Chapter 8 Acute Illness
This year's Lunar New Year festival is extremely popular. Although Shaw Brothers has ceased production, Debao Film Company has taken over the Shaw Brothers Cinemas chain, and Pan Disheng has become a new generation of movie tycoons.
This year's New Art City launched "The Best Partner", which is the fourth film in the Best Partner series. The first three Best Partner series movies won the box office in 1982, 1983, and 1984 respectively.
Continuously winning the title, becoming the highest-grossing film series in Hong Kong.
Last year, none of the top five box office movies in Hong Kong City were from New Arts City. This was really unimaginable since the 1980s. Therefore, after a year, the Best Partner series was filmed again, and New Arts City wanted to regain the box office championship.
His thoughts are obvious. I just don’t know if this year’s best partner, with the reunion of the iron triangle of Bald Mai, Zhang Aijia and Xu Guanjie, can continue the glory of the past.
Golden Harvest Company released "Wealth Train" directed by Hung Kam-bo. Last year, the two Five Lucky Stars series films "Lucky Star" and "Summer Lucky Star" directed by Hung Kim-bo, won the first and second place at the box office of Hong Kong movies, and "Lucky Star" was even more
It is the first movie in Hong Kong City to have a box office of over 30 million. Therefore, "Wealth Train" has been highly hyped in Hong Kong City even before it was released, and it is also considered to be a contender for the annual box office crown.
Debao Company's Lunar New Year release is "Eight Happiness is Coming". Director Gao Zhisen was originally from New Art City, and has directed a large number of blockbuster movies such as the "Happy Ghost" series and "Merry Christmas". Now that he has joined Debao, his first film has also been
People expect it.
In this year's box office competition, whether the two giants New Art City and Jiahe will compete side by side, or whether they will once again compete with Debao Company as a tripartite, has attracted much attention.
In addition, there is "North and South Shaolin" co-produced by Shaw Brothers and mainland China. It is the third part of the Shaolin Temple series and still stars Jet Li. It has also attracted the attention of many people. After all, Jet Li has starred in two previous movies.
, Shaolin Temple and Shaolin Boy, both have outstanding performances of over 20 million box office.
Due to the fierce competition, other movies have avoided the Lunar New Year slot. Of course, other movies may not have a schedule either.
After Best Partner and Fortune Train were released, Cai Zhiliang wanted to invite Zheng Weijia to watch the movie together, but was declined. In frustration, he gave up the idea of going to the cinema.
However, Cai Zhiliang was not idle either. Taking advantage of the intensive reports from various media in Hong Kong City, Cai Zhiliang also collected some relevant information.
A week later, that is, before New Year's Eve, the situation of the Lunar New Year stalls gradually became clearer. Baxi Comes to the Gate and North and South Shaolin began to lag behind, while the box office of Best Partner and Fortune Train passed the 10 million mark one after another, and started to move forward towards the 20 million box office.
Sprint, some good people have already opened a bet to guess who will become the first movie with a box office of over 30 million this year.
On New Year's Eve, Cai Zhiliang and his mother went to his grandfather's place to pay New Year greetings as in previous years.
"Grandpa and grandma, Happy New Year..." While Cai Zhiliang said auspicious words, he also received many red envelopes. First from his grandparents, then his second uncle, second aunt, third uncle and three gods.
Of course, as the eldest brother, Cai Zhiliang also sent out a lot of red envelopes. After all, everyone was seeking good luck and sharing the joy of the New Year.
"Grandpa, has the date for Longchang's listing been decided?" After paying homage to his wife, Cai Zhiliang and his grandfather were sitting on the sofa chatting.
When Cai Mingchao took charge of Longchang Group, he had been seeking to go public, but failed. After Cai Xun regained control of Longchang, he made another effort and finally made progress.
"It's scheduled for mid-March." Speaking of this, Cai Xun smiled broadly, "What, are you planning to come to Longchang to work?"
Seeing his grandfather bring up this topic again, Cai Zhiliang said: "Let's take some time."
