Behind the scenes of the entertainment industry

"Brothers, please order whatever you want to eat." Several people sat down one after another. Li Yan called the landlady over and handed the menus to them.

"Li Yan, are you rich?" Wu Xiaotian asked in surprise.

Li Yan smiled shyly: "I thanked you for taking care of me when I was in school. Today, it has been a year since we graduated, and it's time for me to return the invitation."

None of the people took the menu, but handed it to Zhou Cheng. Zhou Cheng asked while looking at the menu: "What have you been busy with recently? I haven't seen you in more than three months."

Li Yan explained: "I followed a group in Hengdian, and my senior brother Liu Wei, who graduated in 1995, filmed a Republic of China drama."

"Liu Wei? It's not easy to make money for him." After hearing Li Yan's words, Chen Li couldn't help but interject.

"I didn't ask for my name in the screenplay, and he didn't treat me badly."

"I don't think it will exceed 10,000 yuan." Chu Ran had contacted Liu Wei before when he was in school. This guy is relatively stingy. In addition to being picky, his price is the lowest among his peers.

"Haha, it would be nice if I could give you five thousand yuan." Chen Li pouted. When he was a sophomore, Liu Wei asked him to be an assistant director. At that time, he was only willing to give him two thousand yuan. In Liu Wei's words, it was to help him accumulate money.

The experience will help me be more independent in the future.

"That's enough for me." Li Yan smiled bitterly and did not reveal how much the other party paid. It seemed that it was no more than the number Chen Li had guessed.

Zhou Cheng followed the group's custom and ordered one portion each of peanuts and edamame, fifty skewers each of lamb, beef, and crispy bones, as well as some eggplant, peppers, and leeks. He asked Chen Li and ordered according to Qian Lele's preference.

Ordered a grilled fish and then handed the menu to Chu Ran.

"...Brother Li, can I help you with two bunches of kidney to make up for it?...Haha, for those of us, let's get two each...By the way, there's also this, here are six..." Chu Ran's order was relatively rough.

Crazy, I ordered more than a dozen skewers just for the big stuff. The price of these items was much higher, plus the grilled skewers in front, the cost would be several hundred more. This made Wu Xiaotian and others keep winking at Chu Ran.

Chu Ran didn't care. After ordering, he took the menu to look at the drinks, and then brought a bottle of blue and white Fenjiu, a pot of freshly squeezed juice, a box of Yanjing and two packets of Huazi.

"Chu Ran, this is a bit much." Tao Ze looked at Li Yan and whispered to Chu Ran.

Tao Ze's words were heard by Li Yan. He showed a hint of gratitude and then gestured: "Not much, everyone is happy today. You don't have to save money for me."

Chu Ran waved his hand, threw one of the packets of Huazi to Zhou Cheng, and said to Li Yan: "What are you asking for? Master Chu will pay for it today. I have already paid the money."

"Chu Ran, you..." After hearing this, Li Yan stood up and looked at Chu Ran with some displeasure: "We agreed that I would treat..."

"Next time you come. Brother, there is a reason why I paid the bill today." Chu Ran patted his shoulder, showing a pitiful look: "It's really not my brother who is trying to save your face. Brother Cheng helped me today."

I have contacted a big job. If you don’t give me this opportunity tonight, my brother will invite him to Kempinski tomorrow. You have to know that a meal there will cost at least several thousand. Li Yan, just be a helper to my brother.

this time……"

"Kempinski?" After hearing Chu Ran's words, everyone looked at Zhou Cheng, who was unpacking cigarettes over there. The youngest Wu Xiaotian hurriedly took a lighter and offered it: "Chengzi, ah, no, Brother Cheng!

Let Li Yan come tonight, and we will follow you to the Kempinski for a big dinner tomorrow."

"No, Ah Cheng. If it doesn't work out, I'll pay the bill tonight and take one with me tomorrow night." Tao Ze blurted out in Cantonese when he was so excited.

"Zhou Cheng, I promised to treat you today, how could you suddenly change your mind?" Li Yan did not go to a five-star hotel for a big meal, but thought that Zhou Cheng was helping him in disguise. Although he was grateful, his

That self-esteem was still slightly affected.

