Chapter 367 The Year of the Coal Province
One day later, Zhang Chen's family of three embarked on the road back home.
They didn't take a plane or a train. Zhang Chen's family drove back.
The trunk of the company's Audi A6 was stuffed to the brim with gifts from Zhang Guoli and purchases from Zhang's father and mother.
These two days are approaching the New Year's Eve. The capital was originally quite deserted, but suddenly it became lively again. Many cars running on the streets were from other places. You didn't need to guess to know that they were all coming to Beijing to give gifts.
Chinese people like to give gifts on important festivals to build relationships.
This is the busiest time for public relations people, and it is also the time when shopping card sales in major supermarkets and gift shops are the hottest.
Naturally, Xingchen Entertainment is not exempt from the commonality, but he does not need to worry about this aspect. Dong Jianqiang pats his chest and promises to take care of everything.
As for some special relationships, such as Han Sanping, Wang Changtian, and Zhang Chen, they will naturally express their feelings after returning to Beijing.
Their relationship isn't about the gifts they give, it's mainly about their attitude.
After driving for nearly eight hours after a six-hour journey, I still haven’t arrived home.
The road is too congested.
The Spring Festival travel season is like this, stop and go. After all, it is the largest population migration in the world, and it happens every year.
There is a reason for the traffic jam, and many drivers who only drive twice a year are now on the road.
No wonder there were so many accidents along the way.
"The traffic conditions you have now are much better than before. At least you can still drive. In the past, the railway supported construction in other places. We also traveled a lot on business. Going back home in the next year is not easy. Not to mention how difficult it is. To take the train, you have to queue up overnight to buy tickets, and to take the bus It’s even more troublesome. At that time, there were no expressways like now. They were all national, provincial and county roads, and half of the road would be damaged without moving the car..."
Zhang's father also suffered a lot in the past. When he was young, he often traveled for business, sometimes for several months at a time.
Zhang Chen can also understand what he said, because even now, when buying train tickets during the Spring Festival, he has to queue up overnight to buy them.
In the middle of the night in winter, if you see a long queue, most likely it is to buy train tickets.
"Lao Li was talking to me two days ago, saying that if we make a movie about Spring Festival travel, we will definitely make money..."
Lao Li has been really prosperous during this period. "Hurricane Rescue" has a box office of 259 million, and he has made a lot of money. Now even the Xiaomi around him has changed. The one before was just an ordinary college student, and now this one is said to be a third-tier student. star.
When Zhang's father came to the capital, he entertained him a lot.
But what he said reminded Zhang Chen of a movie - "People on the Road".
Isn't this a road movie with a Spring Festival travel theme? It's also the beginning of a whole series. I don't know how many reborn people have used it as their debut film, a model of small cost and big profit.
“If it’s a Spring Festival travel-themed comedy, it can indeed make money~”
"Really, are you going to do it? Wait, you did it. Aren't you a little sorry for Lao Li? After all, he came up with this idea first..."
Zhang Chen knew that Zhang's father was trying to get into trouble again: "Dad, it doesn't exist. Anyone can do this subject matter. Movie projects like to follow trends. Just because I say this subject matter can make money doesn't mean that he will definitely make money if he does it. Various factors, very complicated..."
Zhang Chen has been thinking about Ning Hao's future recently.
After Yuan Kong, "Stone" and "Racing", Ning Hao made "The Golden Robbery", which made Lei Jiayin famous.
Then I went over the top and made "No Man's Land", which was unable to pass the review during the special period, and then my whole life was affected.
Originally, according to the normal route, he should be similar to Feng Xiaogang, who would continue to produce a series of works and become the king of Chinese comedy movies.
At that time, Feng Xiaogang was clearly in decline and was no match for him in the comedy field.
Feng's movies are Beijing-style comedies, and there is a saying that accurately describes them: they cannot cross the Yangtze River.
But Ning Hao's is different. "Stone" and "Racing" are both popular nationwide.
It's a pity that he later changed the track. After "No Man's Land", he became more and more reclusive behind the scenes. Although the works he produced are still excellent, it is quite regrettable.
Zhang Chen will definitely not let him make the same mistakes in this life. Why pursue such high goals? You can just continue on the road of comedy.
