1980 My literary era

After some "painstaking persuasion" by Lin Weimin, his eldest nephew finally understood his uncle's painstaking efforts and agreed to have someone help Lin Weimin contact the Tuanjie Lake Apartment.

Han Zhuangzhuang rubbed his butt and said, "Uncle, didn't you say that the houses there are too expensive? With that kind of money, why not buy a few courtyard houses?"

"It's expensive for you, but is it expensive for my uncle?"

Teacher Lin’s question went straight to the depths of my nephew’s soul.

Is it expensive?

Too expensive!

The RMB and foreign exchange certificates that my uncle deposited in the bank are almost getting hairy!

Writing novels is so profitable!

Han Zhuangzhuang thought through gritted teeth.

A few days later, Lin Weimin, led by Xia Gang, arrived near Tuanjie Lake.

According to its geographical location, Tuanjie Lake is on the edge of the Third Ring Road of later generations. According to the standards of later generations, this should be considered a good location in Yanjing.

It's a pity that these days, the areas outside the Second Ring Road are considered suburbs, and even the Ritan Embassy District is considered the eastern suburbs, not to mention the Third Ring Road. In the 1980s, this place was considered a suburb within a suburb.

As soon as you hear the name Tuanjie Lake, you will know that this place has no historical background.

The earliest place here was not a lake, but a kiln pit. It was the kiln site where earth was excavated and bricks were fired for the construction of Yanjing City.

There are many places like this in the suburbs of Yanjing. For example, Panjiayuan is actually Panjiayao, Heiyangchang, Liujiayao, etc., as long as they have the word kiln, they are basically the same.

After the founding of New China, Lao Mi dropped bacterial bombs during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, causing a plague in the Northeast, and the country was forced to launch a patriotic health campaign. Yanjing began to renovate areas that were easily polluted, such as ditches and puddles in the urban area and surrounding areas on a large scale. After that, it focused on transforming the "four major lakes", Tuanjie Lake, Qingnian Lake, Rending Lake, and Taiping Lake.

Lin Weimin chatted with Xia Gang about the situation around Tuanjie Lake and gained a simple understanding of the place.

“This elder relative of ours is from the Ministry of Light Industry, and he responded to the call from above and spent all his savings to buy this house.

But I regretted my stay there. The distance was too far and it was inconvenient to go anywhere. "

Xia Gang's family is in Renyi, he is a few years older than Zhuang Guang, and the two have a good relationship.

He is the son of Xia Chun, a meritorious director in the arts and crafts. Many people are confused when talking about Xia Chun. "Teahouse" was directed by him and Mr. Jiao Juyin.

Xia Gang can be considered a second-generation director. He was admitted to Yanying's directing department in 1978. Lin Weimin had met him before when he went to Yanying, but he didn't say a few words.

This year he was just assigned to be a director at Yanjing Film Studio. To be precise, he is a preparatory director. It is impossible for them to be a director at their age and qualifications.

Lin Weimin has watched films directed by Xia Gang in later generations. He has dabbled in both movies and TV series. TV series include "The Epic of a Woman", "The First Floor in the World", "Police Story", and movies include "Half Fire, Half". "It's the sea water" and "Big Sabbath".

He is not as good as the great directors of the fifth generation, but he can still be regarded as a diligent and capable director.

"They bought this house in the late 1980s, and it took a while to renovate it. They moved in in the spring of 1981. The house was in good condition."

While introducing, Xia Gang led Lin Weimin into the unit door of Building 1, Tuanjie Hunan 1st Road, and went up to the second floor to knock on the entrance door.

"This is my sixth uncle, this is Lin Weimin, Teacher Lin."

The man who opened the door for them looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with gray hair.

Before coming here, Xia Gang introduced that his surname was Zha. His father changed his name in order to participate in the G Ming. Uncle Zha now works in the ministry and is a cousin. Now he is a doctor, and furthermore, he is a minister.

"I know, I know!" Zha Qiangfeng said with a smile.

Several people said hello and went in to look at the house.

The decoration of the home is much more upscale than the ordinary Tongzilou at this time. The walls are scraped with white ash and the floor is paved with wooden floors.

One advantage of this era is that the decoration is mainly made of wood, and all are solid wood. The layout is three bedrooms, two living rooms and one bathroom.

Before coming, Xia Gang had already told a lot of information about this house.

Just one winter of central heating is enough to make Lin Weimin's heart flutter.

Living in a courtyard is fine anywhere, but keeping warm in winter is a terrible thing.

Even though the boiler in Lin Weimin's yard had killed 99% of the people in Yanjing City, he still felt bored after living there for a long time.

With this house, I no longer like to burn coal for heating in the winter. Isn’t it nice to come here for a few days?

The two apartment buildings in Unite Hunan Yiyi were said to be for public sale at the time, but ordinary people basically didn't dare to think about it. The price of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan per unit was enough to put the vast majority of people away.

