Exciting 1979!

Chapter 32 Collecting Materials
Wei Ming also thought one dollar was expensive, but he said it was only 80 cents, so he decided to try it reluctantly.

However, this journey is indeed quite long, almost ten kilometers. The driver drove very fast, turning left and right to take shortcuts, but it still took more than half an hour.

This driver in Shanghai is not very cute. I talked to him about Shengui Yangrong Wine, but he said he had never bought it or drunk it, and then he had nothing to say.

This is not okay. How can you be a taxi driver when you don’t know anything?

"No. 201 Danba Road, this is it." The driver dropped him off and turned away, without any attachment to the -cent relationship.

Wei Ming looked at the sun. It was time for dinner. Unfortunately, he could not have the free lunch at the guesthouse. He had to pay for the meal himself.

There is a state-owned restaurant outside the pharmaceutical factory. Because there are several factories around it, its business is quite good.

He ordered a tray of steamed buns, a bowl of millet porridge, two taels of food coupons and three cents.

While waiting for his meal, Wei Ming noticed that the men and women at the next table were all wearing work uniforms, and one of the girls caught his eye a few more times.

It’s not that she’s pretty, the key point is that there are words “Magic City Chinese Medicine Factory No. 2” on the back of her work clothes.

After lunch, Wei Ming stood guard at the gate of the Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory, waiting for the female worker to come over after lunch. He immediately stepped forward and said, "Hello, comrade."

"Hello comrade, what can I do for you?"

"It's like this, I'm a writer from Yanjing, and I want to write a novel about the Shengui Yangrong wine at the beginning of the year. Can you take me in for an interview?"

People in Shanghai look down on all outsiders equally, but people from Yanjing can be slightly exception.

The female worker who introduced herself as "Jiang Yungui" enthusiastically said: "No problem, but is this worth writing a novel about?"

"Of course, everything can be turned into a novel." Not only can it be written into novels, some people have even made them into movies.

Wei Ming registered with the security guard and entered the factory smoothly.

Xiao Jiang has a strong sense of ownership and introduced to Wei Ming the brilliant achievements of their Chinese Medicine Factory No. 2 along the way.

The Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory No. 2 has more than one product, the Ginseng and Gui Yangrong Medicinal Wine. In fact, this can only be considered a very small category of products.

This Chinese medicine factory has all kinds of products, including tablets, granules, syrups, oral liquids, capsules, and ointments. Its flagship products include Compound Danshen Tablets, Yinqiao Jiedu Tablets, and Huatuo Ointment.

There is even more than one kind of medicinal wine, there is also a Wannianchun wine, which really has the effect of nourishing the kidneys.

Afterwards, Xiao Jiang took him to the medicinal wine workshop.

No one is allowed to enter the production area without permission. Wei Ming met Director Wang of the medicinal wine workshop outside the workshop.

"Hello, Director Wang. I am a writer from Yanjing. I want to write a novel about Shengui Yangrong Wine. I would like to know more about this medicinal wine from you. Sorry to bother you."

Director Wang was in his forties or fifties and looked like he had a lot on his mind, but the title of writer was still very useful these days. He forced himself to be cheerful and began to introduce the effects of Ginseng and Osmanthus Nourishing Wine to Wei Ming.

"Our ingredients include Chinese medicinal materials such as ginseng, longan, and wolfberry. Ginseng replenishes qi, and longan replenishes blood. Therefore, our ginseng and cinnamon nourishing wine is a medicinal wine that replenishes both qi and blood. It is very suitable for the elderly with weak qi and blood. You are a writer, so you must have read Dream of the Red Chamber."

"of course."

Director Wang Zhenxu said: "The ginseng nourishing pills that Lin Daiyu often took in Dream of the Red Chamber are similar in principle to our ginseng and cinnamon nourishing wine. They are both very nourishing."

Wei Ming laughed and said, "Daiyu is so young and still needs to use this kind of medicine. She must be really weak."

It seems that the rumor about Daiyu pulling up a weeping willow tree is not true. Director Wang added: "Although medicinal wine is good, you can't drink too much. We recommend drinking 20 to 30 milliliters each time, no more than twice a day. After all, a weak body cannot be nourished."

Wei Ming, who was a math idiot, calculated quickly and finally figured it out. Oh, half a liang each time, no more than one liang per day.

No wonder it’s selling so-so now. Wine that can’t be drunk heartily will definitely not have very high sales. With the word “medicine” in front, medicinal wine is not wine after all.

However, if calculated this way, a bottle of wine can be finished in ten days, which means 3 bottles a month, which is 45 yuan, which is equivalent to the salary of an ordinary worker. Not being able to afford it will also limit product sales.

Therefore, apart from being supplied to high-income people who need to replenish their body, this kind of wine can only become a hot-selling product for a short time due to its temporary popularity. After the popularity passes, it will naturally return to calm.

Everyone is poor now. Unless people's income as a whole increases significantly and a wealthier population emerges, there will be room for something like Melatonin to survive.

Wei Ming talked about the TV commercial at the beginning of the year again, saying that he knew about this wine from that time.

Later, Xu Zheng used a short film "The Duck Prophet" in "My Fathers and Me" to tell the story of the advertisement of Shengui Yangrong Wine. He got a different truth from Director Wang. In fact, this medicinal wine had always sold well at that time and there was no backlog, but it was true that it was sold out after the advertisement.

So after leaving the Second Chinese Medicine Factory, Wei Ming prepared to go to Shanghai TV Station to collect materials and learn about the stories behind the advertisements at that time, which was also the missing part in "Duck Prophet".

As soon as Wei Ming left, Director Wang immediately went to find the head of the sales department, Liang Lu, and asked, "There is still so much inventory piled up in the workshop. Can you sell it all?"

At that time, the TV advertising effect was so good that the director increased production on an impulse. However, after the craze passed, buyers became rational and foreign markets were not opened up. Now Tom’s products are in stock!

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At the same time that Wei Ming left the Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory, Gong Xing, dressed beautifully, returned home tiredly.

Gong Ying, her sister who is three years younger than her, immediately came over and asked, "Sister, how is it going? What did the Shanghai Film Studio say?"

Gong Xing sighed, "They said there's a new movie called 'Love in Lushan' and the female lead is very suitable for me, but unfortunately, the female lead has already been confirmed."

"Who is it? Chen Chong?"

Two years ago, director Xie Jin made the heroine Chen Chong famous with the movie "Youth". Some time ago, she was selected by Beijing Film Studio to star in a movie called "Little Flower", with Tang Guoqiang as the male lead and Liu Xiaoqing as the supporting role.

She was only 16 years old at that time, and is only 18 years old now.

Gong Xing immediately thought of Wei Ming, who was also eighteen years old. Oh, why was he thinking about him?

"It's Zhang Yu." she told her sister.

Gong Ying immediately said: "She is not as pretty as you."

"Don't say that. She is also very beautiful, but she is from the Shanghai Film Studio. If the conditions are similar, the Shanghai Film Studio will definitely prefer to use its own people." Gong Xing was helpless.

Gong Ying hugged her sister and said, "It's okay. They don't need you. How about you accompany me to sketch tomorrow?"

She is currently learning painting from her father. Her father and elder brother both study painting, and her sisters also have interests and expertise in this area.

Gong Xing nodded and said, "Okay, I'll tell my mom and lend her my camera."

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