Just like Tao Ye said, when the reserve money in the group runs out, it is almost impossible to open the pot. When it was dinner time, lunch boxes were being distributed in the lobby of the hotel where the crew was stationed, and there were three large sorting boxes on the ground, with meals packed in convenient boxes stacked in the boxes, and two large iron buckets next to them, one containing egg soup and the other containing steamed buns.

The scene was chaotic and chaotic, the crew rushed up, grabbing the boxed lunch in the box with all their hands and feet, and life producer Yang Di shouted loudly next to him to try to maintain order.

"Don't take more, you can only take one copy per person, there is nothing superfluous."

But no one listened to him at all, and the two sturdy young men of the lighting group each took two boxed lunches, and also inserted a string of steamed buns with chopsticks, waiting for the soup.

"If you take more, what will others do?"

The young man ignored him and left with a boxed lunch. Soon the lunch box and steamed buns were all taken away, and even the soup was not much left, and several people later did not receive it, looking at the empty boxes and complaining.

Yang Di scolded dissatisfiedly: "Hey, why did you two take more?" It's not like you can only take one per person. ”

The young man argued, "One is not enough to eat." ”

Several staff members gathered around Yang Di and asked Yang Di dissatisfiedly, "How do you manage your life production... What kind of group is this, I don't even care about food, what kind of drama are you filming, forget about the gang. ”

Yang Di looked at everyone aggrievedly, "I can't help it, I haven't eaten it." ”

"Why is it gone, the instant noodles I ate yesterday."

Yang Di explained helplessly, "Someone took two copies, and I didn't listen." ”

"It's not that you have to order ten more portions every time, the lighting group is all young men, and one is not enough to eat."

Yang Di whispered: "People don't give credit now, they must settle it in cash, I don't have enough money, so I can only barely take one copy according to the number of people." ”

At this time, the director and Zhang Ning came in from outside and saw this scene, and the director called Yang Di over and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"There are not enough lunches, and the people in the lighting team take too much, and they don't listen."

"Don't overspend, issue an official invoice." The director told me uneasily.

"Got it, got it."

The director frowned helplessly, took out two hundred yuan, and handed it to Yang Di, "Take a few brothers out to eat." ”

"There is such a good thing," Yang Di smiled and took the money, not knowing the worry at all, "Let's go, the director has a treat and goes out to eat." Yang Di greeted the few people who didn't get the box lunch.

Tao Ye entered the hotel and saw that the director was talking to the hotel manager at the front desk, so he walked over and waited for the director to finish speaking, and then asked, "Director, did you say hello to the calf?" ”

"Anyway, he said to ask their boss for instructions, you can go over, no problem."

Yang Di perfunctorily agreed, and was hugged out of the hotel by a group of people. Tao Ye happened to come back from outside, and met these people at the door of the hotel, Yang Di beckoned him to go with him, Tao Ye declined, he seemed to have something waiting to be done.

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"Yo, fall asleep, wake up your peach blossom dream."

The calf was a little irritable and hummed unceremoniously.

Tao Ye happily thanked the director.

The room with the crew is on the same floor as the art group's room where Tao Ye lives, Tao Ye walked outside the room, knocked on the door, no one answered, Tao Ye knocked a few more times, but no one answered, so he had to leave helplessly. Just a few steps away, the door opened, and the pilot, the calf, appeared at the door with a sleepy look and an irritated face. The calf was not very old, and he was a thin, dark-skinned young man. Tao Ye hurriedly walked back again, joking with a joke in his mouth and a calf set.

"Dude, it's not right for your boss to do this, it's not normal for the group to test the equipment, it's about to turn on."

"No way, the boss said, no one will be allowed to move now."

Tao Ye asked, "Did the director tell you?" ”

The calf blocked the door, and did not mean to let Tao Ye into the room, and said impatiently: "Our boss doesn't let others use the machine." ”

The calf didn't give in, "Tell me, who are you!" ”

The calf was about to close the door, Tao Ye rubbed the fire even more, he pressed the door hard, raised his voice, and scolded loudly.

The calf's tone of voice was very stiff, which made Tao Ye's anger come up.

"It's okay, why don't you even let the crew watch the equipment that the crew spends money to rent?"

"Why are you so crossy, no one can control you, right, you are the boss in this group!"

The quarrel between the two people provoked the people in the next room to open the door and come out to see, but no one came to persuade them, Tao Ye's room was not far away, and Jiezi also came out to see, and saw that Tao Ye was arguing with the calf, so he hurriedly came over to persuade him.

"Hey, how do you talk?"

