1980 My literary era

We greet the New Year as usual on the first day of the Lunar New Year. In recent years, fireworks have been banned in Yanjing. There have been fewer accidents. When we wake up on the first day of the Lunar New Year, we can no longer smell gunpowder smoke in the air.

After a long time, it is quite nostalgic.

Therefore, everyone is a cheap person. When Yanjing implemented the ban on release, Lin Weimin was quite supportive. It’s only been a few years, and I miss it again.

After the New Year greetings, cars were driving on Chang'an Street. There were almost no cars in sight. There was a rare tranquility on the main road in Yanjing.

Xiaodou Bao hummed and hugged Tao Huimin's arm in the car and acted coquettishly.

Today is the day of the Lunar New Year's Day when "Shuke and Beta: The Best in the Year of the Rabbit" is released.

The family came to the cinema. There seemed to be more people inside than last year, and they were all parents bringing their children.

This year's New Year's Eve, Cheng Long's movie was absent, so the movie theaters during this period were almost exclusively dominated by "Shook and Beta: The Year of the Rabbit".

After two consecutive years of continuous investment and large-scale publicity, it seems that the "Shuke and Beta" series of movies has gradually become a staple of the Lunar New Year festival.

When the movie starts, the plot is still innovative.

This year's theme is environmental protection. The rabbits on the grassland mutated due to environmental pollution in the factory and turned into red rabbits, blue rabbits and yellow rabbits. They had violent tempers and constant internal fighting. Shuke and Beta helped the rabbits find the antidote, and finally Led the rabbits to shut down the polluting factories and return fresh air, soil and water to the prairie.

From the perspective of adults, the plot is still childish and childish, but the children still accept it and watch it without blinking.

It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon when Lin Weimin and his family came out of the screening room after watching the movie. Xiaodoubao begged to buy her a toy related to the movie. Lin Weimin bought her one. Although it was paid for by his own company, the price was still high. Lin Weimin couldn't help but complain.

So dark!

Before leaving the cinema, there were more viewers than before, and a lot more than last year. It seems that this year's box office will not be bad.

The reality is pretty much what Lin Weimin thought. The holidays are over and the box office numbers for the first week of "Shook and Beta: The Year of the Rabbit" are freshly released.

16.5 million yuan!

This number is almost double that of the same period last year. In addition to benefiting from the absence of strong competitors in the same period, the most critical thing is of course the audience base cultivated by the series of movies.

It should be said that this move was the right one.

Compared with spending several years making low-quality animated films to cultivate audiences and markets, a series of animated films takes less time and energy.

Of course, the risks and investment are also higher.

But it all seems worth it.

According to the box office in the first week of release, it should not be difficult for "Shook and Beta: The Year of the Rabbit" to break 50 million at the box office.

At the same time, peripheral products that nobody paid attention to last year seem to have had a good start this year.

Since last year, Mandarin Film and Television has cooperated with toy factories to produce a batch of dolls, puzzles and other peripheral toys for sale in cinemas.

Unfortunately, the results were not ideal, and most of these toys were still in stock until the movie was released.

Fortunately, the profit was relatively high, and I managed to save money after clearing out the remaining goods.

This year, Wenhua Film and Television has made a comeback. This time, according to sales feedback from movie theaters across the country, sales of peripheral toys reached 1.5 million yuan in the first week of the movie's release. This number may seem inconspicuous, but it was not completed until the movie was released last year. results.

Under the management of Wenhua Film and Television, the IP "Shuke and Beta" is gradually regaining its charm.

At the beginning of the new year, a new department appeared in Guowen Group - the Legal Department, which immediately became the focus of everyone within the group.

There is no reason why his lineup looks too capable.

The vast majority of them are the first batch of lawyers in China to engage in intellectual property cases. Not only are they graduated from top domestic law schools such as Yanda University, the Fifth Academy and the Fourth Department, but there are also talents who come from legal families.

The Legal Department has a very strong lineup of lawyers, but what worries Guowen Group employees even more is their salary.

