Chapter 14: A Visit to New Art City

In the blink of an eye, Chen Jie has been singing at night for a week, and at this time, Chen Jie's daily singing income has been mentioned to 300 or so. Because of the night, the turnover has increased by 50%. Chen Jie's new book "How Bad Guys Are Trained" is also three-quarters completed, and the speed of creation has slowed down, because almost all the content after that has been changed by Chen Jie himself. In order to highlight the spirit of national righteousness of the gang figures. Chen Jie can be described as racking his brains.

It's been almost a month since I came to the training class, and Chen Jie still has a week to complete the exam. Zhong Jinhui has not been pulling Chen Jie to make up classes recently, but Chen Jie's learning ability is too scary, and he has been hollowed out. This also made Chen Jie's spare time abundant. Thinking that he hadn't seen Zhao Yuzhi for several days, Chen Jie wanted to visit Zhao Yuzhi's house today, and proudly went to the video store to buy a set of "Cat and Mouse" videotapes. Unexpectedly, Chen Jie just came out of the video store, and he remembered the pager he bought.

Chen Jie found a phone call and called

"Hey, who's looking for it!" An unfamiliar voice remembered.

"Hello, I'm the owner of the **** plane, I don't know who called me just now." Chen Jie said.

"You said you were the **** owner! So you're doing it! The voice on the other side of the phone said with some excitement.

"That's right, it's me, who are you?" Chen Jie asked. At this time, Ming Pao had already begun to serialize "Swordsman Love", but the reflection was a little tepid, and it may have just been serialized.

"I'm Mai Jia from New Arts City, we are very interested in your creation of "Best Partner", I don't know if you have time to come to New Arts City today to discuss the script!" Mai Jia said on the phone.

"If you have time, please wait for me for a while! It will take me about an hour to get there. Chen Jie said.

"Okay, then I'll be here for you!" Mai Jia said on the phone.

After Chen Jie put down the phone, he stopped a taxi and came to the office of Xinyi City.

"Hello, I'm Xingtian, and Mr. Mai Jia and I are getting better." Chen Jie said to the reception desk.

The receptionist picked up the phone to confirm it, and led Chen Jie to a conference room. There were three people sitting in the room at this point. The most conspicuous thing is Mai Jia's big bald head.

"Hello Mr. Mai, my name is Chen Jie, and I am the author of "Best Partner". Chen Jie took the initiative to say to Mai Jia.

Mai Jialeng paused, but he didn't expect Xingtian, the author of "Best Partner", to be such a young person. After coming back to his senses, he hurriedly said, "Hello Mr. Chen, it's a pleasure to meet you." Let's do it and we'll talk slowly. After speaking, he said to the receptionist who brought Chen Jie in, "Prepare a cup of coffee for Mr. Chen." ”

After a while, the coffee was delivered, Chen Jie took it after thanking him, took a sip and asked

"Mr. Mai didn't come to me to invite me for coffee."

"Of course not, our new art city has taken a fancy to the script of "Best Partner" created by Mr. Chen, and plans to arrange him into a movie, and the key to inviting Mr. Chen today is to discuss cooperation!" A man with glasses next to Mai Jia said.

Chen Jie looked at this person and recognized it as the famous director, screenwriter, and producer Huang Baiming, so he spoke

"Hello Mr. Huang, you can call me Applejack. I wonder what form you plan to work with? Chen Jie said politely, this is also because he liked Huang Baiming more in his previous life. Huang Baiming is a person who truly loves movies. I don't want Mai Jia and Shi Tian to make trouble for some interests. Later, after making enough money, he didn't make a movie.

"Then you're welcome, Applejack, I take the liberty of asking if Best Buddies was created by you or with someone else! It's a bit of a faux pas, but we have to figure it out. After all, if the movie is a big hit, we don't want to expose this kind of news. Huang Baiming said.

"I understand, I'm sure I wrote it myself, Xingtian is my pen name. If you're not sure, we can put it in the contract. Chen Jie said.

