Chapter 279

Zhou Huimin returned to her room and opened the drawer, which was full of tapes and letter paper, all evidence of her and A-Ming hooking up.

However, A-Ming hadn't replied to her last letter, and the replies were becoming more and more perfunctory, as if he were in a hurry.

Does he have a girlfriend?

At his age, with this appearance, this achievement, and having had love experience, it's normal to have a girlfriend, right.

Little A-Min hugged her long legs, feeling a bit depressed.

At this time, her mother shouted outside: "Oh my, I almost forgot. Today I helped Uncle Ghost receive a package from the mainland, and I haven't given it to him yet."

"Where is it? Let me see."

Zhou Huimin went over and picked it up. Although the address was not Peking University, but a place in the Magic City, the handwriting was definitely A-Ming's.

Humph, you are diligent in writing letters to him. I've seen it several times, but she is your pen pal.

A-Min thought sourly. In fact, she had long known that Uncle Ghost was literate. He had lied to her from the beginning, but she didn't know the specific relationship between Uncle Ghost and A-Ming, just thinking that A-Ming was a descendant of Uncle Ghost's relatives in the mainland.

"Mother, I'll help Uncle Ghost send it over."

"Oh my, it's so late. Tomorrow will be the same."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I'm not sleepy!" After saying that, A-Min ran out in a hurry, standing between the two buildings, just in time to see the fireworks rising into the sky around, as beautiful as a girl in puberty.

Liu Bin didn't know the relationship between Uncle Ghost and Wei Ming. Although he had a bold guess, it was too bold, so he didn't dare to say it, and never asked around. He understood the rules of the road.

After handing "New News" to Old Ghost, he changed his clothes and prepared to go to McDonald's for the night shift.

McDonald's is open all day, all year round. Liu Bin is working this Spring Festival night shift. Although there is not much to do, the salary is double. Anyway, it's idle.

"Uncle Ghost, I'm leaving."

"Well, work hard and strive to become a store manager as soon as possible."

As soon as he left, Uncle Ghost immediately started reading the article. Just looking at the title, he knew it was about his grandson's novel. He knew this name when they were communicating before.

As for the author Cai Shengsan, he also has a great background. He was once a confidant of Little Chiang. After the Fruit Party was defeated and retreated, he insisted on staying to fight guerrilla warfare.

Fight guerrilla warfare? Can you be an opponent!

Sure enough, he was soon captured and sent to be straightened out. He was a "schoolmate" with Puyi and others.

In '75, he was pardoned in the last batch and went to Hong Kong, where he settled down. Some time ago, Shen Zui went to Hong Kong, and the two even had afternoon tea together.

So he could see "Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes" also because of Shen Zui. "Harvest" was sent to him by Shen Zui.

In their circle, Shen Zui promoted this novel most actively. He harassed all the excellent graduates of Gongdelin. If this novel can be allowed to be published and not criticized, then he also wants to write something and earn some manuscript fees. Who doesn't have a writer's dream?

And he has too many stories in his stomach. Even in Gongdelin, he was not idle. In order to hear more gossip, he would rather do more work, ask about gossip from schoolmates during labor, and dig for stories.

Before, he even dared to gossip behind Boss Dai's back with Hu Die about whether she and Young Marshal Zhang had a relationship. Hu Die turned around and told Boss Dai, who scolded him.

This spirit of gossip is worth affirming, but as for writing, Cai Shengsan is not bad either.

In order to support himself, Cai Shengsan, who settled in Hong Kong, began to write for many Hong Kong media, and also opened a column in the neutral newspaper "New News," writing current affairs reviews every day. The articles were published in countries and regions such as Hong Kong, Taipei, San Francisco, and Australia, and persisted for five years.

Because he had worked in the Fruit Party and lived on the mainland, and practiced the motto "not manipulated by anyone, only belonging to truth," and insisted on the righteousness of the Chinese nation all his life and ran for the reunification of the motherland, Cai Shengsan's articles are very influential, and the high-level officials on both sides often see them.

After reading this incomplete novel in the magazine sent by Shen Zui, Cai Shengsan thought about what to write for the next day's column, so he simply expressed some thoughts on this novel.

"Recently read half a good book 'Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes.' It's not that half of the book is good and half is bad, it's just that only half of it has been written, so let's call it half a good book.

