1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Joey Wong wanted to go inside the basketball team, but the door was locked and she couldn't get in. She also tried to look through the window, but that didn't work either.

Zhou Yan laughed and said, "If you had told the teacher in advance, you wouldn't have to stand at the door anxiously now."

Wang Zuxian pouted, "If we had told you in advance, we would definitely be surrounded by a lot of people. I've been here once before, and the students didn't even attend class to come out and see me. I'm used to being surrounded by people, but I don't want to disturb them from studying. Let's go, let's go somewhere else."

Then the two of them walked around the comprehensive center first, and then walked around the teaching building.

At this moment, a class was having a physical education class and people were playing basketball on the court, but the two just watched from a distance for a while and didn't go closer.

Huaisheng Junior High School is very small and it doesn’t take long to walk around it.

There was nothing to see back there, so the two of them headed for the door.

When they arrived at the door, Zhou Yan took a closer look. The security guard just glanced at them casually and didn't say anything.

The security guard probably wouldn't have thought that the two of them climbed over the wall from behind.

Generally speaking, they only pay attention to people coming in from outside.

However, just as they walked out of the school gate, a middle-aged woman came towards them and looked at Wang Zuxian in surprise: "Zuxian, you are in school?"

Wang Zuxian was also surprised to see him, "Teacher Huang."

Huang Keyi was also very happy to see that Wang Zuxian recognized her, "I thought you looked like her when I saw you from a distance just now, but I didn't expect it was really you. How come you are here today? I didn't receive any news."

"I just came here to take a look around and didn't tell anyone."

"You didn't follow..."

Huang Keyi wanted to ask how he got in without telling anyone, but then she thought of a possibility and smiled, "Climbed over the wall again?"

Wang Zuxian did not answer this question, but turned to introduce Zhou Yan, "Third brother, this is Mr. Huang who used to teach Chinese. Mr. Huang, this is Director Zhou Yan."

"Oh, it's Zhou Yan." Huang Keyi looked at Zhou Yan in surprise.

All her attention was on Joey Wong just now, and only now did she have the mind to look at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan is quite well-known in Taiwan. Huang Keyi has even seen the episode of "Walking and Singing" in which Zhou Yan participated and recognized his face.

"You're taller in person than you appear on TV."

"Hello, Teacher Huang."

"Hello, hello. I heard you are filming in Taiwan recently?"

"You know all that."

Zhou Yan was quite surprised because their crew had only been in Taiwan for a very short time to film and had not carried out any publicity. He did not expect that Teacher Huang already knew about it.

Huang Keyi nodded and said, "Well, there was a report on TV that your movie mainly tells the story of Taiwan Island. Is that true?"

Zhou Yan curled the corner of his mouth. They didn’t know how the news spread like this.

The movie "Time Traveler" was filmed in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the actors used were from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong as well.

But in fact, there are very few things related to Taiwan in the movie, it is mainly about Pengcheng and Hong Kong.

Wang Zuxian smiled and said, "It's not mainly about the story of Taiwan, but it was indeed filmed here because the heroine's hometown is in Taiwan."

"Oh, I see." Huang Keyi nodded and didn't ask about the movie anymore. "Are you guys leaving now? Do you want to come in and sit for a while? Some of our teachers were talking about you in the office a few days ago. We all miss you a lot."

"I miss you teachers, but I can't do it today. We have other things to do later. It's because I was too busy that I didn't call you in advance."

"If you come back, we will definitely be very happy. It's not a bother. Since you have something to do, I won't keep you here today. If you come back next time, you must notify us in advance."

"Of course, Mr. Huang."

Huang Keyi looked Wang Zuxian up and down again, and said with emotion, "More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and it feels like you were studying in school just yesterday. I remember when you were in the third grade, because you were good at basketball, many boys liked to go to the basketball court to watch you play. At that time, everyone thought that you would definitely become a professional basketball player in the future. Do you still play basketball now?"

"I don't play basketball on a regular basis now. There are not many girls who play basketball, and it's not fun to play with boys."

The level gap between men and women is too big. If they have to play together, the experience will not be very good.

If the boy doesn't let her, she won't have any chance to score, but if the boy lets her, she'll find it boring.

Since it is a competitive sport, it will only be interesting if both sides take it seriously.

