1990: Starting from Baojia Street

The next morning, the crew started work very early.

By ten o'clock, two scenes had been shot. Just as Zhou Yan was about to move on to the next scene, he suddenly heard a commotion outside.

He couldn't help but frowned and asked Li Hong beside him, "What's going on?"

Li Hong quickly ran to the window and looked out, then shouted to Zhou Yan, "It seems that Anita Mui is here."

After hearing what Li Hong said, Zhou Yan also walked over and saw Anita Mui and Zhang Guorong walking towards them.

At this time, they also saw Zhou Yan. Anita Mui smiled and raised her hand to greet him, "Hi, A Yan."

Zhou Yan forced a smile and replied, "Hi, Sister Mei, Guo Rong."

Seeing that Zhou Yan's smile was not bright, Anita Mui smiled and said, "Why, you don't welcome us?"

To be honest, Zhou Yan really didn't welcome them.

He just sped up today's plan yesterday, but today Anita Mui and the others came over and delayed the progress.

"How is that possible? I'm just so surprised."

"I don't see you're surprised."

Zhang Guorong knew Zhou Yan better, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Ayan, we will come for a while and then leave. We won't keep you for a long time."

Zhou Yan said seriously, "How can that be possible? We finally came here, why don't we stay here for a few more days?"

"I take it seriously. I'll have someone bring my clean clothes over in a moment." Anita Mui said with a smile.

"Haha, Ah Mei, please stop teasing him." Zhang Guorong laughed and said to Zhou Yan, "We were originally planning to come to attend the opening ceremony yesterday, but we were afraid of disrupting your plans."

"He didn't invite us." Anita Mui couldn't help but complain again.

Zhou Yan begged for mercy, "I was wrong. I will definitely make amends to you when I go to Hong Kong some time later. I was in a hurry to come to Pengcheng to film this time, and I was afraid that I would not be able to entertain you well. And it's not just you. I didn't invite anyone except our crew when we started filming yesterday."

Of course, Anita Mui was not really angry with Zhou Yan. They were just old friends joking with each other.

At this time, Wang Zuxian also came over with Chen Derong and greeted them, "Sister Mei, brother."

Before going to Yanjing, Joey Wong stayed in Hong Kong and often met with Anita Mui and others.

Since we meet often, I naturally wouldn't show any special surprise.

Anita Mui and her friends were more interested in Chen Derong. Before that, Chen Derong developed her career in Hong Kong and was signed to Shaw Brothers like Joey Wong. She and Anita Mui had met each other.

It’s just that they are not very familiar with each other, after all, she hasn’t been in Hong Kong for too long.

They pay attention to Chen Derong mainly because of Joey Wong.

Chen Derong was quite nervous when she saw Zhang Guorong because her idol was Zhang Guorong.

Even though she is very famous now, she still gets nervous like an ordinary fan when facing her idol.

Zhang Guorong looked Chen Derong up and down and said, "Xiaorong, your appearance in this movie is..."

"What is going on?" Chen Derong asked nervously.

"It's quite simple and generous, very natural." Zhang Guorong gave his evaluation with a smile.

Anita Mui looked at Chen Derong's bare feet and asked curiously, "Does the role require you to be barefoot?"

"Well, the character Zhou Jing likes to run around barefoot," Chen Derong explained.

Joey Wong laughed and said, "There are no scenes for her right now, so she doesn't need to be barefoot. She insisted that she wanted to experience the role and didn't want to wear shoes. I even suspect that she doesn't like wearing shoes in the first place. She doesn't wear shoes every day, and her soles are black."

"Not black at all..."

Chen Derong lifted her feet to show everyone that the soles of her feet were not black, but by doing so she actually confirmed what Joey Wong said; the soles of her feet were pitch black and gray.

There are a lot of crew members coming and going in this house every day, so it is inevitable that there is a lot of dust on the ground. If you walk barefoot for a long time, it will definitely turn black.

In fact, even if there were no crew members walking around, it would be impossible to keep the floor and grass spotless; they still had to be black.

Seeing that the soles of her feet were black, Chen Derong felt embarrassed and ran away, "I'm going to wash my feet."

The way she ran away in panic made Anita Mui and the others burst into laughter.

Zhou Yan glanced at Li Hong who was not far away, then smiled at Anita Mui and said, "It's not easy for you to come here. The scenery here at Jiaochangwei is very beautiful. I'll take you for a walk nearby."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Yan came over and said, "Director Zhou, everything has been arranged with Zhao She. When will you go over?"

