Li Qian returned to Jinan Prefecture on the last day of April.

  There are still many things left to be done in Shuntian Prefecture, and Li Qian is preparing to open his own studio, which has already entered the preparation stage. As Li Qian's agent and future studio staff member, Qi Jie naturally stayed in Beijing.

  Next, she needs to run around the four rings of Shuntian Prefecture with Huang Wenjuan to find a relatively suitable office address for the studio that will be established in the future. Secondly, Li Qian is about to come to Shuntian Prefecture to study, but he is picky about his accommodation and does not plan to live in the dormitory arranged by the school after enrollment, so Qi Jie, as his agent, also needs to find him a suitable house.

  The house is easy to find, and in the future when Li Qian arrives at Shuntian Prefecture, he will definitely buy a car. Therefore, it's not necessary to be close to Shuntian Film Academy, and a 10-20 minute drive is within consideration, whether renting or buying, as long as there's money, it can be settled quickly. However, the office address of Li Qian's studio might not be that easy to find.

  Li Qian asked to find a separate small building, even if it's a skirted building, because one studio can't be too large in scale and the required office space is limited. Running to a mature office building is impossible to rent an entire floor, because you don't need such a big place. Even if you only rent a small place like tofu, let alone whether the landlord is willing to rent it to you, even if they do, there are several companies on this floor, people coming and going, noisy, definitely not a good place for music production.

  Li Qian asked them to buy as much as possible.

  The hardest part is this.

  Li Qian wanted to buy it, and this idea is not hard to understand. In recent years, the national economy has been good, and the process of urban development has accelerated rapidly. Many cities' housing prices have been rising quietly, like Jinan Prefecture. It's said that a few years ago when commodity housing was first implemented, one square meter cost only a few hundred yuan. Until three to five years ago, it was possible to buy top-quality houses with good locations and layouts for 2,000 yuan per square meter. However, recently, when Qi Jie moved out of her house to rent another place, she inquired about the prices of decent locations in Jinan Prefecture and found that they had all risen to around 27,000-28,000 yuan per square meter. If it's a good layout, it would cost at least 30,000 yuan!

  So Li Qian wants to buy a building and must have investment ideas in mind.

  Anyway, renting is also useful, buying is also useful. Buying directly is naturally more comfortable and more reassuring than renting. Moreover, if the country's economic situation continues to improve and house prices rise accordingly, the income from investing in real estate alone will not be small!

  It's just... such a house is hard to find.

  According to Li Qian's words. Although it is just a studio, considering that he will use it, Liao Liao will also use it, and considering that the studio may sign two singers in the future, it needs to be considered from the beginning that at least five to eight recording studios of different specifications are needed. Then, since it's all about the studio, even a small sparrow has all its internal organs, so there must be financial staff, clerks, and the like. Plus, people like Li Qian and Liao Liao will definitely have their own independent restrooms... All these miscellaneous things add up to around 500 to 800 square meters.

  These days, large-scale reinforced concrete buildings are being built on a large scale. Even if it's just a small building, one floor is at least 1,000 square meters, and that's considered a podium building. And there are often five or six floors, with each floor having 600-800 square meters. It's really hard to find standalone two or three-story buildings. Moreover, to be honest, even if you like it, the owner may not necessarily want to sell it. They're waiting for the property value to appreciate in price. And there are many such cases, not just one or two.

  So, Li Qian patted his butt and took the bus back home. He went to school, got off school, recited knowledge points, did exercises, wrote songs, sang songs, relaxed and leisurely. Meanwhile, Qi Jie and Huang Wenjuan were running around frantically in Shuntian Prefecture.

  After searching for several days, they set their sights on an old-style brick-concrete building that was built in the early years. Finally, after searching for many days, there were results, and coincidentally, the other party's asking price was not high either. Qi Jie excitedly took a thick stack of photos inside and out and returned to Jinan Prefecture. As a result, Li Qian saw that the house could be bought, but it was not suitable for use as a studio.

  The house is actually quite good, although it's a thirty-year-old building, the materials are solid, and the shape looks a bit outdated now, but it's just a matter of decoration. Moreover, although the house is on the street, downstairs is only a very ordinary third-class street, which belongs to the kind of small street where even buses don't run, so it's absolutely quiet in the midst of noise.

  Moreover, this building has a total of three floors up and down, adding up to nearly 1,000 square meters. Although it looks ugly from the outside, it is spacious enough inside. The interior decoration needs to be done with partitions, which can also be easily divided. If you remove the first floor storefront facing the street, the second and third floors together have more than 600 square meters, just meeting Li Qian's requirements. Considering that the owner seems eager to sell, a three-story building with over 300 square meters of storefront facing the street, and only costs 3 million yuan, even after bargaining, it can be bought for 2.8 million yuan.