"That's true. In a school like ours, it takes many years for a girl to show up who can play basketball well. It's hard for most girls to grow to 165cm, let alone over 170cm like you. In basketball, height is really important."

Huang Keyi is right. In the sport of basketball, height and arm span are very important.

Especially in amateur basketball, an extra ten centimeters may offset several years of efforts of others.

In Taiwan today, a girl who is 160 cm tall is not considered short, and those who are over 165 cm tall are considered tall, which is relatively rare.

Huang Keyi pulled Wang Zuxian aside and reminisced about the past for a while, but she was basically the only one talking and Wang Zuxian responded with "hmm" and "ah".

Later, when there was really nothing left to talk about, Huang Keyi let Wang Zuxian go and said goodbye to them.

Looking at the backs of Wang Zuxian and Zhou Yan, Huang Keyi nodded with a smile, "This Director Zhou is really good-looking. It's true that celebrities are different from ordinary people."

Joey Wong knew that Huang Keyi was watching her from behind and wanted to walk faster, but she held back.

Only after walking to the front and turning the corner did Wang Zuxian breathe a sigh of relief, "Ah, I was so nervous."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It's just meeting a teacher, there's nothing to be nervous about."

Wang Zuxian rolled her eyes and said, "You are a model student, so of course you are not nervous when you see the teacher. When I was in school, my Chinese grades were very poor, and I was most afraid of seeing Teacher Huang."

"Your Chinese is bad." This was the first time Zhou Yan heard Joey Wong say this.

"In fact, it's not just my Chinese that's bad. My academic performance is not very good, but my Chinese is relatively worse."

Zhou Yan joked, "You could have talked to Teacher Huang about literature just now. She would definitely be impressed by you."

In the past two years, influenced by Zhou Yan, Joey Wong also likes reading books. Although her reading volume is definitely not comparable to Zhou Yan's, it is much better than before.

"Forget it. What I read now may not be read by Teacher Huang. The Chinese teacher in junior high school is not a literature teacher in college. In fact, he pays little attention to literature."

Zhou Yan nodded. What Wang Zuxian said was right. It doesn't mean that Chinese teachers will study literature. Many Chinese teachers, especially those in primary and secondary schools, teach fixed things with very narrow content.

The same is true in mainland China. Many Chinese teachers pay no attention to literature. To them, Chinese and literature are two different worlds.

In fact, Chinese language and literature in basic education are indeed two different things.

However, Zhou Yan believes that front-line teachers should have higher requirements for themselves and not become a simple reading machine.

……

The two of them went for a walk outside in the morning, and after lunch, they went to Huanyin's place again.

Originally, Zhou Yan was planning to go alone, but Joey Wong said she also wanted to go and see it, so Zhou Yan took him along.

There was no particularly important time for Zhou Yan to go there, but since he was in Taipei, he just stopped by to take a look.

Xu Xiangjie had met Joey Wong before, so this time when he saw Zhou Yan bringing Joey Wong here, it was no exception.

However, he also had more speculations about the relationship between Zhou Yan and Joey Wong, because Zhou Yan did not avoid Joey Wong when talking to him about some company business matters.

It feels like Joey Wong is the boss lady.

Xu Xiangjie took the two of them around the company, and then the three of them went to Xu Xiangjie's office together.

After Zhou Yan sat down, he asked, "How is Zhou Chuanxiong's matter going?"

As Xu Xiangjie poured water for the two of them, he smiled and said, "I have already contacted Seed Music this morning. They have agreed to our proposal to sell Zhou Chuanxiong to us."

"Are you asking what Zhou Chuanxiong means?" Zhou Yan asked.

"We have to ask him. If he really doesn't want to come, there's nothing we can do about it even if Seed Music wants to sell it to him."

After all, Zhou Chuanxiong is not a commodity that others can buy or sell at will.

He must have signed a contract with Seed Music. Seed Music might be able to sign the contract unilaterally, but there is no way for it to sell him to another company without informing Zhou Chuanxiong.

"But don't worry, Mr. Zhou. There won't be any problem with Zhou Chuanxiong. After Seed Music terminated his contract, he had nowhere to go. We are his best choice. What's more, the conditions we offer are better than what he got at Seed Music. As long as he is not stupid, he will definitely not refuse." Xu Xiangjie said confidently.

