My sister-in-law was so angry that she needed Lin Chaoyang to bring her a game console as a gift from Xiangjiang to calm her down.

In fact, it's okay for her to be angry. The key is that this little girl "holds the emperor's hand to control the princes", and Lin Chaoyang doesn't dare to offend her.

When Lin Chaoyang came back from Xiangjiang last year, he brought back a game console. He originally bought it for the Tao Xiwen brothers, but it turned out to be Tao Yumo's plaything.

My sister-in-law has become a serious game enthusiast. The game console is very fun, but the only drawback is that it only has one game.

Tao Yumo knew that Nintendo had released a new game console in the second half of last year, which could be adapted to different games, and she had been greedy for it. This time Lin Chaoyang was going to Xiangjiang again, so she naturally couldn't let go of this opportunity to rip off the game.

Of course, the extortion is not in vain. In the next year, Tao Yumo will have no salary to take care of his children. After all, a game console costs several hundred yuan.

After Tao Yushu learned of his sister's request, he couldn't help scolding him: "Look at how promising you are! How can you lose your temper and ask for a gift? Tell him carefully, can he still not bring it to you when he comes back?"

After being prompted by his sister, Tao Yumo reacted immediately.

Yes, last year my brother-in-law went to Xiangjiang and brought back a bunch of gifts for his family. How could he not bring them this time?

When he thought that he was stupid enough to exchange a year's labor for the game console that he could have gotten for free, Tao Yumo regretted it and wanted to hit the wall.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law..."

Tao Yumo's voice was sincere and pitiful, but Lin Chaoyang did not accept her words.

Buy a game console to take care of your kids, it’s your choice!

There is still half a month before leaving for Guangzhou to hold a work seminar. Lin Chaoyang has nothing to do these days and simply focuses on the renovation of the east courtyard.

Siheyuan renovation is different from ordinary house building. It is not only a meticulous work, but more importantly, it must preserve the traditional cultural characteristics as much as possible.

The West Courtyard where Lin Chaoyang and the others live now is basically the original style of the old Yanjing courtyard house, without many facilities adapted to the urban style.

He plans to use this renovation of the east courtyard to maintain the traditional features while also adding some facilities to the courtyard.

For example, water and electricity renovation, kitchen and bathroom renovation to add kitchen and bathroom appliances, installation of air conditioning and heating boilers in bedrooms and living rooms, addition of green plants in the yard...

It doesn't cost much to repair the house, but Lin Chaoyang's renovation will cost a lot of money, and electrical appliances are undoubtedly the most expensive.

If these electrical appliances were placed in the homes of ordinary people, it would be troublesome to buy any of them, but Lin Chaoyang did not feel any pressure at all. Who would let him have so many foreign exchange certificates and overseas remittance certificates that he could never spend them all.

"When the east courtyard is repaired, we will move to the east courtyard. If friends come to the west courtyard in the future, we will let them live here.

Separated by two walls, no one affects each other."

Lin Chaoyang looked to Tao Yushu about the plan for the courtyard in Xiaoliubukou Hutong.

In March this year, when several writer friends stayed at home to read the manuscript of "Enter Guandong", Lin Chaoyang felt that everyone seemed uncomfortable and were afraid of affecting each other.

He thought it would be better to wait until the east courtyard was cleaned up and move here, and the west courtyard would be used to entertain guests. That would be great.

"Okay, you think very well."

Tao Yushu was flipping through the documents carefully, and was very perfunctory about Lin Chaoyang's outlook.

Lin Chaoyang sighed helplessly, you didn't treat me like this when we first got married.

Time flashed to the end of July. That night, Tao Yushu was packing Lin Chaoyang's luggage for a business trip. On the TV, CCTV news was broadcasting the news about the Chinese delegation staying at the Olympic Village in Los Angeles.

1984 is the Olympic year, held in Los Angeles, California, USA. This is also the second time that Los Angeles has held the Olympic Games. The last time was the 10th Olympic Games in 1932.

