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Chapter 255 Teacher Zhou’s arrangements

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Qi Wei rang the doorbell of Zhou Huimin's apartment.

Zhou Huimin, who opened the doorbell, was rubbing her eyes sleepily, as if she had just woken up.

Seeing her appearance, Qi Wei asked with a smile: "Am I disturbing your rest, teacher?"

Hearing it was Qi Wei's voice, Zhou Huimin opened his eyes wide and said with surprise, "Why are you here?"

In the previous phone call between the two of them, Qi Wei only told Zhou Huimin that he would come at the end of this month, but did not specify what day he would come.

Now a few days earlier, the purpose is to give her a surprise.

"What? Teacher, don't you welcome me here?" Qi Wei asked with a smile.

"How is that possible?" Zhou Huimin replied like a conditioned reflex. Suddenly something occurred to her and she said, "Come in quickly, be careful if the paparazzi takes photos of you."

As he said that, he took Qi Wei's arm and pulled him into the house.

She still thinks about Qi Wei.

With the help of Qi Wei and songs such as "Zhong Wuyan" and "Happy Street Tie" from the new junior high school, Zhou Huimin's career ushered in a second spring and became popular again.

She could have made persistent efforts, but after she became pregnant, she refused all commercial activities, lived in seclusion, and was gradually forgotten by the gossip media.

If Leslie Cheung had not agreed to Qi Wei's request and helped take care of Zhou Huimin, who had been in and out of her apartment, there would have been no paparazzi around her.

"It doesn't matter. It's not like they don't know my relationship with you. You are the teacher who taught me how to draw." Qi Wei, who was pulled into the room, replied with a smile.

Anyway, the dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, and he doesn't care what the paparazzi will do after taking photos.

Speaking of teaching painting, Zhou Huimin couldn't help but blush.

In Zhou Huimin's opinion, he followed Qi Wei's path and started teaching painting.

The furnishings in the house are not much different from before, except that there are a few more books about babies on the sofa and coffee table, and some of them have been opened. It can be seen that Zhou Huimin is working hard to prepare to be a good mother.

An old man sitting on the sofa was looking at Qi Wei curiously.

"This is my mother." Zhou Huimin introduced Qi Wei with a smile.

"Mom, this is Qi Wei that I often mention to you." When Zhou Huimin and her mother introduced Qi Wei, she hugged Qi Wei's arm and looked sweet.

This is to express his determination to his mother and also to reassure his mother.

Zhou Huimin's mother gave birth to her when she was 43 years old and is now over [-] years old.

In Hong Kong City, it is common to do things like doing things for wealthy people, even those female celebrities are no different.

Zhou Huimin's mother had experienced the era when the Qing law had not been abolished, and at her current age, many things had already been figured out.

Although it is a pity that my daughter gave birth to a child out of wedlock, it is not something unacceptable.

At least it's better than the previous one who said he was a DINK.

In the view of Zhou Huimin's mother, there is always no guarantee without children.

Zhou Huimin's mother originally had the idea of ​​​​persuading Fengzi to get married. After meeting Qi Wei in person and knowing that Qi Wei was nearly ten years younger than her daughter, she finally gave up the idea.

Besides, Zhou Huimin himself is not willing to force the marriage with the ball.

"You are Qi Wei, you are a pretty good young man." Zhou Huimin's mother said politely.

Then he stood up and asked again: "I'm about to go to the market to buy vegetables. What do you like to eat? I'll cook it for you for dinner."

"Thank you, Auntie. I don't have any dietary restrictions. I will eat whatever Vivian likes to eat." Qi Wei replied with a smile. He knew very well that this was the space Zhou Huimin's mother gave him and Zhou Huimin to be alone.

"Success." After saying that, Zhou Huimin's mother took her bag and went out.

Qi Wei welcomed Zhou Huimin and sat down on the sofa.

"My mother is very good at cooking. I'm so lucky to have you." Zhou Huimin said with a smile.

"This is dragging down your luck." Qi Wei replied with a smile.

Qi Wei looked at her with gentle eyes. After not seeing her for more than two months, she seemed to have changed a little.

The most intuitive change is to become more round and smooth.

She pays great attention to body shape management, and now she puts the baby in her belly first in everything.

Qi Wei held her waist and put his ear on her belly.

"What did you hear?" Zhou Huimin asked with a smile.

"I heard the baby was healthy and he was thanking you for all you did for him."