Zhou Yan looked embarrassed.

Seeing that Zhou Yan was busy with work, Anita Mui smiled and said, "Don't worry about us, just focus on your own work."

Zhou Yan pondered for a moment and said, "Xiaoxian, take Sister Mei and Brother and the others for a walk around the area."

"Okay." Joey Wong nodded.

There was no scene starring Joey Wong today, so she had time to entertain Anita Mui and the others.

Of course Anita Mui and the others had no objection, so they followed Joey Wong.

Zhou Yan didn't let Joey Wong take them out alone, and called two staff members from the crew who were familiar with the local area to follow them.

After they left, Zhou Yan returned to the shooting site and started filming the third scene of the day.

The three scenes were completed very smoothly in the morning.

When the third scene was finished, Zhou Yan immediately found Jiang Mengfei and asked him where Anita Mui and the others had gone.

"Sister Mei said she wanted to go boating. She said they got a boat and went out to sea."

"Going out to sea?" Zhou Yan's eyelids jumped, worried that something might happen to them.

Seeing Zhou Yan's worry, Jiang Mengfei smiled and said, "Oh, just play by the coast. You won't run far. There are people watching you."

Zhou Yan heaved a sigh of relief after hearing what he said. When Jiang Mengfei said he was going out to sea, he thought it was a long way.

Then he personally went to call Anita Mui and the others to come back for dinner.

The fishing boat they had was very small. When Zhou Yan arrived, the boat was just circling two or three hundred meters away from the coast.

Zhou Yan waved at them from the shore, and the captain steered the boat towards the shore.

After getting off the boat, Anita Mui was still reluctant to leave. "The scenery here is really nice. It's a pity that I can't go further. Besides, I want to go to the sea to play more."

Hearing that she wanted to go to the sea to play, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "If you want to go down to play, you can. Jiaochangwei is currently developing a diving project. Although it has not officially opened yet, you can try it first."

"Really?" Anita Mui asked in surprise.

Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, if you want to play, I'll have someone arrange it after dinner, and they'll take you out to play in the afternoon."

"That's great." Anita Mui looked around the village and said with emotion, "This place looks quite backward. I didn't expect there would be such a project."

"The tourism industry is being developed here recently. There will be more and more projects, and there will be motorboats in a while." The development of tourism in Jiaochangwei is actually not that fast. According to the government's plan, they must first plan the accommodation, roads and commercial areas in the village. After these basic conditions are in place, they will organize projects such as diving and speedboat trips.

Otherwise, no matter how good the project is, if people come here and cannot afford to live, eat or eat well, it will greatly affect their experience.

Previously, when Zhou Hong was talking to Zhou Yan on the phone, he heard Zhou Yan mention that the crew members wanted to go diving, so he said that they could try to set up a diving project first. It didn't matter whether it made money or not, at least it could let the crew members have some fun.

Moreover, if we try a project now, we can also conduct experiments in advance to see the effect of the tourism project settings.

……

In the afternoon, Zhou Yan didn't bother with Anita Mui and the others. He just asked the person in charge of the diving group to take them out to play.

What Zhou Yan didn't expect was that Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung had a lot of fun. They thought the scenery at Jiaochangwei was great and chose to stay there.

Although the B&B in Jiaochangwei has not been officially opened, with Zhou Yan there, it is still easy for Anita Mui and her family to find a place to stay.

There was a vacant room in the house that the crew had rented before, so the two of them could move in directly.

What Zhou Yan didn't expect was that the next day not only did Anita Mui and her friends not leave, but two new guests came, including Lin Qingxia and Carina Lau.

Joey Wong stayed with them for a while in the morning and came back at noon.

"They are playing beach volleyball. They look happy."

Joey Wong did not participate because she is currently filming a movie and her skin color cannot change drastically.

Her scenes were not filmed in sequence. If she gets tanned now, her shots will appear dark and white at times, which will affect the effect.

"Well, as long as they are happy."

The filming intensity of the crew was quite high, and Zhou Yan didn't have time to take care of them. He just told the staff to make arrangements for them.

The place where Anita Mui and her friends are playing beach volleyball now is also one of the filming locations for the crew.

There was a tennis scene in the original film, but Zhou Yan felt that tennis was not suitable, so he changed it to beach volleyball.

