Zhao Mingyang and Liu Bingbing heard an aunt with an imperial accent calling for help, and she was surrounded by a group of people.
The people who surrounded her were a group of foreigners. Zhao Mingyang and Liu Bingbing both knew that they had just come here to play and were tricked.
There are a lot of rip-offs here. For example, if someone gives you something on the roadside, don't take it randomly. After you take it, they ask you for money, such as a ribbon, and after taking it, they ask you for ten cents.
The asking price is like a knife and fifty dollars.
There are also some people on the street dressed as Marvel superheroes. If you want to take a photo with them, you have to pay, and the price is not low, they are like twenty dollars. In fact, this kind of routine has been known in China for a long time, but
I didn’t expect that things would be the same after leaving the country. Many people thought that there was no such operation abroad, and that there were many things on Hollywood Street.
Especially when some street artists perform to promote their records. After listening to them for a while, they will ask you for money and ask you to buy the records. Usually, they give you two dollars for no records and that's pretty much it.
People who study and work here generally don’t get scammed. This group of people has a very clear goal of scamming tourists. As for how to tell tourists apart? It’s very simple. In the past, it was just looking around with a camera, looking here and there, but now it’s even easier.
Yes, I specifically choose the kind that takes pictures everywhere with my mobile phone.
You can basically tell the difference between locals and tourists at a glance, especially the enthusiastic foreigners. In fact, many of their enthusiasm is fake.
In fact, these routines have appeared in many scenic spots, but many people come to the United States and think that they do not exist. On the contrary, the United States is the largest scenic spot in the world. How can there be no shady tour guides and some people who rip off guests here?
Not only that, there are also shopping groups. These shopping groups come with teams, and the things they buy are really bad. Many of the things are brought from Yiwu. What is sold for 9.9 yuan on a certain treasure here dares to sell for 99 US dollars.
Robbing tourists.
The aunt in front of her probably felt that she was losing money. Someone must have given her something. She thought the people here were hospitable and happily accepted it. But the other party asked for money. She probably didn't want the return, but the other party didn't allow it, so she started to yell.
Yelling, hoping someone will come to help.
It's useless to call the police on this kind of thing here. Sir basically doesn't bother to take care of it, and it seems like a nest of snakes and rats.
In the United States, many sirs work as errands during the day and earn a certain amount of money. At night, they may be the boss of a certain territory and earn another amount of money.
Liu Bingbing pulled Zhao Mingyang and said, "Don't you think this person is very familiar?"
Zhao Mingyang shook his head and said, "I don't know him. Do you know him?"
"I know you. I just surf the Internet when I have nothing to do. This is a very controversial Internet celebrity recently. This woman complains about this and that in China every day. She is not good at hygiene. She talks about how she is abroad. It depends on the situation.
It should be the first time to go abroad, right? If she had gone abroad before, she wouldn't have made such a stupid mistake. Has her dream been shattered? No, her fantasy has been shattered. She doesn't think this is paradise, right?"
Liu Bingbing said.
Zhao Mingyang glanced at it and said: "That's possible. I wanted to help her. But if you say so, I won't help her. The ancestors are right. Fantasy is beautiful, but reality is cruel. Let her
Let's be cruel.
The world is much the same to begin with. It’s just that in the early years, the Western media deceived a group of people, such as Gates’s affectionate and philanthropic persona. The result was that it collapsed too quickly. Don’t you think there are people in China who also imitated this kind of persona? It collapsed.
It's also fast.
Anyway, just listen to the voice of the media, and you have to make your own judgment, but this kind of person will not admit his mistakes even if his life is not as good as a dog abroad. He is a tough talker and does not have the courage to admit his mistakes."
"Yes, our public opinion war is quite passive anyway. Look at the current convenience and infrastructure facilities, etc. These Western media will not report on us. Those who reported on us were in the 1980s or 1990s.
Those videos make us seem very backward.
They are still green trains. Their infrastructure has basically not changed in a century. It takes a long time to drive to buy anything. When traveling, the only option is to fly. What if taking the train or driving is really too slow?
The reason for keeping the name "original" is just that I don't want to spend money on construction, and upgrading the green train to high-speed rail will not affect other things, but no one is willing to pay this money."
After Liu Bingbing finished complaining, she was going to eat at a roadside stall with Zhao Mingyang. She hadn't eaten in a long time.
As for Meng Xiaoxian, Zhao Mingyang is not worried at all. First of all, when Liu Bingbing was harassed by Leng Xiaoshan, everyone knew the background of Daotian Entertainment. The Leng family was defeated by Daotian Entertainment and other people in the industry were defeated.
