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Chapter 34 A Chinese Ghost Story 3 Released

(I deleted it. I knew I wasn’t allowed to talk about it. It was about the flooding…)
The new generation of leaders bid farewell to their past rejection of foreign aid and accepted overseas donations for the first time.

I won’t go into details, I won’t allow it.

Xia Tian personally donated two million yuan, and also donated one million yuan to Milan Xiaoxu and Zhang Li in the name of Liren, Fengming and Xiaotian companies respectively.

Xia Tian spent another two million to purchase supplies, marked them with the company logos of Liren, Fengming and Xiaotian, and shipped them to various disaster areas.

Of the 23 billion yuan in overseas donations, nearly half came from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese.

……

After donating the money, Xia Tian set off for Hong Kong with Li Kuiyong and the little bodyguard.

There are still a lot of things to do there, and now attending the premiere of "A Chinese Ghost Story 3" has become insignificant.

The result was also interesting. Xia Tian was still on the plane when a big thing happened in Hong Kong.

When summer comes, you can enjoy the ready-made melons.

A cash transport truck was hijacked in Hong Kong, and it is said that HK$160 million was lost.
When Xia Tian heard the news, he suddenly remembered - the thief king Zhang Ziqiang, right?

This kid is really skilled and brave!

The first move was a big one, much more powerful than robbing a gold shop or something.

Later, Zhang Ziqiang was arrested in Magang, but the court finally acquitted him due to insufficient evidence.

The Hong Kong authorities even paid Zhang Ziqiang a large sum of money as compensation, which made Zhang Ziqiang even more arrogant.

It is said that Zhang paid six million to find a strong defense lawyer, and a famous lawyer named Tong Jianhua took over and finally won the case.

At that time, the average monthly income of practicing lawyers in Hong Kong was only HK$10,000. This case alone was equivalent to fifty years of salary.
Magic, it's fucking magical.

Oh, by the way, this guy later robbed Cucumber's son~
Moreover, at this time in Hong Kong, he was not the only one committing major crimes.

There was also a Ye Jihan gang that robbed seven gold shops in succession, stealing gold jewelry worth more than 7 million yuan.

It is said that he only had a third-grade primary school education and was the first gangster to use an AK-47 in Hong Kong.
The chaos at this time was all-encompassing, and there was no peace anywhere.

Even when he goes out in the summer, he brings Brother Yong and bodyguards with him.
……

After arriving in Hong Kong, Xia Tian arranged for Brother Yong and the little bodyguard to live next door to the Repulse Bay villa - he also bought a house next to it.

Wang Fei and Lan Jieying finally saw Xia Tian again after more than half a year.

A fierce battle needless to say~~~
The next day, paparazzi openly blocked Xia Tian who was doing morning exercises. However, as soon as they rushed over, they were almost captured by the nervous young bodyguard with one move.

Xia Tian quickly grabbed his arm and said, "It's okay, it's okay. It's a reporter."

Xia Tian helped the paparazzi up and patted his shoulder: "Are you okay? This is my bodyguard. It's his first time in Hong Kong. He just heard about the robbery of an armored car, so he's a little nervous. Don't worry about it."

The paparazzi smirked – this mainland bodyguard has such strong hands! He almost crushed me to death!

He asked, "Brother Tian'er, have you heard about that big case? By the way, you've shot down several gangsters on the streets. What do you think of the gangsters nowadays?"

When he said this, the young bodyguard next to him looked at Xia Tian in surprise, his eyes widened - Brother Tianer, what's going on with you?
It’s okay. The shooting of robbers on the streets in the summer is kept strictly secret in the inland areas and most people don’t know about it.

Xia Tian waved his hands repeatedly: "Don't hurt me, I have no grudge against you... What does my relationship with those bandits have? I don't have any opinion, I'll stay away, haha~"

The paparazzi also realized that what he said was not appropriate. Why did it seem like he was trying to sow discord and deliberately create enemies for Brother Tianer, and they were enemies of gangsters at that?
He changed the subject and began to ask Xia Tian why he came here and whether there was something wrong.
Xia Tian replied that he hadn’t been there for a long time and he missed her, and that there were indeed some things going on.

"For example, A Chinese Ghost Story 3 is coming out in two days. I'm the lead actor, so I have to support it! Please support it too, it's really good~"

"Of course, of course!" The paparazzi got a lot of information in the summer, and it was more than enough to earn a few thousand yuan by writing an article.

Brother Tian'er is really considerate. There are not many people in Hong Kong who are so friendly to us paparazzi like Brother Tian'er!
Of course, getting up early is also crucial.

