1990: Starting from Baojia Street

About half an hour later, Liu Qing finally came back from the meeting.

Liu Qing was very happy to see Zhou Yan coming, We were talking about you just now on the way. Have you been waiting for a long time? Why didn't you tell me in advance that I would leave the key for you.

No, I just arrived not long ago.

After entering, Zhou Yan put down his luggage and asked Liu Qing, Did I hear that Director Zhang is going to adapt Chicken Feathers?

Liu Qing poured some warm water into a porcelain basin, wiped his face and said with a smile, Young man is very well-informed. This happened. He said that he wanted to change the background of the story to Chongqing. We have been discussing this matter for the past two days. Well, Teacher Dong, who is engaged in fashion design, is here.

Oh. Zhou Yan didn't say that he had already met Dong Wenmiao.

It's not bad to shoot in Yudu. At least the conditions are better than Qiaojiabao, but the food there is spicy and I'm not used to it.

In fact, there are quite a lot of spicy food in Chang'an, but Liu Qing himself doesn't like spicy food very much.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, What are you afraid of? When the time comes, we will bring our fat brother, the Royal Chef, with you.

Liu Qing waved his hand, It's unlikely. There's no need to bring a chef when filming in the city.

Zhou Yan just said casually that if he really wanted to shoot Chicken Feathers in a Place, the filming would be in the city, where it would be more convenient to eat.

It was definitely impossible to bring a chef. Qiaojiabao was in a special situation. There was no place to eat nearby, so they had to cook the food themselves.

Zhou Yan still doesn't understand why Zhang Yimou went to film Chicken Feather. Could it be that after he traveled through time, the trajectory of the world changed?

In fact, it is normal for there to be changes as he participates, but this is too fast.

Have the actors been decided? Zhou Yan asked again.

Liu Qing shook his head, It's early. I don't think Director Zhang has any direction.

What do you mean he has no direction? Zhou Yan asked doubtfully.

Liu Qing looked at the door and lowered his voice, I think he just doesn't want to be idle, so he hasn't finished Raise the Red Lantern yet and is thinking about filming the next one. That Chicken Feather They said the novel was only published last month, do you think it was too hasty?

Zhou Yan didn't express an opinion. Although he was very confused about the matter, he didn't want to ask too many questions.

Now he has Farewell My Concubine waiting for him and Heaven Replies he is working on. In addition, he still has to go to school, so he has no time to focus on other projects.

The two chatted for a while. Zhou Yan couldn't bear the sleepiness, so he went to wash himself briefly, then fell on the bed and went to sleep. Liu Qing asked him to go to the cafeteria to eat, but he didn't even go.

…

After sleeping leisurely until the next morning, Zhou Yan went directly to the editing workshop after getting up.

His short film Antfly has been sent to the Times to find someone to handle the special effects. Although the special effects in the short film are very simple, Chang'an Studio cannot do it here.

When I entered the director's office, Yang Jinglan was not there. I saw a big black young man leaning against the window and looking out the window smoking. He seemed to be in a bad mood.

Zhou Yan recognized at a glance that the big black guy was Chen Kaige.

He also stayed at Chang'an Studio for a long time, and this was the first time he met Chen Kaige, because Chen Kaige's original establishment was not in Chang'an, but at Yanjing Studio, which was only used by Wu Tianming before. .

In fact, Zhang Yimou's situation is similar. Zhang Yimou was established at Guizhou Film Studio and was also borrowed by Wu Tianming.

However, Zhang Yimou often stayed at Chang'an Studio, but Chen Kaige did not. The latter was more often in Yanjing.

Director Chen. Zhou Yan took the initiative to say hello.

Chen Kaige turned around and asked doubtfully, Who are you?

I am Zhou Yan, teacher Zhao Jiping's assistant.

He didn't mention Raise the Red Lantern but only mentioned Zhao Jiping because he heard that Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou seemed to have some rivalry in private.

Hearing that it was Zhao Jiping's assistant, Chen Kaige squeezed out a smile on his dark face, Hello, have you made an appointment with Teacher Zhao?

Zhou Yan nodded, We've made an appointment. Teacher Zhao will be here soon.

At this time, Chen Kaige had already walked up to Zhou Yan, took out another cigarette and offered one to Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan waved his hand, Sorry, I don't smoke.

I'm sorry, you'll just have to suffer.

Zhou Yan smiled and asked, Isn't Director Yang here?

Chen Kaige walked back to the window and leaned against it, I've been here, but I was asked to leave again just now.

That's it. Zhou Yan nodded. Seeing that Chen Kaige was in a bad mood and not in the mood to chat, he said, Director Chen, I'm going to go take a look inside the workshop.

Well, you're busy.

…

Zhou Yan walked around the workshop as if on patrol, saying hello to everyone in each process.

During his stay here last year, he became quite familiar with the people in the editing workshop.

When Zhou Yan returned to the director's office after a patrol, Director Yang was there but Chen Kaige was gone.

Seeing Zhou Yan, Yang Jinglan didn't give him a good look, Why are you here again?

During those days at the end of last year, Zhou Yan had been Yang Jinglan's follower for half a month. Now Yang Jinglan has a headache when she sees Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, Isn't this a New Year greeting to Director?

Yang Jinglan raised her eyebrows and looked at him, You came to pay New Year greetings with nothing?

Zhou Yan spread his hands and said seriously, Can't Director Yang see my full respect for you and my enthusiasm for the editing career?

Yang Jinglan smiled and said, Don't waste your sweet words on us old comrades...

As she was talking, Zhao Jiping walked in, Zhou Yan has arrived.

