1980 My literary era

"Teacher Lin!" Li Kaifu called Lin Weimin from a distance.

The motorcycle stopped next to him, and Lin Weimin smiled and said, "Are you anxious to wait?"

"No, no, I just arrived. Shall we walk?"

"Walk!"

Lin Weimin, led by Li Guangfu, only walked a dozen meters forward before he saw the house he wanted to see today.

The second courtyard next to the Forbidden City is filled with antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and the upside-down room in the small courtyard where Shichahai lives is also filled with letters from readers.

The space at home is a little tight. Teacher Lin didn't joke with Ma Dudu. He really needs to buy a few courtyard houses.

Take advantage of the fact that house prices haven’t risen yet!

He not only told Ma Dudu about buying a courtyard house, but also told Li Guangfu. He was an old landowner in Yanjing and had much wider connections than Ma Dudu, whose fathers came to Yanjing.

After waiting for a few days, Lin Weimin really waited for news about Li Guangfu.

The courtyard house we are going to see today is located on Xi'anmen Street and belongs to XC District. It is a three-entry courtyard house built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Xi'anmen Street leads from east to west, and the courtyard faces south. At first glance, you can see that the brick-carved gatehouse is extremely exquisite. On top of the gatehouse is a two-story ice plate eaves with columns and railings. The railings are carved with treasure vases, flowers and Paperback pattern, fine workmanship.

Li Guangfu pointed to a stone plaque above the arched door and introduced: "Teacher Lin, this is Shen Yinmo's handiwork."

Lin Weimin looked up at the two words on the arched door - know and live.

Lin Weimin frowned and asked, "Is there any explanation for this?"

Li Guangfu said: "The place where consciousness dwells and the place where consciousness loves is called the dwelling of consciousness."

After saying that, he chuckled and said, "Actually, I don't understand the Buddhist terminology. I asked specifically when I was looking at the house that day. I heard that a scholar who studied Buddhist knowledge originally lived here."

Lin Weimin nodded. Just because of the gatehouse and the inscription, the value of the yard must be increased by two points.

After entering the gate, there is a gate tower with a hard mountain and tiles crossing the dragon's spine on the northeast side of the gate. In front of the gate, there is a pair of exquisite stone gate piers with drums and four door hairpins on the gate.

Just looking at the way it looked when he first entered the hospital, it was quite well-preserved, and Lin Weimin secretly praised it in his heart.

The courtyard at the second entrance is very spacious. There are three main rooms with front porches on the north side, and there are two rooms and one room on each side of the north room.

There are three east and west wing rooms respectively. There is a corner veranda in front of the east wing room leading to the backyard. There are five north rooms in the last three courtyards.

"Teacher Lin, what do you think?" Li Guangfu asked.

"Very good!" Lin Weimin nodded and asked, "The heads of households really don't meet each other?"

"I've been told to sell it if you give me the right price."

It's better not to meet, it will save you trouble.

"This family is quite interesting. How can I give you a suitable price? Why don't you ask them to make a price?"

Li Guangfu smiled and said: "Teacher Lin, this kind of elegant house will definitely be more expensive. I guess that's what I mean."

Lin Weimin nodded. He agreed with Li Guangfu's words and said, "Let's do this. Send a message and ask, how about 10,000 yuan?"

Li Guangfu immediately gave Lin Weimin a thumbs up, "You are so angry!"

Ten thousand yuan to buy a three-bedroom house in Yanjing City, except for the former residence of famous celebrities, this price is unparalleled.

In Yanjing, the courtyards below the third level are usually called zhaizi, where ordinary people and wealthy people live. The ones above that are for the rich and powerful are called mansions. The top ones are the various princes' mansions and Baylor's mansion. These two categories are commonplace. You can't buy them, they are all owned by the public.

Of course, there is another level higher up, called the Forbidden City, where the emperor lived. Now that it is open, ordinary people can buy tickets and enter as they please.

It won't be until 1985 that the price of a house with a three-level courtyard will touch the edge of 10,000 yuan.

He offered this price to Li Guangfu purely because he wanted to save some trouble.

It only took one day for Li Guangfu to reply to Lin Weimin, and he agreed to sell it.

The price is not 10,000 yuan, but 9,000 yuan.

Although this price is a thousand lower than what Lin Weimin gave, it is already a good price for Sanjin Yard on the market today.

Li Guangfu helped save a thousand yuan, and Lin Weimin specially invited him to have a meal in Quanjude to express his gratitude.

Hearing that Lin Weimin planned to change the three courtyards into a place dedicated to collections, Li Guangfu was surprised and asked: "When did you start collecting?"

"It doesn't take long, just half a year."

Li Guangfu thought to himself, how many things can be collected in half a year? How about setting up a yard to collect them?

However, Lin Weimin was kind to him, and he took over the decoration task with patting his chest.

His family used to be wealthy, and he had seen people who were engaged in collecting.

If you want to dedicate a yard to store collections, it is nothing more than ensuring temperature, humidity, sealing and safety.

He was familiar with the locals and people in Yanjing, and the foreign exchange certificates in Lin Weimin's hands were hard currency, so it was not difficult to execute this matter.

"Forget the trouble of buying a house. Shichahai Na Decoration Man helped you worry a lot before. This time we are brothers and we will settle the accounts. I will give you the job of decorating the courtyard. How about it?" Lin Weimin said.

Li Guangfu hurriedly refused, "How can this happen? Teacher Lin, you have been kind to me..."