In the 1980s, every household worth 10,000 yuan had to wear a big red flower. It cost 30,000 to 40,000 yuan to buy a house. What a family!

So when this piece of land went on sale, more people from government departments responded to the call and came to buy it.

There are two advantages to having more people in the government. One is that the living facilities are relatively complete, and the other is that public security is good. If you start as a minister, you may meet a minister or minister, even if the public security is not good.

After you have chosen the house, the next step is to negotiate the price.

At this time, ordinary people do not have the concept that the value of a house must increase if they buy it.

The sixth uncle, Cha Qiangfeng, finally met someone who was willing to buy a house, so he tentatively called "thirty-eight thousand".

Zha Qiangfeng's house is the larger of the two buildings, more than 90 square meters.

In this era, there was no such thing as a shared area, it was just a real area within a condominium. Calculated by later calculations, it would have to start at 120 square meters at least.

The number Zha Qiangfeng shouted was exactly the price when he bought the house, not including the two thousand yuan spent on decoration.

It's not easy to meet someone who can buy a house for 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. If you can, sell it as soon as possible.

Teacher Lin has always been open-minded when buying things. He had also learned about the house prices at Tuanjie Lake when they were on sale before, and agreed to the price without hesitation, which made Zha Qiangfeng overjoyed.

It took two days to complete the procedures, and Lin Weimin had another house under his name.

Han Zhuangzhuang helped Lin Weimin put the letters from readers from Shichahai into the empty bedroom, and then walked around the room again.

He regretted it a little, how nice this apartment building was!

After going out for a meal, Han Zhuangzhuang took out several tickets from his pocket. They were tickets for the performance of "Horse Trapper" in a few days.

The next day.

Editorial Department of "Contemporary".

Lin Weimin received a desk invoice, and even Tong Zhonggui had one.

Tong Zhonggui held two tickets and said, "Teacher Lin, I don't need them."

Lin Weimin smiled and said: "It's okay, just take it! Invite a female classmate to take a look."

Tong Zhonggui's face showed a bit of shyness, Liu Yin joked: "Xiao Tong, don't be polite to Editor Lin, this is an exclusive benefit of our editorial department."

As he was talking, Tan Chaoyang poked his head in and said, "For the people, I have an outside call calling for you."

Lin Weimin went out and walked to Tan Chaoyang's office. Tan Chaoyang said: "Go to the front building."

"Front floor? How many exterior lines does this have?"

"I don't know, I'll just pass on a message."

Lin Weimin came to Yan Wenjing's office in the front building and said, "Sit down for a while. They can call me later."

"Where's the phone number?"

Lin Weimin was curious. Ordinary outside calls could be received in the back building. Calling him specifically to Lao Yan was definitely not an ordinary call.

"The call came from Xiangjiang."

No wonder.

These days, calls between China and Hong Kong are also considered international long distance calls.

Last year, Pengcheng and Yangcheng just solved the problem of direct telephone calls with Xiangjiang. If Xiangjiang wants to call Yanjing, they need to call Pengcheng or Yangcheng first, explain clearly the situation of the person they are looking for, and then call them. Make a record of what they want to say, and then the long-distance station will register you. After the registration is completed, you can put the phone away and wait for the long-distance station to call you. It's very troublesome.

Moreover, this kind of international long-distance call is usually heard by a third person. Don’t ask why.

Lin Weimin waited for more than ten minutes. The phone rang again, and Lin Weimin took the initiative to answer the phone.

"Hello, hello, is this Mr. Lin?" On the other end of the phone, the transferred voice was distorted and had a broad accent. He sounded like a middle-aged man.

"Hello, I'm Lin Weimin."

"Hello Mr. Lin, I am Gu Cangwu from the "Bafang" series."

Lin Weimin had already guessed the answer while waiting. After all, his only connection with Xiangjiang was probably "Bafang".

"What do you want from me?"

"That's right. The novel "Lover" that you published in our "Bafang" has been welcomed by many readers in Xiangjiang since it was published.

Because the circulation of our "Bafang" is small, some colleagues in the newspaper industry have contacted me in the past few days, saying that some readers hope that they can publish your novel.

I said I need to ask for your opinion to see if you agree with their reprint request. "

The voice on the phone became quieter and quieter. Lin Weimin changed places several times and barely stood on the table before he could barely hear what was being said on the other side.

After listening to Gu Cangwu's statement, Lin Weimin was surprised. A newspaper in Hong Kong actually asked to reprint "Lover"?

Is this novel so popular?

It's not that Lin Weimin has no confidence in the quality of his work, but he thinks that he is not well-known in Hong Kong, and "Lover" has just been published, so it sounds a bit fantasy when a newspaper comes to ask for reprinting.

