1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 154 1024 Opening

Cai Lan appears to be gentle and introverted on the surface, but in fact she is more shrewd than Huang Zhan.

If Huang Zhan sobered up at this time, he would definitely pull Zhai Yuan aside to ask him about his relationship with Axe Jun. Otherwise, he might talk nonsense next time when he gets drunk.

But Cai Lan didn't know how to do it, and didn't even ask.

"This A-Zhan is really a mess when he's drunk. I think it's enough for tonight, so I'll end the show early and send him home."

"Uncle Lan, someone's paying for tonight, why don't you open a couple more wharf rats and call a few pretty girls to play with us? There's a hotel upstairs, so let's have fun tonight!"

Zhai Yuan stopped Cai Lan for a moment. Since Huang Jun said that he was in the group, he would be in trouble if he didn't take advantage of him.

If he didn't want to entertain these two cultural figures, he would have wanted to call all the male colleagues in the company for team-building.

"Change to the second room, continue the music and dance~"

The mama-san was called in and changed to a clean private room. Not long after, Huang Zhan sobered up. The atmosphere immediately became much more lively and a new round of drinking and rock-paper-scissors began.

Zhai Yuan sat aside, seeing Cai Lan and Huang Zhan having a great time, with a smile on his face, but his thoughts drifted to the gossip magazines he had read before.

I have met Mei Yanfang and Huang Jun today.

And it was also in this Rich Man that the two men did have some interactions later.

The cause was a band called Grasshopper led by Mei Yanfang. The band members drank too much and made trouble at the Rich Man, and were detained by Huang Jun. After that, Mei Jie came to support her apprentice in person, but was slapped in public by Huang Jun. Later, she had to invite Deng Guangrong, the head of Lian Shun Le, to help settle the matter completely.

As for the fact that Mei Yanfang was later slapped by another gang member named Huang, which triggered a huge underworld storm between the Xinji and the Number Gang, it happened a few years after this incident.

"Born to be slapped~"

Zhai Yuan couldn't help but think of the way Mei Yanfang threw herself at him at Huaxing during the day. He felt that he should keep some distance from such a woman who was prone to causing trouble.

He dares to stand out without any ability. If he has a little backer, he will become even more aggressive, right?

"Uncle Zhan, Uncle Lan, drink slowly. I'm going to go out and make a phone call."

Zhai Yuan sat for a while and felt a little bored. He said hello to the two cultural figures and walked out of the box.

He called Chen Lan, and as soon as the call was connected, someone picked up the phone immediately. It was obvious that someone had been waiting by the phone.

"Mrs. Xu, thank you so much for tonight."

"Boss Zhai is too polite. If you encounter such troubles next time, feel free to call me."

Chen Lan's attitude on the phone was as gentle as ever, especially after experiencing Xu Jiasheng's usurpation of the throne, she and Xu Jiaqiang had figured out a lot of things.

The fighting and killing will eventually end. With a word from the police, Sun Kee Longtou is also going to Stanley for vacation.

Her husband is now the mascot of the Xu family. Even if Xu Jiayan is imprisoned, Xu Jiabo is seriously injured, and Xu Jiasheng loses power, the temporary leader of Xinji would rather be given to an outsider like Huang Jun, and it would never be Xu Jiaqiang's turn.

It would be better to take advantage of this opportunity to establish a good relationship with Huang Jun, borrow money from him, and slowly extricate himself from the matter.

"Brother Qiang and I plan to set up an independent production company called Sanhe Film Studio. We hope to cooperate with Jiuyi Entertainment."

"No rush. I have a movie that will be finished soon. You can consider it after we see the results after it is released."

Zhai Yuan was not in a hurry to agree to the other party. He would not gain any advantage by discussing cooperation so early.

After "A Better Tomorrow" is released, regardless of whether it is a box office success or not, the chips in my hand will be more important, and I will be able to take full control of the initiative at that time.

hang up the phone.

Zhai Yuan called Deng Leling again: "Pretty girl, I drank too much tonight and I'm afraid I'll get scolded when I get home. How about I stay at your place?"

Deng Leling immediately asked, "Where are you?"

Zhai Yuan casually gave the tycoon's address. More than half an hour later, he was sitting in the box listening to Huang Zhan telling dirty jokes from "Uncivilized Collection" and explaining what 9527 hours meant.