"The author of this book, Wei Ming, has become famous in the mainland in recent years. He writes novels, scripts, and composes songs. He is hailed as a model for young people and has been praised by official media many times. At the age of twenty, his achievements are already remarkable.

"Even if I am isolated overseas, I have heard his name more than once and seen his works. The last time I heard his name was because of that song 'The Same Song.' I feel that Hong Kong peers can learn from it.

"It must be admitted that this is a great talent in creation. However, with a population of one billion in the mainland, it is not a rare thing for one or two geniuses to be born. I heard that there are people with special abilities there.

"And because this novel has not been fully read, it is not objective to evaluate and summarize a novel based only on the content seen so far. So today, I will only say that this novel is allowed to be published and has become a hot spot at the moment, and it has not been made difficult because of speaking for the Fruit Party soldiers. It is truly valuable.

"I also have some friends on the island. In short, I can't see this kind of atmosphere. Even not long ago, Wen Ruian and Fang E of the Shenzhou Poetry Society were thrown into prison just because of a few books in their home......"

Cai Shengsan had commented on this incident in his column before. Wen Ruian is the martial arts novelist who wrote the Four Great Constables... no, the Four Great Constables, and he is also in his twenties.

His father was once a subordinate of Marshal Ye, and later settled in Malaysia. Wen Ruian read those chivalrous books of his father since he was a child, and even knew a little bit of fist and kick, with theory and practice going hand in hand.

Later, Wen Ruian went to Taiwan to study in university and officially began martial arts novel creation. At a young age, he established Shenzhou Publishing House, and later founded the "Shenzhou Poetry Society" with the purpose of "revitalizing Chinese culture and carrying forward the national spirit."

Last year, because "Ming Pao Monthly," the Great Man's poems, and works by Ba Jin, Cao Yu, Shen Congwen, etc., as well as some Yunnan Baiyao were found in the poetry society, Wen Ruian got into prison, and after being locked up for a few months, he was expelled from Taiwan.

Cai Shengsan used Wei Ming's new work as an opportunity to begin attacking Taiwan's increasingly harsh and unconfident cultural policy.

This is the benefit of being in Hong Kong. Cai Shengsan could criticize the situation in the mainland a few years ago. Now that the mainland is doing better than Taiwan, he can also criticize Taiwan without looking at anyone's face and affirm the progress of the mainland.

At the end of the article, Cai Shengsan returned to Wei Ming himself, "Although 'Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes' has not been fully read, I have been fortunate enough to read his collection of short and medium stories 'Animals are Fierce,' which writes about cattle, horses, sheep, and donkeys, quite spiritual and interesting, fierce and tender. As the saying goes, if the youth are strong, the country is strong. I hope that there will be more such young talents on the island to jointly revitalize China."

Finally, he added a bit of value.

Old Ghost nodded with satisfaction after reading it. Worthy of being the eldest grandson of my Wei Senhao!

At the same time, he was itching with impatience. Let Cai Shengsan say it, he wanted to read this novel. It is said that it is based on himself and his eldest brother, and he doesn't know what it is written like.

As the saying goes, someone sends a pillow when you are sleepy.

Dong dong dong~

"Uncle Ghost, are you asleep? There is a package for you, from the mainland."

Old Ghost immediately opened the door: "A-Min, I'm not asleep. Thank you very much."

He wanted to get the package, but A-Min dodged: "I'll help you unpack it."

"I'll unpack it tomorrow. You go back to sleep early." Old Ghost snatched it, give it to me.

A-Min pouted: "Uncle Ghost, I can't sleep."

"If you can't sleep, read the newspaper," Old Ghost immediately threw the "New News" he had just read to her, "Take it and read it."

A-Min was about to refute, but she glanced over it and seemed to see the words "Wei Ming" on the newspaper. Before she could look closely, the door was already closed.

"Humph." Zhou Huimin took the newspaper back to her home, flipped through it for a long time, and finally locked onto Cai Shengsan's report.

In the past, she never read this kind of current affairs column, but this time she read it with relish and couldn't bear to finish it, just because there was the name of her pen pal on it. It turned out that Hong Kong literati were paying attention to him, and his influence was even greater than she thought.

