Chapter 313: Life is Money!
Taikoo Li Sanlitun in Chaoyang District, Beijing, as a commercial center that has only been built for a few years, and is located in the bustling city center, is basically one of the most lively commercial complexes in Beijing.
On the afternoon of the 15th, Mega International Cinema in Taikoo Li also ushered in the largest flow of people in the past week.
There is still half an hour before the earliest screening of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", but hundreds of people have gathered in the hall of the cinema, waiting to watch the movie, all ages, men and women.
"Hey, there's no seat left. ”
Xu Wei walked into the theater with his girlfriend and looked at the full crowd, slightly surprised.
The girlfriend also frowned, and said with some distress, "Why are there so many people, where are we sitting, there is still half an hour before the show starts." ”
"Li Qian's appeal is really strong. Xu Wei sighed with emotion, he remembered that when "Martial Arts" was released on the first day, it was almost evening, and there were not so many people.
Where to enter the number at the ticket machine, took the ticket, and my girlfriend saw that there was no seat to sit, so I proposed to go downstairs and come back when it opened.
"I'll start right away, I'll go shopping with you after watching the movie. ”
Xu Wei looked at the time and went to buy something to eat and drink.
The other people who were waiting for the movie next to them were chatting about the movie.
"I've been waiting for half a year, and I can finally watch it, but I don't know how it went. ”
"Anyway, it will definitely not be bad, Li Qian's level is there. ”
"I hope it's a movie version of "Snail House" in the pharmaceutical industry, and it's not too dull. ”
"Didn't Li Qian say that there are some comedy elements, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo have their own sense of joy. ”
Listening to the people next to him discussing the upcoming movie, as a movie lover, Xu Wei couldn't help but join in, "There shouldn't be any funny plots, after all, this kind of theme is relatively heavy, just look at Hu Ge's image." ”
"There is no funny plot, so why are you looking for Xu Zheng and Huang Bo?"
There is no rule that they can only act in comedy, and Huang Bo looks quite fierce in the poster and those two trailers. ”
"Actually, you all have a point, it should be that Xu Zheng and Huang Bo's images are more joyful, so Li Qian asked them to act, in order to alleviate the heavy atmosphere. A person next to him walked over and interjected.
"You have a point. Xu Wei turned his head and glanced at the visitor, but seeing that he also had a small notebook the size of a palm in his hand, he couldn't help but be curious, "Brother, why do you bring a notebook to watch a movie?"
"Oh, well, I'm a journalist and film critic, so I'm a little bit more handwritten. Lu Chao smiled, as a reporter and a loyal fan of Li Qian, he has been chasing Li Qian's movie since "Sniper Phone Booth", how could he not appear for the first time.
"Journalists?"
Hearing that Xu Wei was a little disgusted with the other party, there was a lot of news fanning the flames during this time.
Lu Chao shrugged his shoulders and walked to the other side, waiting for the opening of the movie.
Xu Wei also continued to chat with the people next to him, and ran to watch the screening as soon as possible, either he was in a panic, or he really liked to watch movies, after all, tickets are not easy to grab.
As soon as Grava opened for pre-sale, in big cities like Beijing and Magic Capital, tickets were sold out within five minutes, after all, the cinemas on demand were all in a prosperous location.
From speculating on the plot of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", to "Martial Arts" and "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party" that are being released.
In addition to chatting with others about movies online, there is a rare opportunity in reality.
Leave your girlfriend next to her boredom throwing popcorn into her mouth and occasionally rolling her eyes.
It wasn't until 10 o'clock at 7:00, when there were still five minutes before the screening, that the theater began to enter.
When I entered the screening hall, it didn't take two minutes for all the seats to fill up one after another.
The hall of more than 200 people, with 100% attendance, also happened in all the movie theaters that are being screened in the country.
Xu Wei took his girlfriend to sit in his place, thought about it, took out his mobile phone, and clicked on WeChat.
A few days ago, I asked my roommate Wu Wentao to watch the screening, but he was still affected by the water army on the Internet, and his relatives died of leukemia last year, so he was a little disgusted with the movie, so he couldn't go back.
Shaking his head, his phone was muted, and he grabbed the popcorn bucket in his girlfriend's hand.
As a result, there were only a few dozen left.
"Finished with popcorn?"
Xu Wei is a little incredible, shouting to lose weight every day, if you don't eat this, you don't eat that, how can a medium bucket of popcorn movie be eaten up before it starts.
