Chapter Twenty-Three: Another Busy Year
"No Love" is a literary film, the filming process was very smooth, Yue Feng took more than a month to complete the filming on January 15, 1952.
At the celebration party, Li Hualong gave out a lot of red envelopes.
Although Li Hualong doesn't know how much money the movie "No Love" makes, and even he doesn't know if he can make money, he feels that in the past year, several movies invested by the company have sold well at the box office, and the company has made a lot of money.
After the completion of "No Love", Li Hualong did not stay idle, and was busy until the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, when he rested.
After the New Year, Li Hualong didn't rest for a few days, and he began to go to work in the company.
On January 31, Huayi Brothers Film Group held an actor recruitment, and Li Hualong presided over the event.
For the past two weeks, Huayi Brothers has placed advertisements in Ming Pao every day to announce the recruitment of actors.
This morning, after Li Hualong and Yang Meng woke up, they lay on the bed and chatted for a while.
"You're sure to meet a lot of pretty girls today." Yang Meng said in a flat tone.
Li Hualong was stunned when he heard this, and Cancan laughed: "Are you jealous?" ”
Yang Meng pursed his mouth and said duplicitously: "I'm not jealous." ”
"Let's go!" Li Hualong kissed Yang Meng's lips and said with a smile, "You have to be confident, in my heart, you are the most beautiful." Hehe, I suddenly thought of a few lyrics. ”
Yang Meng smiled: "Sing and listen." ”
"You are the most beautiful in my eyes, every smile intoxicates me, your bad and your good, your mouth turned up when you lose your temper, you are the most beautiful in my heart, only those who love each other can understand it best, you know me clearly, this wonderful taste...... Hehe, how's that, that's good, right? ”
"Sounds good!" Yang Meng nodded with a smile, and after a while, he said angrily, "Where am I broken?" ”
"You're good everywhere, and the lyrics say you're bad, which highlights your goodness, like the word 'hurry and hurry'."
"Hurry, hurry, this is a copycat, I know."
"That's smart!"
"I'm not as smart as you......" Yang Meng stared at Li Hualong a few times with a happy face, "Xianggong, I feel so happy!" ”
"Smack!" Li Hualong patted Yang Meng's buttocks and quipped: "Don't be spring, it's time to get up!" ”
"You're just spring!" Yang Mengjiao said angrily.
As Yang Meng said, when Li Hualong interviewed actors, he really saw a few beauties, and on this day, he signed more than a dozen actors, and one of them was a little girl named Xi Chongyi, who made him remember the most.
Xi Chongyi, originally from Pudong, the magic capital, is a descendant of the Wang clan. My grandfather founded the "Xi Fu Ji Construction Factory", which has the temperament of everyone and the reputation of "classical beauty". His maternal grandfather was Gu Zhuxuan, a "Jiangbei tycoon", who ran the "Tianchan Stage".
Xi Chongyi has been influenced by the four masters of Peking Opera since he was a child and has received basic training in Peking Opera.
Soon after Xi Chongyi joined Huayi Brothers, she gave herself a stage name - Letty.
After Li Hualong heard the stage name "Letty", he immediately thought that this person was the big star who was called "the most beautiful Lin Daiyu" and "the ancestor of a Chinese ghost story" by netizens in later generations.
Thinking that Letty would be famous for playing Lin Daiyu and Xiaoqian in A Chinese Ghost Story, Li Hualong thought that in the future, he would have the opportunity to tinker with the script of "A Chinese Ghost Story", as well as make a movie of "Dream of Red Mansions", and let Letty play the heroine.
Xi Chongyi was born in August 1937, and she was less than 15 years old when she joined Huayi Brothers.
Li Hualong doesn't want to do anything to help the seedlings, he plans to let Xi Chongyi play a supporting role in a few movies first, and when his acting skills improve and he is older, it is not too late to play the heroine in "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Dream of Red Mansions".
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On February 2, the seventh day of the first lunar month, Li Hualong did not go out to work, but stayed at home and chatted with his family.