The Olympic Games schedule starts on July 28 and ends on August 12, a total of 16 days.

The number of participating national and regional delegations reached 140, exceeding the scale of any previous Olympic Games.

It is worth noting that this Olympic Games is also the first time that China has returned to the Olympic Games since 1952. Sports is an extension of politics. China's return to the international sports arena certainly has a lot to do with its diplomatic honeymoon with the United States.

In this Olympic Games, China sent a sports delegation composed of 225 people to participate in 16 major events.

For a developing country that has not participated in the Olympic Games for more than 30 years, such a size of sports delegation obviously gives the United States enough face.

Similarly, this is also a good opportunity for China to show the world the new atmosphere of reform and opening up.

"There are so many people, how much money will this cost!" Zhang Guiqin couldn't help but sigh while looking at the picture on TV.

"Every old woman has long hair and short knowledge. This is the Olympics, and it's about saving face for the country. How much does it cost for a team of two to three hundred people to spend on round-trip travel?"

Lin Erchun changed his career from a production captain to a landlord. In the past six months, Lin Erchun no longer panted when walking, and it was no longer difficult to go up to the fifth floor. He was full of energy and high-spirited, and his words were full of arrogance.

"I just don't know how many gold medals I can win. I heard that the gold medal in the Olympic Games is not easy to win. The athletes' faces are so purple that they may not be able to win it." Lin Erchun said to himself.

Early the next morning, Lin Chaoyang carried his luggage to the Capital Airport and boarded a plane to Guangzhou. Besides him, there were also Li Tuo, Feng Mu and Tang Zhi on this plane. All three of them were invited to Guangzhou by "Flower City"

Attended the seminar.

Needless to say, Li Tuo was very familiar with Lin Chaoyang, and it was inevitable for the two of them to make sarcastic remarks to each other when they met.

Feng Mu is the editor-in-chief of "Literary News" and a heavyweight in the domestic literary circle. He has always admired Lin Chaoyang very much.

Being able to travel thousands of miles this time to attend the seminar on the work of "Crossing the Guandong" is not so much to give face to "Flower City" as it is to give face to Lin Chaoyang.

The other Tang Zhi, Lin Chaoyang, has relatively little contact with him. We only know that he is a writer, critic, and a backbone of the "Literary Newspaper" and the Literary Association. He especially has a high status in the literary criticism circle.

The "Epic Nature of Contemporary Literature—On the Artistic Achievements of "Crossing the Guandong"" published in "Literary News" some time ago was written by him.

After chatting all the way, Lin Chaoyang successfully found Li Shifei at the entrance of the passage who came to pick him up.

"Old Li, I didn't expect you to come in person!" Lin Chaoyang and Li Shifei shook hands and exchanged greetings as they came out of the passage.

"You are the protagonist of this seminar, so of course you have to greet me." Li Shifei said with a smile.

In fact, Li Shifei will pick up not only Lin Chaoyang today, but also several other guests who came to attend the seminar.

When he saw Li Tuo, Feng Mu and others who got off the plane with Lin Chaoyang, he also greeted them warmly and then took everyone to his residence.

Generally speaking, when publishing houses hold seminars, they mainly invite local guests. This is mainly due to cost considerations. When guests come, the publishing house gets all-inclusive accommodation, food, accommodation, and transportation.

Huacheng Publishing House has spent a lot of money this time to hold a seminar on the works of "Crossing the Guandong". It has invited many well-known writers, critics and editors from far away literary centers such as Yanjing and Shanghai. It is inevitable that they will spend a lot of money on food, accommodation and transportation.

A lot of money.

Huacheng Publishing House is not a very wealthy company, so of course it does its work in a cost-effective manner. For this work seminar, they specially borrowed two small villas in Huaqiao New Village.

Overseas Chinese Village is located in the east and north of Guangzhou City. It was originally a barren hill.

