Chapter 333: Chinese New Year
Bai Xiaolu also came back to Sanya for the first time for the New Year, and she found that Sanya is not a city-wide ban on firecrackers and fireworks, and some squares in Sanya can set off fireworks during the Spring Festival.
She couldn't help but sigh, "Tourist cities are different, at least to meet the wishes of many tourists to watch fireworks." ”
Zheng Wentong said: "Puhai is not a city-wide ban on fireworks, but the urban area is not allowed, and fireworks can still be set off in the outer ring." ”
Bai Xiaolu leaned on the recliner and looked at the quiet bay from afar, "I remember the Chinese New Year in the first four years, when you went home for the New Year, you set off fireworks at that time, and you also took a video to show me, which made me envious to death, and we didn't allow fireworks in the whole city of Longcheng." ”
Zheng Wentong also didn't understand Bai Xiaolu's obsession with fireworks, she used to visit Disneyland with Yang Zi, and she was reluctant to leave the park after watching the fireworks show, maybe women just can't resist this kind of colorful splendor.
Because the company's affairs have been dealt with, Zheng Wentong is relatively relaxed for the New Year this year. He asked White Deer, "Disneyland originally didn't have a fireworks show, do you know why the fireworks show was held at the end of the day?" ”
Bai Xiaolu supported his chin with his hand and asked very cooperatively, "Why?" ”
"Because Disneyland is so big, if guests are hiding in a corner of the park and it's hard for staff to find them, then if Disneyland is closed, guests may be in danger of staying in the park."
"Later, Disneyland came up with a way to hold a light show before closing, and the light show venue was also relatively wide and divided into areas. After the visitors have watched the light show, the staff can remind the visitors to leave the park in an orderly manner, reducing their workload. Zheng Wentong explained.
Bai Xiaolu said: "This is indeed a good way, Pony galloping to build a three-body cinema, will you have a fireworks show then?" ”
"This specific need to communicate with the Jiangchu Municipal Government, Jiangchu City also prohibits fireworks, and may not agree to set off fireworks for safety reasons."
"Our three-body cinema is built next to the largest urban lake in China, focusing on sci-fi style, so we can consider introducing a 5D light show and a water curtain show on the lake, which can also attract a large number of tourists." Zheng Wentong introduced the planning of the Three-Body Cinema to Bai Xiaolu.
Bai Xiaolu, as a representative of Tonglu Investment Fund and a director of Pony Galloping, also cares about Pony Galloping's two movies "The Wandering Earth" and "Operation Red Sea" released on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Bona Films, the co-producer of "Operation Red Sea", has begun to warm up for the film on social media, but Pony Gallop has not promoted "The Wandering Earth" on a large scale.
"The Wandering Earth" stars Wu Jing, Wu Lei, Wu Mengda and Zhao Jinmai have already started promoting the film on Weibo and Weitoutiao.
Wu Jing said in an interview with the media that he was completely fooled by Zheng Wentong and director Guo Fan.
After Wu Jing finished filming "Wolf Warrior 2", he wanted to take a good rest for a while, but was fooled by Zheng Wentong to make a cameo appearance in "The Wandering Earth".
As soon as he joined the group, director Guo Fan kept changing the script, adding scenes to him, filming, filming, and making cameos as the starring role.
This is not the most annoying, the most annoying to shoot, the budget of this movie is overrun. So Zheng Wentong discussed with him and asked Wu Jing to give up his salary, star in this movie with zero pay, and invest another 60 million in the movie, which can make the post-production of special effects of the movie more perfect.
Of course, Wu Jing knows the quality of the movie "The Wandering Earth", and Zheng Wentong described this movie as a milestone work of Chinese science fiction films, so the box office performance of this movie will definitely not be bad.
Wu Jing knew that Zheng Wentong was grateful for his hard work in the "Wolf Warrior 2" movie, so he proposed to let him invest in "The Wandering Earth". After all, Wu Jing paid a lot for the movie "Wolf Warrior 2", he was both a director and a starring, and he had to go to Africa to complete the shooting.
However, when Wu Jing attended the Yanjing publicity meeting of "The Wandering Earth", he still specially thanked Zheng Wentong. "Thank you for the Lego toy you gave to my son, when your child is born, we will definitely give back a bigger Lego toy, it's better to be happy alone!"
Zheng Wentong bought Wu Jing's son Wu so-called a Lego toy this year, Star Wars' luxury Millennium Falcon series, with a total of 7,541 bricks. After Xie Nan received the gift, he spent a week at home with his son, but he still hasn't assembled the toy.
Bai Xiaolu heard Wu Jing's unwilled thanks to Zheng Wentong, and was amused. "Why are you so damaged, Wu is only more than three years old this year, and it takes a lot of effort to build a little Lego, and you deliberately bought him a few thousand building blocks, aren't you embarrassing Brother Jing and Sister Xie Nan?"