  This is just perfect in Qijie's eyes.

  But Li Qian said that this house is suitable for opening a bookstore, selling books on the first floor and managing coffee on the second floor, just like Cao Yun's Wenyi Bookstore. However, if it were to be used as a studio, the layout would be too messy. Moreover, the most important thing is that the commercial space on the ground floor has more than 300 square meters, which is not needed for the studio and does not want to rent it out to others to do business, making it noisy. Therefore, for the studio, it only has a usable area of 600 square meters, and once it is not enough, it cannot be expanded.

  And so everything starts all over again.

  Zijie returned to Shuntian Fu, while Li Qian continued his last two months of high school.

  In mid-May, Yu Bojun's film was finally completed with the editing of the premiere version. As a result, Li Qian had an extra job every Saturday and Sunday, if he didn't follow Wang Huaiyu to the countryside, he would go to Cao Yun's bookstore to help Cao Yun with the soundtrack - of course, he just lent a hand, but the main purpose was to see how Cao Yun did the soundtrack.

  This script was originally concocted by Cao Yun, Li Qian and Yu Bojun when they were brainstorming together. The story, emotions, main line, tone and everything else are all too familiar, and the key point is that Yu Bojun made these films without any grand ambitions, just to show them in his own cinema chain, so the requirements for the soundtrack were not high either. For Cao Yun, this kind of work was naturally not difficult at all, and doing the soundtrack was also effortless.

  In mid-May, Li Qian received the passing certificate of the art additional examination of the Photography Department of Shuntian Film Academy. Moreover, among all the students who passed the photography department's art additional examination this year, his professional score ranked fourth.

  With this achievement as a foundation, as long as he scores above the passing line in the college entrance exam, he will definitely be admitted!

  After getting the pass certificate, Li Qian himself didn't think much of it, but his parents were excited for several days, with a flushed face, although they knew they shouldn't show off and it wasn't time to show off yet, but still had an attitude of wanting to tell everyone.

  Then, Wang Jinglu received a phone call. She had passed the art examination of the Performance Department of Huaxia Drama Academy, although she was ranked 28th. Considering that the Performance Department of Huaxia Drama Academy only recruits thirty students every year and issues forty professional examination passes, Wang Jinglu can be said to be one of the last ones to make it. However, considering her exceptionally good grades in cultural subjects, being ranked 28th is basically not a problem.

  Unfortunately, she did not receive a passing certificate from Shun Tian Film Academy until the end of May.

  This was something that neither Li Qian nor Wang Jinglu could understand, because after the exam, Wang Jinglu felt that she had performed very well in the final interview for Su Tian Film Academy, but instead performed somewhat abnormally in the interview for Huaxia Drama Academy.

  But in the end, those who performed well didn't pass, while those who performed poorly passed instead.

  After that, her mood was very low for many days, because the two had agreed to take the entrance exam of Huaxia Film Academy together. But as a result, Li Qian fulfilled his promise, but she failed to get in.

  All Li Qian could do was comfort and coax her repeatedly.

  At the end of May, Li Qian took a weekend off and added two more days to his vacation, and he went to Shuntianfu again. This time, apart from wanting to accompany Wang Jinglu and persuade her to give up the idea of taking the exam again next year, there were three other main things.

  One is his future residence, Qijie helped to select a few places and he needs to go see them in person to finalize the purchase; Two is after repeated selection, with Li Qian's opinion as the main consideration, Qijie and Huang Wenjuan, Liao Liao together looked at two places that are roughly suitable for use as office space, both of which can be rented or bought, similarly, they need Li Qian to take a final look and confirm.

  As for the third thing, Liao Liao's new album "Tao Sheng Yi Jiou" has been completed in the post-production stage, which means that this entire album is thoroughly done and only needs to be manufactured. Taking advantage of Li Qian's visit, Liao Liao hopes he can help him take a final listen to see if there are any flaws.

  The third thing was the easiest to handle. Li Qian and Liao Liao settled it in the audition room of Changsheng Records, using only one afternoon.

  Li Qian's accommodation is also easy to handle.

  According to Li Qian's requirements, Qi Jie helped him find a small district within about 10-15 minutes' drive from Shuntian Film Academy. Two or three rooms were fine. After driving around for a while, they quickly settled on one. The rest was just signing the contract, paying the money, and buying some necessary items, etc. Li Qian was also very laid-back, leaving everything to Qi Jie to handle.

  The only thing that is most worrisome is the address of the future workshop.

