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

Chapter 327: China's first love film, dedicated to my wife

Finished!

Although I haven't been writing much during this period, I haven't written many manuscripts, just one novella in a foreign language.

Originally, this foreign language novella was intended to earn foreign currency, US dollars.

But he never expected that just writing a foreign song would bring Cheng Xuemin such a huge amount of foreign currency in US dollars, so he was not motivated enough to continue writing the foreign manuscript.

Fortunately, the manuscript is officially completed tonight. After Cheng Xuemin sorted it out, he can choose a foreign magazine and send it out by mail.

"Wife, what do you say we should look for another house in the inner city, near the imperial city?"

It’s okay that my father-in-law and his family live in the courtyard house now. The whole family is crowded there. It’s lively, but after all, there are too many people and too many eyes. Cheng Xuemin is a creator, so he needs a quiet writing environment.

The Overseas Chinese Apartment is fine. Now only Cheng Xuemin's mother, his elder sister, cousin and sister-in-law are staying here to escape the summer heat.

When school starts, those who go to school will be accommodated, and those who go back to their hometown will be sent back to their hometown. After September, it is actually quite quiet, and they can live their small life as a family of three.

But Cheng Xuemin is very rich now. He has more than 200,000 US dollars in foreign currency waiting to be converted into RMB, which he can withdraw and use at any time, and he also has 30,000 US dollars in cash.

So much money.

So Cheng Xuemin thought about buying a house in the inner city.

In this way, when I go shopping in the inner city on weekends, I don’t have to rush back to the Overseas Chinese Apartments in the outer city. I have a place to stay in the inner city, and I can be considered a person who owns a suite in the imperial city.

and!

My father-in-law was successfully promoted to the committee of the institute, and his work location was moved one step further into the inner city, directly into the imperial city.

It would be even more convenient if you bought an apartment in the inner city!

“Want to buy a house again?”

"We just moved into this apartment not long ago, the novelty hasn't worn off yet!"

It could be heard that his wife Feng Jiayou was not very keen on buying the house, but after Cheng Xuemin packed up his manuscripts, he leaned over to the bed and analyzed with her the benefits of buying another house in the inner city.

"That's fine! You have the final say at home anyway, so it's right to buy more property for the little squirrel!"

The woman is rich now, and her bourgeois ways are beginning to emerge. Just as she is living a good life, she has begun to buy property for her son.

But it doesn’t matter. Anyway, the one who will enjoy the life first will definitely be Cheng Xuemin, the father!
"Xuemin, you said that my father has been nominated and has even been appointed to the Academy Committee. Can we report to the higher-ups and get the ancestral property back?"

Suddenly, the topic of house came up on a whim, and Feng Jiayou started talking to Cheng Xuemin again, mentioning the old house of their Feng family.

But things are different now!
The Feng family has a pioneer son-in-law, and the father-in-law himself has been promoted and joined the hospital committee. In theory, he can apply to the organization to take back the ancestral property.

"The three-courtyard house at the foot of the imperial city?"

Cheng Xuemin knew that the old Feng family had an ancestral property. When they went to the inner city for a stroll before, Feng Jiayou took Cheng Xuemin to her old house to see it once.

"Yeah! Do you think it's easy to get it back?" Feng Jiayou nodded. She was not very confident in her heart. After all, the tenant who occupied their house was not a simple person.

"It's hard to say!" The old Feng family's house was a historical legacy, so Cheng Xuemin couldn't say for sure. Anyway, there was no record of it being taken back in his memory file.

Moreover, he also knew the other party's situation. He was a man with a successful career and had reached the top of the ladder. He was not a mere department-level official like his father-in-law, so he dared to ask for a house.

Therefore, if the father-in-law wants to get the ancestral home back, he has to work harder and push forward. If he can get into the top five, he may have the capital to compete with others.

Now!
It's still a long way to go, so it's best not to show it or even think about it.

Anyway, in Cheng Xuemin's opinion, instead of waiting for the ancestral home to be returned to him, it would be better for Cheng Xuemin to look for one and buy it himself in the imperial city.

"Then let's buy it ourselves first!" Since her husband said so, Feng Jiayou gave up the idea. She also knew her own limitations and that she could not compete with the powerful man.

"Well! I'll ask someone to help look for one later!"

"Now that the country has relaxed its policy on studying abroad, there are a lot of people living under the imperial city who are starting to think about going abroad!"

“A good house shouldn’t be hard to find!”

