Entertainment 1998

Chapter 639 Chapter 638, I came all the way to find you
【Old Beijing】

I have to say, this American-style Chinese restaurant knows how to do business.

At noon, the crew of "The Departed" held a wrap party here. As soon as they entered the door, more than 300 people were divided into two groups by the store owner, Han Shanye and Jiang Zhiqiang.

One group is Chinese and the other group is Native American.

Even Hollywood celebrities like Charlize Theron, Matt Damon, Leonardo Dicaprio, Jon Fillmore, Harvey Weinstein, and George Clooney didn't have the chance to sit with director Jiang Feng.

At first, Jiang Feng was very surprised.

Important people need to sit together with important people. After all, everyone needs to chat, talk about things, and congratulate each other on the completion of the movie and the very high box office.

But, no.

It was not until the waiter brought the dishes that Jiang Feng truly understood the restaurant's intention. The people from China ate authentic Chinese food, such as Kung Pao Chicken, Boiled Fish, Spicy Crayfish, and the juicy roast duck.

But when it comes to the tables of George Clooney, Harvey Weinstein, Jon Fillmore, Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon and others, the dishes served are quite different.

The first dish is General Tao Chicken. You don’t even need to taste it; just looking at it, it looks like the fried pork tenderloin you’d find in a small country restaurant in China.

According to the owner of this restaurant, this dish was created by the famous chef Peng Changgui, who studied under the famous Hunan chef Cao Xiuchen. The dish he cooked is Hunan cuisine on the surface, but the foundation is Huaiyang cuisine, the technique is Lingnan cuisine, and he adds his own creativity to the dish, which has a sour, sweet and spicy taste.

It is said that this dish alone sells hundreds of millions of servings a year in the United States.

The second dish was Mongolian beef, but it was actually beef fried with broccoli…

While eating, Charlize Theron was very happy to see Jiang Feng always looking at her, and walked over with her long legs.

"Jiang, let's go and have something to eat at our table."

Such a bold behavior immediately aroused applause from everyone eating in the restaurant.

"Well, then I'll go over and toast everyone a glass of wine."

Jiang Feng first used his eyes to stop Dawei, Xing Jianwei, Liu Jie, Mark and others from making a fuss, then he picked up his wine glass and followed Charlize Theron to the table where they were sitting and clinked glasses with everyone.

"Matt, thank you, your acting is really great, I hope we can work together again if there's a chance?"

"Jiang, we should be the ones thanking you!"

"Leonardo, your acting skills have amazed me. Can we work together again if there is a chance?"

"Jiang, really? You said that!"

"George, actually, you are the person I should thank the most when we are filming together."

"Jiang, what do you mean?"

"Because based on your personality, I thought you would have at least created five or six scandals in my crew, but so far, there hasn't been a single one..."

"Ha ha…"

Before Jiang Feng finished speaking, everyone present burst into laughter, including George Clooney who was sitting next to the old gangster Harvey Weinstein.

Holding a glass of wine and drinking half a glass of red wine, Jiang Feng said thank you and farewell to several Hollywood celebrities, and then returned to his table. As for Charlize Theron, she insisted on inviting him to sit down and eat something...

Jiang Feng thought that he didn't have such a good appetite and dared to eat American Chinese food.

Before going to George Clooney's table to toast, the person sitting on Jiang Feng's left was Han Shanye, and the person sitting on his right was Jiang Zhiqiang, but when he came back to check, he found that the two were gone.

Well, to be precise, Jiang Zhiqiang and Han Shanye, who came to the United States, have completely put down their airs and took the initiative to go to the tables of the crew members and mingle with everyone.

And now, the seat on Jiang Feng’s left was empty, and a beautiful woman sat on his right ~ Li Jiaxin.

"Um…"

Seeing Li Jiaxin, Jiang Feng's eyes rolled around, he reached out and took out a key from his pocket and put it in her hand.

"What?" Li Jiaxin frowned.

This key doesn't seem to be the one for the villa's front door, nor does it look like the key for a safe.

"Ms. Li Jiaxin, didn't you tell me at the cemetery that you have become a joke among the wealthy people in Hong Kong?
Now, I have a yacht here, which is parked in the typhoon shelter in Causeway Bay. The yacht is three stories high and 30 meters long. At that time, I bought it for 400 million US dollars.

We are like this now.

I will give you this yacht, and I will also ask Mr. Jiang Zhiqiang to spread the word in the Hong Kong entertainment circle and the Hong Kong wealthy circle.

