Chapter 425 Catching a Turtle in a Jar

After Zhou Yan returned to Yanjing, he almost didn't rest and directly devoted himself to the post-production of "Time Traveler".

Every day he rushed to the studio at 7 o'clock and didn't go home until after 10 o'clock in the evening.

At noon on the 26th, Zhou Yan came out of the editing room and walked to the cafeteria, and happened to meet Jiang Mengfei.

Zhou Yan meant that Jiang Mengfei should rest at home after returning and not come to the studio.

But Jiang Mengfei couldn't stay idle at all. He stayed at home for less than two days and was busy coming to the studio. Now every day is like a normal work, coming in the morning and going back in the evening.

If he encounters work that he can do, he will help, and he won't force himself if he can't do it.

Zhou Yan glanced at his arm, "Have you gone for a checkup recently? How is your recovery?"

Jiang Mengfei raised his arm, "I don't feel anything special, and I don't need a checkup. I'll just go to the hospital to remove the plaster when the time is right. Anyway, I don't feel anything except when I sleep."

"Don't be careless. You still have to go to the hospital for regular checkups. Injuries are not a small matter. If you don't recover well and leave any sequelae, you will regret it."

"That's scary."

Jiang Mengfei pouted, looking like he didn't care, but in fact he also listened to Zhou Yan's words and thought about finding time to go to the hospital for a checkup in the next two days.

"Eat more high-protein and high-calcium foods."

"I've been drinking pork rib soup every day recently."

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes. "In addition to water, the most common thing in pork rib soup is fat. After you drink it, it will only make you gain weight. Eat some fish, shrimp, eggs, milk, lean meat, etc. In addition to these, you should also pay attention to supplementing vitamins and dietary fiber."

"I thought bone soup was useful."

"If you chew the bones and eat them, it may be helpful."

"Well, Kong Chao has been kind enough to make bone soup for me every day recently, but it seems that all the effort is in vain."

"Leave the bone soup for others, and you drink something else."

In fact, they usually have soup in the cafeteria, and most of the time it is big bone soup or pork rib soup. Even if it is not specifically for Jiang Mengfei, there is often bone soup.

"By the way, Lao Zhou, I saw in the news that the film music gold award has a prize of 100,000 yuan. Is it true?"

Zhou Yan was stunned by Jiang Mengfei's words, "What 100,000 yuan prize?"

Seeing Zhou Yan's puzzled face, Jiang Mengfei smiled and said, "I knew it was fake."

"Where did you hear it from?"

"I saw it in the newspaper this morning, saying that this gold award has a prize of 100,000 yuan, and it was announced by the organizing committee."

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes. Could it be that this news was released by the organizer, the Shanghai Film Association?

In fact, this award does not have a penny of prize money. The winner only has an award and a certificate. The medal and certificate are still in Shanghai, and Zhou Yan has not received them yet.

If there is really a prize of 100,000 yuan, why is the popularity so low?

These days, 100,000 yuan is not a small amount. Few films in the mainland spend more than this amount on soundtracks. If those producers knew there was a prize of 100,000 yuan, wouldn't they be crazy to invest their works in it?

If this news was leaked by the organizer, then the organizer's behavior is a bit unauthentic.

"Where is that newspaper?"

"It's at my workstation. Do you want to read it?"

"Well, show it to me after lunch."

...

After lunch, Jiang Mengfei took a copy of "Yanjing Entertainment News" and gave it to Zhou Yan.

Jiang Mengfei had already put the news about "The Chorus" winning the award at the top. As soon as Zhou Yan got it, he saw the headline of the news-100,000 yuan! The highest prize money for domestic film music awards!

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows. This title is quite intimidating.

Not to mention, if the prize money is really 100,000 yuan, this amount is indeed the highest prize money for domestic music awards. After all, there are not many awards related to film music in China, and even fewer can get prize money.

Zhou Yan quickly read the content of the news and then found that Jiang Mengfei had not finished reading the news.

A lot of the content of the news of "Yanjing Entertainment News" was quoted from "Yanjing Evening News", and it was explained in detail at the end of the report. The original text of "Yanjing Evening News" mentioned that the prize money was indeed said by Fang Yongqing, the president of the Shanghai Film Association.

But Fang Yongqing's original words were that the first National Film Music Award held this year was very successful, and they are already preparing for the second one next year, and they have already planned to provide a bonus of 100,000 yuan for the works that win the gold award next year.

The word "planned" is very important.

Zhou Yan believes that this is most likely what Fang Yongqing said himself, and the Yanjing Evening News would not fabricate such facts.

Fang Yongqing said this with full motives.

Nowadays, the National Film Music Award has attracted a lot of attention, but most of the attention is still on Zhou Yan and "The Chorus", and not much attention is paid to the award itself.

And Fang Yongqing has now drawn such a big pie, which can arouse everyone's interest, especially the interest of people in the industry.

Originally, people in the industry were not very interested in this award, but now they heard that the gold award next year may get a bonus of 100,000 yuan, so they are naturally eager to try.

