"Put away the three medicinal wines your grandpa made for your wife, your teacher, and Mr. Tao. Don't break them."
"When you get there, remember to eat on time and don't break down your body. Your body is your capital..."
"Hire a bodyguard and security guard as soon as possible. I heard from a colleague that her son is studying in college there. The city is in chaos. There are many armed robbers, thieves, and homeless people. You and Meng Mengke can't help each other."
Be careful."
"And Meng Meng, you should also pay attention to rest. Xia Yu is made of iron. She is heartless. As for you, pay more attention to yourself at ordinary times. Don't feel sorry for her, feel sorry for yourself."
"Look, how many months have it been since this year? It's already October. Xia Yu has recovered. How about you? You are at least two or three years older and your condition is no longer good. Girls, work is very important, but don't
Forget to be kind to yourself.”
"Xia Yi, when will your exchange student arrangements come down? You have to hurry up, your sister is a girl - you have to hurry up and get over quickly. If something happens, you have to be in front, don't let your sister get hurt.
!”
At the end of September, Xia Yu returned to Liang Province and stayed at his new home in Bingcheng for a few days. Taking advantage of the National Day holiday, the family returned to Huliang for two days.
I actually didn’t have much luggage before I left. What luggage could I have in Huliang? It’s all in the imperial capital.
I only prepared a few sets of clothes for this trip, and when I get to Los Angeles, I can fill up my wardrobe with a trip to Camus.
Of course you still have to pay, but the internal price, plus buying it in a beautiful country, is at least half the domestic price. There is no need to bring it.
Faced with Ms. Yu Heng's advice, Xia Yu did not rebelliously talk back. Her son was traveling thousands of miles away, and her mother was worried. During this 9,000-kilometer distance, she should be nagged as much as possible to reassure her.
"I know, I'm already looking for one, but mom, you also know that female bodyguards and security guards are not that easy to find, they are in high demand, and they have to be clean, so it's more troublesome."
"Xia Yi can just follow the procedure normally. Are you still worried about Senior Sister Zhuang Ling? Sister Xue Tong can beat ten ordinary people, and Senior Sister Zhuang Ling can beat three or four Sister Xue Tong - besides, I can also beat three or five.
Besides, I went to work, not to find trouble."
"Mom, what you said is like me going to the underworld. Do I have to buy some bulletproof suits?"
"Can I buy it?" Yu Heng rolled his eyes and really thought about it, then frowned and said, "This is no joke. How many shooting cases happened in August last year and November the year before last? When you go out, try to sit in the car.
Do you know?"
"Okay, I'll listen to you!"
Meng Dong beside him also nodded.
As for Comrade Xia Dongfeng, he was tinkering in the kitchen, preparing to prepare a meal. After the reunion dinner, the family of five and one cat would go back to their respective posts.
Listening to the four mothers chattering outside the living room, Xia Dongfeng occasionally glanced at them and felt filled with emotion in his heart.
'I didn't expect that I would grow up so quickly!'
This time I’m not going to the imperial capital, not Jiangnan, not the northwest... It’s not even going to Europe to watch a film festival or travel for a few days, but really going to Los Angeles for a permanent stay. If I want to meet in the future, I have to wait for the summer vacation, the Spring Festival, or...
It really can only be done through mobile phone video...
In the past five years, Xia Dongfeng also looked at Xia Yu with admiration. He felt a sense of pride that he was embarrassed to show, but came from the bottom of his heart——
Although most of the teachers and students in the school now don't know that the famous star Xia Yu is his daughter Xia Dongfeng, in the past everyone in the school knew that winning the Venice Best Actress this time made him even more famous.
He is vain, but sometimes he can't help but think - if Xia Yu hadn't been so good, he would have stayed with him and Yu Heng, right? He thought, he would rather not have this kind of vanity...
But as a father, I also know that I cannot be too selfish. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings.
Just what his father-in-law said: "You two didn't cherish that parent-child time when the children were young. When they grow up, you want to tie the children around you. Why are you making trouble? How can there be such selfish parents? It's your fault?"
Yes, when they were young, they didn’t want their parents to take care of them. When they get older and have children, they want to keep their children close to them?
He sighed with emotion, 'Fortunately, fortunately, although we are not there, these two children... still grew up well. Although the process was tortuous, they eventually became other people's children in the eyes of others.'
He was thinking about something and didn't notice Yu Heng entering the kitchen, nor did he notice that the pot was full of soup.
"What are you thinking about, Lao Xia?" When Yu Heng spoke, Xia Dongfeng was startled.
