"Okay, 12 million is 12 million."

Xie Jin was slightly disappointed when he failed to get the ideal investment.

But he also knew that although he had achieved success with two major investments in a row, there are only a handful of investors in China who dare to support him in making such blockbusters with such a big deal.

He has known Lin Chaoyang for so many years, so it is naturally best to continue working together.

Moreover, with the accumulation of "The Battle of Red Cliff" and "The Battle of Opium", Xie Jin asked himself that he had accumulated a lot of experience in filming blockbusters and was confident that he could shoot this "Rabe Diary".

To finish the investment, Xie Jin made another request, hoping that Lin Chaoyang would be the screenwriter of the movie. Lin Chaoyang shook his head:

"Forget it, the screenwriter, I just play with it occasionally."

Lin Chaoyang was unwilling to write the script, and Xie Jin felt a little confused. He was already a little bit "Lin Chaoyang's dependence".

He advised him a few times, but when he saw that Lin Chaoyang did not give up, he had to focus on his old partners he had worked with before.

Lin Chaoyang listened to his thoughts and thought of the old screenwriters he worked with, his creative ability was indescribable, but his style was too old-fashioned and a little out of place with the current market environment.

"I'll recommend you a personal choice."

"who?"

"Liu Heng."

"He!"

Liu Heng was the editor of "Yanjing Literature" in his early years and later became famous for his novels. In recent years, he served as screenwriter, such as "Qiu Ju False", "Red Rose and White Rose", "The King of Western Chu", etc., have been very good at works such as "Qiu Ju False", "Red Rose and White Rose", and "The King of Western Chu".

The main reason why Lin Chaoyang recommended him was that Liu Heng had always performed relatively stably, his creative style was more realistic, and he was very modern, and he was very good at shaping characters.

"Assembly" written by him in later generations is one of the rare fine works in the theme of civil war.

After thinking for a while, Xie Jinheshou said, "Okay, then I'll leave the script to him."

Seeing that Xie Jin agreed, Lin Chaoyang said, "Then I'll call him over, you two will talk first."

"Okay."

A few years ago, Liu Heng was transferred from "Yanjing Literature" to the Yanjing Literature Association, and like Li Tuo, he became a resident writer.

Lin Chaoyang called him, but he didn't contact him, so he had to call Li Tuo.

"What are you looking for Liu Heng?"

"Something is wrong, just tell me where others are.

Lin Chaoyang was sure that Li Tuo knew where Liu Heng was. Sure enough, Li Tuo said, "He is in seclusion recently and wants to write a novella, which is very important."

"You go and find him, just say I have something to do and ask him to come over quickly."

Lin Chaoyang sent a job on a hot day. Li Tuo was reluctant. Lin Chaoyang said, "I'll treat you to dinner tonight."

He immediately moved.

When I found Liu Heng's place where he was in seclusion, his shirt was soaked with sweat.

The summer temperature in Yanjing this year is particularly high, with the temperature being thirty-six or seven degrees every day. When you go out for a while, people will be fished out from the water.

I climbed the stairs to the sixth floor, and the door was knocked on with breath and breath.

As soon as Liu Heng opened the door, he broke in and complained, "Look at the place you chose, and go upstairs and sweat all over."

"If you don't climb the stairs, you won't sweat?"

The fan in the room was blowing, and Liu Heng was still sweating profusely.

Li Tuo looked at the mess that had not been cleaned up on the table, "Just eat this?"

Recently, Liu Heng borrowed this top-floor house in order to create the novella "The Happy Life of Zhang Damin", and has been in seclusion here for creation. When he is hungry, he soaks a bag of instant noodles or cooks a bag of frozen dumplings, and does not go downstairs every two or three days.

"Nonsense. Why are you going to ask me to have a meal?"

"Please please, let's go!" Li Tuo said arrogantly.

Liu Heng was surprised, "You really want to do it?"

"What do you think?"

"Forget it, just when I can write vigorously, let's go next time." Liu Heng refused reluctantly.

Li Tuo then said, "Let's go, it's not me treating you, it's Chaoyang, I said I have something to do with you."

Liu Heng was even more surprised, "What can he do to me?"

"Who knows? He didn't say it, it was a good thing anyway, at least he could have a meal."

Free meals are naturally a joke, but Li Tuo knows Lin Chaoyang and it is a good thing to find Liu Heng.

"Then let's go."

Li Tuo was a little injured, "I said I would invite you to dinner and you didn't go. He didn't even say anything when he asked you. Are you so active?"