After pride and happiness, there was depression: "He didn't tell me when he published a new novel. Does he think I'm unlearned? Oh my, what should I do if I want to read it."

This was a bit against her heart. She still had a barrier to reading those mainland stories, but she read "The Terracotta Warrior" by another mainland writer, Wei Kuangren, very quickly.

On the other side, Old Ghost unpacked the package and first saw "Harvest." Flipping through the table of contents, sure enough, there was that novel. Then he went to read the letter.

Wei Ming first talked about the Juyuan No. 2 house.

Old Fei helped him run to the relevant departments. Sure enough, as he had expected before, it was not so easy to get the house into his hands with just this land deed. He also needed the grandmother's handwritten authorization letter, and it would be best to have a Chinese organization in the United States to prove her identity.

Of course, if she could return to the country in person, these would be trivial matters.

But will she return?

Old Ghost shook his head and wrote her another letter to talk about this.

Then Wei Ming explained Shen Zui's matter, including his identity transformation from a war criminal to an insurgent general last year, and his visit to Hong Kong to visit relatives.

This matter of visiting relatives in Hong Kong no longer needed Wei Ming to clarify. Old Ghost later saw relevant reports in the news and also knew that Fruit Party agents had also taken action against Shen Zui. Fortunately, Shen Zui withstood the test.

But Wei Ming said in the letter that Shen Zui now enjoys the treatment of a deputy ministerial level, which made Lao Lao Lao Wei feel a bit uncomfortable.

Our family Ping'an learns so well and has such strong ability, and he is still working hard to impact the deputy hall level. He is already at the deputy ministerial level?!

Old Ghost couldn't help but think of his eldest brother Wei Muchun in Taiwan. If he could have pulled him over in '49, at least he would have started at the ministerial level?!

Of course, he might not have survived the 60s. Now he is in his seventies, with money, power, and leisure in Taiwan. His life is very comfortable.

Putting away Wei Ming's letter, Old Ghost began to concentrate on reading "Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes" accompanied by the sound of fireworks outside.

I thought reading would help me sleep, but I didn't expect to become more energetic the more I read. Worthy of being my grandson, well written, wonderful!

Perhaps many shadows and deeds of Republican celebrities can be seen in Jiang Limin, but the most similar one is definitely Wei Senhao.

And Jiang Lizhong in the book also made Old Ghost miss his brother who loved and killed each other again.

Different from the book, their father passed away early. Wei Muchun was more than ten years older than him, and his sister was also ten years older than him. It can be said that the eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest sister is like a mother.

Cai Shengsan's articles can be seen in Taiwan and the United States. I don't know if the eldest brother and eldest sister will see them and be curious about a novel that seems to be telling their family story?

Old Ghost never revealed to his eldest brother that he had such a promising grandson. He only knew about Liberation and Ping'an.

Taipei, Beitou Villa Area.

This is located in the north of Taipei, with pleasant scenery, and is a famous hot spring resort.

The great calligrapher Yu Youren lived here, Zhang Xueliang's place of confinement was also in this area, and many literati who went south chose to live here, entrusting their feelings to the mountains and rivers.

After retirement, Wei Muchun also chose to live here, living with three wives and a number of servants in a villa full of birds and flowers, as if in a scenic spot.

There was no obvious festive atmosphere in the villa, which was slightly cold. Only the hot spring pool in the backyard was still hot.

Wei Muchun was soaking in the hot spring, and the youngest, but also 50-year-old third wife Lin Ni was reading a novel to him.

What Lin Ni held in her hand was "Harvest," and what she was reading was "Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes," and it had already reached the end. Obviously, she saw it earlier than Old Ghost.

"Gone?" Wei Muchun asked.

Lin Ni shook her head regretfully: "The next issue will have to wait two months."

Wei Muchun was lost. Although the history told in the novel was what he had experienced, he knew the direction and the result clearly, but the charm of the novel is that even if you know the result and the process, you can still be grabbed by the characters and twists.

Especially one of the male leads, Jiang Lizhong, was based on himself.

Afterwards, Lin Ni served Wei Muchun to wipe his body and returned to the bedroom to prepare for rest.

Taiwan still has a concubine system, which will not be abolished until '85. Lin Ni is essentially a concubine, but neither Wei Muchun nor the two sisters treat her badly, not only letting her, but also her whole family fly up.

