1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 599 Cooking Oil on Fire
The KFC Hometown Chicken restaurant located at the front door has a large facade, a three-story building, and the decoration is similar to the KFC of later generations, which is indeed very attractive to today's consumers.

Lin Weimin brought Tao Huimin to the store and ordered a standard set meal, which included two pieces of finger-licking plain chicken, a serving of mashed potatoes with chicken sauce, a serving of cole slaw and a small meal pack.

At first, KFC’s menu was very monotonous. When it first opened, the restaurant only sold 8 products: plain chicken, mashed potatoes with chicken sauce, cole slaw, bread, cola, Hedy, Mirinda, and beer. It was not until 89 that there were hamburgers, which cost 4 yuan and 5 pieces.

After Tao Huimin finished his portion, he set his sights on Lin Weimin's again. He had no choice but to order another hamburger and plain chicken.

"Isn't pregnancy always vomiting and dizziness? Why is your appetite so good?" Lin Weimin asked curiously.

Tao Huimin's mouth was full, "I don't know, I just feel greedy. I like to eat things that I don't usually like to eat now."

Lin Weimin said with a smile: "If you love food so much, you must be a fat boy."

"Is the girl okay?" Tao Huimin slowed down her chewing, staring at Lin Weimin.

He immediately became aware that this was a proposition.

"Girls are of course good. I like girls the most. When I grow up, they will be my intimate little padded jacket."

Tao Huimin nodded in satisfaction and continued to eat.

After a while, she raised her head again, "Actually, boys are pretty good, too. Boys are like mothers."

"Like hello, you must be handsome when you grow up."

Can't you be like me?I am not handsome?

The food was almost finished, so Lin Weimin specially ordered a few set meals to bring with him.

The husband and wife did not go home directly, but drove to the Shichahai courtyard.

In the evening, Father Shi and Cheng Ximi were preparing dinner, and Lin Weimin took the things they had brought to the kitchen.

"Don't cook for now, I just went out to eat and brought you a few servings, so let's eat this at night."

The lunch bag brought by Lin Weimin had the name and logo of KFC’s hometown chicken on it. Cheng Ximi said, “Why are you spending money on this?”

"Try something new, try something new!"

With the things Lin Weimin brought, Cheng Ximi had no choice but to stop the dinner he was preparing, put the things in dishes and serve them on the table.

"Huimin is pregnant, and she likes to eat meat very much recently. You should try it too. It's not bad to eat KFC once in a while."

The two of them were sitting on the sidelines, watching Shi Tiesheng's family eat KFC, it was a bit weird no matter how you looked at it.

In particular, the two of them were still staring at Shi Tiesheng, which made Shi Tiesheng feel uncomfortable.

"Why are you two always looking at me like that?"

"It's nothing. Tiesheng, eat, hurry up!" Lin Weimin urged.

Shi Tiesheng held the hamburger in his hand, hesitantly said: "You won't put medicine in it, will you?"

"You don't know good people. This is something I brought you specially." Lin Weimin said displeased.

Shi Tiesheng looked at Hamburger, stared helplessly at Lin Weimin's concerned eyes and continued to chew on it.

"Fried chicken really has a special taste, no wonder so many young people like to eat it."

"Yeah, this thing is especially in line with the tastes of young people."

Seeing Shi Tiesheng take a few bites of the hamburger, Lin Weimin finally felt at ease.

You also ate the hamburger, but you can't say that I cursed you.

At work the next day, Lin Weimin was working when a colleague led a person to his office.

"Liberation? Why are you here?"

Lin Weimin was very happy to see Er Yuehe, and pulled him to sit down.

"I'll deliver the manuscript." Er Yuehe said as he took out the manuscript of "Emperor Yongzheng".

Lin Weimin took the manuscript and flipped through it, "Just finished the first volume?"

"Yes, three volumes are planned."

Er Yuehe was picked up by Lin Weimin at the entrance of CCTV. His "Emperor Kangxi" received a lot of praise from readers after it was published in "Contemporary", and it also made him a certain reputation in the literary world.

"Kangxi the Great" contains 160 million words in four volumes, which exhausted Er Yuehe's time and painstaking efforts for several years.

It took him another three years to write "Emperor Yongzheng" this time, which shows his piety and hard work in his creative attitude.

After chatting with Lin Weimin about the process of writing "Emperor Yongzheng", Er Yuehe said: "The writing of the next two volumes should be faster."

Lin Weimin knew that "Emperor Yongzheng" was the artistic pinnacle of Er Yuehe's creative career. In criticizing the hypocrisy and decay of the feudal system and official politics, this work surpassed most of the previous works, including "Kangxi the Great" written by himself.

After chatting with Er Yuehe for more than half an hour, Lin Weimin called He Qizhi and called him to the office.

He Qizhi was also very happy to see Er Yuehe, especially when he saw the manuscript he brought.

After the experience of "Emperor Kangxi", Er Yuehe has matured in creation, and He Qizhi's expectations for "Emperor Yongzheng" have also been raised.

After get off work in the evening, Lin Weimin saw a familiar figure as soon as he arrived at the door.

"Why don't you go in when you come?"

"I just came here, thinking that you will be off work soon, so I will wait at the door for a while." Feng Xiaogang said.

Lin Weimin led him into the living room, and Feng Xiaogang was slightly surprised to see Mother Tao and Sister Sun.

"This is Huimin's mother, and this is Sister Sun."

"Hello, Auntie! Hello, Sister Sun!"

Feng Xiaogang said hello, Sister Sun poured them a cup of tea, and Feng Xiaogang said thank you.

"how's the work going recently?"

"It's very fulfilling, there is no idle time every day."

