Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 394 No one is a bystander!
On Sunday, Tao Yushu took a rest and went back to her parents' home with Lin Chaoyang and the children for dinner. She also brought gifts to the family.

The brothers Tao Xiwen and Tao Xiwu had been waiting anxiously for many days, and finally Lin Chaoyang returned from Hong Kong.

What Lin Chaoyang brought back for them this time was a Sony Walkman. Ever since Sony released the first portable cassette player TPS-L1979 in 2, their Walkman has been extremely popular in countries around the world, with sales exceeding tens of millions of units in just five years.

In the past two years, there have been a very small number of people in China who pursue fashion and have started using Walkmans. However, among these people, except for a small number who actually bought them at Friendship Stores using foreign exchange coupons, most of them actually bought smuggled goods.

Even if the price of such parallel-imported products is only a fraction of the genuine ones, it is still a huge expense for Chinese people at this stage.

In addition to the gifts for the brothers Tao Xiwen and Tao Xiwu, the gifts for other members of the Tao family were not cheap either, ranging from three or four hundred Hong Kong dollars to one or two thousand Hong Kong dollars.

Last year, when Lin Chaoyang went to Hong Kong, he brought back many valuable gifts for his family. This time, the things he brought were even more expensive. Except for the two children who were very happy, the adults in the Tao family felt bad.

Father Tao said to Lin Chaoyang earnestly: "Chaoyang, don't buy these things for us when you go out in the future. We all understand your intentions.

If you really want to buy, you can bring some cheap local specialties. How can you buy so many expensive things for your family every year?"

Tao's mother also said, "Yes, it's enough if the thought is there. Gifts are not common. Look at the brothers Xiwen and Yumo. Now whenever they hear that you are going out, they look forward to this. How can this be allowed? We can't let them develop this habit."

Lin Chaoyang would definitely listen to the old couple's opinions, and he nodded seriously to show his understanding.

It was almost time for dinner when Tao Yucheng came back from the video hall. The hall had been open for a month and its popularity had gradually stabilized. Tao Yucheng and his wife took turns to run the store every day and it was not as busy as before.

According to Tao Yucheng, there are at least three to four hundred people entering the video hall every day, and many people often stay there for half a day. Therefore, after careful calculation, the daily revenue of their video hall is at least one hundred and thirty to forty yuan.

The key point is that it is summer vacation now. For a video hall next to a university, winter and summer vacations are the off-season. If we really have to wait until school starts, it should be easy to double or triple the number of viewers.

"It shouldn't be a problem to get your money back before the winter break this year."

The reality makes Tao Yucheng very optimistic. The key is that he doesn't need to resign. Opening a video hall is the right move. This matter cannot be done without the help of Lin Chaoyang and Du Feng.

In front of Tao's father and mother, Tao Yucheng couldn't say anything. After dinner, he specially saw Lin Chaoyang out and said a few words of thanks.

"We are all family, why should we be so polite?"

After saying these things, Tao Yucheng said, "By the way, Chaoyang, the news that you won the Best Screenwriter Award at the Hong Kong Academy Awards has spread back to China. I have a friend who is a reporter for Popular Movies and would like to arrange an interview with you."

Compared with the speed of news dissemination in Hong Kong, domestic news is quite lagging behind. It has been a week since Lin Chaoyang received the award.

Since Tao Yucheng had spoken, Lin Chaoyang naturally could not refuse.

Two days later, someone claiming to be Xiaoli, a reporter from Popular Movies, came to visit.

"Please come in!" Lin Chaoyang enthusiastically invited Xiaoli into the main room.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, the two began to talk about Lin Chaoyang's participation in the Academy Awards ceremony. This was not a formal interview, but just a warm-up before the interview.

When the interview officially began, the two asked and answered questions one by one. Xiaoli was the kind of reporter who was serious and meticulous. He did not ask any unexpected questions, but continued the conversation according to the interview outline he had prepared in advance.

This kind of interview lacks some sharpness, but it is smooth and the interviewee will feel very comfortable, which makes Lin Chaoyang say a lot without realizing it.

While the two were chatting, Li Tuo, Chen Jiangong, A Cheng and a group of four or five people came to Lin Chaoyang's house.

Seeing that he was busy with something important, everyone went to the side rooms to move around freely.

After the interview, Xiao Li asked Lin Chaoyang: "I heard that you made some news when you were interviewed by the media during your visit to Hong Kong."

“Has there been any reports in the country now?”

Xiao Li shook her head, "I heard about it, too."

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "It's not a big deal. The Hong Kong media always likes to watch the fun and not be afraid of big things. We just talked about some opinions about Taiwan Island. Maybe some people think this topic is a bit sensitive."

Xiaoli didn't know the specific details of the news about Lin Chaoyang in Hong Kong. He only knew that Lin Chaoyang made the headlines of Hong Kong newspapers because of a few words he said about Taiwan Island.

After hearing what Lin Chaoyang said, I think it is probably because of political sensitivity.

He smiled and complimented, "Your influence is really huge. I see that many domestic media are also discussing you recently."

"You mean the royalties?"

Xiaoli nodded.

Lin Chaoyang said helplessly: "The mouths are on those people's faces, let them say whatever they want."

"From my personal standpoint, I support you.

