Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 1181 Encountering a Classic
The simple and tidy room is filled with the lingering fragrance of books. The old man sitting on the wooden sofa covered with a thin cushion in the small living room in winter is very old. He is 90 years old and retired just two years ago, but he still has not left the campus. If the weather is warmer and it is a good time in the morning, he would have gone out for a walk with a cane. Whenever he encounters a thirsty student who comes forward to ask questions, the old man will always patiently answer them and enjoys it.

As the old man said, I have only done one thing in my life, and I only like doing it.

When Li Jiankun returned to Beijing at the end of every year, he would come to visit his boss. He had suggested many times to build a house outside and hire someone to take care of it, but was always rejected.

The old man is still alone.

I'm really worried about his advanced age.

Chen Daisun stamped his feet slightly. He was wearing a pair of brand new cotton boots with fleece inside. They were indeed much warmer than the corduroy clamshell boots he had changed to. He looked at the student sitting beside him with a kind face and a hint of worry in his eyes. He said with some emotion: "I know your personality in general. I won't say you are aggressive, but you are really not afraid of anything when something happens."

Li Jiankun touched the tip of his nose and asked, "Are you scolding me or praising me?"

Chen Daisun sighed and said, "Why don't you do what your mother said? There is a common saying in books that if you take a step back, the world will be broader. It is not without reason. Many times, arguments cannot solve problems. Besides, if this issue is so easy to argue out, why would we keep arguing about it until now?"

Li Jiankun smiled bitterly and said, "You and my wife said the same thing."

Thinking of the girl who was both a student and a student's wife, it seemed to bring back some good memories. Chen Daisun's eyes were filled with reminiscence. He said that didn't she live in the capital, which was not far away, so he asked her to come and visit often when she was free.

Li Jiankun nodded and said yes, then continued: "My mother can go anywhere she wants, but I don't want to see her feel that she can't stay here and be forced to flee because of me. Yes, it can indeed achieve the effect of taking a step back and having a broader horizon, but I am a son and my mother is nearly 60 years old. When my father was young, he was not a human being. In order to protect him, my mother turned herself into a famous fierce woman in the surrounding area. She has never been afraid of anyone in her life, but in the end, she has to compromise because of my son? Two generations of men in our family cannot give her a stable life. When I think of this, I feel ashamed."

Chen Daisun said, "The question is, are you sure you can make it clear, win, and convince people? You have to consider the worst consequences. If someone scolds you and you don't respond, some people will find it boring after a while. Of course, there are also people who scold more fiercely, but usually, if you fight back, in the market, it can only end with a fight to decide the winner. You are already in the limelight, and the contradiction is further intensified. What will happen? I don't understand political matters, but you should know better than me."

Li Jiankun understood the reason, but when it came to his family, he felt so angry that he just couldn't help it.

The Hope Project, which has had a huge impact on future generations, was established a few months ago. Miss Shen volunteered to apply for voluntary participation. She had originally been confirmed to have a position, but it was eventually cancelled.

He found out about it through Zhou Lan from Entrepreneur magazine.

In fact, the 1+1 Charity Foundation has been helping build schools and helping out-of-school children, but the 1+1 Charity Foundation is not an official organization after all. Miss Shen has some ideas of her own for him.

I wanted to do something for him, but I couldn't do it.

"I don't want to remain silent any longer. What you said is all right, but you missed one point. If I keep silent, people will think that you are easy to bully. Now, at the door of my house, someone dares to point at my mother and scold her. I don't know if they can accept my reasoning. If they have the ability, they can convince me. If not, what right do they have to scold me? Affect my family? Intensify the conflict and start a fight? Well, I will take on whoever comes..."

Li Jiankun paused, then said in a deep voice, "I can handle it."

Why did he try so hard to climb up?
Now let’s not talk about him, even his family is suffering.

If he can only keep this anger to himself, what's the point of having these more than 500 companies and wealth that rivals that of a country? !
Chen Daisun sighed, as if he had a thousand words to say, but in the end, he only said four words, "Think about it."

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Li Jiankun left Yannan Park on foot. His car did not drive in but parked outside the park. Before coming to visit his leader, he went to the Peking University Auditorium to borrow the venue.

It didn't take much effort.

Yanyuan has an open academic atmosphere and advocates the discussion and debate of truth.

As for who he will debate with, Li Jiankun doesn't know yet. He hopes that those who scold him the most can come.

He Dongzhu drove Li Jiankun away from Yanyuan and did not return to Niangniangmiao Hutong, but headed all the way to the Second Ring Road.

