Zhang Ran passed through the boarding gate, stepped onto the plane, and followed the prompts of the flight attendant to his place. He placed the salute in the salute rack in his seat, then sat down in his seat, closed his eyes and began to recuperate.

Not long after, the plane soared into the sky. When the plane reached a stable altitude, Zhang Ran unbuckled his seat belt, opened his backpack, took out a book of Vermeer's paintings from it, and slowly flipped through it.

Vermeer was one of the greatest Dutch painters, and "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is his famous work. Vermeer was a master of light, especially with flat side light. The so-called flat metering refers to the light shining from the 90-degree angle of the eye that remains vertical, and such light will make the concave and convex parts of the surface of the irradiated portrait clearly visible, and there is a projection. When this kind of light hits the room and shines on the person, it will form three levels of "far, middle and near", and the sense of space in the picture is particularly good.

Why do some directors obviously make movies, but they smell like TV dramas? In fact, many times the lighting is not good, the composition is not good, and the picture of the movie lacks depth and three-dimensionality. Really good directors are often accomplished in art, at least they must understand this.

"Dude, are you going to Los Angeles?" At this time, a young man next to him looked at Zhang Ran and asked with a smile.

Zhang Ran glanced at the young man, who was in his twenties, wearing black-framed glasses, should be a student, smiled and nodded: "Yes!"

The young man stretched out his hand to Zhang Ran and introduced himself: "My name is Bai Yunfei!"

Zhang Ran shook hands with Bai Yunfei: "My name is Zhang Ran, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

"Are you going to Los Angeles for tourism or study?" Bai Yunfei asked.

"It's a tour, and I want to buy something by the way. Zhang Ran didn't explain his purpose, not to hide anything, saying that ordinary people can understand AE plug-ins and special effects materials, "You should be an international student, which school?"

"ucLa's, it's the University of California, Los Angeles, I'm a computer science major!" Bai Yunfei was a little proud when it came to his school and major.

Zhang Ran didn't expect Bai Yunfei to be an alumnus with him, he used to be a figure of the year in ucLa, and he didn't want to mention it, so he said with a smile: "The school is good, and the major is good." Now the cold winter of the Internet is passing, the domestic Sohu has announced profits, and then NetEase, ** will successively announce profits, in the next few years Internet companies will grow rapidly, learning computers really have a great future!"

Bai Yunfei was stunned, looked at Zhang Ran, and said in surprise: "I didn't expect you to have such confidence in the Internet, and now many people are still pessimistic about the future of the Internet, because now Internet companies do not have a very good profit model except for advertising!"

Zhang Ran was a pirated video website in his last life, and he is a person in the Internet industry, and now there are countless people with higher technology than him, but there are really few people who understand the future development trend of the Internet better than him. Zhang Ran was absolutely confident at this point, and smiled faintly: "In fact, the profit model of the Internet is 3+1, 3 is e-commerce, advertising and value-added services, e-commerce needless to say, domestic Alibaba, foreign Amazon are this model; not to mention selling advertising, many websites have advertisements; value-added services have the largest room for expansion, if you can grasp this piece, you can definitely become a prince of the Internet world!"

Bai Yunfei felt that Zhang Ran was too optimistic about the profitability of the Internet: "Value-added services are not easy to do, 263 mailbox you know, right? There was originally tens of millions of traffic, but as soon as the charges were announced, it plummeted to hundreds of thousands, and now the company is about to collapse!"

The decline of 263 is a classic case in the history of China's Internet, Zhang Ran is quite clear: "263 is his own death, mailbox is not a profound thing, Yahoo, NetEase, Tencent are all doing, 263 mailbox is not irreplaceable." For netizens, I have NetEase, Tencent's free mailbox to use, why should I use your paid mailbox? It doesn't cost anything to replace the 263 mailbox with a 163 mailbox, just re-register one, at most spend some time to relocate the email. There must be two conditions for Internet products to be charged: first, I can get services that I can't get elsewhere after paying, and second, the cost of switching is too high, and the cost of changing to other companies' products is too high, and you can't change them at all!"

"This analysis is really to the point, and it goes straight to the point!" Bai Yunfei admired Zhang Ran's analysis, this person's understanding of the Internet is much stronger than his own, "By the way, didn't you say 3+1, so what is the remaining 1?"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "It's to be an Internet company to fry yourself, and then sell it for cash, now there are fewer people doing it, after the cold winter of the Internet, investors are much more rational, unlike the previous two years when you can make money by pulling the flag of an Internet company." ”

Bai Yunfei was stunned, it was really like this, and then asked with a smile: "You work in an Internet company, I don't know which company?"

Zhang Ran waved his hand and said: "No, I am a teacher, teaching students at school, but I usually like to surf the Internet, and I pay more attention to the Internet, so I can be regarded as an Internet enthusiast!"

"So you're a teacher! The teacher is very nice, and there are winter and summer vacations every year. Bai Yunfei was secretly surprised in his heart, a teacher has such a deep understanding of the Internet, it is incredible, and he really responded to that sentence, the master is in the people. Zhang Ran was too young, Bai Yunfei didn't think about the university teacher, and asked, "By the way, do you teach junior high school or high school?"

