Lu Yao, many people said that he was poor all his life and still owed others 10,000 yuan after his death. In fact, it is very inappropriate to say that he lived in poverty all his life. His poverty was very particular, and it was "refined poverty."

In the words of his friend Hai Bo: "The reasons why he is poor are not complicated: first, he does not earn much, and second, he spends a lot."

"He earns a lot." "Not much" means modesty. Lu Yao earned a lot and was a very respectable literary worker back then.

The "Ten Thousand Yuan Households" of that era were very wealthy. 30,000 Yuan was enough to buy 6.7 courtyard houses in Beijing, and they were also powerful figures in the city.

Before that, he published "A Shocking Scene" in 1980, which won the first National Outstanding Novella Award. Since 1981, his works have won awards one after another. From the perspective of making money, he makes a lot of money.

But Lu Yao was still poor. When "Life" won the award in 1983, he had no money to go to Beijing to receive the award, so his younger brother Wang Tianle asked a worker to lend him 500 yuan.

When "The Ordinary World" won the Mao Dun Literature Award in 1986, he went to ask his younger brother Wang Letian for a loan, and his younger brother lent him another 500 yuan.

Wang Letian recalled: "Lu Yao told me on the phone that he still didn't have the money to receive the award. He had borrowed the travel expenses, but he had to treat people when he got to Beijing, and he had to buy 100 sets of "The Ordinary World" to give away. , let me think of another way."

Wang Tianle told Lu Yao that he would not win any awards in the future. If he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he would not be able to find foreign exchange. Lu Yao only said one sentence: x fucking literature.

With royalties and bonuses so high, why is Lu Yao still so poor? The reason is that he "spends a lot."

As early as 1982, Lu Yao started drinking "three-in-one" bagged coffee. This Maxwell's coffee later became Maxwell. At that time, it was positioned as a high-end market in China, and ordinary people drank it. Sorry.

In addition to coffee, Lu Yao’s other big hobby is smoking. He only smokes "Congratulations on the New Year", two or three packs a day. His salary of 100 yuan, which others think is very high, is not enough for him to smoke every month. money.

Heroes are mortals, and mortals are also heroes. Lu Yao has an ordinary side, which does not affect the greatness of his works at all. He possesses the excellent qualities of a great writer: persistence, tenacity, and great enthusiasm for literature.

"The Ordinary World" is Lu Yao's greatest work. He had contracted hepatitis B a few years before his death. In order to complete "The Ordinary World", he often endured the pain and stayed up late to create.

Finally, in 1992, he passed away from this world due to ineffective treatment of liver cirrhosis and ascites. At only 42 years old, he is in his prime.

There are shadows of Lu Yao and his younger brother in "The Ordinary World". This film takes the struggle history of the two brothers as the main line and portrays the images of many ordinary people at the bottom of society who are looking for beauty in the difficult reality. In life, everyone can find their own shadow.

This work has influenced many big names. Ma Yun said: "The thing that had the greatest impact on me was Lu Yao. It was Lu Yao's works that changed me and made me realize that there is always a chance if I don't give up."

Pan Shiyi read it 7 times with tears in his eyes. He said : "Every time when I was at a low point in my life, when I encountered difficulties, and when I felt that I couldn't get over this hurdle, I read "The Ordinary World" again. So I know every detail in "The Ordinary World" very clearly. ”

Many famous sentences in the book have influenced people of all eras, such as this familiar sentence:

Life is always like this, and people cannot be satisfied everywhere. But we still have to live passionately. There are many things worth loving in a person's life. Don't be discouraged just because you are not satisfied with one thing.

A good work can stand the test of time and can be read when you are a child, when you are middle-aged, and when you are old. The reading taste is different in each stage of life.