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Chapter 46: Serialization completed, influence spread

Wei Ming scratched his head: "I'm still young and I'm from another place, so I should focus on my career first."

In this day and age, the best you can do when finding a partner is just touching hands, which is not very meaningful. It is more interesting to make money.

Just as Mu Rong was about to say something else, Biaozi excitedly said, "Sister-in-law, if you find someone suitable, please introduce one to me!"

Everyone laughed, and Mei Wenhua habitually retorted: "Didn't you say you had a girl you liked in the sports school? Why did you ask your sister-in-law to introduce her to you?"

Wei Ming: "Oh, there is such a thing?"

Qiao Feng said, "When you were away for a few days, you drank too much and blurted out the truth once."

Zhao Debiao sighed: "She is my classmate in the sports school. She said that someone who has never won a national championship is not qualified to pursue her."

"Why, has she won the national championship?" Wei Ming asked.

"It should be about the same this year. She is very strong." Speaking of this female classmate, the usually optimistic Biaozi felt a little ashamed of himself.

To make Biaozi feel better, Wei Ming comforted him: "You are still young. Look at Wenhua. Aren't you still single at the age of 19?"

Mei Wenhua: "Hey, hey, hey, after you left, Sister Qingqing came to me to apologize and even treated me to a meal. I think we have a chance."

Biaozi felt even worse.

Wei Ming immediately said, "Lao Liu, Lao Liu is already over 20 years old, and he is still single."

Liu Zhenyun put down his chopsticks gracefully and smiled: "First of all, I am only 21 years old. In addition, yesterday I visited the Old Summer Palace with my fellow villager Mei Zi, and I think she is interested in me."

Biaozi felt that everyone was not giving him a chance to live, and the food on the table no longer tasted good.

After the meal, Zhao Debiao returned to the dormitory and paced back and forth, finally taking out paper and pen.

Wei Ming: "What are you doing?"

Biaozi: "I want to write a love letter!"

However, he wrote "Swallow:" and didn't know what to write after that, so he asked his brother Ming for help.

Wei Ming: "Just write how I can live without you, Yan Zi!"

Biaozi: "Isn't that too unmanly?"

"If you want to be more manly, then just write a letter of challenge."

"Ah? A challenge letter?"

Wei Ming: "Yes, from what you said, your classmate is quite competitive. If you can defeat her, she will be impressed by you."

Biaozi's eyes lit up: "It seems to make sense!"

So he tore up the confession letter and wrote a challenge letter instead. It was very short and only had one sentence: "Huang Qiuyan, do you dare to fight me? - Zhao Debiao!"

"Wait a minute, what's your classmate's name?"

"Qiuyan, I usually call her Yanzi~"

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The next morning, Wei Ming rode Mei Wenhua's new Fei Ge brand bike to the Film Academy in Zhuxinzhuang, and Zhao Debiao was also preparing to go to Shichahai Sports School to deliver a letter of challenge to Yan Zi.

At this time, the last part of "The Duck Knows the River Water Warms in Spring" had already been published in Wenhui Daily, and the serialization was declared over.

The sales volume of Shengui Yangrong Wine has not fluctuated for the time being, but the print run of the three issues of Wenhui Daily has been rising steadily, and we have also received a lot of feedback about this novel from the society.

Even if it does not raise the banner of reform literature, this novel is still a fascinating good story. It has deeply hooked readers' hearts since the first issue. Readers are happy and worried with the characters in the story, and they cannot stop exploring the fate of the protagonist.

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A certain unit in Baoding.

Nineteen-year-old Wang Zhongjun has been a soldier for three years. He was previously a scout, but later he was transferred to be a cartographer because of his foundation in art.

He usually pays great attention to study and reads a lot of newspapers about current affairs every day.

However, when he came to the reading room today, the first thing he chose was Wenhui Daily. He immediately opened the fourth edition and found the last chapter of the novel "The Ducks Know the River Water Warms in Spring".

The previous article mentioned that Section Chief Wang racked his brains to shoot this one and a half minute TV commercial, but it got stuck at the broadcast stage.

This article continues to say that because there was no precedent, the TV station refused to broadcast it. Fortunately, there was an open-minded director who took on the pressure and facilitated the broadcast of the advertisement. This is also the part that was not mentioned in the movie "The Duck Prophet".

The author then describes in detail the reactions of the audience in front of the TV, mainly the audience in Shanghai, when they saw the advertisement on TV for the first time.

