1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 408 This kid is not authentic

United States, New York.

Inside an old tenement building in Manhattan's Chinatown.

The weekly literary salon was still going on, Cheng Danqing, Li Quanwu and others were still sitting on the floor as before, listening to Mu Xin eloquently explaining his own unique literary ideas, everyone was mesmerized.

After Mu Xin finished his lecture, everyone prepared dinner together.

Li Quanwu said: "Have you heard?"

"What did you hear?" Everyone was curious.

"Lin Weimin, who came back last time, wrote a novel to scold us after returning from America."

"What?" Everyone was surprised, "Why?"

Li Quanwu sneered, "Who knows! We treated each other with courtesy when he came last time, but this man repays his kindness with revenge! Not only us, he even scolded the country of America, criticizing this place as useless!"

"Really? Isn't that too villainous?"

"When he came last time, he was out of tune with us. I thought it was because he was not used to the United States. I didn't expect that he actually looked down on us. Then there is no need to write a special book to scold people, right?"

"Who knows? These literati are the most cunning and deceitful, and they are so bad!"

"He just dared to write these things to please the people in China. You let him try to write one in the United States?"

Everyone talked a lot, with a bit of anger.

Cheng Danqing listened to the comments of his friends, and his expression was a little ugly. He invited Lin Weimin last time. He thought he was a fellow villager, but unexpectedly he shot him in the back.

Cheng Danqing was also angry in his heart, with a bit of irritability, he looked at Mu Xin who was sitting in the living room.

The old man was not affected by everyone at all, and sat there smoking a pipe with a calm expression.

Cheng Danqing was about to say a few words to Mu Xin when someone knocked on the door, so he opened it first.

A young man with yellow skin and black eyes stood at the door, "Hi, I'm looking for Mr. Cheng Danqing!"

The young man spoke not-so-standard Chinese, and Cheng Danqing's eyes were somewhat puzzled. His interpersonal relationship in New York was very simple, so he could be sure that he did not know the young man in front of him.

"I am, what do you want from me?"

Knowing that he is Cheng Danqing, the young man said with a pleasant smile, "Hello, my name is Huang Guangsheng. Entrusted by Mr. Lin, I will send you something."

Mr. Lin?
Lin Weimin's face immediately flashed in Cheng Danqing's mind, he suppressed the anger in his heart, and took the things Huang Guangsheng handed over.

The two nodded, and Huang Guangsheng left.

Cheng Danqing closed the door and walked back to the house. His friends asked, "Danqing, who was it just now?"

Cheng Danqing didn't answer the friends' questions, but kept his eyes on the envelope in his hand.

Everyone looked at the things in his hands curiously, "Is there a letter from China?"

Cheng Danqing opened the envelope, revealing a dozen beautifully printed tickets and a piece of letter paper.

Others came over, "What is this?"

Cheng Danqing handed the tickets to everyone and opened the letter in the envelope.

The letter was written by Lin Weimin, and the content was not long.

He just said that the last time he was invited to Cheng Danqing's party, a story came to his mind.After writing it, I feel that everyone may feel uncomfortable after seeing it. It just so happens that his play is about to be performed in public, so I specially gave away some tickets for the play performance.

After Cheng Danqing read the letter, the anger in his heart calmed down a little, but he was a little aggrieved.

After you kid scolded us after writing a novel, how about getting a few drama tickets as an apology?

No, this kid never said a word of apology in the letter from the beginning to the end.

Thinking of this, Cheng Danqing's anger returned.

This kid is unreasonable!
After they checked the tickets, they were interested in the letter in Cheng Danqing's hand, so he handed it out.

After reading the letter with all the big talk, Lu Zhifang said: "This person has a conscience!"

"He has a conscience!" Li Quanwu was a little indignant. "There was no apology from the beginning to the end. What's the point of getting a few tickets? Want to use this little favor to bribe us? When we haven't seen the money, he thinks he is who?"

Lu Zhifang looked at the tickets, "This is a Broadway ticket, not cheap."

Hearing what she said, Li Quanwu's face became even more ugly, "How cheap can it be?"

"Together, these should be worth 2000 meters." Lu Zhifang said quietly.

Li Quanwu stopped talking.

2000 meters is definitely not a small number for Li Quanwu and his group of people who keep rice. Everyone works part-time in their spare time, and most of them earn a few hundred meters a month.

When the others heard Lu Zhifang's words, their complexions became much clearer.