Zheng Wentong was very proud, "You don't understand this, do you?" In fact, many parents buy toys for their children in the name of buying them for themselves, and then buy them for themselves to play, Sister Xie Nan is painful and happy. ”
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Huayan began to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Zheng Wentong and Zhou Hongyu helped in the kitchen, and grandma and grandmother also wanted to come over to help, and were persuaded out of the kitchen by Zheng Wentong.
Zheng Wentong originally proposed to go to the hotel for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but was rejected by Li Huayan. "Xiaolu used to spend the New Year at home, and I cook the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner every year, and your uncle helps."
"Now the Sanya hotel is not easy to book, and the three old people will have to take a car again, take the car back, toss back and forth, and the boat is tiring and very hard." Li Huayan said.
Although Haitang Bay, where Zheng Wentong's villa is located, is a famous rich area in Sanya, it is a distance from the city.
Zhou Hongyu said: "Every time in our family, my father cooks Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and my father's cooking is better than my mother's, but he doesn't have a few meals a year." ”
Li Huayan was surprised, "Your dad is. Book. Remember, do you still have the time to cook during the Chinese New Year? ”
Zhou Hongyu explained: "My dad used to work at China Merchants, and his work was relatively idle at that time. Later, he was transferred to the town, and he had no time, because he had to go to the people in difficulty and the families of military families to express condolences during the Chinese New Year, and sent them New Year's materials and condolences on behalf of the town. ”
Zheng Wentong said: "My uncle cooks three times a year, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Women's Day and wedding anniversary. We juniors like to go to my grandmother's house for the New Year, because my uncle will cook a lot of delicious food for us, and then give us red envelopes one by one. The red envelopes he sent were usually only one or two hundred yuan, and he didn't let our parents keep them for us, saying that our children should decorate our money for the Chinese New Year and buy some snacks and toys that we like. ”
Bai Xiaolu came to the kitchen to wash the fruit, Zheng Wentong hurriedly took it, and then asked her to go back to the living room to sit and wait for him to finish washing the fruit before serving it.
Bai Xiaolu smiled, "It's still a young month, it's not delicate, and the doctor also said that it is good for the baby to move around properly." You are so nervous now, what should you do with the remaining scenes of "The Legend of Mulan" after the Spring Festival? Wait for the baby to be born, and then make up the shot? Even if the crew can wait, Director Ang Lee can't wait. ”
Li Huayan saw that Zheng Wentong's attitude towards Bai Xiaolu was still so attentive, and told Bai Xiaolu, "It's about to eat Chinese New Year's Eve, don't eat so many fruits, and in the middle of the night, I said that I was hungry." ”
Bai Xiaolu touched her little belly, which was not obvious, and said pitifully, "But the baby said she wanted to eat cherries." ”
Zhou Hongyu was amused by Bai Xiaolu, "Xiaolu, why are you so funny, Wen Tong is with you, and there is constant laughter every day." ”
Zheng Wentong put the washed cherries in the living room, and the news was introducing the program list of tonight's Spring Festival Gala. Zheng Wentong took a look and found that this year's Spring Festival Gala was not very interesting. Although Sanya also set up a branch venue for the Spring Festival Gala, Zheng Wentong did not want to go to the Spring Festival Gala to join in the fun.
Papa Bai noticed that there was a special program of "The Return of National Treasures" in the Spring Festival Gala program list, and the guests were Zhang Guoli, Director Shan of the Palace Museum, and the board of directors of Shengshi Group. Host. Mr. Xi Xu Guangsheng.
Zheng Wentong introduced the background of this show to Papa Bai, a national treasure is a calligraphy and painting "Silk Landscape Map". This treasure was scattered to Japan from the country in the thirties of the last century, and returned to the country in 02.
In November last year, Mr. Xu Guangsheng bought the painting for $20 million and donated it to the Palace Museum. So this year's Spring Festival Gala, CCTV designed a special program of "The Return of National Treasures", and also specially invited Xu Guangsheng to appear at the Spring Festival Gala.
After listening to Zheng Wentong's introduction, Papa Bai said, "There are still many patriotic businessmen on Hong Kong Island, and the $20 million is worth spent, not only doing good deeds, but also promoting the Shengshi Group, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone." ”
Cheng said: "The Hong Kong Island tycoons who can make money in the mainland market are smart people. Now the senior leaders are promoting the Belt and Road, which is actually the Maritime Silk Road. ”
This 30.12-meter-long map stretches from JYG in the east to Tianfang City in the west, which is the ancient city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. This shows that the Chinese people of the Ming Dynasty had a clear understanding of the land along the Silk Road, far more than other countries in the same period, so this ancient map donated by Xu Guangsheng has a specific symbolic meaning. Zheng Wentong said.
