If a person has no dreams, what is the difference between him and a salted fish?

This sentence comes from Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer".

Stephen Chow is a person with a pure heart, so the characters in his works, especially the little people at the bottom of society, often have a twisted spirit that is in conflict with reality.

And now, standing in front of Zhang Yuan were two low-level figures, Yue Longgang and Kong Deshui.

After listening to Zhang Yuan's advice, they also felt a little bit twisted.

For them, an income of tens of thousands per month is simply a sky-high price!
One month's work is really equivalent to a year's work.

Retire, although the current job is hard, but the advantage is that it is stable.

If we can hold on for a while, we can finally settle down in the capital. This may be the fate of us rural children.

Dream or salted fish, that is the question.

Zhang Yuan was aware of the two people's struggle, but he did not blame them, nor would he encourage them like some leaders did.

There is no need to make others go through the same suffering that you have gone through.

"How about this, you guys don't quit your job here yet."

"The crosstalk club has one show every afternoon and evening."

"When you two have time, go and have a look. It doesn't cost any money. You can watch it for free in the backstage area."

"In return, I will help sweep the floor and do odd jobs as ticket money."

"Feel it for a while first."

Xiao Yue and Xiao Kong looked at each other and then nodded vigorously.

In the evening, when it is not mealtime, employees have a long break. This is the rule in the catering industry. After all, it is impossible to do such heavy physical work without a break.

You see, bosses in the restaurant industry all know that they should let their employees rest, but bosses of later Internet companies treat their employees as perpetual motion machines. I don’t know whether the times have progressed or regressed.

Taking advantage of the break, Zhang Yuan brought the two boys to Deyuan Society in Guangde Building.

Go straight to the backstage.

"Uncle Master!" A short man with a side-parted hair came up with a flattering smile.

"Where's Teacher Guo?"

"I'm changing clothes, uncle. Please have some tea first." This man, named He Wei, was one of the first employees Guo Degang received into the team.

Although they have not yet become disciples, and Teacher Guo and Zhang Yuan have not had the chance to become disciples of Master Hou Sanye, this kid is still very perceptive. He keeps calling his uncle in front of him, with a pair of cunning little eyes that keep moving around, and he is very capable.

Zhang Yuan knew that this kid later had a very ugly quarrel with his master, and even deliberately took the second son of the Hou family as his master, which was quite disgusting.

Because in this way, he would be of the same generation as Lao Guo.

Zhang Yuan pretended not to know all this, greeted him with a smile, and enjoyed the man's running around.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang." At this time, another tall and thin boy with a crew cut ran over, and greeted Zhang Yuan with caution in his eyes.

Just by listening to their names, you can tell that their personalities are completely different.

This person is called Cao Jin, and he is also a disciple brought in by Teacher Guo.

However, this person is different from He Wei, as he is related to the Guo family.

What is special is that he has no blood relationship with Teacher Guo or Wang Hui, but he is related by blood to Teacher Guo’s son Guo Qilin.

Because Lao Guo and Wang Hui are remarried, and Cao Jin is his ex-wife's cousin, which means that Lao Guo is his ex-cousin-law.

Therefore, his position in the society is very delicate, and happens to be at the intersection of a certain balance.

This is one of the reasons why he was "kicked out" of the society later on.

Also for this reason, Zhang Yuan had already planned to be cautious and treat him differently from others in dealing with all issues concerning him.

Like Xiao Yue, he is one of the means by which he controls Deyuan Society.

"It just so happens that both of you are here." Zhang Yuan found a chair and sat down, pointing at the two people he brought with him: "I brought these two people here, I will introduce them to Teacher Guo later."

"You came early, so you have to help take care of it in the future."

"what?"

"no problem!"

The one who was doubtful was Cao Jin, and the one who immediately expressed his loyalty was He Wei.

"Brother, why are you here without telling me in advance?" At this moment, Teacher Guo and Brother Qian changed into gray coats and walked out of the locker room.

After explaining the two people's situation, Brother Qian raised his eyebrows.

"He brought two of his own people here..."

He understood what she meant and immediately continued, "Degang has been talking about this for the past few days, saying that there are not enough people in the club. If we want to expand in the future, we need to find more new people and train the next generation."

"You two are really in sync. As soon as he thought of it, you brought people here."

Zhang Yuan gave Brother Qian a thumbs up in his heart!

After all, he is my brother and he can talk.

The fact that he brought people here turned out to be because Teacher Guo needed people. Otherwise, crosstalk is the art of language, and he is an artist, which is really great.

Since Brother Qian said so, what else could Teacher Guo do? Of course he agreed with a smile.

