0856 [Shi Zhijian, the first fan of the dead ghost Laodou! 】
The balcony faces the large garden, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.
The little nanny Papaya came up with a tray and placed two cups of fragrant tea on the small tea table set up on the balcony.
Lai Hao climbed from the first floor to the second floor and wanted to sit down, but Shi Zhijian held on to the balcony railing and overlooked the villa garden.
Lame Hao was embarrassed to sit down alone, so he held the crutch with one hand and the railing with the other hand and said: "Ajian, there are no outsiders now. I want to have a few intimate words with you."
"If you have anything to say, just say it!" Shi Zhijian finally realized that it was more difficult for Lame Hao to stand, so he made an invitation gesture and invited Lame Hao to sit down.
Lame Hao put down his crutches, sat down next to the tea table, beat his good leg with his hand, and said: "I have been doing charity recently, and I remember what you told me, I must serve with virtue in everything."
Man! Not only was he rated as one of the top ten philanthropists in Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Charity Federation, he was also awarded the honor of Justice of the Peace thanks to you!"
Laihao tried his best to talk about his recent situation. In the past, he would have been full of words such as "Pu your grandma", "Pick your grandma", or just "Fuck your mother"!
"In my current situation, many people say there is smoke coming out of my ancestor's grave! I am deeply worried about this!"
"Huh?" Shi Zhijian was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Laihao was worried about.
Lame Hao continued: "Although I have no education and don't understand any big principles, I know that people's luck is good and bad. When they are good, they are lucky, and when they are bad, they can shine! My legs are already lame.
If I get one, I’m afraid my old waist will be flashed again!”
Shi Zhijian finally understood the meaning behind Lame Hao's words, "Brother Hao, what do you mean, are you afraid of bad luck after this wave passes? If you fall from the top of the tower, it will hurt, right?"
"The one who knows me is Ah Jian!" Lame Hao once again showed off his newly learned vocabulary. "I am now a justice of the peace. Logically, I should be satisfied, but eating, drinking and waiting to die is not my goal. I think I can still work for a few more years, but
I can’t make up my mind about what to do next! If I continue to take advantage of others, wouldn’t it look like I have no integrity?”
Shi Zhijian smiled, "It's not that you have no moral integrity, you are seeking death! I helped you clear your name and get ashore, and if you jump down on your own initiative, what else is that if you are not seeking death?"
"Ahem, Ajian, don't be so serious!" Lame Hao said awkwardly, "Okay! I won't beat around the bush with you anymore, let's just tell you straight! I didn't know that doing charity would cost so much money!
Grandma Pu, a small donation can cost hundreds of thousands or millions! Why do you think I can get the title of one of the top ten philanthropists? It’s all my money! But I don’t open a bank.
Yes, this charity is a bottomless pit. No matter how much I support it, I still can’t bear it now!”
"So Ah Jian!" Lai Hao's eyes were blazing and he leaned slightly towards Shi Zhijian, "So help me and see if there is any good deal that can make me cheaper!"
Shi Zhijian picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He did not immediately answer Lai Hao's request. He rubbed his fingers on the warm rim of the tea cup, thinking about how to help Lai Hao.
Before, Shi Zhijian tried his best to get Lame Hao to clear his name and get him to spend money on charity. Not to mention other things, he donated almost 8 million to the Recreation Fund! If it were an ordinary person, he would probably be unable to bear it!
Lame Hao has been able to sustain himself to this day, and some thoughtful people have even put him on the altar and given him the title of one of the top ten philanthropists, making it clear that he is being treated as a traitor!
Lame Hao is not stupid, and he understands this, but the route Shi Zhijian set for him is to spend money crazily and do charity crazily! He needs to completely establish his character as a charity ambassador!
Now it's better, the lame hao's character has been completed, but his pockets are about to be emptied!
It is an exaggeration to say that it has been hollowed out. It should be said that the cash flow in the hands of the lame man is beginning to be insufficient!
Lame Hao used to be a side hustler, but after he was cleansed, he stopped doing the most profitable businesses, flower stalls and pink stalls! Especially the pink stalls, which were a hugely profitable business, and now they are all cheaper than others, so Lame Hao won't get involved anymore!
Coupled with Laihao's investment in some big projects such as the construction of Sha Tin Racecourse and the investment in Shi Zhijian's steel war, that's tens of millions of dollars!
If you can only get in and out like this, even if the lame rich man has a mountain of gold and silver in his house, it will soon be emptied of it!
It’s so cold at high places!
Nowadays, Laihao has a special status. He is both a charity ambassador and a justice of the peace. If there is a slight disturbance in Hong Kong, natural disasters or man-made disasters, he, the ambassador and gentleman, cannot just sit back and ignore it! He has to pay for it! Otherwise, he has to pay for it!
