money player

Chapter 98 A glimpse of one spot reveals the whole leopard
At about nine o'clock, Xian Yaowen went to have fun at Sen Kee Sparrow in Temple Street after dinner.

Han Sen was playing cards. When he saw Xian Yaowen, he played Dongfeng. Someone immediately called Hu, and he took the opportunity to give up his seat to Su Lizhen.

Still in the office next door, Xian Yaowen and Han Sen were sitting opposite each other.

"Is there someone eating with you? I don't mean the policeman."

"Have."

"I'm about to start a new business with a British guy. I'll calculate a share for you. It's hard to say the specific number right now. You'll know how much of the share it is when the matter is finalized later."

"Thank you Xian Sheng for taking care of me." Han Sen said happily.

"I need someone who has a wider network of people on the streets and is more well-informed to be responsible for asking about some things. They are not the same as the informants like you guys. They are responsible for asking about trivial things on the streets. There is no danger at all. It just requires patience and Be careful, if you can help me find out any news I want as soon as possible."

Han Sen thought for a moment and said: "I have a cousin named Aye. Like Xian Sheng, he is also from Bao'an. He used to be a professional. He is very smart and knows a lot of people outside. It will be no problem for him to ask for information. .”

"Cousin..." Xian Yaowen hesitated for a while and said: "What needs to be done is not dangerous, but being lax will be very troublesome. Are you sure you want to recommend your cousin?"

"If Aye makes a mistake, let Xian Sheng handle it."

"Is Aye literate?"

"Educated in junior high school."

"At six-thirty tomorrow afternoon, ask Aye to wait downstairs, and I'll treat him to dinner."

In a blink of an eye, time came to 6:20 pm the next day. Xian Yaowen parked the car and went to the door of the store, where he saw a messy version of Ng Mang-tat from the era - the head looked like Ng Mang-tat from the Hu Tiehua period, and the figure looked like It's the tiger of the crime squad, Cao Tat-hwa, and he's exactly the same, especially with his shy belly.

"Aye?" Xian Yaowen called tentatively.

"It's me! It's me."

Ah Ye, with a shy belly, jumped up to Xian Yaowen. As soon as he put on a smile, wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes and mouth, giving people a feeling of being mean and evil, and a hint of sinisterness.

With this look, he was born to be a villain actor.

"How long have you been here?"

"A little while, a little while."

The nerves in Aye's face would twitch when he spoke, and his head would shake slightly from side to side unconsciously.

The movement was very obvious, and Xian Yaowen had a panoramic view. With his relatively limited medical knowledge, he immediately listed four possibilities: bad habits developed in childhood, essential tremor, Parkinson's disease, and hyperthyroidism.

Parkinson's disease is the lowest possibility and can basically be ruled out. One of the obvious characteristics of hyperthyroidism is weight loss, which can also be ruled out. The remaining two options, no matter which one it is, stress is one of the main causes of twitching. It's just that essential tremor is more directed.

Xian Yaowen pretended to be concerned and asked: "Aye, what's wrong with your head?"

Aye smiled shyly, "Heredity, hereditary, my dad is like this too."

"Essential tremor is also called familial tremor. It is not a genetic disease, but it has a hereditary tendency." A line of words floated in Xian Yaowen's mind, and he hugged Aye's arm and said with a smile: "So, I thought you It's cold.

Sir Han said that you are also from Bao'an. I asked my servant to buy geese from Shuibei in the morning. There was a man named A Bao in Shuibei who created a 'Gongming Roasted Goose' restaurant in Gongming Market by his skill in roasting geese. His craftsmanship cannot be eaten due to his name, so we will try Shuibei's goose. I heard that this goose is carefully raised..."

Listening to Xian Yaowen's talk about the extraordinary qualities of Shuibei Goose, Aye felt the comfort of being taken seriously by others.

When I got upstairs, I felt even more important.

Wang Xiamin had never seen oysters before, let alone oysters, so Xian Yaowen personally cooked a stuffed oyster dish.

When we started eating, the main dishes on the table were Hangzhou cuisine. Only one dish, stuffed oysters and roasted goose, could be regarded as Baoan style. Together with the lychee wine, the atmosphere was full of deliberate preparation.

