This afternoon tea is very strange!

Jin Yong drove the car and did not take Li Xuan to the nearby teahouse, nor to the Oriental Mandarin Hotel, but took Li Xuan through the undersea tunnel, and traveled thousands of miles from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon.

In the end, the car stopped in front of a palatial hotel, and Li Xuan looked at the hotel in front of him curiously.

Isn't it just for afternoon tea, Jin Yong doesn't need to take him to The Peninsula Hotel, right?

"Mr. Cha, there's no need to be so troublesome to have afternoon tea, right?" Li Xuan asked curiously as he followed Jin Yong towards the hotel.

"Hehe, I made an appointment ......" Jin Yong just explained simply.

Got a date? Li Xuan muttered curiously, shook his head and followed Jin Yong to the hotel.

Jin Yong seemed to be familiar with this place, and took Li Xuan straight to the innermost window position.

There was already an old man sitting there.

Li Xuan's eyes shrank, that old man turned out to be Shao Yifu, the big boss of the Shaw Brothers, but Jin Yong asked him out?

"Sixth brother, I'm sorry, I've kept you waiting......" Not far away, Jin Yong greeted Shao Yifu.

"Haha, Liangyong, here, I've just arrived." Shao Yifu replied heartily, but his gaze slowly moved to Li Xuan behind Jin Yong.

"Hello sixth uncle, Li Xuan is rude." Li Xuan greeted Shao Yifu in Mandarin first.

This is the first time Li Xuan has seen Shao Yifu in reality, the first feeling this old man gives him is that he is tall and thin, and he doesn't have a lot of hair, and in those eyes that are always slightly squinted, there seem to be a lot of secrets hidden, but people don't see it.

But what made Li Xuan feel most interesting was that the two people in front of him, who had a huge influence in Hong Kong, used to talk in Mandarin with a Shanghai accent.

Shao Yifu doesn't know Cantonese, and Jin Yong has also lived in Shanghai for a long time, so the two of them can be regarded as half fellow countrymen.

"Li Xuan, it's very good!" Shao Yifu looked at Li Xuan and nodded, stretched out his hand and gestured and continued, "Please sit ......"

"Thank you!" Li Xuan nodded and sat down with Jin Yong.

The waiter in the dining room walked over......

"A cup of black tea, thank you." Li Xuan took the menu and gently explained to the waiter.

"Me too." Jin Yong didn't take the menu, and just repeated it briefly, and when he saw the waiter leaving, he turned back to Shao Yifu and asked, "Sixth brother, has the north looked for you recently?" ”

"...... in the north" Shao Yifu put down the teacup in his hand and glanced at Li Xuan silently.

North? Li Xuan was surprised for a while, this is not a simple geographical concept, the mainland has begun to secretly contact these Hong Kong upper-class people, so won't the Sino-British negotiations be fast?

"Haha, sixth brother, don't worry, Xuan Zai won't talk nonsense." Jin Yong looked at Shao Yifu, who was still a little hesitant, patted Li Xuan's shoulder and said.

"Don't worry, Uncle Six, you talk about yours, just when I don't exist." Li Xuan also said with a smile. He really doesn't care about this, anyway, the overall situation has been decided early, and I am afraid that no one in the whole of Hong Kong knows better than him.

"Haha, this person is older, and he has more worries." Shao Yifu shook his head and continued to smile: "You've found me, and I'm still planning to ......"

Shao Yifu pondered for a moment and continued: "I plan to secretly go north after a while, but, Liangyong, did they also look for you?" ”

"Hmm......" Jin Yong also nodded, and said cautiously: "I'm still hesitating now, what should I do." ”

"Haha, this person is old, and he really wants to go back to his hometown to have a look." Shao Yifu silently turned his head out the window, but unfortunately outside was the newly built white space museum, and there was no wave of Victoria Bay, which made Shao Yifu sigh invisibly.