Deng Leling called again.

"I'm at the door of the rich man, when will you come out?"

"Are you really coming? You don't have to be so dedicated to being a driver."

Zhai Yuan was so moved that he pulled his hand away from Miss Wu's chest. Then he heard Deng Leling urging him on the phone, saying that her car could not be parked at the door for too long.

"Uncle Zhan, Uncle Lan, I have something to do and I'm leaving first. You guys enjoy yourself."

Zhai Yuan found an excuse to say goodbye to Huang Zhan and Cai Lan, and asked Miss Wu to take good care of the two drunken intellectuals.

When I walked out of the nightclub, I saw Deng Leling's Porsche stuck in the middle of the road in a very uncivilized manner. Several parking attendants surrounded the car on both sides, arguing with her to move it.

"I'll be leaving right away after a few minutes, why are you rushing me?"

"Pretty girl! I've been waiting for you for a long time. It's hard to do business if you block the door!"

Seeing that she was driving a Porsche and was waiting for the customers inside to come out, the parking attendant didn't dare to be too rude. Instead, he smiled and asked her to move forward a little further.

Seeing this, Zhai Yuan hurried forward, opened the car door, and said with a smile: "Sorry, brothers! I'm leaving now!"

Open the door and get in the car.

The Porsche drove away, and the parking attendants finally breathed a sigh of relief and directed the blocked vehicles to move forward.

In the car, Deng Leling's pretty face looked slightly cold.

"What's the matter? You are not allowed to stop the car. Just move forward a little. I am not drunk."

"I was about to leave, but one of the guys laughed at me and said I was here to catch someone having an affair, so I had to block his door!"

Deng Leling glared at him unhappily and said sarcastically, "But that's all I can say. What adultery can I catch? Some people are having a good time in there, and when they're done, they make a phone call and ask me to get out of bed to pick them up. I'm no better than a maid."

Who asked you to come!
Zhai Yuan thought this in his heart, but did not dare to say it out loud because the steering wheel was still in the woman's hands.

He laughed apologetically: "It's just a social occasion."

Deng Leling sneered, "You're so busy socializing that your face is covered in lipstick marks. No wonder you don't dare go home!"

Zhai Yuan looked in the rearview mirror and saw that there were indeed a lot of messy lip marks on his face. He had no idea when they were left.

The rich man’s female student is so enthusiastic.

"You're reluctant to wipe it off. It seems like you're enjoying it. Do you want me to help you clean it up? And you're reeking of alcohol. Don't you know how bad it smells? Also, I'm telling you, you can only sleep in the guest room tonight. I don't know if the women in those nightclubs are clean or not, but you're still actively approaching them. Aren't you afraid of getting syphilis..."

Deng Leling became angrier and angrier as she spoke. She stepped on the accelerator harder and gripped the steering wheel with both hands so hard that blue joints popped out.

Zhai Yuan felt that if she continued driving like this, she would be doomed sooner or later!

"parking!"

Passing through a side street, Zhai Yuan finally couldn't help but scream.

Deng Leling glanced at him. Although she was unhappy, she still stepped on the brakes to stop the car.

"What? Are you annoyed by my talking too much? Do you want me to send you back to find those dancing girls?"

Zhai Yuan pursed his lips and said nothing, then unbuckled his seat belt with a click.

Deng Leling thought he was really angry and wanted to get off the car, her eyes became panicked, and she subconsciously grabbed the corner of Zhai Yuan's clothes.

Just as she was about to speak, President Zhai jumped over the passenger seat, sat astride her, adjusted the driver's seat back, and pressed his whole body on top.

There’s no way to reason with him, just sleep on him first.

"You're crazy! This isn't the suburbs. What if someone sees us?"

"There's not a single ghost in the early morning. I have to check the ammunition depot for you tonight. Don't bother suspecting that I wasted bullets elsewhere."

"No, you poor fellow. I made you some hangover soup on the stove before I left. If you come back too late, it will have dried up."

"It doesn't matter, add water if it dries up, add water!"

Zhai Yuan pulled his wet and sticky fingers out of the fuel tank, and amid Deng Leling's whimpers of resistance, he stuffed his fingers into her mouth and stirred them, sinking his waist down.

