"Brother, should we buy a car?" Zeng Jia said to Li Tang, who was sitting in the passenger seat and sending text messages on his mobile phone, while driving.

The car she was driving at this time was the Nissan Bluebird that Ney had eliminated. She is completely ready to follow Li Tang to set up her own door, and is ready to officially submit her resignation to the company after Li Tang and Nai An negotiate this time. Fortunately, her work is one-on-one with Li Tang, and it does not involve other businesses of the company, as long as Li Tang leaves, she has nothing to hand over.

Xiaopang rarely rested for half a day today, and just now after Li Tang told her that his role in "Shooting the Condor" had been completed, he asked him when he would come to the capital. The two have been separated for two months, Li Tang doesn't care, but Xiaopang misses him very much. So he could only patiently explain through text messages.

After the long text message was edited and the send button was clicked, Li Tang raised his head and said, "Whether you go this time or not, buy a car first." ”

At present, with the increase in filming and activities, it is indeed quite unfortunate that he does not have a car.

Zeng Jia didn't pay attention to Li Tang's sentence "whether he goes or not", according to her judgment, in fact, from the beginning, Nai An did not have a strong appeal to leave Li Tang behind. To put it bluntly, Dream Work Culture and Art Company is a film investment and production company, and it has little interest in actor management.

On the one hand, the company's scale is small and its strength is limited, and on the other hand, it is also determined by Nai'an's attributes as a middle-aged literary woman who is the boss of the company. Because the agents are all philistines, they belong to the "teeth" in the "car and ship shop" in the past, which is a ninth-rate profession, and they should be killed if they are not guilty, which really does not match the temperament of middle-aged literary women.

"I think let's buy a business car first, and also have a driver." Zeng Jiadao.

She didn't ask Li Tang what car to buy, because she felt that in the future, as the person in charge of Li Tang's studio, she should first have her own ideas, and then ask for the boss's consent, instead of saying that she had to ask the boss for everything.

Because this is not a person in charge, but an assistant.

Li Tang nodded with a deep sigh: "Okay, you can do it." ”

At present, his salary, including the domestic box office of "The Third Man", is on the studio's account, and an old accountant has been specially hired to do the accounting, on the one hand, for tax clarity, and on the other hand, for reasonable tax avoidance.

To be honest, the current domestic regulations and laws on tax payment are still very imperfect, and individuals sometimes don't know how to pay taxes. In addition, when it comes to reasonable tax avoidance, it is mainly to avoid double taxation, and at the same time to avoid the loss of some reasonable tax refunds.

Buying a car is for the convenience of travel, and Li Tang is not very interested in the car itself. First, the current domestic vehicle brands and models are really lackluster and unattractive; Second, the WTO has just been accessed, and the price of imported cars is still high, which really outweighs the losses. Moreover, with a person like Li Tang who is good at running a family, the price of the vehicle is half the price, and buying a car is especially impossible to do when it is not necessary.

In the era when the highway has not yet been extended in all directions, and the navigation is very imperfect, the road from Wuxi to Hangzhou is very difficult to walk. Although Zeng Jia checked the route early before departure, the car lost its way after driving to Yixing. Li Tang had to change with her, and after checking the map, he found National Highway 104, and then followed National Highway 104 all the way to Hangzhou.

"Sister An, I'm sorry, it's not easy to walk on the road."

The two set off from Wuxi at noon, and when they arrived in Hangzhou, it was already nightfall, mainly because there were many cars on National Highway 104, not to mention walking slowly, and they stopped all the way.

Fortunately, I kept in touch with Nai An on the phone along the way, and finally made an appointment to meet at a restaurant called Red Clay Casserole on the edge of the West Lake.

"It's okay, you've had a hard time during this time. Hungry, sit, sit! ”

Four cold dishes: mixed cucumber, vegetarian roasted goose, hand-peeled bamboo shoots, plus a must-have sauce duck in Hangzhou. Four hot dishes: Longjing shrimp, steamed mandarin fish, southern milk pork, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, and a can of mushroom soup.

Li Tang was already hungry, so he first ate a lot of food and filled his stomach, and then he picked out the topic and said: "Sister An, my contract has expired a long time ago, what does the company think?" ”

Naian didn't seem surprised at all, first glanced at Zeng Jia, and then said to Li Tang: "It's up to you, what are you going to do?" ”

Nai An is right, the initiative is in Li Tang's hands when the contract expires. Or even if Li Tang has no problem switching to other brokerage companies now, because the contract has long expired, it means that Li Tang has nothing to do with Naian's Dream Work Art Company.

