The firecrackers on the first day of the Lunar New Year did not stop until almost 3 o'clock in the morning, and then began to make noise again at 7 o'clock in the morning.

Lin Miao turned over from side to side, holding Xiao Lori for a while, and Xiaoxiao for a while, half-asleep, but she just didn't want to get up. He stayed in bed until the physiological pressure was too serious, he finally couldn't hold back and went to the toilet, and when the flushing sound in the bathroom sounded, Luo Li also woke up, wearing thin clothes, casually put on a thick coat, walked to Lin Miao and gave her little husband a good morning kiss on the forehead, and then walked to the bathroom with her eyes half-closed, Lin Miao casually helped her close the door.

Half an hour later, Lin Miao pulled Luo Li, who didn't wake up completely, and Xiaoxiao, who didn't wake up at all, and went to the restaurant in the front yard for breakfast. After breakfast, the two sleep-deprived little girls continued to catch up on sleep, and Lin Miao began to pick up the phone and give New Year's greetings all over the world.

The list is quite long, first Lao Lin and Jiang Ping, then grandmother, then Jiang Yang and Zhang Youwei, then Qin Wanqiu and Xu Yiguang, and then Guo Heling's ancestors and grandchildren, followed by Wei Jun, but Wei Jun was far away from foreign countries for the New Year, and he couldn't be contacted, so he could only send an email to his mailbox, and after sending the email, he continued to say hello to the second senior brother Sun Rulai and Xun Jianxiang, and then Luo Wanzhou, Kang Zhifu, Ding Shaoyi, Zhang Kai and even Wang Laoer.

Finally, the phone call came to Lao Di's side, Lin Miao told him that he couldn't go to his wedding on the third day of the Lunar New Year, but sent a secretary over, wishing Teacher Di and Comrade Jiang Xiaohong a happy marriage, Lao Di smiled and said It doesn't matter, as long as the red envelope is in place, and told Lin Miao that he has to take a vacation for two months, and he wrote 2 million words in one breath for more than a year, and his energy is really a little unbearable.

Of course, Lin Miao agreed without saying a word, the second part of "Looking for Immortals" is only on the market for two volumes now, even if Lao Di only writes at half the speed before, the manuscript is definitely enough. Taking a step back, with the increasingly exaggerated global popularity of "Looking for Immortals", even if Lao Di writes too slowly, when the third part is on the market, it will not affect revenue from time to time. As long as the 12 volumes of the second part of this year sell well, the market will naturally form consumer inertia and consumer expectations.

Occasionally hungry marketing, maybe you can stimulate the market again.

As for the problem of homogeneous product competition that Lin Miao had concerns about before, it seems that he is still worried about the situation throughout this year. The type of "Seeking Immortals" seems to have a very low threshold, but it is still quite difficult to form competitiveness, especially the impact on the top products in the market. To put it simply, people who are willing to write are basically not good at writing, and it is difficult for people who write well to insist on creating, and people who have both of these qualities may have no way, even if they have a way, they can't break the current monopoly of "Seeking Immortals" on the market in marketing.

"Looking for Immortals" has also been praised twice by "News Network", and it has also won an award in the United States, and it seems that it has initially had world influence. From Lin Miao's point of view, the only thing in China that can compete with "Looking for Immortals" is only "Demon Hunting Notes", which was serialized on "Red Miao". After the completion of "Looking for Immortals" and the establishment of the status of the rivers and lakes in the new era, Lin Miao's next cultural card is "Notes on Demon Hunting", because the background of the story may be more in line with the aesthetics of Westerners, if it can be hooked up with Hollywood, the entire IP industry chain will be revitalized in an instant.

Of course, all of this has to be done step by step, so there's no need to be in such a hurry.

And with Andy's diligent codeword, if Lao Di finishes writing the third part of "Looking for Immortals", he may not be able to hand in the last story of "Demon Hunting Notes". The outline that Lin Miao gave him includes a total of 13 stories, each story is written in two volumes, and the total word count is about 150,000 words, and the second volume has not yet been completed, so the whole book is finished, and it may not be until the end of 1998 that there will be a play. With a little dragging, it was not impossible for him to fish until 1999.

However, although Lin Miao didn't force Lao Di to hurry up, he really didn't have much time, so he took advantage of the fact that he was still free today, and first chatted with Lao Di on the phone about the main line of the third part of "Looking for Immortals".

Because he already had an idea in his head, this time he chatted, and his thoughts were smoother than when he talked about the second part half a year ago, and in less than half an hour, Lin Miao talked to Lao Di clearly about the general direction he wanted.

In addition, because the plot itself has the inertia of moving forward, there is only one guiding character arranged on the main character, and the final few big bosses. The new scene arranges the well-known Kunlun secret realm in China, the top of Buzhou Mountain, and finally returns from pure original to local deification, but in fact, it is just a name, the core is still "Miao-style ghost bullshit", plus the use of the three cultural achievements of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and finally give a "The so-called immortals are just a group of bastards who care about the lives of others in vain and only care about their own escape, Li Shufan gave up becoming an immortal, and turned his head to lead mortals to make the final resistance to fate", even if Qi lived.

