"Uh...... Okay, brother! I'll talk to the factory tomorrow. Zeng Jia was only stunned for a moment, then nodded.

There is often a sentence in movie lines: what you understand must be executed, and what you don't understand must be executed. Zeng Jia knows how to maintain the authority of the boss very well, of course, she is also optimistic about this, but she didn't expect Li Tang's courage to be much greater than herself.

Originally, she rented this 400-square-meter office building, she had already considered the future development space of the studio, and now she has to rent the large row of factories in the back, and she doesn't know what to use it for a while, so she can't use it as a studio.

Xiaopang didn't get out of the car in anger, and it was still cold outside, but later saw Li Tang, who was thinly dressed, standing in the cold wind and pointing at Zeng Jia, after all, he still couldn't bear it, so he got out of the car with his coat and helped him put it on.

She also stood next to her and listened to it, and couldn't help but say, "What are you doing in this place?" ”

Chubby is very smart but always has a limited vision for the future, but Zeng Jia was able to find this place to impress him, she obviously saw the development prospects of this dilapidated factory, which is rare.

He raised his hand and put his arm around Xiaopang's shoulder, the other party actually struggled slightly, and he couldn't help laughing: "Okay, get in the car quickly, it's cold outside." ”

It is also very convenient to go from the 798 factory to the Gun Bureau Hutong, and it will take up to ten minutes if there is no traffic jam.

Back in the small courtyard, Xiaopang didn't pretend at all, and went back to the main room directly. During this time, she lived here while filming in the capital, and there was originally a little assistant who lived in the guest room in the West Wing to accompany her, but today when the main owner came back, the little assistant naturally would not stay as a light bulb.

Seeing this, Li Tang could only shake his head, didn't follow to the main room, walked to the east kitchen and took a look, and sure enough, he saw several plates on the dining table.

When I washed my hands and opened them, I saw braised pork ribs, braised prawns, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and stewed tofu with snow mushrooms. The appearance is not very good-looking, and at a glance, you know that it is Chubby's craftsmanship.

Seeing this scene, Li Tang felt a little guilty in his heart, and after thinking about it, he went to the main room. Children, after all, they have to be coaxed.

When he came out of the main room again, it was already an hour later, Xiaopang was wearing a big red cotton jacket pajamas, his face was ruddy, his eyes were rippling, he had long forgotten the previous unpleasantness, and ran into the east kitchen with Li Tang shrinking his neck.

The courtyard is a little inconvenient, that is, in winter, you have to go outside to get in and out. Either the verandah can only be sealed, and the left and right wings can be connected and integrated. Including before, he had seen someone add a transparent glass cover to the top of the courtyard, so that the original appearance of the courtyard was lost, and it looked nondescript.

"Oh, it's all your fault, you have to be in such a hurry, the dishes are cold."

Xiaopang is now perfecting Zhu Bajie's skills in beating a rake, and he doesn't know who is in a hurry just now.

To be honest, although the slimmed down chubby is not so ugly, the experience is still a little worse than the previous fleshy feeling.

"It's okay, just use the microwave to 'ding' it."

Li Tang said that he was about to go to get the plate on the table, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he was beaten by Xiaopang, and he saw her blushing and said, "Have you washed your hands, you touched the east and the west." ”

"Uh......"

Well, I almost forgot about this stubble. He also subconsciously raised his hand to smell it, fortunately it didn't taste anything, if it smelled of seafood, it would be terrible.

"Oh, you're disgusting!" Chubby's face was full of shyness and disgust.

In fact, these are the little pleasures of life.

Li Tang honestly washed his hands, and Xiaopang heated up a few dishes in the microwave.

"You don't want to eat?"

Li Tang saw that there was only a set of utensils on the table.

Chubby shook his head: "I'm used to skipping lunch now." ”

Seeing her calm appearance, Li Tang was slightly surprised, it seems that the experience of filming "Jade Guanyin" during this period of time has changed her a lot. For example, she rarely loses her temper under normal circumstances, but now her mind seems to have become a lot more sensitive.

