Chapter 443 Meeting (Two in One)
To be honest, most of the family members of similar social class in Hong Kong and Macau have heard a little about the origin of the Zhao family's way of thinking that they like meat to be rotten in the pot.
In the past, marrying off a celebrity to keep him/her was undoubtedly considered an act of "lowering one's own status" and "self-degradation" in the eyes of those wealthy and noble families.
However, with the development of the times, an era of contradiction has emerged in which the gap between the rich and the poor is widening and narrowing at the same time. In addition, since the political landscape is no longer entirely a game for the rich, those who are prepared and lucky seem to have the ability and opportunity to cross classes.
Similarly, those celebrities who were considered “low-class actors” in the old times can enter the circle and become the new “first generation” with some effort because of the bonus of being exposed in front of the screen.
For example, Sister Wang, who has always maintained a good image since her debut, has been moving towards politics in recent years in addition to singing. According to reliable sources, she has a good chance of being elected as a representative of the Hong Kong and Macau region in next year's National People's Congress.
Of course, perhaps such deeds may not be able to shake those old-fashioned traditional ideas, but for the Zhao family in Hong Kong, it is enough - Zhuang Long's status and box office appeal in the international film industry are obvious to all. After Su Yun, he is the second person with an oriental face and Chinese blood who can present a positive image in such a difficult environment as Hollywood. He can definitely be called a "pillar".
Perhaps before this, his lack of awards and his appeal at the box office would have led people to compare him with Zhang Querong, the first Chinese actor to win the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. But now that he has joined the ambitious Oscar-winning film "The Last Emperor", as long as there are no major problems with the film, he has already reached a top position in terms of box office and awards, the two most important key evaluation points in an artist's career, which has never been achieved before and may not be surpassed for a long time.
In this way, even if he leaves Su Yun and Zhao Shi who have brought him to this height, there are still many bigwigs who want to pick him up and make him the pillar of their own company.
Therefore, at such times, the Zhao family's approach of "making the person their own first and then working hard to promote him" is a "good" way to minimize the possibility of the promoted pillar suddenly jumping ship.
In this world, no matter how precious and pure the feelings are, they will inevitably be eroded by time. Only the intense and fierce emotional entanglements that combine interests and entangle the soul and the flesh can make you choose the person you care about most at the first time when faced with a choice.
It can be said that because of those hidden emotional entanglements that were unknown to others, Su Yun was able to steadily "control" these already fully-fledged training targets, and was able to become their first choice without hesitation when faced with a choice.
Regarding this situation, He Pingsi couldn't help but sigh in her heart: Compared with the usual big guys who linger in the world of prostitutes after becoming successful, Su Yun really "loves work", and even her play is vaguely linked with interests. I don't know whether she is happier or more depressed in this.
However, looking at the way Su Yun and Zhuang Long get along with each other, perhaps this is not a very difficult thing in her mind.
At the very least, it is definitely better than those marriages among wealthy families that do not respect human relationships or legal principles and only care about interests, fame and fortune - at least the ambiguous objects in Su Yun's hands are all high-quality goods with good looks, talent and character. Except that their family backgrounds are not as good as those of the wealthy families with equal status, everything else is absolutely not bad, and it can even be said that they are far better than those young masters.
It is not known whether Su Yun did it on purpose or just went with the flow, but in any case, to outsiders who know a little bit about the inside story, Su Yun, who has always been obsessed with work and kept herself clean, has indeed suffered a lot of "losses" in the emotional field.
After all, she herself is a popular female star with both good looks and inner qualities. Even if she were to have a normal relationship, she would be more than suitable for any of these. Add to that her status as a member of a wealthy new generation...it would be "unfair" for her to date these stars who are unattainable in the eyes of ordinary people.
Based on this reason, even if Su Yun herself didn't feel anything about it, in He Pingsi's eyes, she was really "at a disadvantage"...
So, I couldn't help but want to help her.
Seeing the scrutiny and dissatisfaction in He Pingsi's eyes, Zhuang Long smiled helplessly. After answering her questions in a polite manner, he took the initiative to pull a chair over from the side and sat directly next to Su Yun.
It looked like a demonstration, but also like an oath.
Su Yun roughly guessed what He Pingsi was thinking at the moment, and put down the work at hand with a helpless look, and spoke a few words to mediate. Finally, he persuaded He Pingsi, who had been busy all day, to leave and let her go back to the east chamber to rest.
Looking at He Pingsi's back thoughtfully, and thinking back to what she had just done, Zhuang Long could only look at Su Yun even more helplessly: "Look at you, you've gotten yourself into another romantic debt!"
"This is not called 'romance', this is called 'gentleness'." Su Yun explained to him very seriously, "Pingsi is because you are worried that I won't be able to grasp it, so I will be an ugly person and make a fool of you." Give me a few more bucks."
