Chapter 45: Wu Mengda

In December 1980, when Hong Kong entered the first Christmas of the 80s, Pan Disheng bought eight pages in the South China Morning Post, a long-established English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, with the first five pages to congratulate Hong Kong citizens on Merry Christmas, and the last three pages to advertise his brand-name products. This advertisement, especially the two beauties Guan Zhilin and Miao Qianren, are dressed very beautifully, and the perfect advertising endorsement is even more beautiful, which has attracted the attention of many middle-level income and above for a while.

The advertisement was even better than Hui Ziming expected, not only to promote the high-end timepieces in Central as a matter of course, but also to expand the fame of the two beauties. In Pan Disheng's view, it is indeed a good choice to create a high-end watch store with Xu Ziming, not to mention that he can take the opportunity to further broaden his network.

Hong Kong's culture is a combination of East and West, with traditional festivals and exotic Western festivals. Christmas is also a time for the film industry to shine and compete for glory. Golden Harvest released "Ghost Fighting Ghost", Shaw Brothers originally wanted to release a ghost film, but they were afraid that the quality would not be good, so they turned to "Evil Fighting Evil", because the new art city is preparing for the start of filming of the new film, so the movie released on Christmas is the film of Lei Juekun's subsidiary, but the box office is not good.

When Christmas came, Xu Ziming did not make a Christmas crèche, a Christmas dinner, and a series of other Christmas activities like everyone else. In his previous life, Xu Ziming just liked the traditional festivals of his own country, and he was not very interested in these Western festivals, even if Xu Ziming in this life had the experience of studying abroad, he could not raise the slightest interest in Western festivals.

When others are playing during the festival, it is estimated that only Xu Ziming, a strange and wonderful person, is thinking about "Best Partner". Xu Ziming looked for it in the drawer where his business cards were stored in the bedroom, quickly found Huang Baiming's phone, and then dialed it.

On the other end of the phone was a young man's voice, "May I ask who you are?" He was a few years older than Xu Ziming, and Huang Baiming at this time was also younger, and he spoke more casually, without the heaviness that had been many years later.

"Mr. Huang, I didn't disturb your rest", Xu Ziming saw that the phone had been connected, and responded.

Huang Baiming was very surprised, this voice was a little familiar, and after thinking about it for a while, he knew that it was Xu Ziming's voice. Huang Baiming was very curious about how Xu Ziming could call him, after all, he really couldn't think of anything that could attract people.

"Mr. Xu, is there anything you want me to do?" asked Huang Baiming.

Xu Ziming said: "Mr. Huang, how is the script of "Best Partner" handled", Xu Ziming had learned from Mecca's phone call that Huang Baiming was improving the script, and some people in Lei Juekun also looked at it and thought it was good, but there were still some deficiencies that Huang Baiming would revise it.

Hearing Xu Ziming ask about "Best Partner", Huang Baiming couldn't help but praise Xu Ziming: "Mr. Xu, this "Best Partner" is many times better than the last "Funny Times", it's hard to believe that this script is from you alone." Huang Baiming's praise is out of sincere admiration, maybe when Xinyicheng was first established, he, like most people, only stayed in the impression of the Xu family's rich people, and it was better, just like some media reports, he was a young man with a lot of vision in the stock market.

But from "Funny Times" to the current "Best Partner", Xu Ziming will definitely be a friend worth making in his opinion, not to mention that he is also the majority shareholder of Xinyicheng.

"Best Partner" was originally a masterpiece, Huang Baiming's praise Xu Ziming didn't care much, he was a little curious about whether the protagonist of this movie had been discussed, and he didn't want to interfere too much with the actor Xu Ziming, but the heroine and female police detective, Xu Ziming suddenly wanted to replace Zhang Aijia with Lin Qingxia, and he had a lot of calculations in his heart. "Best Partner" is still under revision, and there is still a lot of time before the official start of filming, not to mention that Xinyicheng is starting filming "Happy Fairy Nest", which is ready to be released in 81, Xu Ziming has enough time to find Lin Qingxia.

The best thing is to put the news out there, so that it is also more convenient for yourself.

Xu Ziming thought for a moment, and wanted to explain to Huang Baiming, but suddenly thought that Huang Baiming was just the original screenwriter of this script, and the directors were Zeng Zhiwei and Liu Jialiang, so he dispelled this idea, and he felt that it was better to bring it up at the meeting.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Ziming watched TV for a while accompanied by Fu Bo and couldn't stay idle. The current Hong Kong TV is much worse than the TV in the future, in addition to the high-definition degree of TV quality, there is also a point that the content of the program is too monotonous. In Hong Kong in the eighties, many viewers watched most of TVB, Li, and even Hong Kong Chinese TV. A total of more than a dozen TV stations is really not very attractive to Xu Ziming, who is used to watching hundreds of channels in the world. Xu Ziming suddenly had an ambition to live in TV, but when he thought of the powerful backstage of wireless, combined with his existing strength, it was incomparable. He roughly estimated his achievements in the past six months in his heart, excluding the company's shares, there are still 300 million yuan of working capital available, but in cooperation with Pan Disheng, he has invested more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and he doesn't have to think about the cost of the company to start filming the new film in the future.