"Humph!"
The girlfriend turned her head angrily.
“???”
Xu Wei was confused, today is every day, and relatives will not increase their appetite.
However, before he could think about it, the lights in the screening room dimmed and the movie began.
It's still a long patch ad, and it's so loud that it's hard not to pay attention.
Immediately after that, the dragon mark flashed, and all the audience raised their spirits and stared at the big screen.
Accompanied by the main creative subtitles of the opening film, there is a burst of Yindu music, but the audience doesn't care about the strong curry flavor.
The words I am not the god of medicine appeared on the big screen, and then the picture turned, and an unknown god appeared on the big screen.
Also, bottles of beautifully packaged Yindu oil also appeared on the screen.
It is a store that sells health supplements.
In 2002, the magic capital, the subtitles explained the time background.
Xu Zheng, the owner of the health care store, was playing cards on his computer, a game nostalgic enough to be indifferent to the sound of the phone.
The shopkeeper next door came to the store to find Xu Zheng, and the landlord called the uncle to collect the rent, and the uncle helped Xu Zheng block it.
Xu Zheng said that his business was not good and he had no money to pay the rent, and by the way, he asked the uncle if he had put his own magic oil in the store to sell it, and the uncle said that he had put it away, no one bought it, and he tried it himself, but it was useless.
"Poof..."
Looking at the old man with white hair, he said that he had tried Yindu Divine Oil, but it didn't work, and some viewers couldn't help laughing.
Immediately afterwards, several people next to him looked at him with a somewhat ambiguous expression.
Yindu Divine Oil, you know.
Although there is no joke at the beginning, it is not as heavy as the audience imagined.
It's just that Xu Zheng's appearance is a little greasy than in the poster and trailer, after all, the people on the big screen are bigger than reality, and he can see it clearly, a middle-aged greasy man.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Zheng drove a small broken van to the nursing home to see his father.
His father was not in good condition and was sick, and the dean suggested that he take him to the hospital.
Xu Zheng said a little indifferently, "It's useless, the hospitals are all cheating money, and if you are not sick, you will be sick." ”
"I can't say everything, who is responsible for paralyzing me?"
Hearing this, Xu Zheng had a sad look on his face, but he still insisted, "It's okay, I just drank too much when I was young." ”
After collecting the money, the dean also told Xu Zheng that he would have to pay the money on an annual basis next time, Xu Zheng took out a pack of cigarettes from his bag and gave it to the dean, but he didn't reply vaguely.
Father couldn't say everything, it was so serious, Xu Zheng still looked indifferent, which made the audience a little disgusted.
However, Xu Wei, who watched a lot of movies, found out that Xu Zheng had no money.
A middle-aged greasy man, a small shop is sluggish and has no business, he owes rent, his wife is divorced, and his father is seriously ill.
I'll go, this protagonist is miserable.
Xu Wei became more and more curious, how did such a protagonist, who can be said to be a "waste man", become the god of medicine.
As soon as the camera turned, Xu Zheng took his son to swim and massaged his son, and when he wiped his body, his son covered his lower body shyly, and he drank a sentence.
"Little Jiji has grown up," Xu Zheng smiled with a fatherly smile.
Many female viewers in the cinema couldn't help but look away, a little embarrassed.
The male audience, on the other hand, found it a little funny.
However, when he talked about the custody of his son with his ex-wife and lawyer, the atmosphere was not so good, and even Xu Zheng moved his hand and grabbed the police station with his back.
Liao Fan, the captain of the criminal police and brother-in-law in the police station, walked in with a cold face, "Where are the people?"
Xu Zheng was next to him, and when he saw Liao Fan coming, he leaned sideways against the wall weakly, not daring to look at him.
Liao Fan stared at Xu Zheng coldly, his eyes full of disgust.
However, he did not do anything, but asked the people from the police station to take him into the interrogation room.
"Smack. ”
As the iron door slammed shut, Xu Zheng in the interrogation room trembled.
Communiqué personal vendetta, lynching?
Just when the audience thought so, Liao Fan suddenly came up to Xu Zheng, grabbed his collar, and said coldly, "You should be glad that I am a policeman!"
Xu Zheng was taken aback, and thought that his brother-in-law was going to beat him.
However, Liao Fan let him go, turned around and left the interrogation room, walked to the door and said, "Lock him up for 24 hours!"
