Chapter 271

The actress who played the second sister-in-law in the original version of "Happy Reunion," Wen Yujuan, is also from Shandong. "Happy Reunion" was her first film. She had previously performed in stage plays for two years at the Nanjing Air Force Art Troupe.

Later, she also performed in the stage play version of "Triumph at Midnight."

The stage play version won Wen Yujuan the Plum Blossom Award, while the TV series version won Zhu Lin the Golden Eagle Best Actress award.

Director Zhao Huanzhang's requirements for acting skills were not that high. What was important was temperament, a kind of reasonable, reassuring, gentle, and dignified temperament. It must be atmospheric, not petty.

From the first impression, Zhu Lin met his psychological expectations, but how it would specifically go still required acting a segment, changing into the costume in the play to see the feeling. After all, this was a rural play, and Zhu Lin was from a scholarly family, with professors and doctors in her family.

When Zhu Lin was auditioning for "Happy Reunion," Gong Ying had already met with Wei Ming, and Wei Ming even let her wear a helmet to go to the Overseas Chinese Apartment with him.

"Don't worry, my parents are all at the Sihe Academy at this time."

Because they had to consider taking care of the dog Ginkgo, and the Sihe Academy had a large space and was close to Xintiandi, the parents moved the cooking business there two days ago, rested there at noon, and today the grandmother also went there. It was a once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity.

The guard Old Sun saw Wei Ming carrying a woman in and his eyes lit up. Yo, this girl hasn't been here for a while.

In fact, Gong Ying only came once at the beginning, and the ones who came later were all Zhu Lin. However, wearing a helmet and dressing thickly in winter, he naturally couldn't tell them apart.

Gong Ying wore her helmet from the moment she got off the bike until she went upstairs and entered the room, worried about being recognized by the neighbors.

The exposure rate brought to her by "The Herdsman" was not comparable to "Good Things Come After Hardships." I heard from many people at the Shanghai Er Yingchang that she should be able to make it into the final nomination list for the Hundred Flowers Award next year and will be Zhang Yu's main competitor.

That is the Hundred Flowers Award voted by millions of fans with real money!

After entering the door, she first heard a meow. Taking off her helmet, she immediately saw an underage Black Cat Sheriff.

"Can I touch it?" Gong Ying was eager to try.

Wei Ming: "You are not familiar with it yet, it won't let you touch it, but I let you touch it."

Sister Xue gently punched him, and then looked around the living room.

When she came, they had just moved in, and there weren't many things. The 150-square-meter interior area looked empty. Now it is much richer, with telephones and televisions.

But what attracted her most were the paintings in the living room. The earliest Xiong Mao Holding Bamboo painting was still there, and there was an extra "Infant Playing Painting," which was actually a work by Zhang Daqian.

Wei Ming hugged Sister Xue's slender waist from behind: "I bought a lot of landscape paintings, my mother didn't care, but she liked this painting the most and insisted on hanging it in the living room."

Gong Ying understood as soon as she heard it, her face blushing. But no matter how bold she was, she wouldn't dare to have a child out of wedlock. She would still have to wear it later.

Next, Wei Ming invited Gong Ying to the study, where the top collections were.

"Ten Thousand Mountains Red!" Gong Ying's voice suddenly rose a lot. Although she knew in Wei Ming's letter that he had purchased this painting, she still felt very excited when she saw the original work.

Wei Ming: "It's a pity that Rongbaozhai refused to sell me the largest one. This one is still a bit smaller."

"But the momentum is not lost." Gong Ying watched infatuatedly, more and more afraid to say that she could paint.

Then Wei Ming took out other collections. Although there were not many, each one was a masterpiece by several masters, Pan Tianshou, Zhang Daqian, Guan Shanyue, Fu Baoshi, etc.

There were also other sets of the flower and insect painting series by Old Man Bai Shi, which were also taken out for Sister Xue to appreciate, with a magnifying glass offered.

Gong Ying looked at the paintings, Wei Ming looked at her.

"Why don't we go to the art gallery tomorrow? A comic work by A Long won the third prize in the Youth Art Exhibition. I guess it has something to do with A Ying."

"Oh, is that so? If there's nothing tomorrow, we'll go," Gong Ying responded, someone's hand was already unable to hold back, "Don't mess around, I haven't finished reading yet."

