Chapter 442 What Kind of Medicine Is Sold in the Gourd

At the same time, Qiu Ziyu, who was a competitor on the same stage, also got up early in the morning and began to read Li Chungang's works seriously.

Chance!

Qiu Ziyu deserves to be Qiu Zhiguo's "seed". After realizing that Li Chungang's "A Bowl of Clear Soup and Yangchun Noodles" gave up the usual reverse writing method and switched to flat and direct writing, in the minds of the father and son, The same two words flashed at the same time.

Where is Li Chungang's real admiration?

That's right! It is his short stories that can always give an unexpected and shocking ending.

Faced with such a short story with a 180-degree turn and a big reversal, it is often the most popular among readers, especially before that, no one in the domestic short story circle would use a similar method to write short stories. creation.

So this type of short story is also the most suitable type of text to compete for the championship of the Seven Star Literature Cup!

In comparison between the two, a straightforward narrative story cannot produce a similar effect. Compared with the unexpected big reversal, the degree of stimulation is much smaller.

"Could it be that Li Chungang is exhausted, and he can't think of a good reversal plot in such a short period of time. But it's not right to think about it. I saw people who watched the live broadcast in the group say that this guy is the first among the ten finalists. The person who submitted the work spent less than three hours in total, and finished it just in time for dinner. Could it be that he deliberately wanted to try a new writing method?"

Qiu Zhiguo speculated secretly, but after thinking about it, he always felt that it was not correct, and he didn't have much foothold. After all, he was not a roundworm in Li Chungang's stomach, so it was naturally impossible to know the real thoughts in the other party's heart.

Fortunately, he is not a person who likes to get to the bottom of things, and soon he stopped entangled with it. On the contrary, he felt a little happy in his heart at this time.

Now that Li Chungang gave up writing about his best genre, he suddenly felt...his son might really have a chance to fight back in this wave of finals!

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【"Ah...clean soup Yangchun noodles...a bowl...is that okay?" The woman asked timidly. The two little boys hid behind their mother and looked at the proprietress timidly. 】

The background is an ordinary noodle shop on New Year's Eve.

A woman walked into a noodle shop with two children to eat noodles,

As a result, after hesitating for a long time when ordering, I only ordered a bowl of Yangchun noodles? Consomme?

It can be clearly understood without analysis that the family's life is very embarrassing.

Ordinary people may guess that the next plot is likely to show that the owner of the noodle shop will dislike something because of this, and there will be a magical turning point at the end of the story.

But in fact, the following plot is very plain but also very heartwarming:

【"Okay, please, please sit here." The proprietress said, and led the three of them to sit at the No. 2 table near the heater, while shouting into the counter, "A bowl of Yangchun noodles in clear soup!"

The boss who heard the shout raised his head and glanced at the three of them, and replied in response: "Okay! A bowl of Yangchun noodles in clear soup—"

Noodles have been prepared on the chopping board long ago, piles like hills, and one pile is for one person. The boss grabbed a pile of noodles, then added half a pile, and put them into the pot together. The proprietress immediately realized that the husband specially gave the mother and child more. 】

This boss is a nice guy!

He saw the distress of the mother and son at a glance, so he deliberately put some more noodles in addition to the original one.

As soon as the hot and fragrant Yangchun noodles came to the table, the mother and son immediately gathered around the bowl of noodles and started to eat them head to head.

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The corners of Qiu Zhiguo's mouth could not help but rise up, as if a warm scene of mother and son eating a bowl of Yangchun noodles appeared in his mind, and the next second the scene changed to a scene of his family of three gathering at the dinner table, so touching People are familiar with.

【"It's so delicious!" My brother said.

"Mom eats too!" The younger brother picked up a piece of chopstick noodles and delivered it to his mother. 】

Then, time quietly came to the second year.

At the same time, this small noodle restaurant named "Happiness" was about to close when the door was pulled open again.

The woman was wearing the same clothes as last year, and walked in with the two boys who had grown a little after a year.

"...this...a bowl of Yangchun noodles in clear soup...is that okay?"

"Please, please sit inside," the proprietress took them to last year's table No. 2, "a bowl of Yangchun noodles in clear soup—" "Okay, a bowl of Yangchun noodles in clear soup—" the boss replied in response, and Relight the extinguished fire.

"Hey, kid's father, give them three bowls, okay?"

The proprietress whispered in the boss's ear.

"No, if that's the case, they might be embarrassed."

As the boss said, he grabbed a half portion of noodles and put them in the pot.

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Seeing this, Qiu Zhiguo was already slightly moved.

Even after a year, the boss and the proprietress are still as kind as ever, because they have to take care of the self-esteem of the mother and son, and even resist the idea of ​​adding a little more noodles.

[After eating, I paid 15 yuan. The proprietress said to their backs: "Thank you, I wish you a happy new year!"]

I have to admit that Qiu Zhiguo was completely warmed by the behavior of the owner and wife of this noodle shop when he saw this place.

But in the next second, a bigger doubt arose from the bottom of my heart! Because a similar plot has been repeated for the second time in this short story, is it possible that Li Chungang's repeated writing method is to reflect the kindness and warmth of the noodle shop owner and the proprietress?

If this is the case, he will feel that Li Chungang, a rising star who is favored by countless seniors in the literary world, is nothing more than mediocre!

With this mentality, I can’t wait to start reading the follow-up content:

[Happiness Noodle Restaurant, whose business is booming day by day, ushered in its third New Year's Eve.

From half past nine, although neither the boss nor the proprietress said anything, they both seemed a little restless. Just after ten o'clock, the shop assistants left after get off work. The boss and the proprietress immediately turned over the price tags of various noodles hanging on the wall one by one, and hurriedly wrote "Yangchun noodles in clear soup 15 yuan". In fact, since the summer of that year, with the rise in prices, the price of Yangchun noodles in clear soup has been 20 yuan a bowl.

On the second table, 30 minutes ago, the proprietress had already put up a "reservation" sign.

At half past ten, there were no customers in the shop, but the boss and the proprietress were still waiting for the arrival of the mother and son. Here they come. The elder brother was wearing the uniform of a middle school student, and the younger brother was wearing the slightly larger old clothes that the elder brother wore last year. The two brothers have grown up and are a little unrecognizable. Mother was still wearing the out-of-season faded short overcoat. 】

"Sure enough! It came again the third time, didn't it? I want to see what kind of medicine is sold in your gourd!"

A light flashed in Qiu Zhiguo's eyes, and the follow-up content was exactly as he expected, it was still repeating the scenes from the first year and the second year, except for the changes in the characters themselves, there was no change at all.