In early September, a torrential downpour poured down from the sky, causing traffic jams in many parts of Hong Kong's urban areas, and even some subway stations had to be temporarily suspended.

Fortunately, this rainstorm came and went quickly. A day later, although the sky was still cloudy and panicked, the heavy rain that disturbed people had finally stopped, which relieved Lin Xiaozhi, who needed to go out for something.

Standing on a wharf in Tsuen Wan District, the sea breeze with great momentum swept the waves, constantly hitting the berm in front of the pier, and the waves and wet and cold water vapor from the sea constantly swept on Lin Xiaozhi's cheeks, although he reached out to wipe his cheeks from time to time, but his face was soon covered with water droplets.

"Zhang Sheng, are they really here at ten o'clock?"

Wiping the water droplets from his eyebrows, Lin Xiaozhi glanced at his watch at night, turned his head to the side and frowned and asked Zhang Yimou.

After his extramarital affair with Gong Li was exposed last year, Zhang Yimou became infamous in the mainland film industry for a short period of time, so he took the opportunity of Lin Xiaozhi to lead a Hong Kong delegation to visit the mainland and reach a consensus on cooperation with the mainland.

As the photographer of "Resident Evil", Lin Xiaozhi offered him a quasi-first-class treatment in Hong Kong and received a salary of 200,000 yuan. Coupled with the money he made when he filmed "Qin Warriors" before, Zhang Yimou is now an out-and-out rich man in the mainland. Xu is in order to show his face in front of the guests to be received today, he rarely wore a famous brand today, so that Lin Xiaozhi had an amazing feeling of upgrading from an old farmer in northern Shaanxi to a successful person at the first sight.

This time in Hong Kong for nearly half a year, Zhang Yimou already likes the title here, he called Zhang Sheng, and he didn't see any discomfort, he also glanced at the night watch, and replied naturally: "I received a notice at ten o'clock, and now it's half past ten, I'm afraid that something will delay it, right?" ”

His voice was also a little hesitant, obviously unsure, "Why don't you Lin Sheng, let's go to the hall over there first?" ”

The two of them can come over to greet them together, and it is naturally not an ordinary person who came today, it is the mainland film delegation that has been preparing since April and has not finalized the list and time of arrival in Hong Kong until the end of August.

The Beijing-Kowloon Railway, which can be directly connected to Hong Kong in the future, has not yet been built in 199l, although Hong Kong and Beijing have been negotiating the construction of this railway since the 80s, but the progress of the negotiations has also been suspended for a period of time with the political storm of the previous years, and if there is no external intervention, it will probably be the same as 'history, until 93 years to start construction. The 9l year plane is still an unaffordable means of transportation for most people, and the number of people in the delegation is large, so it is a train to Guangzhou, and then a ship to Hong Kong.

Originally, it was going to come over through Shenzhen, but the sudden rainstorm not only made Hong Kong once besieged by the flood, and the infrastructure of Shenzhen, which is next to Hong Kong, was far inferior to it, I heard that after the heavy rain, the city was seriously waterlogged, but fortunately, it was not far between Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and the sea route was temporarily changed.

It's just that I don't know what went wrong with Lu Dao, and they said that they would resist Hong Kong at ten o'clock, and they arrived at the dock before ten o'clock to wait for them, and where did they think that waiting would take dozens of minutes.

Lin Xiaozhi glanced at the time again, but could only nod helplessly, and the two returned to the hall next to them to sit, waiting for the arrival of the group.

After waiting for more than 20 minutes, with the sound of a steamer whistle, the Xinhu, a sea ship full of mainland film delegations, finally sailed into Victoria Bay and slowly docked at the pier.

After the Xinhu cruise ship stopped, the passage was quickly opened, and hundreds of passengers from the mainland got off the cruise ship one after another, and the dock, which was originally a little empty, suddenly became lively.

Lin Xiaozhi and others knew that the Xinhu was the cruise ship taken by the mainland film delegation, so they went out of the hall after hearing the whistle, such as holding a sign, this kind of work naturally does not need Lin Xiaozhi to do it personally, and he and Zhang Yimou came together with a few people from Huanya, after getting his orders, soon a guy took the sign that had been prepared for a long time to find a striking place and held it high, and it didn't take long to see a group of dozens of people following him.

"Who's in front of Media?"

The questioner was a small old man, wearing a pair of thick-bottomed glasses and looking in his sixties, wearing a suit from previous years, and asked in a non-standard Cantonese, giving people the feeling of a new school.

He soon saw Zhang Yimou standing with Lin Xiaozhi, and after thinking for a while, he changed his words uncertainly and asked in Mandarin: "Are you Zhang Yimou from Western Film Studio?" ”

"Old Xie, it's me" Zhang Yimou obviously recognized this very energetic old man, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and did not forget to introduce Lin Xiaozhi, "Old Xie, let me introduce you." This is Mr. Lin Xiaozhi, the chairman of Media Asia Group, Lin Sheng, this is Xie Tieli, the vice chairman of the Film Association I mentioned to you before, Xie Lao ......"