As soon as he put the spoon down, the soup splashed out and burned his hands, and he couldn't hold the porcelain spoon firmly——
"Poof!"
It fell directly to the ground and broke into several pieces.
Xia Yu heard movement in the living room.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
"Your dad got burned and the spoon was broken. I'm trying to wash his hands!"
"Is it important?"
Saying that, Xia Yu quickly took the medicine box from the drawer under the TV, which contained the burn medicine she had been preparing.
…
After finishing lunch at around ten o'clock, Xia Yu, three people and one cat, were bid farewell by Yu Heng and his wife, and boarded the flight back to the imperial capital.
"Don't talk about Huliang during the New Year, at least go back to the imperial capital, you know? Don't let our family take your teacher and wife to celebrate the New Year in such a far away place. How beautiful is the New Year?"
"knew."
Xia Yu hugged her mother and rubbed her face, which made Yu Heng's face turn red.
"Okay, okay, you are a man in your twenties, you are not ashamed at all!"
Before entering the airport, Xia Yu took the initiative to give Comrade Xia a hug and said, "My mother has worked hard for you to take care of me, Comrade Xia!"
Xia Dongfeng was originally quite warm-hearted but quite embarrassed. Hearing her name, he immediately lowered his head and looked at her, "Do you still need to explain?"
Okay, her father has become arrogant again. Men are like this when they get older?
Yu Heng hugged Meng Dong again, and then waved, "Okay, before you go in, we two go back to school first!"
But when Xia Yu entered the airport, he saw the car parked outside, waved his hand, and didn't look back.
The flight from Bingcheng to the Imperial Capital landed at three in the afternoon. Instead of going back to Taoli Bookstore, we went to the manor.
It was originally planned that Teacher Yong Xia would also go to Los Angeles to live for a period of time, but during this period, Zhuang Ling returned to China several times, and she made an appointment again during the Chinese New Year this year, and she would come back for at least three to five days.
Thinking about it, my body is indeed not as good as before, so there is no need to joke about it.
The old man was afraid that something would happen to her, so he said, "You are not going to stay there permanently, and Xia Yu has just arrived in Los Angeles and has a lot of work to do. Zhuang Ling will definitely not be able to take time off. Even if you go, you will stay alone in the yard. Is it difficult?"
If not, can you still run along?"
I temporarily changed my itinerary.
Teacher Yong Xia thinks about it, it’s the same.
"We'll wait and see when Yu Bao's job stabilizes."
As a result, the original team of six or seven people on this trip suddenly dropped sharply, leaving only two people, Xia Yu and Meng Dong.
We had a meal at the manor and went to Taoyuan in the evening to deliver medicinal wine. Mr. Tao had already known about Xia Yu's arrangement and only said:
"The girls are alone outside. You must pay attention to safety. If you need anything, remember to call Tao Tang and Tao Zhang. Don't hold it back. We have all the resources at home. Use them when you need them. Otherwise, why would you keep them?"
Xia Yu naturally accepted Mr. Tao's kindness with a smile, "Okay, don't worry."
Not many people know that Xia Yu is going to Hollywood to develop his career. Even Yao Yuanqian, the head of Great Wall Film and Television, doesn’t know yet——
Xia Yu felt that before he could establish a firm foothold, he should try to keep a low profile as much as possible.
As for Hu Chang, Qu Ziyi didn't elaborate. He only said that he took the notebook, but the two of them must have guessed it, leaving a layer of window paper without breaking it.
Both of them had the heart to send it off, but they were already on the set. Qu Ziyi had been booking dramas constantly, and Hu Chang also got several good resources after "Nice to Meet You". During Xia Yu's free time, he also
I asked Xia Yu to help me choose, and Xia Yu picked one——
Xia Yu thought about it and they were really familiar with each other, so he helped if he could. He read a few scripts, and finally gave Hu Chang a suggestion to get a chick movie script. The total investment was not big, and he had only received nine million in sponsorship so far.
The salary that can be given to Hu Chang is only one million!
Still before tax.
Overall, it is not much higher than what Xia Yu got in "Drawing Ground as a Prison".
Moreover, the male lead he plays is a relatively controversial, effeminate character.
It is also a commercial film, which Hu Chang has never accepted, and it is also something Wei Jingcheng Studio does not advocate——
Xia Yu had different ideas about this.
Maybe after going through a trough, she and Tao Tang are actually more sensitive to the selection of scripts.
The first thing they pursue must be quality. If Xia Yu didn't have several achievements to unlock, she would have chosen a much wider direction in movies. What happened to plot, business, and chick flicks? As long as the quality is high, they are all good movies!
