"Yenjing Literature and Art" put a lot of thought into the symposium on "Little Shoes", and those present were all well-established and influential figures in the Yenching literary world. Although there were competing views, the overall atmosphere of the symposium was harmonious.

At 3:30 in the afternoon, the symposium finally ended in harmony. Lin Chaoyang stood up and shook hands with everyone to express his gratitude.

Wang Zengqi smiled and said to him: "Chaoyang, what you said at the meeting was really good and your ideas were unique."

"It's just that I like to think randomly when I'm studying, it's just a family thing." Lin Chaoyang said modestly.

"There was a lot of buzz about "The First Floor" in Yanjing City before, but I never had the chance to watch it. Qingquan told me this morning that the script might be published in the magazine next month, and I will take a good look at it then."

"Thank you, and please feel free to teach me."

"I heard that the book has been published for art?" Wang Zengqi asked again.

"yes."

Wang Zengqi nodded, "Okay! At your current age, it is really rare. I have worked with Lao She for many years..."

He looked a little wistful when he said this, and then he immediately regained his composure and said with a smile: "You are writing both novels and scripts, so you really have his style."

Wang Zengqi was also one of the editors of "Yanjing Literature and Art" back then. He worked under Mr. Lao She and was highly regarded and had a good personal relationship. In the 1980s, he even wrote an article "The Sun in August" specifically recalling Mr. Lao She.

, to express feelings of remembrance.

Lin Chaoyang said quickly: "How can the underachiever Firefly's Light be compared to the seniors?"

"Thirty or fifty years earlier, who would have been the last to learn?"

Wang Zengqi patted Lin Chaoyang on the shoulder, said a few words of encouragement and left.

Five days after the symposium, the news about the "Little Shoes" symposium held by Yanjing Literature and Art appeared in the "Literary Newspaper". Tao Yushu was happy for a while when he saw the news in the publication.

For writers or authors, holding a symposium is undoubtedly the greatest recognition of their influence.

Lin Chaoyang's work successfully held a symposium, and the news was also published in authoritative media such as "Literary News", which greatly satisfied Tao Yushu's desire to see her husband succeed.

After she was happy, she did not forget to buy an extra copy of "Literary News" as a new year's gift to bring back to Northeast China.

During the Chinese New Year last year, Tao's father agreed to go to the Northeast to meet his relatives this year. There was still more than a month before the Chinese New Year, so Tao Yushu started preparing for the New Year to bring back new year's goods from the Northeast.

Recently, most students have left Yanda to go home for the winter vacation. The campus of Yanda has become visibly deserted. The work in the library is not so busy anymore, and colleagues in the library have more time to fish.

This morning, Lin Chaoyang was on duty in the library and had nothing to do. He opened a copy of "Southerners" by Jean Renoir. It was a translation in the 1960s and published by China Film Publishing House. You can usually read it in bookstores outside.

arrive.

This is also the benefit of working in the Yanda Library. You can always see books that cannot be seen outside.

He was reading seriously when a note came from Tu Mansheng downstairs, saying that someone was looking for him downstairs.

Lin Chaoyang went downstairs and saw that it was Du Feng.

"Why are you looking here? Didn't you go home?"

Du Feng smiled and said, "I'm here to tell you about the house."

He pulled Lin Chaoyang aside and said, "There is an overseas Chinese in Huayuan Village who wants to sell an apartment."

After listening to Du Feng's words, Lin Chaoyang immediately became interested.

The apartment Du Feng mentioned was the Overseas Chinese Apartment in Huayuan Village near Huayuan Bridge in the western suburbs. It was not far from Yanda and was built in 1962.

In the late 1950s, an overseas Chinese apartment was built on Yuqing Road in Shanghai. It was the first commercial residential building built in New China. It was nicknamed "patriotic apartment" at that time because these apartments were sold to overseas Chinese in order to attract overseas Chinese.

of foreign exchange.

In 1962, Yanjing copied Shanghai's experience and built an overseas Chinese apartment in Huayuan Village in the western suburbs. It is said that even the construction materials were leftover from the People's Hall that year.

At that time, the hardware conditions of overseas Chinese apartments were undoubtedly the most advanced in China, and they were far away from the shops and had a quiet environment.

"I heard that place is very expensive, costing hundreds of thousands!" Lin Chaoyang asked.

"Listen to those Kanye and Hu Qin gang? It's all nonsense. You think the overseas Chinese are all being taken advantage of? At that time, hundreds of thousands, if converted into foreign currency, could buy a big house in a big city in the United States."

Du Feng dismissed the false information. Lin Chaoyang nodded. Folk rumors should not be believed at all.

But since it was an apartment sold to overseas Chinese back then, it’s not something ordinary people can buy now, right?

He expressed the doubt in his heart, and Du Feng nodded, "At first, the apartment could only be traded among overseas Chinese, but it was later relaxed. Wu Zuoren bought the house from overseas Chinese in 1972 and has been living there ever since.

Moreover, the management has not been as strict as before in the past two years. The main reason is that the elderly people did not specifically address the housing issue the year before last. Now everyone basically turns a blind eye and closes one eye."

In 1978, the old man once gave a speech on the housing issue. The general idea was to broaden the approach to the housing issue, allowing private construction of houses or private construction with public assistance, installment payment, mobilizing personal money, and the state solving the problem.