The only regret may be that she doesn't have a child.

There is a small bookshelf next to the bed. Lin Ni put "Harvest" back. On it, you can also see "Flower City" which published "Mom, Love Me Again," as well as Wei Ming's "Animals are Fierce" collection.

Although it is New Year's Eve, because there are no children in the family, and the Wei family closed the door to thank guests, the villa is very quiet, and Wei Muchun sleeps early.

However, Lin Ni believes that when Lingling comes tomorrow, the situation will definitely be very different.

Wei Muchun fell asleep early, hoping to return to Gouzitun in his dream, see the small river where his father took him to catch fish, the plum blossom piles where he taught him to practice martial arts, and the Medicine King Temple where he followed his grandfather to learn pharmacology.

And at this moment, the real Gouzitun, the Wei family is very lively.

As soon as Wei Ming and Wei Hong arrived home, Lao Lao Lao Wei set off firecrackers.

Then they started to eat New Year's Eve dinner. Wei Ming heard Cousin Qi Delong say that his mother was still cooking New Year's Eve dinner, so he asked him to bring his parents and Qi Dongqiang over.

He was so curious. Qi Dongqiang was a life fanned out by his butterfly wings. There was no such thing in the previous life, and there was no such child.

Everyone listened to the radio together and spent New Year's Eve. The situation of the motherland on the radio is getting better and better, and the life of the Wei family in the past year is also getting better and better.

Lao Lao Lao Wei is almost a capital person, making friends with no white ding. Just the things he exchanged, he has no concept himself, but Wei Ming is clear that at the peak, it is worth at least 100 million.

And Uncle Ping'an became the Supreme Emperor of the newly established Founder Company, and his career also embarked on the fast lane.

And Xiao Hong, not only was admitted to the Department of Mathematics at Peking University with a high score, but also became the president of the Rubik's Cube Club, becoming an official for the first time, and everyone respectfully called her "Sister Red."

Even Xizi and Lele had their own representative works in the past year, and they stood firm in acting and music.

Wei Ming doesn't need to say more. The long novel he held for a year injected a breath of fresh air into the domestic literary scene like a destructive force.

Whether it is the commentary circle or the reader group, it has triggered fierce discussion. As long as the follow-up two parts don't drag, it is obviously a heavyweight work that can be written into literary history.

The emotional life is also very exciting. He successively confirmed the relationship with Gong Xue in the south and Zhu Lin in the north. He is very happy to get these two beautiful big sisters. If he can continue to maintain the status quo, it would be even better.

To celebrate this bumper harvest of 1980, Lao Lao Lao Wei also took out the Moutai that Wei Ming gave him and drank it openly.

"Kexiu, you just finished the operation, don't drink, eat more vegetables," Lao Lao Lao Wei said.

The empty wine glass that Seeing Qi Kexiu just picked up was suddenly filled with tears. This life is too difficult!

He was about to cry, but Lao Lao Lao Wei picked up another bottle of Moutai and put it at Fan Chunhua's place: "Take this bottle back and drink it slowly after Kexiu's body recovers."

Seeing Qi Kexiu's tears were collected at once: "Brother, I wish you a grand exhibition in Yanjing with tea instead of wine."

Lao Lao Lao Wei laughed and laughed at the sky: "That must be a grand exhibition. Your sister-in-law and I also plan to expand the business. When there are not enough people, let Chunhua go to help us. And Long, you learn well, and you will be admitted to Yanjing in the future. If you can't get in, go to deliver food with your uncle."

Seeing Qi Kexiu looked eagerly: "What about me, what about me?"

Lao Lao Lao Wei thought for a while: "Why don't I give you the status of honorary principal of the village primary school?"

Seeing Qi Kexiu: "......"

After eating and drinking enough wine, everyone was reluctant to disperse. Cousin Qi Delong took Xizi and set off another string of firecrackers.

Unfortunately, there was no electricity or TV. Wei Ming couldn't help but think of Zhu Lin and Gong Xue who were spending the New Year with their families in Yanjing and the Magic City respectively. They all have TVs at home. I don't know what they are doing.

Although there is no formal Spring Festival Gala at this time, there will be some celebration activities broadcast on TV, which is better than listening to the radio.

