Chapter 465 Old Classmates Are Here

After Zhou Yan and the others arrived at the Xijiao Hotel, they first went to the front desk to check in and get the room key.

The rooms for the participants of this conference are all determined in advance. If they are not informed in advance, they will be randomly arranged.

Because it is randomly arranged, you will encounter a problem.

There are various types of rooms in the hotel, single rooms, double rooms and quadruple rooms. They may be arranged to share a room with other people.

The little girl at the front desk found the names of the three people in the book and gave them three keys.

"318, 202 and 310, turn left in front of the elevator."

Zhou Yan gave three keys to Yu Hua and asked the girl at the front desk, "Excuse me, are there any free rooms tonight?"

The little girl shook her head, "No, the room is not enough in the first place."

"Oh, okay, thank you."

He originally thought that if he wanted to stay here tonight, he could get another room instead of sharing it with others, but unfortunately the rooms were all full.

Liu Zhenyun looked at the key in Yu Hua's hand and said with a smile, "I'm in 317. Which of you lives in 318?"

"Let Tiesheng stay here so that we can take care of him."

Shi Tiesheng smiled and said, "Put the keys away first. There is no need to stay here tonight. Isn't it still early?"

"Whether we live here or not, let's build a base first, otherwise we won't have anywhere to stay now, so let's go to 318."

"OK."

The four of them took the elevator to the fourth floor and found room 318.

Room 318 is a double room, and the bed next to it is already occupied by someone, who hasn't come back yet.

They came back by car, which was actually faster than the large army.

"I don't know who the other one is." Yu Hua glanced at the bed in the back, "It must not be an old gentleman."

Zhou Yan looked around the room and said, "She should be a local member of Yanjing."

Liu Zhenyun nodded and agreed with Zhou Yan's guess, "Yes, if you are from out of town, you will definitely bring a lot of luggage. This person brought a paper bag. He must be a local member... There is some bad news."

"What news?"

"This member does not smoke."

Yu Hua patted his head, this was indeed not good news.

Since his roommates don't smoke, it's not easy for them to smoke. He was about to take out a cigarette and smoke one, but he gave up now.

"Let's go sit in our dormitory for a while first." Liu Zhenyun suggested.

"Who is your roommate?" Yu Hua asked.

"Mo Yan."

Hearing that it was Mo Yan, Yu Hua laughed and said, "Okay, let's go to your dormitory."

Afterwards, he pushed Shi Tiesheng directly out and turned to the door of 317.

Of the two beds in 317, the quilt on one was messy, while the quilt on the other was neatly folded.

Shi Tiesheng said with a smile, "The one inside must be Mo Yan's bed, and the one outside is yours."

"Isn't it obvious at a glance?" Yu Hua also laughed, "That guy Mo Yan, among other things, is definitely good at folding quilts."

Mo Yan had been in the army and really paid great attention to this aspect.

Yu Hua and Mo Yan had been roommates before when they were studying at Lu Xun Institute of Literature. He knew Mo Yan's living habits quite well.

Mo Yan didn't come back at this time. Liu Zhenyun went over and opened the curtains, then took out his cigarette case and let everyone have cigarettes.

When Zhou Yan was let over, Yu Hua smiled and said, "He doesn't smoke, please give me the cigarette."

Liu Zhenyun shrank his hand, "Logically speaking, you should be the one who gave me the cigarette. I heard that you have earned a lot of royalties recently."

Yu Hua said sternly, "Don't believe those rumors. My royalties are far inferior to yours. You must have earned more than hundreds of thousands by writing scripts for Haima Dance Hall before."

Liu Zhenyun raised the corner of his mouth, "I'll give you back what you just said. Don't believe those rumors. Hundreds of thousands, you're going to scare me to death."

"Don't be modest, I won't ask you to borrow money."

"I wish I had the strength to lend you money."

Liu Zhenyun lit the cigarette, sat down on the bed, and the three of them started puffing away.

Zhou Yan moved closer to the window and opened it a crack, trying to reduce himself from second-hand smoke.

After a while, the sound of the keyhole turning was heard outside the door, and then Mo Yan pushed the door open and came in from the outside.

Seeing the smoke filling the room and a few more people, Mo Yan's eyes widened... Actually, they weren't that big.