It is said that these lawyers all receive annual salaries. The salary alone is guaranteed to be 50,000 yuan a year, and the year-end bonus is said to be no less than the salary.

The most crucial thing is that these people will get commissions if they win the lawsuits. The losses they recover from all the lawsuits they win are divided into three parts, one share for Guowen Group, one share for the author, and one share for the legal department.

Just hearing these benefits makes people jealous, but all employees of Guowen Group know that the money they get is not for nothing.

As a group company with the cultural industry as its main business content, given the lack of copyright awareness in China, the group suffers losses of almost one billion levels every year due to various types of piracy.

Compared with the income earned by the lawyers in the legal department, the losses they help the group avoid and recover are the real core interests of Guowen Group.

Of course, this premise is that the legal department can perform its duties to an ideal state.

This newly established legal department will still need time to prove the value and significance of their existence.

Before the Lantern Festival, Qu Xiaowei held a party.

When people reach middle age, everyone has more and more worldly things, but they have less and less time to see friends, and gatherings become more and more difficult.

February 28 is the last day of February and the last weekend of February, two days before the Lantern Festival.

Everyone gathered on the second floor of Qu Xiaowei Internet Cafe again. Yu Hua sighed: "I feel more and more that Xiaowei is a paradise."

"You're feeling this out of nowhere. You have a virtuous wife and filial son, and your career is going smoothly. What do you have to feel bad about?" Mo Yan teased.

Yu Hua sighed, "My son got second to last in the exam last semester. Cheng Hong always said he inherited my genes."

"Isn't this nonsense? If I don't inherit it from you, can I inherit it from someone else?" Mo Yan said.

Everyone burst into laughter, and Yu Hua glared at him fiercely.

"The second to last one is indeed a little lower, but there is still a lot of room for improvement!"

Teacher Lin's comforting angle is rather strange, and at the same time his expression is mixed with a bit of complacency. Last year Xiaodou Bao got third place in the grade.

When this group of people got together, they talked about literature, philosophy and history.

Now it has become a gathering of middle-aged people, and the topic has quietly changed without even realizing it.

The oldest child in this group is Qu Xiaowei. His son Qu Xiangnan will enter high school next year.

"I plan to send him to study abroad in two years." Qu Xiaowei said.

Since the 1980s, the trend of studying abroad has gradually emerged in China. The first were government-sponsored study abroad, and later, people who spent their own money to study abroad.

Now that many people have money, they are beginning to think about sending their children abroad to be gold-plated. It is not surprising that Qu Xiaowei has this idea.

"But I'm afraid that this little kid won't come back after he goes out." He said worriedly.

"If you're afraid of staying abroad, don't give it away." Zheng Guo hit the hole with a white ball. He was very embarrassed and put down his cue. "Studying abroad is like a meat bun beating a dog. Once you go, you will never come back."

"You can't say that. Didn't some people come back too?"

Zheng Guo said bluntly: "You don't want to hear what I say. How many people really serve the country? Aren't the vast majority of those who come back because they can't survive abroad? But even if they can't survive abroad, Very few people come back.”

“The colorful world of capitalism is so fascinating!” Qu Xiaowei exclaimed.

Tong Zhonggui said easily: "In the future, the country will develop better and better, and more and more people will return to the country."

Everyone was chatting away, and Lin Weimin and Shi Tiesheng hid in a corner.

"Nowadays, the things we talk about when we meet are becoming more and more boring." Lin Weimin said.

Shi Tiesheng took two puffs of cigarette, pressed the half-burned cigarette on the pillar of the wheelchair, and clamped it to his ear, "When people reach middle age, everything will inevitably become vulgar."

He asked: "Your novel will be released in two days, right?"

Lin Weimin nodded, "Yes, it will be on the market in two days."

"Another novel. I really envy your efficiency." Shi Tiesheng said with envy.

His current health is not as good as before. In order to take care of his body, he spends much less time writing every day than before. His efficiency was not high, and now his output is even lower.

