In the evening, Xu Zheng showed the way and Shao Le drove. The five of them came to a restaurant called Tongfulou.
This restaurant should have just opened in the second half of the year. The decoration is very new. It has two floors. The second floor is a private room. The first floor is just like a food stall. There are about ten tables set up, and now there are seven or eight people sitting there.
Xu Zheng walked to the counter and shouted: "Boss, my surname is Xu. I have reserved a private room for this afternoon."
The proprietress at the counter said hurriedly: "I know, but I'm really sorry. There are too many people in the store today. I originally reserved a private room for you, but a few customers just went upstairs and occupied that private room." Yes, I’m open for business. I can’t kick people out when they come in. How about you guys sit on the first floor and I’ll give you a discount later.”
"Why?"
Xu Zheng had long thought about inviting Shao Le and Li Yifei to dinner. When he heard that the private room was occupied, Xu Zheng, who felt that he had lost face, immediately shouted: "Which bastard is not following the rules? Take me with you!" Go upstairs and find them."
"Well……"
It is not easy to do business in this place. Although the people in front of her are young, the boss lady is afraid of offending them. She is a little at a loss now.
In the end, Shao Le came forward and said, "Then let's eat on the first floor. The food will be served quickly."
"Brother Le, I obviously booked a private room!"
Hearing Xu Zheng calling Brother Le, the proprietress quickly stepped forward with a smile and said: "No problem, come on, come on, please come over here."
Seeing Shao Le and others following the proprietress, Xu Zheng had no choice but to follow.
There is a square table, Shao Le and Shao Wanyin sit on one bench, and Li Yifei, Li Jiahui, and Xu Zheng sit on the other three benches.
Xu Zheng ordered a lot of dishes like a gentleman, which even confused the waiter. Shao Le glanced at Li Yifei, who reached out to take the menu from the waiter, crossed out some of the dishes he had ordered, and smiled. Then he said to the waiter: "There is no need for the crossed ones. Please serve the food quickly."
"OK."
Seeing this, Xu Zheng was unhappy and said, "Brother Le, Brother Yifei, didn't you agree that I'll treat you?"
"Have you finished eating after ordering so much?"
"If you can't finish eating, just put it on display."
Li Yifei said: "Don't show off your wealth. You don't understand such a simple principle. Have you ever seen a really rich person show off his wealth when he goes out?"
Seeing that Xu Zheng didn't take it seriously, Shao Le knew that Xu Zheng couldn't listen to the truth at this stage, so he said directly: "If you continue to spend money so lavishly outside, I will tell your parents not to give you a penny." !”
"No, Brother Le, I don't usually spend money randomly."
Xu Zheng became anxious immediately and kept saying nice things. Li Yifei was so angry that he slapped him on the back of the head and scolded him with a smile: "If you don't listen to the truth, I have to give you a hard blow, right?"
While chatting and laughing, Shao Le's attention was attracted by a few new guests coming in at the door. Seeing Shao Le's eyes becoming focused, her sister also looked over. After she recognized those people, she murmured: " Why are they here too?"
Li Yifei followed his gaze and asked, "Shao Le, who are they?"
"Zhou Sheng, the business manager of Shanhe Pictures, and Zhao Chengming, the director of "Swordsman", I met once at the company's annual meeting. The others should all be artists in the industry."
Seeing them going upstairs, Shao Le looked away and said: "Ignore them, we eat ours."
"This dish looks delicious."
"I'm used to eating in the school cafeteria, and suddenly eating a big meal seems a bit unaccustomed."
Li Yifei also smiled and said: "I feel the same way."
Li Jiahui asked curiously: "Is the university cafeteria terrible?"
"The canteen at Tsinghua University is definitely much better than the canteen at my school."
Li Jiahui asked seriously: "Shao Le, your college entrance examination results clearly allow you to go to two universities in northern Qing Dynasty, why did you go to a university outside Beijing?"
Xu Zheng blurted out: "There are many beauties in universities outside Beijing. I will apply to universities outside Beijing in the future."
