Chapter 233: Eat first and talk later
After hearing Wu Qiuya's high-sounding words, Lu Yiming couldn't help but complain in his heart: If you support my dream, it would be better if you don't ask for interest.
But he said, "Okay, then you can contact that person. As for the contact information, you can ask Li Zhengkai for it."
No matter what, Lu Yiming would not refuse if someone gave him money.
Wu Qiuya clasped her hands together again and came forward with a coquettish look on her face: "Then I would like to say thank you here, classmate Lu Yiming."
Lu Yiming smiled and teased: "You can be considered my client now. If you want to thank me, I should be the one thanking you."
Hearing Lu Yiming's words, Wu Qiuya felt as sweet as if she had eaten honey. She felt that she had made the right move. Not only could she invest in financial management and help her family make a small profit, but she could also get closer to Lu Yiming.
Absolutely perfect!
Then she looked at Lin Yuzhen provocatively.
A mere 2,000 yuan scum, you want to fight with me?
Lin Yuzhen noticed Wu Qiuya's eyes, and when she looked over, she was immediately furious. She grabbed Lu Yiming's arm and twisted it hard, saying viciously: "Are you going to vote for me? If you don't, I will tell my uncle that you bullied me!"
Lu Yiming: “!!!”
"Hey, hey, you can't be like this. You should have some conscience. It's obvious that you were the one bullying me from the beginning to the end."
"Whatever, I'll just say this if you don't vote for me."
Lu Yiming immediately raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, I'll help you surrender, okay?"
Two thousand yuan is not enough for Lu Yiming now, even for a meal. However, he will not break the rules of the Future Fund. He plans to transfer the 20,000 yuan directly into his own account and just give Lin Yuzhen some money every month.
It was only a little over a hundred yuan a month, and Lu Yiming was too lazy to even keep a special account.
Lu Jiajia, who had been silent, originally wanted to invest, but she had no money, so she had to give up. At the same time, she also knew for the first time that Lu Yiming was even richer than she had imagined.
Li Zhengkai held the car key given to him by Meng Xiujie in his left hand and a handful of cash in his right hand. He remembered what Meng Xiujie said and said, "Let's go, let's go to Longjingxuan for dinner."
Although the current development of the situation seemed to make it meaningless for him to pretend, after all, the matter of eating had already been mentioned. If he didn't go, he might leave a bad impression on the girls.
In addition, Li Zhengkai had heard of the reputation of Long Jingxuan a long time ago and wanted to go there for a meal. Now that Meng Xiujie was treating him, there was naturally no reason for him to not go.
Several people went to Long Jingxuan to have a sumptuous meal. Lu Yiming was not polite at all. Li Zhengkai's legs were shaking and he was staggering when he left the restaurant.
It seemed as if the numbers on the bill were more terrifying than all the horror movies Li Zhengkai had ever seen combined.
After dinner, Li Zhengkai finally calmed down and drove everyone around the streets of Hong Kong. However, the four-seat sports car was crammed with five people, Lu Yiming sat in the passenger seat, and the three girls squeezed in the back, excitedly admiring the beautiful scenery along the way.
After strolling around until dark, Li Zhengkai drove his sports car back to the Boning Hotel with a feeling of unsatisfied desire.
However, when they appeared at the hotel entrance, they suddenly found that the entrance was packed with people, it was very lively, even a little noisy.
When a few people got off the bus, they found that someone was holding a huge cheering sign in his hand.
"Hua Zai?"
"Liu Tianwang?"
King Liu, a native of Hong Kong, made his film debut in 1981 with the film "Colorful Clouds". In 1983, he starred in the martial arts drama "The Return of the Condor Heroes". In 1985, he released his first solo album "I Only Know I Love You Now". In 1990, he gained attention in the music industry with his album "Can You" and founded Tianmu Film Company in 1991...
Among the Four Heavenly Kings, King Liu is probably the most famous one. He was once selected by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Hong Kong male singer with the most awards.
Of course, this was around 2000.
At present, "Dragon in the Rivers and Lakes" starring King Liu is in theaters. He has been promoting it in various places and he is staying at the Boning Hotel today.
King Andy Lau is not only famous in Hong Kong, his fame has now spread to the mainland. His popular songs such as "Forget Love Water" are frequent guests on the school radio and can often be heard from the afternoon after school to before evening self-study.
As an announcer at the radio station, Lin Yuzhen is probably the one who has the most "contact" with King Liu among this group of people. She can be said to be King Liu's little fan girl.
