The snow fell heavily in Hengdian until the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, when it cleared slightly.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the crew finished work, and the group returned to the hotel to prepare for the New Year.

On the last day of 2010, Zhou Jin received a call from Ning Hao.

In a short conversation, they said two things:

First, "People in Embarrassment" has been released, with a total box office of 230 million.

This achievement is already quite rare, and Good Monkey Pictures is good at making a name for itself as a small and broad company, and it has long been spread throughout the industry.

The combination of Huang Bo, Xu Zheng and Zhou Jin has also been recognized again.

The second is that the revenue from "Nightclub" has finally arrived, and the box office is shared, plus the revenue from selling to websites and TV stations, totaling 16 million.

Zhou Jin invested 200,000 yuan, and there is a salary equivalent of 100,000 yuan, which can be divided into about 1.9 million soft girl coins.

Such a large sum of money, if it is directly hit Zhou Jin's account, it will be hundreds of thousands of dollars just to pay personal income tax.

So Ning Hao suggested: "Didn't you happen to be in Hengdian? Just register a studio there, ask the policy over there, it is estimated that you can be exempted from a lot of taxes." ”

"Studio?" Zhou Jin lay on the big bed and jumped up, "You mean I'm going to be the boss?"

"Boss, you're just a body," Ning Hao scolded with a smile on the other end: "You serve your own snacks, see how to get them, anyway, you will definitely have to open a studio in the future." ”

"But what about the brokerage company I still signed for?" Zhou Jin still didn't quite understand.

"It has nothing to do with that, you didn't sell it to them," Ning Hao said: "You open a small studio by yourself, engage in investment or something, and they can't control you." ”

After Ning Hao was shot in "No Man's Land", he understood a truth: the director is still a part-time worker, to put it bluntly.

It's impossible to work part-time, and if you mix in the film and television industry, you still have to learn to do business.

So he not only opened his own studio, but also brought Huang Bo and Xu Zheng together to make Monkey Pictures.

Now that he has tasted the sweetness, he came to encourage Zhou Jin to also have the entire studio.

Not only can you invest in movies yourself, but you can also avoid taxes.

The Celestial Empire's personal income tax is quite heavy, and the corporate income tax and VAT are much lower.

As if to tell everyone that labor cannot lead to wealth.

If you want to get rich, you still have to be a capitalist.

Moreover, in places such as Modu, Hengdian and Wuxi, the local government will make a film and television park in order to attract investment, and after settling in, it will also give certain tax incentives and financial subsidies.

As for Horgos, the tax haven of the Celestial Empire, the concessions given are already maddening.

Khorgos, a city on the western side of Xinjiang, was granted the right to become a new special economic zone in 2011 after the "One Belt, One Road" strategy was proposed, and preferential tax policies were implemented.

As soon as the policy came out, it attracted hundreds of film and television companies to settle in.

It is said that it is settled, but in fact, it is just to open a leather bag company there, transfer the finances there, and enjoy tax incentives.

After a brief popularization of science, Ning Hao hung up the phone, but Zhou Jin still didn't seem to understand.

He has lived for two lifetimes, both of which are part-time jobs, and where can he get access to high-end operations such as opening a studio to avoid taxes.

Now that the opportunity was in front of him, he was both happy and worried.

Do I really have what it takes to build a company?

Do I really have what it takes to harness that wealth?

Don't be busy, end up making wedding clothes for others.

After searching the Internet, he was clear about the process of opening a studio, went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to register, apply for a business license or something, but how to operate and how to do accounts, he was still confused.

If you have the heart to ask someone, after thinking about it for a while, I found that Huang Bo and Xu Zheng have experience in this matter.

But now that everyone is busy with the New Year, Zhou Jin doesn't take the liberty of disturbing others, so let's wait for the New Year.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhou Jin suppressed his worries, and a carp jumped up from the bed.

Let's celebrate the New Year first.

The people in the crew who can go home have gone home, and those who stay really can't leave.

Liu's father also rushed over two days ago, and the family of three reunited in Hengdian, and then ran out to go shopping.

Zhou Lin called him several times, and almost came to Hengdian to celebrate the New Year with him, but Zhou Jin stopped him by saying that he would have been pretending to be a parent.

Lin Gengxing was lonely, huddled in the room playing games, and when Zhou Jin knocked on his door, he found that his eyes were red.

"What, homesick?"

"No, I'm tired from staying up late playing games. ”

"Well," this kid was taller than Zhou Jin, and Zhou Jin couldn't put his arm around his shoulder, so he had to pat his arm to show comfort, "Let's go, let's go and help hang the lantern." ”

The producer bought a lot of lanterns and color stripes and put them in the hotel, just as a festive picture.

