Chapter 22: Happy Ghosts

At noon the next day, Fang Wanshan took Zhong Chuhong and them to skip class, drove them to Vanke DreamWorks Company, and only after getting in the car did Fang Wanshan inform them that they were going to make a movie for them as the starring actors. All the way was the sound of the little girl's excited chirping, after getting out of the car, Fang Wanshan took them into the company, and just went in to say hello to the young ladies, I saw a little fat man leaning over in front of Deng Li's desk, making her laugh.

Fang Wanshan didn't have much Wang Jing either, didn't he feel that this was a normal thing. Wang Jing came to DreamWorks early in the morning, and there were only two employees in the company, and it was empty. At first, I was a little afraid of being deceived, but I still asked the young and beautiful girl, and I was sure that I was not wrong, and I was not deceived, but it was just established for less than a week. Later, after introducing herself to the two women, I found out that the young girl's name was Deng Li, who was a student of her Chinese university, and before waiting for Fang Wanshan to arrive, the two had a lot of common topics.

Fang Wanshan asked Wang Xiaofat how long it would take to come, then he falsely apologized, and then introduced him to a few girls behind him. After Wang Jing looked at it, she basically agreed with a few heroines, but only adjusted slightly, the first heroine Lin Huahua originally wanted to give Zhong Chuhong, but under Wang Jing's suggestion and Zhong Chuhong's considerate persuasion, Lan Jieying played the role.

Zhong Chuhong plays the role of Lin Jingjing, who has a playful personality and loves sports. The glasses girl is still starring Sun Meng, but if she suffers Fang Yuanyuan, she can play a passerby. Originally, under Fang Wanshan's idea, she should play Lin Jingjing, and Lan Jieying starred in the girlfriend who appeared behind.

The male lead actor Fang Wanshan has no interest, he is reborn and goes to act and suffer, there is no such problem. Fang Wanshan pretended to mention Huang Baiming inadvertently, but he didn't expect Wang Jing to know Huang Baiming, so he was embarrassed and said that he was now opening a company, and it was more difficult to invite him. Fang Wanshan didn't have these, although he didn't know that Huang Baiming had opened a company at this time, but the role of this drama was very important, Fang Wanshan never thought that anyone could replace him, so he gave Wang Jing a death order, even if he grinded, he would be invited.

What Fang Wanshan didn't expect was that although Huang Baiming was famous in the circle at this time, he was more of a screenwriter, and when Wang Jing contacted him. He was surprised, but he didn't agree, and let Wang Jingmo reluctantly agree after being at his house for almost two months.

At this time, it was already mid-July 1988, and Zhong Chuhong and Sun Meng had officially graduated from middle school. Not surprisingly, Zhong Chuhong did not pass, and Fang Wanshan did not have the heart to take her to Changzhou after she graduated. After receiving Wang Jing's notice, Fang Wanshan and the others began to come back, and the filming location was chosen in Fang Wanshan's Maryknoll Middle School, and the extras were all members of the alumni association.

The crew rented the whole set directly from Shaw Brothers through Wang Tianlin's relationship, which is convenient and worry-free, but it is a bit expensive. When Fang Wanshan and Zhong Chuhong appeared, at the opening ceremony of Xiangjiang characteristics, Fang Wanshan found two acquaintances, one was Mi Xue, the ex-girlfriend of the second brother Fang Qiang, and the other was Uncle Wuma. Fang Wanshan didn't have any problems with Mi Xue, she didn't break up with Fang Qiang after she became popular, but the two of them were not so suitable for their personalities, Fang Wanshan naturally said hello to her, and then chatted with Wu Ma who looked surprised.

Wu Ma actually came to play a small school worker, and when he heard Fang Wanshan greet him, he was actually very surprised, he basically completely forgot the little kid 5 years ago, and only remembered a little impression under his prompting, but under the hint of Director Wang Jing, what surprised him even more was that this former little kid was the current boss, which made him have mixed feelings in his heart after being unsatisfactory in the past few years.

