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

"Sister Lin, this is the script. Take it and think carefully about the role of Chen Shaoqi!"

After coming out of the old factory director's office, Cheng Xuemin took the script and found Zhu Lin, who was helping in the studio, and handed the script to her and said.

"Ling...Xuemin, are you still going to act in this script?"

When Zhu Lin took the script, he did not ask Chen Shaoqi whether she was the heroine, but asked Cheng Xuemin whether he was still going to play the role.

And he seemed to have not quite recovered yet, and almost blurted out the name "Lingjun".

"I won't act in this movie, but I will participate in the production throughout!" Cheng Xuemin also felt that the Queen of Women was still a little out of character, so he didn't dare to say much to provoke her.

In fact, I couldn't get out of the role because I was too involved in the role and directly put myself into the movie.
In fact, it’s not every play that can make you so immersed in it that you can’t get out of it!

It's often because we are too deeply in love.

In her previous life, Zhu Lin, the Queen of the Kingdom of Women, was the one who "ruined her life once she met the Emperor's younger brother". She never got out of the play, which led to the failure of her marriage in the second half of her life.

But Zhu Lin doesn't appear to be in every movie.

Looking at the hundreds of movies and TV series Zhu Lin has filmed, it seems that only "Royal Brother" cannot be released.

In other movies and TV series, the Queen of Daughters can come and go freely and is not affected by the plot characters at all.

So, we can only say that only when the Queen of Daughters meets the right person will she be so deeply immersed in the role that she cannot get out.

But unfortunately, Cheng Xuemin is not the right person for her.

From now on, it will be impossible for me to act with Zhu Lin again, otherwise it would harm her.

Wait!
When the Journey to the West TV series officially starts filming next year, when Zhu Lin plays the Queen of the Kingdom of Women again, will she still be trapped in the situation where she is unable to get out of the situation with the Emperor's younger brother?

If she still can't get out, it can only be said that Cheng Xuemin, this 'Xu Lingjun', is not her only one.

If I could come and go freely...

Cheng Xuemin still hopes not to ruin other people's lives, and the same applies to Gong Xi.

Fortunately, Gong Xi's situation doesn't seem to be as serious as Zhu Lin's.

"Okay, then I will study the role of Chen Shaoqi carefully!" Zhu Lin's eyes were a little evasive. After responding softly, he added, "By the way, Xuemin, you and Jiayou will be at home this Sunday, right? I plan to go see my godson Little Squirrel!"

"I may not be at home. I may go out to look for some actors during this period. Jiayou and Xiao Songshu will definitely be at home!"

"Well!"

Hearing that Cheng Xuemin might not be at home, Zhu Lin couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. She mustered up the courage to ask where he was going to look for roles and whether she could go with him.

But no matter how much she thought about it, she had to face the fact that he was the lover of her neighbor's sister, not her Xu Lingjun.

"Xiao Cheng, you are here? I've been looking for you!" Director Huang Jianzhong came over and saw Cheng Xuemin and Zhu Lin whispering in the corner of the studio, so he shouted.

"Director Huang, what's the matter? Didn't you go to Beijing Film Academy to select actors?"

Cheng Xuemin greeted Huang Jianzhong and asked.

“Yes, a few have been selected. Aren’t they all auditioning in the studio next door?” Huang Jianzhong nodded and said.

"That's perfect! Let's go over there and let Sister Lin have an audition!" Cheng Xuemin immediately called Zhu Lin and said, "Sister Lin, let's go over there and take a look too!"

"Okay, okay, let Zhu Lin try first!" Huang Jianzhong nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, but he said, "By the way, I'm not looking for you to talk about this, someone is looking for you outside!"

"Ah? Someone is looking for me? Who?" Cheng Xuemin was puzzled.

"I'm not sure, but it seemed that he was from Shanghai, and came to you specifically to ask for an article!" Huang Jianzhong didn't hear it clearly just now, and just happened to run into him when he came out. He said he was looking for Cheng Xuemin, so he helped to say this.

"Are you from Shanghai to ask for an article?"

"Is it Sister Xiaolin's Harvest? Or is it Shanghai Literature and Art?"

Cheng Xuemin was very surprised. When someone from Shanghai came to ask for an article, the first people he thought of were Harvest and Shanghai Literature and Art.

However, both of them have special channels for commissioning works, and Cheng Xuemin left his home phone number with Li Xiaolin and Shanghai Literature and Art in Shanghai.

So if they want to commission an article, they can just make a phone call!
Could it be that he wanted to show his sincerity by personally visiting the house to ask for the manuscript?

"It seems that it is neither. I heard it said it was "Story Club"!"

"Xuemin, when did the popular fiction magazines ask you to write for them? Do you write popular fiction, too?"

