Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

My ancestors were Jinshi and high-ranking officials in the Qing Dynasty, and their descendants were professors at Yanjing University in the Republic of China. They were from a typical scholarly family. They had a lot of antiques, calligraphy and paintings at home. Later, the house was confiscated, and some of them were eventually returned one after another.

Ming Hanwen himself was once a professor in the Chinese Department of Yenching University. He likes calligraphy and painting and has done a lot of research on it. When his daughter came back and said that she wanted to invest in antiques, calligraphy and painting, she immediately became interested.

In the past few years, I have bought a lot of them one after another, and the calculated value has exceeded 80 million! Most of them are authentic, but there are also fakes that were bought by mistake.

But overall it's quite cost-effective.

Buy gold in troubled times, buy antiques in prosperous times.

This thing appreciates in value very quickly.

So Yu Dongqing let him go.

The mother-in-law is worried about her old father-in-law running around with a camera anymore. Now she spends a day appreciating calligraphy and painting with a group of people. This is both elegant and safe.

So today Meili said this, and Yu Dongqing agreed.

"My dad said that after buying it, I would put it in his place to appreciate it for a while and then take it back." Mingliang added.

"Whatever. Whatever, it doesn't matter if you still pay it back." Yu Dongqing smiled.

"Bah, bah. My dad is not that kind of person. He borrowed it to appreciate it and even wrote an IOU." Meiliang was very serious.

"I'm kidding you." Yu Dongqing laughed.

Anyway, my father-in-law often borrows calligraphy and paintings from here for his friends to appreciate, and Yu Dongqing never objects.

To be honest, when the calligraphy and painting arrive at my home, I just put it on the shelf. I rarely look at it, so I might as well let my father-in-law take it.

Yu Dongqing and his wife had a casual chat in the small courtyard. Li Wan also finished the banquet and went to Shanghai for inspection the next day. In order to understand the industry, he specially said hello to Wei Wenming and asked his son to follow him. After all, he is an expert.

After staying in Shanghai for a full week and inspecting several special effects production companies, Li Wan finally returned to Yanjing with a lot of information.

We still need to discuss with Yu Dongqing as to which one will be finalized.

After resting at home for a day, Li Wan took a car and rushed to Yu Dongqing's courtyard in Nanluogu Lane.

He likes this place more and more now.

Clean, comfortable and leisurely, it is very suitable for retirement.

Do you want to buy a courtyard house yourself?

However, I heard that the price of courtyard houses has risen sharply now. Yu Dongqing's place, which was originally bought for more than 80 million yuan, is estimated to be worth 130 million yuan if sold now.

What's more important is that you can't find a courtyard house in such good condition.

Either the price is ridiculously high, or the house is too old and the surrounding environment is too bad.

In a few years, maybe. Anyway, I’m still some time away from retirement.

Li Wan rushed to Yu Dongqing's courtyard house and found that his father-in-law Ming Hanwen was also there, admiring a calligraphy and painting in the living room, which turned out to be newly bought.

Li Wan went over and took a look. Wen Zhengming, a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty, did not dare to say anything because he did not understand calligraphy and painting.

All I know is that if it is an authentic work, it will be extremely expensive.

Yu Dongqing's father-in-law rushed away happily with the calligraphy and painting. Li Wan and Yu Dongqing came to the study and said with a smile, "Dongqing, okay. Are you ready to become a master collector?"

"What do I know about collecting? As you can see, my father-in-law is all in charge of it. I am just a pawnbroker." Yu Dongqing said with a smile.

"How much did you pay for that painting?" Li Wan asked curiously.

"The seller wanted 1 million, and the deal was settled for 900,000." Yu Dongqing didn't hide anything.

"Not bad, you have spent a lot of money on collecting in the past few years, right?"

"Eighty million, maybe."

"He is indeed a rich man." Li Wan sighed with emotion.

"Come on. Don't cry poor in front of me! How many houses do you have in Yanjing, Shanghai and Guangzhou? Also, how much assets does your company have?" Yu Dongqing said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about business." Li Wan immediately changed the subject: "This time I went to Shanghai, in addition to RAYS company, I visited several more companies. This is their company information, take a look."

Li Wan said as he took out a stack of information from his briefcase and placed it on the desk.

"I will take my time to look at this. You can also see that Wei Wenming's company has already done preliminary preparations. When our crew is established and filming begins, we will have time to discuss it in detail with them based on the specific situation."

"Okay, one more thing, how have you considered the actor?" Li Wan asked.

"I was telling you this too." Yu Dongqing took a sip of tea and said slowly: "

"Liu Yi will play the role of Liu Peiqiang. When I was at the Cannes Film Festival, I told him about the script and he wanted to play it. Ye Xiaomin is also willing to play a role. I am going to let him play the only role in the rescue team. Female Zhou Qian.”

"Liu Yi and Ye Xiaomin are good at acting. There is no problem with their acting..." Li Wan nodded after hearing this.

Then he asked: "What about the two protagonists Liu Qi and Han Duoduo?"

"Han Duoduo, I want Wan Xue to star. I am very satisfied with her role as Li Wan in "Chinese Youth". I also contacted her and her agent two days ago and am willing to play this role. As for Liu Qi, I also Didn’t find the right one.”

"Originally I wanted Lu Xiaoxi to play the role. The age is suitable, but the temperament doesn't quite match. I want to find someone who has a tough appearance but looks handsome."

"Yu Dongqing expressed his thoughts.

"How about I recommend an actor to you?" Li Wan said suddenly.

"who?"

"It's the actor Feng Jingyu who played the role of Zhang Qing in the film "Fly with Me" that I supervised. Although he only played a supporting role, I think his acting skills are pretty good. He graduated from Yandian and his appearance and temperament are also good. Meet your requirements."

"Okay, you send me his information, I'll check it out and contact him, and try it out first."

"good."

"As for the role of Han Duoduo's grandfather, Han Ziang, how about I let Zhao Guoguo play the role?" Yu Dongqing said.

"Yes, he is an old actor. I worked with him in the movie "Hello, Teacher" ten years ago." Li Wan said with a smile:

"It's just that he is old and is basically in a state of inactivity, but I can go and see it."

"Then I'll trouble you."

"Hello, Teacher" is the first film invested by Yu Dongqing in Time and Space, directed by Wang Dongsheng and produced by Li Wan.

Several people also met through this film and are now good friends.

Time flies so fast, it has been ten years!

"The actors have been preliminarily decided. If you find something suitable, let me know and I will ask someone to negotiate the salary." Li Wan said: "The job now is to quickly prepare the plan and budget, and then find investors. , 800 million. How many investors do we need to find?"

Thinking of this, Li Wan felt a headache.

"I think you must have a way." Yu Dongqing smiled.

"Hey, Dongqing, how much do you plan to vote this time?" Li Wan asked.

Yu Dongqing took a sip of tea and said slowly:

"Invest more this time, maybe 200 million."

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