When Wei Ming wrote this passage, he mainly interviewed the staff of the guesthouse and added some artistic processing. After reading it, Wang Zhongjun's first reaction was: It turns out that Chinese audiences are so easy to fool!

Some viewers actually thought that the country was calling on them to buy medicinal liquor.

Later, Wei Ming depicted the scene of the explosive sales of medicinal liquor. Ordinary people who were not well-off cleared out all the stores and pharmacies where this medicinal liquor could be sold, and the pharmaceutical factory thus survived the crisis.

Wang Zhongjun touched his chin thoughtfully. It seemed that this advertisement was really good.

At this point, the novel's narrative intention about reform and opening up has become clear.

The duck knows first when the river water warms in spring. What is reform and opening up? It means being the first duck to go into the water. Wang Zhongjun was very inspired by this sentence, and the following sentence "brave people enjoy the world first" directly hit Wang Zhongjun.

He took the newspaper and wanted to share it with the people around him, but seeing that they were all stupid, he put the thought aside and silently kept this sentence in his heart. He hoped that he could become that brave man one day.

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Anshan, Liaoning.

The 14-year-old Chen Xiaoxu has just joined the city drama troupe as an announcer.

Some people say that she looks a bit like Chen Peisi, the male lead of this year's movie "Look at This Family". Coincidentally, her father is also called Chen Qiang.

Chen Xiaoxu saw her troupe colleague Bi Yanjun reading a newspaper, so she approached him quietly and covered his eyes from behind.

"Guess who I am?"

"Stop messing around, Xiaoxu. I'm really enjoying the show."

Although there is a ten-year age difference between the two, there is a spark in each other's eyes.

"What are you looking at?" Chen Xiaoxu sat next to him, looking well-behaved.

"Novel, serialized, this is the last one."

"What's that?"

"Let's talk about shooting a commercial."

"Advertisement?" She was puzzled. "Is that something interesting?"

"Haha, you'll know after you take a look." Bi Yanjun helped her find the first two issues.

This was the first time that the girl from a small town in the northeast saw the concept of advertising and also the first time she knew the mechanism of advertising.

Wei Ming gave a very thorough explanation in the article, introducing in an easy-to-understand way what advertising is, from creativity to shooting to delivery.

His popular science reveals the essence of advertising and helps the audience to demystify advertising to a certain extent.

But it also attracted many people to become interested in the advertising industry. From the perspective of the development of the advertising industry, the emergence of this novel is even more meaningful than the Shengui Yangrong Wine TV commercial itself.

……

Zhuxinzhuang is located in Changping, north of Haidian. Wei Ming thought it was not far away, but it took him an hour to get there. Fortunately, he is in good health now.

About half an hour later, I finally saw the sign of the Film Academy.

Seeing two girls in front of him, Wei Ming followed them directly and pretended that they were together. The guard didn't think that they were in the same industry at all and let them in without asking any questions.

After walking for a long time, the two girls finally realized who was pushing the cart.

Wei Ming also recognized these two people. One was Liu Jia, the "old version of Li Huanying", and the other was Fang Shu, the little carrot head. They seemed to be from the Acting Department of 78.

"Hello, I'd like to ask you, where do the animation classes in the art department usually take place?"

Last year, Beijing Film Academy reopened its enrollment with only four departments: directing, acting, photography, and fine arts. Fine arts was the last of the four departments, and the animation class was the least visible in the fine arts department. They didn't even know there was an animation class.

Liu Jia said: "The Fine Arts Department usually holds classes in that building, but I'm not sure about the animation class."

"OK, thanks."

As soon as he left, the two of them started whispering, who is this person?

Fang Shu said: "It must be from another school."

"So which school are you from?"

Wei Ming's age, appearance, and temperament made them instinctively think that he was a college student.

Fang Shu thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he is from the Central Academy of Drama."

"Are there such good-looking students in the Central Academy of Drama? I heard that they prefer those with unique and eccentric looks when recruiting students." Liu Jia started to list friendly schools.

Fang Shu chuckled and said, "Not all of them are weird. I heard that there is a person named Chen Daoming who is very outstanding."

Liu Jia: "Ah, could he be Chen Daoming?"

Wei Ming: Nonsense, I am not Chen Daoming at all!

With the title of Chen Daoming's suspect, Wei Ming came to this teaching building.

Not only the Fine Arts Department holds classes here, but the Photography Department does as well.

So when Wei Ming came in, he saw a group of photography students with cameras hanging around their necks, preparing to take portraits for their assignments.

Then several people stared at Wei Ming. Wow, these facial features and outlines, what a good material!
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