Volume I: Chapter 89: The Appointment
Trouble does come, and it's not small.
After Ni Zhen came to Xinya to make trouble and reported the news, it only took one morning to ferment quickly, and shortly after lunch, Lin Xiaozhi was immediately invited by Qiu Degen to the office to drink a cup of tea, and left him in his office for more than half an hour. This old man doesn't talk nonsense with him, and goes straight to the topic for this matter.
He extremely disagrees with Lin Xiaozhi's decision to poach this year's Miss Hong Kong champion to appear in the New Asia movie, in his words: "...... Just got into a fight and received a few slaps, ATV is now bruised and not ready to play a second game. You're doing this now, what do others think of us ATV? Is it provoking trouble again? It's still the champion of Sister Hong Kong that we dug first, and it's rare to force Wireless to dig our sister Asia, and then the two TV stations will fight for half a year......"
This is the first time Lin Xiaozhi has seen him so angry since he met Qiu Degen, which shows that this old man is really angry.
When he returned to his office, a young man had been sitting in the office, waiting for him for some time. Hearing his footsteps, the young man who was sitting in a corner and looking down at the newspaper suddenly put down the newspaper, stood up and greeted him with a smile: "Mr. Lin......"
"Ashin, you're here, sit ......"
Lin Xiaozhi squeezed out some smiles on his face, and the person who came was Ye Weixin, one of the directors of "Color is Empty", "What, you're done?" ”
Ye Weixin has been running around during this time to buy props, hire professional rhythmic gymnastics instructors, contact the campuses and dormitory buildings and villas that need to be used in the movie, and also apply for attendance with the fire police when filming the movie, etc., there are really a lot of things that need him to be busy, Lin Xiaozhi is good, who made him the president of New Asia, he is responsible for allocating money and selecting the leading actors, in addition to seconding the crew from ATV, he threw all the work that needed to be prepared to Ye Weixin.
Fortunately, this young man who is a few years younger than Lin Xiaozhi is the first time to become a director, and his excitement makes him look like he has installed a perpetual motion machine, Lin Xiaozhi's words just fell, he immediately picked up a folder from the chair next to him and handed it to him, saying: "Mr. Lin, I have almost arranged everything that should be prepared." On the side of the school, I contacted the newly established 'City Polytechnic College' a few years ago, and they only established it in '84, and the school's popularity and student source were far less than other schools, so almost for a nominal price, they agreed to provide us with a filming location, in exchange for the school hoping to make a brief introduction to their school in the movie...... I came here today mainly for two things, the first thing is to tell you about the preparations, and by the way, I will hand over the backup list of the main actors I am ready to Mr. Lin...... This second thing, in fact, I'm just helping Brother Cat bring a sentence, let's talk about it later. ”
What Lin Xiaozhi received was the list of important roles in the movie that he thought was more suitable.
"City Polytechnic Institute?" This name Lin Xiaozhi is a little unfamiliar, although he is very curious about what Brother Mao asked Ye Weixin to bring him, but when he saw that he said it later, he lowered his head and opened the file, and did not forget to reply in his mouth: "I've worked hard for you this time, Ashin." As for the request from the City Polytechnic Institute, we can fully accede to it. Just give it a few shots in the movie. I'll take a look at your list first......"
Flipping through the list prepared by Ye Weixin, Lin Xiaozhi's originally somewhat ugly face also put on a smile.
On Ye Weixin's list, he chose Xu Guanying, one of the most suitable actors in Hong Kong to play the role of silly and silly, but he didn't take into account the fact that the actor was too old and too valuable, no doubt Lin Xiaozhi thought more than him; 2 Chairman Ye Weixin picked Lou Nanguang, which made Lin Xiaozhi a little disappointed after thinking for a while, Lou Nanguang is indeed one of the best green leaf comedy stars in Hong Kong, but not to mention his identity as a wireless host, it is difficult to come to Asia to see him as filming, after all, he does not have the connections and face of Brother Mao, and even if he comes, the salary will not be less than three or four hundred thousand, which is too high.
However, Ye Weixin's choice is not without merit at all, for example, in the choice of the heroine, he wrote three people, all of which made Lin Xiaozhi very excited, and these three people are 'Luo Meiwei, Yuan Jieying and Li Lizhen', all of them are from Hong Kong's well-known beautiful girl artist group - Happy Girl Group. It's a pity that Luo Meiwei is the future sister-in-law of the king, Lin Xiaozhi is not sure if the god of song is already dating her now, and he will not choose her to play the heroine; Not to mention Li Lizhen, but Yuan Jieying is very good, pure enough, it seems that she can also act in spicy scenes, if you think about it carefully, in addition to the slightly higher salary, it seems that she is more suitable for this role than Li Jiaxin.
secretly wrote down Yuan Jieying in his heart, and Lin Xiaozhi looked at the list below, some he knew, and some he didn't know at all, but when he saw the handsome and rich candidates on Ye Weixin's list, his face twitched suddenly, and it took a long time to raise his head, staring at Ye Weixin with wide eyes, until he looked unnatural, then pointed at him with a smile, and scolded with a smile: "I said Ashin, why are you joking with me......"