At this time, Lin Yuzhen was extremely excited to learn that King Liu was staying at the Boning Hotel today. After all, she had listened to so many of King Liu's songs and watched so many of his film and television works, but had never seen King Liu in person.
"Liu Tianwang, Liu Tianwang!"
Lin Yuzhen grabbed Lu Yiming's arm and shook it violently.
Lu Yiming held his head and said depressedly: "Liu Tianwang is Liu Tianwang, if you have the ability, go shake him, why are you shaking me?"
Lu Yiming is not a fan, he is only interested in the work itself, he will appreciate good works, and will criticize bad works regardless of who the star is. But in the end, he still has a good impression of King Liu. Before the rebirth, when the entertainment director generally failed, King Liu's personality has always been stable, which is very good.
Lu Jiajia and Wu Qiuya are also fans of King Liu, and even Li Zhengkai likes .
Li Zhengkai said excitedly: "Let's go and see the fun. After we go back, we can brag to our classmates that we saw King Liu."
Lin Yuzhen said longingly: "It would be great if I could get King Liu's autograph. Those people in the radio club would be so jealous of me. And I heard that King Liu's autographed photos are very expensive. If I could get one, I could play with it myself first, and then sell it for money when I get tired of it. It would be simply..."
Lu Yiming teased, "Is this how you treat your idol? Asking for his autograph is not enough, you want to sell it?"
Lin Yuzhen curled her lips, raised her chin and looked proud: "It's not shameful to make money."
Thinking that she could still make a fortune from her idol, Lin Yuzhen felt excited and rushed into the hotel impatiently.
With so many people around, Lu Yiming was afraid that something might happen to Lin Yuzhen, so he hurried to catch up.
Seeing that Lin Yuzhen and Lu Yiming had both gone up, the others naturally squeezed in unwillingly.
As a result, after trying so hard, Lin Yuzhen and the other delicate girls still couldn't squeeze through the crowd and get King Liu's autograph, let alone take a photo with him.
Helplessly, Lu Yiming had to stand up and said, "Forget it, it seems like we can't beat these people. Let's go to the hotel first. We'll find another opportunity after these fans leave. King Liu is also staying in this hotel, which is our advantage."
The girls were already sweating and exhausted from being crowded together. After hearing what Lu Yiming said, they could only agree helplessly.
In the restaurant, Lin Yuzhen took a few more mouthfuls of rice out of anger. The money was right in front of her, so close, but she didn't earn any money from it. The more she thought about it, the more she felt she was losing.
"Look at you. You almost swallowed the rice spoon. It's just an autographed photo. Is it that serious?"
Lu Yiming really couldn't understand this crazy fan behavior.
Lin Yuzhen pursed her lips and said, "As for that, that's too much. King Liu is my idol, you know what idols are? The kind that you have to pay for! I can not only enjoy the autographed photos myself, but I can also enjoy it even more by selling them!"
Lu Yiming narrowed his eyes and said, "You are so cool, is it serious?"
Lin Yuzhen looked disgusted: "Hey ~ your smile is so vulgar, stay away from me."
After laughing for a while, Lu Yiming immediately said seriously: "Okay, isn't it just the autographed photo of King Liu? I'll get it for you, as many as you want. Even if you want to take a photo with him, I can arrange it at any time."
"Really?"
"You're not bragging, are you? That's King Liu, can you get an autographed photo? I can get as many as you want."
"Can you still arrange for him to take a photo with us?"
The three girls looked at Lu Yiming with surprise, as if they were looking at an alien.
Li Zhengkai curled his lips, obviously not believing it: "Do you think you appointed the Four Heavenly Kings? Do they want to listen to you? Who do you think you are? The Jade Emperor?"
In his eyes, celebrities and ordinary people are not creatures of the same dimension, let alone a superstar like King Liu. It is lucky enough to just look at him from afar, so why would he want to order him around?
You’re dreaming!
Now Lu Yiming said he would give him as many autographs as he wanted, and he could even arrange for a photo with King Liu. The tone of his voice was as if King Liu was his follower, which sounded outrageous.
Ignoring Li Zhengkai's sour words, Lin Yuzhen approached Lu Yiming with great expectation: "Can you really get King Liu's autograph?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Why would I lie to you?"
In a capitalist society, whoever has money is the most powerful. As long as you have money, there is nothing you can't accomplish.
In fact, it is the same in any society, money is omnipotent. If you think it is not, it is only because you do not have enough money and influence.
