In front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, Lin Xi watched Luo Wei stop a taxi at the door of the hotel and leave, and then turned his head.

"He's not going to be the last person to be interested in you, and there will definitely be more people coming to you with the same purpose."

Li Lianjie was stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head firmly: "Mr. Lin, you can rest assured, since I have promised you, I will not consider other people, and I must be trustworthy, this is my most basic principle." ”

Lin Xi picked up the coffee in his hand and walked to Li Lianjie's side and patted him on the shoulder.

"I mean, if someone can offer more favorable terms than me during this period, in fact, you can also consider it, I won't stop it!"

Li Lianjie turned around and looked at Lin Xi, who walked past him, put the coffee cup aside and was about to leave.

"Mr. Lin, can I know why you did this?"

Lin Xi turned his head and glanced at Li Lianjie.

"The reason is very simple, any choice is a two-way street, you choose me at the same time, I am also choosing you, if you are shaken in the face of some insignificant interests now, then in the face of greater interests in the future, how can I be sure that you will not betray me? Instead of regretting it in the future, it is better to see you clearly now. ”

Li Lianjie's fists clenched unconsciously, and then slowly let go, and finally didn't say anything, just nodded vigorously.

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In hunger. Stimulated by thirsty marketing, "Shaolin Temple" was released half a month later, and the box office on the same day was still able to maintain around more than one million Hong Kong dollars, and the total box office of the film at this time had exceeded 20 million.

The film's success has not only caught the Hong Kong media by surprise. At the same time, it also brought a wave of following the trend of shooting Shaolin-themed movies. Fast-moving companies have already started to set up projects, and slower companies are looking around for suitable directors and scripts.

Time. Action actors and martial arts instructors have become sought-after resources, and their salaries have risen with them.

Naturally, many people have set their sights on Li Lianjie. It's just that the "Shaolin Temple" film culture visiting group left Hong Kong as early as a week ago, and those who chased it to the mainland finally got only one disappointing news.

Li Lianjie is going to the United States to open a martial arts gym to promote Chinese martial arts culture, and he has no idea to continue filming movies for the time being.

When the news came back to Hong Kong, some people sighed, and some people breathed a sigh of relief.

Cheng Long, who is filming "Serpentine Trickster", belongs to the latter, after he saw the news in the newspaper, the big stone that had been hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground, and the whole person was much more relaxed.

At this time, Yuan Heping walked over. The sound of footsteps alarmed Cheng Long, and he quickly put the newspaper away.

Although Yuan Heping noticed Cheng Long's action, he didn't pay much attention to it.

"Ah Long, hurry up and clean up, just now Mr. Lin called from there, saying that we should go over."

Although he didn't know what happened to Lin Xi calling himself over at this time, Cheng Long still changed his costume very neatly, and took a car with Yuan Heping to the office building of Oriental Film and Television Company.

At the elevator door, they met Hong Jinbao, who also received a call from Lin Xi.

"Big eyes. Aaron, you were also called by Mr. Lin? ”

Cheng Long and Yuan Heping glanced at each other.

"So you're the same?"

"yes, everyone."

The elevator doors opened, and the three of them walked into the elevator together.

"Sanmao. You're almost done with that movie, right? ”

In order to film the scene where Cheng Long made a cameo in "The Five Lucky Stars", the crew of Yuan Heping's "Serpentine Trickster" stopped for a whole week, although Cheng Long came back and told Yuan Heping that the scenes on Yuan Heping's side were all filmed. But Yuan Heping was still a little worried, worried that Hong Jinbao would call Cheng Long away again. That's why I took this opportunity to ask Hong Jinbao for verification.

"The action scenes have been filmed, and there are only a few literary scenes left. It is estimated that it will be done in about two weeks, but the schedule may be scheduled until after October. ”

Hong Jinbao has nothing to hide from Yuan Heping, not to mention that there is a Cheng Long standing next to him, even if he doesn't say it, Cheng Long will know about these situations in the future and sue Yuan Heping.

Yuan Heping glanced at Hong Jinbao in some surprise.

"So late?"

Hong Jinbao spread his hands helplessly.

"There's no way, I heard that the previous schedules are full, this month is "Shaolin Temple", next month is "Running to the Angry Sea", and next month is Wang Jing's "Frog Prince", Mr. Lin means that everyone should not kill each other, so try to avoid the schedule."

Yuan Heping couldn't help but look sad after hearing this.

"Your film is going to be filmed in October, so won't my "Serpentine Trickster" be filmed until Christmas?"

"Happy Christmas, there were a lot of people watching movies during that time, and you won't suffer." Hong Jinbao glanced at Cheng Long, "Besides, this drama is starring Ah Long, and Mr. Lin will definitely take care of you on the schedule." ”

Cheng Long was about to say a few words modestly, when the elevator door opened.

The female employee at the reception saw the three people coming out of the elevator and immediately stood up.

"Mr. Hong, Mr. Fang, Mr. Yuan, Mr. Lin said that you can go directly to the conference room when you come, and he will be there immediately."

Hong Jinbao looked at Cheng Long and Yuan Heping, and found that they didn't know Lin Xi's arrangement, so he had to nod and follow the reception lady to the conference room.

When they got there, they found that someone had arrived before them.

