Sunday, noon. Dongzhimen Inner Street, New Taicang Hutong, a relatively quiet private restaurant.

In the morning, after confirming with Zhao Chenan that he had time today, Zhou Chengcheng asked Chen Li to prepare a meal, and he wanted to invite Zhao Chenan to dinner today. Because Zhao Chenan still has a dinner tonight, he can't shirk it, so he made an appointment for lunch.

Chen Li and Qian Lele rushed to the hotel at half past ten and mentioned that everything had been arranged. Seeing Zhou Cheng arrive, Chen Li hurriedly pulled him into the reserved box.

In addition to Chen Li in the box, there was also a tall girl wearing a light-colored skirt, with willow leaves and curved eyebrows, bright eyes, exuding the charm of a mature woman. It's just a little thinner, which may be related to their profession as a host, so that they won't look fat on camera.

"Hello Zhou Cheng, I am Chen Li's lover Qian Lele." This is Chen Li's lover Qian Lele, who hurriedly stretched out his hand to greet Zhou Cheng when he saw him coming in.

"Sister Lele, hello. I've been hearing Chu Ran's kid say that his sister-in-law is beautiful, and I finally saw it today. Chu Ran really didn't lie to me, no wonder Brother Li has been hiding it. Zhou Cheng shook her hand lightly and let go, then turned his gaze to Chen Li.

Chen Li smiled: "I've been busy preparing for the Renyi drama recently, and your sister-in-law is in Star City, otherwise I would have made an appointment to invite you to dinner." ”

"In the future, my sister-in-law will be transferred to Yanjingtai, and you will be reunited. Maybe we'll go to your house for three days and two ends to eat. ”

"Zhou Cheng, thank you, this time I am glad you promised you to help, otherwise your sister-in-law is afraid that it will be very hanging."

"Don't worry, Brother Zhao has already greeted the leaders of the stage, and the matter of my sister-in-law is basically the same."

"Ah, what you say is true?" Hearing Zhou Cheng's words, Qian Lele looked surprised and couldn't help but exclaim.

In the past few days, Zhou Cheng has learned about Qian Lele's situation.

Qian Lele was originally the location host of a program on Mango Channel's Economic Life Channel. This show is not taken seriously on Mango Channel, which is mainly an entertainment variety show, and the ratings are not high.

In March this year, the leadership team of Mango TV was adjusted, and the new editor-in-chief of the channel planned to revise this program into an economic interview program, inviting entrepreneurs from all over the province to conduct on-site interviews.

In this way, the program personnel have to be adjusted, Qian Lele has no background, and her husband has got a letter of employment from Yanjing Renyi, so she has the idea of changing jobs.

Yenching TV is preparing to launch a variety show "Olympic Rush Forward" on the first anniversary of the countdown to the Olympic Games. At that time, the previous Olympic champions will be invited to participate in the program and cheer for the Olympics together.

Zhou Cheng may know this show better than Qian Lele. In another world, not long after he entered Yanjing Channel, he was transferred to this show as a choreographer. Later, with the blessing of this variety show's resume, he was directly assigned to a popular variety show on the variety channel after entering CCTV.

To get back to the point, at present, this show has invited Dai Jun, a famous domestic host, to be the main coffee, and Qian Lele is the deputy coffee host, who has passed the preliminary and re-examination links, and next week will be the final interview by several station leaders, so as to make a decision on the final candidate.

According to Zhao Chen'an's feedback to Zhou Cheng about the information he heard, among the girls who entered the final assessment, Qian Lele's performance was not too outstanding, whether it was Cheng Yue or Liu Yan's image, it was better than Qian Lele's.

Qian Lele's deepest impression on the leaders of the station now is that she is tall, and if she is 172 and Dai Jun with a height of 183, she will not look unbalanced. This is also the reason why Zhao Chenan found a reason for Deputy Director Wang to persuade several other Taiwan leaders.

