Author: Chen Benben

"Brother, should they buy a car?" Zeng Jia said while driving and following Li Tang, who was in the passenger seat and sending a text message of support.

The car she was driving at this time was the same Bluebird that Nai'an had eliminated from Donglai. She was fully prepared to start her own business with Li Tang, and was ready to formally submit the application to the company after Li Tang and Nai'an had reached an agreement.

She submitted her resignation. Fortunately, her job was assigned to Li Tang one by one, and it did not involve other business of the company. So she asked Li Tang to leave, and she had nothing to hand over.

Xiaopang will have a rare half-day break tomorrow. Just after Li Tang told her that his role in "The Condor Shooting" has been completed, he kept asking him when he would come to the capital. At that time, the two had been separated for two months. Li Tang didn't

It doesn't matter, but Xiaopang misses him very much. If not, he can patiently explain through text messages.

After Zhai Mule finished editing the long text message and clicked the send button, Li Tang raised his head and said: "If you can't leave Bubi that time, let's buy a car first."

As his filming and activities are increasing, it is really inconvenient for him not to have a car.

Zeng Jia didn't care at all about Li Tang's words "Whether the port can leave" or not. According to her judgment, from the very beginning, Nai'an did not strongly urge Li Tang to stay in the East. She was famous for her dream work, culture and art.

The company is just a film production company and has little interest in actors and agents.

On the one hand, the company is small and its strength is limited; on the other hand, it is determined by Naian’s attributes as a middle-aged literary woman who owns the company. Because the agents are not philistine, they used to belong to the “car and boat shop gang”.

"Teeth", then it is not a job of the East and the West. If you are not guilty, you should be killed. It really does not match the temperament of a middle-aged literary and artistic woman.

"He thought he should buy a commercial car first, and he also wanted a driver," Zeng Jia said.

She did not ask Li Tang what car to buy because she felt that as the person in charge of Li Tang's studio in the future, she should first have her own ideas and then seek the boss's approval instead of asking the boss for everything.

Because that is not a person in charge, but an assistant.

Li Tang pondered and nodded: "Okay, I'll figure it out."

At present, his remuneration, including the foreign box office share of "The Third Man", is all recorded in the studio's account. He specially hired an old accountant to do the accounting. On the one hand, it is necessary to ensure that the tax is clear, and on the other hand, it is also difficult to

Whether tax avoidance is reasonable.

To be honest, the current foreign regulations and laws on wrong tax payment are very imperfect. Sometimes individuals are confused and don’t know how to pay taxes. In addition, when it comes to reasonable tax avoidance, the main purpose is to avoid double taxation and at the same time avoid some reasonable

Loss of tax refund.

Buying a car is about convenience for traveling, but Li Tang is not very interested in the car itself. Firstly, the current foreign vehicle brands and models are really lackluster and unattractive; secondly, they have just joined the WTO, and the prices of imported cars are still high.

The gain is really not worth the loss. And for a person like Li Tang who is good at running a house, the price of a car is half, so buying a car is not worth it if it is not necessary.

In an era when highways were not yet connected in all directions and navigation was imperfect, the road from Wuxi to Hangzhou was difficult. Although Zeng Jia checked the route well before setting off, the car got lost after driving to Yixing. Li Tang had to follow

She changed. After checking the map, she found National Highway 104, and then followed National Highway 104 all the way to Hangzhou.

"Sister An, I'm sorry, the road is not easy to walk."

The two set off from Wuxi at noon, and it was already nightfall when they arrived in Hangzhou. I wonder if there are many large vehicles on National Highway 104, and the walking is slow, with many stops and starts along the way.

Fortunately, I kept in touch with Nai An on the phone all the way, and we initially arranged to meet at a restaurant called Red Clay Pot by the West Lake.

"It's okay. I had a hard time during that time. Are you hungry? Let's go. Let's go quickly!"

Four cold dishes: mixed cucumbers, vegetarian roasted goose, peeled bamboo shoots, plus a must-have sauce duck in Hangzhou. Four hot dishes: Longjing shrimps, steamed mandarin fish, southern beef and stir-fried vegetables, including liquid mushrooms

Soup.

Li Tang had been hungry for a long time. He had a big meal first to fill his stomach, and then he got to the point and said, "Sister An, his contract has expired a long time ago. What did the company think about it?"

Nai'an didn't seem surprised at all. He glanced at Zeng Jia first, and then said to Li Tang, "Look at me, what am I planning?"

What Nai An said is right, Li Tang has the initiative when the contract expires. In other words, even if Li Tang switches to another agency now, there will be no problem at all, because the contract has already expired, which is equivalent to Li Tang personally having a relationship with Nai An.

Dreamwork Arts has nothing to do with it.

Of course, it’s not easy to do that in reality. After all, there is a lot of human kindness there. Chinese people pay attention to whether it’s easy to get together and separate easily, and to keep a line aside so that we can see each other after a few months.

Now that he had thought about it, Li Tang did not hesitate and simply said: "He wants to go out and have a try on his own."

"It's okay to go out and have a new life. Originally, he thought that I would just stay with him temporarily, but he didn't expect that it would be almost four years ago."

"Sister An, I'm sorry!"

Nai'an smiled and said: "I should be embarrassed, I think my contract has expired a long time ago. I am very stubborn and have made a lot of money with the company."

Saying that, Nai'an added: "Oh, that's wrong. The share from MK2 was obtained in the middle of next month. I'll find someone to contact the company later. That's not a small sum of money."

