1990: Starting from Baojia Street

It was a little past six o'clock and members of the Piano Youth Band and Orchestra had already started walking to the stage; the party was about to begin.

Chen Kaige chatted with Zhou Yan for a long time, and the cigarette in his mouth was almost broken by him.

Seeing the band members coming on stage, he knew Zhou Yan was going to get busy, so he smiled and said to Zhou Yan, "You go ahead and get busy. I'm going to go out and have a cigarette."

After leaving the factory, Chen Kaige was about to light a cigarette when he saw Xiao Can, Li Hong and Liu Qing standing together smoking.

They were all from the same factory and saw each other every day. Although Chen Kaige was not familiar with them, he still smiled and nodded as a greeting.

Li Hong smiled and said, "Director Chen, is your new project going well?"

Chen Kaige's "The Emperor and the Assassin" has been in preparation for a long time and is also an important star project of their Yanjing Film Studio.

In addition to "Time Traveler", Han Sanping's biggest concern this year is "The Emperor and the Assassin", which Li Hong certainly knows.

However, unlike the smooth sailing of "Time Traveler", the early preparations for Chen Kaige's film were not smooth.

Some time ago, Li Hong heard that the script of "The Emperor and the Assassin" had not yet been finalized.

Having worked with Zhou Yan for such a long time, Li Hong actually didn't understand Chen Kaige's situation. Since the script was not even ready, why did he have to do other preparatory work in advance?

If you still don't have a satisfactory script in the end, should you still go ahead with it? Otherwise, all the other preparations will be in vain.

This kind of thing would never happen in Zhou Yan's crew.

Chen Kaige smiled and said, "It went smoothly."

He simply responded without further explanation.

Seeing that Chen Kaige was unwilling to chat with them, the few people did not take the initiative to talk to Chen Kaige and just chatted among themselves.

The focus of the topic was Xiao Can. He was now preparing for his own movie, and many things had to be coordinated with Zhou Yan's studio. He had already persuaded Liu Qing to join his crew.

Although Xiao Can could also transfer people from the Yanjing Factory, he would still prefer to find people from the studio, because Liu Qing and his colleagues have been working together for a long time and have a high degree of tacit understanding, and the people in the studio have a high degree of freedom, so nothing messy will happen.

Some of the people in Yanjing Factory are easy to use, but some are difficult to use. Now there are many people who are just idling around in the factory.

Chen Kaige listened for a while, then put out his cigarette and turned into the factory. He was not interested in Xiao Can's new movie.

After he entered the factory, he suddenly saw a few girls walking towards him from the other side of the stage.

These girls have outstanding looks and great figures. They are all wearing the same performance costumes and look like they are going to dance on the stage soon.

The girl walking in front was tall and thin. When Chen Kaige saw her, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

This girl gave him a sense of déjà vu, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her.

Just then Senior Lu came back from the toilet, and Chen Kaige stopped him and said, "Senior, who are these girls? Are they new recruits to the Youth Piano Orchestra? I haven't seen them before."

Senior Lu glanced at the girls and shrugged, "I don't know. I rarely come here. They shouldn't be from the band. Judging from the clothes they are wearing, they look like they are going to dance."

"It's not like the students of CAMU can't dance."

"Yes, but it may not be easy to gather so many."

Chen Kaige nodded. These girls certainly didn’t look like they were from the Central Conservatory of Music. Instead, they looked more like they were from an acting school.

Temperament is something that is invisible and intangible, but most of the time, you can see it at a glance.

Chen Kaige has seen too many girls studying acting, and they all have this kind of temperament.

Since he didn't get the answer from Senior Lu, Chen Kaige didn't ask any more questions in a hurry. He thought about finding a chance to ask Zhou Yan and the others who they were later.

……

By six forty, the orchestra was ready on stage, and Zhou Yan walked onto the stage with the microphone.

There were some noisy discussions in the hall originally, but as Zhou Yan walked onto the stage, all the noise disappeared and everyone looked intently at Zhou Yan on the stage.

Zhou Yan tapped the microphone and said with a smile, "First of all, I would like to thank all the friends who were invited to come to the event. It's the end of the year and everyone is busy. It's not easy for them to come. We hold this annual meeting just to have everyone get together and have fun at the end of the year. If the studio doesn't go bankrupt in the future, this kind of annual meeting should be held every year, and I hope everyone can come every year."

