Chapter 678 "Sorrow-Relieving Grocery Store"

Japan produces the most literary works about warmth and healing, whether novels or movies.

Known for its unique feeling of warmth and healing.

Iwai Shunji's "Love Letter", Higashino Keigo's "The Worry-Relief Grocery Store" and Ogawa Ito's "Camellia Stationery Shop" and "Kikujiro's Summer" are all popular works.

Fang Minghua decided to move "Jieyou Grocery Store" here.

As an "atypical Higashino" work, there is no crime or detective in the novel, but the theme is the bond between people. It is warm, optimistic, and good-hearted, and it is believable. The kindness of ordinary people.

Just write about him.

This novel is written in a grocery store on a secluded street. As long as you write down your worries and put them into the mail slot of the rolling shutter door at the front door of the store, you will get an answer in the milk box behind the store the next day.

Because her boyfriend is terminally ill, the young girl Tsukito is wandering between love and dreams; Katsuro Matsuoka leaves home for his music dream, but is unable to move forward in reality; the young Kosuke is facing a huge change in his family and is struggling with the confusion of family ties and the future. They will be confused. Write a letter and drop it in the grocery store, and wonderful things will happen.

This novel is not only popular in Japan, but also in China. It was later made into a movie (Japanese version) and received good reviews.

Of course, the story of this novel takes place in Japan, and the five stories written in it may not be completely in line with Chinese society and require a lot of revision, but they cannot be changed into the Chinese version of the movie in later generations.

In fact, this is a fantasy novel with a bit of supernatural color, and it is very interesting to read. It would be more fun if a bit of supernatural atmosphere was added at the beginning.

Sitting under the vine trellis in the small courtyard, Fang Minghua drank tea and watched the civet cat Douya seriously chasing a butterfly. In his mind, he began to think about the ideas of this novel and the areas that needed to be revised.

Once he had a rough idea, Fang Minghua went upstairs and turned on the computer to start writing.

In the evening, Song Tangtang came back from work.

The assembly and debugging work of the studio near the TV Tower on Chang'an South Road has been completed and can be used for filming. Some indoor shots of "Face Changing" directed by Wu Tianmin and "The Piano of Steel" shot by Wang Quan'an are ready to be shot here.

Zhang Yimou's "Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" has been finalized and entered the post-production stage. The preparatory work for Feng Xiaoning's "In the Name of the People" has been completed and is now entering intense filming, and the filming location is in Xijing.

So Song Tangtang is not so busy at work now, but the company has moved to Chang'an South Road and the journey home is longer.

The mother hadn't gotten off work yet, and the two children had already finished school. Her stomach was growling, so she started to eat first, and the nanny left her meal.

By the time she got home, the children had finished eating and started doing their homework. After that, her daughter had to practice piano, but she didn't have to worry about these, her husband was responsible for them.

As long as Fang Minghua is at home, he will consciously assume these responsibilities.

Song Tangtang finished his meal and then went upstairs to Fang Minghua's study.

Recently, due to the second call for manuscripts for the World Literature Award, Fang Minghua's study is full of manuscripts. Song Tangtang also comes to take a look when she has nothing to do. Some works are of high literary value.

Today, Song Tangtang entered the study and found that Fang Minghua was not reading the manuscript but sitting at the computer typing.

"Hey Minghua, have you finished reading your book "Parental Love"?"

"Parental Love" was written by a military writer named Liu Jing. It tells the story of the 50-year love life of naval officer Jiang Defu and capitalist girl An Jie as they met, knew each other, fell in love and stayed together.

When Fang Minghua watched it last night, Song Tangtang Cat took a few glances and thought it was interesting and wanted to read it. Of course, you have to wait for Fang Minghua to read it and read it yourself, so as not to affect his work.

I didn’t expect to finish reading it so quickly!

"I haven't finished reading it yet. You can write it and read it." Fang Minghua said without looking back.

"What are you writing?" Song Tangtang came over curiously and saw a book title "Jieyou Grocery Store" written on the screen.

"What are you doing?"

"Didn't Lili say that she wanted to write a novel for her? I'd like to write it to her so I don't have to call to remind her." Fang Minghua said with a smile.

Song Tangtang knew that Li Li asked Fang Minghua to write a novel. She glanced at it and told her: "It must be written according to Li Li's request. It must be warm and healing, not tragic!"

"Okay, I know."

Fang Minghua said while typing on the keyboard.

"Hey, what is the main content of your "Jieyou Grocery Store"?" Song Tangtang was a little curious.

"It can be considered a supernatural fantasy novel."

"Ah, supernatural? It can't be like "The Ring", right?" Song Tangtang was shocked when he heard it: "You can't scare Lili, she lives alone now."

"The Ring" is a novel written by Fang Minghua after he went to Hong Kong in 1986. After reading it, Song Tangtang was so frightened that she did not dare to turn on the VCR at home for several days, for fear that the protagonist Sadako would crawl out of the TV.

Fang Minghua laughed after hearing this and said: "How could it be? The supernatural is just an introduction, otherwise the structure of the story would not be established. I am going to write it like this."

Fang Minghua turned around and told the general content of the story.

A girl who has no academic qualifications and goes out to explore the world alone, causing herself to be in trouble;

A girl who is torn between love and career because her boyfriend is terminally ill;

A boy who left home to pursue his musical dream, making it difficult for him to move forward in reality;

A young man who faces a huge change in his family and is caught between love and freedom;

Because she misunderstood her mother and believed that her mother did not love her, she was an orphan who lived with resentment for many years...

Song Tangtang listened carefully.

After listening, he said: "I also think it's quite interesting. Lili will definitely like it."

"That's good, I'll continue coding." Fang Minghua turned around again.

Song Tangtang frowned.

She didn't like Fang Minghua's use of the word "code word" very much, especially since he used computers to write novels.

How can such a noble literary creation be called "code"? It feels very cheap.

But he said that there was nothing he could do.

Seeing that he was concentrating on writing, Song Tangtang did not disturb him. He left the study and took away the copy of "Parental Love", then went back to his study to make a cup of coffee and read it slowly.

The protagonist's parents in the novel are a pair of soldiers, which makes Song Tangtang feel a natural affinity because his own parents are also soldiers.

Can it be adapted into a TV series in the future?

Read it first and then talk.

In the following two months, Fang Minghua's main job was to read the manuscript according to the requirements of the reading class, and to write the "Jieyou Grocery Store" on the other hand.

The original author of this novel wrote a total of about 210,000 words, but Fang Minghua felt that the text was a bit wordy and the writing style was a bit lacking. It would be better to be concise and there is no need to write so many words.

Of course the first reader of the book is my daughter-in-law Song Tangtang.