1990: Starting from Baojia Street

As soon as Zhou Yan arrived home by bike, the pager in his pocket rang. It was a message from editor Hua Yang.

The content of the message is very simple.

“When will Huayang be at home?”

The editorial office of Yanjing Literature was originally not far from the Central Conservatory of Music, but after Zhou Yan moved here, it was even closer to their editorial office. It was so close that you could reach it within ten minutes on foot.

Ever since Hua Yang knew that Zhou Yan lived here, he would run to Zhou Yan when he had nothing to do.

He doesn't need to go here specifically. He can come here after lunch or taking a walk. When he gets off work in the evening, he can just turn a corner on his bicycle and reach here.

Sometimes Hua Yang would call Zhou Yan to confirm that Zhou Yan was at home.

I probably called Zhou Yan's home phone today, but no one answered, so I called the pager.

After opening the door and entering the house, Zhou Yan called Hua Yang back and told Hua Yang that he was already at home.

Hua Yang was very happy to learn that Zhou Yan was at home. He told Zhou Yan that he would be there soon and asked Zhou Yan to wait for him.

After hanging up the phone, only four or five minutes passed before Hua Yang arrived.

After arriving, Hua Yang was still sighing, If my family lived here, it would be more comfortable to go to work every day. I could sleep twenty to thirty minutes more in the morning and get home twenty minutes earlier at night.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, You can also live in the dormitory arranged by your unit.

Hua Yang rolled his eyes, That's fine.

The dormitory arranged by the magazine for Hua Yang is for two people, and there is a roommate. If Hua Yang is single, it is fine to live there. The key is that Hua Yang has a wife and children. He cannot go to the dormitory by himself and live separately from his wife and children. .

Zhou Yan smiled and poured a glass of water for Hua Yang and asked, Why are you here to see me? Are you just here to chat?

Hua Yang smiled and said, That's not true. Your novel The Knife in Clear Water is going to be made into a movie. Our club has decided to organize a symposium on your work.

Are you specifically studying The Knife in Clear Water? Zhou Yan asked.

Hua Yang nodded, Of course, a special seminar.

Do I want to participate too?

You'd better participate. Of course, it's okay not to participate.

Who is participating? Zhou Yan asked again.

It's mainly my colleagues in the agency, and a few more writers will be invited. If you have any writer friends you know, you can also invite them.

Zhou Yan shrugged, I don't have any writer friends either.

In the circle of writers, Zhou Yan only knew Shi Tiesheng, but they had only met once. It was unreasonable to go to someone else for such an activity.

Hua Yang naturally knew about Zhou Yan's situation.

Zhou Yan was originally involved in the music and film and television circles. He had few contacts in the literary circles, so he definitely had no writer friends.

That's okay, we will invite you depending on the situation. Hua Yang said with a smile.

Zhou Yan asked, Who will be invited?

Hua Yang smiled, I don't know now, and I didn't invite you.

Zhou Yan nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

These days, there are often seminars on works, but they are usually held not long after the works are released.

For example, Knife in Clear Water was a work released last year. It feels a bit late to hold a workshop on this work now, but no one sets a time for this thing, so if it's later, it will be later.

The main reason is that this novel is going to be made into a movie, so the agency decided to organize a seminar.

After talking about the work seminar, Hua Yang took out two more letters from his bag, These are the letters that the club received from readers recently, and I brought them to you.

Zhou Yan nodded and reached out to take the two letters.

This is not the first time he has received letters from readers. When Death of the Mayor and Knife in Clear Water were first published, he received the most letters, more than twenty letters in total.

After the publication of River Wet by Rain, there were actually letters from readers, but they were all in the editorial office of Flower City, which was a bit far away, and the magazine did not make a special trip to send him letters.

Most of the letters from readers are simple, basically expressing their love for the work and their support for the author.

Of course, it wasn't all good words. Zhou Yan also received a letter criticizing him.

The reader warned Zhou Yan in his letter not to parody postmodernism or to enter a stream-of-consciousness cult.

There are a lot of professional terms in the letter, which have no logic at all and make people feel confused.

After Zhou Yan got the letter, he was about to open it and read it. Hua Yang took a sip of water and scared him with a smile, Be careful, don't open it and find anything dirty.

What dirty things could there be? Zhou Yan curled his lips and pinched two letters. With such a thin layer, how can it hide explosives?

