In October 1984, the vast majority of Hong Kongers were immersed in joy.

The Hang Seng Index, which has been hovering between 600 and 900 points, soared like a rocket, and by late October it had broken through 1,500 points. Investors who took advantage of the good news of the initialling of the Sino-British agreement have once again experienced the excitement of the soaring stock price a few years ago, and even those who follow the trend of stock speculation can make a lot of money.

Although Hong Kong's property market has not recovered as quickly as the stock market, land prices and property prices have also risen to the level of 3 percent before the bursting of the property bubble, and may be able to recover to more than 5 percent after the New Year's Day.

Seeing that the economy is about to come out of the downturn, Hong Kong citizens are naturally in a carnival, and even the number of moviegoers with major movie theaters has increased significantly.

Kang Jianfei's behavior of buying land and buildings at low prices has finally achieved initial results, and the land and real estate he bought can appreciate by at least 300 million Hong Kong dollars by New Year's Day.

Just when Kang Jianfei was preparing for the new film "The Saint of Gambling", Sidney? Pollack moved quickly, and after getting Kang Jianfei's promise, he finally persuaded Universal Pictures to invest in his humanistic documentary.

"Out of Africa" was eventually filmed by three film companies, including Universal Pictures with an investment of $10 million, Kang Jianfei's leather bag company in the United States, Oriental Film Company, with an investment of $8 million, and Mirage-Entertainment with an investment of $5 million.

If the $23 million budget is not enough, Pollack can only apply for additional investment in the middle of the process, or he can find other investment companies to join him. Many big directors in Hollywood have this problem, they seriously overspent in the middle of filming, and the original investment company refused to spend any more money, so the director had to rely on his three-inch tongue to find another financier to join in.

Don't look at the Hollywood giants of later generations, at this time, Universal Pictures and Paramount are the best mixed. It's harder to get MGM or 20th Century Fox to spend $10 million on documentaries than it is to get to the sky.

In the 70s, the American film industry was still said to be the eight giants of Hollywood, but in the 80s, it became the seven giants. Just three years ago, two soon-to-be-bankrupt giants, MGM and Luen Mei, merged to form the "MGM-Luen Mei" company, which can barely be regarded as a strong combination, but the giant's film market share in North America is only a pitiful 6%.

As for the 20th Century Fox, which cooperated happily with Kang Jianfei, it is also struggling to breathe, even if it is supported by the "Star Wars" series at the bottom of the box, it still can't get rid of the shadow of bankruptcy.

On a macro level, the '70s were actually a period of decline for Hollywood. It wasn't until the 80s that it flourished again. However, this prosperity is reflected in the rapid development of cutting-edge film companies such as New Line, Canoco, Samsung, and Castle Rock (the producer of "The Shawshank Redemption"), and although the overall film market is booming, half of the former Hollywood Big Eight are having a hard time.

Now MGM-Luen Mei and 20th Century Fox are looking for buyers, and it won't be long before MGM will be bought by CNN's parent company, and 20th Century Fox will be bought by Murdoch.

Kang Jianfei's current net worth is about 2.8 billion Hong Kong dollars. can barely mobilize about 500 million funds, which can be regarded as a big rich man. But his money is still too little for dollars. If you want to buy MGM or 20th Century Fox. Kang Jianfei mortgaged all his assets, and he may barely be able to mix with a major shareholder.

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“…… When the oil in the dry pan reaches 5 heat, put in the ribs and fry for about 10 seconds, then switch to low heat to fry, wait for the surface of the ribs to solidify and float on the oil surface, then remove the ......"

A food show called "Heartthrob Cooking Woman" is playing on the TV, and Qiu Huixin, who won the runner-up of the first Miss Oriental beauty pageant. At this time, wearing an apron is teaching everyone to make Cantonese sweet and sour pork ribs.

In order to increase the interest of the show, "Heartthrob Cooking Woman" will also invite a second- or third-tier star as a guest in each issue.