Deng Leling's fair and slender neck suddenly tilted back, her legs stretched straight, her pointed flat leather shoes kicked off, her feet in boat socks curled up and pressed tightly against the front windshield. The car stopped on the side of the road and creaked for about twenty minutes.

Gradually calm down.

"Are there many kinds of women in nightclubs? That's why you like to go there?"

The offense and defense had already been reversed. In the car, Deng Leling lay limply on Zhai Yuan and asked with a flushed face.

"I already said I was going to socialize. How could a gentleman like me know how many tricks she has?"

Zhai Yuan keenly realized that this was a trap and had no intention of jumping into it.

Deng Leling blushed and smiled strangely: "That's a pity. I still want to learn something new. I'll try it with you next time if I have the chance."

Zhai Yuan held her and jumped up from the cushion.

"Let's go! Go back now. It's rare that you have such a keen desire to learn. I will definitely use all my life's knowledge to give you a good tutorial tonight!"

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The trailer for "A Better Tomorrow" has been cut.

Zhai Yuan made several copies and distributed them to several independent theaters located in remote areas.

The equipment of this type of independent theaters cannot keep up with the times, and most of the movies shown on weekdays are second-run movies. If a new movie comes to them, there is naturally no reason to refuse.

"Boss Zhai, after showing your movie, I'm afraid our theater will have to close too~"

More than one theater owner told Zhai Yuan this, planning to sell the land to real estate developers.

The economic environment is very bad this year.

The Hong Kong dollar crisis had just been resolved, and the Hong Kong government imposed another round of special wartime taxes.

During the Falklands War last year, the Argentine army sank four warships of the British Invincible Armada, and all the losses were shared by the city of Hong Kong, adding insult to injury.

In the past, a theater could be bought for 20 or 30 million yuan, but now people are willing to buy it for more than 10 million yuan.

Unfortunately, the place is remote, and the owner is unwilling to rent it out and is only willing to pay cash in full at one time, so Zhai Yuan gave up the idea of getting a bargain.

The first cinema in its 1024 cinema chain was also completed and accepted amidst the storm.

There are five screens, four ordinary theaters and one VIP theater.

Of course, the opening ceremony is inseparable from the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Zhai Yuan originally did not intend to make too much fanfare, but on the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Mrs. Xu Chen Lan actually did him a favor.

"Boss Zhai, congratulations on your prosperity~"

A hoarse voice sounded, and Zeng Zhiwei, one of the New One City Seven Monsters, took the initiative to arrive at the scene, followed by two close friends, Tan Yonglin and Chen Baixiang.

The three stars known as Fu Lu Shou in the Hong Kong circle gathered together. The reason was naturally that Zeng Zhiwei had played supporting roles with Xu Jiaqiang when he was in Taiwan. With the blessing of this friendship, he came to support Chen Lan as soon as she opened her mouth.

"Boss Zhai, nice to meet you. Shorty informed me too late. If I had known that you were opening, I would have asked my football buddies to form a lion dance team and make your business a splendid success!"

Since becoming the apprentice of the gold medal emcee Ho Sau-sin, Brother Lak Chan Pak-cheung has become a familiar face in TVB. Whenever they meet, he would be very familiar with Zhai Yuan and put his arm around his shoulder.

But the two of them combined are not as famous as the pop superstar Tam Wing-lin. The king of pop didn't even charge for his appearance, but came to support 1024 based on Zeng Zhiwei's words, which shows that Fu Lu Shou has a close personal relationship with him.

Tan Yonglin smiled and said, "Mr. Zhai, I really like your song "Secretly Fascinated". Can you sell me the copyright? I want to try it out at my next concert."

"Take it and sing it!"

Zhai Yuan waved his hand indifferently, thinking that I had fabricated your fake news to deceive reporters in the past, so I'll just consider this as repaying you a favor.

Zhang Guorong was originally communicating with Di Long and others with a smile on his face, but when he saw Tan Yonglin appear, he suddenly felt enveloped by the invisible aura pressure of the king of pop.

On the 27th of that year, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, I stood like a minion.

Axe Jun is here too.

However, because he has been so popular recently, the police followed him wherever he appeared, so Huang Jun did not stay at the scene for too long. He said a few words of congratulations and then got in the Bentley and left.