I originally wanted to pay you in cash, but you fell in love with a yacht, so I bought it and gave it to you as your payment."

"Then... what are the conditions?"

Li Jiaxin was moved.

There is even a sense of joy and excitement.

Public opinion is very difficult to eliminate. When everyone thinks you are stupid, then you must be stupid!

In addition, he did use the box office share of "This Man From Earth" in exchange for Xie Tingfeng's opportunity to star in "The Departed".

And now, getting a yacht is very shocking. Just drive it around Victoria Harbour twice and the rumors about me being stupid among the wealthy circle will be immediately dispelled.

I didn't ask for a share of the movie box office profits. It's not because I was blind, but because I liked to have fun and I fell in love with a yacht worth 400 million US dollars.

"150 million US dollars..." Jiang Feng stretched out his right hand and gestured three times in succession.

"Ms. Li Jiaxin, as long as you deposit 150 million U.S. dollars into my bank account, this yacht that originally belonged to Luo Zhaohui will be yours."

Luo Zhaohui…

Upon hearing the name, Li Jiaxin was stunned at first, and then she bit her teeth lightly.

"But, Jiang Feng, I don't have that much money."

"How much savings do you have?"

"About 800 million Hong Kong dollars."

Li Jiaxin had seen this yacht before and had also taken a cruise on it on the sea, so she was attracted by it.

Of course, the main thing is that she must first dispel the rumors about her being "stupid". Otherwise, let alone marrying into a wealthy family, it would probably not be easy for her to find a rich man to take over in the entertainment industry.

800 million Hong Kong dollars...

There is still 1240.5 million left to reach 440.5 million Hong Kong dollars.

After a quick calculation in his mind, Jiang Feng smiled and said, "You can give me 800 million Hong Kong dollars first, and write me an IOU for 440.5 million Hong Kong dollars. As for this part of the debt, we will calculate it according to the bank's interest rate for the same period."

...

At 1:30 pm, the celebration banquet ended successfully.

Li Jiaxin flew back to Hong Kong Island as soon as possible, um..., she returned on the same flight with Dawei.

Seeing Li Jiaxin return so cleanly and neatly, Jiang Feng actually admired her a little, because this showed that this beauty was not stupid enough and also knew how to make choices.

I know that even if I continue to struggle here, I won't get a better result than this.

Jiang Zhiqiang and Han Shanye left with other crew members. They returned to Beijing together. The two men, who had originally planned to go to Los Angeles together, left so quickly because they had just received a call from producer Zhang Weiping. In order to compete for the Oscars and Golden Globe Awards next year, Hero will start preview screenings in 7 cities across the country starting July 2, which is the kind of preview screenings where you buy tickets to watch a movie.

As the two producers of the martial arts epic "Hero", Han Shanye and Jiang Zhiqiang naturally had to rush back to participate as soon as possible.

We said goodbye at the airport.

After the flights from Chicago to Hong Kong Island and Beijing took off, Jiang Feng's flight to Los Angeles also took off.

He thought that George Clooney, Leonardo Dicaprio, Charlize Theron, or Harvey Weinstein would go with him, but when he sat in the business class, Jiang Feng looked around and found that only he and Lionsgate CEO Jon Fillmore were flying to Los Angeles.

But it’s also good this way, because during the 4 and a half hours, I can finally have a good rest.

Cao County, Sunlaojia Town

At the beginning of July, the weather was already very hot, and even the leaves of the tung trees on the roadside were curled up.

Normally, at noon, the townspeople would hold a bowl of cold noodles in their hands, and sit together under the trees along the street, eating and chatting.

Let’s talk about whose child is about to take the college entrance examination, but is still in a relationship, and the two of them were caught by the girl’s parents by accident.

Let’s talk about whose child went mentally ill before the college entrance examination. He came out of the school bathroom with a bowl of hot water and poured it on his feet, because this way he would have an excuse if he did not do well in the exam.

Let’s talk about a child who couldn’t bear the pressure of the college entrance examination and rode his bicycle into the river on the way to school.

But this year, that kind of scene did not occur.

Because the entire Sunlaojia Town has become a huge construction site. The main street was widened into a two-way four-lane road only two years ago. Now it has been widened into a two-way eight-lane road. There are flower beds on both sides of the main street, and outside the flower beds are sidewalks, and outside the sidewalks are the storefronts of various businesses.

