The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 421 Brother Luo and Brother Lin
February 2015, 2, the third day of the Lunar New Year.

The weather was exceptionally sunny that day, and the temperature was above 0 degrees for the first time in a long time.

Just after 10 o'clock in the morning, Lin Shuwen and her family arrived.

When Lin Shuwen was in the men's room, she was already familiar with the area around Luo Ming's house. However, when her parents came over this time, Lin Shuwen did not act as if she knew Luo Ming's family, and even asked Luo Ming to come over to greet them.

Luo Jianguo and Cao Hongying had been waiting at the door for a long time, and Lin Haizhou and Zhou Qingping saw them as soon as they got out of the car.

"Eh? Why does Luo Ming's father look familiar to me?" Lin Haizhou muttered to himself after seeing Luo Jianguo from afar.

"Looks familiar? Have you seen it?" Zhou Qingping asked in a low voice.

"Not sure, let's go in and take a look."

Zhou Qingping nodded and walked to the Luo family ticket office with Lin Haizhou.

When they walked in, Lin Haizhou was stunned, and Luo Jianguo was also stunned.

"Brother, why is it you?" the two old men asked in unison.

Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen looked at each other, both of them looked helpless.

Lin Haizhou and Luo Jianguo met last year. When they went home for the Chinese New Year, the two fathers came to pick up their children and met at the gate of the community. They also added each other on WeChat. As for whether they met again later, Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen didn't know.

In fact, the two men really met later, and it was Lin Haizhou who took the initiative to invite Luo Jianguo out for a drink.

The main reason was that Lin Haizhou felt that Luo Jianguo was very compatible with his temperament. Although there was a gap between their educational background and social status, he felt that they had met too late.

It was also because of this that Lin Haizhou wanted to make an appointment with Luo Jianguo this year, but he didn't expect to meet him in advance.

"Do you know each other?" Zhou Qingping asked tentatively.

Lin Haizhou nodded with a complicated expression, and he briefly explained to his wife how he met Luo Jianguo.

Zhou Qingping didn't know what to say for a moment when she heard this. She really didn't expect that a fellow villager that Lin Haizhou casually met turned out to be Luo Ming's father.

Can we say that the two families have a special bond?

Then Lin Haizhou walked into Luo Ming's house with an extremely complicated expression.

It was true that he and Luo Jianguo got along very well, but when he thought that the pig eating his cabbage was Luo Jianguo's son, Lin Haizhou felt that the two of them were not so compatible.

Why didn't he think of it earlier?

The surname Luo is not a common one. The most common surname in their area is Guo.

Because Fenyang was Fenzhou during the Tang Dynasty, and it was also the fief of Guo Ziyi, Prince of Fenyang.

Guo Ziyi's sons brought many members of the Guo family in Taiyuan to move to their fiefdom. This led to a large number of people with the surname Guo in Fenyang, Wenshui and Xiaoyi, three places that formerly belonged to Fenzhou. Most of them were descendants of Guo Ziyi, the Prince of Fenyang.

Except for the surname Guo, the number of people with other surnames is the same as in most parts of the country, while the surname Luo is relatively rare. Comparatively speaking, there are actually quite a lot of people with the surname Luo in Shanxi, because there have been hall names with the surname Luo since the earliest records in Taiyuan Prefecture.

But even so, there is only a one in ten thousand chance of meeting someone with the surname Luo in Shanxi.

"Why didn't I ask more questions at that time!" Lin Haizhou thought with some regret.

Luo Jianguo felt very happy. After all, it was definitely easier to chat with Lin Haizhou, a friend he got along with, than with a stranger.

"Ahem! Brother Lin, I didn't expect that the children from our two families would end up together. What a coincidence!" Luo Jianguo cleared his throat and took the initiative to speak.

"Haha, it's quite a coincidence." Lin Haizhou replied perfunctorily.

Luo Jianguo drives a sports car all year round, so he is definitely very knowledgeable about social skills. As soon as he heard Lin Haizhou's tone, he knew that Lin Haizhou was probably worried about his son and daughter.

Luo Jianguo smiled and said, "Brother Lin, we get along well. You probably know my situation. What do you think about the two children?"

"My opinion is not important. What matters is whether my daughter is willing." Lin Haizhou replied.

"That's it! Let the children talk among themselves. We adults should not interfere with them. Whether they can succeed or not is up to them!"

Lin Haizhou thought about it and agreed.

When Luo Ming came to visit the imperial capital before, Lin Haizhou thought that this young man was good, and his daughter was willing to talk to Luo Ming. As parents, they would definitely not hinder their daughter's happiness.

They are not the kind of family that would sell their daughter for money.

Regarding who to talk to and whether to get married, Lin Haizhou and Zhou Qingping actually respect their daughter's opinions.

Their purpose of coming to meet the family this time was, on the one hand, to go through the marriage process according to local customs, and on the other hand, to communicate with Luo Ming's parents to see if they could get along well with the boy's parents.

