Chapter 278

Hearing this number of reprints, the scene fell into a brief silence, and then erupted into enthusiastic cheers. Everyone had two words stuck in their chests.

"Awesome!"

First printing 600,000, reprint 400,000, total circulation 1 million! A million yuan in sales!

This is the second time since the last issue that the circulation of "Harvest" has reached the million level. Although it is a bit worse than the 1.1 million of the last issue, "Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes" still has two parts left.

If these 1 million copies can all be sold out, it is hard to believe what kind of circulation the next issue and the next issue will reach.

After the deputy president announced it, he hurriedly went to the printing plant. He had to let them work overtime. How much can be completed before the New Year, how much will be completed. The Spring Festival is a great opportunity for word-of-mouth fermentation; readers cannot be allowed to want to see it but not be able to buy it.

Wei Ming only experienced the million-level circulation when "The Spring of the Shepherd Class" was published in "People's Literature."

In the current literary scene, the only pure literary journals that can reach this million-level are "People's Literature" and "Harvest."

Wei Ming can even assert that even if "Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes" were published in the other three famous journals, it would be difficult to have such a high achievement. After all, the foundation is still much worse.

Huating Road old Western-style house.

Today Gong Ying went to the Shanghai Animation Er Yingchang to pick up Liu Yurong from work. The two returned here together, and then saw a woman lying at the door looking inside at the entrance of the house.

Tall, white, big, and good-looking, very much like the Chi Lian in her and A-Long's pens. If she were better looking and dressed more beautifully, she would really look like someone who walked out of a comic book.

"May I ask who you are looking for?"

Li Zhi turned around and saw two strangers, so she said: "I'm looking for my classmate Bai Mingzhu. Who are you?"

Gong Ying remembered. The original owner of this house was surnamed Bai. She said: "Your classmate no longer lives here. This house has already been sold."

Li Zhi naturally knew that the house had been sold, and also knew that her classmate didn't live here. She was just strolling around aimlessly, wondering if she could encounter a young and wealthy handsome man.

As a result, she didn't get what she wanted.

"Sold?" Li Zhi pretended not to know, "Then who is the owner of this house now? Are you the owners here?"

"It's my sister's. If there's nothing else, we'll go in first." Gong Ying looked at this woman who kept asking questions and lost her patience.

Li Zhi looked at Gong Ying's face. She should be Gong Xue's sister, right? She had also seen this big star that night. In a few months, Gong Xue's fame had become even greater.

But she didn't believe that a newly famous actress could afford such an old Western-style house. It must have been the money paid by the man next to Gong Xue.

That man looked about the same age as her, and his family background was unfathomable. Gong Xue must be that man's mistress, and probably the kind that the family didn't recognize and could only be kept outside.

Yes, it must be like this!

With this guess, Li Zhi didn't look down on Gong Xue. On the contrary, she felt that this was also very amazing.

Women, their own appearance is the heaviest bargaining chip. It's not bad to be able to exchange it for a lifetime of luxury, just like those popular movie stars in the Republican era who often had collusion with high officials and nobles.

For example, the story of the movie queen Hu Die and Dai Li, she had heard a lot about it. And the one surnamed Dai had long been dead, but Hu Die was not only alive but also living a carefree life abroad, successfully laughing to the end. She was simply a model for women.

Seeing Gong Ying open the door and not go in, but stare at her, Li Zhi helplessly ended her fantasy, smiled apologetically, and left here.

As soon as the two entered the courtyard, they saw Gong Xue open the door to welcome them: "A-Ying, A-Long, you came back together."

"Second Sister!" Gong Ying threw herself over happily, "You finally came back. Is your little aunt... Xiao Hong here?"

"Oh, she went to watch a movie, and she should be back soon."

"Then what about her brother?"

"Went to 'Harvest'."

"So you have already met?" Gong Ying showed a smile of seconds understanding, which made her sister blush.

Next, Gong Xue chatted with A-Long again. She was also very concerned about her sister's love life, but A-Long seemed very reticent and shy.

In fact, it was mainly fear. As soon as Sister Xue returned, he remembered that he had made a big mistake by helping A-Ming deceive A-Ying's sister.