Mo Yan is short, slightly chubby, with a round face, compact features, small eyes, and short eyebrows.

After seeing Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng clearly, Mo Yan smiled and said, "Tiesheng, Yu Hua, you are here too."

He looks simple and honest, and when he smiles, his eyes and eyebrows seem to have no place to hide, and they are squeezed together, making him even more stupid.

"Teacher Guan, you are quite fast." Liu Zhenyun smiled.

"I'm small, I can get into any space in the car." As he said that, Mo Yan looked at Zhou Yan again, "This is Zhou Yan, right?"

Zhou Yan responded with a smile, "Hello, Teacher Mo Yan."

Mo Yan smiled and waved his hand, "You're welcome, just call me Mo Yan."

Mo Yan was not surprised that Zhou Yan appeared here, because he knew that Yu Hua and the others had a good relationship with Zhou Yan.

This is not a secret. The collection of novels by Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, and Shi Tiesheng is selling very well in Neon. This matter has been in the news.

Moreover, Mo Yan and Yu Hua have not lost contact with each other, and they have also heard Yu Hua say many things related to Zhou Yan.

After Mo Yan arrived, the number of cigarettes in the room increased from three to four.

Seeing the smoke density inside the house slowly getting higher and the visibility getting lower and lower, Zhou Yan opened the window wider.

After smoking two cigarettes, Yu Hua asked, "When will we have dinner tonight?"

Liu Zhenyun shrugged, "Then you can eat whenever you want."

"Don't you all eat together tonight?"

"No, everyone has their own meal. There is a set meal in the restaurant. If you want to eat, just go there. Dinner is available before nine o'clock."

"Oh, I thought everyone was eating together. How is the quality of their restaurant?" Yu Hua was slightly disappointed. He thought everyone was eating together at night.

"It's just average, it's not bad tasting anyway."

Yu Hua pouted, "I knew I would have gone to Zhou Yan's studio to have a meal."

"I've heard you tell me about their studio cafeteria several times. How good is it?" Mo Yan said with a smile.

"It's that good. I'll take you to experience it when I have time next time."

Shi Tiesheng smiled and said, "Zhou Yan is here, so you can help him make the decision."

Zhou Yan took over the conversation and said, "If you are interested in the studio cafeteria, you can go there and have fun. It just so happened that our studio recently built a reading room. You big writers can go over and give your opinions."

"You even built a reading room? I didn't see it a few days ago." Yu Hua asked doubtfully. "Well, it was just built in the past two days. It's nothing special. It's just one room, fifty or sixty square meters, and there's no decoration. The books are not all there, and they are still being put in one after another."

"Why did you think of setting up a reading room?" Shi Tiesheng asked curiously.

"Nothing, I just want employees to have multiple places to rest and read more books. In addition to the reading room, there will also be a gym and a game room for employees to rest in the future."

"Is the treatment in your studio so good?" Liu Zhenyun looked surprised. "Do they usually have time to rest? I mean, can these places be useful?"

"The work in our studio is not fixed. Sometimes we are free and sometimes we are busy. When we are free, these places can be put to good use."

"You are a good boss. You can at least tolerate your employees' leisure time. I must be happy to be your employee."

"But I'm not going to hire people who don't add value to our studio."

Yu Hua said with a smile, "These words sound a bit capitalist."

Liu Zhenyun asked again, "Where is the value of employees reflected? Is it how much money they make for you?"

"Whether employees are valuable depends on whether I think they are valuable. If I think they are, they are. If I think they are not, they are not."

"This sentence sounds a bit like a dictator again." Mo Yan laughed.

"I'm still interested in your reading room. How many books are you going to put in your reading room?" Shi Tiesheng said.

"I've taken three thousand copies first, and we'll see if we can get more later."

"What kind of books are there?"

"Novel accounts for 60%, professional books related to film, television, and music account for 20 to 30%, and the rest is other miscellaneous books. If employees have books they want to read but the reading room does not have them, they can write an application form. As long as more than ten people sign, you can buy it.”

"Three thousand books are already a lot," Mo Yan said.

Many people have no idea about the number of books and think that three thousand books is not much. But in fact, three thousand books piled together are very impressive.

Most of the small bookstores on the street carry less than 3,000 books.

As a reading room, it must be equipped with many places to read books, and it cannot be too full of books.

