Monday, April 3o, 1979.

Feng Xiaobo stood in front of a newsstand near the company building, yawning and flipping through various magazines, ready to buy a copy to pass the time - work is boring, especially when business is light.

He has a lot of mixed tastes, and he only looks at the cover of a magazine, which either has a beautiful woman on it or a headline that interests him.

After flipping through a few books, he set his sights on Ming Pao Weekly.

The cover is a man and a woman, one sits and one stands, a standard double cover photo, nothing special, although the woman looks good, but she is not particularly beautiful, and she does not leak her chest and thighs, Feng Xiaobo is not interested in her, he is interested in the title on the cover - "2o years old, 3 months, the family history of the youngest multimillionaire in Hong Kong!" ”

Pick up the magazine and flip to the cover character interview column.

"Shen Chong, male, 2o years old, chairman of Matrix Technology Investment Co., Ltd., a graduate of the University of Hong Kong, a Rubik's cube master, in just three months, he made tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, setting a record for the fastest money in Hong Kong's history, and is the youngest multimillionaire in Hong Kong."

"Li Kaiyuan, female, 24 years old, founder and partner of Matrix Technology Investment Co., Ltd., the youngest female billionaire in Hong Kong."

Feng Xiaobo's eyelids jumped, 2o years old, 3 months, tens of millions of net worth? Daydreaming?

"Boss, have you read this issue of Ming Pao Weekly?"

"Looked." The newsstand owner put down a stack of newspapers in his hand, with a proud expression, and said: "Don't believe it, I have seen the two people on the cover of this issue of Ming Pao Weekly, just before the Spring Festival, the two of them came to beg me to sell the Rubik's Cube, begged for a long time, I saw that they were very pitiful, so I helped collect a box, but I didn't expect that in just two or three months, they made tens of millions." ”

"Really?" Feng Xiaobo squinted his eyes and disdainfully: "Are you bragging?" ”

"It's true!" Seeing that he didn't believe it, the owner of the newsstand took out a small cardboard box from the back of the newsstand, pointed to the handwriting on it and said: "Look at it, this is the box that contained the Rubik's Cube at that time, and there is a signature here, Li Kaiyuan, do you see it, it is the woman on the cover of "Ming Pao Weekly", she wrote it herself when she came to collect the money. ”

Feng Xiaobo leaned over to take a look, there was indeed a signature, he touched it with his hand, and then asked, "Boss, what are you keeping this carton for?" ”

"I've long seen that the two of them aren't mortals." The owner of the newsstand boasted proudly: "So keep this box, get rich, and earn tens of millions in two or three months, maybe it is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth Boy." ”

"Cut!" Feng Xiaobo waved his hand, despised the owner of the newsstand for a few words, and then raised the magazine in his hand and said, "Buy one." ”

Walking into the company building, while waiting for the elevator, a guy in a suit glanced at the magazine in Feng Xiaobo's hand and accosted: "The youngest multi-millionaire, aha? ”

"Have you seen it?"

The man nodded and said: "It's more magical than making a movie, a Spring Festival, it sold more than 1o thousand Rubik's cubes, and within two months, it entered the North American market, with sales exceeding 5oo US dollars, hehe, our company has been open for seven or eight years, and last year's sales were only more than 4oo US dollars, which is not as good as a month." ”

"Are you saying it's true?"

"Ming Pao Weekly should not report false news, and the Rubik's Cube is indeed very popular." The man pointed to the ceiling and said, "In this building, every office can find a bunch of them." ”

"That's right." Feng Xiaobo nodded, others don't say it, he has two of them, there is a mirror Rubik's Cube on the table for decoration, and an ordinary Rubik's Cube in the drawer, which is used to beat time when he is bored.

One morning, the manager was wandering around, and Feng Xiaobo never had the opportunity to desert to read magazines, so when he went to a nearby teahouse to eat with a few colleagues at noon, he took the magazines and planned to read them while eating.

"Yo, Xiaobo, you also bought this issue of Ming Pao Weekly." A male colleague saw the magazine in his hand and said, "I knew you bought it, so I wouldn't buy it." ”

"In the morning, the manager was crazy and kept hanging around me, and he didn't have a chance to look at it." Feng Xiaobo asked, "Have you seen it?" ”

"We've all seen it." A female colleague pressed the elevator button to go down, and then exclaimed: "Shen Chong is very handsome, and he can make money, that Li Kaiyuan is really lucky, he has climbed such a man, and he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life." ”

Feng Xiaobo has had a crush on this female colleague for a long time, and he was very unhappy when he heard this, he spread out the rolled magazine, pointed to the cover, and asked in a mocking tone: "You say he's handsome?" ”

"Why aren't you handsome?" The girl glanced at him and said, "Look at you, all of them have big sideburns, look sloppy, look at people, short, how spirited, look at the plaid shirts that people wear, how refreshing, and then look at you, black suits and white shirts, like playing cards." ”

"It's, it's just, everyone thinks they're Elvis Presley, they're Beatles, but they're actually ugly to death."

