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

"Xuemin, you're here? How are things going over there?"

After making some arrangements for Liu Xiaoli, Cheng Xuemin and Huang Jianzhong joined their third director group. When his brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao saw them, he immediately stood up and greeted them.

"Brother, it's almost time, everyone is almost here!"

Cheng Xuemin responded to his brother-in-law and said that he was not surprised to meet his brother-in-law here.

My brother-in-law was originally from Yanying Studio, and like Huang Jianzhong, he belonged to the third director group.

Huang Jianzhong is a director of the younger generation, and his elder brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao is a screenwriter of the younger generation. They directed the script adaptations of three groups, and Feng Jiazhao participated in all of them.

During the previous co-production of the movie "The Shepherd", Feng Jiazhao represented Yanying Studio and participated in the filming. He followed Xie Jin to the Northwest and stayed there for two or three months.

It was also for this reason that my brother-in-law missed the script adaptation of "The Record of Director Qiao's Taking Office" and was handed over by their factory to another old bachelor, Liang Xiaosheng, who needed more care.

As for the foreign exchange earning order for "Tai Chi", Cheng Xuemin did not drag his brother-in-law into the filming and followed him into the crew.

Instead, he was given another task.

On Huang Jianzhong's side, he chatted with his eldest brother-in-law and others. After all the crew members arrived, some arrangements were made for the training class, and it was almost time to get off work.

"Xu Lingjun, why don't you continue to play Yang Yuqian this time? You are such a good actor, why don't you do it?"

Just as Cheng Xuemin left the office and went downstairs, and was about to get in the car to drive home, he heard Liu Xiaoli's shouting from the direction of the guesthouse.

Cheng Xuemin looked over and saw Liu Xiaoli lying on the window on the second floor of the guesthouse, shouting at her.

Following closely behind her, the Queen of the Kingdom of Women, Zhu Lin, was seen pulling her back, obviously trying to stop her from shouting and making a fuss.

Zhu Lin is back?
When Cheng Xuemin saw Zhu Lin, he knew what was going on, because he did not correct Liu Xiaoli just now. He was not the male lead of Tai Chi this time.

So now, Liu Xiaoli should have known it from Zhu Lin!
"Because I can't fight!"

Cheng Xuemin smiled and waved his hand and replied.

But it didn't make Li Lianjie, who was also staying in the room of the guesthouse, depressed and crazy.

Originally, Liu Xiaoli who came from Jiangcheng in the afternoon kept praising them about how well Cheng Xuemin and Zhu Lin acted in the movie The Shepherd.

This time, the crew of "Tai Chi" is preparing to shoot, and Zhu Lin and Cheng Xuemin are the male and female protagonists. They are really a match made in heaven. It is said that Yanying Studio wants to make them into a pair of golden boy and jade girl, a talented man and a beautiful woman!
This made Li Lianjie want to speak up and remind him several times that the male lead is not Cheng Xuemin, but him, Li Lianjie, so can you please stop being so obsessed with him?

But I never had the chance to speak up, and the people around me who were just watching the show didn't bother to say anything.

The real heroine of this movie, Zhu Lin, came back. She was obviously an old acquaintance of Liu Xiaoli. They quickly became a pair and became sisters who could talk about anything.

Liu Xiaoli then learned from Zhu Lin that she was still the heroine, but the hero was no longer her Xu Lingjun, but a young boy from a sports school.

This made Liu Xiaoli not too surprised. How could it not be Xu Lingjun?
Wasn’t he in the Tai Chi crew?
If he wasn't the male lead, would he have to play a supporting role to that young boy?
No matter what, she had to go and ask in person, but was stopped by Zhu Lin, which led to Liu Xiaoli's shouting through the window. Li Lianjie was so depressed that she vomited blood.

Immediately afterwards, Cheng Xuemin's words "Because I don't know how to fight!" were heard from downstairs outside, and he rolled his eyes.

If he can't fight, then no one in their crew can fight!

"You can't fight? But I heard them say that you are really good at fighting. You even beat Li Lianjie..."

