Chapter 162: The Spring Festival Gala
After donating so much money at once, Liu Hongmin felt a little tight on cash. He wanted to do too many things, but he couldn't move the money in his Japanese yen account, and he couldn't pay dividends from his companies.
What to do when you are short of money? Of course, write novels.
Liu Hongmin now has a certain routine for writing profitable novels. He cooperates with Sanlian Publishing House and Random House to distribute them globally.
Considering that he needed a lot of money this time, Liu Hongmin wanted to write a novel suitable for Americans and Europeans. After much searching, Liu Hongmin found a reincarnation movie called "The Ship".
In the era before Groundhog Day was released, time reincarnation was a very novel idea. Although the concept of "eternal reincarnation" existed in ancient Egyptian mythology and there was a Sisyphus in Greek mythology, there were not many foreign writers who wrote this type of reincarnation novel.
Liu Hongmin's writing style is now very mature, so there is no need to look for foreign novels of the reincarnation type to read.
He read through "The Grim Reaper" and combined the key points with the outline. He roughly determined the length, which could be about 70,000 to 80,000 words, a novella.
Liu Hongmin did not change the names of several characters. Most Hong Kong people have English names, and some people particularly like to call themselves by their English names, so it does not conflict with the story. Keeping these English names is very helpful for selling to the United States and Europe, as it allows foreigners to more easily get into the plot.
If "Ghost Ship" is successful, it can be adapted into a movie by Tomorrow Film Company, and it may make a lot of money. Things like reincarnation are easier to understand if they are expressed in movies.
Therefore, what is generally popular around the world are reincarnation movies, while reincarnation novels are actually slightly inferior.
Liu Hongmin determined the creative direction and started writing immediately.
At his speed of writing novels, a novel of 85 to 2 words could certainly be finished in a month. But a reincarnation novel was very difficult, and Liu Hongmin continued writing until mid-February , when the Little New Year had already passed.
After finishing writing "The Cruise", Liu Hongmin put down his pen and prepared to have a good New Year with his family.
"Second brother, it's time to take the college entrance exam this summer, right? Have you decided which university to apply to?"
Liu Hongjun said speechlessly: "Brother, can you please stop calling me Lao Er? It's too rude. You are a cultured person!"
"If I don't call you the second brother, what should I call you? Second brother?" Liu Hongmin asked with a smile.
Liu Hongjun was silent for a moment. Calling him "second brother" didn't sound very nice.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Liu Hongmin said with a grin, "Your own heart, everything you hear is dirty."
Liu Hongjun wisely skipped the topic and said, "I want to apply to the National Defense University. I want to join the army in the future."
“Very ambitious!”
Liu Hongjun said proudly: "Of course not. You wanted to be a soldier so much but you didn't go. I must help you fulfill your wish."
"Second brother, stop talking nonsense." Liu Hongying quickly poked Liu Hongjun with chopsticks and used her eyes to remind him that he had said the wrong thing.
Liu Hongmin smiled and said, "It's okay, it's been so many years." He has come to terms with it now. If he had joined the army, he would definitely not have achieved what he has now. When the Vietnamese monkeys invaded, he would most likely have gone to the battlefield and died.
"Second brother, do your best in the exam. I support you!"
"Thank you, big brother!" Liu Hongjun grinned and made a request, "Brother, when you go to Hong Kong next time, can you bring me some books on weapons?"
"No problem. After the New Year, I'll have someone do it for you."
Liu's father and mother were very worried. From time to time, there were casualties in the south. Although the number was not large, sometimes only one or two people. But they were worried that Liu Hongjun would not be safe on the battlefield with his reckless character. For parents, when it comes to their children's personal safety, even if there is only a 1% probability, they will treat it as 100%.
In the evening, Liu Hongmin took his younger brothers and sisters to the shore of Shichahai with a bunch of fireworks and lit them.
"Clap clap-"
Like Liu Hongmin's family, many people in Beijing have the habit of setting off fireworks in Shichahai. On the night of the Little New Year, the sky over Shichahai becomes bright. In recent years, people's living conditions have improved, and more fireworks have been set off. However, there are still few people who set off fireworks for several hours like Liu Hongmin's family.
The fireworks continued from about five o'clock to about nine o'clock, when they slowly stopped. Many young people rode their bicycles for more than ten or twenty miles to watch the fireworks, and they couldn't help shivering from the cold.
The 85 Spring Festival Gala was a bit difficult to describe. The central station made a mistake in decision-making and moved the Spring Festival Gala stage to the Beijing Workers' Stadium. As a result, due to insufficient preparation and failure of on-site scheduling, there were problems with the connection of the program. The original 4-hour program was dragged to 6 hours. Liu's father and mother did not even make it to 1 o'clock and went back to their room to sleep.
When the time was announced on the hour, there was a blank time of more than a minute, all thanks to the hosts' jokes. Liu Hongmin watched the hosts randomly find topics and almost caused a broadcast accident, and he couldn't help but smack his teeth. If these hosts were not very good, I'm afraid it would have caused the "black three minutes" broadcast accident in 07.
In addition, the weather in Beijing was cold. Although the production team prepared some heating equipment, it was not enough. When the actors were performing, they were suffering and were not in good condition at all. Chen Xiaoer was being poured cold water while performing the skit. He had to endure the discomfort and performed. The effect of the show can be imagined.
When the party just started, Liu Hongmin called Director Wang, who also expressed regret, but the party had already started and it was too late to say anything.
However, Director Wang said that next year they will definitely learn from this year's lessons.
China Taiwan is still responsible and apologized to the people of the country the next day.
The audiences of this era are still very tolerant, after all, there are only so many TV stations. Even though there are mistakes on China Central Television, it is still better than other TV stations.
Liu Hongmin stayed in Beijing until the third day of the Chinese New Year, and then flew to Hong Kong with the manuscript. "Detective Chinatown 3" has been released for three days, and although Zou Shifang will report to him tomorrow, he is still worried.
This year, the film company has about seven or eight projects, and "Detective Chinatown 3" is the first work of the year. If it can get off to a good start, the rest of the projects will be much more confident.
After getting off the plane, he saw Li Lizhen waiting at the gate. Li Lizhen jumped directly onto Liu Hongmin, gave him a passionate kiss, and then took him back to the villa.
Liu Hongmin stayed in the land of gentleness for a night and went to the company the next day.
Zou Shifang, Wang Yaowei, Xu Xiaoming and Yang Guiren had been waiting for a long time. When they saw Liu Hongmin coming, they all looked at him ambiguously.
(End of this chapter)