If the matter between A-Ming and Zhu Lin were exposed, A-Ming would certainly be stabbed, but he would definitely be splashed with blood. Thinking of A-Ying's reaction after knowing, he was afraid. Because he was afraid, he didn't want to talk.

Gong Xue just thought his personality was like this and didn't care. At this time, Gong Ying began to discuss with her about going to Yanjing after the New Year.

"Oh?" Gong Xue glanced at A-Long. Is it developing so fast?

Gong Ying said: "I just want to go and see. If it's suitable, I'll stay. If it's not suitable, I'll still stay with my parents."

"What kind of work?"

"Clothing design. I found that I seem to have some talent in this area." As she said that, Gong Ying went to get the character design drawings of "The Legend of Qin." She participated in the revision from the lead to the supporting roles, and all she changed were the clothes.

After her revision, these characters could be remembered at a glance, and they were much more vivid.

Gong Xue nodded while watching. This is a comic book that is very different from the current mainland style. It looks very beautiful and should be very attractive to young people. Just when she was about to see the big-breasted and long-legged Chi Lian, a bouncing little girl returned. It was Wei Hong.

Originally, she was still a bit jumpy, but when she saw Gong Xue sitting on the sofa, she immediately became honest: "Hello, Sister Gong Xue."

This posture is called "living under someone else's roof." She had always thought that this house was Gong Xue's.

Gong Xue hurriedly put down the manuscript in her hand to respond to Wei Hong, and affectionately pulled her to sit next to her and chat with her. The intention to have a good relationship with her sister-in-law was very obvious.

Her competition with Zhu Lin, besides Wei Ming, actually also included his relatives and friends. This girl Xiao Hong has a very high status.

Wei Hong was a bit flattered. Not only did they take them in to live here, but they also asked about their well-being, making her feel at home. She and her brother should really thank Brother A-Long. They must be looking at the face of her future brother-in-law.

A-Long:......

"Xiao Hong, what movie did you watch?"

"Oh, the Peking Opera movie 'The Legend of the White Snake.' It seems to be filmed by the Shanghai Er Yingchang. It looks quite lively. With subtitles, I don't worry about not understanding," Wei Hong said. The last drama movie that left a deep impression on her was "The Seven-Grade Sesame Official."

This movie is still very strong. In '81, it was the only work that could compete with "Happy Reunion" in terms of dissemination range and audience numbers, and it was also from the Shanghai Er Yingchang.

Originally, the film scene in '81 was a complete victory for the Shanghai Er Yingchang. However, now the Beijing Er Yingchang has "Heroes Born Since Ancient Times," which is also a work at the annual champion level. Moreover, this time it was released before "Shaolin Temple," and it has a first-mover advantage. The final result is really hard to say.

It was getting dark, and Wei Ming came back strolling. Seeing everyone there, he reiterated the concert tomorrow night, mainly for Gong Xue. Everyone else already knew.

After dinner, neither Gong Xue nor Gong Ying had any intention of going home.

Gong Xue didn't go home after returning to the Magic City, just wanting to spend more time with Wei Ming. In two days, she would pretend that she had just returned home.

And Gong Ying knew that her sister was going home today, so she had already told her parents in advance that she was staying overnight at her best friend's house.

Tonight, the two of them naturally shared a room, the one between Wei Ming and Wei Hong.

Wei Ming turned on the desk lamp to revise the manuscript. How he wished for a red-sleeved fragrance-adding companion. Unfortunately, he waited for a long time and didn't see Sister Xue come in. In fact, he had already completed the ammunition filling and could do it a second time.

However, Wei Hong was on the second floor, and Gong Ying was lying by the bed. How could Gong Xue be embarrassed to sneak into Wei Ming's room at this time? At this moment, she was chatting with her sister about some private talk between sisters.

"What, you two have been drawing pictures these days, really didn't do anything?"

"At most, we held hands, and then that was it," Gong Ying said honestly.

Gong Xue educated: "A-Long is still young after all. You are older than him, so you have to be responsible for guiding him."

Not saying anything too excessive, at least hugging is still necessary, right.

Gong Ying immediately asked: "Then you and Wei Ming, are you guiding him?"

Gong Xue immediately stopped talking. Although Ma Xiaowei is also young, he is experienced in many battles. She is completely passive, okay.

