1990: Starting from Baojia Street

In the afternoon, Liu Wenwu brought Liu Heping to the studio.

Jiang Mengfei personally took them to the dormitory to settle down, and then took them to the office.

Liu Heping didn't have much luggage, just a large bag of clothes for changing, and the rest were some documents, all of which were put into the new office.

They are very satisfied with the environment of the new office. For them, it is great to have a proper office now.

In fact, Liu Wenwu had the money to get an office, but he was not the kind of person who spent money lavishly, so he never had one.

After putting the documents away, Liu Wenwu looked around the office and said with a smile, "There are two desks here."

Jiang Mengfei smiled and said, "Director Zhou said that there are quite a few people in your planning team, so we'll get you two tables so that you can work together later. If you don't have enough chairs, you can contact the logistics department or me directly."

"Enough is enough."

In addition to two tables, there are six chairs in the office, which is definitely enough for them.

"If you have any other needs, please feel free to tell me. Director Zhou has given us his special blessing and will try his best to meet your requirements."

“This is very good, we wouldn’t ask for anything more.”

"Mr. Liu, please don't be polite."

"You're welcome, this is great."

Jiang Mengfei nodded and gave them two more meal tickets. "These are our canteen meal tickets. Breakfast is from 7 to 9, lunch is from 11 to 1, and dinner is from 5 to 7. There is no food after these times. These meal tickets are for a month. If they are not enough, you can tell me."

In the past, the studio’s cafeteria was similar to a meal reservation system. Usually, we would count how many people would eat there the day before. Normally, there weren’t many people in the studio, but if band members came to eat, there would suddenly be a lot of people eating. If we didn’t count in advance, it would be difficult for the kitchen to cook.

Later, as more and more people came to the studio, if the orchestra did not go out to perform, the number of people eating every day was about the same, so they no longer counted the number in advance and started using meal tickets.

Liu Wenwu looked at the meal ticket in his hand and said with a smile, "We are not only using your place, but also using your meal. We are really sorry."

"You're welcome, Mr. Liu."

Liu Heping asked curiously, "How many meal tickets are there for this month?"

"One hundred and fifty dollars."

"So many?" Liu Heping was shocked.

Liu Wenwu, who was standing next to him, also raised his eyebrows when he heard the number one hundred and fifty.

Although the general public's wages have been rising in recent years, the wages of ordinary workers have reached several hundred yuan, and those in slightly higher positions can reach thousands of yuan, but the food expenses of 150 yuan are still a bit outrageous.

The key point was that when they came to eat yesterday, Liu Wenwu also curiously asked Zhou Yan how much a meal in their cafeteria cost. Zhou Yan said that breakfast was basically only about one yuan, and lunch and dinner, if you only eat vegetarian dishes, can be done within one yuan. If you want to eat well, it will cost two or three yuan.

If you calculate it this way, three meals a day, even if you eat very well, would only cost five or six yuan, which would be about one hundred and fifty yuan for thirty days.

However, Zhou Yan's studio has two days off a week, which means that most people can only eat here 22 or 3 days a month. Even if they eat here for every meal, the monthly consumption is only 120 to 130 yuan.

Their monthly meal tickets are worth 150 yuan, which is more than ordinary employees can spend.

“Does this apply to all your employees?”

"Well, the basic standards are the same, but if there are some special circumstances, they will be increased. For example, if it is the month of the employee's birthday, or the month when they get married, different amounts of meal allowance will be added." Jiang Mengfei said.

"But, ordinary employees can't use up the 150 yuan meal allowance, so there's no point in adding more." Liu Heping asked curiously.

He feels that instead of giving employees meal allowances, it would be better to give the money directly to employees. If too much meal allowance is given and employees cannot use it all, wouldn’t it be a waste? It is not really a practical benefit.

Jiang Mengfei smiled and said, "Basically, they will be used up. In fact, most employees don't have enough meal tickets every month."

"How could that be? I heard from Teacher Zhou that a good meal in the cafeteria only costs two or three yuan."

Jiang Mengfei nodded, "Yes, and most people spend less than two yuan per meal."

Liu Heping and the others were even more curious, "If that's the case, why isn't it enough?"

