1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Zhou Yan and Zhang Jianya didn't just have a verbal agreement, he also signed a contract with Shanghai Film Studio.

On the one hand, now that Zhou Yan has signed a contract with Tomson, he needs the company to help him with many things. Without a contract, it will definitely not work. On the other hand, the incident in The Big Show last time also reminded Zhou Yan , verbal agreement is unreliable.

After signing the contract with the Shanghai Studio, Zhou Yan set off back to Yanjing.

After confirming the soundtrack guide, Zhang Jianya was in a good mood these two days, smiling every day.

The day after Zhou Yan left Shanghai, Zhang Jianya whistled into the office in the morning. Before he could sit down, his deputy director Cui Jie came over with a copy of Xinmin Evening News.

Director Zhang, look at this Zhou Yan, is he Zhou Yan?

This sounded a bit awkward. Zhang Jianya stretched out his head to look at the newspaper in Cui Jie's hand, and immediately understood what Cui Jie meant by asking this question.

What Cui Jie showed him was the Cultural News section. There was a box occupying about one-fifth of the entire section. The news title inside was: Chinese director Zhou Yan won the Clay Award for The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly Montferrand International Short Film Festival Grand Prize!

Seeing this title, Zhang Jianya raised his eyebrows. Although he didn't know the name of the movie Zhou Yan made, his intuition told him that the Zhou Yan in the news was the Zhou Yan he knew.

Looking at the news content below, although there is no detailed introduction to director Zhou Yan, it is mentioned that the film was jointly produced by Tomson Investments, a well-known Shanghai company, and Yanjing Studio.

After seeing this content, Zhang Jianya was basically certain that the director of The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly was the Zhou Yan he knew.

It should, it must be Director Zhou. Zhang Jianya said.

Hearing the affirmative answer, Cui Jie said excitedly, Director Zhang, then we have found a treasure. The director who won the international award made the soundtrack for us... Look at the news, it said, The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly The soundtrack in the movie is of a very high level and won unanimous praise from foreign judges at film festivals. Do you think that when we ask newspapers to promote our movie later, we will add this paragraph, will it be...

Seeing Cui Jie's excitement, Zhang Jianya smiled. The fact that Zhou Yan won the international award was just the icing on the cake for him. Even without this award, they had already found a treasure. The soundtrack of Reply from Heaven could not explain the problem. What?

But at the same time, he also lamented that Zhou Yan was really amazing, capable of directing, directing, and acting. He thought that when he was Zhou Yan's age, he was still in school preparing to shoot his graduation film with Tian Zhuangzhuang and others.

What I think about every day is whether I can be assigned to a good unit.

Comparing people to each other is really infuriating.

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The Xinmin Evening News news came out relatively late. The day before Zhou Yan met Zhang Jianya, Yanjing TV Station had already broadcast the news.

The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival itself is not well-known in China, but when Yanjing TV broadcast the news, it compared the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival to Cannes in the short film industry.

After such a comparison, everyone will naturally know the level of Clermont-Ferrand.

Of course Yanjing TV would like to praise Zhou Yan, because Zhou Yan is the soundtrack director of their feature film The Forbidden City: Memory.

This incident was also highlighted in the news broadcast by Yanjing TV Station, and Forbidden City: Memory was played three times in a row in the three days after the news broadcast.

During this period, Zhou Yan also received many paging messages from Yanjing Studio, the content of which were almost the same. They were that a certain newspaper or a certain TV station wanted to schedule a special interview with him.

In fact, after the release of Raise the Red Lantern, Zhou Yan had already received similar news from Chang'an Studio, but at that time there were fewer media who wanted to interview him and he was not very well-known.

This time, the number has increased significantly, and many of them are well-known media organizations.

Zhou Yan is not resistant to being interviewed, but he has many things to do and little time now, so he will definitely be more cautious in media selection. Moreover, he has promised to do a special interview for Yanjing TV Station in the future. The media can only let it go first.

Wait until you have some free time in a few days before considering accepting interviews from other media.

Zhou Yan himself didn't have time to be interviewed, so he asked Yanjing Studio to give interview opportunities to Senior Lu and Wang Xiaoshuai, or to Yu Feihong.

The main thing is to find Wang Xiaoshuai, because Senior Lu is not in good health. He had another major surgery last fall. He is still recuperating recently, and it is not convenient to be interviewed.

After Zhou Yan arrived in Yanjing, after a brief rest, he took two bottles of Jiannanchun and a Hongtashan to his teacher Shi Wanchun's house to pay him New Year greetings.

When Shi Wanchun opened the door and saw Zhou Yan, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, but when he saw what Zhou Yan was carrying, his expression became serious again, Come here, why do you bring such expensive things?

Nowadays, a bottle of Jiannanchun costs forty or fifty yuan, and two bottles of Jiannanchun plus a bottle of Hongtashan cost one or two hundred yuan, which is more than many people's monthly salary, so it is naturally very expensive.