Although this speech was not finally implemented into the spirit of the document, it caused some ripples among the people. The biggest change is that there are more private housing transactions among the people than before, and the management of government departments has also been relaxed.

After listening to Du Feng's words, Lin Chaoyang felt relieved, and then started to care about the most important issue.

"What's the condition of the house? How much does it cost now?"

"Actually, this is the biggest problem." Du Feng hesitated, "His house is a bit expensive."

It's definitely not cheap to make Du Feng look like this. Lin Chaoyang asked: "Just tell me how much it costs."

"Twelve thousand."

"Hiss~" Lin Chaoyang took a breath of cold air.

It shouldn’t be a big deal to buy two one-unit courtyard houses in Dongcheng or Xicheng for 12,000 yuan.

Based on Lin Chaoyang's salary, he would have had to go without food or drink for more than 20 years to save so much money.

Even if he was writing a novel, based on the fee of 10 yuan per thousand words, he would have to write more than 1.1 million words to earn so much money.

“Overseas Chinese Apartments were mainly sold to overseas Chinese at that time, and the country only needed foreign exchange, so it was rumored to be a miracle.

At that time, it was sold for tens of dollars per square meter, which is 1,670 yuan when converted into RMB.

This household wanted 12,000 yuan and wanted to sell it quickly. The price is 100 yuan per square meter, which is much cheaper than when they bought it back then." Du Feng said.

Although the housing prices put a lot of pressure on Lin Chaoyang, he also knew that Du Feng was telling the truth.

He has been in Yanjing for more than a year and occasionally hears people mention the Huayuan Village Overseas Chinese Apartment. As the earliest commercial housing in China, the design and construction standards of the Huayuan Village Overseas Chinese Apartment far exceed the average apartment buildings of this era.

There are many Kanye in Yanjing, and some good people compared the Overseas Chinese Apartment in Huayuan Village with the ministerial building in Muxidi and the ministry building in Wanwanzhuang. The result is that there is no doubt that the Overseas Chinese Apartment in Huayuan Village wins.

Overseas Chinese Apartment has only two buildings, both of which are four stories high. There is a large area of ​​greening in the park. The greening area is six or seven times the building area. The environment is beautiful and quiet.

And because it was sold to overseas Chinese at that time, and the style was also learned from abroad, the community was under closed management, and it was the first community in Yanjing with properties.

The property fee is eight yuan per month, which is close to one hundred yuan a year, which is equivalent to the income of an ordinary worker for two to three months.

It can be said that in Yanjing in this era, apart from the single-family villas where some real high-ranking officials and old academics lived, the living conditions in the Overseas Chinese Apartments in Garden Village were basically the same as those in Yanjing.

So honestly speaking, the price of 12,000 is really not expensive.

But the reality is that this price is still too high for Lin Chaoyang and his wife.

Not counting the 500 yuan given by Lin Erchun and his wife, Tao Yushu only had 2,500 yuan in hand.

Then there is his small treasury. The royalties for the previous "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" have been spent this year. The other novella is said to be published in January.

The royalties should arrive in the next few days, which will only be a little over a thousand yuan.

This is less than 4,000 yuan, which is still a long way from 12,000 yuan.

It's a pity that "Little Shoes" didn't receive royalties for printing the single volume. Otherwise, with the sales of 200,000 copies of "Little Shoes" in two months, I would have made an extra thousand and eighty yuan a year at least.

Lin Chaoyang then thought that fortunately, "Garland Under the Mountain" must implement the policy of "basic royalties + royalties for print runs", so the royalties would definitely be more than those of "Little Shoes".

But after thinking about it, he realized that the money he could earn was far from the figure of "twelve thousand".

But Lin Chaoyang doesn't really care. If he really likes a house and wants to buy it, he might as well write more novels.

Du Feng said: "I also know that it is very expensive based on everyone's current income, but this house has an advantage."

"What's the benefit?"

"Didn't I tell you just now that the owner of this house wants to sell it as soon as possible. What do you think he wants to do after selling it?"

"What is he going to do?"

"Now that the country has become more open, there are more private housing transactions than before. He wants to use the money from selling the house to exchange for a courtyard house."

Lin Chaoyang's eyes flashed, what a talent!

It would be difficult for such a person not to make a fortune if he targeted the domestic real estate market in the late 1970s, when national policies had just opened up, and combined his own vision with the dividends of the times.

"He is certain that housing prices in Yanjing will rise in the future," Lin Chaoyang said.

"Who knows? They say that with the reform and opening up, the economy is getting better, but I think it's just like that." Du Feng said nonchalantly.

Boy, it’s nephritis!

Du Feng is in the army and in the north, so this feeling is indeed not obvious. If others were in Guangdong, they might not think so.

"The landlord is a young overseas Chinese. The house was given to him by his family. I guess he just wants to sell his land and doesn't feel bad about it." Du Feng added.

Lin Chaoyang shook his head.

Those who are half a step ahead of their time are geniuses, and those who are one step ahead of their time are madmen.

Replacing the top mansions in Yanjing City with shabby courtyard houses in this era, what Du Feng said the small overseas Chinese did is incomprehensible to many people today.

Du Feng continued: "Not many people in Yanjing City can afford a house that costs more than 10,000 yuan. Those who can afford it may not need it. He also knows this situation, so the price is high
To be continued...