1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 53 The wheel of time starts~
On March 3, Nie Weiping won the first World Amateur Go Championship.

This incident caused quite a stir.

Nowadays, we are more or less eager for recognition. So almost everything involving foreign affairs, such as winning awards in competitions, is taken very seriously.

The same thing happened later, and it even got worse.

I don’t know when I will be able to overcome my fear, become confident, and no longer care about the eyes and opinions of outsiders.

Nie Weiping's victory sparked a Go craze in the country, and even more students at the Children's Palace began to learn Go.

Xia Tian had nothing better to do so he attended a few classes, but he didn't have the patience to sit there.

Therefore, they played chess very quickly, and their moves were “unconventional” and “full of murderous intent”—the teacher’s comments.

On March 3, an event was reported in the newspaper - the first national outstanding short story selection and award ceremony was held in Yenching, hosted by the People's Literature magazine, and the jury consisted of 26 writers and critics including Mao Dun and Ba Jin.

This is a very important matter in the field of literature!
That’s Lu, Guo, Mao, Ba, and Lao Cao!
This also means that the spring breeze is blowing and the cultural field is beginning to thaw.

On April 4, "Black Cat Sheriff" was finally published by Yanjing Children's Literature and Art Publishing House.

"Put your hands up!"

"Who is the murderer?"

"there is only one truth!"

"I am Sheriff Black Cat, the embodiment of law!"

"Criminals, I have locked onto your location, wait for your capture!"

"No matter where you run to, Sheriff Black Cat will find you!"

"Don't ever try to hide the truth from Sheriff Black Cat!"

"No matter how dark the darkness is, Sheriff Black Cat can illuminate the truth!"

"Small theft, the justice of Black Cat Sheriff will not tolerate it!"

"I, Sheriff Black Cat, will bring justice to the innocent!"

Finally, Sheriff Black Cat held his gun and made "bang bang bang bang" sounds, symbolically indicating "Vote for me~".

This action visually conveys the psychological implication that "justice will eventually defeat evil" and will become one of Sheriff Black Cat's signature actions.

The image of Sheriff Mimi is very majestic and cool!
Of course, it is a little different from the original cat.

As I said, stay closer to art and stay away from artists.

If children saw Mimi Benmao, they would probably feel that their idol’s image would collapse and their dreams would be shattered, right?
When I got the copy of Black Cat Sheriff in the summer, I felt a strange sense of pleasure in my heart - I have published a book, right? ~
When Dachun saw "Black Cat Sheriff", he was shocked!
I was even more excited when I learned that the author was Xia Tian!
Dachun: "Can you assign a role to me as well?"

Xia Tian was a bit embarrassed: "What can we arrange? We can only arrange a police dog~ barking, calling for spring?! Called Dingchun, loves to chew on people's brains!"

Dachun scratched the back of his head: "This doesn't sound like a positive role, does it?!"

Maybe because he was inspired by "Black Cat Sheriff", Dachun was full of thoughts and didn't even want to go to school the next day, Monday!
What he wants to do, he himself doesn't know.

Dachun: I don’t know what I’m going to do either? (Yelling)

But he doesn't want to go to school, he thinks it's so boring!
But if you don’t go to school, you will be beaten!
Dachun lied and said he had a stomachache, and was finally taken to the hospital by Chun's father.

The doctor pressed on Dachun's stomach: "Do you feel anything when I touch your stomach?"

Dachun said seriously: "I felt someone touching my belly."

The doctor suddenly looked up at Dachun's face and stared at him for a long time without saying anything.

Chun’s father: The doctor is really skilled. He could tell at a glance that my son’s disease was in his brain!
Finally, Dachun was taken to the operating table and his appendix was removed.
That’s when Dachun screamed!
It is said that the screams are even more miserable than when a pig is slaughtered in the village!
The patients and their families in the entire corridor came to watch the fun - what? The hospital cafeteria is slaughtering pigs today to improve the food? !
And so, I took sick leave at the beginning of the spring semester.

As a result, the next day, Xia Tian visited Dachun on behalf of the whole class.

Xia Tian: "The teacher asked me to bring the homework to you."

Dachun: "You beast! Didn't I get stabbed in vain?"

Xia Tian continued: "But considering your condition, I asked Glasses to write it for you."

