Chapter 260: Advisor to Grandchildren
Leng Jiefang kept repeating the pen name Lin Weimin had given him: "Er Yue He, Er Yue He..."
The more he read it, the more he felt it had a profound meaning, as if Teacher Lin had guessed what he was thinking.
"Teacher Lin, your name is really great." Leng Jiefang said excitedly.
Lin Weimin was very happy with Leng Jiefang's reaction. It seemed that Comrade Jiefang was not so unreasonable after all!
"You don't know. My hometown is Shanxi. When I was two years old, I followed my parents across the Yellow River and headed south. After several twists and turns, we finally settled in Nanyang. The pen name Er Yue He just happens to contain the meaning of the mother river in my hometown. It's great!"
Looking at Comrade Jiefang's face full of satisfaction and honor, Lin Weimin was secretly alert. Comrade Jiefang's level of flattery was quite high!
Today, Lin Weimin went to attend a symposium on "Dream of the Red Chamber". He had originally taken a day off, but showed up at the Chinese Literature Society in the afternoon.
"Weimin, why are you back at work?" Qin Chaoyang asked in surprise when he saw Lin Weimin in the corridor.
"Something happened."
"What's up?"
Lin Weimin pulled Qin Chaoyang into the office and took out a stack of manuscript paper. "Look at this!"
Qin Chaoyang took the manuscript paper. What good manuscript has he received again?
He sat back in his chair and began to flip through the manuscript.
After reading the first 20,000 to 30,000 words, Qin Chaoyang turned to the last few pages of the manuscript and asked, "Is this novel not finished?"
"Um!"
Lin Weimin nodded and recounted his encounter with Leng Jiefang after the meeting today.
"So, now everyone has been arranged to stay in the guesthouse?"
"Um."
“You want to publish this novel?”
"Um?"
"Keep him locked up in the dark room? Don't let him out until he finishes writing?"
Lin Weimin looked embarrassed, "Leader, who do you think I am?"
"Do you dare to say that you don't think so?" Comrade Lao Tan didn't care about his colleague's face at all.
Lin Weimin was furious. "I...I am doing this for the good of our publication!"
I originally wanted to turn my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon only shines on the ditch!
Teacher Lin sighed to the sky!
"Alright, alright!" Qin Chaoyang comforted him, "I know you love your job, work hard, and serve the public wholeheartedly!"
"Look at how reluctant you are. If you don't want to be praised, don't praise me!"
Qin Chaoyang glared at him, "What a character!"
Lin Weimin said seriously, "Is there anything wrong with this novel? I promised to publish it!"
Qin Chaoyang said helplessly: "Can you speak your big words later? Why do you always do things like acting first and reporting later?"
Lin Weimin's boldness makes Lao Tan love and hate him.
What I love is his decisiveness and boldness, which brings high-quality manuscripts to "Contemporary" time and time again. What I hate is that he has no organizational discipline and does not care about the overall work of the editorial department at all.
"Time is running out! If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again. What do you think of the quality of this manuscript?"
Lin Weimin didn't care about Lao Tan's nagging at all. He knew that as long as he brought in decent manuscripts, Lao Tan would be very tolerant of him.
Qin Chaoyang's eyes flickered across the manuscript paper. "Well, if you keep this level, you can try to publish it."
"What do you mean by trying to publish? Yao Xueying's Li Zicheng won the Yanbing Literature Award."
"Just because I write a historical novel, I should win the Yanbing Literature Award?"
"That's not what I meant. I think this novel has the potential to become a work like Li Zicheng."
Qin Chaoyang pondered and said, "At present, it's still not quite there. I just don't know what it will be like when it's finished."
He flipped through the manuscript again and asked, "How long do you plan to write?"
"There are four volumes, and this is only the first one."
Qin Chaoyang looked at Lin Weimin in surprise, "Then there must be at least a million words, right?"
"It's hard to say. Looking at the previous contents, this volume alone must have at least 300,000 or 400,000 words. If all four volumes are completed, it will take more than a million words."
“It is worth cultivating such ambition and writing skills!”