"I hate it when men have long hair, and they can't take care of it, dandruff flies around, and they die of nausea."

Several female colleagues in the same company took turns to denounce, and Feng Xiaobo and male colleagues touched their sideburns in unison.

Squeezed into the elevator, several girls were still chattering and discussing.

"I think Li Kaiyuan's windbreaker is good, I don't know where to sell it?"

"You're stupid, it's summer soon, why are you buying a trench coat?"

"Hey, by the way, Shen Chong said that he invested in a movie and it will be released soon, will you go to see it then?"

"Go, of course." Another girl said, "I wonder if he participated?" ”

"You nymphomaniac!" Feng Xiaobo disdainful, as a famous movie master of the company, he felt obliged to give a few girls common sense of popular science movies, "People are bosses, which boss will act in movies in person, has Run Run Shaw acted in movies?" Has Zou Wenhuai acted in a movie? ”

"Run Run Shaw is seventy or eighty years old, who will watch him in a movie." A girl retorted: "Shen Chong is young and handsome, why can't he act in a movie himself?" ”

Feng Xiaobo opened his mouth to refute, but after thinking about it, he stopped, Gu Long said that quarreling with a woman is the stupidest thing in the world.

"I heard that the movie he invested in is based on the murder case in Longhu Mountain, will it be scary?"

"Probably not."

"Hey, Xiaobo, what is the murder case in Longhu Mountain?"

"It seems to be a double corpse murder case, quite sensational, many years ago, when I was still in middle school, I can't remember."

……

Fred also bought a copy of Ming Pao Weekly, he knew a lot of Chinese, but he didn't know anything about Chinese characters, and bought this magazine because he knew Shen Chong, one of the cover characters.

That day, the secretary went to buy a Rubik's cube, but he ran three blocks to buy it, and after playing for a while, he was keenly aware that this gadget had a huge market prospect.

However, as a senior investment adviser at HSBC, Fei Litong did not pay much attention to the Rubik's Cube, because in the eyes of a giant like HSBC, the Rubik's Cube and the company behind it are like fluff on the legs of ants.

It wasn't until one day, when he talked on the phone with his family in London, that his seven or eight-year-old son reported to him that he had participated in the Rubik's Cube competition at school.

Such a rapid diffusion surprised Fei Litong, and his interest in the matrix technology company behind the Rubik's Cube increased greatly, and it happened that the company's finances were handled by HSBC, so he made a special appointment with Shen Chong when he came to handle business.

Although they didn't talk for long, Shen Chong's youthful face, bright and novel ideas, and vision for the future left a deep impression on Fei Litong.

So when he saw the magazine with Shen Chong's cover printed on it, he bought a copy casually.

Walking into the office, he took off his coat and hat, handed it to his secretary Ellie, and waited for her to clean it up before asking, "Ellie, do you know how to read Chinese characters?" ”

"Sir, I have worked here for 18 years and have dealt with countless Chinese, and their language and writing, for me, are no different from English."

"Very good, you can do me a favor and translate this article." Fei Litong opened "Ming Pao Weekly", flipped to Shen Chong's interview page, and said: "I don't need to translate word by word, just tell me the gist of it." ”

Elle took the magazine and casually translated it into English as she read it.

At the beginning of the interview, he spent a lot of time talking about Shen Chong's life experience and the marketing of the Rubik's Cube, Fei Litong listened to it for a while, and felt a little disappointed, it was all conventional stories and business methods, he felt that the level of this interview was too low, and it would be a waste of time to listen to it again, so he planned to ask Elle to stop translating.

At this moment, Feliton heard the words "knowledge economy", and the novel idea lifted his spirits and began to sound seriously, but unfortunately the magazine only briefly discussed it, and soon disappeared, and the next content was topics such as film innovation, which Feliton was not interested in.

"Ellie, stop." Feliton raised his hand, interrupted Ellie's translation, and asked, "In the content just now, knowledge economy, kno1edge-based-enetomy, is that the word?" ”

"Yes, sir."

"Can you translate the content of this word into words?" Feliton said: "Be strict and accurate in translation. ”

"Yes." Elle looked at the magazine and said, "It's only a short paragraph, not much content, ten minutes at most, and it can be translated." ”

"Then let's do it."

"Do you need me to continue to translate the rest of this interview?"

"No, I'm not interested in movies, especially Chinese movies."

……

Clear Water Bay, Shaw Brothers set.

"Lao Cai, you are really leisurely, while drinking tea and reading books, you can enjoy it."

