Chapter 42 Houston Film Festival
After the catharsis, Lu Qiu and Yang Gongru both came to their senses.
The two of them lay on the bed, and the room was silent, except for a small patch of fresh red on the sheets to indicate what had happened.
Lu Qiu was surprised, "It's your first time!"
Yang Gongru bit her lip tightly, and her brain went blank.
She really didn't resist the temptation to be persuaded by Boe, but in fact, she has always been very self-loving, saying that it is good to sell at a price, she never thought of losing her body like this!
Although Lu Qiu is young and handsome, she thinks that she is at most a rich second generation, or from the mainland, and her most precious thing is taken away like this, it is not worth it!
Yang Gongru wanted to cry aggrievedly and remained silent.
Lu Qiu scratched his head, this matter is troublesome, if Yang Gongru can't accept it, then he will be no different from those criminals.
After thinking about it, he sighed and said: "I'll give you two choices, if you want it, I'll give you a sum of money, of course the amount will satisfy you, but today's incident should have never happened, we never knew each other; ”
After Lu Qiu finished speaking, he felt that he was quite a scumbag, which seemed too insulting to the dignity of a woman.
However, some people can't escape the inertia of history, and Yang Gongru reacted when he heard this.
"And how much do you give me for a performance?"
"You can say as much as you want. ”
"Is 100 million okay?"
"No problem. ”
"How much money do I get a month if I'm fostered?"
"Whatever you spend, I have never been stingy with my own women. ”
"What you said is true?"
"Why don't I write you a check for 100 million, and you can verify it?"
"No, I'll pick the second one. ”
"Huh, you pick the second one!"
Well, after a similar bargaining process, Lu Qiu and Yang Gongru reached an agreement, an agreement to be adopted.
Originally, Lu Qiu still felt a little guilty in his heart, but it suddenly disappeared.
He remembered the famous saying of the prodigy Hui in his previous life, as long as he is willing to give 100 million, then there is no woman who can't do it, although this is a bit biased, but at least it is definitely applicable to Yang Gongru.
No, this Nizi has already entered the role and began to take the initiative to serve Lu Qiu.
The yacht returned to Hong Kong the next day and docked in Causeway Bay.
When Lu Qiu appeared in front of Liu Luanxiong and Luo Zhaohui with the radiant Yang Gongru in his arms, the two of them showed a knowing lewd smile, they all thought that Lu Qiu would express his gratitude, but Lu Qiu had a cold attitude and just left two checks.
One is the cost of buying No. 16 Repulse Bay Road, 160 million, to Liu Luanxiong, and the other is 10 million to Luo Zhaohui, as for why, Lu Qiu didn't say, and Liu Luo didn't ask.
Lu Qiu then took Yang Gong off the boat and left.
Liu Luanxiong put away the check, patted Luo Zhaohui and said, "Ah Hui, although I didn't let you take the line surnamed Lu, but I didn't work in vain, so be it." He also left.
Luo Zhaohui was left holding the 10 million check, standing on the deck of the yacht, standing silently for a while, and finally said viciously: "Send me 10 million, when I am a pimp!" He walked to the yacht control room and opened a well-concealed box, where there was a set of surveillance video equipment.
Luo Zhaohui withdrew the tape and said with a distorted expression: "The surname Lu and the surname Liu, I will definitely make you pay the price!"
On April 8, 1999, the Houston International Film Festival opened, but Lucho did not arrive in Houston until April 17, the day before the awards and closing.
The reason why it was delayed so late was also helpless, that is, the matter between Lu Qiu and Yang Gongru was discovered by Yuan Li's three daughters.
Of course, Lu Qiu didn't intend to hide this kind of thing, anyway, there were already three, there were more lice and no itching, and there were more debts, so he thought that the third girl should be able to accept Yang Gongru naturally.
But he was wrong, in Yang Gongru's matter, the three girls had a surprisingly consistent attitude, dissatisfied, very dissatisfied, very dissatisfied!
It's just that they express their dissatisfaction in different ways, Yuan Li is a fierce faction and quarrels with Lu Qiu directly; Xu Qing is a Cold War faction who protests silently, even in bed, she can't hold back and keep silent, which affects her feelings very much; and Cai Yinong, this strong woman directly found Yang Gongru and told her to make a price, as long as she is willing to leave Lu Qiu, it doesn't matter how much it is.
Well, Lu Qiu wants to say that this is clearly only allowed to fart by state officials, and not by the people, this is not fair!
And not only the three daughters were dissatisfied, Yang Gongru was also very unhappy when he knew that Lu Qiu already had three women, and he was very angry, Lu Qiu had to take a platinum card, a mid-level apartment, a million-dollar luxury car and other things to smash over, well, the effect was good, Xiao Nizi surrendered properly, which made Lu Qiu find the state of his previous life, at that time there was a woman he liked, as long as he was not a married woman, he also waved the check like this, smashing one accurately. So to be honest, Lu Qiu doesn't think that Yang Gongru is inappropriate to do this, the existence of this form of getting along is a way to adjust the huge gap between the rich and the poor, from this point of view, Yang Gongru has also made great contributions to alleviating social contradictions.
