1980 My literary era

The rise and fall of people's art has witnessed China's cultural wave in the 1980s, which makes people sigh.

So after retiring, he only has his identity as an actor, which is a good thing for him, as he can concentrate on acting.

After the farewell party, many people drank too much. Musen mingled among his colleagues, swaying but always conscious.

Several leaders in the hospital were seeing Teacher Lin off. Teacher Lin was drunk, so they asked Xiao He, the dean's driver, to help drive.

The Vice President of Humanities and Art is at the deputy bureau level, but he enjoys the benefits of a bureau level, including a car and a driver.

Musen watched the car drive away with mixed emotions.

During the meal just now, he went to toast Teacher Lin with a glass of wine and received encouragement from Teacher Lin, but this could not eliminate his depression and the depression that life had brought to him.

At that time, he won the appreciation of Dean Shizhi and Teacher Lin for his drama "Jiajing and Hai Rui" which was adapted from "Ming Dynasty 1566". He was booked into the staff of Renyi before he graduated. Not only did he become the envy of everyone among his classmates, The object is also the key training object of human art.

It's a pity that after so many years, he has written four drama scripts. Each of them has been well received, but they have never reached the heights of "Jiajing and Hai Rui".

There are problems with one's own ability and problems with the general environment.

When he wrote "Jiajing and Hai Rui", he stood on the shoulders of Teacher Lin, which was considered a trick.

Coupled with the continuous decline of the domestic drama market in recent years, the attention of drama in the literary and art market has continued to decline, especially the rise of TV series, which has seized a large number of audiences originally belonging to movies and dramas. Many drama audiences have not entered the theater for a long time. Past the theater.

Seeing those classmates and colleagues who were not as good as him back then, now joining the film and television industry, and prospering one by one, Fei Sen couldn't help but feel a little unbalanced.

In the past few years, he got married and had children, and the financial pressure was also great, but he still had some artistic persistence in his heart and did not bother to write some crude TV drama scripts.

Full of contradictory mentality, Musen was in a dilemma and extremely depressed.

If only I had Teacher Lin's talent!

Entering December, the weather is getting colder and colder. As soon as the heavy snow passes, it really snows heavily in Yanjing City, making it difficult to drive.

Since Tao's father came to Beijing, Tao's father and Tao's mother lived in the house prepared by Lin Weimin for them, in the second courtyard next to the Forbidden City.

There were two people at home, Sister Sun and Sister Qin, who could not help each other. However, the two old people could not help themselves. They went to the small courtyard early in the day and came back at night. No matter how Tao Huimin tried to persuade them, they could not help. listen.

It was snowing heavily today and Weimin drove his parents to take him home.

After seeing off Tao's father and Tao's mother, Lin Weimin was planning to drive home.

A black Mercedes-Benz drove past the entrance of the courtyard and passed Lin Weimin's car. Lin Weimin was about to get in the car, but unexpectedly the car that just passed by stopped on the side of the road.

Black pointed leather shoes stepped on the snow. A man in a suit and coat got out of the car. He looked at Lin Weimin and said quickly: "Oh! Teacher Lin, it's really you!"

The voice sounded familiar to Lin Weimin. When the person came closer, he realized that it was Li Chengru.

It's different when you have money. Dressing up makes you look rich and noble.

"Chengru, I almost didn't recognize you. You've changed so much! You've made a fortune!" Lin Weimin joked.

Li Chengru can pretend like others, but Lin Weimin cannot pretend. Teacher Lin was a master who donated 10 million in the 1980s, and he has been struggling for so many years, that is, in the past two years of foreign exchange speculation, account The profit here will exceed tens of millions.

"You are joking. I haven't seen you for a long time. What are you doing today..."

"This house is for my father-in-law and mother-in-law. It's snowing today. Send them home." Lin Weimin explained.

Li Chengru said: "No wonder I can't touch you, not even Zhuangzhuang."

"What about you, still living here?"

"No. I moved a long time ago and now live over there in the Asian Games Village. I came over to have a meal with my mother today."

"Have a filial piety."

After a few words of greeting, Li Chengru invited Lin Weimin to have some dinner at home. Lin Weimin rejected his invitation because he had already eaten dinner.

Li Chengru then took out a box of cigars from the trunk of his Hutouben, "I haven't seen you for several years and you haven't eaten, so I have to put these things away. Cuban cigars have a very rich taste. People around me smoke them." Everyone agreed, you can try it.”

"No, no, I don't smoke cigars either."

"This is a little bit of my thoughts. You are a strong elder, my elder. You have to keep this thing."

Li Chengru persuaded Lin Weimin to accept the things, and then he showed a satisfied smile and said: "I didn't know that your elderly family lived here before, but now I know. I will ask my parents to come over and visit to relieve their boredom. .”

This is a good idea.

After thanking Li Chengru, they both got in the car and left.

After returning home, Lin Weimin took the box of cigars into the house, and Tao Huimin asked, "You don't smoke either, where did you get this?"

Lin Weimin told what happened when he met Li Chengru just now. Tao Huimin asked: "Is that the 'Three Li'?"

"It's him. He drove the Xidan Special."

Xidan Special Clothing Mall is Li Chengru's business. When it first opened, it became famous in Yanjing City because the sales guides it hired were taller and more beautiful than stewardesses.

At its peak, the daily turnover exceeded RMB 500,000, making Li Chengru famous as one of the "Three Lis of Yanjing".

