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Chapter 42: Letters from Home and Anti-Fans (Please Read!)
The first letter was not very important. It just said that the money had been taken and would be mainly used for Xiaohong's education. Some food was also bought. The whole family was very proud of him and hoped that he would keep up the good work.

"Li" is also written as "li".

The second one was more special because in addition to the letter from my father, there was also an envelope with the sender from "Liu Rulong".

Read Dad’s letter first.

"Your classmate Xiao Liu sent you a letter a few days ago. He didn't know you were also in Yanjing, so I sent it to you and told you something important."

"I found the Children's Literature magazine you mentioned in the county, but it's an old one, not the latest one. Can you buy one in Yanjing and send it back? Urgent!"

Three "urgent"s, it seems he is really anxious.

Wei Ming seemed to see this scene:
When Lao Wei was bragging about how great his son was, a discordant voice emerged from the crowd: "You said your son is a writer, but where are his works? Let everyone see them!"

Then before dawn, Old Wei drove his donkey cart to the county town to buy "Children's Literature". He spent a lot of time and effort, but still failed to buy anything. When he returned to the village, he had to avoid the crowd and stayed indoors for the time being.

Poor, so pitiful!

Wei Ming did have some magazines, and he also wanted to send some money back home.

Or why not go home during the Mid-Autumn Festival? After all, it is a day for family reunion.

When this thought came to his mind, Wei Ming could no longer suppress his homesickness.

I really want to see Xiaohong when she was still a teenager, and I really want to see what that 80-year-old lady looked like when she was young.

"Brother Feng, can I take a leave for the Mid-Autumn Festival next month?"

"What's wrong? Are you homesick?"

"Of course it is. It's the first time I've been away from home for such a long time. I'm not like those two who run home all day long." Wei Ming expressed his envy for the authentic Yanjing people.

"No problem," Brother Feng agreed immediately. "The National Games will be over by then, and there will be fewer National Day activities. It's a good time to relax. Biaozi and Wenhua can also go to the movies. It seems that there are many new movies during the National Day."

Wei Ming smiled and said, "When are you free tomorrow? It's my turn to treat you at the Changzheng Canteen this time!"

Hearing this, Biaozi asked excitedly: "Brother Ming, did you get the second payment for the manuscript?"

"Ah."

"How much?" Mei Wenhua asked with mixed feelings.

Wei Ming: "Culture, don't ask me about it. I'm afraid you'll feel bad if you know it."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone understood that this was a rather terrifying number, and Mei Wenhua began to feel uncomfortable.

You have already gained fame, so how can you make money as well!

You are the male lead, so what?

Wei Ming then opened the letter from his high school classmate Liu Rulong, which was sent from the Yenching Film Academy in Zhuxinzhuang, Changping.

Wei Ming remembered that he received this letter in his hometown in his previous life.

Liu Rulong is the same age as Wei Ming. They went to high school together for four years and are the best friends in the class. This guy often steals his grandfather's comic books to show Wei Ming.

Aaron grew up in Guangzhou. His mother and Wei Ming are from the same hometown, and his father is from Foshan.

Aaron's parents were both college students in the 50s. They studied English, fell in love, and settled in Guangzhou.

Later, his parents divorced, his father smuggled to Hong Kong, and his mother took him back to his hometown in Ping'an County. He worked as a Chinese teacher in the county high school. As English was added to the college entrance examination, he became an English teacher.

Liu Rulong has been learning painting since he was young. With the help of his grandfather, he studied Chinese painting under the Lingnan School master Guan Shanyue.

After returning to the north, he followed his grandfather to learn the painting techniques of inner painting and comic strips.

In 77, Aaron also followed the crowd and took the college entrance examination, but failed.

The next year he wanted to apply to the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, the predecessor of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, but he still failed.

The third time he heard that the Fine Arts Department of the Film Academy began to recruit students for the animation class, he decisively chose the Beijing Film Academy since he had been interested in this since he was a child, and was admitted this time.

With memories of his old friend, Wei Ming opened the letter and saw the same content as in his previous life.

A-Long first expressed his concern for A-Ming and encouraged him not to give up studying.

Then he introduced his study and life in the film academy.

"Now I study very hard, because the best students in our class may be assigned to the Shanghai Art Film Studio in the future, and you know, that's the place I most want to work!" Wei Ming: Congratulations, you did it.

After graduation, Liu Rulong did enter the Shanghai Animation Film Studio with his excellent grades, and also participated in many key projects of the studio.

The letter also talked about how he had the opportunity to watch many foreign animations at school.

"Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Snow White from Disney in the United States, and the story of the mole from Czechoslovakia are all excellent works, and Osamu Tezuka from Japan is also very good."

