Chapter 114 Two major events! (Subscribe)
Several major events occurred in July 1978.

For example, a temporary leadership team was established for the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Writers Association, which resumed formal work.

As expected, Zhang Guangnian, the editor-in-chief of People's Literature, who was familiar to Li Changhe, became the head of the Writers Association.

This also means that the country's literary and art circles have fully resumed normal work, and many newspapers and periodicals originally affiliated with the Writers Association, such as "Wenyi Bao" and "Poetry", have begun to resume publication.

At the same time, local branches of the Writers Association also began to resume their work, and the publications originally affiliated with them also began to resume work.

For example, the magazine "Shaanxi Literature and Art" to which Li Changhe contributed was officially renamed "Yanhe" this month.

Of course, there are several similar major events, but for Li Changhe, there are two most important things.

First, he’s on summer vacation!

From the beginning of school at the end of February to July, after four months of hard study, Li Changhe's first semester ended.

He also welcomed his first summer vacation in college, and had more free time.

Another important thing is Zhu Lin’s re-examination.

On the day of Zhu Lin's re-examination, Li Changhe did not go with him because he was also reviewing his lessons and preparing for the school's final exam at that time.

But Zhu Lin was very excited when she came back from the re-examination because they had got the questions.

The most critical part of the director's exam is film analysis, and the film being tested was "Heroic Sons and Daughters" which Li Changhe and his classmates watched that night.

According to Zhu Lin's description, Tian Zhuangzhuang finished this question in less than half an hour and then left the examination room.

In addition, the re-examination also tested Zhu Lin and others’ academic performance.

Yes, their examination was not included in the unified college entrance examination in 1978, but was taken directly in the re-examination of Beijing Film Academy.

The subjects for the director's exam are also simple, only Chinese and politics, no other subjects.

Photography is difficult, as it requires exams in mathematics, physics and chemistry. It is said that the sound recording department also requires a foreign language exam.

The test paper for the directing department was not difficult. At least, in Zhu Lin's words, it was quite simple and she could almost do it.

After the exam, it was time to wait, but not at home, Zhu Lin had to continue working.

Only after receiving the admission letter and transferring her household registration to the school will she no longer have to work.

When Zhu Lin goes to work, Li Changhe naturally won't stay at home, because home is not as comfortable as the Beijing Hotel.

As a foreign-related hotel of this era, the Capital Hotel has top-notch facilities, such as air conditioning.

There are not many places with air conditioning in the huge city of Beijing nowadays, but Beijing Hotel is definitely one of them.

At that time, the Air Conditioning Research Institute of the China Academy of Building Research, Beijing Air Conditioning Factory and Beijing Installation Company jointly developed and installed an air-conditioning system in the Beijing Hotel, and the effect was very good.

On that hot day, Li Changhe stayed comfortably inside the Capital Hotel, leisurely writing a novel. Even Zhang Guangnian envied him for those days.

Of course, Li Changhe is not completely idle. After all, he still has to teach English in the hotel.

"Where are you from?"

"What this sentence means is where are you from? Of course, it can also mean, what country are you from?"

On the small blackboard in the Beijing Hotel office, Li Changhe wrote a series of sentences and taught seriously.

The waiters below were learning seriously, including Qi Danian, who would come and learn in his free time.

He has to improve too!
In addition, in order to quickly solve their English reception problems, Li Changhe also produced an album of commonly used English reception methods for the Beijing Hotel.

To put it simply, we made an album that contains the common information that foreigners need, such as food and travel!

Below the food album, Li Changhe asked his classmate Li Shaomin to help him draw some pictures on cardboard, such as milk, coffee, drinks and other daily items ordered by foreigners.

Although Li Shaomin is a soldier, he has a good foundation in art and is particularly good at drawing. He is the artist for the blackboard newspapers in the class.

All I can say is that Li Changhe and his classmates all have unique skills and they did all kinds of things before entering university.

That day, Li Changhe also saw Deng Yingtao cutting someone's hair, and his skills were very good.

Some of the students even know how to do electric welding and were said to have worked in a steel plant before. Li Changhe was considering letting him find an opportunity to go back and weld a furnace, and then take his classmates out for barbecue in the future.

Let’s get back to the Beijing Hotel.

The tourist album also includes photos directly posted by Li Changhe of several regularly open attractions in BJ, such as the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and the Summer Palace.

Then I wrote double annotations in Chinese and English below to make an album.

In this way, even if the waiters' English is not up to standard, Li Changhe allows them to communicate with customers with the help of a limited few words and provide them with services according to the picture album.

It can be said that Li Changhe's simple arrangements easily solved a major problem for the Beijing Hotel.

According to Qi Danian, the picture albums that Li Changhe made for them have already begun to be promoted to other foreign-related hotels in Beijing.

Because this simple atlas allows waiters to provide services to foreign friends more easily and clearly.

Some foreign-related hotels even began to contact Peking University and invite their students to the hotels for foreign language training.

Of course, Li Changhe also gave special instructions to these students.