Huang Jianzhong came back to his senses and remembered the origin of this "Story Club".

Isn’t it just an unknown popular fiction magazine in Shanghai?
Why did they come all the way to Yanjing to meet with Cheng Xuemin, a pioneer of reform and opening up, to ask him to write for them?

To know!
Most of the manuscripts written by Cheng Xuemin, a pioneer of reform and opening up, are about serious topics. The only romance film he wrote was just a script, and he did not turn it into a novel.

Well, now there is another martial arts film called "Tai Chi"!
No, a martial arts film?!
Huang Jianzhong thought of this and couldn't help but whisper to Cheng Xuemin, "Is he coming to you to ask for the original novel of Tai Chi?"

"Probably not?"

Cheng Xuemin was confused. He practiced Tai Chi to earn foreign exchange. Although it was not kept strictly confidential, it would not be spread directly to the story clubs in Shanghai, right?

Who sent it?
Xie Jin?

Or was it Xu Sangchu, the old director of the Shanghai Film Studio? They shouldn't speak so quickly, right?
Besides, Xie Jin had just been sent to the train station by Cheng Xuemin and had just set off back to Shanghai today. That was the old factory director Xu Sangchu?

"Let's wait and see!" Cheng Xuemin was puzzled, so he followed Huang Jianzhong out of the recording studio and saw a young man in a very nice outfit standing downstairs looking over here.

"is it him?"

Without waiting for Huang Jianzhong to answer, the young man who was looking at the camera came over quickly after seeing this side, stretched out his right hand from a distance, and said hello: "Is this Mr. Cheng Xuemin? Hello!"

"Hello, I'm Cheng Xuemin, who are you?" Cheng Xuemin also stepped forward, shook hands with him and asked.

"Hello, hello, Teacher Cheng, I finally found you!" The young man kept shaking hands and said excitedly, "I arrived in Yanjing early in the morning, and first went to Yanda to look for you without stopping. I was told that you recently took a long vacation and might be at home!"

"I was so rash as to pay you a visit and I bumped into your grandfather. He told me that you were at Yanying Studio and came to my door directly. I was so rude!"

"By the way, my name is He Chengwei, and I'm an editor at the Shanghai-based magazine Story Club. I came to the north this time on the request of our editor-in-chief to ask you to write an article for me!"

It was obvious that he was very excited, and his incoherent speech had made it clear why he was running around today.

Cheng Xuemin was speechless. He first went to Yan University and then to his home. Is this young editor very dedicated?

However, Cheng Xuemin still greeted him and asked, "Hello, Mr. He, are you here specifically to ask me for an article?!"

"But as far as I know, your Story Club..."

"Our story club is just a popular fiction magazine. Teacher Cheng, you want to ask why you came to me, a pioneer of reform, right?" He Chengwei said calmly without Cheng Xuemin asking. "Ah... yes! Teacher He, why did you want to ask me to write an article?"

This is also what Cheng Xuemin is very confused about. Now there are indeed a lot of newspapers and magazines from all over the country asking Cheng Xuemin to write articles.

But they are basically mainstream newspapers and magazines from all over the country, and they all involve literary themes such as "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office" and "The Shepherd", which are about reform and opening up, reflection, scars, and educated youth.

However, there are few popular fiction magazines that would ask Cheng Xuemin to write for them.

Moreover, Cheng Xuemin had never written popular literature. The hero Huo Yuanjia he wrote for his hometown Yulin Literature was written under a pseudonym.

So, you, a popular fiction story-telling club, come to Cheng Xuemin, a pioneer of reform and opening up, to ask for manuscripts of popular fiction. Who are you insulting?
If it were any other famous writer, he would have kicked this guy out and even published a criticism in the newspaper the next day.

This is the transcendent status of literary writers in this era.

I simply don't regard those who write popular novels as real writers by comparing them to those who write popular novels.

The discrimination chain is so obvious.

Moreover, even decades later, serious literary writers never regard those who write online novels as real writers.

Anyway, the truth is, the discrimination chain has already been formed at this time.

ingrained!

So, when He Chengwei from the story club heard Cheng Xuemin's question, his face turned pale and he quickly explained, "That's it, Teacher Cheng!"

"In fact, at the beginning, we were planning to ask the author of 'Heroes of the Underworld' to write an article for us!"

"We also accidentally saw the story of The Hero Huo Yuanjia published in Yulin Literature. We were shocked at the time and thought it was a masterpiece. We thought it was the manuscript that our Story Club wanted to publish!"

"So we immediately contacted the editor-in-chief of Yulin Literature, hoping to get the author's contact information from them!"

