115. Houston
As soon as Eva's car arrived at the Houston highway intersection, a sky blue BMW 745 was waiting to get down. Hua Ben has seen Yao Ming's car, he took this car to Yao's restaurant during the Houston race before, he was quite envious at the time, and now there is the emperor of the earth, this kind of car will hit at will.
"Let's go to lunch first, right?" The BMW's window opened, revealing a huge face in the driver's seat.
Eva pressed the window on her side, and her extremely charming appearance appeared in Yao Ming's field of vision, Hua Ben sat in the back, and the window glass came with a one-way anti-radiation film, Yao Ming couldn't see it.
Yao Ming didn't know Eva, but when he talked on the phone before, Hua Ben told him that he was driving an Opel K10 modified sports car. Seeing a strange beautiful girl, Yao Ming was a little embarrassed and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I made a mistake." ”
Eva knew Yao Ming, in fact, the fame of this big Chinese man was much higher than that of her concubine, she smiled lightly, opened the back door glass, and Hua Ben lay on the back seat like a landlord and waved his hand: This car is really crowded.
Yao Ming took Hua Ben directly to Wisheimer Street in Houston's West Neighborhood, the city's busiest high-end dining street, where Yao's restaurant is located.
After getting out of the car, he asked for advice: "Ben, I happen to have a hometown meeting today, do you want to join us?" It's all our Chinese friends, if you're not interested, I'll go say hello and take you to open an extra private room. ”
Since coming to the United States, Yao Ming has always been a spokesman for humility, known as an oriental gentleman, no matter what he does, he is not leaky.
"It's so crowded." Hua Ben didn't want Yao Ming to be difficult, not to mention that since he came to the NBA, he has rarely had contact with real Chinese people.
It was indeed very lively, Yao Ming directly took the two of them to the largest private room on the second floor of Yao Restaurant, opened the door, and a group of people were chatting about something, seeing Yao Ming's figure, these people smiled and waved to him. Yao Ming said hello, then invited Hua Ben and Eva in, and said thoughtfully, "I'll introduce you to you." ”
Hua Ben smiled and refused in English: "No need, Yao, I have studied your Chinese entertainment industry, in fact, I have always been interested in the film and television industry, including Indian Bollywood and your Hong Kong, I know something." ”
"Hello, Mr. Zhou." Hua Ben first shook hands with a handsome middle-aged man with a baseball bat and a black mustache, the big brother in the Hong Kong film industry, Chow Yun-fat.
Hua Ben didn't expect to see this powerful and idol actor who only exists in legends here, Chow Yun-fat obviously didn't expect Hua Ben to know himself, and he was a little surprised for a while, he knew Hua Ben, came to the United States, Hollywood, NBA, NBL and other big names appeared on TV and promotional posters every day.
"When I was in college, I liked to watch oriental movies, and I watched your "True Colors of Heroes", "God of Gamblers", and "Shanghai Tang", which was very good, and my roommates called you Marlon Brando of the East." Hua Ben held Chow Yun-fat's hand and complimented, and finally said five words in Chinese, "Brother Xiaoma, hello." ”
The hands touched, and the voice of the surname in the intelligence center sounded: "Dear host, the system has 3700 points, and after screening, it was found that the skill level skill 'actor performance' (worth 2000 points), the skill holder is Chow Yun-fat, according to the system's judgment, you and Mr. Zhou's friendship degree has not reached 50% and cannot absorb this skill." ”
Anyway, bragging about not paying taxes and saying good things doesn't cost money, this kind of no-capital trading Huaben likes to do it the most. Chow Yun-fat was praised by Hua Ben and smiled, in fact, since he came to Hollywood, Xiao Ma has not been very happy, he found that in this country where the promotion of racial equality is really discriminatory, he has no chance to display his talent at all, whether it is a filmmaker or a fan, he has a strong sense of hostility because of his yellow skin.
If Hua Ben just recognized his name and the like, he would only be happy, but now that the other party praised him, he was a little surprised, he was still the first sports star to meet a Chinese movie, especially the other party's sentence 'Hello Little Ma', which made him inexplicably emotional.
"I'm also your fan, Ben, you've done a great job in Detroit, you've impressed the world with your team, and I think this season's championship is in your pocket." Chow Yun-fat reciprocated and praised Li that in fact, he didn't know much about the NBA, and he was only familiar with a few leading stars of the Lakers, but Yao Ming had told these people that Big Ben might be coming, so these people had a rough understanding of Huaben's details.
Seeing that these stars in the room were looking at him in surprise, Hua Ben decided to show his hand again, have a good relationship with these people, and make it convenient to go to Hong Kong and Taiwan to make money in the future, so he responded to Chow Yun-fat in pretending to be stiff Chinese: "For us, the championship is to pinch the snail with five fingers, and the hand is caught." ”
This sentence made everyone in the room exclaim in surprise, including Yao Ming, who didn't expect Daben to have this ability.
Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene was enthusiastic, Yao Ming took advantage of the situation to point to a woman in a white dress with a beautiful goose egg face and asked, "Ben, test you, do you know this beautiful young lady?" ”
"Actually, I've seen the movies "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero", Miss Zhang Ziyi, your performance is outstanding, my current teammate Chauncey Billups is your fan, can you send me an autographed photo later?" Hua Ben smiled, but in fact, he sneered in his heart, your sister, how could Lao Tzu not know this girl? Billups has wronged you today, anyway, you like beautiful women, although this Zhang Ziyi's character is not good, she can be regarded as a high-level beauty in the Chinese film and television industry.