Xia Yu is now preparing to make a chick flick. Some of the things she said were to Hu Chang and also to herself.
"You are now missing a true masterpiece. A drama that can produce the essence. One is the protagonist and the other is the villain - Wei Jingcheng Studio. It's too complicated. Since you can't make it in the drama, you might as well give it a try.
Business type?”
"Is this good?"
Hu Chang, a tough guy, is at a loss.
Xia Yu naturally knew what Hu Chang was thinking. Everyone wanted to follow the path of Wei Jihong, Wei Fei, Yu Junhao, and her - but what?
This road is limited. How many of them have passed through it over the years?
This is also something that Xia Yu has always wanted to talk to Hu Chang after xz, but has never found time to talk.
Before the trip, I called Meng Dong and "Sister-in-law Hu", and then went to the medicinal food shop to have a serious chat with Hu Chang.
"Want to win a prize? But who doesn't? Everyone has ambitions, but there are only a few ways, but are there really only a few ways?"
"Is Director Zhuang great? He has won so many awards and is known as the number one director in China and one of the top ten directors in the world. But can this path be replicated?"
"What about Director Xu Wei? Is it because he hasn't won any international awards for so many years? Even when he competed with domestic directors of the same generation, Director Zhuang's generation, he didn't win any awards? But it has delayed Director Xu Wei's step-by-step rise.
Have you achieved your current status?"
"Success and fame are all relative. Who said that commercial films must be worse than literary and artistic films? The world's film history can have such achievements only because of those few or more than a dozen literary and artistic films that have been recorded in history? Isn't there a large number of them?
Credit for commercial films?”
"You said Sister Yu is your idol, but Sister Yu accepted all the movies in the beginning, so she acted in less commercial movies?"
"Delaying Sister Yu's achievement as the number one actress in China?"
"Teacher Cheng Zhiqing has been acting for thirty years, and he has played many supporting roles in the past thirty years. He only won his first Best Actor award this year - I admit that I seem to be showing off, but my achievements are more due to luck."
"It's not my fault that I'm here today. I was lucky enough to meet Director Dai, Sister Tang, and Director Zhuang. Without the support of these people, I would be worthless. I might also be acting in chick flicks, but I wouldn't
You will give up this path because of other people's opinions. Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. Only by showing your commercial value will more screenwriters, directors, and investors see you."
"I'm very happy. I told you before that if you have any questions, you can call me - isn't that the point of friends?"
"Five and five years, ten years. In fact, during the recording of the variety show, I originally wanted to say that if you don't want to stay in Wei Jingcheng Studio, you can sign in my studio. Of course, the benefits will be the same.
It must have been average at first - but since you chose Wei Jingcheng Studio to renew your contract at that time, I think you have already thought about it, but now it seems that you are just... venting your anger? "
Hu Chang took a deep breath and admitted frankly,
"Yes, I want to prove to them that I am no worse than Shao An, Qu Ziyi or any of them."
"But the facts tell you that Wei Jingcheng Studio is indeed not suitable for you."
Hu Chang nodded heavily.
"It was due in September, and Lao Wei asked me again and again, do I really want to renew my contract? I know, he also saw the problem, but I still renewed my contract..."
But Wei Jingcheng is not that kind of unscrupulous boss. Although the contract was renewed, it was only for one year.
"Lao Wei said that if there is still no improvement next year, he doesn't want to delay me."
Xia Yu smiled, "Director Wei is quite conscientious."
Hu Chang smiled. If Lao Wei hadn't been very conscientious, he wouldn't have stayed in Wei Jingcheng's studio for so long.
she said.
"Although this movie may make you fall into negative news for a period of time, the character and personality are quite good."
"And if you have any ideas, take this script and your contract and go to Sister Tang and say that I want to rent you from Wei Jingcheng Studio for one year - you and Wei Jingcheng Studio are four
Six? He’s four and you’re six? How about you give us four in the studio?”
"Those four achievements should be the interest our Xia Yu Studio gave to Wei Jingcheng Studio to train you over the years -"
"Then, sign a contract for next year, but the premise is that from the time of signing, you may not have much private time."
This is what commercial movies are like. They shoot five, six, seven or eight movies a year, and as long as one of them is a hit, even the smallest one will be a hit!
If you keep at it, as long as your exposure can be maintained at the same level every year, and the cycle of male artists is much longer than that of female artists, as long as you have talent and are willing to work hard, you will eventually have a chance to get ahead.
Hu Chang has it all, but the platform is not suitable.
Having said that, it is Hu Chang’s own problem how to choose——