A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 1507 Zhao Hailong Wants a Divorce! (Please Subscribe!)

Li Xiaozhen announced that the villa was finally ready for occupancy, and the whole family happily moved into the big house. Hua Shier's idea was to have Grandpa Cui and Grandma Cui come and live with them, since there were plenty of houses here anyway.

Unexpectedly, after his treatment, the elderly couple became much healthier and more agile. They wanted to enjoy their time together as a couple and didn't want to interfere with their children.

Hua Shier didn't force it; the elderly couple were content as long as they were happy.

In the following period, Hua Shier took on several commercial performances and filmed an advertisement for an 'automatic transmission bicycle'. After that, he stopped working and locked himself in the study of his villa to start doing research.

Hmm, on his little notebook, the 'geared bicycle' section is now checked off, but there's still a pinhole pair of glasses!

He plans to develop this thing when he has free time. He doesn't want to make something out of a scam, but something that can actually control nearsightedness and is beneficial to the eyes.

In mid-August 1995, Hua Shier received a phone call from Huo Dongfeng:
"Brother-in-law, I have great news for you! I'm getting married!"

Hua Shier congratulated him directly over the phone:
"You finally dumped Cui Xiaohong? Who's the new bride? Congratulations! You must be feeling really happy now. That's what you call cutting your losses. Come over to my place, let's have a couple of drinks to celebrate!"

Huo Dongfeng remained silent for three seconds before hesitantly saying:
"Well, it's not nice of you to talk about your sister like that, but I'm going to marry your sister!"

"Oh well, all that excitement for nothing!"

Hua Shier rolled her eyes and then asked, "Didn't you two get your marriage certificate last time? Why are you having another wedding? Are you kidding me!"

Huo Dongfeng quickly explained:
"Registration is registration, and the wedding banquet is the wedding banquet. They are not the same thing. Besides, we didn't plan to have one at first. But then I thought about how I've let your sister down all these years, so I decided to give her a proper wedding before Erpang starts school!"

Hua Shier was speechless: "The two of you combined are the ones who have wronged me and our Cui family the most, okay? When you, a vagrant, seduced Cui Xiaohong, did you even tell our family?"

"What's even worse is that they got pregnant out of wedlock and then abandoned the child. One of them went to jail, and the other went abroad to have a good time. Don't you two have any shame?!"

Huo Dongfeng felt guilty about the matter and repeatedly said kind words:

"It's all my fault, and the people I'm most sorry to are you, my brother-in-law, and my parents!"

Hua Shier smiled:
"It's good that you admit it. Well, you wanted to make compensation, but don't bother with Cui Xiaohong. You said you felt most sorry for me and your parents, so take out the money for the wedding. Your sister-in-law and I will take the two elders on a trip to the south. We'll visit Huangshan, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Great Wall, and the ends of the earth!"

He had barely finished speaking when the person on the other end of the phone changed, and Cui Xiaohong's voice came through:
"Cui Guoming, don't go too far. You promised that day that you wouldn't bring it up again after it was over."

Hua Shier hung up the phone immediately, not wanting to waste any more words with Cui Xiaohong.

A short while later, the old lady called back. Needless to say, it was Cui Xiaohong who had gone to complain.

The old lady talked on the phone for over an hour, basically telling Hua Shier not to do that. She said, "You've already forgiven your sister, so why are you still holding onto this?" She kept repeating the same things over and over.

Hua Shier could only agree with a wry smile:
"Alright, alright, I give in, ma'am. I'll definitely go to the wedding and even bring them gifts!"

Seeing her son give in, the old lady on the other end of the phone chuckled and hung up, then said smugly to her husband beside her:

"See that? Easy peasy!"

Old Master Cui said with a dark face:

"The way you're talking sounds like Tang Sanzang reciting the Tightening-Headband Mantra. Even Sun Wukong would be convinced, let alone your son. I'm getting annoyed just listening to you!"

The old lady chuckled.

When Li Xiaozhen got home that evening and learned about this, she offered to take on the task of buying a gift for her sister-in-law.

In her opinion, her husband was a superstar in mainland China and had made a lot of money in business. Since it was her own sister's wedding, the gift she gave had to be quite expensive.

Hua Shier stopped Li Xiaozhen and told her that he would prepare the gift himself.

Li Xiaozhen knew that her husband and his sister had a rift, and asked suspiciously:

"You're not going to just throw together some random, half-hearted thing, are you?"

Hua Shier smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's guaranteed to be valuable, and it also has a meaningful connotation!"