"By the time you finish reading, my grandmother will be back." Wei Ming said impatiently. Sister Xue has no house in Yanjing, and such opportunities are rare.

As they spoke, the two moved to the bedroom. Sheriff stared curiously at the two stuck together, and then heard a "bang," the door closed and was locked.

"Ah, pull, pull the curtains~"

The war was ignited quickly, but just at the 33rd minute, when it was halfway through, a kind Sichuan dialect suddenly came from outside.

"Good grandson, is it you who came back?"

Terrible, grandmother really came back. Sister Xue's body shook like chaff.

Although she longed to meet Wei Ming's family, it was definitely not in this situation. It was so embarrassing.

Wei Ming paused slightly, then replied: "Grandmother, it's me, I came back to take a nap."

Grandmother said: "Your parents also let me come back to take a nap. I said I wasn't sleepy. They said they didn't seem to close the door in the morning and asked me to go home and see. It's really inexplicable."

Three question marks appeared on Wei Ming's head. Gong Ying was already covering her mouth and holding back laughter. She seemed to understand.

Let you laugh, Wei Ming→.

Sister Xue was furious, her eyes watery, wanting to bite him, but afraid he would cry out and make grandmother suspicious.

Wei Ming continued to talk to grandmother: "Grandmother, don't worry, I will close the door when I leave later, you can go back to the Sihe Academy."

In fact, grandmother is very transparent. She understands everything and thought her grandson didn't understand. She laughed: "Wait a little longer, I'll watch TV. It seems there is a documentary about our Sichuan and Chongqing at this time. Good grandson, does my watching TV affect your sleep?"

"It doesn't affect, it doesn't affect." However, Wei Ming felt that if grandmother went back to the Sihe Academy now, it would take an hour to go back and forth, which should be enough for a middle-aged person.

Then Wei Ming whispered in Sister Xue's ear: "We'll just be quiet. Grandmother will leave in an hour, and then we'll leave."

Sister Xue shook her head. She made a gesture that there was a traitor and the transaction was suspended. Wei Ming still followed her.

Since it was "suspended," it would be restarted after grandmother left. A young man like Wei Ming in his prime, even if the fire went out, could quickly stand up again.

So the TV sound was playing outside, while Gong Ying and Wei Ming were hiding in the quilt and chatting about the movie. Wei Ming had already met with Director Wang Haowei, and the two communicated very smoothly.

However, Wei Ming learned from Sister Xue that she had taken a fancy to Ma Xiaowei for the male lead.

Of course, it hasn't been confirmed yet. Ma Xiaowei also just came to the Beijing Er Yingchang to prepare for an audition.

This future Chairman really looks good. In the 80s, he emerged with "Swallow Returns" and "Happy Reunion," and later maintained his popularity with films such as "Happy Bachelor" and "Thunderstorm." He is basically an actor from the Shanghai Er Yingchang system. Later, he joined the August First Er Yingchang and played the Chairman several times.

If you want to select the four young students of this period, Tang Guoqiang and Guo Kaimin must be counted, and then there are Zhu Shimao and Ma Xiaowei.

Although Ma Xiaowei is the same age as Wei Ming, he looks more mature, or maybe he changed his age. Later, playing Sister Xue's childhood sweetheart brother in "Happy Bachelor" was not abrupt at all.

"Eh, there seems to be no movement outside? Grandmother seems to have left!"

Gong Ying cautiously: "Are you sure? Put on your clothes and go out to see."

Wei Ming: "No need to go out."

He ran naked to the window, squatted at the curtain and opened a slit, secretly looking downstairs, looking like a skinned bodybuilding frog, which made Gong Ying cry and laugh.

Then the frog jumped back into the quilt immediately: "Grandmother is gone, continue!"

After it was over, Gong Ying was afraid of being blocked here by Wei Ming's family, so she didn't rest much and wanted to return to the dormitory of the General Political Art Troupe. Her relationship has not been officially transferred yet.

After Wei Ming sent her back, he went back to the library to work, but he kept struggling with the sheet music at his post. After work, he went to Shaoyuan to find Li Aiguo. He also had Li Kui and several girls with him.

"Leonardo, is the song you mentioned for John Lennon written?"