Luo Ming is a good person, but if Luo Ming's parents are too difficult to get along with, Lin's father and mother will directly suggest that their daughter move out after getting married, or try to have as little contact with her parents-in-law as possible to avoid conflicts.

As for the matter of marriage, neither Lin's father nor his mother was in a hurry.

Zhou Qingping said before that Lin Shuwen was almost 30, but in fact, she knew that Lin Shuwen was only 24 years old and still had time to fall in love. As long as Luo Ming's parents were not in a hurry, it would be okay to delay it for a year or two. Of course, she couldn't really delay it until she was 30, otherwise her daughter would be a waste of her own money.

After Zhou Qingping learned that Luo Ming's father was Luo Jianguo, whom Lin Haizhou specifically asked out for a drink last year, she no longer had any doubts about the character of Luo's parents.

Regardless of other things, Lin Haizhou has a very accurate eye for people. Anyone who can get along well with him must be a good person, at least a good person.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qingping smiled and started chatting with Cao Hongying.

Zhou Qingping and Cao Hongying are from the same profession, primary school teachers and university professors, they are both teachers, and their topics all revolve around teaching and educating.

The two parents were chatting happily, and the children were naturally forgotten about.

Luo Ming winked at Lin Shuwen, and Lin Shuwen followed him out.

"It seems that my dad and your dad have a good relationship." Luo Ming said with a smile.

Lin Shuwen turned her head and took a look. Through the glass she could see the two old men laughing.

"Yeah! Just like we've been good friends for years."

"My dad is like this, he is very friendly to everyone."

Lin Shuwen curled her lips when she heard this and said, "My dad is not the type to get along with people easily. The people he is willing to make close friends with are all good people with good character that he thinks are of good character."

"For example, your Uncle Yu?"

Lin Shuwen nodded.

Speaking of Uncle Yu, he was sentenced before the New Year. The higher-ups have been very ambiguous about this matter. Not only did they allow large-scale online reports, they were also discussing the inclusion of Gleevec in the medical insurance.

The attitude from above was clear, and this person was not given a heavy sentence. He was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for three years. The result was better than that of Mr. Lu in Luo Ming's previous life.

"Luo Ming."

"what?"

"What do you think the two parents will talk about?"

"I don't think there's anything to talk about." Luo Ming answered without hesitation.

"why?"

"Because it's obvious that they don't want us to get engaged or married. Most likely they just want to get in touch with each other and see how the two families are doing."

"Is that so?" Lin Shuwen said with a complicated tone.

"What? Can't wait to marry me?"

"Get lost! Who can't wait!"

Luo Ming smiled and decisively changed the subject: "Wenwen, guess what the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" was on the first day?"

Hearing this question, Lin Shuwen looked at Luo Ming as if he was an idiot, and then said with a hint of sarcasm: "Luo Ming, do you think Miao Miao will report to you first or to me first?"

"Miaomiao? It wasn't Miaomiao who told me the box office data! It was Rongmu." Luo Ming couldn't continue speaking halfway.

Chen Junmiao didn’t even report to him, so what else is there to say!
Lin Shuwen smiled proudly: "Miao Miao is my person after all, I will definitely know this kind of news before you."

"Okay! Then how much do you think the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" will be?"

"12 or 3 billion!" Lin Shuwen still felt that the so-called expert estimates mentioned by Lin Shuyue were not accurate, so she gave her own judgment.

"12 or 3 million? I estimate that this is the number. The box office on the first day was 1.78 million. It shouldn't be a problem to make 7 or 8 million during the Spring Festival. The average daily revenue for the next 2000 days in the first month of the lunar year should be around million."

"If we calculate based on 12 billion, our investment is only 5000 million, and the profit is about 4 million. This movie is definitely a huge profit, and the name of Zhuoguang Entertainment has also been made known." Lin Shuwen said with a smile.

Luo Ming had heard in his previous life that the box office must be three times the investment to make a profit, which means that the investor can only get one-third of the box office share. But he didn't quite understand where this one-third came from, so Luo Ming asked Lin Shuwen this question.

Lin Shuwen organized her words and gave Luo Ming an answer: "Ah Ming, the most profitable thing in the entertainment industry is actually movies, which is why movie directors have a higher status in the industry than TV drama directors and variety show directors.

After the filming is completed, it needs to be screened in theaters. As Sister Shan told me before, the box office distribution of Chinese films is based on the following proportions: first, 3.3% tax and 5% film development fund, these two items must be deducted.

After deducting these two items, the remaining 47% belongs to the cinema, that is, the cinema that plays this movie, about 5% belongs to the cinema chain, that is, the cinema chain brand, about 10% belongs to the distributor, and the rest belongs to the producer.

For a domestic film, the box office share that the producer can ultimately get is about one-third (38%) of the total box office; the share that the copyright holder of an imported film can get is about one-fifth (22%).

So in a sense, owning a large enough cinema chain is like strangling the throat of these directors, because no movie that wants to make money can do without the help of the cinema chain.

Whether the cinemas are willing to show their films and how many screenings they schedule will determine how much money they can make.”

(End of this chapter)