Chu Yuan walked into Cai Lan's office, lay on the sand, sighed, and complained, "I'm tired." ”

"You are the Shaw Brothers' Optimus White Jade Pillar, the Purple Gold Beam across the sea, if Director Chu Da is not busy, I will be unemployed." Cai Lan stood up with a smile, took a cup, made him tea, and asked, "Is the filming of "The Peerless Twins" finished? (Note 1)

"Not yet." Chu Yuan turned over and sat up, took the teacup, took a sip gently, and said, "I have to slow down, be lazy, and if I continue like this, not only my body can't stand it, but my heart can't stand it either." ”

"You and I are really in harmony, I am idle and panicked, and you are busy in panic."

"You go to work every day, play calligraphy and painting, engrave seals, take your salary, and take your life, I don't know how comfortable it is." Chu Yuan sighed and complained, "Do you know how long I haven't been home? ”

"How long?"

"Actually, I don't know." Chu Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "Since filming "Meteor Butterfly Sword", I have stayed in the studio for at least 3oo days every year, and I have stayed for more than three consecutive years, do you say you are tired? ”

"You plead with Miss Fang, take a leave, and go home to rest for a few days."

"Who is Miss Fang, don't you know?" Chu Yuan lay on the sand again, beat his waist and said: "She can't wait for me to stay in the studio forever, a movie has not been filmed, so she comes to ask what the next one will be filmed, I just need to report my name, and the next day I will announce that Chu Yuan is going to make a new film, in such a situation, I can't leave even if I want to." (Note 2)

"Who made you popular, Shaw Brothers' current movies can do without Dillon, without Jing Li, but not without you Chu Yuan." Cai Lan gloated and said: "Chu Wan's name, who doesn't know?" As long as your name is signed on the movie poster, the box office in Taiwan will definitely exceed 10 million, you are the God of Wealth, of course Miss Fang has to provide for you. ”

"Where am I the God of Wealth?" Chu Yuan moved his head, leaned back a little, and said, "Have you read the latest issue of Ming Pao Weekly?" The kid on the cover is the real God of Wealth, who has earned tens of millions in 3 months, and I have made 15 movies in 3 years, and I am tired and tired, which is not as much as a fraction of what others earn in a month. ”

"You said him?" Cai Lan picked up the magazine on the desk and put up the cover for Chu Yuan to see.

"That's him." Chu Yuan saw Cai Lan's expression was different, and asked, "Do you know?" ”

"It's only a phone call, and we haven't met." Cai Lan put down the magazine and said: "You stay in the studio every day, and you don't hear anything outside the window, this kid has done a lot of things in the film industry in recent months." ”

"What's the matter?"

"I can't say a word or two." Cai Lan flipped through the desk, picked out a few magazines, and said, "You can read it yourself." ”

"Don't, don't, how can I have the time to watch it, "Ming Pao Weekly" was still shown to me by the drama during breakfast today." Chu Yuan shook his hand again and again, "You can say whatever you want." ”

To put it simply, he predicted that a revolution was taking place in the Hong Kong film industry. Cai Lan put down the magazine and said: "Then he set up two more film magazines, advocating new people and new movies, and the momentum was quite big. ”

"It's nothing, it sounds like the Big Close-up."

"You're all old yellow calendars, "Big Close-up" was discontinued at the beginning of last year, and several editors ran a "Film Biweekly", which only came out with two issues, and was acquired by Shen Chong and reprinted into a weekly magazine and a monthly magazine." Cai Lan took a relatively thick magazine, stood up, handed it to Chu Yuan, and said: "This is a monthly magazine run by him, you see, there is a column of Hong Kong film market research, which is very valuable for reference." ”

Chu Yuan sat up, took the magazine, according to the table of contents, turned to the column page that Cai Lan said, and after a few hurried glances, he involuntarily sat up straight and read it seriously.

Chu Yuan has been making movies since the 5o years, Chinese Cantonese, fashion films, costume films, all filmed, as long as one or two more movies are made, the number of films directed will exceed the 100 mark, he can be described as an expert in the film industry, an absolute expert.

It is precisely because of the professionalism that he can see at a glance the significance of this Hong Kong film market survey, which provides the results obtained after thousands of valid questionnaires, covering the age composition of movie audiences, identity and education, income, and viewing habits, theater selection, as well as views on Chinese films and Cantonese films, the most desired film content, etc., there are more than 20 articles, categorized, clearly organized, for film companies, this is a very valuable reference thing.

After Chu Yuan hurriedly browsed it, he took the magazine, stood up and said: "I thought that this Shen Chong was a big fan who came to the film industry to play casually after making money, but after reading this, I feel that his heart is very big." ”

Cai Lan nodded and said, "I also feel the same way. ”

"You're busy, I'm going to the studio." Chu Yuan held up the magazine and said, "I'll take this magazine back and take a look." ”

"Take it." Cai Lan stood up and sent Chu Yuan out, and before parting, he said with some emotion: "Chu Yuan, maybe one day, both of us will have to work for this young man." ”

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Note 1: "The Peerless Twins" was filmed around this time.

Note 2: The dialogue information here comes from Chu Yuan's autobiography.

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