In addition to these guys, because Guangde Building's business is getting more and more prosperous, and the previous visits of Mr. Hou Sanye and Mr. Yuan Kuocheng are well-known in the circle, now Mr. Guo has also taken the initiative to visit many old gentlemen.

Of course, many colleagues who wanted to make money also came to visit him.

"Zhang Yuan, I'm thinking that we should rent another small garden next year to test the waters and try the possibility of opening a branch."

After they sat down, they began to talk about the future plans of Deyuan Society.

"Okay, I support it. Anyway, the crosstalk club is making a lot of money now, so just use the profits to open it." Zhang Yuan agreed of course. He could make money by expanding the business, so why not do it.

Anyway, I plan to expand again next year, and I just want Shu Chang to help me check the accounts at the end of the year to see how much surplus I have.

Speaking of which, I haven’t seen Changchang for a long time, and I don’t know how she is doing recently.

"Where are you going to open a branch?"

"There is a small garden called Tianqiaole in Xuanwu District. It has more than 20 tables and can seat 150 to 160 people."

"Okay, we'll go talk together then."

Zhang Yuan thought about it. He knew Tianqiaole and its total area was only about 1300 square meters. If he had the chance, he might as well buy it. It would be good as a fixed asset.

After chatting with Teacher Guo and planting two "nails", Zhang Yuan left Guangde Building with satisfaction.

As soon as he returned to the courtyard, he received a call.

"Hello, Zhang Yuan. We are from the crew of The Return of the Condor Heroes."

"Director Zhang Jizhong would like to invite you to participate in the audition for this film..."

Zhang Yuan smiled and nodded in response.

Bearded...

Liu Qianqian had just mentioned The Return of the Condor Heroes to him on the plane to Taiwan.

I didn't expect the news to come so soon.

"If he wanted me to play the leading male role, he would have called me personally."

"He asked the staff to inform me, which means that I was not even on the shortlist for the male lead."

Zhang Yuan was not annoyed at all, because all this was within his expectations.

"The last audition for Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils became known to everyone."

"This time, The Return of the Condor Heroes is expected to be even more sensational. The casting has started half a year in advance to gain a lot of attention."

He knew very well that the reason he received the audition notice was because he was of some "value" to the bearded man.

His value lies not only in his reputation, but also in the fact that his own catering company can bring him a lot of kickbacks.

A "poor guy with no money to be exploited" like Cheng Hao won't even get an audition notification.

In fact, what the bearded man did was not an audition, it should be called a bidding, the highest bidder wins.

"This old bastard's appetite is getting bigger and bigger."

"Don't think that we are having fun today. One day, we will be listed."

Now he plays tricks on people and capital every day, and has ruined his reputation. Do you think anyone will care about him in ten years?

But in the more than ten years since the 1990s, the bearded man has made nearly one billion yuan in assets by using his "monkey tricks", which shows how good he is at squeezing money.

Zhang Yuan threw his phone on the table, put his head in his hands and smiled easily.

"Since you're like that, then..." "Play with him!"

……

A few days later, Dongcheng District, Chang'an Grand Theater.

Zhang Yuan raised his head, looking at the magnificent and majestic entrance, and thought that this was really a good show.

For Da Huzi's works, the publicity period is often more interesting than the works themselves.

"Last time, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils was just a theater, but this time it's directly a big theater."

"Next time, I'll probably have to go to the Great Hall of the People."

As I stepped in, it was already crowded with people.

Reporters, media, actors, fans...it was a scene of deafening noise and huge crowds of people.

"Zhang Yuan!"

When he entered through the main door, he was frightened by a scream.

"Hello." He turned around and waved to a girl wearing glasses.

After all these years, I finally have my own fans.

There were several very flamboyant security guards guarding the gate, wearing black suits, black ties and black sunglasses. They looked very serious, as if there were secrets inside and no outsiders were allowed to enter.

You really don't want people to know, why did you choose this place and find so many media?
"Zhou Xun!"

"Wow ah ah ah!!!"

He had just passed the "gate" when a burst of crazy shouting broke out behind him. The popularity was so great that it almost blew the roof off the house.

Zhang Yuan looked back and saw a petite girl getting out of the nanny car. She held up her sunglasses and walked straight towards him without looking around.

"Make way." The assistant beside him reached out and pushed Zhang Yuan away. He did not resist but took a step back with a smile.

At this moment, Zhou Xun looked really light, agile and graceful.

"How did she end up like in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace?"

Indeed, women cannot refuse to accept aging, and even more so, they cannot over-do medical beauty treatments.

Zhou Xun had previously worked with Big Beard in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, playing the role of Huang Rong.

He can be considered an old friend of Zhang Da Hu Zi.

So this time, she came immediately after receiving a call.

Little did she know that she wasn't any old friend with the bearded man and was just making a fool of herself by using her popularity to hype herself up.