I just don't know how likely it is that Fang Yongqing's pie will come true.

100,000 yuan is not a small amount. Can the Shanghai Film Association come up with it?

Moreover, this 100,000 is only the prize money for the gold medal. They can't hold an award ceremony and only give prize money to the gold medal, leaving the other prizes without a penny, right?

The other prizes combined must be at least tens of thousands of dollars.

Coupled with the money spent on the ceremony itself, it is very normal for one selection to cost tens or millions.

If there are any other activities such as dinner parties, the cost may be endless.

The Shanghai Filmmakers Association certainly cannot afford this money themselves, so if they want to achieve this goal, they can find sponsorship.

Zhou Yan looked at the newspaper and pondered for a moment, then picked up the phone and called Zhang Youan.

Zhang Youan was in Shanghai at the moment. He received a call from Zhou Yan and said with a smile, "Did the post-production of "Space Traveler" encounter any problems?"

"No, I have something to ask."

"What happened?"

"I saw the news today. Fang Yongqing, president of the Shanghai Filmmakers Association, said that he plans to hold the second national film music selection next year and will provide a bonus of 100,000 yuan to the gold medal winner. Does this have anything to do with you?"

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, Zhang Youan laughed and said, "Your sensitivity is really high, you can guess all this on us."

"So, it does have something to do with you?"

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."

"Stop playing charades with me and just tell me the situation."

"This was done by Mr. Tang. In the name of Tomson Group, he planned to donate 200,000 yuan to the Shanghai Film Association to help them organize the second national film music selection."

"Isn't that what Sister Feng meant?"

"Mr. Xu said it was not what she meant."

Zhou Yan pondered, "Tomson Group only sponsored 200,000 yuan, and the Shanghai Filmmakers Association spent half of the money on the gold medal bonus? Isn't this unreasonable?"

"Because in addition to the 200,000 yuan, there is also another 300,000 yuan sponsored by Yaowen Real Estate." Zhang Youan said with a smile.

Zhou Yan twitched his lips when he heard about Yaowen Real Estate. He didn't expect that this matter could involve his father.

The boss of Yaowen Real Estate is none other than his father Zhou Yaowen.

Real estate is not their family's main business, so the scale of Yaowen Real Estate is not large. Zhou Yan also mentioned it before when he heard his song and Zhou Hong mentioned it.

Suddenly, Zhou Yan felt a little sorry for the 300,000 yuan.

Because he believes that spending three hundred thousand on such an award is really meaningless.

"Okay, I get it."

…

After calling Zhang Youan, Zhou Yan called his brother Zhou Hong.

After the call was connected, Zhou Yan told him about Yaowen Real Estate's sponsorship of 300,000 yuan, and then asked, "Do you know about this?"

"Well, of course I know that the cooperation between Yaowen Real Estate and Tomson Group was originally initiated by me."

"Isn't this a waste of money, and it also dragged Mr. Tang in."

Zhou Hong said with a smile, "It's really not us who dragged Mr. Tang in, but him who dragged us in. When I was chatting with Mr. Tang a few days ago, he mentioned this matter and said that there was no decent The awards related to film music, the Shanghai Film Association has organized a national film music selection, it is too shabby, I want to invest some money to help. "

"Since he has mentioned it, I will take advantage of the situation and suggest that we invest some money together to express our feelings."

"Why did Mr. Tang suddenly mention this?" Zhou Yan asked doubtfully.

"It's easy to understand. We played a role in what happened to him in Xiangjiang before, so now he also hopes to have closer cooperation with us. In addition, after all, Tomson wants to develop in Shanghai, but also for the sake of the local area. It's only 200,000 yuan to contribute to publicity, which is nothing compared to the policies given to them by Shanghai. In addition to economic development, Shanghai has always wanted to make some achievements in cultural development. If this award can be achieved, The publicity effect is definitely not bad.”

Zhou Yan nodded secretly. Looking at it this way, Mr. Tang's price-performance ratio of 200,000 yuan is indeed very good.

"I was originally worried that you were spending this money because of me."

"Of course it's for you, but it's not just for you. If it's just for you, we can spend the five hundred thousand on other places."

"Well, half a million is enough for me to take a lot of shots."

"Actually, after our two families gave us half a million, the Shanghai government is also planning to allocate some more money to the organizers. Plus the Film Association's own money, we can make up one to two million. Next year's Film and Music Awards will definitely be held. It’s much more lively than this year.”

“Having money will naturally attract many people in the industry.”

"You have to fight hard and continue to win the gold medal next year."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "If I win the gold medal two years in a row, it will not be a good thing for this selection."

If the biggest award is awarded to one person for two consecutive years, it will definitely arouse criticism and make people question its fairness, especially when two companies, Tomson and Yaowen, sponsor 500,000 yuan.

In this situation, it is impossible for Zhou Yan to win another award next year.

But Zhou Yan doesn't care. If the National Film and Music Awards can be implemented, he will be happy.

