1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 291 I'm finally home. Does your wife miss your husband?

The sales volume of 100,000 copies tempted the regional leaders!
But after all, the literature in their region is serious traditional literature. If they really want to make drastic changes and turn it directly into popular literature?

Regional leaders were a little undecided.

Finally, to the regions!

At the dinner arranged by the regional leaders, Editor-in-Chief Chen, the person in charge of regional literature, asked Cheng Xuemin for a manuscript.

I hope Cheng Xuemin can help set an example and help their region's literature fire the first shot in popular literature.

Cheng Xuemin was mentally prepared, otherwise he would not have hitchhiked on someone else's ride or eaten someone else's dinner, so he agreed at the dinner table.

After he arrives at Yenching, he will try to send the sample manuscript to Editor-in-Chief Chen before the end of this month so that they can test the waters together!

Cheng Xuemin also wanted to weigh the pros and cons and change the track and platform to weigh his influence.

This time, the magazine they chose was Yulin Literature from their region, a small local magazine that was completely unknown but had the qualifications to publish nationwide.

Let’s see what kind of influence Cheng Xuemin can achieve after removing the title of Reform and Opening Pioneer and eliminating the first-level publishing platform.

So when sending Cheng Xuemin and others to the train station, Cheng Xuemin told them: Submit the manuscripts when the time comes, and he hoped they would use another pen name.

Use another pen name?

After hearing Cheng Xuemin's request, the regional leaders were obviously a little dissatisfied.

After all, the hope is to leverage Cheng Xuemin's reputation as a pioneer of reform and opening up to boost the literary influence of their region.

Without the name of Cheng Xuemin, he would be just a blank slate newcomer without any influence at all. Wouldn't that be a waste?

of course!

Regional leaders also understood Cheng Xuemin’s concerns about wanting to use another pen name.

After all, they themselves are a little worried that the transformation of serious literature into popular literature will not stand a foothold in the cultural field.

What's more, Cheng Xuemin is a pioneer of reform and opening up appointed by the higher-ups. Now he is a penman in the cultural field. How can we let him write popular literature under his name?

Isn't this destroying one's own reputation?
It is understandable that people have this concern.

After being slightly disappointed, the regional leaders nodded and agreed to protect their reputation as the pioneers of reform and opening up in northern Shaanxi.

A new pen name is a new pen name.

Anyway, we can only try it by feeling our way across the river.

The test was successful and everyone was happy.

If it doesn't work out in the end, it won't be a big deal and we can just pretend it never happened.

Moreover, it was Cheng Xuemin, a pioneer who helped lead the magazine reform, and Cheng Xuemin was the first experimental field for local reform.

The regional leaders didn't believe it either, and when it failed this time, Cheng Xuemin gave up.

With this first attempt, they have also teamed up with Cheng Xuemin as a pioneer, and it should not be a problem to commission articles in the future.

Cheng Xuemin also knew that the regional leaders had misunderstood.

I think Cheng Xuemin is worried about damaging his reputation, so he doesn't want to write popular literature under his old pseudonym.

After all, in this era, popular literature is ultimately second-rate and not worthy of being presented on the stage.

The cultural field is not recognized at all. The selection of major awards has nothing to do with popular literature and has no place for them.

Therefore, everyone thinks that Cheng Xuemin, a writer, is self-degrading by changing his style to write popular literature.

So it is normal and understandable to use a new pen name.

But Cheng Xuemin was really wronged, he really didn't mean that.

Popular literature and serious literature are actually both genres of literature, and there is no distinction between high and low.

Cheng Xuemin thought so, but others didn’t think so, and he was too lazy to explain further, and in the end, he let his strength speak for itself.

I also want to see what kind of influence his unconventional approach can have this time.

When I got on the train, I found that the regional leaders had arranged a hard sleeper for me.

But according to regulations, Cheng Xuemin's level still requires hard seat treatment when traveling, not to mention his mother, sister and cousin.

It can be seen that as the reform and opening up boosted domestic demand, some very class-based authoritarian treatments were also relaxed.

With the full implementation of the reform and opening up, purchasing train tickets according to their class will become a thing of the past.

It won’t take a few years!
As long as you have money, you can buy a soft sleeper with level 8 or above treatment in minutes, without any connections.

Therefore, this is also to let Cheng Xuemin feel in advance the high-level treatment.

Otherwise, after two years, he would be able to ride in a hard sleeper due to his level of treatment, but unfortunately it has been opened up to everyone and anyone can ride it!

As long as you have money, you can buy a hard sleeper or a soft sleeper for anyone, and no one will say anything.

The superiority of level treatment was completely lost, and the sudden change made many old comrades unable to adapt at the time.

Of course, this happened in the next two years and has nothing to do with Cheng Xuemin now.

The conditions in the hard sleeper are definitely better than those in the ordinary carriage, so Cheng Xuemin also has a creative environment for the next three days.

Instead of rushing to finish the foreign manuscript which was still unfinished, he took advantage of the enthusiasm and flipped through the storybook in his hand, preparing to write some popular literature for the regional literature.

When it comes to street literature from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, which one is the most eye-catching?