He knows that Lin Xiaozhi's Mandarin is very standard, and he is not like some Hong Kong people, who can understand Mandarin but have to talk to you in Cantonese, you don't follow his meaning, and he is not willing to deal with you, a typical contempt for people. Therefore, he did not use Cantonese, which he has spoken relatively well in the past six months, in this conversation, but in Mandarin.

"It turned out to be Chairman Xie, you are old." Like Zhang Yimou, Lin Xiaozhi also speaks Mandarin.

The film delegation sent by the mainland this time was headed by Xie Tieli, the former chief director of Beijing Film Studio and vice chairman of the Mainland Film Association, and it can be seen that the sincerity of both Beijing Film Studio and the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television is very sufficient. As early as the 70s, Xie Tieli proposed to the central government to carry out market-oriented reform of films, not just blindly shooting political films, but learning from the mature experience of overseas to shoot secular commercial films that the people like to watch. Let him, a person who advocates film reform, lead a team to visit the Hong Kong film industry, which can also be seen that Beijing seems to have the intention of reforming the film industry.

Originally, when the mainland film delegation came to Hong Kong, the people who greeted it should be the mainland's state-owned film company in Hong Kong - but this time there were some exceptions, because there were dozens of people selected by the mainland to study in Hong Kong with the delegation, including directors and actors, and some middle and low-level managers of radio and television and Beijing Film Group, according to the agreement reached between Lin Xiaozhi and the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, Media Asia will be responsible for the food and accommodation of this person during his stay in Hong Kong, not like the two groups of people sent in the early eighties, or Yindu provides a place to stay. Either you are brittle or you are doing odd jobs to earn money to support yourself. Speaking from the heart, the two exchanges between the mainland and the Hong Kong film industry in the 80s ended in failure, and the Hong Kong film industry was too arrogant and looked down on people.

Imagine that the mainland government took the initiative to show favor to you and sent several groups of people to learn from you, but while you coveted the mainland market and wanted the mainland to let Hong Kong films enter, you looked down on others, and did not arrange food and accommodation.

Imagine the people sent by the mainland to study, which one is not the backbone of the film studios in various places, and then the rising star of the mainland film industry. For such a toss on the Hong Kong side, even eating has become a problem for a few months of studying in Hong Kong, and you have to find time to do odd jobs to fill your stomach, and who will say a good word to you after you go back. So this time, the mainland was originally going to let Yindu arrange to greet him, or Lin Xiaozhi took the initiative to find the door after learning about it, citing the consensus reached with the mainland at the beginning, and took the initiative to take the job and was willing to be responsible for it.

After a brief introduction, Xie Tieli glanced at the time and was a little embarrassed, and apologized repeatedly: "Let everyone wait for a long time, just now when the cruise ship arrived in the waters near Hong Kong, I met the water police, and I said that I received information that there was a thief accomplice named Ye Jihuan who might be lurking on the ship, and the cruise ship had to stop in the open sea for almost an hour, so they got on board and searched it." ”

He obviously didn't know who Ye Jihuan was, but when he heard this name, Zhang Yimou and Lin Xiaozhi glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of sudden realization, no wonder they said that they would arrive at the place at ten o'clock, but the cruise ship was delayed for an hour before entering the port, and it turned out that they had met the marine police.

When it comes to Ye Jihuan, few people on the mainland may have heard of this name, but in Hong Kong, these three words have an extraordinary influence, and six million Hong Kong people gave him the title of King of Thieves, which was shocked and feared.

Ye Jihuan, born in 19Ul in Haifeng, Guangdong, smuggled to Hong Kong at the age of 17, is a notorious mainland criminal in Hong Kong, since 1984 a series of armed robbery of Tsim Sha Tsui King Fook Gold and Central Land Dickson Watch Company (the former owner of Debao, the property of the famous brand king Pan Disheng) became famous, after Ye Jihuan was quickly arrested, but two years ago he escaped from prison under the pretext of abdominal pain. After hiding for two years, he went out again in the mountains in U this year to gather his fellow party to rob the gold store in Wuhua Street, Kwun Tong, and personally armed with AK47 assault rifles and stood on the road to frantically engage the police.

It was precisely by virtue of this battle that he became the most dangerous and murderous bandit recognized by the Hong Kong police, and won the title of the king of thieves.

And the reason why Lin Xiaozhi knows him so well is because Ye Jihuan's name not only resounded in Hong Kong, but also generated countless inspirations for the Hong Kong film industry. Recently, the screenwriting team of Media Asia created a script based on Ye Jihuan's true deeds and handed it to him, although considering the impact on Lin Xiaozhi and not preparing to shoot for the time being, he also left a deep impression on Ye Jihuan.