"But Yulin Literature seems to have some concerns, or maybe they don't want to reveal the author's information to us, so they haven't told us yet!"

"But our story club really needs martial arts novels like 'Heroes of the Storm' that can make readers shine, so our editor-in-chief asked me to go to Yulin Literature in person to talk to their editor-in-chief in person!"

"No, you also went to Yulin Literature?" Cheng Xuemin was moved. Are all the editors of their storytelling club so dedicated?

Do you know how long it takes to take a train from Shanghai to Yulin?
It’s almost as far as going south from Yanjing to Kunming!
Are you going to travel so far just to get an article commission?

"I didn't make it!" He Chengwei smiled bitterly and continued awkwardly, "In fact, I had already booked the train ticket to Yulin. Just when I was about to leave for Yulin, there was a sudden change!"

"Change?" Cheng Xuemin raised his eyes and thought to himself.

"Just when I was about to leave, a kind-hearted pen pal of our storytelling club sent us a copy of Yulin Literature, saying that the story "Hero Huo Yuanjia" in it was worthy of reference for our storytelling club."

"And this kind pen pal mentioned in the letter that this hero Huo Yuanjia is their Yanda teacher, that is, the reform pioneer teacher Cheng who wrote it!"

"We just found out that the author that Yulin Literature has kept secret is actually you, Teacher Cheng!"

"We were extremely shocked at the time. We didn't expect that Teacher Cheng, you... you would actually..."

"You can actually write that kind of thing, huh?"

Seeing He Chengwei's astonished expression, Cheng Xuemin smiled bitterly and said that it was all his sister-in-law's fault.

Originally, in order to cover up this pseudonym that could not be shown to the public, at least not at this time, he repeatedly warned Yulin Literature not to reveal his pseudonym.

Yulin Literature did what it said and did not leak the information.

However, Cheng Xuemin himself was exposed because of the quarrel between his sister-in-law and her classmates.

Now everyone in Yanjing University knows that this article, “The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia,” was also written by the great writer Cheng Xuemin!

At that time, he was looked down upon by his mother-in-law, who thought that he was a depraved son-in-law who could write such vulgar novels that were not presentable.

Now that I think about it, this kind pen pal from Story Club must also be from Yanjing University.

"This... this... no, no, I can only say that you, Teacher Cheng, are a versatile person. No matter what kind of articles you write, they are all very popular!"

"Besides, we don't think we are inferior because we write popular stories..."

He Chengwei stared at Cheng Xuemin's face and spoke tremblingly, because he was not sure what the attitude of this pioneer of reform and opening up and literary newcomer in front of him was towards their popular storytelling.

Even though he had already started writing, he wrote a very classic and novel popular novel "Heroes Huo Yuanjia".

"Yes, yes, yes, Mr. He, you are absolutely right. I don't think that writing popular stories really makes me inferior!"

"On the contrary, I think that literature in the future may be commercialized, and popular fiction stories will be the mainstream of this market in the future!"

Cheng Xuemin nodded. It was just as he said. They all wrote things with pens. There was no need for the eldest brother to laugh at the second brother and create a chain of contempt.

And he was not wrong!

In another two years, when the trend is completely relaxed, popular stories will become the mainstream.

Even though "Story Club" is not well-known now and cannot be compared with "Harvest" and "People's Literature", just wait a few years!

Do not!
It wouldn't take a few years at all, at most two years if Cheng Xuemin remembered correctly, for Story Club to emerge as a dark horse and directly surpass the top two magazines to become the best-selling magazine in the market.

Moreover, the first record of over one million copies in history was set by "Story Club"!

The time was exactly two years later in 1981.

In fact, this is the same nature as the movie, and it is the same reason why "Shaolin Temple" broke the domestic copy box office record.

Before the reform and opening up, the themes of current movies were all adapted from serious literature, and the people were already tired of them.

The martial arts film "Shaolin Temple" caused a nationwide sensation as soon as it was released!
The same is true for magazines and newspapers. In the past, they all published serious literature, either about scars or reflections, either about reform and opening up or about educated youth. Basically, they were all the same and contained very heavy content.

There are simply no popular stories in vernacular that are catchy and easy to understand at a glance, which bring a strong visual impact to the people.

After all, the purpose of reading articles and watching movies is to have fun.

The main feature of popular stories is that they are interesting and curious. How can they not attract people's attention?
"Ah? Really? Teacher Cheng, do you also think that our popular stories have a very promising market?"

After hearing what Cheng Xuemin said, He Chengwei, who was originally nervous, instantly became excited!

What followed also left Cheng Xuemin speechless, as he just said that extra word.

From now on, wherever I go, the editor of this story club will follow me closely, and I wish I could talk to him for three days and three nights!

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