Chapter 892 Slow Cooking on a Small Fire Brings Out the Taste

Early in the morning, half past five.

Feng Bicheng opened his eyes and struggled out of a strange dream.

In the dream, it seemed that there was a flood, and the whole Shuntian Mansion was flooded. I tried my best to move the mattress, and then removed the head of the bed, and sat on the wooden head of the bed, smashed the window, and it was so beautiful After going out, I met my parents on the way, and then rushed to the company. Both Mr. Qi and Mr. Li were there, and they were dismantling the desk. Mr. Li just gave up the desk to two employees and asked them to leave first. He also yelled that if he rowed west, Jundu Mountain should be submerged, then he rowed over by the head of the bed and invited him to come up. He seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then he really came up, together with Mr. Qi, and smiled at himself For a moment, it seemed to say "thank you" - in the dream, the buoyancy of the head of my bed seemed to be much greater than those of the company's desks?

Taking two deep breaths, he regained consciousness completely.

Then, he rubbed his eyes, scratched his eyebrows and nose, turned over and sat up—since last autumn, he stopped drinking, and completely gave up his previous night life. Apart from writing and reading, he went to bed early every day, so He also got up early in the morning-even though he is actually unemployed now.

Get up, wash your face, brush your teeth, get dressed, think about it, go to the kitchen and turn on the fire, skillfully wash the barley soaked last night twice, then pick up the water, boil it, and put it into the pot.

Take a look, it's not yet six o'clock.

I went to the living room and turned on my computer, checked my personal mailbox, and there was indeed an email.

Open it up and look carefully.

It's yesterday's box office statistics.

On the fourth day of its release, which was also the first Monday, the screening rate of "Big Watch" was slightly lowered by major theaters, as if it was preparing for the release of "Lonely Smoke in the Desert", but the screening rate was 58.3%, an average of 49%. The attendance rate of 100% still made the box office of "Big Watch" as high as 23.08 million yesterday!

In other words, after four days of release, the total box office exceeded 100 million!

It came two days faster than "Red Sorghum"!

In four days, the cumulative box office has reached 111.78 million.

For the first time after waking up, Feng Bicheng finally showed a faint smile on his face.

There is no doubt that this is the best box office movie of his life, even far surpassing his fame a few years ago. He has been thrown away so long that he can't see his shadow.

After staring at it for a moment, he took a deep breath, put away his smile, then closed the webpage and turned off the phone.

Take out your phone and turn it on.

After booting up, like yesterday, once the operator's signal is connected, it starts to ring non-stop.

After waiting for about two or three minutes, it finally stopped ringing. At this time, the phone showed that from 8 o'clock last night to just now, there were a total of 17 missed calls and 39 unread text messages on his phone.

Click to open the missed call, from the beginning to the end.

No company, no parents, and then quit.

Click on the unread text messages, some are former friends who have hardly had any contact in the past half a year, and some are simply unfamiliar numbers, which are not saved on the phone.

Open one casually, the content is: Chengzi, don't ignore my buddy! Fuck, broke through 100 million buddies, come out and have a drink to celebrate!

This is a producer I met when I was in the circle before.

How should I put it, a person with a wink.

The so-called winking means that he is very accurate in judging whether you have potential or not.

quit.

Feng Bicheng was expressionless.

Another one: "Hi Director Feng, I am the general manager of Pacific Film and Television Culture Company. My name is Xu Pei. First of all, congratulations on the box office of "Big Star" which has surpassed 110 million in four days. I wanted to call to congratulate, but I asked a friend for it." Your number, your phone is turned off. I hope you can reply when you are free. I want to communicate with you about your next movie. We are very sincere. Finally, please forgive my presumptuousness. Xu Pei, yours sincerely! "

Exit, find one at random, and click to open.

"Brother Cheng, I am Liu Zi, your forever little follower! When can we have a meal together? Several companies have asked me to help you contact you these days. They are all very interested in you. I want to Talking to you about the next play, I’m very sincere! When you see the text message, please call me back, brother!”

quit.

Poker face.

Keep pressing the down button, many text messages are just seeing the name or the first sentence, and they have no interest in clicking on it at all, until a familiar number suddenly appears.

The fingers paused for a moment, then subconsciously opened.

"Brother Feng, I'm Wen Yuanyuan, congratulations on your new movie selling!"

It really was her.

When "Half a Hero" was filmed and released, with a cost of 3 million yuan and a box office of more than 20 million yuan, he, Feng Bicheng, became popular. Many companies took a fancy to his potential, spent money, and invited him Director, Wen Yuanyuan had just emerged at the time, and she had a good momentum. She was a little vase, and I liked her very much. Later, when he opened a new play, he spent a lot of money on the film and pulled her into the crew. Everyone was still flirting with each other for a while. , I felt quite exciting at the time, and thought that if this drama became popular again, I would get up. At that time, no matter how awesome you are, Xiaohuadan, you might be able to win it. No contact either.

