Many times, the ass determines the head, and the identity determines the position.

Take Luo Mingyou as an example, this is a rich young master who likes to play trendy. After the star company's "Singing Girl Red Peony" was released and became a sensation, he also clamored to make a sound movie, and also said that he would import the most advanced sound film equipment from the United States.

Luo Mingyou said this out of sincerity, not to fool others. But why didn't Lianhua Pictures import sound film equipment until it collapsed?

It's simple, because sound movies need a sound theater to play. And Luo Mingyou's stall was too big, starting with dozens of theaters, and later hundreds of theaters, it cost him hundreds of thousands of oceans to install sound playback equipment.

Even making movies requires raising money everywhere, and Luo Mingyou can't afford to spend so much money to upgrade the theater.

As a result, Luo Mingyou later became a staunch "anti-sound film" person, which greatly hindered the development of Chinese sound films. On the contrary, it was the Shaw Brothers brothers, who were up-and-coming in the film industry, and actively promoted sound movies early on because the boat was small, and this decision made them have the last laugh.

If someone is willing to invest money to upgrade the theater equipment, with Luo Mingyou's character, he will definitely vigorously develop sound films.

Luo Mingyou didn't think about it for too long, so he couldn't help but ask, "Is Mr. Zhou really willing to invest in theaters?" ”

Zhou Hexuan nodded and said: "Of course, but there is a precondition, the theater's finances must be independent from Lianhua Pictures." ”

"Of course," Luo Mingyou asked with a smile, "how much is Mr. Zhou going to invest?" ”

"Not much, 200,000." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Okay, I'll ask someone to sort out the financial statements when I go back," Luo Mingyou was a little impatient, stood up and shook hands, "I'll talk about this here today, I'm very much looking forward to cooperating with Mr. Zhou." ”

Sun Yu followed and said: "Then I will go back to prepare for the filming of "The Goddess" first. ”

When it comes to making a sound film, one of the big problems is the recording. China doesn't even have a recording engineer, everything depends on improvisation, and Sun Yu is under great pressure as a director.

Ruan Lingyu saw that the two of them were ready to leave, so she hesitated: "Mr. Zhou, you speak Chinese so well, can you teach me?" This time I'm going to make a sound movie, and I don't want to find someone else to dub it. ”

"Yes, you can come back tomorrow." Zhou Hexuan nodded.

Luo Mingyou smiled evilly and winked at Sun Yu, Sun Yu immediately understood, and felt that there was a leg between Ruan Lingyu and Zhou Hexuan.

Ruan Lingyu walked out of the Zhou Mansion with her head down and returned home in a rickshaw. Before she could close the door, her adoptive mother, He Aying, asked, "How is the progress with Mr. Zhou?" ”

"I'm going to the Zhou Mansion tomorrow to learn to speak Chinese." Ruan Lingyu said.

He Aying smiled: "That's good, that's good!" A-Ruan, you must seize this opportunity. ”

"Hmm." Ruan Lingyu replied softly.

To be honest, Ruan Lingyu has mixed feelings about Zhou Hexuan. The first is gratitude, Zhou Hexuan helped her drive away Zhang Damin; The second is fear, Zhou Hexuan's methods of setting up the game are a little scary; is admiration again, whether it is Zhou Hexuan's reputation as a university scholar or the wonderfulness of the script of "The Goddess", which makes her sincerely admire; There is also resistance, her mother always asked her to hook up with Zhou Hexuan, which made Ruan Lingyu feel resistant to Zhou Hexuan from the bottom of her heart.

In the end, it's a faint liking, a normal woman's liking for an excellent man.

Ruan Lingyu offered to find Zhou Hexuan to learn Chinese, mainly following her mother's orders. She is a good girl, she is used to being obedient, and after being instigated countless times by her adoptive mother, she began to think that it was not bad to be Zhou Hexuan's aunt's wife, and she was even a little worried that Zhou Hexuan would not accept her.

This woman's personality is really tragic, and she doesn't have any opinions at all.