Literati are very face-saving, although they didn't say anything to apologize, but sending these tickets is actually a kind of sincerity!

"I have been in the United States for more than a year, and I have been living in Manhattan. We haven't been to Broadway to see it!" Someone said in a low mood.

In the United States, going to Broadway to watch musicals and dramas is not a cheap entertainment. Tickets start at a hundred dollars, which is too extravagant for international students with difficult conditions.

After this sentence was finished, the atmosphere was a little delicate.

Everyone thought of what Cheng Danqing and Li Quanwu said after sending Lin Weimin away that day. Lin Weimin left in a Mercedes.

When we met before, everyone was more or less proud when talking with Lin Weimin. Although you are famous in China, we are already abroad.

But now everyone has finally discovered that Lin Weimin is unique.

In the past, everyone only knew that Lin Weimin was famous in China and that his novels had been published abroad, but they had no idea about these things.

The Mercedes-Benz car for transportation and the 2000-meter knife that was handed out at random finally made everyone realize that their pride in the United States is not worth mentioning in Lin Weimin's eyes.

Thinking of this, an unspeakable feeling climbed into the hearts of everyone.

humiliation?It seems a bit.But when I think of how popular people are, whether they are domestic or foreign, I don't seem to have any qualifications to blame them.

People have always had a good attitude when they came and went, and now they have given away valuable tickets.

But I just feel a little uncomfortable, I can't explain that feeling, anyway, I feel a little aggrieved.

"Stop talking! What about these tickets?" Li Quanwu yelled.

Everyone was silent for a long time, and finally someone reached out and took out two tickets, "If you don't go, you won't go! Anyway, it's a ticket for a few hundred meters, just take my wife to see it!"

"That's right. Why don't you go, I want to see what's so great about this Lin Weimin!"

A group of people quickly divided up the tickets, leaving two tickets for Cheng Danqing and Mu Xin.

"Teacher, are you going?" Cheng Danqing asked.

Mu Xin laughed and said, "The tickets are already there, so let's go and see it! The play written by us Chinese is being staged on Broadway in the United States, of course we are going to join in!"

After Mu Xin finished speaking, everyone's eyes lit up. Didn't the situation suddenly open up?

yes!We are not going to support Lin Weimin, but to support the Chinese!
The next evening, Broadway.

The Netherland Theater at 41 West 208st Street was built in 1921 and is one of nine theaters owned by the Netherland Theater Organization on Broadway.

The venue for the premiere of "The Kite Runner" this time is set here, not only because a drama has just been withdrawn here, but also because the Netherlands Theater Organization also happens to be one of the investors of this drama.

The success of "Untouchable" has fully verified Arthur Miller's vision. Many Broadway theaters, production companies, and copyright companies took the initiative to produce "The Kite Runner" after receiving the news that Arthur Miller was going to make persistent efforts to produce "The Kite Runner". Door-to-door investment.

Arthur Miller is a mature playwright. He is well versed in the operating rules of Broadway, so he does not refuse the door-to-door investment, even if it will share the profits he should have received.

Before he pulled Lin Weimin to invest in "The Kite Runner", it was also because he had attracted so many investors, and Lin Weimin, the original author and screenwriter, was not bad.

But Lin Weimin was more shrewd and measured than he thought, and decisively rejected his suggestion, only seeking his own share of the box office.

Arthur Miller had to admit that working with someone like Lin Weimin was a very comfortable thing.

As night fell, high-rise buildings in New York covered the sky near Broadway, the neon lights of the theater were on, and the audience was queuing at the entrance of the theater. Cheng Danqing and the others walked into the theater with the team.

The tickets Lin Weimin arranged for Cheng Danqing and the others were in the first few rows of the theater, and the location was very good.

Lu Zhifang was one of the few people in the group who had the experience of watching Broadway plays. After she came, she knew that the 2000-meter knife she estimated before was short, and for this position, the 3000-meter knife was about the same.

Everyone sat in their seats and looked around. At this time, most of the audience in the theater was full, and there were still audiences entering the arena.

After a few more minutes, almost all the empty audience seats in the theater were occupied.

Everyone knows that the play "The Kite Runner" is premiering today, but no one would have imagined that there would be so many audiences.

Are Lin Weimin's works so popular in the United States?
"It must be for Arthur Miller!" Li Quanwu said to everyone.