But just this one action scared off a group of thugs who wanted to come to 1024 to collect protection fees after the opening.

"Xu Jiaqiang definitely doesn't have the brains to do this. It's probably Chen Lan's idea again."

Zhai Yuan could see that Chen Lan had indeed given him enough face, whether it was Zeng Zhiwei or Huang Jun. Her Sanhe Studio was indeed desperate and had no choice but to be in the same boat with Jiuyi Entertainment.

"Wait until A Better Tomorrow is released and write a new script for Sanhe. With Xinji as their backer, they should have no shortage of money and people. Jiuyi Entertainment will then invest half of the production costs, and we'll be able to make a blockbuster movie by then."

In addition to Chen Lan, some practitioners in the Hong Kong entertainment circle, whether they had any relationship with her or not, also brought gifts to varying degrees, and both sides of the inflatable door were blocked with gifts.

The Hong Kong circle is too small. Although Zhai Yuan was banned by Taiwan, it doesn’t matter if you show goodwill to him in your own little corner.

Although Chen Shilong did not show up, he sent an oversized fruit basket, overshadowing everyone else.

Zhai Yuan had expected that people from the entertainment industry would show up to support him, but when another familiar face arrived, he frowned.

Assistant to Kwun Tong District Councillor Mak Siu-kwan.

Mr. He Zilang, who I hadn't contacted for a long time, also came to congratulate us with two fruit baskets, one large and one small.

"This is a small token of our appreciation from Councillor Mak and I. We wish you a prosperous opening and hope that your cinemas will be spread all over Hong Kong."

Ever since Zhai Yuan was taken away by the Political Department for investigation, Assistant He has disappeared without a trace and even refused to answer the phone. But at this moment, he placed the fruit basket on the ground with a kind smile, as if nothing had happened before.

"Assistant He is thoughtful. How is Councillor Mai doing recently?"

Zhai Yuan smiled even more and greeted him warmly, obviously not taking the other person's disappearance to heart.

"It's not very good. He still has more than half a year left in his term, and the economy is bad. It seems that he has no chance of being elected again."

He Zilang shrugged and said helplessly.

Zhai Yuan couldn't help but think of the time when he started his business as a video hall owner. He had promised this legislator's assistant that he would open many mini cinemas in Kwun Tong, but so far only one has been completed.

The world is unpredictable~
I also met several friends who came to congratulate me.

Zhou Haimei and Zhai Yao also ran over.

"Don't you have class today?"

Zhai Yuan put his arm around Zhou Haimei's waist and kissed her on the hair in an intimate manner.

Zhou Haimei smiled innocently, her eyes narrowed, and she said proudly, "I heard that your theater was opening, but I couldn't get a leave, so I climbed over the wall from the backyard of the school and sneaked out."

Zhai Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and asked Zhai Yao, "You sneaked out too?"

Zhai Yao rummaged around in the fruit basket, looked up at him with disdain and said, "Are you stupid? I'm only in the third grade and I finish school very early!"

Firecrackers and salutes rang out.

A ribbon stretched across the entrance of the theater.

Zhai Yuan stood in the middle, with Zhou Haimei and the three stars of Fu, Lu and Shou on his left, and Zhai Yao and the three heroes Zhang Guorong, Di Long and Wan Ziliang on his right.

"Sister Ling, come over here."

Zhai Yuan turned his gaze and saw Deng Leling standing in the outer circle with her head down, thinking about something, and waved at her.

Deng Leling looked up instantly, her eyes lit up, but she smiled and shook her head.

There is a photo-taking process for the opening ribbon-cutting ceremony. She already knew that Zhao Meizhen was unhappy with her and was afraid that the photo would get out and make her unhappy.

"Coming!"

Zhai Yuan waved again, and finally walked over and pulled her over, and nodded at Zhai Yao, who sneered and gave up her seat.

Deng Leling was rarely nervous in front of the camera. Even when the emcee burst the fireworks tube and signaled that the ribbon-cutting ceremony could begin, her hands were still a little stiff.

As the ribbon was cut, the red cloth covering the theater sign was lifted.

The big words "1024 Theater" appeared, and Zhai Yuan's first theater was officially opened!
(End of this chapter)