Although the most famous show "Super Girl" is the 05 edition, which was when Li Yuchun, Zhou Bichang and Zhang Liangying made their debut.

But in fact, this program started in 04, and the winner was An Youqi. Later, in order to gain popularity, she also released a song called "Hello, Jay Chou".

Unfortunately, the small fire lies in the person, and the big fire lies in the fate, so it will never be popular.

But none of that matters.

The important thing is, Big Beard has learned this trick from Mango TV!

He also set up a talent show voting model for the casting of The Return of the Condor Heroes.

Just for the role of Little Dragon Girl, there are many actors including but not limited to: Jiang Qinqin, Zhou Xun, Zhang Baizhi, Sun Li, Wang Fei, Sun Feifei...

Not to mention the role of Yang Guo. In addition to the protracted "Nie Huang dispute", there were also Huo Jianhua, Nicholas Tse, Du Chun, and even Big Beard, who relied on his connections in CCTV to bring in Sa Beining, who was well-known at the time for hosting "Today's Statement".

Later, Liu Xixi appeared on "Today's Statement" because of cyber violence, which was actually the same relationship.

"You finish your performance and I take the stage. It's fun, really fun." Zhang Yuan had no psychological pressure at all. He put his hands in his pockets and walked leisurely in the aisle.

Why is he so relaxed?
Because in the entire "The Return of the Condor Heroes", there was only one character that he liked.

Yang Guo!

But at this point in time, with his qualifications and abilities, the possibility of him getting the role is just like the Chinese national football team entering the World Cup after 02.

It's only theoretically possible...that's impossible.

But that doesn't mean he gave up on this role.

On the contrary, he is determined to win!

"Brother Yuan!" As Zhang Yuan was walking, he saw a familiar figure.

He shouted at the other person's back, and the man trembled all over when he heard his voice, as if he had been electrocuted.

This person is one of Yang Guo’s popular candidates, Nie Yuan.

Nie Yuan is now making full preparations and plans to perform well in the upcoming audition.

I'm full of momentum and full of energy.

But I heard Zhang Yuan's greeting.

"Why is he here……"

Now, Nie Yuan would feel uncomfortable even when he heard Zhang Yuan's name, let alone seeing him.

pain.

It hurts so much!
After the role of the Seven Night Demon Lord in "A Chinese Ghost Story" was snatched away, there were constant reports that Zhang Yuan would be starring in various film and television dramas, or working with big movie directors.

He was in great pain!

Nie Yuan frowned and slowly turned around, daring to open only one eye a tiny bit and looked in quietly.

Sure enough, Zhang Yuan was smiling and waving at him from afar.

He is not afraid of anything except Zhang Yuan laughing...

When he saw Zhang Yuan smile, he wanted to cry.

"Brother Yuan, long time no see." Zhang Yuan stepped forward and stood firmly, looking at the other person's facial lines.

"Brother Yuan, I haven't seen you for a while. You've lost weight. Your square face has become an oval face."

"Uh..." Nie Yuan forced out a smile awkwardly after hearing this.

He is not thin at all.

I even went for bone shaving and plastic surgery just for this role!
He thought the other party didn't know and was just complimenting him.

Of course Zhang Yuan knew!

Not only do we know that he had bone shaving and plastic surgery for the role of Yang Guo, but he also wanted to create the image of a handsome young man.

At the same time, he made up his mind and betrayed his agency. He was willing to pay money to tear up the agency contract and switched to Ciwen Oriental Economic Company under the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Audio and Video Publishing House.

The investor of the drama "The Return of the Condor Heroes" is Ciwen.

The boss behind these two companies is Ma Zhongjun.

Nie Yuan is an ambitious man. He is cruel to others and even crueler to himself. For the role of Yang Guo, he signed a long-term contract with Ciwen.

After changing jobs and cutting bones, he felt that he had made so many sacrifices and had been in high demand, so this role should be a sure thing, right?

Thinking of this, Nie Yuan took a deep breath, and then regained his usual confidence and composure.

"Why should I be afraid of him?"

"Isn't he just better at kung fu than me?"

"Is he good at fighting?"

"It's useless to know how to spank."

"To get involved, you need power and background."

"Which gang is he from?"

“There’s not even an agency.”

"It's just a small flat fan."

He thought Zhang Yuan was just a loser.

Zhang Yuan looked at him as a fool.
Business is like a battlefield. Any guarantee that is not written into the contract is bullshit!

He doesn't even understand this, isn't he stupid?
Hehe, this audition is useless anyway, so I might as well have some fun.

Zhang Yuan laughed secretly in his heart.

Let's fan the flames first, let them fight each other, and then we can talk about it... (End of this chapter)