The literary era since 1979

Chapter 194 How to spend this money

Saturday, April 7.

Fangyan played cards in Yangfeng Alley for the whole afternoon.

When he came back, he did not return to the editorial department of October immediately, but went to Renwen Press first to find his senior.

When Zhang Guangnian saw the Panda brand cigarettes in his hand, he immediately understood, "How was your bridge game today?"

"If you win, this is the spoils."

Fangyan slapped the cigarette into his senior brother’s hand.

"Then why are you still frowning?"

Zhang Guangnian accepted it with pleasure.

He told everything in Fangyan, saying that he was going to Shekou in eastern Guangdong to attend a literary lecture on "The Splitting of the Great Qin".

Zhang Guangnian pondered for a moment, "This is to let you take the lead, to encourage reform and hard work in the name of literature, just like you went to the Guangxi Military Region to express your condolences in the name of supporting the army with literature."

"Brother, I think so too."

Fangyan smiled bitterly.

"The Great Qin Splitting" is a banner of literary reform, and Shekou is a banner of political reform. When we go to Shekou to talk about "The Great Qin Splitting", the intention is obvious.

"It may not be a bad thing for you."

Zhang Guangnian patted his shoulder and said, "When the time comes, Shekou will definitely make arrangements for you, but it would be best if you could find a few people to take care of you locally. Do you have any friends in eastern Guangdong?"

"I can ask the comrades from Huacheng to take care of it."

Fang Yan said that he had received an invitation to their summer novel writing class, and he took this opportunity to go and see the literary Yue Army.

"fair enough."

Zhang Guangnian felt relieved.

Fang Yan said: "Actually, what I am more worried about now is that I don't know what to say at this literature lecture."

“Sometimes, going there represents an attitude.”

"As for what to talk about, of course it's about The Splitting of the Qin Dynasty, Shang Yang, the Reform, and the Reform. Think about it over the next few days and write a draft. Then we can discuss how to revise it."

Zhang Guangnian's tone was full of concern.

"Brother, that's exactly what I meant!"

Fangyan thanked him and was then taken to the table.

Zhang Guangnian opened the locked cabinet and took out a cloth bag containing bundles of foreign exchange coupons.

The face value is basically 100 yuan and 50 yuan.

Fangyan's eyes lit up as he received the largest amount of royalties in his life, a full 2.8 foreign exchange coupons.

"This time it's a special case."

Zhang Guangnian said: "But I want to remind you that we have been cracking down on speculation and scalping of foreign exchange certificates recently."

"Why should I bother to exchange for foreign exchange certificates? I'm not short of money. The royalties from Operation Sword were sent to me a while ago."

Fang Yan smiled and said, "It's better to keep this foreign exchange certificate."

"You just understand."

Zhang Guangnian said that "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" was the first Chinese novel introduced to Japan by Yuhikaku for publication and was highly valued.

The publication date is set for August, with an initial print run of 8 copies. Subsequent royalties will not be remitted until after the book is officially published.

"This is such a coincidence!"

Dialects count time.

If nothing unexpected happens, it will be around August when Zhang Yimou and his team finish a series of work including storyboarding, location scouting, etc. At that time, Wei Bi Da and Guo Bao Chang will bring the young film crew to Beijing, and I will examine their results in person.

“Is “The Mountain, the Man, the Dog” going to be made into a movie?”

Zhang Guangnian was greatly surprised.

"Ah."

Fangyan nodded, and then he encouraged that "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" should be filmed well. After "A Game of Chess That Is Not Finished", this movie is likely to be introduced to Japan for release.

Afterwards, the two chatted for more than two hours about the manuscript of the symposium on "The Great Qin Splitting", until the secretary knocked on the door to remind them that they had to attend a meeting later, so they had to end it.

"It's too unsafe to carry so much money with you."

Zhang Guangnian planned to send his own car to take Fangyan back.

"Brother, or..."

Fangyan opened his mouth.

"Don't refuse."

Zhang Guangnian mentioned "Contemporary". This time it was a blessing in disguise, as he made a comeback with "Operation Sword". Moreover, he gradually opened up a second position from the single main position of reform literature and made a living from military literature. He did not fall into a trough when the reform literature fell into a trough.

This is all thanks to General Fang for giving face to his senior brother!

"Don't ever say that."

"We are a family and we don't have different opinions. If you have something to say, please speak up."

Fangyan declined again, but finally got on Zhang Guangnian's private car and returned home with a huge sum of 2.8 foreign exchange coupons.

When such a large amount of money was shown to Yang Xia and Fang Hong, they were both stunned, staring at the foreign exchange coupons.

"Close, close, close the door! Close the door quickly!"

Yang Xia was so frightened that she couldn't speak clearly.

"Close the door? Close the door!"

Fang Hong was startled and ran to close the door.

Yang Xia still felt unsafe, so she ran to her room with the cloth bag in her arms. Then she sat on the kang, dipped her fingers in her saliva, and started counting the banknotes.

Fang Hong calmed down her excitement and said, "Yanzi, the 2 you mentioned are all foreign exchange certificates!" "That's right, I have always been talking about foreign exchange certificates."

