Back to 80: My Literary Life

"How much area? How much does it cost?" Fang Minghua asked quickly.

"The unit is 120 square meters, with three bedrooms and two living rooms. As for the price, internal financing is cheaper, about 40 yuan per square meter. Of course, there are floor fluctuations, but it's not much different."

Damn it!

Only 40 yuan per square meter!

It’s less than half the market price!

Not long ago, the first batch of commercial housing in Xijing began to be sold to the outside world, in the Xihoudi area, with a listing price of 98 yuan/square meter!

Fang Minghua also took a look. Of course, it was still a drawing. The area was about 50 square meters, with one light and two dark. There was a kitchen at the entrance. There was a very small bathroom on one side of the kitchen, and bedrooms on both sides. The bedrooms had windows, but the kitchen and bathroom had no windows.

Fang Minghua was very excited, but felt that the area was still too small for his family to live in, so he decided to wait.

I didn't expect to encounter such a good thing today.

"Red Army, if you give me the indicator, what will you do?" Fang Minghua asked.

"It's not like my family has no place to live. Besides, I haven't found a partner yet and I don't plan to get married. What kind of house do I want? I'll wait until my work unit raises funds to buy it. Your family is short of housing, so let me give it to you!"

"thank you."

"We're all buddies, what's there to thank you for?"

This is a great joy.

Fang Minghua rode to the bank to withdraw his deposit, then rushed to the Minsheng Department Store and went to the home appliance counter on the second floor. Under the envious eyes of everyone, he moved a 14-inch "Haiyan" TV set produced by Xijing Radio No. 1 Factory downstairs. Bundle up on the back of your bike and take it home.

A total of 1120 yuan was spent.

Fang Minghua’s family bought a large color TV!

The family courtyard is boiling!

After debugging it with everyone’s help, this colorful picture looks much better than black and white!

"Let's watch TV tonight."

My mother, Zhang Fenglan, smiled and greeted the helpers with a happy face.

When his father, Fang Changhe, came back from fishing in the afternoon and the family was having dinner, Fang Minghua talked about buying a crowdfunded house.

Unexpectedly, my parents did not agree.

"Xiaohua, it's good, but my family doesn't have that kind of money. It costs 5,000 yuan." Zhang Fenglan said.

"I still have some royalties saved. I probably have 3,000 left after I bought a color TV. You can contribute a little more," Fang Minghua replied.

"Xiaohua, you can't settle the bill like this." His father Fang Changhe, who rarely spoke during meals, spoke up: "If we scrape together, we can buy a house, but have you ever thought about it, all the money has been spent, and there are some problems at home. What to do about the big things? Also, the new house needs to be tidied up before it can be lived in, right? Do we need to buy some furniture? This all costs money!"

"Besides, you are not young anymore. It's time to find a partner to get married. This also requires money!"

"Dad, don't I get a salary, and I also get royalties." Fang Minghua argued.

"Your salary has increased to less than 40 yuan after one month, right? Royalty? You said that writing a novel of 10,000 words only costs 90 yuan. You yourself like to entertain guests and spend a lot of money. Calculate how much you can earn. ?”

I.

Fang Minghua opened his mouth, but said nothing.

When he returned to the unit to sleep at night, Fang Minghua lay in bed unable to sleep, thinking about this problem.

I definitely want to buy a house. How could I lose such a good opportunity?

Anyway, raising funds is not a one-time payment. You need to pay part of it first.

But Fang Minghua had to consider his father's worries.

There is no way, the manuscript fee is just like this this year, let alone the novel you wrote won the Mao Dun Award, even if you win the Nobel Prize for Literature, it is by this standard!

Of course we are not talking about the Nobel Prize bonus. That thing is still a little far away from me.

The evil royalties system, please implement the copyright system as soon as possible.

But this was not his fault.

But Xiangjiang and Baodao implement a copyright system!

If you publish a novel there, you can probably earn tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but it would be a huge amount of money if you put it in the mainland!

In Xiangjiang Baodao, romance and martial arts novels are the most popular nowadays. Fang Minghua is very confident that he can write a martial arts novel. Even if he is not a copycat, he can be original!

But the problem is, I don’t know the publisher in Xiangjiang!

Do you want to go to Xiangjiang? You are a member of the system, and you are not doing business, so why are you here?

There are no seventh or eighth aunts in the Fang family.

What’s even scarier is that this year is 1983!

If I want to write about martial arts, I have to get through this year.