Wei Ming: "I came here today to tell you about this. Take a look."

Li Aiguo said: "In terms of music, I am not as good as Li Kui. I can't even read the sheet music. Let him sing it and listen."

Wei Ming looked at Li Kui's dark face and felt a bit unsure. This is a female vocal song, named "Moonlight Shadow," which can be translated into Chinese as "Shadow Under the Moonlight" or "Moon Shadow."

But Li Kui was very persistent because he could read the numbered musical notation, so he knew that this song was unexpectedly not bad. While looking at the music, he looked at Wei Ming: "Hey, bro, nb!"

Although it is not a masterpiece, and Wei Ming already has the identity of a musician in China, this time it was created in English, which is no different from him and Li Aiguo writing a decent five-character seven-syllable poem.

After reading the song, Li Kui began to sing, "the last that ever she saw him

carried away by a moonlight shadow......"

After singing the song, Li Aiguo's expression was subtle. Hmm, this, he was thinking about how to politely refuse Wei Leonardo Ming. The lyrics were still good, talking about Yoko Ono's sadness after John Lennon's death, but it didn't seem to sound that good.

Although it also belongs to the type that can be sold, it doesn't seem to be of much significance for him to work hard to write a letter to his father and let him use MCA's connections.

At this time, a British girl next to him couldn't help it. She took the sheet music from Li Kui's hand and looked at it seriously, while Li Kui was still immersed in his performance, his eyes were moist, feeling that his singing was too touching.

After a while, Melinda's British fellow villager Lisa also began to sing, with the same lyrics and the same tune, but Li Aiguo felt refreshed when he heard it.

So this song sounds so good!

In fact, Lisa is only an amateur singer, but her voice is soft, and it is very suitable to sing this gentle and sad song, while Li Kui sang this song into a bandit song, the feeling of killing and looting on a dark night.

After Lisa finished singing, Li Aiguo applauded: "Leonardo, you are a genius! A genius in all aspects!"

Wei Ming also applauded, the applause was for Lisa: "Thank you Lisa, although I can't sing well myself, this is the feeling I want."

Next, Li Aiguo promised to write to his father in the United States today: "The Western music industry will definitely be happy to see such a song commemorating John Lennon, and it comes from China. This is simply too cool."

This song was written in 1983. Although there is a saying that it was written to commemorate John Lennon, the creator himself has denied it, and some of the time and the number of shots in the lyrics do not match. However, Wei Ming corrected these bugs when creating it. This is to commemorate John Lennon, so that there is traffic.

"Who said that mainland China has no modern music! This can definitely shock the eyes of those foreigners who don't understand China!" Li Aiguo carefully put away this music score.

Although Wei Ming is an outlier among Chinese people, Li Aiguo believes that there will definitely be more Wei Mings in the future. He is a microcosm of China's opening up to the outside world!

Wei Ming couldn't let Li Aiguo work in vain. He promised that after the event, 10% of the proceeds he received from this song would be his, just as his agency fee, the same as Mao Mao Amin.

Li Aiguo was very happy that this Chinese friend understood people in their capitalist countries so well. Although it was not implemented in the contract, which made him a little uneasy, Wei Ming is a writer with a certain reputation in the world, and his nephew in the United States has heard of mrwhy, so he definitely won't break his promise.

And this time the pen name used is also mrwhy. Wei Ming plans to use this pen name abroad in the future, and everyone thinks it is easy to remember.

That night, Li Aiguo began to write a family letter. Although he would go home during the winter vacation, there was still about a month left. He couldn't wait, so let this letter return to the United States first.

After returning home, Wei Ming also began to write to Melinda, and attached his improved Rubik's Cube strategy, asking Mei Lin to see if there is any commercial value. In addition, he also sent a backup copy of "Moonlight Shadow" to her.

Then he backed up another copy, stuffed it into another letter and sent it together, and also reminded on the envelope not to open it.

This can be used as one of the evidences of the creation time of this song. Although it is just a song, it is no big deal, but you can't be without a heart to guard against others. After all, he hasn't slept with Li Aiguo, so he is not that at ease.

The killing of John Lennon had a great impact. Even Mao Mao Amin mentioned this matter sadly in her recent letter to him, and sang several of Lennon's representative works on the tape.

