Lin Zhijie's friend is named Yu Jizhong, who opened an art studio in the New Era Art Park.
Yu Jizhong Studio is not far from the headquarters of Feishi Records, just a 5-minute walk away. It is located in a unique building composed of a large area of glass and an outer steel frame, separated by a green belt is the Art Square.
The buildings in the New Era Art Park are very distinctive. There are basically no high-rise buildings here. Most of the buildings are only two or three stories high, and Yu Jizhong Studio is no exception.
Except for the front desk, most of the space on its first floor is given over to the exhibition hall for displaying art. The main exhibits include oil paintings, small sculptures, photography and modern art.
Upstairs, on the second floor, is the art workshop, including a painting studio, a sculpture room, an office, etc.
Lu Chen met Yu Jizhong in the studio.
The artist is in his forties or fifties, wearing a set of work clothes stained with oil paint. He has a stocky build, a big face, thick eyebrows and bright eyes. He has messy hair and beard typical of an artist.
Lin Zhijie introduced the two of them: "Lu Chen, this is Teacher Yu from Yu Jizhong, a true master of art!"
Lu Chen immediately stretched out his hand to greet you: "Hello, Teacher Yu, I have admired your name for a long time."
In fact, he didn't know the other party at all and had never heard of this person's name. It was just a courtesy.
"This is Lu Chen, a musician who runs his own studio."
Filia Chen had gone back early due to something else, so the only person who came with Lin Zhijie was Lu Chen.
Yu Jizhong probably didn't read entertainment news. He looked at Lu Chen calmly. He probably didn't know Lu Chen. He shook hands with the latter calmly and said, "Hello."
Lin Zhijie smiled and said: "Lao Yu, Lu Chen wants to rent your land, you have to give me some face!"
A smile finally appeared on Yu Jizhong's face: "Let's talk in my office."
With Lin Zhijie as the matchmaker, Yu Jizhong was quite generous.
He changed into a set of clean clothes, asked his assistant to bring him tea, and chatted in the office like friends.
The building exclusively owned by Yu Jizhong's studio has about 1,800 square meters of usable area. Yu Jizhong can divide it up to 1,000 square meters, converting it from single renting to shared renting.
Of course, the cost of subletting is quite high. According to the artist, as long as he releases the news, there will be many people willing to rent it at a high price. This location is considered very good in the entire art park.
Since Lu Chen is Lin Zhijie's friend, he is willing to give priority to Lu Chen, but there is a prerequisite.
"If you make music, you can't disturb us, otherwise there will be no negotiation no matter how high the price is!"
Lu Chen smiled and said: "This is simple. I will make sure to do sound insulation when I redo the decoration."
The sound insulation of the recording studio is the best, and there is no noise problem. The only trouble is the practice room, but as long as the decoration is in place, it will definitely not affect the neighbors, and the office where I work is also afraid of being noisy.
But Yu Jizhong said this, proving that this matter is basically no big problem.
As for the sublease price, both parties need to sit down and have a good discussion again, and it cannot be settled in just a few words.
Generally speaking, it went very smoothly, the communication between the two parties was quite pleasant, and Yu Jizhong did not have the weird temper of an artist.
But when it was time to say goodbye, he suddenly seemed to remember something and asked: "Lu Chen, have you written a song called "Blue Lotus"?"
Lu Chen was stunned: "Uh, yes."
Yu Jizhong nodded and said, "I've heard it. This song is very well written."
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When Lu Chen returned to the studio, it was almost dark.
It was already after get off work and there was no one in the office, but the lights were still on in the manager's room.
He went over to take a look and found that Lu Xi was still working in front of the computer, his fingers typing rapidly on the keyboard.
Lu Chen greeted: "Sister, it's very late, let's go have dinner together."
Lu Xi turned around and asked, "Where's Fei'er?"
Lu Chen said: "She has something else to do. She has found a new place for her studio. I checked it out in the afternoon and it is suitable. You need to go over and negotiate the rent with them tomorrow."
Lu Xi was surprised: "So fast? Did Director Lin help?"
Lu Chen nodded: "Yes, he really helped me a lot this time. I owe you a big favor."
He said: "Let's go and talk while we eat."
"Don't worry yet"
Lu Xi held the mouse and opened a webpage and said, "Look at this first!"
"What?"
Lu Chen walked over curiously and found that what Lu Xi had opened was his personal post bar.
Although his post bar was established by fan netizens, after passing the qualification certification, Lu Chen Studio also has management rights, so it is semi-official and within the scope of Lu Xi's work.
In the future, if Lu Chen's studio moves and expands, this aspect of work will definitely have to be spun off and put in charge of dedicated personnel.
And in his post bar, the one highlighted in red at the top of the homepage is a rip-off post!
Lu Chen quickly browsed the post and found that the person being skinned was a guy with an ID called [Heavy Metal Element]. This person was not a fan member of Lu Chen’s bar, but he had spoken many times in the bar.
[Heavy Metal Element]’s posts are basically focused on criticism.
It is very common for celebrities, idols and artists to be liked by some and disliked by others. This is reflected on the Internet. If there are true fans, there will naturally be unscrupulous ones, and the forums will not be full of complimentary comments.
Under normal circumstances, as long as there are no bad situations, such as swearing, personal attacks or rumors, Tieba managers will not delete posts randomly and retain a certain amount of dissent.
But last night, Lu Chen won the Best Newcomer Award, and when fans in the forum were celebrating, this [heavy metal element] jumped out and said weird things, and even bet with others whether Lu Chen would win the Best Composer Award.
As a result, he pretended to be a dead dog after being slapped in the face, which completely angered many fans.
So some fans with experience and technical strength started to track down [Heavy Metal Element], hoping to human flesh out the other party's true identity.
By tracking the clues left by [Heavy Metal Elements] in the Tieba, I really gained something.
The true identity of this [Heavy Metal Element] is actually Ling Xiaoxiao’s assistant!
Ling Xiaoxiao is Lu Chen's old enemy. The grudge between the two can be traced back to when Lu Chen first debuted. However, at that time, the two parties could be said to be on the same starting line, but now they are on completely different levels.
Ling Xiaoxiao's assistant actually went to Lu Chen's post bar to stir up trouble. It was surprising, but it didn't feel so incredible.
The evidence chain searched by technical fans is very complete, and the final direction is clear and unmistakable. It can be regarded as a very successful human flesh operation, so it was published in the post bar to denounce it.
In this pinned post, someone also pointed out that it was probably Ling Xiaoxiao himself who used the excuse to scold Lu Chen!
The clown!
After reading the post, Lu Chen couldn't help but shake his head, feeling very funny.
He said: "Don't worry about it, let's go eat!"
In Lu Chen's heart, this trivial matter was really not as important as having dinner with his sister.