A chubby middle-aged woman who partnered with Wu Ma, Fang Wanshan had no impression. The second brother Fang Qiang didn't come over as expected, the one who played the boyfriend scumbag was a little star surnamed Guan, anyway, Fang Wanshan didn't remember it, but he heard Wang Jing say that he had acted in a lot of TV series.

After the start-up, Fang Wanshan except for the opening of Lan Kwai Fong once, he was here to soak with Zhong Chuhong and them the rest of the time. Occasionally, Wang Tianlin came over to guide him, and the person in charge of the machine was Wang Jing unexpectedly, a few little girls had no acting skills at all, it was too fake, the only good thing was that they remembered the lines very clearly, and Fang Wanshan was watching anxiously from the side.

When Wang Jing kept teaching them how to act, everyone else was idle, Fang Wanshan took the opportunity to find acquaintances Wuma and Mi Xue to understand the current situation of the film industry.

Although Fang Wanshan and Mi Xue are familiar with each other, she also knows a little about it, the old fritter Wuma is very good at talking, and often tells Fang Wanshan interesting stories about other stars, the inside story of some companies or something, and the final result is that Fang Wanshan invited Wuma to come over to help be a producer.

Wang Jing's filming speed is not very fast, the movie was filmed for more than 1 month, and Fang Wanshan is about to go to school. There are many reasons, one is that Zhong Chuhong and several girls delayed a lot of time in the early stage, and the more they filmed, the better, but at this time, Fang Wanshan jumped out and pointed out some opinions against the movie scene on his mobile phone. Another is that Wang Jing is also a novice, and she doesn't know how she wants to shoot, so she wastes a lot of time auditioning.

After the filming of "School Ghost" was completed, Fang Wanshan found Huang Jiaju and Jacky Cheung, and asked them to start recording the theme song of "Happy Ghost" prepared by themselves with a few girls, and Fang Wanshan himself went to cut the film with the editing staff.

Wang Jing's little fat man was very surprised to see everything like this, it should have been a busy matter for him as a director after filming, so he would have done it for Fang Wanshan in just a few hours. Taking advantage of the fact that the team was there, everyone found a classroom and appreciated their results for more than a month.

After an hour, everyone felt that their efforts had not been in vain, although Zhong Chuhong and the girls felt that they were not satisfied. In the evening, Fang Wanshan booked a restaurant and got a finale dinner, and Wanshan announced some bonus plans above the banquet, and the crew that had been getting along for more than a month was officially disbanded.

What is the arrangement of the theater, Fang Wanshan asked Wuma and Wang Jing to run, and he was ready to meet the middle five. Zhong Chuhong started working at DreamWorks, well, the position is assistant to the general manager. About a week later, Wuma gave Fang Wanshan good news, and Jiahe agreed to the release of "Happy Ghost" and promised to give the schedule in early October.

After determining the schedule, Fang Wanshan did not do anything to promote the happy ghost, but only used the Xiangjiang Alumni Association in his hand to carry out publicity. On October 12, 1978, "Happy Ghost" began to be screened in major theaters in Golden Harvest, Fang Wanshan didn't care about these, but the next day he heard Wuma and Zhong Chuhong say that because it was Wednesday, the attendance rate during the day was not very good, and after 4 o'clock, it was basically difficult to buy tickets, and the venue was full.

Since then, it has been popular, and the box office statistics of this era are all manually counted, and it is only on the weekend that the box office is counted on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively: 350,000, 530,000. The following weekend exceeded 700,000, and the happy ghost became popular among young people, especially middle school students, which surprised Wang Jing and Wu Ma. 17 days after its release, "Happy Ghost" was officially drawn, ranking third with a total box office of 5.81 million.

The three little girls began to become popular, Zhong Chuhong and the two of them graduated Fortunately, Fang Wanshan heard Lan Jieying complain that she had met many classmates she didn't know at school now, and they were all excited to greet and talk to her, and she didn't like to socialize very much. But Fang Wanshan was also helpless, and there was no way.

