Xu Rui has been busy these two days. "Your Name" requires a lot of supervision in the early stages of production. He will not be a little relaxed until everything is on track.

Yi Qianqian was at her parents' home to raise her body. Xu Rui had lunch at noon and looked at which group he would be with in the morning, so he went to the cafeteria with the people in charge.

This morning was a painting meeting, and Xu Rui was surrounded by Lin Shuyi and others.

He ate it simple, stir-fried beef with celery, shredded potatoes, stir-fried cabbage, and a bowl of kelp rib soup. At first glance, he didn't look like the boss of a company at all, but like an ordinary low-level employee.

"... Have you heard that the boss of the Anime Soul seems to be directly opened by a tomato?"

The original artists on the side chatted while eating, without any urgency to sit beside the boss.

"I have also seen Weibo. I guess it was because of the close-up Weibo that made the people in the crowd unhappy, so I opened it directly."

"Tsk tsk, I've read two issues of anime soul before. To be honest, I can tell that the author is quite serious, but the book bag is too serious, and many places are too theoretical. The actual on-site operation is not like that. At first glance, it was written by an outsider."

"But the candidate works for the Animation Art Award are also quite funny. Our animations are basically excluded. In the end, they are all works by Tomato Video Network. It would be better to simply change the name to Tomato Animation Art Award."

"When it comes to this, the annual animation of "Music Girl" this year should be stable..."

Xu Rui listened to their chat casually, but did not intervene at will, and just ate silently.

As the character and executive painting director of "Your Name", Lin Shuyi naturally also participated in the painting meeting and is now sitting opposite Xu Rui.

This place should have been the location of Sister Qianqian, but Lin Shuyi didn't think of it.

"...The animation art awards are very lively recently."

Lin Shuyi was not surrounded by Wu Hongyan and Han Qingwen, so she was still a little embarrassed when she got along with Xu Rui. She was eating lunch silently, but when she heard the people around her discussing, she also tried to find the topic.

"Well, the organizational loopholes in Tomato Video Network are too big."

Xu Rui swallowed the things in his mouth before speaking.

"And the positioning of this grand prize is not very clear. Judging from the name and introduction, Tomato Video Network wants to take the high-end approach and build it into a selection similar to the annual animation, but it does not have that strong appeal and wants to hide private interests. In the end, it can only find a group of more amateur self-media as judges."

"Then how will this grand prize end in the end?"

Lin Shuyi couldn't help asking.

"The best result is probably to select a few of your own works and end it hastily. The worst result is that the judges themselves fight in the internal struggle, and finally make the entire selection mess."

Xu Rui thought about it and replied.

"What is required to hold such a selection is fairness and objectiveness. If you win the award with your own ability, if you are purposeful from the beginning, the foundation will be crooked and you will naturally not be able to gain anything."

His current attitude towards Tomato Video Network is strategically contemptuous and tactical.

Despite its size, Tomato Video Network is much larger than Hatsune Video Network. If Hatsune Video Network occupies the young market, then Tomato Video Network occupies the market for all ages. Users like primary school students, the elderly, and middle-aged people rely more on Tomato Video Network.

However, the overall trend of Hatsune Video Network is rising, and its expansion speed is far better than that of Tomato Video Network, and it is even more successful in the overseas market. In time, it will inevitably surpass Tomato Video Network.

However, even so, Xu Rui would not ignore some of the small actions of Tomato Video Network. Just like this animation art award, if Tomato Video Network could really rely on this award to gain some benefits, then Xu Rui would naturally not sit idly by. However, after considering the logic, he knew that this project was not scary at all, so he did not pay much attention to it.

Lin Shuyi nodded in a daze. She had probably thought about what Xu Rui said, but she still felt very angry. Why was her animations devalued by those self-media? On the contrary, the mass-produced animations produced by Tomato Video Network were praised by the judges.

After lunch, Xu Rui had lunch and took a fifteen-minute break, then started working again.

This conference has nothing to do with animation, but Zheng Weijie, who has been taking materials at barbecue stalls across the country for more than half a year.

When he met the director in the conference room, he had been tanned a lot and had a lot of fireworks, just like those barbecue chefs who had been standing in front of the oven for a long time.

However, unexpectedly, Zheng Weijie did not gain much weight, but his half-year running around made him lose a lot and he became much more capable.

"Thank you for the past six months."

Xu Rui said that Zheng Weijie's shooting work was not over yet. This time he just came to report after returning to Ningjiang, and was about to fly away again, which was busier than Xu Rui.

"It's not hard at all. Instead, through these shootings, I feel that I have gradually grasped some tricks."

Zheng Weijie has sent the content he shot back to the company for the past six months, and Xu Rui has read every copy. At the beginning, Zheng Weijie was still in the same way as filming movies and TV series, but as the number of filming increased, Zheng Weijie's use of the lens has gradually transformed into the documentary mode, which is getting better and better.

"According to the current progress, all the shooting work can be completed in October, and we will definitely be able to go there next summer."

Zheng Weijie talked about some work situations again and continued.

"By the way, Mr. Xu, when I was filming this time, I went to a place and I thought it was very story."

He then showed Xu Rui the photos on his phone.

This place is located in the province next to Ningjiang, called Songhai City. It was once an industrial base decades ago, but with the bankruptcy of a large factory, it gradually declined. Now it is basically a small city that is heading for decline.

Zheng Weijie accidentally heard that there was a barbecue restaurant in Songhai City that sold grilled chickens well-known, so he took his team to go there and found that the barbecue restaurant had already had sparse business, just like a whole declining city.

But the roasted chicken tastes very good. Even though Zheng Weijie has eaten so many barbecues in the past six months, the roasted chicken still left a deep impression on him. However, according to Zheng Weijie's observation, if there are no new customers in this restaurant, it will probably not last long.

In fact, Zheng Weijie has encountered many such shops along the way. Some are unable to continue to open due to the physical reasons of the owner, while others are due to the transformation of the city, which leads to the extinction of roadside stalls. Some are like this roast chicken restaurant, which is the decline of the entire environment.

For example, in Ningjiang, except for some communities around the school where management is not strict, it is difficult for people to eat barbecue at roadside stalls. Most of them are all kinds of barbecue that occupy the market. The fun of eating skewers is rarely seen.

"I'll pay attention to it then. You can go and rest first before going to the airport."

Xu Rui looked at the photos of Zheng Weijie and thoughtful.
Chapter completed!