You will be criticized and questioned by others! Finally, you fall from the top of the tower, wow, your butt hurts from the fall!
After thinking about it, Shi Zhijian already had an idea in his mind. He picked up the teacup and smiled at Lame Hao: "To be honest, Brother Hao! Although I asked you to do charity, I didn't ask you to spend all your wealth!"
Lame Hao was about to speak when he was interrupted by Shi Zhijian: "But after all, I am also responsible for this matter. If I don't help you, I'm afraid you will say bad things about me behind my back!"
"How could it be?" Lame Hao said hurriedly, "I never speak ill of anyone behind his back! Even if I do, I have to greet his mother directly in front of him!"
Shi Zhijian smiled and said, "Don't worry, since I said I would help you, I will definitely do it!"
When Lai Hao heard this, he felt as if he had been given blood and was filled with excitement. He hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I will listen to you no matter what you want me to do!"
"It's very simple. Brother Hao, aren't you very famous now? Then you must know that fame and fortune are twin brothers. Being famous will be beneficial!"
"Really? They are twin brothers? I always thought they were the ones who were gambling!"
"What you have to do now is to use your fame to do something more famous!"
"What's the matter?"
"Make a movie!"
"Pfft!" Lame Hao almost spit out a mouthful of tea! "Well, I'm lame, who would want me? Besides, I'm not as handsome as you, so I can't be the protagonist!"
Shi Zhijian smiled and took a sip from the teacup, "Who wants you to act in a play?"
"Didn't you ask me to make a movie?"
"I asked you to invest in movies!"
"Huh?" Lai Hao was stunned, "You didn't explain it clearly, you scared me to death!" After saying that, he quickly picked up the tea cup and imitated Shi Zhijian and took a sip to calm down his shock.
"As you know, there are two major film companies in Hong Kong now, one is Shaw Brothers and the other is Golden Harvest, which is owned by me, and the new films of the two major film companies continue to break box office records. Why do you think this is the case?"
"Because it looks good! Because it looks good, more people watch it, so the box office explodes!"
"You're right! Good-looking movies are one factor, and there's another factor -"
"There is another factor -" Lai Hao pinched his chin and started thinking hard, "Is it because of box office fraud, money laundering, and movie ticket price increases? Okay, I surrender! Ajian, please stop teasing me.
Come on, I know, because of what?"
"Because people's living conditions have improved and they have money! So they need to watch movies for entertainment! Believe me, Hong Kong's film industry will flourish in the future, and more and more film companies will open, and even Hong Kong will become Oriental in the future
Hollywood!" Shi Zhijian talked eloquently to Lai Hao.
…
For Shi Zhijian, he knows Hong Kong’s film history very well!
In the last life of 1970, Shaw Brothers was the dominant film company in Hong Kong, and no one could compete with it. But just one year later, Bruce Lee was born!
At that time, Bruce Lee originally approached Shaw Brothers to make a film, but Shaw Brothers was too aloof, and to be precise, he was a little arrogant. He thought that Hong Kong actors would beg for food from him, so the price he offered did not meet Bruce Lee's requirements, so Bruce Lee finally invested.
The embrace of rival Jiahe!
In the summer of 1971, Bruce Lee accepted the invitation of Hong Kong Golden Harvest Film Company and signed two films with a salary of US$15,000. The first one was "Brother Tangshan" with the theme of Chinese martial arts. The budget of the film was only US$100,000, and the script was
It was also written while filming. Under such circumstances, it set a record for the highest box office of a movie since the opening of Hong Kong, reaching HK$3 million.
In 1972, Bruce Lee starred in the second film "Fist of Fury" for Golden Harvest. "Fist of Fury" had a budget that doubled compared to "Brother of Tangshan", causing a greater sensation and breaking the Asian box office record.
Since then, Bruce Lee has soared into the sky, writing "Kung Fu" into the Western dictionary, and is known as the martial arts god of Hong Kong!
It can be said that at that time, the two giants Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest were fighting each other and produced countless classic films, which fascinated countless Hong Kong people!
When Bruce Lee passed away, Hong Kong entered the 1980s and began to enter the Seven Little Fortunes era dominated by Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, and the comedy era dominated by the "stolen comedian" Xu Guanwen!
At this time, Hong Kong will change from the two heroes competing for hegemony to the three kingdoms of Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and New Art City!
Immediately afterwards, "A Better Tomorrow" came out, directly bringing Hong Kong movies into the "hero" era, and produced the first emperor superstar Chow Yun-fat, who was enough to compete with Jackie Chan!
Entering the 1990s, the last ten years of Hong Kong movies were brilliant!
The "Four Kings" begin to compete in Hong Kong and Kowloon! The generation of "King of Comedy" Stephen Chow begins to aspire to dominate Hong Kong! "Double success in one week" dominates Asia!
