Chapter 943 0931 [Three Religions and Nine Classes]
It was rare for Shaw Daheng not to go to the garden to practice qigong after dinner today, nor to go to the sample room to watch the samples of Shaw Brothers' new movie.
Shaw Brothers director Lam Han-cheung is very popular recently. He has made many romantic films with the help of Shaw Brothers' financial and material resources. In particular, "The Warlord", which he collaborated with Xu Guanwen, was very popular and even suppressed the newly released movies of Golden Harvest. This has not happened for a long time. Something happens.
You must know that Golden Harvest has been benchmarking against Shaw Brothers since its establishment. Every film has to crush Shaw Brothers. Driven by Bruce Lee's kung fu movies, it has been so popular that it almost ate up more than half of the box office in Hong Kong.
Shao Daheng returned to the study and sat in the study to read the martial arts novel "Once Upon a Time" written by "I Am a Mountain Man".
Shaw Daheng likes reading novels very much, and he likes to make some novels into martial arts movies, such as Jin Yong's and Gu Long's. However, the one that Shaw has made the most is "Once Upon a Time in the Mountain".
This drama has become a series since its birth. The starring role is the patriotic actor "Guan Dexing" and the villain is the famous "Shi Jian".
Shao Daheng is bursting with inspiration every time he reads a novel. Many martial arts novels are almost ruined by him, especially the Once Upon a Time series. He feels that this subject can be explored in depth, but he can't find a breakthrough point. He always feels that something is missing. Could it be Guan Dexing? Is Huang Feihong too old? Not popular with the audience? Do you want to find a handsome guy, preferably one with good skills and good kung fu skills, to play the role?
That Bruce Lee was originally the most suitable, but unfortunately, he was from Jiahe.
Shao Daheng's mind was filled with thoughts. When he read the novel, he always felt that he had caught something, but he didn't catch it.
"Master, Mr. Du Yongxiao is here." Uncle En, the housekeeper at home, appeared at the door of the study and reminded him in a low voice.
Shao Daheng stood up from his seat: "I'll go to the foyer to meet him."
When he arrived at the foyer of his home, Du Yongxiao, dressed in white, just stepped out of the back seat of his exclusive car with license plate No. 1.
Shao Daheng took a few steps toward the door and greeted him. He rarely changed his expression from his usual ancient well, with a smile on his face and a joke: "The presence of the police chief has really made this humble house look brighter! Why? , before you took the initiative to come over for a meal, and now you have to call me to invite you over, which is a real surprise. "
Before Du Yongxiao became famous, he was just a plainclothes man. At that time, in order to find resources, he took the initiative to come to the Shaw family several times, hoping that Shao Daheng would come forward to help, either as a guarantee or to work together on film development. Even though Du Yongxiao later established Golden Harvest, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers competed in the ring. , the two of them have never been "on bad terms" on the surface. Friends are friends, business is business, and they are very clear about it.
It wasn't until Du Yongxiao became famous, as the first Chinese police commissioner in Hong Kong and a super business tycoon in Hong Kong, that their status was reversed. Du Yongxiao became a busy man. Many times, if Shao Tycoon wanted to see him, he had to say hello in advance. .
But overall, the two can be considered "friends for many years". After all, Du Group and Shaw Brothers have many cooperation projects in addition to movies.
Tonight, Du Yongxiao was able to come on time, which was enough to give Shao Daheng face. This made Shao Daheng happy and surprised. After all, Du Yongxiao now is different from the past. As the Earl of Ping, the Commissioner of Police in the British Empire, he has a distinguished status. And special.
When Du Yongxiao saw Shao Daheng coming out to welcome him, as a junior, he didn't dare to ask for help. After getting off the car, he took two steps quickly, met Shao Daheng face to face, cupped his fists and said: "Sixth Uncle, please don't give me any trouble! You always have orders, how dare I? Not coming?"
When Shao Daheng saw Du Yongxiao being so polite and humble, he felt very benefited and comfortable.
"Besides, it's rare for you to call and invite me in person. I'm still thinking about eating your ginseng fruit!" Du Yongxiao said with a smile as he and Shao Daheng walked towards the door.
The so-called "ginseng fruit" is actually a kind of melon and fruit specially cultivated by Shao Daheng after he practiced Qi. It looks like a baby, but is actually a "little melon".
Green cultivation, green fertilization, Shao Daheng takes one every time he practices Qigong, saying that it can prolong life.
However, this cultivation method in this era was still very outdated, so the yield was not high. Only those who were worthy of Shao Daheng were qualified to taste the "ginseng fruit" he planted.
Du Yongxiao happens to be one of them.
Du Yongxiao and Shao Daheng walked side by side. Behind them, Uncle En was responsible for greeting Yan Xiong, who had accompanied Du Yongxiao, as well as the driver and others to rest in the hall.
Sister Hong, the self-combing maid in Shao Daheng's home, had already prepared tea and fruits in the study when Shao Daheng went out to greet Du Yongxiao. When Shao Daheng and Du Yongxiao came in, she quietly left and helped them open the study door. Bring it from outside.
