"What are you worrying about? I like both boys and girls." Xiang Nan smiled, "And to be honest, I prefer it to be a girl.
The daughter is the little cotton-padded child of her parents. She knows how cold it is and how hot she is. She is so considerate. My son is also a raincoat, only useful when it rains. And when it’s time to use it, it may not be there yet. "
"Comrade Liu, are you telling the truth?" Xiaoping said with some surprise when she heard what he said.
Since ancient times, it has always been better to have a boy than a girl. Sons can carry on the family line, but daughters are just water thrown away, so many people want to have boys. If the child is a girl, she will continue to have children until she gives birth to a son.
Therefore, she was worried that if she was born a girl and she couldn't have another child, Xiang Nan would be angry with her and complain that her stomach was not good enough.
"I'm telling the truth." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "Well, if you don't believe it, you will know it when you are born."
Xiaoping nodded.
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In April, the movie "Wrangler" was officially released.
Once the film was released, it caused a sensation across the country.
The handsome Zhu Shimao paired with the pure Cong Shan, this couple looks like a couple and became famous all over the country overnight.
The popularity of this movie has also driven the sales of the original work "Soul and Flesh".
The People's Literature Publishing House specially signed a reprint contract with Xiang Nan and released another 800,000 copies, but demand still exceeded supply. Xiang Nan also earned another 200,000 yuan in royalties.
However, this amount of money, which may seem huge to outsiders, is no longer surprising to Xiang Nan himself. His current bank deposit is as high as more than two million.
It's not that he is happy to save money, but now, there really aren't many places to spend money.
Generally speaking, where big money is spent is either on business, houses, or cars.
But now, private business is still subject to many restrictions; houses are almost all divided into units, and the residents are actually tenants. Without a house ownership, they are not allowed to buy or sell, so even if they want to buy a house, they cannot.
If you really want to buy, there are also houses for export, which are houses specially sold to foreigners and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao who come to Beijing, but the prices are not low at all.
It costs thousands of dollars per square meter, which is about 10,000 yuan per square meter. This price is really expensive, and it is not cheap compared to what it would have been twenty or thirty years later. Xiang Nan naturally didn't want to be taken advantage of.
As for cars, private ownership of cars was allowed in 1979. But it is not easy to buy a car, and it is even more difficult to get a license plate. In 1986, Hujiang issued the first private license plate in the Mainland.
So Xiang Nan really doesn't have much to spend money on. His only collection of antiques can make him earn some money.
…
Xiang Nan is still interested in collecting antiques, and it is no exaggeration to say that he has accumulated nearly a warehouse.
But with the accumulation of collecting experience, Xiang Nan also discovered that there were more and more fakes on the market, and even Ma Weidu had his eyesight.
Moreover, people's prices are getting more and more outrageous. In 1979, the official kilns in Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong were only two to three hundred yuan. Now, if you don’t have seven or eight hundred, or one or two thousand, don’t even think about it.
So Xiang Nan still accepts it now, but he has many concerns. He will never accept anything that is not high-quality, rare or genuine.
Moreover, the mainstream of his current collection has also shifted from collecting ancient cultural relics to collecting works by contemporary writers. For example, Huang Binhong, Li Keran, Huang Yongyu, Wu Guanzhong, Lin Fengmian, Li Kuchan, Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi and so on.
Firstly, most of these writers are still alive, and their disciples and descendants are also still active, so it is easier to buy genuine masterpieces when buying paintings from them.
Secondly, these calligraphy and paintings of everyone are not very valuable now, but in the future they will all be worth millions or tens of millions. For example, according to Wu Guanzhong, it is only 200 yuan per square foot now. Thirty years later, two million per square foot is considered cheap.
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In the autumn of 1983, the first Hong Kong TV series "The Great Hero Fearless" was introduced to the Mainland, which started the history of Hong Kong dramas entering the Mainland.
After "The Great Hero Fearless" was first broadcast on Guangdong TV Station, it was also broadcast on CCTV. It quickly became popular all over the country with its solid story, exciting fights, and vivid characterization, and attracted thousands of people.
And with its popularity, it also set off an unstoppable martial arts craze. Martial arts-themed works, comic books, film and television dramas, etc. have all been warmly welcomed by the public.
This also made Xiang Nan's "Detective Di Renjie" sell even better. The exclusive serialization of "Story Club" sold tens of millions of copies for each issue, making paper expensive in Luoyang.
The single volume of "Detective Di Renjie" also sold three to four million copies, becoming the best-selling book of the year.
Seeing this, major magazines and publishing houses have invited Xiang Nan to write articles.
Those who had asked for Xiang Nan to be banned before were ignored no matter how loud they called.
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By the end of 1983, Xiaoping gave birth safely and helped Xiang Nan give birth to an eldest son.
She was overjoyed when she found out he was her son, and finally did not let Xiang Nan die.
Xiang Nan and Shen Bowen were standing outside the delivery room and were very happy to learn that they had given birth to a son.
Xiang Nan immediately sent a telegram to Qilu's parents about the good news, and they were very happy to hear it.
Later, Xiang Nan and Shen Bowen looked through the dictionary and named the child.
After final discussion, it was unanimously agreed to name the child Liu Hao.
…
In 1984, the Spring Festival Gala program approached Xiang Nan again, hoping that he would produce some more works.
Xiang Nan then came up with three more songs: "Good Days", "Party, Dear Mom", and "Tomorrow Will Be Better".
Not surprisingly, these three songs were successfully selected again.
On New Year's Eve, I met the national audience.
Xiang Nan's songs once again spread throughout the country.
But for him, although his songs are popular all over the world, they have not brought him any real benefits. Those singers released records and tapes, and went around singing his songs, making a lot of money, but he basically didn't make a penny.
Really depressed.
Fortunately, Xiang Nan has many ways to make money.
In November 1984, Changchun City designated Clivia as the city flower and called on the city's citizens to cultivate it. As a result, the price of Clivia skyrocketed, starting a crazy rising pattern.
The price of an ordinary Clivia has soared from a few yuan to hundreds of yuan, which is equivalent to a year's salary of an ordinary person. The price of rare Clivia has soared from tens or hundreds of yuan to 200,000 to 300,000 yuan. There were even cases where a Hong Kong businessman offered a Crown car in exchange for a rare Clivia, but the owner refused.
It can be said that Clivia is really going crazy.
At this time, Xiang Nan cultivated hundreds of thousands of Clivia trees in the suburbs of Yanjing and transported them to Changchun City. This alone earned him more than 30 million yuan.
And his total investment was only 300,000 yuan. Three years later, I made a hundred times the profit, which can be said to be a huge profit.