Li Jiankun went to several newspapers and published a notice that a competition arena would be set up in the Yanyuan Auditorium at the weekend.

After finishing this matter, it was noon and it would take an hour to get back to Haidian, so the two found a noodle restaurant near Prince Gong's Mansion and prepared to have a quick meal.

When I was halfway through a bowl of tomato and egg noodles, I heard a commotion on the street. People were rushing towards the entrance of Prince Gong's Mansion. Many customers who were eating in the noodle shop also ran outside with chopsticks in hand to watch the fun and talk about the matter.

"Who is that person?"

"A big star! A Hong Kong star at that."

"What are you doing here, traveling?"

"No, I came here a few days ago. I heard that they were going to film a movie in Prince Gong's Mansion."

"Which big star?"

"Oh, what's it called? I can't remember it right now, it's the Cantonese song 'The Wind Continues to Blow'..."

"Zhang Guorong! Damn it, I have to go check it out."

...

Li Jiankun listened and thought that they were preparing to film Farewell My Concubine. Seeing He Dongzhu slurping his noodles faster, Li Jiankun asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Are you also a fan?"

He Dongzhu smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm not chasing after any celebrity. It's just that my wife likes to listen to this guy's songs. After we bought Sanyo, my wife likes to play music when she has nothing to do. She also asked me to bring back tapes every now and then. I've brought back five or six tapes of Zhang Guorong alone. The song they mentioned, "The Wind Continues to Blow," and another one, "Mock Exam," made my eardrums calloused. I was thinking... if I could secretly take a picture of him and bring it back, my wife would be very happy."

There is a camera in the car.

When Li Jiankun was not in Beijing, one of the things He Dongzhu did most was to take the old lady out for trips. This imported Leica camera was brought back from Hong Kong by Sister Yunshang through a friend two years ago, and it can be considered a work tool.

God damn mock exam.

Li Jiankun laughed out loud. The young widow was quite fashionable. She raised her hand to signal him to eat slowly. "I'll take you to take a photo with him later."

He Dongzhu opened his eyes wide and asked in surprise: "Do you know him?"

After saying this, he felt it was inappropriate and hurriedly changed the topic: "Has he seen you?"

Li Jiankun nodded. He had seen Zhang Guorong at a cocktail party in Hong Kong. Zhang Guorong was a guest performer and was led by the host to toast him. At that time, the guest performer with Zhang Guorong was Mei Yanfang. In fact, he was not unfamiliar with the more famous stars in Hong Kong. After all, Kunzhu Group had a film and television company under it, which was managed by Miss Huang's mother Ding Zhaoling. It had invested in many movies and had basically cooperated with all the big names in Hong Kong.

After eating the noodles with gravy, Li Jiankun, wearing a hat and sunglasses, led He Dongzhu and walked to Prince Gong's Mansion. It took a lot of effort to squeeze to the front of the crowd. There were security personnel who would not let them get close, so Li Jiankun shouted Zhang Guorong's name in Cantonese.

The latter came over upon hearing the noise, but naturally did not recognize them. With a hint of doubt, he signaled the security personnel to let the two of them pass.

When Li Jiankun came up to him, Zhang Guorong looked at his face carefully, and suddenly he was startled, "Mr. Li?!"

This surprised Li Jiankun, who wanted to get closer and whisper to him. How could he recognize him?
He never thought about what it meant to these stars to see him. How could he forget it? Even a mole on his face was engraved in his mind.

Zhang Guorong suddenly became extremely enthusiastic, even awkward, and didn't know where to put his hands and feet. He never expected that Mr. Li, who had only met him once, would remember him.

Not to mention that he is also a big celebrity in Hong Kong. He doesn't think that someone like Mr. Li would care about trivial matters in the entertainment industry.

Zhang Guorong's behavior shocked the crew members and onlookers.

Brother Kai was there too, and there was a fashionably dressed man standing with him, who should be an investor from Gangcheng. The two were very surprised and couldn't help asking Zhang Guorong about the situation. The latter didn't dare to say anything and whispered the truth to them. Then the investor from Gangcheng almost bowed and nodded, and wanted to stretch out his hands several times but didn't dare to. He took his hands out of the slanted pockets of his woolen coat and rubbed them on both sides of the trouser seams.

Li Jiankun told Zhang Guorong that his driver wanted to take a photo, which was naturally not a big deal. The two of them went to find a background and called a crew member to help take the photo. Li Jiankun looked at the investor and Brother Kai and asked, "What kind of movie are you shooting?"

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The investor replied earnestly, "The novel is adapted into a movie called Farewell My Concubine, and it tells a story about opera."

