Chapter 376 The impact is too great, need to slow down
Zhang Yimou received Mo Yan's script, and Lin Weimin brought them together for cooperation, which was half successful.
The next part is about how Zhang Yimou told the leaders of the studio. He is still helping out on the set of "The Female Doctor" and will have to wait until he returns to the Guangxi Film Studio to get any news.
It was impossible for Lin Weimin to directly ask him to contact Wu Tianming to let Xi'an Film Studio invest in this film. Wu Tianming is from Guangxi Film Studio, and it would be unreasonable for him to become a director and make a movie without applying to the studio first.
Let Mo Yan and Zhang Yimou chat about "Red Sorghum" in the room. Lin Weimin went to the next room and chatted with Xiao Sheng for a while. It was almost nine o'clock when he sent Mo Yan back to the Military Art Academy and then went home.
The next morning, Lin Weimin ran to the telephone office. He had something important to do that day.
Request a phone installation.
The phone at the Yanjing Hotel cost several hundred dollars, which made Lin Weimin finally remember that he should install a phone at home.
Since the second half of 1982, Yanjing City has had a pilot project for installing private telephones.
The first small exchange was put into use in the very ordinary Nongfengli community. In the following two years, more than 50 "ordinary" cadres and workers' families in Nongfengli community installed telephones. The cost was not expensive, only more than 200 yuan to install a phone.
After two years of promotion, Yanjing began to install private telephones. The first person to install a private telephone in Yanjing was Zhao Mingcai, a famous mushroom grower in the suburbs of Beijing. The price he paid to install the telephone was not expensive, only 2,000 yuan.
Lin Weimin had always used the company phone and couldn't remember anything about the phone.
Yesterday’s “telephone assassin” gave Lin Weimin a reminder.
In the past two years, Yanjing has been installing switches. With this thing, you can make long-distance calls at home. The trouble is still the same, but one advantage is that making local calls only costs a monthly fee of 20 yuan.
Long-distance and international calls are charged separately and are not cheap either, but at least they are convenient, right?
After arriving at the telephone office and filling out an application form, Lin Weimin asked the salesperson for another form.
"What do you want two lists for?"
"I'll install two."
The salesperson looked at Lin Weimin in surprise before handing him the forms. After filling out two forms and paying four thousand yuan, the salesperson wrote down two phone numbers on the receipt.
The salesperson told Lin Weimin to wait at home tomorrow, and the telephone company staff would come to his home to inspect it first. If the conditions for installation were met, it would be installed on the same day.
After returning to the Chinese Literature Society and working a day, he said hello to Qin Chaoyang in the evening and said he would take a leave for the next day.
"What's up?"
"I'll install a telephone at home."
Qin Chaoyang joked, "Sure, you've installed a phone? How much did it cost?"
"2,000 yuan."
Qin Chaoyang frowned and asked, "It's not that expensive, right?"
Although Qin Chaoyang's family did not have a telephone installed, he knew the price for cadres to install one.
"I'm just an ordinary citizen, isn't this the price for installing a telephone?" Lin Weimin joked.
In recent years, in order to install telephones, many comrades have used their positions to submit reports to the telephone company to apply for installation of telephones, and the telephone company generally gives them face.
Qin Chaoyang smiled and shook his head. Given Lin Weimin's conditions, he would definitely not want to take advantage of this, but Qin Chaoyang felt that this was more of a sign of being noble.
"Don't keep talking nonsense." He warned.
Lin Weimin knew that what he said was offensive, and understood Qin Chaoyang's good intentions, so he smiled and nodded.
The next day, Lin Weimin and others were at home.
Due to price limitations, the private telephone installation business of Yanjing Telephone Bureau was not very large.
The staff came to the door quickly, and after a day of hard work, they finally installed telephones in both the Shichahai Courtyard and the Tuanjiehu Apartment.
That night, Tao Huimin came back from the crew and excitedly dialed the public phone at home. After waiting for more than ten minutes, the phone rang again.
