1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 338 Dirty~
Rushing back home late in the summer to eat dumplings.

Milan and the other two were waiting for him.

"Hey! Try it, you're the living dumpling filling!"

Milan brought out a plate of dumplings fresh from the pot. It seemed that they were cooked in advance in anticipation of Xia Tian's return.

"Let me try it!" Xia Tian picked up one and ate it in one bite.

Hmm...you know what, it's a bit chewy!
"Have I been stirring it for too long?" he couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Xu: "Need I say that? The chopsticks are broken!"

When making dumplings, Xia Tian was in charge of stirring the meat filling, and he put in 80% of his strength, making 300 turns in one minute!
All the bamboo chopsticks were broken!
In the end, the volume of the meat filling was reduced by one third!

The texture of the dumpling filling is very similar to the well-refined Chaoshan beef balls, very chewy!

Then Xiaoxu proudly brought out his "special dish" for Xiatian to taste.

When I took a look at it in summer, wow, the main body was made of purple eggplant cut into the shape of a big bee with a knife, and there were also a few legs!

I also blanched two pieces of tender yellow cabbage hearts and stuck them on top to pretend to be wings!

None of the three dared to say anything bad.
Zhang Li: “The presentation is good.”

Xia Tian: “Very childlike.”

Milan: "Vegetarian dishes look like meat dishes!"

What is high emotional intelligence?! Tactical retreat x3!

……

The next day, New Year's Day, Xia Tian and Milan returned home and had lunch at Xia's house.

When they went there, Milan asked Xiaoxu and Zhang Li to go as well.

How could they be so embarrassed? They shook their heads like rattles.

Milan advised: "What are you afraid of? An ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her parents-in-law~"

Xiao Xu puffed out his chest and said, "Who said I was ugly?"

"Then are you going?"

Xiao Xu became obedient and said, "Wait until tomorrow, let's go tomorrow..."

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Milan took the two reluctant couples to Xia's house again, and deliberately left Xia Tian behind and refused to let them go.

When Dad Xia knew about this, he went out to visit relatives in advance to avoid embarrassment. Let the mothers talk!
Dad Xia: Xia Tian, ​​little calf, don’t let me catch you, or I’ll make you eat greasy juice!
I don’t know if it’s because of the excitement during the day, but it’s so lively at night!
Zhang Li went to deliver something to a friend, and when she came back she noticed something was wrong and asked, "What are they doing?"

Xiao Xu: “Yeah!”

Zhang Li:? ? ?
Xiao Xu: "One welcomes him with open arms, the other teaches him everything he knows."

"One is sweet-mouthed and treacherous, and has a silver tongue! The other is a wielder of swords and clubs!"

Zhang Li: ??? Xiaoxu! Your vocabulary is getting more and more terrifying~
Of course, they only chatted for a while and then went to save Milan's life.

When Xiao Xu went to bed at night, he suddenly smelled Milan and said, "Lanlan, you smell good too!"

Zhang Li at the side also came over to smell it: "Really!"

It’s the familiar scent of summer!
Milan smelled it himself: "Maybe... he pickled it?"

"Hahaha!" Xiaoxu and the other boy rolled around on the bed because of the laughter.

……

I had been having a good time during these few days in the summer, but suddenly some bad news came.

The Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka, a close friend whom I just met last year, died of illness on February 2 at the age of 9!
Mrs. Tezuka specially sent a message to Yanjing to inform Xia Tian, ​​saying that the agreement between her late husband and you could not be fulfilled!
Previously in Yanjing, the two had agreed that in the summer, Tezuka Osamu would entertain Xia Tian in Japan and let Xia Tian experience the unique characteristics of Japan - the casual chat between men behind their wives' backs.

As a result, just two months passed and the person was gone!
Xia Tian carefully put away the sketch of himself that Osamu Tezuka drew, which can be considered as his posthumous work.

I am only in my twenties, how many people have passed away in my life?
Alas, life is short!

Life is like an adversity, and I am also a pedestrian.

Just after the first month of the lunar year, a rock album was released in Yanjing - by Lao Cui.

"Rock on the New Chang Z Road" is Cui Jian's first personal studio album and also the first original rock album in mainland China.

I bought ten discs in the summer, and besides listening to them, I also kept a few for my collection.

At this time, "Insidious" has been serialized to the end.

The very next day after the final issue was published, many comments appeared in the newspapers.

Milan was most interested in this, and she would collect the discussions about each summer book in the newspaper and make them into clippings.

He also picked out some that were highly praised and read them to the three people: "This one is good! This one knows how to praise!"

"The Hidden is a very sophisticated realist spy novel. Through the story of a middle-level officer like Yu Zecheng lurking among the enemy, it connects many real events..."

“Not only is the research very solid, showing a lot of details about the real life of intelligence officers, but it also has a very sophisticated narrative structure, and has reached the pinnacle of novel readability.”

"and this!"

“The rhythm of each chapter of Lurk is controlled extremely precisely. Each chapter has a high density of plot points, as well as the design of story changes and twists. The ending can leave suspense, and at the same time, it also buries many cross-chapter foreshadowings, and these foreshadowings are also concluded just right…”

"No matter where you start, you will be drawn to this novel and read on, and you will never get tired of it."