Tsk, that's not good.

Li Tang has read the original work of "Jade Guanyin" and the subsequent adaptation of the script, and the role of Anxin seems to be weak, but in fact, it is very smoldering inside, and it is also very uncertain.

As the saying goes, high-end hunters often appear as prey.

Peace of mind is kind of like that.

Li Tang didn't want to be chubby because this character couldn't come out, so it would be a bit scary.

"Then you can have two drinks with me."

He took out a bottle of Moutai from the cabinet.

To put it aside, Xiaopang either readily agreed, or simply refused, but at this time, he actually hesitated a little before reluctantly reluctantly: "Okay." ”

There are generally two kinds of good actors, one is called character actors, that is, whether they play princes and generals or ordinary people, they are all people with a character, and all of them are acting in their true colors. The other is called a person with a thousand faces, that is, no matter what role he plays, he is vivid, and his personality, manners, and psychological activities are very different, and it is difficult to judge the true character of the actor.

Li Tang probably belongs to the latter category at present.

But what I am most afraid of is that the actor himself is not determined enough, and he is easily affected by the role, so that his personality changes greatly, and some people even can't get out of it in their lives, or simply go to extremes. The most obvious example is the future actor who plays the Joker in "Batman".

Fortunately, Chubby is still just showing signs of this, and after drinking two glasses, he quickly relaxed.

"Why are you renting so many houses in that shabby place?"

That's right, if you don't care about everything, Li Tang really has to worry.

"Don't look at it now, it's in tatters, maybe it will be very lively in a few years." Li Tang said with a smile.

"Cut, how do you know? Maybe in a few years it will all be demolished, and now it is being demolished and rebuilt everywhere. Chubby snorted.

With the success of the Olympic bid, Beijing is now entering a cycle of Olympic construction. As Chubby said, there is a lot of demolition and construction everywhere. To tell a not-so-funny joke, Wang Xiaoshuai made a movie called "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" the year before last, and Zhou Xun also played a cameo role as a little nanny in this movie. One of the very important reasons for the failure to pass the review is that "too many dilapidated hutongs have been photographed, and the modern side of the capital has not been photographed, which will affect the Olympic bid." ”

This seems to be very nonsensical, but it also reflects the country's importance to the Olympic Games from the side, and a dilapidated place like 798, especially next to the airport expressway, affects the viewing very much. Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is very likely that they will not be able to escape the fate of being demolished.

"Not necessarily, don't forget that in the 21st century, there has to be something left. At that time, it may be transformed into an art center with the imprint of urban development! Li Tang said with a little emotion.

For example, the huge thermometer made of chimneys at the World Expo in 10 years, and the Shougang Big Air at the Winter Olympics, which he was unable to observe because of masks, are the most vivid examples of this kind of preservation of the city's imprint.

"That's why you're going to rent so many houses?"

"Yes, in fact, I'm not the only one who thinks so, Jiajia is also quite optimistic about that over there."

Xiaopang pouted a little unconvinced: "Okay, you all have vision, and I'm short-sighted." But there aren't even a few people in your studio now, why do you want so many houses, and you want to be a second landlord? ”

Li Tang shook his head: "Look, the studio always has to develop, maybe there will be a small theater or something in the future." ”

In fact, from the beginning, he had the mentality of picking up leaks, and the rent was only a few cents a day, of course, the more the merrier. But now he gradually remembered that in the later life, diagonally opposite the huge Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, it was probably the office building he wanted to rent and the factory behind it, which seemed to be a theater, and he had also attended concerts in it, and there was a record company next to it.

Xiaopang didn't care about this kind of thing that was too far away, and she wasn't optimistic about it, so she immediately changed the topic and said, "Oh yes, why are you giving me so much money?" ”

"Oh this, you can take it with confidence."

Li Tang continued with a smile: "The French side has already settled the bill, and I have made a lot of money, so I can't let you work in vain!" ”

Since Li Tang didn't take the initiative to mention how much he earned this time, Xiaopang didn't ask interestingly, just glanced at him, and said lightly: "Okay, then I'll take it first, and when you run out of money, talk to me again." ”

"No, you'd better pay off the loan on your house first, and then renovate it properly."

