It is an accident to know Zeng Pengfei. On July 2 1 a year ago, the weather was very hot and dry, with harsh white light and unbearable heat.
Back in Huichang, I went to the county building, and I came to a room on the right side of the first floor, which is JOE's "Office of the Secretary General of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles".
The name is very famous, but the house is very simple and there is no air conditioning. There is a ceiling fan hanging on the roof. As soon as it is turned on, the ceiling fan swings from side to side like a drunk, which is scary.
On that day, JOE, who often goes to the countryside, happened to be there, and all the guests from afar stayed.
It's rare to see him. He is very warm and polite. He offered a cup of hot tea (there is actually no ice water in that place), and his heart was on fire, getting hotter and hotter, and getting more and more anxious!
Take out two books (inferior books, not worth mentioning) and write them by yourself. As usual, JOE was praised and encouraged, which moved me to tears.
Not long after chatting, a middle-aged man came in, of medium build, simple and gentle, slightly thin and with a pair of eyes. He sat down in the empty seat opposite JOE, picked up my book and turned it over.
"Director Zeng ..."
JOE said something.
"Are you Zeng Pengfei?"
I suddenly realized that it was like a crack.
"yes"
He nodded, while continuing to read the book, looking very carefully.
"Have you worked in the government for more than ten years?"
"ah! Yes. "
The truth is that it has been almost ten years. At that time, my information was vague and vague.
Actually I don't know Zeng Pengfei. I have never met him. But it is a miracle that we can call each other by their first names as soon as we meet. Why? So far, I have no way to say.
Every bosom friend has a thousand glasses of wine. In this way, we met and talked.
Zeng Pengfei's "chair" is a semi-old rattan chair. On weekdays, there is a famous woman. Recently, she set up a cultural salon with an astonishing scale.
At that time, the people of Sri Lanka had already left, and some fairy tales could be seen in the shadows.
It was not Zeng Pengfei who saw us "flinch". I guess at that moment, he knew I was coming and came to talk.
We hit it off that day and had a good talk, from the "secretary room" to the "civilized office" because there was no air conditioning in the "secretary room" and the temperature was not very pleasant.
We talked for a long time in the civilized office with cool breeze, from 3: 30 to 5: 00, and talked about two classes.
From literary planning to literary aesthetics, from literary conception to literary income generation, from Huichang literature to China literature, and then to world literature, Zeng Pengfei is a person with extraordinary sensitivity to literature. His content is complex, his knowledge is extensive, and his involvement is far-reaching, which is amazing. ......
Later, I learned that Zeng Pengfei was a celebrity in Huichang cultural circle. In addition to literary attainments, he is also proficient in calligraphy and is the chairman of the county book association.
From this perspective, Zeng Pengfei's cultural literacy and artistic literacy are really worthy of the name in that small town that worships Confucianism.
On that day, when I left the quiet courtyard, I noticed a magnolia tree next to the middle door of the building, next to the window of the government office. It is tall and straight, with lush foliage. In the warm spring season in bloom, the yard is already filled with the delicate fragrance of magnolia.
After returning to Ganzhou, I was full of passion and anxiety. It took me three days to write an essay of more than 5,000 words-"From the County Committee to the Writers Association", which recorded the whole process of going to the county Committee.
Zeng Pengfei saw this article and liked it very much. He mentioned it on the phone countless times until a year later.
Last winter, he came to attend a meeting and stayed at Jin-Gan Hotel. Call me at three in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, I hurried there.
This process is very tortuous. I took the bus first, turned around and stopped all the way, and found several places, because on the phone, I heard "Jin-Gan Hotel" as "Jia Jun Hotel". It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Jing 'an.
Stepping into the hotel room, Zeng Pengfei was sitting on a small sofa, quietly watching TV.
That day, we talked until eight o'clock in the evening. It took half an hour except for eating, so we talked for three and a half hours.
This is a cultural salon for two people, the smallest work workshop in the world.
Zeng Pengfei is a devout believer in literature. He has incisive and original literary views. In addition, literary criticism, literary appreciation, literary planning and literary creation are all his strengths. I often wonder how many people like Zeng Pengfei are around us?
So far, I have seen Zeng Pengfei very few times, and the cumulative number will not exceed five times, because I seldom go back and he doesn't come down very often. Occasionally make a phone call and chat, but the other end of the phone is often "disconnected" because he is the leader. As far as leaders are concerned, they should be busy with government affairs, welcome to the countryside and have meetings.
The magnolia blooms and waits under the magnolia, which is so ardent. Ten years, Zeng Pengfei has been waiting at that window, in the chair of the director of the government office, for a tenth of a century.