"Dear brother!" Dachun quickly took out apples, candies and other things and gave them to Xiatian to eat.

Because he had just had surgery, he could only look but not eat, so he was very greedy.

The doctor is still trying to persuade her!
He used the lesson of "a patient who ate 30 sticky rice dumplings in one meal and blocked his intestines" to remind Dachun and other patients not to overeat.

Dachun asked with a longing look on his face: "What kind of sticky bean curd filling is so delicious?"

Every time Dachun speaks, the hospital is filled with a happy atmosphere~
The doctors and nurses were reluctant to let him go!
Dachun had a good physique and was discharged from the hospital after four days. This was because the doctors and nurses kept him there, otherwise he would have passed away in three days.

After a few more days, I was basically completely healed.

To quote Chun's father: He has no other advantages except that he is tough!

During this week of recuperation, Dachun was very depressed. So we went out with him on Sunday.

Because we heard that Yuyuantan Park was bustling with activity in the summer, a group of us went there.

Among them, Milan must be one. Basically, she can find Xia Tian accurately every Sunday. This time, she also brought Yu Beibei with her...

The group rode their bicycles there. Dachun carried Xiaodong, Xiatian carried Yanxi, and Milan carried Yu Beibei.

Before we even got to the place, we ran into Fangyan Ye Jing and his group.

There was also a girl among this group of sons, who looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, quite pretty and a little reserved.

"Oh! Isn't this Li Bailing?" Yu Beibei saw the girl from afar and seemed to know her.

"Who?" Milan asked.

"The one from the Naval Academy, his father has two stars on his shoulders." Yu Beibei didn't seem very optimistic about this new member of the opposite sex.

"That's terrible. What? You don't like her?" Milan asked.

"You little white flower who knows nothing, bad luck to you!"

At this time, summer has also arrived.

Xia Tian stopped his bicycle and said, "Hey, Ye Jing, Fang Yan, you are here too! What are you doing? It's so lively!"

There were about three to four hundred people gathered in this corner of the park, all of them young people in their twenties.

There was a group of men in hats standing nearby, looking a little wary of the situation. I didn't go over to disperse them. Xia Tian was quite tall, so he stood on the steps and looked inside - no wonder, there were a few foreigners taking pictures inside, they looked like foreign journalists!
We can't disperse them. There are foreigners here, so we have to be careful!

There is no small matter in diplomacy.
Ye Jing seemed unimpressed by the scene and snorted: "What else can I do? I'm just bored!"

Fangyan was looking forward to it. "There are poetry recitations in there. There's a new publication called Today. Have you read it?"

Xia Tian smiled: "I didn't expect you to be interested in poetry!"

After all, dialect is a bit timid, but deep down he is still proud and stubborn. He doesn't like ordinary people or things. I didn't expect that he also likes poetry.

These are truly the golden age of poetry.

In the summer, they talked in low voices, which made several young people around them unhappy. They kept looking back at them, thinking that their talking was affecting the atmosphere.

Ye Jing immediately glared back!

Feng Kuazi also looked like a servile person.

"Okay, shut up and listen to what poem he is reciting." Xia Tian listened attentively.

He could also see what was going on inside while standing on the steps.

A very tall young man who looked to be in his twenties, with a long face and regular features, was reciting in a very expressive voice:

"The fish drifted down the cold ice,
No fish sighs of pain are heard.

Since there is no warm sunshine
How to greet and bid farewell to the splendid mornings and evenings in life?!
......"

That look can be said to be full of confidence and dreams.

Not only this person, but the young people around him also seemed very excited and full of hope.

These days, "literary youth" is not a derogatory term.

Milan tugged at the corner of Xia Tian's clothes and asked in a low voice, "What poem is this?"

"It's Index Finger's The School of Fish Trilogy."

Xia Tian has a photographic memory, so he can remember everything he has seen or heard in an instant.

"Hey, comrade, have you read this poem?!" When the people next to him saw that Xia Tian knew this poem, they immediately became excited.

"Oh, I saw it in Today."

"What a pity, I didn't get to see it, so I could only copy it everywhere."

Nowadays, information transmission still requires paper media. For example, a "niche" and "underground" publication like "Today" really has to be copied.

Milan seemed to particularly like the fact that Xia Tian was the center of attention, and said, "Don't you also write poems and publish them?"

