Chapter 46

Wei Ming scratched his head: "I'm still young, and from out of town, better to focus on my career first."

In this era, finding a partner at most means holding hands, which isn't very meaningful. Making money is more interesting.

Mu Rong was about to say more when Biaozi said excitedly: "Sister-in-law, if there's a suitable one, introduce one to me!"

Everyone laughed. Mei Wenhua habitually retorted: "Didn't you say there's a girl you like at the sports school? Why ask sister-in-law to introduce one?"

Wei Ming: "Oh, there's such a thing?"

Qiao Feng said: "You drank too much and spilled the truth once during the days you were gone."

Zhao Debiao sighed: "She's my classmate at the sports school. She said that anyone who hasn't even won a national championship isn't qualified to pursue her."

"What, has she won a national championship?" Wei Ming asked.

"She should be close this year. She's very strong." Speaking of this female classmate, Biaozi, who was always optimistic, felt a bit ashamed.

To make Biaozi feel better, Wei Ming comforted him: "You're still young. Look at Wenhua, he's 19 and still single."

Mei Wenhua: "Hey, hey, hey, after you left, Sister Qingqing specifically came to apologize to me and even treated me to dinner. I think we have a chance."

Biaozi felt even worse.

Wei Ming immediately added: "Bai Bai Lao Liu, Bai Bai Lao Liu is over 20, isn't he also a bachelor?"

Liu Zhenyun elegantly put down his chopsticks and smiled: "First of all, I'm only 21. Secondly, yesterday I went to the Old Summer Palace with my fellow villager, Junior Sister Mei. I think she's interested in me."

Biaozi felt that everyone was leaving him no way out, and the food on the table didn't taste good anymore.

After the meal, Zhao Debiao returned to the dorm and paced back and forth, finally digging out paper and pen.

Wei Ming: "What are you doing?"

Biaozi: "I'm going to write a confession letter!"

However, he wrote "Swallow:" and didn't know what to write next, so he asked his Brother Ming for advice.

Wei Ming: "Just write, 'How can I live without you, Swallow!'"

Biaozi: "Wouldn't that be too unmanly?"

"Want to be manlier? Then write a challenge letter directly."

"Ah? A challenge letter?"

Wei Ming: "Right. From what you say, this classmate of yours is quite competitive. If you can defeat her, wouldn't that make her look at you with new eyes?"

Biaozi's eyes lit up: "That seems to make some sense!"

So he tore up the confession letter and wrote a challenge letter instead, very brief, just one sentence: "Huang Huang Jiaoyan, do you dare to fight me? — Zhao Debiao!"

"Wait a minute, what's this classmate's name?"

"Qiuyan, I usually call her Swallow~"

Early the next morning, Wei Ming rode Mei Wenhua's new Flying Pigeon bike to the Film Academy in Zhuxinzhuang, and Zhao Debiao also prepared to go to the Shichahai Sports School to deliver the challenge letter to Swallow.

At this time, the final part of "The Duck Knows First When the Spring River Warms" had already been published in the "Wenhui Daily," and the serial was declared finished.

The sales of Canggui Yangrong Wine hadn't fluctuated much yet, but the print run of these three issues of "Wenhui Daily" was climbing steadily, and they had received a lot of feedback from society regarding this novel.

Even without pulling the banner of reform literature, this novel was still a fascinating good story. From the first issue, it deeply hooked the readers' hearts, making them happy and worried along with the characters in the story, making it impossible for people to stop their steps in exploring the protagonist's fate.

A certain unit in Baoding.

Nineteen-year-old Wang Zhongjun had been a soldier for three years. He was a scout before, but later, because he had a foundation in art, he was transferred to be a mapping clerk.

He usually pays great attention to learning and reads a large number of newspapers about current events every day.

But today, when he arrived at the reading room, he first chose the "Wenhui Daily" and immediately opened the fourth page, finding the final part of the novel "The Duck Knows First When the Spring River Warms."

The previous part mentioned that Section Chief Wang racked his brains to finish this one-and-a-half-minute TV commercial, but got stuck at the broadcast stage.

This part continued, saying that because there was no precedent, the TV station wouldn't broadcast it for him. Fortunately, there was an enlightened director who, under pressure, facilitated the broadcast of the commercial. This was also a part not mentioned in the movie "The Duck Knows First."

Afterward, the author described in detail the reaction of the audience in front of the TV, mainly Modu viewers seeing a commercial on TV for the first time.

When Wei Ming wrote this part, he mainly interviewed the staff of the guesthouse, plus some of his artistic processing. After Wang Zhongjun finished reading, his first reaction was: So the Chinese audience is this easy to fool!