It's for the police, and it's also for Xu Zheng, as a police officer, you can't do it, but if you fight and hurt someone, the summons for investigation can be up to 24 hours, and there is no problem.
It's miserable enough, and I have to be locked up at the police station for a day, and the only protagonist who is worse than this is the clone in "Moon".
In a blink of an eye, I returned to the Shenyou shop, and the old man next door introduced a customer, Hu Ge, and wanted to find Xu Zheng to help him bring medicine in Yindu.
Xu Zheng understood that it was smuggling, and complained that the uncle told people everything, and the uncle said that he was trying to find a way to help him earn money to pay the rent.
After the uncle left, Xu Zheng looked at Hu Ge sitting in the store, he took off his mask, and there were two masks inside, Hu Ge leaned over and showed his face, a face that had been ill for a long time and was extremely weak, and smiled at Cheng Yong outside the door.
This disfigured appearance appeared on the big screen, coupled with that humble tone, and the waist that has been slightly bent, which makes people feel inexplicably distressed.
However, although what Hu Ge said was very tempting, there were nearly 40,000 bottles of genuine drugs in China, and only 2,000 pirated drugs in Yindu, and the price difference of 20 times made Xu Zheng a little surprised, but he still refused to smuggle and drove Hu Ge away.
In the end, Hu Ge, who couldn't convince Xu Zheng, could only leave him a phone call and leave with a smile.
Xu Zheng looked at the orange and the phone on the table and didn't care.
However, the camera shifted to the nursing home, and Xu Zheng's father suddenly fainted on the ground.
The old man was sent to the hospital, Xu Zheng was faced with huge surgical costs, and he couldn't come up with the money so he could only pull the old man home.
At the roadside supper stall, Xu Zheng took out his mobile phone and wanted to call his ex-wife, but after thinking about it, he hung up.
At this time, someone threw a small card on everyone's table, which is the kind of small card, which is often distributed by roadside food stalls at night, and the propaganda card of the bathing city.
This reminded him of the phone number left by Hu Ge, but when he returned to the store, he found that a seal had been affixed and four big words "pay rent and open the door".
Money is needed everywhere.
I could only climb in through the back window, but after getting the phone, I didn't go to Hugo, but went to the hospital to ask the doctor about the situation.
The doctor said that Glenin is an effective drug for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia, but Indu Glenin is a prohibited drug, and if the patient takes Indu Glenin privately, many doctors will refuse to treat it, because no one dares to take responsibility for the problem of taking the illegal drug
Xu Zheng asked the patients what to do if they couldn't afford to buy nearly 40,000 bottles of Glenin, and the doctor said that there was no way, because if the disease was not treated in time, it would enter an emergency period, and they would have to wait for death.
Xu Zheng thought about it and saw the patient lying in the corridor with needles in his feet, which was very distressing.
The camera shifted to the door of Grenin's company, where a group of patients pulled banners to protest against the high price of drugs, and Yu Entai, a pharmaceutical company, said that he understood everyone's demands, but his company's production and drug prices were also reasonable and legal.
Hu Ge sat aside and ate and didn't gather around, but when he heard what Yu Entai said, he rolled his eyes, and suddenly his mobile phone rang, and he took it out and picked it up, it was Xu Zheng calling.
He came to the Shenyou store and discussed it with Xu Zheng, and Xu Zheng was sure that as long as he brought the medicine back, Hu Ge would definitely be able to find a buyer.
Xu Zheng went to Yindu and came to the pharmaceutical factory.
The good news is that 2000 a bottle is the retail price of the pharmacy, and the pharmaceutical factory only needs 500 a bottle.
Xu Zheng not only wants to buy medicine, but also wants to be an agent in Huaguo.
This medicine is forbidden to be imported in China, and the pharmacist was a little strange, staring at Xu Zheng and asking him if he wanted to be a savior?
"I don't want to be a savior, I want to make money. ”
"In China, many people are waiting for this medicine to save their lives, life is money!" Xu Zheng smiled, and made a gesture of money with his right thumb and index finger in front of his eyes.
Life is money?
Although the movie is not very heavy here, I don't know why, hearing this sentence, most of the audience felt a little heavy for no reason.
Lu Chao's eyes froze, and he carefully recalled this sentence, and his hand also moved, and he wrote down these four words in the small notebook.
He always thought that "I Am Not the God of Medicine" should be as full of humanistic care as the previous movies.
However, the four words "life is money" made Lu Chao a little suspicious.
If the poor have no money, isn't that a death?