Mixed in 1980

Chapter 185 I am a liar
Chen Fan thought for a while and then agreed to the commission. It was not good to go too long without writing. If another two years passed, it would probably be forgotten.

We still have to make some noise.

In fact, Chen Fan has also been making some moves in the mainland publishing industry. The first part of "The Hunger Games" was published not long ago.

However, it is a Western theme and a niche science fiction theme, just like "The Matrix", so sales were not very good. Only 40 copies were printed and none of them were sold out.

Compared with other writers, the sales volume is not low, but compared with Chen Fan’s other works, such sales volume can only be said to be mediocre and is a drag.

For example, the earliest "The Most Beautiful Youth" had sales of over 60 copies since 100, and it has been reprinted continuously over the past year or so, with sales of over million copies per volume.

As for "The Awakening Age", it is selling like crazy, with sales of a single volume exceeding 300 million copies, and it needs to be reprinted every few months.

The People's Literature Publishing House went to great lengths to get "Awakening Age" approved, and now it has received extremely generous rewards.

There are also "Chen Fan's Editorial Collection" and "Chen Fan's View of the World". Although they are all collections of essays, their sales have always been very high, and have brought Chen Fan a lot of royalties in the past two years.

As for the exact amount, Chen Fan had never calculated it. Xu Jinqiu harvested it all for household use.

After talking about the commissioned work, Kong Lanchun had already prepared the meal, and Chen Fan invited everyone to move to the restaurant, during which they inevitably talked about the house and calligraphy and paintings.

Influenced by Chen Fan, Wang Jingyi was the first to buy a house. He bought a small courtyard house that year, and later bought several houses in large courtyards.

Wang Jing's face was full of smiles when she talked about the house.

"House prices have been rising in the past two years. I have two main houses in a compound. I bought each for 2000 yuan. Some time ago, someone offered 2300 yuan for it, but I was reluctant to sell it."

Price increases are inevitable.

However, before 1985, the increase in housing prices was not significant. After the trend of 1983 passed, the reform and opening up efforts were intensified in 1984, economic development accelerated, and housing prices also rose rapidly.

Wang Wei didn't have much savings before, so he didn't buy a house, but he bought a lot of calligraphy and paintings. He now has more than 20 pieces of calligraphy and paintings, including five by Qi Baishi.

Some time ago, someone came to his door and wanted to buy a painting of a hundred shrimps by Qi Baishi from him. The price he offered almost made him die of joy, and he actually offered twelve thousand.

This large-sized painting only cost 120 yuan.

The price increased 100 times, but Wang Wei still refused to sell it. In Chen Fan's words, if there were no other investment projects, he would just hold on to it, and the price would only go higher and higher.

Exchanging it for cash is the most useless. Once the bills are cancelled, prices will soar and the currency will depreciate rapidly. As a result, ten thousand yuan cannot buy the area of a tile.

After chatting for a long time and having enough food and drink, Wang Wei and Wang Jingyi said goodbye and went back. Xu Jinqiu looked at Chen Fan curiously: "What are you going to write next?"

Chen Fan smiled bitterly and said depressedly: "My mind is blank, I have no idea at all."

"Write about this year's wind?"

"..."

Chen Fan rolled his eyes at his wife.

There are some things you can get involved in, but there are some things you cannot touch. Your good days have just begun, so why bother yourself?

Chen Fan never thought of becoming a fighter.

I am just an ordinary person. I have succeeded and failed in my previous life, and the ending was not very good. Fortunately, I still have Chen Yi, Xiaoxi, and Guan Xiaoyu.

My goal in this life is clear, which is to live a good life!

Fortunately, writing is not a one-day thing, so Chen Fan was not in a hurry. He rested at home for a day, and the next day he took Guan Xiaoyu to the Friendship Store to buy a Walkman and a camera.

For Guan Xiaoyu, buying a Walkman is just a side item, and choosing a good camera is the key. When it comes to photography and taking pictures, this girl has a passion that is difficult for ordinary people to match.

In her previous life, when she was quite old, it did not prevent her from buying the latest digital products, nor did it prevent her from wandering around with her SLR camera. She lived a very carefree life.

Chen Fan thought this was a good idea.

As for life, just go in the direction you like. There is no need to do anything in a certain way. It's not like you can go down in history just by working hard.

Think about the young people of later generations. Their lives are so miserable. They are inexplicably burdened with a lot of responsibilities from the moment they are born, with sky-high prices for houses, cars, betrothal gifts... and a group of people urging them to get married.

The most amazing thing is this sentence: If you don’t get married, no one will know when you die.

As if it were an honor to be known after one's death.

Does the deceased have this request?
If there really is a soul after death, the ones who will probably say: Damn it!
After choosing a camera for Guan Xiaoyu, he let her do it alone after returning home. Chen Fan took his wife to Yaer Hutong to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Well, the number was doubled!
Chen Fan felt very comfortable at his father-in-law's house. Both the Xu family and the Zeng family were very satisfied with him as their son-in-law, and his two mothers-in-law also treated him very well.

The only one who had a problem with him was Zeng Tuqiang.

The psychological shadow is too big!

After being teased by Chen Fan last time, Zeng Tuqiang still doubts whether he is his parents' biological son. Even though his parents, eldest sister and second sister have explained it to him, there is still a thorn in his heart.

