Chapter 88 of the main text volume "Alive"

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Entering October, the Beijing Television Art Center is finally about to move.

Originally, due to the lack of funds, the art center could only temporarily work in the interior of Huaguo TV, but now half a year has passed, and as the number of staff in the art center increases, the already crowded office environment has become more and more unbearable.

It's not uncommon for five or six people to be crammed into one office, and sometimes they have to compete with Huaguo TV employees for land and resources.

Today, there are more than 50 people in the art center, and there is an urgent need for a new office space.

With the sale of the two TV series "Alien Girl" and "The Story of the Editorial Department", the funds have gradually been withdrawn, and there is a lot more money on hand.

In September, Li Hong rented two rows of bungalows in Sijiqing Commune in Haidian District, hired people to clean up, bought living equipment and office supplies, and set up a small canteen.

In addition, the art center also spent nearly 300,000 yuan to purchase two cars.

One is Santana in Shanghai, the other is Dafa van in Jinmen, Santana is 230,000, and Dafa van is 40,000.

Santana is used to prop up the façade when going out to meet guests and run errands, and the van is used by the crew when filming TV dramas.

Li Hong didn't look for a driver, there are many people in the art center who can drive, ordinary people may not have access to cars, but many of the people who have returned from the army are old drivers.

Lin Zixuan himself can drive, but he has never had the opportunity and has not been able to touch cars before.

He deduced that he had learned to drive with Chen Changle when he was in Huacheng, so he rounded up the fact that he could drive, and no one cared about it, but he still lacked a driver's license.

It's a very hard time to get a driver's license these days.

There are only five or six driving schools in Beijing, the tuition fee is 1,500 yuan, and you can get a probationary driver's license if you pass the three-month test, and you can get a formal driver's license without any traffic accidents within one year.

Of course, the rules are nothing more than human favors, if you already know how to drive, as long as you pass the guò test, you can also get a probationary driver's license.

At this time, most of the teachers in the driving school came from the army, Feng Xiaogang came back from the army, and the people in Beijing were looking for friends to make connections, and a driving school agreed to Lin Zixuan's request, but the tuition fee could not be waived.

Lin Zixuan had to pay a tuition fee of 1,500 yuan, studied theoretical knowledge for a week, and got a probationary driver's license after the assessment, so he could drive openly.

The tuition fee is still the money remitted from Xiangjiang, and after paying the tax, there is more than 1,700 yuan left.

The reason why he is in such a hurry to get his driver's license is because it is convenient to drive in the future, and because although the new office of the art center and Huaguo TV are both in Haidian District, the distance is not close, so it is naturally best to be able to drive.

Lin Zixuan can drive Li Hong home after work, and pick up Mu Shanshan by the way, which is much more convenient.

"What do you think? Does it feel like a leader? The first time he drove Mu Shanshan to get off work, Lin Zixuan joked.

"We're not leaders, will we be gossiped about when we drive back?" Mu Shanshan said worriedly.

"It's okay, the yard is full of old people from the TV station, and they all know it in their hearts." Lin Zixuan said indifferently, "The times are different, the previous leaders used to commute by bicycle, you see how many leaders can commute by bicycle now, most of them are drivers who drive the leaders home, and I am the driver." ”

"It's also said that in the past, every household was almost the same, but now there are more and more rich people, and they are all beginning to compare and enjoy." Mu Shanshan sighed.

Lin Zixuan parked the car at the mouth of the alley, and he had to pick up Li Hong from work tomorrow morning.

The two of them went home and had dinner, and if there was no good TV series, they would read books or chat casually.

Mu Shanshan was reading the story Lin Zixuan had just written, the novel called "Alive".

She has always been the first reader of Lin Zixuan's novels, and she will also put forward her own opinions, but for this novel, she is a little depressed, because the story itself is a big tragedy.

"Alive" tells the story of the life of a man named Fugui.

Fugui was born in troubled times, originally a young master of the landlord's family, addicted to gambling, and finally gambled away from the family business and became destitute.

Fugui, who was in poverty, went to seek medical treatment because of his mother's illness, but he didn't expect to be captured by the army on the way, and then captured by the People's Liberation Army.

His wife, Jiazhen, worked hard to bring up a pair of children, but her daughter unfortunately became mute.

It was only then that the real tragedy began to unfold.

Jiazhen couldn't do heavy work because of hypochondriasis, her son died of excessive blood drawing to save the county magistrate's wife because of the same blood type as the county magistrate's wife, and her daughter Fengxia tied the knot with the migraine in the city introduced by the captain, and after giving birth to a baby boy, she died on the operating table due to massive hemorrhage.

Three months after the death of her daughter Fengxia, Jiazhen also died one after another.

Erxi is a porter, because the crane went on a business trip, he was caught between two rows of cement slabs, and his grandson Kugen returned to the countryside with Fugui, and his life was very difficult, even the beans were difficult to eat.

Fugui was distressed, so he boiled beans for the bitter root to eat, but the bitter root died because of eating beans......

The relatives in his life passed away one after another, leaving only the old Fugui to reminisce about the past with an old cow in the sun.

The novel spans sixty years and has gone through various historical periods, with a stark contrast between the changes of the big times and the small fate of the little people.

It raises a seemingly simple but not easy to answer question, what do people live for?

"You are ...... novel," Mu Shanshan didn't know what to say for a while.

"Alive" and "The Recalcitrant" are two completely different novels, "The Recalcitrant" uses ridicule to dissipate the pressure of reality, which has the meaning of escape, and "Alive" shows the suffering of life and the ability of people to bear the suffering, and face the world head-on.

"What do you think?" Lin Zixuan asked.

"Alive" is about 120,000 words, and he wrote it for nearly two months, and this novel touched him deeply.

The novel reveals a mixture of pessimism and optimism, life itself is difficult, and it is difficult to live to continue life, and it is precisely because it is extremely difficult that life has a profound meaning.

There is nothing better than being alive, and nothing is harder than being alive.

Man lives for the sake of being alive itself, not for anything other than being alive.

For Lin Zixuan, he prefers to live with a ridiculous mentality, rather than this attitude of living for the sake of living.

"I can't say it well, I feel like I used to read foreign classics in school." Mu Shanshan replied.

As a young man of this era, Mu Shanshan likes it, but she doesn't have in-depth research, she just likes to watch it.

There is no light ridicule in this novel, only a calm and indifferent narrative, and a string of tragedies that leave people breathless.

Perhaps, this is a true masterpiece.