1990My Entertainment System

Chapter 15: Going Home, "Yanjing People in New York"

On February 2rd, Xia Tian was shopping, and this time she went out alone.

I'm planning to go back to China, so I'll buy some small gifts for my friends before I leave.

Buy some movie videotapes first so you can take them home and watch Hollywood movies.

In addition to movies, I also bought some cartoon videotapes, such as "The Smurfs", "Tom and Jerry", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Superman", "Garfield", "The Simpsons", and Disney's "The Little Mermaid".

Milan loves watching cartoons~
It has to be said that many classic IPs already exist.

But these videotapes really take up space. If you buy too many, you'll need a big suitcase to store them all.

Xia Tian thought, I still have to rely on myself to improve this world~Alas!

Damn, let's get the chips and integrated circuits done here first. Then go back and have someone build a factory in Guangdong Province, and try to get them done within two to three years!

In the summer, I also bought a copy of "The Stand" by my "rival" Stephen Edwin King.

This is a hardcover reprint. It was first published in 78 and was "condensed" by the publisher.

This time it is a full edition, and it has sold 450 million copies in the United States!

This story is about a biological virus leak and then a doomsday reconstruction.

I watched this before the summer and it reminded me of Resident Evil.

However, writing novels is quite troublesome, so it is more convenient to draw comics directly this time!

That’s why the idea of ​​setting up the “Fantasy Light Comics Studio” came about.

Come up with the outline, character design and style yourself, and let the studio's tools do the drawing!
This is a capitalist country, we have to learn to use capitalist rules!

In the summer, I also bought a lot of things for my friends in the United States, and bought a set of tea sets and a complete set of tableware for the old Palo couple.

Bought a Beetle car for little Palo.

Painted an impressionist painting of Mike.

Bought a crystal necklace for Peggy.

This is also the reason why I don’t bring this little follower with me when shopping. There has to be some mystery when buying gifts for people, right?
……

That night, the phone at the Xiatian Hotel rang.

He wondered who it was, but when he picked up the phone he heard Arong's voice!
"Tian'erzi?"

"Arong~where are you now?"

"I'm at the University of California, Idaho! I saw all the news about you here. Do you even know Michael Jackson?!"

"Haha~ It's okay~"

Arong originally wanted to come to the United States to visit Xia Tian, ​​but Xia Tian was about to leave.

"It's too late. I've finished my work here and I need to go back. I'm picking out gifts! When will you be back to Hong Kong?"

After hearing what Xia Tian said, Ah Rong was too embarrassed to say anything else—Wang Zuxian even asked him to sound out the truth, but how could he do that? If you weren't Wang, how could you be so involved?!
Xia Tian is on the phone here, and little girl Peggy is also worried.

Although according to various clues, he will definitely come back, but I can't help but feel anxious!

What should I do? At least I should leave a deep impression on him.
……

On February 2, the beginning of spring, Xia Tian boarded the plane home after being seen off by his friends.

The plane lurched slightly as it climbed, then stabilized. Xia Tian was also thinking about the farewell.

There is no need to talk about little Palo and Mike. It's not that complicated when men say goodbye.

Paige was a little depressed and asked, "Will you come back?"

"Of course, there is money everywhere, waiting for me to pick it up." Xia Tian said with his arms opened exaggeratedly.

Peggy smiled and said, "If you don't come, I might as well go to China and take a look."

"Hahaha~" Xia Tian laughed.

This little girl is really smart, a genius! Her IQ and EQ are very high, but she just hasn't experienced too much.

As long as you don’t take the wrong path, your future development will be limitless.

Peggy watched the plane take off on the ground, wrapped the crystal pendant that Xia Tian gave her around her finger, and decided to learn more professional subjects, such as film and television production and financial investment.

It's nothing more than finding some fun in your free time.

Besides, I am not very interested in physics now, so I can transfer some of my time to this aspect.

……

In the summer, I covered myself with a thin blanket and began to rest my eyes.

He had to close his eyes and pretend to be asleep. The long-legged American stewardess seemed to recognize him. She smiled brightly and quietly asked for his autograph.

After that, several flight attendants took turns asking Xia Tian if she needed this or that, which made the guy next to her envious.

In summer, you can only pretend to sleep!
However, I wasn't sleepy at all, and I started thinking...

As I was thinking, I suddenly remembered the scenes I saw at the airport - one by one, pairs of Asian faces, Chinese to be more precise, got off the plane happily, as if to embrace their new life!
Xia Tian thought it was a little funny.

"My young compatriots, welcome to New York. This is heaven, but this is also hell..." Hey! When I thought about this, I suddenly got inspiration!