"Brothers, it's really Chu Ran's treat today. Chen Li and I were already planning to call him, but then this guy called him first..." Zhou Cheng scattered a few cigarettes, and then roughly summarized what happened.

He explained: "Tomorrow I have to go to the Renyi Guest House to catch up on my notebooks. There are a lot of other things to do later. It will take at least a few weeks before and after. Otherwise, I could let him go so easily."

"People's Art Drama? The script you wrote?" After hearing Zhou Cheng's words, several people thought it was a fantasy. They looked at Chen Li who nodded and believed it. Wu Xiaotian looked at Zhou Cheng left and right: "Zhou Cheng,

You are so secretive. We thought you were done with screenwriting, but we didn’t expect you to come up with a big trick."

"No way, this is talent." Zhou Cheng smiled proudly and raised his eyebrows at Chu Ran: "When I was in school, I let this kid, so that he would not be convinced before returning to my hometown in Qinghai.

He wants to raise cattle, so let him be proud for a while. Now that he has graduated and has no job, I will give him some support."

"Tch, I think you just got lucky." Chu Ran expressed disdain, but when he saw Zhou Cheng's unkind eyes, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Brother Cheng, Master Cheng, your skewers are here, you have a taste first.

how."

Seeing the boss bringing the baked ingredients over, several people began to taste it, but Chu Ran's arrogant attitude made everyone burst into laughter.

According to their usual habits, Chu Ran and Zhou Cheng drank liquor, and the others drank beer. Qian Lele later helped Chen Li drive and drank fruit juice.

Tao Ze picked up a glass of beer and approached Zhou Cheng: "Brother Cheng, if you have such a good thing, please help me. We used to have beds next to each other."

"Come on, don't be so mean." Zhou Cheng pushed him away and said extremely arrogantly: "You and Xiaotian should go to graduate school with Teacher Huang. If you accumulate knowledge for a few years, you will probably catch up with me.

"

Feeling slighted, Tao Ze began to recruit allies: "Xiaotian, don't eat first, come here quickly. Why do I feel that this guy is the stinkers today? Should we let him lie down in the grass overnight today?"

"With the amount of alcohol he has, I can lay him down even with half the amount. You play with him first, and I want to toast my sister-in-law." Wu Xiaotian ignored him, holding the wine glass and said to Qian Lele: "Sister-in-law,

Among us, I am the youngest and the simplest. If my sister-in-law has any beautiful little sisters in the future, she must introduce them to me."

"Just go ahead and talk nonsense. You are the one who stays out most nights in our dormitory." After hearing Wu Xiaotian's words, Tao Ze quit and started to expose each other's shortcomings.

"The one who stays up most nights is Chu Ran, okay..."

"Xiaotian, this is your fault, I'm not from your dormitory..."

After a while, the originally unified front began to collapse from within, and the three people began to fight each other unconvinced. This was also the norm in a drinking party with several people.

Li Yan did not participate, and sat next to Zhou Cheng with a wine glass: "Zhou Cheng, thank you."

"My brother, you don't have to be so polite." Zhou Cheng said to him: "Chu Ran was able to get this job today more because he helped Li Ge adapt the script and got a name in Renyi.

Director He Jiping had a good impression of him, so Brother Li and I made such a proposal."

Although helping Chu Ran to receive this resource had little to do with the others, Zhou Cheng still explained it briefly. After all, we are all friends, so try not to have any grudges.

"I understand. Chu Ran is the first to become famous in our class. We are all happy for him that he can get such an opportunity." Li Yan had another drink with Zhou Cheng: "I really want to treat you today

.”

Looking at Zhou Cheng's confused gaze, Li Yan poured himself another glass of beer: "The day before yesterday, my brother and sister's college entrance examination scores came out. They are all very good. They can almost all go to the 211 school."

"Congratulations!" Zhou Cheng toasted him with a glass of wine.

"Thank you." Li Yan drank the beer in his cup in one sip and breathed a long sigh of relief: "I spent four years to send them to college, and then each of them saved 20,000 yuan. The rest is from

They are on their own, and I am ready to live for myself in the future.”