The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 374 Hundred Flowers Award!
"Hey, it turns out you really don't know???" Sha Zhu was no longer in a hurry to watch the movie. He sat down on the small stool he brought with him and told him the entire content of Jia Dongxu's novel.

In fact, many people in Siheyuan knew that Jia Dongxu wrote novels, but none of them knew the content.

He sat under the window every day, holding a pencil behind his ear, smoking and creating at his desk. He told everyone he met that he was an artist, but he felt guilty because no newspaper was willing to publish his works.

Whenever someone asked to appreciate his work, he would start to avoid the topic and cover the manuscript paper, not giving people the chance to read his novel.

Zhang Shenfei listened to Sha Zhu's story and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Since no one can see it and doesn't know what it wrote, how did you know it, Sha Zhu???"

Sha Zhu chuckled: "Who am I? Can I be the same as others???

Just like when Sister Qin was having a baby, didn’t I feel sorry for her and bring her soup and delicious food every day? ? Once when I went to deliver food, I happened to see Jia Dongxu’s half-written manuscript spread out on the table, but he was not there…”

When he said this, his old face turned red, which made Zhang Shenfei feel puzzled.

But Shazhu himself knew that it was not just Jia Dongxu who was not at home at that time? ?

In fact, it was afternoon at that time. Qin Huairu was holding her less than one-month-old baby Banggeng, feeding him while taking a nap in the afternoon.

Who is Qin Huairu? She has been He Yuzhu's dream goddess since he was seventeen!!!
When he saw the goddess like this, Sha Zhu still remembered that his brain suddenly buzzed as if it had been hit by a bullet, and everything went blank.

If it were Xu Damao, that guy would definitely take advantage of him at that time.

But he, He Yuzhu, is a coward! Even though he is usually mean and always shouting and making a lot of noise, he is really a coward at the critical moment.

In a panic, he put the sticky wolfberry millet porridge he had cooked himself on the table and wanted to escape.

Who knew that he accidentally got hold of Jia Dongxu's manuscript.

After I found out about it when I got home, I just read the novel.

Of course, he would not tell Zhang Shenfei about these little amorous episodes.

He just said that by chance, he read Jia Dongxu's manuscript and was shocked by the content, so he told the other party everything.

After hearing this, Zhang Shenfei's brows knitted into knots: "Has Jia Dongxu submitted this novel? Has any newspaper accepted it?"

Sha Zhu nodded, then shook his head: "I later asked Sister Qin, and she said that she submitted it, but no one accepted it."

He knew what Zhang Shenfei was worried about and thought that he was overthinking it. "No, only a fool would adopt something like that!! Brother Dafei, are you overthinking it?"

A lot? It depends on when! Thinking of some things in the future and those families who suffered because of this, Zhang Shenfei sighed.

But on second thought, print media is very developed these days, and newspapers receive manuscripts like snowflakes every day, and they throw away manuscripts in sacks.

When Jia Dongxu's manuscript was handed over, the newspaper office might only read a few hundred words without even seeing the official content and would just throw it away.

The most important thing is that Jia Dongxu is now dead, so even if we want to know which newspaper he submitted the article to, it is impossible.

So thinking about these things now seems meaningless.

He patted Sha Zhu on the shoulder and said, "Just tell me about this, and don't mention it to anyone else. Sometimes, words can cause trouble. If you talk too much about something that didn't exist, someone with ulterior motives will make a big fuss out of it."

Although Jia Dongxu is dead now, the old Jia family still has a large group of people to live.

They are all neighbors, and he doesn't want to see anyone getting bullied.

Sha Zhu is not stupid. In fact, as long as he doesn't get involved with Qin Huairu, he is even a very smart person.

After receiving Zhang Shenfei's instructions, he nodded and said, "Brother Dafei, don't worry, I'll save it."

Although he said this, he was thinking in his heart: I am only doing this for Sister Qin's sake. If Jia Zhang was the only one left in the old Jia family, I would be eager to reveal the truth to him.

But with Sister Qin and Bang Geng added to the mix, things become different.

Needless to say, he loves Sister Qin very much. As for Banggeng, he has watched that child grow up since he was a child and raised him as his own son.

He would not be able to bear the consequences if anything happened to Jia Dongxu, his stupid father.

After chatting, the two of them walked out of the courtyard gate together, went out of Dongzhimen along Gulou East Street, and headed towards the steel rolling mill.