Hua Yang snorted, You still don't know enough. An author received a letter before. There was only a thin piece of paper in it, but the stench was extremely bad. They analyzed that the piece of paper should have been soaked in feces. I passed. I don’t know where it was soaked in, but the smell is really ugly. I couldn’t eat for several days after smelling it.”

After a pause, Hua Yang continued, Soaking in feces is good, and the female author can receive the kind of handkerchief stained with messy liquid, and there is that kind of curly hair on it... We guess it is leg hair. The possibility should be low.”

...

Zhou Yan frowned. Although he knew that Hua Yang was talking about low-probability events, he still felt a little uncomfortable after hearing what Hua Yang said. He looked at the two letters in his hand and began to hesitate.

Seeing Zhou Yan's hesitation, Hua Yang said with a smile, I'm afraid. How about I help you dismantle it?

I'd better dismantle it myself.

Zhou Yan smiled and opened the letter himself.

There is a small chance that this did not happen. Both letters were sent by readers who expressed support for Zhou Yan, and one of them was a reminder letter.

A reader from Sichuan Province said that he liked Zhou Yan's works very much and asked if Zhou Yan had published works elsewhere. If so, could you tell him? He also asked if Zhou Yan had any plans for new works recently. He was very much looking forward to it.

After reading it, Zhou Yan put the letters away. He had a box specifically for letters from readers.

Hua Yang took a sip of tea and said with a smile, These two readers must have asked you to publish a new work, right?

Yeah. Zhou Yan nodded.

Letters from readers fall into those categories, so it’s not difficult to guess.

Hua Yang took advantage of the situation and asked, Do you have any new works recently?

Not yet. Zhou Yan shook his head.

Hua Yang shrugged, but did not put any pressure on Zhou Yan. He just said, It doesn't matter, I'll wait for you.

Zhou Yan nodded. He liked this aspect of Hua Yang very much, but he was relatively gentle in prompting manuscripts. He usually just mentioned a few sentences like this. Apart from coming to his house more often, there was nothing else.

It was also a deadline, so Zhou Yan's editor at Flower City, Lu Mengping, was much more anxious.

When Zhou Yan didn't have a phone call, she often wrote to her, and each letter was a long one. She hoped that Zhou Yan could publish a new work as soon as possible. If he had any ideas for a new work, even if he didn't write it down, he could still communicate with her.

Later, Zhou Yan got a phone call, and the letters turned into calls.

The frequency of her phone calls is not that high, and each speech is not too long, but her force in urging manuscripts is sufficient, and sometimes she is bombarded with letters.

If the phone bill wasn't so expensive, Zhou Yan doubted that Lu Mengping would call him every day.

Sometimes Zhou Yan also wonders how tired Lu Mengping would be if every author was pushed like this.

The key is that Zhou Yan has only published one work in Flower City, which means that he is the type of author with whom Lu Mengping has the least cooperation. She is so devoted to Zhou Yan, let alone other authors with whom she has more contacts.

Nowadays, if there are not enough authors to cooperate with, many magazine editors will often harass the authors. Not only the authors they have cooperated with, they will also find the contact addresses of the authors they have not cooperated with, and then write letters. to these authors.

Some editors like to mass-post, which is to cast a net everywhere. They will write letters to many authors to express their appreciation, so that if they have works, they can be given priority to them.

However, if the author really submits the manuscript to them, he may not be able to pass the manuscript.

Zhou Yan was also tricked by editors in his previous life. Before he submitted his manuscript, he received very enthusiastic letters from the editor. After his manuscript was sent, the editor began to take the initiative.

Nowadays, letters from editors to authors are basically handwritten. Later, they were all printed directly from templates.

Of course, Hua Yang was like this. Although he didn't push the manuscript very hard, being in front of Zhou Yan every day still put psychological pressure on Zhou Yan.

Especially today, after Zhou Yan chatted with Hua Yang for half an hour, he politely expressed his intention to see off the guests.

If it were normal, Hua Yang would probably stand up and say goodbye, but today he pretended not to understand and said with a smile, It's okay, I'm not busy. Anyway, there is nothing to do this afternoon. Is it convenient for me to sit here with you?

It would be nice to see the guests off in a tactful way. Zhou Yan couldn't really drive people away. He couldn't tell Hua Yang that it was inconvenient and ask him to leave quickly.

He smiled and said, It's okay, I'll pour you some more tea.

Well, that's troublesome.

Hua Yang stayed at Zhou Yan's house until half past five. During this period, he didn't look or ask what Zhou Yan was doing. He just sat in the lounge drinking tea and doing his own thing.

