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Chapter 867 This is a hot potato, we need to reduce the price.
Stephen Chow's movie poster is different.

In "God of Gamblers," Chow Yun-fat, sporting an extraordinary slicked-back hairstyle, sits on a high-backed chair, while Leung Chiu-wai leans to the side, looking playful and dashing, both holding a deck of cards with a straight flush.

The all-black background accentuates the pretentious pose, seemingly alluding to the dark world of gambling.

The film "The Chess King" features a still of Tony Leung Ka-fai enjoying a grain of rice with his eyes closed.

Despite the difficult and arduous moments, the tattered clothes and deformed lunchbox were all golden and full, as if they were some kind of exquisite luxury.

The acting skills were used to convey expressions of enjoyment.

These are all standard poster designs.

Stephen Chow's comic book "Descendants of the Dragon" is in comic book form.

It's the manga by Akira Toriyama from Japan, with its quirky hand-drawn style. A chibi version of Sing-jai is running ahead, holding a pool cue, while Ah-Chien chases after him, gritting her teeth. Uncle Tat is leading a group of supporting characters, and even world pool king Steve Davis is in the background.

The whole scene is playful and refreshing. He Shawen, who has been leading the team to put up posters everywhere these days, said that some of their women and children like it so much that they secretly put the posters in their sheds.

Liang Jiahui quickly covered his mouth, saying that if the landlady heard this, she would scold them for being cunning and dishonest.

Qin Yuye really disliked these South Asians, and he encouraged Shen Cuiyue to beat and drive them away in various ways until all the women and children were driven back to the countryside of Tuen Mun and Yuen Long.

This is the bustling Yau Tsim Mong district. These guys, like rats emerging from their burrows, are taking advantage of the construction site fence to breed and multiply. When the Immigration Department and the Building and Construction Department find out, they will eventually blame and severely punish them on the construction site.

So it's still the same old story of the righteous and chivalrous master and the cruel and vicious wife, which Shen Cuiyue is very adept at.

He Shawen was clearly not testing him; rather, he didn't know how to manage things, so whenever he saw the landlady, he would go around to the landlady's side and wag his tail.

So I still want to work hard for the boss right now.

He was pulled back by Leung Ka-fai again. Was he trying hard? Or was he just selling his feelings?

With Wei Dong unusually kneeling down to help him place his feet on the wheelchair, Chi Shiming was undoubtedly even more meticulous and careful.

Uncle De's second wife, along with her two sons, frowned as they looked at the two mainland boys, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

Wei Dong truly empathized with the situation: "It's not a big problem, really not a big problem. Just listen to the nurses and doctors and walk around and see how it goes, and you'll recover most of the way."

It takes a long time to recover from the despondency and even violent mentality that often accompanies the loss of a hand.

Wei Dong felt it as soon as the car door opened.

He can now speak some Cantonese, and mainly he translates for his son-in-law, who is in a wheelchair, as they enter the movie theater together.

Stephen Chow appeared at the premiere of his film at a large cinema in Causeway Bay. It wasn't as noisy there, but the elderly man in the wheelchair was still muttering something that couldn't be heard.

Wei Dong had to bend over deeply just to barely hear him: "What exactly... are you planning to do in Hong Kong?"

There was no immediate response.

Once inside the theater, after helping Chi Shiming sit down, he gestured as he answered, "There is only one purpose: to help the mainland become better, so that Hong Kong can also benefit and become better."

Uncle De didn't respond, staring blankly at the images that began to roll on the big screen.

If Wei Dong turned his head to look at him, he could see the second wife's wary gaze through the old man's paralyzed face.

The two sons even sat behind them to listen to what they were talking about.

Wei Dong had experienced the helplessness that elderly people feel when they can no longer do what they need to do.

What resonated with him even more was the old man's loneliness and helplessness surrounded by people.

Although Wei Dong never had a wife, he saw many things in the tax compound and was abandoned early on.

Therefore, he felt nothing when watching those "childhood sweethearts" dramas on the big screen.

Even the slight biological attraction that might arise from a woman might begin to fade after turning away twice.

Now I'm leaning back in my chair, watching the movie with a bit of a wry smile.

I even subconsciously squeezed the plush seat cushion. At this time, most cinemas in Hong Kong were made of plywood or hardwood, but some upscale luxury cinemas were introducing more comfortable seats like this, and the ticket price naturally soared from ten to thirty Hong Kong dollars.

The problem with Wei Dong is that he didn't have much experience watching movies in his previous life.

They know almost nothing about the transformation process of cinemas in prefecture-level cities.

There is no foresight at all.

One can only guess that there is currently no mass production capacity for this chair in mainland China, and even if there were, there wouldn't be a market to support it.

So it appears that he barely cares about the movie.

But bursts of laughter, somewhat surprised, could be heard from the theater.

Stephen Chow's portrayal of the foolish son of a wealthy landowner on the island, a cartoonish character who's always doing nothing and getting into trouble, still manages to elicit laughter.

But there weren't many people in the theater. Stephen Chow wasn't famous at all at that time, and there were more people watching Ah Qian than him.

So when the protagonist was tricked by Uncle Da into going to Hong Kong Island to broaden his horizons, Uncle De finally spoke up again: "You don't like movies?"

Wei Dong hummed in agreement: "It's just a business, we do whatever makes money, it's also a...battleground, we put on whatever show we want the people to feel to influence them." He had absolutely no artistic talent.

To everyone's surprise, Uncle De said, "Is that how you view television too?"

Wei Dong thought about it for a while: "This thing will have an even greater impact, since many ordinary people only watch TV all day long."

