Exciting 1979!

Chapter 151 Zhou Huimin's Letter (6500 monthly tickets plus more)

Mei Wenhua looked at the guesthouse reluctantly: "Brother Ming, have the uncle and aunt eaten yet? How about I go and take care of it?"

Wei Ming: "I ate it at the train station."

Biaozi was honest and asked what was on his mind: "Brother Ming, don't you only have one sister? Why do they say you brought back two sisters?"

"Oh, one is my biological sister, and the other is my cousin from my uncle's family." After Wei Ming said this, he suddenly realized why these two were so active.

He snorted and said, "My sister is only 14 years old. Although my cousin is 18 years old, my uncle has a very bad temper. A local man had bad intentions towards my sister. He used to be a very energetic young man, but now he is less than meters tall."

"Why?" Biaozi was shocked.

Mei Wenhua acted very smart: "You don't even understand this, your leg must be broken!"

"I was so scared, I thought I had lost my head!" Biaozi assured me: "Brother Ming, you know me well, I already have a swallow!"

"Oh, so how's it going with you two?"

Biaozi: "We are doing fine now. We kissed each other a lot during the time you were away."

Seeing his smug look, Mei Wenhua was so angry that her teeth ached. Then he also assured her: "Brother Ming, you know me too. I like people who are older than me."

Wei Ming: Why do I feel like you are playing tricks on me?
Then Wei Ming said to Biaozi, "You can be close to me, but don't let anyone see you. You might be mistaken for a hooligan and be attacked."

Although it is not 83 now, we should still pay attention.

Biaozi nodded: "We were very careful, but Xiao Li saw us twice."

Wei Ming was happy. He loved watching it so much. Wasn’t it enough to watch it once?

Later, when the three of them passed by the convenience store, Wei Ming bought a lot of envelopes, writing paper and stamps, as he had a lot of letters to return.

After returning to Nanmengang where he had not been for a long time, Wei Ming was quickly surrounded by his colleagues. They chattered in praise of Wei Ming's novels and music, and asked about his experiences during the New Year. After all, everyone yearned to be a legend.

Wei Ming focused on his experience of catching pandas, which made the group of people very envious.

"I'll print out the photos and show them to everyone later. They're in color."

After the crowd dispersed, his colleague at the gate handed him a small notebook.

"Brother Ming, this is the record of the phone calls and visits to Peking University during this period."

"Oh, thank you for all the trouble," Wei Ming took a look and saw the time, number, name, and event.

For example, editors of several major literary magazines have contacted me, and there have been several calls from the Pacific Ocean. The key point is that there are too many film studios that want to work with me.

Among them, Director Wu Tianming of Xi'an Film Studio was the most active. He not only made multiple phone calls, but also left long messages, expressing his full sincerity in cooperation and his desire to shoot his own "The Shepherd Class".

The Beijing Film Studio and the Shanghai Animation Film Studio were mainly urging me to submit my manuscripts, as I still owed them three scripts, two long and one short.

"You're so meticulous. Thank you for your hard work, brothers. Let's have dinner together when I'm done!" Wei Ming always keeps his word. If he wants to treat someone, he will treat everyone in this position.

Then they went downstairs to the dormitory. Brother Feng and his wife went back to Shandong to visit relatives after the New Year, so it was just the three of them.

Wei Ming's bed was covered with various letters, and he was worried. He couldn't buy another cabinet, as that would take up too much space in the dormitory.

Biaozi said, "Brother Ming, these are letters from readers, and these are letters from editors. Maybe there are also payment receipts in them. You can take a look at them later."

Wei Ming took a quick look and found a letter from Pacific and a letter from Youth Literature and Art, which should be full of money.

He nodded: "What about the two in Hong Kong?"

Mei Wenhua took out the letter from under the office cabinet that Wei Ming bought: "Here, I hid it."

Wei Ming took them and looked at them. He found that the handwriting on one of the letters was the same as the first one he had received. It was obviously written by a young woman, and the handwriting was light and beautiful.

The handwriting on the other letter was much more vigorous, and it was obvious that the writer was old.

Both letters were sent from Sai Wan, Central and Western District, Hong Kong Island, but the specific addresses were different.

The sender of the first letter was "Amin" and the sender of the second letter was "Laogui".

What Wei Ming was most concerned about was the letters from Hong Kong, but he didn't expect there would be two letters.

He turned around and said, "Okay, you guys go do your thing. I have something else to do. I'll leave first."

Wei Ming did not open the letter in front of the two of them, but found a quiet and deserted place to open it.

He first looked at the one signed "Amin", after all, she was the one who wrote the first one.

"Wei Ming:
Hello, I am a secondary school student from Hong Kong. You can call me Amin. Can we be friends? "

After reading only the first paragraph, Wei Ming frowned. What the hell? This is actually a letter asking for friendship?