"Oh my god, Xu Lingjun, when did you get a car? Are you a big boss now?"

Liu Xiaoli originally wanted to gossip about the gossip she heard this afternoon, but when she saw Cheng Xuemin actually opened the new car parked downstairs, she couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Before, Liu Xiaoli thought that the car parked downstairs of the office building belonged to the director of Yanying Studio, but she didn't expect that Cheng Xuemin actually got in the car.

"See you tomorrow!"

Cheng Xuemin did not respond. When he drove past the guesthouse, he waved to them and said something back.

"No, Sister Zhu Lin, how come he has a car? What level is he now?"

Liu Xiaoli watched Cheng Xuemin drive away, her eyes still filled with shock. When she saw that the car had already left the factory gate, she came to her senses, turned around and asked Zhu Lin.

"How would I know!"

Zhu Lin now looked like a melancholy beauty after looking at Lin Daiyu. Then she emphasized to Liu Xiaoli, "Xiaoli, don't make fun of Xu Lingjun and Li Xiuzhi in front of everyone in the future!"

"That's just a character in the movie. Now that the movie is finished, it's not appropriate to make fun of it!"

"It's nothing to me, but Xuemin is already married and has a lover. It's not a good joke to make, you know that?"

After saying these words, Zhu Lin's face became even more depressed, and it was obvious that she was extremely conflicted inside.

On the one hand, she was very happy that someone was talking to her about Xu Lingjun and Li Xiuzhi, but on the other hand, she felt sad when she thought that she was already the godmother of someone else's son.

"Ah? I forgot about it in my excitement when I saw you, Sister Zhu Lin, and Xu Lingjun!"

"I remember what I remember, I won't say it next time!"

Liu Xiaoli stuck out her tongue. She was so happy, but also a little surprised. It was said before that Sister Zhu Lin was so immersed in the movie The Shepherd that she couldn't get out of it.

But now that we meet again, isn’t this all right?
At the same time, a thought flashed through his mind briefly: Cheng Xuemin's decision not to play the leading male role in "Tai Chi" this time might have something to do with Sister Zhu Lin.

I’m afraid that this time the emotions in the play will be deepened, making it even more difficult for Sister Zhu Lin to come out.

Therefore, Liu Xiaoli was also very curious. Since Sister Zhu Lin was such an emotional woman, it would be the turn of the young boy Li Lianjie to play a couple with her this time.

Then will Sister Zhu Lin fall in love with someone else, unable to get out of the role, and fall in love with that young boy Li Lianjie?
Liu Xiaoli, who has experienced it once, is really looking forward to it!

"By the way, Sister Zhu Lin, I heard from the people next door that the subsidy for the Tai Chi crew has increased this time? From the previous fifty cents a day, it has increased to two yuan. Is this true?"

Without talking about feelings, Liu Xiaoli asked another question that she was more concerned about.

It was the subsidy for going north to participate in the filming of "Tai Chi". In the afternoon, I chatted with the martial arts team of the sports school next door. I unexpectedly heard Li Lianjie say that their daily subsidy was two yuan.

This didn't surprise Liu Xiaoli!
You should know that Liu Xiaoli joined the Jiangcheng Song and Dance Troupe a few years ago and earned a lot of extra money while filming movies outside, but it has always been a fixed allowance of 50 cents a day. In addition, her food and accommodation are provided, and her round-trip tickets are also reimbursed. She also receives the normal monthly salary from the song and dance troupe.

Therefore, there are subsidies for going out to shoot movies, which can be considered as extra income. If things go well, you can get an extra half month's salary.

But when Liu Xiaoli heard about the subsidy for the Tai Chi crew, she was really shocked.

Two dollars a day!

According to Liu Xiaoli's previous experience, the shooting of a movie, from interior to exterior, would take at least three to five months, and conservatively calculated as one hundred days.

That’s a full two hundred yuan, equivalent to her four or five months’ salary!
You know, Liu Xiaoli's current salary in the song and dance troupe has just been raised from the level of a handyman to the official salary of thirty-six yuan.