There are many people working in the steel rolling mill in this area. Those who leave Dongzhimen and head out of the city at this time are basically workers and their families going to the movies.

Although Zhang Shenfei has not returned to the factory to work for a long time, the steel rolling mill still has his legend, and everyone knows this handsome deputy director.

As we walked, people kept greeting us and asking Director Zhang when he would graduate and when he would return to work in the factory.

Inevitably, someone asked about collective housing again.

"Director Zhang, we spent a lot of money on the collective housing back then. Now the construction has been suspended for almost three years. We can't just ignore it, right?"

"It's not a big deal. We sold everything we had and borrowed money from all our relatives to get the money to buy the house."

"Well, there is nothing we can do if we stop working. We all know the general environment in recent years."

"That's true, but there are no big canteens in the countryside now, so we can just bring the farmers here to build houses."

A group of people were chattering non-stop, and each of them was looking at Zhang Shenfei, hoping that he could give an answer.

In everyone's mind, although Zhang Shenfei left the steel mill to go to school, his connections were still in the steel mill, and he still received a salary from the steel mill.

The most important thing is that he was the one who initiated the collective housing project, so naturally he has to be responsible for it to the end.

As a citizen of Country Z for two lifetimes, Zhang Shenfei naturally understands the significance of a house to Chinese people.

It was only when he arrived at this plane that he realized that the people of the current Sijiu City were no different from the Sijiu City of later generations. Most of them were seven or eight people, or even a dozen people, squeezed into a house of a dozen or twenty square meters. They were crowded together every day, and it seemed that they couldn't even breathe loudly, and had to hold their breath.

For these people, their dream is to have a warm and comfortable little house where they can breathe. This is why the collective housing project was so popular.

Now that the money has been paid, the project has been suspended for several years. It’s no wonder that everyone is anxious.

Zhang Shenfei waved his hands at the crowd, signaling everyone to stay calm: "I know everyone is anxious, in fact, our factory leaders are just as anxious as everyone else.

When I went back to the factory for a meeting last month, I discussed with Director Yang and others that as long as the drought situation is significantly alleviated, the factory will put the construction of houses back on the agenda. "

After the Chinese New Year, the epidemic will be greatly alleviated. Grain will be collected, and everyone will have food to eat. Then they can contact those communes again and call on migrant workers to help with the work.

The work done by the farmers at the construction site is converted into centimeters, which is much more cost-effective than working in the fields. This is a win-win cooperation, and the commune has no reason to disagree.

After hearing Zhang Shenfei's assurance, everyone in the steel mill felt relieved and smiled. They quickened their pace and headed towards the steel mill. Everyone in the factory watched an open-air movie. The advantage was that they didn't need to buy tickets, but the seats were not fixed. It all depended on how early or late they came to reserve a seat.

quickly,

Zhang Shenfei, Sha Zhu and others arrived at the steel rolling mill basketball court.

It was already dark at this time. I saw a few large light bulbs with hundreds of watts lit up here, lighting up the surroundings like daylight.

A curtain was hung in the center of the basketball court and hung on the four corners with ropes, making the curtain look not particularly flat and a little shaky.

A lot of small stools and benches have been placed in front of the curtain. Although there are no stools in some positions, there are bricks placed there, which means that someone has already set his eyes on these positions.

Anyone who moves the brick and puts the stool without blinking will be considered as stealing the seat and will be scolded.

The movie hadn't started yet. The children were chasing and playing in front of the screen, while the adults were gathered in groups of three or five talking.

When Sha Zhu was carrying a stool and looking for a seat, he saw Xu Fugui running towards him happily.

"Director Zhang, you're here? I've reserved a seat for you over here, please come here..."

As he spoke, he pointed to the best viewing position in front of the screen, where several brand new chairs had already been placed, even with cushions considerately placed on them.

It is obvious that these positions were specially prepared by Xu Fugui for the leaders in the factory.

Zhang Shuifei was not the only one who saw his thoughtfulness. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, saying that dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and mice's children are born to dig holes.

As a projectionist in the steel rolling mill, Xu Fugui has always been doing well. No wonder Xu Damao is such a shrewd person who always tries to curry favor with his superiors.

Come to think of it, this is actually the case between the young people in the courtyard and their parents.

Xu Fugui is good at calculating, so Xu Damao is also good at scheming.

