fringe artist

Chapter 187 185. You have to eat this cake even if you don't!
The alley at night was very quiet, Chen Li'an looked at the empty yard, and stood there alone for a long time in a daze.

The experience of these two days made him feel a little magical, and he never thought that it would cause such a big influence in the art circle of the capital.

It felt like holding a martial arts conference. Chen Li'an felt that he was almost elected as the leader of the martial arts alliance, and then used his name to attract hatred.

But fortunately, it is safe now. Chen Li'an raised his head and looked at the dark sky. Tonight's clouds are very thick. There are only two or three stars shining in the night sky, as if they are lonely from the universe.

A gust of cold wind blew by, Chen Li'an couldn't help shivering, tightened his clothes and muttered: "What's the wind in the middle of the night, go home and sleep!"

It was only when Chen Li'an got home that he remembered to call Bai Qing and Gong Li to report his safety. Although there was no danger in the first place, he knew that he would call them soon.

Lying on the bed after taking a shower, Chen Li'an didn't feel too sleepy. He carefully recalled the past two days, and found that he was only busy talking about art with those artists, and forgot to deal with many things.

After briefly planning tomorrow's arrangements, Chen Li'an closed his eyes and forced himself to sleep.

Refusing to stay up late starts with me!

Plans can never keep up with changes, so Chen Li'an received a call from Director Wang early the next morning, asking to meet with him.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Li'an couldn't help but rubbed his hair. It seemed that yesterday's news had spread, and Director Yang's worries might come true.

He couldn't figure out what Director Wang's attitude was towards him. The tone on the phone was very flat, and he couldn't hear any emotion.

Chen Li'an feels that there is a high probability that he wants to warn himself not to mess around and make trouble. The group of artists is very interesting.

Even if we just get together to chat, it will make the upper management very nervous. If some literati and writers are added to the artists, it will be even more nervous.

This is also the reason why the gathering places of artists in the capital are frequently banned. The destructive power of these people is invisible and has a huge impact.

But the above is also very friendly to artists, just like when Chen Lian came back from Venice, he directly arranged to join the Artists Association, and arranged various interviews to make Chen Lian famous.

As long as you are obedient, many things can be given to you, including your reputation and status.

Chen Li'an is now the one who has taken advantage of it, so naturally he has to be obedient.

Chen Li'an thought about it at home for a while, and felt that there was nothing wrong with him, and there shouldn't be any problems.

Chen Li'an, who had a good idea in his heart, was not so worried. He simply tidied up and went to Director Wang.

It was still the serious and slightly depressing office building. Chen Li'an came to Director Wang's office, and when he entered, he saw a bunch of photos in front of Director Wang.

"Xiao Chen is here, sit down." Director Wang raised his head and said hello, and then put the photo in front of Chen Li'an.

Chen Li'an recognized at a glance that this was a photo taken in his studio, and it should have been taken by those reporters.

"Look at it first." Director Wang looked at Chen Li'an and said something, then took out his pen and began to review the documents.

The atmosphere was inexplicably depressing, Chen Li'an casually picked up the photos and looked at them one by one, some of them were really good ones.

There is a smell of rain coming, and it looks like they are plotting.

Chen Li'an quickly finished reading more than 20 photos, but Director Wang was still reviewing documents with his head bowed, and the quiet office could only hear the rustling of pens.

Director Wang left Chen Li'an there without even raising his head, and an invisible pressure came over his face.

Chen Li'an knew that this was to create a little pressure on himself, to make him nervous and afraid, it was a means of the superior.

But I didn't do anything outrageous, so why should I feel guilty, what is there to be nervous about.

Chen Li'an waited in silence for more than ten minutes before Director Wang put down the pen in his hand, looked up at him, and found that Chen Li'an was not nervous, and asked calmly, "What do you want to say?"

Chen Li'an paused with his fingers tapping his knees under the table, and said calmly: "I don't have any special impressions, but discussing art with so many artists is still very rewarding."

"Oh?" Director Wang looked up at Chen Li'an, and then asked, "Tell me what you got."