Lao Di Da was about to prepare for the wedding for the New Year, so he had a conference call with Lin Miao for more than three hours. After making the call, Lao Di took a bunch of scratch paper and smiled at Jiang Xiaohong: "Wife, Mr. Lin's story is very awesome, I feel that it is better to hurry up and share the spoils after writing, and I will not rest after the New Year, I will simply take half a year off next year, and our family will go out to have fun for half a year." ”

Jiang Xiaohong touched her four-month-old belly, turned her head to look at the wedding photos hanging on the bedside, and smiled: "Whatever you want, you owe me a honeymoon anyway, don't think about it." ”

In the courtyard of the capital, Lin Miao put down the phone and felt a ringing in her ears.

Raise your hand and look at the time, it's almost 1 o'clock.

With a rumbling in her stomach, Lin Miao muttered that she was so miserable, she was so busy with her career on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and then walked back to the bedroom, and saw that the two little girls were all awake, and they were sitting on the bed and watching TV shoulder to shoulder in harmony and friendliness, Lin Miao couldn't help asking, "Aren't you hungry?"

"There is food. Luo Li took out a big bag of instant noodles from the quilt, crushed them, and ate them dry.

"Shall I go, insult my net worth?" Lin Miao stepped forward and took the big plastic bag of broken dough and stretched out her hand towards Luo Li and Xiaoxiao.

Little Lori and Xiaoxiao smiled and grabbed Lin Miao's hand and crawled out of the bed.

Lin Miao urged the two of them to get dressed and pulled them out of the door. Walking out of the main house, it was a sunny day outside. It is not surprising that the people in the courtyard are really waiting for Lin Miao to eat, Lin Miao shouted loudly and shouted out all the people who lived in several side rooms, and after a while, everyone arrived at Sheepskin Alley, picked up Qin Wanqiu's family, and went straight to a hotel that was still open on the first day of the first lunar month.

This kind of depraved life of eating to open the mouth has been going on for nearly a week since the beginning of the first month. insisted on not cooking on the fire in the courtyard, Lin Miao took the two little girls to change two restaurants every day, and ate them one by one along Chang'an Street.

However, the pace of life is lazy and lazy, and Lin Miao did not delay his business.

Miao Ye, who has always been strict with himself, still arranged review tasks for himself even during the Chinese New Year.

There are 15 sets of chemistry papers and 15 mathematics papers, history textbooks and politics textbooks brought over from the first semester of high school, and after watching the news broadcast every night, I stipulate how many pages I must read. But in fact, this little thing could not withstand many times he turned over at all, the history textbook was finished in two nights, and the simple Marxist economic principles in the political textbook did not last three days.

So the extra time is naturally to stare at Xiaoxiao, a family with learning difficulties, and stumble on winter vacation homework.

A carefree and comfortable day is a week in the blink of an eye.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Luo Wanzhou suddenly came into the courtyard where Lin Miao lived, and brought Lin Miao a magical news: At this year's Xiangjiang return ceremony, a big man from the Nine Heavens asked him to watch the ceremony, and God knows what this signal means.

But the key reason should be Lin Miao's net worth of 2 billion.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Lin Miao followed Luo Wanzhou to the United Front Work Department with a little uncalm and nervousness, and came out of the building after getting the relevant documents and certificates. ”

Lin Miao took his "Patriotic Representative Card" and looked at the front and back a few times, and then sighed: "It's a pity that the age is not enough, otherwise it should be the whole country, the CPPCC, the committee, the member, right?"

Luo Wanzhou said: "If you can build several enterprises, it is possible for the CPPCC, the Standing Committee, and the Committee." ”

Lin Miao wowed, and suddenly had a new understanding of her status in the rivers and lakes.

A few days later, shops of all sizes in the capital gradually opened, and the atmosphere of the New Year slowly began to fade.

Just as the Lantern Festival was approaching, the flag was suddenly lowered at half-mast in Tiananmen Square.

In an atmosphere of national mourning, an era ends and an era begins.

Wei Jun hurried back from abroad, and before he had time to say anything to Lin Miao, he received the appointment to serve as the new president of Hucheng University of Finance and Economics, and hurriedly left Beijing, and Guo Heling retired immediately. His essay criticizing US imperialism does not seem to need to be written.

Lin Miao watched the historical events pass by at close range, recalling the day of his previous life, the school asked him to write essays to commemorate the great man, he didn't even know what the great man was doing, he only remembered that he was sitting on the balcony on the second floor of the small dilapidated house in Tianji Lane, and with the great talent at that time, he wrote a sentence full of Spring and Autumn penmanship: "Although he left us, his spirit will always live in our hearts." Looking back to this day, Lin Miao still feels that he was really a genius when he was a child in his previous life.

Two days later, Lin Miao, who had been taking Xiaoxiao to class for many days, went to participate in the finals of the first "New Thinking" essay contest according to the agreement between him and Guo Heling. I casually wrote more than 1,000 words of praise to the motherland and the people, and handed in the paper.

On Sunday, February 23, Lin Miao and his party, who had lived in the capital for a month, finally packed their bags and returned home.

In the morning, send the little Lori back to the sheepskin alley from the courtyard.

Little Lori's face was full of deep reluctance, because she knew that Lin Miao would not come to the capital again this semester, she gave Lin Miao a long hug, and let go for a long time, looked at Lin Miao and said, "Shuishui, next time you come again, I have finished the third grade." ”

"Hmm. Lin Miao took her hand, looked at her and said, "Don't worry, I'll wait for you." ”

The range of raising his head is not so big, and this winter vacation, he has actually grown a lot taller.