Du Feng's late marriage was surprising. Unexpectedly, the playboy, like him, would one day become a "sacrilege" of arranged marriages.
Of course, it seems that he is full of fearlessness and fearlessness of sacrifice.
Lin Chaoyang looked at him and understood the reason why he had passed by so many times over the years, and he could not get married with a girlfriend or a girlfriend.
It turns out that you are so good at this boy. When you are young, you really don’t know what you want.
He looked into the yard and found that Chen Lan was not stunning. Even with short hair, she looked pretty.
The most important thing is to have a healthy, sunny and energetic temperament, which can easily make people feel good.
"Brother-in-law, what are you looking at?"
Lin Chaoyang sarcastically said, "Oh, I can't see you anymore? You're a bit too much."
Du Feng felt a little embarrassed and changed the topic, "You are so boring, I'll pick you up kindly."
"Okay, let's not talk about this." Lin Chaoyang finally let Du Feng go, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Recalling Du Feng's performance when he was with his girlfriend in the past, Lin Chaoyang came to a conclusion that it was really different if he didn't care.
He asked Du Feng to wait for a while, and entered the east house of the main house, searched in the safe, and then took out a Maitreya Pendant.
"The first time I met my sister-in-law who has not yet passed the door, I will give her a gift, you can give it to her."
The jade pendant in his hand was green and deep, as if all the greenness of the entire forest was condensed into it.
Under the light, it is bright and lively, exudes a delicate and soft luster, exuding a noble and elegant temperament. You can tell at a glance that it is absolutely extraordinary.
Du Feng was not polite, and took the pendant with a smile on his face. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it, "Brother-in-law is generous, I knew that Chen Lan was here today, so I definitely couldn't leave empty-handed."
"The fare for you couple to pick up someone is really expensive!" Lin Chaoyang joked.
After saying that, Du Feng immediately ran outside with the pendant excitedly to ask Chen Lan for credit.
Lin Chaoyang saw the two of them say a few words, and Chen Lan pulled the reluctant Du Feng into the house again.
"Brother-in-law, thank you for your kindness, but this gift is too expensive and I can't accept it."
It was almost the same as Lin Chaoyang thought. He said with a smile on his face: "It's all a family, what's the price or not? It's not all for Huihui to give it away. This is the first time we meet, and it will be gone in the future."
After pushing back and forth for two rounds, Chen Lan accepted the pendant at Lin Chaoyang's tough request.
"This jade is still too old-fashioned. Let Du Feng take you to buy some fashionable jewelry, so you can use it when you get married in the future!" Lin Chaoyang teased with a smile.
The two people on the opposite side showed a little shy attitude at the same time, looking very interesting.
After seeing off Du Feng and Chen Lan, Lin Chaoyang glanced at the two children. After returning to Yanjing, they completely let themselves go. They ran around the yard with laughter in the wind.
In the evening, Lin Chaoyang helped Zhang Guiqin prepare supper. She secretly said to Lin Chaoyang with her nanny on her back: "Do you have to give me a vacation too? Whose family is only about the New Year!"
The "family" she mentioned refers to the nanny and bodyguard who came back from Xiangjiang with Lin Chaoyang.
"They also have a holiday during the Chinese New Year. They work harder these days, their salary is higher than usual, and they can get red envelopes."
"How much does it cost? It should be a holiday." Zhang Guiqin muttered.
Lin Chaoyang smiled, changed the topic, and talked to her about homework.
"In recent years, everything has been expensive. We were not like this when we were young. People can't afford to eat rice and white flour!"
"When you were young, you could afford to eat rice and white flour? It's not as exaggerated as you said. Prices rise and wages rise. Besides, you are still short of money? You're a little unreasonable."
"Then you can't make much money, how much money should you spend? The employees of public units are giving 5 yuan in grain price subsidies a month, and your dad and I have nothing."
Lin Chaoyang was amused and cried. After talking for a long time, he realized that his mother's dissatisfaction came from here, and she was not worried about being weak but not being equal.
"What's your value? Isn't you missing? Is my dad going to pay you money to make money?"
"He dares!"
Zhang Guiqin is usually calm and occasionally reveals her martial arts, and she is domineering.
"Okay. How old are you? You didn't have the conditions when you were young. Now you have the conditions, you have to know how to enjoy it."
"Who can enjoy the blessings in the world? Now I am content."