God is fair, and although Ruan Lingyu is extremely weak in life, her artistic attainments have become more and more profound. After she slowly became popular, she was very assertive when making movies, as long as she was optimistic about the role, even if the company boss thought it was not suitable, Ruan Lingyu must win it.

Life is terrible, art is persistent, Ruan Lingyu seems to be born for movies.

The next morning, Ruan Lingyu came to Zhou's mansion in a rickshaw and was led all the way into the study by the servant.

"Mr. Zhou, practice calligraphy so early?" Ruan Lingyu sincerely admired, she felt that Mr. Zhou was too diligent.

"Well, practice," Zhou Hexuan nodded and said, "You sit down first, and wait for me to finish copying this Wei tablet." ”

Ruan Lingyu did not sit, but came to Zhou Hexuan's side and watched him practice calligraphy silently. Looking at it, Ruan Lingyu couldn't help but admire: "Mr. Zhou's words are so beautiful." ”

Zhou Hexuan put away his pen and laughed: "Haha, you are the first person to say that I write beautifully, and I have vision!" ”

Ruan Lingyu didn't lie, after a long period of hard training, Zhou Hexuan's regular script has been written well. But it was only regular script, and if it was replaced by writing other line scripts, official scripts, and cursive scripts, Zhou Hexuan immediately caught blindness.

Zhou Hexuan finished copying a Wei stele, and while washing the brush, he asked, "Have you ever learned Chinese romanization pinyin?" ”

"No," Ruan Lingyu shook her head, explaining, "I used to go to a church girls' school, and the teachers taught in English, and basically no one spoke Chinese. ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "It's good that I haven't learned." ”

"Huh?" Ruan Lingyu didn't understand, why didn't she learn it better?

"I'll teach you a simpler set of pinyin," Zhou Hexuan took out a pre-written Chinese textbook from his desk drawer and explained, "My set of pinyin textbooks uses the English alphabet, but their pronunciation is somewhat different." ”

Ruan Lingyu looked down and saw that there were letters such as "A, O, E, I, U" written on it, and they were indeed all English letters.

Zhou Hexuan elaborated: "The whole set of pinyin is composed of initials, finals and tones, and you are the first learner. As long as you learn this set of pinyin, there should be no problem with the Chinese, provided that you don't speak strings. ”

"Oh." Ruan Lingyu didn't know what to do.

"Let's learn the finals first, 'a' pronounce 'ah'." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Huh?" Ruan Lingyu was confused.

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "Very good, what you just read was the three sounds of 'a'." ”

Ruan Lingyu is not stupid, but she has two major difficulties in learning pinyin for the first time. One is to confuse the pronunciation of the pinyin alphabet with the English alphabet, and the other is to speak the Shanghai dialect unconsciously.

It's really important to promote Mandarin!

From morning to afternoon, Ruan Lingyu basically memorized the finals and the four tones. She looked at Zhou Hexuan, who was teaching seriously, and couldn't help thinking: Mr. Zhou is a decent person, and he doesn't behave in the wrong way for me, not at all like my mother said.

Ruan Lingyu has some gains and losses, she is happy because of Zhou Hexuan's decent conduct, but she is afraid that Zhou Hexuan is not interested in her at all.

At this moment, Zhang Xueliang came to visit with his new girlfriend, and when they met, he said, "Mingcheng, why are you staying at home these days?" I don't want to come to the ball, I don't want to play, I have to dance with us tonight! ”

Miss Jiang Si secretly tugged at Zhang Xueliang's sleeve and reminded: "Mr. Zhou's family has a female guest. ”

Zhang Xueliang saw Ruan Lingyu at this time, and immediately smiled: "No wonder, no wonder." ”

Zhou Hexuan introduced: "Sixth handsome, this is Miss Ruan Lingyu Ruan. ”

"The name sounds familiar." Zhang Xueliang said.

Miss Jiang Si said with a smile: "Miss Ruan is a movie star, and she starred in "Spring Dream of the Ancient Capital". ”

"Oh, I remember," Zhang Xueliang suddenly recalled, and said with a smile, "That's right, Mingcheng will take Miss Ruan to the dance party tonight, and he is not allowed to refuse again!" ”