Qi Wei looked up at Zhou Huimin again and said tenderly: "Thank you as much as I do."

It's only been more than two months and there is no fetal movement. How could you hear anything? Although he knew this, Zhou Huimin couldn't help but be moved by Qi Wei's words.

"Me too, thank you for letting me have this baby."

Qi Wei looked at her, gently held her in his arms, and emphasized what he said on the phone before:

"Maybe there are some things I can't give you. I'm sorry for that, but don't worry, I will be responsible for you and the child."

"Well, I believe you." Zhou Huimin put her head on Qi Wei's chest as she spoke, listening quietly to Qi Wei's heartbeat.

The two of them were cozy for a while, then Zhou Huimin suddenly said:
"I plan to fly back to Canada next month, when I am three months pregnant."

After all, Zhou Huimin is a celebrity and doesn't know too many people in Hong Kong. Although she is deliberately letting herself be forgotten by the public, once the pregnancy is exposed, it will still cause an uproar.

Although Zhou Huimin has already thought about quitting the industry, she doesn't care about the negative impact on her career after the incident is exposed. What she is worried about is the impact on Qi Wei.

After all, Qi Wei's current career, whether it's singing or acting, still requires a bit of reputation.

So Zhou Huimin wanted to leave Hong Kong City, a place of right and wrong, while she was still not showing her pregnancy and could not easily be exposed.

"But I can't bear to leave you." Qi Wei knew that Zhou Huimin was doing it for his own good, so he couldn't help but hug her tightly.

"I can't bear to leave you either." Zhou Huimin looked up at Qi Wei and said softly: "The transportation is quite convenient now. If you miss me, you can come to Canada to see me."

"In the next few years, I will find ways to expand my career to North America."

While speaking, Qi Wei gently opened one of Zhou Huimin's palms and placed a prepared check in her hand.

"What is this?" Zhou Huimin asked with a puzzled look.

"I heard that you are still paying off the mortgage on your house in Vancouver. You can use this money to pay off the mortgage there first, or you may want to replace it with a larger and more comfortable house. It's up to you."

After hearing this, Zhou Huimin looked at the check in his hand, and when he saw the numbers on it, he couldn't help but take a breath. 200 million dollars. You must know that Zhou Huimin’s net worth accumulated through hard work after so many years of debut is not much more than this figure.

The original one was not as generous as Qi Wei.

"I can't ask for your money!" Zhou Huimin immediately shook his head and wanted to return the check to Qi Wei, but Qi Wei grabbed his hand.

"I'm not with you for your money." She emphasized again that she would not let Qi Wei misunderstand.

"I know, because between us, I was the one who took the initiative to seduce you."

"What seduction, can't you use a nicer word?"

"Well, it's the pursuit. I took the initiative to pursue you."

Qi Wei smiled again and said: "But no matter what, you are my woman now. I am good to my woman. It is normal for me to give her money for the family. If you refuse to accept it, it is because you do not want to be mine." woman?"

"How could that happen?" Zhou Huimin looked at the check in his hand and said hesitantly, "But you gave me too much."

"Compared to my worth, this is not much at all. Believe me, I will give you more in the future."

For wealthy people, there are not too many ways to make money, especially at the end of this year when competition in all things is fierce, and there are opportunities to make money everywhere.

Qi Wei's record company is making money. Although the film and television company has not made any money yet, most of the film and television projects it prepares are invested by investors, and their own investment only accounts for a small part, so they don't spend much money.

In addition to hoarding houses, Qi Wei invested most of his funds after saving enough spare funds. Although there were profits and losses, overall, his net worth rose steadily.

In total, there are almost five small goals.

So the 200 million yuan that Qi Wei gave to Zhou Huimin was really nothing.

Finally, at Qi Wei's insistence, Zhou Huimin accepted the money.

The security of Zhou Huimin's apartment is not strong enough and he is easily harassed by paparazzi.

Qi Wei would stay in Hong Kong for a while, so Qi Wei arranged for them to move into his villa.

Of course, it's not the single-family villa in Kadoorie Mountain, because the villa in Kadoorie Mountain has already been exposed by the gossip media.

Nowadays, Qi Wei is still quite popular in Hong Kong, so the villa is often visited by paparazzi and fans.

Taking Zhou Huimin to live there would easily expose her.

