簋 (guǐ), an ancient food utensil, round mouth, double ears.

Gui Street, worthy of its name, is the street that belongs to food, it is located in Dongzhimen, the west section of the Dongzhimen overpass of the Second Ring Road, and the east end of Jiaodaokou East Street in the west.

There are many embassies around here, there are hospitals around, the flow of people is extremely dense, in later generations, more than 150 shops have more than 90% of the food and beverage business, in the future, it will be a famous food street in the capital, the lights are not extinguished day and night.

Chinese opera is one of the very few universities located in the Second Ring Road, on the east side of Nanluoguxiang, surrounded by East Cotton Hutong and North Terracotta Hutong, in the already noisy Hutong attractions, low-key and quiet.

From Zhongju to Gui Street, it only takes ten minutes by bus, and it is all the distance from Jiaodaokou East Street to Dongzhimen Inner Street.

Zhou Bai admires Liu Guoyang very much, this is a person who can do things, from opening to operation, can take care of everything properly, this is a kind of ability, how many things he has done Zhou Bai knows very well.

Obviously, although Liu Guoyang is not highly educated, he is an ambitious person, and there are not many people who are ambitious and can do things in a real way, which is why Zhou Bai admires Liu Guoyang.

In the afternoon of winter, there are very few people who come to eat at this time, and there are two or three big cats and small cats, so it looks deserted.

Although Liu Guoyang is not very old, he is very mature in his work, although Zhou Bai, the boss, does not care about anything, but all the staff in the store know that Zhou Bai is the one who pays everyone's salary, although Zhou Bai doesn't care about this, but it does not prevent him from feeling very comfortable.

"Boss, our restaurant has developed well this month, and it has a good reputation near Gui Street, so I think it's time for rapid development. Liu Guoyang said neither humbly nor arrogantly, and he had never deliberately curry favor with Zhou Bai.

In a small room, Liu Guoyang and Wen Shan are there, this is Zhou Bai's first time to reconcile accounts, accounts are sensitive in every store, after the opening of the new store, Liu Guoyang has always been in charge of personnel management, and Wen Shan is in charge of accounts.

When it comes to the need for a lot of money, Wen Shan will confirm with Zhou Bai that the money will be approved, this is not to prevent anyone, it belongs to normal management.

"Well, that's good, Brother Liu, all aspects of the store have to be dealt with, and it's been a hard time. Zhou Bai nodded and said.

"The boss trusts me so much, these are what I should do, and besides, the salary given by the boss is not low. Liu Guoyang said.

At the beginning, when he heard that Zhou Bai was going to open a store, Liu Guoyang felt that Zhou Bai was a son-in-law who had endless money, and after chatting for a while, he just felt that he was a literate son-in-law, and he was not even too optimistic about Zhou Bai.

But Zhou Bai put all the power in his hands, and after the store was renovated, Liu Guoyang had the final say, which completely exceeded his previous promise, and this trust moved him very much.

After checking the accounts with Liu Guoyang, Zhou Bai listened to his arrangements during the Spring Festival by the way, and found no major problems, so these things were settled.

After chatting with Liu Guoyang and Wen Shan for a while, Zhou Bai was ready to leave.

When he came out, the conversation of the diner next to him caught Zhou Bai's attention.

The hot pot was smoking, and three young people sat around a table and drank beer.

"It's a complete surprise that "Little Mountain Comes Home" won the award this time, but I can't keep making short films, it's hard to get some money now, and it's impossible for the film studio to invest money in. The man who spoke was a twenty-six-seventeen-year-old man with lowered eyebrows and eyes, and a very bitter look.

"Lao Jia, "Little Mountain Goes Home" is an award from Xiangjiang, let's try to see if we can get some funds from there, there is no hope in China, and it is impossible to even pass the trial. The one who spoke was a young man of about the same age next to him, who looked a little more upright than the one who spoke just now, and his appearance was quite average.