At that time, I was also discouraged, and I felt a little sorry for him, but when I thought about the salary she received that was much higher than her status at the time, I didn't feel so bad.

It's just that looking back now, I really feel sorry for him.

Xiao Huadan, who was originally in good momentum, has taken a sharp turn for the worse since "The Heroine of the World" was launched. In recent years, she should have hardly made any headlines, and almost never had good film appointments.

After thinking about it, hesitating again, he clicked on Reply and typed a few words: Thank you! I have always owed you an apology for what happened back then, I was the one who tricked you, I'm sorry!

But the finger stayed on the send button for a long time, and finally deleted all the typed characters one by one.

If I have a chance another day, I hope I can make up for the guilt in my heart, but now, it will be easy to misunderstand the actresses in the film and television industry. After many years, I still know it well. What's more, her situation has not been good in the past few years.

Sigh, exit.

Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, breaking 100 million, breaking 100 million, breaking 100 million.

I am particularly interested in you, the next film, let’s talk about it, sincerity.

Feng Bicheng was expressionless.

It took about seven or eight minutes to browse through the information that should be browsed, then exit, and silently press the shutdown button.

He took a look, went to the kitchen to look after the fire, turned it down to the minimum, then got up, took the keys, changed his shoes, and went out.

The weather at the end of April is mild and breezy.

It's past six o'clock, the sun just came out, the air is fresh, the tender red sun shines on the body, which makes people feel an indescribable joy - many people around have started to go out in a hurry, but some elderly people People, walking around and exercising leisurely.

With his head down, Feng Bicheng jogged for ten or twenty minutes all the way, thinking about things, and then walked back silently, walking for a while, jogging for a while, and when he returned home, it took about forty minutes.

No matter what my parents said, or in my own memory, I have never had the habit of exercising since I was a child. But since "Big Wrist" ended all the exterior scenes, finished filming, and returned to Shuntian Mansion, one day, he suddenly got up early and started jogging like this.

I remember that my mother said before that barley porridge can dispel dampness. For a puffy person like myself, moderate exercise and drinking barley porridge will have a particularly good effect, so I even learned how to cook barley porridge.

In the past, except for movies, eating, drinking and having fun, I don't seem to care much about anything, but now, every day, without anyone reminding me, I always remember to soak the barley before going to bed at night— — After a few months, it gradually became a habit.

And, he thinks it's great.

I feel that I am energetic and agile every day.

When he got home, he looked at the pot, turned off the heat, covered the pot and continued to stay in the pot, then he went to take a bath and change his clothes before coming over to serve the barley porridge.

To be honest, the taste of pure barley porridge with nothing else is not very good, but Feng Bicheng always sips the bowl of barley porridge every morning and eats it very sweetly.

After eating the porridge and washing up, I checked the time, it was a quarter past seven.

go out.

Today Tuesday, sunny, slightly southerly wind.

"Lonely Smoke in the Desert" is about to be released, and the road we often take is slightly blocked.

When I came to the company, I parked the car in the basement, and took the elevator directly from the basement to the ninth floor. When I got out of the elevator, I nodded to the security guard on duty on the ninth floor who hadn't changed their shift, and got a smile from the other party.

The company was empty.

Cleaning is determined by the company, but in some important places, the film and television department unanimously agreed that no one other than a few directors and producers within the company should be allowed to enter.

Such as the film library, such as the editing room.

As one of the company's previously contracted directors, Feng Bicheng has his own office, which is not big. After putting down a desk, there is barely room for a two-seater sofa and a small coffee table in the corner. Now Well, according to the previous verbal agreement between the two parties, after the editing of "Big Wrist" is officially released, everyone will go back to the road and return to the bridge. It can be regarded as an amicable termination of the contract, but after a while, the company did not arrange for other people to move in. Feng Bicheng So I continued to come here every day, wipe it everywhere, and take care of the pot of Clivia I bought last winter.

He had already figured it out, if the company was going to evict people, or arranged for other people to move in, the only thing he needed to take away was this pot of Clivia.

I finished tidying up in my own room—in fact, there is not much to tidy up. He is not working here now, because he has no business to do, and no one arranges work for him. In addition, he comes here every day to tidy up, so it is very Clean - the water just boiled has been boiled, sit on the sofa for a few minutes, wait for the temperature of the water to drop a little, squeeze some Longjing tea into the cup, pour the water, then get up and go out.