That afternoon, Li Huawen boarded a ship bound for Bangkok, Thailand, with his parents and Li Huahu, and went to the pier to see off Li Huawen and his party.
Looking at the steamer leaving the dock, Li Huahu muttered: "If I have the opportunity in the future, I will also go to Bangkok for a few days." ”
"There will definitely be a chance in the future!" Li Hualong smiled, "Let's go, don't look at it anymore." Abba, Grandma, I want to go to the newspaper, you go back first. ”
Li Huahu looked at the watch on his wrist and said, "Third brother, it's half past three in the afternoon, and you still go to the newspaper office?" ”
"Let's see, I haven't been to the newspaper office in a few days."
Li Huahu smiled and asked, "Can you take me with you?" ”
Li Song said: "Xiaohu, your third brother is going to work, so don't join in the fun." ”
Li Hualong smiled and said, "Grandma, it's okay, he wants to go, just let him go." ”
Li Yisong asked, "Are you going home for dinner?" ”
Li Hualong said: "I don't know yet. If I don't come home for dinner, I'll call home before half past five in the afternoon and say yes. ”
"Okay then, I'll go back with your grandma." Li Yisong reached out to take his wife's hand and walked to the parking place.
Li Hualong and Li Huahu watched their parents leave in the car before they got into the car.
"Third brother, what do you say I will do after graduation?" Li Huahu asked.
"Haha!" Li Hualong laughed, "What kind of work will you do in the future, how can you ask me about this." What do you want to do yourself? ”
"I don't know." Li Huahu smiled brightly, "When I applied for the accounting major of the University of Hong Kong, you built it. ”
"If you say so, when you graduate, you can join my company as an accountant, and you can also join Abba's Evergrande Company."
"Third brother, for so many years, there has been no news of the second brother, and there is no news, do you think something will happen to him?" Li Huahu asked in a low voice.
"The second brother Ji people have their own natural appearance, and there will definitely be no problems." Li Hualong said in a deep voice.
"If you don't ask the CCP government, whether you are dead or alive, you must always find out a piece of news." Li Huahu said.
"Don't worry about that." Li Hualong sighed lightly and changed the subject, "Why do you want to go to the newspaper office?" ”
"I read the newspaper almost every day, but I don't know how it is printed, so I'm interested in it."
"Interested in running a newspaper?" Li Hualong asked with a smile.
"Not interested!" Li Huahu shook his head without hesitation, smiled brightly, and said, "I may learn from you in the future and create a company by myself, hehe, one company is a bit less, and create several large companies." ”
"This is very good, you should have great ambitions to be a man."
"Third brother, what kind of business do you say is the most profitable now?"
"How can you say this...... Li Hualong smiled, "No matter what you do, if you do it well, if you do it well, you will definitely make money." ”
"Think about it, let's just say that the real estate company, you have come up with the method of stratifying and sub-unit, as well as selling off-plan, in less than three years, the company's assets have increased dozens of times. Hehe, third brother, I admire you so much. ”
"Don't be too shallow in your vision, don't just stare at your third brother, there are many business wizards in history that are worth learning from."
"Third brother, how much money do you say He Dong has now?"
He Dong, who is 90 years old, is recognized as the richest man in Hong Kong, and how much assets He Dong owns is a topic that many Hong Kong people talk about.
"I don't know. How can you be interested in how much money someone else has? ”
"I think with the third brother's ability, he will definitely be richer than He Dong in the future, and he will definitely be able to become the richest man in Hong Kong." Li Huahu said with a smile.
"Huh!" Li Hualong smiled, although he knew that in the near future, he would become the richest man in Hong Kong, and even the richest man in the world in the future, but he still said modestly, "You are too exalted to me." ”
"I didn't lift you up at all, I really thought."
"No matter what you think, you can talk about it in front of me, but you can't tell others, otherwise others will laugh at you when they hear it."
"I just talk to you, I don't tell others."
In the middle of small talk, the driver drove to the downstairs of the newspaper office.
After entering the newspaper office, Li Hualong asked a female secretary of the newspaper office to take Li Huahu around, and he himself went into the office to work.