Chen Li'an thought for a while and said: "I probably saw the vigorous and upward artistic atmosphere in China and the artists' love for art. I was very moved, but I also saw some not so good things."

Director Wang heard this slight movement of his eyes and said, "Tell me what's wrong."

"It's extreme on both sides." Chen Li'an said with a sigh: "A group of people admire the West too much, whether it is art or the creative environment, they are busy criticizing and complaining everywhere, and a group of people are busy singing praises all day long."

"This gives me a very contradictory and contradictory feeling. I feel a little too self-conscious if I am not objective or rational."

Listening to Chen Li'an's words, the lines on Director Wang's face finally softened, and the corners of his mouth raised a little. He looked at Chen Li'an and said, "That's right, you have made a lot of progress, but there are many ways to improve." , but also pay attention to the impact."

Chen Li'an nodded, hesitated a little and said, "I will pay attention to the methods and methods, try to control the influence, and only discuss art itself with everyone to make progress together."

"Right, artists should do their job well, create works of art, and bring better works to the people and society." Director Wang smiled, then looked at Chen Li'an and said: "But I heard that the Artists Association You didn’t go to several meetings? As a member of the Artists Association, you should also actively participate in art work, and don’t just focus on creation.”

The Artists Association did call Chen Li'an several times, but Chen Li'an made excuses and didn't go. He was not interested in those so-called meetings at all.

Form is bigger than reality, a waste of time,
But in front of Director Wang, Chen Li'an naturally wouldn't express his thoughts, but just nodded and promised to attend next time.

After the two chatted for a while, Director Wang took out a document from the table and handed it to Chen Li'an, saying: "At the end of the year, we will select outstanding literary and art workers, and you are also on the nomination list. Please take a look at this document. Mentally prepare."

Another benefit, Chen Li'an took the document and said, "Thank you for the organization's approval, but I'm still young, isn't it a bit inappropriate?"

Director Wang: "There's nothing inappropriate. Artistic creation doesn't care about seniority. This is your recognition and you should accept it humbly."

All right, I have to eat this cake if I don’t eat it, I still have to be more honest in the future, and if it involves sensitive issues, I still don’t do it in the mainland.

Chen Li'an, who ate the big cake and took the benefits, left Director Wang's office with a look of melancholy.

Because at the end, Director Wang intentionally or unintentionally said that some people said that he had a problem with his style of work, and he should pay attention to the influence.

Although I added a sentence at the end, it doesn't matter if young people make some mistakes, as long as they don't make principled mistakes, the problem is not big.

Of course Chen Li'an could understand the meaning of "it's not a big problem". If you are obedient, then it's not a big problem. If you don't, then it's a big problem.

As for whether the problem is serious or not, it depends on what Chen Li'an does.

it's a headache
Chen Li'an's big headache is not that he will not change his style of work anyway, but that he will go to the Artists Association in the future.

It felt a bit like going to show up in the community after being released from prison on parole. Chen Li'an looked down at his ankles. Fortunately, there was no locator or anything.

However, going to the Artists Association is not completely useless, at least in the future Chen Li'an will really gain fame, and becoming a "master" is just around the corner.

After such an experience, Chen Li'an didn't bother to go to other places anymore, so he took a taxi directly to the studio.

Originally, I planned to go to Chen Meiren to ask Liu Luoguo how the broadcast rights were sold, and whether he had received any money back.

Now that there is an assistant, someone can drive the car, which can save a lot of trouble.

Thinking of the assistant, Chen Li'an called Ji Fa and asked about the assistant.

"Jifa, are you at Baiqing's place?"

Ji Fa held the phone with messy hair, turned to look at the beautiful proprietress beside her, coughed and said, "No, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing, I just asked about that assistant's situation." Chen Li'an heard Ji Fa's unnatural voice, and also vaguely heard a lazy soft hum from the side.

Needless to think, Ji Fa must have gone to seduce the little girl, this bitch is not a good person!Why is it so aggressive!