Xiaopang has bought a small two-bedroom apartment in the East Third Ring Road, and has just recently gotten the key, which has not yet been renovated.

But at this time, she was not happy when she heard it, and she glared and choked: "Why do you want to drive me away?" ”

"Tsk, you know I didn't mean that. Besides, you always have to live in a house when you buy it, do you still want to invest? ”

However, when it comes to investment, Li Tang's heart moved. How terrifying the domestic housing prices will rise in the next 20 years, he deeply realized in his previous life, the key is that there is no property tax, just pay the property fee on time.

Although a lot of money has been spent in the past few days after the money arrives, there are still more than 20 million lying on the account. The main thing is that the settlement in France is in US dollars, but it must be exchanged for RMB in China.

This number is somewhat scary in these years, but if you want to say that you want to invest in movies or something, one is risky, and the other is unrealistic. He does have the idea of investing in real estate, for example, during this time, there is a real estate called World Trade Center Riverside Garden in Pudong, Shanghai, which is very popular, reaching 16,701 square meters per square meter, which is almost twice as expensive as the general real estate in Puxi. However, as far as he knows, more than ten years later, there will be a more riverside real estate called Tomson Yipin next to this Shimao Riverside Garden, which will be sold for more than 100,000 square meters, a full 10 times, and the annualized profit rate is more than 50%, which is simply picking up money!

Of course, his understanding of the housing prices in the capital is more intuitive, and his parents in his previous life bought a villa by chance to prepare for the retirement in the future, and he didn't want to increase it more than ten times later. The appreciation of this villa alone is more than the savings they have worked so hard to save in the United States.

So he plans to go back and ask Zeng Jia to help him inquire about the real estate in the capital, the best location is naturally the area of the East Third Ring Road, and the house price of six or seven thousand one square meters is simply a price depression.

……

Xiaopang only rested for one night, and devoted himself to the filming of "Jade Guanyin" the next day, and he rotated day and night, often going out at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, returning at eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, and once even filmed a whole night.

Li Tang has not been idle these days, and he has to run away in all aspects of the relationship. His idea is very simple, the New Year, the biggest festival of the Chinese, the necessary etiquette is still required, as for the gift is a heart, the gift is light and affectionate.

But what's interesting is that there are people who come to him this year to pay New Year's greetings. For example, Jia Yuling, the assistant when filming "Shooting the Condor", she was admitted to the junior college class of Chinese opera last year, but I don't know what she thinks, she actually applied for a cross talk performance major.

What do you say a girl is talking about?

Li Tang really couldn't laugh or cry when he learned about it. This little girl's family conditions are average, especially last year, her mother died in a car accident, and she has always been bitter. After Xiaopang learned the news, he also took leave to rush back from the crew.

When he heard that Jia Yuling usually used her spare time to run around the crew or something, Xiaopang hurriedly asked with concern, "Hey, Ling'er, will you go back for the New Year?" ”

Xiao Jia, don't look at the harmless appearance of humans and animals who is usually smiling, in fact, he is very clever, and he can hear the off-string sound in Xiao Fat's words as soon as he listens to it. She originally wanted to come back, but at this time she put on an embarrassed face and said: "It's not decided yet, I still want to stay to see if there is a chance, if there is no chance, it will be too late to go home for the New Year." ”

As soon as her words fell, Xiaopang took care of it and said: "Hey, since that's the case, you can follow me, come to our crew tomorrow, I'll help you arrange it, and you will bump around like a headless fly." ”

Jia Yuling obviously couldn't ask for it, but she still rubbed her hands and said shyly: "Sister Bingbing, it won't cause you trouble, right?" ”

Li Tang observed on the side, in this regard, Xiao Jia must be a good actor in the future.

Xiaopang looked completely disappreciative and waved his hand: "It's okay, I'll just talk to the assistant director when I go back." ”

The female number one spoke, not to mention a special contract or something, even if she made a small supporting role, it was a matter of one sentence.

