Chapter 265

"Met? And then?" Wei Ming asked.

"I don't know what happened after that."

A Long explained what happened. Originally, he saw Zhu Lin walking toward the bus station and thought about riding his bike to send Gong Xue back to her dormitory himself.

At first, Gong Xue declined, saying she could take the bus, but A Long immediately said he wanted to chat with her about A Ying and their future, and Gong Xue immediately agreed.

However, after riding for only one stop, his bike chain fell off.

"I thought about fixing it quickly, but the more anxious I was, the less I could get it on. Just then, the bus came, it was the one from Tuanjie Lake, and Zhang Yu was on the bus. She recognized Sister Xue and called her to get on, so she did."

Wei Ming asked: "Then is your bike chain fixed now?"

"My bike chain... that's not the point. The point is that after Sister Xue got on the bus, I noticed Sister Zhu Lin was also on the bus. The three of them sat together!" A Long said worriedly.

Wei Ming shrank his neck; in the end, he still let them meet. What kind of scene would follow? Thinking about it, he felt a bit inexplicably excited.

"A Ming, should we find a way to remedy it?" A Long was a bit worried for him.

Wei Ming, however, said relievedly: "Remedy what? If you die, you die; if you don't, you live for ten thousand years. Let it be."

Liu Rulong and Long Xiaoyang were both incredibly impressed; this mentality was too powerful.

So A Long took the opportunity to suggest: "Then let's talk about something else."

Long Xiaoyang hurriedly said: "Alright, how is the novel about dinosaurs that you mentioned, Big Brother, coming along?"

Wei Ming: "Haven't started writing yet. I'll start writing after I finish revising the manuscript from the Magic City."

Long Xiaoyang was a bit regretful, but A Long was anxious: "Ah, then what about the comic about the Qin Dynasty you mentioned? My brothers and I are all waiting for your story to start."

Wei Ming was embarrassed; he had promised too many writing plans in advance, and there was also Li Hanxiang's script.

He said: "Then I'll write for you first; yours is indeed more urgent."

Recently, besides drawing illustrations for the bi-monthly Black Cat Detective, A Long had no other income.

A Long asked again: "Then can you reveal some now?"

Wei Ming thought for a moment: "How about this, I'll return to the Magic City the day after tomorrow. I'll write the outline, character settings, and part of the plot today and tomorrow. With these things, you can start."

"Great!" Being able to work again, A Long was already boiling with excitement.

And watching these two discuss a field he completely didn't understand, Long Xiaoyang truly envied them; one still had to read more books.

Just as he was thinking, the door opened, and Wei Hong called them for dinner.

The wedding ended, and the relatives on the Wei family side were temporarily all in the courtyard; it was indeed spacious here.

Walking out of the room, the first thing he saw was the dog Ginkgo gnawing on a bone; these were all brought back from the wedding banquet, and it wouldn't lack bones for a while.

Then Wei Ming met the eyes of his mother and Old Wei; their eyes were very complicated.

If the son is unwanted, the parents worry; if too many people like the son, the parents worry even more. After all, in this era, lifestyle issues are big issues.

It's just that the son's career is too successful, and the level he has seen is difficult for his parents to understand. Perhaps they don't understand successful people, so they didn't break it, just silently helping him patch things up.

The two appeared one after another at the wedding banquet, which made Zhu Lin and Gong Xue happy, both feeling that they had been recognized by their future parents-in-law, until they saw each other on the bus.

That glance, a vague memory from a year ago surged into their hearts. It was near Peking University, one going, one returning, one riding a bike, one walking, one look back made them have a deep impression of each other.

Gong Xue/Zhu Lin: She is so beautiful!

Even after a year, even though Zhu Lin began to be wary of the name Gong Xue, seeing her again today, she still felt amazed; she was still so good-looking and comfortable.

And then wariness again; how could she be here? Could it be?

"Sister Gong Xue, are you also attending the wedding? Who was that person just now?" Zhang Yu helped Zhu Lin ask what she wanted to ask.

At this time, there weren't many people on the bus. Looking at Zhu Lin and Zhang Yu sitting next to each other, considering she was more familiar with Zhang Yu, she sat next to Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu was very satisfied; she was in the center position.

Gong Xue first told her: "Yes, I am also attending the wedding. The one who sent me just now is my sister's partner."

