Whether it is in the old photos that the employee collects, or the gossip news she hears, or in the works of Ms. Zhang Ailing, she should be graceful, beautiful, and independent in the city.

But when I really saw her getting older, I felt that she was actually an ordinary old man. Those so-called temperaments, faces, and conversations are all gone, and only a somewhat neurotic old man is left, babbling something to him, which sounds like he is chanting the scriptures, but the content is clearly not like it.

The house where Ms. Zhang Ailing lives is also dilapidated, not as prosperous as the small western-style buildings or villas described in the novel, but some of them are like old buildings in the alleys of the old Shanghi, in which a person who may have been famous lived.

The employee quickly explained his intentions, and to his surprise, Ms. Zhang Ailing was not reserved, but quickly agreed to his request and happily sold the film and television adaptation rights of the work to him. This surprised the employee, because Ms. Zhang Ailing's performance seemed to be eager to get rid of her work as soon as possible.

Xu Guanwu couldn't help but be shocked after hearing the employee's feedback, and later he learned that in addition to the embarrassment of Ms. Zhang Ailing at this time, the bigger reason was that the long-term displacement, difficult life, and unfortunate fate had made her no longer value things outside her body.

In fact, when Ms. Zhang Ailing died, there were more than 300,000 US dollars in bank deposits, and more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars at the exchange rate at that time, which could be regarded as a large amount of money at that time. In particular, the copyright of her works is even more valuable. But she was living in a small house that didn't even have a comfortable bed.

Xu Guanwu has no special feelings for Zhang Ailing Enlai. But I heard that a woman with a peerless elegance was lonely to such a situation. I can't help but feel a sense of sadness and impermanence. He couldn't help Ms. Zhang solve her mental dilemma. I can only compensate her a little more in terms of material.

Xu Guanwu asked the employee to buy the rights to all of Ms. Zhang's novels for $100,000 per book, so that Ms. Zhang could conservatively estimate that she could also get a huge sum of more than two or three million dollars, which was already a large amount of money at the time.

However, according to the news reported by the employees, it seems that Ms. Zhang Ailing does not have much feeling about the amount of money. There was no expression of gratitude to the generous Xu's Group, nor an expression of surprise or excitement, but he just took the check lightly.

Xu Guanwu couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, this is indeed inconsistent with Ms. Zhang Ailing's consistent style.

In fact, during the fall of Shanghi in the 40s, Ms. Zhang Ailing continued to publish novels in Japanese pseudo-publications. And most of the Chinese intellectuals at that time. All in the southwest and northwest insisted on academic research, or carried out anti-Japanese propaganda. Even the popular novelist Zhang Hatshui, who also lived in Zhongqing, began to publish works with anti-Japanese tendencies.

She also once said that she likes money because she has suffered from not having money. He also said, "For me, money is money, and I can buy all kinds of things I want." This view is somewhat bold even now, let alone decades ago.

But now she suddenly doesn't like money, and she doesn't pay attention to life anymore. He was willing to live in such a small house, living quietly alone. It's amazing. Probably these years of suffering have made her realize that the so-called peace of mind is the truth of physical comfort, and she is no longer entangled in external objects such as money. It's just that she has moved more than 180 times because she wants to find a place of peace of mind, and as if to prove that the so-called peace of mind is not so easy to find, she always says that there will be fleas in the house to bite her. As she said when she was seventeen, "Life is a beautiful robe crawling with fleas." ”

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After the film and television adaptation rights of "Love in a Fallen City" were in hand, Xu Guanwu immediately planned to start filming this movie. The director of this film chose Wang Tianlin, the father recommended by Wang Jing.

Wang Tianlin is a great director with equal works, he made a lot of movies at Cathay Pacific that year, and later Dianmao closed the door because of the boss's plane crash, Director Wang had to devote himself to the field of TV again, and filmed many wonderful TV series in TVB. Such as "Book of Swords and Enmity", "Frenzy", "King of a Thousand Kings", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and so on.

In addition to filming TV series, Director Wang also carefully taught extremely good disciples, and his son Wang Jing was educated by him since he was a child, so naturally there is no need to say more. There are also big directors like Du Qifeng , Lin Lingdong and other big directors are also his disciples.

After director Wang Tianlin received Xu Guanwu's invitation, he has been making preparations these days, in addition to desperately recalling the old Shanghi and the customs of old Hong Kong, he also wrote more than 100,000 words of footnotes for "Love in a Fallen City", which greatly enriched the details of the work. Although Wang Jing's script has been written very well, he does not have the life experience of his father Wang Tianlin, so many places are blocked from the lungs, and now with the help of his father, it undoubtedly makes the script more delicate and credible.

The reason why Director Wang did this not only wanted to make this movie well, but also because he didn't want his son to lose face. After all, it was his son who recommended him to shoot this movie, and if he didn't look good, his son would not be able to raise his head in front of his boss in the future.

In addition to the selection of the heroine of the movie "Love in a Fallen City" is Lin Qingxia, another important role, Fan Liuyuan, has encountered problems in the selection of candidates. Fan Liuyuan is a prodigal son in love, who has stayed abroad for higher education, and has tried to live a poor life without money and has also been hurt by love, so he is very distrustful of people, and feels that people are rushing for his money, and he never pays for his feelings, basically just dips and leaves. Ten thousand flowers have passed, and the leaves do not stick to the body.

