1979 Golden Age

"Close the door!"

"Sit down and talk!"

The room was not big, with a single bed and a set of tables and chairs. Chen Qi sat on the chair with his legs crossed, holding a thermos cup in his hand, drinking hot water, and asked slowly: "Have you told others "?"

"No!"

"Then why tell me?"

"I……"

Li Lianjie felt awkward. He was a young talent and he was reluctant to admit that others were better than him, but he knew in his heart that the other person was indeed very powerful, so he always had a tough attitude towards Chen Qi.

"This matter is very complicated, let me help you sort it out."

Chen Qi smiled and said: "If your goal is to make movies, then you have two options. One is to be in the martial arts team and make movies on the side, like now; the other is to leave the martial arts team completely. What kind of career do you want to be an actor?”

"Second type!"

"Then I don't understand why you are suddenly so enthusiastic about making movies and want to sever ties with the martial arts team that gave birth to you and raised you?"

"..."

"You have to tell the truth, otherwise you can talk to someone else."

Li Lianjie hesitated for a long time, then said: "Don't look at my young age, I have won all the honors I can get. In terms of martial arts athletes, to be honest, I have nothing to pursue. If I am still in the martial arts team, it will be nothing more than Just repeat these things.

I'm 17 years old and I have to stay for at least 8 more years. I, I can't stand it. "

"So you want to go to a bigger stage?" Chen Qi said.

"Yes, I just like making movies."

“Then do you want to shoot a movie in the Mainland or in Hong Kong?

In the Mainland, you have to find a production studio. With your skills, you will definitely become a big star.

When you go to Hong Kong, you have to find a company, have suitable actors and directors, and develop your own network. We are very discriminated against there. If you are lucky, you will gain both fame and fortune; if you are unlucky, you will be finished.

The premise of all this is that the company is willing to let you go. Why do you think the sports committee will let you go? "

"This...I never thought about this."

Li Lianlian was even more depressed after hearing this. He had a lot of thoughts, but he had been trained by the system since childhood and grew up within the system, and some of his concepts were very profound. He didn't think he could live alone without the system, but he didn't know what to do.

"The Sports Commission will definitely not let him go unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless there is a unit that you can talk to and asks the sports committee for someone, you can be transferred." Chen Qi said with a smile.

Eh?

Li Lianjie didn't understand what he meant. He just thought he was referring to Beijing Film Studio. His eyes lit up, yes! Beijing Film Studio is very powerful, maybe they can transfer me there.

"I understand, I will behave well!"

Li Lianjie was happy, turned around and wanted to leave. After a pause, he came back and said, "Chen...Brother Qi! Thank you for your opinion!"

You understand daddy!

Chen Qi snorted. It was too early to talk about some things at this time, so he didn't bother to talk about them.

Historically, Li Lianlian had the idea of ​​joining the film industry after filming "Shaolin Temple", but his work unit disagreed. Logically, an athlete can only announce his retirement if he is seriously injured.

According to his own words: At that time, he thought that it would be fine if he got injured. Then during a training session, he was doing a flying movement. He got distracted and failed to follow the standards. When he landed, he heard a snap and his leg was broken.

Whether it was "self-mutilation" or not is impossible to verify.

Anyway, he was seriously injured. Three tendons were broken, his meniscus was removed, and he also received a "third-level disability certificate." Therefore, only Li Lianjie in "Shaolin Temple" is in the best condition, and the rest are semi-disabled.

Now the martial arts team can’t compete if they don’t agree.

However, the martial arts team did not release him, and sent him out as an "expatriate laborer" to a leftist company in Hong Kong. Because "Shaolin Temple" was a hit, the leftist wanted him. The condition negotiated at that time was that for every movie he made, the leftist would give the martial arts team 50,000 yuan.

The term is five years.

The resources of the leftist were not good and filming was slow, so they filmed 2-3 movies for him. As soon as the contract came, Li Lianlian finally got free, but his life was tepid. His best years were wasted. He once ran away with Huang Qiuyan. Go to the United States to open a martial arts school.

Until Tsui Hark asked him to film "Once Upon a Time", it was already 1990, and then he became famous in the 1990s and a series of things happened afterwards.

Li Lianjie wanted to go out at that time, mainly because he felt that the treatment was poor and the stage was small.

He received a subsidy of one yuan a day, while the Hong Kong extra got fifty yuan a day. The Hong Kong film company offered him 3 million to film a movie, but the martial arts team asked him not to accept it and come back to continue the competition... It's a simple comparison.

Again, these actions of his are nothing, but the worshiping and fund-raising stuff he did later are the bad ones.

Chen Qi’s arrangements for Li Lianlian were very clear:

He must be kept within the system!

No matter what the method is, his status and relationship must remain within the system, so that he cannot falter. The rest, such as works, salary, fame, etc., are really trivial matters.

…………

Using a few days at the end of the year, Chen Qi went to the south and returned to the capital immediately after finishing his work.

Gong Xue will stay for a few more days and won't return until after New Year's Day. She won't be able to go home for the Spring Festival this year. She wants to spend more time with her parents. The freedom at Beijing Film Studio is indeed much better than in the army.