Fortunately, during the financial crisis, Qi Wei's father took advantage of the downturn in the Hong Kong city's real estate market to buy several properties and a villa that he didn't know much about.

So Qi Wei arranged for Zhou Huimin and others to live there.

Lin Xilei was asked to help handle these matters. After spending a warm night with Zhou Huimin, Qi Wei woke up early the next morning and did not go to the MV shooting scene first. Instead, he went to Zhou Xingxing's company to meet with him to discuss matters. .

"Director Jay, your "King of Comedy" has been scheduled and will be released on Friday, July 7th. I will need you to come to the mainland to cooperate with the promotion. I wonder if there will be any problems."

Compared to Master Xing, Zhou Xingxing still prefers others to call him Jay Chou.

"No problem, I will fully cooperate." Zhou Xingxing responded.

"The King of Comedy" has been released in Hong Kong during the Spring Festival this year. It has been put into production and finally achieved a box office result of 2984 million.

The box office is less than 3000 million. If it were the peak period of Hong Kong films in the past few years, this box office result would definitely not be considered a success for Zhou Xingxing.

But in fact, this is already the champion of this year’s Spring Festival.

This Spring Festival period is not uncompetitive. This year Big Brother Long released a movie called "Glass Bottle" during the Spring Festival period.

The box office was not very satisfactory either, with a box office of just over 2700 million.

In fact, not only the Spring Festival, but also the box office of movies released at other times are not very satisfactory, even imported Hollywood movies are no exception.

The Hong Kong film market is sluggish. In addition to the impact of the economic environment, the main reason is the proliferation of piracy.

A little helpless.

"The King of Comedy" only grossed less than 3000 million at the box office in Hong Kong, and Zhou Xingxing himself was not satisfied with this result.

After all, according to the box office share, it is not even enough for Zhou Xingxing's own salary.

Now that Hong Kong films have lost the market in the Gulf and overseas, it is doomed to lose money for this box office performance.

Even if Qi Wei invested 500 million in this movie, it still could not change the ending of losing money.

"The King of Comedy" is a project of Zhou Xingxing's own film and television company. Although most of the investments were made by his own company, in fact, these investments were made by Zhou Xingxing's partners.

And Zhou Xingxing did not take any less in salary, he still received tens of millions.

In other words, in the movie "The King of Comedy", Zhou Xingxing's company partners lost money, but Zhou Xingxing himself not only did not lose money but also earned tens of millions in salary.

And Zhou Xingxing is the kind of person who doesn't want to suffer losses, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction among his company partners.

In fact, the partners of Zhou Xingxing's company also planned to withdraw their capital, and his company was in a state of disintegration.

But Zhou Xingxing doesn't care about this. If he leaves a group of partners, he can just recruit a group of partners.

Of course, if you want to attract another group of partners, you have to let them see the hope of making money.

This is also the reason why Zhou Xingxing so readily agreed to Qi Wei to go to the mainland to promote "The King of Comedy". He is very much looking forward to the "King of Comedy" becoming a big hit in the mainland.

Of course, if "The King of Comedy" fails to adapt to the mainland's climate and performs mediocre at the box office, Zhou Xingxing has another plan.

"By the way, we have already written the script for the idea of ​​combining kung fu and football that you mentioned before. I wonder if you can give me some advice." After saying this, Zhou Xingxing pushed a script of "Kung Fu Football" in front of Qi Wei .

After receiving the script, Qi Wei read it carefully.

Although it is slightly different from the movie I watched later, the plot trend is the same.

"It's pretty good. I like it very much. I believe this script will definitely be a hit after it is filmed."

"I also have plans to film the script. You promised me before that you would help attract investment."

Qi Wei hesitated and asked, "Excuse me, what is the budget for this movie?"

"No less than 5000 million."

Zhou Xingxing explained: "There are many places in this movie that require special effects, so the investment needs to be higher."

After all, this year is considered the bleakest year for Hong Kong films, with the box office being unsatisfactory. Making a Hong Kong film at this time and raising an investment of 5000 million is nothing more than wishful thinking.

It's not like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can attract the investment from Hollywood to be released globally.

After all, Qi Wei had just talked casually before. Zhou Xingxing was afraid of scaring Qi Wei away, and then said: "If Mr. Qi can help me attract investment from the mainland, this movie will be a co-production, and the heroine will definitely She is an actress from Mainland China, and I will need Mr. Qi’s help to recommend her when the time comes.”

(End of this chapter)