Dreams of the Fragrant River

: Thirty-Five [One General]

Wen Bixia’s parents warmly kept Kang Jianfei and Principal Lin for lunch, but it was really difficult to see her home, so the two were too embarrassed to stay, so they politely refused to leave together.

Wen Bixia was wearing a floral dress and stood at the door of the house watching Kang Jianfei drift away. She looked back at the dilapidated wooden house behind her, and for the first time felt strongly that she didn’t belong here. The only expectation in Wen Bixia’s heart now is that Kang Jianfei will come back to film as soon as possible and take her away from this ghostly place. As for becoming famous, she does not dare to have too many extravagant hopes, as long as she can leave this poor place.

After Kang Jianfei and Principal Lin went down the mountain, they called Teacher Qin over as well, and went to a small restaurant that seemed to have poor sanitary conditions. The main customers of the small restaurant are teachers and students living in the school, but the business is not very good, only a few diners are eating.

After ordering a few home-cooked dishes, Kang Jianfei chatted with Principal Lin and Teacher Qin for a while, and settled the matter of building an awning with seats for the school and leveling the sports field.

Kang Jianfei only needs a one-time payment of 15,000 yuan, and the school will be responsible for purchasing building materials and hiring workers—the labor in Tiaojingling is too cheap, so it can be done within half a month. In addition, the school will help to set up the sports meeting scene, such as banners, bunting, streamers, etc., and the clothing costs of the 120 student extras are also included.

In other words, after Kang Jianfei paid 18,000 yuan, he could just let it go and leave the rest to the school. After that, let the students do the tricks without spending a penny more.

In addition, because Tiaojingling is too remote, considering that the crew will shoot here for about a week, Principal Lin guaranteed that the crew’s meals will be provided by the school cafeteria, and the ingredients are purchased from nearby residents, so the cost of meals is very low. In addition, some dormitories will be freed up to arrange accommodation for the crew.

This is how filmmaking is. The crew has to consider eating, drinking, and laughing. It is not as full of artistic romance as outsiders imagined. If it’s a big director filming, naturally you don’t need to worry about such trivial matters, just set up a set-up team and let the set-workers get rid of the headaches. But Kang Jianfei is now alone and has to handle everything by himself.

In the afternoon, Kang Jianfei and Teacher Qin rode a bicycle again and went to Yuansheng Middle School to find Li Saifeng.

There are more than a dozen primary and secondary schools in the Diaojingling area, most of which are in poor conditions, and Yuansheng Middle School is no exception, which is far more primitive than Diaojingling Middle School.

The two ran to the school to ask, only to find out that Li Saifeng had already transferred to a middle school on Hong Kong Island.

It turns out that Li Saifeng’s family used to live in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and moved to Hong Kong with his father last year. Due to financial constraints, he first let Li Saifeng live in Tiaojingling to study. In the past six months, Li’s father’s work has been stable, and he has a lot of money. He took his daughter away after completing the transfer procedures a few days ago.

Kang Jianfei was quite speechless. After inquiring for a long time, he only asked the address of Li Saifeng’s relatives in Tiaojingling. Then they went over the mountains to find the relative, and it took a lot of words to get the phone number and address of Li Saifeng’s house.

It was already after five o’clock in the afternoon, and Kang Jianfei didn’t go to Hong Kong Island to find Li Saifeng, but called back to Jingling Middle School to pick up his cousin from school. Otherwise, Wu Ruiqing, who had no bicycle, had to walk seven or eight miles to get a ride back.

When he returned to the rented house on the radio channel, it was already dark, and Hu Juncai was not there. Kang Jianfei had to make instant noodles by himself, and called Tang Zhenye by the way.

Kang Jianfei put the phone between his face and ate instant noodles and said, “Hey, Aye, my movie will start shooting in half a month. How about you play the second male lead?”

“Half a month later,” Tang Zhenye explained in a somewhat embarrassed tone, “I also received a movie recently. It’s the third male lead directed by Zhang Che, and I really can’t go away.”

Tang Zhenye’s original trajectory was to make a name for himself in the filming of “The Beach”, and then he took on more scenes. However, due to Kang Jianfei’s relationship, the filming of “The Beach” was completed four months ahead of schedule. Although the broadcast had not yet started, Zhang Che accidentally saw Tang Zhenye’s stills in “The Beach” and asked him to make a movie. .

Zhang Che was the most famous director in Hong Kong in the 1960s. Although he has declined a lot in recent years, he still maintains a high output of several martial arts films every year.

Tang Zhenye chose the latter without hesitation.

Kang Jianfei wasn’t very angry, he didn’t bother to talk to him about coordinating schedules, so he put Tang Zhenye on the blacklist and hung up the phone with a smile.

“Jingle Bell…”

A few seconds later, the phone rang again.

When Kang Jianfei picked it up, it was actually Tang Zhenye who called. It is estimated that this fellow was a little embarrassed, and began to remedy: “A Fei, although I can’t come to act in your movie, I can recommend someone to you.”

“Who is it?” Kang Jianfei asked.

Tang Zhenye said, “Zhang Guorong.”

“If I invite him, I don’t have enough money!” If Kang Jianfei had enough budget, he would definitely invite Zhang Guorong to play. At this time, although Zhang Guorong was not yet popular, he was already well-known, and the salary he received was definitely not low. Kang Jianfei didn’t want to waste his precious budget on the second male lead.