When it was half past five, he looked at the time, stood up and said goodbye to Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan said with regret, Let's go now. It's dinner time. Stay and eat.

Such kind words were completely uttered out of conditioned reflex. Zhou Yan regretted it after saying it. He was really afraid that Hua Yang would agree.

Fortunately, Hua Yang did not agree this time, No, my wife and children are still at home. Let's have dinner together next time we have a chance.

After Hua Yang left, Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Although Hua Yang didn't say anything at home, he always gave people a sense of pressure.

At the same time, Zhou Yan also lamented, are all literary editors like them so idle?

It was getting late now, and it was time for Zhou Yan to go out for dinner. Naturally, he couldn't cook at home alone, and he didn't want to go out to a restaurant, so he rode a bicycle to Yanjing Studio to have a meal.

The guard, Uncle Zhou, was taking over his shift at the moment. When he saw Zhou Yan coming over, he joked, That's right, I can see you one last time before I go home.

Zhou Yan twitched the corner of his mouth, this bad old man loved to joke around.

After giving a cigarette to Uncle Zhou and another guard Xiaoliang, Zhou Yan smiled and said, Uncle Zhou, are you going back to the dormitory? Can I give you a ride?

Uncle Zhou lit the cigarette with a smile, and then waved his hand and said, Your back seat is for the little girl, why should I, an old man, sit in it? Go to the cafeteria quickly, the braised pork today is pretty good.

Zhou Yan had taken Xu Qing on his bike before, and Uncle Zhou had seen her before, so he teased her like this.

No matter how old you are, everyone loves to gossip.

But Zhou Yan's focus was on the braised pork. He quickly got on the bike and said Let's go and then rode towards the canteen behind.

The reason why he often comes to Yanjing Studio to eat is because the food in the cafeteria here is more to his liking, especially dishes like braised pork.

And sometimes the canteen also serves roast duck.

This is Yanjing, and the roast duck is supposed to be the kind from Yanjing, but the roast duck from Yanjing Studio is more similar to the roast duck from Jinling.

Which one is better, Jinling Roast Duck or Yanjing Roast Duck, is a matter of opinion. However, Zhou Yan prefers Jinling Roast Duck because Yanjing Roast Duck is too oily for him. He can eat it for one or two bites in the front, but he can’t eat it at all without wrapping other things in the back. .

As soon as Zhou Yan arrived at the cafeteria, everyone looking at him smiled.

Li Hong, who was approaching the aisle, shouted, Director Zhou, we're here again, I'm looking forward to you.

I just told Director Zhou to come today. Luo Xiaoqin from the editing workshop also said with a smile.

Zhou Yan didn't have time to respond to them, so he ran to the window and said, Master Qin, here's a piece of braised pork.

Then he took out a few meal tickets from his pocket. These meal tickets were obtained for him by Chen Kaige. Everyone else in the crew had them, including Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and the others, but Zhou Yan had more meal tickets.

The master laughed loudly and said, It just so happens that there are some left at the end, all for you.

Zhou Yan is quite familiar with him in the cafeteria, and he chats with the chef who prepares meals whenever he has nothing to do, so they will pay more attention to Zhou Yan when serving dishes.

After ordering some other dishes, Zhou Yan looked around and happened to see Gong Li and Chen Kaige. There was space next to them, so he ran over.

Master Kai, Sister Li. After saying hello, Zhou Yan sat down next to Gong Li.

Hearing Zhou Yan's name, Gong Li complained quite a bit, You called me down all my seniority.

Chen Kaige said with a smile, We are already more than one round behind each other. If you care about seniority, why not Zhou Yan call me Brother Kai from now on? I completely accept it.

Kaidi, I think it works. It sounds like an English name. Gong Li said with a smile.

Zhou Yan nodded: Well, it's quite foreign.

Chen Kaige smiled, made a drinking gesture to Zhou Yan, and said, Director Zhou, would you like something to drink?

They had just finished their meal and had only eaten a few mouthfuls. When they saw Zhou Yan coming, Chen Kaige couldn't help but get drunk.

Hearing this, Zhou Yan waved his hands repeatedly, Goodbye, wait until you have a rest before drinking.

You're in a hurry, so I just said casually that I have something to do in the evening, so of course I can't drink. Chen Kaige smiled and asked Zhou Yan: Will you come to the set tomorrow afternoon?

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said with a smile, Tomorrow is the scene of the court trial, right?