The previous Zhenzheng Mansion has been demolished to make room for the Tian family coffin factory. A large-scale modern coffin factory will be built directly on the site of the Zhenzheng Mansion to provide for their daily life.

The coffin factory has 6 floors, and CNC woodworking machines are installed on each floor. When we get an order from Xiao Ri Zi, we will immediately write a program on the CNC woodworking machine according to the drawings, and then use precision CNC technology to carve exquisite patterns on the coffin panels.

The Zhenzheng Mansion was demolished, and the police station next to it was naturally demolished as well.

After all, a town government office with a small area is not enough to meet the land needs of a modern coffin factory.

The town government office and police station were demolished, and the town middle school did not escape the fate of being demolished.

The town middle school used to be dilapidated, with only brick and tile buildings covering a large area. The playground alone, which was paved with slag, was as large as four standard football fields.

Now, Jianghua Garment Factory has chosen this piece of land and invested 2000 million RMB to build a modern garment factory. The main building alone is designed to be 8 stories high.

The main building houses the marketing department, design department, fabric department, cutting workshop, garment workshop, ironing workshop, etc.

The town government office, town middle school and police station were all demolished, and the 1000 households in Sun’s hometown naturally could not escape the fate of being demolished.

No matter whether they are new houses or old houses, they will all be demolished and then rebuilt into new rural areas with two-story buildings. There will be a small courtyard in front of the two-story buildings, a toilet, a kitchen, and a large garage. The domestic wastewater from each household will be discharged through a unified underground network.

However, in such a huge construction site with large-scale demolition and construction, there is one family that is very special. It is located at the east end of Sun’s hometown. The building is quite new and the yard is quite large. The front door of their house alone can accommodate two cars at the same time.

Not only was this family not demolished, but their geographical location seemed to be better than before, because they originally lived in the most remote place, at the easternmost end of the entire Sunlaojia Town.

But now, opposite this house is the new town government office, and to the east of this house is the new police station.

Well, let's put it this way.

If a couple fights at home, within a minute the police from the police station will rush to the house and kick down the door.

It is precisely because of this lack of privacy that Jiang Danian, the owner of this household, feels worried.

grass…

Why do I feel like according to the current planning of the town, our home is surrounded?

Feeling depressed, Jiang Danian decided to go out for a walk and check on the crops in the fields.

But when Jiang Danian walked out of his house, he saw a young woman in simple clothes standing at his door, looking inside.

"Um…"

Looking at the Zhenzhengfu construction site across the street, and then looking at the police station construction site to the east of his home, Jiang Danian suddenly felt a lot safer.

"Girl, who are you looking for?"

"Oh, uncle, I'm not a bad person.

I came here from a border province. My husband is a music composer. He is very talented and has written many songs.

But, no one appreciated him.

Some time ago, I saw him drinking and feeling depressed at home, so I rushed to Beijing with his songs, that is, the music master tapes, and recommended him to major domestic music companies.

However, no music company appreciates his music, and some even say that what he sings is rubbish..."

Jiang Danian was a little confused.

My daughter, if you are here to visit relatives, just ask me directly which family lives in which village, because the entire Sunlaojia Town is a construction site and the original residents have all moved in to live with their relatives. Now there are only the construction workers' shacks and our family left here.

But what's the point of you talking so much nonsense? Besides, I don't understand you.

Why create music?
What music company?
What does a music company do?

Jiang Danian was just about to ask his own question when he heard what the simply dressed woman said.

"Uncle, may I ask if Jiang Feng's hometown is here?"

"Jiang Feng..."

When Jiang Danian heard the name, he didn't react for a moment. Most people in this town had the surname Jiang. However, he seemed to have never heard of any child named Jiang Feng.

"Yes, uncle, this Jiang Feng is now a graduate student at the Beijing Film Academy. He is currently filming a movie in the United States. He shot the movie "This Man From Earth" in just one day. As soon as it was released, the global box office exceeded 29 billion RMB."

grass…

Jiang Danian wanted to swear.

So you are asking about our family!

"Well, girl, if I'm not mistaken, this boy Jiang Feng is my son.

But what do you want to see him for?"

"what…"

The plainly dressed woman was stunned for a moment, and then she knelt down to Jiang Danian.

"Uncle, you are my elder, so it's not too much for me to kowtow to you. I was just wondering if you could call Teacher Jiang Feng and ask him to recommend my man. My man is really talented!

Well, this is the song my man sings.

If you don’t believe me, listen to it.”

(End of this chapter)