Ji Fa took the phone and ran out of the bedroom before saying, "The assistant is pretty good, I've signed a contract with her, and I can work anytime."

"Sign a contract? What kind of contract did you sign with her?" Chen Li'an asked strangely. It stands to reason that he should also sign a contract with Chen Meiren and his company.

Ji Fa yawned and explained: "This assistant is considered to be assigned to you by me, of course it is to sign a contract with me."

Chen Li'an: "." Well, this assistant is now an employee of a foreign company.

"Okay, let her come to my report, I'll go to the studio right away." Chen Li'an hung up after finishing speaking.

When he came to the studio, Chen Li'an saw two people smoking at the gate of the yard with cameras hanging on their chests.

Taking a closer look, Chen Li'an recognized the reporters from the previous two days, and immediately wondered if these two reporters gave the photos to Director Wang.

When the two reporters saw Chen Li'an coming, they threw away the cigarette butts in their hands, looked at Chen Li'an and said, "Mr. Chen, hello, we are."

"Reporter, I know." Chen Li'an took out the key of the studio and opened the door and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Ms. Chen, it's like this. The agency arranged for us to interview you about what happened two days ago." An older reporter took the initiative to explain.

Chen Li'an looked at the press cards hanging on their chests, and recognized that the magazine on it was an art magazine sponsored by the Artists Association, so he said, "Then come in."

After entering, Chen Li'an poured tea for them, and as soon as he sat down, he heard the older reporter say: "Mr. Chen, it's like this. This interview is mainly to summarize the artist gatherings of the previous two days. And qualitative, do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood, if you have any questions, just ask." Chen Li'an didn't show any impatience. This was to clean up the aftermath of the previous incident. As a professional institutional publication, the art magazine was enough to bring this matter to an end.

"Thank you very much." The reporter showed a relaxed smile, and then said: "Then we will start, your connection between art and society"

For the next half an hour or so, Chen Li'an used all the positive words in his mind, and finally finished the interview.

After the interview, Chen Li'an leaned back on the chair and breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to pour a cup of tea to moisten his throat, there was an extra cup of tea in front of him.

Chen Li'an looked up and saw that it was his number one fan, a look of surprise flashed across his face, just when he was about to ask.

The reporter who had finished finishing the manuscript stood up and said to Chen Li'an: "Mr. Chen, thank you for accepting the interview. We are still rushing back to finalize the manuscript, so let's not bother you for now."

Chen Li'an suppressed the surprise in his heart and stood up and said: "Okay, thank you for your hard work, I hope you can write wonderful articles, so that everyone can have a deeper understanding of those of us who are engaged in art."

"Mr. Chen, don't worry, I understand." The reporter smiled, and after a few polite words with Chen Li'an, he left with his assistant.

Chen Li'an, who sent the person to the door, just turned his head to go back and ask what happened to Miss Wave, when he turned around and saw her standing behind him.

Chen Li'an was taken aback, looked at the smiling wave girl and said, "You speak loudly, why are you walking so loudly?"

The wave girl stuck out her tongue playfully, and then said shyly, "It's a habit I've developed from dancing since I was a child."

"Are you learning to dance?" Chen Li'an glanced at her figure, she was not suitable for being a professional dancer, and it was a bit too burdensome for a dancer.

"That's right, isn't it?" The wave girl turned around and made a perfect movement of raising her legs and looking up.

Looking at her standard dancing posture, Chen Li'an couldn't help but nodded and said, "Yes, very professional. But why did you come here?"

"You called me here."

"I?"

"Yes, I am your assistant."

"assistant?!"

Chen Li'an's voice raised an octave. I feel like this is too coincidental. My fans are my assistants?
It stands to reason that Chen Meiren would not find such a beautiful girl as his assistant, which is too strange.

Chen Li'an looked at her suspiciously, and asked with some uncertainty: "What's your relationship with Chen Meiren? She's a relative?"

Apart from this explanation, Chen Li'an couldn't think of any other possibility, otherwise, Chen Meiren would definitely not have arranged for a beautiful girl to be her assistant.

