The premiere of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" in Ximending, Taipei, does not need to be mentioned, except for the ticket tickets being sold to a sky-high price of 2,500 Taiwan dollars by those scalpers, Li Xuan, the hot performance of the premiere in the evening, did not appear in person again. In Taiwan, Lin Qingxia's influence is much greater than that of everyone else in the crew.

As Li Xuan expected, after Lin Qingxia sang the two songs "Just Remember Today's Laughter" and "Laughing Hongchen", the scene was full of jubilation, and the audience shouted Lin Qingxia to sing again, almost turning the movie premiere into Lin Qingxia's solo concert.

Compared with the interest in martial arts movies, the enthusiasm of Taiwanese audiences is also higher than that of Hong Kong. Chu Yuan's series of martial arts films are not very popular in Hong Kong, but why is he still in Shaw Brothers to stabilize the Diaoyutai? is because basically all of his martial arts films can sell tens of millions of Taiwan dollars at the box office in Taiwan!

Literary films and martial arts films, Taiwanese at that time were good at this time.

Sure enough, as soon as the movie was over, reporters in the theater began to ask the main creator of the crew for an interview. But they were surprised to find that the main creators of the crew had long since disappeared, and only a theater manager was left in the theater to entertain them, the uncrowned kings.

Li Xuan was blocked by those reporters once in Hong Kong, and then he exhausted his strength to get rid of it, so this time the movie was not finished and he beckoned others to slip away. However, they did not return to the hotel to rest, but were invited out by Huang Zhuohan, the owner of First Pictures, to hold a welcome banquet.

When people talk about Yanjing roast duck nowadays, the first thing that comes to mind must be Quanjude, and there will never be a second answer. However, in Hong Kong and Taiwan in 1981, when people talked about Yanjing roast duck, although there were many answers that came to mind, there was one place that would definitely be mentioned, and that was the Tianchu Restaurant in Zhongshan District, Taipei City.

Heavenly Kitchen, the name of an ancient Chinese star official, belongs to Ziweiyuan among the three walls, which means "a kitchen for hundreds of officials". The Heavenly Kitchen is composed of six stars, so this Heavenly Kitchen is a six-storey antique loft building.

People eat the food of old Yanjing in the ancient buildings, which has to be said to be a kind of taste. And Huang Zhuohan entertained Li Xuan and his party in the Songzhu Pavilion on the second floor.

"Come on, Miss Lin, try this authentic Beiping roast duck and try it to see if it suits your appetite." Huang Zhuohan flicked the turntable as he spoke, and a plate of freshly roasted and cut Yanjing roast duck was served to Lin Qingxia's noodles.

The roast duck is roasted very well, the meat is thick and thin, the oil drops are crystal clear, and the master's knife work is also very good, the whole roast duck is cut into pieces of willow leaf strips after a few knives, which looks very beautiful.

Lin Qingxia couldn't postpone it, so she wrapped a piece of duck meat dipping sauce in the dough and took a bite, then nodded and responded: "It tastes really good!" ”

"Haha, I know that Miss Lin's ancestral home is from the north, so I deliberately chose this Yanjing restaurant." Huang Zhuohan laughed, looked at the others and said, "Everyone, please feel free!" Please—"

"Mr. Huang, you are so polite." Lin Qingxia replied with a little embarrassment.

"Hey, you're welcome." Huang Zhuohan sighed and said: "Miss Lin can be invited to attend the inaugural speech of the President of the United States this time, which is a great glory for the country!" ”

Hearing this, Lin Qingxia was slightly stunned, and then said with a chuckle: "Mr. Huang praised falsely, being able to attend the inaugural speech of the President of the United States this time is just the authorities' care for the little girl." ”

"Alas! You can't say that......" Huang Zhuohan waved his hand and smiled: "Look at so many people in Taiwan, who can be taken care of by the top casually?" Not to mention that Miss Chen Xiangmei personally proposed that Miss Lin attend. ”

Depend on!

Li Xuan kept wondering why Huang Zhuohan was so polite to Lin Qingxia tonight, and his performance was very average last time when he tried for a Hong Kong film.

Now as soon as the three words "Chen Xiangmei" came out, Li Xuan understood what he meant.

Chen Xiangmei was the niece of Liao Chengzhi, director of the mainland's Overseas Chinese Affairs Office in charge of Hong Kong and Macao affairs at this time, and her maternal grandfather was Liao Zhongkai's elder brother. And Liao Chengzhi also mentioned earlier that he is the general person in charge of the co-production of "Shaolin Temple" with Hong Kong and the mainland. In the first half of last year, Liao Chengzhi underwent heart bypass surgery in the United States, and Chen Xiangmei arranged food, clothing, housing and transportation.