Xian Yaowen was not too polite. He drank a glass of wine with Aye and let him do as he pleased. During the dinner, he flipped through the newspapers and used his chopsticks to put his chopsticks into the pots of braised goose and stir-fried sour bamboo shoots. I said please feel free to eat more and ask for more rice.

After dinner, we went up to the rooftop to chat for a few words. Xian Yaowen solemnly told Ah Ye about the mission of finding out about the daughter of a grocery store, and also informally asked him to pay attention to a chick who could become the heroine of a romantic movie.

Last time, I couldn't find a suitable one from Wang Shuning, so I put the matter on hold for the time being. There was still work to be done, so I might as well leave it to Aye to try her luck.

After Aye took the task and left, Xian Yaowen continued to read newspapers, not only new newspapers, but also old newspapers.

Before, he didn't pay much attention to movie-related news. When he saw it in the newspaper, he would just glance at the title and then read the first two lines or two columns. He would skip the simple movie information without reading it. Yesterday, first he didn't know about Wu Danfeng, and then Michelle was involved in theaters, which made him feel that he knew too little about movies and entertainment, and he didn't even know the name of Miss Hong Kong.

Selecting the news with purpose will be very efficient. After a while, he knew who the previous three Miss Hong Kongs were, and also knew that these three Miss Hong Kongs were basically a joke.

In the first session, there were more judges than contestants, and most of the contestants were dancers and prostitutes.

In the second session, only two beauties followed the procedures and two more showed up at the last minute. How could the competition go on with only four people? Chen Luji, the director general of the beauty pageant, had to pull the heads on the spot. In the end, only two people were able to compete, for a total of six people. The competition continued and eventually Miss Hong Kong Wu Danfeng, runner-up Annie Chen, third runner-up Julien Zhu and Lilian Bai were selected.

Chen Anni was the one who was temporarily pulled over. She accompanied Zhu Liyan to compete.

After understanding the background of the contestants, Xian Yaowen finally understood why Wu Danfeng became Miss Hong Kong. Of the six contestants, the other five were all dancers, and three were colleagues at the Triumph Ballroom. Only Wu Danfeng was the second wife of a serious family with two children. Mom.

According to the newspaper, Wu Danfeng was domestically abused by her husband when she became Miss Hong Kong. He probably thought she was embarrassed.

A glimpse of the whole thing tells you the whole story. In the eyes of serious people, Miss Hong Kong is not serious.

For the third edition, I have heard William Chan mention it before. Miss Hong Kong is Sima Yin, whose pseudonym is Deng Boer. She is the daughter-in-law of Li Caifa, the owner of the organizer Retiro Garden Nightclub. She is also a popular dancer at the Balasa Ballroom in Wan Chai. The runner-up is Zhou Bingmei. The main beauties still come from the group of dancers, and the Triumph Ballroom is still an active responder, sending three beauties to participate.

The biggest joke this year was the "horse making". It is said that the order of the day was very messy. The awards were not held on the spot. Many journalists were unable to enter the venue. They could not take good photos after entering the venue. They waited until the venue was over. The candidates were invited to the open-air dance floor to take photos, but a large crowd of people gathered to watch, and some onlookers took advantage of the chaos to "breast attack" some of the contestants.

On that day, most of the audience who paid 3 yuan for tickets had to wait in line for several hours. Even the Miss Hong Kong could not be seen. Only those swimming in the pool could clearly see the true faces of the beauties.

There were also conflicts between the police and citizens that day. Due to the chaotic order of the beauty pageant, a large number of pickpockets entered the venue and many people had their belongings stolen. First, a detective came in to investigate but was stopped by Li Caifa. Later, someone called the police. Deputy Yihua Detective The assistant led his detectives and a uniformed police officer to the scene to investigate. The detective first greeted Li Caifa. Perhaps because of the disagreement, the detective was dragged into a room by many big men. Chaos ensued, and someone called. The police station said that some police officers were obstructing Lichi’s business.

As a result, the brigade police officers and stormtroopers arrived at the scene, and the Eastern District Assistant Chief McGahee also arrived to investigate.

How the incident ended was not explained in the newspaper, but given the great power of the police at this time, Li Caifa actually dared to instruct his subordinates to beat the police, and even had the bad guys complain first and called the police station to complain. He probably really thought that he was a leader of the Qing Gang. , you can call the police out to wash the floor.