"Ah? What Chen Meiren? I..." Li Xiaoran suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, thinking of what happened that day, this assistant should be recommended by Chen Li'an's friend, and he pretended to be here at that time.

Looking at Li Xiaoran's expression, Chen Li'an felt a sense of absurdity in his heart, and asked with some uncertainty: "You are not a liar, are you?"

"No, no! I'm not a liar! Oh, this matter." Li Xiaoran didn't know what to say when she was in a hurry. Seeing that Chen Li'an didn't urge herself, she slowed down and said seriously: "Mr. Chen, the matter is like this."

Chen Li'an stood opposite Li Xiaoran and listened quietly to her explanation, but the expression on his face gradually became strange.
"That's the way it is. Anyway, it's a coincidence. I didn't mean to lie to you." Li Xiaoran looked at Chen Li'an with a guilty conscience after speaking, fearing that he would arrest him and send him to the police station in the next second.

He had already received his salary in advance and moved into the house that Ji Fa rented for him.

Chen Li'an felt very strange in his heart, did so many magical things happen in the past two days?
But looking at Li Xiaoran's appearance, Chen Li'an frowned and said to her, "Tie up your hair and let me see."

Li Xiaoran was a little strange, but she still tied up her big forehead, revealing her face.

Chen Li'an took a closer look, and felt that she looked very familiar, not the kind of familiarity he had seen before, but felt that she was very similar to Chen Zihan, so he asked, "What's your name?"

Li Xiaoran grabbed his hair and tied it behind his head, and whispered, "Li Xiaoran."

Chen Li'an: "." So it was Li Bai, no, it was Li Dabai.

However, I don't know much about Li Dabai and Chen Li'an, I just watched the TV series she acted in, and I don't know anything else. It's strange why she became my assistant for no reason.

Li Dabai, who was holding his hair with one hand, looked at Chen Li'an's strange expression, and asked cautiously: "Mr. Chen, you won't arrest me, will you? I will work hard as an assistant, I am very capable!"

how capable
Chen Li'an looked at Li Dabai's expectant eyes, thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible, being my assistant is just one requirement, if you can do it, I'll keep you."

"any request?"

Li Dabai immediately asked, for fear that Chen Li'an would deliberately make things difficult for him and find an excuse to fire him. The job of [-] dollars a month is still to be an assistant to an idol. Such a perfect job must not be missed!
Chen Li'an asked very seriously: "Can you drive?"

Li Dabai: "." That's it?That's it? ?But I really don’t know how. I am a 19-year-old girl and I have no money to buy a car. How can I learn to drive!

"You won't?" Chen Li'an looked at Li Dabai's expression, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm sorry, although you are my fan, you are not suitable to be my assistant."

"I can learn!" Li Dabai immediately promised anxiously: "One week, no, I can definitely learn it in two weeks!"

"Mr. Chen, please take pity on me. I quit my job in the dance troupe. If you don't want me, I will live on the street." Li Dabai pleaded softly while pulling Chen Li'an's clothes.

Seeing Li Dabai's appearance, Chen Li'an thought for a while and said: "I haven't bought a new car yet, if you can learn it before I buy a car, then I can use you, if not, you can use these few days to find a job. "

"Then when will you buy the car?"

"Maybe tomorrow, maybe next year."

It mainly depends on when the money will be paid back. Chen Li'an is also not sure when he will receive the money back.

Tomorrow or next year. This range is too big. Teacher Chen didn't say that on purpose to test me, did he?
Li Dabai felt that he had grasped the key point, so he immediately said, "Good Mr. Chen, I promise to learn how to drive before you buy a car!"

Looking at the energetic Li Dabai, Chen Li'an waved his hand and said, "Then you go and learn, and come back when you learn it."

"Oh." Li Dabai looked at Chen Li'an and asked again: "Then don't I need to do other things now?"

Chen Li'an shook his head and said, "I don't need it for now, you can find a place to learn to drive."

A few minutes later, Li Dabai came out of the studio feeling a little dizzy. Was he hired or not?