The next day, Wei Ming and Gong Ying came to the National Art Museum of China to see the exhibition. Both of them wore masks, even if it was to prevent colds, it was good.

Before finding A Long's comic work, the two were shocked by an oil painting two meters long and one and a half meters wide. Its name is "Father."

This is the first prize work of this National Youth Art Exhibition. It was painted by the painter Luo Zhongli after experiencing life in the Daba Mountains and combining two character prototypes. It has a shocking power, and it seems that it later appeared in primary school Chinese textbooks.

As the son of a farmer, Wei Ming felt the most when seeing this kind of painting. Although the old farmers on the North China Plain are not used to wrapping white towels and are rarely tanned so black, they also wear towels on their heads, and they also have such deep wrinkles and confused eyes.

He also thought of Old Wei, who was troubled by lung disease in his previous life and was old before he was fifty. His eyes were inexplicably sour.

Gong Ying gently squeezed Wei Ming's hand. Although she was not a farmer's child, she had also gone to the countryside and experienced life in the Northwest, where there were many old people like the old man in the painting.

This painting was very popular, and soon a group of viewers gathered. Wei Ming and Gong Ying quickly exited the encirclement, packed up their mood, and while looking at the exhibition, looked for A Long's comics.

"Here, here." Gong Ying first discovered the name "Liu Rulong."

However, it was not the love comic between him and Gong Ying that Wei Ming imagined, but the story of his parents and him.

The father went far away to make money, and the mother raised the child alone. Until a long, long time later, the father came back and the child grew up.

The story is very ordinary, but A Long changed the characters to pandas, and finally the panda father came back with a basket of bamboo shoots, looking very happy and interesting, but Wei Ming, who knows A Long, guessed that he must have cried when he was painting.

And Wei Ming found that after a year of exercise, A Long's painting skills have improved greatly. This panda painting has a feeling of lifting weight as if it were light. A few simple lines outline the charm of the panda.

It's time to add some burden to him.

In the evening, after Wei Ming finished eating with Sister Xue and sent her away, he went to the Film Academy again, found A Long, and told him.

"From now on, 'Black Cat Sheriff' will be drawn once a month."

"What's wrong?" Liu Rulong was holding the character design drawings of Jing Tianming and Xiang Shaoyu, thinking he was going to talk about "The Legend of Qin," but it was "Black Cat Sheriff."

Wei Ming explained: "Aunt Xiaoyan also added burden to me. From January next year, "Children's Literature" will be changed to a monthly magazine, so "Black Cat Sheriff" will also be once a month."

In 1980, Wei Ming published five stories of "Black Cat Sheriff," and "Black Cat Sheriff" was only made into an animation for five episodes.

With interesting stories, rich imagination, and cute animal characters, this series has become the sales guarantee of "Children's Literature," and even the current fairy tale brother. The revised "Children's Literature" is still counting on Wei Ming to help them stabilize sales.

And the editor-in-chief finally decided to publish the previous five articles into a book, which also requires A Long to draw a few more.

A Long agreed happily, so he can have more income in a month.

Then they looked at the character design drawings of the two protagonists. Of course, they were different from Wei Ming's memory, and there was no need to be the same. A Long's design was not bad.

Since the consideration is the Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asian markets, A Long's painting is also biased towards the Hong Kong comic style. He let Wei Ming finalize the draft.

Wei Ming chose Jing Tianming No. 5 and No. 8, as well as Xiang Shaoyu No. 3.

A Long laughed: "Jing 5 and Xiang 3 are indeed my most satisfied ones. I will integrate a bit of No. 8 later."

"You have no problem drawing men, but women are difficult. You continue to work hard." Wei Ming patted A Long on the shoulder. "The Legend of Qin" actually doesn't matter what the male lead looks like. What matters is various mechanism techniques, colorful martial arts scenes, shocking national style, and various beautiful female characters.

Wei Ming actually thought about letting A Long be responsible for the illustrations of his overseas works. He has the strength, and he can let his brother earn this money. This is not a small amount. That British picture book painter earned nearly 100,000 dollars with "Jumanji."

But drawing picture books for novels involves a "party A's requirement," which requires constant modification to satisfy Party A's father. This doomed A Long, who is in the country, to be unable to take this job.