Li Caifa will most likely be unlucky, and he doesn't know how much assets this guy has, so he should give it a try and get a piece of the pie.

Xian Yaowen was concerned about Li Caifa for the second time. This time he planned to take action and at least inquire about the assets.

Overall, the third Miss Hong Kong can be said to be a complete mess, a joke within a joke.

There was no fourth session last year, and there is no talk of one this year. Xian Yaowen is not sure when the fourth session was held in the original history. He is wondering whether to make some changes in history and let him be the contestant for the last session. All Hong Kong girls from chicken stalls.

After weighing the pros and cons, he finally gave up the idea. It was not a good thing to be tied too tightly to the chicken girl in secret. Chicken girls can be used, but they can only highlight individual cases and cannot create a group. Individual cases are inspirational models. Groups can easily be interpreted as intentionally humiliating, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Thinking along the lines of Miss Hong Kong, it is better to wait for the Grammy Model Team to become famous all over the world and launch a new secret model competition for the whole world. It is best to have beauties from the Soviet Union and East Germany participate, which can cause a big sensation.

After thinking about Miss Hong Kong, Xian Yaowen continued to read the news about the movie, selectively skipping the soft articles about the movie, and specifically picked out the news about movie stars and theaters. He read the news about movie stars as gossip, looked at the photos, wrote down the names, and the main focus. Or put it in the theater.

Although he knew in his heart that the real goal of this little girl Michelle was not to build a Western movie theater chain. Building a theater was just a gimmick and a tool to recover investment costs. Her target must be land, but since she took the theater chain as the entry point, It is necessary to improve the theater chain, which is directly linked to the land appreciation space.

It has to be said that Michelle, this stinky bitch, really knows how to make rational use of resources. She treats him and HSBC as chickens that lay eggs for her, and she establishes a new base outside.

"Damn, it's just a dream to use me as a gunman and want to eat the biggest piece of fat in your own belly."

To make a fuss, Xian Yaowen wrote down in his notebook the names of theaters showing Western films, and added useful information mentioned in newspapers after the names, such as addresses, shareholders, etc.

Not to mention, there were quite a few theaters in Hong Kong at this time. Some specialized in showing Western films, some specialized in Cantonese films, and some specialized in Mandarin films. Most were independent theaters, supplemented by chain theaters. The concept of theater chains Basically not formed.

There are only joint screenings initiated by Western film theaters in order to share the cost of copying. Mandarin and Cantonese films require film companies to run them one by one. Film companies will not produce too many copies at a time. When a new film is released, only three or five theaters can watch the premiere. And there is a deliberately created time difference to facilitate the film runners.

According to the different decoration conditions of the theaters, Hong Kong's theaters can be divided into first-run theaters, second-run theaters, third-run theaters and remote theaters. Copies will be made one round at a time. By the time the remote theaters are released, the film's premiere may have already been In the past year and a half or even two or three years.

Of course, the ticket prices vary greatly between theaters in each round. Special and super class seats in the first round of theaters can be sold for two or three yuan, but in the second and third rounds, they can only be sold for three to five cents. When you get to remote theaters, you may not be able to watch a movie. It only takes a few cents.

Originally, he had thought about buying a second-hand projector and some copies of old movies. He would first play outdoor movies in front of the store to attract people, and then let people who had nothing to do at home occasionally go to the countryside or cabin areas to play movies mobilely.

After understanding the composition of the ticket price, he could immediately stop thinking about it. A second-hand projector costs at least several thousand dollars, and a copy, no matter how old it is, costs several thousand dollars. The cost can easily reach tens of thousands. Showing a movie costs more You can earn more than ten or twenty yuan, and after deducting the electricity and labor costs, your work is almost in vain.

If you run it as a business, you don’t need to do it. If you treat it as a sentiment, it’s still okay.

Maybe you can go to Moscow and get free copies of Soviet films in the name of promoting Soviet political thought and exporting it to the world revolution. If you add some activity funds, you should be able to make a considerable amount of money. The ruble is still quite strong now. , and there is good room for appreciation.

　Movie-related information sources: Lu Li's "Hong Kong Cinema Tour" (1964), "Hong Kong Movies and Paintings" (No. 1968 to 1, 4).

　　
　
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