In the long run, the royalty payment system is definitely a good thing for domestic writers.

Perhaps in ten years, many of those who cursed you will thank you.”

Lin Chaoyang was deeply touched by Xiaoli's words. "I hope so."

Finally, Xiao Li asked Lin Chaoyang for his opinion, saying that he wanted to use the words "the first domestic winner of the Hong Kong Film Awards" in the title of the article, but was immediately rejected by Lin Chaoyang.

"'Behind the Scene' is a work of collective wisdom, and the current success is also due to everyone's efforts.

This year, not only did I win the Best Screenplay Award, but Song Hongrong from Yanying Studio also won the Best Art Director Award. It would be a stretch to say "first".

Besides, Hong Kong is Chinese territory, and Hong Kong people are Chinese, so there should be no distinction between them. "Listening to Lin Chaoyang's words, Xiao Li nodded, "Okay, then I'll come up with a more appropriate title later."

After saying that, he left.

After Xiaoli left, Li Tuo and a few others ran to the main room and started making a fuss, asking Lin Chaoyang to treat them all, the reason of course being that he had won an award at the Academy Awards.

"You guys didn't come here today just to have a free meal, did you?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

Li Tuo sat down uninhibitedly and winked at Ah Cheng, "Show him!"

Acheng immediately handed over a publication, which turned out to be the "Wenyi Bao" which was just published today.

Lin Chaoyang casually flipped through it and found an article on page 7 signed by A Cheng - "Culture Constrains Humanity."

He glanced at the content and it could basically be seen as a hymn of praise for root-seeking literature. Although it was a hymn of praise, Ah Cheng's writing style was quite good.

The article has a clear theme, reasonable and sufficient arguments and clear and rigorous logic. It is a good article.

"Ah Cheng, this time you have done something extraordinary. You were not in Yanjing a few days ago, so I checked this article for you. It will definitely spark heated discussions after it is published, adding impetus to the development of our root-seeking literature!"

Li Tuo praised Ah Cheng for a few words, and then asked Lin Chaoyang proudly, "This article is worth a meal, right?"

"The article was written by Ah Cheng. What does it have to do with you?"

"Why is it not a problem? We are here to offer suggestions. Just blame me. Without my review, his article might not be published in the Literary Gazette."

"You blow it!"

After a while of joking, Li Tuo became serious again, "Actually, the main reason we came here today is because of the news about royalties."

The news about the publication of "Crossing the Guandong" being paid for with royalties appeared when Lin Chaoyang held a seminar in Guangzhou, and it has been less than half a month since then.

But the news spread very quickly, mainly because "Crossing the Guandong" is so popular nowadays.

Even though it has been almost four months since the last part was published, the enthusiasm for discussing this novel among the literary community and readers remains high.

Under such circumstances, any topic related to "Crossing the Guandong" and the author Lin Chaoyang is bound to attract the attention of countless people.

In less than half a month, nearly twenty media outlets reported on the royalty payment system, starting with Guangdong's Yangcheng Evening News, to local media in Shanghai, Shaanxi and Hebei, and then to the two mainstream media in the capital, Yanjing.

The popularity of this news craze is no longer limited to the literary world, but has now spread to the entire cultural and publishing industry.

After all, literary works are only a sub-category of the book market, and writers are not the only ones who collect royalties, so this matter will inevitably affect the entire cultural community as well as the book and publishing markets.

"Chaoyang, did you notice?"

"Notice anything?"

“Those who first spoke out about the royalty payment system were almost all official mouthpieces. The recent discussion on root-seeking literature was them singing a different tune from us.

I suspect this group of people did it on purpose this time, they want to make you a target.”

Lin Chaoyang thought: "It shouldn't be that serious, right?"

"We won't speculate whether it is that serious or not, let's just look at the facts. Anyway, this is what we see.

Let’s not talk about the issue of root-seeking literature for now. The royalty payment system is a good thing for any writer.

Those commentators are writers after all, and writing this kind of article is really a waste of their money.

Who can't pretend to be noble? If they have the ability, they should not take the royalties for writing articles!

Let me see how many of them have such courage?"

Li Tuo became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and in the end he slapped the table, still not satisfied.

After he calmed down, he continued, "I have been communicating with my friends these past two days. We writers must speak out about this matter. We cannot let those bastards who eat and smash the pot lead the way, and we cannot let them slander you like this!
In this matter, you have made a contribution to our community of writers!"

After Li Tuo finished speaking, Chen Jiangong and others also echoed him.

"What Li Tuo said is correct. Now this matter is no longer just your problem. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this matter is beneficial to all of us writers.

But this group of people just want to confuse right and wrong, and it is obvious that they have evil intentions.

To put it bluntly, isn't this just to save money for the publishing house? "

"The most infuriating thing is that royalties are calculated based on sales. If sales are low, writers will get less royalties. They never mentioned this! These people are just evil!"

After everyone denounced those hypocritical media and commentators, they were still indignant in their hearts.

Lin Chaoyang was very pleased to see the reactions of the crowd. The royalty payment system was indeed not only related to his own interests, but also to the interests of the writers’ community.

To put it more broadly, anyone who is engaged in writing work and whose works may be published is related to this matter.

When you are in it, no one is a bystander!
(End of this chapter)