On November 11, 1978, Fang Wanshan held a celebration dinner for the crew of "Happy Ghost" at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Xiangjiang. Although Fang Wanshan attended that night, the host also came forward with Fang Qiang, Fang Qiang gave everyone in the crew a big red envelope of 200,000 yuan on the spot, and in private, Fang Wanshan also gave several leading actors a red envelope of 100,000 yuan.

Under the reward of the big red envelope, all the personnel were very happy, and Fang Wanshan also took the opportunity to sign a 10-year deed of sale with several little girls, and also determined the intention of cooperation with Huang Baiming. In the evening, Fang Wanshan didn't socialize too much, but he met Wan Ziliang, Fang Wanshan knew him, and he had not been very popular, and it was a pity for him.

Under Sun Meng's resentful gaze, Fang Wanshan took Zhong Chuhong to find an opportunity, so he slipped out and booked a room in the hotel. Oriental Hotel is one of the best hotels in Xiangjiang, and the room can see the beautiful Victoria Harbour, and the two of them snuggle together and quietly look at the night scene outside.

Zhong Chuhong hadn't stayed so quietly with Fang Wanshan for a long time, and she was enjoying everything now. After resisting Fang Wanshan's dishonest little hand for N times, Zhong Chuhong himself was also flushed, so he had no choice but to divert Fang Wanshan's attention, and casually found a topic to ask Fang Wanshan:

"I'm also graduating now, what do you think I should do in the future?"

Zhong Chuhong won't call Fang Wanshan every time, she can't call Brother Wan, Wan Zi Fang Wanshan doesn't allow it, and Zhong Chuhong doesn't want to call it that.

Fang Wanshan didn't receive her hint, and continued to do what he should do, but he still said casually:

"Why are you unhappy in the company, wait a minute, the company will open a new drama for you, this time it must be your female number one. ”

Zhong Chuhong saw that his lover was still making trouble, and his high ground was about to be occupied, and he was about to be confused, so he muttered to himself:

"No, I don't really want to be a star now, I'm a little tired and I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it. Now the company has no new projects, basically nothing to do, and too idle. ”

After hard struggle, Fang Wanshan finally stood on the high ground, Zhong Chuhong's high ground is actually not very high, but it is just right, after the occupation, Fang Wanshan was sophisticated and did not move much, began to be honest, after kissing Zhong Chuhong deeply to make her breathless, in order to disperse and slowly melt Zhong Chuhong, Fang Wanshan said:

"If you don't want to go to the company, it's okay, or you can think about what you like to do during this time. If you don't want to be a star, if you are too tired, just shoot less, and as long as you want to act in the future, I will write it to you. ”

"Whatever you want to do, I've got your back. ”

Zhong Chuhong heard her lover's love words, all the resistance, and let Jun give up and start to be emotional, which is convenient for Fang Wanshan, a pervert, but although they stayed in the hotel tonight, during the period, Zhong Chuhong called home to report that he was safe, but at night Fang Wanshan still held back the little lamb that had basically eaten in his mouth, and he still did not break through the last point in the fragrant night.

It's not that Fang Wanshan can't do it, Fang Wanshan has endured it for many years, but he doesn't want to do it when the two of them are still young, now although Zhong Chuhong is 18 years old, Fang Wanshan seems to feel like a little girl, and he feels a little guilty, and besides, today's day is not very suitable, Fang Wanshan wants to find another opportunity to ask her after graduating from middle school.

When the two arrived at the company the next day, the dumb-eyed Wang Jing was waiting for Fang Wanshan at the door of the company, since he knew that Fang Wanshan was drifting with the wind, this was mainly due to the fact that the entertainment newspaper also dug up and reported some deeds reports made by the screenwriter after the explosion of "Happy Ghost", as an editor, Wang Jing basically wrapped up behind Fang Wanshan every day to ask for scripts or novels.

After the perfect painting from "Happy Ghost", Wang Jing Fang Wanshan and Wu Ma discussed the company's next step, but Fang Wanshan has not thought about it, the three of them agreed to come up with a plan for the next project today, Wang Jing knows, and Lao Ma is waiting for Fang Wanshan with a smile.