Chapter 35: War
Before eight o'clock in the morning, Li Xuan hurriedly got up. After a brief wash, he went to the radio road bus stop to wait for the bus. Today is February 17th, and it is also the day when Chenglong's movie "Laughing Fist Strange Moves" was released. Today is Saturday, and with the influence that Chenglong has saved last year, it is estimated that there will be many people watching the morning show of the cinema. Li Xuan also had to go early, otherwise it would be over if he didn't buy a ticket.
"Old Qitou, give me a morning report." Li Xuan casually threw two coins on the newsstand.
"Nope!" The old man who was sorting out the magazine replied without raising his head.
"Huh?"
Li Xuan was stunned for a moment and looked at the newsstand. Sure enough, there was not a single newspaper.
Weird? Li Xuan touched the back of his head. It's only eight o'clock, and it's understandable to say that there aren't any newspapers, but what's the matter that none of these newspapers are there?
"Old Qitou, what's going on? Have you changed careers? Li Xuan asked in surprise.
"You've just changed careers!" Old Qi stood up and glared at Li Xuan.
"Then why don't you sell newspapers?"
Now Lao Qitou was even more angry, blowing his beard and glaring: "Who said that it won't be sold, I haven't sent ...... today, uh, it's here!" Lao Qitou suddenly looked behind Li Xuan and shouted, "Jian Zai, why did you send it so late today?" ”
Li Xuan looked back and saw a newspaper delivery man riding a bicycle towards them not far away.
"It's not too late, it's not too late, all the newspapers in Hong Kong have been reprinted today!" The newspaper delivery man said breathlessly.
"What's going on?" This is what Li Xuan asked.
"Uhhh
With a sudden brake, the bicycle stopped steadily beside Li Xuan.
"Big news! The mainland and Yuelan are fighting! The delivery man shouted as he got out of the car.
"What!" Li Xuan was taken aback, and exclaimed in surprise. Then I heard the other people waiting for the bus at the bus stop also screaming, even Lao Qitou was no exception, and the pile of magazines in his hand fell to the ground.
Looking at the crowd around him who were almost stunned, the newspaper delivery man felt great satisfaction, thinking that he was not stunned when he heard the news early in the morning. But life is still important, and the newspaper delivery man casually pulled out a large bundle of newspapers and threw it on the newsstand.
Li Xuan stood close, his eyes were quick, and he quickly picked up a newspaper and read it. Before half a minute had passed, the thick stack of newspapers had been carved up.
The first edition was a larger-and-darker title: "The Sino-Vietnamese War Breaks Out." Then there is a short piece of news content: "At half past four in the morning on February 17, 1979, the Continental Army assembled on the Sino-Vietnamese border launched an attack on Viet Lan from the two directions of GX and YN with 200,000 troops. ”
In this sentence, he explained what happened next door to Hong Kong people when they were still sleeping; This sentence alone caused hundreds of thousands of newspapers in Hong Kong to be reprinted.
Getting on the bus, Li Xuan picked up the newspaper and looked at the headlines on it and began to retrieve his memories. The war was long over when I was born, and I learned a little bit about it from books and the Internet. This war didn't seem to last long, it seemed to be over in a few months, and then, and then Li Xuan didn't know, he was not a military fan.
However, the war still has a great impact on one aspect of Hong Kong. Li Xuan touched his chin, he still remembered that he had read a Hong Kong entertainment article in his later life, and there was a chapter about the bad relations between China and Vietnam, which led to the fact that Chinese films were not released in Yuelan for more than ten years, which caused a lot of loss at the overseas box office of Hong Kong films.
But these have nothing to do with the current Li Xuan, and his movies have not been released in Hong Kong yet. On Valentine's Day on the 14th the day before yesterday, he was mixing oil with Zhong Chuhong. Sanlian's editor Hu called him and said that "Kunlun" had been published, and told him to have time to get the money, where did he get the time that day. As a result, he didn't go over until yesterday to get the money, 320,000 Hong Kong dollars, Li Xuan hasn't taken so much money yet. It's a pity that the money didn't stay in Li Xuan's pocket for an hour, and it disappeared into Jiahe's financial room.
Flipping to the second page of the newspaper, Li Xuan's eyes narrowed.
The effects of this war came faster than Li Xuan imagined, and the buses, roads, restaurants, and even movie theaters were full of people discussing. Standing under the huge promotional poster of "Laughing Fist Tricks", Li Xuan looked at the scene of more than a dozen people queuing up to buy tickets in front of him and was surprised for a while, and even felt incredible for the scene just now, two people in line discussed this war and didn't have the heart to watch the movie and left.
