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Chapter 349: Filming a Movie!!

Zhang Shenfei didn't know what Old Wang meant by suddenly saying this while eating.

But he still nodded and said, "Yes, I was unemployed at the time and was just sitting around eating idle meals. I was thinking of finding something to do, so I wrote that novel."

I have to say that the royalties in this era are still quite high. He didn't really make any money from writing that book for the Sha family.

It was also because he earned a lot of money that a writing craze was triggered in Siheyuan. Until now, Jia Dongxu still insists on writing and submitting his works everywhere.

Thinking of the poem "Shichahai" written by Jia Dongxu before, Zhang Shenfei felt like digging his toes into the ground again.

"I've read that novel, it's well written." Although Old Wang wanted to speak nicely, he had been with Zhang Shenfei for more than a year, and the pattern had already been set. At this moment, his mouth was faster than his brain, and he said, "To be honest, it doesn't seem like something you can write. The idea of ​​that book is very high..."

Zhang Shenfei was speechless: "You mean I am a low-class person? Why can't I get rid of low-class tastes?"

"Kid, don't pay attention to Old Wang. He's a very naughty person. He won't talk unless he's bullying others." Teacher Jiang, Old Wang's wife, said, and looked at Old Wang with a little dissatisfaction. "If you have something to say, just talk about it. If not, just eat well. Why are you talking nonsense here?"

She looks stern and used to be a high school teacher. When she speaks, people can dream back to the classroom.

The old man immediately sat up straight, and looked at Zhang Shenfei with the same playful look as before: "Well, Shenfei, I really have something to ask of you."

"Hmm?" Zhang Shenfei snorted coldly without making any comment. "Tell me about it."

You need my help, and you dared to bully me just now. Just wait and see, I will definitely teach you a lesson, he thought to himself.

Old Wang seemed to see what Zhang Shenfei was thinking. He sneered and picked up a piece of braised pork with three layers of streaky pork with chopsticks and put it into Zhang Shenfei's bowl.
"This braised pork is best when it has three layers of fat and lean meat. I just looked at it and this is the best piece on the plate. Here you go!"

Oh, it seems that what you are asking of me is quite a big thing. Zhang Shenfei showed a smile on his face. He kept silent for the time being. After eating the piece of pork belly, he waited for what Old Wang would do next.

Old Wang watched him swallow the pork belly eagerly, and then told Zhang Shenfei that he wanted to adapt his book into a movie.

This was something Zhang Shenfei had not expected: "Movie? Sha Jia Bang?"

"Yes, I will be seconded to the film studio soon. They have given me the task of submitting two films before the Chinese New Year."

This is the assigned composition. The person who worked with Old Wangtou also produced a work adapted from the novel "Free Latercomers".

It's not that they don't want to create something original, it's just that time is tight and the task is heavy. It's already the end of 1960, and it's only two months away from the Chinese New Year. It's impossible to complete the original script and the filming.

Helplessly, we can only work on the existing novels. The novels have existing story lines, so we can adapt and film at the same time without delay.

After explaining the whole story, Old Wang said that if the story was adapted, Zhang Shenfei's manuscript would not be used in vain and he would pay him copyright fees.

"If you are worried that we won't be able to grasp the essence of the novel when we adapt it into a script, I can apply for you to co-write it so you can rest assured." Old Wang looked very sincere.

He is a writer himself, so he naturally understands that for literary writers, their works and characters are like their own children.

It is understandable that biological parents have concerns as they are about to hand their children over to someone else to carry out drastic reforms.

Old Wang judged others by his own standards, but Zhang Shenfei shook his head repeatedly after listening to him:

"No, no, no, I'm so busy every day that I don't want to find anything else to do.

If you really want to adapt Sha Jia Bang, we only need to talk about money, and nothing else."

He never treated his works as his children. In his opinion, writing is like raising pigs. When the pigs grow up, they will naturally be sold.

Talking about love?? That’s so expensive!!
Pig farming can be related to writing???
Old Wang was choked and didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Teacher Jiang on the side chuckled: "Now I finally understand why Old Wang can play with a young man like you..."

"Why?" Zhang Shenfei asked curiously.

He's actually quite weird too.

When they first met, he thought Old Wang was just an ordinary cleaner.

Later, as the two of them spent a long time together, even if the other party didn't say it, he felt that this old man was not an ordinary person, and even had a lot of guesses about it.

Later, when he saw Yuan Longping's teacher playing chess with Old Wang, he became even more curious as to how someone with such a background could play with him.

Is it that I have some special personality charm???
Zhang Shenfei was full of curiosity, and Teacher Jiang didn't keep him in suspense. He smiled again and told him, "Your personality is exactly the same as Old Wang's when he was young. I guess he likes you because he likes his younger self."