It was just that they hadn't seen each other for a long time today, and she couldn't help herself, so she was a bit more active. In the afternoon, she was on top.

The two sisters were whispering when a cat's meow came from the balcony. This was Wei Ming completing today's revision task and starting to call for spring.

Gong Ying didn't know why and thought a wild cat had really come to the house, but Gong Xue heard at once that it was Wei Ming making trouble.

She responded with two "meows," meaning: No, no way.

Sure enough, the cat's meow stopped abruptly, which made Gong Ying dumbfounded. You two are so good at playing.

She felt that her sister had been eaten up by the little brother-in-law without even bones left.

"A-Ying, sleep, it's not early."

"Sister, one last question," Gong Ying said, "Before Wei Ming left, did he take him home to meet his parents?"

If it weren't for Zhu Lin, even if Gong Xue acted like a spoiled child, she would have let Ma Xiaowei meet her parents. Her parents had always been worried about her lifelong events, so this would make them feel more at ease.

But now it's not possible. This violates her agreement with Zhu Lin and is considered cheating. So she could only help Wei Ming cover up: "I said not to meet first. I am currently in the rising period of my career and don't want the news to hype up emotional matters. Taking him home, the neighbors all have eyes, and it will definitely spread everywhere. Everyone says everything, and thinking about it is annoying. So let everyone focus on my work."

Gong Ying didn't expect her sister to be so career-minded. Poor little brother-in-law, he spent money to buy a house and produced works to support people, but he still couldn't get a name.

Sure enough, it's hard to be a man, and it's even harder to be the man behind a female star.

Thinking about it this way, her sister is quite a scumbag.

Just as she was about to criticize her sister, Gong Xue had already closed her eyes. The exercise in the afternoon was quite physically exhausting, and she had sat in the car for half a day in the morning, and just took a hot bath, so the sleepiness was just right.

The next day, Gong Xue still had no intention of going home. After Gong Ying and A-Long went to work, looking at the annoying Xiao Hong, Wei Ming was about to have bad thoughts, but Gong Xue said: "Xiao Hong, let's go shopping together."

Wei Hong: "Great, great, I also want to buy some stylish goods from the Magic City to take back to my hometown."

Wei Ming: What do you mean, you don't want me?

"You just stay at home and revise the manuscript properly, don't delay the time." As she said that, she winked at Wei Ming.

Her meaning is: Be obedient.

So Wei Ming worked hard at home. Around 3:00 in the afternoon, the two returned. Gong Xue's expression was as usual, and Wei Hong was already exhausted. She knew for the first time that shopping could be so tiring!

Today, the two of them swept through several major department stores in the Magic City. Except for clothes, they bought quite a lot of other food and daily necessities. After all, Wei Hong had never shopped with such high intensity, and compared with Gong Xue, she was dwarfed.

Because they had already eaten outside, Wei Hong returned to her room, closed the door, and began to lie like a corpse, and soon fell asleep.

At this time, Gong Xue winked at Wei Ming again, and Wei Ming hurriedly pulled her into his room.

The most magical thing is that when they went to the Magic City Gymnasium to watch the concert that night, Gong Xue still walked like the wind, while Wei Hong looked like she had been blown by the wind.

Although women have the talent for shopping, there is also a gap between mature women and little girls.

This Magic City concert is no different from the Yanjing one. There is also a video, which will be broadcast on the Magic City station at that time, allowing the people of the whole city to listen to pop songs from the outside.

In this regard, the Magic City's acceptance ability ranks among the top in the country.

The climax of the scene was Sada Masashi singing the Chinese version of "Declaration of a Man." In later generations, foreigners can speak two sentences of Chinese, and the Chinese people will be very happy and like it. At this time, it will only be worse.

Fortunately, there is no roof here, otherwise the cheers of 18,000 spectators could lift the roof.

After singing, Sada Masashi also specifically thanked the great writer Wei Ming who wrote these Chinese lyrics.

Recently, because of "Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes," Wei Ming's exposure in the Magic City newspapers is not low, and he can add another one today.

