I am not born in the 60s or 70s, but rather in the 90s, but I also have a pen pal, and I still keep in touch with them now, but I have changed them by email. When I was in junior high school, I learned how to write letters for the first time. Then I slowly found some people who wanted to make pen pals in books such as "Story Club" and "Little Novels", and just wrote letters. 8 For cents, use the thinnest letter paper to write a lot, stories, and life. I think my nagging habit of writing was developed at that time.
I don’t have many pen pals, only two, one from Hechi and one from Xiamen. The two are still in contact, one is married and has children, and the other has children. It can be said that one is the brother type and the other is the father type. Both of these people have had some influence on some of my ideas. Let’s talk about these two people.
One of the people here, the older one, is a writer in short novels. He has always written some social stories, and his writing is particularly realistic. He has also written some more explicit ones. Phenomenon - a woman sells meat for the sake of her family. Her husband also knows about it, and then saves enough money for the family to last for a lifetime. Then her husband finds a reason to divorce her and marries another woman. . At that time, there was no concept of joint property between husband and wife, so it all belonged to the man. Otherwise, the man would threaten the woman, and prostitution was illegal. ——This article is the first story he wrote that I have read. According to him, this material is actually based on actual examples.
Later, I read some of his writings one after another, and indeed I could find them in some news articles later. It can be said that this pen pal enlightened me on the "scumbag" kind of thing. Although the new concept was only more than ten years ago, and the term scumbag was not yet popular at that time, scumbags have always existed.
The other is a very ordinary person. If it is a bit unusual, his family is a fisherman and he has a lot of experience at sea. I have only been to the beach, but not to the sea, because going to the sea requires a car, and I am more afraid of motion sickness. So I have never been there. In his early letters, he told some stories about being at sea, about some unknown islands, and about the dangers of storms at sea... Because he is used to writing, he doesn’t like to be real-time We chatted until an email six years ago. After I replied to the email, he didn’t reply to me for nearly two months. This is relatively rare in normal times. The first sentence he replied to my email that time was - Xiaohei, do you know? This time I almost couldn't come back~~ Then I told some stories about storms at sea. Later, he slowly left the sea. Now he married a wife, gave birth to a daughter, and found a relatively stable job.
These are the only two pen pals I have made. Fortunately, they have always been in contact.