Both of them are 1.8 meters tall, so they are the most suitable for this job.

"Is this right?" In the empty hall, Zhou Jin stepped on the ladder and hung the colored strip in his hand on the lampshade.

Lin Gengxing stood at the bottom and commanded, "The one on the left is a little higher, hey, it's ......."

The two of them were busy until the evening, when they saw Liu Sisi coming in with Liu's mother's arm, and Liu's father followed behind him with a large bag.

"Zhou Jin, Xiao Linzi, didn't you two go out?" Liu Sisi ran over and asked.

"No, you're back, hello uncle and aunt," Lin Gengxing greeted politely.

Zhou Jin said hello, climbed down the ladder, and Liu's mother said, "I watched your movie, and the acting was really good." Hey, why are you not at all different from the one in "Step by Step"?"

"You have won the award," Zhou Jin said with a smile: "Acting, the role is not the same." ”

"Then this girl in our family, how can she play the same as anyone," Liu's mother turned to Liu Sisi again, "I see that your "Nightclub" is similar to Ruoxi." ”

"Where is the same," Liu Sisi quibbled: "One is a modern drama, the other is a costume drama, and the clothes are different." ”

"I mean, you're all about the same," Liu's mother patted her, and the family of three went up the stairs noisily.

Since the scene in the snow, Mama Liu has particularly admired Zhou Jin's acting skills and looked for all his movies.

Then she found that Zhou Jin's roles in each play were different.

The gloom in "Sword Rain", the cowardice in "Nightclub", the poet in "People in Embarrassment", and then the sharpness in "Step by Step", the roles are quite different, but Zhou Jin still controls them very well.

Looking back and comparing her own girl, Liu's mother found that Liu Sisi could only act in costume dramas, and the role had to be stable and skinny.

The most typical is "Nightclub", Xu Zheng and Huang Bo are crazy about the show, Zhou Jin can still keep up, and Liu Sisi is too much worse.

Liu's mother kept complaining in private: "Sisi, so many elder brothers will chase you, and you can't look good." ”

Anyway, it's all kinds of disgust.

Liu Sisi was used to it, and he didn't feel stunned at all, "People are so good, you have the ability to let people call you mom, and I can't call you?"

At this time, Liu's father echoed, "It's better to be my good daughter." ”

By the time of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, several of the leading actors were still Liu Sisi, as well as Zhou Jin, Lin Xinxin and Longliqi, and the others went back.

So the four of them, plus Liu's father, Liu's mother, Lin Yulan and a producer, eight people gathered at a table.

The restaurant that used to be full of seats was empty at this time, and I didn't sit down at all four tables.

Lin Yulan stood up and raised her glass, "Everyone has worked hard in the past few months, it's Chinese New Year's Eve, it's difficult for everyone to stay and fight, don't say more, let's do one." ”

"The director has worked hard," everyone stood up and toasted in unison.

As soon as he heard Lin Yulan's words, Zhou Jin inexplicably remembered Er Dongzi.

When he celebrated the New Year in Hengdian for the first time, Er Dongzi invited them to dinner, drank too much wine, and said that he would let him live a personal life for the 40,000 group performances in Hengdian.

It's been two years now, how is he living?

Is it still qualified?

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The explosion of fireworks rang out outside.

After everyone finished a round of wine, they didn't pay attention to it so much, eating and drinking, and making loud noises.

Dad Liu was talking with Lin Yulan while picking vegetables for Liu Sisi, although Mother Liu was disgusted, she still stuffed the peeled prawns into her bowl.

"Oh, don't clip it for me, I can't eat it," Liu Sisi said angrily.

Looking at this scene, Lin Gengxing sighed slightly, and Zhou Jin said faintly beside him: "Alas, the excitement is theirs, and I don't have anything." ”

Lin Gengxing was stunned, "What?"

Zhou Jin smiled: "Isn't that what you think?"

"Ha, no......" Lin Gengxing smiled a little reluctantly, "It's the first time I've spent the New Year outside, and I don't know how the rhubarb is doing at home." ”

"What rhubarb?"

"Oh, it's my big yellow dog, I raised it when I was in junior high school. Lin Gengxing was a little sad when he said.

After all, Lin Gou is not the forest dog he was later, at this time, he was still a shy big boy.

"Okay, drink one," Zhou Jin touched him, "Isn't the actor like this, it's okay, it'll be fine in the future." ”

"Can you go home for the New Year in the future?"

"No, you'll get used to it later. ”

This is also the truth, Lin Gengxing smiled bitterly and drank it all.

It's a little lonely, it's useless for others to say, you have to spend it by yourself.

After passing, the person grows up.

However, Lin Gengxing still has a home to miss, Zhou Jin misses it, and he doesn't know who he misses.