After the concert, Gong Xue and Gong Ying were going home. This was their temporary decision because they just felt that they were filmed by the TV station, so they might be seen by their parents next. So today is the day Gong Xue "returned" from Northern Jiangsu.

With A-Long seeing them off, Wei Ming chatted with Sada Masashi backstage for a while.

He revealed that he would stay in China for a while longer: "Maybe we can meet again."

Wei Ming thought to himself, it's coming, it's coming!

Sure enough, he revealed to Wei Ming that his family business would cooperate with CCTV to film a documentary about the "Yangtze River," and he would personally serve as the director and lead actor, following the crew from the Magic City to the source of the Yangtze River. He was also preparing to create a song about the Yangtze River.

This is a decision that will make him carry debts for decades, but it must be said that this documentary is filmed at a high level, and if it is not filmed now, it will not be the feeling of 1981 in a few years. This is a very precious video record.

Wei Ming patted him on the shoulder: "I wish you success. My mother is from Sichuan, and the Yangtze River also passes through there. Just from the humanistic and natural scenery I have seen, it is really beautiful."

When Sada is in debt and concentrates on music, maybe they can cooperate again.

The next day, Wei Ming and Gong Xue met again, but there was no dancing with guns and sticks.

Wei Ming put on the old-fashioned phonograph in the living room and began to dance ballroom dancing with Gong Xue. She also specifically put on high heels.

Learning from their appearance, A-Long and A-Ying also danced clumsily.

Although Xiao Hong felt that the appearance of her brother and Sister Gong Xue was a bit ambiguous, she also urgently wanted to join in, but unfortunately she was alone.

Wei Ming: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'll teach you later."

In the past, college students basically knew how to dance ballroom dancing, but when Wei Hong went to college, dancing in public places was already prohibited, and she didn't have a chance to learn.

The dancing time was only a short half day.

After lunch, Wei Ming delivered the last 120,000 words of the manuscript to the "Harvest" editorial department. In the afternoon, the three of them would take the train back to their hometown for the New Year.

This time they didn't take a plane because after taking the plane, they still had to take a train, car, and motorcycle for a day, so they simply bought three sleeper train tickets, hard sleeper.

At the train station, Gong Er and Gong San all came to see them off. Wei Hong looked at the two sisters and felt that Sister Gong Xue was more reluctant to part with them than Gong Ying. She was really a warm and hospitable hostess!

When Sister Gong Xue arrives in Yanjing in the future, she must let her live in her own house!

Before getting on the train, Wei Ming went to buy magazines and newspapers to pass the time on the road as usual, and then saw passengers rushing to buy "Story Club."

After a year, "Story Club" has been very popular in scenes like train stations and bus stations. This kind of short story is more suitable for travel than pure literature like "Harvest" and "Contemporary."

Hearing He Chengwei mention it in a letter, "Story Club" is preparing to revise and become a monthly magazine.

However, the top priority now is to improve the quality of the manuscripts and consolidate the brand and word of mouth.

Today, "Story Club" held a major editorial meeting. He Chengwei criticized an editor for screening a vulgar article called "Xu Fu in Japan."

Because the popularity of "The Terracotta Warrior" is extremely high, many stories surrounding Qin Shi Huang in the second half of 1980 were very popular.

"This Qi Kuangren is just taking advantage of this popularity. He wrote several articles about Qin Shi Huang, but none were accepted. Later, he changed his thinking and started writing about Xu Fu, writing that Xu Fu went east to Japan and stayed there, and even became the ancestor of the Japanese. It's not that this kind of thing can't be written. I also felt happy after reading it, but it was written too vulgarly. It seems that after going to Japan, there is nothing else to do except sex. Such articles must not be accepted!"

Next, everyone discussed the recent hot spots. Everyone tacitly mentioned the Republican era subject matter. This is the heat brought by "Humanity's Righteous Path is Vicissitudes."

In the past, the history of this period was still a bit sensitive, and Wei Ming used a masterpiece with pioneering significance to blast open a gap.

An editor suggested: "Our Magic City actually also has strong subject advantages. We can completely organize some stories about Du Yuesheng, Huang Jinrong, Wang Yaqiao, etc. The citizen class must love to watch them."

"I agree!"

"I have a story about the Axe Gang and Wang Yaqiao here. Let me write one."