In other words, the mainland does not have the technology for paternity testing yet, otherwise Zeng Tuqiang would definitely insist on doing a paternity test, otherwise he would not be able to get over the hurdle in his heart.

Seeing that his younger brother still wanted to provoke his brother-in-law, Zeng Ajing kicked the kid away. He kept fighting after repeated failures, and no one knew who gave him the courage.

But my brother-in-law is so mean!

She had never seen a grown man who could feel a sense of accomplishment from bullying a child. Her stupid brother was completely ruined by him.

Although the brother-in-law was a bit mean, he was still very capable of solving problems: "Brother-in-law, let me ask you a question. How can you deal with your family's pressure to get married?" Chen Fan was surprised: "How old are you?"

"Twenty now. When my sister was twenty, her family also urged her to get married, but in the end you got the advantage."

“……”My sister-in-law is not good at speaking.

Chen Fan rolled his eyes at her: "There are so many boys in school, and many of them are chasing you, but you don't like any of them? Your standards are too high, aren't they?"

"I earn my money and spend it myself, why should I find someone to spend my money?"

“…” Chen Fan was speechless.

After thinking for a while, he teased, "If our mother urges you again, just tell her that you plan to wait until you are 55 and then find a 60-year-old man to marry. Once you get married, both of you will have pensions, so there will be no problem of who spends whose money."

"Get out!" Zeng Ajing rolled her eyes at him.

"Okay!" Chen Fan turned and left.

What does it have to do with me if my sister-in-law is urged to get married? I should not interfere in this matter. If I interfere, I will be against my mother-in-law. I still want to eat the food cooked by my mother-in-law.

But my mother-in-law is really pushy. My sister-in-law is only 20 years old and has just reached the legal age for marriage. Is it necessary to be so anxious?

When he told Xu Jinqiu about his thoughts, Xu Jinqiu immediately looked at him with contempt: "You are already in a hurry to find a wife at the age of 18, and you still have the nerve to criticize others."

Chen Fan was stunned for a while before he said, "It was fate that brought me to the right person."

puff!

Li Xiuzhen was picking vegetables on the side and couldn't help laughing when she heard this. Her son-in-law was really good at coaxing people and her daughter was no match for him.

Just because of her smile, Xu Jinqiu blushed and went back to the house with her head down. Chen Fan hurriedly followed her. If he didn't go to comfort her now, she would be angry with him when she went back home at night.

Looking at her children playing, Li Xiuzhen smiled slightly. In two years, they would both graduate from college and it would be about time to put marriage on the agenda.

This is just a difficult thing to do.

And there is Zeng Ali.

Li Xiuzhen got a headache when she thought about it. What should she do? In the end, she could only blame her daughter for being so naughty and leaving a lot of trouble.

"Let the young people worry about it themselves!"

Sighing secretly, Li Xiuzhen got busy again. Her son-in-law was a man of ideas and abilities, so he should be able to arrange these things.

Little did he know that Chen Fan also had a headache. Every time he thought of this matter, he felt conflicted. In the end, he could only put it behind him. After all, there were still two years left.

After having dinner at his mother-in-law's house, Chen Fan took his wife home. Guan Xiaoyu was still fiddling with the camera, saying that she wanted to take a set of night scene portraits of Chen Yi and Xiaoxi.

"Take more pictures, and take one for your aunt, too."

Chen Fan was very supportive. No one knew better than him what it would feel like to look through photos of one’s youth in one’s old age.

Now that our family is not short of money, we should save more for the future.

In the past two years, the family has taken a lot of photos, but the photography skills are average. After Guan Xiaoyu came, she just happened to act as a photographer.

Guan Xiaoyu nodded, and took Chen Fan and Xu Jinqiu to take a few photos of them.

After a commotion, Chen Fan was allowed to leave.

After returning to the cross-courtyard, Chen Fan took out paper and pen. He hadn't written anything for a long time, so he had no idea what to write. He smoked three cigarettes in a row, but couldn't write a single word.

"The smell of cigarettes is so strong, how many did you smoke?"

Xu Jinqiu opened the doors and windows to let the smell out, and made a pot of tea for Chen Fan: "Anyway, there is no rush to publish it. It won't be too late to start writing when I have an idea."

Chen Fan took a sip of tea and said, "I don't know what to write about. How about you give me a suggestion?"

Xu Jinqiu rolled his eyes at him. Yesterday, when he suggested writing about the wind, this guy rolled his eyes at him. Now he had the nerve to ask for suggestions?
"If that doesn't work, just write a novel."

"I have to write a novel, but before that, I have to do something else."

As for novels, Chen Fan still sticks to the previous big IP plan, first getting some big IPs of the future, which will leave a lot of room for operation in the future.

But besides novels, I have to write something else.

Through works such as editorials, the character of "rogue intellectuals" is established, and this identity is still very useful in life.

When Zeng Ali hit Huang He with a brick, he was able to rescue him immediately. His identity as a rogue intellectual played a crucial role in this.

“There’s something I can write about!”

After thinking for a while, Chen Fan lit another cigarette and wrote a few words on the paper: What if I am a liar!
"Writing about a liar?" Xu Jinqiu was stunned.

"Well, just write liar!" Chen Fan raised the corner of his mouth, picked up the pen and continued writing.

PS: The first update is here~ there will be more later
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