Wei Ming remembered that when he saw the letter, because the guy didn't use quotation marks, he thought that Osamu Tezuka was the name of an animation just like the story of Mickey Mouse and the Mole. At that time, he was wondering, what kind of insect is "Osamu Tezuka"?
Later, Liu Rulong also expressed some of his concerns.

"Although our country also has masterpieces such as 'Havoc in Heaven' and 'Nezha Conquers the Dragon King', and is not inferior to foreign countries in terms of top-level animation, and the types of animation are also rich enough, the output is too low. If reform and opening up are applied to the animation industry, I am afraid we will find it difficult to withstand the external impact. In this regard, Japan's animation industry is very worthy of our learning."

Wei Ming sighed. In the 90s, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio began to decline. Young and strong people like Liu Rulong did not get the opportunity to display their talents, so with the support of his parents, he went to Japan and became a Japanese animation worker, just like many people from the Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

He wanted to learn from the foreigners in order to defeat them, and looked forward to returning to his country one day to shoot his own animation. Wei Ming, who had just started working in the screenwriting circle, told him, "In the future, I will be the screenwriter and you will be the director, and we will use animation to counterattack Japan."

As a result, a few years later, Aaron was defeated by reality. He started to work in the underworld to make a living. Later, he became the third in command of the largest Chinese gang in Japan.

It's a very sudden turn, isn't it? No one could have imagined that this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, short stature, harmless-looking, and silly like a panda would end up getting involved in gangs. He even said it was a legal organization that paid taxes.

At the end of the letter, Liu Rulong also said: "It's a pity that the Film Academy has no plans to recruit acting classes in the past two years. Otherwise, with your appearance, you can definitely consider studying acting. I think Zhang Tielin, who is known as the most handsome in the 78th grade, is slightly inferior to you."

Wei Ming: Is that right? Please organize your words a little more.

"I may have to wait until the winter vacation to have the chance to go home. If you come to Yanjing during this period, you must come to see me. Then I will let you see my new paintings."

Wei Ming sighed. He had been in Yanjing for almost a month, and it was time to go see A'long.

After putting away the letter, Wei Ming started reading the letters from young readers again. He didn't know whether there would be food coupons or something in them.

As it turned out, the first letter was written by a parent, thanking "Wei Shenme" for his work successfully scaring his daughter who loved candy.

The second letter was also from a parent.

The third one...

After opening all 10 letters, Wei Ming found that most of them were thank-you letters from parents, thanking them for the educational significance of the fairy tale, and all of them came from big cities.

Only two of the letters were written by children. They were crooked and very childish, but there was a lot of resentment between the lines. They blamed him for exaggerating the harm of eating sweets and causing them to have no sweets to eat. He was such a bad uncle!
Wei Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't expect that instead of becoming a close friend of the kids, he gained a group of black fans.

No, he had to write a new work quickly to change the impression. He was also hoping to reap the money of these kids decades later by relying on their sentimentality and let them buy his books for the next generation.

The next morning, after breakfast, Wei Ming was taken to the patrol team by Brother Feng for half a day of training.

At this time, the novella "The Ducks Know First When the River Water Warms in Spring" had already been published in Wenhui Daily.

In an alley in Hongkou, Shanghai.

An old lady with silver hair was reading a newspaper in the sun on the balcony. Yesterday she was attracted by a short story and bought Wenhui Daily when she bought breakfast today.

The previous article talked about how Section Chief Wang heard about "advertising" when he was desperate, and this article talks about how he won over the assistant of a documentary director and prepared to shoot a TV commercial, which is also the first in China.

Only then did the old lady realize that there were so many hardships behind the Shengui Yangrong Wine advertisement at the beginning of the year. Section Chief Wang not only starred in the advertisement himself, but also stole money from his family to pay for the filming costs. He is truly a good cadre.

The end of this article is that the advertisement has been filmed, but there is still a question mark on how to let the audience see it.

The old lady cursed in her heart, "You're just a bitch," and then called her granddaughter.

"Azhi, Azhi!"

"What's wrong, grandma?" A tall girl with an oval face, about seventeen or eighteen, walked over.

The old lady pointed to an empty wine bottle on the windowsill and said, "Do you remember the medicinal wine I bought during the Chinese New Year?"

"Remember, you said you couldn't get used to it."

"But it does have some effect. I felt pretty good during that time. Go buy me another bottle." As she said this, she took out 20 yuan and gave the rest to her granddaughter for pocket money.

After thinking for a while, she took out another ten dollars and said, "You should also buy a new pair of underwear. They don't fit anymore."

Anyway, her son earns money in Hong Kong to support them both, and they are wealthier than the average family in Shanghai.

The girl Azhi blushed and happily took the 30 yuan. She didn't expect that she was already 18 years old and her growth had not yet ended. She had grown a lot recently.
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