1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 157 Or Don't Write It

Autumn came, and the weather changed a lot. After mid-October, the temperature in Yanjing City gradually dropped, and I couldn't wear single clothes anymore.

Early this morning, the small northwest wind was blowing. Lin Weimin woke up feeling cold, so he changed into thick clothes.

Knock on the door of Han Zhuangzhuang's house, "Why haven't you woke up yet?"

Han Zhuangzhuang opened his eyes, "Uncle, just let me sleep for a while, I'm so tired!"

"Why are you tired? After taking a day off, hurry up and go to work with me!"

Lin Weimin will take Han Zhuangzhuang to do two major things today, one is to buy the winter vegetables for the winter, and the other is to get the coal for the winter.

First buying vegetables and then buying coal, Lin Weimin borrowed a flatbed cart from his neighbor on purpose. He didn't use his car in vain, and he had to spare some cabbage later.

It's almost winter, and two roads away in Yanjing City, you can always see farmers in the suburbs pulling carts of cabbage and green onions to sell.

It is not speculative for farmers to go to the city to sell vegetables, and they have been released long ago.

Lin Weimin bought [-] to [-] catties of cabbage and green onions at the beginning, and immediately wrapped up the leftovers from the vegetable farmers. Several elders and aunts around were also ready to buy vegetables. Seeing this situation, he asked Lin Weimin: "How much do you eat at home, young man?" People? Can you finish buying so many vegetables? Don’t let them go bad!”

Lin Weimin glanced at Han Zhuangzhuang, and said with a smile to his aunt: "Auntie, I'm sorry, our family has a large population, so we must have enough to eat. Why don't you guys go look elsewhere?"

Called Han Zhuangzhuang to load all the vegetables into the cart. Lin Weimin rode the tricycle when he came, and it was Han Zhuangzhuang's turn this time.

He tried his best to push slowly, not forgetting to urge Lin Weimin, "Uncle, you should push harder!"

"You should try harder, boy, why do I feel like you haven't exerted any strength at all!" Lin Weimin said with his hands on the car.

Han Zhuangzhuang guessed that Lin Weimin must be lazy again, and couldn't help complaining: "Tired silly boy!"

Lin Weimin had sharp eyes and ears, so how could he not hear his complaints, and scolded: "If you are not a foodie, would the family need to hoard so much food?"

Han Zhuangzhuang didn't dare to speak anymore, he was living under the fence!

It took a lot of effort to ride the tricycle home and unload the cabbage.

Han Zhuangzhuang just rested for a few minutes, Lin Weimin said again: "Don't rest, hurry up and finish the food."

Han Zhuangzhuang took a few breaths, and stood up resignedly, "Having a weekend break is more tiring than going to work."

The two of them rode a tricycle and sent the remaining cabbage and scallions to the courtyard at No. 26 Lama Temple Street.

"Tiesheng! Tiesheng!"

Lin Weimin greeted Shi Tiesheng at the gate of the courtyard, Shi Lan ran out first, seeing Lin Weimin, she said excitedly: "Brother Lin, you are here!"

"Shi Lan, come here and help unload the vegetables."

Lin Weimin asked Shi Lan and Han Zhuangzhuang to move the vegetables together.

Shi's family lived in a large courtyard, and to transport vegetables back and forth had to walk a distance of tens of meters in the courtyard, which took a lot of effort compared to Lin Weimin's own family's transportation of vegetables, but fortunately, there are more people and more strength.

Father Shi pushed Shi Tiesheng out of the door and wanted to help, but was stopped by Lin Weimin, "Uncle, you just need to rest, we young people do this job."

After working for more than ten minutes, after unloading all the dishes, Shi Tiesheng said gratefully: "For the people, I have cost you again!"

"Don't be so polite. When we catch up with our family, we have to stock up on some food. This Chinese cabbage is worthless."

Chinese cabbage is indeed worthless, but it is a vegetable that the people of Yanjing cannot do without during the winter. As the old saying goes, cabbage and tofu are safe.

What's more, the Shi family is old, young, and disabled. Lin Weimin must help out when he thinks of this kind of heavy work.

After resting at Shi Tiesheng's house for a while and drinking some water, Lin Weimin wanted to say goodbye.

Father Shi asked him to stay for lunch, Lin Weimin said: "No, Uncle, I have to get coal in the afternoon, I have a little time today, and I will get all the things for the winter in one go."

After bidding farewell to Shi Tiesheng's family, Lin Weimin went to the sales office of the coal yard.

In the lives of ordinary people in Yanjing City, coal is the first of the seven things to open the door of "firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea". In winter, without coal, nothing can be played.

However, the use of coal in Yanjing City has been a serious problem for nearly a hundred years. Even in the 80s, the supply of coal for residents of Yanjing City was still very tight.