Zhang Ran said that he was Nortel's teacher, and some Nortel students didn't believe it, not to mention others, in order to avoid explanation, he smiled and said: "Junior high school!"

Bai Yunfei was a little devastated, a junior high school teacher's understanding of the Internet was even deeper than that of his own computer major, what kind of world is this, he has a feeling that his own books have been read into the stomach of a dog.

At this moment, not far behind Zhang Ran and them, a young woman stared at a man wearing sunglasses for a while, and finally shouted: "You are Teacher Huang Lei, right? Why do you also take economy class?"

"Teacher Huang Lei?"

"Huang Lei, sign it for me, my whole family likes you!"

"Who is Huang Lei, is he famous?"

"It's the one who played Xu Zhimo in "April Day in the World"!"

……

Huang Lei was a little helpless in his heart, he was still recognized wearing sunglasses, but he was recognized anyway, and it didn't make sense to wear sunglasses again, so he took off his sunglasses and smiled at the passengers in front of him.

Zhang Ran heard the shouting and looked back, it was really Huang Lei, and there was a gentle and beautiful woman sitting next to him, it was Huang Lei's girlfriend Sun Li, it seemed that the two should take advantage of the National Day holiday to travel to Los Angeles. I heard Li Xinyue say that Huang Lei is more picky, it seems to be true, such a big star actually takes economy class.

But seriously, Huang Lei and Sun Li are really compatible, the temperament of the two is relatively close, they are both very gentle and indifferent temperaments, and they look like people who live quietly.

Zhang Ran wanted to say hello, just stood up and sat down again, others have been to the world of two, so don't go over and disturb others.

It's rare to meet a big star, and the men and women around like to see it, so hurry up and take a pen and a book for Huang Lei to sign.

Huang Lei is kind and has a high emotional intelligence, so he naturally won't throw his face at the fans, took the pen and the book, signed the fans very seriously, and asked for a group photo, he was not the slightest unhappy, and he always had a warm smile on his face.

"Trouble, let me go, I'll ask for an autograph!" Bai Yunfei opened his bag excitedly, took out a pen and a notebook, and stood up.

Zhang Ran hurriedly moved a passage and let Bai Yun fly out.

Soon, Bai Yunfei happily came back with his notebook, put it in his bag, and said brightly: "I didn't expect to meet Huang Lei on the plane, it's so lucky!" ”

Zhang Ran smiled: "It seems that you like Huang Lei a lot." ”

Bai Yunfei has an obsessive expression of fans: "Yes, I like his temperament very much, in fact, he looks good, but he doesn't let people think much about his appearance, he gives people the feeling of being elegant, cultivated, and very generous, in short, he is very literary and artistic." ”

Zhang Ran smiled and nodded, I remember that someone said that the post-80s female literary and artistic youth have a yellow base in their hearts, but I didn't expect that there are male literary and artistic young people too, this is the rhythm of both men and women!

Bai Yunfei is a little chattering, with Bai Yunfei on the plane, the originally boring journey has become much more interesting, talking about the Internet for a while, talking about celebrities for a while, and time flies.

Of course, Bai Yunfei did not forget to teach Zhang Ran the precautions for traveling to Los Angeles: "The American police are equipped with guns, if you need to communicate with the police, you must act according to the instructions in front of them, if you hear Freeze, or stop are asking you to stop immediately, do so." Don't make sudden movements, especially don't reach into the inside pocket of your jacket and dig something, or they will think you're pulling out a gun, and you're going to shoot and kill someone!

Day and night in Los Angeles are two different worlds, the day is flamboyant and enterprising, the night is fearful and careful, and the downtown area of Los Angeles is the most crime area, and many people dare not go to the city during the day. Single women in the Los Angeles area, from 16 to 60, usually don't go out alone after dark, let alone go to the city, otherwise there will be an extra naked corpse in a trash can on the street the next day!"

After about ten hours of flight, the plane finally arrived in the United States, and the plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport.

Zhang Ran saluted and walked towards the exit while talking to Bai Yunfei, and when he was about to arrive, Bai Yunfei asked, "Where are you going?

"No, I have a friend here, he's coming to pick me up!" Zhang Ran pointed to the exit.

Bai Yunfei looked in the direction of Zhang Ran's finger and saw a white man in his twenties, holding a sign with two Chinese characters written crookedly on it-Zhang Ran.

"That's okay! You have my phone, call me if anything!" Bai Yunfei waved his hand at Zhang Ran with a smile, and dragged the trolley box outside.

"Okay, goodbye!" Zhang Ran replied, smiling and walking towards the white man holding the sign, it was his friend Neil Blomkamp, who hadn't seen him in a few months, and this kid seemed to be fat.

At this moment, someone behind him suddenly shouted: "Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran!"

(Thanks to the "readers who love novels" for rewarding, asking for collections, asking for recommendations!)