It's not easy to make everyone laugh happily.
So Zhang Chen has been wondering whether he should give him "Charlotte Troubles" so that he can continue his glory, or let him have no time to think about "No Man's Land".
Of course, I also thought about "People on the Road", but if Ning Hao made this film again, it would seem a bit too simple.
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On January 12, "King Kong" was released, a standard special effects blockbuster.
King Kong's relationship with the United States is somewhat similar to Godzilla's relationship with Japan, and Monkey King's relationship with China.
It is already part of the local culture.
Since this powerful gorilla was born on the screen, it has been turned over countless times and derived into various versions, and his height has always been a mystery.
In some versions, the height is several meters, in others it is tens of meters, and the tallest one is more than 100 meters.
On January 25, "Fearless" was released.
When it was released, Zhang Chen and his party had already arrived home.
As of "Fearless", the Lunar New Year season is actually over, because the Chinese New Year is coming soon.
This year, during the Chinese New Year, cinemas are not open.
The concept of Spring Festival stalls actually only officially appeared in 2013 with Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons". At that time, Zhou decided that "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" would be released on the first day of the new year. The staff at the cinema didn't know how to scold him behind his back.
Originally, movie theaters were not closed for a few days during the Chinese New Year. They were usually closed on the 30th, the first and second days of the lunar new year, and then opened normally on the third day of the lunar new year.
It's so good now that I can't even take a break during the New Year.
You can check the news on the Internet. In 2013, Stephen Chow was criticized everywhere.
Talking back to "Fearless", back then, the domestic box office of "Fearless" was 130 million, which was not a lot.
Mainly it has to do with his schedule. The schedule was poorly chosen, as it happened to be released a year ago.
The investor in this film is Jet Li himself.
It is said that he earned more than 30 million US dollars from "Fearless".
"Fearless" is Jet Li's last decent work. Since then, it has been a waste of money.
The producer of this film is Jiang Zhiqiang. Jiang Zhiqiang is very awesome. He produced "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
The eyes are very poisonous.
Jiang Zhiqiang can cooperate with Jet Li, and Cui Baozhu is a key figure.
Cui Baozhu is known as Jet Li's "important woman in life". The two co-founded Zhengdong Pictures and produced a series of well-known movies such as "Fang Shiyu", "Fang Shiyu Continuation", "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", "Fist of Heroes" and "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard".
At the same time, she also collaborated with Jiang Zhiqiang in "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". With such three awesome people, together with Wu Zhi Yuan Heping and director Yu Rentai, "Fearless" should be better, but unfortunately, the box office was only 130 million.
When did 130 million become the only one available, it would be very strange.
But it is true. Since 2005, there have been several movies with a box office of over 100 million yuan. Although the 100 million yuan club is still talked about, everyone is very conscious and feels that only the 200 million yuan club is the most awesome. That handful.
Unfortunately, only two movies have achieved this achievement so far.
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January 28, 2006, Lunar New Year’s Eve.
In China, the meaning of New Year's Eve seems to be more about the Spring Festival Gala, and what everyone pays more attention to is the first day of the lunar new year.
Didn’t you see that the holidays start from the first day of the Lunar New Year~
But Zhang Chen’s family has always paid more attention to New Year’s Eve.
Without him, family reunion is the most important thing.
Because on the first day of the Lunar New Year, several of Zhang Chen's aunts had to go back to their in-laws' house to celebrate the New Year, so people couldn't get together, so Zhang Chen's grandfather made the decision. From now on, the most grand celebration in their family would be the 30th.
After more than ten years, this has become a tradition of the Zhang family.
On New Year's Eve, the family reunites.
Relatives came to grandpa’s house one after another at ten o’clock and helped hang lanterns and colored lights. By night, these became part of Cyberpunk Shanxi.
"Happy New Year~"
"Happy New Year~"
Every relative who enters the door will receive a series of New Year greetings.
In some families, children are no longer considered children after they become adults, while in other families, children are not considered children until they get married, and they all receive lucky money.
Zhang Chen’s family belongs to the latter.
So even though he is a senior, he doesn't have to accept the New Year's money from his uncles and aunts, but he still has to take what his grandfather gave him.
