In October, the Beijing TV Art Center is finally moving.

Due to lack of funds, the Art Center could only temporarily work within the China TV station. Now, half a year has passed, and as the art center increases, the already crowded office environment is becoming more and more unbearable.

It is common for five or six people to crowd in one office, and sometimes they have to compete for territory and resources with the employees of China TV.

There are more than 50 people in the Art Center now, and I urgently need a new office location.

With the sale of two TV series "The Foreign Girl" and "The Story of the Editorial Department", the funds have gradually been recovered and I have much more money on hand.

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

In addition, the Art Center also spent nearly 300,000 yuan to purchase two cars.

One is a Santana from Shanghai City, the other is a Dafa van from Tianjin. The Santana is 230,000 yuan and the Dafa van is 40,000 yuan.

Santana is used to support the storefront, when going out to meet guests and do business, and a van is used when crews shoot TV series.

Li Hong did not look for a driver. Many people in the Art Center can drive. Ordinary people may not be able to get in touch with cars, but many of the people who have returned from the army are veteran drivers.

Lin Zixuan can drive, but he has never had the chance and has never been able to get in touch with cars before.

He said that when he was in Huacheng, he learned to drive, so he made it happen that he could drive, and no one cared about it, but he still lacked a driver's license.

It's very difficult to take a driver's license these days.

There are only five or six driving schools in Beijing, with a tuition fee of 1,500 yuan. You can get an internship driver's license if you pass the exam in three months. You can get a one-year internship period and no traffic accidents occur within one year.

Of course, rules are nothing more than human nature. If you already know how to drive, you can get an internship driver's license as long as you pass the assessment.

At this time, most of the teachers in the driving school came from the army. Feng Xiaogang returned from the army. People in the capital asked friends to get in touch with each other. A driving school agreed to Lin Zixuan's request, but the tuition fee could not be reduced.

Lin Zixuan had to pay a tuition of 1,500 yuan, studied theoretical knowledge for a week, and obtained an internship driver's license after the assessment, and was able to drive openly.

The tuition fee is still the same as the amount of money transferred from Xiangjiang, and after paying the tax, there are more than 1,700 yuan left.

The reason why he was so anxious to get his driver's license was that it was for the convenience of driving in the future. It was because although the new office location of the Art Center and China TV Station were both in Haidian District, the distance was not close, so it was naturally the best to drive.

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

"What do you think? Do you feel like a leader?" Lin Zixuan joked when he drove to pick Mu Shanshan off work for the first time.

"We are not leaders, will we gossip when driving back?" Mu Shanshan said worriedly.

"It's okay, there are all old people from TV stations in the yard, and I know it in my heart." Lin Zixuan said indifferently, "Times have changed. In the past, leaders used to ride bicycles to and from get off work. Look at how many leaders now can ride bicycles to and from get off work. Most of them drive the leader home. I am the driver."

"That's right. In the past, every household was similar, but now there are more and more rich people, and they are starting to compete and enjoy." Mu Shanshan sighed.

Lin Zixuan parked his car at the entrance of the alley and had to pick up Li Hong to work tomorrow morning.

The two of them returned home and had a meal. If there were no good TV series, they would read books or chat casually.

Mu Shanshan is reading the story written by Lin Zixuan, the novel called "Living".

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

"Living" tells the story of a person named Fugui throughout his life.

Fugui was born in a chaotic world. He was originally a young master of the landlord family. He became addicted to gambling and finally gambling all his family business is in poverty.

Fugui, who was in poverty, went to seek medical treatment because his mother was sick. Unexpectedly, he was captured by the army halfway through the journey and was later captured by the People's Liberation Army. When he returned to his hometown, he realized that his mother had passed away.

My wife Jiazhen raised a pair of children with great difficulty, but unfortunately her daughter became a mute.

The real tragedy began to take place gradually from then on.

Jiazhen couldn't do heavy work due to cartilage disease. Her son died of the same blood type as the county magistrate's wife to save the county magistrate's wife. Her daughter Fengxia and the captain's introduction to the city's tilt and whip-headed two-happy knot in the city, and after giving birth to a baby boy, she died on the operating table due to heavy bleeding.

Three months after his daughter Fengxia's death, Jiazhen also died one after another.

Erxi was a porter. Because of a mistake in the crane, he was killed by two rows of cement boards. His grandson Kugen returned to the countryside with Fugui. Life was very difficult and even beans were hard to eat.

Fugui felt distressed and cooked beans for bitter roots, but he didn't expect that bitter roots would die of eating beans...

The relatives in his life passed away one after another, leaving only the old Fugui accompanied an old cow recalling the past in the sun.

This novel spans sixty years and has experienced various historical periods. There is a sharp contrast between the changes of the big era and the small fate of small characters.

He asked a seemingly simple but not easy to answer, why do people live?

"Your novel..." Mu Shanshan didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Living" and "The Stubborn" are two completely different novels. "The Stubborn" uses jokes to eliminate the pressure of reality and has the meaning of escape. "Living" shows the suffering of life and the ability of people to endure suffering, and faces the world directly.

"What do you think?" Lin Zixuan asked.

"Living" has about 120,000 words. He has written it for nearly two months. This novel has touched him deeply.

The novel reveals an emotion that is intertwined with pessimism and optimism. Living itself is difficult, and continuing life requires living a difficult life. It is precisely because of the extremely difficult that living has profound meanings.

There is nothing better than living, and nothing more difficult than living.

Man lives for living itself, not for anything other than living.

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

"I can't say it's right, I feel like I've read foreign classics in school before," Mu Shanshan replied.

As a young man of this era, Mu Shanshan likes literature, but has not conducted in-depth research, but just likes reading it.

There is no easy joke in this novel, only a calm and indifferent narrative, and a series of tragedies make people breathless.

Perhaps, this is a true masterpiece.
Chapter completed!