In another world, the last choice of this variety show was Cheng Yue, this girl took the path of the editor-in-chief of the variety show department, and the editor-in-chief of Chu and Zhou Kezhi's cronies Deputy Director Wang have always been at odds. At that time, in order to be able to send Zhou Cheng into this show, Deputy Director Wang voted in favor of the candidate proposed by the editor-in-chief of Chu. And in this world, without the factor of Zhou Cheng, Deputy Director Wang doesn't mind using Qian Lele, recommended by Zhao Chenan, to suppress Editor-in-Chief Chu.

This result surprised Zhou Cheng very much, the dinner that was originally intended for Zhao Chenan to help with was now almost a thank you banquet.

"Zhou Cheng, thank you. Director Zhao is here later, how much do you think we can pack? Chen Li opened the briefcase he was carrying, and there were several stacks of brand-new banknotes that he had just withdrawn from the bank, which was originally for Zhao Chen'an to help clear the relationship, and now they were ready to pay Zhao Jian'an directly.

After all, being able to jump from a sub-channel of Mango Channel to Yanjing Satellite TV, and being the host of a variety show that is relatively valued by the station, even if it is just a vice coffee, it is also a qualitative leap for Qian Lele's career, so Chen Li and his wife want to express it.

"Money? No need to pack money. This matter is a gesture for Brother Zhao. ”

"Director Zhao is also looking for someone to do things, and he needs a lot of favors, how can we let him do his own favors for our business." Chen Li thought about Zhou Cheng's background and thought that he had never found someone to do such a thing, so he explained it to him.

"Zhou Cheng, Chen Li is right. How can you let people bear the favor for nothing. Qian Lele took out a black box with a golden crown tag from his bag and handed it to Zhou Cheng: "Sister will not let you help in vain." This is a watch that my sister bought from there on a business trip to Xiangjiang last month, and it matches Zhou Cheng's temperament very well, wear it and try it. ”

"Sister Lele, I really don't need to. Let's wear this watch for Brother Li. Zhou Cheng pushed the watch back, shook his head and declined.

Zhou Cheng's attitude made Chen Li and his wife look at each other and become anxious, I don't know if things have changed again, or Zhou Cheng's appetite is too big and he dislikes this gift too lightly?

Looking at the uneasy expressions of Chen Li and his wife, Zhou Cheng smiled and comforted them: "Brother Zhao helping Sister Lele can be said to be within the scope of his duties, after all, he is introducing excellent hosts to the help station." If he really accepts your money, it is a bribe, and the nature changes. There is no impermeable wall in the world, and if it is known, it will have a certain impact on Brother Zhao's future. ”

This is the way of being an official instilled by Zhou Kezhi in Zhao Chenan in another world. Officialdom is also a circle, and there can be an exchange of interests between each other, but it must not involve monetary transactions.

It's just that Zhou Cheng is not sure whether Zhao Chenan in this world has the same concept.

So when he called Zhao Chenan in the morning, he tried it and got the answer he wanted, so Zhou Chengcai took it upon himself to push away the benefit fee given by Chen Li.

"Oh, it's because I don't think it through, and I always feel that I can't let Director Zhao contribute in vain." After listening to Zhou Cheng's words, Chen Li put away the money suspiciously, but still put two of them in an envelope and let Qian Lele take it and act when he saw the opportunity.

"Zhou Cheng, you don't take the official career, it shouldn't matter if you take this." Qian Lele didn't give up and pushed the watch to Zhou Cheng again.

"Sister Lele, I'm friends with Brother Li, I really don't have to be like this." Zhou Cheng continued to refuse: "If you really think about it, the last time Brother Li helped me contact the notice of Mango Channel, do I also want to send something to express my expression?" ”

"Lele, put it away." Chen Li saw that Zhou Cheng's attitude was very resolute, and motioned for Qian Lele to put away his watch. As Zhou Cheng revealed in his words, this is to treat him as a friend, if there are too many monetary transactions involved, then everyone will not get along well in the future.

Seeing that they were not insisting on giving themselves gifts, Zhou Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief, he was in a period of lack of money, and he really didn't want to go through such a test again.