Before taking back the keys distributed by the company, he easily opened the door of the editing room.

The smell of smoke is very strong and strong.

If non-smokers come in suddenly, they can choke heavily.

Because only the director, producer and a few editors can come in, there is a duty schedule arranged, and everyone takes turns to clean up, but the usual situation is that if Li Qian is coming to edit a film recently, or to keep an eye on the progress of a certain film , this place will be very clean and elegant, but if Li Qian doesn’t have any movies that he pays close attention to recently, and if there are few runnings here, it will be a bit unclean-the last person in charge of cleaning is usually Han Shunzhang or Lu Lingxi. The two of them are the most picky about the environment, love cleanliness, and have relatively low tolerance.

Feng Bicheng went in, turned on the lights, turned on the ventilation fan, turned it to the highest level, and then cleaned out the ashtrays one by one—don't ask why there is this here, in fact, it is stipulated that smoking is not allowed here, but there are.

Empty, clean, mop, wipe.

After tidying up the whole set, I felt much cleaner, but twenty minutes had passed.

It was nearly half past eight.

He put away the mop and the like, washed it clean, and put it back in the bathroom.

Go back at this time, the tea is slightly warm, drink it slowly.

In another ten minutes or so, the sounds of walking, talking, and greetings began to appear one after another outside—now, um, in fact, since last year, no one has come to his office to say hello. , Jin Han and Lu Lingxi have no friendship at all, Han Shunzhang and his wife have always been silent, Sun Yuting is a staunch Li Qian party, and she is annoyed by herself, so Huang Ge occasionally comes to talk about things, dramas, and contracts, and will come in specially Sit for a while, Bai Yujing seems to feel good about herself since the filming of "Big Whistleblower" ended, and she would say hello and chat with her every now and then. Bian regarded himself as Li Qian's direct descendant from the very beginning, and he had neither favorable opinion nor rejection of him, but after that incident, the screenwriter team had collectively ignored him.

After finishing his cup of tea, he refills himself another cup.

After a while, when the tea was half drunk, someone knocked on the door. Feng Bicheng stood up and opened the door. The young man from the internal affairs department delivered several newspapers to each office of the film and television department on time.

This happens every day, and it will never be missed.

Although, in fact, he is going to leave now, from Mr. Qi to Mr. Li, and then to Jin Han and Han Shunzhang in the film and television department, they will never stop him, and he only needs to go to the legal department to get everyone's attention. The contract was terminated peacefully.

However, the office that belonged to him did not arrange for other people to come in. The newspapers that belonged to his office would be delivered on time every day, and even the monthly basic salary was not interrupted, and it was always entered into the salary card on time.

It's just that no one has arranged a new job for him.

Of course, he is a contracted director. As long as he is with the crew, even if he is an assistant director or assistant director, he will be paid according to his work. The money is much higher than these guaranteed wages.

In fact, he knows that as long as he is willing to go out for a walk now, there will be countless invitations and opportunities that will be handed to him-every one will be a lot of money.

But this salary has not been cut off, so he will continue to sit here.

But now, the promotion of "Big Wrist" was decided from the very beginning, and he was not allowed to participate. Huang Ge and Bai Yujing were leading the teams respectively, and Han Shunzhang was in charge of the team. Once you sit down, the only thing you need to do is to drink tea and read the newspaper.

Laid back like those state unit retirees.

Sipping the tea in small sips.

Most of the entertainment pages of today's newspapers are emphasizing, emphasizing and exaggerating the upcoming release of "Lonely Smoke in the Desert", as well as the inevitable conflict between Du Weiyun's martial arts masterpiece and the box office dark horse "Big Wrist".

It was released for four days, with a box office of 110 million. No one or any media will underestimate the power of such a movie. What's more, yesterday was a working day, and this movie still won a single-day box office of more than 20 million yuan. Its strength should not be underestimated.

Feng Bicheng flipped and watched, drank tea, and then heard Jin Han's loud voice outside.

It's kind of weird.

The company's high-level regular meeting is on Monday morning, and the film and television department's own regular meeting is on Wednesday morning. And when there are no regular meetings and no other arrangements, Jin Han seems to prefer to stay at home and hold back the script, and only occasionally runs to the company's audio-visual room to watch movies, and also likes to drag someone to watch with him.

When he first joined the company, he was quite envious, and he never had the idea of ​​wanting to replace him—it's so cool to be like Jin Han!

Every year, I shoot a scene entrusted by Li Qian, with Li Qian's book, as long as I follow his request, don't make my own decisions, appoint a hit! As a director, what Jin Han needs to guarantee is that the picture is beautiful and meets Li Qian's requirements, and then it's OK! And such a job is very easy. Even if Jin Han has made money for the company, the company will give him a budget and ask him to make things that he likes, to shoot things that no one likes to watch, Basically, there are no literary films that can sell at the box office.