After ten years of ups and downs, I forgot without thinking.
Ten years, like a blink of an eye. The magnolia outside the window has grown from a small seedling to a towering tree, while the child under the magnolia continues his career, waiting silently, doing what he should do, spreading the light of civilization, passing on the fire of civilization and inheriting the sword of civilization!
It is the duty and mission of the Civilization Office to eulogize beauty, spread morality and promote righteousness, and it has also created a good fashion for civilized people to advocate civilization and love literature. Zeng Pengfei is one of them.
In my memory, Zeng Pengfei is not only good at literary planning and literary criticism, but also his second major.
He has read many of my manuscripts, novels and essays, totaling no less than 500,000 words. In every important chapter, if he finds some highlights, he will reply in time and make a phone call to comment. Generally speaking, we should affirm, praise and cheer first, and then point out some shortcomings or areas that need improvement.
Usually, Zeng Pengfei's opinions are incisive and to the point.
At the beginning of writing, I made many strategic mistakes and spent almost all my time and energy on novels. Although some "progress" has been made, the overall strategy has been frustrated, resulting in no gains and tight economy.
I learned a lesson from my painful experience and calmed down. After repeated consideration, I decided to adjust my strategy, shorten the front line, change from "long breakthrough" to "short breakthrough", put prose and short stories at the point of knife, and put prose at the point of knife. Schools are slim, focused and uneven in strength.
When I communicated with Zeng Pengfei, on the phone, he immediately reacted and blurted out, saying only five words: "The ship turned around!"
Highly centralized theory and precise and profound vision are the innate talents of a cultural planner.
If these are trivial things, then what happened later has a great influence, which is enough to change the trajectory of a scholar and his life course.
Speaking of literature, from ancient times to the present, inertial thinking is "a gentleman is poor". Scholars should never talk about money, nor do they have to talk about money. It seems that when they talk about money, they won't become literati, but they will also be tainted with copper smell and become less bookish. In fact, such an assertion is extremely ignorant! This is actually pushing the literati to the abyss and literature to death.
The soldiers and horses did not move, and the food and grass went first. Zeng Pengfei knows the truth. He painstakingly planned many ideas for this.
Admittedly, due to various reasons, many ideas are not popular in the actual market and fail to achieve immediate results. In that gloomy day, in that struggling era, on such a tortuous literary road, Zeng Pengfei lit a candle and gave people infinite courage and hope.
In other words, if you study well, you will become an official, but that is a matter for government literati. This rule may not work for grassroots writers.
Zeng Pengfei has always had too much sympathy, understanding and support for the bitterness of grassroots writers.
Zeng Pengfei's position is not high in officialdom, solemn venue and affordable vanity fair. It's not that friends occasionally make guest appearances, go through the motions, applaud, then run away and quit halfway, so there is no news, and finally there is silence.
For literature, he is a kind of trust, a kind of belief, a kind of belief. A trickle, a gentle breeze, and warmth.
In short, for friends; In a word, for my hometown; Broadly speaking, for society.
Simple philosophy and simple truth are integrated, but in reality, some people understand, some people don't necessarily understand, some people are ignorant, and not everyone is Zeng Pengfei!
Every early spring, white jade blooms brilliantly, white and mellow.
The naked child under the magnolia conveys the fire of civilization and radiates the light of infinite hope.
Hard exploration, searching up and down, precipitation of experience, a straight path finally surfaced. The pain of travel, confusion, hunger and cold will become a yellow flower overnight.
Culture goes to the countryside to publicize agriculture, countryside and farmers and promote tourism. With documentary and vivid brushwork, it reveals simple villages, prosperous new villages, simple folk customs, beautiful scenery, and countless hardworking migrant workers rooted in the depths of the soil.
A new literary model was born, and a new literary theme sprouted!
It is true that writers can't be slaves of the market, but only by binding literature with the market can literature go on and go further, otherwise, literature will become rootless duckweed, passive running water and buildings without foundation.
Zeng Pengfei is the discoverer, advocate and leader of this thought.
Calling the life of the world is for profit, and the iron law has merged into a rolling car flow, flowing to endless distances.
In the traffic, some people are willing to quit, make a paving stone and live in the dock, watching the wind and rain fade away, the sound of the waves is still the same, and the tide rises and falls.
Great thoughts, like magnolia flowers, are white, crystal clear and fragrant, and will ferment, spread and sublimate in the long years.
As a discoverer, his sincerity to his hometown is like that magnolia tree, standing on the land of his hometown and rooted in the hearts of every pathfinder.