On Thursday, as usual, Lin Xiaozhi drove the Toyota Corolla at home to the radio station. Today he arrived much earlier than usual, and the talent had already arrived at the company at half past seven.

Wang Jia'an, the crew of "I'm Crazy for Qing", has done a good job for him. A perfect crew of more than 40 people was seconded from ATV, except for the photographer He Fan, who was not satisfied with the replacement of one, the others were very good. Because the plot of "I'm Crazy for Qing" is relatively simple, and there are no fighting scenes, He Fan considered that it would not take a month to complete the filming. Therefore, Lin Xiaozhi signed a salary with them, and after accounting, the fifty people in the crew alone will have to settle nearly 20,000 yuan a day on average, which is nearly twice as expensive as his previous budget, which Lin Xiaozhi did not expect.

The reason why he came early today is not only because the actor audition for "I'm Crazy for Qing" has started in the underground garage of the ATV building, but also because Wang Jiaan wanted him to come to the company early today before getting off work last night, saying that he wanted to discuss the promotion of the film with him. He instructed Lam to come as early as possible, and it was said that he might have to go on a business trip to Macau later to negotiate with several theaters in Macau that were reluctant to continue scheduling Khoo's films.

Arrived at the company early, pushed open the door and walked in, Lin Xiaozhi immediately noticed that the atmosphere in the office was strange. The employees who often sit in the office in the company have not yet arrived, only Secretary Wu, who has been familiar with him, and a few others, just sit seriously one by one, even when they heard the sound of the door, they just looked up at the people, and then they all lowered their heads cautiously, and they didn't greet him as usual.

This oppressive atmosphere made Lin Xiaozhi turn around after closing the door, and the smile on his face froze. You must know that in order to improve the bad impression left by that gentleman, he has always been very kind in the company, so that many people in New Asia are happy to communicate with him.

Is it anything but that? Or is Wang Jia'an angry?

This thought suddenly turned around in his heart, but when he thought of Wang Jia'an, who was smiling all the time except for Zheng Zeshi, who might have a face when facing Zheng Zeshi, he also felt that this person who had a good impression of himself should not be angry with employees for a trivial matter.

"What's the matter, Secretary Wu. Did something happen? ”

Carrying his briefcase, he took the initiative to walk over to Secretary Wu and asked curiously.

"Ahem!"

Nearby, in Wang Jia'an's office, a cough suddenly sounded. The frosted glass separated the walls was not very well insulated, so that when the coughing sound came, Lin Xiaozhi's ears moved, and he turned around.

He could hear it, it was an old voice, and he could tell that the owner of the voice was at least sixty years old, otherwise it would not have been so weak.

"Assistant Lin......" Secretary Wu cautiously glanced at Wang Jia'an's office, lowered his voice and said to him: "Chairman Qiu came to inspect the company, he seems to be a little unhappy. Because Mr. Wang hasn't come yet, I'm waiting for Mr. Wang in his office......"

Lin Xiaozhi was stunned, "Dong Qiu? Which Qiu Dong? ”

She looked at the office with a trembling eye, and seeing that Lin Xiaozhi hadn't reacted yet, she hurriedly whispered to him again: "It's the chairman of ATV!" ”

Lin Xiaozhi suddenly realized, it turned out to be Qiu Degen, the former boss of ATV, he actually came to the company, and he also came to Xinya to inspect?

For a moment, Lin Xiaozhi's face was a little weird, and there have been rumors within ATV recently that this boss Qiu was deeply involved in the Far Eastern Bank case, and there were rumors that he might be prosecuted, so he has been using the excuse of illness recently, and he has not come to the ATV building for a long time. Although he is still holding the post of chairman of ATV, in fact, the new Lai Sun Group has slowly taken over the power.

The two were talking, although Secretary Wu lowered his voice, but Lin Xiaozhi did not, but his voice was so loud, there was only a frosted glass wall in the office, and it was natural to hear it. At that moment, Lin Xiaozhi and the others heard an old voice from the office: "It's so noisy outside, Secretary Wu, are you Mr. Wang here?" ”

The voice is not loud, but it is majestic. Even though the glass wall had been weakened a lot, the momentum of the superior still made several people in the hall fidget.

Secretary Wu stood up in fright, ignoring the frosted glass wall, the people in the office couldn't see the outside clearly, bowed again and again, and replied hurriedly in a very nervous tone: "Chairman, Mr. Wang hasn't come yet, is Assistant Lin here?" ”

"Assistant Lin? Which Lin Assistant? ”

There was a pause in the office and then asked.