Brother Kai was very young at that time and dared not even breathe. This was probably what we call the peak of his career as soon as he debuted. Even if he didn't make any more classics later, this one movie was enough to make him a god.

Li Jiankun came here not just to take a photo with He Dongzhu, of course. Wasn't he here to promise to tailor a movie for his younger sister? So he started chatting with the investor.

When the investor heard that he had a sister who wanted to make a movie and was a graduate of the Central Academy of Drama, he immediately looked at Brother Kai and said, "It's settled! The person for Juxian has been chosen!"

Brother Kai hesitated and said, "But, that character is a prostitute."

"!!!"

The investor was stunned for a moment, and then he dared not look at Li Jiankun. He apologized repeatedly and said that he had no other intentions and that Juxian was the female character with the most important part in the play.

Li Jiankun waved his hands and said, forget about Juxian. There are not many works like "Farewell My Concubine" in the history of Chinese-language films. If I don't perform well and ruin the classic, I will be a sinner. Besides, I am a rookie in the role of Juxian and I am afraid I can't handle it.

Anyway, Li Jiankun couldn't imagine how charming his younger sister was.

The reason we were chatting was that I happened to meet a crew that had created a classic. I wanted to find some inspiration from these insiders and see which movie would be more suitable for me.

After the investor learned of his intentions and got to know Li Xiaomei, he quickly offered advice, saying, "She is a professional actress and so pretty, so she has a wide range of acting skills. The only problem is that she may be a little immature at the moment. If she plays a role that is too complicated and fails to interpret it well, it may affect her reputation in the future..."

After thinking for a moment, he continued, "There is a type of role that is very suitable for a newcomer like your sister. It does not require superb acting skills and is particularly popular with the audience."

"Oh?" Li Jiankun smiled. What he said touched his heart. It was true that everyone has his own expertise.

The investor gestured and said, "It's that kind of pure and beautiful image, and it must be about love. As long as you find a good script, carefully select the male lead and supporting roles, and your sister stands there, just make her beautiful, and that's it. It would be best if it had a tragic ending. If you shed a few lines of beauty's tears, then the audience will pity her to death..."

The investor clapped his hands and concluded, "It's an instant success!"

The sister of this old man in front of me must be the heroine, right? It is not a problem to find a popular male lead and a supporting actor with superb acting skills to play with.

Of course, the prerequisite is that his sister is really that beautiful, only then can she be as he said.

But seeing how tall and handsome he is, I guess his sister isn't much different.

Li Jiankun was stunned and didn't say anything. He was really inspired by him. He already had a picture in his mind. At this time, Zhang Guorong and He Dongzhu came back after taking the photos. Li Jiankun looked at the former and asked, "Are you familiar with Zhou Xingchi?"

"We are quite familiar with each other." Zhang Guorong nodded.

Li Jiankun asked this question because he had read an article in his previous life, which said that in the Chinese film and television industry, only four people would call Zhou Xingchi "Xingzai", and Zhang Guorong was one of them. He didn't know whether it was true or not, but he thought that there was no smoke without fire, so he smiled and said, "Why don't you help me contact him and say that I want to find him to make a movie."

Zhang Guorong thought that Xingzai was working overtime to shoot a new movie, so this shouldn't be a big deal and agreed without hesitation.

If I remember correctly, "A Chinese Odyssey" seemed to be directed by Liu Zhenwei. Let Aunt Ding contact this person and bring them together to produce this movie a few years in advance. As for Zhu Ying, I'm sorry.

When the investor was speaking just now, for some reason, the image of Fairy Zixia played by Zhu Ying popped into Li Jiankun's mind.

To be honest, in terms of appearance, I am better than Zhu Ying. As long as I pretend to be a lady, I am quite pure.

I believe she has some acting skills. The role of Fairy Zixia does not require high acting skills.

To make up for it, he will spare no expense in making this movie, which should not be inferior to the previous version.

Leaving his cell phone number to Zhang Guorong, when Li Jiankun left with He Dongzhu, Brother Kai looked at his back and sighed, "People are like that..."

The investor also sighed, "There is such a brother, who is so stupid that he can make a man famous. I can't envy him."

Zhang Guorong said sourly: "He wants to invest in making a movie himself. What kind of project would that be? Why would he choose Xingzai instead of me? Is Xingzai as handsome as me?"

The investor said unhappily, "Be content, um, can you share your phone number?"

Zhang Guorong smiled playfully, "Do you dare to fight me if I give it to you?"

Investor: “…”

(End of this chapter)