It turned out that the XXOO heroine caused the heroine the most in the movie "Color is Empty". In the role of the handsome and rich fetus, Ye Weixin actually wrote the words 'Lin Xiaozhi' on the candidate for the role, and actually wanted to arrange this role for him.
Ye Weixin smiled and pushed his glasses, "Mr. Lin, I found it for you." I looked at the candidate you chose, and you want Jiang Hua to play this handsome and rich role, but what to say. I also observed Jiang Hua when he was acting in the crew of "Maoshan" before, and I also went to watch it after the release of "I'm Crazy for Qing", maybe because he is a newcomer, his acting skills are not good, but I always feel that he lacks a temperament, a temperament that a wealthy child should have......"
Lin Xiaozhi glanced at him, he really didn't feel that the wealthy family had any temperament at all.
"And at this point, Mr. Lin, you have a unique advantage, the more I think about it, the more I feel that you are more suitable. And there are villas and luxury sports cars in the play, which I think can definitely be obtained with Mr. Lin's identity...... The most critical point, Jiang Hua starred in this play, how much salary are you going to give? If we add two or three hundred thousand, we will only overrun our budget more and more......"
Yes, Lin Xiaozhi understood it, and his last sentence was the key. In order to save the budget, he is ready to encourage Lin Xiaozhi to make a low-cost cameo to reduce the budget.
All of a sudden, it finally scratched the itch in his heart. Lin Xiaozhi thought about it for a while, then hesitated for a while and said: "This Lou Nanguang does not conform to the image of a senior that has been constructed in my mind, as for the role of a rich man's son...... Let's wait until we talk......"
Although he didn't agree immediately, he didn't refuse either.
Ye Wei was overjoyed with confidence, he naturally heard Lin Xiaozhi's hesitation, as long as he moved, he was afraid that he would resolutely disagree.
It took more than ten minutes to exchange opinions on the selection of actors for each role. Ye Weixin lit a cigarette for himself, and finally mentioned Zheng Zeshi: "Brother Mao asked me to bring you a word, his old friend Huang Zhan wants to invite you to a cup of coffee, the time is this afternoon, if it is inconvenient for Mr. Lin today, it can be postponed to tomorrow...... But I hope you can give a reply! ”
Lin Xiaozhi frowned, trouble really came!
Yesterday, I heard Ni Zhen say crazy things in his office that he would not be able to get along in the Hong Kong film industry, and Lin Xiaozhi scoffed at this.
If this is changed to his old son Ni Mad to say it, and he Lin Xiaozhi does not have the thick thighs of Lin Baixin and ATV, even if he is from a wealthy family, Ni Mad definitely has the ability to drive him out of the film industry.
No way, Ni Mad has too much influence in Hong Kong. This one of Hong Kong's four great talents not only has a personal relationship with Jin Yong, the boss of Hong Kong's top five "Ming Pao", but also is the president of the Hong Kong Writers Association, and at the same time is a brother to Huang Zhan, a great master of composition, and also has a lot of influence in the publishing and political circles. It is not very difficult to use his connections to ban a small film company.
Now it seems that his worst fears have happened. The little old one came out, and it seems that Lin Xiaozhi still underestimated the weight of the most beautiful Hong Kong sister in Ni Zhen's heart now, so much so that the little genius who never asked for help couldn't help but bow his head to his father and ask him to help.
Huang Zhan is Ni Zhen's godfather, and even Zheng Zeshi, one of the shareholders of New Asia, has to give a word to face, even if he doesn't give Ni Mad and Huang Zhan face, he always has to give Zheng Zeshi's face.
Hong Kong, it's still too small.
Zheng Zeshi's face must be given, since he asked Ye Weixin to bring a message, even if he didn't want to go, Lin Xiaozhi also agreed, and promised to meet with them tomorrow.
In this day, Lin Xiaozhi has been staying in his office and has hardly come out, even Zhou Huimin's English tutoring after work has been pushed off by his excuse, staying in the office alone, his hands crackling on the computer until late, only satisfied with the printer to print a few documents, and then left the office to go home.