However, although Liao Chengzhi is a high-ranking official on the mainland, his niece Chen Xiangmei is an authentic American Chinese.

Chen Xiangmei was a very active Chinese in American politics at this time, she married the American "Flying Tiger General" Chen Qude who came to China in 1947 to resist the war, and later the old Chiang was defeated and left Taiwan, and she also moved to Taiwan with her husband. Because Chen Qude made great contributions in the War of Resistance against Japan, there is still a bronze statue of Chen Qude in the center of Taipei. However, it is a pity that in 1958, Chen Qude unfortunately died of illness. After the death of her husband, Chen Xiangmei moved to Washington in 1960 and began the second half of her glorious life.

In 1963, Chen Xiangmei was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to work in the White House, becoming the first Chinese American to enter the White House. After Kennedy's assassination, she joined the Republican Party and played a major role in the 1967 Nixon presidential campaign. In 1968, Chen Xiangmei was appointed as a member of the Republican Executive Committee and vice chairman of finance. In 1970, Chen Xiangmei served as the vice president of Flying Tiger Airlines, becoming the first female vice president of American Airlines. He joined a major U.S. bank as the first Asian-American director. In 1972, she was named one of the 70 most influential people in the United States.

The most talked about events were Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1979, both of which she made great contributions.

In fact, as early as 1978, Chen Xiangmei began to pave the way for Reagan's presidential campaign and was one of Reagan's core advisers. And Chen Xiangmei also became the head of Reagan's Asian affairs because of her deep relationship between the mainland and Taiwan.

Just like Lin Qingxia's trip to the United States to attend Reagan's inaugural speech this time, it was Chen Xiangmei's proposal, and the purpose was naturally to appease Taiwan's political axe. However, she is courting Taiwan here, but she is not idle on the other side. As soon as Reagan took office, he immediately appointed Chen Xiangmei as a special envoy and went to Yanjing to carry out a series of friendly exchanges with Deng Gong.

This kind of person who can accompany Deng Lao to eat in the morning and drink tea with Lao Jiang in the afternoon is a character who eats on both sides of the strait, and there are few people in the world.

Lin Qingxia is now befriended with Chen Xiangmei, no wonder Huang Zhuohan has become a lot more polite, he is a person who begs for food in Taiwan, and he is naturally friendly to a figure like Chen Xiangmei who has huge political influence.

Wait, what did Li Xuan suddenly think of? But......

"Hearing Mr. Huang praise me so vigorously, I don't know whether to accept or be humble." Lin Qingxia chuckled a little embarrassedly.

Huang Zhuohan was slightly stunned, but immediately smiled: "Look, I was negligent." I'm sorry, I'm sorry, haha. Everyone eats roast duck, please please! ”

After such a joke, the atmosphere on the table was really much better, and Li Xuan also tasted the taste of this roast duck. How to say it, this duck is roasted okay, but it's a little greasy with too much oil.

"Alas......"

After three rounds of drinking, Huang Zhuohan put down the glass, sighed and said slowly: "Seeing the reactions of those live audiences at night, I feel that in two years, Taiwanese movies will become more and more difficult to mix." ”

"Haha, how can it be, haven't Taiwanese films also been thriving in recent years?" Li Xuan hurriedly replied with a smile. He also knows that Taiwanese films will die in a few years, and it will not be relieved until the 21st century, but he can't talk about it here now. In case someone in the private room said that he showed his mouth, he, Li Xuanke, would be dead.

"Hey, I don't know if Mr. Li is a theater player." Huang Zhuohan waved his hand and said a little drunk: "On top of this, the control of local films is stricter than that of imported films, and the taxes are even higher, so local filmmakers like us have to go to Hong Kong to open a company to make movies and then sell them back." I don't know what will happen to it in the future......"

"Haha......" Li Xuan quickly interrupted Huang Zhuohan's words with a dry laugh, and then continued: "Mr. Huang, you are drunk. ”

Huang Zhuohan glanced at Li Xuan, shook his head and said slowly: "Drunk? I really wish I was drunk. ”

"Hehe-" Li Xuan smiled awkwardly, stood up and said, "Everyone continue, I'll go to the bathroom without accompaniment." ”

As soon as the words fell, Li Xuan pulled out his chair and turned around and walked out.

"Whew-"

Li Xuan, who came out of the private room, breathed a sigh of relief, this old man Huang was drunk and began to talk nonsense, Li Xuan was really afraid that he would say something "rebellious", so he should come out and hide first.

Li Xuan thought as he walked to the bathroom.