The next day on the 29th day of the New Year, Lin Chaoyang came to Yanda with his two children. Just after lunch, Tao Yumo pushed open the door open.
"It's better to go back early than to go back. Just finished the meal." Tao Yucheng said with a smile.
Tao Yumo looked at his elder brother speechlessly. He was in his forties and had no sign of integrity at all.
She asked Lin Chaoyang: "Where is my sister?"
"Your sister is more dedicated than you, and she hasn't returned home yet."
"I should really give her a model worker."
Tao Yumo put down her luggage, and after her sister-in-law Zhao Li went to heat her rice, she came to her side with a look of concern.
Tao Yumo knew that Zhao Li was not concerned about her, but her eldest nephew.
"Don't worry, Xiwen is pretty good there-
Tao Xiwen enrolled in Stanford University in September. He majored in computer science in the engineering school, ranking first in the United States and second in the world.
Pixar Animation’s headquarters is in Berkeley and is in the San Francisco Bay Area with Stanford University. It is only more than 60 kilometers away. Tao Yumo is on a business trip to the United States and must go see her eldest nephew.
After hearing Tao Yumo talk about Tao Xiwen's situation at school for a while, Zhao Li felt relieved, and then complained: "This child, I don't know what kind of work he is coming back after the holiday! It's not that he can't afford to support him."
Stanford's winter vacation is from mid-December to early January, which lasts more than 20 days. During this winter vacation, Tao Xiwen did not return to Yanjing and told his family that he was working in the United States.
Zhao Li is right. She and Tao Yucheng's small business are not big, but it is definitely not a problem to support Tao Xiwen to study for a graduate student in the United States with her family.
"The child is so sensible and he doesn't want to add burden to you. You must be content," said Tao's father.
"Yes, Xiwen is so sensible, she looks like me!"
Tao Yucheng attracted the topic so naturally to himself. In addition to the topic, he also had a lot of hatred.
"Like you, don't you like you!" Zhao Li snorted coldly, her eyes facing the bedroom. Tao Xiwu was heartlessly rubbing the game controller with Dongdong.
"It's not my fault, it was all caused by Yumo when he was a child!" Tao Yucheng argued.
Tao Yumo was shot while having a meal, "I also brought your eldest son, why did he get into Stanford?"
"This—" Tao Yucheng held it in for a while and said, "This child is still like his aunt."
Tao Yumo looked disgusted, "Are you disgusting? My sister is not here again, why are you flattering?"
"How is this called flattery? I am called seeking truth from facts. Xiwen is like a young man,
It's the same as his elder sister-in-law when she was a child.
Xiwu has been careless since he was a child, like you!"
"You have been a careless person since you were a child. I graduated from Yan University. What is your education?"
Tao Yucheng's poems are exhausted, and Tao Yumo, who is completely successful, becomes proud.
Seeing the brother and sister teasing each other, Lin Chaoyang was amused for a while, and then went upstairs to knock on the disciples of Wu Group's family. The older he was, the more lively he loved. Lin Chaoyang came back with his children just now, and Wu Group listened upstairs.
The Tao family was lively for a long time, and when Lin Chaoyang was coming, he smiled like a naughty boy.
"smoke!"
Lin Chaoyang took the initiative to dissipate the smoke, and Wu Group waved his hand and did not go to answer.
"I didn't expect that I've quit smoking? I really have perseverance-"
Before Lin Chaoyang could finish praising him, Team Wu took out a pipe and lit it for himself leisurely.
Lin Chaoyang:
"You are so serious!"
"The loess is buried in the eyebrows, and there is still a cigarette?" Wu Group exhaled a cigarette ring, and his expression seemed to see through the world.
If the old comrade hadn't had the embarrassment of smoking rations and cigarettes before him, Lin Chaoyang would have almost believed in his masterly style.
"Okay, you're shaking now."
The two of them are friends for ages and are free to chat.
Group Wu has been retired for many years and has been teaching in the past few years. In recent years, he has stopped teaching in no time.
However, this year Yan University established the China Traditional Culture Research Center and wanted him to write a "Wu Pi Honglou" included in the "Chinese Studies Research Series" compiled by the center. He has been busy with this book during this period.
After joking for a while, Lin Chaoyang went downstairs to call his two children to leave, and did not forget to instruct the Tao family to go to Xiaoliubukou Hutong for the New Year tomorrow.