"The Kite Runner" is adapted from Lin Weimin's "The Man on the Horse", which is marked on the poster of the rice version of the drama. Everyone has come to the United States in the past two years, so they are naturally familiar with "The Man on the Horse".

On the contrary, Mu Xin, an old man who has been in the United States for almost ten years, has never heard of the name "The Horse Man".

Cheng Danqing recounted the plot of "The Man on the Horse" in his ear, which would help Mu Xin understand the play "The Kite Runner".

The lights dimmed, the curtains opened, and the show began.

Cheng Danqing had watched the play "The Horse Man" in China, and immediately recognized Amir on the stage as Bayin, and Hassan as Battelle.

He also knows the background of the war in Afghanistan. After spending the first ten minutes, he was easily immersed in the charm of the drama.

"The Kite Runner" is a big play, a few hours passed by, and the performance came to an end unconsciously.

On the stage, the actors were taking a curtain call, and the audience in the theater stood up and applauded, and the applause resounded through the theater, deafening.

Obviously, the audience was extremely satisfied with the performance just now.

The applause reached its climax after Arthur Miller, one of the producers, investors and screenwriters, took the stage.

The applause lasted for a long time, and it was obvious that it was not polite, but sincere from the audience.

When the audience exited, everyone also walked out of the theater.

Everyone was still a little excited, talking loudly about the plot and actors of the drama performance just now.

"There was an actress on stage just now, is it Chen Chong? The more I look at her, the more she looks like her!"

"I don't know, how could she act on Broadway?"

"She went to study in the United States before, and it's normal to act on Broadway, after all, that's what she does!"

"This drama is the original work of Lin Weimin, and it is normal to use an actor from China."

Everyone chatted for a while, and Cheng Danqing heard Li Quanwu say again: "That Arthur Miller, his ex-wife is Marilyn Monroe, do you know?"

Several of the companions had surprised expressions, "Marilyn Monroe?"

"You don't know? He is a well-known playwright in the United States, just like Mr. Wan in China. He married Marilyn Monroe in the 50s and divorced a few years later."

Li Quanwu was a bit complacent when he was explaining science to his companions. In order to watch the drama, he checked the information on purpose.

"The person Lin Weimin found is quite powerful!" Everyone exclaimed.

"He stepped on dog shit luck!" Li Quanwu suddenly said angrily, his attitude was very contradictory.

Everyone looked at Li Quanwu with weird eyes. You took the ticket, you watched the play, and you still scold him like this when you turn around, which is more or less unkind.

It has nothing to do with being Chinese or not, it's purely a matter of character.

Everyone chatted and walked, and finally came to Broadway. Although it was almost midnight at this time, it was the most lively time on Broadway.

The theaters left one after another, and the audience poured out like a tide. Some audiences who were still immersed in the theater atmosphere were reluctant to leave for a long time, which helped the small vendors here.

It was five or six hours ago that Cheng Danqing and the others had dinner, and they were a little hungry. When passing by the hot dog stand, someone asked to buy something to eat, and everyone readily agreed.

Walking on the streets of Broadway, there are neon lights on both sides of the theater, and the lights are reflected on the posters, full of artistic atmosphere, which makes people feel a little intoxicated.

In the past, they walked alone on the streets of this strange country, and they always felt a little nervous and humble in their hearts.

But today is different. They have just enjoyed a wonderful play in a Broadway theater, eating hot dogs, walking unscrupulously, communicating loudly and laughing because they are accompanied by their companions.

This is their dream life of studying abroad in the United States!

Cheng Danqing and Mu Xin fell behind the crowd, he was equally happy, but at the same time a little sad.

Because he knows that a moment like tonight is like Cinderella's glass slipper and pumpkin carriage for everyone, and it is just a fleeting possession.

Thinking of this, he was a little dissatisfied with Lin Weimin.

This feeling of having it and then losing it is even more painful.

As everyone was walking, Lu Zhifang stopped suddenly, and the others also stopped.

"What's the matter, Zhifang?" Everyone asked.

Lu Zhifang put her eyes on the theater not far away, and she said: "Another drama "Untouchable" by Lin Weimin is still being performed here."

Her words made the originally warm and cheerful atmosphere suddenly dull, and everyone seemed to be a little bit less interested.

Li Quanwu, who had always been dissatisfied with Lin Weimin, looked at the Barrymore Theater not far away, with complicated eyes and mumbling in his mouth.

Cheng Danqing was the closest to him, and heard the faint voice, "He's so awesome!"

(End of this chapter)