Of course, it's not good to do this in reality, after all, there are still people in it. Chinese pay attention to gathering and dispersing, and staying in the first line to meet in the future.

Now that he has thought about it, Li Tang didn't twist and pinch, and said very simply: "I want to go out and break through by myself." ”

"It's okay to go out on your own, I thought you were just here for a temporary transition, but I didn't expect it to be almost four years in the blink of an eye."

"Sister An, I'm sorry!"

Naian smiled: "It's me who should say I'm sorry, you see that your contract has long expired, and you still make a lot of money by pulling the company." ”

Saying that, Ne An said again: "Oh yes, the share of MK2 in the middle of next month will arrive, and you can find someone to connect with the company when you go back, this is not a small amount." ”

Because the producer of "The Third Man" is Dream Work Art Company, the original contract with MK2 was signed with Dream Work. Although Dream Work did not invest, a certain percentage of the issuance cost was deducted according to the contract.

Dream Work has been in contact with MK2, and so far, "The Third Man" has exceeded $5 million in overseas rights buyouts and box office receipts combined. MK2's agency fee is 14 points, and after deducting DreamWorks' issuance fees and taxes, it means that at least $4 million can be earned. According to the current exchange rate of 1:8.27, there are more than 30 million!

If you include the revenue of the domestic box office, the rate of return is even more than ten times.

This is also Li Tang's greatest confidence in finally making up his mind to stand on his own.

"Okay, let Jiajia connect with the company when the time comes."

Li Tang's words made Zeng Jia a little embarrassed, after all, she had not officially submitted her resignation to the company. However, she has always been a girl with a strong heart, so she immediately adjusted her mentality and said to Nai An: "I'm sorry, Sister An, I want to go with Brother Li." ”

"It's decided?"

Nai An looked at Zeng Jia and said with a look of regret: "After Li Tang leaves, your work is over, but your ability is obvious to all, originally I wanted you to be the vice president of the company." ”

Although Dream Work Art Company is small in scale, it is a mature film and television investment and production company. From the perspective of a worker, the position of vice president of dream work is definitely much more attractive than the person in charge of Li Tang's studio, who is still in the initial stage.

In other words, if Zeng Jia can work in the position of vice president of dream work for two or three years, he can completely switch to a bigger platform to display his ambitions.

Although the current domestic box office market is still very sluggish, Chunjiang Plumbing Duck Prophet, as a film and television practitioner, knows very well that with the rapid development of the domestic economic level, the people's lives are getting better day by day, meeting the material needs, and the spiritual demand is bound to be greater and greater, and the film and television entertainment industry is definitely a blue ocean in the near future.

Since it is a blue ocean, the platform is very important.

When Li Tang heard Nai'an's words, he couldn't help but look at Zeng Jia. If Zeng Jia really chooses to stay, then his plan to set up his own door is probably to be reconsidered, after all, it is not easy to find a person like Zeng Jia who knows and is capable of making the studio operate normally.

Zeng Jia didn't hesitate at all, and said apologetically: "Sister An, thank you for looking up to me so much." But I'm afraid I will live up to your kindness, I am used to working with Brother Li, I still want to follow Brother Li to have a fight, and at the same time I want to try my ability. ”

"Really, don't think about it?" Ney looked at her and asked seriously.

Zeng Jia still shook his head resolutely: "I'm sorry! ”

"Okay."

Ne An finally sighed and said to Li Tang: "It seems that you are still more attractive than me!" ”

This sentence is easy to cause ambiguity, and Li Tang didn't know how to speak for a while.

Fortunately, Nai An looked at Zeng Jia again and said: "Come back to the company and go through the resignation procedures, you have made a lot of contributions to the company in the past two years, and you have to make some compensation, I don't want to be said to have mistreated employees." ”

While Zeng Jia secretly breathed a sigh of relief, she hurriedly showed a well-behaved smile: "Thank you, Sister An." ”

Nai An really values Zeng Jia, when she was pregnant and gave birth last year, Zeng Jia was helping her manage the company, it can't be said that the results are outstanding, but at least there is no delay.

