1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 115: The Horse Herder and Camel Xiangzi

On New Year's Day, each unit will organize some small activities, and even their class will have a New Year's Day class meeting in the summer.

Everyone hung some colorful paper bags on the classroom walls, and also made a simple blackboard newspaper in the summer.

Many people have appeared on shows, including the class teacher Miao Wanqiu.

He couldn't refuse and could only recite a poem to everyone.

Fortunately, I didn’t recite the poem “Homeroom Teacher”… You never know, that thing was actually published! Even though it was just a tabloid.

After New Year’s Day, summer saw two familiar faces on the cover of the first issue of Popular Movies this year - Siqin Gaowa and Zhang Fengyi.

This movie is "Camel Xiangzi"!
Lao She's famous work!
Zhang Fengyi naturally played Xiangzi, with a reluctant look on his face, while Siqin Gaowa's role as Huniu was quite lifelike!
Let Xia Tian involuntarily think of the rich woman's happy ball~
Just last year, Ling Zifeng, the director of "Camel Xiangzi", couldn't find the male actor he liked, and even published an advertisement in the "Yanjing Evening News" titled "Camel Xiangzi, where are you?" in an attempt to search for a suitable actor in society!
My goodness, they underestimated the effectiveness of print media advertising—the phone was almost blown up!
Many people went straight to Yanying Studio and asked whoever they caught: "Who's looking for Xiangzi? It's me!"
Under such circumstances, Director Ling had no choice but to ask the assistant director to set up a table in front of the gate of Yanying Studio with the words "Xiangzi Registration Reception Desk" written on it.

In just one month, more than a thousand young men signed up to apply for Xiangzi's job.

The photos of applicants were piled more than a foot high on the director's desk, but none of them satisfied Director Ling.

Finally, he heard that Yandian was rehearsing excerpts from the drama "Camel Xiangzi", and he went there and fell in love with Zhang Fengyi at first sight.

For this movie, Siqin Gaowa gained 10 kilograms and got two tiger teeth. She really looks tiger-like!

The actress who plays Xiao Fuzi is also pitiful to me~
There are rarely any male actors on the cover of "Popular Movies" nowadays - it really affects sales!

Therefore, the fact that Zhang Fengyi was moved up this time shows that they attach great importance to it.

In this issue of "Popular Movies", there are stills of Xia Tian in "The Transformation", and Wei Huili.

Milan is so beautiful that she insists on dressing up like in the stills in summer.

Xia Tian: "Where can I find a costume for you? There's no wig either. Don't bother!"

Milan cut out the summer stills from the magazine and put them in her diary!
That's embarrassing in the summer.

When I got home, I found my parents were cutting out magazines - those were the two photos of him!

Oh my god!
A few days later, CCTV began broadcasting the English teaching program "FOLLOW ME". Many students learned English by watching TV every night.

Of course Xia Tian didn’t want to study it, he was studying metaphysics!

I feel like I’ve made some progress in my meditation skills recently, and the feeling of being in a state of tranquility is really wonderful.

No wonder in ancient times monks and Taoists would meditate and practice Zen all day long when they had nothing to do and didn’t feel bored at all.

The feeling of wandering in the spiritual world, without any self or object, is very mysterious!
In the summer room, there is a couplet hanging on the wall: "The dream of a yellow beam must eventually be awakened, the flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water are always empty."

Under the wall, Xia Tian sat cross-legged on a mat with his five hearts facing the sky, quietly entering into meditation.

In this dim evening, Milan entered the house twice without being noticed, as if he had already blended into the surrounding environment.

When Milan entered the room for the third time, Xia Tian opened his eyes and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

Milan suddenly heard Xia Tian talking, turned around in surprise, and saw that his eyes were detached and indifferent. For a moment, it seemed as if there was a huge gap between them.

Milan felt a chill in his heart, and then rushed over.

"Hey! What are you doing? You woman... um~"

Xia Tian was sitting cross-legged, and before he could dodge, he was hit by the other person's hand. Oh no, it was his mouth!

He quickly held the other person's face with both hands, "What are you doing? Are you using force?"

"Don't become a monk." Milan held her mouth tightly, tears welling up in her eyes, looking like she was about to cry.

"Who wants to become a monk? You are the one who wants to become a monk!" Xia Tian was completely confused by her.

...Although Milan succeeded and was very proud of himself, he still felt something was wrong when he saw the Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures on Xia Tian's bookshelf.

When I think of him sitting by the window and looking at the stars when the weather was fine, I always feel like he is an orphan isolated from the world.

Milan wrote in his diary: I love him, I love him with all my heart, but it's not enough.