Xia Tian was startled and said, "No, no, don't be ridiculous!"

"I have something else to do, I have to go home quickly!"

Xia Tian didn't wait for the people around him to react, and ran out with Milan. He got on his bike and said, "The wind is strong, hurry up~" and pedaled furiously.

Dachun and the others at the back still don’t understand what’s going on inside.

Why is a man babbleing about something and why are so many people so excited?

Seeing Xia Tian riding so fast, he immediately got on his bike to catch up with him.

I don't want to watch it anymore, this excitement is boring!
Ye Jing didn’t like this in the first place, and the others didn’t like it either - they preferred martial arts to literature!

If Fangyan hadn't insisted on watching for a while, he would have left long ago.

Seeing that Xia Tian and the others were shaking, they could no longer sit still, so they simply dragged Fangyan into the car, got on and drove away.

Ye Jing pedaled while shouting, "Hey, slow down, it's a rare opportunity to meet you, let's drink together!"

Xia Tian’s back was almost gone. “Fuck! You’re a donkey, running so fast!”

With that kind of strength and physical fitness in the summer, if the bicycle allows, you can pedal until the chain smokes.

Fortunately, Yu Beibei is not good at riding a bicycle, so Dachun and the others had to wait for her, otherwise they would not be able to catch up with her.

Ye Jing and his friends went to Xia Tian to drink, and Xia Tian asked Da Chun to buy some beer—freshly brewed beer, in bulk, in a thermos! 5 cents a bottle!
Ye Jing and his team were responsible for preparing some peanuts and other things to go with the wine.

Feng Pants was still dissatisfied: "Hey, why are they in bulk?"

Glasses retorted: "Look how crazy you are! This loose version is the best to drink, it has just been out of the factory for no more than three hours, it is the newest! Do you understand?"

Xia Tian looked at the mug of beer in front of him and began to feel nervous: Are these bastards trying to get me drunk? !
Ye Jing and his grandchildren gathered in a circle, staring at Xia Tian with excitement on their faces, as if they were going to send him under the table.

Even Milan looked excited - he heard from Dachun that in summer, one glass of wine would make you drunk!
This is something you need to know~
Among the three women at the drinking party, the one with the highest rank, Li Bailing, was very reserved and a little stiff, and didn't drink much.

Although Yu Beibei screamed happily, her lips were only wet each time.

Milan drank the whole glass, and seemed to be very generous!

……

Xia Tian was still dealing with the drinking, but what he didn't know was that if he had walked a little later at Yuyuantan, he would have found out that the poetry recitation was organized by the editorial department of Today.

The hesitant young man who gathered a large group of people and read aloud in public was called Brother Chen Kai!
Last year, he performed extremely well in the examination for the Directing Department of Yenching Film Academy and was successfully admitted.

When the college entrance examination was first resumed, Chen Kaige applied for the Chinese Department of Peking University. However, when he arrived at the examination room, he found that even in the Chinese Department, students were not only tested on writing skills but also on mathematics, physics and chemistry.

So, he settled for the second best and chose Yandian.

His childhood friend who took the exam with him stood up and handed in his paper in less than 30 minutes.

This made the other candidates secretly happy, thinking that he had given up the exam. His name was Tian Zhuangzhuang.

He handed in his paper early not only because he had worked as a photographer at the Yenching Agricultural Film Studio for three years but was the only one among his classmates who had ever carried a camera.

The film analysis for the exam question was "Heroic Sons and Daughters". The lead actor was Tian Fang, his father, who later became the first director of Yanying Studio...

The invigilator asked him why he didn't check again, and he said there was nothing to check.

Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang were enrolled together with Zhang Yimou, Gu Changwei and Zhang Li. The three of them were admitted to the photography department. Later, they all changed their careers to become directors, saving the country in a roundabout way.

The enrollment of Yenching Film Academy that year was rated as one of the "100 Most Exciting Moments in the History of World Cinema" by the French film magazine "Cahiers du Film".

Their teacher, Guo Baochang, the director of "The Mansion Gate", later said when reviewing Tian Zhuangzhuang and Zhang Yimou's graduation work "Red Elephant": I sat there watching it, I was stunned, and I said we are going to produce a master.

(End of this chapter)