In this era, Shaw Brothers began to decline, Jiahe also began to weaken, Xinyi City fell apart, and Yongsheng began to rise!
In fact, in Shi Zhijian's view, Shaw Brothers made a wrong move from the beginning - to be precise, as the overlord of Hong Kong film industry, Shaw Brothers made a wrong move!
At that time, he believed that TV sets were beginning to become popular in Hong Kong. In the future, Hong Kong TV programs would replace movies and enter thousands of households, and the movie industry would decline!
Therefore, Shao Daheng transferred his energy from Shaw Brothers movies to TVB, which he controlled, thinking that in this way he could continue to dominate Hong Kong and secure his position as the entertainment hegemon.
But luck is not in the cards. Shao Daheng never expected that Hong Kong movies would have such a strong follow-up momentum. Not only did they go on a rampage in the 1980s, but they also broke out of Asia in the 1990s! Counting from the 1970s, it has been a glorious thirty years!
Shaw Brothers captured the first ten years, but due to poor decision-making in the later years, they wasted the precious time of the next twenty years, letting Jiahe Jiahe and Xinyi City step on their heads, and later let the latecomers of Yongsheng take over!
Not to mention, Shao Daheng always thought that the television industry was the future, and that he could dominate Xiangjiang Entertainment forever with TVB. However, he did not expect that in the future, with the popularization of the Internet and the rampant popularity of short videos, TVB would also disappear! As a result, many TVB stars had to announce the termination of their contracts.
Go to the mainland to make a living!
More celebrities have no choice but to change careers to sell insurance. For example, Shi Zhijian’s favorite male artist who is good at playing Yongzheng! Changed his career to deliver food, work as a security guard, and do manicures for people!
At this point, people can’t help but sigh: “Celebrities are nothing more than this!”
…
Lai Hao has been dealing with side businesses all his life. How could he know this? When he heard that Shi Zhijian asked him to invest in making a movie, he opened his mouth in surprise.
He expressed doubts about Shi Zhijian's statement that Hong Kong movies will flourish in the future and even become Asian Hollywood!
In Lai Hao's view, although Hong Kong movies are good to watch, they are not that great. Besides, who can know the future? No one has the foresight, unless Shi Zhijian is a god who can predict the future!
"Yes, I can predict the future!"
"Pfft!" Laihao spit out another mouthful of old tea and looked at Shi Zhijian with wide eyes in surprise, "I didn't say anything, how do you know what I'm thinking?"
Shi Zhijian flicked the teacup with his finger, "Your eyes have given you away!"
Lai Hao hurriedly rubbed his eyes, "Ahem, it's not that I don't trust you! The main reason is that what you said is too mysterious! In the future, Hong Kong, a broken place, can make movies break out of Asia and become the Hollywood of the East?"
"Believe me! From now on, Hong Kong movies will be glorious for thirty years! At least if you make movies, you can make money for thirty years!"
Seeing Shi Zhijian being so unwavering, Lai Hao was a little moved, "It's not that I don't believe you! No one can predict this kind of thing in the future! My mother once told me that I will be a bachelor for the rest of my life! Now, my woman has been
A lot of them! If you want to sleep together, sleep together! From the first day of the new year to the end of the year, the three hundred and sixty-five days rotate, do you think it is powerful or not?"
Shi Zhijian shook his head, drank the last sip of tea, stood up on the balcony and stretched his body, overlooking the large garden below: "You don't believe me when I tell you! If you ask me to help, I will show you a clear path. Let's go
It’s your business not to leave!”
"I don't even know what you are talking about?" Lai Hao stood up next to Shi Zhijian, touched his head, and said awkwardly.
Shi Zhijian withdrew his gaze, patted the other party on the shoulder, smiled casually, turned around and said: "A bright light guides the way, you can seek wealth by yourself!"
Lame Hao was anxious from behind, "I didn't say I wouldn't do it! I know what you said. How do you know what the future will be like?"
Shi Zhijian didn't look back, "I didn't know! It was my damn old man who told me in a dream!"
"Pfft!" Lame Hao just took the last sip of tea into his mouth and spat it out without wiping his mouth. "You should have told me earlier! I don't have to believe you! I don't believe in heaven! I don't believe in earth! I absolutely believe in your damn old man!"
He is so smart!"
It can be said that in Hong Kong, apart from the hero Lei Luo, Lai Hao is Shi Zhijian's deadliest daddy's biggest fan!
Just like Lame Hao said, Shi Zhijian's damn father is so clever, he helped Lei Luoza to get promoted! Helped him to clear his name and get on the shore! He also helped Shi Zhijian to rise from a poor boy in Shek Kip to the sky in one step!
