1980 My literary era

In autumn, the weather changes drastically. After mid-October, the temperature in Yanjing City gradually drops, and I can no longer wear even single clothes.

Early that morning, the northwest wind was blowing fiercely. Lin Weimin felt cold when he got up, so he changed into thick clothes.

Knocking on the door of Han Zhuangzhuang's house, "Why aren't you up yet?"

Han Zhuangzhuang opened his eyes, "Uncle, please let me sleep for a while, I'm so tired!"

"Why are you tired? It's hard to take a day off, so hurry up and work with me!"

Lin Weimin will take Han Zhuangzhuang to do two major things today. One is to buy the vegetables for the winter, and the other is to get the coal for the winter.

After buying vegetables first and then coal, Lin Weimin went to borrow a cart from his neighbor. If he didn't use his cart in vain, he would have to spare some cabbage for others later.

Winter is coming soon, and you can always see farmers from the suburbs pulling carts of cabbage and green onions to sell across two roads in Yanjing City.

Farmers going to cities to sell vegetables is not considered speculative and has been allowed to do so long ago.

Lin Weimin bought eight or nine hundred kilograms of cabbage and green onions at the beginning, and wrapped up all the leftover vegetables from the vegetable farmer. There were several uncles and aunties around who were also preparing to buy vegetables. Seeing this, he asked Lin Weimin: "How many people do you have at home, young man?" People? Can you finish all the food you bought? Don’t put them away!”

Lin Weimin glanced at Han Zhuangzhuang and smiled at Auntie: "Auntie, I'm sorry, our family has a large population, so we will definitely have enough to eat. Otherwise, why don't you guys go look elsewhere?"

He greeted Han Zhuangzhuang to carry all the dishes into the car. When he came, Lin Weimin was riding the tricycle. This time it was Han Zhuangzhuang's turn.

He tried his best to pedal slowly and leisurely, not forgetting to urge Lin Weimin, "Uncle, you should push harder!"

"You just need to work harder, why don't I feel like you're not working hard at all?" Lin Weimin said, putting his hands on the car.

Han Zhuangzhuang guessed that Lin Weimin must be lazy again, and couldn't help complaining: "You're a tired silly boy!"

Lin Weimin had a sharp ear and eyesight, how could he not hear his complaints, and cursed: "If it weren't for you, a foodie, would there be any need to stock up on so many vegetables at home?"

Han Zhuangzhuang didn't dare to speak anymore. He was living under someone else's roof!

It took a lot of effort to ride the tricycle home and unload the cabbage.

Han Zhuangzhuang had just rested for a few minutes, and Lin Weimin said again: "Don't rest anymore, hurry up and finish the dishes."

Han Zhuangzhuang took a few breaths and stood up resignedly, "I'm more tired after weekends than at work."

The two rode a tricycle to deliver the remaining cabbage and green onions to the courtyard at No. 26 Yonghegong Street.

"Tiesheng! Tiesheng!"

Lin Weimin greeted Shi Tiesheng at the entrance of the hospital. Shi Lan ran out first. When she saw Lin Weimin, she said happily: "Brother Lin, you are here!"

"Shi Lan, come here and help unload the dishes."

Lin Weimin arranged for Shi Lan and Han Zhuangzhuang to move the vegetables together.

The Shi family lives in a large courtyard. To transport vegetables back and forth, they have to walk a path of tens of meters in the courtyard. It took a lot of effort than Lin Weimin to transport vegetables to his own family. Fortunately, there are more people and more strength.

Father Shi pushed Shi Tiesheng out of the door and wanted to help, but Lin Weimin stopped him, "Uncle, just rest. We young people will do this work."

After working for more than ten minutes and unloading all the dishes, Shi Tiesheng said with gratitude: "For the people, I let you spend money again!"

"Don't be so polite. Our family also needs to stock up on some food if it catches up. This cabbage isn't worth much."

Chinese cabbage is indeed not valuable, but it is a vegetable that the people of Yanjing cannot live without during the winter. As the old saying goes, cabbage and tofu ensure safety.

What's more, the Shi family is old, young and disabled. Lin Weimin thought of this kind of heavy work and must help.

After resting for a while at Shi Tiesheng's house and drinking some water, Lin Weimin wanted to say goodbye.

Father Shi asked him to stay for lunch, and Lin Weimin said: "No, uncle, I have to go get coal in the afternoon. I just have some time today to get all the winter stuff for him."

After bidding farewell to Shi Tiesheng's family, Lin Weimin went to the sales department of the coal yard.

In the lives of ordinary people in Yanjing City, coal is the first of the seven things that open the door to "firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea". Without coal in the winter, nothing can be done.

However, the use of coal in Yanjing City has been a constant problem for nearly a century. Even in the 1980s, the coal supply for residents in Yanjing was still very tight.