On the morning of 30, Tao Yushu finally returned to Yanjing and had a reunion year with his family.
But when he was having the New Year’s Eve dinner, Tao’s mother was in a bad mood. The reason was naturally because her eldest grandson Tao Xiwen was in the United States.
Tao’s father and Tao’s mother were a few years older than Lin Chaoyang’s parents. Now they are in their seventies. Every New Year Festival, what the elderly look forward to most is reunion, and they are worried about anyone who is not here.
"Xiwen will only study in the United States for two years and will be back soon." Tao Yushu comforted her.
At the beginning of the Spring Festival Gala, Tao Xiwen called another overseas phone call from the United States.
There were firecrackers outside. Although the sound on the phone was not clear, the phone call still made Tao’s father and mother feel better.
The family watched the Spring Festival Gala happily, the children watched the most seriously, while the adults were chatting while watching TV.
Everyone gets together for only a few days in a year, and there are always endless things to say.
Tao Xiwu is very concerned about Starry Sky TV run by Tao Yushu. When he was in Xiangjiang, he liked to watch Starry Sky TV variety shows, which were much more interesting than mainland TV.
I heard that Star TV broadcast CCTV's Spring Festival Gala this year, Tao Xiwu asked strangely: "Can you see the Spring Festival Gala in Xiangjiang?"
"It can be seen not only in Xiangjiang, but also in Southeast Asia," said Tao Yumo.
In addition to the launch of Phoenix Channel in the Mainland this year, Star TV has also opened several new channels for Southeast Asian countries, such as Film Channel (Southeast Asian Channel, Mandarin Radio), Cassette Channel (Southeast Asian Channel, Mandarin Radio), and News Channel (Southeast Asia
Channel, English radio)
Listening to this, everyone in the family felt a mysterious feeling of crying at the end of the world.
"My aunt, where can your TV station be broadcasted the farthest?"
"Theoretically, it can be seen worldwide, but it depends on the coverage and signal quality. The key is whether local policies allow us to implement it."
Tao Xiwu thought, "Then in a few years, will Europeans and Americans also see your TV station?"
Tao Yushu laughed, "This is unlikely, it's too expensive to do that-
She then explained to Tao Xiwu the operating model of the TV station, the ideological differences between the East and the West and the geopolitical influence, and Tao Xiwu was dizzy when he heard it.
"It's too troublesome to build a TV station, it's easier than making a movie."
Tao Yumo laughed and scolded: "Silly boy, your aunt's TV station is worth tens of billions in the future, and it's worth it no matter how troublesome it is!"
Tao Yucheng's reaction was shocked, "10 billion? One TV station is only 10 billion?"
"This is not what I said, it is what the newspaper said-
Since the popularity of "Asian Idol" last year, Star TV's ratings and influence have been rising steadily, and advertising fees have also increased day by day. In just one year, it can already compete with the largest free TV station in Xiangjiang, namely, the wireless TV station.
But as the only satellite TV station in Xiangjiang, Star TV's potential is far more than that.
This year, Star TV has been launched in Southeast Asian countries, and the audience coverage has increased in geometric numbers, which means that the influence and advertising fees of the TV station will inevitably increase accordingly.
Some time ago, the second season of "Asian Idol" was broadcast, continuing the popularity of last year. Financial media such as "Xinbao" and "Xiangjiang Political and Economic Weekly" all published some articles discussing the development prospects of Star TV.
These media generally believe that it is only a matter of time in the short term to turn losses into profits with the strong content output ability shown by Star TV.
"Xinbao" is optimistic that Star TV's advertising revenue exceeded HK$2 billion within three years and HK$3 billion in five years.
If Star TV can connect the landing of various countries such as East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia in the future, it will cover more than 2 billion viewers.
Once Lin's Pictures and Mingpao Enterprise intend to capitalize the TV station and split and list it, the market value may easily exceed the market value of HK$10 billion, and this figure is still a conservative estimate.
Listening to Tao Yumo's introduction, my family was surprised, but I didn't expect that the TV station was such a big business.
This is completely different from the domestic TV stations in everyone's impression.
The New Year's Eve passed by the Spring Festival Gala and jokes. The next morning, the family got up with the sound of firecrackers to greet each other.
The children were the most active. Tao Xiwu's face was filled with laughter when he received New Year's money, but his mother Zhao Li cut her ankle in the waist, leaving only 100 yuan.
