Half a Lifetime on the Dusty Road

"Sacrifice with Life, Pursue My Master - To Mr. Lu Yao, whom I have not met for a century" is a long commemorative prose full of sincerity and affection. The full text is 50,000 words long, carrying the author's ultimate admiration and lifelong remembrance beyond life as a junior follower of Lu Yao. With deep and heavy writing, he writes about Lu Yao's profound influence on his life and writing path. The article is prefaced with "Sir, he is the light in my life". It expresses his feelings directly at the beginning, and regards Lu Yao as his life belief and spiritual pillar on the way of writing, which sets the strong and sincere emotional tone of the whole article. The full text revolves around the spiritual bond with Lu Yao, and is divided into four core chapters and an epilogue. It starts from the accidental encounter with "The Ordinary World" when he was young, and tells how Lu Yao's simple and powerful words broke the confusion of youth, awakened the literary seeds in the author's heart, and started his writing life. The article provides an in-depth explanation of Lu Yao's creative career and life history, showing his original creative intention of taking root in the loess soil and sacrificing his life for literature. It also restores his hard work and persistence in realistic writing when creating "The Ordinary World", allowing readers to understand the sincerity and dedication behind Lu Yao's words. At the same time, the author details the process of following Lu Yao's literary spirit and adhering to his original intention of writing for many years. He attributes his perseverance in the hardships of life and his persistence in writing to Lu Yao's spiritual guidance, integrating this worship into his bones and blood and engraved it into his soul. The whole prose is full of emotions and sincere, without gorgeous words, but every word is full of affection. It not only pays tribute to Lu Yao, a literary prodigy who has not been seen in a century, but also expresses the author's determination to use literature as a sacrifice and inherit his literary spirit throughout his life. It is a condensed letter.