Tao Huimin picked up the phone and heard her mother's worried voice on the other end.
"Hui Min, why did you call home right after arriving in Yanjing? Did something happen?"
"Nothing. I just missed you guys and called to ask what you and my dad were doing."
"You stupid girl! Do you know how expensive a phone call is? Why are you calling for no reason? I'm hanging up!"
Tao's mother cursed a few words and hung up the phone.
Tao Huimin also hung up the phone happily.
“It’s so convenient to have a phone!”
The weekend after the Lantern Festival was already March in the Gregorian calendar, and winter in Yanjing was slowly leaving.
Maybe it’s because the Chinese New Year just passed, everything looks new and festive.
New taxis, new buildings, clean streets, bright clothes, and various billboards. The ancient and old-fashioned imperial capital is regaining vitality.
It was a rare weekend, as Tao Huimin still had to film a play and Lin Weimin had to go to the People's Art Theatre to watch a play in the afternoon. He was only free in the morning, so he drove around the streets of Yanjing.
There are more and more tower cranes on both sides of the streets, apartments, hotels, office buildings, overpasses...Yanjing is gradually becoming a large construction site.
While driving, Lin Weimin curiously counted the tower cranes he passed by and found that there were as many as sixty of them. Yanjing was increasingly resembling the infrastructure maniac of later generations.
After walking around the street for a while, I felt a little bored, so I stopped the car at the entrance of the alley at No. 26 Lama Temple Street.
"Tiesheng! Tiesheng!"
Lin Weimin shouted Shi Tiesheng's name before he even entered the yard, but he didn't shout out Shi Tiesheng, but Shi's father.
"We have guests at home!"
"Then I'll come back another day?" Lin Weimin said politely, but he had no intention of stopping.
After entering the room, Shi Tiesheng joked, "I heard you say you were leaving from inside the room, why did you come in?"
"I'm just worried that you might not be energetic enough to entertain the guests, so I'm doing this for you!"
As Lin Weimin was speaking, he looked at a middle-aged man and woman in the room, who were obviously a couple.
Shi Tiesheng introduced: "This is Liu Qingbang, and this is his wife Yao Weiping."
"Hello, both of you!"
Lin Weimin politely shook hands and greeted Liu Liuqingbang and his wife.
After the greetings, Shi Tiesheng talked about the purpose of Liu Qingbang and his wife's visit. They actually came to give Huang Anyi a sweater.
"to whom?"
“Give it to me!”
Lin Weimin was unhappy, "Why is it only given to you?"
"Then who should I give it to?" Shi Tiesheng had a faint smile on his face.
Lin Weimin muttered, "An Yi is so mean. We are old classmates after all. Why is she only thinking about you and not me?"
Previously, Liu Qingbang wrote a novel at the invitation of Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. Because he was afraid that the manuscript would be lost during mailing, he asked his wife Yao Weiping to go to Shanghai to deliver the manuscript.
Huang Anyi knew Liu Qingbang before. Through Yao Yuming, the editor of Shanghai Literature, she learned that his wife Yao Weiping had come to Shanghai, so she let Yao Weiping live in her house.
"An Yi said that everyone was not rich and they should save as much as they could, so Wei Ping stayed in their home. At that time, she was knitting sweaters, and Wei Ping also loved knitting sweaters.
When the two chatted, An Yi said that this sweater was knitted for Tie Sheng. She said that when she and Tie Sheng visited Hong Kong last year, she saw that the camel-colored plain sweater Tie Sheng was wearing was very old, and it looked small and thin on him..."
When Liu Qingbang said this, Lin Weimin looked at Shi Tiesheng, who happened to be wearing the same camel-colored sweater today.
In my memory, Shi Tiesheng only had one or two sweaters that he kept changing, and I really didn't notice it before.
Lin Weimin couldn't help but sigh that women are more meticulous.
He touched the sweater that Liu Qingbang brought. It was a dark green sweater made of pure wool yarn and was very beautiful.