The guests of this issue are Chen Jialing and Fu Mingxian, who have just emerged because of "Happy Ghost 5".

Chen Jialing is 17 years old this year and is the younger sister of Chen Xiuwen, the first sister of Phoenix Terrace. And Fu Mingxian is only 14 years old.

The two beautiful girls are delicate girls who usually don't do housework, and they are in a hurry in the kitchen at this time, either frying the ribs or putting too much vinegar, and even slaughtering the ribs is like a war all over the floor, making a lot of jokes.

"Ah Fei, look at the time, the TV said that it would be fried over low heat for 5 minutes!" Zhong Chuhong in the kitchen shouted.

Kang Jianfei couldn't remember when she put the ribs in the pot, so he could only respond casually: "It's been almost five minutes." ”

Zhong Chuhong hurriedly scooped up the ribs and asked, "What are the steps behind?" ”

"It's like pouring sauce and stir-frying." Kang Jianfei's attention was on a few beauties on TV, and he directly missed several steps.

More than ten minutes later, Zhong Chuhong came out with a plate of black things, and said with a smile: "Taste it, is it delicious?" ”

Kang Jianfei hesitated and stuffed a piece into his mouth, the taste was so strange that he couldn't describe it in words, he faced Zhong Chuhong's smiling face, he had to forcibly swallow the meat, and gave a thumbs up and commented: "The taste is great, but the level needs to be improved, make persistent efforts in the future!" ”

"Is it really delicious? It seems that I still have a lot of talent as a chef. Zhong Chuhong said happily, "I learned all my cooking skills from my mother, and she doesn't know how to make sweet and sour pork ribs." Here, eat another piece! ”

Zhong Chuhong took a piece of pork ribs and sent it to Kang Jianfei's mouth, and the slut Fei endured the churning in his stomach and ate it with relish. Seeing that Zhong Chuhong was going to clip it again, he hurriedly said: "That, it's not good to eat too much sweet things, let's eat them later." ”

Zhong Chuhong sat in Kang Jianfei's arms, twisted a piece of ribs with his shallot-like fingers, stood up with a "vomit" as soon as he stuffed it into his mouth, and rushed to the bathroom quickly.

After a burst of water, Zhong Chuhong walked back to the living room angrily, and when she saw Kang Jianfei smiling evilly, she couldn't help laughing and said, "It's hard for you to still eat." ”

Kang Jianfei pulled Zhong Chuhong over and hugged her, and rubbed her face to face affectionately: "The things you make are delicious even if they are poisons." ”

"Not a word of truth." Zhong Chuhong scolded with a smile.

Kang Jianfei's magic hand stroked Zhong Chuhong's thigh, touched it and suddenly said: "Qiu Hui has a heartthrob miss and once promised to tailor a film for her. I've always had a headache about what TV series to shoot her, and your sweet and sour pork ribs reminded me. ”

Zhong Chuhong asked curiously: "What TV series is related to sweet and sour pork ribs?" ”

"Of course, it's a cooking TV series." Kang Jianfei said while pondering, "There are almost no cooking-themed TV dramas in Hong Kong now, and it will definitely be eye-catching when filmed." The story can be set in modern Hong Kong, where the heirs of a certain court chef went south to escape the military disaster, and branched out in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States.

The heroine played by Qiu Huixin, whose father-in-law and husband are the heirs of the chef, opened a family-style restaurant in Singapore. Suddenly, one day, this hotel was robbed by a mysterious person with a trick, and her in-laws, husband, and son also died in a mysterious car accident, and only Qiu Huixin survived. She was packing up her family's belongings. Knowing that her husband also has an uncle in Hong Kong, she decided to come to Hong Kong to learn cooking from her uncle, hoping to become a generation of chefs by her own efforts, and then take back her husband's family restaurant.

After Qiu Huixin came to Hong Kong, she found out that she had an address from decades ago. Uncle Shi's family didn't know where to move for a long time. The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Qiu Huixin was robbed while walking on the street. All the money and documents on his body were robbed. Penniless, she lived on the streets, eventually working as a dishwasher in a small restaurant.