Secretary Wu glanced at Lin Xiaozhi, this young girl seemed to be very afraid of Qiu Degen, and her anxious eyes were misty. Lin Xiaozhi didn't recognize it, smiled at her and nodded, walked towards the office with his briefcase, and replied as he walked: "Excuse me, chairman, I am Lin Xiaozhi, the newly appointed assistant to the president of Xinya by President Wang!" ”

Qiu Degen not only retains the identity of the chairman of ATV now, but even Xinya Film, he also has the title of chairman, it can be seen that although this person is not good at running movies, he is also a person who really loves movies, although he does not necessarily love movies, it may also be memories of the past years, memories of his deceased wife!

He walked to the door and stood still, and there was silence in the office for a long time before there was movement: "Come in!" ”

Lin Xiaozhi pushed the door in!

A piercing gaze fell on him, and Lin Xiaozhi had to squint slightly. After being reborn, he has seen a lot of big people, such as his patriarchal grandfather Lin Jili, and Lin Baixin, one of the top ten richest people in Hong Kong. One step and then closed the door, Lin Xiaozhi stood in front of Wang Jia'an's desk, at this moment, on the bench that originally belonged to Wang Jia'an, there was an old man with gray hair, slightly cloudy eyes, and a little depression between his eyebrows, it was Qiu Degen, chairman of ATV.

"Chairman, you're early!"

Lin Xiaozhi was neither humble nor arrogant, although he was able to sneak into Xinya through the back door, he asked himself that he hadn't done anything bastard since he called Xinya, but he also stood upright.

"You are Lin Xiaozhi?" Qiu Degen withdrew the compelling gaze that fell on him and asked flatly.

Although he hasn't come to ATV for a while, at this time, when the new shareholders are purging ATV's management, almost every day, Qiu Degen's old subordinates and henchmen are replaced by people who defect to Lin Baixin, and he can't not pay attention to ATV's side at all.

"It's like a fake!"

Lin Xiaozhi replied with ease.

A trace of doubt flashed in Qiu Degen's eyes, he recently heard from his old subordinates that Lin Baixin had put his nephew who didn't know how to learn, a gentleman who could only ask women to fight cannons and drag racing, into Xinya, a film company that had put too much effort into the past. A few days ago, Zheng Zeshi also refused to fulfill his contract with him because the new president of New Asia refused to fulfill his contract with him, and at the same time, the Lin family purged his old subordinates, causing many people to lose their jobs and complain that the Lin family had gone too far, so that he had to come to ATV to stabilize the morale of the army, and at the same time told some people that although he Qiu Degen sold most of ATV's shares, he was also a major shareholder of ATV, so don't go too far.

The Lin family arranged three directors in ATV, Lin Baixin's second son Lin Jianle is one of them, Qiu Degen has also been in contact with him, and the Lin family seems to be interested in letting him take over ATV. It's just that judging from his current methods, he is too domineering and too solipsistic, which makes him very dissatisfied. For example, his previous business policy of slow development for ten years, not confronting wireless head-on, and wasting financial and material resources has now been replaced by a five-year listing plan formulated by Lin Jianle. He has already read the draft policy, in which Lin Jianle is full of nonsense and delusions, intending to defeat wireless within a few years and replace it as the overlord of Hong Kong's television industry through a large number of poaching wireless artists and middle and senior management.

Not only is it ridiculous, but is his old rival Shao Yifu so easy to be brought down? Even if he competes for financial resources and has more than 5 billion assets in his hands, Shao Yifu is not necessarily much worse than the Lin family, not to mention that Lin Baixin's main business is not on TV at all.

Qiu Degen is even more dissatisfied that Lin Jianle also interfered in the high-level transfer of ATV, and by virtue of his absence from ATV, a large number of his people have been promoted and secretly demoted, or simply transferred to some cold water yamen. even inserted his hand into the New Asia Film Company, which was his own weakness, and brought in an incompetent company president and a gentleman.

This gentleman ......

He had some doubts in his heart, he was in his sixties this year, and he thought that he had been crawling in the mall for decades, and his eyesight was not bad. He also inquired in advance, and several juniors in the family also told him that Lin Xiaozhi was indeed a standard gentleman. It's just that when the young man in front of him saw him, his eyes were bright, neither humble nor arrogant, and he spoke very decently, which seemed to be a little different from what he heard?

He asked this doubt, and after getting confirmation from the other party, he didn't ask anymore, but just glanced at the briefcase he was carrying in his hand and asked: "What about Wang Jia'an, the president of a company, what time is it now, my old bones can get up and come to work in the company, is his body older than me?" ”

The voice was still very flat at the beginning, but the higher he spoke, the faster he spoke, the heavy anger made Lin Xiaozhi frown, and he weighed it in his heart before replying: "Chairman, Mr. Wang said that several theaters in Macau that have worked with us don't seem to be ready to continue making films for our company." In short, Wang mentioned that he might have to go to Macau to talk to them today, but he hasn't come yet, probably because of this! ”

Qiu Degen frowned, glanced at him, and finally didn't pursue Wang Jia'an's matter.

