Chapter 511 The Spring Festival of 1990
Song Tangtang sent Li Li home. Fang Minghua made himself a steaming cup of Longjing. He was just about to drink tea comfortably when he suddenly thought that it was almost ten o'clock and it was time for the child to go to bed. !
So he took care of the two little ones, washing their faces, feet, and brushing their teeth.
When the children were lying in bed, Fang Minghua also told fairy tales and finally coaxed the children to sleep, squeezing their hands and Feet out of the room.
Looking at the Longjing soaked in it, it was already cold.
I changed my drink and then went to the study room to read the books Li Li brought back.
"Selected Minghua Pioneer Short Stories", "Selected Minghua Realistic Short Stories", "Minghua Science Fiction Novels", "Into the Guandong" and "Wukong Biography". There are also two love books written in the United States. The novels "The Lost Dreams of the Corridored Bridge" and "The Endless Love between Humans and Ghosts" are impressively on the list.
Fang Minghua had never seen several English translations, so he picked up one and flipped through it. The paper and cover were pretty good
At this time, Song Tangtang came back and tiptoed into the study. Asked: "Is the child sleeping?"
"Yes, did you send Lili back?"
"Well, luckily I drove her to see her. It was windy and cold outside."
The child was sleeping, so naturally he couldn't move loudly. The two went to their bedroom and closed the door. When they saw Song Tangtang changing clothes, Fang Minghua said again : "Let me ask you something, how was the discussion between Lili and that rich Chinese second generation? Did she tell you?"
Song Tangtang rolled her eyes at him after hearing this: "Lili was here just now, why did you Don’t ask him?”
“It’s not easy to ask.”
“You are her brother-in-law, and it is only natural that you care about her life-long affairs, so why not?” Song Tangtang said. , or said: "I asked, and he said that young man was very good to her."
"What about Lili?"
"How should I put it? It's not like I hate it or I like it, but my second aunt presses me hard and often makes international long distance calls to ask about it. Lili said one time she got tired of hearing it. , said: "Mom, if you like him so much, just marry him. My second aunt was immediately angry. "
"The main reason is that Lili is not young anymore. If she were in China, she would have gotten married long ago. "Fang Minghua said.
"Yes, Lili is only one year younger than me, but I am already a mother of two children, and Lili is still single, hey."
said At the end, Song Tangtang sighed quietly.
Seeing his wife like this, Fang Minghua quickly comforted him: "Don't worry, Lili will definitely find a good home."
"Okay, let's not talk about her anymore, let's talk about this autograph sale. About the book." Song Tangtang changed the subject.
"Everything goes well. Shu Bin is really capable. Although he is a scholar, he is also very financially savvy." Fang Minghua told Song Tangtang about advertising in the newspaper.
“It seems that the person in charge of this prosperous publishing company has found the right person.” Song Tangtang said: “However, some people have criticized this kind of book signing activity, saying that your behavior is undoubtedly that of a businessman. ."
"Who?"
"It was a comment in a newspaper. The author is not famous, so I didn't remember it."
"Ignore it, no matter what you do these days, some people will dislike it." Fang Minghua said lightly: " Who am I? People like Lu Xun and Lao She are still promoting their own books. Who said that? "
"Lu Xun and Lao She are promoting their own books?" Song Tangtang was surprised.
Fang Minghua told Song Tangtang what his grandma said when he had dinner with Song Tangtang’s grandfather and grandma in Yanjing a few days ago.
Song Tangtang chuckled after hearing this.
"My grandma is really interesting and open-minded."
"Students at Jinling University for Women were definitely top-notch in that era."
"That's right."< br>
"Okay, let's take a rest. I'm tired today, so I'm going to wash up."
"Yeah." After the book signing event, Fang Minghua's life was completely free. As for " "Ordinary World" script, we can wait until after the Chinese New Year to talk about it.