Well, these fallacies will only exacerbate the contradictions, and they are of no use, and we still have to solve them with concrete actions.
Lu Qiu is completely inexperienced in this situation, although he tried his best to mediate between the women, but Yuan Li still lost his temper, Xu Qing still didn't speak, Cai Yinong didn't accept it as usual, and even Yang Gongru expressed worry, not worried about money, but worried about Lu Qiu's body, there are four women, even if Lu Qiu is beaten with iron, she will be powerless, although she is fostered, she doesn't want to be widowed, she has to solve it by herself!
In this case, Lu Qiu broke out, and he only did one thing, which was to get the four women together, and finally said to the four women who begged for mercy: "Solve your problems by yourself, and then bother me, and clean it up!"
Putting aside the cruel words, Lu Qiu flew straight to Houston, as for whether the four girls can solve the problem, he doesn't care, anyway, they don't show their unhappiness in front of him.
After meeting Li Yang, who had arrived long ago in Houston, he was complained about by this guy.
"Brother, you are too irresponsible, and you told me that Houston is also an influential independent film festival, and you can discover potential independent films, I am good, I am fooled by you to watch films every day, looking for goals, but you are the shopkeeper, and you are happy enough to come, you must know that you are the boss, it is too unusual!"
After listening to it obediently, Lu Qiu smiled cheekily: "No way, Lao Li, there is a fire in the harem, you can't deal with it, by the way, have you found any good movies?"
"Yes, there is, but they have all been robbed, we don't have channels in North America, and people in China don't look down on them, so if you want me to say, it's pure waste. Li Yang was very frustrated, the strength of the hill is still too weak, and it has not yet become big in China, let alone expanded abroad.
Lu Qiu didn't care either, and said: "Okay Lao Li, this kind of thing has to be done slowly, for the time being, we can accumulate strength, by the way, what about Harvey's dead fat man, why didn't you see him?"
"Oh, I heard someone say bad things about me behind my back, but I'm a big man, forgive you. But it was Harvey Weinstein who came from not far away, and the dead fat man looked proud, and gave Lu Qiu a big hug, "Dear Lu, you see how broad-minded I am, I don't mind you scolding me." ”
Lu Qiu frowned, "That's because the Gate of Fate has made you money, and with your shamelessness, you must have collected a lot of films at the film festival." "The Gate of Destiny was operated by the Weinstein brothers, and it was released in the United States in the fourth quarter of 98, and the box office was not high, only four million dollars, but the word-of-mouth fermented quickly, especially in the hardcore sci-fi fan circle, and was named a classic masterpiece, so DVD sales made Weinstein make a lot of money, plus the European copyright also recovered some funds, Harvey's profit on the Gate of Destiny was nearly three times, so it is not surprising that he saw Lu Qiu as if he saw the Fortune Boy.
Harvey laughed: "Lu, you really know my Oriental friend best, come on, introduce you to someone, this is the big director Ang Li from Taiwan, you are both Chinese, you must have a common language." ”
There was also a Chinese man with an elegant temperament who came with Harvey, Lu Qiu felt familiar from the beginning, and as soon as Harvey introduced it, he immediately recognized it, "You are Director Ang Lee!" was slightly excited in his heart, this is one of his favorite directors.
Li An, who was not tall and felt a little introverted, smiled lightly: "Hello, Mr. Lu, I was invited by the organizer to present the award, not surprisingly, this year's Remy Award belongs to the door of fate." "It's reasonable to speculate, and there's the Weinstein brothers involved, who are the recognized Oscar promoters, and it's not uncommon for them to make a splash at the Houston Film Festival.
Li Yang was a little excited, he also recognized Ang Lee, at this time Ang Lee is already an internationally renowned director, reason and emotion, ice storm, and the devil rides together, although some box office is unsatisfactory, but in Hollywood, Ang Lee is definitely one of the best Chinese directors.
"Director Li, I am Li Yang, the director of the Gate of Destiny, and it is a pleasure to meet you. ”
"Director Li is also surnamed Li, it seems that we were one family five hundred years ago. Ang Lee joked.
Harvey said at this time: "Ang, you are in a foreign country, I won't hinder you from chatting, I will consider your new movie release, goodbye." The dead fat man left the three of them and walked away quickly.
Lu Qiu looked at his back, snorted coldly, and said to Li An: "Director Li, has that dead fat man taken a fancy to your new movie? Then you have to be careful, the brothers are very shameless." ”
Ang Lee smiled bitterly: "I also know, but this time it wasn't his movie that was eyeing me, it was me who took the initiative to find him, forget it, don't say it, I don't have to spoil everyone's mood." ”
Lu Qiu's heart moved, according to the time, Ang Lee should be filming the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon now, could it be that he encountered some difficulties, and his heart suddenly moved.