  Li Qian, Liao Liao, Qi Jie, and Huang Wenjuan, the four of them ran back and forth twice before finally settling on a location inside East Fourth Ring Road. At that time, Shun Tian Fu didn't have any CBD concept yet, but the area around East Fourth Ring was very convenient for going to the airport or getting on the highway, so office buildings were being built in large numbers, and star-rated hotels were lined up one after another.

  Li Qian finally set his sights on a skirt building called Anbei Building.

  This is Anbei Building, with a total of 38 floors. There are two adjacent low-rise buildings, one with nine floors and the other with seven floors. It's said that the top 18 floors of this building have been sold directly and opened as a high-end hotel and club. The lower 20 floors, together with the low-rise buildings, are currently for rent or sale, mainly used as office space.

  Qijie and Liao Liao had previously set their sights on the fourth floor of the nine-story skirt building on the left, which is roughly less than 900 square meters in size. The floor height is also quite good, and it's currently empty and can be renovated at will.

  And for those who make music, 4 represents "fa".

  However, after careful consideration, Li Qian took the elevator to the top floor of the building, which was half rooftop and half building, to take a look. He came down and looked at the eighth floor again - according to Qi Jie's previous discussion with the other party about the price, if he rented the fourth floor and signed a five-year contract, it would be 380,000 yuan per year. If he bought it, it would be 7,000 yuan per square meter, so the entire floor would need around 65-66 million yuan.

  However, Li Qian had his eyes on the eighth and ninth floors.

  Then, Qijie's business negotiation skills learned in the past six months were put into use again.

  They negotiated back and forth for half a day, and finally Qijie and the other party's general manager agreed on a price. The eighth and ninth floors were packaged together for sale, including the rooftop on the top floor, with a total building area of 1360 square meters and a rooftop area of 543 square meters. The building area was still calculated at 7,000 yuan per square meter, while the rooftop area was calculated at 4,000 yuan per square meter. The total price was 116.92 million yuan, then discounted by 6% to 112.2 million yuan. As for the three years of free property management fees and other gifts, they were just added on top.

  Of course, if a loan is required, the other party can provide a full range of financial services, but according to the bank's regulations, buyers of commercial housing must pay more than 50% of the down payment.

  After going back, Li Qian thought for half a day and gave Qi Jie an accurate message: get it done within 110 million.

  Qiji made a phone call and, as expected, both parties reached an agreement quickly, and the price was finalized at 10.8 million.

  Of course, although Li Qian's income has not been low over the past year, especially with the contracts signed with Wu Xing Wu Su and Hua Ge, it is certain that the income will be extremely rich. However, the sales of the album have not yet exceeded 5 million copies, so Li Qian only received the first payment of 3.6 million yuan. Adding to this the songs he sold to He Runqing and Liao Liao, after deducting various expenses, the cash in Li Qian's bank account is only over 4 million yuan. In terms of buying a property, facing properties worth tens of millions, he is still an absolute poor man.

  So, finding a bank to handle mortgage is unavoidable.

  Even the down payment, Li Qian himself couldn't scrape together.

  Finally, while still in Shuntian Prefecture, Li Qian made a phone call to Cao Yun, and on the same day, Cao Yun transferred 20 million yuan over - for his family business, several million yuan in cash could be taken out at any time, and between the two of them, although they had only known each other for just over a year, but with hundreds of millions of this scale, not even an IOU was needed.

  Six million in cash was enough, and Li Qian directly wrote two checks.

  One 5.4 million, used as a down payment for the house, one hand handed over the money, and the other hand signed the purchase contract. From then on, Li Qian didn't care about anything else, banks, loans, etc., were all handed over to Qi Jie to take care of.

  Another 600,000 yuan was used to have Qijie contact a professional design company to tailor-make several design schemes for the future studio.

  Having settled everything, Li Qian completely dropped the matter of Shuntian Prefecture and returned to Jinan Prefecture.

  And just on the third day he returned to Jinan Prefecture, June 3rd, Sony Records held a press conference and announced that He Runcheng's new album "Ku Zhu" will be officially released nationwide on Saturday, June 21st.

  For He Rundong's new album, let's not talk about the outside music fans, just talking about the internal music circle, it is also expected for a long time. So, as soon as the press conference was over and the news spread, many people immediately widened their eyes, waiting for her album to be released.

  However, just three days later, Huayi Brothers also held a press conference to announce that Wu Yifan's third brand new album "Let Me Fly" would be officially released nationwide on Tuesday, June 28.

  In an instant, this news exploded throughout the music circle.

  Everyone seems to have smelled the smell of gunpowder already.

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