The next day, the old man called Hua Shier home for dinner, saying that he wanted to discuss the wedding arrangements for Huo Dongfeng and Cui Xiaohong.

Hua Shier brought the gift he wanted to give directly to Huo Dongfeng: a red brocade box about the size of an ordinary plate.
"A wedding gift for you two!"

"My brother-in-law is so thoughtful!"

Huo Dongfeng happily accepted it with both hands, but it felt surprisingly heavy.
"What gift is this? It's quite heavy!"

The whole family was also curious about what Hua Shier would give to Cui Xiaohong.

Li Xiaozhen laughed and said, "I don't even know what it is. It's all so mysterious. Brother-in-law, hurry up and open it so everyone can see!"

Huo Dongfeng laughed and said, "Then I won't stand on ceremony!"

As he spoke, he opened the brocade box. Under the light, it shone brightly with gold, and everyone could see that inside the box was an antique mirror made of gold, ten centimeters in diameter.

Huo Dongfeng asked Hua Twelve, "This isn't gold, is it?"

Hua Twelve laughed and said, "Pure gold, exactly three pounds!"

Huo Dongfeng's Adam's apple bobbed, and he quickly refused:

"No, no, I know you're a big star now and have plenty of money, but this is too valuable. Your sister and I can't accept it!"

Cui Xiaohong smiled broadly:
"Dongfeng, please accept this. My brother is congratulating us on our reconciliation!"

Everyone else nodded in agreement, saying that the meaning was auspicious.

Hua Shierchao and Cui Xiaohong laughed:
"You're quite good at choosing words, but you're wrong. This is a demon-revealing mirror. Hang it in your home and look at yourself often, so you won't cause any trouble!"

Cui Xiaohong wasn't angry. She thought her brother was all bark and no bite when it came to the three-pound gold.

Hua Shier: You might have it backwards!

During dinner, when the topic of wedding procedures came up, Cui Xiaohong immediately said that since she had become a Christian in Japan, she would skip the traditional wedding procession and instead have a church wedding in a wedding dress.

Grandpa Cui pointed to the golden mirror and asked Hua Twelve, "This doesn't work either!"

Hua Shier laughed heartily, and the others couldn't help but smile as well. Cui Xiaohong then hugged Grandpa Cui and acted coquettishly.
"dad!"

Although Grandpa Cui didn't like things from foreign countries, he still agreed to Cui Xiaohong's idea of ​​getting married in a church.

On the wedding day, all the employees of Dingqinglou came to attend the wedding. Gouchangzi gave two hundred yuan as a gift, and then discussed with Hua Shier:
"Hey, could you introduce me to Huo Dongfeng? I wanted to meet him when your dumpling restaurant opened last time, but he didn't have anything important to do and didn't go. Today is his wedding, so I want to say a few words to him and congratulate him!"

This request wasn't unreasonable, so Hua Shier took the dog intestines and went to find Huo Dongfeng, claiming they were his friends.

Huo Dongfeng was about to shake hands when Gouchangzi started causing trouble, giving him a thumbs up:

"A lone cloud hangs in the northwestern sky, a crow alights among a flock of phoenixes, the table is full of heroes, who is the ruler and who is the subject!"

Huo Dongfeng was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

Dog Intestines clicked his tongue:
"Why don't you understand? You, Huo Dongfeng, aren't you one of the Three Heroes of Dalin? You're known as one of the top figures in the underworld. I'm called Gou Changzi, and I'm known as one of the top figures in the underworld too. We're in the same line of work!"

"I'm not following the rules of the underworld by greeting you like this. Have you seen 'Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy'? Isn't that slang from the underworld?"

Huo Dongfeng instantly understood; this was a complete blunder. He chuckled and said:
"Brother, we're not in the same line of work anymore. I retired from the underworld a long time ago!"

Dog Intestine nodded and said, "Yes, I've retired from that business too. You're running a restaurant now, so we're in the same line of work! I used to sell pancakes; we're both in the food service industry!"

Huo Dongfeng:
Hua Shier pulled the dog's intestines and walked away, turning to Huo Dongfeng and saying:
"Alright, you go ahead and do your thing!"

Gou Changzi looked displeased: "Why are you pulling me? I haven't finished speaking yet!" When the wedding began, Cui Xiaohong, wearing a pure white wedding dress, entered the venue arm in arm with Grandpa Cui, while Erpang, wearing a little suit, followed behind her, pulling her wedding dress.

Grandpa Cui personally handed Cui Xiaohong over to Huo Dongfeng.