"Oh, your sister's partner is in Yanjing? Is he on a business trip?"

"No, he is a student in the art department of the Film Academy. He met my sister while interning in the Magic City before."

"A college student, he doesn't look very old." Zhang Yu had seen Gong Ying; she seemed about the same age as her, a sister-brother romance, yo.

Gong Xue said "Hmm," then looked past Zhang Yu at Zhu Lin, who hadn't spoken.

Zhang Yu hurriedly introduced: "I was busy talking and haven't introduced you yet... Oh my, I forgot, you two should know each other, right."

Zhu Lin reached out a hand to Gong Xue across Zhang Yu, friendly: "Hello, Zhu Lin, I've known you in spirit for a long time."

Gong Xue laughed: "Hello, Gong Xue, I've also seen your poster at New Territories. You are even more beautiful in person than on the poster."

Zhu Lin: "Thank you, but you might not have been in Yanjing for a long time; the posters have been changed to Zhang Yu and Chen Chong now."

Zhang Yu laughed: "It's because of this reason that the boss of New Territories insisted on inviting me to attend their wedding. I didn't expect Wei Ming to be there too. Sister Gong Xue, you were invited by Wei Ming, right."

"Hmm, just happened to have time, so I came to join the fun."

Zhang Yu pointed at Zhu Lin: "Sister Zhu Lin was also invited by Comrade Wei Ming. She is filming 'Regret for the Past' at the Beijing Er Yingchang right now; she was chosen because of that poster."

Gong Xue curious: "Comrade Zhu Lin, how did you and Ma Xiaowei meet?"

"At first, we met through friends. The first day we met, we encountered a thief, and he helped. Then we got familiar. Later, I embarked on the path of an actor because of his encouragement."

Zhu Lin had already told Zhang Yu once just now, implying: We have a very good relationship. There was an intention to declare sovereignty.

Gong Xue didn't hear the subtext, echoing: "That's right, he is indeed warm-hearted. We met on the train at first. He saw through a woman stealing a child. At that time, everyone in our carriage regarded him as a hero."

Promoting her man's heroic deeds, Gong Xue was unambiguous.

This not only made Zhu Lin feel a sense of crisis, but even Zhang Yu wasn't happy hearing it. Why didn't she have such a special experience with Wei Ming?

Eh, got it!

"Just now at the wedding, I sat with Comrade Wei Ming. I heard he is revising a manuscript in the Magic City, seems to be a novel about the War of Resistance. I don't know if there's a chance to be made into a movie, but I've already recommended myself for the lead role."

Gong Xue scratched her head: "That's a long novel; I feel it's difficult to adapt into a movie."

Zhang Yu was stunned, ah, is it long?

Zhu Lin didn't show weakness: "However, he is also writing an original script at the same time recently. Little Zhang, you can try."

Zhu Lin: Of course, trying is useless; it definitely has nothing to do with you.

Gong Xue was stunned; Zhu Lin actually knew about this kind of thing.

"Comrade Zhu Lin, you also know about 'Mom, Love Me Once Again'?"

Now it was Zhu Lin's turn to be embarrassed. What, Mom, Love Me Once Again? Is that the name of the script? Gong Xue actually knows?

I don't even know!

Zhu Lin's complexion suddenly looked bad. She, who originally felt confident that she would be the lead actress of this script, also became vague.

The most uncomfortable one had to be Zhang Yu. Are these two people so close to Wei Ming? I don't know about this at all!

Sure enough, we are still not familiar!

Fortunately, many passengers got on the bus at this time, and then a couple recognized her.

"Zhang Yu!"

"You are Zhang Yu, right?"

Then all the passengers on the bus started greeting Zhang Yu and chatting affectionately, even caring about her new work.

This gave Zhang Yu great satisfaction. Among the three people on the bus, she had the most acting experience, and she had rich experience in dealing with fans in the Magic City before.

She stood up and walked to the middle of the bus, telling the fans who cared about her that she was about to film in Yanjing for a period, hoping everyone would support her more in the future, and so on.

At this time, there was no such thing as keeping the cast secret. Big tribute dramas of the scale of "Bosom Friend" had to be published in the newspaper regardless of the actors.

Zhang Yu chatted for a long time. When she returned to her seat, she found that Zhu Lin had already taken her seat and was chatting with Gong Xue.

