and sold books on the streets of Beijing, was suffering from terminal cancer. In the early autumn of 2001, I went to visit Laozhuang.At that time, their family moved to Shijingshan District and lived in a remote village not far from the Pingguoyuan subway.This is a small quadrangle with a detached courtyard. There are 5 small houses, big and small. Lao Zhuang's gray-haired father, his good wife who is bedridden with cancer, his son, daughter-in-law and grandson, the whole family consists of three generations. live here.The monthly rent of this courtyard house is 800 yuan. Except for the son who sells vegetables at a small stall outside, the family's livelihood and all expenses are almost entirely supported by Lao Zhuang alone; there is also the bedridden wife's medical expenses.At this time, what Lao Zhuang relies on for his livelihood is to write manuscripts with a pen in his hand.I almost shed tears a few times when I saw the books and hill-like potatoes (which his son and daughter-in-law often sold outside the village) and the pungent smell of medicine in the few huts with bare walls. Come.This is probably the most worrying family in the living conditions of Chinese writers! But Lao Zhuang is very optimistic. If it were not for the predicament in front of him, no one would believe that he is already fifty years old at this time, and he is living like this, and he can write manuscripts every day. Just one month after we met, Lao Zhuang's wife was finally killed by cancer.Half a year later, his old father passed away again in the suburbs of Beijing. After 2001, Lao Zhuang was recruited as an editor and reporter at the age of 50 by the "Working" magazine under the well-known domestic best-selling magazine group, and was later "poached" to work as an editor at Zhiyin Magazine. In mid-April 2001, a beautiful reporter from a certain newspaper in Sichuan exclusively published an article in several newspapers at the same time about the famous poet Wang Guozhen, "The great poet opened a hot pot restaurant out of poverty", and then nearly a hundred newspapers across the country reprinted this article. It spread in all walks of life.According to the article, it was a well-known editor of a well-known domestic journal who revealed the news.Although I have inquired many times, I still haven't found out who this person is. Of course, if I ask the author of the article, it is impossible to tell me.I was entrusted by a newspaper to investigate this matter, and it happened that Lao Zhuang came to Beijing from Wuchang to ask for a manuscript. As usual, he called me to invite me to meet.Unexpectedly, after three glasses of wine, Lao Zhuang told me that he was full of birds recently. A beautiful reporter from a Sichuan newspaper wrote a fake report just because he had been to the poet Wang Guozhen’s house. , making him angry.It turns out that "the editor of a well-known domestic journal" refers to Zhuang Xiaobin!This is really hard to find, and it takes no effort to get it! After I learned the ins and outs of the matter from Lao Zhuang, I interviewed other relevant people, and then I exclusively disclosed this fake news in 40 newspapers across the country, including "Yangcheng Evening News", "Labour Daily" and "Xinmin Evening News". What happened before and after coming out of the cage made Wang Guozhen famous.Interested readers can refer to my other new book "I'm a Reporter in Beijing" for a detailed account of this matter.Later, when Wang Guozhen sued a Sichuan newspaper and the author of the article for infringement of reputation rights, the court also used my report as one of the evidences, and finally ruled that Wang Guozhen won the case.Afterwards, Wang Guozhen said to me: Zhuang Xiaobin is really an upright person! In the circle of freelance writers in Beijing, there is also a girl writer named Liu Qing.Liu Qing was born in the ancient city of Yangzhou in 1983.His father is a political and legal reporter for People's Daily, and his mother is also a talented student at a famous university.When Liu Qing was in junior high school, she showed her talent in literature.When she was 8 years old, she published fairy tales in central newspapers; when she was 13 years old, she published a collection of poems; when she was in the first year of junior high school, her articles won the second prize of the "Chinese Youth Cup" International Competition and the Grand Prix of Chinese Young Eagle Elegant Essay second prize. When Hong Kong returned to the motherland in 1997, she wrote her first novel "Hongni Hongni" with a lot of materials; in the summer vacation of 1998, she wrote the novel "Behind the Petals" with a length of 220,000 words. The secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association and the famous writer Chen Jiangong personally wrote the preface, calling her "a rare and talented writer".This book was published by Beijing Juvenile and Children's Publishing House in September 1999, and won the "Five One Project" book award for spiritual civilization construction in Jiangsu Province. In the spring of 1999, strongly recommended by Yangzhou Writers Association, 16-year-old Liu Qing was accepted as a member by Jiangsu Writers Association, becoming the youngest writer in Jiangsu Province to publish a novel; The youngest writer cadet. In the spring of 2001, she attended the National Congress of Young Writers, becoming the youngest female writer to attend this meeting since the founding of the People's Republic of China (Liu Shaotang was the youngest male writer to attend this meeting).We are classmates, and we have jointly published many in-depth reports in "Workers' Daily", "Legal Daily", and other newspapers and periodicals.While wandering in Beijing, she also wrote three long fairy tales, and one novel called "Girl Writer", which was well received by writers Chen Jiangong and Zhao Benfu. Liu Qing's unique talent in literature is inseparable from her mother's careful guidance in addition to her natural savvy, intelligence and eagerness to learn.Later, their mother and daughter joined the Provincial Writers Association successively and became news figures in Yangzhou City.At the same time, her growth was ardently helped by Du Hai, a writer who was the chairman of the Yangzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles at the time, and Zhao Benfu, a famous writer in Jiangsu.Zhao Benfu is the vice chairman of Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association. He was famous in the literary world for his masterpiece "Selling Donkeys" in his early years.He has always been full of praise for Liu Qing's talent, and he has given great support, often caring for young writers who are freelance writers in the capital through various methods.It is reported that she has recently completed two novels, one of which, "Deep Hell and Shallow Heaven", has been included in the "New Century New Writers" series planned by a major publishing house in Beijing, and will be published this year .I also wish this little writer can write more famous works. When I lived in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, when I was frustrated, I often drank and chatted with some wandering journalists and writers I knew, and talked about the retaliation by the local authorities for writing critical reports. Always sing about wine, booing endlessly. Yes, we wandering journalists living in the capital sometimes inevitably feel melancholy, confusion, poverty, hesitation, depression and pain in our hearts, but our personalities are independent, and our personal bodies are free.After all, we can survive in the capital of the Republic by relying on words.We all use our own different ways to smear our magnificent dreams with youth and enthusiasm.