The priest looked at Huo Dongfeng with a kind expression and asked:
"Huo Dongfeng, do you take Cui Xiaohong to be your lawful wife? From this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish one another, till death do you part?"

Huo Dongfeng glanced at Cui Xiaohong, and the two smiled at each other before he spoke:
"I am willing."

The priest asked Cui Xiaohong the same question again, and Cui Xiaohong replied, "I do!"

They then exchanged wedding rings, and the priest declared them husband and wife.

After the wedding, Hua Shier said to Li Xiaozhen with a sullen expression:

"That priest was completely unprofessional, a complete idiot. He didn't even say such an important line as 'Who objects to this marriage?'"

After hearing her husband's words, Li Xiaozhen felt a lingering fear:
"Luckily I didn't ask, otherwise it would have been so embarrassing if you had jumped out and said you were against it!"

Hua Shier was initially speechless, but upon reflection, he realized it was indeed possible, typical of his style!
Not long after Huo Dongfeng and Cui Xiaohong's wedding, Hua Shier finally developed his "pinhole glasses," or more accurately, "micro-transparent pinhole defocusing lens."

Okay, later generations developed a type of 'multi-point microlens defocusing lens' that could effectively control myopia. Hua Shier combined pinhole glasses with the 'multi-point microlens defocusing lens' to create this 'micro-transparent pinhole defocusing lens'.

Later 'multi-point microlens defocusing lenses' can effectively control the progression of myopia, but the disadvantage is that peripheral vision will be somewhat blurred.

However, the 'micro-lens defocus lens' perfectly solves this problem. Based on the microlens, it introduces the 'pinhole effect' to make the visual quality more stable while retaining the effect of controlling myopia.

After Hua Shier rubbed the dough into a real object, the effect was perfect.

When he found Ma Xiao and Yang Baihui, the two women were both amused and exasperated to hear that he had researched another pair of glasses. This older brother of his really was not doing his job properly!
Ma Xiao said helplessly:

"Guoming, do you know how busy I am? You say you're going to get bicycles, and I get bicycles; you say you're going to get a film company, and I get a film company. There's a huge amount of work waiting for me to do, and now you've come up with glasses too!"

Hua Twelve smiled and said:
"We'll do this ourselves. Do you want to make the money?"

Ma Xiao immediately laughed and said, "Make money!" She knew that everything in Hua Shier Lane was profitable, and when she heard that no one else would be included this time, she immediately agreed.

After Tianma Xiao went abroad again to help apply for patents, an article appeared in the Youth Daily with the author named 'Cui Guoming', and the title of the article was:
"Pinhole glasses are a waste of money; the future of myopia prevention lies in 'defocus'."

The article begins with a resounding statement:

“Recently, a type of ‘pinhole glasses’ has become popular on the market, claiming to cure nearsightedness. As a conscientious citizen, I must stand up and say: this is a scam.”

The latter part of the article then introduces the principle of the 'micro-perforated defocus lens', claiming that this is the future trend in myopia prevention and control.

At the end of the article, Hua Shier also said that he has developed a finished product and believes it will be on the market in a while. Nearsighted patients, please look forward to it.

The article caused an uproar.

Fans and casual observers alike found it amusing that this big star, a mainland superstar, has started researching eyeglasses after researching bicycles?

On that day, Na Jie had an album signing event in Beijing. Because of her previous 'feud' with Hua Shier, some nosy reporters went to interview her about her opinion on the matter, asking her if Cui Guoming's research on eyeglasses was a waste of his time.

Sister Na wasn't as carefree as last time; instead, she said:

"I wouldn't dare say that. Cui Guoming is too unpredictable. You could say he's not doing his job properly, but I even had someone buy him a bicycle from Hong Kong. It's really good stuff, and it's so easy to ride. He says he's researching eyeglasses, but who knows if he can actually succeed?"

Compared to Na Jie, ophthalmologists were less polite. Zhou Mingde, a renowned professor at a Beijing ophthalmology hospital, responded in an article published in the *Health News*:

"Mr. Cui Guoming's article may have commendable motives, but its professionalism is questionable. The concept of 'micro-perforated defocus lens' has not been reported in mature literature, either domestically or internationally. The so-called 'peripheral defocus for myopia control' is still at the laboratory hypothesis stage and is far from clinical application. For a pop singer to dare to deny existing products and promote unproven theories based on pieced-together information is disrespectful to science and misleads the public."

As soon as the expert spoke, Huashier became the target of public criticism, with many media outlets starting to make sarcastic remarks or even condemn it.