Not long after, Xu Ziming received two phone calls for a while, one was made by Guan Zhilin, and the other was called by Miao Qianren, Guan Zhilin wanted Xu Ziming to spend Christmas with her at home, and Miao Qianren made an appointment with Zhou Yanfa and other good friends to come out for Christmas together. It was difficult to resist the enthusiasm, Xu Ziming could only ruthlessly reject Guan Zhilin's request and accept Miao Qianren's request.

In winter, the days are often short and the nights are long, but now it is only about six o'clock, and the sky is almost dark, and there are many stars in the night sky. However, looking out of the car window, the night view of Hong Kong, Xu Ziming found it so beautiful for the first time.

After arriving at the destination Tsim Sha Tsui, a group of acquaintances appeared in Xu Ziming's sight, in addition to Miao Qianren, Zhou Yanfa, Chen Yulian and some people Xu Ziming had seen at his banquet, but couldn't call out their names, but it was a little strange that Miao Qianren did not call Zhong Chuhong this time, and Huan Xue did not come. Seeing everyone, Xu Ziming hurriedly greeted enthusiastically: "Are you all here to watch the night scene?"

Tsim Sha Tsui is close to the sea, which is a good place to appreciate Hong Kong, otherwise Xu Ziming would not ask like this. The group of people present clearly knew that Xu Ziming was a wealthy son, and his status was higher than theirs, and he was in a distorted heart, and he didn't dare to take it lightly. Zhou Yunfa saw the clue and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, everyone, Ziming is a very talkative person." ”

Zhou Yanfa's words eased the stiff atmosphere, and at the same time added: "Today is Christmas, and the West has the title of carnival, so everyone goes to the bar to celebrate together." ”

Miao Qianren also learned Chen Yulian's action of holding hands with Zhou Yanfa, and suddenly held Xu Ziming's hand, Xu Ziming complied: "Just go to the bar." ”

When he arrived at the bar, Zhou Runfa introduced those friends to Xu Ziming, Zhou Yanfa spent a lot of words to introduce Wan Ziliang, Wan Ziliang, Xu Ziming had some impressions, but Wu Mengda, when Zhou Runfa introduced him, there was some helplessness hidden in his eyes. From the eyes of the people around him, Xu Ziming can also feel how unlikable Wu Mengda is now. It's not that I heard from others, because I didn't repent of bad gambling and broke with Zhou Runfa, why am I still with Zhou Runfa.

In 1973, Wu Mengda applied for the third Hong Kong TVB artist training course, and his classmates included Zhou Yunfa, Lin Lingdong, etc., and his results have always been among the top five.

Wu Mengda, who became famous too early, soon lost himself in fame and fortune, drinking every day, playing cards, dating women, and having no heart to work, so he looked forward to finishing work early, including his younger brother Du Qifeng thought that he was a "mud that can't hold up the wall". In 1980, he owed 300,000 Hong Kong dollars in gambling debts and went bankrupt overnight.

Xu Ziming had seen these things in many newspapers and periodicals, but later Wu Mengda cultivated his mind, worked hard to study acting skills again, and finally paid off his debts. Not only did he reappear on the TV screen, but he also participated in his first movie "The Enforcer" in 81 years.

But in Xu Ziming's view, the current Wu Mengda is far less amiable, honest and kind than being with Xing Ye and making movies. Now Wu Mengda is riddled with gambling debts, and his relatives and friends can't hide from him, and his situation is so bad that he has nothing to say.

Just like this party, Wu Mengda would have been impossible to come, but Wu Mengda's house was close to Zhou Runfa's house, and when he went home, he overheard the news that Zhou Runfa invited his friends out to play, and when he heard Xu Ziming's name, he was very excited. In Wu Mengda's view, Xu Ziming can now be described as Hong Kong's sweetheart, and the Xu family's banquet is so grand, almost all the people in Hong Kong know that the recent newspapers and periodicals are still reporting on this matter. It is said that because of this popularity, the market value of the Xu family's Zhou Sheng Land has increased.

How could Wu Mengda give up this opportunity to turn over, he has also heard many people say that Xu Ziming does not have the frame of a rich son, and it is even more rare that this Xu Ziming likes the entertainment industry very much, Wu Mengda relied on his former friendship and his three-inch tongue to finally persuade Zhou Yanfa and agreed to bring himself over.

This bar is not the kind of high-end bar frequented by rich people, on the contrary, it is more because of the affordability, for Zhou Yunfa and his gang of people with a fixed salary in wireless, they are not as generous as Xu Ziming, Lan Kwai Fong does have many good bars, but this one is already good for them.