Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2132 Delegating power?
"It's not true that Mr. Lin is retiring or that he's going to retire, but I guess the rumors that are going viral outside are also not true."

Tsui Hark's words made everyone feel a little inexplicable, and they slapped themselves in the face.

"Old Xu, what are you talking about? Did you come here after drinking? Why didn't you talk about the beginning and the end?"

It was really hard for Mai Jia to understand what Tsui Hark said just now, and not only Tsui Hark, but others also felt confused.

Tsui Hark quickly explained to everyone.

"What I mean is that the words from New Oriental should have been spread more and more chaotically by everyone, until now it has become like this. I guess the original meaning should not be what we hear now."

Adding oil and vinegar is not uncommon in Xiangjiang. Sometimes a sentence has a completely different meaning in the end.

So Tsui Hark guessed that this time, New Oriental wanted to spread some words on purpose, but he didn't expect that the words would turn sour in the end.

"Then guess what Mr. Lin was going to say?"

Zeng Zhiwei asked quickly.

Tsui Hark shook his head directly, and he couldn't guess what Lin Daoqiu was going to tell everyone at the beginning.

A few people look at me and look at you, but no one can come up with an answer.

"Think about it, Mr. Lin is still so young, and if he retires, who will New Oriental Pictures hand over to? Manager Li? Assistant Fang?"

Mai Jia shook her head while talking, although Li Maowen and Fang Jinsheng are both talents, their prestige is much lower than that of Lin Daoqiu.

On the Xiangjiang side, they can still support the scene, but not to mention Hollywood, even if they put it on the Neon and Hanguo side, they must not have as much face as Lin Daoqiu, and the things they can do must be far worse than Lin Daoqiu.

So in everyone's opinion, the popularity of Xiangjiang movies will only continue if Mr. Lin is there.

Not to mention that Lin Daoqiu's New Oriental theater chain strategy is a goal that everyone is looking forward to and hoping to achieve as soon as possible.

"Now there are rumors of everything outside, and I don't know if Mr. Lin will come out to refute the rumors."

"Refuting the rumors? Are you thinking too much? What kind of rumors did Mr. Lin come out to refute? He said he would not retire? Isn't this enough to support you?"

Tsui Hark shook his head again and again, how could Lin Daoqiu come out to refute rumors about such things.

If he came out to refute the rumors this time, if there are any rumors about him in the future, will he come out to refute the rumors by then.

If there are any rumors involving Lin Daoqiu in the future, if he doesn't come out to refute the rumors, won't he acquiesce that the matter is true?

"Since everyone attaches so much importance to this matter, I will go to New Oriental to talk to Manager Li about the promotion of "A Chinese Ghost Story" tomorrow. Then..."

"At that time, you can go to Mr. Lin and ask for clarification."

As soon as Zeng Zhiwei said this, Tsui Hark gave him a blank stare.

"I'm going to talk to Assistant Fang to find out what's going on. If we go to Mr. Lin rashly, it will appear that we are too gossip."

Tsui Hark's method is obviously more reliable, at least it won't make Lin Daoqiu feel that they are reckless.

Everyone unanimously agreed with Tsui Hark's proposal.

The next day, Tsui Hark brought Shi Nansheng to New Oriental. He first went to Li Maowen to talk about the promotion of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

""The God of Gamblers" is temporarily withdrawn, so this time "A Chinese Ghost Story" theaters will be allocated to ten more theaters."

Tsui Hark didn't know about "The Saint of Gamblers". At first, he was worried that the outcome of the confrontation between "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "The Saint of Gamblers" might be uncertain.

But now "The Saint of Gamblers" is suddenly withdrawn, which is of course good news for "A Chinese Ghost Story".

"Did something happen?"

Tsui Hark was very curious about this. As far as he knew, the filming of "The Holy Gambler" was completed earlier than "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the post-production has also ended, but why did the film suddenly have to be withdrawn?
Could it be that Mr. Lin plans to put "The Holy Gambler" on the Christmas schedule or next year's Spring Festival?

"Mr. Lin explained that "The Holy Gambler" will not be released. As for the specific situation, I don't know, but it should be related to the fact that the film was not made well."

Li Maowen didn't ask any more questions, but his guess was not far from the truth.

Giving up millions of movies is something that Lin Daoqiu can only do. No matter how well the filming of "The Gambler" is done by others, they will definitely take it out and let it go, and then they can recover a little.

"Recently, rumors about Mr. Lin have become more and more outrageous. I don't know what is true and what is false."

At this time, Shi Nansheng suddenly interjected, citing the matter to Lin Daoqiu's rumors.

Hearing what Shi Nansheng said, Li Maowen just smiled.

"It's just rumors outside, Mr. Lin is very good, even if I retire, Mr. Lin will not retire."

At this time, Li Maowen was not yet 40 years old, still very young. Lin Daoqiu was almost ten years younger than him, so how could Lin Daoqiu retire even before he retired?

"That's good. It's just that the outside world has been spreading rumors. I'm worried that if it continues like this, it will affect Mr. Lin's reputation."

Li Maowen didn't make a sound, but it seemed that he agreed with Shi Nansheng's words.

But he didn't intend to explain anything to the other party, because this was Lin Daoqiu's matter, and Li Maowen naturally couldn't say anything before he took any action.

After Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng finished talking with Li Maowen, they left each other's office.

After hesitating for a while, the two decided to go to Fang Jinsheng to find out what happened according to the previous plan.

When they arrived outside Lin Daoqiu's office, Fang Jinsheng was on the phone.

After Fang Jinsheng finished making the phone call, he immediately got up and said.

"Wait a second, I'll go in and make an announcement."

Fang Jinsheng thought that Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng were looking for Lin Daoqiu.

But Tsui Hark hurriedly stopped the opponent.

"Assistant Fang, don't rush in. In fact, we are here to find you today."

"Find me?"

Fang Jinsheng looked at Tsui Hark suspiciously, he didn't understand why the other party suddenly made a special trip to New Oriental to find him.

"It's actually like this. The rumors about Mr. Lin are getting more and more outrageous. We happened to come here today to talk with Manager Li about the promotion of "A Chinese Ghost Story". After the talk, we stopped by and wanted to ask what happened."

After Tsui Hark finished explaining, Fang Jinsheng finally understood why the other party made a special trip to find him.

In fact, when Fang Jinsheng helped Lin Daoqiu spread the word, Fang Jinsheng never expected that it would turn into what it is now.

He even heard rumors yesterday that Lin Daoqiu planned to sell New Oriental Pictures, and then left Xiangjiang with Brigitte Lin and Zhong Chuhong to live abroad.

Lin Daoqiu even planned to delegate power to himself and Li Maowen and let them take over New Oriental.

If it is passed on, Fang Jinsheng doesn't know what else those people can make up next.

(End of this chapter)