postscript

It was late and my dog named "Pooh" was curled up in the kennel next to me, purring and purring. A 13-year-old dog has been with me for I don't know how many nights, and its eyes have watched me write one book after another. This smart dog who knows how to turn on the air conditioner when it's hot and knows how to drag the quilt when it's cold, just watching me lie down in front of the computer day after day and year after year to create, it seems that even it feels very fulfilling, so it has been lying at my feet "without regrets", accompanying me to stay under the lonely lamp for 13 years.

And at this time, my brain is still in the fourth sister and Jian Weiguo and those people have not come back, it is like drinking a pot of old rice wine, and my spirit is still very excited, so I will simply say a few more words, and by the way, I will also give you an explanation of the fate of the fourth sister and Jian Weiguo.

In fact, this story has been formed a long time ago, around 2010, when producer Jiang Hong asked me to go to Xi'an to talk about a TV series, I told her a story about the early monkey ticket, and after that, this novel and the TV series of the same name were formed. However, later, due to other manuscript reasons, I threw the book on the hard drive after writing a draft, and lay quietly for nearly five years, until Jiang Hong called me not long ago to inform me that the TV series had been started, and I remembered it.

The first thing to say is that all the people and things in the novel are true, and the "fourth sister" and "Wei Guo" are also friends in my life, and I also call them this way in life, and the fourth sister is indeed surnamed Wang, but Wei Guo is not surnamed Qian.

Over the years, my life trajectory has basically been nothing more than writing. I'm a fun-loving person, playing with pots, tea, pipes, walnuts, tea, stamps, etc., etc., but I can basically have a little bit to do with anything about fun. There was a time when a media outlet wanted me to start a column about fun, but I didn't accept it because of the time. In fact, playing is not a simple or easy thing, especially for me, as long as it is playing, you must play to make a name, at least to know the gameplay of this thing, where it originated, what is the story, these most basic common sense must be able to say one, two, three, otherwise it is blind play. Looking back at the road I have traveled and the books I have written in my life, most of them are related to play: "Bastard" is an antique, "Da Shang Port" is an ancient painting, "Mid-life Crisis" is a teapot, "Tea Empire" is a teapot, and there is an unfinished work "I want to earn 100 million", which is about playing with walnuts, using a pair of walnuts as props to tell the inspirational story of a female demobilized soldier who works hard to start a business.

Needless to say, this book is playing with stamps. Some readers may ask, is it true that there are so many complex and tortuous relationships in this novel? I can say here very responsibly that everything is true and true, not only true, but also really happened to the fourth sister and Wei Guo, but in the last part of the necessary exaggeration. For example, in the end, those stamps were donated, and the fourth sister and Wei Guo in reality actually only donated part of it - that was when the price of monkey tickets was speculated to the hottest, and the single version of the serial number version has exceeded 2 million, which is also a large number!

For a long time, I have been exploring a social phenomenon, such as human nature. I can't say when it began, among the Chinese who have always worked hard to learn, a considerable number of young people have stayed away from reading and are obsessed with the pursuit of materialism, reading has become a burden for them, replaced by the kind of fanaticism for material pursuit, unscrupulous means for their own interests, greed and vanity have become a pathology in today's society is spreading, and some people even unashamedly define this as "competition". A friend of mine, Chen Xiaolei, once said a thought-provoking sentence in her WeChat: "Many people always think that whoever is crushed, surpassed, and killed is a sign of success." However, this is not the case, the so-called success is not to see how many people he has leveled, but how many people he has served, how many people he has helped, how many people he has united, and how many people he has achieved. ”

I once had tea with Mr. Ke Wenhui, a famous art critic, and talked about human nature, and he said a very classic sentence that I will always remember vividly. His exact words are as follows: "As far as human nature is concerned, it is like a drop of pure water falling into a dye vat, water is only a natural attribute, once it falls into red, it is warm, and if it falls into black, it must be black." ”

I still sincerely wish that our society will be more warm and less indifferent!

I would like to thank the publisher of this book, my old friend Mr. Lin Yuanzhong, the producer, Ms. Jiang Hong, the director, the actors Wang Qianyuan, Bian Xiaoxiao and all the cast and crew of the crew, and I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you for your efforts!

When the clock pointed to three o'clock, I looked back at the "Pooh" in the kennel again, it suddenly made a few strange "whoops" in its sleep, I guess this is the dog talking in a dream, in the face of the glitz and impetuousness of the world, I don't know what kind of expression it will be in the dog world.

Liu Jie

In the early morning of December 3, 2015