Zhang Ziyi was a little surprised, she is also planning to come to Hollywood to make money now, but after she came, she encountered the same troubles as Chow Yun-fat, and other Hollywood producers and film companies didn't like her at all, and now she was worrying, planning to find a star to have a scandal to boost her popularity, and it happened that Huaben appeared in front of her.
Elegantly stretched out his hand and shook hands with Hua Ben, Zhang Ziyi looked at Hua Ben with eyes and said: "Your understanding of our Chinese movies is really amazing, I have never seen a star who has such a deep understanding of our movies as you." ”
Profound your sister, Lao Tzu's understanding of Chinese movies is probably deeper than yours, Hua Ben doesn't like Zhang Ziyi very much, because according to the tips of the intelligence center, Zhang Ziyi's acting skills are only proficient, and the gap is too far from Chow Yun-fat's magic skills, but this is a favorability of 50%.
There are still some celebrities sitting here, but there is no Jet Li who is most interested in Hua Ben, but there is a man with an evil and domineering appearance who attracted his attention, he focused on shaking hands and said: "Mr. Zou Zhaolong, hello, I have seen your movie, you have interpreted some negative roles very well, if you have the opportunity to go to Detroit, welcome to come to me as a guest." ”
Hua Ben once read an article about Zou Zhaolong in his previous life, and he knew something about his life, this is a very remarkable man, and his development in the film and television industry is simply an inspirational masterpiece. His background is close to Daben, Zou Zhaolong, who was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has a total of thirteen brothers and sisters, his father died early when he was a child, he made money to support his family at the age of eight, and joined the film industry at the age of twelve. Later, he began to learn taekwondo and Muay Thai, and in addition to being a stand-in, he secretly learned some martial arts stars in the fighting skills of film shooting, and finally slowly embarked on the road of acting.
"I have eleven siblings, and I know how difficult it was for us to survive as children." Waben said with a sigh.
When this sentence came out, Zou Zhaolong felt like a confidant, he patted Hua Ben's shoulder and said: "I will definitely visit you in the future, I think we will have a lot of common topics, and we will have a meeting later, for our similar childhood life, let's have a drink!" ”
Handled the first meeting with the stars with ease, Hua Ben and Yao Ming sat together, and then started to eat.
At the dinner table, Huaben and Eva talked less, and kept listening to these celebrities chatting and saying some news about the American entertainment industry.
Later, Yao Ming called Hua Ben out of the private room, and it seemed that he was going to get down to business.
"Do you know how many cars I have?" Yao Ming suddenly asked this inexplicable question at the tea party.
"Two? Three? Hua Ben guessed that he really didn't know, but he vaguely remembered that the little giant seemed to like to play with cars, so he guessed two more.
Yao Ming smiled: "You are really powerful, in fact, it can be said that it can be said to be two, or it can be said to be three." In addition to the BMW you've seen, I also have a Toyota, but now I drive it for my mother. In fact, the first car I owned was a Mercedes. Remember the 2002 World Championships in Indianapolis? Our country's men's basketball team only achieved 1 win and 8 losses with a disgraceful surname, I was very depressed, just wandering around the streets of Polis, and then walked into a Mercedes-Benz 4S store, at that time I took a fancy to a silver Mercedes-Benz, 80,000 US dollars, I bought it with a credit card, but then just arrived, I took a fancy to the current BMW 745, so I sent the Mercedes-Benz back. ”
Hua Ben nodded, pretending to be at a loss, in fact, he already knew what Yao Ming was going to say.
Sure enough, Yao Ming sighed and said: "I don't know if you have watched those games, our team was terrible at that time, winning one game in nine games, and the bottom of the group, I really didn't have the face to go back to see our fans at that time." ”
Hua Ben comforted: "Basketball is not your strong point, it's nothing, didn't our table tennis and badminton also be played by you very badly?" ”
Yao Ming smiled bitterly: "This is different, Ben, in fact, we could not have been like this, have you seen Wang Zhizhi?" It's the Chinese king of the Heat, you might think he's average, but he's very good at international competitions. I don't want to admit it, but I have to say that in our national team, he played a bigger role than me, and if we had him, we would never be like this! ”
Hua Ben nodded and said: "The king of China is very suitable for the international arena, he can be inside and out, if you cooperate with you, your country's inside line is very good, so why don't you let him play?" ”
This is not a hypocritical compliment, Wang Zhizhi was only 27 years old at this time, and unlike the old center forward we see now who couldn't run, Wang Zhizhi at his peak was simply a weakened version of Nowitzki. The big center sits on the inside, and the small center roams high in the high, which is the tactic of the Spurs when they won the championship in their first year.
"yes, a really good player can't play." Yao Ming slammed the table hatefully, with an angry expression on his face, "I can't give you a detailed explanation, I can only give you a general explanation, our national sports are different from yours, and some of Wang Zhizhi's practices make the leaders of our National Sports Bureau feel dissatisfied-of course, maybe there is something wrong with Dazhi, but those leaders think that he has challenged their dignity, so they ban him!" As a result, now Wang Zhizhi is disheartened with our national team, and the two sides have started a cold war. ”
"Do you know who hurts the most? It's not for those bitche-raised leaders, nor for Wang Zhizhi, but for our national basketball game! It's for those basketball fans who love the sport! They desperately want to see the basketball of our country improve, but those bureaucrats have stifled these progress for their own selfish desires! The more Yao Ming spoke, the more angry he became, "Ben, please help me." ”
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