He has a house in Hangzhou, and he has a sister in the house, but when it comes to feelings, it may not be as deep as Huang Bo.

Zhou Jin drank a glass of wine, turned his head to look out the window, under the clear night sky, the fireworks bloomed brilliantly, which was very beautiful.

This is the second time he has seen such a view.

Longrich also didn't say a word, drank stuffy wine, looked at the fireworks outside, and said coldly: "No matter how beautiful the fireworks are, it's a pity that they are fleeting......

The unfinished half sentence is, aren't we celebrities the same?

Zhou Jin didn't care, it would be good to be able to go to heaven, how many people have not been able to bloom once in their lives.

Not to mention far away, the 40,000 group performances in Hengdian are proof of this.

They, people, get a little bit and want more.

"Zhou Jin, Zhou Jin, let's go to the movies later, I've downloaded them all," Liu Sisi suddenly remembered after eating a prawn.

"What kind of movie?"

"It's the one you played, "People Are in Embarrassment". ”

"Haven't you seen it?"

"I've seen it, but my dad hasn't seen it yet, so I said I'd accompany him to watch it. ”

"Well, it's the New Year, and I'm going to see Huang Bo's ugly face again. ”

"Ha, be careful that he hits you......"

The four leading actors, the other three all have their own hearts, and only Liu Sisi is the happiest.

Her father, her mother, and Zhou Jin are all around, and she doesn't care where she goes.

"Will you remember tomorrow, the diary you wrote yesterday, and whether you still remember tomorrow, the ...... you used to cry the most?"

The meal was eaten quickly, and on TV, Xiao Shenyang's singing suddenly sounded, and Uncle Benshan's sketch was also coming to an end.

"I'll watch Zhao Benshan's sketch for a while. ”

"Pull it down, don't mention him, I don't like to see him the most, let's still drink......"

Sure enough, it became a prophecy (chen), and this was also Uncle Benshan's last appearance in the Spring Festival Gala.

"Let's go, let's go, after watching the sketch, let's watch the movie," Liu Siist was active, dragging Liu's father and mother to run back, "Zhou Jin, Xiaolinzi, you are also fast......"

"You guys go first," Zhou Jin pushed Lin Gengxing and stayed at the back.

The figures in the dining room gradually dispersed, and the lights dimmed, leaving only the last one, and Longrich sat there, a little drunk.

"Did you see that?" Zhou Jin walked out of the window and pointed to the night sky outside.

"See what?" Longrich said drunkenly, holding up his glass.

He didn't expect Zhou Jin to take the initiative to come and chat with him.

"Bang! bang!"

The fireworks are even more gorgeous, with purple dandelions, large red roses, and cyan spider plants, lighting up half of the sky.

Zhou Jin and Longliqi's faces were bright and dark.

"Actually, fireworks don't come in a flash, they just look for an opportunity and wait for the next time they bloom," Zhou Jin said with a smile.

"Really?" Longrich laughed to himself.

"Just like us people, desperately rising to the sky......"

"Zhou Jin, what are you still rubbing!" Outside the restaurant, Liu Sisi's roar came.

"It's coming, it's coming," Zhou Jin's brewing mood was instantly frightened, and he ran out with a grunt.

"Oh, you girl, be polite to people......" Liu's mother admonished.

"He's slow," Liu Sisi was still very aggrieved.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm used to it, let's watch a movie......"

"Starling, what are you talking to him?"

"What can he say? A good person, I guess I want to comfort people when they are lonely, right?"

“......”

The conversation faded away until it could no longer be heard, and Longrich tilted his head sideways, his heart throbbing inexplicably.

It seems like...... What's the thing, the important thing, and he's missing?

What is it exactly?

He clenched his fists, trying to grasp the feeling, but such thoughts flashed by him, and he couldn't even say why.

"Bang!"

A firework interrupted him.

Forget it, no matter, Longrich breathed a sigh of relief, released his fist, and slapped it heavily on the windowsill.

Now he is not qualified to think so much.

He has been waiting for a chance to be brilliant again, and "Step by Step" is that last chance!

In the crew, Liu Sisi has the most roles, but in terms of the hard work of the flowers, he admits the second, and no one dares to admit the first.

Not even Zhou Jin.

Although Zhou Jin's acting skills are the best one.

He has always loved to play around, but this time he really completely restrained his temper and didn't care about anything, just to act seriously.

Every time Zhou Jin was playing with Liu Sisi and Lin Gengxing, he stood silently in the distance, pondering the script and characters.

He simply loved the role of the fourth child, who had endured for many years and once succeeded.

The fourth child is okay, why can't he?!

Longrich grabbed the last glass of wine and drank it down.

This night is destined for many people to have a sleepless night.