Tang Zhenye explained: “It doesn’t cost much, but he will definitely agree to pay him 10,000 yuan. I ran the trick in a movie called “Under the Roof, Dead Knot” more than half a month ago, and that movie starred Zhang Guorong. , and the remuneration is only 10,000 yuan. Zhang Guorong seems to be selling songs that are not very good, so he really wants to be in the film and television field, and if someone asks him to make a movie, he will definitely agree. ”

Kang Jianfei had heard of this kind of thing. Someone asked Zhang Guorong to film “Dream of Red Mansions”, saying that he was going to play Jia Baoyu, and Zhang Guorong, who was eager to film, went there, but it turned out to be a pornography. Porn…

“But I’m a novice director, will he take my show?” Kang Jianfei was quite skeptical.

It’s true that Zhang Guorong is eager to make a movie, but it’s not a cat or a dog. He accepts it all. If a major director asked him to film, maybe everyone would do it with zero pay, and he Kang Jianfei, apart from being famous for writing novels, few people knew about his other abilities, so it was impossible for him to be attractive to Zhang Guorong.

Tang Zhenye said, “I’ll help you ask, whether it works or not, I’ll give you an answer tomorrow.”

“Okay, let’s talk tomorrow.” Kang Jianfei hung up the phone and moved Tang Zhenye from the blacklist to the greylist. His trustworthiness has yet to be considered.

More than a dozen calls were made, and the field management team was able to get it done, but there was still a shortage of photographers. The photographers that Kang Jianfei took a fancy to, when they heard that Kang Jianfei was going to be a director to make a movie, they all thought they were listening to jokes and refused without hesitation.

Kang Jianfei was so depressed that he was about to go out to Hong Kong Island overnight. He signed Li Saifeng first and then he met Zhao Yazhi who came over with a late-night snack as soon as he opened the door.

When Zhao Yazhi entered the room, he saw the noodle soup left on the coffee table at a glance, and scolded: “A Cai is still on the set to catch a movie, I know that you must be eating instant noodles at home alone. Instant noodles are not nutritious. It’s good to cook a bowl of noodles.”

Kang Jianfei didn’t wait for Zhao Yazhi to put down the supper, he hugged her waist from behind and said, “Sister Zhi, why don’t I move in with you, Ah Cai is too lazy to even cook, so follow along. You don’t have to worry about going hungry.”

“A Fei, don’t do this.” Zhao Yazhi pushed his hand and struggled, but he had no strength, and was still held firmly by Kang Jianfei.

The last time Zhao Yazhi’s birthday was a good opportunity, Kang Jianfei also planned to eat her up, but at the most critical moment, Zhao Yazhi refused to give in.

Kang Jianfei never thought of himself as a gentleman, he was a down-to-earth villain. However, he still has a bottom line in his life. For example, he only steals when he is hungry, and he does not steal from the poor, women, the elderly, the sick and children. As for women, if he has a crush on someone, he will do everything possible to fight against abduction, but he will not use force when women don’t want to.

Kang Jianfei felt that it was very unskilled and did not have much sense of accomplishment, just like he was born as a thief, he always despised robbery and kidnapping.

There was also roast goose legs in the midnight snack. Kang Jianfei ate it when he put it in his mouth. He didn’t care about his image in front of the beauties.

Zhao Yazhi watched him eat for a while, and said, “I went home to see Xiaoguang this afternoon and chatted with Hanwei for a while. He apologized to me, saying that he was impulsive that day and begged me to move back…”

Kang Jianfei interrupted, “You agreed?”

“I’m still hesitating,” Zhao Yazhi said and sighed, “I found out when I was chatting with him that I had given up on him, and I had neither love nor hatred.”

Kang Jianfei asked, “Then why are you hesitating? If you don’t love him anymore, then don’t go back. Why should you make yourself miserable?”

Zhao Yazhi said in pain, “But my son is still there.”

Kang Jianfei patted her shoulder and said, “Good boy, don’t think about it too much. It’s a big deal. Divorce. Take custody of your son and I’ll take care of you, mother and son.”

“Who wants you to support?” Zhao Yazhi was no longer troubled when he said it, but laughed, “You can’t even support yourself, so you want me to bring you a late-night snack.”

Kang Jianfei said with a smile: “When my film is released and it will sell well, then I will become the big boss of the film company, so I’m afraid I won’t be able to support you?”

Zhao Yazhi was immune to his dirty words and asked, “By the way, how is your movie going?”

Kang Jianfei said, “There is no photographer with a handheld camera.”

Zhao Yazhi thought about it and said, “I can recommend someone to you.”

“Who?” Kang Jianfei asked.

Zhao Yazhi said: “It’s Zhong Zhiwen, the photographer who shot “Crazy Robbery” last time.”

“Is he willing to come?” Kang Jianfei asked, but he was overjoyed.

Zhong Zhiwen was a photographer who later became as famous as Duke Feng, Huang Yuetai, Bao Dexi and others. He was a frequent visitor to the Hong Kong Film Awards, and he was also a good director. He can shoot and direct. If Zhong Zhiwen can be pulled into Oriental DreamWorks, it will add a general to the company.

Zhao Yazhi said: “I will help you to convince him.”

Kang Jianfei hugged Zhao Yazhi happily and kissed her cheek just after eating the roasted goose leg, which made Zhao Yazhi “become furious” and caught up with Kang Jianfei and beat her up.