Hong Jinbao stopped and looked at Yuan Heping beside him, but found that he was also doing the same action as himself, all with a blank face.

Obviously, Yuan Heping didn't know the person in the conference room.

Just as Hong Jinbao was about to twist his head to the other side to ask Cheng Long, Lin Xi's voice came from behind him.

"Why are you all standing in the doorway?"

Hong Jinbao, Cheng Long, and Yuan Heping all turned around, all busy saying hello to Lin Xi.

Lin Xi raised his hand to interrupt the politeness of the three of them, and walked into the conference room first.

When the person in the conference room saw Lin Xi, he quickly got up from his seat.

Lin Xi pointed at this person and said, "It's just right, I'll introduce you all." This is director Cheng Xiaodong, and I filmed "Chu Liuxiang" and "The Peerless Shuangjiao" as his martial arts instructor. Originally, we had already agreed to work together, but it was only because the contract between him and ATV had not expired yet. That's why it's been delayed until now. ”

"It turned out to be Director Cheng, who has admired his name for a long time, and I will be fortunate to meet him!"

Hong Jinbao was the first to come up and shake hands with Cheng Xiaodong.

Yuan Heping also said that he was lucky, and took the opportunity to shake hands and take the opportunity to look at Cheng Xiaodong.

Cheng Xiaodong's name Yuan Heping had heard of it before, but one of them was a movie action director, and the other was a TV series action director, so they hadn't officially met before.

The appearance of Cheng Xiaodong made Yuan Heping faintly feel a sense of crisis.

In terms of friendship, Cheng Xiaodong and Lin Xi were the first to cooperate. Needless to say, the relationship between the two sides is self-explanatory; In terms of ability, although Yuan Heping didn't think he would lose to Cheng Xiaodong, he was not arrogant enough not to take Cheng Xiaodong in his eyes; As for the sparse relationship, Cheng Xiaodong directly joined the Oriental Film and Television Company, rather than setting up his own film and television company like Yuan Heping, and the relationship with Oriental Film and Television is just an ordinary cooperative relationship...... Based on these factors, Yuan Heping felt that Cheng Xiaodong's status in Lin Xi's heart would definitely be heavier than his.

As everyone knows, Cheng Xiaodong's thoughts in his heart at this time are similar to Yuan Heping's.

In Cheng Xiaodong's view, Yuan Heping has not only been engaged in film action direction for a long time. The qualifications and experience are far beyond himself, and now he has set up his own film company, and he has cooperated with Cheng Long in two consecutive films, which shows that this person has a very high status in Lin Xi's mind.

If you can't get any convincing results. I'm afraid that Yuan Heping will always be overpowered.

Although their eyes did not directly collide with sparks, at the moment of shaking hands, Cheng Xiaodong and Yuan Heping both regarded each other as their biggest competitors.

When Yuan Heping and Cheng Xiaodong got to know each other, they were done. Cheng Long came over at this time.

"Director Cheng, we can film together again in the future!"

"So you know each other?"

looked at Cheng Long and Cheng Xiaodong, who hugged each other. Hong Jinbao and Yuan Heping both showed very surprised expressions on their faces.

Cheng Long explained with a smile: "Of course, have you forgotten what the first drama I made after joining Oriental Film and Television Company? At that time, the action director of "Huo Yuanjia" was Director Cheng. ”

Seeing that Cheng Long and Cheng Xiaodong are so familiar with each other. The expressions in Hong Jinbao and Yuan Heping's eyes were a little complicated.

Hong Jinbao is worried that after Cheng Long has a "strong reinforcement" like Cheng Xiaodong, his strength will completely overwhelm him, while Yuan Heping is worried that Cheng Xiaodong and Cheng Long are so familiar, and the works that the two will work together in the future may bring a lot of pressure to themselves.

The two of them had their own thoughts, and they didn't notice that Lin Xi had been secretly observing their expressions and reactions during this period.

"Now that everyone is here, let's sit down and talk!"

Lin Xi sat at the top of the conference table, and then without any tacit understanding, Cheng Long and Cheng Xiaodong sat on Lin Xi's left hand side, while Hong Jinbao and Yuan Heping sat on Lin Xi's right hand side.

The distinction is clear.

Lin Xi didn't say anything about this, but then turned the topic to Hong Jinbao.

"Sanmao, I heard that you are planning to open another movie recently, with Yuan Biao as the protagonist?"

Hong Jinbao was stunned, he didn't expect that this matter had reached Lin Xi's ears, and said with an embarrassed smile: "There is such a thing, mainly because I have watched "Shaolin Temple" so popular recently, so I also want to learn to make one, and it just so happens that Yuan Biao is also very interested in this play, so I let him act." ”

"Although I'm not in favor of following the trend to snap up the film, because this will only overdraw the vitality of a certain theme, it could have been popular for five or six years, but the audience will get tired of watching it in a year or two, but now the general environment is like this, you come to shoot, it's better than letting those shoddy guys shoot, at least the quality can be guaranteed."

Hong Jinbao thought that Lin Xi would say a few words, but he didn't expect to wait for this result, in addition to being happy, it was really a bit of an unexpected joy.

And Yuan Heping, who was sitting on the side, also quickly became active, Lin Xi did not stop Sammo Hung from following the trend of "Shaolin Temple", could it be that he was also preparing to make a similar movie? (To be continued......)