It must be yellow!
You know, the street literature of the 1990s had another more vulgar name: color literature!
The summary is really very accurate.

Cheng Xuemin thought back to the 1990s when street literature was all about big breasts, and even the covers were the most eye-catching naked pictures.

of course!

Cheng Xuemin can add some color to the foreign-language manuscripts he gives to others, or he can make them all color.

However, in the articles published in China, whether serious or popular, Cheng Xuemin is always very serious and rarely writes about pornography.

Although the trend of scar literature has passed, the serious literature written by everyone is almost all about food and sex.

Like the later "White Deer Plain" and "Red Sorghum", the content is really realistic, and the colors are also very chilling.

It is definitely not suitable for primary and secondary school students.

Not to mention the more popular "Kangxi Dynasty" and "Yongzheng Dynasty", which are almost all about colors.

Cheng Xuemin can’t write it!

He is in charge of the manuscript he writes, and can show it to his little squirrel and his daughter later without having to hide it or blush in embarrassment.

Therefore, when writing popular manuscripts on regional literature, Cheng Xuemin would definitely exclude color first.

Even if Cheng Xuemin wrote it, Editor-in-Chief Chen might not dare to publish it. After all, he is trying to take that step, but he can't take a step too big and directly cause trouble.

The sexual literature in the street literature is not worth mentioning, so the only option is the other half: martial arts!

It would take another two years for Hong Kong to introduce martial arts TV series, and Jin Yong's martial arts novels would have to wait until the end of the 1980s.

But it does not hinder the market and lethality of martial arts style in the mainland.

The great chivalrous person serves the country and the people!

Cheng Xuemin wrote these eight words on the blank manuscript. This is Mr. Jin's definition of a hero in his martial arts world.

Moreover, Jin Gu, Wen Liang and Huang have all written about this topic to death in the past ten years.

It just hasn’t spread to our mainland yet.

If Cheng Xuemin were to write now, he could possibly pay tribute to the martial arts novels that can rival those of Hong Kong before they spread across the mainland.

But when you think about it, these people are really hard to surpass.

Even if Cheng Xuemin uses his ultimate trump card, online martial arts, he may not be able to win.

With such a good example before him, it was difficult for Cheng Xuemin to choose a manuscript to pay tribute to.

The only thing we can do is avoid them and change the track.

The great hero Huo Yuanjia!
After changing his train of thought, Cheng Xuemin's mind quickly became clear, and the Fist of Fury series came to mind naturally. The first one must be the hero Huo Yuanjia.

The Great Wall will never fall, the Yellow River will flow...

Cheng Xuemin has even thought of a tribute theme song.

It’s him!
The great hero Huo Yuanjia, Fist of Fury series.

Cheng Xuemin wanted to pay tribute to them before the "Fist of Fury" series came out in Hong Kong.

If it could be made into a TV series, it would surely be a hit across the country, including Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and South Asia.

after all!

The Fist of Fury series of TV dramas, which were filmed in Hong Kong in the previous life, has proven its subject matter and is indeed a hot topic in Southeast Asia.

After Fist of Fury came Legend of the White Snake, and after Legend of the White Snake came My Fair Princess. Although Jin Yong’s martial arts world is very popular, it is not as good as the previous three.

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin has already made up his mind!

In his hometown of Yulin, he made his first attempt at popular literature by serializing the first part of the "Fist of Fury" series, "Heroes of the Underworld: Huo Yuanjia".

First, we should start a martial arts trend of "the greatest heroes serve their country and their people" in the magazine and publication industry, and then kick the plaque of "Sick Man of East Asia" back to Japan.

I just don't know whether Cheng Xuemin's subversive writing style will confuse Li Shuguang and Zhang Guangnian of Renwen Publishing House, and Professor Ding Ling and Wang Meng of Wenjiang Institute.

With a direction, ideas will come like a spring, and you can just copy and paste them.

By the time the train arrived at Yanjing Station, I had a manuscript of more than 30,000 words for "Heroes of the East". After writing another 30,000 to 40,000 words and completing the first part, I could turn around and send it back to Lao Chen, the editor-in-chief of Yulin Literature.

As the pace of reform and opening up accelerates, Yanjing is changing every day.

When Cheng Xuemin and his friends came out of Yanjing Station, they were indeed attracted by the rickshaws in front of them.

taxi!
The first batch of taxis in Yanjing were officially put into operation at the end of 1979 and ran on the streets of Yanjing, providing convenience for Yanjing residents to travel.

From now on, the only options for traveling are no longer buses, bicycles or bus No. 11.

From now on, you can take a taxi.

The yellow van taxi, in this era, also has a synonym called "yellow bug".

"Ten yuan for the ride, you can go anywhere in Yanjing City, as long as it's no more than ten kilometers away!"

No need to squeeze on the bus!
I asked about the price of yellow worms. It was ten yuan per person for ten kilometers. We would leave once the car was full.

When Qin Guilan, Cheng Xuemin's mother, heard that the fare for the four of them to the vicinity of Yenching University would be 40 yuan, she was frightened and quickly pulled Cheng Xuemin away.