"The main content of the evening party is to watch the performance, but before the performance officially begins, I would like to share with you the development of our studio this year and the development goals for next year. Let's talk about the film department first. This year our film department has produced a total of four films..."

Zhou Yan then gave a brief account of the studio’s situation this year. He did not share any details, but focused on talking about some important things.

Most of the people present have cooperated with the studio, and they also want to know about the studio’s development and future goals.

When it was mentioned that the box office of "Time Traveler" had exceeded 75 million, there was a burst of exclamations at the scene. Most people present did not know the latest box office situation. Some people still thought that the box office of "Time Traveler" was only 50 or 60 million.

What does 75 million mean?
Since the start of profit sharing, no mainland film has ever grossed more than 40 million yuan - except Zhou Yan's "The Chorus".

Of course, the original period of implementation of profit sharing was relatively short.

The only time that mainland China has serious box office statistics is for last year and this year.

Because the time is short, there are fewer objects to compare.

But this does not affect people's surprise at the box office of 75 million, because those Hollywood blockbusters rarely get such box office when they come to China.

In the past two years, among the 20 American films introduced to China, only one, "True Lies", had a box office revenue exceeding this figure.

Some people paid attention to the box office situation some time ago and knew that the movie topping the domestic box office list this year was "Police Stories: Simple Tasks", with a box office of 80 million.

This means that the box office of "Time Traveler" is likely to exceed 80 million, topping this year's box office rankings.

Suddenly someone started clapping, and the others followed suit. This achievement was indeed worthy of their applause.

After talking about several films shot by the studio this year, Zhou Yan talked about the school-enterprise cooperation project with the Central Academy of Drama, and also talked about the short film plan for next year.

When hearing that Zhou Yan was going to invest in a large number of short films starting next year, many people were very surprised and did not understand what Zhou Yan was going to do.

Among them was Chen Kaige. He really didn't understand why Zhou Yan spent so much time on the short film, and he didn't even know why Zhou Yan wanted to carry out the school-enterprise cooperation project.

In Chen Kaige's opinion, this so-called school-enterprise cooperation seems to be very good, but it may end up in vain.

In this type of project, the school certainly hopes that the company can provide practical education and training to students, but the company is more concerned about specific skills training and short-term returns.

The reality is that it is simply impossible for students to bring substantial returns to companies in a short period of time. As for whether students can receive good, extensive and practical education and training, it depends on the conscience of the companies.

It’s not that Chen Kaige doesn’t believe that Zhou Yan has a conscience, he just feels that Zhou Yan’s conscience will not be rewarded.

Zhou Yan finished talking about the school-enterprise cooperation project with the Central Academy of Drama, and then talked about the school-enterprise cooperation project with the Central Conservatory of Music, and then took the opportunity to talk about the studio's music engineering department. …

Zhou Yan did not spend too much time talking about the company's situation. He took about four or five minutes to give a brief account. On the one hand, he hoped that the studio's employees would have a general direction in mind. On the other hand, he also wanted to tell others which directions the studio would focus on next year. If they wanted to cooperate, they could start from these directions.

After saying all this, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Next, I won't go on and on. The first show tonight is "Morning Morning, First Snow, Red Sun" performed by the Piano Youth Orchestra. Please enjoy it."

When Zhou Yan walked down with the microphone, conductor Yue Lin came up with the baton.

Yue Lin first bowed to the audience, then walked up to the podium.

When seeing Yue Lin walking onto the stage in a tuxedo, many people felt a visual shock.

Originally they did not think that this factory building temporarily converted into a theater was shabby, but now compared with the costumes of Yue Lin and the performers on the stage, this factory building looked very simple.

However, although the venue was simple, the music effect was not as bad as everyone imagined.

When the music plays, the auditory enjoyment is not much weaker. If you close your eyes, you can even feel like you are in a real concert hall.

Of course, for people who don't often go to live concerts, the difference is not very obvious.

Moreover, the song "Early Morning, First Snow, Red Sun" was performed by fifty or sixty people, and the sound was very loud. At least it did not require a sound field structure to amplify the volume. Although a lot of sound was lost in the factory, the audience could still hear it at this distance.

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The orchestra played several songs in succession for about half an hour, and then the folk music band came on stage to play songs such as "Memories of the Forbidden City" and "Searching for Plum Blossoms in the Snow".

……

After listening to "The Nightingale", Jiang Mengfei couldn't hold his urine anymore, so he got up and went out to pee.

