When it comes to Venice, people in the world may immediately come up with many terms such as "the capital" and "the capital".

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and an important port on the northwest coast of Venice Bay on the Adriatic Sea. With a permanent population of only about 10,000 people, it is mainly built on shallow beaches 4 kilometers from the shore, with an average depth of 5 meters. It is connected to the land by rail, road, and bridge. It is composed of 18 small islands, and is connected by 177 waterways and 40L bridges, which are connected by boats, and are known as "water city", "city of 100 islands" and "city of bridges".

Venice is one of the most important tourist destinations in Italy, with a pleasant climate and beautiful scenery. On August 19, when the Italian dictator and dictator Benito Mussolini founded the Venice Film Festival in the water city of Venice, he never imagined that this act would become one of the few things that would be passed down after his death. The Venice Film Festival is 19 years ahead of the Berlin Film Festival and 14 years before the Cannes Film Festival, so it is known as the "father of the international film festival". After the second edition, the Venice Film Festival was held almost every year, mostly in August and September of that year, and lasted for about two weeks. After 75 years of practice, the Venice Film Festival has developed its own inherent tradition: to celebrate innovation and the pursuit of pure artistry.

Since there is no direct flight from Hong Kong to Venice, the New Asia company and his party can only fly to Dubai for half a day and then transfer to a direct flight to Venice.

As a reborn, Lam Hau-chi knew more about the three major film festivals in the world than anyone else in Hong Kong during this period. Half a century after its birth, the Venice International Film Festival has been left behind by its predecessor, the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the second of the three major international film festivals, the Venice Film Festival, which focuses on art films, eventually lost to commerciality, in terms of influence and attraction to young directors who aspire to fame, has been smaller than the Cannes Film Festival, which began to gradually tilt towards commercial films.

As for the Berlinale Festival, like German films, it is full of expressionist and philosophical films, although it has changed since the 80s, but the residual poison of many years cannot be completely transformed in a day or two. At this time, the Berlin Film Festival is still popular with ethical films, feature documentaries and youth films, which have both disadvantages and benefits, such as Lao Mouzi's red sorghum, which became an instant hit at the Berlin Film Festival.

Compared with the Cannes Film Festival's ability to attract money, the Venice Film Festival is much worse. The artistic atmosphere of the Venice Film Festival is too strong, but this is a bad thing and a good thing, the bad thing is that it is difficult to attract too many distributors to rush to pan for gold, and the good thing is that the film "Friends" prepared by New Asia for this Venice Film Festival is likely to be an instant hit and become a dark horse at this year's Venice Film Festival.

The 46th edition of the Venice Film Festival has attracted many European distributors, and even American distribution companies should be looking for prey that can make them a lot of money. It is undeniable that no matter how literary and artistic the film is, there is always a certain market. As long as the business value can be correctly grasped, it will be profitable.

On August P, the day before the arrival of this year's Venice Film Festival, Lin Xiaozhi and his party officially arrived in Venice, and it is no surprise that they will spend the next two weeks in this water city.

Lin Xiaozhi and his entourage came with nine people, including him, eight people who belong to Xinya Company, namely him, Ye Weixin, Zheng Fei, the manager of the distribution department, Sima Jie, legal counsel, and four other distribution department personnel who are proficient in English. The ninth person who came with them was not an outsider, it was Lin Xiaozhi's rumored little girlfriend Li Jiaxin.

Stretching his waist, Lin Xiaozhi threw his luggage into the room, and he stayed on the plane for so long with a slight fear of heights, and his whole body felt as uncomfortable as if he had fallen apart.

"I'll let Zheng Fei do it first, let's go out and go around."

Wrapping his arms around Li Jiaxin's thin waist, Lin Xiaozhi hugged her and made love for a while, and then reluctantly let go of his favorite earlobe and whispered in her ear. Because there was no direct flight from Hong Kong to Venice, the group was delayed in Dubai for half a day, and when they arrived in Venice, it was already more than 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day. After sleeping all night on the plane, and having just flown for so long, although he now feels a little tired, he wants to go out for a stroll and feel the feeling of being down-to-earth.

"Well, okay" Li Jiaxin replied happily, although it was not the first time to go abroad, but it was the first time she came to Venice, and she looked much happier than Lin Xiaozhi.

"I want to see St. Mark's Square and stop by St. Mark's Basilica."

She happily hugged Lin Xiaozhi's arm, allowing her chest to bulge partially through the not very thick clothes, rubbing his arm.