Qiu Huixin soon found out that the owner of this small restaurant was a master cook, and the boss's son also liked Qiu Huixin, and the plot in the middle was naturally inspirational and warm and nonsense. Later, Qiu Huixin realized that this boss was the teacher she was looking for, so she officially worshipped him as a teacher to learn cooking.

Just when everything is moving in the direction of good. The hero's mother found out about the ambiguous relationship between the two and didn't want her son to marry an older widow, so she beat the mandarin ducks to forcibly break them up, constantly picking eggs and bones, and making small means to drive Qiu Huixin away.

Just Qiu Huixin didn't dare to be humiliated. As she prepares to leave the small restaurant, she suddenly sees her enemy appear. It turned out that the enemy who killed her in-laws and husband was the heir of the divine chef who went to the United States to develop, and in order to get a recipe left by the divine chef, after repeatedly asking for forced purchases, she finally designed to kill her father-in-law and husband. The villain didn't get what he wanted, so he came to Hong Kong again and wanted to get the recipe from the hero's father.

Qiu Huixin hurriedly informed the actor and his father, worried that they would be assassinated by the villain, but the hero's mother thought it was a lie. Because the villain actually let his beautiful daughter come over to seduce the male protagonist in order to get the recipe, the male protagonist's mother naturally hopes that her son can marry the daughter of a rich American man, instead of marrying an unlucky widow.

The villain's daughter originally came purely for the recipe, but she didn't expect to fall in love with the brave, smart and kung fu hero who was also good at cooking, so the plot entered a love triangle in the open and secret battles.

The most bad ending is naturally that the good guys win, the bad guys are unlucky, the heroine Qiu Huixin also learned cooking skills and took back her husband's family restaurant, and the most lull still lives happily with the male protagonist. ”

Listening to Kang Jianfei babbling the plot of the TV series, Zhong Chuhong looked at him in surprise and asked, "These are all what you just thought of?" ”

"I figured it out when I was watching a food show just now." Kang Jianfei said proudly, because these plots do belong to his originality. At present, there is only a rough framework, and as for the details of the script, it is up to professional screenwriters to supplement it.

Although there are many irregularities in this story, it brings together a variety of ratings elements that should be made, and as long as it is filmed well, it will definitely attract the audience.

Zhong Chuhong likes talented men, such as her husband Zhu Jiading in the original time and space. When the two started to procrastinate, Zhu Jiading had not yet opened his own advertising company, and Zhong Chuhong rejected the pursuit of countless rich sons, but chose the talented Zhu Jiading.

Kang Jianfei found a pen and paper to write down the synopsis of the plot, and one by one the ugly Chinese characters fell on the paper, but in Zhong Chuhong's eyes, it was very charming, and he felt that Kang Jianfei at this time was the most handsome and handsome.

Lying next to him watching Kang Jianfei finish writing the story, Zhong Chuhong asked: "Ah Fei, many people are urging your new novel now, when are you going to write it?" ”

As soon as Kang Jianfei mentioned the new book, he was extremely embarrassed, and it had dragged on for seven or eight months from the beginning of the year to now, and Xu Jixin, the editor-in-chief of "Oriental Daily", had urged the manuscript countless times, and he was so anxious that he wanted to hack Kang Jianfei to death.

"I've found someone to ghostwrite." Kang Jianfei said.

"Why do you need someone to ghostwrite?" Zhong Chuhong asked strangely.

Kang Jianfei sighed and said: "How can I have time to write it myself, I can only write out the plot outline and let someone write it for me." Now the novel has an eyebrow, and in a few days it will be serialized in the newspaper. ”

Zhong Chuhong asked, "What's the name of the new novel?" ”

Kang Jianfei smiled: "Keep it secret for the time being." ”

"Forget it...... Hmm. Zhong Chuhong pouted, and before she could get angry, she was held down by Kang Jianfei and kissed her. (To be continued......)