Sha Zhu's father and Da Qing are cooks, so Sha Zhu himself is also a cook.

Yan Bugui was good at scheming against the children. Later, after the children had enough raincoats, they schemed against him in various ways and even snatched away the wood he used to build the earthquake shelter.

Needless to say, Liu Haizhong usually used children as sandbags for training, so even if he had a stroke when he was old, he would not get any sympathy from his children.

Therefore, parents’ education is far more profound than school education and has a more far-reaching impact on children.

Sha Zhu hated to see Xu Damao currying favor with his superiors the most. Seeing Xu Fugui doing the same, he couldn't help but curl his lips, put aside the small stool he brought with him, and sat down on it.

These days people generally don’t have many entertainment options, so the free open-air movies in the factory are a great way to pass the time.

After dinner, the workers and their families gathered at the steel rolling mill, and soon the place was full of spectators.

At 7:30, the movie officially started.

Xu Fugui operated the projector, playing the movie skillfully, while explaining it in a broadcasting voice.

Although the novel Sha Jia Bang was considered a best-seller before, Dandan and the literacy rate in that era were not high, and many people had not read the novel.

At this moment, everyone was quickly attracted by the fascinating plot of the movie and watched it with gusto.

When the movie was over, Xu Fugui said, "Comrades, fellow workers, do you think this movie is good?"

"Great!!! It's really great, this is the best movie I have ever seen!!!"

"I heard that this movie is now in the cinema and has not been taken off the shelves yet. We borrowed it specially because of our reputation!"

"This movie is so exciting. I'll tell the people in our yard about the plot tomorrow and let them envy me!!!"

Listening to everyone's chatter, Xu Fugui's proud look was evident in his eyes. After a long while, he waved his hand and said, "Does everyone know who created such an excellent film?"

Who??? Everyone immediately became interested and looked at Xu Fugui curiously.

There are also some who already know the inside story and start to show off proudly to those around them.

After keeping everyone in suspense, Xu Fugui finally spoke out loudly: "The author of this work is Comrade Zhang Shenfei, the canteen director of our steel mill!!!"

Director Zhang??? Is it Director Zhang???
The workers were excited again. Some of the newcomers didn't know who Zhang Shenfei was, so they were immediately informed by the people around them.

The female workers looked at Zhang Shenfei with envy. Director Zhang had been in the factory for ten years and was almost thirty years old. How come he looked so stupid and even more handsome? ? ? ?
He is so talented, so handsome, can write novels, and can also adapt movies... How can this be justified!!!

Zhang Shenfei didn't expect Xu Fugui to expose himself in front of so many people, and felt a little embarrassed.

Xu Fugui didn't care about that and came over to tell him that when he went to the Youth Cinema to borrow a movie today, he heard from the director there that the higher-ups were very satisfied with the movie "Sha Jia Bang".

The first Hundred Flowers Awards for Film will be held after the New Year, and this movie has been submitted for the competition.

"Because this is our country's first film festival, many celebrities from the arts and literary circles will attend. There will even be some big leaders and big newspapers there.

If Sha Jiabang wins the award, he will be in front of the whole country. Director Zhang, you will be completely famous. "

Xu Fugui said this while rubbing his hands excitedly.

He has been showing movies all his life and considers himself a member of the arts community. How could he not be excited by such a grand event in the industry?
Zhang Shenfei knew about the Hundred Flowers Awards for Films, but he didn't expect that this award had such a long history, starting in 1962.

If I could really attend the award ceremony, I might even be able to see the big stars of this era... I'm really a little excited when I think about this! !
Director Yang, Deputy Director Nie, and some nearby workers were also very interested in what Xu Fugui said, and came over to ask about the Hundred Flowers Awards.

After hearing that all the outstanding films since the founding of the People's Republic of China would be nominated, they clamored that when Zhang Shenfei participated, he must get a few autographs for them.

"Director Zhang, I like Lao Wu from the Five Golden Flowers the most... If you can meet her, please help me convey my admiration for her."

"I like Lao San, Director Zhang, can you help me get an autograph?"

"And me, and me."

A group of people surrounded Zhang Shenfei, talking at once, and Zhang Shenfei felt his head buzzing.

"We'll talk about it when the time comes. It's not certain whether I can attend..."

"Of course you can. The film you created is so excellent, I think it will be no problem for you to win the first prize."

"That's right!!!"

(End of this chapter)