After Huang Baiming listened to Chen Jie's words, he didn't say anything, but nodded at Mai Jia faintly.

"Applejack, I take the liberty of asking you, I recently saw a novel in Ming Pao called "Swordsman Love", the author is also called Xingtian. Does this have anything to do with you? Another short, fat man asked.

Chen Jie had already noticed this person, who was it if it wasn't Zeng Zhiwei?

"Hehe, "Swordsman Love" was also written by me." Chen Jie said with a smile.

"It's really you, Applejack, you don't know that I'm a loyal reader of your book!" Zeng Zhiwei said excitedly.

"yes, to be honest, I thought my book wasn't very good! I didn't expect to be loved by Mr. Zeng. You were the first reader I met. Chen Jie said happily after listening to Zeng Zhiwei's words.

"How about revealing the ending to me?" Zeng Zhiwei asked with a grin.

"Hehe, it's definitely something you can't think of, especially the identity of Dugu Jian. But the ending is a little sad, and if I tell you now, I'm afraid you won't be in the mood to watch it. Chen Jie said.

"Eh, Applejack, you make me feel itchy like this! Revealed. Zeng Zhiwei said.

"Alright, don't make a fuss. Let's get down to business! Mai Jia stopped Zeng Zhiwei and said.

"I didn't expect Applejack to be able to write novels at such a young age and create such elaborate storyboard scripts. Frankly speaking, there are very few people in Hong Kong who can produce such a detailed storyboard script as "Best Partner"! I don't know if Ajie is interested in coming to work in New Art City! Huang Baiming said.

"Brother Ming praised it, but not now. I am currently a trainee of the Wireless Artist Training Course. When I can't get along over there, I'm sure I'll come to you! Let's talk about "Best Partner". Chen Jie said half-jokingly.

"Alright, let's get down to business. Applejack, we are now planning to buy out this script for 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, how do you feel? Huang Baiming said.

You must know that the price given by Huang Baiming is not low. At this time, Hong Kong did not pay much attention to screenwriters. Ordinary screenwriters only write a script for a few thousand yuan, and the price Huang Baiming gave Chen Jie is already the price of Hong Kong's first-line screenwriters, which is also why Huang Baiming is optimistic about Chen Jie and wants to win over Chen Jie to give such a high price. said to Huang Baiming that the storyboard script created by Chen Jie is very detailed. At this time, there were few screenwriters in Hong Kong who could create such detailed storyboards.

But Mai Jia on the side frowned a little when she heard Huang Baiming give Chen Jie such a high price, but she didn't speak. In his opinion, Chen Jie should be his fan, after all, the role of the bald detective in "Best Partner" can be said to be tailor-made for himself. As long as you have a good relationship with Chen Jie, you should be able to win this script very cheaply.

Chen Jie thought for a while and said, "50,000 yuan is indeed not low, but it is not the price in my heart." ”

"What! It's not the price you want! This is already the value of Hong Kong's first-class screenwriters, and even many first-class screenwriters can't guarantee that every script will be sold at this price! Mai Jia said angrily.

Huang Baiming and Zeng Zhiwei also frowned and looked at Chen Jie.

Chen Jie didn't get angry because of Mai Jia's tone, but took a sip of coffee and said

"I know that you who are saying this may think I'm being a little arrogant, but I dare say that none of you who are doing it know the value of Best Partners better than I do. Otherwise, I'll sell "Best Partner" to you for 50,000 Hong Kong dollars! But I'm going to keep the copyright. Also, I'd like to make a bet with you! I wonder if you're interested? ”

After listening to Chen Jie's words, the three of them were all stunned. Mai Jia smiled and said, "What kind of gambling method?" In his opinion, Chen Jie is arrogant and boundless, so he just took this opportunity to teach Chen Jie a lesson.

"Bet on the box office of "Best Partner"! I paid 500,000 yuan and the sequel rights of "Best Partner" for 500,000 yuan, betting that "Best Partner" would break the box office record of Hong Kong films. ”