At that time, I could already read novels through my brother. My brother is a veterinarian in the village and a member of the corps. Because he is a veterinarian of the brigade, he often goes to the district animal husbandry bureau to get veterinary drugs, so he also borrows books from the library of the brigade, borrowing 30 or 50 books at a time, mainly novels; You can't borrow books until you return the last book you borrowed. It's always been like this. There are always books to read.
My brother goes to that area by bike. Every time his main task is to get veterinary drugs from the animal husbandry bureau, but he never forgets to return books and borrow books, so he can't borrow too many books at a time, only thirty or fifty at a time. It's more than 40 miles from our village to the district. Every time I eat veterinary drugs and borrow some books, the load on my bike is already very heavy. Young people in the village always want their brothers to borrow more books, but it is difficult to do so. In addition, if you haven't returned all the books you borrowed before, you can't borrow too many books.
I usually read novels in winter and summer vacation. I have nothing to do, so I have to go to the veterinary station to find my brother. Sometimes I see my brother just coming back from the district. There are dozens of newly borrowed books on the heatable adobe sleeping platform in the veterinary station. At first glance, they are all novels, many of which are the first time to read. I'm particularly excited. Because I am always the first to read the books borrowed by my brother, and I can't read any more when I am late. If the book enters the library of the brigade and cannot be returned for a long time, it will be difficult to read it.
It was during those days that I read many novels, such as Sanjiaxiang, Wildfire, Spring Breeze Beating the Ancient City, Flying Tigers, Armed Forces Behind the Enemy, One Gun and One Gun in the Plain, King Kong of Fire, Lin Xuehai Yuan, Song of Youth, Hongyan and Storm. There are Spring in the Ancient City, Precursor, Triple Times of Li, Zheng Yi Road, Boiling Mountains, Spring Tide, Fighting in Unknown Rivers, etc. The later novels have long been forgotten by people now, and many of them have lost their value.
Of course, many contemporary novels can't be read, because many writers have been knocked down, Mao Dun's Midnight can't be read, Ba Jin's Home Spring and Autumn Annals can't be read, Lao She can't read, and Zhao Shuli can't read. ...
All I could read at that time were these novels, and only novels; Rural libraries don't borrow poems and essays, and generally no one reads them, so the brigade libraries only borrow novels, and then some books on agricultural science and technology. At that time, I was not fascinated by literary writing. I really liked literature and started literary creation in high school. At that time, I liked reading novels, but I didn't rise to writing novels. But at that time, I was very devoted to reading novels and was able to immerse myself in the stories of novels. I still have a certain impression on the story descriptions of these novels. At that time, reading was also very fast. Sometimes a novel of 400 to 500 pages can be read in a day or two. You won't like it if you don't finish it quickly. It's not my turn to read in the library of the brigade. If you want to see them, you have to wait a long time, and then my brother will return them to the district library. So sometimes I have to read many novels in a winter, all of which are novels.
I can read ordinary novels once and read them quickly. However, I will read some novels slowly and even look back often, so I will naturally read them slowly, such as Sanjiaxiang, Lin Yuan, Song of Youth, Red Flag Spectrum, and Entrepreneurship History. And I will read it carefully, because readers will feel it seriously as long as they have a taste. Because I think these well-written novels are worth reading carefully, and I can't read them all at once.
In the three winter vacations of junior high school, except for ten days of going up the mountain to get firewood, I usually spend my time reading novels, and the rest of the time is running out, so I have to finish winter vacation homework quickly.
A lot of knowledge in life is not obtained from school or given by teachers, but after class, especially the enlightenment of literature. You must read a lot of extracurricular books and a lot of literary works. This is the foundation and premise for me to embark on the road of literary creation, and it is also the foreshadowing for me to embark on the road of literature. In fact, many authors are like this, which is undeniable.