Just arrived.

Let's go then, time waits for no one, let's get to work.

Yang Jinglan also waved her hand, Go quickly, go quickly, finish it quickly, and go back to school quickly.

Zhao Jiping smiled and said, Why, Zhou Yan is annoying Director Yang again.

Zhou Yan said innocently, I just arrived, I was wronged.

Zhao Jiping laughed and said, That's the sequelae.

…

Zhou Yan was originally scheduled to stay at Chang'an Studio for a week, but in the end he only stayed for five days because the studio happened to have a car going to Yanjing, so he took the bus back.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Zhou Yan packed his luggage and waited at the door of his dormitory for the car from the factory to arrive.

Not long after, the van drove over. As soon as it stopped in front of Zhou Yan, Jiang Mengfei's head stuck out from the passenger side, Old Zhou, what a coincidence, we are together again.

Seeing that it was Jiang Mengfei, Zhou Yan threw his backpack on the passenger seat, then opened the back door and tried to get in. However, as soon as he got halfway through, he saw Dong Wenmiao sitting inside and staring at her with bright eyes.

The two looked at each other, but Dong Wenmiao quickly turned his head away.

Teacher Dong is here too.

Um.

Jiang Mengfei threw the bag back into Zhou Yan's arms, Teacher Dong is also going back to Yanjing today, didn't you know?

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes and looked at Jiang Mengfei. Dong Wenmiao was going back to Yanjing. How did he know?

He even thought Dong Wenmiao had left and he hadn't seen him in the past few days.

Zhou Yan looked at the back of the carriage again. The three seats in the last row had been removed and a lot of things were put there. Only the two seats in the middle row were empty. He had no choice but to sit on Dong Wenmiao with his backpack. beside.

Jiang Mengfei saw him holding the backpack in his arms and joked, Why are you still holding that thing? Just put it behind you. Is there money in it that you can't bear to put away?

Zhou Yan ignored him and said to the driver in front, Master Huang, you have to work hard today.

Master Huang is the full-time driver of Chang'an Studio. Zhou Yan has also dealt with him several times. He is relatively honest and doesn't like to talk much.

Not so polite.

He just likes to be polite. Jiang Mengfei patted the passenger seat and said, Let's go, Old Huang.

Jiang Mengfei is young, energetic, and a talker. He has never stopped talking since he started.

There were a total of four people in the car. The driver, Lao Huang, was not very talkative. Zhou Yan and Dong Wenmiao in the back seat were also very silent because of what happened that day.

After Jiang Mengfei talked for a long time, he felt that he was the only one talking in the car, which was not very comfortable, so he looked at Zhou Yan and said, Old Zhou, you are not in the right state today.

Although Zhou Yan is not as talkative as him, he usually talks a lot. Even if he doesn't take the initiative to talk, he will make a few remarks from time to time.

But I don't know what happened today. After getting in the car, Zhou Yan didn't speak much and kept staring out the window.

Zhou Yan cleared his throat and said in a dry voice, I've been suffering from internal heat for the past two days, and my throat is a bit hoarse, so it's hard to speak.

Jiang Mengfei scratched his head and asked doubtfully, Your voice didn't seem so hoarse just now, did it?

Zhou Yan simply acted like he was speechless with his mouth open this time, Ah, ah, ah, ah~

Puch-

Dong Wenmiao next to him suddenly couldn't help laughing.

Jiang Mengfei looked at Dong Wenmiao with confusion on his face. Not only was Lao Zhou strange today, but Teacher Dong was also very strange.

Shaking his head, Jiang Mengfei stopped caring about the back seat and turned to the driver, Master Huang, to say, Old Huang, you must have put on some weight during the Chinese New Year.

…

Yangyin is in the west of the city and Yanguang is in the east. They have to pass by Yangyin from Chang'an to Yanjing. Logically speaking, they should send Zhou Yan first and then Dong Wenmiao.

But when they arrived in Yanjing, it was already midnight, and it was inconvenient for Zhou Yan and the others to go back to their dormitory, so they sent Dong Wenmiao to her residence first, and then Zhou Yan followed Jiang Mengfei and the others to the guest house to spend the night.

The next morning, Zhou Yan took the car back to school by himself.

When he returned to school, there was no one in the dormitory. School had not officially started today, so some people had not arrived, and others should have gone out to do errands.

After cleaning up briefly, he went to Shi Wanchun's office first, but Shi Wanchun was not there.

Zhou Yan didn't have anything important to do with Shi Wanchun. He just came to say hello after not being at school for a long time.

Since he didn't see anyone, Zhou Yan took a car to Yanjing Studio. Before leaving the day before yesterday, he had made an appointment with Wang Junzheng to find her today.

Yanjing Studio is at the intersection of the North Third Ring Road and Xitucheng Road, and Yangyin is on the edge of the West Second Ring Road, so you only need to walk north along the West Second Ring Road in a straight road, and then turn onto the North Third Ring Road and you will be there.

It's only seven or eight kilometers in total, and it takes more than half an hour to get there by car.

It was also the first time for Zhou Yan to come to Yanjing Studio. Compared with Chang'an Studio, the architectural style of Yanjing Studio is more Chinese-style. The main color of the walls is red, with some white in the middle for contrast. .

The layout of the factory is mainly about symmetry. There are only three buildings in total, with a main building in the middle and two buildings on the east and west next to it. The middle is tall and the sides are short, forming a convex shape.

Different from the large openings and closings of Chang'an Studio, the architectural details of Yanjing Studio also have relief patterns. Looking at these carvings, Zhou Yan wondered whether Yanjing Studio was richer.

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