"Don't look at the fact that we won the gold award this time, but this is a fart over there, how many directors over there can't find a chance to make a film, and people are more commercial than us, this time the film we want to make will definitely not pass the review in China, and it is not commercial, and it is too difficult to attract investment. Even if it is auctioned, it is destined to be a blood loss, unless we can win awards abroad, but we are not those people, like Jiang Wen, how many people want to invest in him now. ”

As soon as Zhou Bai listened to their conversation, he knew that these ironclad people must be next door, and the news of "Little Mountain Coming Home" winning the award has spread recently, and there are many people discussing it in Chinese opera.

Unexpectedly, the capital is not big, it is not small, this time I can actually meet these people in the "306 Restaurant", Zhou Bai wondered if he wanted to make a good fate.

"Hello guys, are you students of Nortel?" Zhou Bai walked over and asked.

Jia Zhangke and Wang Hongwei were chatting there, Gu Zheng was drinking silently beside him, and when he heard Zhou Bai's voice, he noticed the young man who came over.

Jia Zhangke glanced at Wang Hongwei with doubts, meaning do you know this buddy?

Wang Hongwei made eye contact with Jia Zhangke, indicating that he didn't know Zhou Bai either.

Several of them exchanged glances, and Wang Hongwei said, "Yes, we are students of Nortel, do you know us?"

"That's not true, I overheard you talking about movies just now, and I happened to know the news that the short film "Little Mountain Goes Home" won the award recently, so I asked, I am from the 96-level undergraduate class of the Chinese Opera Performance Department, my name is Zhou Bai. Zhou Bai replied with a smile on his face, and his tone was very polite.

"Hello, the "Little Mountain Goes Home" you said was filmed by us, this is called Jia Zhangke, the director of "Little Mountain Comes Home", my name is Wang Hongwei, and the one next to me is called Gu Zheng, we are all from Nortel. Wang Hongwei said, stretched out his hand to shake Zhou Bai, and introduced Zhou Bai.

"Do you want to participate in a movie performance? If I'm not mistaken, I can't film for the first two years. Jia Zhangke said that he still knows the rules of Chinese opera very well.

Zhou Bai shook his head and said: "That's definitely not, we couldn't take over the drama in the first two years, but I just heard a few people say that they have the idea of filming, but they can't find the funds, so I came to ask, and by the way, I also got to know the main creator of "Xiaoshan Goes Home". ”

The doubts in Jia Zhangke's heart were solved, he has not graduated yet, if he wants to be famous or not, it is impossible for the students of Chinese opera to come to scold him, he has seen the arrogance of the students of Nortel's performance department.

"Is there such a thing, but now it's just an idea, do you have a channel for funds?" Jia Zhangke didn't have much doubt about Zhou Bai's identity as a student of the Chinese Opera Performance Department, it would be a pity not to learn acting under this appearance condition, but Zhou Bai said that the problem of film funding made him scratch his head, and it cost a lot of money to make a feature film, which is hundreds of thousands of funds at every turn, how can a student do anything.

"Little Mountain Comes Home" is a short drama film shot on videotape, with a length of less than 60 minutes, which has given Jia Zhangke and his "Nortel Youth Experimental Film Group" a headache for a long time.

The "Nortel Youth Experimental Film Group" was created by Jia Zhangke and a few of them, in fact, several of the twelve people in the literature department class simply set up this group because they felt that the fifth-generation directors were becoming more and more "commercial" and not the movies they had in their minds at all.

Jia Zhangke, Wang Hongwei, and Gu Zheng can be called the three musketeers of the film group, and their group is the founder.

After several years of development, Jia Zhangke and his team, which they can't even call the grass stage team, finally came up with the short film "Little Mountain Goes Home".

"Little Mountain Comes Home" won the award, but the movie 9 group was basically disbanded, and there were only these three left, everyone was facing the problem of graduation, which was why Jia Zhangke wanted to make a real movie, he didn't want to just break up, he really loved movies.

However, funding is a huge problem, Zhou Bai talked about the matter of funds, and they didn't believe that this freshman of the Chinese opera performance department, who was several years younger than them, could handle this matter.