"Ah? Really?" Zhang Shenfei turned his head and looked at Old Wang curiously.

The latter snorted coldly: "Are you kidding me? How could I like you???"

"I guess so. You shouldn't be so narcissistic. Aren't you like Narcissus looking at himself in the mirror?" Zhang Shenfei said deliberately.

Old Wang was immediately anxious: "Can I be as narcissistic as you?"

Zhang Shenfei has a way to deal with him: "Hmm? Don't want authorization anymore?"

Well, they say a real man can bend and stretch.

Although Old Wang was sixty years old, he still had this demeanor and immediately slid down to his knees to apologize.

Zhang Shenfei was very proud of himself. He ordered the old man to serve him soup, and then ordered him to pick up some dishes.

In the end, Teacher Jiang couldn't stand it anymore and said a few words to help Zhang Shenfei, and he finally relented.

After finally completing the task assigned by the new unit, Old Wang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although there is no distinction between high and low in revolutionary work, sweeping the floor is still much worse than sitting in the office drinking tea and reading newspapers. With Zhang Shenfei's help, he finally made a splash in the new unit and handed in his answer sheet.

After dinner, Teacher Jiang went back to the newspaper office to work.

Old Wang was clearing away the dishes and preparing to wash them.

Zhang Shenfei was eating melon seeds on the side, clicking his tongue and saying, "Old Wang, your family status is not good. You have to cook and wash dishes..."

"What do you know? Aren't husbands and wives supposed to support each other? Besides, remember that after I was sentenced to old Y in 1958, I lost the house under my name. The house I live in now was allocated by your company, Mr. Jiang. People should know how to be content and grateful!!"

Otherwise, how could an old man like him live in such a nice house? ?

"I think the last sentence you said is the key point. I was wondering why you looked at Teacher Jiang like a mouse looking at a cat. It seems like you are afraid of being kicked out of the house!!!" Zhang Shenfei smiled again and spat out the melon seed shells.

Old Wang had already piled up the dishes and chopsticks together. Seeing Zhang Shenfei's leisurely look, he was very unhappy, so he ordered him to turn over the coal briquettes that were drying in the yard.

Well, you have to be soft-hearted. Zhang Shenfei didn't complain, he just rolled up his sleeves and started working.

That is, from the day after Zhang Shenfei finished turning over the coal briquettes at Old Wang's house, Yenching University lost a cleaner, and Zhang Shenfei also lost his only chess friend whose chess skills were worse than his.

From then onwards,

He never won a chess match against someone at Yenching University. Whenever this happened, Zhang Shenfei would miss Old Wangtou very much...

But that's all in the past.
Another Friday, when Zhang Shenfei walked out of the gate of Yenching University after school, he saw Cai Quanwu waiting there riding a tricycle that was almost new.

He walked over quickly, stopped, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to the other person: "Quanwu, didn't I tell you that you don't have to come to pick me up? Look at you..."

"Oh, Peony brand? Brother Dafei, are you changing your brand and not smoking Daqianmen anymore?" Cai Quanwu put the cigarette in his mouth, took out a lighter from his pocket, lit it for Zhang Shenfei first, and then for himself.

The two smoked for a while before Cai Quanwu continued the previous topic: "I didn't come here specially to pick you up. I just happened to drop someone off nearby. I thought you had to take a bus back to Siheyuan, so I gave you a ride."

Widow Liu from Heizhima Hutong has a job as a formal employee, and Cai Quanwu earns a lot of money riding his tricycle every day.

Logically speaking, even if there are three children in the family, their life should not be bad.

But the situation is not good now.
The three children in the family eat a lot, so the couple spends most of their monthly earnings in exchange for expensive food at the pigeon market. After working hard all year round, they don't save a penny.

Also because of this,

Since marrying widow Liu, Cai Quanwu has been working very hard to support her family. He rides a tricycle every day, leaving early and returning late, which is much harder than when he lived in the courtyard with Sha Zhu.

Many people in the courtyard were talking about the huge losses that Cai Quanwu had suffered.

But as the saying goes, if you are not a fish, how do you know the joy of a fish? Seeing that Cai Quanwu seemed to be enjoying it, Zhang Shenfei didn't say anything.

After he sat down on the tricycle, Cai Quanwu took the last puff of his cigarette, threw away the cigarette butt, and pedaled hard, and the tricycle began to move steadily.

When the car drove to Gulou East Street, Zhang Shenfei received a surprising news from Cai Quanwu.

"What? The deaf old lady actually got hepatitis?" Zhang Shenfei frowned.