"Recently, the company has made me very dissatisfied, is it possible that when I am gone, I can do whatever I want?" These words seemed to mean something else, Lin Xiaozhi licked his lower lip, as if he had grasped something in his heart.

However, he didn't have time to think deeply, so he listened to Qiu Degen continue: "Since you are the assistant to the president, you should know a little about Xinya's current affairs. So, I'm going to ask you to answer ......"

"What a shame!" Lin Xiaozhi responded quickly, Xinya is so big, although he has only been in the company for two weeks, but because he has nothing to do, he has already turned over the files and documents, and he almost knows it in his chest. It's just that he didn't expect that Qiu Degen's first question stumped him!

"I ask you, how much money do you have left in the company's finances?"

Lin Xiaozhi frowned, met his gaze, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, chairman." All the financial aspects of Xinya are all under the control of Mr. Wang, and the company now has no financial department and financial staff. When I first took office, I asked, and the secretary's answer was that the treasurer had been fired a month ago, and he hadn't recruited since. ”

Seeing that Qiu Degen's face sank, he glanced at the small office location, his heart moved, and continued: "Not only the financial side, but also the advertising and publicity department have been completely disbanded, and there is no one left; The distribution department is now only an empty shelf, and only a few old employees can still run the business...... I asked Mr. Wang about this, and he mentioned that the office of New Asia was too small, so in order not to be overcrowded, he had to streamline the department! ”

After speaking, he paid attention to Qiu Degen's face vaguely, and seeing that his face was even heavier, the corners of Lin Xiaozhi's mouth curved an arc, but it quickly disappeared.

"The company has shot a new zombie film, you are the producer arranged by the company, and you should have been in contact with the information of the movie, talk about your opinion on this movie!"

"Hong Kong's traditional zombie films originated in the mid-to-late 70s, and it wasn't until Lin Zhengying's "Mr. Zombie" swept Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia that they became popular. In the past few years, twenty or thirty zombie films have been released every year. Overall, although the good and bad are mixed, because of the high expectations of the audience, they can basically recover the cost. Zheng Sheng's script of "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies" is very interesting, and it brings together well-known artists such as Zheng Sheng, Wang Xiaofeng, Li Zhi, Lou Nanguang, etc., according to my personal calculations, this movie can not only recover its cost, but also be a box office hit. ”

"Oh?" Qiu Degen didn't expect him to have such a high evaluation of "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies", but after listening to it, he asked more than a dozen questions in a row, not only including the company's business classification, advertising and even film distribution, but he also coped with it easily, showing his proficiency in the company's business, which made Qiu Degen's face a little plump, and after hearing him finish his words, he was able to nod his head to express satisfaction.

"Okay, you're the assistant to the president and you're more competent, at least much more competent than the president!"

After a Q&A, more than 40 minutes passed in a flash. Seeing the long and short hands on the clock walking towards half past eight without hesitation, Qiu Degen suddenly snorted coldly, "It seems that I won't be able to see you President Wang when I come today......

Wang Jia'an had a pen and paper on his desk, he seemed to be silent for a moment, picked up a pen and quickly wrote a phone number on the paper, then put it on the table, got up and picked up the civilization stick he put aside, "When your President Wang comes, let him give me a call!" ”

Looking at him, it seemed that he was ready to leave.

"Good guy, chairman!" Lin Xiaozhi responded with a smile, stepped forward and was about to help him, but was rejected by Qiu Degen with a wave of his hand. This old man who is not tall is walking very fast, he distanced himself from him in two steps, walked quickly to the door of the office, suddenly seemed to remember something, stood still and asked without looking back, "I heard that you are also investing in making a movie, do you like movies?" ”

"I like it, I don't think I have any hobbies, and I used to be in a mess for a long time, but I always feel that movies can bring me a different experience. I have a feeling that maybe I'll have to deal with it for the rest of my life! ”

The old man's hand holding the doorknob seemed to tremble, and he immediately unscrewed the door without hesitation, and was about to leave.

"Please wait, Qiu Sheng......"

Lin Xiaozhi suddenly opened his mouth and shouted to stop him, his sudden change of title made Qiu Degen stand still, and he turned around again after half a step.

Facing those cloudy eyes, Lin Xiaozhi smiled, "Qiu Sheng, if you want to sell New Asia within a year, can you give me priority?" ”

Qiu Degen frowned: "Did Lin Baixin or Lin Jianle ask you to ask?" ”

"No, it's me!" His answer was categorical, and there was a burning fire in his young, godly eyes, which was something called ambition.

The civilized stick tapped lightly on the ground, and the old man did not answer him, but turned away and walked slowly away in the sound of tuk tuk.

It wasn't until the voice could no longer be heard that Lin Xiaozhi turned around and looked at the note that Qiu Degen had left on Wang Jia'an's desk, and a thought suddenly appeared in his head, "...... Is it a coincidence? ”

"Preferably!"