Is it a code word?
He continued reading. "You should be a person with excellent academic performance, but don't underestimate me. Although I am only a Form 1 student with average academic performance, I am in Hong Kong and have access to a wider range of information sources. I know a lot of things in the outside world that you don't know. If you want to know anything, you can ask me. I will do my best to help you understand the outside world."

Wow, such a strong sense of superiority, but he is actually a kind-hearted person.

"After all, pen pals should help each other with everything they know. If I ask you about something going on over there, you'll tell me, right?"

Wei Ming immediately became alert. Could this be a spy? Suddenly, he felt that the letter was a little hot.

"I like music very much. What kind of music is popular in mainland China now? Is there any pop music over there? Are there any famous singers?"

Wei Ming pinched his chin. The popular music now should be the album "The Sheep Class".

He continued to read.

"You probably haven't heard of the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs, right? The second edition was just announced. Many of the songs are very nice, like Chyi Yu's "Olive Tree", Zheng Shaoqiu's "Chu Liuxiang", and Wang Mingquan's "Like White Clouds Like Breeze". I really like Wang Mingquan's songs. She can sing, act, and host. I like her show "Happy Tonight" the most, but my mother doesn't let me watch it too much, saying that TV will hurt my eyes..."

Wei Ming: Your mother is right.

He read this paragraph patiently and basically ruled out the "spy hypothesis". This was just a little girl talking to herself. The questions she asked were not confidential and she was quite talkative. Was she really planning to become a pen pal with him?
He turned the page and continued reading.

"What about movies? I saw in the newspaper that you only have eight movies to watch. Is that true?"

That's not true. In addition to the eight model opera films, there were actually some classics such as "The Red Star" and "Haixia" produced during the movement. Many excellent works emerged in the years after 76, but the art of film creation has not yet reached its peak.

Next, Amin briefly talked about a movie he had watched recently that left a deep impression on him.

"This month, my classmates and I went to see a movie called "Modern Country Man", starring a singer named Lin Zixiang. I felt it was very good, funny and fashionable."

Then she turned from movies to TV series. She seemed to really love watching TV. She knew all the famous TV series from 79 and early 80s.

Although "Heavenly Silkworm Change" is very popular and "Demon City Beach" is even more popular, she, a little girl, seems to prefer urban dramas.

"My favorite show last year was TVB's "Young Couple"..."

She also briefly talked about the plot of the drama. Wei Ming also had some impression of it. It seemed to be the work of the screenwriter Wang Jing, the fat guy.

At the end, she suddenly realized.

"Excuse me, have you never seen a TV? You should know about the radio. The radio can receive sound through signals, while the TV can receive images. You can watch TV dramas and variety shows. The color TV in my house is only 17 inches."

It seems that they are not a wealthy family. Wei Ming wanted to laugh after seeing this. He thought that they were looking down on others. Who hasn't watched TV?

However, he couldn't laugh anymore. If he hadn't come to Yanjing and had stayed in his hometown, he would have never seen a television. At most, he knew about it from Liu Rulong.

This Amin from Hong Kong had a strong desire to express himself and communicate. He wrote three pages of letter, and Wei Ming turned to the last page.

“Although I was born and raised in Hong Kong, my parents came from the mainland with their ancestors. My mother often told me about her life in the mainland, but that was during the Anti-Japanese War.

"I am also very curious about the mainland. I heard that there are many famous mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery in the mainland, and the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River are also very desirable. I hope we can write to each other frequently and look forward to learning about the real mainland from a mainland friend."

"Finally, according to our Hong Kong way of calling you, can I call you Ming?"

Wei Ming took the letter and read it over and over again, making sure there was no secret code in it and that she really came to make friends in a foreign place.

And she knew her name and address, so she should have received her previous reply.

Did she see the contents of the letter?
This cannot be confirmed for the time being, and I may need another letter to give myself an answer.

As for making friends, forget it. I'm a new literary king who charges ten yuan per thousand words. How could I waste my time on you? My time is money!
Immediately, Wei Ming opened the second letter from Hong Kong signed by "Lao Gui".

After reading the letter, he immediately stood up and ran towards the guesthouse.

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Wei Jiefang was in good spirits. Xu Shufen had already lain down to rest, but he could still go downstairs to chat with Manager Wang and take the opportunity to publicize his glorious deeds in Sichuan and Chongqing.

"Old Wang, you've taken photos with so many celebrities, but have you ever taken photos with a panda? The ones at the zoo with the wire mesh between them don't count, the ones with the panda in your arms."

Manager Wang shook his head: "I really don't have that."

"I did!" Old Wei laughed, "Let me tell you in detail. It was a dark and windy night..."

He was talking excitedly and Manager Wang was listening attentively when Wei Ming suddenly came back.

"Dad, come with me, I have something to tell you!"

Wei Jiefang: What is more important than me showing off?

Seeing Wei Ming's serious expression, Old Wei asked Manager Wang to wait for a moment and the excitement would be back soon.

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(End of this chapter)