What Cheng Xuemin said was not wrong. It was already the second half of 1979, and the policy on going abroad had begun to relax as early as the first half of the year.

Therefore, there are a lot of people who are thinking about selling their houses for profit.

Moreover, Cheng Xuemin has another big advantage, which is 30,000 US dollars in cash.

Those who want to make a profit first need US dollar foreign exchange, and it must be cash, not foreign exchange coupons.

Because when the profits are paid out, the foreign exchange certificates in hand have to be exchanged for U.S. dollar cash at the bank, and the exchange rate is a pitiful one to two, which is fixed by the official exchange rate.

The foreign exchange coupons on the black market have risen to 1:3, 1:4, or even 1:5:6 due to the rise in the trend of going abroad.

Therefore, if you trade directly in USD cash, you can make a hard profit from the price difference, and anyone who is not stupid will choose to trade in USD cash.

Cheng Xuemin has 30,000 US dollars in cash, so he has many choices.

There is another thing. The manuscript of "Hero Huo Yuanjia" submitted to Yulin Literature in my hometown has been approved.

The phone call came to home today and Cheng Xuemin's sister answered the phone. Her sister mentioned it when she came back just now.

After coaxing his wife to sleep, Cheng Xuemin began to work on his next article.

"Is this script gone?"

When Cheng Xuemin was conceiving the idea, the golden finger in his brain was naturally activated. After he found such a script from his vast knowledge memory, he was a little unsure.

After all, the time difference is really too close!

If nothing unexpected happens, the original author is now in the guesthouse of the Shanghai Film Studio and has started writing!

The script should be completed in July, the final version published in August, and the filming project started in September. The director is Huang Zumo, who is as famous as Xie Jin.

As soon as the film was released, it broke the domestic film screening rules and also set the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive broadcasts.

It’s gone!

It was Cheng Xuemin again, the little butterfly, flapping his wings and directly blowing up "Love in Lushan".

Because Cheng Xuemin himself knew his golden finger clearly. The memory that he could remember so clearly, even without a single mistake, meant that it would never appear again in this era. If Cheng Xuemin copied his text, there would be no possibility of a collision.

This is the reason why Cheng Xuemin published several plagiarized works in succession without ever encountering any conflicts.

He has a golden finger to help him check everything.

So, that’s it!
When Xie Jin returned to Shanghai, didn’t he ask Cheng Xuemin, the great man, to compensate him with a script?

Previously, because of "The Shepherd", Xie Jin, who was originally working at a film studio in Shanghai, was seconded to Beijing to work at Yan Film Studio and directed "The Shepherd" to help the studio.

When filming in the northwest, Xie Jin joked with Cheng Xuemin, saying that "The Shepherd" was not entirely his work, and that he needed Cheng Xuemin to write a good script and let him take it back to the Shanghai Film Studio as compensation to the Shanghai Film Studio. Cheng Xuemin agreed!

Now that the filming of "The Shepherd" has reached its final stage and will be released during the National Day holiday, Xie Jin brought up the old matter and made this joke when he returned to Shanghai not long ago.

This was the chance encounter, and Xie Jin took "Lush Mountain Love" back to the Shanghai Film Studio.

However, before writing about him, Cheng Xuemin must confirm it first, and then pay attention to the "Film Creation" magazine in Shanghai tomorrow to see if there is any script of "Lush Mountain Love" published there.

If not, then the golden finger has been proven true and "Lush Mountain Love" will not appear again, so Cheng Xuemin can take action now.

In fact, it doesn't have to be "Love in Lushan". Cheng Xuemin has a lot of famous classics in his mind, and he can copy one of them to Xie Jin at any time to pay tribute to him.

Of course, it would be best if it could be "Lush Mountain Love", after all, it is the first true love movie since the founding of the People's Republic of China. I can dedicate it to my wife Feng Jiayou and let her be beautiful.

I didn't get up early in the morning because it was still summer vacation and I didn't have to go to work, so I didn't get up.

However, Cheng Xuemin remembered that he had an appointment with Lao Chen and others from Today, saying that he had something important to discuss with him.

"Xuemin, here we come!"

At the Yanda Library, Chen Shumin saw Cheng Xuemin coming in and quickly stood up to greet him.

As school is about to start on September 1st, students of Yanda University have begun to return to school early, and the library, which was quiet in the past, is now filled with students.

"Old Chen, what's wrong? You both don't look very well!"

Cheng Xuemin nodded from a distance, and came over to find that several people in charge of "Today", including Mang Ke and Bei Dao, were all there, and their faces did not look very good.

