Returning from the snowy capital to Kanghai, which was like a cool autumn, Zhou Bai went home for the first time after going to college, and everything became familiar again.

The squeaky and broken buses on the loess broken road, the low houses, the green trees also have a piece of dirt and ash on them, and when you walk into the streets, there are all kinds of pop Cantonese songs and Li operas on the streets, although there is no prosperity in the capital, Zhou Bai is very comfortable.

Mom still asked him to eat more like a goose, and his dad laughed beside him, and gossiped about his girlfriend, which made Zhou Bai a little speechless, why did his dad become gossipy.

There is an advantage of returning to Kanghai, that is, you don't need to wear thick winter clothes anymore, a thin coat is fine, and the temperature of more than ten degrees can't ask too much for Zhou Bai after passing the test of sub-zero temperatures in the capital.

I got together with the classmates who hadn't been able to see each other for a long time, fortunately Kanghai is a small place, although No. 1 Middle School is very famous here, but Zhou Bai's classmates are basically locals, which reduces the difficulty of the party.

After a semester of college life, many people have changed, matured a lot, the immaturity of high school students has faded a lot, although not all of Zhou Bai's class have been admitted to the undergraduate, but this year, the junior college is not as bad as the later generations, and a student who graduated from a medical, normal, and public security college can still get a good job.

may have been influenced by the senior brothers and sisters in the school, many female classmates have become a lot bolder, and they actually blatantly teased Zhou Bai, making Zhou Bai can't help but sigh that the era of innocence is gone, which provokes the unanimous criticism of other male classmates, and calls this hanging hair more and more shameless.

To the head teacher and several other teachers' home New Year's greetings is a good thing for everyone, although we have a lot less contact with the teacher after graduation, but there is still a deep friendship between each other, the teachers of their class are good teachers who are conscientious, we have agreed that every year as long as the students come back will go to the teacher's house to visit the New Year.

Every day, Zhou Bai maintains the habit he has developed at school, gets up at five o'clock, and then goes out in the morning, his parents are interested in watching it at first, but he has become accustomed to it later, and his father also said that he would let Zhou Bai sing a paragraph to everyone during the New Year, which made Zhou Bai roll his eyes angrily.

Get up at five o'clock, basically go out at half past five in the morning, eat breakfast at eight o'clock, and then either go to the uncle to watch a movie or stay at home to nibble on all kinds of books, and the time before going to bed at night Zhou Bai is used to drive wooden stakes, except for the time of the party, this is his life that he can't move.

On the day of the Spring Festival, Zhou Bai received New Year's calls from some classmates, and also called some classmates to pay New Year's greetings.

During this period, Zhou Bai also received a call from Jia Zhangke, in which Jia Zhangke told Zhou Bai that the book was almost there, and now there was a Xiangjiang company with investment intentions.

The preparatory time for the film is sometimes very long, although Jia Zhangke's film cannot be described as a very formal project, after all, this project is 100% clear on it, it can only be said to be an underground film project, which is in line with the situation of banned films.

Jia Zhangke was able to attract investment thanks to a photographer he knew in Xiangjiang, and Yu Liwei, the photographer of the award-winning documentary "Beautiful Soul" at last year's Xiangjiang Independent Short Film Festival, was the biggest contributor.

Jia Zhangke's "Little Mountain Comes Home" won the Gold Award for Feature Film in the Independent Short Film and Video Competition, and "Beautiful Soul" won the Best Short Film Award and the Gold Award for Documentary.

Speaking of Jia Zhangke's success, Yu Liwei is a person who can't get around, whether it is his "hometown trilogy" or the award-winning films later, Yu Liwei is in charge, and he and Jia Zhangke can be described as a typical example of mutual achievement.

These two people's artistic pursuit is the same, the style is the same, the content of the film focuses on the current ordinary people, Jia Zhangke's feelings for his homeland, Yu Liwei's rootless pursuit of various places, forming a good complement, Yu Liwei is Jia Zhangke's photographer and director, and his director's work, Jia Zhangke is the producer, so these two people are a pair of good friends.

was able to film "Beautiful Soul", it was because Yu Liwei applied for the Xiangjiang Art Counseling Fund, and when Jia Zhangke's current intention to make a film, Yu Liwei could only look for the fund of the Xiangjiang Company, in fact, he himself was very poor.

I really found him, but the management was only willing to give 200,000 yuan, and the 200,000 yuan fund wanted to make a 90-minute feature film, using 35mm film, and the control of the film consumption ratio could not be higher, even if the actors didn't want money, but the crew's expenses could not be without money.

Zhou Bai preliminarily agreed with Jia Zhangke that Zhou Bai would invest 200,000 yuan in Jia Zhangke's film, and invest in the name of Jia Zhangke and Yu Liwei's company Hutong Production, and the specific share ratio would be negotiated with Xiangjiang's management by Yu Liwei.

There is no way for Zhou Bai to get out the 200,000 funds by relying on 306 restaurants, which Zhou Bai did not set his goal here from the beginning, and the exact investment was provided by Zhou Bai's uncle Zhou Zhengli, because his father planned to let his uncle set up a film and television company.

Zhou Bai got the news from his father a few years ago, the uncle first entered the film and television industry, and not to mention how deep the water in the film and television industry is, how much money was abducted and deceived in the end, and it may not be easy to invest in Jia Zhangke's movies to make a lot of money, but at least it will not lose money.

Uncle Zhou Zhengli has always been an avid movie lover, and as long as he has money over the years, he has basically invested in his private screening room, buying various movie copies for collection, and everything is about movies anyway.

This year, because Zhou Bai's father's business is developing very smoothly, and now he has a batch of idle funds in his hands, he simply asked his uncle Zhou Zhengli to set up a film and television company and let him enter the film industry, so as not to have a career at the age of tens.

Although Zhou Bai's uncle and his father often hate each other, their relationship is actually very good.

His uncle's life over the years has not been bad, because many times it is Zhou Bai's father who asks his uncle to help deal with some business matters, and uses part of the funds to help the uncle advance money, as an investment for the uncle, and the income goes to the uncle, otherwise the uncle doesn't have so much money to buy movies and collect.

Uncle Zhou Zhengli has been cultivated by his father Zhou Zhengdao for many years, and he is not ignorant of business, which Zhou Bai knows, with his father's strength, where can his uncle go, but Uncle is more like an idealist than his father, and his pursuit of art is better than the pursuit of life.

What Zhou Bai didn't know was that one of the reasons why Zhou Zhengdao established a film and television company was to let his younger brother have a career of his own, and the other reason was that he was also very optimistic about the development prospects of the film and television industry, and now he is making a layout.

In addition, in fact, Zhou Zhengdao also has a purpose, that is, to help Zhou Bai pave the way, Zhou Bai only vaguely has some conjectures about this, but he doesn't pay much attention to it, with his advantages, he doesn't need his father to pave the way, if there are advantages that others don't have, they can't go well, and they simply live up to God's arrangement.

The New Year's events are disturbed, but Zhou Bai seems to be free from this distraction, he has no trace of impetuousness, except for taking time to deal with some occasions that must be done, every day he is immersed in the world of performance.

Others go shopping to buy clothes and eat, to watch the flowers, Zhou Bai shopping is to observe life, observe everything around him, meet people he thinks is interesting, sometimes he will be in a corner, want to sketch as carefully observe, and then use words to depict it, after the evening practice to summarize, and then perform.

He is working hard every day to study performance, laying a foundation for himself with sweat, and silently waiting for the moment when he will appear on the stage.