Zhou Yan picked up the thing in his hand and said with a smile, This cigarette is a gift for you to celebrate the New Year. This wine does not count. I brought it to drink today. The students will have a drink with you tonight.

In fact, the meaning was similar, but after changing the words, Shi Wanchun's expression softened a lot.

It won't happen again.

At this time, Shi Wanchun's lover Liu Xuejuan also walked out of the back room, Xiao Zhou is here.

Zhou Yan greeted respectfully again, Hello, Master.

Liu Xuejuan saw the cigarettes and wine and complained, Come here, don't bring anything.

Shi Wanchun smiled and said, I told him too, but since he's here, I'll trouble you, the master wife, to cook more dishes in the evening and let us master and apprentice have two drinks.

You still use 伱.

…

Before drinking, Shi Wanchun had been talking to Zhou Yan about life matters. After drinking for three rounds, he chatted with Zhou Yan about work matters.

Jia Guoping is still living in the student dormitory. This shouldn't happen. It's just that the school's accommodation is tight, so it's been put off. But seeing that you have to stay in school, the school decided to free up a suite for you and Jia Guoping to stay.

Zhou Yan nodded, Everything depends on the school's arrangements.

In fact, the accommodation conditions in Yangyin are already very good. Now many new teachers in many schools can only live in a single room with a few people.

Like Zhou Yan and Jia Guoping, many people envy them that they can be assigned to a suite.

Zhou Yan has never had much thought about school accommodation. He is currently considering whether to buy a property near the school.

He does have this need now, and people will definitely come to him often in the future. If he always takes people to the dormitory, even if Jia Guoping doesn't mind, he himself will feel inappropriate.

Zhou Yan also wants to buy a set of musical instruments at home. If he lives in a dormitory, there will be no place to put his things.

Moreover, house prices in Yanjing are rising recently. Buying one as early as possible is considered an investment.

However, house prices in Yanjing are not cheap now, with an average price of one thousand to two thousand square meters. In the second ring road where Yangyin is located, it is even harder to find a house. Zhou Yan only has about 100,000 yuan on hand, and he wants to buy a satisfactory house. It's not that easy.

In fact, Zhou Yan wants to buy a courtyard house so that he can work at home in the future, but now a courtyard house is not cheap, and can easily cost hundreds of thousands.

…

The next day, Zhou Yan went out to look at houses while there was nothing else to do, but after looking around, nothing seemed suitable.

The ones you can buy within the Second Ring Road are all bungalows, which are not large in size, have an average environment, and are not cheap.

However, I met an agent who recommended two courtyard houses to Zhou Yan. He was quite satisfied with them, but they were both expensive.

The cheaper one costs more than 400,000 yuan, and the more expensive one costs more than 600,000 yuan. The money in Zhou Yan's hands is far different. Nowadays, no bank is willing to give him a loan.

After two days of shopping, Zhou Yan also lamented that it was really not possible for poor people to make a living by buying a house.

Looking forward thirty years later, a courtyard house worth hundreds of thousands does not seem expensive, but the problem is that no ordinary family can afford hundreds of thousands now.

The monthly salary of ordinary people is one or two hundred yuan, and it is difficult for the higher ones to exceed five hundred yuan.

Those who can afford a courtyard house are basically those who have completed their capital accumulation.

Therefore, these days, in most cases, buying a house makes rich people become richer. Of course, this is actually okay, and it is better than letting the poor become poorer.

Zhou Yan can only buy a bungalow in the second ring road with the money he has now.

However, Zhou Yan thought about it and still didn't want to live in a bungalow, so he decided to find a financing channel.

The day before school started, Zhou Yan called his brother Zhou Hong.

After the call was connected, Zhou Yan said directly without any detours: Second brother, I want to raise funds with you.

Financing? Zhou Hong on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, then realized, Do you want to borrow money?

I'll give you interest.

How much borrow...to finance?

Half a million.

Okay. Zhou Hong didn't hesitate at all, and then asked, What are you going to do with the money, make a movie?

No, I'm buying a house.

A house worth 500,000 yuan is not cheap in Yanjing. Then I will go to Yanjing the day after tomorrow.

okay.

…

Zhou Hong was very efficient. After arriving, he booked two courtyard houses on the same day. The one with more than 600,000 yuan was given to Zhou Yan, and the one with more than 400,000 yuan was kept for himself.

In fact, Zhou Yandu still wanted to make a counteroffer because he felt there was still room for bargaining, but Zhou Hong felt there was no need to waste time. Since he was optimistic, he could just make a decisive move.

With the liberalization of Yanjing's real estate market, there will definitely be a wave of growth in the past two years. If you buy it now, you will definitely not lose money. Considering the price space, if something unexpected happens in the middle, the gain will outweigh the loss.

This was said by Zhou Hong.

Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh that rich people not only have money and can operate, but also have a keener grasp of policies.

Seeing Zhou Hong take out more than one million without blinking an eye, Zhou Yan experienced for the first time what it felt like to be a rich second generation.