This is wrong!

The second issue of their "Today" was just published not long ago, and it has received very good responses. Shouldn't they be happy about such a good momentum?

"Xuemin, you haven't heard about it yet, right?" Old Chen asked with a bitter look on his face.

Cheng Xuemin was surprised. What did he need to hear?
During this period of time, he has been working on foreign cultural exchange and has not focused on submitting articles to magazines, let alone Lao Chen and others.

Immediately, he asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"Xuemin, the higher-ups have taken action. Our Today has been banned and is not allowed to be printed or published!" Chief editor Mang Ke took over the conversation, looking as miserable as possible.

“Banned?!”

Oh open!

Cheng Xuemin was also dumbfounded when he heard this. Their magazine "Today" was banned by the higher authorities and was not allowed to be printed?

This, this, this... okay!
In fact, this was expected, but it came faster and earlier than it actually did.

Because as far as Cheng Xuemin could remember, Today magazine was suspended and banned in the second half of 1980, which was now a full year earlier.

Originally, Cheng Xuemin wanted to have two years to see if he could try and get a publication number.

After freedom of speech is achieved, he can fully act as his own literary and artistic pioneer.

But in fact, Cheng Xuemin was indeed overthinking!

Because... Lao Chen followed up and said, "Not only our "Today", the school's "Weiming Lake" has also been stopped!"

That’s right, not only was Caotaiban’s Today banned from printing, but even Weiming Lake, which was known as the school journal of Yenching University, was also stopped!
Of course, Today was completely banned and was not allowed to be printed, but Weiming Lake was only banned from commercial printing and publishing of novels, essays, poems, etc., and could only print and publish some academic articles.

Moreover, the newspaper can only be distributed within the school and cannot be sold outside the campus or on the market. This is strictly stipulated in the National Publishing Law!

After the suspension of "Weiming Lake", Cheng Xuemin finally realized how naive his idea of ​​making "Today" bigger and stronger was.

Even several leaders of Yan University were unable to obtain a publication number for their school magazine. How could Cheng Xuemin dare to even think about it?
No matter how powerful Cheng Xuemin is, can he be more powerful than the century-long accumulation of Yanda University? !
Therefore, it is only a matter of time before Today is banned or stopped.

As for why it was moved forward a whole year, the reason is very simple!
It's sold!
"Today" in another time and space is just the self-entertainment of Lao Chen, Mang Ke and Bei Dao, and has no commercial value at all.

But today's "Today" is different. Because of the celebrity effect of Cheng Xuemin, the magazine "Today" is not only circulated in Yan University, but also in several surrounding universities. It also has millions of educated youth readers outside.

So there is only one reason. "Today" began to be sold to readers outside Yanjing University, which produced economic effects. This violated publishing taboos. If not you, who else would be banned?

So, today, Lao Chen called Cheng Xuemin over to break up and divide the spoils!
Cheng Xuemin didn't know what to say. After all, he didn't have much affection for Today. He just contributed a manuscript as a contribution, and it was only one-third finished.

The blow to Cheng Xuemin was not that big.

But Lao Chen, Mang Ke, Bei Dao and others were really in grief, and each of them was like a castrated rooster.

In order to take their feelings into consideration, Cheng Xuemin hosted a farewell dinner for them at the Changzheng Hotel, which marked the end of "Today".

It should not be considered a full stop, because "Today" in another time and space was banned and stopped in 1980, but it was revived and published a few issues a few years later, and then it was stopped again!

It was not until the new century that Bei Dao and his colleagues resumed publication of Today directly abroad and continued to do so for several years.

Of course, this is a story for the future. I wonder if Bei Dao and others in this time and space will still be able to do it?
Will do!

At the farewell dinner, Mang Ke and Bei Dao and their passion for poetry not only did not get dampened by the blow, but became even more high-spirited. So they will not stop and will continue when the policy is relaxed a little.

As for Cheng Xuemin, it doesn’t matter anymore.

At most, when they want to do it, I can invest some financial support and that will be the end of this relationship.

After the farewell dinner, Cheng Xuemin had to go back to the Overseas Chinese Apartment to pick up his sister and prepare to go to the train station to pick up his brother-in-law.

My brother-in-law left his hometown a few days ago. He said on the phone that he would arrive in Yanjing by train this afternoon. It just so happened that Cheng Xuemin's newly bought car could finally come in handy.

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(End of this chapter)