Uncle De expressed himself as slowly as his physical injury: "But if you only watch your opponent's TV all day, what influence can you have?"

This reminded Wei Dong that there are currently only two television stations in Hong Kong. TVB has basically suppressed Uncle Tak's ATV because TVB's core audience has been relatively stable for the past two or three decades, while ATV has changed owners several times, naturally resulting in a significant loss of viewers.

However, he mainly laughed: "What's the big deal? Every province in mainland China is setting up its own TV station now. In the future, there will be dozens of stations, which will be a huge battleground. Don't expect the audience to be loyal users. As long as you can make money with your unique features, that's enough."

Uncle De scoffed at the layman's remarks: "How can you make money with something unique if nobody watches?"

Wei Dong casually remarked, "TV stations don't just produce dramas to attract viewers and sell advertising, for example... hehehe..."

At this point, he suddenly became eager and enthusiastic: "I just remembered something. Isn't Amin working on an international community for me in Shanghai? I'm planning to have him start selling the properties there by the end of the year. Could you perhaps air his real estate program on TV?"

Since he was there to discuss business with Uncle De, Chi Shiming was able to sit on the other side of Wei Dong and immediately became excitedly eager to listen.

Previously, when Wei Dong told him that they could start selling the buildings, he was puzzled as to how a building in Shanghai with a price of 1,000 yuan could be sold for 2,000 US dollars. Now he understands why!

Come to Hong Kong to advertise!
They don't promote it in Shanghai at all, since their target customers aren't from inland China anyway.

Uncle De's focus, however, was not on real estate at all: "Do you think this kind of program can make money?"

Wei Dong gestured: "What are the advantages of television? It's..." He almost blurted out that it's the few major livestreamers selling products, but fortunately, he was very wary of making money and stopped himself.

"Anyway, I have my own understanding. Making money from filming is definitely one aspect, but we can't bet on every show becoming a hit. TVB is not weak either, so we have to find other ways. Uncle Tak, I definitely have some ideas that I can put up for sale."

He then pointed to the big screen.

The old man fell silent again.

Laughter began to rise and fall in the theater. Stephen Chow's various awkward situations as a country boy coming to the city, and Uncle Da's ubiquitous trickery and deception of children, were beginning to be presented in a more skillful and rounded way.

It seems to have some connection to the somewhat awkward Hong Kong-style comedy of the past, but it's also completely different and much more exaggerated.

Anyway, Qin Yuye was already giggling over there, and Shen Cuiyue was looking at her with a look that said, "You're such a fool. Men are talking business, why are you so focused on watching a movie?"

But occasionally, glancing at the big screen, she couldn't help but laugh.

He Shawen simply burst into loud laughter and frantically gestured to the Taoist priest next to him.

It was all Cantonese. He'd been following Wei Dong around for the past month and could barely manage to speak a few words of Mandarin. You could tell he was trying really hard to communicate with his boss.

This finally brought a smile to Wei Dong's face. This involved only Stephen Chow and Uncle Da, and the two of them had to reshoot the scene many times.

Although the boss said there was no time limit for when the film would be completed and released, Stephen Chow still did his best to reshoot and replace scenes, and Wang Xin was absent from many of them.

It definitely has the feel of being refined.

The key is to let Wei Dong know that this is real gold, unlike others, including Stephen Chow, who felt they were about to be burned to ashes by the Samadhi Fire.

Then let's practice slowly.

The old man was definitely observing him; perhaps it was this unconscious smile that made him seem less cunning.

Uncle De chose to take a more personal approach: "I genuinely love movies, but I've never had the ability to choose which ones to make, so I couldn't make any blockbuster movies. That's why I bought a TV station. Now I think this business is much harder than making movies."

Wei Dong was mainly there to talk to him about the movie theater, so why was he getting so hung up on the TV station? He casually remarked, "That's because you don't know how to do it..."

After saying that, he realized what he meant and turned around: "What do you mean... You don't mean you want to sell the TV station to me, do you?"

Uncle De began with difficulty: "Last night, a fire broke out at Asia Television, damaging multiple departments including the set design room, prop room, recording studio, news department, and engineering department..."

Wei Dong turned to look at Chi Shiming, who was listening intently, in surprise: "You don't know?"

The Hong Kong guy looked bewildered: "Jenny and I have never been involved in anything over there..."

Uncle De expressed: "The fire wasn't big, but it completely made me lose patience. The TV station's stock price has been sluggish since it went public in August. I've spent five years investing hundreds of millions, and only last year did I finally turn a profit of seven million. Now I have absolutely no desire to run the TV station!"

It is extremely unwise to expose one's weaknesses during negotiations.

This kind of thing would never normally happen to an old hand like Uncle De, but now that I'm listening to him talk about it, I'm incredibly annoyed!
Wei Dong could hear it clearly; this was the immense sense of loss that disabled people felt because they couldn't even control their own bodies!
This kind of powerful figure who used to be able to command the wind and rain may now be even more irritable because he can't even control his own body.

He even pinpointed a specific timeframe: "August launch? That's around the time of Jenny and Mingzai's wedding, isn't it?"

The old man grunted in an even more impatient tone.

Holy crap, maybe he had a stroke at his wedding and his biggest worry was this TV station.

Wei Dong probed, "What do you want?"

Uncle De bluntly stated: "I bought ATV for 200 million back then, and now I'm selling it at the original price. All my investment over the past few years has gone down the drain."

Wei Dong couldn't help but say, "This is a hot potato, we need to reduce the price..."

(End of this chapter)