"Hmm"

Lin Xiaozhi nodded and agreed, picked up the phone in the room, and dialed the number of Ye Weixin's room, "Ashin, after you go to the organizing committee to confirm our screening booth, we will give you a day off today, enjoy the Venice of the Water City, and the company will reimburse you for less than five million lira per person." Later, I'll accompany Ah Xin out of the city, and we'll have dinner again."

The lira is the legal tender of Italy, but like the Italian economy, which has been sluggish since the seventies and eighties, the lira is not worth much. The exchange of Hong Kong dollars for lira is about one Hong Kong dollar, which can be exchanged for more than 300 lira, and five million lira sounds like a lot, but in fact, it is more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars

"Okay, Xie Lu Xie Boss."

Hanging up the phone, Lin Xiaozhi changed his clothes. Because "Killer Leon" has not found a suitable soundtrack, and missed the registration time until this year's Venice Film Festival, this time they brought only one film to Venice, which was directed and filmed by Ye Weixin himself. In the middle of the month, the Organizing Committee of the Venice Film Festival gave New Asia a reply notice, not surprisingly, Ye Weixin's 'black humor, the film with a similar theme won the favor of the Organizing Committee of the Venice Film Festival, at least in the preliminary review process did not encounter a little twists and turns, directly passed the review, shortlisted for one of the entries of this year's Venice Film Festival, competing for the 'Golden Lion Award', which is good news for New Asia and Ye Weixin, especially Ye Weixin, who has been learning Italian by himself since receiving the news, although his English is very good.

"Let's go"

Lin Xiaozhi quickly changed his clothes, a little troublesome is that Li Jiaxin dressed up for half an hour before changing into a light cyan short-sleeved shirt and a pair of jeans.

"Let's go"

Venice at the end of August is still relatively hot, but Xu thinks that the water city of Venice is located by the sea, and the sea breeze blowing from the Mediterranean Sea from time to time will be very cool, in short, Li Jiaxin doesn't care about this warm feeling, since leaving the Bogoni Hotel where they stayed, she has been holding Lin Xiaozhi's arm tightly, as if she was afraid that he would run away.

Feeling the temperature from his left arm, Lin Xiaozhi was only slightly unaccustomed to it, but he didn't think much about it.

On this trip to Venice, Lin Xiaozhi didn't plan to take her with him at first. After deciding to come to Venice, he only casually told Li Jiaxin that he might go to Europe for half a month at the end of the month. At that time, he had already heard the news from Gao Zhisen, Gao Zhisen and Huang Baiming were preparing for the fourth movie of the "Happy Ghost" series. After filming "Good Meeting", Li Jiaxin didn't receive any roles for the time being, so he asked Gao Zhisen for the role of the heroine in the fourth part of "Happy Ghost".

With such a good thing, Gao Zhisen also agreed. They originally wanted to invite a Hong Kong sister to play the heroine, and they initially decided to invite Yang Baoling, the 87-year-old Hong Kong sister champion, to play. Who would have thought that Lin Xiaozhi would be killed halfway, and he wanted to make his gossip little girlfriend popular, how could the two be unhappy. As last year's Miss Hong Kong champion, and also won the 'most beautiful Sister Hong Kong, this praise, purely on beauty and fame, Li Jiaxin is still above her predecessor Yang Baoling, and she doesn't have to pay her own salary, Gao Zhisen and Huang Baiming have no reason not to agree.

At first, after he told Li Jiaxin about contacting her for a new movie, the girl was also happy for a few days. Gao Zhisen's new movie is set to have the protagonist Huang Baiming, and the "Happy Ghost" series is basically like this. Being able to cooperate with these two people is a very valuable opportunity for Li Jiaxin, who has just stepped into the entertainment industry. If it weren't for Lin Xiaozhi to help her, she didn't know how long it would take for Lu Dao to have this opportunity. For this reason, she was very happy that she had played some unusual moves with him on a few nights.

But the woman is the day of June, and the day before yesterday she was happily looking forward to being the heroine of "Happy Ghost 4", and even wished that Gao Zhisen's half-finished script would be ready immediately. But only two days later, this woman's mind changed again, sticking and pestering him, wanting to come to Venice with her, and even blew the horn for him for the first time, not making Lin Xiaozhi comfortable to death, so she agreed. As for what she suddenly changed her mind about, Lin Xiaozhi was also a little uncertain.