But after all, it was the manuscript fee that was delivered to his door, so Lin Weimin had no reason to refuse it.

Asked about the standard of the manuscript fee offered by the other party, Gu Cangwu replied: "Ten Hong Kong dollars for one thousand words."

Lin Weimin was a little disappointed, "The price is too low. Please tell Mr. Gu that I don't agree."

It's the 1980s, so it's not comparable to Ni Kuang's top price of 2,000 or 3,000 yuan per thousand words, but at least one or two hundred yuan per 1,000 words has to be paid, right?

Are you treating yourself like a bumpkin who has never seen the world?

Gu Cangwu's voice on the phone was a little surprising, "Teacher Lin, the price is actually not bad."

"Mr. Gu, you should be grateful to Mr. Luofu for the fact that "Lover" was first published in "Bafang". The five-meter-per-word fee is also based on his face."

There was a hint of impatience in Lin Weimin's tone, but to Gu Cangwu's ears, he felt that this person was surprisingly loud.

He didn't know much about Lin Weimin. The publication of "Lover" in Bafang was the central link between Luofu. He only knew that Lin Weimin was a well-known young writer in the mainland.

But in the Mainland, the per capita salary in this era is only a few tens of yuan a month. He also knows a little about the standards for manuscript fees, which are only a few yuan for a thousand words. The ten yuan for a thousand words from a friend in Hong Kong is a bit low, but it is a reprint after all. It's impossible to compare with the first game.

"Mr. Lin, please think about it again." Gu Cangwu continued to persuade before he realized Lin Weimin's displeasure.

"No need, just leave it as it is." After Lin Weimin finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

"Hello, Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin..."

Hong Kong, Kowloon, No. 41 Min Yu Street, inside the "Bafang" editorial office of Triumph Industrial and Commercial Center.

Gu Cangwu was holding the phone receiver in his hand and had not yet recovered from the surprise of being hung up on.

"How is it? What's going on?" Cheng Yiqiu asked from the side.

Gu Cangwu put down the phone receiver and said with a wry smile: "I don't agree, hang up."

“Do you dislike the price being too low?”

Cheng Yiqiu heard most of the call just now, but he didn't understand why he suddenly hung up the phone in the end.

Gu Cangwu nodded, "This Mr. Lin has a bit of a temper!"

Cheng Yiqiu said: "Ten Hong Kong dollars for a thousand words, which is not low!"

Gu Cangwu said angrily: "Of course it's not cheap in the Mainland. They must know our royalties in Xiangjiang, that's why they hung up the phone so decisively after listening to what I said."

"This person is too greedy!" Cheng Yiqiu shook his head.

Gu Cangwu shook his head helplessly. This old friend has become a bit obsessed since he became the deputy editor of "Sing Tao Evening News". He can't see the temperament of a scholar at all.

"Sing Tao Evening News" is a supplement to "Sing Tao Daily". "Sing Tao Daily" was founded in Hong Kong in 1938, and "Sing Tao Evening News" was added in the same year. "Sing Tao Daily" became one of the major newspapers in Hong Kong within a few years of its publication.

By the 1960s, "Sing Tao Evening News" had developed into one of the most popular evening newspapers among readers. Many office workers almost always had a copy of it when they were off work.

At that time, transportation in Hong Kong did not yet have an undersea tunnel, and ferry services were required to cross the sea. Reading newspapers became the best way to pass the time on the ferry.

In those years, many Hong Kong writers were proud to have their works published in "Sing Tao Evening News". Famous writers such as Lin, Liu Yichang, Huang Sicheng, Nangong Bo, Ren Biming, Cuiying, etc., together with Liang Yusheng, Ruan Lang, Ye Lingfeng, etc. Xia Yi's "New Evening News" was a hit.

Moreover, the style of the supplement of "Sing Tao Evening News" is more open than that of "New Evening News".

The novel "Heart Lock" by Guo Lianghui, a famous beauty writer in Bay Island, was banned in Bay Island at that time because of its extremely explicit description of sexual relations.

"Sing Tao Evening News", on the other hand, kept the door open and kept publishing. It was precisely because of the boldness of "Heart Lock" in describing the relationship between men and women that it caused a sensation in Hong Kong after it was published. "Sing Tao Evening News" sold out sales in a short period of time. Multiply.

In the 1980s, the newspaper industry in Hong Kong was at its peak. There were so many newspapers and magazines that competition was bound to be more intense than before. In order to maintain market share and readers, major newspapers and periodicals naturally tried their best to maintain their market share and readers, and "Sing Tao Evening News" was no exception.

Gu Cangwu told Lin Weimin that the reprint request was at the request of readers, but this was not the case.

In fact, it was the result of an idea that came to Cheng Yiqiu, the deputy editor of "Sing Tao Evening News", after seeing "Lover" on "Bafang" a few days ago.