Finding this assistant is really speechless. Chen Li'an feels that the world is too magical, as if someone deliberately arranged it. Who is so courageous?
Chen Li'an pondered about Li Dabai's matter for a while, and then stopped thinking about it. He was just an assistant in charge of driving, and he was not looking for a wife, so there was no need to be so cautious.

Chen Li'an was alone in the studio, waiting for quite a while before Bai Qing came to the studio, and he didn't know what he was busy with.

In Bai Qing's absence, Chen Li'an didn't have the heart to make sculptures, so he simply went home to rest. He needed a good rest from his overworked brain these two days.

The real cold winter in the capital has come, and the snowflakes falling from the sky covered the ground, and it creaked when one stepped on it.

Chen Li'an braved the heavy snow and came to the newspaper stand on the side of the road. Looking at the old man with the stove inside, he was really worried that he would accidentally order the newsstand.

After rummaging through the magazine shelf for a while, Chen Li'an found the magazine he wanted to buy.

There are several magazines such as popular literature and art, fine arts, and Chinese literature and art.

When he was about to pay, Chen Li'an saw a popular movie again, reached out to pick it up and flipped through it, and saw an article about the winner in it.

"Pay first and then read." The uncle in the newsstand adjusted his hat and looked at Chen Li'an vigilantly, for fear that he would go whoring for nothing.

Chen Li'an closed the magazine, took a copy of popular movies, put it in front of the uncle and said, "How much are these books?"

The uncle took them over and glanced at them one by one, then looked up at Chen Li'an, pointed to the cover of the art magazine and asked, "This is you?"

The cover of the art magazine is the photo of Chen Li'an standing in the light in the courtyard. It looks so sacred that it is almost a sentence that God loves the world.

The uncle clicked his tongue and muttered, "I'm still an artist, 46 in total."

Chen Li'an paid the money in a hurry, took the magazine and left, it was freezing cold outside.

After returning home, Chen Li'an read through several magazines, then lay on the sofa and looked at the ceiling, doubting life.

All praises, if the editors of art magazines were not more reserved, Chen Li'an would probably be described as a master.

This is putting yourself on the fire. Once these magazines come out, there must be some people who don’t like me. What pseudo-artists are after is fame.

A young man with no foundation like Chen Li'an will definitely make many old guys feel uncomfortable. With the kindness of "guiding the younger generation", he will definitely not be able to help but educate a few words.

Just when Chen Li'an was feeling tired, the phone rang suddenly, and Chen Li'an took it out to see that it was an unfamiliar number.

"Hello, who are you?"

The other end of the phone quickly replied: "Hello, Teacher Chen, I am Li Minghua from the Artists Association. The association will have a seminar the day after tomorrow. I hope you can participate."

"What time is the day after tomorrow, and what is the specific content?"

"At nine o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, we will mainly discuss the selection of outstanding literary and art workers at the end of the year."

Chen Li'an suddenly had a bad premonition that the morning after tomorrow would not be easy, but he still agreed: "Okay, I will attend on time, please let me know."

Director Wang said that he nominated himself, implying that it was decided, but there are only so few places every year, and there are only a few places for painters. If he occupies one, it means that someone from the Artists Association will be squeezed out .

There will definitely be troublesome people at the meeting the day after tomorrow, and Chen Lian has a headache just thinking about it.

The war of words is the most annoying, he is not Zhuge Liang
It's better to go to Meiren Chen to fight a war of words with a group of men. By the way, I would like to ask about the return of investment in TV dramas.

The TV series has already sold two TV stations, and I don't know if he has recovered part of the money. He is still waiting to use the money.

When Chen Li'an came to Chen Meiren's house, she was still sleeping and did not get up. Looking at Chen Meiren who was sleeping soundly, Chen Li'an couldn't help pinching her face.

Why is she so cute when she is asleep, her mouth is slightly open and her face is pouty, like a baby.