It’s okay to teach foreign languages ​​and it’s okay to eat at restaurants, but the only thing you need to remember is not to make friends with foreigners.

At this time, although the country has shown signs of reform and opening up, contact with foreigners still involves great risks.

Li Changhe also helped to receive several waves of guests at the Beijing Hotel, and occasionally communicated with them in a foreign language that he was not very proficient in, but it was limited to reception in the lobby.

In fact, he never went to the guest room to communicate with foreigners. Even if there were guests who were curious about looking for him, Li Changhe would avoid them in the office.

But he can do it, and he is afraid that his classmates can't do it.

They are all young people, enthusiastic and outgoing at this time, and many foreigners like to be falsely polite at this time, and they are easily deceived by these foreigners' false enthusiasm. Just like a few years ago, many people were deceived by the politeness of the Japanese, seeing them bowing at every turn, and thought they were very polite and honest people.

But little do they know that etiquette and honesty have never been involved, and their appetite has always been beyond imagination.

Therefore, Li Changhe gave many warnings to those students who went to other hotels for English teaching.

After all, he was the one who opened the door.

In this way, Li Changhe hid in the Beijing Hotel throughout the hot July, practicing his spoken English, teaching the waiters English, and writing articles.

The last day of July, Monday, evening.

Liu Jianqing rode his bicycle to the Beijing Hotel and then to Li Changhe's office.

"Huh, your place is still comfortable. You really know how to choose a place."

Feeling the cool air from the air conditioner in the office, Liu Jianqing came in and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"How is it? Have you finished writing today? Let me see it!"

Liu Jianqing came here to find Li Changhe, not to urge him to submit his manuscript, but to catch up with him.

What I am following is Li Changhe's latest novel.

Yes, a long one!
Li Changhe is tired of writing novellas about scars. After all, there are only a limited number of inspirational stories, and he cannot create an unlimited number of inspirational stories.

However, he had no interest in writing short stories intermittently. Short stories are short in length and have few words, and the money he could earn from them was not much, so Li Changhe was not motivated.

So he decided to write a long novel.

However, Li Changhe also considered the long-form subject matter for a long time these days.

Because of the past years, there are many things you cannot write about in depth.

Then the reform and opening up had not yet begun, and people's lives had not changed much, so you have nothing to write about future changes at the grassroots level.

Li Changhe had a headache about this for a long time, until that day, when he saw Li Chunping at the door again.

Li Chunping did not stop him again, but stopped a foreigner who was leaving the Beijing Hotel and chatted with him in private.

Li Changhe did not pay attention to Li Chunping's movements, but the other party's reappearance gave him an idea.

Then Li Changhe started writing the novel "The Lost National Treasure"

Considering the length of the article, he extended the timeline of the opening to before the founding of the People's Republic of China and the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

The novel begins with a Song Dynasty Ru kiln azure Guan Er vase, and is about the loss of national treasures and the interweaving of various forces.

Li Changhe used the writing style of later spy novels in this story, constantly interspersing various villains, from the theft of Europeans and Americans in the beginning, to the snatching of the Japanese, and then to the targeting of the Military Control Commission spies.

The plot is layered and interconnected, with time as the main line, constantly leading to twists and turns in the plot.

After reading it, Liu Jianqing couldn't stop. He came to the Beijing Hotel every few days to ask Li Changhe for the latest manuscript to read.

Of course, Li Changhe had another purpose in writing this, which was to see if it could be adapted into a movie.

This adaptation is prepared for his wife.

Given Zhu Lin's level, Li Changhe felt that it would be difficult to expect her to produce a work with ideological and literary depth.

Being a director sometimes really depends on talent. The good ones are really good, and the bad ones are really bad.

In this case, it would be better to prepare a simple but watchable work for her.

"Are you going to end this with the return of cultural relics from the founding of the country?"

After watching the latest plot, Liu Jianqing asked Li Changhe with some surprise.

Li Changhe shook his head.

"Actually, there is still one more point in my final plot, but I don't know if I can write it."

"How to say?"

Liu Jianqing asked Li Changhe curiously at this time.

“I’ll write that the bottle ended up at an auction abroad!”

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Liu Jianqing frowned slightly when he heard what Li Changhe said.

"You want to write that the national treasure was stolen and sold? But this is not something you can just write casually. If you don't have real evidence, the people in the cultural relics industry won't agree."

"You are slandering them!"

Liu Jianqing said helplessly to Li Changhe.

Although this is a novel, if Liu Jianqing really wrote it this way, he could imagine that some people would definitely not agree once the novel was published.

When writing this, there are sometimes great limitations.

"Yeah, so the ending has to be a little more obscure!"

“For example, after many years, when he went to see this national treasure again and saw the Tianqing vase in the exhibition, the feeling he had was different!”

Li Changhe shared his ideas with Liu Jianqing.

Liu Jianqing pondered it for a while and nodded thoughtfully.

"That's fine. Actually, it's fine as long as you don't say it explicitly."

This is the good thing about writers, they can reflect others and what they say will be different from everyone else!
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