Communication costs are huge.

Returning to the Overseas Chinese Apartment, the mother told Wei Ming again: "Little Zhu called to find you."

Now everyone knows each other, and no one says Section Chief Zhu.

"When was that?"

"Called at noon."

Wei Ming: "Mother, I'm going out for a while, I'll sleep at the Sihe Academy tonight."

These words automatically became in the ears of Xu Shufen and Wei Jiefang: Mother, I will take Zhu Lin to the Sihe Academy to sleep.

Zhu Lin was at home in Tuanjiehu, having done yoga several times. Waiting for Wei Ming to not come, she had already lain down to sleep.

She was awakened only when she heard the sound of Wei Ming opening the door.

"Is it you, little Wei?"

"It's me."

Wei Ming hugged Sister Lin who was wearing pajamas: "Hurry in, it's cold."

The two got into the quilt, Wei Ming: "You missed me, right."

Zhu Lin was stubborn: "No, there is just something I want to discuss with you."

"What's the matter?"

Zhu Lin sighed: "A movie from the Shanghai Er Yingchang asked me to play the female lead, but it conflicts with the date of my class at the Film Academy."

"Do you like that script?" Wei Ming asked first.

"Well, although it is a rural theme, the story is very interesting. It is a theme of promoting filial piety and fraternity, and it happened in the Qilu land. My father is from Shandong, but I haven't been to Shandong yet. This play will also go to Shandong to film at that time. Maybe I can go back to my hometown." This is also quite an attractive point for Zhu Lin.

Wei Ming pondered: "What movie?"

Zhu Lin: "It's called 'Happy Reunion'."

Ho!

Yesterday I just talked about Ma Xiaowei with Sister Xue, and I heard "Happy Reunion." The male lead of "Happy Reunion" is Ma Xiaowei. Then he took "Mom, Love Me Once Again," so he can't play this god movie of the 80s?

Saying "Happy Reunion" is a god movie is a compliment. This movie set a record, which is the most copies in China. It is said that the number of 35mm, 16mm, and 8.75mm copies exceeded 4,000 sets!

In 1981, it was the crown of distribution revenue, and also the crown of the number of 35mm copy viewers, but the total number was slightly inferior to the drama film "Legend of the White Snake."

"Which role did they ask you to play?" Wei Ming asked again.

"Second sister-in-law."

Oh, that can be considered the first female lead. In those years, Wen Yujuan relied on this role to become a good sister-in-law spokesperson famous all over the country. Sister Lin's gentle and virtuous demeanor is not inferior to her, and she is more beautiful.

"I do know this play. The story is very solid, and the country has previously advocated the development of rural themes. Maybe you can become famous all over the country with this play."

"Then what about my studies?" Zhu Lin is worried about this. She is an amateur, acting entirely by her true colors. She wanted to learn acting systematically to broaden her acting path.

Wei Ming seriously gave an idea: "How about this, you write a letter to the Central Academy of Drama. Didn't they recruit 80-level freshmen? You apply to be an auditor after filming this play. The acting teaching of the Central Academy of Drama is also very solid."

Zhu Lin felt reliable after hearing it: "I can attend the classes of the Film Academy if I can, and then go to the Central Academy of Drama for further studies. It's just that the director said that I have to go to the Shandong countryside to experience life during this period before the New Year."

"Ah, are you leaving?" Wei Ming has both reluctance and secret joy. Finally, he doesn't have to face both of them at the same time.

Zhu Lin: "Can't bear to part with me?"

"Definitely."

Zhu Lin turned on the horse: "Then accompany me well these days, don't accompany others."

Wei Ming nodded seriously.

Zhu Lin: "Do you know what day it is today?"

Wei Ming thought for a while: "Oh my, it's December 31st!"

Zhu Lin glanced at Wei Ming's luminous watch: "Yes, it will be 1981 in another hour. Can you persist until 81?"

Wei Ming laughed: "Don't you know my strength yet."

Zhu Lin thought to herself, I'm just afraid that your strength has already been used on others, and now you are shy in your pocket.

An hour later, Wei Ming and Zhu Lin combined to cross the year and came to 1981.

And the one who crossed two years with Wei Ming last year was Melinda.

Who will it be next year?

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