Chapter 367 368【Nothing to spend money on】
“What are you worrying about? I like both boys and girls.” Xiang Nan said with a smile, “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 in 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 could not have another child, Xiang Nan would be angry with her and complain that her belly 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.
This film caused a sensation across the country as soon as it was released.
Handsome Zhu Shimao paired with innocent Cong Shan, this couple looks like a married couple and became famous all over the country overnight.
The popularity of this movie has also driven the sales of the original novel "Soul and Flesh".
People''s Literature Publishing House specially signed a reprint contract with Xiang Nan and released another 800,000 copies, but demand still exceeds supply. Xiang Nan also earned another 200,000 yuan in royalties.
?However, in the eyes of outsiders, this huge sum of money 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, the place where you spend a lot of money is either a business, a house, or a car.
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 they cannot buy a house.
??If you really want to buy, there are also houses for export, which are houses specially sold to foreigners coming to Beijing and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, 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. He only collects antiques, which can still make him earn some money.
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Xiang Nan is still collecting antiques, and it is no exaggeration to say that he has collected almost a warehouse.
But as he gained more experience in collecting, Xiang Nan also discovered that there were more and more fakes on the market, and even Ma Weidu was aware of them.
Furthermore, people’s prices are becoming increasingly 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 a lot of concerns. He will never accept anything that is not a high-quality, rare, or genuine item.
??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.
First of all, most of these writers are still alive, and their disciples and descendants are also still active. Therefore, it is easier to buy authentic 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 will be considered cheap.
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.
"The Great Hero Fearless" was first broadcast on Guangdong TV Station and then on CCTV. It quickly became popular across the country with its solid story, exciting fights, and vivid characterization, and attracted thousands of people.
With its popularity, it has also set off an unstoppable martial arts craze. Martial arts-themed novels, comic books, film and television dramas, etc. have all been warmly welcomed by the public.
This has 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 sales of "Detective Di Renjie" have also reached three to four million copies, making it the best-selling novel 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, no matter how much they called now, no one paid any attention to them.
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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 so happy when she found out that 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 also immediately sent a telegram to Qilu’s parents about the good news. They were very happy to hear it.
Subsequently, Xiang Nan and Shen Bowen looked through the dictionary and named the child.
After deliberation, it was unanimously agreed to name the child Liu Hao.
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?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".
?Unsurprisingly, these three songs were successfully selected again.
On New Year’s Eve, I met the national audience.
The songs written by Xiang Nan once again spread all over 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.
?But 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 cost 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 two to three hundred thousand 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.
(End of this chapter)