"Darling...... Do you see this one pretty? ”

Italy is worthy of being known as the 'fashion kingdom, the highly developed light industry and textile industry, so that Venice, the tourist capital, is also full of European fashion brands, most of which are from Italy's own famous brands, and there are also many from Britain, France and Germany and other traditional European powers, so that tourists are dizzying, Lin Xiaozhi They only walked a few streets, and found a pedestrian street full of brand-name clothing.

"Well, that's good."

Lin Xiaozhi crossed his arms and watched Li Jiaxin change into a black dress, smiled and nodded in praise. The woman is tall, tall and barefoot, Li Jiaxin, who is 1.68 meters tall, even if she is only wearing a pair of flat travel shoes now, a pair of slender legs also set off her extraordinarily tall, she is a Chinese-Portuguese mixed-race She inherited the advantages from both parents, and a perfect and exquisite face made her quickly become the focus of the store as soon as she entered this famous store.

"Then I'll be" Li Jiaxin just wanted to say that he had chosen this one, but suddenly looked up and found a bright red dress in the corner not far away, and his eyes suddenly lit up. She seemed to like the color red, and Bei Yan bit her red lip lightly and said, "Waiter, can you help bring me that bright red dress?" ”

Her English is even better than Lin Xiaozhi's, and English, as a recognized international language, is basically understood by the waiters in such famous shops in a tourist capital like Venice.

"Miss, you really have vision" greeted them was a Caucasian woman in her thirties, who spoke fluent English, when she saw Li Jiaxin taking a fancy to the bright red dress, her face showed a little joy, she walked over and pointed to the dress and said: "This one is from our famous Italian designer Durmalain, it is a limited handmade version, with the guest your figure is no better, where can I try it for you?" ”

She had already seen that Lin Xiaozhi and the two of them were wearing famous brands. Li Jiaxin tried on a lot of clothes before, none of which were less than 500,000 lira each, and this one was priced at 4.1 million lira, and it was not allowed to be tried on by customers in general stores, unless it was the kind that would definitely be bought. If Lin Xiaozhi hadn't asked her to wrap up all the four or five sets of clothes that Li Jiaxin had tried on before to show her liking when Li Jiaxin tried them on, she wouldn't have taken this risk.

Li Jiaxin saw the price on the clothes at a glance, and his face was slightly hesitant. She likes to shop and indeed likes designer clothes, but she is still sensitive to money. As soon as I saw the price of the clothes, I immediately lost the idea of trying them on.

"Try it"

His eyes swept over the price sign hanging on the waist of his clothes, and the gentle smile on Lin Xiaozhi's face remained unchanged, motioning for her to change it and take a look.

"Still don't want it, this color ......"

"Red is very good for you, put it on, I like it too......" He took the clothes from the waiter's hand and stuffed it directly into her hand, his movements were unquestionable, so that the waiter who was about to complain shut up, after all, there is no one who does not like the bold customer.

"That'...... Then I'll try ......."

Seeing him stuff his clothes over, Li Jiaxin sweetly kissed him on the cheek, then turned around and walked into the fitting room again, and soon took off the clothes he had put on before, put on this masterpiece and walked out.

"Not bad"

Lin Xiaozhi's face was slightly moved, he had felt before that Li Jiaxin was particularly red and black. She is the kind of woman whose skin is white and tender, and who is particularly smooth. This kind of woman wears bright red and black, and she can set off herself more and more delicately like a flower. When he went shopping with her in Hong Kong before, Lin Xiaozhi's clothes for her were basically red and black, and now it once again proves that his original vision was correct.

"This is probably the most suitable one of these clothes you have picked and buy it......"

Lin Xiaozhi smiled and nodded, he liked this dress very much.

"Really, Darling?"

"Well, that's perfect for you. Do you want to keep trying them on? ”

"No, just have this dress"

Since she wasn't going to continue trying it on, she naturally had to settle the bill, Lin Xiaozhi glanced at the waiter who had been following them, pointed to the clothes on her body, and another black dress that had just been taken off on the other side of the fitting room, and said in jerky English: "Trouble you, these two clothes, as well as the one that the young lady tried on before, we want them all."

"Darling......" His words surprised Li Jiaxin, "This one is enough"

"Don't you like the previous ones, just a few clothes, it's enough for you to like them"

"Darling" Li Jiaxin's heart was as sweet as drinking honey, regardless of the fact that there were still many customers in the store, he snuggled directly into his arms and kissed him for a long time, and then separated from him with a blushing face.