"What are you chatting about?" Zhang Yu stared at her center position after sitting down.

Zhu Lin: "I'm asking Comrade Gong Xue when she is returning to the Magic City. If Wei Ming returns later, they might be able to travel together."

Gong Xue looked at the bright smile on Zhu Lin's face, and she suddenly couldn't smile. Zhu Lin actually knew Wei Ming's return date. Are their relationships so close?

Then does she know about her relationship with Ma Xiaowei? It seems she shouldn't know.

"I, I don't know, it depends on what the unit says." Gong Xue felt inexplicably panicked in her heart.

When the bus stopped, she remembered that she wasn't on the same way as the two of them returning to the Beijing Er Yingchang: "I should get off the bus, goodbye."

Zhu Lin waved at her: "Comrade Gong Xue, you can come to the Beijing Er Yingchang to play with us when you are free."

After getting off the bus and watching the bus move away, Gong Xue wrapped her clothes tighter; Yanjing's winter is really cold.

It's even colder at night.

At the entrance of the hutong, under Long Xiaoyang's reluctant gaze, Wei Ming rode his motorcycle and left with Little Hong.

Before leaving, Wei Ming gave his cousin Long Xiaoyang another sum of money, not much, just a thousand yuan, and told him that if their quails could make money, they would definitely drive the people in their village and surrounding villages to raise quails. At that time, they might as well transform into making feed; this profit is greater and the risk is lower.

But to have the opportunity to transform, they must do the quail egg business well and expand the market.

This money was for them to expand the market and subsequent transformation.

Long Xiaoyang was very grateful, but also expressed the idea of wanting to come out and explore. This time coming to Yanjing, he had seen the world.

Wei Ming told him: If there is an opportunity, he will bring him out himself, but the business environment in the capital is just average now, not as good as Sichuan, where the emperor is far away.

Returning to the Overseas Chinese Apartments, the Sheriff meowed, clearly hungry, meowing very flatteringly.

However, as soon as Little Hong bent down to make a gesture to hold it, it ran away, until Little Hong took out a bag of chicken butts, and the Sheriff twisted its butt and came over.

Only the Wei Ming and Wei Hong siblings were at home tonight; their parents and grandmother stayed in the courtyard, preparing to accompany the eldest uncle and the others for a while longer, cherishing this short opportunity to get along.

In two more days, the eldest uncle and the others would also go back. After all, there were quails at home, and they had already started laying eggs to make money. It was not reassuring to always entrust others to take care of them.

"Brother, your two good brothers are married, when do you plan to?" Little Hong asked him while watching the cat eat.

Wei Ming leaned on the sofa: "According to reliable information, the Marriage Law stipulates that the marriage age is 22 for men, which will be implemented from next year. If I want to meet the conditions, it will be at least three years later."

Little Hong urged: "Then can you find a partner first? I'll adapt to the days of having a sister-in-law in advance."

This child, although she has a high IQ, is quite dull in some aspects. She also saw Gong Xue and Zhu Lin at the wedding, but she didn't have any extra thoughts.

She even wanted to help find a sister-in-law from her own female classmates.

"Don't think about it. I have my own arrangements for the sister-in-law part. How is the article about the Rubik's Cube that I asked you to write coming along?"

Wei Hong: "Written, but not finished yet. I'll show it to you!"

Wei Ming looked at it; it was too dry and needed his own polish in terms of interest.

But he still encouraged: "Well done. After it's all written, I'll send it to Melinda. This time we will go directly for overseas distribution."

There was no drinking at dinner just now, and he slept for so long in the afternoon. Taking advantage of being sober, Wei Ming sat in the study and started a new creation. These things had actually been in his mind for a long time, and it was time to take them out and clear the memory.

The next day Wei Hong went to school for class, while Wei Ming continued to write. At noon, he even made a call to the General Political Drama Troupe to find Gong Xue.

"Sister, when are you leaving?"

"What about you?"

"I'm leaving tomorrow. If you can leave tomorrow, I'll buy the ticket together." Wei Ming laughed.

Gong Xue was silent for a moment: "Ma Xiaowei, I might be busy for a few more days. You go back first, I will be as soon as possible."

"Hmm, alright then."

Wei Ming hung up the phone, saw there was still some food in the refrigerator, and dealt with a meal himself.

