Back to 80: My Literary Life

After finishing his trip to Xiangjiang, Fang Minghua took a plane directly from Pengcheng to Xijing without stopping for a moment, but this time he brought an electronic product with him.

Sony SL-3000 video recorder.

It was given by Luo Bin, saying that it was the latest video recorder produced by Sony in Japan, with exquisite picture quality and high-fidelity sound quality.

Damn it!

Give this thing as a gift

Fang Minghua was not interested in this, but he couldn't resist the other party's kindness. Now that I have a video recorder, I need to have a few genuine video tapes, so before I left, I went to the video store and bought several genuine Hong Kong and Taiwan video tapes from Hong Kong, including "The Wrong Ride", "Happy Face" and "A Better Tomorrow". Mr. Zombie

After returning home, Fang Minghua packed his luggage and connected the video recorder to the TV. He and his wife would watch the video together in the evening.

Forget about "Mr. Zombie" and the like, so as not to frighten your pregnant wife, it's still good to watch the artistic films produced in Taiwan.

In the evening, when Song Tangtang came back from her parents' home, Fang Minghua told her about her trip to Xiangjiang, including the video recorder she had given.

Unexpectedly, Song Tangtang was very interested in this stuff and immediately said he wanted to watch one.

"Which one are you watching?" Fang Minghua asked, pointing to a pair of video tapes placed on the coffee table.

"This one, Mr. Zombie!"

Oops

"This film is very scary, be careful to scare you!" Fang Minghua reminded.

"I want to take a look." Song Tangtang hugged Fang Minghua's arm and started coquettishly.

Helpless, Fang Minghua had no choice but to put the videotape into the box and press the start button. As the music played, a familiar picture appeared in front of Fang Minghua's eyes.

Jiahe subtitles, familiar names and faces of Uncle Ying, Qian Xiaohao, and Li Saifeng appeared on the screen, and Fang Minghua felt very friendly.

When I watched this movie, it was a pirated version in a video hall. The first time I saw the zombies, it was quite scary. I quickly closed my eyes. Now that I think about it, it’s quite shameful for a grown man to act like this.

Thinking of this, he turned around and looked at Song Tangtang next to him.

Oh my god

I saw my daughter-in-law chewing an apple with a big belly, staring at the screen with gusto, and giggling from time to time.

"Aren't you afraid of dead people?" Fang Minghua couldn't help but ask.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Song Tangtang laughed after hearing this: "It's all for making a movie, it's fake! Besides, I've been on the battlefield before, why haven't I seen dead people?"

The daughter-in-law's nerves are really rough.

Thinking of this, Fang Minghua's heart moved and he said, "Then I write a horror novel, do you want to read it?"

Song Tangtang already knew that Huang Ying had provoked her husband, so he asked: "Is it scarier than this "Mr. Zombie"?"

"From a horror perspective, Mr. Zombie is just a child's play in horror movies."

"Then what are you writing about? Are they also zombies?"

"No." Fang Minghua pointed to the video recorder: "It's modern and related to this video recorder."

"Video recorder? Then tell me the outline of the story first."

So Fang Minghao spoke vividly:

"Female high school student Ah Hui watched a videotape of unknown origin with her classmates. Seven days later, she and her classmates died one after another. This attracted the attention of female reporter Xiao Mei, who decided to investigate the truth of the incident.

Xiao Mei learned that Ah Hui had been hospitalized due to excessive fright after watching a video tape before her death, so she found the hotel where the video tape was rented, rented the unnamed tape, and turned on the video recorder. The extremely terrifying picture made Xiao Mei Almost emotionally broken.

Xiaomei's ex-husband Jiahui came to her at this time, copied a videotape and decided to study it with her. And they can only survive if they uncover the secret of the tape within seven days..."

Japanese horror film "The Ring"!

Fang Minghua spoke vividly and Song Tangtang listened with interest, but Fang Minghua suddenly stopped.

"Hey, keep talking." Song Tangtang was a little anxious.

"It's almost ten o'clock, you should go to bed." Fang Minghua pointed to the clock on the wall.

Song Tangtang stood up reluctantly. Although she wanted to continue listening, her body was important and the baby in her belly was important.

I still have a lot of work to do tomorrow, so I can't delay these things.

"Minghua, hurry up and write. I want to read it after you finish." Song Tangtang warned before walking into the bedroom.

Fang Minghua couldn't help but shake his head after hearing this.

I didn’t expect Song Tangtang to be interested in scary things?

After his wife rested, Fang Minghua went to the study room to turn on the computer and prepare to code.

"The Ring" is a set of Japanese suspense thriller movies, adapted from the suspenseful science fiction novel "Ring 1". There are six movies in total, which have been released since the late 1990s. Fang Minghua is going to write the first one.

This is an epoch-making Japanese horror film on the threshold of the 21st century. Many plots have a bone-deep chill that enters the heart. As for the climax of the film, many people have talked about it. For example, the scene where Sadako climbed out of the TV to film the scene was horrifying to those who just watched it.

This time, Fang Minghua took the familiar route and re-adapted the film into a novel.

Naturally, it would be inappropriate for the story to take place in Japan, and it would probably not work if it were set in the Mainland, where video recorders are not yet widely available.

It is most suitable to place it in Xiangjiang.

The plot of this movie is not a gory horror, but captures the audience's mood by creating a suspenseful atmosphere and generates fantasy. Coupled with the excellent horror sound effects, the audience is so nervous that they can't breathe while watching.

It's more of a suspense novel than a horror novel.

Fang Minghua didn't plan to write a long novel, a novella of tens of thousands of words would be enough.

This was not a difficult task for him. Now he was quite proficient in word-playing skills. In less than a week, a novel titled "The Ring" came out.

The first reader is of course my daughter-in-law Song Tangtang.

In the evening, Fang Minghua continued to write the article "The Fighting Swordsman in the Snow" in the study, and Song Tangtang sat in the living room and read the novel Fang Minghua had just written.

Suddenly, a scream came from the living room, and Fang Minghua was so frightened that he ran out of the study room and ran straight to the living room.

I saw Song Tangtang sitting on the sofa, with the manuscript thrown on the ground. His face was a little pale, and he was carefully stroking his belly and mumbling:

"Don't be afraid, baby, don't be afraid, baby. Mom won't read novels written by dad anymore, ah?"

It seemed like he was really scared.

Fang Minghua quickly sat next to him, hugged his wife and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay. What you wrote was a bit too scary. It's much better now." Song Tangtang let out a long breath.

Seeing his wife's face gradually improving, Fang Minghua felt relieved and said with a smile: "That's good, don't watch these horrors in the future, how about watching some literary movies? Don't you like to watch the Taiwanese movie "The Wrong Ride"? It's in The songs are also nice.”

Fang Minghua said and was about to put on the video recorder.

"Don't touch the video!"

Song Tangtang screamed again.

From then on, Fang Minghua’s video recorder became a decoration.