Recently, more and more people are suffering from hepatitis, which is due to the lack of sugar in the body.

"Isn't it? The news has spread throughout the courtyard. Brother Dafei, you have been living in the school dormitory, so you didn't know." Cai Quanwu sighed.

Although he had only lived in the courtyard for a few years, he still had some feelings for his neighbors. He felt very uncomfortable seeing the deaf old lady suffering.

The deaf old lady was old and in poor health. She became even more haggard after contracting hepatitis.

This old lady is a person with no money, no relatives or no friends. She has been living on the subsidies given by the street office. Although the hospital treats her for free after she fell ill, no one cares about her other things.

"The old lady had no one to take care of her during the time she was in the hospital. An old man couldn't bear it anymore, so he held a meeting in the entire hospital and called on everyone to help the lonely elderly." Cai Quanwu continued.

"Then what?" Zhang Shenfei asked curiously.

In previous years, the deaf old lady always ate at an uncle's house, and an aunt cleaned up everything inside and outside the house, even the urine pot was emptied by the aunt. Because of this, Yi Zhonghai gained a good reputation in the street.

According to Lao Yi's previous idea, the couple would support the lonely and deaf old lady. When they were old, they could better blackmail the other young people in the courtyard and provide for their old age.

It is said that if you want to take something, you must first give it.

The deaf old lady naturally knew this. In order to have a better life, she was happy to be a typical tool set up by the old Yi couple.

But ever since Auntie Yi became pregnant, the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Yi and the deaf old lady became very delicate.

The old lady is like an old clam giving birth to a pearl. It is impossible for her to help the deaf old lady empty the chamber pot, and she will not help her with housework, saying that she wants to protect the fetus.

After their daughter Yi Weihong was born, the couple even ate separately from the deaf old lady, completely cutting ties with her.

I think it was also true for the aunt and her husband. Although they gave birth to a daughter, at least they had an offspring and they didn't have to rely on their neighbors for support, so they didn't have to set a bad example.

Since all these were no longer needed, naturally, he was unwilling to serve an old widow who was not related to him at all.

Zhang Shenfei didn’t know whether the two families had a falling out when they separated, but later on, the two families did get along a little colder than ordinary neighbors.

Many times, the deaf old lady would ask Sha Zhu for help whenever she had problems, unlike before when she would always ask the old Yi couple for help whether she had problems or not.

This time, Yi Zhonghai showed up when the deaf old lady was hospitalized. On the surface, it seemed that he was caring about his neighbor, but in fact, he just wanted to get rid of this burden and didn't want the deaf old lady to stick to him while she was sick.

Although Zhang Shenfei and the deaf old lady lived not far from each other, they did not have much contact and were just friends when they met.

It was Old Lady Zhang and Old Lady Deaf, the two oldest and most experienced old ladies in the courtyard, who spent the most time together. When they had nothing to do, they would often play cricket games together.

They will punish anyone who dares to offend them! With just a few words, they can ruin a person's reputation.

His old lady was not in the city, and her best friend was sick. It was reasonable for Zhang Shenfei to go and see her.

Back to the gate of the courtyard,
Zhang Shenfei ignored Cai Quanwu's refusal and stuffed fifty cents into his pocket.

"I'm not being polite with you, but your family is having a hard time right now..." Zhang Shenfei said as he looked at Cai Quanwu's obviously thinner body.

"Brother Dafei, you don't need so much." Cai Quanwu was still unwilling to accept it.

"Well, the extra money can be considered as candy I bought for your three children." Zhang Shenfei said again.

"Well, okay then... I will go back and tell the kids to be nice to Uncle Zhang when they grow up." Cai Quanwu put the money into his pocket.

"That's not necessary. As long as your family lives a good life, Brother Dafei will be happy." Zhang Shenfei patted Cai Quanwu's shoulder.

The three children were all brought up by widow Liu. It was uncertain whether Cai Quanwu would be able to enjoy a happy life in the future, not to mention that he was an outsider. ? ?

The two of them chatted for a while.

Watching Cai Quanwu ride away on his bike, Zhang Shenfei took out a bag of brown sugar from the space while no one was paying attention, put ten eggs in a net bag, and swaggered back to the courtyard.

Just entered the door,
He was seen by Yan Bugui who was cleaning his bicycle.

Seeing the eggs and brown paper bag in Zhang Shenfei's hand, Yan Bugui threw down the rag and ran over, her little bitch eyes suddenly shining brightly:

"Hey, Dafei, what day is it today? You brought back so many good things? Are these eggs? What's in the oil paper package? Brown sugar or white sugar?"

(End of this chapter)