Yanyuan, which had been silent for more than a month, ushered in the busiest day of the winter vacation on the first day of the Lunar New Year. People were either paying New Year greetings or on their way to pay New Year greetings. When visiting the New Year's door, it was inevitable to talk about daily life.

This year, Tao Yumo, the youngest daughter of the Tao family, became a hot topic of discussion at homes near Langrun Lake Apartment.

For many years, the Tao sisters have been regarded as the top-notch beauty in the Langrun Lake Apartment area. In addition, they were both admitted to a prestigious school in Yanjing, so people in the Langrun Lake Apartment area have always called them "

Someone else’s daughter”.

Don’t think that the professors and lecturers at Yanda must all be college students. There are many juniors who have never gone to college. In the past, Tao Yumo was beautiful, but no one felt that there was any difference. This time from Xiangjiang

When I came back, my impression was completely different.

She is almost like the female star in "Popular Cinema".

To be precise, she is more beautiful than those female stars. After all, the photos in magazines these days are all orthodox aesthetics, not so fashionable, and can even be said to be a bit rustic. Tao Yumo's dress is more like the female stars in foreign movies. That's called

An exquisite one.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she went with her family to pay New Year greetings. As she walked on the road, she attracted the admiring eyes of many young men: "Hey, you are really good at attracting attention!"

When they met on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Du Feng teased Tao Yumo. "Do you care?" Tao Yumo rolled his eyes at him.

Tao Yucheng, who was behind him, spoke up: "You're right, she's not just a provocateur, she's almost taken away the souls of those young men at Yanda." The Tao family and the Du family hold family gatherings every year, and this year is no different.

We rarely see each other a few times a year, and when we do, we always feel particularly cordial.

Du Feng immediately approached Lin Chaoyang and said excitedly: "Brother-in-law, have you watched the Spring Festival Gala?" Lin Chaoyang knew what Du Feng was going to say, "Yes."

"Did you look at that tall mixed-race guy in the Spring Festival Gala? He's so handsome! He was invited to this year's store celebration, and I asked someone to contact him." This year's Spring Festival Gala had just ended two days ago, but Du Feng's "big tall guy"

"Mixed race" has become popular throughout China.

On the Spring Festival Gala of 1987, Fei Xiang used "a fire in winter" to ignite the enthusiasm of young girls and young wives across China to pursue stars.

After chatting with Lin Chaoyang about Fei Xiang for a while, Du Feng mentioned the black trench coat that Tao Yushu asked him to prepare in advance, complimenting his sister's strategizing.

This winter, the clothing city sold more than a thousand pieces of black trench coats with a unit price of 69 yuan, which was called the most fashionable item in Yanjing City in 1987. "Come on, don't call these useless."

Tao Yushu interrupted his flattery, and Du Feng seriously talked about the clothing city.

In less than two months, it will be almost a year since the opening of the clothing city. Except for the first two months when the business was relatively sluggish, the business at other times has been steadily increasing, especially during the Spring Festival.

On the same day, there was a hot scene with a single-day turnover exceeding 200,000 yuan. The turnover in January alone exceeded 3.3 million yuan. As of the last day of business during the Spring Festival, the cumulative turnover of the Asia-Europe Garment City reached more than 16.4 million yuan, with a gross profit of more than 16.4 million yuan.

Nearly 12 million.

"If it weren't for the impact of the return and exchange policy, our gross profit margin would have reached 70%." Du Feng said with a little regret.

The gross profit margin of the high-end clothing industry has always been very high, especially in the 1990s, it was even more ridiculously high. The 70% gross profit margin mentioned by Du Feng was a very conservative figure for the clothing industry in the 1990s.

In contrast, Asia-Europe Garment City's pricing policy and product quality are already very conscientious.

"Without the reputation brought by the return and exchange policy, how can we have such a high turnover? Don't put the cart before the horse." Tao Yushu reminded. Du Feng said with a smile: "Sister, look at what you said, I can still ignore this.

Do you understand?"

He also talked about net profit. After excluding taxes, rent, labor, water and electricity, cargo damage, loans, interest and many other expenses, the net profit of the clothing city last year was 8.1 million. Du Feng discussed with Tao Yushu and wanted to pay 4 million in dividends.

The remaining 4.1 million yuan will be used to expand operations.