Because the producer of "The Third Man" is DreamWorks Art Company, the original contract with MK2 was signed with Dreamworks. Although Dreamworks did not invest, it was required by the contract to deduct a certain percentage of distribution expenses.

DreamWorks has always maintained contact with MK2. So far, the overseas copyright buyout and box office revenue of "The Third Man" combined have exceeded 5 million US dollars. MK2's agency fee is 14 points, and then

After deducting DreamWorks' publishing expenses and taxes, it means that it can earn at least four million US dollars. According to the current exchange rate of 1:8.27, it is more than 30 million US dollars!

If you include the revenue from foreign box office, the return rate is even more than ten times.

This was not the greatest confidence for Li Tang to finally make up his mind to establish his own business.

"Okay, let's let Jiajia contact the company by mistake then."

Li Tang's words made Zeng Jia somewhat embarrassed. After all, she had not officially submitted her resignation to the company. However, she had always been a strong-willed girl. She immediately adjusted her mentality and said, "I can't afford to be wrong, Sister An.

He wants to go with Brother Li."

"Decided?"

Nai'an looked at Zeng Jia with a look of regret and said: "After Li Tang left, my part of the work is over. I wonder if my ability is obvious to all. He originally wanted me to be the vice president of the company.

.”

Although DreamWork Art Company is not a large company, it is a mature film and television investment and production company. From the perspective of a worker, the position of Vice President of DreamWork is definitely better than that of Li, who is still in the early stages of development.

The appeal of the head of Tang Studio is much greater.

In other words, if Zeng Jia can stay in the position of vice president of Dream Work for two or three years, he can definitely move to a larger platform to display his ambitions.

Although the foreign box office market is still very sluggish at present, as a film and television practitioner, we know very well that with the rapid development of foreign economies, people's lives are getting better day by day, and their material needs are met, and their spiritual needs are bound to increase.

It is getting bigger and bigger, and the film and television entertainment industry will definitely have a blue ocean in the near future.

Since it is not a blue ocean, the platform is very important.

When Li Tang heard Nai'an's words, he couldn't help but look at Zeng Jia. If Zeng Jia really chose to stay in the East, then he might have to reconsider his plan to set up his own business. After all, he should find someone who understands him as well as Zeng Jia.

It is not an easy task to have a capable person in charge who can make the studio run normally.

Zeng Jia didn't hesitate at all, and said with an apologetic look: "Sister An, thank you for thinking so highly of him. But I'm afraid he will live up to your kindness. He and Brother Li are used to working together, and he wants to follow Brother Li to have a career."

At the same time, I also want to try my abilities."

"You really don't think about it?" Nai An looked at her and asked seriously.

Zeng Jia still shook her head resolutely: "I can't afford to be wrong!"

"All right."

Nai'an finally sighed and said to Li Tang: "It seems that I am more attractive than him!"

That sentence could easily cause ambiguity, and Li Tang didn't know how to say it for a moment.

Fortunately, Nai'an looked at Zeng Jia again and said: "When I come back, the company will renew the resignation of Yidong. I have made a lot of contributions to the company in those two years, so I am asking for some compensation. He doesn't want to be said to have treated employees badly."

Zeng Jia secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled sweetly: "Thank you, Sister An."

Nai'an really valued Zeng Jia. When she was pregnant and giving birth last year, Zeng Jia was helping her manage the company. It can't be said that her achievements were outstanding, but at least she didn't delay things.

"Tomorrow's meal will be considered our separate meal! Li Tang, how can you say that our cooperation is fate? Although he is not a competent agent, he is quite a bit outside the literary and art circles.

Relationship, if you need help with anything in the future, just ask..."

Li Tang opened his mouth to express his gratitude, but Nai An waved his leg: "I'll listen to him first. Did he make a mistake that time and miss the golden doll in "The Third Man"?"

If you have any good opportunities in the future, don’t forget them!”

"I promise I won't forget it!" Li Tang's chest was slapped loudly.

"Oh, that's wrong, I almost forgot about the real thing."

As he spoke, Nai'an took out a stack of printed manuscripts from his bag and handed it over: "The script for Lou Ye's new movie has been released. Let me take a look first."

Lou Ye's collaboration with Zai Film Studio had been in preparation for more than half a year. Li Tang thought he was looking back at the book of "Summer Palace" he had read, but when he picked it up, he looked at the cover and saw the three words "Purple Butterfly".

Purple butterfly?

Has the name been changed?

When he turned the first page, he saw the first sentence: "In 1928, Manchuria. The Japanese translator Itami Hidehiko left his Chinese lover Ding Hui and returned to Tokyo. A few years later, when he came to the sea, he had become a spy.

…”

Hey, new script!

Just when Li Tang wanted to continue looking eastward, he heard Nai'an say: "Stop looking, take it back and look at it again. We have already said whether we will have sex tomorrow, come on, let's have a drink!"

After we have finished talking about the business, of course we should not drink when we meet Donglai.

At the end of the day, Nai'an drank a little too much. He took out a small yellow card from his bag and threw it to Li Tang and said, "The room has been opened for me. It's at Wangzhuang on the wrong side. I'll go there myself."

Yong Tuo turned his head and said to Zeng Jia: "Jia Jia, I will send him home. I just begged to leave. It is a rare opportunity for us two sisters to have a good chat."

Zeng Jia drank a lot, and a bottle and a half of red wine was a drizzle for her. In those days, there were no drunk driving checks, so she gave Li Tang the key to the Bluebird, and she drove Nai'an's new Audi A6 back to Nai'an.

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To be continued...