In order to facilitate transportation and sales, almost every street office in Yanjing has a coal factory, and each coal factory has three to five sales departments.

A sales department corresponds to households within one to two kilometers of the surrounding area. Residents purchase coal at designated points, and each household has a coal book.

At its peak, there were thousands of coal yard sales offices throughout Yanjing City.

Ordinary people buy coal to make briquettes. They buy briquettes directly. The supply is rationed every month. If you have more, they won’t sell it to you.

For example, briquettes are priced at 120 yuan per household per month in the summer, but double to 240 yuan in the winter.

The sales department has special coal transporters and coal transport trucks, but Lin Weimin doesn't intend to wait for that.

Due to limited inventory in the sales department, in many cases the peak coal production in winter cannot keep up. The coal truck might run out of coal at some point, and there would be no place to cry, so it would be safer to stock up on coal in advance.

It was three or four o'clock in the afternoon after we finished transporting coal from the sales department. A busy day was finally over.

Han Zhuangzhuang looked at the briquettes piled in a separate empty room and asked, "Uncle, are these coals enough?"

"Of course it's not enough. But in the next few days, our club and Renyi will be able to give me some coal stamps. If I can't afford it, I'll have to spend money to change it for others. That's how I dealt with your uncle last year."

"That's right. I have one this year too, and the two of us have a lot together."

Lin Weimin said: "This coal is enough for two months."

Han Zhuangzhuang couldn't help but sigh. He used to feel spacious and comfortable living in his uncle's yard, but now he realized that living in such a big house requires a lot of expenses!

The old uncle is right. If you don’t have enough coal books and coal coupons, you have to spend money to buy it. When I think of my current salary of dozens of yuan, if I hadn’t eaten and drank at the old uncle’s house, I really don’t know what I would have done here. What kind of life does Yanjing live?

Thinking of these, Han Zhuangzhuang was filled with sadness. I am indeed mature and can think of these things.

Two days later, Lin Weimin came to Renyi.

Today, Ouyang Shanzun specially asked Han Zhuangzhuang to call him, saying that he wanted to check and accept the results of the actors' training during this period.

Entering the rehearsal venue, the actors had already changed into the costumes in the play. Some were singing on the stage, while others were moving their muscles. The whole stage seemed a bit chaotic.

Listening to the babbling singing, Lin Weimin smiled and said to Ouyang Shanzun: "It looks pretty good. It has a good look."

"It's okay, these nearly two months were not in vain."

When everyone was almost ready, Ouyang Shanzun asked these people to start performing one by one.

Of course, what they were most concerned about was the acting skills of the main actors. Lin Weimin didn't care much about the performance of others. Even if the actor Han Zhuangzhuang performed a piece of singing, chanting, and fighting, he didn't express anything.

It wasn't until the absolute protagonist of the play, the character Cheng Dieyi, appeared that Lin Weimin paid attention to it.

Yang Lixin's appearance is good enough, but his temperament is on the tough side. Lin Weimin had always doubted whether he could portray the "charming" characteristic of Cheng Dieyi.

Until now, Yang Lixin was standing on the stage, smiling like a girl, with a delicate air in her movements. Lin Weimin nodded. With these movements and expression, he was at least seventy percent as charming as Cheng Dieyi.

It reached the passing mark in Lin Weimin's heart, and even exceeded it.

Seeing Lin Weimin nodding, Yang Lixin on the stage seemed relieved.

After his performance, there was Chen Xiaoer, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Lin Weimin wanted to play the role of Fourth Master Yuan. He was a fan of Peking Opera. He had a few Peking Opera lines in the play. He fell in love with Cheng Dieyi because of the play. To be precise, he felt blasphemous.

Chen Xiaoer's performance was very good and he seemed to have put in a lot of effort.

He is an actor from the Bayi Film Studio, and he came to Renyi to act purely because of his own drama dream. Every time I go to the Peking Opera Theater for training, I take the time to go there. I don’t have as much time as actors like Renyi, but in terms of effect, I am not inferior to others.

Ouyang Shanzun whispered during Chen Xiaoer's performance: "Xiao Chen is a talented and hard-working actor!"

This is the greatest compliment a director can give an actor.

After watching everyone's performance, Ouyang Shanzun said: "Let's take a look at the Peking Opera costumes. It will definitely surprise you!"

When it comes to Peking Opera costumes, we naturally refer to the two characters Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou.

Renyi specially invited teachers from the Peking Opera Theater to provide guidance on their makeup.

After waiting under the stage for more than half an hour, Lin Weimin finally saw the true faces of "Cheng Dieyi" and "Duan Xiaolou" in Lushan.

Compared with the infinite magnification of movies, the actors' personal images are far less prominent on the drama stage. Lin Weimin looked at each other for a long time and found that at least from the perspective of the audience, there was no sense of violation in the appearance of the two people. of.

