As the days passed, it was soon late September, but summer in Hong Kong still seemed to be gone, and the hot climate and rainy weather still enveloped the whole island.

I don't know if there are a lot of new factories opened in the New Territories in recent years, and the summer has become longer and hotter in the past two days, and some old people pushing carts and selling popsicles can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys.

There are two flavors of popsicles, one is sugar water and the other is milk, and the price is very cheap, one is five cents, one is a piece, which is the lowest consumption for Hong Kong, where prices are rising today.

Huo Yaowen, who was driving the car, suddenly noticed a small stall at the intersection with the word "popsicle" written on it, and couldn't help but say to Wen Yingguang, who was sitting in the co-pilot: "Do you want a popsicle?"

"Popsicles?"

Wen Yingguang was stunned for a few seconds, then saw the stall at the intersection, and responded with a smile: "Okay, I haven't eaten this popsicle for a long time." ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen stopped the car, got out of the car and walked to the old lady selling popsicles and said, "Grandma, bring me two sugar water popsicles." ”

Grandma looked at the luxury car behind the young man, lifted the cotton quilt covering the freezer, took out two popsicles from it and handed them over.

"Give you the offspring. ”

"More money?"

"One piece. ”

Huo Yaowen looked in his wallet, and there were no one-yuan coins or small banknotes, so he took out a hundred-dollar note.

Grandma took the money and began to look for it in the small money drawer under the stall.

It seems that there are only more than 80 people in the east and west, and most of them are coins.

Seeing this, Huo Yaowen picked up two popsicles, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you don't need to find grandma." ”

"Then what's the matter, you wait a while, I'll go to the store opposite to help you change." With that, Grandma prepared to walk to the opposite door.

Huo Yaowen looked at her so persistently and said with a smile: "Forget Grandma, I still have something to do, so you don't have to bother." ”

Without waiting for Grandma to reply, he opened the car door, got in the car and left.

When the car was far away, the grandmother returned to the side of the stall car, and said to herself with a smile: "It's still Lao Zhang's method, these rich postnates who drive are really generous." ”

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"I used to eat sugar water popsicles when I was in Taiwan, and they tasted about the same, but at that time they were still a dime a piece. ”

Wen Yingguang nibbled on a popsicle as he began to reminisce about his childhood experience.

"Then you're so happy, I didn't even want to eat when I was a child. When Huo Yaowen was waiting for the traffic light, he finished taking the last bite of the popsicle.

"Not really. ”

Wen Yingguang was a little stunned, he knew a little bit about the boss before he made a fortune, it didn't seem to be so difficult that he didn't even eat a popsicle.

Huo Yaowen glanced at him, saw the green light in front of him, and also stepped on the accelerator, and laughed as he opened: "Haha, teasing you." ”

"The owner really loves to joke. Wen Yingguang smiled, how did he know that Huo Yaowen was talking about the previous life, he was born in the countryside in the 80s, and he really didn't have much money to eat popsicles when he was a child.

Soon, the two arrived at the Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon.

Huo Yaowen came over today to talk to a director from the United States about filming "Antarctic Love".

Originally, this matter was planned to be carried out again in October, but Huo Yaowen was about to go north to the mainland, and he didn't want to delay it until November, so he asked the people from the American branch to ask the director to fly to Hong Kong.

Ou Yangming, who was in charge of receiving the American director, saw the boss walk in from the door, and quickly got up and said, "Boss." ”

"Hmm" Huo Yaowen nodded in response, and then looked at the Canadian director Arthur Shearer, who got up at this time.

"This is Mr. Arthur Shearer. Ou Yangming saw that the boss paid attention to the director, and introduced the two parties: "Mr. Arthur Shearer, this is Mr. Evan Huo, the general manager of our Universal Film Company. ”

Arthur Shearer had obviously heard Huo Yaowen's name, and stretched out his hand with a smile and said, "Hello Mr. Evan." ”

Huo Yaowen politely shook his hand and said, "It's okay for you, Mr. Shearer, this time I trouble you to go to Hong Kong in person." ”

Arthur Shearer smiled: "It's okay, I just want to see the filming location of "Jurassic Park", so I'm still very happy to hear that I came to Hong Kong, after all, it's a public-funded tour, why not?"