Chen Li'an couldn't help pinching Chen Meiren's face hard, watched her open her eyes in a daze, scratched her nose and said, "You stayed up late again yesterday? It's past ten o'clock, why can't you get up. "

Chen Meiren looked at Chen Li'an who suddenly appeared at her bedside, without the slightest panic, but stretched out her hands from the warm quilt to hug Chen Li'an's neck and said, "I'm so sleepy, you can sleep with me for a while."

Chen Li'an: "." I told you to get up, but you pulled me into the water, right?

good!Then don't sleep, get up and exercise, stretch your legs and stretch your muscles, and sweat a little by the way.

The dazed Chen Meiren woke up after a while, holding Chen Li'an's dishonest hand, couldn't help biting his shoulder and muttering softly: "Bad guy~"

"Don't bite my shoulder, I wiped water on your face."

"How dare you! I will bite, and I will bite other places!"

After more than an hour, Chen Li'an and Chen Meiren came out of the small courtyard in good spirits and neatly dressed.

"What car do you want to buy this time?" Chen Meiren asked with her arms around Chen Li'an.

Chen Li'an thought for a while and said, "It's fine to have a higher level of security. There's not much money back now, so just pick a mid-range one."

"That won't work, you can't buy a cheap one, buy a BMW, it must be especially suitable for you." Chen Meiren said proudly.

Chen Li'an couldn't help but said: "It's only hundreds of millions of dollars back now, and it's a waste of money to buy a BMW."

Chen Meiren said disapprovingly: "I have only sold three TV stations now, and there are two rounds and three rounds in the future. At least one or two million yuan can be returned, which is not bad money! And you are a great artist now, how can you be so casual? Get it right once!"

The artist is not the boss, so it would be strange to drive such a good car, but seeing that Chen Meiren wanted to buy it, I had no choice but to agree.

A BMW worth more than 70 yuan is simply stealing money. Chen Li'an felt a little distressed, but when he sat in it, he couldn't help but say something sweet.

More than 70 BMW is more comfortable than 40 Audi
Now Chen Li'an has a car again, but his driver hasn't started working yet.

"You asked me to help you find an assistant last time, but I haven't found it yet. You can't drive the car now." Chen Meiren touched the steering wheel and turned to look at Chen Li'an and said, "Then I will drive for a few days first."

Looking at Chen Meiren's appearance, Chen Li'an couldn't help but said, "Go ahead, assistant, you don't need to help me find it, I've already found it."

"Found it?" Chen Meiren looked at Chen Li'an and asked, "You found it yourself?"

I didn't find it myself, it was delivered to my door by my assistant.
Chen Li'an knew that Chen Meiren would be short-tempered, so he explained: "My art manager helped me find it."

Chen Meiren immediately asked: "Male or female?"

Chen Li'an: "Female."

"Oh, the girl is nice too, she's careful." Chen Meiren replied pretending not to care, and then asked suddenly: "Does it look good?"

"It's average, just an ordinary person." Chen Li'an lied selectively.

Chen Meiren looked into Chen Li'an's eyes, didn't see any guilty conscience, so she nodded and said, "It doesn't matter if you are ordinary at all, you can bring me back here, and I will help you adjust and adjust."

"We'll talk about it when she officially starts working." Chen Li'an said casually, then changed the topic and said, "I'm going to Xiangjiang to sign a contract with Cheng Shufen in a while, and I might not be in the capital on New Year's Day."

"Okay, then I'll celebrate New Year's Day by myself." Chen Meiren was a little disappointed, mainly because she didn't have time, and she had to go to sell TV dramas with Zhang Guojun, or else she would go with Chen Li'an.

Chen Meiren always feels that Chen Li'an also has good friends in Xiangjiang, and she goes there many times a year, and each time they go for many days, there must be something tricky!
Next time I have a chance, I must follow Chen Li'an to have a look. Chen Meiren subconsciously touched her smooth belly, feeling a little anxious.

It's been several days, why hasn't there been any movement? If this continues, when will I be able to handle Chen Li'an, who knows how to flirt outside all day long!
Like a little wild cat in spring!
(There is another chapter. [-] a day, so tired, I really want to show it badly. By the way, please correct me if you see a typo, thank you guys!)
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