Later, the second uncle and the third uncle also joined in and talked about the listing of Longchang Group. Most of the time, Cai Zhiliang was just a listener.
While Cai Xun was going to the bathroom, Cai Mingbo asked, "A-Liang, can you sell your shares to me and your third uncle?"
Speaking of the equity structure of Longchang Group, Cai Xun originally held 76% of the shares, and the remaining 24% was in the hands of some partners. In the past few years, Cai Xun distributed part of his shares to his three sons, and Cai Mingchao received
3%, Cai Mingbo and Cai Minlang each received 2%.
Nowadays, Cai Mingchao is unconscious, and Cai Xun has made the decision to write these 3% shares in Cai Zhiliang's name. This is what Cai Mingbo is talking about.
Cai Zhiliang thought for a moment, glanced at his third uncle who also had the same hope, and said slowly and authentically: "Second uncle, once Longchang Group is listed, the stock price will naturally increase exponentially. How much money are you prepared to pay for the acquisition?"
Cai Mingbo thought it would take a lot of trouble, but he didn't expect his nephew to have no intention of rejecting him at all. He looked at Cai Minglang and couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes, and promised: "Don't worry, Aliang, they are all family members. If my second uncle doesn't
I won’t let you suffer in any way. We will discuss it in detail in a few days..."
At this time, Cai Xun had already walked over, and Cai Mingbo had no choice but to end the conversation. After all, these words were not suitable to be mentioned in front of Cai Xun.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, Cai Zhiliang and his mother did not stay with their grandparents to stay up late as they did in previous years. Instead, they left early and went home to welcome the New Year with their father.
But just as he was leaving, the phone rang.
"Hello...I'm...well, I'll be there soon..." Cai Xun's face changed after answering the phone.
"Dad, what happened?" Cai Mingbo asked.
Cai Xun sighed and said, "Ah He called. Your uncle fainted and has been sent to the hospital."
Cai Shao was already seventy-five years old, and he was tortured from time to time by the illnesses caused by his youth, but such a thing as coma had never happened before.
Thinking of his age again, everyone felt nervous, which immediately diluted the joy of the New Year.
Afterwards, everyone drove to the hospital.
"Ahe, how is your father?" Cai Xun caught Cai Minghe and asked him as soon as they met.
"Third uncle, the doctor said there is nothing serious..."
Cai Xun directly interrupted Cai Minghe and said: "If it was nothing serious, how could you faint?"
Then he took Cai Minghe to see the doctor, and there was a commotion for a while.
Cai Zhiliang walked up to a girl and asked, "Sister, what's going on?"
The girl's name is Cai Meiqi, Cai Mingle's daughter, and she is currently living with her grandfather. Cai Meiqi wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, turned around and saw Cai Zhiliang, and said: "They say he is a high-achieving person. He is not allowed to eat squid, but he insists on eating it..."
Listening to Cai Meiqi's ramble, Cai Zhiliang was also a little puzzled, can eating squid make you unconscious?
After waiting for half an hour, the ward door opened. Cai Shao was already awake. The doctor allowed his family members to come in for a visit. Cai Zhiliang also squeezed in along with Cai Xun.
"Brother..."
"dad……"
Cai Xun, Cai Ming and their siblings called softly, but Cai Shao still didn't open his eyes and lay quietly on the hospital bed.
"Grandpa..." Cai Zhiliang also called out.
"Well..." Cai Shao slowly opened his eyes, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "A-Liang, I haven't seen you for a while."
This situation made Cai Minghe and others a little uncomfortable, because Cai Zhiliang was just his grandnephew. He called for a long time, but his father didn't respond. However, Cai Shao woke up as soon as Cai Zhiliang called.
But Cai Zhiliang was a little sad. This old man who made him happy when he was a child was actually so weak. He choked out: "I will visit you every day from now on."
Cai Shao has two sons, Cai Mingle has only one daughter, and Cai Minghe’s son is still in elementary school. As the first male of his grandchildren, Cai Zhiliang in his childhood, as the eldest grandson of the Cai family, received more favor, so he
Just like Cai Shao's grandson.
Chapter completed!