The editors of "Story Club" are not only editors, but often have to write by themselves, because many manuscripts are just stories, pure vernacular, without any written aesthetic, and they all have to be reorganized and written into text by them.

Wei Ming and the others set off on the afternoon of the 3rd and would not arrive home until the evening of the 4th. And the 4th was already New Year's Eve.

Lao Lao Lao Wei and Xu Shufen brought their grandmother back at the end of last month. In addition, Uncle Ping'an's family of four also returned, but they were a little later by two days.

After Lao Lao Lao Wei returned, he bought a New Year pig from the village, one for each of the two brothers' families, and also gave a pig leg to the family of his cousin Fan Chunhua, who had just given birth to a second son.

Their youngest son was born at a bad time, just in time to be planned. Although he was born, he had to be fined. Later, Qi Kexiu found the county and relied on the relationship of Wei Ming's aunt, which exempted the fine.

But the fine can be exempted, the punishment cannot be exempted.

That day, Qi Kexiu was taken to the hospital for a ligation, and his legs and feet have just recovered.

However, the child didn't know what ligation was. Qi Delong always thought his father had become a eunuch. This incident had a great psychological shadow on him, and he even had the idea of not getting married in the future.

If it weren't for the pig leg from his uncle's family, he wouldn't be happy this year.

The arrival of Xizi and Lele also brought a lot of fun to Qi Delong. Last night, the movie came to the village, and they also watched a "Good Things Come Hard," hearing Xizi say that it was performed by her Sister Xue.

There was nothing lively to watch today. Every family was busy with the New Year. Mother was carrying the howling Dongqiang and still had to cook for the whole family. Father did nothing, saying he was tired.

Humph, dead eunuch!

Qi Delong really couldn't stand it anymore, so he chose not to watch: "Mother, I'm going to Uncle's house to eat!"

Uncle is now very generous and doesn't care at all how much meat he eats at his house. It seems that the meat in their house will never be finished.

However, it was so late, and Uncle Ping'an and the others hadn't started eating yet.

Xizi said: "Eldest brother and sister haven't arrived home yet."

Qi Delong suddenly realized, I said I felt like something was missing, so it turned out that eldest brother hadn't returned yet!

Lao Lao Lao Wei would go to the door to look after a while, saying that he would arrive home at the latest on the 30th. The train wouldn't be off duty on this day, right?

Lao Lao Lao Wei just entered the house, Qi Delong said: "Uncle, you sit down, I'll wait for Brother Ming and the others."

In less than half an hour, Qi Delong shouted: "Motorcycle, the motorcycle is back!"

Reunion is the greatest meaning of the New Year.

This year's Wei family in Gouzitun is another reunion year, if you don't count the old Lao Lao Lao Wei who is in Hong Kong.

Old Ghost and Liu Bin have no relatives around them this year, but they have business partners.

The two plus the mother and daughter of the Zhou family, the four of them chose to watch a movie for the New Year.

After a simple New Year's Eve dinner, they went to watch "Modern Bodyguard," which has been selling like crazy recently.

This is a movie produced by Golden Harvest, with all four Hui brothers participating. Hui Guanwen and Hui Guanwu directed, Hui Guanwen and Hui Guanjie wrote the script, and Hui Guanwen, Hui Guanying, and Hui Guanjie starred. As soon as it was launched, it became popular in the film market, and it has now broken the Hong Kong box office record of Cheng Long's "The Young Master."

Even on New Year's Eve, the cinema is still crowded.

After watching the movie and laughing, the four returned to their public housing laughing and talking. At this time, they were already the most accomplished people in public housing, but they still couldn't afford the properties outside that were worth an inch of land and an inch of gold.

Liu Bin still lived with Uncle Ghost. He saw newspapers in the mailbox at the door, took them out and handed them to Uncle Ghost. This was the "New News" he subscribed to.

Old Ghost loves to read newspapers, "Wen Wei Po," "Ta Kung Pao," "Oriental Daily News," he reads both left and right, and "New News" belongs to the neutral side.

Today's "New News" has a column by Cai Shengsan. This time he unexpectedly mentioned a long novel from the mainland.

The title is "Also Talk about"~

(Minimum guarantee today!)

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