As a man of the year, Zhang Chen will definitely be ridiculed.
Everyone was still very curious about making movies, and gathered around to inquire curiously.
Have you ever met Andy Lau?
Is Fan Binbin really as beautiful as in the movie?
Did you really scold Wu Yusen?
Is Xie Tingfeng really only 1.7 meters tall?
All kinds of questions came one after another. Zhang Chen was speechless and could only hide in the kitchen.
According to the custom of the old Zhang family, lunch on New Year’s Eve is a feast and dumplings are made in the evening.
In every household, the New Year meal is basically cooked by a relative who is the best at cooking. The old Zhang is Zhang Chen's uncle.
His family's ancestral home is Tangshan, so he calls his sister-in-law Laogu, and his uncle also becomes Laogufu.
Zhang Chen hid in the kitchen and helped his old uncle. This era is not like that of later generations. He has a mobile phone and can cook any dish.
The transfer of knowledge is not that cheap, and most people can just cook home-cooked meals.
The old uncle worked in the train dining car, so he was good at cooking.
This is basically what railway children are like. The whole family is basically from the railway, and the son-in-law he is looking for is also from the railway.
This one is in the depot, that one is in the locomotive section, my daughter is in the electrical section, and my son-in-law is in the passenger section. Anyway, they are all within the eight major sections of the railway system.
When the old uncle prepared a dish, Zhang Chen served it.
Usually there are two tables, one for men and one for women and children.
Zhang Chen used to sit at the children's table, and he also liked sitting at the children's table because he could take advantage.
The men's table usually drinks wine, and the food is slow to drink.
Children eat quickly, and when they encounter delicious food, they will go over there to ask for it after finishing it here.
There, they basically let the children take away the food.
Not this year, Zhang Chen became famous and was asked to sit on the adult table.
“Let’s have a nice bottle of wine today~”
Zhang Chen's grandfather had a wine cabinet with many fine wines, all of which were aged.
In this era, many old people like to store wine.
I opened a bottle of ten-year-old Huang Gaifen.
Huang Gaifen is not worth much, but it will be great after ten years.
In winter, Zhang Chen's grandfather liked to drink warm wine, soaking the small jug in hot water.
There is actually a saying about warming wine. One theory is that hot wine tastes more fragrant than cold wine. The other is that the previous wine purification technology was not good, and it contained fusel alcohols. At temperatures of 40 to 50 degrees, fusel alcohols will volatilize. , so warming wine is equivalent to the volatilization of fusel alcohol~
Zhang Chen brought the last dish to the table and then asked: "Do you want any vinegar?"
Basically not, not everyone in the Coal Province is jealous, not to mention that his grandfather's ancestral home is Tangshan.
Zhang Chen got some vinegar in his bowl, and he let his mother do it. He was from the coal province, and would make dozens of kilograms of vinegar every year.
Vinegar is a good thing. You can dip the vegetables in vinegar if they are salty or bland. You can dip the vegetables in vinegar if they are spicy. You can also dip the vegetables in vinegar if they are greasy. But I don’t know if I can dip the vegetables in vinegar if they are sour?
Zhang Chen has been in the limelight this year. At the dinner table, the topic was all about Zhang Chen at first, but slowly he returned to the system.
They are all railway people, and they mostly talk about railway matters.
Zhang Chen listened for a while and felt bored, so he sneaked back to the children's table.
My cousin and cousin are talking about Bitcoin.
This thing came out a long time ago, but it has never been popular. Who would have thought that it would rise to that level ten years later.
Cousin: "Someone gave me two Bitcoins, and I don't know how to use them?"
Cousin: "It seems that you have to go abroad to use it. There is no usage scenario in China."
Zhang Chen: "Listen to me, you must keep these two Bitcoins. Ten years later, with these two Bitcoins, you can buy a house..."
In the early 2000s, most of the young people who loved the Internet didn’t have two Bitcoins in their hands, but no one took it seriously.
When the price surges in a few years, I look for it but can’t find it.
Too late to regret~
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The author's personal experience, otherwise, who would be crying and writing a novel here.
Also, I want to ask, what kind of medicine do you usually take for stomach discomfort? Recently, my stomach has always been uncomfortable, with a faint pain
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