Chapter 343: Have you considered investing in a movie?

Taking into account the presence of children, we separated the table into two and even removed all the fish bones from the steamed fish in advance.

Mr. Yifu knows how to live a good life and he prepared authentic Shaoxing rice wine.

In fact, before liberation, including in Beijing, middle-class families mainly drank rice wine and Beijing rice wine. As for Lao Baigan and Erguotou, they were drunk by poor people. They were cheap and made people drunk. People drank alcohol just to get drunk.

The dishes prepared are indeed all Ningbo and Hangzhou cuisine.

Braised soft-shelled turtle, roasted eel paste, yellow croaker with pickled mustard greens, steamed river eel, pickled crab roe, stir-fried bamboo shoots, Longjing shrimp, Dongpo pork, fish head soup, etc. Of course, the most famous stinky winter melon was not served because most people might not be able to stand the smell.

Wang Deming gave her a thumbs up and praised her without stopping: "Mrs. Li has great cooking skills!"

"It looks delicious and tasty! It whets your appetite."

Even if this table of dishes was not cooked by Zhang Cuiying alone, she still had to speak in a nice way.

And to be honest, after all, he is an actor and a star, so it’s amazing that he can cook!

Zhang Cuiying covered her mouth modestly: "Mr. Wang, you are too polite. I can't cook so many dishes." She pointed at a few Hangzhou dishes on the table and said, "I cook only these home-cooked dishes. The others are cooked by Mr. Shao's cook. Their dishes are much better than mine."

"Please don't complain about my poor cooking later."

"How could that be? You are too modest."

"Haha, come and take your seats." Mr. Yifu sat in the main seat in the north, Wang Deming sat in the guest seat in the south, and the other seats were very casual, after all, there were not so many guests. Who asked Wang Deming to bring three wives at once?

Just now, Miss Fang and Zhang Cuiying were chatting with a few people and they have learned that these people are not canaries kept at home. Each of them has his or her own job, and they are all big companies: Global Shipping, Taiping Textile, and Huoyexingtang.

The strangest thing is that they all work in the finance department of the group's head office. This made Miss Fang and Zhang Cuiying think a lot.

And more importantly, why didn’t they mention the buildings they bought from Swire?
After three rounds of wine and five kinds of dishes, Mr. Yifu raised his glass of rice wine and sighed, "Every festival makes me miss my family. In a few days, it will be the Chinese New Year. My brothers and I followed our fathers from our hometown Ningbo to Southeast Asia.

In a blink of an eye, I am already over 50 years old, and I don’t know when I can set foot on the land of my hometown again? "

"Mr. Shaw, you worry too much." Wang Deming responded with a smile, saying with a double meaning: "Isn't the land we are on now our Chinese land? Isn't Taiwan across the sea an inseparable part of our China?"

"Don't worry, we will be unified sooner or later, sooner or later. Anyone who doesn't want to return and unify is an unfilial descendant, and we will not hesitate to shed blood.
Besides, even if you apply to visit relatives and friends in the mainland now, you can do so at any time, it just depends on your own time. "After hearing what Wang Deming said, Mr. Yifu was stunned and murmured: "But I am a capitalist? The mainland is socialist, and it will eventually eliminate private ownership, realize communism, and liberate all mankind."

The other people at the table were attracted by the conversation between the two people. They stopped chatting and sat quietly, wanting to hear what Wang Deming had to say.

Wang Deming laughed loudly: "The mainland believes in Marxism-Leninism. It emphasizes seeking truth from facts and combining theory with practice. Whether it is private ownership or public ownership, the real pursuit is only two things: national prosperity and strength, and the happiness and well-being of the people."

"Mr. Yifu, you have to know that the past 300 years and nearly 100 years since the Manchu Tatars entered the country have been the darkest period in the 5000 years of the Chinese nation. Although we are now liberated, the teacher comrade in 54 said very clearly: we can burn ceramics, make paper, and make benches, but we can't even build an airplane, a tank, or even a tractor."

"If we don't unite the people of the whole country, how can we transform an agricultural country into an industrial country in the shortest possible time? Will the rich continue to get richer and greedier, while the poor have no place to stand? Will we continue to be like the Republic of China, where officials were living in misery? If only the lower-class people continue to suffer, how can we build the country?"

Wang Deming knocked on the table and said with a sneer: "Not to mention that it's not just the United States and Britain in the West, even the neighboring countries are eyeing us covetously."

"The country with the little boy can always hang the fat boy high above the heads of us Chinese."

Wang Deming's long speech immediately made Mr. Yifu and others embarrassed and speechless.

As we all know, Mr. Shaw is a "philanthropist" who donated thousands of teaching buildings to domestic schools after the 80s. However, the salaries of TVB employees have always been severely squeezed, and they can barely survive without starving.
Later, Mr. Cao, a "philanthropist" in Fujian, also followed this approach: although he donated tens of billions, his employees' wages were also average. High wages are not conducive to the struggle of employees, nor to the development of other factories in the country.
I can only say that everyone has two sides.

That is why Brother Pangdong from Henan became popular through TikTok videos in his previous life. After the proliferation of self-media, his deeds became widely circulated and admired by everyone.

Didn’t the Party and the government always emphasize that the people have sharp eyes?

It’s just that after the reform and opening up, the elites think that the masses are short-sighted and blind.
Seeing that the atmosphere at the dinner table had reached a deadlock, Zhang Shouchun quickly changed the topic to movies: "Mrs. Li, what movies is Director Li making now? When I was young, I loved watching movies, especially Zhou Xuan's "Street Angel" and "Night Shanghai". Oh, Bai Yang's "A River of Spring Flows East", I also like it."

"I've been in Hong Kong for so long, but I haven't seen any movies yet. We are discussing whether to convert a room in our house into a screening room, or whether it would be more convenient to buy a theater."

Little did they know that Zhang Shouchun's Versailles words, while having resolved the dull atmosphere, also made everyone except Mr. Yifu love and hate him.
Is theater a cabbage?
Shaw Brothers now only has one Shaw Theatre which is quite respectable, but it is still not as good as Lee's Lee Theatre.
Nowadays, theaters, in addition to showing movies, also perform dramas, such as Peking opera and Cantonese opera. Mr. Ma Lianliang previously opened a class with others in Hong Kong, but in the end, only a few people had to return to the mainland to listen to Peking opera. The income was not enough to make ends meet, and in the end, all his costumes were sold by others.

The most dramatic result was that Mr. Ma's fourth son Ma Li did not get a penny from the sale of the clothes, and the whole money was taken away by the bald fat man Mi.
Ma Li is also Li Hanxiang's sworn brother, the fourth in the family.

Mr. Yifu smiled and said, "Mrs. Wang." At this time, Miss Fang whispered a reminder in his ear, and he changed his words and said, "Mrs. Shouchun, if your family also wants to make a living in the film industry, it would be good to buy a theater; if it is just for watching movies, there is really no need to make such a big fuss."

"When we have a movie produced by Shaw Brothers, we will send a few tickets to your home. You can come to the Shaw Brothers Theatre with your family to watch it anytime."

Zhang Shouchun thought about it and then looked at Wang Deming.
(End of this chapter)