……

The lease of the factory and office building over there at 798 has finally been negotiated. This piece is a state-owned asset, and it cannot be sold for sale, but can only be leased. With the start of the construction of the Olympic Games, the factory is also looking forward to the day when it will be demolished. It is precisely under this uncertainty that the rent is not high, and the lease contract is basically two or three years, and no more than five years at most.

When Zeng Jia proposed to rent an office building and factory building of more than 1,000 square meters, the lease term was even more than 20 years, and even alarmed the factory leaders.

At this time, Li Tang's aura came into play. The so-called artist studios in the 798 factory are all third- and fourth-rate artists, and in addition to looking forward to demolition, the factory does want to build an art center like the painters' village, but to put it bluntly, the hardware is not enough, and it cannot attract artists who have become famous and become families.

Although Li Tang is only an actor, strictly speaking, he also belongs to the category of artists, young performing artists! Li Tang Studio is undoubtedly a living signboard settled here, and people are still generous, in addition to the office here, but also to build a small theater integrating training and performance.

798 Nothing else, the house is there, but it is indeed a bit exaggerated to propose a twenty-year lease period, according to their ideas, it is still a question of whether it will exist in five years.

However, Zeng Jia insisted that after several rounds of bargaining, the lease period was finally set at 15 years, and of course, if there was a force majeure factor such as demolition, the contract would be automatically terminated.

The rent has given a certain discount, and the small office building and factory building add up to a fixed price of 200,000 yuan per year. The annual rent will be increased by 10%, and under the same conditions after the expiration of the contract, Li Tang Studio still prefers to enjoy the right to renew the contract.

In addition, in view of the current situation of small office buildings and factories, Zeng Jia won a three-month free renovation period.

The factory is not without conditions, and when signing the contract, Li Tang was required to participate in person, mainly to determine the authenticity, so as not to let someone use Li Tang's name to deceive.

Li Tang not only attended the scene in person, but also signed the lease contract in person as the legal person of Li Tang's studio. The factory leaders are also very happy, although they seem to have a very high level, and they are the department or something at every turn, but to put it bluntly, a corporate leader on the verge of bankruptcy may only have the so-called level, and there are not many opportunities to get in close contact with celebrities.

So, arranged in the factory, everyone got together and praised each other.

Although Li Tang was very restrained, those department-level factory leaders were too enthusiastic, and he really drank a lot at noon.

"Teacher Li, it's here!"

The van stopped in front of a fitness center next to Tuanjiehu Park, which has a gym, a bowling alley and a popular taekwondo gym, where most of the instructors are said to be sticks. Recently, Chubby has been filming here. Today, Li Tang said that he would come to visit the class.

As soon as the car stopped, the door was opened from the outside, and Jia Yuling, who was wearing a blue overalls, was smiling.

"Brother, it's coming!"

Li Tang got out of the car and took a deep breath of cold air, the car was heated and the smell of wine was mixed, and he was a lot more comfortable at this time.

He glanced at Jia Yuling, like a sanitation worker, and couldn't help but say, "What are you busy doing here?" ”

Jia Yuling hurriedly said proudly: "Sister Bingbing helped me find a special contract to play a cleaner in a taekwondo gym, and I still play against Sister Bingbing." ”

Anxin in the script also worked in a taekwondo gym, and then met the third man in his life, Yang Rui, the male number one in the play. The cleaner played by Jia Yuling is probably a reassuring worker or something.

Li Tang nodded, and was about to raise his legs to go in, when he suddenly saw a huge Jeep Grand Cherokee speeding not far away, and with the sound of "crunching" tires rubbing against the ground, the car stopped steadily.

The car immediately caught his eye.

The Jeep Grand Cherokee is quite rare in China, and Li Tang knows that even in the United States, such an eight-cylinder 5.7 displacement Grand Cherokee will cost at least 50,000 or 60,000 US dollars, and if it is left in China, it will cost 700,000 or 800,000 yuan!

Two in one, cheekily ask for a guaranteed monthly pass!

(End of chapter)