That's it, because he came early and started with the company, so the director of film and television has been sitting until now. From Li Qian to Qi Jie, they have never mentioned that they want to beat him or even replace him.

But to this day, he sees clearly in his heart that Jin Han, the film and television director, has actually begun to be reduced to a decoration. To put it bluntly, he is actually just an ordinary contracted director with a relatively high status.

Because you always don't like to take care of things, you just don't care about things. If you always don't care about things, things will gradually stop looking for you.

As a corresponding example, the film and television department has big and small affairs. As long as there is something, everyone will go to Han Shunzhang. Therefore, although he is only a manager of the film and television department, Han Shunzhang is already the number one in the film and television department besides Li Qian. Alone—a person who is willing to take responsibility and work hard, unknowingly turns responsibility into a job.

A good bowl of porridge always cooks slowly over low heat to bring out the flavor.

…………

At a quarter past nine, the phone on the desk rang suddenly.

Feng Bicheng was a little stunned—this call is an internal line, and can be dialed externally, but to call in from outside, he has to go through the main station, so it is a bit troublesome. When he first joined the company, Feng Bicheng complained that Minghu culture was too stingy. Installing an office phone is not willing to directly connect to the outside line, so from the beginning, Feng Bicheng was not willing to use it, and never disclosed his office number to the outside world.

In fact, the phone was on the table and hadn't rang for half a year.

Although Feng Bicheng wiped it almost every day.

After being stunned, he put down the newspaper and got up to pick up the phone.

"Is it Director Feng?"

"Uh, it's me, you are..."

"This is the general manager's office. I would like to inform you that at ten o'clock in the morning, there will be a small meeting in meeting room No. 2 on the ninth floor. I need you to arrive on time. Is there any problem?"

"Oh... oh, no problem, I will definitely be there on time!"

"Okay, thank you, please hang up!"

Click, the phone hangs up.

Feng Bicheng didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

A meeting in the company... unexpectedly called me?

Is it to celebrate?

Ordinarily wrong, although I didn't participate, but it is said that at the celebration banquet of "Red Sorghum", Mr. Qi said that if "Big Wrist" surpasses 300 million box office, there will be a celebration banquet, but now it's only 110 million?

So, probably not.

After thinking about it again, I thought of a possibility, and suddenly my heart felt hot!

Could it be that Mr. Li saw this box office and felt that he could try to save himself? So... uh, no, no!

If it was the bosses of those film and television companies outside, seeing the box office of over 100 million in four days, they would probably pee in excitement immediately. Even Zhou Yanghua, Hu Fei, and Yuan Ke, the big names behind the scenes, would not be able to face such a box office. Not excited - at that time, even if you look down on yourself in your heart, you will still be greeted with a smile! Who doesn't welcome people who can make money? Who doesn't greet a director who can make money with a smile?

But, he knew that Li Qian was definitely not this kind of person.

First of all, his vision is not so narrow, and his level is not so low.

The book he produced, his producer, and his most trusted and most relied on film and television department manager Han Shunzhang personally supervised the production. The box office has just exceeded 100 million. He may be very happy, but he will definitely not be so happy that he Just to the extent that I thought.

Let alone 100 million, even if it exceeds 300 million, he might not even look at him directly!

Moreover, he doesn't seem to be the kind of person who particularly values ​​money.

Although he also likes high box office, but really, the feeling he gives people and himself is that way: he only does what he thinks is right, but he doesn't necessarily do what can make money.

So, the movie was shot, edited, and released, which must mean to him that the favor he owed to his father has been paid off, and the promise he made to himself at the beginning has also been fulfilled.

Therefore, whether the box office is high or low, for him, it makes no difference.

Thinking of this, Feng Bicheng slowly calmed down again.

He didn't even bother to read the newspaper. He checked the time. It was still early for the meeting, and the meeting place was on the ninth floor. He simply got up and sat down at the desk, turned on the computer, and prepared to read the reactions and comments on the Internet.

When he turned on the computer, he habitually had to log in to the company's official website first, but before he clicked on the webpage favorites, he saw his name on the default homepage Xunfei.com that had already been opened.

It flashed by, and then quickly searched and focused.

Click to open.

Suddenly, he understood why he suddenly had a meeting today, and he would call himself again in the meeting.

What should come, finally came.

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Continue to the 6,000-character chapter!

But I don’t know if I should continue to ask for monthly tickets. Everyone seems to be not very enthusiastic recently!

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