A novel of one million words is not something that an average writer can handle.
Lin Weimin was slightly pleased with himself, "Otherwise I could bring the person back!"
"Okay, let him stay upstairs and write for now."
"Okay!"
The next morning, Lin Weimin just entered the office.
Liu Yin asked with a gossipy look on his face, "Weimin, I heard that you picked up an author on the street yesterday?"
Um?
Old Tan!
Ignoring Lin Weimin's explanation, colleagues gathered together to gossip.
Why does the matter of compiling manuscripts become so strange when it comes to Lin Weimin?
"Hey, Weimin!" Yao Shuzhi called Lin Weimin.
"what?"
Yao Shuzhi threw a newspaper over. It was today's "Yenching Daily".
The headline of the article in the newspaper read: "Advisory Committee for the TV Series "Dream of Red Mansions" Established."
The article is not long, about a thousand words.
The last paragraph mentioned the list of the "Dream of Red Mansions" Advisory Committee. Among the names of the bigwigs, the three words "Lin Weimin" were particularly eye-catching and ranked last on the list of the Advisory Committee.
"That's great! Now he has become a consultant for Dream of the Red Chamber!" Yao Shuzhi said with a look of amazement.
Lin Weimin had not revealed to anyone around him that he was invited to become a member of the Advisory Committee for Dream of the Red Chamber. It was suddenly revealed in the news today, and his colleagues and friends were naturally surprised.
Liu Yin and others who were chatting over there noticed that Yao Shuzhi was chatting with Lin Weimin and asked, "What are you two talking about?"
Yao Shuzhi waved the newspaper in her hand and said, "Stop talking about your trivial matters and see what big thing our editor-in-chief Lin has done quietly!"
Everyone looked confused. From what Yao Shuzhi said, they wondered what big thing Lin Weimin had done again?
When they saw the contents of the newspaper in Yao Shuzhi's hand, everyone's faces were filled with surprise.
"Weimin, is this you?" He Qizhi said, pointing to the name in the last row.
Lin Weimin shrugged, "Yeah."
Zhu Changsheng followed up with, "How can you be on the advisory committee?"
"Why can't I be on the advisory committee?"
Liu Yin said: "Look at the names in front of you, how can you get in?"
"This is called looking down on others!" Lin Weimin cursed viciously.
The crowd was not angry, but continued to mock: "Everyone has to look down on you, don't you see who is in front of you!"
Everyone was discussing the matter and all agreed that the credibility of the advisory committee list had been greatly reduced because of the bad apple Lin Weimin.
"Okay, okay, I admit it. I just sneaked in. It's because I have a good teacher!"
Lin Weimin had no choice but to put on a carefree attitude, which made everyone hate him to death!
The idle chat in the office did not cause any waves, but the news reported by the Yanjing Daily today did attract the attention of many people.
The news that "Dream of Red Mansions" will be adapted into a TV series has been circulating for several years. There have been reports of this happening sporadically since the year before last, and this year the news has been particularly frequent, one after another.
Both the common people and the cultural circles know that the release date of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" is getting closer, so they are naturally more concerned about it.
Because the filming of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" requires the establishment of an expert advisory group, they have invited well-known experts in the domestic cultural field, and everyone is happy to see it happen.
Ordinary people are not actually familiar with most experts and they only believe in media reports.
The newspaper said that the people invited were all top experts, so they are top experts.
It is true that Lin Weimin's works have become increasingly popular over the past few years, with sales of his published works easily reaching millions of copies. However, compared with China's population of over one billion, even if this number is multiplied tenfold, it seems insignificant.
There are many literature lovers, but there are even more ordinary people.
Lin Weimin's name is well-known among literature lovers across the country, but he is still not well-known enough among ordinary people who are more concerned about the daily necessities of life.
Many people's first reaction when seeing Lin Weimin's name is still unfamiliarity. Only when they ask the literature lovers around them do they know that he is actually a writer.
When I got to know her more closely, I was even more surprised to find out that she was still so young.
Compared with other experts on the advisory committee, Lin Weimin is so young that he could almost be their grandson.