As expected, the early bird catches the worm~
So the news that Xia Tian was coming to Hong Kong spread quickly.

Only then did the new bodyguard realize how popular Xia Tian was in Hong Kong.

Why does it feel like it's even more popular than in Yanjing?!

In Beijing, in the summer, people all wear mustaches, glasses, and hats, but you don't get to see people greeting you like this. ...

"A Chinese Ghost Story 7" will be released on July 15.

At this time last year, "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" was released.

This guy Xu Laoguai is quite sentimental.

Xia Tian brought Lan Jieying and Wang Fei to the premiere, one on each side, and the camera flashes on both sides were like infinite flashes.

Countless paparazzi surrounded the three of them and almost rushed up to lift Xia Tian up.

There were all kinds of questions they wanted him to answer—from big questions like what he thought of Hollywood in the summer to small ones like when Tian'er would have children and how many he would have.

Ask everything!

Xia Tian had no choice but to wave his hands: "Come on, today is the movie premiere, don't you want to ask anything about the movie?"

A paparazzi immediately shouted, "Brother Tian'er, I heard that you and Joey Wong fell in love during filming. How is your relationship now?"

Xia Tian: Holy crap! How about I tell you about my plan to have a baby?
"Well, those are all rumors. We've known each other for a long time. We used to play mahjong often and we're very good friends! Oh, and Ying is also on the crew..."

After a while, the paparazzi all went to watch the movies. It was really exciting!
I was watching and typing away in the dark: "You're still good friends, and there are rumors going around, you're so close! I wish I could just crawl into your belly! If there weren't cameras here, who knows what the two of you would be doing? Write, write to death!"
Although "A Chinese Ghost Story 3" had good box office results and Xu Ke's back teeth were exposed when he laughed, why couldn't Xia Tian be happy?
……

In the following days, the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story 3" was very good, showing a crushing trend. The movies in the same period were all defeated and were about to fail.

Of course, the film companies and the big guys behind them are not fools. There is no need to resist such things. If they work together, both sides will benefit, but if they separate, both sides will lose.

What's Xia Tian's popularity? Why bother competing with him?

It's not like the hatred between Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. Xia Tian and Xu Ke didn't have that kind of mortal enemy in Hong Kong. No one wanted their major works to suffer losses, so they avoided each other.

This made the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story 3" even higher, because there was no other film in the same period that could compete with it!
However, if there is no fighting, there must be other movies.

Just look at this: on the 20th, a cinema chain released a mainland movie - "The Swordsman of Shuangqi Town"!
Xia Tian was a little curious, so he went to see it.

When I saw this... Don't tell me, don't tell me! There's something!
The style is extremely distinctive!

It tells the story of a swordsman in the Gobi Desert in the western inland area. It has a legendary color and its style is full of wildness, roughness and blood.

I called Yanjing in the summer to check it out and was told it was a work of the Xi'an Film Studio.

For the role of the protagonist Hai Ge, director He Ping required that the actor must have practiced martial arts.

Finally, the 14-year-old national youth swordsmanship champion was selected!
However, although I think the film is of very good quality and has its own characteristics, the shooting techniques and lens language are very skillful, especially the clever trick of adding to the scenes and subtracting from the narrative...

But this movie really caused trouble for the director and Xi'an Film Studio.

It is said that the film's budget was only 100 million at the beginning, but later it exceeded 120 million.

For this reason, the crew members were punished and even fired. Even the director of Xiying Studio was dismissed.

Moreover, the box office of this movie in mainland China is very poor, and domestic audiences are not interested in this style now.

However, this movie received a lot of praise in Hong Kong!
Many directors and actors came here specifically to see the show, some even watched it several times.

Among them is Xu Laoguai.

He became interested in the scenery and cultural characteristics of the inland northwest.

This later influenced "New Dragon Inn" and "A Chinese Odyssey" to shoot in the northwest.

Xia Tian remembers that this movie seemed to be well received in the United States. It was regarded by Americans as a Chinese western and was highly praised.

In that case, why not help them yourself?

So in the summer, someone contacted the Xi'an Film Studio to buy their overseas copyright. Then they would take it to the United States for broadcast—most of it would be videotapes.

This matter is actually easy to handle. Xi'an Film Studio suffered a lot of misfortune because of this film. If they can make some money back, it will at least be an explanation.

Xia Tian paid 80 RMB, which was really a lifesaver~
At least the new factory manager is very happy~
(End of this chapter)