The annual salary is only three or four hundred yuan.

But this time, she could earn extra money by going north to make movies and get half a year's salary directly. How could Liu Xiaoli not be surprised and excited?

and!

Liu Xiaoli's role this time is different from the last time she filmed The Wrangler. Last time, she didn't have many roles in The Wrangler. She was called to Yanjing to shoot the subsequent content after the crew finished shooting the exterior scenes in the Northwest. She stayed in Yanjing for a total of only one week.

Based on the subsidy of 50 cents per day, there is actually not much extra subsidy.

But this time is different!
This time, Liu Xiaoli doesn’t have too many roles in the Tai Chi movie, but she needs to participate in the entire filming process.

Moreover, the crew has not officially started filming yet, and is still waiting for the actors from other places to arrive. I heard that after everyone arrives, there will be a training class, and they will have to concentrate on training for a period of time. So, should we start calculating the two yuan subsidy per day from them today?
"Two dollars a day? Xiaoli, who told you that?"

Zhu Lin was stunned. She had not heard about the subsidy and did not pay much attention to it. She just knew that Xuemin asked her to play the leading female role again this time, which made her feel very happy.

She seldom paid attention to other matters.

Indeed, when asked by Liu Xiaoli, Zhu Lin became nervous.

"That's what Leo next door said! He said that people from Hong Kong who come here to make movies are paid two dollars a day!"

“So when he came here today, he asked Xuemin!”

"It is said that Xuemin said in front of them that it is the same as in Hong Kong, and they pay two dollars a day!"

Liu Xiaoli chattered non-stop. In addition to the subsidy matter, she also told Zhu Lin everything she had learned today.

"Xuemin, have you told the crew to give them a two-dollar subsidy every day?"

When the eldest brother-in-law came back on his bicycle, dinner was just starting at home. The first thing Feng Jiazhao asked when he sat down at the table was about the most outrageous thing that was currently circulating in their Yanying Studio.

The daily living allowance for the Tai Chi crew is two yuan, and it was said by the outsider Cheng Xuemin himself!
In an instant, the news spread to every corner of the Yanying Studio, causing a huge stir.

Anyway, my eldest brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao, who happened to be off work, almost flew back home when he heard the news. He also wanted to confirm it with his brother-in-law.

"Two dollars a day?"

"Didn't your Yanying Studio always charge 50 cents a day?"

"Why, is it equal to our magazine's manuscript editing subsidy?"

When my mother-in-law, Teacher Gu, heard this, she smiled and joked but didn't think much about it.

After all, their magazine only pays two dollars a day for authors to revise their manuscripts. In fact, other magazines and other places charge about the same amount, which is two dollars.

Compared to the 50 cents that actors make, authors of this era have always been very popular and have always been top-tier.

"It was indeed two dollars!" Cheng Xuemin nodded.

"As for your Tai Chi crew, this time you may attract a lot of jealousy!" the eldest brother-in-law reminded a little worriedly.

"It's certain that a tall tree attracts the wind! As for whether you are jealous or not, that doesn't matter!" Cheng Xuemin put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hand and said to his brother-in-law, "I have already mentioned this to the old factory director. We have signed a military order, so don't be reluctant to spend money!"

"We must do everything possible to mobilize the enthusiasm of the actors in order to make a good movie!"

"Anyway, that's the thing. In front of our great cause of earning foreign exchange through culture, everything else is reactionary (paper tiger)!"

A living allowance of fifty cents a day could not motivate Li Lianjie and her group to practice martial arts.

Moreover, this is the first martial arts film, so it must be very tiring to shoot, not to mention our photographers, props and lighting team, but also Li Lianjie’s group of martial arts actors.

Which one is not irritable?

During the filming process, there are bound to be complaints about this and that. Those people get angry and simply quit filming and leave. What should we do then?
Therefore, Cheng Xuemin set a high tone from the very beginning. As the saying goes, there will always be brave men when there is a big reward.