Chen Kaige nodded and said, Well, if you come, I'll be your backup.

Zhou Yan agreed simply, No problem.

In fact, Zhou Yan has guest-starred in Farewell My Concubine many times. As long as he is there and as long as there are many people who need it, he will be there. However, basically the ones whose faces are not photographed are pure supporting roles.

That's how filming is. It's impossible to use different actors for every scene, and it's impossible to find so many people, so the actors for many scenes are reused and caught on the spot.

Seeing Zhou Yan's agreement, Chen Kaige said very considerately, The morning is the preparation stage, so you don't have to come. Come at noon, just in time to have a meal in the cafeteria, and then go shooting with our team.

This sounded like concern, but in reality it was a joke about Zhou Yan's frequent visits. Gong Li also smiled and said, After I came here, I always heard about your reputation as a cheat.

Zhou Yan didn't feel dissatisfied: Who said the food in Yanjing Factory is good?

…

After dinner, Zhou Yan first went to the location for a walk, then went to the editing workshop to show his face, and finally went back.

The next morning, as soon as Zhou Yan got up, he heard someone knocking on the door outside.

He answered the door in his pajamas.

Seeing Hua Yang standing outside, Zhou Yan said unexpectedly, Why are you here so early in the morning?

Hua Yang took out a letter from his bag, waved it in front of Zhou Yan's eyes, and said with a smile, I received another letter from your reader, and I made a special trip to deliver it to you.

Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment, Is a letter worth your special trip to deliver?

I'm afraid you're in a hurry. Hua Yang smiled, Don't ask me to come in and sit down.

Oh, okay, come in and sit down. Zhou Yan stepped aside and invited Hua Yang in.

As soon as he arrived in the room, Hua Yang said, It's so early in the morning, please put less tea for me.

Uh... ok.

Zhou Yan didn't originally plan to make tea for Huayang. What kind of tea should he drink in the morning? Huayang and the others should be very busy with work in the morning, so they probably won't be able to stay here for long.

After making Hua Yang a cup of tea, Zhou Yan opened the letter and read it.

It's just an ordinary letter from a reader, talking about his feelings about Death of the Mayor.

After reading the letter, Zhou Yan looked at Hua Yang again. Seeing that Hua Yang had no intention of leaving, he said, I haven't washed up yet. Please sit by yourself for a while.

Hua Yang smiled and said, It doesn't matter. You can be busy. I can take care of myself. I just have something to write, so I did it here. It won't affect you, right?

With that said, Hua Yang took out a notebook from his bag and a pen from his pocket, and started working right here at Zhou Yan's place.

...It doesn't affect it.

Zhou Yan went to wash up first and then have breakfast. When he came back, Hua Yang was still writing.

You say he is busy with work, and he still has time to visit Zhou Yan. You say he is free. He is writing and writing at the moment, so he is quite busy.

After another hour, Zhou Yan couldn't help but said, Editor Hua, just tell me what you want to do directly. There's no need for this.

In fact, Zhou Yan probably knows what Hua Yang is going to do. This is Hua Yang's method of rushing for manuscripts. He doesn't make a big fuss with you, he just moisturizes things quietly and keeps pressure on you.

The pressure before was indeed very small, but starting from yesterday, Hua Yang suddenly increased the intensity, and Zhou Yan could clearly feel the pressure rising.

Hua Yang smiled and said, It's nothing, I just think the environment here is nice and it's very comfortable to come and sit here.

Seeing that he was still beating around the bush, Zhou Yan said directly, Do you want me to submit a new work for you?

Hua Yang smiled and said, Hey, creation is not something I can do if I want to. I know that creation requires inspiration and time. It doesn't matter. Don't be anxious. Take your time and wait until you have inspiration. Write, don’t start writing when you’re not inspired.”

If this were in a different context, Zhou Yan would give Hua Yang a thumbs up. Long live your righteousness and understanding!

But in this case, Zhou Yan knew that Hua Yang was deliberately playing push hands with him.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, It doesn't matter. Inspiration is like water in a sponge. Just squeeze it and it will be there. How about I squeeze it more during this period and see if I can squeeze out a little bit.

Sure enough, when Zhou Yan said this, Hua Yang raised his brows and his eyes lit up, If you have this intention, then I won't bother you here. Let's leave now.

After saying that, Hua Yang capped the pen, put away the notebook, got up and walked out.

Hua Yang's steps were fast, almost trotting. When Zhou Yan arrived at the yard, he had already gone out.