"Mom is going to praise you, I'll keep it for you in college in the future." Zhao Li's big cakes are very skillful.
After breakfast, some people are waiting for others to come to pay New Year's greetings at home, and some people go out to pay New Year's greetings to others.
In the past two years, Lin Erchun has been in Yanjing, and there are still people coming to pay New Year's greetings during the Chinese New Year. On the contrary, Tao's father retired for many years and the family became more and more peaceful.
In the afternoon, Lin Chaoyang arranged to invite everyone to watch the movie.
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and it is also the day when "The Battle of Red Cliff" is released.
The Capital Cinema is on Chang'an Street, not far away. The whole family walked towards the cinema with their legs.
By the bus and looking at the movie promotional poster on the body of the car, Tao Yucheng exclaimed and asked, "Yu Shu, I have been watching the poster of "The Battle of Red Cliffs" outside these days, and there are also a bunch of newspapers and magazines.
How much does it cost?”
"10 million."
Tao Yucheng was shocked. This was the first time he saw a movie being released and had such a big battle. It cost so much money. How much box office will it take to make a profit?
Facing his problem, Tao Yushu did not have a deep conversation, but said: "We are not only released in the mainland," he said.
There is also an overseas market.”
Tao Yucheng nodded, "That's right."
Nowadays, there is no "schedule" in the domestic film market, let alone "New Year's Day". But because of this, Lin's Film Company chose to take the unusual path and intends to create a concept of "New Year's Day"
.
In order to create this concept, Lin's Pictures and various cooperative units have spent a lot of money.
Like the schedule, most of the movie promotions these days are posters and advertisements in movie magazines. The methods are single and unattractive. Of course, there is almost no big expense.
But the promotion and promotion of "The Battle of Red Cliff" is different. One month before the Chinese New Year, various soft articles about "The Battle of Red Cliff" were flying all over the sky in the media, big and small.
In the past few days, Yanjing's buses, subways, taxis and Wangfujing are also full of advertisements for "The Battle of Red Cliffs", which are the case in several municipalities and larger provincial capitals.
According to this publicity, if the box office is not more than 20 to 30 million, it is not enough for the publicity fee to share.
However, Lin's Pictures is not a fool, and the film industry has always been a winner-takes-all zero-sum game.
The mainland market seems to be behind, but it can be produced by tens of millions at a price of one or two cents or three or five cents.
The box office of hundreds of millions of movies, the box office potential of top movies is immeasurable.
The quality of "Battle of Red Cliff" is very good. As long as the publicity momentum can be really built and as long as the audience truly recognizes it, it will not be difficult to make a profit.
The family walked into the Capital Cinema and saw that there were actually people buying tickets in the cinema lounge. Although it was not too many, Tao Yucheng was still a little surprised.
"Someone really watches the movie!"
Zhao Li pulled him for a moment, so don’t say it if you can’t speak.
Tao Yushu smiled, not caring.
Before the concept of the New Year holiday period appeared, Chinese people did not have the habit of watching movies on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and most urban cinemas would not even open on this day.
After buying tickets at the ticket gate, there were more than 20 minutes left before the movie started. Everyone did not rush to enter the screening hall, but checked the heads at the door.
The cinema in the first grade of junior high school looked inconspicuous, and in a short while, there were 30 or 40 people.
After entering the screening hall, Tao Yumo looked around and looked around, "It will only be 50% attendance, which is a bit small!"
"A lot, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year.
The attendance rate of 50% has reached Tao Yushu's psychological expectations, and the movie-watching habits are not developed in one day.
While the sisters were talking, KFC's patch advertisements appeared on the big screen. This was another pioneering move by Lin's Pictures, which was the first to introduce mature patch advertisements abroad to China.
The 5 advertisements earned 1 million yuan, which can be considered as subsidizing the promotion and distribution expenses of the movie.
After 6 minutes, the movie officially began.
The two armies faced each other and stood in a long time.
One army camp was filled with tents, and there was no end at a glance. The military flags were rushing, showing the power of strong soldiers and horses.
The other side had obviously fewer troops, but the camp was neat, and the local soldiers held their weapons tightly and were ready to fight.
The camera looks down from the air and then continues to advance until it focuses on Chow Yun-fat's rough and domineering face.
