Chapter 67: Cleaning
"Cleaning up here?"
The two came to the vicinity of the family area of the Yanjing Film Academy, Gu Xintong looked at the two-story red brick building in the style of the former Soviet Union, and asked Zhou Cheng suspiciously.
"This is it." Zhou Cheng took out the key from his bag and took Gu Xintong to open a room on the second floor near the innermost.
This building, along with the other two across the road, are classrooms and offices that were built when Nortel was founded. Although it looks unattractive, it has cultivated Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Xiangzhuang, a group of great gods who are enough to influence the Chinese film industry, and have witnessed the history and glory of Nortel.
In the nineties, the country began to attach importance to the construction of colleges and universities, and Nortel continued to expand. Several new teaching buildings, dormitory buildings, small theaters, and sports venues have risen one after another, and the new teaching environment not only provides students with a more superior learning environment, but also makes these old buildings lose their original meaning. At one point, the school was even ready to demolish them and build a new school building. However, the school was abolished for fear of damaging the greenery in front and back of the small building and affecting the lighting of the family area behind.
Later, Nortel emerged a group of self-proclaimed sixth-generation directors, who wanted to shoot movies, wanted to set up their own studios, film and television companies, but in Yanjing, where prices were rising day by day, the hardships were still hard.
The school expressed its support for the students' entrepreneurship, so they cleared out several small buildings here and rented them to Nortel graduates for free as offices. Each person can rent a maximum of two rooms for a period of five years, and the school charges $2,000 per year for utilities and management.
Over the past ten years, there have been several batches of tenants here. From here, directors like Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye, Wu Shixian, and Ning Hao have come out, and after their success, they have moved out of here to choose newer and larger office buildings to start their own new careers. Of course, there are also many who have experienced several failures, and then left here gloomily, mixed in other film and television companies, or simply left this industry and engaged in other careers.
Zhou Cheng also applied for two as a registered business address for the school last year. These two rooms were originally the studios of a senior brother of the photography department. Later, after working hard in Yanjing for a few years, his career has not improved, and he returned to his hometown last year to prepare for wedding photography.
It's just that Zhou Cheng has never been here again, and the two offices have been idle. In fact, there are not many people in these buildings who actually work here every day. Because of their careers, most people are still soaking in various crews, or taking scripts to seek investment in major film and television companies.
Recently, not only did the 100,000 yuan copyright fee of Renyi arrive, but even the 100,000 yuan bonus of the Youth Film Festival was also obtained, so he finally decided to make use of these two offices, just for Li Yan and his studio to write scripts.
This room has not been cleaned for nearly two years, and the moment he opened the door, Gu Xintong felt as if he had been deceived again, in addition to the dust, the two rooms were even fuller, this was completely a dilapidated warehouse.
It may have been idle for a period of time from the time this senior brother checked out to Zhou Cheng's rent, so a lot of useless furniture, tables, chairs, benches, newspapers and periodicals were all piled up here.
"Brother Cheng, although I learned judo, I'm not a strong man." Gu Xintong stretched out his slender arm and gestured to Zhou Cheng: "I'm afraid that you won't be able to bear these meals, it's really not good, you can ask for another master." ”
"Don't mind, I'll just call and shake people." Zhou Cheng had only looked through the window twice before, knowing that it was chaotic inside, but he didn't expect there to be so many things.
"That's pretty much it." Gu Xintong saw that Zhou Cheng started to call, so he temporarily dispelled the idea of leaving.
"Brother Cheng......"
"Brother Cheng......"
"Senior Brother......
Zhou Cheng made a phone call, and a total of six people were called, in addition to Tao Ze, there were three men and two women. The three boys are all students in the literature department of Class 04, and they should stay on campus during the holidays to take orders to earn some extra money. The two girls made Zhou Cheng a little surprised, they were Tang Wan and Zhang Xiaofei from the 05-level performance department.
"Didn't I ask you and Xiaotian to come over to help, what's the situation?" Zhou Cheng pointed to a few people and asked in surprise.