It's easy to collect money, but it's hard to get it. If such a hole is opened, Zhou Cheng is worried that the desire in his heart will be as uncontrollable as a flood that bursts the embankment. In that way, I may deliberately embark on a path of running relationships and taking the back door, which is very different from my original intention.

Thinking of the lack of money, Zhou Cheng took out the script that had been written from his bag: "Brother Li, this is a script I wrote during this time, and I am going to participate in the 'College Student Video Festival' at the end of July, can you take the time to help take a look." ”

"The Student Video Festival? This year, it seems that the name has been changed to the FIRST Youth Film Festival. Chen Li stretched out his hand to take it, and said with some emotion: "I thought you were immersed in the artist agency industry, but I didn't expect you to give up your profession." ”

"After all, after studying for four years, although it can't compare to Chu Ran and them, sometimes when inspiration comes, I write it by hand."

The timeline of the development of the "FIRST Youth Film Festival" in another world is slightly different.

After SARS in 2003, Huaxia University of Communication and Communication joined forces with several domestic professional film and television colleges such as Nortel and China Opera to establish a "Huaxia Media College Student Film Festival" that wanted to compete with the "Yenching University Student Film Festival". It's just that after being held for three consecutive sessions, they are all tepid, and they have become tasteless and discarded.

There is a saying that "a tree dies, but a man lives". After the end of last year, the organizing committee was warmly invited by the Ningxi Municipal Government to move the venue from Yanjing to Ningxi City and change its name to "FIRST Youth Film Festival".

This decision coincides with the country's strategic policy for the large-scale development of the western region, and has also been strongly supported by the general manager of the national Guangdian Palace, who has taken the initiative to invite a number of excellent films to participate in the exhibition. These include "Tuya's Marriage", which won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, "Apple", which is highly controversial directed by Li Yu, and "The Ballad of Yunshui", which starred Chen Kun and was widely acclaimed, striving to make it a well-known film festival in western China.

This time, in addition to positioning the target group as literary films, it also vigorously supported young filmmakers, and set up a separate selection link for new scripts. As long as he wins the award, he will receive a start-up capital of 100,000 yuan, which can solve the urgent need for Zhou Cheng, who is short of money.

It's just that it's not easy to win an award, 100,000 yuan is nothing for a famous filmmaker, but it is a big incentive for the screenwriter group who have been suffering haha. According to Chen Li's knowledge, not only students from the literature departments of several domestic film schools have signed up, but even students from the Chinese departments of major universities have also come up with their own works.

According to Chen Li's understanding of Zhou Cheng, Zhou Cheng was not a student with outstanding writing in school before, but since he asked himself to take a look this time, he would help him polish it, which can be regarded as returning some favors.

Looking at the time, Chen Li picked up the manuscript in his hand and first looked at the synopsis of the story: ""Donkey Gets Water"...... The story of the Republic of China? ……”

Zhou Cheng explained to Chen Li: "Yes, I originally wanted to write an absurd story, but I was afraid that it would not be easy to pass the trial in modern times, so I put it in the Republic of China period......"

Zhou Cheng's words were not finished, because Chen Li was already attracted by his story when he saw the story synopsis of the script and the introduction of several characters.

Originally, this English teacher called "Donkey Gets Water" was a donkey who carried water from the school, and now the higher education department has sent a special commissioner to conduct an inspection, in order to cope with the inspection......

"Who's banging on my window, who's stirring the strings......"

Chen Li, who was attracted by the script, had just read three pages and was awakened by Zhou Chengxin's new ringtone.

Chen Li didn't expect Zhou Cheng to be able to write such an excellent storyline, and he immersed himself in it after only reading a beginning.

"Brother Li, Brother Zhao has arrived, I'll go to the alley to greet you, you can keep this script first, and then help me give more opinions after you finish reading."

Serious matters, although he wanted to see the follow-up storyline, Chen Li still stuffed it into his briefcase: "Okay, I will definitely watch it......"