In 1955, in order to accommodate returning overseas Chinese, the Overseas Chinese New Village covering an area of ​​680,000 square meters was built here. There are 177 garden-style villas and 291 apartment buildings. It is one of the largest residential areas built after the founding of New China.

It was midsummer, and the Overseas Chinese Village was lined with green trees, singing birds, and fragrant flowers. It looked like a paradise. Li Tuo and others couldn't help but admire it after entering the community.

Li Tuo said to Lin Chaoyang: "Hey, Chaoyang, this is much better than your overseas Chinese apartment."

The first house Lin Chaoyang bought was the Huayuanqiao Overseas Chinese Apartment located near the West Third Ring Road in Yanjing. It was also a house built for overseas Chinese, but compared with the villas in Huaqiao New Village, the Huayuanqiao Overseas Chinese Apartment was simply inferior.

They are not only small western-style houses, but also have small gardens, providing an elegant and quiet environment.

After entering the villa, you will be assigned rooms. Young people will live upstairs and old comrades will live downstairs.

After resting for a while, Lin Chaoyang met several other guests from Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and it was said that several of them were acquaintances of Lin Chaoyang.

For example, Li Xiaolin, who serves as the deputy editor of "Harvest", complained as soon as she saw Lin Chaoyang.

"In the past few years, your novels have not been submitted to our Harvest. I came here specifically to ask you if you are dissatisfied with our Harvest?"

Li Xiaolin half-truthfully joked that since "Parental Love", Lin Chaoyang's many novels have not been published in "Harvest", and she is really greedy for those manuscripts.

Lin Chaoyang said with a smile: "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but I have too many acquaintances and everyone is asking for manuscripts. I can only stick to Yanjing's publications first."

"You have a close relationship with Yanjing's publications, so what's going on with "Flower City"?"

Lin Chaoyang pulled Li Xiaolin and whispered: "Isn't this... the money I gave you is so much!"

Hearing this, Li Xiaolin couldn't help but smile, "How come it's been so many years, how come you're still so scrupulous about royalties?"

"I can't help it, I have to make a living on this!" Lin Chaoyang spread his hands.

After joking with Li Xiaolin, Lin Chaoyang said hello to Cong Weixi and Li Hangyu.

Li Hangyu is a fledgling young writer. Originally, he was not qualified to be invited to attend a seminar of this level.

After Lin Chaoyang proposed "root-seeking literature", he was the writer who responded most actively in China. His article "Understanding Our Roots" a few months ago caused quite a stir in the literary world.

This article made him one of the representative figures of root-seeking literature. "Crossing the Guandong" has a clear and profound imprint of "root-seeking literature". It is logical that Li Hangyu appeared in the seminar on this work.

In the evening of this day, Huacheng conveniently arranged a reception banquet for the guests.

This seminar on "Crossing Guandong" lasted for three days. Apart from the one-day seminar, the remaining two days were all collecting activities, which was a bonus.

The seminar was held in the conference room of Huacheng Publishing House. Nearly twenty well-known writers, critics and editors in the literary world gathered together. The scene was grand. This was the first time in the history of Huacheng Publishing House that a seminar of this size was held.

Calculating carefully, it has only been more than three months since the first part of "Crossing the Guandong" was published, and only more than a month since the second part was published. This time is not long for the influence of a literary work to ferment.

But "Crossing Guandong" is not an ordinary literary work. As the phenomenon-level novel that attracted the most attention in the Chinese literary world in 1984, its influence has broken the shackles of time.

The sensational effect it caused is extremely rare in the contemporary literary world in recent years.

During this time, the literary community has been flooding with praise for this novel. Seminars have been held, and colleagues in the literature have also praised it.

This is not a deliberate compliment, but it is really not a compliment. You can't find fault with it against your will, right?

No matter how much you praise, you can't praise it enough, so the whole day's seminar ended like this.

Lin Chaoyang was chatting with Feng Mu next to him and was about to get up when he saw a young man whispering a few words to Su Chen, the president of the publishing house. Su Chen's face suddenly turned ugly.
Chapter completed!