"Well, it's up to you."

This matter was originally proposed by Xu Xiangjie himself. Whether Zhou Chuanxiong can be signed depends entirely on his own ability. Zhou Yan will not interfere too much.

Even if Xu Xiangjie messed up in the end and failed to sign Zhou Chuanxiong, he would not blame anyone.

After chatting for a while, Zhou Yan thought of Tao Zhe again, so he asked, "Are there any young producers with potential in Taiwan recently? You haven't updated your information for a long time."

Xu Xiangjie quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou. I've been too busy with things at Huanyin recently, so the pace of data collection has slowed down a lot. As for the young people who have performed well recently, I can think of one now, and that's Tu Huiyuan."

"Is Tu Huiyuan also a promising newcomer?" Zhou Yan couldn't help but curl his lips: "If I remember correctly, he should have debuted for many years."

"Well, indeed, he has been in the industry for seven or eight years."

Tu Huiyuan should be considered a young man, probably only a few years older than Zhou Yan, but he debuted very early and Zhou Yan had heard of him a long time ago.

"Although Tu Huiyuan has been in the industry for seven or eight years, he rarely composed music before and basically only participated in arranging music. But this year I heard a lot of news that he has written a lot of music, some of which I have heard of and are of good quality. For example, the new song "Cut Love" he wrote for Zhang Huimei will be released in December this year. I have listened to it and it is very well written."

"Cut Love" is indeed good, but Zhou Yan is not very interested in Tu Huiyuan.

Perhaps Tu Huiyuan will write a few well-known songs, but his output is low and he does not have the ability to produce stable output.

Maybe he could cooperate with him in the future, but Zhou Yan felt that it was unnecessary to sign him specially.

Xu Xiangjie also noticed that Zhou Yan was not very interested, and said, "There is another young man who just returned to China two years ago. I just started to pay attention to him. His name is Chen Wei. He was in Hawaii before. After returning, he made two creative albums. The response was average, but judging from these two albums, his ability is very good."

Zhou Yan had no impression of Chen Wei, so he nodded and said, "Show me his music later."

"There are some in the company. Do you want me to give them to you now?"

"Give it to me later. I'll go back and listen."

"Yes, okay. He is currently producing a new album for Huang Yingying. I met him a while ago."

"Huang Yingying? Is it Huang Luyi?" Joey Wong asked curiously.

Xu Xiangjie smiled and nodded, "It's her."

“Oh, I used to listen to her songs a lot.”

Huang Yingying has been in Taiwan for more than 20 years and is quite well-known in the island. When Joey Wong was in middle school, Huang Yingying was at her most famous.

Since he was chosen by Huang Yingying to participate in the production of her new album, it means that Chen Wei does have some ability, which also makes Zhou Yan interested in Chen Wei.

"Is there anyone else?" Zhou Yan asked again.

Xu Xiangjie frowned and thought for a while, then he relaxed his brows and said, "You asked about Wang Zhiping yesterday, which reminded me of a new person, but this person is more difficult to deal with."

"Difficult?"

"Well, this person is called David Tao."

When Zhou Yan heard the name Tao Zhe, he narrowed his eyes. He didn't expect to actually hear this name from Xu Xiangjie.

However, he did not rush to speak, but listened quietly to Xu Xiangjie continue to say, "Tao Zhe's father is Tao Dawei, and his mother is Wang Furong. They are considered a musical family. He had been staying in the United States before and only came back two years ago."

"After he came back, he participated in a lot of behind-the-scenes productions. There wasn't much response in the first two years, but this year there was a sudden explosion. In fact, I sent you his music score before, and you drew a triangle."

"Have I seen his music score?" Zhou Yan asked in surprise.

Generally speaking, after Zhou Yan has read the score, he will make a mark. If the work is very good, he will draw a five-pointed star, if the work is acceptable, he will draw a triangle, and if the work is not good, he will draw a circle.

But Zhou Yan didn't remember seeing Tao Zhe's music score before.

"Because he used the alias of Snoopy."

When Zhou Yan heard Snoopy, he immediately remembered that he had seen two scores before, both of which were American music styles with nothing new. (End of this chapter)