At this time, in the hotel lobby.
With the help of his assistant and bodyguards, King Liu finally got rid of those fanatical fans and took the elevator to the suite on the landscape floor.
As soon as he sat down, King Liu said to his assistant who followed him in: "Have someone buy some water and bread to distribute to the fans below. I heard that some people started coming here at noon and must not have had dinner yet. They must be tired and thirsty."
The assistant couldn't help but sigh: "You are so nice to your fans."
King Liu smiled amiably and said, "They are my bread and butter, so it is only natural that I treat them well."
The assistant was convinced by King Liu's personal charm, nodded and immediately stood up: "Then I will arrange it now."
After the assistant left, King Liu couldn't help showing some tiredness and helplessness. His agent Zhang Guozhong, who was standing next to him, saw this and advised him kindly: "Wah Tsai, you'd better not work too hard. Your health is more important."
King Liu rubbed his forehead and said with a wry smile: "How can I pay back the money if I don't fight?"
In the eyes of outsiders, King Andy Lau is a superstar with unlimited glory, but in fact, who knows that he has accumulated a lot of debts over the years because of running a company and making movies?
In the 1990s, Hong Kong's film industry dominated Asia and was nicknamed "Oriental Hollywood". It was so popular that no one in the entire Eastern cultural circle could match it.
What about Japanese and Korean pop culture? They are just second-rate or even third-rate little brothers and are not worth mentioning.
How popular were Hong Kong movies at that time?
Just because Long Ge and his future wife Gillian's relationship was exposed, there were fanatical female fans in the island country who wanted to lie on the railway tracks, and some even went to his office and took poison.
When a slightly famous Hong Kong star goes to Japan or South Korea, there will be huge crowds of fans coming to greet him at the airport.
But behind the glory is the last afterglow before sunset.
Due to the influx of too much hot money and the fact that Hong Kong films themselves have not established a complete industry standard, this chaos and disorder has led to a large number of shoddy films flooding the entire market.
Without word of mouth, the avalanche will be unstoppable.
King Andy Lau is a good actor, but it is obvious that his business acumen is not very good.
Seeing that making movies could make money, he hastily set up his own film company. However, he chose to enter the market at the wrong time and naturally lost everything in the end.
By 1995, Tianmu Films had suffered a loss of 45 million Hong Kong dollars, which almost bankrupted Andy Lau, the king of pop, and earned him a new nickname "Liu the Money-Loser" from his peers and investors.
In the past few years, creditors came to his door every day to collect debts. King Liu had no choice but to work hard to make money to pay off his debts.
Although it was very hard and tiring, and he might not even have six hours of rest a day, King Liu still chose to grit his teeth and persevere.
Zhang Guozhong is Liu Tianwang's agent and also a close friend of his.
After years of friendship, he couldn't help but persuade her, "Just give up. If you keep accepting commercial performances like this, it will really kill you. As a friend, I don't want to see you die young. Or you can file for bankruptcy. There are countless companies that have gone bankrupt in the industry in recent years. We are not ashamed."
King Liu shook his head and said firmly: "Don't persuade me anymore. I will pay back whatever I owe you. It doesn't matter if I fall. The key is to get up again."
He lived in poverty and hardship when he was young and experienced many hardships before he was finally appreciated and supported by noble people, which led to his current achievements.
King Liu is not afraid of hardship, but he is afraid of poverty, because he himself was born poor, so he knows how difficult life is.
It would be easy to file for bankruptcy, but that would completely destroy his chance of making a comeback.
He has already tasted success and fame in his life. To let him fall from the clouds and into the quagmire that he had tried so hard to escape in the first place would be more painful than killing him.
So no matter how hard or tired he is, he will never give in.
Seeing that his friend had made up his mind, Zhang Guozhong stopped trying to persuade him. He just said with emotion: "Now Hong Kong movies are really getting worse and worse. They have no box office and no reputation. Every time they encounter Hollywood blockbusters, they are defeated. It seems that the audiences nowadays really don't like to watch the movies we make."
The implication is that if King Liu wants to make money and turn his life around, he may have to find a new way, otherwise he will just repeat the same mistakes as before.
After being melancholy for a long time, Zhang Guozhong felt hungry, so he suggested: "Let's go to the restaurant to eat first, and talk about it after we are full."
The two of them came to the restaurant and just found a seat to sit down, King Liu patted Zhang Guozhong on the shoulder and asked in a reserved manner: "Look, is that Mr. Lu?"
