Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 44: Internal Reference Movies Are Really Valuable
During dinner, Tao Yumo looked unhappy, probably because she was upset because her parents did not take her to the theater.

Lin Chaoyang could also understand his sister-in-law's feelings. As the only single person in the family besides Wen and Wu, her current status in the family might not be as good as his. After all, he had Tao Yushu's full support.

But what about my sister-in-law?
The real father is not close to the child, the mother does not love the child, the elder sister is always showing affection, and the eldest brother just cares about being free and easy.

Who could be as miserable as her!

At night, Tao Yushu was checking her small treasury again.

Today I bought a palm-woven bed and a beech bed frame, spending fifty-six yuan, which is more than Lin Chaoyang's monthly salary.

More than half of the ninety yuan he had just received last night was gone in an instant, and the money-loving Tao's heart was bleeding.

"Don't check it, come and feel the big bed in our house."

Lin Chaoyang pulled Tao Yushu to lie on the bed, and then he became restless.

Because of those two broken iron beds, Lin Chaoyang had been holding back for four months. He risked his life to charge forward last night, but Tao Yushu couldn't hold on halfway and surrendered.

Now that he has changed to a larger bed, Mr. Lin can finally enjoy himself.

If you want to live off others these days, who doesn’t have some special skills?
New Year's Day was approaching, and the wind in Yanjing was exceptionally strong that night, making the bed shake.

After the incident, Lin Chaoyang leaned against the bed and asked, "Are you going to tell my parents about my novel?"

Tao Yushu's body was covered in sweat and his breath smelled like orchid.

"Not in a hurry."

Lin Chaoyang didn't understand what she meant. He thought, with Tao Yushu's temper, since she had published a novel in a magazine, wouldn't she take the magazine to show off to her mother-in-law?
"We have too many places to spend money. If Mom knew you could earn royalties, she would definitely find ways to ask us for daily expenses."

Lin Chaoyang didn't expect Tao Yushu to have such a hidden agenda. "You two mother and daughter are really competing with each other in wits and courage!"

"Who told her to be partial?" Tao Yushu changed her position in his arms and said, "Besides, you just published a short story, it's not safe yet. The publicity is too deliberate. Why not wait until next year to publish a book, and then drop an atomic bomb on them! It would be best if they heard it from others, and then come to me to verify the situation. I said lightly: Yes!"

Lin Chaoyang imagined the scene described by his wife and couldn't help laughing out loud.

My wife was really born in the wrong era. If she wrote an online novel thirty years later, wouldn't she make a lot of money?

"What do you think? Is my idea good?" Tao Yushu joked.

"You have a bigger heart than me." Lin Chaoyang said.

"It's because I have it, that's why I'm so generous! If you were really a hopeless person, I would have to spend all my energy to prove that I didn't marry the wrong person."

After hearing her words, Lin Chaoyang felt a little enlightened.

Yes, it was precisely because he was confident that he did not bother to explain or prove anything. When he recalled his thoughts over the past six months since he came to Yanjing, wasn't it the same?

"Besides, my mother's ideas are preconceived. If I tell her how great you are, she might think I'm demonstrating against her."

Lin Chaoyang thought about it. Jokes were jokes, but what Tao Yushu said at the end was really insightful.

Once a person has a prejudice, everything he sees will be biased.

“You are so talented in literary creation, and your first novel has caused such a great response. If you don’t plan your future development path well, it would be a waste of talent.

Moreover, "The Shepherd" is a short story after all. No matter how good the public response is, it cannot be published, and its influence is ultimately a little weak. I think your next creative focus should be on medium-length and long novels..."

Lin Chaoyang remembered that it was Tao Yushu who surrendered first, but after a while, she became more and more excited, and her whole body was glowing with a different kind of radiance.

He becomes fully revived as soon as he talks about serious matters. Could this be the aura of a top student?

After holding it in for four months, Lin Chaoyang finally got his wish. When he went to work the next day, he was full of energy. He is a young man after all.

As soon as the winter vacation started, not only Yanjing University became deserted, but so did the library.