Basically no one dares to easily provoke the artists of Daotian Entertainment.
This is why when Zhao Mingyang established his entertainment company, he must fight with the Leng family at all costs.
The entertainment industry is a place where you meet people and serve food. For example, if you are the head actress of a certain big entertainment company, people in the industry will treat you politely and well-behaved wherever you go.
In particular, Ning Dongsheng has made it known that Daotian Entertainment artists will not make a mess, and other companies should not touch them. The ones bullied by these insiders are artists and ordinary people with no background.
This is also why some celebrities want to switch jobs to big entertainment companies, hoping to find a big backer or a big financial backer. With them behind them, everyone around them will become more behaved.
Because there is support, there is no need for so-called resources. Directors and actors just have some resources at their disposal, so they use this to fool a group of people with no background.
As for the director who was having dinner with Meng Xiaoxian, he had some scandals and divorced in his early years. After the divorce, he found this director who wanted to look at the director to death. He followed him wherever he went and was basically inseparable. What the director could say
What, it’s embarrassing to talk too much, especially when you’re older, you’re even more afraid of such things being known to outsiders.
Everyone in the industry knows that the director's only personal space is squatting on the toilet. His wife basically doesn't dare to do anything and just looks at him all day long. Now that she's getting older, she really has no choice but to keep silent, and she's used to it.
When you are strong enough, it is really difficult to encounter bad people around you, because everyone knows how to weigh the pros and cons.
Generally, people who fail like this are those who have no self-protection. For example, a large corporate headquarters arranges for a new employee to work in a remote branch or study for an inspection.
Newcomers have a strong background. If they say hello in advance, the branch office will treat them like VIPs.
If the newcomer comes as an ordinary person, it may not be treated with the same attitude. Especially if the newcomer is very low-key, so low-key that no one in the head office knows about it, then the leader of the branch office will ask the head office where he is.
He is said to be an ordinary newcomer with no background.
The branch's attitude towards newcomers and even the things they do are basically unimaginable. Such newcomers will be bullied, but in many places local emperors have also died at the hands of such low-key people.
For example, a local emperor in a northern place slapped a young man a few times at a KTV, and the young man went there to play without reporting his family name. This was a terrible beating, and the result was that the local emperor had to eat peanuts.
So the list that Xu Qingming gave to Zhao Mingyang was really Zhao Mingyang's life-saving straw. Just like: if you are not afraid of the rich second generation eating, drinking and having fun, you are afraid of the rich second generation working hard to start a business. If you are not afraid of certain second and third generations doing things in a high profile, you are just afraid that they will keep a low profile.
If you offend them, you'll be screwed. You won't even have the chance to run away. You'll be screwed.
"By the way, what projects does the director you mentioned have on hand now?" Zhao Mingyang asked Liu Bingbing.
"It is a period drama, and it is not directed by him personally, but a period drama that his newly established film and television company is preparing to invest in, about a drama in the alleys of Sijiu City.
Telling about the changes in the neighborhood in the courtyard house in the 1970s over the past 40 years, Mr. Ning helped us contact them.
He said that the other party is living here temporarily and let's go and chat. Because the director is an investor and a producer, in many places he is actually teaching others how to shoot, so there are more opportunities to learn. I will do it at noon today.
I visited their home, but didn’t go to the wine party tonight.
It is said that the director’s wife particularly hates women drinking with the director and will sneer and yell at them on the spot, so Sister Chunzhen didn’t let me go tonight,” Liu Bingbing said.
"Then how did Meng Xiaoxian get there?" Zhao Mingyang asked a little worriedly, fearing that Sister Xian'er would be criticized by the director's wife.
"She is the director's mother-in-law who is retiring here. She is a long-time fan of Kun Opera. The director invited her to sing a song for the old lady. I guess her role is stable and can be finalized.
Because the director's mother-in-law also collected a Kunqu opera record released by Meng Xiaoxian, which is like a fan meeting an idol. The director probably also took a fancy to Meng Xiaoxian. She can sing Kunqu opera and has opera skills. It is said that she can also do Peking opera.
Perform a few parts in the play and play the role of a Peking Opera singer." Liu Bingbing said.
When Zhao Mingyang heard this, he suddenly understood one thing. Meng Xiaoxian must also produce Kun Opera records and even perform on the Kun Opera stage, because many older generations like it, and there must be some big shots among them.