Fearing that the bus would be late, her son paid the money and got on the bus.

This price is indeed a bit outrageous. It would be okay if Cheng Xuemin was alone, so he could probably just sit there after gritting his teeth.

But there are four of them in their group!

The total cost for four people to take the bus from the train station to home is only RMB 1.20, or RMB 30 per person.

But when the yellow worm that made this noodles went back, its value increased forty times?
If Cheng Xuemin really dares to be the scapegoat, his wife Feng Jiayou will definitely scold him to death.

hold on!
It’s better not to be the first person to try something new. Wait until the price of noodle worms drops before making any decisions.

"Ten dollars?!"

"It's ten dollars for the four of us to get to Yenching University, right?!"

But they had not taken a few steps when another yellow bug minibus passed by, stopped and shouted to Cheng Xuemin and the others to attract customers.

The driver was still shouting, "Ten yuan on the bus, we'll leave when it's full!"

Cheng Xuemin pointed at the four of them, and the driver still said ten yuan, and then got in the car and left.

This made Cheng Xuemin perk up, and he stepped forward to ask for confirmation.

"That's right! Are you from other places? Are you the out-of-town students who were admitted to Yenching University this year?"

"Yes, yes! We are from northern Shaanxi, and our son, daughter, and niece were all admitted to Yenching University this year!"

Cheng's mother Qin Guilan nodded and shouted.

"What!? Big sister, your family is so awesome that your son, daughter, and niece were all admitted to Yanjing University. Is this true?"

"Then your family is like a bunch of literary stars descended to earth!"

"Come on, come on, big sister, get in the car. Since your whole family is from Yanjing University, I will take you to the school to register for free!"

When the driver heard Cheng's mother say that her son, daughter, and niece were all admitted to Yenching University, he was stunned and confused!

Then he quickly got out of the car and invited Cheng Xuemin and the others to get on his yellow worm minivan.

"Free ride? Isn't that a bit bad?"

Cheng's mother Qin Guilan felt uneasy because of the driver's enthusiasm and was afraid to get in the car.

"Come on, Mom. We'll pay for the fare!"

There was no need for Cheng Xuemin to take advantage of others, and the yellow car driver was indeed a kind and honest person.

We got in the car and chatted for a while!
Only then did we realize that these yellow worm noodles had only officially gone offline and were running around in Yanjing City at the end of last month!

The price is indeed ten yuan per ten kilometers.

But it refers to the charter fee of ten yuan for a trip of ten kilometers, and it doesn’t matter how many people you take with you.

Unlike chartered cars like Cheng Xuemin's, most of the cars the drivers pick up are carpoolers, and the car will not leave unless it is full.

This kind of small van can easily seat four or five people, so the fare is about three yuan per person.

The one I met before might not have asked clearly or explained it clearly, otherwise ten yuan per person, one trip could be equivalent to a worker's monthly salary, isn't that robbery?
"Uh, aren't you going to report to Yenching University? This is..."

But when the driver dropped Cheng Xuemin and the other three off at Yenching University, he was asked to turn into the alley opposite.

This immediately made the driver suspicious!

Didn’t you all get admitted to Yenching University and report to Yenching from northern Shaanxi?

But Yenching University is on the left, and you turned into the alley on the right. What does that mean?
Are you bragging?!
You can brag about this? If you passed the exam, you passed. If you didn’t, you didn’t.

He is a new noodle driver. Can he charge you more just because you are not freshmen reporting to Yenching University?

"Uh, this is my son's home!"

"Not only did my son get into Yenching University, he also bought a house in Yenching. He is also a professor at Yenching University and a pioneer in reform and opening up..."

"Comrade, this is ten dollars for the ride, keep it!"

Cheng Xuemin ignored her mother's boasting and took out a big unity banknote and handed it over.

"Good good!"

It's their home, not a place to report to Yenching University. In this case, the driver subconsciously took the money handed over by Cheng Xuemin.

But soon, I heard something was wrong!
Who are the people in this family?
How can you say that he was admitted to Yenching University, is a professor at Yenching University, and even bought a house in Yenching?
What is the pioneer in the end?

The driver was busy taking the money handed over by Cheng Xuemin, so he didn't hear clearly when he was interrupted.

But even so, the minibus driver really shouldn't be too confused.

This lady from northern Shaanxi is talking nonsense. She said she was admitted to Yenching University and she is a professor at Yenching University. Isn't this contradictory and obviously she is lying? !

"It's true, my son, daughter, and niece really got admitted to Yanjing University. If you don't believe me, I'll show you the admission letters!"

After getting off the car, she saw the driver rudely charged her son ten yuan for the fare. Cheng's mother Qin Guilan knew that the driver did not believe what she said and thought she was lying, so she anxiously asked her daughter to produce the admission letter to prove it.

"Forget it, Mom. We're already at the doorstep. Aren't you in a hurry to see your grandson?"

Cheng Xuemin asked with a smile, "People are being polite to you, and you are really being rude?"
"Oh, yes, yes, yes. I'm going to see my eldest grandson. I'm going to see my eldest grandson!"

……

Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)