So a space of fifty to sixty square meters is quite a lot for three thousand books.

The key is that considering the size of Zhou Yan's studio, having three thousand books is a bit of a luxury.

"Do you have our book?" Yu Hua asked directly.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Isn't this nonsense? Everyone sitting here has their works in it."

Among the three thousand books, 60% are novels, which means there are 1,800 books.

For most people, Zhou Yan only allowed them to buy one book. These 1,800 books basically cover all the best-selling literary works on the market in recent years.

Mo Yan, Liu Zhenyun, Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng are all best-selling writers in recent years, and their masterpieces are naturally in it.

For example, Liu Zhenyun's novel collections "Chicken Feathers in a Land" and "Officialdom", Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum Family" and "Big Breasts and Wide Buttocks" are all on the list of books to be added.

Not to mention the works of Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng. Not only are all the single volumes published, but also some of the publications that have serialized their novels before. They are also placed in a very conspicuous place, and you can basically see them when you enter the reading room.

The two of them should have the largest number of works in the reading room, except for Zhou Yan's favorite Chekhov.

When they heard that their books were also in the reading room, Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun were very interested and expressed that they wanted to take a look.

Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng were also very happy. In the future, they could not only listen to music in the studio, but also read in the reading room.

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The few people chatted for a while, and suddenly there was a knock on the door outside.

Liu Zhenyun asked loudly, "Who? Who are you looking for?"

"Me." A cheerful female voice came from outside the door.

"An old classmate is here." Liu Zhenyun smiled, got up and ran to open the door, "Here he is."

When Zhou Yanzheng was wondering who the visitor was, Liu Zhenyun opened the door, and a woman wearing a black coat and high heels stood outside.

The woman had a cheerful voice and a cheerful appearance, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looked very energetic.

Zhou Yan recognized the woman immediately. It was Chi Zijian.

There are not many famous contemporary Chinese female writers, especially in the generation of Yu Hua. There are only a few famous female writers, and Chi Zijian is one of them.

Chi Zijian's most well-known work should be her novel "The Right Bank of the Ergun River", but this work has not been published yet.

Her road to fame really started this year. In this year's Lu Xun Literature Award, her "Misty Moon Cowshed" was awarded the Best Short Story Award.

Speaking of which, there is another work in this room that also won this award.

That is Shi Tiesheng, who also won the Lu Xun Literature Award for Best Short Story this year with "Old House Plan".

As soon as the door opened, Chi Zijian raised her hand in front of her with a look of disdain, "Ahem, so many of you are smoking inside, you can hardly see anyone."

Liu Zhenyun chuckled, "Four smokers, are you coming in?"

Although the smell of smoke was strong, Chi Zijian still walked in with her nose covered.

Only when she got to the room did she see clearly who was inside.

Of course, she knew Yu Hua, Mo Yan and Shi Tiesheng, but as for Zhou Yan, she was a little unsure: "Who is this..."

"He is Zhou Yan." Yu Hua helped introduce.

"Oh, it's you, no wonder."

Mo Yan asked curiously, "No wonder what?"

"No wonder he is so handsome, he turned out to be a big star."

Many writers don't know Zhou Yan, and don't know what Zhou Yan looks like, but they know that there is such a person as Zhou Yan, who is a big star.

Such an alternative is naturally easy to remember.

Chi Zijian looks ordinary, but she looks very refreshing, and when she smiles, two dimples appear on her cheeks, adding some charm to her.

She, Liu Zhenyun, Mo Yan, and Yu Hua were all students of the same Lu Xun Academy of Literature, so she was moved when Liu Zhenyun said that an old classmate was here.

It was also because they were all classmates that she was willing to walk in under the lingering smoke and talk in a very relaxed manner.

After Liu Zhenyun opened the door, he did not close it again.

One reason was that he thought that there might be other people coming back to find them, and the other was that he wanted to dissipate the smoke.

The small gap in the window was not very useful.

"Old classmate, do you want me to pour you a cup of tea?" Liu Zhenyun asked with a smile.

"Do you have hot water here?"

"No, but there is a kettle, you can boil it yourself."

Chi Zijian curled her lips, "Forget it."

"Anyway, I asked." Liu Zhenyun sat back on the bed with a smile.

Chi Zijian moved to the window and guarded the other side of the window gap. (End of this chapter)