Du Yongxiao sat down and saw the tea label of Yunnan Pu'er next to the tea set. He said to Shao Daheng, who was helping the two of them make tea: "It's rare that I've been a guest at your home for more than a year. Sister Hong still remembers that I love Yunnan Pu'er. He put the tea label out specially for me to see.”
"You have a different status now. You are still a government official after all, so you should be more polite." Shao Daheng raised his head and glanced at Du Yongxiao, and said with a slow smile.
Du Yongxiao smiled.
Indeed, no matter what era you are in or where you are, no matter how big your business is, you still respect those in power.
What does that sentence mean? Even if you are as rich as the country, if you don't have people in the political arena as a big backer, you will be in the mouth of those in power every minute.
Especially for someone like Du Yongxiao, whose own financial resources are already terrifying, what is even more terrifying is his personal connections in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
This alone can kill the masses of Hong Kong's richest people in an instant.
"Uncle Six, don't make fun of me - now, give this to you!"
As he spoke, Du Yongxiao took out a paper envelope from his pocket and slowly placed it on the coffee table between the two of them: "I will help you with the movie lifting you applied for. As you know, those ghost guys just want to get more. , that’s why we banned so many of your movies on the pretext that your Shaw Brothers movies were ‘indecent’.”
"You are serious, this is really someone in the court who can do things for you. Before, I thought you were the one who gave the order to ban Shaw Brothers movies, but it turned out that I really blamed you wrongly!" Shao Daheng said as he took out the tea cup and gave it to Du Yongxiao.
Du Yongxiao said in a somewhat slow tone: "We all make movies, and competition is inevitable, but I will never engage in such small tricks. Although Hong Kong is a small place, it is enough to accommodate Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, and even more It’s okay to have more film companies! In short, I still say that spring is not when a single flower blooms, but when a hundred flowers bloom.”
"I won't say any more words of gratitude. I can't say enough about my help to you!" Shao Daheng picked up the tea cup and said to Du Yongxiao: "Come, drink tea."
"It seems that tonight, Uncle Six, you will definitely not just invite me to drink tea -" Du Yongxiao picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp: "Let's talk now!"
"Actually, it's nothing. As the saying goes, when gods fight, little devils suffer." Shao Daheng cleared his throat, "If you fight with the Li family, you will both lose in the end. Now you want to use public opinion to influence the Li family. The Li family asked me to help you. I know, what should I do?”
Du Yongxiao smiled and said, "You are in a difficult situation, so you invited me to drink tea. Do you want me to reconcile with the Li family?"
"That's what I meant." Shao Daheng was enlightened and said bluntly, "I owe the Li family a favor and I have to pay it back. But if I pay it back, I will have to become your enemy. This is what I don't want!"
Du Yongxiao nodded: "Okay then, you can send a message to the Li family for me. I can pretend that I haven't seen everything the Li family has done before, but I hope they won't provoke me again in the future. Otherwise -"
Du Yongxiao's eyes suddenly brightened: "I will destroy them."
Du Yongxiao's words "destroy them" were so ferocious that even Shao Daheng shuddered.
Shao Daheng has reason to believe that with Du Yongxiao's current strength, he will definitely do what he says.
The Fu family in Macau, the British head-shaving party family, etc. are all lessons learned from the past.
"Okay, I will convey these words to the other party, so now -" Shao Daheng took the initiative to pour tea for Du Yongxiao, "After drinking this cup of tea, the grudge between you and the Li family will be settled!"
"Okay!" Du Yongxiao picked up the tea and drank it in one gulp.
For him, although the Lee family is an established family among the four major families in Hong Kong, if he, Du Yongxiao, wants to mess with them, it will only take a minute.
It depends on whether Li Zhaoheng is sensible or not. If he insists on going his own way and thinks he is great and dares to challenge Du Yongxiao's authority, then Du Yongxiao won't mind teaching him how to write the word "death".
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Lee Siu-heng really escaped from death this time. If his personal secretary Li Tiansheng hadn't shouldered everything, Du Yongxiao would never have given him a chance to "bail".
Now Du Yongxiao used Shao Daheng to send him a message, asking him to be honest and keep to himself. This made Li Zhaoheng angry and had nowhere to vent his anger.
Li Xiaohe really loved and hated his second son. I love him for his outstanding talent, but I hate why he overestimates his ability to provoke that strong man Du Yongxiao? So an order was issued to temporarily allow Lee Siu-heng to step down from the group's business and stay at home for a week to reflect.
The eldest young master Li Zhaoyuan and the third young master Li Zhaozhen of the Li family were very happy. After all, the second young master had oppressed them for a long time and now he deserved it.
When things happened at Lee's Group, Du Yongxiao never thought that his mother Li Cuilian would take the initiative and introduce him to girls.
In particular, my mother knew very clearly about Du Yongxiao's relationship with Bai Mudan, Huang Ying, Jiang Ling'er, and the Japanese beauty Sakuragi Rin. Even though she knew that she had no shortage of women, she would still bring up such a thing.