"An Yi's craftsmanship is pretty good!"
Yao Weiping said: "An Yi has been knitting for almost a whole winter. She knits slowly and she said it's a bit late to send it now."
Shi Tiesheng joked, "How can it be late? Not at all. She is helping me in my time of need! She is such a great writer, and she knitted a sweater for me. How can I deserve it? I think I can't wear this sweater. I should embroider a few words knitted by Huang Anyi on it and send it to the museum."
His tone was relaxed, but his eyes were filled with emotion and excitement. He was always accustomed to hiding the turbulent waves in his heart under a nonchalant appearance, and he expressed his gratitude in a joking tone and humor.
Lin Weimin teased again, "An Yi knitted a sweater for you, wouldn't Comrade Ximi be jealous?"
Being teased by Lin Weimin in front of strangers, Shi Tiesheng blushed and replied: "Comrade Ximi is different from you. You won't find fault with others when you haven't done your own thing."
"You are just being ungrateful. I will write a letter to An Yi to reprimand her later!"
The two of them exchanged a few words, then started chatting with Liu Qingbang and his wife, as they didn't want to neglect their guests.
Liu Qingbang is now working as an editor and journalist in the Ministry of Coal. He writes novels as a hobby and has published many works, but they are not well-known.
When talking about his work in the Ministry of Coal, Lin Weimin naturally talked about Lu Yao, who is now working at Chenjiagou Coal Mine to write the second part of "Ordinary World".
The first part of "The Ordinary World" was published in the first issue of "Contemporary" this year. Although it did not receive good reviews from critics, the sales of the first issue of "Contemporary" have been getting better and better in the past two months and has not been affected by the critics at all.
It can also be seen from the feedback in readers' letters that the reputation of this novel among readers is gradually improving.
"I have worked in the Ministry of Coal since 1978, and have been exposed to a lot of news and stories reported by the lower levels. I don't agree with some things in Lu Yao's Ordinary World, but the flaws outweigh the merits. This novel is indeed very good."
When Liu Qingbang talked about "Ordinary World", his comments were impartial and mostly positive.
Shi Tiesheng asked Lin Weimin, "Lu Yao is busy writing the second part of "Ordinary World", why haven't you made any progress on your next novel?"
"Even the donkeys in the production team have to rest after a day's work! How long ago did I finish writing my last novel?"
Shi Tiesheng joked: "Who made you as fertile as a sow?"
Several people couldn't help but burst into laughter.
After the joke, Lin Weimin said seriously: "I may not be able to spare the time in the first half of the year."
"Why?" Shi Tiesheng asked.
"I'm helping the People's Art Theatre to produce a play recently, which is an adaptation of my play The Ming Dynasty 1566. After finishing this play, I plan to go to the United States."
"Going to the United States? Which organization invited you?" Shi Tiesheng asked.
In recent years, many domestic writers have been invited to travel abroad, almost all of which were sponsored by non-profit organizations.
"It's not an organization, it's Arthur Miller. Didn't he bring my movie The Intouchables to the U.S.? It's been performed in the U.S. for more than a year now, and the effect is good. He wants to continue to introduce my works and invite me to come."
Shi Tiesheng asked: "How long will it take?"
"I haven't decided yet. I'll decide after I finish the things at hand. I won't be gone for too long. I still have work to do."
After Lin Weimin finished speaking, Shi Tiesheng and Liu Qingbang both showed a bit of envy on their faces.
Due to publicity in recent years, ordinary people, the cultural community and government departments have all had a very favorable impression of the United States. Many media outlets are just short of portraying the United States as a paradise on earth.
Liu Qingbang and his wife were even more shocked when they heard Lin Weimin accidentally mention the box office share.
In the past two years, the news that Lin Weimin earned royalties from foreign countries has long been nothing new in Yanjing City.
But hearing him admit it in person is completely different from hearing it from others.
The impact was too great, they needed to slow down!
(End of this chapter)
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