Suddenly, Li Xuan's eyes lit up, and Zhong Chuhong was standing at the gate of the movie theater and looking around. A white Mickey jacket, a pair of khaki slacks, and the soft appearance of a long hair shawl made Li Xuan's teeth itch, and he really wanted to go up and take a bite.
"Here!" Li Xuan hurriedly waved his hand.
"Why are there so few people watching movies today?" Zhong Chuhong took the bag of popcorn handed over by Li Xuan and asked.
Li Xuan glanced at the crowd in line: "It's not a war yet." ”
"It's also ......," Zhong Chuhong frowned and said, "I don't know how long I have to fight this time." ”
"Don't worry, it's only a few months at most."
Zhong Chu glanced at Li Xuan: "You talk like a military strategist, you are talking nonsense!" ”
"I ......"
Li Xuan has nothing to say, could it be that he saw it from the Internet.
"Let's go inside, the movie is about to start!" Li Xuan didn't bother to talk about this topic anymore, so he pulled Zhong Chuhong and walked towards the movie theater.
At this time, the movie has not yet started, and the movie theater is bustling. Li Xuan looked around and found that there was only sixty percent of the attendance, but there should be people coming in later. You must know that since Chenglong became popular last year, the attendance rate of his movie premieres has been more than ninety percent.
"I don't know why you have to watch this film." Li Xuan muttered to Zhong Chuhong that he was ready to doze off.
"It's beautiful! Don't you think? Zhong Chuhong said with a look of course.
"Good-looking?" Li Xuan rolled his eyes: "Although I haven't seen it, I can guess what this movie is about." ”
At this time, Zhong Chuhong was curious, and hurriedly asked, "Then guess!" ”
"Is there a reward?" Li Xuantian said with a grim face.
"You say it first, and then you say it right!"
"That's not going to work, I said what if you don't give a reward?"
"Well, there's a reward, you say."
"Ahem." Li Xuan was defeated by Zhong Chuhong's snort, coughed and said: "Look at Chenglong's recent movies, which one is not the protagonist's master or relatives who were bullied, and then the protagonist got an adventure or practiced family martial arts, and then went to defeat the enemy." I guess this one is no exception! ”
"Forehead......" Zhong Chuhong's eyes widened: "It's really e." ”
"Just wait and see, that's definitely the case." Li Xuan stuffed a mouthful of popcorn and said. He knows that this type of film fell behind within a few years of popularity, and then Chenglong sought transformation and made "Plan A" and "Police Story", that is to say, this type of story is estimated to be alive in a few years.
However, fifteen minutes into the movie, Li Xuan realized that he was wrong. Although Li Xuan disliked the main plot of the story and the fight scenes of six or seven minutes at every turn, it is undeniable that the shots and action design of this movie are very good. At least in the eyes of Li Xuan, a half-baked director, he can't do this.
What a big mistake! Li Xuan sighed, he had always underestimated this era.
The movie ended again in a fight that lasted for more than 20 minutes, and Li Xuan realized that he had only eaten half of the popcorn in his hand.
"Haha, at first you said you didn't like this movie, duplicity!" Zhong Chuhong, who was walking in front, smiled at Li Xuan.
"I didn't say I liked this movie!" Li Xuan smiled and said, "What I like is the director of this movie. ”
"Uh, you're disgusting!" Zhong Chuhong glared at Li Xuan.
Directly ignoring the beauty's eyes, Li Xuan took out a page of newspaper from his trouser pocket and said, "Why didn't you participate in Miss Hong Kong?" ”
"How do you know?"
Li Xuan raised the newspaper in his hand: "I don't believe that you can't even be shortlisted, but I haven't found your name after looking for a long time on it today." ”
Zhong Chuhong grabbed the newspaper and took a look, but it was a report on the shortlist of Miss Hong Kong. casually threw the trash can on the side of the road, Zhong Xiaoniujiao said with a smile: "What if I don't want to participate, hum!" ”
"Okay, you don't want to participate, but ......" Li Xuan suddenly looked at Zhong Chuhong with a squint: "My deputy general manager, when will the reward you just said be given?" ”
"Give it right away!"
"Really?"
"Really! Hurry up, I'm hungry. The reward is for you to treat me to lunch! ”
(Note: These times are quite interesting, and two days later, on February 19, Teresa Teng's fake passport incident.) )
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