Mo Yan: In the opening season, I recalled my college years

The dream of going to college started germination since my elder brother was admitted to East China Normal University since the early 1960s.

At that time, in our countryside, not to mention the college student himself, the family of college students, and was particularly respected.

One year of winter vacation, the elder brother went home to visit relatives.

While he was asleep, I sneaked off his school badge, worn in front of my chest, ran to the street, and showed off to my friends.

The little friends satirical: "It's your brother go to college, but it's not you, what is the burning bag?"

At that time, I secretly resolved that when I grew up, I had to go to college and be a college student.

The people in the village knew that I was doing a university dream, and I looked at me with strange eyes.

It seems to see a person with a nerve problem.

As the so -called indispensable road, the opportunity is finally coming.

In 1976, I entered the revolutionary team.

In the second year of the team, the college entrance examination resumed.

Our leader thought I was a high school graduate, so I gave me a chance to review my homework for the next year to take the college entrance examination.

The school is the School of Engineering and Technology of the People's Liberation Army, and the major is computer terminal repair.

When the leader told me this decision, I really had a sense of intersection and couldn't eat for three consecutive days.

I know that there is no ink in my stomach. Except for writing compositions, mathematics is almost unknown. Two -thirds of the one -half, I think it is equal to three -fifths.

And only half a year before the college entrance examination, what should I do? Is it or not the test?

In the end, I decided to take the exam and let the family send all the books of the elder brother at home, and began a difficult self -study.

After learning in June of the next year, I finally got into the door and felt that when the exam was not scored, the leader told me that the number of exams was gone.

This is another news that makes me feel sad and happy. The sadness is for half a year of bitterness.

Later, I knew that the level of those who took the exam that year was not much higher than me.

If I took the exam, I could be accepted without allowing it.

If you are accepted, I am likely to be a radio technician without becoming a novel.

Just as my university dream was completely shattered, the university suddenly opened the door to me.

The news of the restoration of enrollment of the Department of Literature of the School of Liberation Army's Academy of Arts reached my ears. not

I ran to military art with several published works, and the registration work has ended.

Mr. Xu Huaizhong, then the director of the Department of Literature, looked at my work and said excitedly to Liu Yiran, who was a business officer in the department at the time:

"This student, even if the cultural exam is not good, we want it."

When I took a cultural examination, I was very sure of politics and Chinese. What was not sure is geography.

Fortunately, some questions I answered right with my instincts.

In this way, I entered the Literature Department of the PLA Academy of Art with the highest score and the second place in cultural examinations, and became a college student with nearly 30 years.

Several students who entered the Department of Military Literature at that time, several were famous and won the National Literature Award, and the rest of them have published many works.

At that time, we listened to class during the day and wrote at night.

The four people lived in a dormitory. In order not to interfere with each other, many dormitories pulled the curtains, and they could make people get lost after entering. The people in our dormitory are lazy and maintain a simple look.

At that time, it was colder than now, the heating was not hot, and the room could be freezing.

When I wrote in the middle of the night, I was hungry, so I was boiled and boiled instant noodles. I heard that the instant noodles had to increase the price, so I bought 80 packs at a time.

At two o'clock in the middle of the night, the Department of Literature was still bright.

Someone knocked on the iron bowl and shouted in the corridor: "Holding work, I have finished work!"

There are not a few teachers, and most of the lessons are asked to ask the teacher to talk about it.

The teachers of Peking University and the teacher of the Academy of Social Sciences, who were touched with literature, were almost invited by us, and invited many celebrities.

Although this method is not systematically, the amount of information is very large, the bombardment is bombarded, and the wind is windy, which has played a good role in the rapid change of the literary concept in our minds.

After graduating from military art, two years later, I entered the writer's graduate class co -organized by Beijing Normal University and Lu Xun Academy of Literature.

At that time, I wanted to learn English, learn some theories, and strive to be a scholar -type writer.

But after getting there, I found that learning English and theory is not easy, so I won't go to class.

Thinking now, of course, I regret it.

Especially when I went out of the country, when I heard a whispering speech, I didn't understand it.

Now, I have a master's degree certificate.

But I knew it in myself that I did not really go to college.

The real university should be admitted step by step like my elder brother, from elementary school to middle school.

Although I have a graduate degree recognized by the state, after all, I am still a wild fox Zen.

*Excerpted from "The Wall of Singing"

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