He agreed to chat with A Long in the evening; it must be done as soon as possible.

Just as he was eating, the phone rang; it was Zhu Lin's.

"Are you free tonight?"

"Yes! Tuanjie Lake?"

"Good."

Liu Rulong arrived at five in the afternoon, and Wei Ming didn't intend to keep him for dinner.

He handed A Long a notebook: "Let's make a quick decision; I still have things to do."

A Long opened the notebook and first saw four small seal script calligraphy characters: "Qin Shi Ming Yue."

It wasn't written well; Wei Ming had just learned it.

After the Qin Dynasty unified, it implemented "writing the same script, vehicles on the same track," and even required the same font, so there was the small seal script evolved from the large seal script.

And the person responsible for this was the Great Qin Prime Minister Li Si, who was also an important character in the story of "Qin Shi Ming Yue."

Wei Ming had studied pre-Qin culture for a while when he wrote "A Terracotta Warrior," and in the spirit of not wasting, he thought the comic book he promised A Long should just be written about the Qin Dynasty.

Actually, the first thing he thought of was "Chronicles of the Qin," becoming the originator of time-travel literature, which was also simpler.

However, after weighing, considering the expression form of comics, "Qin Shi Ming Yue" had more impact and expressiveness than "Chronicles of the Qin," so there was the story outline A Long saw now.

He read it directly: "Qin border, Remnant Moon Valley, in order to protect the son of his old friend Jing Ke, Jing Tianming, the Sword Saint Ge Nie slaughtered three hundred Great Qin iron cavalry with one person and one sword..."

By this sentence, A Long's face already had an excited look. Seeing this, he knew how high the martial arts level in this story was. At that time, the picture would definitely be very cool, which was incomparable to ordinary martial arts comics.

Later, what Ghost Valley descendants, Quicksand organization, Mohist masters, the Hundred Schools of Thought, and Xiang Shaoyu.

"A Ming, this Xiang Shaoyu?"

"That's right, the prototype is Xiang Yu, who could lift a mountain and whose spirit covered the world. But although our story is set in the Qin Dynasty, it is not the real Qin Dynasty. This is an era where both martial arts and technology levels far exceed the historical Qin Dynasty, so let's call him Xiang Shaoyu. However, at the end of the story, it will inevitably be him who overthrows the Qin Dynasty."

"Then what about Liu Bang? And will Xiang Shaoyu commit suicide at Wujiang in the end?" he asked.

The original version of "Qin Shi Ming Yue" hadn't given an answer to this question yet.

The original author of "Qin Shi Ming Yue" was the Taiwanese entrepreneur Wen Shiren, and writing martial arts novels could only be considered his amateur hobby.

It's just that Wen Shiren passed away young, dying of illness at 55.

He passed away in 2003, and only the first part and most of the second part of the eight parts of "Qin Shi Ming Yue" were completed. As for the subsequent six parts, only outlines were left, which were later continued by the Taiwanese crosstalk organization Crosstalk Warehouse.

Then the animation company Xuanji Technology started producing the first large-scale 3D animated series in the country, "Qin Shi Ming Yue," thus starting a journey of dragging and ending that was longer than the history of the Qin Dynasty.

Wei Ming in the 2000s was quite trendy, had watched the entire series of "Qin Shi Ming Yue," and understood what was wrong with this series.

So while maintaining the main line of the first few parts, he wrote a plot outline centered on Jing Tianming, Xiang Shaoyu, and Gao Yue, ensuring they wouldn't deviate from the protagonist group status.

But time was limited, and Wei Ming only wrote until the death of Qin Shi Huang. How to develop next hadn't been perfected.

However, this outline was estimated to be enough for a comic team to draw for several years.

After reading the outline, A Long looked at the character settings and liked them more and more. This story had a very deep cultural heritage. If it could be made, it would definitely not be worse than the little Japanese ones!

He suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was a bit heavy.

Wei Ming patted his shoulder: "You draw the character settings first. There are at least twenty characters, enough for you to ponder. And don't consider the acceptance of mainland readers. I will go to Hong Kong next year. Hong Kong comics can radiate to East Asia and Southeast Asia. We will go directly through that route."

A Long's eyes lit up: "A Ming, can I go to Hong Kong with you? I miss my dad~"

(End of chapter)