But at this very moment, a paper authored by Guoming Cui was published in Optometry and Vision Science, a leading journal in the field of ophthalmology and optometry in the United States.

The title of the paper is "Application of defocus technology in myopia prevention and control".

This paper received strong recommendations and recognition from Professor Christine Wildsot of the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Ian Morgan of the Brian Houghton Institute for Vision in Australia, and Professor Du of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

These three professors are all leading figures in their fields. When the news reached the mainland, it was a swift and significant slap in the face for domestic experts and media.

The expert who previously questioned Huashi Twelve has fallen silent. He could just say a few words and the other side would have top international experts backing him up. Who would want to play along if they were going to go all out?

Those sarcastic media outlets immediately shut up, and some even went so far as to praise Huazhong University of Science and Technology's scientific research achievements.

A month later, Huashi announced that its 'micro-perforated defocus lens' had obtained patents in multiple countries and had begun a tripartite collaboration with Beijing Tongren Hospital, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Brian Houghton Institute in Australia. The product would enter the clinical validation stage as soon as possible.

With the matter of the glasses settled, Hua Shier was urged by Ma Xiao to get back to work.

The framework of the film and television company has been set up; now all that's missing is the first production.

It has been confirmed that the first project will be adapted from Hua Shier's novel "Princess Pearl". The script has been completed, and now all that's left is to select the actors.

Ma Xiao didn't dare to make the decision herself, so she wanted to ask Hua Shier, the original author, to review it.

Hua Shier also readily agreed to go to the capital, because he knew that the casting was crucial to whether "Princess Huanzhu" could be a hit.

For example, in the real world, if Zhao Feite had replaced Xiao Yanzi in Aunt Qiong's "Princess Pearl," it's questionable whether the show would have been a hit.

When filming "Princess Pearl," Hua Shier doesn't plan to use Zhao Feite, as her age is also unsuitable. Therefore, choosing an actress who can perfectly replace Zhao Feite to play "Little Swallow" is the top priority at present.

After going to Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama with Ma Xiao and Yang Baihui, they still couldn't find a 'Little Swallow' that suited Hua Shier's taste.

Just as I was worrying, Louis Koo's "The Return of the Condor Heroes" was playing on the hotel TV.

Hua Shier immediately took a liking to Li Qihong, the Hong Kong actress who played Guo Xiang in the film.

At this time, Li Qihong was at the peak of her looks and acting skills. In "The Return of the Condor Heroes", she played Guo Xiang as charming, lively, and adorable. Her big eyes blinked and were full of curiosity about the world. If she could be a little more outgoing, wouldn't she be the most suitable Xiao Yanzi?

Hua Shier immediately sent Ma Xiao to negotiate, and the latter used his connections to reach TVB, ultimately securing the role of Xiao Yanzi in "Princess Huanzhu".

With 'Little Swallow' chosen, the others are easy to select.

Having visited the Beijing Film Academy and the Central Academy of Drama and seen many actors, Hua Shier already had a good idea of ​​who to choose. He selected Jiang Qinqin, a freshman this year, to play Ziwei, and Li Dabai, who is currently still with the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, to play Jin Suo.

The Empress is played by the original actress, Teacher Dai, and Rong Momo is a classic character; the actress cannot be changed, and it must be Teacher Li Mingqi who plays the role.

Emperor Hua Twelve chose Adam Cheng from Hong Kong Island, who is somewhat difficult to invite, but given Ma Xiao's background, he should be able to get him.

The role of Er Kang was originally played by Shao Feng, and the role of Yong Qi was played by the original Little Tigers actor because of the Taiwanese market. The 22-year-old Little Tigers actor was full of youthful energy, and since the Little Tigers had just disbanded, scheduling was not a problem.

Once the cast list was finalized, Hua Shier returned to Donglin, leaving the task of setting up the production crew entirely to Ma Xiao and Yang Baihui.

After getting off the plane and arriving home, I heard a woman crying coming from the villa before I even entered the door.

When Hua Shier went inside, he saw Zhang Xiaomei, a 200-pound fat woman, crying on his sofa, with snot and tears streaming down her face.

Li Xiaozhen stood to the side, looking helpless.

"What's wrong?" Hua Shier pointed at Zhang Xiaomei and asked Li Xiaozhen.

When Zhang Xiaomei saw Hua Shier return, it was as if she had seen a savior:

"Brother Cui, you have to stand up for me! That heartless bastard Zhao Hailong wants a divorce!"

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