The calf's stubbornness also came up, glaring at Tao Ye and shouting, "You don't care what I say." ”

The calf is still angry, "My salary is not paid by the crew, and besides, you are not a photographer." ”

Jiezi said in his hometown to stop the calf, "What are you doing, you can't shut my mouth first." ”

"Okay, okay, don't argue, don't argue, it's all for work."

"This kid is talking too impulsively, there is no discussion at all, and the director has said hello and won't listen." Tao Ye complained to Jiezi.

The little cow snorted and closed the door, and Tao Ye left helplessly under Jiezi's persuasion.

Tao Ye and Jie Zi returned to the room, the artist Lao Pan was drawing something on the computer with a writing tablet, concentrating on the matter completely, and Jie Zi apologized to Tao Ye for the calf.

Tao Ye was amused by the calf, "How do you know I'm not a photographer?" ”

"Okay, okay, Brother Tao, let's get rid of my anger, and I'll talk about him when I turn around."

"Then let him slow down first, Brother Tao, there is your courier, put it on your bed."

Tao Ye walked into the inner room and saw a courier parcel on the bed, he opened the parcel, it was a few photography books sent to him by Xiaoting.

"Don't be like him, he's young and ignorant, I'll scold him when I look back."

"It's okay, it's okay, don't talk about him anymore, this kid has an evil fire today, and he is angry with me." Tao Ye gradually calmed down.

Tao Ye said without being salty: "It's good to turn it on." ”

"Yes, I'm looking forward to it, but when will it be turned on, and if I don't turn it on, the scorpions and centipedes will all die."

Tao Ye asked Jiezi while unpacking the parcel, "Do you two go to Kanjing tomorrow, you have to look for the scenery of the mountain road again, and find a more spacious place." ”

Jiezi walked to the door of the inner room and said, "I can't go, I don't have a car, the group doesn't give a car, the director said that there is no money to refuel, I want to go to the town today to see the props I want to buy." ”

"I said, as soon as you scold him, he won't dare to squeak."

"His parents also asked me to talk to him a little more. This kid also has a dream and told me that he wants to be a handheld. ”

"Hey, you're a fellow with Mavericks, aren't you?" Tao Ye asked.

"Yes, his house is not far from my village, and there are some relatives around the corner, so he has to call me uncle. He went to work in this company, and I asked someone to introduce him. ”

Jiezi is a talker, as soon as he opens the chatterbox, he can't hold it, and he talks a lot in a lot of words, Tao Ye listens patiently, and finally waits for Jiezi's opportunity to take a breath, and quickly interjects.

"Hey, I'll invite him to dinner in the evening, apologize, don't let the child be depressed anymore, you talk to him well, I just want to familiarize myself with the various parameters of the camera."

"Understand and understand, do this business, without a dream to support, I really can't do it for a day. Especially like the field work is only more than 100 yuan a day, and the little assistants of various departments may not earn more than they go to work, and they have to get up early and stay up late at night, and they have to stay up a few big nights from time to time. ”

"Yes, Brother Tao, so don't take today's matter to heart, the boss spoke, and he didn't dare not do it. Our group should also pay others, his salary is linked to performance, if our group can't turn on the machine, yellow, he can't get a salary. I guess so he is very annoyed, and he is waiting to earn money and go home for the New Year, he also has a little girlfriend in his hometown, and a child of his age needs to save face. ”

Jiezi asked mysteriously: "Did the director recommend you to do photography?" Changed the original photography boss? ”

Tao Ye hurriedly clarified, "Don't guess this, I didn't mean that." ”

"Then you don't have to go out to eat, just buy some cooked food, buy some wine, and go to his room to eat. He looked at the camera, and he didn't dare to go far, there were millions of machines and lenses, and the child was very serious about his work. "Jiezi took it upon himself to make the decision for the calf.

"Okay, I'll just watch in his room and touch the machine in front of him to reassure him."

Jiezi always wanted to drink the bottle of liquor that Tao Ye brought back, Tao Ye drank some before, and there was still more than half a bottle left, and Tao Ye asked the hotel commissary to send a case of beer. Jiezi and Xiaoniu ate and drank, and the two of them had strong combat effectiveness. In recent days, the food in the group has become worse and worse, they are all strong young men in their twenties, and their stomachs are even more lacking in oil and water.

Tao Ye sat on the edge of the bed, studying the camera and the randomly equipped lens against the manual. The instruction manual is in English, Tao Ye looked at it carefully, and took notes from time to time, and used the translation software on the mobile phone to translate the words he didn't understand, and some important places were also photographed with his mobile phone.

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Tao Ye and Jie Zi went out to buy a lot of cooked food, sauce beef, fried fish, pig ears, etc., and then went to find the calf together. With Jiezi's uncle here, and so many delicious foods, it may also be that Jiezi and Niu revealed that Tao Ye was about to be promoted to photography, and Niu was much more polite to Tao Ye, and even respectful.