Bai Tassel is a down-and-out rich lady like Zhang Ailing, and she also lived a life of fine clothes and food when she was a child, but the gradually lonely family made her unbearable and didn't want to live this kind of poor life anymore. So she desperately wants to marry Fan Liuyuan, a rich son, even though she already knows that he is a prodigal son in love, and basically will not really have feelings with her. But at that time, Bai Tassel felt that she had no way out, and she didn't want to go back to the Bai family's old house to live a hard life, so she resolutely went to Hong Kong to find Fan Liuyuan with the only sum of money. Then the two of them fought in the Repulse Bay Hotel. Fan Liuyuan, who was still the most desireless, won the victory. Just when he wanted to leave. The Japanese army suddenly bombed the Repulse Bay area, and Fan Liuyuan had to stay in the hotel and experience this hardship with the white tassel. Bai Tassel was very happy, and Zhilu said, "Such a tribulation is enough to be a husband and wife for ten years." Although Fan Liuyuan married Bai Tassel later, he still did not change his previous romantic attitude, and still liked to mess with flowers and grass outside, but for Bai Tassel, this seems to be the true meaning of marriage. Because it's your own person when you marry home, you don't need to say those sweet words anymore.

This story is not a traditional love story of a prince and a princess, but it is one of Zhang Ailing's most famous works, and has been adapted into movies and TV series many times.

This time, Lin Qingxia will play the white tassel, Lin Qingxia's beauty is well known, and she is extravagant, so it is perfect to play the role of this young lady from a down-and-out family.

However, there are some problems in the choice of the male lead, and among the popular movie stars under the Xu family, there are almost no male stars with a style like Fan Liuyuan. Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long. Yuan Biao and the other stars naturally don't need to be mentioned, and it is more difficult to let them make love movies than to make them jump off the building. And like Mai Jia. Lu Liangwei, Chen Guantai and others are also clearly inappropriate.

As for TVB, Zheng Shaoqiu has always been a hero, although he is dashing, but playing Fan Liuyuan is not in harmony with his age. And Liu Songren's Jin Zhenxi in "Jinghua Spring Dream" is the image of a wandering son, which is in line with Wang Tianlin's consideration of Fan Liuyuan, but Liu Songren is still filming the "Lu Xiaofeng" series recently, and may not be able to spare time to shoot "Love in a Fallen City". As for another popular student, Zhou Runfa is handsome enough, young enough, and full of luxury, so he is more suitable for this role than Liu Songren. It's just that Zhou Yunfa himself is not very interested in this role, in his opinion, he has read few books, and he can't play such a polite and dashing son.

Hong Kong really couldn't find a suitable one, so director Wang Tianlin quickly set his sights on the other side of the strait, and then found Qin Xianglin at a glance. Qin Xianglin is handsome, and he also has the nickname of Charlie of the flower heart, and he has cooperated with Lin Qingxia many times, and they have also established a deep tacit understanding with each other, so it would be perfect if he could play Fan Liuyuan.

As soon as Wang Tianlin's nomination for the actor was reported, Xu Guanwu, who was immediately angry, almost spurted blood. It is not good to choose which person to play against Lin Qingxia, so she has to choose her former rumored boyfriend. I'm worried that the two of them won't be able to get along, right?!

Xu Guanwu immediately rejected Wang Tianlin's proposal and asked him to nominate a new candidate. After careful consideration, Wang Tianlin recommended Liu Songren.

Xu Guanwu does not have a very deep impression of Liu Songren, and the deepest impression is probably Chen Jinnan played in Zhou Xingchi's version of "The Legend of Deer and Ding", who is serious on the surface, but secretly he is quite dark. "The Qing Dynasty has always oppressed us Han people and robbed us of silver and women, so we want to oppose the Qing Dynasty." "Xiaobao, you are a smart person, I can use the method of a smart person to talk to you, but people outside can't."

Liu Songren is also one of the veterans of TVB, although he was born in Li and later defected to TVB, but he was highly praised in TVB, and he was invited to play an important role as soon as he came, and the next year he starred in "Lu Xiaofeng", becoming a household name and a popular star. Liu Songren's star journey has always been very open, and there have been few lows after his debut, but he is mostly king on the small screen, but the development on the big screen is not satisfactory.

Xu Guanwu is noncommittal about Liu Songren playing Fan Liuyuan, in fact, the role of Fan Liuyuan in his mind is actually the role of Zhou Yanfa. Because Zhou Yanfa has been developing in the TV field for many years, although recently he has become the most popular fried chicken in Hong Kong because of his appearance in the popular drama "Shanghai Tang". But after all, there is still a limit to the development of the TV field, and it is not as broad as the film field back then, so Xu Guanwu wants to hand over this opportunity to Zhou Yunfa.

Zhou Runfa originally didn't want to participate in this movie, because according to his own words, he really couldn't play the kind of polite son, but in fact, Xu Wenqiang in "Shanghai Tang" is set as a college student, and no one seems to be picky about anything when played by Chow Yun-fat, so Xu Guanwu ignored Zhou Runfa's opposition at the moment, and directly deducted this role that others dreamed of to him.

After the two leading actors gathered, the other roles were naturally easier to handle, and soon the crew had been prepared neatly, and then the costumes, props, sets, etc., also began to be prepared.

Because this drama is Lin Qingxia's comeback two years after her retirement, it is related to whether she can successfully gain a foothold in Hong Kong in the future, so Xu Guanwu naturally does not hesitate to invest in this drama. All costumes, sets, props, etc., should be purchased in a new one, and the best one should be. even built a street for filming, which really makes people feel immersive.

After all the preparations were in place, "Love in a Fallen City" officially started filming.

On the same day, the finale of "Shanghai Tang" was broadcast, and Xu Wenqiang was beaten to death by the Japanese at the door.

The whole of Hong Kong was a sensation. (To be continued......)