"Because employees often go to private rooms to treat friends to meals, our canteen's private rooms are open for reservation by employees. When employees have a party, they also like to have a meal in the private rooms. The canteen's private rooms are cheap, the food tastes good, and the drinks can be offset with meal tickets. In addition, the canteen also has a canteen where meal tickets can be used to buy things. Although the canteen has fewer items, the prices are the same as outside, and they can be exchanged with meal tickets, so everyone likes to buy things in the canteen."

"Oh, I see. The meal ticket from your studio is quite useful."

"Because of their great significance, meal tickets are not of ordinary standard, but are specially designed and made. They are more difficult to forge than meal tickets in ordinary canteens of general units."

Liu Heping nodded. The style of this meal ticket was indeed special and very different from ordinary meal tickets. He didn't expect that it was specially designed.

In fact, the meal ticket can also be forged. After all, money can be forged. There is no special advanced foundation for this thing. It is just a little more troublesome.

It is precisely because it is a little troublesome that it can basically eliminate the possibility of fraud, because the risk, cost and profit ratio is not impressive.

From such details, we can see that Zhou Yan’s studio is very formal and different from those small companies.

At the same time, he was also curious: Zhou Yan was so young and had been engaged in art for a long time, so how come his studio was managed so well?
Liu Heping next to him had already put the meal ticket into the drawer of his desk. At this moment, he was full of anticipation for the future days in Zhou Yan's studio. At the same time, he was also looking forward to Liu Wenwu and Zhou Yan finally being able to reach a cooperation.

Although I only started working with Zhou Yan yesterday, I found that Zhou Yan is calm, meticulous and very talented, making him a very good partner.

If he could work with Zhou Yan, he would be more confident about this play.

Seeing that they were almost settled, Jiang Mengfei suggested, "How about I take you two around the studio? Director Zhou said that he hasn't taken you to visit the studio yet."

Liu Wenwu and the others were also very curious about the studio, so they nodded and said, "Thank you, Mr. Jiang."

"You are welcome."

……

Jiang Mengfei then took the two of them around the studio, and they first went to the printing and editing workshops.

Seeing that the studio’s equipment was so good, Liu Wenwu and his team were very impressed. If they continued to cooperate, they basically wouldn’t have to worry about post-production anymore.

In fact, without even looking at these workshops, Liu Wenwu had already set his sights on Zhou Yan.

Although Zhou Yan's studio has never produced a TV series, movies and TV series have a lot in common, especially post-production, which is basically the same. If there is a difference, it is that the post-production of TV series is of low standard, while the post-production of movies is of high standard.

Zhou Yan's studio has produced so many high-quality movies, so it's not that they can't even do the post-production of a TV series.

But Liu Wenwu had never expected that their equipment was so good and no other film studio in the country could compare with it.

After visiting the editing workshop, Jiang Mengfei led them downstairs and said, "Downstairs is the makeup workshop, but there hasn't been any big work recently, so their workshop is relatively idle, and there's nothing particularly good to see."

When the three of them came down, they happened to meet Lin Juan and Zhang Ziyi coming up from the first floor. Jiang Mengfei smiled and greeted them, then looked at Zhang Ziyi next to him curiously, "Who is this girl?"

"A student from the second batch of the Central Academy of Drama."

"You've registered so soon?" Jiang Mengfei was a little surprised. "Are there any students from our department in this batch?"

Lin Juan curled her lips and said, "Your department is not working now, so why do you need people? Besides, don't your department share most of the workshops with the film department? Students in school-enterprise cooperation are not divided by department, but by workshop."

Although the TV drama department is an independent department, it shares most of the workshops with the film department because its business has a lot in common with the film department.

For example, the makeup department, in theory, not only serves the film department, but also the TV drama department.

However, this situation will gradually change as the two departments' business grows, and things like makeup and props will have to be separated in the later stages.

"Forget it this time, but next time you must assign someone to our department." Jiang Mengfei smiled and introduced Lin Juan to Liu Wenwu and Liu Heping. "This is Team Leader Lin from the makeup workshop. Team Leader Lin, these two are Mr. Liu Heping and Mr. Liu Wenwu."

Lin Juan had never heard of Liu Wenwu's name, but she knew Liu Heping. She asked in surprise, "Are you Mr. Liu, the screenwriter of Jiashen Sacrifice?"