The clothing city made a lot of money in the first year of its opening. His confidence grew. In addition to the envisioned project in Shijiazhuang, he also wanted to open one in Shanghai.

Moreover, this one in Shanghai is larger and more high-end than that in Yanjing. After all, from an economic perspective, Shanghai is not inferior to Yanjing, and the people in Shanghai are more willing to spend money on dressing up.

Du Feng believes that if the clothing city opens there, the business will only be better than that in Yanjing.

"You can arrange these things yourself, we are just investing." Tao Yushu said casually. She then asked: "With so much dividends all at once, how do you plan to spend it?"

Speaking of dividends, Du Feng's mouth opened involuntarily, "Are you worried that you won't be able to spend it if you have money? I plan to change to a Mercedes-Benz first. The Crown is good, but the grade is a bit lower and not as good as the German cars."

When I first bought a car two years ago, I treated Crown as a treasure. Now that I have become prosperous, Xiao Tiantian has become Mrs. Niu. Her main theme is to "change the heart of an old friend easily". The word "shaobao" is no longer enough to summarize Du.

Feng’s current state.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Tao Yushu and Lin Chaoyang’s work arrangements for the next period of time.

Years ago, the Berlin Film Festival Organizing Committee announced the list of shortlisted films for this year's film festival. A total of 21 films from all over the world were shortlisted, and "The King of Children" was impressively included. There are now less than twenty days before the opening of the film festival.

, Tao Yushu first returned to Xiangjiang to arrange Lin's work for the new year, and then rushed to Berlin before the opening of the film festival.

She will personally lead the team to West Germany this time, which can also be regarded as a way for Lin's Pictures to travel overseas.

"That Xiao Yu from China Film Group is a talented person. What do you think about me recruiting her to the company to be responsible for the film festival?" Tao Yushu suddenly asked Lin Chaoyang. Lin Chaoyang chuckled: "Of course this is a good thing."

If Lin's Film Industry wants to develop, film festivals are also a route, and we need talents in this area.

The day after Tao Yushu returned to Xiangjiang, Lin Chaoyang received a letter from Miyu Kitamura from Japan.

"Enter Guandong" has been released in Japan for a full year, and the novel has achieved good results on the shelves.

The sales volume in the first half of the year was 71,800 copies. In the second half of the year, as the reputation of the novel continued to grow, the sales volume further increased to 250,000 copies, and the cumulative sales volume reached 164,300 copies.

Even among the works of well-known pure literary writers in Japan, this number is considered a relatively good result, not to mention that Lin Chaoyang is a relatively unknown foreign writer.

That's not right. In the year "Crossing the Guandong" was released in Japan, Lin Chaoyang was somewhat famous in the literary world and among pure literature readers. For several months, "He Chu Shufang" has been intensively translated by Lin Chaoyang

The three novels "The Truman Show", "The Ferry" and "Shutter Island". The film adaptation of "The Truman Show" was released in Japan and finally made 500 million yen at the box office.

Although this result is not the best among Chinese-language films in Japan, considering that "The Truman Show" is a literary and artistic film that focuses on plot, rather than an action movie with a broad audience, it is already very impressive to achieve this result.

alright.

Movie adaptations are becoming popular, and Kawade Shobo will definitely publish "The Truman Show" first. This time Miyu Kitamura specially sent Lin Chaoyang a sample book of the Japanese version of the novel. According to Kawade Shobo's plan, "The Truman Show" will be

It will be released first in mid-February, followed by "The Ferry" in early April and "Shutter Island" at the end of May. Three works have been released in succession in half a year, and it can be seen that Kawade Shobo is still very optimistic about Lin Chaoyang.

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In this royalty settlement, Lin Chaoyang received 26.6 million yen.

Just last month, the Japanese yen officially exceeded the 150 yen mark for 1 U.S. dollar. Invisibly, the value of Lin Chaoyang's royalties increased again, amounting to 18.37 million in U.S. dollars.

In addition to these, Miyu Kitamura also included several translated letters from readers to Lin Chaoyang in his letter as before, which will provide emotional value to the writer.

In addition, Kitamura Mihiro also sent a group photo to Lin Chaoyang this time. There were many people on it, but Lin Chaoyang only knew three of them, namely Kitamura Mihiro, Kondo Naoko and Fujii Shozo.

Most of the rest of the people were wearing suits, mostly middle-aged and older men, with serious faces.

