1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Although Zhou Yan couldn't understand He Wuming's thoughts, the condition was not difficult, so he nodded and agreed, No problem, I'll buy a better one later.

When will you buy it?

Just wait until you have time. Better flutes can only be purchased in the county at least.

In fact, the possibility of buying good flutes in the county is relatively small. Dizi are not rare and can be made from any piece of bamboo or even wood, but good quality flutes are hard to find.

In Qixian County, if you want to find suona players, they are all over the street, and you can grab a lot of them. However, it is not easy to find bamboo flute players. No one plays it, so naturally there are few for sale.

Different places have different art forms.

He Wuming naturally knew this situation, so he said, I'll ask someone to buy it for you. Buy a bang flute and ask someone to send it over later.

Zhou Yan nodded, That's okay. How much does the flute cost? I'll give it to you later.

Okay, let me know the price.

Then the performance is settled, you can't go back on it.

a man of his words.

Zhou Yan smiled and gave a thumbs up, you’re a gentleman! Although he himself is not a gentleman, he likes to deal with gentlemen.

…

The next morning, Zhou Yan and He Wuming went to the Fourth Academy to rehearse while the crew was not filming.

Zhou Yan first told He Wuming about the play. After the explanation, he said with a smile, Teacher He, you have never acted in a movie, so you may not know much about acting, but it doesn't matter. You can follow my rhythm in a while. You just Just be responsible for saying the lines.

According to Zhou Yan's opinion, He Wuming was a Peking Opera actor, which was very different from a movie actor. He was definitely not familiar with movie performances.

But Zhou Yan was wrong, and terribly wrong.

When Zhou Yan walked into the room from the door, his eyes widened when he saw He Wuming looking drunk and hazy. This... He Wuming actually acted like a drunken beauty, even more fragile and pitiful than Gong Li.

Of course, this does not mean that He Wuming is a better actor than Gong Li, and the role of Song Lian should not be so weak. Obviously Gong Li understands the role more thoroughly.

But even if He Wuming didn't play Song Lian, he at least played a drunken woman. His every frown, every smile, and every look in his eyes proved one thing - he was a professional actor, and a professional actor.

At least... much more professional than Zhou Yan.

Seeing He Wuming's performance, Zhou Yan felt a little ashamed. Just now he had questioned He Wuming, but now it seemed that he was just a pure clown.

But at the same time, Zhou Yan was also very happy because he had found the right person. Even if He Wuming was not as good as Gong Li, it was still better than just pulling in someone. The role of a partner was still crucial in rehearsing this matter.

After a brief moment of astonishment, Zhou Yan quickly adjusted his state and began to enter the play.

Although there were many problems in the first rehearsal between the two, and He Wuming's lines were not yet familiar to me, it was overall quite satisfactory.

The two rehearsed several more times, and each time they got better and better, which also made Zhou Yan more and more motivated.

…

In the next half month, if the crew was filming, Zhou Yan would come close to observe and record. If there was no filming, he would drag He Wuming to the Fourth Academy to rehearse. Every day was very fulfilling.

When Zhou Yan went to observe the filming, he didn't just watch. Most of the time he would help the staff on the set. After all, he was a young worker. He helped with many things on the set and relieved a lot of the burden on others.

As he helped more and more, many people on the set joked that Zhou Yan's salary was already too low, so he should be given an extra salary.

Of course it is impossible to get a salary increase, but Zhou Yan enjoys it. The process of helping others is also a process for him to learn and understand movies. Sometimes he is lucky and can take over the job as a scribe, so he understands that everything is written on the slate. What information is there and why there is a slate.

Zhou Yan wanted to learn more about movies, not that he was determined to film or act in the future, but he had a fundamental interest in making movies. He thought acting or filming was quite fun.

Others didn't think that Zhou Yan wanted to learn this. They just thought that he might have never seen these things before, so he was just curious. After a while, the novelty wore off, and he wouldn't be so enthusiastic.

The flute that He Wuming ordered for Zhou Yan had been bought by someone a few days ago and is being sent here.

Zhou Yan felt a pain in his body when he mentioned the flute. After He Wuming ordered the flute, Zhou Yan found out that a flute costs more than three hundred and sixty yuan.

This was in the 1990s, when most people's monthly salary was less than 100 yuan, and a flute cost 360 yuan.

Zhou Yan used to feel that he could earn thousands of dollars from one movie, which was so much that he couldn't spend it all, but now it seems that he can only buy a few bamboo flutes.

According to He Wuming, he was very considerate and did not choose something too expensive for Zhou Yan, otherwise his friend would have had a lot of flutes with four-digit prices.

Zhou Yan has been waiting for the flute to come these days. Although it hurts, after spending the money, Zhou Yan also has expectations for the flute. In fact, he has had enough of the flute that the crew gave him. It really doesn't sound good.

…

Before the flute arrived, Zhou Yan first waited for a letter from the publishing house.

Liu Qing brought it to him from the town.

The letter this time was very thin. Before he opened it, Zhou Yan's face lit up. Sure enough, it was an unscripted letter.

The letter was sent from Yangcheng City, Guangdong Province. When he saw the word Yangcheng, Zhou Yan already knew that it should be sent to him by Flower City magazine.

The sender was Lu Mengping, the literary editor of the Flower City novel group. She said in the letter that she liked the article The River Wet by Rain very much, and the magazine had decided to publish it in the November 5th issue. novel.

The date of signing is July 15th, more than a month has passed since then.

The piece The River Wet by the Rain that Zhou Yan copied for Flower City is the same as The Death of the Mayor that was previously written for Yanjing Literature, both of which were Lu Xun Literature Award-winning works.

The reason why Zhou Yan voted The River Wet by Rain to Flower City is because the story of this novel revolves around the situation of farmers going south to work after the reform, and the Yangcheng city where Flower City magazine is located A popular city for migrant workers moving south.

Moreover, Flower City currently promotes newcomers and does not pay special attention to the author's past resume, so Zhou Yan is more suitable.

Facts have proved that Zhou Yan's choice was right, and Flower City decisively accepted the manuscript.

Lu Mengping told Zhou Yan in the letter that the total manuscript fee was sixty-six yuan and that it would be remitted to Zhou Yan after the manuscript was published.

River Wet by Rain has a total of more than 3,000 words. After all, the standard fee for Zhou Yan is 22 yuan per 1,000 words. This price is actually not bad. Most magazines now charge 10 yuan per 1,000 words. to between twenty yuan.

At this time, the country had regulations on manuscript fees. The standard for manuscripts was 10 to 30 yuan per 1,000 words. Except for some manuscripts that really had academic value, the standard could be raised to 40 yuan per 1,000 words. It cannot exceed 30 yuan.

According to the salary standards of ordinary people, sixty-six yuan is naturally not a small amount. As long as two articles are published every month, it can be higher than the salary of ordinary workers.

But as a high-paid person who earns several hundred dollars a month, Zhou Yan naturally doesn't value the sixty-six yuan royalties, but he knows that good times will come later, and there is no need to care about this royalties now.

Good night everyone, sweet dreams