In order to facilitate transportation and sales, almost every street office in Yanjing City has a coal factory, and each coal factory has three to five sales offices under its jurisdiction.

A sales office corresponds to the households within a range of one to two kilometers around. Residents purchase coal in designated areas, and each household has a coal book.

At the peak, there were thousands of coal yard sales offices in Yanjing City.

Ordinary people buy coal to make briquettes, or buy briquettes directly. The monthly supply is rationed, and if there is too much, they will not sell it to you.

Take honeycomb coal for example. In summer, it is stipulated that each household is 120 yuan per month, and in winter it doubles to 240 yuan.

There are special coal workers and coal carts in the sales department, but Lin Weimin doesn't plan to wait for those things.

Due to the limited inventory in the sales department, the peak coal consumption in winter cannot keep up with production in many cases.Waiting for the coal truck to run out of coal at some point, there is no place to cry, so it is better to deposit coal in advance to be safe.

After transporting the coal from the sales department, it was three or four in the afternoon. After a busy day, it was finally over.

Han Zhuangzhuang looked at the coal briquettes piled up in the vacant room, and asked, "Uncle, are these coals enough?"

"Of course it's not enough. But in a few days our agency and Renyi will be able to send me some coal tickets. If it doesn't work, I can spend money to exchange for others. That's how I dealt with your old uncle last year."

"That's right. I have one this year too, and the two of us add up to a lot."

Lin Weimin said, "This coal is enough for two months."

Han Zhuangzhuang couldn't help feeling emotional. Before living in the old uncle's yard, he felt spacious and comfortable, but now he realizes that living in such a big house costs a lot of money!

What the old uncle said is right, if there is not enough coal and coal tickets, then you have to spend money to buy it. When I think about my current salary of tens of dollars, if I don’t eat and drink at my uncle’s house, I really don’t know if I can live in it. What kind of life does Yanjing lead?

Thinking of these, Han Zhuangzhuang was full of melancholy, I am indeed mature enough to think of these things.

Two days later, Lin Weimin came to Renyi.

Today, Ouyang Shanzun specially asked Han Zhuangzhuang to call him, saying that he wanted to check and accept the results of the actors' training during this period.

Entering the rehearsal field, the actors have already changed into the costumes in the play, some are singing on the stage, some are exercising their muscles and bones, and the whole stage looks a bit chaotic.

Lin Weimin listened to the babbling vocals, smiled and said to Ouyang Shanzun: "It looks pretty good, it looks good."

"It's okay, the nearly two months have not been wasted."

When everyone was almost ready, Ouyang Shanzun asked these people to start performing one by one.

Of course, what they were most concerned about was the acting skills of the main actors. Lin Weimin didn't care much about the performance of the others. Even if Han Zhuangzhuang, who was a walk-on, performed some singing, reciting and fighting, he didn't show much.

It wasn't until the absolute protagonist of the play, the character who played Cheng Dieyi, came on stage that Lin Weimin paid attention to it.

Yang Lixin's appearance is pretty good, but his temperament is rather tough. Lin Weimin has always been skeptical about whether he can play the "charming" feature of Cheng Dieyi.

Until now Yang Lixin is standing on the stage, smiling like a daughter, with a feminine air in his gestures, Lin Weimin nodded, his movements and demeanor at least have the charm of Cheng Dieyi.

It reached the passing line in Lin Weimin's heart, and even surpassed it.

Seeing Lin Weimin nodding, Yang Lixin on the stage seemed relieved.

After his performance, it was Chen Xiaoer who hadn't seen him for a long time.

Lin Weimin asked for the role of Yuan Siye. This is a fan of Peking opera. There are a few lines of Peking opera in the play. To be precise, he has a heart of blasphemy for Cheng Dieyi's love for the play.

Chen Xiaoer's performance is very good, it seems that he has worked hard.

He is an actor from Bayi Factory, and he came to Renyi to act purely because of his own drama dream.Every time I go to the Beijing Theater for training, I take time to go there. There is not enough time for these actors, but in terms of effect, it is not inferior to others.

Ouyang Shanzun whispered during Chen Xiaoer's performance: "Xiao Chen is a talented and hardworking actor!"

This is the director's greatest compliment to an actor.

After watching everyone's performance, Ouyang Shanzun said: "Let's take a look at the Peking Opera costumes again, it will definitely surprise you!"

When it comes to dressing up in Peking Opera, it naturally refers to the two characters Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou.

For their makeup, Renyi specially invited teachers from the Peking Opera Theater to guide them.

After waiting under the stage for more than half an hour, Lin Weimin finally saw the true colors of "Cheng Dieyi" and "Duan Xiaolou".