Jiezi was embarrassed, "Enough, I can't eat so much, and there are also boxed lunches sent by the group, I grabbed two more boxes."

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Jiezi was so drunk that his face was red, and he remembered to greet Tao Ye, "Brother Tao, you can eat some first, and then you won't eat any more." ”

"You two eat first, I'm not hungry yet. If you two don't have enough to eat, do you want to order some takeout? ”

Fan Lina called Tao Ye to the car and whispered: "Mr. Sun said that he has no cash now, and wants to sponsor the liquor from their factory, so that we can sell the liquor ourselves, and how much money will be sold in the group." ”

Mr. Sun opened the side door of the van, and Tao Ye looked inside, the car was stuffed with boxes of liquor, stacked neatly. Mr. Sun took down a box, put it on the ground, and opened it, and inside was a single bottle of liquor, a box of twelve bottles.

Two vans drove into the hotel compound and parked side by side. Fan Lina got out of a car, she called Tao Ye and asked Tao Ye to come down quickly, saying that she was in a hurry to find him. At this time, a man got out of another car, and it turned out to be Mr. Sun.

After a while, Tao Ye came out of the hotel, saw Fan Lina, and walked over to her.

Tao Ye calculated, "That's 200 yuan a bottle, it's not cheap." ”

Mr. Sun held a bottle of liquor in his hand and introduced it like a few treasures.

Tao Ye asked, "How much wine is this?" ”

Fan Lina said: "Mr. Sun said that there are a total of 500 bottles, and they can be sold for at least 100,000 yuan. ”

"Don't, such a good wine, don't waste it, it's all money."

"I can't see it in the wine market at all, and if it is sold, it can sell three or four hundred and one bottles." Mr. Sun is very confident in his wine.

"This batch of wine is all vintage wine, 20-year-old cellar, better than the last few bottles I gave you, the last time it was 5-year-old, I don't believe you can taste it."

Saying that, Mr. Sun was about to unscrew the lid of the wine, but Tao Ye hurriedly stopped it.

"You think about this matter too simply, the matter of sponsorship has to be agreed by the funder, and now the funder of our film has not yet scored."

Tao Zhi said unwillingly: "Then can you agree to this matter first, and let's stay first." ”

"Yes, yes, I know it's a good wine, and the last time it was five years old, it was already very good. We don't even talk about sponsorship, I'll take you to talk to our producers. ”

Tao Ye asked Fan Lina to accompany Mr. Sun to sit in the lobby of the hotel, and he went to the production director first, and then came to the producer Zhang Ning's room with the director. Tao Ye happily talked about the sponsorship from the beginning, but he didn't expect Zhang Ning to pour a basin of cold water on his head.

"Fan Lina also wants to help the group solve some difficulties, how much can she help, Mr. Sun is also very enthusiastic, but he is also short of cash, so he can only sponsor in kind."

"Fan Lina is accompanying Mr. Sun downstairs?"

"When will these wines be sold, besides, who will sell them and who will sell them to, and when all the wine is sold, our group may be disbanded."

Zhang Ning was obviously not interested in this kind of sponsorship, and Tao Ye could only bite the bullet and say good things.

The producer finally relented, and Tao Ye hurriedly agreed.

The director didn't speak, and then added: "This wine can't be moved or sold first, if the director's funds can't be put in place in the end, and the movie can't be started, you have to return the wine to others, otherwise it will be a fraud." ”

"Well, would you like to go and say hello with the director?"

Zhang Ning quickly thought about it, and then said: "The wine can be put in the group first, but the sponsorship contract cannot be signed first, and we have to wait for the capital to be in place to see how to calculate it." ”

"You want to come over from the driver's car tomorrow morning, let's pick up the director."

Tao Ye was pleasantly surprised, "Ah, he's back, how's it going?" ”

Zhang Ning nodded approvingly, "Then I won't go to see the owner of this winery first, Jun Sheng, you go and say hello." ”

The two were about to go out, but Zhang Ning stopped Tao Ye.

The van stopped at the door of the hotel, several field workers moved the wine from the car, and the crew opened another room to store the wine. The director accompanied Mr. Sun, chatting enthusiastically.

Tao Ye called Fan Lina aside and conveyed to her the results of the discussion with the producer just now, after listening, Fan Lina frowned, and her enthusiasm was poured cold water, obviously very dissatisfied.

"I don't know yet."

Zhang Ning shook his head, it seemed that the situation was not optimistic.