Grandpa heard Zheng Wentong say this, "You businessmen, your stomach is full of ideas. Others have spent $20 million to do good deeds, but if they do good deeds, don't ask about the future. As long as someone else does something good, it deserves praise, don't study the motivation behind others. ”
Father Bai lived in Huazhou Junting for a few days and found that Zheng Wentong did not have any antique calligraphy and paintings at home. He couldn't help but ask Zheng Wentong, "Wentong, many rich people like to go to the auction house to buy some calligraphy and paintings, and do diversified investments, why do you feel that you are not interested in collecting at all?" ”
Zheng Wentong smiled, "The main thing is that I don't understand, I'm afraid of being deceived." My dad used to run a pawn shop, but now he has changed his name to a consignment shop. Since I was a child, I have also been exposed to ancient coins, jewelry and antiques, and the more I come into contact with this industry, the more I feel that this line of water is deep, so I have no interest in collecting. ”
Zheng Wentong didn't say it thoroughly, the reason why many rich people are keen to auction some collections is also to launder their funds, Zheng Wentong doesn't need to do this.
At six o'clock in the evening, Li Huayan had already prepared a large table of dishes, Bai Xiaolu helped Li Huayan untie her apron, and then helped Li Huayan massage, "Mom has worked hard!" ”
Zhou Hongyu and Zheng Wentong went to the kitchen to serve the food, and Dad Bai was about to go to the wine cabinet to get the wine, Li Huayan patted him, "Bring the dishes first, you can take the wine when you can't run away!" ”
Father Bai was stunned, Zheng Wentong hurriedly went to get the wine, and today for the New Year, Zheng Wentong took out the treasured red cover Moutai.
When my grandfather saw the Moutai that Zheng Wentong took out, he said to his grandmother: "Wentong took out a good wine today, I have to drink two more taels, you can't stop me anymore." ”
Grandma glared at Zheng Wentong, "If your grandfather gets drunk today, I will definitely settle accounts with you, he is old now, and the doctors have told him to drink less liquor." ”
My grandfather disagreed, "I've only had such a hobby in my life, if I even quit drinking, what's the point of living?" ”
Zhou Hongyu said: "Grandpa, today is the New Year, you can't say unlucky things. ”
Grandma hurriedly echoed, "Hongyu is right, old child, how can you get older and more like a child, bah blah." Xiaolu has just become pregnant, and the baby is still waiting to see her grandfather. ”
Daddy Bai took the wine bottle and brought a glass of wine to his grandfather, "Uncle Zhou, we should drink in moderation, there is no need to worry about the family." Wentong bought a lot of red cover Moutai, just waiting to honor you, let's pay attention to a long stream. ”
Zheng Wentong said: "Grandpa, in fact, after living in the past few days, I think Sanya is a city that is particularly suitable for retirement. Now that Hongyu and they are older, you don't have to help your uncle and uncle take care of their children, or you and your grandmother will move to Sanya to live. ”
"I'll buy you a house, with a front and back yard, and you two can still grow some vegetables, raise flowers, and raise a dog when the time comes. If you want to uncle them, I'll fly back to see them when the time comes. Zheng Wentong came up with an idea.
My grandfather had been wounded on the battlefield before, was shot in the leg, and was discharged from the army early. His leg hurts when it rains, and the tropical climate of Sanya is indeed more suitable for his grandfather's retirement.
My grandfather disagreed, "It's good for me to stay in the village, I don't know your grandmother well in Sanya, and I can't find a place to go out to buy vegetables, so I have to look for a long time if I get lost." ”
Zheng Wentong discussed this matter with Bai Xiaolu, and Bai Xiaolu also agreed with Zheng Wentong's approach, she persuaded her grandfather from the side, "Grandpa, grandma, Wentong will hire a reliable nanny to take care of your life, and she will drive." When the time comes, we will help you contact the hospital and do regular medical check-ups. There are many elderly people in Sanya who come to care for the elderly, and there are many elderly people exercising in the park in the morning. You live in Sanya, and it is good for your father-in-law to recuperate. ”
Grandma thought about it for a while, the brother-in-law's family has all stayed in Jiangchu to develop, and the brother-in-law has already bought two houses in Jiangchu, one for each son and one daughter. The uncle and his wife are busy with work again, and Hongyu will return to Jiangchu City to work after the New Year. In fact, my grandparents didn't take care of them in the village, so it seems that it is most feasible for Zheng Wentong to hire a nanny to take care of them in Sanya.
My grandmother said, "As long as there is a piece of land that I can take care of, I can retire there." But you don't need to buy the house, we still have some money in our hands, and when the time comes, we will buy it, write it in Hongyu's name, and prepare a wedding gift for her. You and Xiaolu can help us find a reliable nanny, and we don't want to be bullied by the nanny! ”
When my grandfather heard this, he was immediately unhappy, and replied with a full heart, "She dares!" If the nanny dares to bully the two of us, see if I don't beat her to death, let her know why the flowers are so red! ”