On October 17, after the end of the first day of release, as previously announced, Debao Cinema chose to draw the film New Asia, and Lin Xiaozhi did not express any objection to this.

After the box office dropped by 30 in the second week of release, the total box office in the third six days of release was only 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the average daily box office was less than 400,000.

On the day of its release, the total box office in Hong Kong was 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, which was still in the first two weeks when the high-quality resources of Debao Cinema Line were tilted, and "Friends" finally ended up in Hong Kong. It seems that it is really difficult to get Hong Kong audiences to adapt to this kind of black humor movies with a strong western wind in a short period of time.

Debao has not released any self-produced films this year, so this theater is still the first distributor that New Asia thought of. Although New Asia's "Friends" did not achieve good results as the senior management of Debao Cinema Line thought, when New Asia contacted Debao again and hoped to schedule Lin Xiaozhi's new movie, Debao still attached great importance to it. Cen Jianxun, president of the cinema chain, still came forward in person to negotiate with New Asia. Lin Xiaozhi hopes that "Killer Leon" will be released on the same day as the UK, but the schedule on Debao's side cannot be arranged, and after negotiation between the two parties, it was finally determined that "Killer Leon" will be released in Debao Cinemas on the day of the month. If you calculate the time, the UK side will be released two days earlier than Hong Kong. first outside the city and then the local, but it has created a new record for Hong Kong films.

This is also something that can't be helped, because Debao Cinemas is also one of the three major cinema chains in Hong Kong, and many movies have applied for film scheduling in Debao in advance. If it weren't for the fact that Debao Cinemas had made a lot of money from the cooperation with New Asia in the past year, it would not have been possible to squeeze out the schedule and release theater resources for "Killer Leon" more than half a month later after receiving Lin Xiaozhi's call.

Although there are some regrets, but the days have to look forward. In addition, in order to take care of the local side, after some thinking, Lin Xiaozhi decided to hold a midnight preview in Hong Kong on the day of the Hong Kong side.

As Lin Xiaozhi's first midnight test screening after taking charge of New Asia, he is still very fond of it. not only used his influence to invite many film company executives in advance, including Deng Guangrong, Li Xiuxian, Chen Xunqi, Huang Baiming, Wu Siyuan and others, but even Debao Shuangxiong also sent invitations. In addition, he did not leave behind his friends and stars in the circle, Zhou Yunfa, Wu Mengda, Zeng Zhiwei, Gao Zhisen, etc., who the film company just announced the discontinuation of production, and even Wu Yusen, Xu Ke, who are not very familiar with people, also received his invitation, as well as some critics and media in the film critics.

The place where the midnight preview screening was held, Lin Xiaozhi arranged it in a movie theater called "Dongwang". This is a private cinema, which only started construction in the mid-eighties, and the equipment is relatively new. Although it only has one screening hall, it has seats that can accommodate more than 300 people at the same time, which is rare in Hong Kong, and was selected by Lin Xiaozhi to become the midnight test screening of "Killer Leon".

The waiting time for the release passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Lin Xiaozhi had already revised the script he prepared for Chen Baiqiang to restore his fame. Even He Fan, under his persuasion, finally agreed to shoot the director of his new creation, which may cost more than five million Hong Kong dollars, reaching about six or seven million Hong Kong dollars. But Lin Xiaozhi still felt a little uncomfortable, and his secretary Zhou Huimin had been on leave for nearly a month. He hadn't drunk the black tea she had brewed for almost a month, and no one had come to help him clean up the office every day for a month.

After returning to the company after hurriedly participating in the worship ceremony of "Silly Guy Worshipping Birthday" directed by Liu Zhenwei, Lin Xiaozhi's ass was still hot, and Assistant Wu knocked on the door of his office and walked in, bringing him a message from Zhou Huimin.

"I want to ask for leave again, you said Amin was here just now?"

Lin Xiaozhi frowned, and lightly tapped his finger on a piece of paper, this is what Assistant Wu just brought, it is Zhou Huimin's leave note.

Assistant Wu nodded, "Dong Lin, just half an hour after you left, Miss Zhou came to the company, she should have wanted to hand over the leave letter to you in person, and she sat in our secretary's room for half an hour before leaving." I asked her, it seems that there are relatives in the family who have been admitted to the hospital, because they have not been discharged from the hospital, so they can't leave her care for the time being, so I can only continue to ask for leave."

On Zhou Huimin's side, someone in his family was hospitalized, and he already knew about it. However, he has not been discharged from the hospital for a month, and he can't do without someone to take care of him, so he seems to be very sick. He also guessed this, and he originally said that he would take time to see it, but recently he was busy with the promotion and release of "Killer Leon", and he was also preparing for the midnight test screening, so he was so busy that he forgot about it.

Now listening to what Assistant Wu said, it also confirms what he thinks. However, he was a careful person, listened carefully to what she said, and when he heard a place, he was a little puzzled and asked, "She still stayed in the company for more than half an hour?" ”

If you just want to take a leave of absence, just call him directly. But Zhou Huimin personally came to the company to hand him a leave letter, and stayed in the company for a while after learning that he was gone. If he guessed correctly, she should have something to say, and it was inconvenient to say it on the phone, so I wanted to take the opportunity to hand over the leave letter in person to make it clear to him

Sure enough, Assistant Wu's following words also proved that his idea should be correct.