Zhou Hong certainly understands the reason. He had thought of this issue when he decided to sponsor, and he was also worried that his sponsorship would affect Zhou Yan's award next year.

But later he also figured out that even if they didn't sponsor it, it would be basically impossible for Zhou Yan to win the award next year.

But it doesn't matter, Zhou Yan will be recorded in history as the first person to win this award.

The two brothers chatted for a while, and Zhou Hong suddenly said, "By the way, what you encountered in Xiangjiang before will come to an end soon."

Zhou Yan didn't understand for a moment and asked doubtfully, "What's the matter?"

"Xiao Jiang and the others were beaten."

"Is there going to be a result? What kind of result?"

"I will tell you the specific results after the dust settles, which will be in the next few days."

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes. It was Zhou Hong who took the initiative to bring up the matter, and now he was trying to get along with him again.

"Okay, then I'll wait for your news."

"Well, it won't be long."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yan was still thinking about Jiang Mengfei and the others being beaten. He was very curious about what result his brother would give.

The current situation in Xiangjiang is special. It is impossible for the Zhou family to reach out to Xiangjiang for this matter. This is very detrimental to the Zhou family.

…

Chen Zhaoji has been very proud of himself in recent days.

A few days ago, he was still worrying about how to revive his business. Now he is already looking forward to becoming the leader in Pengcheng's catering industry in the future.

A few days ago, a friend told him that a catering company in Pengcheng had recently gone wrong and wanted to sell several of its restaurants at low prices.

The sales of these restaurants are very good. If the owner of the company hadn't lost money in gambling and lost his capital chain, it would have been impossible to sell the restaurant.

As soon as Chen Zhaoji heard that there was such a good thing, he hurriedly went over and bought these shops.

At this time, his father Chen Yongde learned that his son was going to Pengchengpan Restaurant, so he stopped him because he felt it was unreliable.

Chen Yongde has been around the world for so many years, and he doesn't believe that there is such a thing as pie falling in the sky.

However, he couldn't resist it later, so Chen Yongde still asked Chen Zhaoji to come over, but he only gave Chen Zhaoji the money to buy a store.

When Chen Zhaoji first arrived in Pengcheng, he was a little uneasy because his father had repeatedly told him before leaving.

But after arriving, he found that his father was completely worried.

The purchase of the restaurant went very smoothly. After he paid the money, the restaurant was in his hands.

At this time, he began to regret not bringing more money, otherwise he would have ordered more than one restaurant.

The restaurant he owns is indeed very good, and he basically doesn’t need to take care of it. It makes a very considerable amount of money every day. If nothing happens, it will be able to recover its capital in one or two years, and it will be profitable from now on.

Seeing that the restaurant in his hands was selling less and less, Chen Zhaoji was so anxious that he called his father every day and asked him to come and inspect it in person.

Chen Yongde couldn't bear his son's daily grind and decided to come and see for himself.

However, Chen Yongde kept an eye on it. He let his son come back first, and then went himself.

It's not that he thinks this trip will be very dangerous, it's just that he has been in the world for so many years, and he understands the principle of being careful when sailing a ship that lasts ten thousand years.

Even if there is a problem here in Pengcheng, at least it is guaranteed that the father and son will not be wiped out.

But Chen Zhaoji did not have such sensitivity. He did go back first, but as soon as his father went to Pengcheng, he followed behind.

When Chen Yongde saw his son, his eyebrows stood up in anger.

"Why are you here?!"

Seeing his father's face full of anger, Chen Zhaoji didn't take it seriously, "Dad, you are just too careful. What could happen? Mr. Hu's capital turnover is limited. The only requirement for selling a store now is cash, and these stores The asking price is not cheap. If there is really a trap, can Mr. Hu still sell it so expensive? "

Of course Chen Zhaoji is not a fool. If these stores sell them very cheaply, he would not dare to buy them.

It was precisely because these stores had market prices, or even a little more expensive than the market prices, that he felt reassured.

Although Chen Yongde was angry, he had nothing to do at the moment and could only hope that nothing would happen this time.

In fact, what my son said was correct. There was nothing suspicious about the other party selling the hotel this time except that he was in a hurry.

He also conducted a private investigation and found out that Mr. Hu's background was very clean, and something did go wrong some time ago.

"I have contacted Mr. Hu. He still has two stores to sell. We will go and take a look later."

"Dad, what are you looking for? Just buy it. If you sell more slowly, don't let others snatch it away. There are always people bidding. The store I bought from also added 50,000 yuan, and Mr. Hu agreed "Give it to me."

"It's nonsense. You just put the store down without inspecting the store. Is there anyone doing this kind of business? If the set this time is in the last two stores, then you are in a trap."

"Okay, let's go to the scene and take a look."

Chen Yongde nodded, "That's it..."

Bang!

As soon as he opened his mouth, the door of the guest room was suddenly knocked open, and several people with loaded guns rushed in. (End of chapter)