If they want to quit their job and leave, they have to think hard about it first. The subsidy is two dollars a day, and if they stay one more day they can get two more dollars. If they stay ten more days or half a month, it will be one month's salary.

Let’s see who among them is willing to quit then.
He didn't even look at how many people were over at Yanying Studio, all staring and trying to squeeze into the crew.

"That's true!" Brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao nodded and said that you and the old factory director should know the situation yourselves.

Then he continued, "Also, I'm almost done writing the script for 'Heroes of the Underworld' that you asked me to adapt!"

"How about you, Xuemin, help me take a look at the draft first, and then I'll revise it and hand it over to the factory?"

My brother-in-law did not join the crew of "Tai Chi" because Cheng Xuemin had other arrangements for him. "Heroes of the East" was published more than a month ago.

Although it was published by Yulin Literature, a small place, but after being fermented by Yanda, the sales are still good.

Moreover, Cheng Xuemin also knew that the main theme of the 1980s would basically be martial arts films.

So no one is interested in "Heroes of the East" now, but it will be adapted into a movie sooner or later, so it has to be written sooner or later.

Moreover, Cheng Xuemin's "Tai Chi" is about to start filming. Once it is sent abroad and earns huge foreign exchange and US dollar box office revenue, it will inevitably set off a wave of martial arts film craze in China.

Just like in the previous life, after the release of "Shaolin Temple", martial arts films became the mainstream.

Therefore, since Cheng Xuemin didn't have time, he arranged for his brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao to start adapting "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia".

My brother-in-law was very happy when he received this task, and he took it very seriously.

It only took half a month to write the script of "Heroes of the East: Huo Yuanjia"!

"Brother, you finished it so quickly?!" Cheng Xuemin asked in surprise, and then said, "Brother, don't submit it to the factory yet. It won't be approved even if you submit it. Wait a minute!"

"By the way, big brother, I just finished writing another story, which is the one I gave to the Shanghai Storytelling Club before. If you have time, big brother, please write the script first!"

"Okay, then I'll listen to you and not hand it in for now. Give me the manuscript later and I'll give it a try!" Upon hearing this, the brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao knew that his brother-in-law was right. The script he was writing was a martial arts film, and except for the special mission "Tai Chi", the factory had never reviewed any other martial arts films.

So this is what Feng Jiazhao couldn't understand. His brother-in-law had several manuscripts waiting to be adapted into scripts.

For example, Parental Love, Ordinary World, and the recently released and instantly popular "The Garland under the Mountain", as long as these are adapted into scripts, the factory will immediately approve and launch the project.

Instead of revising these works that could be put into the project right away, he forced me to help him revise "Heroes of the East", as well as the new manuscripts he wrote for the Shanghai Story Club. As he himself said, even if these manuscripts were turned into scripts, they would not be approved and put into the project right away.

This is a thankless task!

"Brother, just focus on writing these scripts for now. In addition to this new script, I will ask you to write a few more later!"

"Anyway, before Tai Chi is finished and released, you should have at least six or seven martial arts scripts in your hands. You don't have to sign my name then, just use your own name!"

"Believe me, even if I ask my sister-in-law to help you count the royalties, her hands will cramp!"

What a joke!
In my previous life, after the release of "Shaolin Temple", there was a huge craze for martial arts films. Film studios big and small across the country followed suit and looked everywhere for martial arts film scripts.

This time, Cheng Xuemin also believes that his "Tai Chi" will surely bring about a wave of martial arts film craze once it is released.

Now he is too busy to produce so many scripts, so he has no choice but to ask his brother-in-law Feng Jiazhao to stockpile the scripts!

More is better!

I don't care about the quality of Brother-in-law's scripts, the more I can read, the better.

By that time, martial arts film scripts will be hard to come by, and it will be normal to break the restrictions and sell them for two thousand yuan each.

So my brother-in-law got the upper hand and got six or seven martial arts film scripts. When my sister-in-law counts the script royalties, won’t her hands cramp? !

"Really? Brother-in-law, I want one too!"

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