The beach volleyball nets were set up by the crew, but unexpectedly, they were used by Anita Mui and her friends first.

……

In the end, Anita Mui and her friends stayed here for three days, while Carina Lau and Ching Ha Lam stayed for two days.

When they left, they still felt a little reluctant to leave.

This can be considered a short vacation, and the scenery and everything are just to their liking.

During the day they play outside, diving, playing beach volleyball, sometimes going out to sea to further places, and even catching some fish.

When we returned to our residence at night, a few of us would get together to play mahjong.

However, this vacation was a last-minute decision and they didn’t plan too much time, so being able to play for two or three days was already good enough.

Another regret is that the accommodation conditions are a bit poor.

After all, they are real houses and the conditions cannot be as good as those in a resort hotel. We have to wait until the renovation is completed.

Before getting on the car, Anita Mui and the others shared some of their thoughts.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "The renovation will be quick. When you come over in a while, the situation may be different. When the accommodation conditions are better, I will invite you to come and play again."

"You invited us?" Anita Mui laughed. "Well, in Jiaochangwei, we can be considered half the host. After all, this place is very close to Hong Kong, but too far from Nanjing."

"Yes, if we're talking about an invitation, it should be us who invite you to come and play." Carina Lau said with a smile.

"I will come again next time I have the chance and stay a few more days."

"If you think this place is good, please help promote it."

Anita Mui rolled her eyes, "Why are you acting like the tourism ambassador here?"

Zhou Yan nodded seriously, "I am the tourism ambassador here."

His serious expression made Anita Mui and others unable to tell whether he was serious or joking.

"Are you serious?"

Tourism ambassadors are nothing new, but I have never heard of a village hiring a tourism ambassador, especially one of Zhou Yan's level.

"Really, I even bought shares here."

Zhou Yan's expression was still very serious, but this time Anita Mui and the others didn't believe it at all.

"We might believe you if you said you were a tourism ambassador, but it's a bit too fake to say you wanted to be a shareholder," Anita Mui said with a smile.

Carina Lau also echoed, "Yeah, it's so fake."

Joey Wong was smiling beside him. She was the only one who knew that Zhou Yan's second sentence was true, while the first sentence about him being a tourism ambassador was a complete lie.

Although it was not Zhou Yan who invested in the company, but the Zhou family, what Zhou Yan said was correct, so he did have the right position to ask Anita Mui and others to help promote Jiaochangwei.

Originally, Anita Mui did not believe Zhou Yan’s investment at all, but she noticed Wang Zuxian’s expression and felt that things might not be as simple as she thought.

Just like the relationship between Zhou Yan and Joey Wong, it is not as simple as they thought before.

The last time Zhou Yan went to Hong Kong for a concert, Anita Mui discovered that the relationship between him and Joey Wong was not simple, and it seemed that they were already together.

But if they didn't say it, she wouldn't tell anyone.

The arrival of Anita Mui and others did not affect the filming progress of the crew.

The filming of the crew has been going according to plan these days, and the scenes added to the original plan have been completed very well, and there is still plenty of time.

After a few days of adaptation, Zhou Yan held a meeting with the members of the director team and adjusted the shooting opportunities again, further compressing the shooting time at Jiaochangwei.

The current plan is three days ahead of the original plan, and this is after the wedding scene has been adjusted.

After the adjustment of the wedding scene, the scheduling and shooting became much more difficult, and the time required definitely increased. However, the time spent on this scene was made up by Zhou Yan.

Two days after Anita Mui and her friends left, a lot of tourists suddenly came to Jiaochangwei.

Everyone in the crew was surprised to see so many tourists suddenly appear. After Jiang Mengfei ran to ask, he found out that Anita Mui and her group’s trip had been reported in the news.

Some media also published a photo of Anita Mui and her friends playing beach volleyball on the beach.

When Zhou Yan first saw tourists pouring in, he was a little worried that too many people would affect the filming.

But it turned out that he was worrying too much. Although there were a lot more tourists at the end of the venue, it did not affect the on-site filming at all.

It is true that some tourists would come to watch them filming, but that’s okay, after all, before the tourists came, there were also villagers who would come here to watch.

The biggest impact may be that the beach volleyball venue was occupied by tourists, and when we wanted to shoot the beach volleyball scenes, we had to clear the venue. (End of this chapter)