Milan was thinking about the overseas package at this time: Theresa, please write to me soon! If I don't hurry up, he will become a monk!

Xia Tian: I will never become a monk. It is impossible for me to become a monk in this life.
In the end, it was a recently released movie that attracted the attention of the two - "The Horse Herder"!
When the novel "Body and Soul" came out, it was already very famous. When the movie came out, it was a sensation! Xia Tian and Milan went to see the movie, which was very touching and beautiful.

The grassland under the blue sky and white clouds, the galloping horses, the positive and kind people, the truth, goodness, beauty and hope...

"Lao Xu, do you want a wife or not?"

This movie still touches people's hearts after forty years.

The heroine Xiuzhi has an almost perfect character. The actress is Ma Wen’s classmate Congshan, who has the face of a good wife and mother.

Not to mention Zhu Shimao, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, as long as he doesn't betray others, that is the most popular appearance these days!
Even the supporting characters in the play are quite impressive!

In his early years, he played in "Longxugou", then "Xiao Pang" in "The Red Detachment of Women", "Guo Chenzi" in "The Shepherd", "Wang Lihan" in "Legend of Tianyun Mountain"... Later, he played Niu Ben, who played "Lao Erliang" in the TV series "Old Tavern"!

He won the Golden Rooster Award and Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Guo Zhenzi in "The Shepherd"!
This movie was so popular that it was first shown in cinemas and then in rural areas, where it was played non-stop and continuously!
It is said that in the end, a miracle of 1.3 million people watched the movie!
On the way back from the movie, Milan suddenly said, "Old Xia, do you want a wife? As long as you ask, I will give her to you!"

"I do not want!"

"No, I can't! Tell me, what kind do you want?!"

……

However, this month, there is another movie that has not been overshadowed by "The Shepherd" at all, and that is "Camel Xiangzi"!
Although this movie is still not enough to fully present the original work, it even has a certain degree of beautification - in the original work, there is no love between Tiger Girl and Xiangzi at all, Xiangzi even hates Tiger Girl, but he cannot live without her money.

The reason why it is a masterpiece is that it describes the complexity of people and society...

This is a work that transcends time. Forty years later, Xiangzi is still there, but the rickshaw has been replaced by something else...

And when Xiao Fuzi committed suicide in the movie, Milan was so angry!
He slapped Xia Tian's thigh fiercely: "If I had gone to bed earlier, would there have been so many problems?!"

Xia Tian: Stop patting my legs... Are you trying to seduce someone?!
……

Time always goes by quickly at the end of the year.

In the blink of an eye, it was January 1th. Xiatian got the "Yenching Music News", which contained a children's song she had published - "Songs and Smiles".

It's the one that says "Please take my songs back to your home, and please leave your wallet~".

Today, the Xia family fried hairtail, and coated it with eggs in a very luxurious way.

Of course, it was not to celebrate Xia Tian's release of the nursery rhyme, but to send it to Milan and her grandmother. A whole big lunch box!
Mother Xia wrapped the lunch box in several layers to make sure it wouldn't get cold: "This is for Milan...Have you bought all the New Year's goods?"

"Bought it, bought it, everything is ready!" Xia Tian took the lunch box, took the prepared New Year's goods, rode his bicycle, and went to the Diplomatic Academy.

Now Milan’s grandmother lives back in the house that belonged to Milan’s parents.

January 1th is the Spring Festival, and it is much more lively now.

Supplies are already very abundant, at least in the summer you can buy basically anything you want with money.

In addition, there are more people posting couplets and setting off firecrackers.

Even in the rural areas outside the city, people burn yellow paper at graves...

However, on the day that should have been the most joyful and relaxing day of the year, an engineer named Han from Jiangcheng was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of "technology speculation and profiteering."

Technology...speculation?

That’s right, in some places in the south, there is a term called “Sunday Engineer”.

This means that these engineers work for state-owned enterprises on weekdays, and are taken to township enterprises outside the city on weekends to provide technical assistance to the factories there.

Emerging township enterprises are short of talent and are in urgent need of scientific and technological personnel. Many engineers from state-owned enterprises are picked up by township enterprise owners on weekends and secretly go to these factories to help with scientific research.

Mr. Han was just an inconspicuous person in this group of "Sunday engineers", but he became the first technician to be sentenced for providing technical support to township enterprises, so it caused a huge response later!
After the case has been repeated over and over again, it is the same old routine again...

However, similar matters were not settled until 88 when a special document was issued from above.

…No sane person would make big strides when the river is turbulent.

After LD personally inquired about the progress, Jiang Cheng SZ brought the PJ book and the 600 yuan that he had confiscated before to apologize to Han Gong’s home…

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