"What's the best thing you can do to treat me? It's definitely a good thing Chaoyang wants to find me."

Li Tuo felt stabbed again.

The two arrived at Xiaoliubukou Hutong. When they heard that Lin Chaoyang was asking Xie Jin to be the screenwriter for Xie Jin's new film, Liu Heng was excited.

It's indeed a good thing!

In recent years, Xie Jin has been "I'm talking about young men" and has filmed blockbusters one after another. The popularity is more than the fifth generation of young directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, and Liu Heng is eager to work with him.

Moreover, it is a rare opportunity for writers to play guest screenwriters these days.

It may take one or two years to publish or publish this novel. It is not uncommon for you to wait for half a year. If the sales volume is not high, the royalties will be only four or five thousand yuan.

It’s different to write a movie script. If it’s slower than half a year, it’s fast for two or three months. First of all, the time will be short.

The key is that the royalties are generous. Generally, the project of studios is based on 3,000 yuan. If they can cooperate with Lin's Pictures, the movie will win awards or sell at the box office, and they will basically have no worries for half their lives.

"If you have this good thing, think about me!"

Li Tuo's tone was a little jealous.

"I dare to recommend you, but I dare to use it."

Lin Chaoyang's words hit Li Tuo very badly, and he even ate two more bowls of rice tonight.

Chatting while having a meal, he asked about Lin Chaoyang's new book again.

"It's not that fast. This time the planning is a bit too much. It takes a long time to prepare the outline and information alone."

Li Tuo sighed, "You really want to hold on!"

Liu Heng said: "Collecting and sorting out information of this kind of work is the most troublesome, and it is faster to write it."

Lin Chaoyang thought Li Tuo's words were not good and said, "That's right. You, you haven't written a long article at first glance."

Li Tuo suddenly became depressed. Is it amazing to write a long article?

"I heard that the novel "Father" has been selling well recently, and Wangfujing Bookstore sells hundreds of books a day."

"Just the sales around Yanjing are better, the influence of drama is limited after all."

"You are greedy enough, but you are not satisfied. When have you heard of dramas that can also drive the sales of the original work?"

The drama "Father" premiered in the Capital Theater in June, causing a sensation in Yanjing City. It was hard to find a ticket. The newspapers and TV media in the north were hyped up, and their influence covered the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

During this period, many literary and artistic young people from other places even took hundreds of kilometers of trains to Beijing and lined up to buy tickets all night.

Just to see the style of "Father".

The huge influence of the drama also affected the sales of "Father" in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, with a strong increase.

"By the way, do you still have tickets for the next "Father"? "Li Tuo asked Lin Chaoyang.

According to the performance plan of the People's Art Theater, the performance of "Father" was one month, but the audience did not agree at all.

In those days when the performance was about to end in early July, a group of audiences were blocked at the entrance of the Capital Theater and asked the People's Art Theater to perform.

The People's Art Theater is named "people", so the audience's opinions are naturally valued.

Since the audience is so enthusiastic, add it.

At first, it was an extra week, then half a month. In addition to the four days of rest in the middle, more than two months, more than 60 "Father" were staged in the Capital Theater. After changing roles from AB, Iron Man could hardly hold on.

Finally, it was confirmed that the last performance will be held on August 22.

"Didn't you give me one two days ago?"

"Nas is back to visit relatives, I'll take her to see her."

"I'll ask you two more."

With Li Tuo's connections, if you perform normally, Lin Chaoyang doesn't need to work at all, just say hello to friends from the Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

But "Father" is so popular that the leaders of the People's Art Theater are not easy to give favors now.

Two days later, Lin Chaoyang came to the Capital Theater to watch the last performance of "Father" this year. Li Tuo also brought his daughter Nas and greeted him.

"Hello Uncle Lin!"

After saying hello, Nas introduced her foreign boyfriend to Lin Chaoyang.

Nas is the youngest daughter of Li Tuo and Zhang Nuanxin. She has excellent grades since childhood. She first studied computer science at Yan University. In 1990, she went to the United States and studied East Asian studies and art design at the University of Iowa.

Influenced by her father Li Tuo, while she was in the United States, she began to contribute to Chinese publications such as World Journal and Guofeng.

After graduation, he settled in New York and is currently a New York correspondent in Sanlian Life Weekly. He also opened a column on New York Postcard in a magazine.

"George, this is Uncle Lin, a very famous writer in our country. The Dallas Buyer Club you like is his work."

"Mr. Lin, it's an honor to meet you. Nas mentioned you to me before. I like your works very much."
To be continued...