But this gave Fang Minghua a good inspiration. Wasn't "Harvest" an invitation to write a stream-of-consciousness novel? Can we make it a little more trendy and close to the ones in Hong Kong? We can try to rely on "Harvest" to be published in Hong Kong!

Is it possible to earn some royalties?

"Curve to save the country."

But what to write?

Fang Minghua didn't think about it at the moment, but he had to rewrite the letter to "Harvest" and agreed to the invitation, but the content was yet to be determined and was being conceived. We would communicate with him after he thought about it.

Not in a hurry.

Nowadays, magazines are very polite when requesting manuscripts and rarely push for manuscripts. You can write if you want to, and no one will force you if you don’t.

Think about it slowly.

The purchase of a 14-inch color TV at home has brought great changes to Fang Minghua's family. Every night the house is as lively as the Chinese New Year, with adults and children crowded in the same room, chattering.

My mother, Zhang Fenglan, is a lively person. She is not bothered by the presence of so many neighbors at home every day, and she enjoys watching together with great interest. The sound on the TV and the laughter of adults and children in the room can be heard clearly on the street outside.

Fang Minghua was speechless. How had he ever seen watching TV like this?

Forget it, let them be happy, it's better for me to be a cat in the work dormitory.

But today, he made an exception and came home to join in the fun, because today the Japanese TV series "Volleyball Girls" will be broadcast!

It is said that this is the first youth idol film in China, and Fang Minghua has long been attracted by it.

The whole room was already full. Unfortunately, he came back late and had to stand at the door to watch. The wind was blowing.

But the photos are indeed very exciting, and the young, beautiful, and energetic girls are a joy to watch.

Although the Japanese actor is not tall and the volleyball player he plays is not very long-legged, he has a good figure.

And the volleyball moves: Thunderbolt in the Clear Sky, Rotating Sun and Moon, Phantom Cyclone.

Fang Minghua was stunned.

This should be considered an urban superpower, right?

Did Xingye's "Shaolin Soccer" get inspiration from it?

At the end of two episodes, many adults were reluctant to leave, and of course there were some children who refused to leave and wanted to watch cartoons!

There was a seven-year-old girl next door who kept yelling at Fang Minghua, "Brother Minghua, Brother Minghua" and asked him to change the channel to watch "Afanti"!

"Xiaoling, have you finished your homework? Go home and do your homework quickly!" Fang Minghua looked serious.

"Brother Minghua, we don't have homework," the little girl replied.

How happy

All right.

Naturally, there is no remote control these days, but the color TV is not like the original black and white TV with rotating channels, but a row of buttons. Fang Minghua stood in front of the TV and pressed buttons one by one to quickly find the channel for playing cartoons. The room was suddenly filled with excitement. It was quiet, and the children were all staring at the screen.

Fang Minghua actually wanted to watch news programs. After the children left with satisfaction after watching the cartoons, he chose CCTV again.

"CCTV News reported that the trial filming of the large-scale mythological TV series "Journey to the West" produced by CCTV and the China TV Drama Production Center was successful, and the crew has now officially entered the filming stage."

Wow.

"Journey to the West" filming has started!

Heck, Zhu Lin is still on the set of "Youth".

But it doesn't matter, this TV series will be filmed for several years, and the filming of the "Girls' Country" episode is still coming.

But if there is an opportunity, I would like to remind Zhu Lin not to miss this classic role.

I saw tidbits on the Internet before time travel, saying that the actress who played "The White Bone Demon" also wanted to play the king of the daughter country, so be sure not to let her snatch it away.

Song Tangtang's letter said that the crew of "Youth" was filming in southern Xinjiang, and she saw Zhu Lin and another beautiful actress Gong Xue.

It's a pity that Director Xie is not Wu Tianmin, so he didn't invite himself to go to Southern Xinjiang to revise the script with the crew, otherwise he really wanted to go to Southern Xinjiang again.

I'm going to visit Song Tangtang, and take a look at the behind-the-scenes of the two beauties' filming, which is probably pretty good too.

When Zhu Lin is filming the episode of "Girls' Country", he will find a way to visit the set.

that's all.

This version of Journey to the West is a classic among classics.

Hey, "Journey to the West"

Why didn't I think of another movie "The Legend of Wukong" that subverted this TV series?

Forget it, the movie "The Legend of Monkey King" was so rubbish.

His novel of the same name, "The Legend of Wukong", is subversive, and it is also a proper stream-of-consciousness novel.