"I remember he and Zhuang Zhuang were classmates, right?"

"Well, they are all from amateur acting classes."

"This guy is quite polite."

Although Li Chengru's approach is a bit suspicious of the nouveau riche, it is not strange to give gifts to many people. It is not a bad thing. I will definitely pay it back if I find an opportunity in the future.

A few days later, Lin Weimin took the initiative to sign a publishing contract with the company, which was for "Spirited Away".

"Spirited Away" has been serialized for seven issues since June, and next month will be the last issue of the series.

After being serialized for more than half a year, this novel has completely become famous in the field of domestic children's literature. It has been praised by many critics as "the most outstanding work in the field of domestic children's literature in the past thirty years". It is also popular among countless children across the country. triggered a strong response.

Because of the serialization of this novel, the sales of "Childhood" jumped from 400,000 copies per issue earlier to 2.7 million copies.

The January 1993 issue is the last issue of "Spirited Away", and it is expected that it will not be difficult to break the sales volume of 3 million copies.

This number not only broke the sales record of "Childhood", but also broke the sales record of domestic children's literature publications, creating a record that has never been done before and is likely to be unprecedented.

In the second half of 1992, countless Chinese children had a magnificent dream, and "Spirited Away" was destined to become an indelible part of their beautiful childhood memories.

It's now past mid-December, and there's still more than half a month left before the last serialization of "Spirited Away" "Childhood" is released. At this time, we're preparing for the editing and review of the single volume of "Spirited Away". Just right.

When the single book is released before the end of the year, it will definitely become a big weapon for harvesting the New Year's money from elementary school monks.

"Color printing, it must be color printing."

"The illustrations must be exquisite. The image of each character needs to be drawn first, and then I will give my opinion."

“It doesn’t matter if the cost is high, but wouldn’t it be over if the price were higher?”

"What's the point of worrying if it's expensive? Do children buy books based on the price?"

In order to harvest the pocket money of the primary school monks, Teacher Lin was frantic and used extremely cruel methods.

He didn't believe that these elementary school monks could refuse the color version of "Spirited Away" with illustrations.

It is not easy for Mr. Lin to rush for performance at the end of the year.

It is not difficult to edit and review a fairy tale novel with more than 100,000 words. The Chinese Literature Society can easily find an editor to do it.

But in terms of illustration design, Lin Weimin was very demanding. It took half a month of communication and several versions of characters and scenes to reach a level he was satisfied with, which was completely based on the original version.

"Children's Age", which published the last issue of "Spirited Away" in early January, went on sale as scheduled. The first printing of this issue was 2.8 million copies.

Because of the preview of the previous issue, all readers know that the story of "Spirited Away" will have its finale in this issue, and they are eagerly waiting for this day.

Therefore, as soon as the January 1993 issue of "Childhood" was released, it was frantically bought by readers. Everyone wanted to take a sneak peek and see whether Chihiro could save her parents and what happened to many characters in the story. ending.

With the serialization of the finale of "Spirited Away" completed, the stand-alone version of "Spirited Away" from Chinese Literature Society also arrived as promised.

Some people in the Chinese Literature Society thought it would be unwise to publish a single volume of "Spirited Away" when "Childhood" was selling well. After all, "Childhood" was still on sale, which would definitely divert some readers.

But they still underestimated the magic of "Spirited Away."

The first printing of 500,000 copies of "Spirited Away" was put on the shelves of bookstores and post offices across the country, and it faced an even greater rush to buy than the January issue of "Childhood."

"Spirited Away" has been serialized for eight issues, with a time span of more than half a year. The readers' potential has been fully tapped. It can be said that it has swept the domestic readers under the age of 16, and it also has a certain market among readers over the age of 16.

Only one week after the single book was released, 500,000 copies of "Spirited Away" were sold out.

This speed set a record for Lin Weimin's works. No, it should be the fastest sales record in the history of Chinese contemporary literary works. Seeing this situation, the Chinese Literature Society urgently printed 1 million more copies and sent them to all parts of the country.

As soon as this news came out, the domestic literary world was once again shocked by Lin Weimin's appeal to readers.

500,000 copies a week, what is this concept?

Let's put it this way, Lin Weimin's "Farewell My Concubine" has now sold more than 6 million copies in China. In the contemporary literary world, works with this sales volume can be said to be very rare. Only some classic literary masterpieces that have been published for decades can do so. Comparable to it.

But given the popularity of "Farewell My Concubine", it took nearly three months for sales to exceed 500,000 copies.

And "Spirited Away" actually advanced this number to a week. Such popularity has exceeded the understanding of many people in the literary world, and they can't even understand it with common sense.

It is difficult for people who have not experienced the fan era to understand this craze.

Of course, the popularity of "Spirited Away" is based on the work itself, so it has a longer-lasting appeal and a larger audience than those products of the fan economy in later generations.

Also because of the popularity of "Spirited Away", the name Lin Weimin has been completely imprinted in the minds of this generation of children.

In the past, Lin Weimin's writings were all for adults. Even though he is very famous, only children in China have heard of his name.

The release of "Spirited Away" has won Lin Weimin the love of countless children.

Not as the famous writer Lin Weimin at home and abroad, but as the author of "Spirited Away".

This childhood filter, even if it takes several decades, cannot be erased from the hearts of these children and has become the most beautiful scenery in their lives.

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