As soon as he said this, Shao Le and Li Yifei immediately looked at him.
Xu Zheng realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly lowered his head to eat, not daring to raise his head again.
Li Jiahui said disgustedly: "I knew it! You men don't have many good things."
Shao Wanyin laughed loudly: "Jiahui, you just know?"
Shao Le picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of duck meat, handed it to Li Yifei's bowl and said with a smile: "Good stuff, come and have a piece of meat."
Li Yifei raised his head and pushed up his glasses. Just as he was about to speak, Li Jiahui shouted: "What are you looking at? I'll eat yours."
"Ha ha."
…
Talking and laughing.
The two young men came down from upstairs, their expressions were not very good.
One of the slightly shorter young men saw the empty table next to Shao Le and pulled his companion who was wearing a Patek Philippe on his wrist over.
"waiter!"
The two sat down and immediately called the waiter. Without even looking at the menu, the short young man shouted: "Give me all your signature dishes, and a few bottles of beer."
Hearing this, the young man who had been silent until now turned his head and said, "Just bring a drink, we don't drink."
"Brother, why don't you drink?"
"I'm going to drive for my dad later."
"Brother, there is obviously room upstairs, why does your dad want us to come down?"
"They want to talk about work."
"Isn't it just about making a movie? Isn't this matter already discussed?"
"You know what the heck, today they are talking about kickbacks."
"rebate?"
"Fifty million investment funds, issue an invoice of 70 million, and half of the extra money will be given to the people at Shanhe Pictures. In this way, both parties will make money. Do you understand?"
"Then who loses?"
"It's Shanhe Pictures, but for Shanhe Pictures, this little money is just drizzle, so no one will notice."
"Good guy, I've made tens of millions just by going back and forth. Isn't it too easy to make money?"
"It's not difficult to make money, but you have to get into their circle first. Do you know now why I begged my dad to take me all the way to the Magic City?"
"I understand, I understand."
The short young man chuckled and said, "Brother, those two women just now are both female stars, right?"
"Um."
"She's so pretty, much prettier than the girls over there."
"How many of the women who can be celebrities are ugly? But these days, female celebrities are no longer valuable. The ones who are really good-looking are those of Chen Yifei's level."
"Chen Yifei~"
…
upstairs.
In the private room.
The bald man hugged the woman next to him who was nominally her secretary but was actually his lover. He touched her thigh with his left hand, while holding a wine glass in his right hand, he said to Zhou Sheng and Zhao Chengming, managers of the commercial department of Shanhe Pictures: "Zhou Manager, Director Zhao, our show must promote positive energy!"
"I am very sure of that."
"As you all know, I, Huang Maoqiang, made his fortune in coal mining. I can't even read the characters, let alone make movies. Anyway, I will give you the money. How the movie is made is your business. I will never interfere."
Zhao Chengming smiled and said: "Since Mr. Huang believes in me so much, I will definitely work hard to film this scene well."
"Your words are enough. I respect you all."
"Mr. Huang is too polite."
"If Manager Zhou and Director Zhao have nothing else to do tonight, I know there is a very nice private club in Magic City. After the show is over, would you two like to have a cup of tea together to sober up?"
"How embarrassing."
"I am very down-to-earth and only do business with people I get along with. Manager Zhou and Mr. Zhao give me face like this. As long as I make money, I will definitely not let you two suffer. I believe we will continue to cooperate in the future." Opportunity."
"That's natural."
"Director Zhao, who are these?"
"Oh, these are the actresses in our drama. Her name is Gao Lili, and she is the female lead in our drama."
"Mr. Huang, let me toast you."
"Okay, okay."
"Her name is Zhou Hui, and she is the second female lead in our drama."
"Mr. Huang, I want to toast you too."
"Okay, okay, the actresses are so beautiful, our drama will definitely be a hit at the box office."
"Then I wish us happy cooperation."
“A pleasure to work with.”
…