"It doesn't matter what you know but don't know. It doesn't matter. Feelings are feelings, and business is business. Cleaning up a house is a hard job, hard work and hard work. If you don't take this job, I will find someone else."

"Look, don't you treat me like an outsider?"

"I feel bad that your help is always in vain. Besides, after you finish my small courtyard, you can set up a decoration team to do some side work in the future!" Lin Weimin joked.

These days, being an actor is just an ordinary profession, and you don’t earn more than ordinary people.

In later generations, Li Guangfu did go to sea in order to make money and even opened a travel agency.

Li Guangfu only thought that it was a joke to "work as a decoration team", but seeing that Lin Weimin was serious and could not refuse, he could only agree.

Lin Weimin originally planned to give Li Guangfu the thousand yuan he saved from negotiating the house price as a reward, but he hurriedly waved his hand and refused.

"Too much! Too much!" Li Guangfu's expression was a bit panicked. One thousand yuan was enough for him to earn more than a year's salary.

After discussing for a long time, we only got two hundred yuan in wages.

The decoration standard of Lin Weimin's yard on Xi'anmen Street will definitely take longer and cost more than the other two yards. It costs 200 yuan to buy it and save worry. Lin Weimin ridiculed Li Guangfu for being too conscientious in this business. .

Li Guangfu said with a smile: "I don't feel comfortable holding these two hundred yuan. How can I ask for your money?"

"Stop saying these things. Why can't you get paid for your work? You have to change your mentality!"

After deciding on the decoration, Li Guangfu discussed with Lin Weimin the specific plan for the yard decoration.

Since antique calligraphy and paintings are to be placed in this yard, the requirements must be higher than those of ordinary yards, such as energy-saving and heat insulation of the house, air tightness of doors and windows, anti-theft measures, etc. These are directly related to the effect of long-term preservation of antique calligraphy and paintings.

Lin Weimin had a headache after chatting with him for a few words. He was really not good at this aspect.

"Well, I'll take you to meet someone tomorrow."

In the evening of the next day, Dong Lai Shun arrived.

"This is Li Guangfu, a popular actor."

"This is Ma Dudu, the editor of "Youth Literature"."

Lin Weimin briefly introduced Li Guangfu and Ma Dudu, and the two greeted them politely.

After the copper hot pot started rolling and the mutton slices were put into the pot, several people ate a plate of mutton before getting down to business.

I heard that Lin Weimin had already bought a house, and it was in Sanjin Courtyard on Xi'anmen Street.

Ma Dudu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Teacher Lin is so efficient!

"I left the matter of decorating the yard to Guangfu. I called you Dudu here today because I wanted to give everyone some advice together."

Buying a yard specifically to store antique calligraphy and paintings, and having to go to great lengths to decorate it, Ma Dudu admired Teacher Lin's spirit even more.

He and Li Guangfu both had some experience in antique calligraphy and painting, and they had a smooth conversation about the storage and preservation of these things.

After chatting for a while, Ma Dudu said: "I heard that collectors abroad build basements directly for safety reasons. Teacher Lin, don't you build one?"

Digging a basement?

This can be done, it is more secure and more concealed. Just put some worthless antique calligraphy and paintings on the surface, and lock the really valuable ones in the basement.

"Oh, then this project is huge!" Li Guangfu hesitated.

"Is it easy to spend money to solve it?" Teacher Lin asked quietly.

Li Guangfu fell silent. Is there anything in this world that money can't solve?

In the past, I only knew that Teacher Lin was rich and could buy a yard worth tens of thousands without blinking an eye. But now, I see that he is not only rich, but also arrogant.

The final plan was that the yard should be repaired and the basement should be built. Li Guangfu and Ma Dudu were responsible for implementing the specific matters.

Ma Dudu offered to help out of curiosity and wanted to gain more knowledge.

While eating, Li Guangfu made a rough calculation. If Teacher Lin's yard was completely finished, it might be more expensive than buying two more yards of this size.

Do you dare to think that decoration is more expensive than a house?

Ma Dudu felt that he might never see such a Western scene again in his life, and he definitely couldn't miss it.

After working hard for more than a week, the yard affairs were left to Li Guangfu and Ma Dudu. Lin Weimin finally felt relieved.

The decoration of this small courtyard on Xi'anmen Street is a big project, and it may not be completed within a year. There is no place to put the antique calligraphy and paintings. But we can't buy things so lavishly anymore, so we should take it slow for now.

On Thursday afternoon, Lin Weimin was writing a letter to Cheng Zhongshi.

After the pen meeting, Cheng Zhongshi returned to his hometown and first refined the novella "Mr. Blue Robe" that had been completed and sent it to the editorial department.

In the letter accompanying the manuscript, Cheng Zhongshi mentioned the "Head Brick" he was inspired by Lin Weimin to write. This was Cheng Zhongshi's first time setting foot in the creation of a full-length novel, and he was very cautious.

It has been almost a year since I had this idea. I have thought about this story over and over in my mind countless times, but I always felt that it was still not good enough. He also talked about this issue at the PEN meeting before.

After finishing "Mr. Blue Robe" this time, Cheng Zhongshi planned to devote all his energy to the creation of this novel. He planned to search the counties and cities around Xi'an, firstly to collect stories, and secondly to check. material.

Lin Weimin admires Cheng Zhongshi's prudent, serious and even demanding creative attitude. Authors like him never need to worry about editors.

The only thing Lin Weimin could do was to tell him in the letter to pay more attention to his health and not to ruin his health again because he was obsessed with writing.

He was immersed in writing the letter. There was a knock on the door of the office, and Lin Weimin looked up.