Hearing Shearer's words, Huo Yaowen smiled, and then after the two greeted each other, they sat down and prepared to talk about the filming plan of "Antarctic Love".

Huo Yaowen still attaches great importance to Huanyu's first independently produced film in the United States, and it is still a film with Chinese protagonists, so he deliberately screened a group of directors before finally deciding on Arthur Shearer in front of him.

Many people may not know this director named Arthur Shearer, but in fact he is quite well-known abroad, and in 1970 he made a film called "Love Story", which was nominated for six Academy awards, including Best Picture.

In the following decades, he also made a lot of romance films, and made several comedy and action movies with Jack Cheng, and also filmed an autobiographical film called "The Legend of Jack Cheng" for Jack Cheng in 1998.

This autobiographical film has a lot of tidbits of Jack Cheng's filming, and all kinds of jaw-dropping "death" behaviors, interested friends can go to Station B to take a look.

Huo Yaowen attaches great importance to this "Antarctic Love", in addition to being the first independently produced film by the American branch, it is more about opening up the global market in the United States, and no longer relying on the distribution channels of Twentieth Century Fox as before.

It is impossible to have a film company and a theater chain at the same time in the United States, so Huo Yaowen will put aside Fox, one of the eight major film companies, and not worry that he will get stuck in his film in theaters.

Because it is the first film and a tentative opening of the American market, the investment in "Antarctic Love" will not be too large, after all, it is a love movie, not the big ship, and at most five million US dollars is enough.

This is still the director of Arthur Shearer, the Oscar nominee for Best Picture, otherwise the normal investment in such a small film in Hollywood is up to three million dollars.

I don't know how long it has been.

Huo Yaowen talked with Arthur Shearer very smoothly, he had an in-depth communication with the director about some ideas about this film as a screenwriter, and then after determining the shooting plan, he got up with a smile and shook hands with the other party, wishing the cooperation a happy one.

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Time flickered, and it was soon time to discuss the day with President Liang to go north.

During this period, Fok Yiu-man took care of all the matters at hand, including Hutchison Whampoa's investment in real estate projects in Kowloon, the construction of dinosaur theme parks, and the overseas investment of Huanyu Group's newspaper industry.

At this time, Anna had also obtained a U.S. passport, but it would take some time for the share transfer and company transfer to take place, so Huo Yaowen asked Davide to deal with it as soon as possible.

On September 27, he himself followed President Liang and took a boat with the merchant group to Guangzhou, where he planned to take a plane directly north.

A passenger ship crossing the sea.

"Mr. Huo. ”

Huo Yaowen, who was looking at the seascape from the bow of the boat, heard someone shouting behind him, turned around to look, and saw that the person who came turned out to be Xiao Lizi.

"Is there anything wrong Mr. Li?" Huo Yaowen attended a drinking party held by Huo Guantai last year, and met Xiao Lizi, so he barely knew each other.

"Hehe......"

Xiao Li laughed twice and said, "I heard that Mr. Huo's Hutchison Whampoa has invested in a real estate project in Kowloon. ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen felt a little strange in his heart, according to the original history, Hutchison Whampoa should have belonged to him, but now it has become his own, and he doesn't know what Xiao Lizi can rely on to continue to make a fortune.

"It's okay, no matter how much it compares to the project you invested in before, Mr. Li. ”

Huo Yaowen said that two years ago, Li Jiacheng proposed the "shared area" of the real estate project, he relied on this project, only spent 40 million Hong Kong dollars to earn hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, not only made the stock price of Cheung Kong Industrial Company soar, but also quickly led to the development of the real estate industry on Hong Kong Island, thereby reducing the investment cost of developers and increasing the cost of buyers.

"Where is it, when it comes to real estate development, what I recognize the most so far is Mr. Fok's garden project in Aberdeen, which can be said to be the first in Hong Kong. ”

Hearing Li Jiacheng continue to compliment himself, Huo Yaowen laughed dryly twice, and said a few perfunctory words "It's okay", "It's okay", "It's okay", "It's not comparable to you".

After a while, Li Jiacheng didn't move, so he directly explained his intention: "Mr. Huo, I know that Hutchison Whampoa has been demolishing the Whampoa Dock in Kowloon for the past six months, I wonder if Mr. Huo has thought about developing that piece of land?"

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