It shouldn't be her own idea, not to mention she should know that her precious son is not the kind of romantic person who drinks and flirts with women all day long.
Of course, Du Yongxiao is not a Buddhist, and he also has a side of men who chase after women, but his lust for women is more often reflected in sitting at a roadside food stall eating noodles and drinking herbal tea, and openly watching people walking by the roadside. A beautiful girl. As for seeing a beautiful girl and immediately having the idea of getting her into bed, that’s Liu He, not Du Yongxiao.
Du Yongxiao is now twenty-five years old. Among Hong Kong Chinese, he is already at an age when he should have married a wife. People he knows, such as Mr. Huo, are said to be getting married next year and will marry Miss Hong Kong Lingling Chu.
Not to mention Da Tou Wen, who once fought side by side with him in the police force, now the children are all obsessed with it.
Twenty-five years old is considered an older youth in this era if he is not yet married. What's more, Du Yongxiao has a special status. As the police commissioner and an earl of the British Empire, he needs a woman to decorate his appearance.
Therefore, this time my mother, Li Cuilian, made a surprise attack and asked Du Yongxiao to go on a blind date. It was not just a whim, but a long-term planning.
For her, her husband Du Dapao was unreliable. Du Yongxiao engaged in a "fingertip marriage" when he was still a child. In the end, his son was already the police chief, but his daughter was the female boss of Hong Yihai Society, that is, That Li Yingnan, to put it nicely, is a loyal son and daughter of the world, but to put it bluntly, isn't he a thief?
Since ancient times, how could any military officer marry a female thief?
As for the white peony, it is second-hand and not worthy.
Huang Ying was born in a common family. Although she was capable, she was not the daughter-in-law that Li Cuilian was satisfied with.
Ying Mu Lin was far away in Japan. She was a Japanese girl. For Li Cuilian and Du Dapao, who had a patriotic complex, it was even more impossible for her to enter the house.
As for Jiang Ling'er, she was mysterious and seemed to have a bad family background.
Finally, I saw that there was no other woman around my son.
Oh, by the way, I heard that my son had been with a foreign girl when he was in the UK and the US. The foreign girl in the UK was from a very good family, but Li Cuilian was entangled in the future "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship".
She could not understand English, and the other party could not understand Chinese. When the time came, they would talk at cross purposes and even quarrels would be difficult.
Just when Li Cuilian was troubled, the opportunity came.
It is said that Li Cuilian was very star-chasing since she was poor. At that time, she was obsessed with the big star Xiao Fangfang, so whenever she encountered a celebrity gathering, she would take the initiative to participate.
However, she also knew that her identity was special. In order not to cause trouble to her son, she always concealed her identity and only let people introduce her as a businessman. Her husband ran a soap factory and they were considered a well-off family.
The celebrity circle is also the entertainment circle, which is a well-known place for fame and fortune. Most people here like to look down on others or look down on others.
When everyone learned that Li Cuilian was just a nouveau riche and her husband was just a soap seller, they all despised her.
They thought that Li Cuilian got in because she was just admiring fame and wanted to get close to them and build a good relationship.
There was only a celebrity couple at the scene who did not despise Li Cuilian at all. Instead, they felt that Li Cuilian spoke very truthfully, unlike those celebrities and those who were doing business, who were very hypocritical.
Li Cuilian had a good impression of the couple. In addition, she drank too much that day, so she talked about her grievances and said that she had a 25-year-old son who was still a bachelor, which almost worried her to death.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional.
The celebrity couple also happened to have a baby daughter, who was sixteen years old this year, seventeen in age, and was studying at Deya Middle School. At this age, she was a little rebellious, liked the colorful entertainment industry, and didn't study hard, which gave them a headache.
Their meaning was to find a suitable family, and if possible, let them live together first, and then let everything go with the flow.
Li Cuilian sobered up immediately after hearing this, wondering if the other party knew her identity, so she took the initiative to propose a blind date?
However, after she tried a few words, she confirmed that the other party did not know who she was, let alone her son Du Yongxiao.
In the eyes of the celebrity couple, the reason they made such a request was that they felt that Li Cuilian had a straightforward personality, and it would be nice if they could get married in the future. Li Cuilian was dressed in jewels and gems, and she was not poor, so their daughter would not starve after marrying her.
Therefore, in their opinion, Li Cuilian was lucky.
After all, they were both big stars, and being willing to let their daughter marry such a nouveau riche was also a kind of "marrying down".
When their daughter is wronged, they can also stand up and control the other party, unlike marrying into a real wealthy family, where they have to be humble.
The celebrity couple had no idea that Li Cuilian felt that they were actually marrying above their station.
A big star?
To put it bluntly, isn’t he just an actor among all kinds of people?
How can an actor be worthy of her precious son!
Her son is an earl and the chief of police!
Li Cuilian was almost regretting it at this time. She was angry at herself for drinking so much, why she attended such a party, and why she said those words to the couple?
However, when the celebrity couple told her about their origins, Li Cuilian immediately changed her mind.
The celebrity couple said: "Our family is the Manchu Bordered Blue Banner Guarjia clan!"