Liu Heping didn't expect that the little girl in front of him would know him. He nodded and said, "It's me."

"Jiashen Sacrifice" is indeed famous. After all, Liu Heping won many awards for this stage play, including the first Cao Yu Drama Literature Award.

This drama caused quite a stir in the industry, and almost everyone in the drama industry has heard of it.

But outside the theater industry, not many people know about it.

Although movies and dramas are considered the same category, people in the film industry don't actually pay much attention to dramas.

And even if you know "Jia Shen Ji", you may not know that its screenwriter is Liu Heping. Few people can say "Jia Shen Ji" right away when they hear the name.

A makeup artist like him can do this. It seems that Zhou Yan's studio does have some hidden talents.

Zhang Ziyi, who was standing next to Lin Juan, blinked in surprise when she heard "Jiashen Sacrifice". She had heard of this drama. This drama was previously performed in Beijing as the only play to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chairman's birth.

I didn't expect that this short and inconspicuous man in front of me was the screenwriter of "Jia Shen Ji".

She didn't expect that she would meet such a big boss behind the scenes on her first day today.

At the same time, she was also curious, is there any new project in the studio? Otherwise, why would Liu Heping appear here?

Liu Heping confirmed his identity, and Lin Juan laughed, "I personally like The Sacrifice of Jiashen very much. When the Hunan Troupe came to Beijing to perform, I went to see it and was really shocked. It is also a great honor to meet the author himself today."

"No, no, it's my honor that my work is liked by the audience," Liu Heping said modestly.

"Everyone will naturally like such good works."

Hearing Lin Juan praising Liu Heping, Jiang Mengfei almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

Thinking back to the past, Lin Juan was such a shy girl that she would blush when talking to others. Now she can flatter others so seriously. She is learning more and more from Lao Zhou.

The saying "If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beams will be crooked" is probably true. Because of Zhou Yan as a leader, everyone in the studio is willing to praise everyone they meet when dealing with others.

Liu Wenwu actually discovered this as well. After this tour, he felt that the employees in Zhou Yan's studio were all very kind and willing to praise others.

Moreover, the praise was very measured and emotional, and did not seem pale at all.

At least, it makes sense.

Liu Wenwu even suspected that the studio deliberately selected such employees when recruiting, or conducted special training internally.

Because Lin Juan praised him, Liu Heping couldn't help but chat with Lin Juan for a few more words.

But they were here to visit, and they couldn't keep chatting at the stairs, so after chatting for a few words, Jiang Mengfei took them away.

After the three of them left, Zhang Ziyi asked curiously, "Sister Juan'er, does the studio have any new projects?"

Lin Juan shook her head. "I don't know. I haven't heard of any projects. Besides, Liu Heping is a playwright. What project can he be involved in?"

"Isn't this going to be a drama?"

"If I'm going to do anything, I'll do a TV series."

"Why?" Zhang Ziyi asked curiously.

Lin Juan smiled and said, "Because the one just now was Director Jiang from the TV series. Since he was the one who showed Liu Heping and the others around, if there was a project, it should also be a TV series."

"Oh, I see. If we're going to shoot a TV series, our makeup workshop should also be busy, right?"

"Well, if it's really filmed in our studio, we will definitely do the work, but the situation of the TV series is uncertain, so it's hard to say. I hope there will be work to do, as we have been too idle recently. Besides, if there is work to do, I can also teach you something."

"Thank you, Sister Juan'er."

"You're too late. Looking at the current situation, you probably won't have much chance to learn during your time in the makeup workshop. But when Chen Kaige's new movie is filming, you can go if you have time..." At this point, Lin Juan suddenly remembered something, "Didn't you audition for their crew last time? What happened?"

Lin Juan didn't know about Zhang Ziyi's audition. They were just doing Zhang Ziyi's makeup according to Chen Kaige's request and knew very little about the script.

Zhang Ziyi smiled and said, "It's not confirmed yet."

"Oh, it took so long to confirm. Director Chen is really slow."

Listening to Lin Juan talking about Chen Kaige, Zhang Ziyi smiled and didn't respond. She didn't have the courage to reply. (End of this chapter)