Some viewers actually thought this was the country calling on them to buy medicinal wine.

Afterward, Wei Ming depicted the scene of the medicinal wine selling like crazy. The not-so-wealthy common people swept clean all the shops and pharmacies that could sell this medicinal wine, and the pharmaceutical factory thus survived the crisis.

Wang Zhongjun touched his chin thoughtfully. It seems this commercial is really a good thing.

At this time, the novel's narrative intent regarding reform and opening up was already self-evident.

"The duck knows first when the spring river warms." What is reform and opening up? It's to be the first duck to bravely enter the water. Wang Zhongjun was very inspired after seeing this sentence, and the following sentence, "Brave people enjoy the world first," directly struck Wang Zhongjun.

He held the newspaper and wanted to share it with the people around him, but seeing them all looking dull, he put away his thoughts and silently remembered this sentence in his heart. He hoped that one day he could become that brave person.

Anshan, Liaoning.

Fourteen-year-old Chen Xiaoxu had just entered the city's drama troupe as an announcer.

Some people say she looks a bit like Chen Peisi, the male lead of this year's movie "Look at This Family." Coincidentally, her father is also named Chen Qiang.

Chen Xiaoxu saw her drama troupe colleague Bi Yanjun reading a newspaper. She approached quietly and then covered his eyes from behind.

"Guess who I am?"

"Stop it, Xiaoxu, I'm reading with great interest."

Although the two had a ten-year age difference, there were sparks in the way they looked at each other.

"What are you reading?" Chen Xiaoxu sat beside him, looking well-behaved.

!

"A novel, serialized. This is the final part."

"What's it about?"

"About shooting a commercial."

"A commercial?" She didn't understand, "Is that something interesting?"

"Haha, you'll know once you look." As he spoke, Bi Yanjun helped her find the previous two issues.

This was the first time the girl in the small town in the Northeast saw the concept of a commercial and learned about the mechanism of how commercials work.

Wei Ming explained it very thoroughly in the article, from creativity to shooting to placement, introducing what a commercial actually is in simple terms.

His popular science revealed the essence of commercials and helped the audience demystify commercials to a certain extent.

But it also attracted many people to become interested in the advertising industry. From the perspective of the development of the advertising industry, the appearance of this novel is even more meaningful than the Canggui Yangrong Wine TV commercial itself.

……

Zhuxinzhuang is located in Changping, north of Haidian. Wei Ming thought it wasn't far, but it took an hour of riding and he still hadn't arrived. Fortunately, he was in good shape now.

After another half hour or so, he finally saw the sign for the Film Academy.

Seeing two girls ahead, Wei Ming followed them directly, pretending to be with them. The guard didn't even think this was a peer and let him in without asking.

They walked for quite a while before the two girls reacted: Who is this person pushing the bike?

Wei Ming also recognized these two: one was the "old version of Li Huanying," Liu Jia, and the other was "Little Radish Head," Fang Shu. They seemed to be from the '78 acting class.

"Hello, two ladies, let me ask you, where does the animation class of the Fine Arts Department usually have classes?"

Beijing Film Academy re-enrolled students last year, with four departments: Directing, Acting, Photography, and Fine Arts. Fine Arts was the last of the four major departments, and the animation class had the least presence within the Fine Arts Department. They didn't even know there was an animation class.

Liu Jia said: "The Fine Arts Department usually has classes in that building. I'm not too sure about the animation class."

"Okay, thank you."

Once he left, the two whispered to each other: Who is this person?

Fang Shu said: "Must be from another school."

"Then which school do you think he's from?"

Wei Ming's age, looks, and temperament made them instinctively think he was a university student.

Fang Shu thought for a moment: "Probably from the Central Academy of Drama."

"Does the Central Academy of Drama have such good-looking students? I heard they like those who look strange and have character when enrolling," Liu Jia said, disparaging the friendly school.

Fang Shu giggled: "Not all are weirdos. I heard one named Chen Daoming is very outstanding."

Liu Jia: "Ah, could he be Chen Daoming?"

Wei Ming: Nonsense, I am definitely not Chen Daoming!

Bearing the title of a Chen Daoming suspect, Wei Ming arrived at this teaching building.

Not only did the Fine Arts Department have classes here, but the Photography Department did too.

So as soon as Wei Ming entered, he saw a group of photography students with cameras hanging around their necks coming out, preparing to take portrait assignments.

Then several people stared at Wei Ming in unison. Whoa, these facial features, this silhouette, good material!

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