Compared with the infinite magnification of the movie, the personal image of the actors on the stage of the drama is far less prominent. Lin Weimin watched it for a long time, and found that the appearance of the two people, at least from the perspective of the audience, did not show any sense of discord. of.

"Don't worry now." Lin Weimin said.

Although he had already handed it over to Ouyang Shanzun before, seeing the appearance of the two absolute protagonists with his own eyes, Lin Weimin felt a lot more at ease.

But thinking of the waiting before, Lin Weimin asked again: "What about the makeup of these two actors when it's time for the performance?"

"We plan to try it with props, and the team is still preparing."

Lin Weimin was completely relieved now, "Thank you, teachers."

Ouyang Shanzun smiled and said: "This is all a matter of duty."

The training of the actors was originally scheduled for three months, but now that there are phased results, Renyi plans to let the crew rehearse first, and then have a short-term training before the public performance in the future to consolidate the effect.

"In the next period of time, I have to trouble you, Mr. Lin."

"It should all be."

The rehearsal of the drama firstly has to determine the candidates for each role, and gather the actors who have the role to prepare the script.

Then conduct plain rehearsal, first go through the whole play as a whole, and then train carefully for important scenes, adding music, props, and costumes for continuous synthetic rehearsal.

The final rehearsal, the final revision and improvement of the dialogue.

During this period, Lin Weimin, the screenwriter, needs to participate in the whole process, as in the previous "Untouchable".

Fortunately, with Lan Yinhai, an experienced screenwriter, Lin Weimin didn't need to follow every rehearsal, which reduced his workload a lot.

After watching the performance of the actors, the work of the crew is over for today.

Lin Weimin called Han Zhuangzhuang to go home, and he didn't shy away from it. Now, no one in Renyi knows his relationship with Han Zhuangzhuang.

Chen Xiaoer leaned over and asked, "For the people, do you have time for a meal?"

"Your treat?" Lin Weimin asked.

Chen Xiaoer stammered, "I mean find a place to sit!"

"I've never seen anyone pickier than you."

In fact, Lin Weimin lied about this. The bad friends around him are more picky than each other. At least Zheng Guo is better than Chen Xiaoer.

This guy has not fulfilled the Quanjude that he promised him until now, if it is not for the sake of Qu Xiaowei's "Picture of Grazing in the Autumn Suburbs", I really want to break up with this kid!
"I don't call it picky, I call it thrifty, and you won't understand even if I tell you."

The two pushed their bicycles all the way out, chatting while walking, Chen Xiaoer said: "I heard that "The Cliff" is going to be made into a TV series?"

"Where did you hear the news?"

Lin Weimin was puzzled, he didn't meet Chen Xiaoer very often, where did this kid get the news.

In fact, it was Lin Weimin who underestimated himself. How can he say that he is also a new writer who has become popular in China. Everyone is in the cultural circle. It is not difficult to find a few more people to inquire about this bit of news.

"Do you want a role again?"

Chen Xiaoer didn't answer his question, but complained: "Oh, you don't know my difficulties, brother! With my appearance, I have been in the factory for seven or eight years, and it was hard for me to play two famous and famous actors. The role of the surname..."

"Okay! Don't do this with me."

Lin Weimin impatiently exposed his tricks. This kid participated in "Looking at the Family" last year and "Inside and Outside the Court" this year. Both films won the Excellent Film Award from the Ministry of Culture.

With such qualifications, Chen Xiaoer can be regarded as somewhat famous.

Chen Xiaoer shook his head and said, "Brother, you think too highly of me, brother. Let me ask you a question, if I have a play, can I have time to come and perform?"

This……

Lin Weimin was really hard to argue with. Seeing this, Chen Xiaoer immediately said: "What kind of work do you think I do in Bayi Factory? Pull up the curtain, turn on the lights, and play tricks if I have a role. Every year, I have the opportunity to make movies. There are only so many, there are few handsome men and beautiful women, and there are many crooked melons like me, so there are only a few roles that everyone competes for..."

"Tang Guoqiang from our factory, he played the leading role at the age of 23. He has never played a role other than the leading role since he was in a movie. Look at me, brother..."

The more Chen Xiaoer talked, the more miserable he was, and he almost burst into tears.

He knew that this guy was pretending to be miserable, but seeing him perform so hard, Lin Weimin was too embarrassed to interrupt him.

I had no choice but to say: "The Cliff is a TV show on Qindao TV, and it was filmed in Harbin. You can't go there."

Chen Xiaoer immediately said: "Do you think I'm really going to play "The Cliff"? I'm just asking, just don't forget to agree to my role."

"Okay, okay, I see, I will definitely write to you when I have a chance."

"Good brother! I'll introduce my sister to you later."

Lin Weimin imagined that Chen Xiaoer's face was placed on his sister's face, and his whole body trembled.

Forget it, or don't write this role.

(End of this chapter)