He reached out and swiped her face lightly, then turned around, took out his wallet and took out a bank card from HSBC inside, "Does the store support credit cards?" ”

Although he had a stack of 100,000 Italian lira bills in his wallet, it was worthless. bought a few sets of clothes for Li Jiaxin before, and spent a little 7 million lira, unless he took out all the banknotes in his wallet, it was really not enough to pay.

"Yes, sir"

Lin Xiaozhi immediately chose to swipe the card and bought all the clothes that Li Jiaxin had tried on before.

When he was in Hong Kong, although Lin Xiaozhi also accompanied Li Jiaxin to go shopping a few times, because there were many people who knew the two of them, every time he went to the street, he not only had to dress up, but also couldn't take too long, and he never enjoyed the most incisive shopping fun. Unexpectedly, today in Venice, a water city thousands of miles away, the two of them enjoyed it once.

Li Jiaxin, who accompanied a happy little woman, went crazy shopping in Venice for several hours, from clothing to cosmetics, Lin Xiaozhi accompanied her to go shopping for three or four hours, and even Chinese food was used casually in an Italian restaurant on the street, until two o'clock in the afternoon, after spending more than 20 million lire (about 50,000 or 60,000 Hong Kong dollars), Li Jiaxin's desire to shop finally subsided, and she began to remember her original intention, wanting to go to St. Mark's Square and the church.

Because they bought too many things, the two had to go back to the hotel temporarily, put all the things they bought from the shopping spree back to the hotel, and then they packed a tourist boat and walked towards St. Mark's Square along the waterways of the water city of Venice.

"Mom, sister, this is probably the happiness I seek."

In the dinghy, Li Jiaxin snuggled in Lin Xiaozhi's arms, Qiong sniffed the man's body odor, felt the temperature and heartbeat on his body, and tilted his head slightly so that his cheek was against his arm. On her chest, the force from her arm made her lie in the man's arms with peace of mind. Although she felt a little hot, she didn't mean to leave the man's arms.

The reason why she chose to pester Lin Xiaozhi this time and come to Venice with him was the opinion of her family. Originally, for such a wealthy family in the stall, it is said that there was a long period of 'black history' son-in-law, and Li Jiaxin's family was a hundred unwilling. When she first participated in the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, a rich man fell in love with her, and even promised to spend tens of millions of dollars to support her, this ignorant woman who had just stepped into the society was moved, for this Li Jiaxin was also scolded by her mother, her daughter was ignorant but suffered for half a lifetime, but her family did not want to see her take a lifetime of happiness, just to change the glory in front of her.

Therefore, when Li Jiaxin went home with the real estate presented by Lin Xiaozhi, Li's mother, who had not done anything to her two grown daughters for many years, slapped her hard for the first time and scolded her for more than an hour. It wasn't until Li Jiaxin aggrievedly confessed all what happened to him for most of the past six months, and found that his daughter had lost her body to Lin Xiaozhi, and after a period of observation, it was found that he was not as unbearable as advertised in the media, that the three mothers and daughters of the Li family misconfessed that they had admitted their daughter's relationship with him.

Now that he has been recognized as a prospective son-in-law, the Li family naturally pays more attention to him. Since August, the Hong Kong media has been flooded with propaganda about his own son-in-law. Especially after Meiya became a shareholder of New Asia, Lin Xiaozhi, who was originally from a wealthy family, had an additional title of 'wealthy rebel), and added a billionaire, the halo of the diamond king, and the identity of the fifth diamond king made the eyes of the opposite sex who paid attention to him begin to increase. Li Jiaxin was still ignorant and didn't feel it, but as a person who came over, Li's mother was very worried about Lin Xiaozhi, who had never exposed his relationship with Li Jiaxin, and whether he just wanted to play with his daughter. I'm worried that my daughter won't give people a knife to snatch love, and she will lose her body and lose people.

So I heard from my daughter that Lin Xiaozhi was going to Venice, so I made a move for her, that is, to let her accompany him to Venice, hoping to take the opportunity to pester and expose the fact that the two were dating.

These thoughts kept flashing in his head, and suddenly he felt that he was holding his arm and let go, and Li Jiaxin, who had closed his eyes comfortably, quickly opened his eyes.

"We're in place"

A gentle voice sounded, she tilted her head, red lips met his lowered head, lip prints, lips parted, Lin Xiaozhi helped her stand up straight, their tourist boat was docking towards a small ferry a few meters away, the two looked up not far away, the cross of St. Mark's Basilica, the most famous in Venice, was already clearly visible.