Fangyan shrugged.

"I never thought, I really never thought, that the royalties from your book would be more than what Yuemin earns in a year." Fang Hong couldn't help but regret, "If I had known you would have so many foreign exchange certificates, I wouldn't have gone to Mike, Yoko and the others to exchange them..."

"Sister, there's no need to regret."

Fangyan took a quick look around and found that the house was still lacking a refrigerator and an air conditioner.

The air conditioners currently on the market are not wall-mounted, but window-type air conditioners, which make too much noise and will affect one's own creation.

It is equivalent to affecting the money you can earn!
We can get two refrigerators, one to keep at home and the other to be sent to the house in Shichahai as Fang Hong's dowry.

"Foreign exchange certificates are valuable, so don't waste them on refrigerators."

Fang Hong said firmly: "I have already made up my mind to buy the Wanbao brand. I have already found out the source of the tickets."

"Well, this money is a waste of money."

Fangyan said in worry, “I don’t know how to spend it.”

Fang Hong rolled her eyes, "Puchi, if anyone hears you saying this, I will definitely beat you up. Others don't have money to spend, but you have money but nowhere to spend it, right?"

"Not only do I have no place to spend it, I also don't have the time to spend it."

Fangyan said he would go to eastern Guangdong on a business trip in a few days.

"Why did you just go to western Guangxi and now you want to go to eastern Guangdong?"

Fang Hong frowned.

"This trip to eastern Guangdong must be made no matter what."

Fangyan sighed.

"Why don't you let Yuemin go with you?"

Fang Hong said, "It just so happens that he wants to go to the Gaodi Street Market in East Guangdong to take a look, so you two can take care of him on the way."

"It's done!"

Fangyan agreed readily.

After all, Han Yuemin and Fang Hong officially registered and got their marriage certificate not long ago. Now, it’s time to call Han Yuemin "brother-in-law".

These days, registering for a certificate is quite simple. You don’t even need a photo. It’s just a piece of paper folded in half, exactly the same as a certificate.

Just then, hurried footsteps were heard outside the house.

"Why did you close the door?"

Fang Yan pushed the door open with force.

The noise was so loud that it scared Yang Xia who was counting money in the bedroom. She couldn't help but get nervous, "You unlucky child! Close the door quickly!"

Fang Yan said "oh" and looked at Fang Yan in confusion.

"Brother, what happened to mom?"

"It's okay, go listen to your radio."

Fangyan walked to the door of the room and deliberately shouted loudly: "Mom, Yan Zi is back, when will we have dinner?"

"Ask your sister, ask your sister, I'm busy."

Yang Xia said faintly: "How much did you click just now..."

Fang Yan and Fang Hong smiled at each other.

Suddenly, she heard a "zizizi" sound in her ears. Fang Yan turned on the radio, adjusted the frequency, and tuned to the Central Broadcasting Station, just in time to catch the long series of "Operation Sword".

Since its launch, the radio drama has caused a huge sensation in Yanjing and even across the country, and the attention and discussion of the novel "Operation Sword" has risen to a new height.

Fang Yan held her face with both hands and said as she listened:
"Brother, can I ask you a question..."

Fang Yan interrupted, "If you're asking about martial arts novels, my answer is the same as before. I'm thinking about it. Don't worry."

"Hey, hey, that's not what I want to ask."

Fang Yan stuck out her tongue. In the days after she received the admission letter from No. 2 Middle School, she had been intensively asking her brother to pay the debt.

Fang Yan said: "Then what do you want to ask?"

"Brother, you said in Operation Sword that we have 11 special forces. Do these forces really exist?"

Fang Yan said: "For example, the 'Dragon Group' and the 'Wolf Warriors'."

"Of course they're all fake!"

Fangyan shook his head and laughed.

But the development of things was far beyond General Fang's expectations.

A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth.

As the novel and radio drama of "Operation Sword" became more and more popular, Fangyan became more and more famous, and many people no longer questioned its authenticity. After all, it was written by Teacher Fang.

Could it be possible that what Teacher Fang wrote was fake?!

So much so that in the early 21st century, on the Internet, especially in the military fans gathering place "Iron Blood", you could always see words such as "Dragon Group", "Wolf Warrior" and "Falcon", and they were widely discussed by netizens.

As we all know, Fang Yan's "Operation Sword" pioneered Chinese military fantasy literature, but why could he predict the training, combat and construction of special forces so accurately?

The answer is obvious: he must have seen it with his own eyes!

Although this view has been refuted by many people with evidence proving that the troops mentioned in "Operation Sword" do not exist at all, many people actually believe it.

It was even written into online articles openly.

Military and urban themes, whenever mercenaries, special forces, and super soldiers are involved, most of the names will appear such as "Wolf Warrior", "Black Panther", and "Falcon", and "Dragon Group" appears most frequently, and later it was even quoted in fantasy themes.

It was not until more and more netizens dug deeper and conducted detailed research that they finally proved that the code names of the troops such as "Dragon Group" and "Black Panther" were all fake.

But netizens are not angry, but happy instead, because this further confirms another hidden identity of the dialect.

Director of the Strategic Research Bureau!
(End of this chapter)