Lin Weimin's name once again appeared on a large scale in front of ordinary people across the country.
The last time it had this level of exposure was when "The Cliff" was popular, with that small line of text in the opening of the TV series.
Two days later, the editorial department of Contemporary received a call.
It is said that the Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Yenching, Tianjin and Hebei jointly held an "Urban Literature Theory Symposium" in Beidaihe and invited Lin Weimin to attend the meeting.
Lin Weimin scratched his head while holding the phone.
Urban literary theory?
What is this?
After asking a few questions carefully, I found out that this is a new concept.
The call to invite Lin Weimin was not without purpose, but rather an attempt to bring Lin Weimin's work "If You Are the One" to the symposium for discussion as a typical representative of "urban literature" in order to explore the concept, scope and characteristics of "urban literature".
"If You Are the One" is not very popular or influential among Lin Weimin's works. Even its sales after publication are at the bottom of the list. Novels of this type have certain audience limitations in the domestic novel market.
Lin Weimin was very surprised to receive the invitation this time, but he still politely declined the Federation of Literary and Art Circles' kindness.
A trip to Beidaihe will take at least a few days, so you might as well take a few days off if you have that time.
Since becoming famous, Lin Weimin has received invitations to various activities such as writing clubs, seminars, creation meetings, training sessions, etc. almost every few days, and sometimes even every day.
Lin Weimin rejected all these activities without exception.
As an organizer, he organizes these activities entirely out of public interest considerations.
But for him, such activities are too time-consuming and energy-consuming.
Compared to this kind of activity, he prefers gatherings with three or five good friends.
The next day, Lin Weimin went to CCTV.
This time it is not about "Dream of Red Mansions". At present, the screenwriter team of "Dream of Red Mansions" is rushing to write the script, and the script is also being intensively prepared for filming and selecting actors.
He came this time for the TV series "Lost".
Compared with the grand TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", the work of the "Undercover" crew seems much more low-key, somewhat like being unloved by either grandma or uncle.
This is indeed the case. For the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", CCTV spent 5 million yuan. In the Chinese television industry of that era, this was a record-breaking number.
In the next few years, this figure will rise to 6.8 million yuan due to various unexpected situations after the filming, making "Dream of Red Mansions" the most expensive TV series of this era.
As for "The Disguiser", even though station director Wang Feng personally recruited director Ren Hao, obtained Lin Weimin's adaptation authorization, and invited veteran screenwriter Tang Peilin, the total investment was only a mere 300,000 yuan.
Compared with "Dream of Red Mansions", the difference is like heaven and earth.
Even compared with other TV series invested by CCTV, it is not outstanding.
The reason is that the scenes involved in "Insidious" are too small, and even the protagonist's costumes are more than one level lower than those in "The Cliff".
There is really no place to spend money!
I met several behind-the-scenes creators of the crew at the radio compound and the communication went smoothly.
Screenwriter Tang Peilin devoted a full six months to the script of "The Disguiser", and the effect of the script was in line with what Lin Weimin expected.
After the script was finalized, Ren Hao and Lin Weimin discussed the actors.
During the time when Tang Peilin was writing the script, the crew of "The Hidden" was also busy. All the preliminary preparations had been completed, except for the final confirmation of the cast list.
This time, Ren Hao chose Li Zhiyu and Siqin Gaowa as the male and female protagonists.
Lin Weimin is quite familiar with the actor Li Zhiyu, having seen his performances in "The Smile of the Troubled Man" and "Night Rain in Bashan".
He has an elegant temperament and is very suitable for playing the role of literati and intellectuals.
What impressed Lin Weimin the most was the role of Qiu Shi in "Night Rain in Bashan Mountains". Many close-ups and close-ups delicately portrayed the character's complex inner world, enriching the role he played with a deep and restrained quality, which showed his great skill.
Putting aside the preconceived impression of the small-eyed version of Yu Zecheng before the time travel, Li Zhiyu is still quite consistent with the image of Yu Zecheng in the novel "The Disguiser". His only shortcoming is that he is older.
However, the advantage for male actors is that age does not have much impact on their image on the screen.
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