The book "The Hidden" is about to be published. When it was first serialized, many publishers contacted Xia Tian. Xia Tian also tried to "be even-handed" and get to know more people in the industry, right?
However, what is puzzling is that "The Inspector General of the Song Dynasty", which ended half a month earlier than "The Hidden Cam", did not attract such high discussion.

Although there have been some discussions, they have mostly been confined to tabloids.

Unlike "The Hidden Ones", which received reviews in all major literary magazines and was very popular...

Originally, the newspapers were praising "The Hidden" and Milan became more enthusiastic about reading the newspapers every day. At that time, a piece of news attracted Xia Tian's attention.

On February 2, the 10th Berlin Film Festival came to a close.

The Golden Bear winner is the film "Rain Man", which tells the story of an older brother with high-functioning autism in mathematics and his younger brother.

This movie has an original novel.

And the author really has a brother with autism - he is a genius autistic patient with amazing memory and calculation ability.

The movie "Rain Man" is based on the author's real life experience!
The protagonist's younger brother in the movie is played by Tom Cruise. He is really handsome now, but it's a pity that he joined a messy gang later.
The reason why Xia Tian paid attention to this Berlin Film Festival was that the film "The Angelus" directed by Wu Ziniu won the Special Jury Award - the Silver Bear Award.

Although he failed to reproduce the glory of Zhang Yimou, it is still quite impressive.

After all, the subject matter of "The Angelus" is not likely to win those Western awards.

On the 15th, Xia Tian drove his newly bought jeep, wearing sunglasses to cover his eyes, and took Milan to watch the excitement - Yanjing Shizipo Real Estate Exchange.

This was the first time that commercial housing was publicly sold in Yanjing, which marked the beginning of the commercialization of housing.

In the early morning, before the real estate exchange opened, there were already nearly a thousand people waiting!

There are people with housing difficulties, some are on the sidelines, some have money and want to improve their housing conditions, and inevitably some think that rare goods are worth buying and want to speculate...

There are 350 commercial housing units for sale this time, with the highest price at 2000 yuan per square meter, and they are all located in prime locations!

Xia Tian thought, won’t these be sold out in no time?

It turned out not to be.

From morning to afternoon, thousands of people visited, but only 350 of the 250 commercial houses were registered and reserved.

People still think it’s too expensive!
Xia Tian and Milan each registered and reserved a suite as a backup option—since they were already here.

Xia Tian was thinking that if he had the chance, he would buy a few more stores or small buildings to use as office locations for his future company.

In fact, there are other places that have also started selling houses, such as the commercial housing in Fangzhuang, but they are not sold easily and it is difficult for ordinary people to buy them.

It’s not cheap either. Grade A is 1800, Grade B is 1500, and the cheapest Grade C is 7 per square meter. But they are almost unavailable on the market and cannot be bought.

In less than ten years, housing prices in Yanjing rose nearly five times.

This speed is even more amazing than what happened later, right?

On March 3, the Wildlife Protection Law officially came into effect.

From now on, tiger bones, tiger penises, rhino horns, etc. will no longer be legal!

Xia Tian: Fortunately, I collected a few boxes in advance!

Oh, and fifty cases of tiger bone wine from a winery in the northeast—a small piece of bone is placed in each bottle!

Now the second courtyard courtyards in Beihai are almost full!

In the afternoon, Xia Tian and Milan were looking at a photography album, which contained many photos of ancient buildings.

Milan pointed at one of them and asked.

Xia Tian looked at the text below and said, "This is the reclining Guanyin statue in the Longxing Temple in Zhengding, which Lu Xun considered to be the oriental goddess of beauty. I went to see it when I was filming the Dream of the Red Chamber. It's not far from Yanjing. If you want to see it, we can drive there on weekends..."

At this time, Xiao Xu came back from outside and asked with a look of disgust: "What is sitting upside down, what is Guanyin, what postures are you discussing in broad daylight?"

Xia Tian and Milan: Stare...

Xiao Xu also realized that it seemed to be a mistake, and explained: "It's all Milan's fault for polluting me~"

Milan nodded: "Yes, yes, it's all my fault, otherwise Xiaoxu wouldn't be so skilled~"

……

Xia Tian met Li Kuiyong at the tavern.

After entering the box, Xia Tian took off his sunglasses and hat, touched the fake beard on his lips, and asked, "Brother Yong, have you made up your mind? This time, the minimum stay will be one year!"

"Yeah!" Li Kuiyong just nodded silently.

Two days ago, Xia Tian found him and told him something: "Brother Yong, I plan to go to Hong Kong for at least a year. I would like to ask you to accompany me and protect me as a bodyguard!"

Li Kuiyong was stunned: Me? Protect you?!

But on second thought, no matter how good a fighter one person is, he is not as good as two people.

Not to mention having a companion makes things easier. Even when on duty, there are two people taking turns.

He went home and told his family that because of Xia Tian's help, his family moved into a bigger house in the second half of last year. Xia Tian also attended the housewarming ceremony and gave a 500 yuan gift.

Nowadays, the security work of the same song does not require much of my own work. Since Xia Tian needs my company, I will go for it.

Today, the family situation has improved because of summer. My younger brothers and sisters have become wealthy and have their own careers.

He even got a formal job at the Palace Museum, let alone himself.

Forget about going to Hong Kong, even if it’s a sea of ​​fire and swords, I would go there!

(End of this chapter)