After chatting for a while, Feng Xiaogang took a sip of tea, put down his teacup, and took out an envelope from his bag.

"Mr. Lin, I'm here to pay you back."

"Are you well off? Don't worry about paying back the money!" Lin Weimin said.

Lin Weimin lent Feng Xiaogang 1 yuan for his daughter's operation last year.

With Feng Xiaogang's current income level, if he wants to repay the 1 yuan, he may have to go without food or drink for two or three years.

"You haven't spent all of your 1 yuan, and you have 4000 yuan left. Over the past six months, Master Shuo, Xiaolong, and I have mixed jobs to help write scripts and lyrics, and make a small fortune."

"That's good. If that's the case, then I'll accept the money."

"Mr. Lin, thank you!" Feng Xiaogang said sincerely.

"It's meaningless to say these things. It just so happens that you are in trouble, we know each other, and I have a lot of money in my hand. If I can help, I want to help. There are many friends and many ways."

Feng Xiaogang nodded sincerely. Feng Xiaogang would feel hypocritical when others said this, but Mr. Lin said this, and Feng Xiaogang agreed with it a hundred times.

The two chatted for a few more words, Feng Xiaogang was about to leave, but Lin Weimin said: "It's all here, let's go after eating."

Feng Xiaogang was ecstatic in his heart, but his rationality told him that he couldn't just agree, "No, it's too much trouble for you, the family has already prepared meals."

"It's okay, just an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks." Lin Weimin said and stood up, ready to eat.

Over there, Sister Sun was already laying out the dishes and chopsticks. Feng Xiaogang said a few more polite words, seeing that Lin Weimin's attitude did not seem to be fake, so he went to the table.

It was the first time that Feng Xiaogang had dinner at Lin Weimin's house, and while he was excited and excited, he was also somewhat cautious. The scope of his chat with Lin Weimin was also limited to the Art Center and Haima Studio.

"Some time ago, I helped director Xia Gang make a script. Xiaolong and I worked together. The leader of Yan Film Studio was very optimistic. At first it was called "Unfamiliar Faces Are in Danger of Sweetness", but when it was finalized, it was changed to "Da Shaba". The male lead is Yuko, and the female lead is Xu Fan, Wang Zhiwen's girlfriend."

Lin Weimin knew Xia Gang, and he took him there when he bought the apartment in Tuanjiehu.

"Is that Xu Fan an actor from Renyi?" Tao Huimin, who had been eating and not speaking, asked suddenly.

"Yes, she just left Renyi this year."

"I've seen her several times. That girl is really pretty, and she has a good personality! In Yanjing's language, she's called Da Sammi."

Feng Xiaogang smiled and said: "It's really beautiful, just like a fairy girl, Yuko and I stand in front of others, it's like two monsters become spirits."

His words made the lesbians at the table laugh, and their impression of him improved a lot.

"This time is a good opportunity for you, maybe you can step into the film circle." Lin Weimin said.

Feng Xiaogang waved his hand, "You're flattering me too much, I don't dare to think about it, it would be nice to get some royalties, and besides, the film industry doesn't know what the future will be like now."

Since the 80s, the domestic film market has been growing at a high speed, and a large number of excellent films are produced every year, and the best of them will win awards overseas and win glory for the country.

In the two years since the 90s, a very paradoxical scene has appeared in the film market.

The box office has grown year by year, and last year it exceeded the 20 billion yuan mark, but the number of moviegoers has been declining.

The number of moviegoers has decreased, but the box office has increased, naturally because the ticket price has become more expensive.

The impact of severe inflation is all-round, and movies, as one of the industries, are not immune.

Ticket prices have risen, which seems to be good news for cinemas, crews, and studios, but the problem is that the current studios still make a living by selling copies.

Before the 80s, there was a saying in the domestic film circle: "Will you watch it or not, 70 yuan!"

It refers to the fact that under the unified purchase and sales policy, Chinese film companies will purchase films produced by major film studios across the country at a price of 70 yuan per color film and 60 yuan per black and white film. As for the profit and loss of the film, it has nothing to do with the studios.

There was no problem with this method before it was changed, but by the end of the 70s, studios all over the country couldn't bear it.

In 1980, the leaders of the country’s eight major film studios held a meeting at Yan Film Studio to discuss with China Film Corporation the feasibility of selling films with high quality and at a high price, replacing the previous model of China Film Corporation’s purchase of films at a one-size-fits-all price regardless of film cost or quality.

After this meeting, the price of each film rose to 90 yuan.Although the purchase price has risen, the high quality and high price that the studios hoped for has not been realized.

With the rising prices, the average cost of each film of the studio has been getting higher and higher. By the end of the 80s, the cost per film of a domestic studio was close to 100 million yuan.

Moreover, there is another problem under this policy, that is, payment settlement is not a contract payment, and the studio's film income must first be paid in advance by the Chinese film company, and then settled according to the actual copy order quantity.

To put it bluntly, China Film Corporation took the copies of the studios and sold them to movie theaters around the world. Everyone was happy when the copies of the movies sold well, but if the copies of the movies did not sell well, the studios had to refund the money to China Film Corporation.

And the most bizarre thing is that the copyright fee of the movie is included in the copy fee charged by the studio. When the distribution company buys the copy, it also obtains the copyright of the movie.

Therefore, in the past two years, although the box office of the domestic film market has soared, and it seems to be blooming like a brocade, in fact it is just a raging fire, and all kinds of hidden dangers have reached the point where they must be corrected.

"Hehe, talented people don't need to complain about the environment, I have confidence in you!"

Feng Xiaogang was a little excited by Lin Weimin's compliment. He raised the teacup in his hand, "Mr. Lin, I will present you with tea instead of wine!"

(End of this chapter)