Xia Tian opened his eyes, took out a notebook from his pocket, unscrewed the pen cap and wrote "Yanjing People in New York", thought for a while, and wrote "Big Spread"!
If you have nothing to do, just start writing on the plane!

……

Big Spread

Capital Airport, departure hall.

A man wearing a hat was pushing a suitcase and muttering to his wife beside him nonchalantly: "If things aren't going well, come back. Don't keep trying."

His wife, standing beside him, was cheering with joy, "Not doing well? Impossible! Are you regretting sending me away?"

"I'm not that fragile," the man said. "Actually, I know that if you leave, it'll be like throwing meat buns at a foreign dog... When you get rich in the future, don't forget to send me some money. It will be a token of your deep affection."

The woman looked dissatisfied and wanted to say something, but when the sound of ticket checking came from the radio, she immediately ran to check her tickets with her luggage.

The man watched her walk in, blew him a kiss after checking her ticket, and then walked further away.

The man could no longer see and immediately ran to the second floor of the terminal, where he could still see a blurry figure disappearing.

The man leaned over the guardrail and tried to look, and it had indeed disappeared.

The man was lost and turned to leave when suddenly a woman beside him fell down...

……

The other story, "Yanjing People in New York", is a sister story, in which the two teams passed each other at the airport.

It begins: "If you love him, send him to New York, for it is heaven. If you hate him, send him to New York, for it is hell."

That night, at Kennedy Airport in New York City, a Yenching couple with dreams came to the United States.

My husband Wang Qiming, who has long hair and a strong artistic temperament, is a well-known cellist in Yanjing. He came here to pursue his dream of becoming a musician.

His wife Guo Yan is the attending physician of a Chinese medicine hospital in Yanjing. She didn't want to come here, but she came here to help her husband realize his dream. Who asked her, an aunt on an island, to have an American green card?

They didn't understand English, couldn't communicate, and couldn't even understand the signs.

Facing the vast crowds of people walking quickly back and forth, Guo Yan took a deep breath and sighed, "We fell into the sea."

They didn't know that when they set foot on the land of New York, they were destined to lose something...

Xia Tian was thinking and revising the outline. For example, he added a paragraph - Americans spend money to find intellectuals who go abroad to study, let them enjoy high-quality capitalist social life, and also give them a sum of money as funding to promote the superiority of the United States.

For example, racial discrimination, the weirdness of the law, and the seemingly beautiful separation of powers...

All these things try to show a real America.

The plane had more than ten hours to fly, and when it was about to land, Xia Tian had already written the last line: New York is neither heaven nor hell, but a battlefield.

The full text is over!
(Actually, the TV series "Beijingers in New York" has an original novel of the same name, published in August 91. It was almost entirely based on the author's personal experience and sold quite well. However, I only discovered this later after doing a lot of research, so I just assumed it was lost in a parallel universe.)
……

The next day at Capital Airport, Milan Xiaoxu and Zhang Li were already waiting at the airport.

Zhang Li looked at her watch frequently, while Xiao Xu looked around at the airport schedule.

"When will it arrive?" she murmured.

Milan took a look and suddenly pointed: "Here it comes! This should be the plane!"

On the runway outside the terminal, an airplane slowly landed and stopped.

As a result, the three of them waited until everyone got on the shuttle bus, but still didn't see Xia Tian.

"Eh? Where are the people!"

Then a tall, mustachioed man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses came over and said, "Three beauties, are you waiting for someone~"

Zhang Li, who was closest to him, suddenly smiled and reached out to hit Xia Tian's arm.

On the way back, Milan was driving, and Xia Tian explained, "We have to do this. We're worried someone will recognize us and cause trouble. Let the staff take me through another passage."

During this summer, I was not in the country, but my popularity skyrocketed again.

Because the news that he will be performing at Michael Jackson's concert has spread.

To be honest, there were some people in China who knew about Mike, but they were definitely not many. At least, not even one out of a hundred ordinary people knew him.

But now many people know about it - because Xia Tian appeared on the stage of his concert, and he is an international star!

Well, that’s what ordinary fans of the songs and books think – this wave belongs to Mike riding on the summer’s popularity~
Also, "Home Alone" is now selling like hotcakes in the United States, and many entertainment newspapers and film critics are reviewing it, making it very popular.

Although ordinary people have not heard of it or paid attention to it, people in the film and television industry all know about it.

It's normal for the United States to produce a hit movie!

But if this movie was written and directed by Xia Tian, ​​it would be different.

In short, why can’t this popularity be reduced?

broken!

Xia Tian suddenly thought of something. It seemed that the cover of Time Magazine Asia would feature his photo!
Oh~ Never mind, whatever!

(End of this chapter)