His eyes looked into the distance, with a little worry, and the word "Cao Cao" appeared on the right side of the picture, and the voice-over sounded:
In the fifth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (200 AD), Yuan Shao led 100,000 elite infantry and 10,000 cavalry to the front line from Jizhou, with food and grass piles up like mountains and endlessly spreading.
Relying on his strong military strength, he tried to crush Cao Cao with absolute advantage.
Cao Cao had only 20,000 troops, and the supply of food and grass was tight. Cao Cao's army and Yuan Shao's army fought in Guandu, and launched a strategic decisive battle here.
As the picture turned, Wuchao was in flames, killing sounds shook the sky, a surprise attack was completed, and a decisive battle was about to begin.
The sound of shouting and killing gradually weakens as the background sound, and the voiceover continues:
Cao Cao's surprise attack on the Wuchao granary caused the Yuan army to be unstable. He seized the opportunity to defeat the main force of the Yuan army in one fell swoop and defeated Yuan Shao, which is known in history as the "Battle of Guandu".
After the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao quickly unified the north and led a large army under the devil in July of the 13th year of Jian'an to reach Jingzhou.
In August, Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, passed away. His son Liu Cong surrendered without fighting. Cao's army successfully occupied Jingzhou and his army's power was greatly enhanced.
Liu Bei, who was attached to Liu Biao and stationed troops in Fancheng, still did not know the news of Liu Cong's surrender. He did not respond hastily until Cao's army arrived in Wancheng. He fought fiercely with Cao's army on Changbanpo's voice-over. The sound of killing on the battlefield was shaking the sky, and the smoke of gunpowder was everywhere.
Tragic.
Among the chaos, a cavalry general was wearing silver armor, holding a gentian bright silver spear, and a group of snow-white lions and horses were shining in his arms. He was surrounded by Cao's army and rushed left and right.
It's like entering a state of no one.
A general of Cao's army came to fight with a three-pointed two-edged sword. In a few rounds, he was stabbed by a silver armored general and killed all the troops.
The white horses emerged from the crowd.
But there was another army and horse blocking the road, and the general was the first to be the first to have a clear banner, and the letter was written: Zhang's tribe in Hejian.
The silver armor general had a strong face, and after more than ten rounds of force, he could not capture him for a long time, and he dared not fight among the enemy.
He rode his horse and wanted to leave.
Two generals behind him called out: "Don't leave!"
Two more generals blocked the way ahead. The silver armor general shouted loudly, and the sound was like thunder. The silver spear in his hand shook and turned into ten thousand cold stars, stabbing at the four generals.
Wherever the gun tip goes, the clothes and armor are like cicadas' wings, and the blood light splatters, like the killing god on earth.
The generals of the army were frightened for a moment, and the silver armored general took advantage of the situation and penetrated the encirclement.
On the distant hillside, Cao Cao, who was watching the battle, saw that the silver armored general was so brave, praised in his heart and asked, "Who is this? He is so brave!"
On the battlefield, Cao Hong, the defeated general, was unwilling to accept it, and ran towards the back of the silver-armored general, shouting: "Can the general in the army keep his name?"
Dozens of feet away, silver armor immediately stood up and his gun.
"I am Zhao Zilong, Changshan!"
After saying that, he pulled the horse away with a rein!
Cao Hong looked at Zhao Zilong's back as he walked away with a complicated expression.
On the hillside, Cao Cao exclaimed: "It's really a tiger general! It's a pity that he was unable to capture it alive."
"The Battle of Red Cliff" starts for five minutes, with two consecutive war scenes, grand and exciting action scenes, quickly attracting the audience's minds into the story.
Especially when Zhao Yun, who was seven in and seven out of Changbanpo, shouted the words "I am Zhao Zilong of Changshan", all the male audience members were full of passion. Several people even shouted excitedly, and couldn't suppress the passion in their hearts and stood up.
body.
"Mah? Mah?" The audience in the back row was very dissatisfied.
The few people came to their senses and didn't even care about speaking and apologizing. They quickly sat down, fearing that they would miss the subsequent plot.
Lin Chaoyang turned his head, chuckled on his face, and said to Tao Yushu quietly: "This movie has been done!"
Tao Yushu's heart was also relaxed.
"The Battle of Red Cliff" includes the total investment of 40 million yuan in publicity and distribution expenses, setting a record in Chinese film history, but it is not much investment for Lin's Pictures.
The reason why she attaches so much is entirely due to respect for history and culture.
Chapter completed!