While the two were chatting, Qu Xiaowei came over.

"Weimin, I met a friend a few days ago, the owner of Kowloon Homes. I bought two large villas from him for more than 3 million. Do you think it can be increased in the future?"

Lin Weimin gave him a disgusted look. If you invest in real estate speculation and buy a villa, you deserve to lose money.

Well, with the increase in house prices in Yanjing, it is impossible to pay compensation, and you will only earn less.

"have no idea."

Qu Xiaowei showed a look of disappointment on his face and said to himself: "I think it will definitely increase a lot. Their house is well designed, with colorful facade, European-style three-section main body, viewing windows, and plastic steel windows." …”

He talked a lot, all of which were brainwashed by developers.

In the past two years, units have not separated housing, and people's eyes have begun to turn from the housing management office of the unit to real estate developers.

Since last year, the sales offices of real estate projects under development in Yanjing have been receiving baptisms from ordinary people one after another.

With the opening of Yanjing's main transportation roads, the East Fourth Ring Road, South Fourth Ring Road, West Fourth Ring Road, Baiyi Road, Metro Line 5, Fu8 Line, urban light rail... people's footprints in choosing housing have also been pushed forward. further and further.

The city is getting bigger and bigger, and there are fewer and fewer familiar places.

Qu Xiaowei's interruption diverted the topic to the Chinese Literature Society. The Chinese Literature Society became the Chinese Literature Society. Although the place was still the same place and the people were still the same, for writers who were familiar with the Chinese Literature Society, they still felt a bit agitated every time they mentioned it. strangeness.

Shi Tiesheng talked about this matter with a bit of regret in his tone.

"This is a necessary change. The survival situation of traditional publishing houses in China is becoming more and more difficult. I don't want to see the people of the Chinese Publishing House still sitting in that old office building in another twenty years. The published books gradually became unnoticed, and the glory of the year dissipated with the wind.

Although the current changes may make everyone feel strange and lose the taste of the past, it is better than being eliminated by the times.

You just said that ‘everything is moving toward vulgarity’. In fact, this is what we should be wary of.

The education our generation has received actually has very big deficiencies, not only in education, but also in terms of aesthetics. We cannot control the right to speak in a narrow way.

Those things that once made us proud may stay or decay. Let young people make their own choices. They are the future. "

Lin Weimin's tone was a little heavy. After he finished speaking, Shi Tiesheng chuckled and asked, "Why do you suddenly feel this way today? Isn't this in line with your style?"

Lin Weimin showed a self-deprecating smile, "It's just something I felt. Maybe it's because I'm getting older, and I suddenly felt some emotion."

Shi Tiesheng said: "You are right. People are narrow-minded and cannot use the ideas of the predecessors to constrain those who come after us. This is the most favorite mistake of us Chinese people."

Time passed by chatting, and the atmosphere was lively during lunch.

Qu Xiaowei suddenly became interested and wanted to recite a poem to everyone.

"In those youthful days, you held your head high

Pick off the days and taste the bitterness

It's as if it's still cold among the leaves

…”

Qu Xiaowei's voice is full of emotion and excitement, and he sounds decent when reciting.

After he finished reciting, everyone cheered in unison.

Yu Hua asked: "Whose poem is this? It's really good!"

Qu Xiaowei looked proud, "How about a writer? You don't even know this?"

"I write novels, not poetry."

This reason is not very good. He is still despised by Qu Xiaowei. Qu Xiaowei rarely finds an opportunity to show off in front of a group of writers.

"This is Philip Larkin's "You Hold Your Head High in Those Youthful Days."" Mo Yan said.

Qu Xiaowei immediately said: "Look, look at these people, they are also writers, this is the difference!"

Yu Hua was very dissatisfied with Mo Yan's talkativeness. Everyone stopped talking. Is it obvious to you?

"Are you still reading poetry collections?" Yu Hua asked tentatively.

"I happened to have seen this song." Mo Yan said with a smile.

Yu Hua was a little depressed.

Damn it, let him pretend!