"Today's meal is our breakup meal! Li Tang, no matter what, our cooperation this time can be regarded as fate. Although I am not a competent agent, I have a bit of a relationship in this literary circle, and if I need help with anything in the future, just ask......"

Li Tang opened his mouth to express his gratitude, but was waved by Ney An: "You listen to me first." This time, I looked away and missed the golden doll of "The Third Man". But don't forget if there are any good opportunities in the future! ”

"I promise I won't forget it!" Li Tang's chest thumped.

"Oh yes, I almost forgot about business."

Ney An said and took out a stack of printouts from his bag, handed them over and said, "Lou Ye's new movie, the script has come out, you can take a look first." ”

Lou Ye cooperated with Shanghai Film Studio this time, and he has been preparing for more than half a year. Li Tang thought it was still the book of "Summer Palace" that he had seen last time, but he took it and looked at the three words "Purple Butterfly" on the cover.

Purple butterflies?

Could it be that the name has changed?

When he turned the first page, he saw the first sentence on it: "1928, Manchuria. Japanese translator Hidehiko Itami leaves Chinese couple Ding Hui and returns to Tokyo. A few years later, when he came to Shanghai, he had become a spy ......"

Hey, the new script!

Just when Li Tang wanted to continue looking down, he heard Nai An say, "Don't look at it, take it back and look at it again." I said that today is a breakup dinner, come and come, drink! ”

After getting down to business, the next thing is, of course, drinking.

By the end, Neyan had drunk a little too much. He took out a small yellow cover card from his bag and threw it to Li Tang and said, "The room has been opened for you, it's Wang Zhuang opposite, you can go by yourself." ”

He turned back to Zeng Jia and said, "Jiajia, you send me home." You're leaving, and it's a rare opportunity for the two sisters to have a good chat. ”

Zeng Jia has a large amount of wine, and a bottle and a half of red wine is a drizzle for her. This year, she didn't check drunk driving, she gave Li Tang the key to the Nissan Blue Bird, and she drove Nai'an's new Audi A6 home to Nai'an.

Don't drink and don't drive, don't drink while driving.

This rule has long been deeply ingrained in Li Tang's bones.

Wangzhuang is very close to the red clay casserole, and it takes about ten minutes to walk.

As one of the two major state hotels in Hangzhou, there are armed police standing guard at the gate, and you can only enter after checking the door card. This is a good thing for a star like Li Tang, at least it can avoid harassment from reporters and fans.

Building 5, lakeside double room. The large glass window is only two or three meters away from the shore of the West Lake, and as far as the eye can see, the opposite shore of the black lake is the most lively lakeside road in Hangzhou.

I took a hot shower, sat down in the big leader's office by the big glass window, or the old-fashioned wood-framed fabric spring sofa at home that I had only seen on TV, and couldn't wait to open the script of "Purple Butterfly".

At the dinner table, he asked Nai An about the situation of this script, originally this book had already been created by Lou Ye more than ten years ago, and it was revised several times intermittently, and it was shelved without a good opportunity.

This time in cooperation with Shanghai Film Studio, Lou Ye still wanted to shoot "Summer Palace" at the beginning, but the time point involved in this book was too sensitive, and he couldn't even mention it, so he passed it in the internal review of Shanghai Film Studio.

Originally, according to Lou Ye's level of iron, he would definitely not compromise easily, but this time, the film studio really gave too much, and with a quota of 30 million, Lou Ye had never fought such a rich battle. You must know that when I filmed "Suzhou River" before, I was still struggling for an investment of one or two million. What's more, this time he was able to lift the ban in advance, and he had to give the General Administration a little face, and he couldn't always use sensitive subjects to embarrass people.

So Lou Ye compromised, and without a script, he just took out this book that had been prepared for more than ten years.

The script is not long, about 50,000 or 60,000 words, and Li Tang spent more than an hour reading it carefully. Although the words were full of suppressed emotions, Li Tang's first feeling after reading it was that he wanted to laugh.

Lou Ye is still the same Lou Ye.

At first glance, this script seems to be a script by Wei Zhengguang that describes the resistance against Japan. But as long as you carefully scrutinize, you will find that this script is just a shell of anti-Japanese resistance. What Lou Ye really wants to portray is Shanghai in that era, and the love between men and women in the context of that era.

To put it bluntly, it is almost the same way as "Suzhou Creek", but the times are different. And compared with the illusion of "Suzhou River", "Purple Butterfly" is more realistic.

(End of chapter)