Don't give it away.

Hua Yang's voice came from outside the yard, and then Zhou Yan heard the jingle of bicycles.

Zhou Yan stood in the yard, feeling a little dazed.

Before, he was saying that Huayang's way of urging manuscripts was gentle and did not put pressure on people. Who would have thought that cutting flesh with such a dull knife would be scary.

It seems that every editor has a unique way of urging manuscripts.

Although Director Zhou said he wanted to squeeze out some inspiration, he didn't take it too seriously and just wanted to send Hua Yang away first.

After Hua Yang left, Zhou Yan tidied up and headed to the set.

This court trial scene couldn't be filmed on location at Yanjing Factory, so it was shot at the old district court.

Although Chen Kaige asked him to finish his meal at noon and then follow the team to the set, Zhou Yan was embarrassed and went ahead of time.

When he arrived at the scene, the staff behind the scenes were setting up.

Ge You and Leslie Cheung were standing at the door smoking. When they saw Zhou Yan coming, they smiled and greeted him.

Hey, Director Zhou came early today, would you like a cigarette? Ge You pretended to give up the cigarette to Zhou Yan.

But he was just pretending and wouldn't really take action because he knew Zhou Yan didn't smoke.

In fact, Zhou Yan was quite surprised to see Ge You and Leslie Cheung smoking together, because there was a big personality gap between the two. Ge You was a very familiar person, while Leslie Cheung was more introverted.

Zhou Yan actually met Ge You only once or twice, and they never exchanged a few words each time they met. But now that Ge You sees Zhou Yan, he is very enthusiastic.

On the contrary, Leslie Cheung, who was already very familiar with Zhou Yan, just said hello briefly.

In fact, Leslie Cheung was disliked by the crew. He usually spoke in Cheng Dieyi's tone. Many people said they couldn't stand it and avoided him, especially Zhang Fengyi. Except when filming, he usually avoided Leslie Cheung.

Sometimes Zhou Yan wondered if Zhang Fengyi was hiding because he was afraid that he would be betrayed.

How is the layout inside? Zhou Yan asked.

Ge You took a puff of his cigarette and said with a smile, We can't shoot in the morning anyway. Director Zhou came so early today. Is there anything wrong?

Zhou Yan smiled and waved his hand, It's nothing special. I'm going to make a guest appearance this afternoon, so I came over in advance to take a look.

Director Chen lets you play a small role. That's not overkill. If you ask me, it would be great to give you a fixed role. Ge You said with a smile.

Zhou Yan smiled and said nothing. What Ge You said was unrealistic. There were no roles suitable for him in Farewell My Concubine. Previously, when they filmed the scene where Duan Xiaolou rescued Juxian from the siege, Chen Kaige asked Zhou Yan if he wanted to play one of them. Zhou Yan did not agree to the prostitute, and later Chen Kaige arrested Huang Lei who came to play with him.

If it was a fixed role, Zhou Yan wouldn't have much time.

The three of them chatted for a while, and then Zhou Yan went to wander around elsewhere on the set.

In the afternoon, the clothing team found a set of clothes for Zhou Yan.

After Zhou Yan put on his clothes, he was a little surprised. He originally thought that the clothes of the extras were all one-size-fits-all, with skinny people wearing big clothes and fat people wearing tight clothes.

But the clothes the costume team gave him fit very well and had a good shape. They seemed different from the clothes of other supporting actors.

Watching Zhou Yan put on his clothes, Huang Wenqin from the costume team said with a smile, Director Zhou has a good foundation, and this gown just looks better than others.

Your clothes are better made. Zhou Yan said with a smile.

After getting dressed, Zhou Yan went to position with other actors.

Although he was a supporting actor, his position was not random. Chen Kaige arranged Zhou Yan in the front row of the court hearing auditorium, right behind Gong Li.

Everyone, look in my direction, yes, lean to the left.

Sister Gong Li, just sit up straight.

Brother Zhang, come a little to the left.

…

The new photographer assisted Gu Changwei in adjusting the positions of the actors in the frame. He was polite to the other actors. When he arrived at Zhou Yan, he shouted, Boy, please move closer to the front to block the people behind.

As soon as they heard the photographer call him Zhou Yan, many people at the scene had strange expressions. Chief photographer Gu Changwei, who was standing next to the photographer, also glanced at him, but no one said anything.

Zhou Yan also listened to the arrangement honestly and leaned forward.