"Go back to your hometown......" Jin Yong also sighed in frustration, and said silently: "Then I guess I have to think about it." ”

"Alright, let's not talk about that." Shao Yifu looked back at Li Xuan and said quietly: "By the way, Xuan Zai, I heard Liangyong say that you want to shoot "Smiling Proud Jianghu". ”

"......Uh, sixth uncle, don't make fun of me, I'm so late for your Shaw Brothers!" Li Xuan shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Haha, indeed, we are still preparing to make a lot of good movies this year." Shao Yifu smiled quite happily: "You don't have to think about the rest." ”

"Sixth uncle, you don't have to worry about this. I didn't want to shoot anything else, except for "Smiling Proud Jianghu". ”

"Oh?" Shao Yifu was surprised, looked at Li Xuan and said, "You like "Smiling Proud Jianghu" so much? ”

"Hmm." Li Xuan nodded in response; "This novel is the most chivalrous of Mr. Cha's dozen novels, and it is also the one I like the most."

"Chivalry?" Shao Yifu groaned slightly, suddenly looked at Li Xuan and said, "Xuan Zai, have you ever thought of co-producing "Smiling Proud Jianghu" with Shaw Brothers?" ”

“……”

Li Xuan looked at Shao Yifu in surprise, he didn't expect this old man to say such a thing. Doing so is a direct violation of the Shaw Brothers' big-studio system.

"Uncle Sixth is doing this, aren't you afraid that those directors of the Shaw Brothers will have opinions?" Li Xuan asked suspiciously while rubbing his fingers against the teacup.

"Hey......"

Shao Yifu suddenly sighed, and said slowly: "It's just a good fit, what can I say, I am a businessman, and being profitable is my first goal." And ......"

Shao Yifu paused for a moment and said slowly: "Moreover, I also want them to learn how to make films outside." ”

"Haha, Uncle Sixth said that he laughed, I made a movie, it's nothing more than smashing it with money."

Li Xuan's sentence directly refers to "money", which is one of the root causes of the backwardness of the big studio system. Now other movies have begun to spend a lot of money to shoot on live location, only Shaw Brothers is still setting up scenes in the studio. Which is better or worse, just look at the box office.

"Throwing money can make results, that's ability. It's not like me......" Shao Yifu smiled bitterly and said slowly: "Smashed into a pathetic resentment." ”

There are not many movies that Shaw Brothers is willing to invest in, and Shaw Yifu is particularly famous for slamming the door.

Once a Shaw Brothers film crew was filming outside, and the venue manager wanted to apply for 100 Hong Kong dollars to buy steamed buns for breakfast for the entire crew, but Shao Yifu thought that the price was more expensive than the steamed buns sold on the Shaw Brothers studio, so he refused directly. Then there was a collective strike by the crew that morning, which caused Shaw Brothers to lose more than 100,000 at once. Later, this incident spread out, and it became a joke on the streets and alleys of Hong Kong for a while.

Now that Shao Yifu said that he had done a lot of resentment, Li Xuan's first thought was the big bad movie "Seven Golden Corpses", and Shaw Brothers was completely losing money and making infamy at that time.

In fact, Li Xuan is in a dilemma with Shao Yifu's suggestion to co-produce "Smiling Proud Jianghu". He really wanted to make this movie, and when the time comes, Shaw Brothers' resources will definitely be available at any time, so it will be much easier to shoot than to integrate it step by step. But the bad thing is that he has a very good relationship with Golden Harvest now, and once he is in tune with Shaw Brothers, he will definitely offend Golden Harvest to a certain extent. Although it won't turn around all at once, it will be much more indifferent.

However, Li Xuan suddenly thought of the new art city that was about to be established, and maybe at that time, these problems would no longer be a problem.

"Sixth uncle, I can promise to co-production, but ......" Li Xuan said quite solemnly: "The hero and heroine must be determined by me." ”

Hearing Li Xuan's words, Shao Yifu frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Listen to Xuan Zai, what do you mean, do you want to find someone in the Shao Clan?" But as I recall, you don't have an actor in this area in your company. ”

"I didn't think about finding the protagonist in Shaw Brothers, because I don't think there is a temperament in the Shaw Brothers that matches my vision, and of course my company doesn't have it, so I ......" Li Xuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "So I'm going to look for it outside." ”

"And who do you like?" Shao Yifu frowned and continued to ask.

"I have candidates, but it's a bit difficult to ask them to act."

"Difficult?"

Shao Yifu was quite surprised by Li Xuan's words, now in the Hong Kong film and television industry, Shao Yifu does not dare to say that he covers the sky with one hand, but he is also a figure who is in charge of most of the country, will it be difficult to ask two actors to act?

Unless...... (To be continued.) )