Fang Minghua’s whirlwind publicity and promotion activities set off a sales boom. This book is claimed to be the first serious literary novel in the Mainland in the 1990s. It uses a cold style, double-line structure, realism, and symbolism. Characters are portrayed using various techniques such as , contrast and so on, creating a group of lifelike images of private teachers.
The famous critic Li Tuo commented in the "Literary News": In this book, the sublimation of human nature in hardship and embarrassment, such as the poetic piano and flute sounds in ordinary days, bear witness to conscience and morality. operation in the human heart. Reality, a sense of destiny and the belief in the brilliant starry sky of the human spirit make the meaning of "Skywalker" solemn and far-reaching.
"Contemporary poet Bei Dao has a famous sentence in his "Answer": 'Despicableness is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble.' Here, I have tampered with Bei Dao's famous sentence to evaluate it. Minghua's novel "Skywalker""
Of course there are criticisms, mainly because of his marketing methods and the use of book signings by writers in a capitalist society, making his works a "commodity". ".
Fang Minghua ignored such accusations.
His current task is to take care of his two children at home.
The child is on winter vacation and cannot always be left at the mother-in-law's house. The elderly must also rest, and the wife has to go to work, so this glorious and arduous task is given to him.
Fortunately, having two children who are playmates with each other is not lonely. Fang Minghua gets up in the morning and prepares milk bread for the children, rice at noon, and noodles or porridge in the evening to eat together when his wife comes home.
When the weather is nice, I go out to walk my baby. When the weather is bad, I stay at home. Anyway, there is no homework for kindergarten.
One more thing.
The three-story building I built on the land I bought in Nanfang Lane inside Chaoyangmen in the east of the city was completed three months ago, and the rest is to prepare for decoration.
Fang Minghua has already contacted the water, electricity and bricklayers and is waiting for the weather to warm up after spring to start construction.
The Spring Festival of 1990 came relatively early, and the 27th of January was the New Year’s Eve.
This year’s New Year’s Eve was spent at my sister’s brother-in-law’s house because my parents moved there to take care of my pregnant sister.
However, on New Year's Eve, brother-in-law Liu Jianjun took his sister Fang Mingli back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year. The family was actually just the old couple and Fang Minghua's family, and the family was very lively with two children.
The 1990 Spring Festival songs were lackluster, but the two sketches were very interesting. One was "Protagonist and Supporting Role" performed by Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao, and the other was a blind date performed by Zhao Benshan and Huang Xiaojuan.
The "King of Sketch" on the Spring Festival Gala stage was born.
From then on, audiences across the country remembered Zhao Benshan’s name. However, they did not know at that time that in the next 20 years, Zhao Benshan would become one of their reasons and motivations for watching the Spring Festival Gala.
Of course, starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, Qin Provincial TV Station began to broadcast the TV series Desire on the prime channel at 8 o'clock in the evening, and there were two episodes every Saturday and Sunday, which immediately set off a ratings boom.
There are still only five days of Spring Festival holiday, and it passes by in a hurry. Song Tangtang has to go to work, and Fang Minghua has to start continuing the script of "The Ordinary World".
In the words of my daughter-in-law, if you finish writing it one day earlier, I will go to Yanjing to talk to Zheng Xiaolong one day earlier.
Okay, listen to your wife.
Fang Minghua had no choice but to send his two children back to his mother-in-law’s house to continue his coding plan.
"Ordinary World" has millions of words. Fang Minghua decided that the length of the script would be about 40 episodes. Any longer would require water injection and cost should be considered. After all, this is the film era.
Each episode's script is about 7,000-8,000 words, which is a relatively small number of words among ordinary TV drama scripts.
Fang Minghua has always insisted that screenwriters only provide a reference template for directors when writing scripts. A real director must create a second time. Writing too detailed will restrict the director's performance.
Of course, it is also laziness to a certain extent.
The spring of 1990 came belatedly, and there were several cold spells in the middle. Finally, at the end of February, the script of "The Ordinary World" was finished.
(End of this chapter)