Lin Chaoyang was stationed at the library on the first floor this week. He finally felt the joy of working here. He fished all morning and was so idle that his desk was almost shiny.

When he went to the dining hall at noon, he took a look at the dishes. He had been eating too much meat recently, so he decided to switch to something lighter. Just as he was about to order the dishes, he saw Liu Zhenyun coming into the dining hall with a lunch box.

"Zhenyun, you didn't go home?" Lin Chaoyang greeted Liu Zhenyun.

"No, I'll go home before the New Year."

After ordering food, the two chatted while eating. Lin Chaoyang learned from Liu Zhenyun the reason why he did not leave during the winter vacation.

It turned out that before the holiday, a group of students from remote areas in the Chinese Department did not want to go home, and asked the department to give them the opportunity to work and study.

The leaders of the Chinese Department followed public opinion and assigned these students the tasks of copying manuscripts and reviewing scripts.

Nowadays, there are no computers and few people know how to use typewriters. When publishing houses or magazines are in a hurry to publish manuscripts, they need someone to help copy the manuscripts.

Anyone who has done writing work knows that writing looks easy, but it is actually a chore. Doing homework for an hour or so will make your hands and shoulders sore, let alone copying manuscripts.

In comparison, reviewing a script is much easier.

However, everything has its pros and cons. Copying manuscripts is hard and tiring, but the reward is cash. Reviewing scripts is easy, but the reward is movie tickets.

Liu Zhenyun was a smart man. He felt that he was short of money, but not that short of money, so he decisively chose the job of reviewing scripts.

The scripts that Liu Zhenyun and other students had to review were obtained from the Ministry of Culture. After reviewing them, the students were asked to write an opinion which would serve as a preliminary selection for the scripts.

After watching each script, students will be given two "internal movie" tickets.

During this era, most of the foreign films introduced into the country were from socialist brother countries, and many of the "internal film" tickets issued by the Ministry of Culture were new and classic films from capitalist countries, which were very popular among the people.

Anyone who goes to see an internal reference movie the day before will be able to brag about it at work for a long time the next day.

Lin Chaoyang listened to Liu Zhenyun reading out the movie titles one by one and said, "Do you have all of them?"

"I just read a play and have two tickets for Rashomon, but my classmate still has some."

"Get me some more movie tickets."

Some of the movies mentioned by Liu Zhenyun had been seen by Lin Chaoyang, and some had not, but that didn’t matter. What mattered was that Tao Yushu and the Tao family had not seen them.

Liu Zhenyun was very happy after hearing his request.

Why do these students not go home during the winter vacation? Isn't it just to make money?

When they get movie tickets, they will definitely watch the movie themselves, but some tickets also need to be sold. After all, we have to promote both spiritual and material civilization.

Wouldn’t it be great to work hard for half of the winter vacation and earn enough money to buy a train ticket home?
"Okay, I'll collect the tickets and come to the library to find you later."

After the two of them finished talking about this, Liu Zhenyun delivered eight movie tickets to the library in the afternoon.

Among them, four are the Japanese movie "Rashomon", two are the Soviet movie "The Judgment", and two are the French movie "Napoleon". The movies were all watched at the Chinese Film Archive in Xiaoxitianer.

Lin Chaoyang counted out six yuan and four cents and handed them to Liu Zhenyun, who waved his hand quickly: "Too much."

Nowadays, watching a movie in a cinema only costs eight cents or ten cents, and it is even cheaper in a large dining hall, where a ticket costs only five cents if you bring your own small stool.

Lin Chaoyang gave Liu Zhenyun six dollars, which was eighty cents per ticket.

"Internal reference movies are priced the same as internal reference movies. Can they be the same?"

Lin Chaoyang stuffed the money into Liu Zhenyun's hand without hesitation. The price was still far from the ticket price of Xiao Xitian, but it was reasonable for the two of them to make a private transaction.

Walking out of the library, Liu Zhenyun looked down at the money in his hand.

Internal reference movies are really valuable!

(End of this chapter)