Later, Wei Ming thought of an idea. Without the Spring Festival Gala, everyone would perform programs to entertain themselves and others.

At first, everyone was embarrassed, so Wei Ming asked Lele to start and sang "Only Mom is Good in the World."

At this time, Lu Xiaoyan was tearful again, thinking of that script, and then accompanied by a song "Little Grass."

Wei Ming is not good at singing, so he also sang "Declaration of a Man," but unfortunately he didn't bring Sada Masashi's guitar.

In this way, one song after another, Xiao Hong also performed a 10-second Rubik's Cube recovery. Time easily passed 0 o'clock and arrived at the first day of the New Year. So everyone went back to their homes and waited for the dawn.

On the first day of the New Year, Wei Lingling and her mother Lin Xi went to the Wei Mansion to pay a New Year's call. This villa is luxurious and covers a huge area. In addition to Wei Muchun's high official status, another reason is that he later began to do business, and his business achievements are also very eye-catching. He is involved in plastics and aluminum, and his enterprises are all over Southeast Asia.

Wei Muchun is not only Wei Lingling's eldest uncle, but also her aunt's husband, and Lin Ni is her eldest aunt.

Because Wei Muchun's two sons had died in battle, and he himself was injured and could not give birth again, Wei Lingling could almost be considered to have been raised by him as a spoiled only daughter.

When Wei Lingling and her mother arrived, a middle-aged man in glasses had just left. He is a high-level official responsible for intelligence on the island, and also Wei Muchun's student. He came to pay a New Year's call early in the morning. The relationship between the two is like a teacher and a father and son, and he is Wei Boss's spokesperson in the officialdom.

Wei Muchun's understanding of Wei Ming should also thank him.

Knowing that Wei Muchun misses his hometown and cares about the situation across the strait, this student often sends some illegal publications from the opposite side that were seized or actively collected.

For example, "People's Daily" or "People's Literature," etc.

Since last year, a young author named Wei Ming has attracted Wei Muchun's attention.

Because he said in the article that his hometown is a North China rural village called "Gouzitun," and his surname is Wei!

That was an essay about his father and mother. Although the "father" didn't say his name, he mentioned his age, born in 1942, and it matched!

Wei Muchun dared to be sure that only one child surnamed Wei was born in Gouzitun in 1942, because like the principal, he had the habit of keeping a diary, and confirmed that his eldest nephew was born in '42, and at that time his second younger brother was dealing with Japan and the Military Statistics Bureau in the Magic City.

Since then, Wei Muchun has been paying attention to this writer, and more and more of his articles have confirmed to him that he is the descendant of his second younger brother.

Not long ago, this student of Wei Muchun seized several copies of "Harvest" from several young people traveling to Hong Kong. This is how Wei Muchun took a fancy to "Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes."

"Eldest Uncle."

"Aunt's husband."

"Happy New Year to you!"

Afterwards, they paid a New Year's call to the eldest wife and the second wife. They are both over 70 years old.

Wei Muchun was very happy to see Lingling, and then took out a bunch of keys directly to her.

"Lingling, you will graduate from university this year. This is a gift for you."

Wei Lingling: "This is?"

Her aunt Lin Ni said directly: "This is a house in Clothing Taste Building, a gift from your eldest uncle."

Clothing Taste Building is a high-end residence in Taipei. Movie star Xu Feng lived here after marrying her husband. The residential area they later developed in the Magic City is called "Tomson Riviera." I don't know if the source is here. Many other high officials and nobles also live there.

Before Wei Lingling could thank him, Wei Muchun said again: "I heard that you have changed to American citizenship now."

Hearing this, first of all, Wei Lingling's mother Lin Xi was shocked and looked at her daughter unexpectedly.

Wei Lingling was about to explain, but Wei Muchun interrupted directly and was not angry: "Very good. In the future, Taiwan citizens will have no status in the world. Having an American identity is convenient for doing anything, such as going to the mainland."

"What am I going there for?" Wei Lingling pouted, and thought of her stubborn biological father who wanted to go back.

Wei Muchun said seriously: "Of course I have to go. That is our root. It's a pity that I can't go back. Otherwise, I would like to fly back immediately. Lingling, if you have a chance, you must go back for your eldest uncle~"

(End of chapter)