When Zhou Yan just moved forward, the photographer said, Oh, that kid, it's you, is too close, so lean back.

Zhou Yan smiled, but still didn't take it seriously and leaned back again.

But Chen Kaige walked up to the photographer and patted him on the head, What the hell, kid, this is Director Zhou.

The photographer was a little confused by Chen Kaige's photo, but he reacted quickly and quickly apologized to Zhou Yan, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Director Zhou, I'm new here.

It's okay. Zhou Yan smiled and said to Chen Kaige, Master Kai, please don't embarrass the young man.

Upon hearing Zhou Yan's words, many people at the scene laughed.

Zhou Yan is a little younger than the photographer, which sounds strange but reasonable.

Seeing so many people laughing, the photographer also smiled awkwardly. Although he still didn't know the origin of this Director Zhou, he knew from the reaction on the scene that Director Zhou's identity was extraordinary.

After that, whenever he came to Zhou Yan's place, the photographer would respectfully call him Director Zhou.

The court trial scene is not complicated. Although there are many people present, it mainly depends on the performance of Ge You and Leslie Cheung.

Of course, Zhou Yan's position was relatively forward and close to Gong Li, so he couldn't relax and had to concentrate all the time.

During the break, Zhou Yan took out his notebook and started taking notes. Chen Kaige ran over and said, Director Zhou, when we start shooting again later, just write and draw like you are doing now.

Zhou Yan raised his head and said with a smile: What's the matter? I have a design for this little bit player.

Hey, it's not called design. You write and draw in the back. It's quite sensible. Looking at you like this, you don't look like an ordinary person. It can also give the audience a little bit of reverie.

Zhou Yan nodded, That's okay.

In the subsequent filming, Zhou Yan did not need to put on airs, he could just take notes normally.

This also saves time for Zhou Yan. When the shooting is over, his recording work for today is also completed.

His record today mainly focused on the scene arrangement and the actors' performance. It has to be said that Ge You and the others' performance was indeed very good, and it was very worthy of Zhou Yan's learning.

After the scene ended, Zhou Yan was talking to Gong Li, and the previous photographer ran up to him and apologized constantly.

Director Zhou, I'm really sorry. I just came here these two days.

You must not blame.

Although Zhou Yan said it was okay, the photographer still apologized for a long time and said he would treat Zhou Yan to dinner.

Seeing him like this, Zhou Yan was also very emotional. No matter what time, the world is so realistic. There are many people who are arrogant at first and respectful at the end.

…

For the next week, Zhou Yan would go to the set of Farewell My Concubine every day. Sometimes he would just take a look and leave, and sometimes he would stay for half a day.

In the remaining time, I either went to rehearse with Yu Ran and the others, or I went to the TV Production Center to discuss the soundtrack of Three Kingdoms with Li Yiding.

The two have somewhat different ideas about orchestration. Li Yiding's previous idea was to use more ethnic instruments, but now that he has heard several of Zhou Yan's soundtracks, his ideas have changed a bit.

The advantages of using ethnic musical instruments are outstanding, but the shortcomings are also obvious. In many cases, there are too many restrictions. Some soundtracks always feel inferior, and the homogeneity is too serious.

Now Li Yiding's idea is to integrate their orchestration styles and try to be more cutting-edge without losing the main national tone.

This is a bit similar to the idea of ​​​​the soundtrack of Farewell My Concubine. Although the movie is related to Peking Opera, Zhao Jiping and Zhou Yan integrated Western music to write the soundtrack for the movie. This kind of appropriation will make the movie's soundtrack last forever. .

A week later, Zhou Yan just came out of the production center when he received news from Hua Yang.

The content is still the same.

“When will you go home to Huayang?”

Zhou Yan finished reading the message and planned to call Hua Yang back when he got home. However, when he got home, he found Hua Yang already waiting at his door.

Seeing Hua Yang, Zhou Yan asked unexpectedly: What's your emergency?

Hua Yang raised the letter in his hand and said, I'm here to send you another reader's letter.

As soon as he saw the letter, Zhou Yan understood that Hua Yang was here to urge the manuscript.

During this period of time, Hua Yang didn't contact him. He almost forgot about the manuscript, but he didn't expect Hua Yang to come again.

After taking Hua Yang into the room, Zhou Yan went to the study and got a manuscript for Hua Yang before Hua Yang could speak.

Hua Yang's eyes lit up. He took the manuscript and looked at it. He saw the title written on the header of the manuscript - Tree Hole.