At noon on the 12th, when Lin Xiaozhi rushed to the café where the two parties agreed to meet, the private room they had agreed to meet was already full.
Even Zheng Zeshi didn't expect Lin Xiaozhi to give face like this, and he was still happy with him, but he found that the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, so he had to take the initiative to stand up and play a round, "Huang Sheng, Ni Sheng, let me introduce you to you, this is our current president of Xinya, Mr. Lin, ......"
"Hello, Huang Sheng, Ni Sheng......"
Lin Xiaozhi said hello expressionlessly, but there was no kindness on his face, although he didn't see Ni Zhen in the private room, but there were three people in the room besides Zheng Zeshi. The most beautiful Hong Kong sister Li Jiaxin Lin Xiaozhi knows, the 'Huang Sheng' that Zheng Zeshi just introduced is undoubtedly Huang Zhan, who is known as the great master of Hong Kong composition and is also the invitee today, as for another man surnamed Ni who looks in his fifties, Lin Xiaozhi guessed his identity as soon as he groaned, Ni Mad of one of the four talents of Xiangjiang.
"Huang Sheng, you are a busy person in the circle, today I suddenly asked Brother Mao to bring a word, you want to invite me, a junior, not just to come for coffee......"
As soon as a few people sat down, Lin Xiaozhi went straight to the topic and asked with a smile on his face.
Huang Zhan glanced at his old friend Ni Mad, laughed twice, looked like a smiling Buddha, and his voice was gentle, and he couldn't hear the slightest anger: "Lin Sheng, why are you in such a hurry." Everyone sat down and chatted, there was really any misunderstanding, but it was resolved! This circle is not big, and multiple friends are always good! ”
There seemed to be another deep meaning in these words, Lin Xiaozhi savored it carefully for a while, and looked at him a few more times.
Ni Mad saw that he didn't answer, and put down the teacup he picked up, and looked at him and said directly: "Lin Sheng is young and promising, he can be in charge of a film company at a young age, a few days ago, the bastard boy in our family had some small misunderstandings, and today I asked a few friends for this matter, and everyone came out to get together to drink coffee and chat, of course, I also have a reluctant invitation, this little girl has just debuted and is not very sensible, but after all, she is a wireless person, and she took your Xinya movie in private, and she will not be able to mix in wireless in the future...... ”
After saying that, Ni Mad turned his face half sideways to look at Li Jiaxin who was sitting next to him, his brows wrinkled slightly, but he quickly smiled again.
He opened his mouth but didn't mention that she took over the filming of erotic films, but just avoided the important point that Li Jiaxin took over the play of the film company under the wireless opponent ATV, and implied that he was afraid that he would not be wirelessly wearing small shoes in the future. It can be seen that compared with his young and vigorous son, this Ni Mad is worthy of his debut, and he has earned tens of millions of family property with just one pen in the past few decades, and he is not as arrogant as he showed in the article.
Lin Xiaozhi's eyes narrowed, and he also glanced at Li Jiaxin, who was sitting on the side with a not good-looking face, and knew what they meant. However, although Ni Mad is slightly different from the arrogant image he is familiar with, it is not necessarily that Lin Xiaozhi is so easy to compromise, he picked up the original coffee on the table, he did not add sugar and milk, took a sip and let the bitter taste fill his mouth, frowned and said: "A few years ago, Ni Sheng suddenly came to our office and threatened to kill us Xinya in the film industry, which made me wonder for a while. Ni Sheng, I'm really curious. Although wireless and ATV are a little hostile, the Shaw Brothers movie has long been discontinued, and our new Asia has taken a formal path and invited Miss Li to film with a high salary, there is no problem, right? ”
He took out the contract with Li Jiaxin from the briefcase he was carrying, and pushed Ni Mad down, "500,000 yuan salary plus box office dividends is definitely the first-class treatment in Hong Kong for a newcomer who has just debuted." I undertake part of the passion scene in the movie, but the contract is clearly written, Miss Li, I also explained it very clearly to you that day, as a regular company, we will not force artists to choose, there are passion scenes in the movie, you can choose to use naked substitute ......"
He turned his head sideways to look at Li Jiaxin, and in an instant, everyone's eyes in the private room fell on her.
Li Jiaxin snorted, after all, she was just an eighteen-year-old girl who had just debuted, a panicked look obviously flashed on her face, and she nodded a little restrainedly, but she didn't speak.
The unhappy expression on Ni Maan's face became more obvious, but fortunately, his old friend Huang Zhan next to him pulled his sleeve, and then turned his face sideways to stop looking at her, but he was afraid that his son's prospective girlfriend who would 'cause trouble' had a worse impression.