However, as soon as he left the factory, he caught a glimpse of a person clinging to the window.

The window was quite high, about four or five meters. In order to climb up, the man found a long and thick wooden stick from somewhere, propped it on the ground, and then climbed up along the stick.

The man held a wooden stick in one hand and a camera in the other, taking pictures.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Mengfei's urge to urinate also subsided. He immediately shouted at the man, "What are you doing!"

After yelling, Jiang Mengfei was ready to subdue the man, but before he could do that, the man was frightened and fell to the side.

The walls under the window were smooth, and when he fell, there was no place to grab onto. The man slid down holding the wooden stick.

The height was not low to begin with, and his landing posture was not good, so one of his calves was directly pressed underneath by the wooden stick.

Jiang Mengfei subconsciously wanted to save him, but before he took two steps, the man had already fallen down. All Jiang Mengfei heard was the man's miserable screams.

"pain!"

Seeing the man holding his legs and wailing, Jiang Mengfei walked over with a frown.

This fall was quite severe, and it seemed that not only his calf was injured, but also his right shoulder was injured where he landed, and he couldn't even lift his right arm.

But seeing him shouting so loudly, Jiang Mengfei felt relieved.

Normally, if something screams like this, it's basically no big deal, just a broken arm or a leg.

If his internal organs were injured, he wouldn't be in this state right now.

Besides, Jiang Mengfei is not a doctor and has no way to save him.

After making sure that he was okay, Jiang Mengfei looked at the camera that had fallen aside, narrowed his eyes, walked over and picked up the camera.

The man saw what Jiang Mengfei did, but he was seriously injured and had no time to care about his camera.

After getting the camera, Jiang Mengfei ignored the man and walked straight into the factory.

After a while, Zhou Yan and Liu Hang followed Jiang Mengfei out.

Seeing the man lying on the ground, Zhou Yan and Liu Hang looked at each other. When Jiang Mengfei came to them just now, he had already told them the general situation, and they both basically guessed what this man did.

At this time, the person clinging to the window with a camera in his hand is most likely a tabloid reporter.

Although the paparazzi culture in the mainland cannot be compared with that in Hong Kong and Taiwan, many tabloid reporters who take secret photos of celebrities have gradually emerged. This kind of thing will flourish as long as there is a market.

Zhou Yan took a closer look. Although the man was no longer screaming, his forehead was covered with sweat in the middle of winter. He was indeed seriously injured.

Of course, if he hadn’t been seriously injured, the man would have already run away when Jiang Mengfei went in to find them.

"Come on, follow my rhythm and take a deep breath."

When the man heard Zhou Yan's words, he subconsciously took a deep breath.

Seeing that he could take deep breaths smoothly, Zhou Yan was basically certain that there should be no problem with his internal organs and ribs.

Zhou Yan patted his calf and asked, "Are you injured here?"

The man had originally been trying not to scream, but after Zhou Yan slapped him, he couldn't help but scream again.

"It hurts!"

Zhou Yan smiled and took his hand back, "Sorry."

Although he apologized verbally, his expression showed no apology at all. It was obvious that the slap was intentional and it was quite forceful.

Letting go of his calf, Zhou Yan patted his right shoulder again, and he screamed again.

"pain!"

"Oh, sorry." Zhou Yan took his hand back again and asked, "Which newspaper are you from? When did you start filming here?"

The man's mouth hardened at this time, and he didn't admit that he was a tabloid reporter. "What newspaper? I don't understand what you mean. I was just passing by and heard that it was lively here, so I came to take a look."

This lie couldn't be more false. This place is not a busy downtown area and there aren't many people passing by normally. Besides, who would pass by with a camera in their hands?
Also, the factory door was closed and there was a guard guarding it, so this person must have climbed over the wall to get in.

Seeing that he was being stubborn, Zhou Yan did not ask any more questions. He just looked at his watch and said to Liu Hang, "Call the police in 20 minutes."

He roughly calculated the time and decided to call the police in twenty minutes. By the time the police arrived, even if the party wasn't over, it would be almost over, and the impact wouldn't be too big. It would also be a good opportunity to let the man freeze outside for a while.

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, the man became anxious and said, "How about sending me to the hospital first?"

Zhou Yan glanced at him and said nothing. He turned and went back into the factory, still holding the man's camera. He had no intention of returning the camera to the man, even if he called the police. (End of this chapter)