"I'm relieved now." Lin Weimin said.

Although he had already let go of Ouyang Shanzun before, Lin Weimin still felt a lot more at ease after seeing the appearance of the two absolute protagonists with his own eyes.

But thinking of the previous wait, Lin Weimin asked again: "What will happen to the makeup of these two actors when it comes to the performance?"

"We plan to try it out with props, and the team is still preparing."

Lin Weimin was completely relieved now, "Thank you for your hard work, teachers."

Ouyang Shanzun smiled and said: "This is all within one's duties."

The actors' training was originally scheduled for three months, but now that there are phased results, Renyi plans to let the crew rehearse first, and then conduct a short-term training before the performance in the future to consolidate the effect.

"In the next period of time, I have to trouble you, Teacher Lin."

"It's all as it should be."

The rehearsal of a play must first determine the candidates for each role, and gather the actors with roles to review the script.

Then proceed to plain rehearsal, first go through the whole play as a whole, then carefully train the important scenes, add music, props, and costumes for continuous synthesis rehearsal.

Final rehearsal, final revisions and improvements to the dialogue play.

During this period, screenwriter Lin Weimin needs to participate in the entire process, as was the case with the previous "Untouchable".

Fortunately, with Lan Yinhai, a veteran screenwriter in the entertainment industry, Lin Weimin does not need to follow every rehearsal, which reduces his workload a lot.

After watching the performances of the actors, the crew's work is over for today.

Lin Weimin didn't shy away from calling Han Zhuangzhuang home. Now everyone in Renyi knows about his kinship with Han Zhuangzhuang.

Chen Xiaoer came over and asked, "For the people, do you have time to have a meal?"

"Are you treating me to a treat?" Lin Weimin asked.

Chen Xiaoer stuttered, "What I meant was to find a place to sit!"

"I've never seen anyone stingier than you."

In fact, Lin Weimin lied about this. The bad friends around him were more stingy than the others. At least Zheng Guo was more stingy than Chen Xiaoer. Chen Xiaoer had treated Lin Weimin to a meal, but Zheng Guo had never treated him once.

This guy has not even fulfilled the Quanjude meal he promised him. If it weren't for the sake of Qu Xiaowei's "Picture of Grazing in the Autumn Suburbs", I would really want to break up with this guy!

"I don't call it stinging, I call it thrift. Even if I tell you, you won't understand."

The two of them pushed the bicycle out and chatted while walking. Chen Xiaoer said, "I heard that "Cliff" is going to be made into a TV series?"

"Where did you hear this news?"

Lin Weimin was puzzled. He and Chen Xiaoer didn't meet much. Where did this guy get all this news?

In fact, Lin Weimin underestimated himself. He was also a newly popular writer in China. Everyone was in the cultural circle. It would not be difficult to find a few more people to get this information.

"You want a role again?"

Chen Xiaoer did not answer his question, but instead complained: "Oh, you don't know my difficulties, brother! With my appearance, I have been working in the factory for seven or eight years, and it was not easy for me to play two famous and famous characters. The character with the last name..."

"Definitely! Stop doing this with me."

Lin Weimin impatiently exposed his trick. This kid participated in "Looking at the Family" last year and "Inside and Out of the Court" this year. Both films won the Excellent Film Award from the Ministry of Culture.

With such qualifications, Chen Xiaoer has become somewhat famous.

Chen Xiaoer shook his head and said: "Brother, you think too highly of me, my brother. Let me ask you one thing, if I have acting, can I have time to do art?"

this……

Lin Weimin really couldn't argue. When Chen Xiaoer saw this, he immediately said: "What kind of work do you think I do at Bayi Factory? Pull up the curtain, set up the lights, and play a small role when there is a role. I have the opportunity to make movies every year." There are only so many handsome men and beautiful women, and there are many crooked men like me. There are just a few roles where we all compete..."

"Tang Guoqiang, the man in our factory, started playing the leading male role at the age of 23. He has never played a role other than the leading male role in a movie. Look at me..."

The more Chen Xiaoer talked, the more miserable he became, and he just had to squeeze out a few tears to express his emotions.

He knew that this guy was pretending to be miserable, but just seeing him performing so hard, Lin Weimin was embarrassed to interrupt him.

He had no choice but to say: ""The Cliff" is a drama produced by Qindao TV Station, and it was filmed in Harbin, so you can't go."

Chen Xiaoer immediately said: "Do you think I really want to act in "Cliff"? I'm just asking, don't forget to agree to my role."

"Okay, okay, I got it. I'll definitely write it to you when I get the chance."

"Good brother! I will introduce my sister to you later."

Lin Weimin fantasized about Chen Xiaoer's face being placed on his sister's face, and his whole body trembled.

Forget it, otherwise I’d better not write this character.