"Yes, Lin Dong. Secretary Zhou should have something on his mind, and he is always distracted when chatting with us. She was going to leave immediately, but then I heard that you were just going to attend the opening ceremony, and you should have come back soon before staying and sitting for half an hour...... That's right, Lin Dong. I listened to Secretary Zhou's tone, and it seemed that I had the idea of resigning? ”

These words made his eyeballs shrink suddenly, and he nodded at her for a while, "Okay, Assistant Wu, there's nothing for you to do here, go get busy"

"Yes"

The sound of the door closing when Assistant Wu left sounded, and Lin Xiaozhi, who lowered his head and frowned slightly in thought, raised his head, took out a pack of Marlboro from his clothes pocket, lit a cigarette for himself, and smoked it.

I don't know what's going on, but when I heard Assistant Wu mention that Zhou Huimin wanted to resign, he felt a little irritable for a moment.

Most people are very nostalgic creatures, and he Lin Xiaozhi is the same. Looking through the leave letter again, his eyes carefully swept over the few lines of delicate small print on the paper, and his irritable mood did not disappear much because of the stimulation of tobacco, but the more his brain thought about it

After a long time, he took a sharp puff, directly smoked the remaining small half of the cigarette, extinguished the cigarette butt, and picked up the mobile phone on the table

Before he knew it, he was used to it, and there was always someone to help him tidy up his office. Unconsciously, he also got used to the taste of the black tea brewed by Zhou Huimin for him. Even if he thought about it too much, he should have made this call.

"Dingding......

The continuous ringing of the phone was thought about for a long time and no one answered, it seemed that the owner was not at home, Lin Xiaozhi glanced at the time on the wall, and found that the time was almost ten o'clock. After thinking for a while, he picked up the phone and his coat, explained to Zhu Zhishan that he had something to call him, and then drove straight to Zhou Huimin's house.

In the past, when Zhou Huimin was helping him tutor English, Lin Xiaozhi didn't send her home, but he also knew where she lived. He quickly drove to the public rental housing community where Zhou's family was located, found a place to park the car, and made a phone call to her home but no one answered, he locked the car and walked over without hurrying.

"Hello, old sir. May I ask, do you know what happened to the people in this family? ”

Unexpectedly found that under a green shade near Zhou Huimin's house, two old people were sitting there chatting, and after Lin Xiaozhi knocked on the door to no avail, he just walked over and asked the two old people who seemed to live nearby.

One of the old men looked at him for a moment before asking, "Young man, do you know Amin?" ”

Lin Xiaozhi nodded: "She is my colleague and hasn't been to work for a while." I asked her on the phone and didn't say, I came over to see what the situation was."

"Alas, it's hard for this kid Amin."

Another old man with a strong Hokkien accent sighed before saying, "Amin is a good boy, but his life is too bitter." There is no man in their family of three, and some time ago the old lady and her mother had problems one after another, and I heard that one fell down the stairs, and I am afraid that I will not be able to move for half a year. The old lady was even more anxious to go into heart shock, and she didn't know if she had woken up now. ”

"Wake up, wake up Xiao Zhang is the most enthusiastic, the day before yesterday I went to see it with his mother, and when I came back, I happened to bump into it and asked a few words. I could see it before this kid hit him, and he liked it...... What are you pulling me in......

Looking at the old man who kept glancing at his companions, and looked at his own eyes that began to become strange. Lin Xiaozhi saw that he had misunderstood something, he was amused, handed over a few cigarettes, and asked, "Old man, do you know what hospital they are living in now?" ”

"Knowing the way, knowing the way. It's the Cheung Chau Hospital over there......"

After asking the place and the way to go, Lin Xiaozhi said thank you, drove on the road and asked while walking, and by the way, he bought some melons and fruits and flowers suitable for visiting patients in nearby flower shops and fruit shops, and after asking a few road policemen, it took more than 20 minutes to arrive at the Changzhou Hospital, which was not very large.

"Sir, do you want to register?"

After parking the car, Lin Xiaozhi quickly walked into the hospital hall, and just walked to the registration counter, a hospital employee in his thirties looked up at him, and his other hand touched a stack of registration forms next to him.

"Hello, I'm here to visit a patient, and I would like to ask you what room the next patient is in now......"

When the words came to his mouth, he suddenly found that he didn't know the names of Zhou Huimin's mother and grandmother, and he pondered for a while before frowning and said: "I don't know the name of the patient, I only know that her daughter's name is Zhou Huimin, and I am her daughter's colleague."

The employee looked at him for a while, until he saw the flowers he was holding in his arms to visit the patient, and the fruit he was carrying, then asked him to wait a while, then picked up the phone and called the information management office, and after asking for a while, he asked: "Sir, there are two patients here whose family members are registered with Ms. Zhou Huimin, but one is in room 30U of the orthopedic ward, and the other is in room l17 of the intensive care unit."

Even Lin Xiaozhi himself didn't expect to ask the place so easily, and hurriedly thanked her, and after thinking about it and asking her how to go to the orthopedic ward, he picked up his things and walked to room 30U.