"Xiaotian has something to do when he returns to Jinmen, and he will come back tomorrow. So I went to the dormitory and shouted, I didn't expect to come so much. Tao Ze answered Zhou Cheng's question while glancing at Gu Xintong who was helping Zhou Cheng greet people over there: "Brother Cheng, who is this girl?" Is there a master? Introduce me to him. ”
"Just you?" Zhou Cheng glanced at him disdainfully: "You are not enough for her to fight, this girl used to practice judo." ”
At the beginning, among the four people in Zhou Cheng's dormitory, Tao Ze from Guangdong Province had obvious Lingnan characteristics, lean and lean, and his height was not even 170, not as tall as Gu Xintong.
"I don't pursue her, I just look at her short hair and it feels cool."
In fact, not only Tao Ze felt that Gu Xintong was very cool, but even Tang Wan and Zhang Xiaofei were also amazed when they saw Gu Xintong, Zhang Xiaofei not only touched her short hair with her hand after Gu Xintong's permission, but also grabbed her long hair, fantasizing about how she would style her short hair.
"Thank you, brothers and sisters. I'm in for a treat at noon today. The goat village opposite the school, whatever you want to eat. Zhou Cheng didn't care whether Tao Ze was considering facing the difficulties, and came to this group of people to express his gratitude.
"Okay, thank you, Brother Cheng."
There is a way that there is strength in numbers, a few boys are responsible for carrying relatively heavy items such as tables and benches, and Gu Xintong is responsible for cleaning up some bits and pieces with two girls.
"Hello Senior Brother Zhou, I'm Zhang Xiaofei from level 05." During her free time, Zhang Xiaofei saw that there was no one beside Zhou Cheng, so she came over.
"Xiaofei, thank you today."
Zhang Xiaofei has not changed much from another world, she is not too outstanding at level 05 because of her average appearance, and the other world has also improved because of a movie.
"Senior brother, are you going to start a company?" Another girl, Tang Wan, looked at Zhou Cheng with a curious expression, and her question made several other boys who were busy also look at her.
"Xiao Wan, Brother Cheng was originally a company registered here." Tao Ze compared Gu Xintong and Tang Wan, and after thinking about it, he decided to keep his original intention. Today, Tang Wan and Zhang Xiaofei took the homework assigned by the teacher and asked Tao Ze for advice on how to mark some of the biographies. happened to meet Zhou Cheng's phone shake, so he came with him.
"I am a studio-like company here, and after a while, Li Yan, Tao Ze, and Xiaotian will complete a script together." Zhou Cheng said to the other three boys: "Yang Guang, Liu Wei, Yining, you can come over to help if you have time, I won't treat you badly." ”
"Thank you, Brother Cheng (senior brother) ......" Several people were a little overjoyed when they heard Zhou Cheng's words, but they didn't expect that there would be other gains from this help.
Zhou Cheng completed the outline of five TV series during this period of time, but it was still a little difficult for Li Yan to improve the plot of the follow-up script. Moreover, Zhou Cheng took out so many scripts at one time, and he was afraid of hitting Li Yan's self-confidence. So Zhou Cheng decided to take out one or two outlines to find the school's juniors to be gunmen when Li Yan and the others were writing the script, and recruit talents for their company by the way.
Zhou Cheng took a few people a day to finally clean the two offices here. Although there was no labor cost, a big meal in Goat Village cost Zhou Cheng more than 600 yuan.
"It's a big loss, I was only going to invite you alone, but I didn't expect it to cost so much." After returning home, Zhou Cheng looked at Gu Xintong who was snickering and complained.
"Brother Cheng, thank you." Gu Xintong gained a lot today, although Tang Wan and Zhang Xiaofei did not sign a contract to be artists in her hands, but they left their contact information and reached a verbal commitment.
Before these two officially signed with the brokerage company, Gu Xintong was their temporary agent, and Gu Xintong also promised to introduce Orange Sky's film and television resources to them, and if other resources contacted them, they would also let Gu Xintong help sign the contract as a temporary agent.
Gu Xintong is not rejecting this kind of cooperation, after all, more than ten years ago, Sister Hua relied on this way to become the first domestic film and television agent step by step.
"If you really want to thank me, come with me to Panjiayuan tomorrow."
"Pan Jiayuan? Are you going to buy antiques? ”
"Go buy office furniture."