Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 42 Siheyuan

When we arrived in Nancheng, Mo Fengbin's friends were already waiting at the entrance of the alley.A large area here is full of bungalows, without the regular quadrangle courtyards that Li Tang imagined. There are many privately built and disorderly buildings. To put it bluntly, they are all large courtyards.

The house is in the innermost part of the alley, and the area is estimated to be about [-] square meters. The house is very dilapidated, and there are still many tenants living in it.

Li Tang was dissatisfied when he saw it. It doesn't matter if the house is old, it can be renovated, but the surrounding environment is too bad.

Mo Fengbin was very good at winking, and before Li Tang could speak, he said, "Let's go and see the Dongcheng set."

The courtyard in Dongcheng is located in the famous Paoju Hutong. Paoju Hutong is not so much an alley as a small street. It is spacious enough for two cars to drive side by side. Both sides of the alley are thick Chinese pagoda trees, but this season The leaves are all gone, bare.

The courtyard is less than 50 meters away from Paoju Prison, which is now the third detention center in Beijing. It faces south. Although the area is smaller than the one in Nancheng, it is very regular. There are three main rooms and two wing rooms on the east and west. The yard is also quite large, and an old jujube tree was planted.

The key point is that the location here is very good. Going out of the Hutong to the west is Dongzhimen North Street, to the east is Bolin Temple, and to the south is Beixin Bridge.Especially after passing Dongzhimen North Street, there is a large lush forest-like park, where Lao Maozi's embassy is located.

"The landlord is a couple of retired old teachers. The house has been lived by himself. The son is not going to be promising, and he has obtained identity while working in the United States. He wants to take the old couple to support them..."

Mo Fengbin's friend Balabala introduced the situation of the landlord, with a look of envy on his face from time to time.

Yes, Chinese people yearn for foreign countries, especially the United States these days.

For example, Feng Xiaogang's new movie "Be There or Be Square", which is currently being promoted and will be released on Christmas, starring Ge You and Xu Fan, is set in the United States, and the main promotional slogan is that all scenes are shot in the United States.

Sell ​​your yard and go to America?
Li Tang felt sorry for the retired old teachers for three seconds, and then asked, "Can we discuss this price again?"

Although Mo Fengbin said before that the price of 60 was close to the real price, and the landlord refused to bargain, but in business, it is always necessary to bargain, and Li Tang is not being taken advantage of.

The friend looked at Lao Mo in embarrassment, and said: "The old couple are intellectuals, and they are a little bit of a dead-end person, so they said it was the price."

Seeing that Li Tang really wanted to buy it, Lao Mo chimed in and said, "Old Xu, you can discuss it with the landlord to see if you can give it up a bit more. My friend sincerely wants to buy it."

"Then... okay, let me ask."

With that said, Lao Xu was about to go out and make a phone call.

"Use mine." Li Tang handed over the phone.

Now the number of mobile phones is not high, and most people still use pagers.

After a long phone call, Lao Xu hung up and said, "The landlord promised to let you pay [-]. This is the final price, and he won't sell it any lower."

Li Tang readily agreed, "Okay, I'll buy it."

The next step is the issue of procedures. The total price of intermediary fees, appraisals, transfers, deed taxes, etc. still exceeds 60.

Li Tang planned to make a down payment of 20 yuan, and the monthly repayment for the rest of the loan is about 4000 yuan.

After completing the entrustment procedures with the intermediary company, Li Tang felt relieved.He usually does not spend much, so instead of depreciating his money in the bank, it is better to make some stable investments without losing money.Moreover, the house is in good condition, and he still wants to renovate it a little bit, so that he can have a foothold when he comes to the capital in the future.

Speaking of which, this is the first time he really felt the benefits of time travel. The old apartment in Shanghai, the courtyard house in Beijing, and a large flat floor that his father bought for him. Still achieve financial freedom.

At noon, he asked Mo Fengbin and the agent Lao Xu to have a rub together to express his gratitude.Coming out of the restaurant, Lao Mo hesitated and said, "Brother Li, this matter has reached the crew..."

"Understood, don't worry, I won't talk nonsense about this matter."

Li Tang knew Lao Mo's scruples. After all, Little Swallow was very popular now. In a sense, he was a member of Little Swallow. He helped him with this favor, but he was worried that Little Swallow would find out.

Human relationships are like this. If you don't want to offend others, you have to be slick.

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Entering November, the temperature in the capital dropped precipitously. The highest temperature during the day was only about ten degrees, and the lowest temperature fell below freezing point.

In such weather conditions, it is fine to shoot interiors in the studio, but it suffers when shooting exteriors.

Soon the crew was pulled to the North Putuo Film and Television City in Daxing, where they will shoot a week-long location scene.Li Tang doesn't have many roles here, the focus is on a few fighting scenes, but as the main supporting role, he has a lot of scattered shots, a few lines, a few close-ups, and the rest Just as a background board.

The weather was cold, so the production crew provided a batch of military overcoats. This is the norm for the production crew to film in winter. The military overcoats are cheap and durable, but they are all the same.

Although Li Tang is not obsessed with cleanliness, he always feels uncomfortable being worn by others, so he simply bought a long down jacket, Glacier brand, which is light and warm.

Early this morning, he drove his ex-girlfriend's Toyota to the film and television city.He now basically allocates two days a week to go to the ex-girlfriend's dental festival to relieve his body and mind.

The other three leading actors were not here today. Zhou Jie had put on her makeup and was sitting on a chair. When she sensed someone approaching, she woke up immediately. When she saw that it was Li Tang, she yawned and said, "It's so early?"

His scene today was scheduled for the afternoon, but today his ex-girlfriend had an announcement, and he sent his ex-girlfriend to the field early in the morning, so he drove over directly.

"Idle is idle."

Li Tang smiled, took a chair, and sat down beside Zhou Jie.

"Where did you hang out yesterday?"

He disappears in the hotel from time to time. It is not news in the crew. Although there are speculations secretly, but he will not ask in person. After all, it involves personal privacy. Most people are more knowledgeable, but Zhou Jie is the kind of very few .

"Fuck you!"

Li Tang laughed, and immediately changed the subject: "It's very windy outside today, and the sun isn't even shining. It's definitely not more than five degrees. It's choking when I shoot later."

"Who said it wasn't."

Zhou Jie shook his head, his attention was successfully diverted, and then he complained: "According to me, the arrangement is unreasonable. The exterior scene should be filmed earlier. It's great to shoot the interior scene when it's cold. They, just Don't take actors seriously."

He is like this, if he doesn't like it, he has to say it, and he will have a little friction with the crew from time to time.It's not that he's making trouble out of no reason, it's justified, and he often messes up everyone.

To sum it up in one sentence: EQ is too low, and there is a lack of gatekeeper in your mouth.

"The script wasn't finished at that time." Li Tang said a fair word.

In fact, the project of "Returning the Pearl II" was launched very hastily. Li Tang also joined the crew and found out that Aunt Qiong Yao didn't want to make a sequel at first, because it became popular in Wanwan, and everyone saw the profit, so they tried their best to persuade them. Aunt.

Auntie was naturally moved, so she struck while the iron was hot.When Li Tang signed the contract, he only got half of the script, and he didn't see the complete script until one month after the film was launched.

Zhou Jie was stunned for a moment, but still insisted: "Then shoot the ones that can be shot first, so that everyone will suffer less."

You see, it's not like he's unreasonable, but it still sounds off-putting.

(End of this chapter)