Some people in their 70s and 80s particularly like listening to music. Zhao Mingyang didn’t think it was a big deal before. Just like when he was a child, he saw many old people enjoying listening to cross talk. Zhao Mingyang didn’t like listening to it at first, nor did he like listening to storytelling. Later, Zhao Mingyang actually
I started to like listening to it without knowing it. My preferences change with each age. Zhao Mingyang later also liked to listen to ditties.
Meng Xiaoxian's market will definitely be niche in the future, and it will be a high-end niche. Kunqu Opera itself is synonymous with elegance. Those who like to listen to it are those from some scholarly family or highly educated people.
When she returns home, she will ask Meng Xiaoxian to make a Kunqu opera collection, find the top music production team to help her produce it, and have the top Kunqu opera masters to help guide her, and strive to make Meng Xiaoxian the number one Kunqu opera performer in today's new generation.
The two were walking hand in hand on the street when Liu Bingbing suddenly stopped and stopped in front of a bridal shop.
She stared at the wedding dress in the window, and Zhao Mingyang understood what Liu Bingbing was thinking. Wedding dresses are of great significance to women.
"Want to wear it?" Zhao Mingyang looked at Liu Bingbing and asked.
Liu Bingbing said nothing. By choosing this path, she was actually drifting away from marriage.
Artists in the entertainment industry are basically afraid that getting married will narrow their acting career, and they are even more afraid of losing traffic. Except for a few people, most artists get married and have children, which has a great impact on their acting careers. The main reason is that they will lose fans. As long as the artist has no traffic.
, that means it is worthless.
It's okay if the artist is capable, but people like Liu Bingbing are far from being capable. The most important thing now is traffic.
"Let's get married!" Zhao Mingyang said.
Liu Bingbing???!!!Lan
"Marry?" Liu Bingbing looked at Zhao Mingyang and asked.
"That's right, get married! Find a church, let's get married inside, and get a marriage certificate. It can't be found in China anyway. You don't need your real name, and it can't be found here. You can use your mother's surname to register here.
If you want to get married, you can get a marriage certificate on site and no documents are required. All you need to do is sign a contract.
I'll ask someone to contract a villa, let's go! Go in and choose a wedding dress, and try to get married within two days.
You can invite your family over, or we can just get married."
Zhao Mingyang knew that Liu Bingbing would not tell her family. She was afraid that her family would spill the beans, especially when her father drank too much and loved to chat with others and could say anything.
Liu Bingbing was dragged into the bridal shop by Zhao Mingyang, and she was in a state of confusion.
When he arrived at the wedding dress store, Zhao Mingyang looked at several sets of wedding dresses, took out his card, swiped the card, and asked the store staff to deliver the wedding dress to the hotel, try it on and deliver the finished product to Liu Bingbing as soon as possible.
Liu Bingbing was also relieved. Zhao Mingyang directly sent the wedding dress to the hotel, and then tried it on in the hotel without fear of being seen.
Zhao Mingyang knew women well, and he could tell at a glance what Liu Bingbing was thinking. He paid a deposit of US$100,000 to the bridal shop, asked them to prepare a venue, decorate the venue, and then ask a priest to witness the marriage.
Or if the marriage is solemnized in a church and a wedding is held for Liu Bingbing, she will have no regrets and won't miss it anymore.
Liu Bingbing chose two sets of wedding dresses, and the wedding dress shop worked overtime to customize them. This store specializes in private customization.
In fact, it means changing the size. The wedding dresses on their promotional page and in the store are all half-finished, and it takes too long to redesign them.
According to Zhao Mingyang's request, the bridal shop chose a private island, which is rented out all year round. It has a very large church and a very long indoor corridor suitable for newlyweds to enter the auditorium.
There is a large garden outside, which is very beautiful, and the layout time will be shortened because there are many ready-made venues for layout.
Zhao Mingyang had a sudden idea and asked Ning Dongsheng to contact the management company here and invite several bands from Europe and the United States to perform, which were bands that had been in the industry for many years, more than fifteen years.
Invite them to come over to perform, and provide a special car to pick them up. For these two days, a band can come over if the performance fee is less than $200,000.
Ning Dongsheng was a little confused, but he hurriedly contacted him. Bands that have been in the band for more than fifteen years are all uncles and grandfathers.
The price is indeed not expensive, but why is Zhao Mingyang looking for this?
Zhao Mingyang pulled Liu Bingbing out of the hotel again and went straight to the mall to choose a wedding ring. The game was all about speed. After this incident, Liu Bingbing would feel at peace.
Otherwise, she would still have random thoughts. This place is good. Let’s give it a try first. It worked this time. She will bring her little cousin here next time. Didn’t Gu Man think the same thing...