Kitamura Mihiro introduced in the letter that it turned out that this photo was taken around New Year's Day when Kondo Naoko held a New Year's Day Salon of the "Lin Chaoyang (Japan) Literary Research Association".

Lin Chaoyang turned over the photo as written in the letter and saw the name of the meeting and the date of commemoration written on the back, and the names of each participant were carefully marked to facilitate Lin Chaoyang's identification.

Kohei Ikeda, Faculty of Letters, Waseda University, Naoki Nakamura, Faculty of Drama, Meiji University, Kotaro Kobayashi, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University...

When Tao Yumo went to Japan to sign a contract with Kawade Shobo last year, Naoko Kondo proposed the idea of ​​establishing a literary research association and specially asked Lin Chaoyang to inscribe it.

By October, Naoko Kondo and Shozo Fujii jointly wrote a letter to Lin Chaoyang, formally explaining to him the preparations for the "Lin Chaoyang (Japan) Literary Research Society".

As an informal literary research organization, Lin Chaoyang (Japan) Literary Research Association does not have strict membership standards. All scholars in Japan who are interested in Lin Chaoyang's works can join.

It is only necessary to submit a paper or review article about Lin Chaoyang's literary works to the research association every year.

Since July, Naoko Kondo and Shozo Fujii have sent out motions to many Chinese literature scholars in Japan. In more than two months, they have received more than 20 membership letters.

This number was far beyond their expectations, and they were also very surprised.

After all, Lin Chaoyang is only a foreign writer, and he is also a contemporary writer. It is not easy for so many people to respond to him.

Among the more than 20 scholars who applied for membership, there are 5 professors, 9 associate professors and 7 lecturers. Counting Naoko Kondo and Shozo Fujii, there are a total of 24 people. These scholars come from a wide range of universities.

The University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Nihon University, Ritsumeikan University...

Lin Chaoyang (Japan) Literary Research Association is a loosely organized research institution with not many activities. It holds two meetings every year. The New Year's Day meeting is the first formal meeting held after the establishment of the research association. The next meeting will be held in 1987.

It's July.

After each meeting, the Literary Research Association will issue a journal to introduce the meeting and publish research articles by members. Kitamura Miyu also specially sent Lin Chaoyang this time. The cover of the journal is from "Crossing the Guandong" published in Japan.

The cover is 16 karat in size and the printing quality is quite exquisite.

Lin Chaoyang noticed that the journal also had a dedicated copyright page. The editor and proofreader on it was Miyu Kitamura. She mentioned in her letter that she was an honorary member of the research association. The editing, printing, and binding of the journal were all done by

Sponsored by Kawade Shobo.

Lin Chaoyang held the journal and admired it for a while. Except for some copyright information, he couldn't understand the rest. There is no translation of the journal, so I have to give it a bad review.

This is of course a joke, everyone works voluntarily, and it would be too laborious and costly to produce a translation for Lin Chaoyang alone. Anyway, the publication is not for the author to read.

A few days later, there was a gathering of writers in the west courtyard of Lin Chaoyang's home. Lin Chaoyang had to take care of his children and had no time to chat with them.

After noon, a few people had enough to eat and drink, and took the initiative to come to Lin Chaoyang's hospital to help him take care of his children and chat with him. Some people talked about something published in "People's Literature" in January.

"Zhu Wei, your editorial department is very brave, you dare to publish a novel like "Show Your Tongue Is Empty"."

Hearing his friend's ridicule, Zhu Wei smiled and said, "You have to say that our editor Liu is courageous. He was the one who decided to publish this novel." "I hear what you mean, why do you still want to shirk responsibility?"

"Show Your Empty Tongue" is a collection of novels written by photographer Ma Jian based on his own wandering experience and reflecting the persecution of women in the old XZ.

The novel describes a large number of Japanese folk customs, landscapes and religious rituals in detail, almost re-enacting the description, which makes the novel full of reality, but also reveals to a large extent the darkness and cruelty of Japanese society before liberation.

Within half a month of its release, the novel has already become a hotly debated topic in the literary world.

There are two reasons for this. First, the content of the novel is novel and can easily arouse readers' interest.

Second, we are all engaged in writing, and we know that the content of this work is very sensitive even today, because it affects MZ policy and ZJ policy. "I heard that someone at the Literary and Art Association seems to have opinions.
To be continued...