Hearing that Wen Hao was coming back, Fan Lina hurriedly asked, "Did you find the money?" ”

Tao Ye asked helplessly: "What do you think?" ”

"What do you call this, originally Mr. Sun was also kind-hearted, I feel that our producers are afraid of being sticky, and I will never do this kind of thing again in the future."

"The director will be back tomorrow, let's hear what he has to say first."

Tao Ye took Wen Hao's suitcase and asked by the way, "How is it?" ”

Wen Hao shook his head, "No play!" ”

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The next morning, Tao Ye and Zhang Ning rushed to the airport to pick up Wen Hao, the plane arrived early, and as soon as the two entered the reception hall, they saw Wen Hao walking out of the airport, listless and slumped.

", sign!"

Zhang Ning took out the printed guarantee from his bag, and took out the pen again, Wen Hao shook his head with a wry smile.

Tao Ye drove on the mountain road, Wen Hao and Zhang Ning were sitting behind, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere was solemn. After a long while, Zhang Ning finally couldn't help but ask: "What do you want to do, make sure to sign or not, hurry up, the situation in the group can't be delayed any longer, either start the machine quickly, or everyone disperse."

Wen Hao did the final ideological struggle, hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

"Do you know where I signed my acting contract for my graduation assignment?"

Zhang Ning ignored him, afraid that Wen Hao would be embarrassed, Tao Ye interjected and asked, "Where is it?" ”

"It's a long time to live."

Wen Hao cushioned Zhang Ning's bag, scribbled his name on the "guarantee", and returned it to Zhang Ning. Tao Ye peeked from the rearview mirror, Wen Hao did not endure the tragic emotion of humiliation, and after signing, he seemed much more relaxed.

Tao Ye understood Wen Hao's emotions and wanted Wen Hao to cheer up quickly.

Zhang Ning looked at Wen Hao worriedly, "What do you mean by this?" There was some reproach in his tone.

"Babaoshan subway station, I took the actors to see the scene, and in the subway station, I signed the actor contract with a big stone pillar." Wen Hao's tone was extremely self-deprecating when he said this.

"You don't understand this, the feng shui is good there, so you can only win awards for your graduation homework."

Tao Ye suppressed the excitement in his heart, "Really let me go?" ”

Wen Hao continued to say to Tao Ye in a broken and broken tone: "Yes, you should all practice, if you don't shoot well, you can't shoot badly, shoot slowly, the management has money." ”

Wen Hao didn't answer Zhang Ning, and said to Tao Ye in front of him: "Photography is yours." ”

Wen Hao's tone when he said this was very arrogant, Zhang Ning frowned and didn't speak, there seemed to be an objection in his heart, but it was inconvenient to express it at this time.

Zhang Ning couldn't listen to it anymore, and seriously criticized Wen Hao, and Tao Ye also hurriedly expressed his attitude.

"Sister Ning is right, it's not easy to have the opportunity to make a film, although now you bow your head and compromise, but there is also a place for victory, at least Fan Lina's play is all saved, just change the script according to the requirements of the management first, they want Qiqi's role to be no less than Fan Lina, you can change it according to their intentions first, isn't there a later stage, when the management itself sees Qiqi's miserable performance... It's clear at a glance when the clips are cut together, and it's awkward to look at it more. ”

Tao Ye was a little crying and laughing when Wen Hao said, "You say, are you letting me do it, or don't you let me do it?" ”

"Your attitude is not right, I don't object to Tao Ye taking the camera for the time being, but if you want to shoot, shoot well, you can't smash your own brand, this will be your Wen Hao's work in the future, and I will follow you for a lifetime."

"I didn't say I couldn't shoot well! Lao Shang called me two days ago, his daughter-in-law was born prematurely, and she had to wait for the child's condition to stabilize before she could come back. It seems that I blamed him this time, originally his daughter-in-law's due date was the Spring Festival, and it was just in time to catch up after the shooting, so you really have to last a few days, are you ready? ”

Listen to Wen Hao... Tao Ye felt a little lost in his heart,

"That's right, there is also publicity, and the management can't have the final say at that time, take a step back from this matter, don't always think about a move to defeat the enemy, some things have to be slowly consumed and grinded slowly."

Tao Ye and Zhang Ning's words obviously moved Wen Hao, but Wen Hao was reasonable

"Okay, then I'll try, anyway, Lao Shang will be back in a few days."

Zhang Ning hurriedly admonished again, "You can't shoot slowly, and you can't drag on the New Year." The cycle was already tight, and it dragged on for several days. ”

"Okay, I know, don't worry."

"Okay, don't get the script, you can't change your attitude, it's not good to change it, I'll change it. Let the management quickly call the money and start the machine quickly. ”