He sent the script of "The Unbridled Women of the Tang Dynasty" to Li Hanxiang. Li Hanxiang didn't pick it up, but Shaw Brothers did and only gave him 15,000 Hong Kong dollars in remuneration. Chen Qi didn't take it for the time being and would pick it up when he went to Hong Kong. He happened to have it. Funded.

He took out an extra 5,000 yuan and put it in a passbook. When he returned home at the end of the year, he slapped it on the table.

"This is for you. There are 5,000 yuan in it."

"How much?!"

Yu Xiuli shook her head and said, "We don't need money on weekdays. You can keep it and save more!"

"I have saved a lot. You can keep it. Consider it my filial piety. Besides, I still need money to build a house. I will take it from here. If it is not enough, I will take more."

After hearing this, his parents accepted it.

During the New Year and other festivals, he would give some money to his parents. This was his habit in his previous life. Many people around him did the same thing. He didn't know about other places.

After his son finally came back, Yu Xiuli naturally had to cook again. Chen Jianjun chatted with him in the house. The father and son were very polite. Chen Qi did not talk about movies, but only about books, and asked: "Dad, what magazines are selling well now?"

"Literary magazines, nothing else."

"No popular magazines?"

"They are all local tabloids, not presentable, they may sell well locally, but they can't go out of the province. The only one that has gone out of the province is "Story Club", which is written by two third-rate writers who are not known where, named Aqi and Aguai.

They specialize in writing novels about fighting and killing, but the circulation is rising steadily, breaking 500,000 copies."

"Fighting and killing are really not good, too low-brow!"

Chen Qi criticized mercilessly, and said "Dad, if I want to publish a vulgar magazine, can you help me publish it?"

"..."

Chen Jianjun didn't react to this contradictory and self-defeating train of thought for a while, and said after a while: "You want to publish a magazine?"

"Next year, I will finish the things I should do, and I will take some time to publish a popular type of novels, such as martial arts, romance, detective, and thriller novels. It happens to be suitable for your work, but I am afraid that you are not fair."

"What you said is true. I can't be fair to my own son. As long as you do it, I will help you publish it at the cost of my old face!" Chen Jianjun also swallowed his own mouth.

While the father and the son were chatting, Yu Xiuli was cooking outside. It was cold, and it would be cold in a minute. I had to bring it in quickly after copying it.

She was busy inside and outside, very efficient. When she came in again, she suddenly remembered and said, "By the way, son, there is an aunt in my unit who is looking for a date for you. Do you want to see her?"

"How old is she?"

"Same age as you!"

"What about her appearance? What about her job? What about her personality? What about her salary?"

"She works in a factory. She is pretty and has a good personality. Her salary is only more than 30 yuan."

"Oh~ my dear mother!"

Chen Qi changed the dubbing tone of the aria and said, "Don't you think your son is not successful enough? Do you think I am suitable to look for such a partner? I am so sad!"

"You should speak with your tongue straight!"

Yu Xiuli thought about it and said, "That's right. You can't just find someone now. I will go back tomorrow. In the future, I will ask them to introduce less to me. My son can look for anyone?"

"That's right. It's better to find a child of a high-ranking official!" Chen Jianjun agreed.

Haha!

Chen Qi pouted. Many children of high-ranking officials were rejected.

Especially for someone as young and beautiful as myself, if I really meet a hungry and open-minded senior official sister, who would pull me to dance cheek to cheek and even warm my bed, my goodness, am I writing a poem "Tears Behind Bars" in prison?

Besides, I don't know if the children of senior officials are good-looking or not, eh? Chang'e is okay...

The family had dinner.

At night, the neighbors gathered as usual to watch the 12-inch black and white TV.

Chen Qi didn't like to go home in the first place, and he was even more disgusted by this. Considering his parents' face, he had to entertain them with a smile. Watching TV these days is very fashionable, because there are few domestic dramas, and foreign dramas are imported.

For example, "Garrison's Gorillas" was not shown before it was finished because of its violent content.

What everyone is watching now is "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic", an American science fiction drama about a guy who came to human society from the underwater world. The electronic watches and frog-eye glasses in it were all the rage.

"This drama is so beautiful. What do you think Americans think?"

"America also learned from us. Isn't it just the underwater world? The Dragon Kings of the Four Seas have existed for hundreds of years."

"Tsk! Why didn't we make one? What is it called?"

"Science fiction drama!"

"Oh, yes, science fiction drama! Xiao Chen, when will you write a science fiction drama to bring honor to us?"

"Sure, I'll write one when I have a chance!"

Chen Qi agreed readily, and everyone thought he was just being polite.

It was late at night, and the neighbors left reluctantly. He finally had some peace and quiet, lying on the small bed in the outer room. He didn't want his parents to live in the courtyard of Lechunfang, thinking that there was no private space, and planned to move his parents to a building in a few years.

The sound of the radio station came from the inner room again, counting down, and the New Year came in the blink of an eye. He sighed:

"Time is really like a wild donkey. It's only been two years in more than 140 chapters!"