In the slang of the Guangfu area, the word "flesh tight" originally refers to the appearance of tense muscles. It is generally used to express concern, tension, and anxious mood. In the same way, there are also words such as "tight", which are used to describe It means to care, care, and be anxious.
The extension of "add a little more money and tightness" means "pay a little more attention", and is mostly used to persuade young lovers to care more about and cherish each other.
"Don't I care about you enough now?" Zhuang Long let out a long breath and motioned Su Yun to look at the slightly dark marks under his eyes. "In order to squeeze out more time with you, I come back here as soon as I have a break. Look at how hard I've worked..."
Su Yun threw up her hands in disapproval: "Come on, you are just rushing to act, just take a break and it will be fine - everyone knows that you are naturally beautiful. When you were filming, the director questioned you about your heavy makeup, so you had to wipe your mouth hard to show that you really were not wearing any makeup."
This was actually what Su Yun saw with her own eyes: One day, Zhuang Long was filming a basketball scene outdoors. The director saw his bright red lips, teeth, and white face as if he was covered in powder, so he immediately stopped the filming and walked over to tell him not to wear heavy makeup in this scene, otherwise it would be too much.
So, Zhuang Long, who had only applied a thin layer of powder to even out his complexion, could only raise his hands to vigorously wipe his face and mouth, indicating that he was now basically bare-faced...
No matter how hard the dark-colored ones try, they can never achieve the freshness, naturalness and pitifulness of the light-colored ones.
Unexpectedly, Su Yun would tease him about this again. Zhuang Long narrowed his eyes and glanced at her sideways, with a hint of anger in his expression.
Su Yun really likes to see his frowning and angry look. Compared with a young man in menopause, he has more charm of time, but more vigor and vitality than an old man who has truly experienced the vicissitudes of life. It is unique and touching.
"Okay, I won't argue with you anymore. If you continue to argue, you'll have to stay up late tonight." Zhuang Long looked at the pile of documents in front of Su Yun, sighed, and then said softly, "What do you want to eat tonight?"
"As long as it's made by you, I want to eat it and I like it." Su Yun's eyes were buried in the documents, but her seductive mouth still remembered to take a break from her busy schedule to respond with a very natural sweet remark.
"Then wait for me." Zhuang Long touched the top of her head with a look of both anger and amusement, then stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
The days in the capital seemed to pass by at a leisurely pace, until Zhao Liming finally had time to leave Shenzhen and rush to the capital to reunite with Su Yun and He Pingsi.
During this period, he had already discussed the new project application for Kowloon Walled City with Su Yun in a telephone call, but seeing is believing after all. After seeing Su Yun's plan and some design drawings with his own eyes, Zhao Liming was extremely excited and expressed his praise for Su Yun's behavior.
As the big brother, he has spent many years of energy and effort to find a way out for the lower-class people in the fierce competition among real estate developers. The result is that he can only avoid these capitalists who only care about profits and nothing else, and set his target starting point in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange close to Hong Kong.
However, Su Yun was crazier and more adventurous than him. She directly set her sights on the "battlefield" of the past, and then planned to unite many forces that could support her and were very likely to support her, and in turn force those capitalists to abdicate.
In the early stages of Su Yun's plan, most of the money was to be invested in charity, just like throwing money into the sea. At the same time, a part of the garden landscape area of the memorial park was retained for the original plan, and replaced by a more unique and more attractive "human landscape area". If any big shot wants to compete with Su Yun head-on, he must consider whether it is worthwhile and whether he can do so.
Those political forces with different motives would not allow anyone to take the Kowloon Walled City into their pockets and use it as a tool to make money. Otherwise, it would not have been called a "no man's land" for so many years.
Even if all parties are keeping a close eye on things behind the scenes and even sending undercover agents to monitor them, this will allow them to have more right to know and a say when it comes to decisions made in this area in the future.
但那也始終只會是在明面上說是調查所得，不會是真的撕破臉皮說自己這些消息到底從何得來。
蘇韻就是看準了這些關鍵點，才會是用一種看似人傻錢多沒處花的模樣，強勢地去争奪這一塊大肥肉。
毫無疑問的，在會議上提出了這個新計劃的蘇韻，當場就接受到了來自四面八方的詫異驚嘆目光——這當中，不止是有各方資本大佬，就連支持她想辦法拯救城寨居民的相關部門工作人員，都是有點懵逼的。
讓你稍微幫幫忙，但絕對沒讓你一口氣扛下這麽重的一個擔子啊！
即使是改革開放一段時間了，經濟也是飛速地增長了不少，但整個神州大陸也依然是花錢的地方太多、然後就無可避免地導致賺錢的速度和力度都相對較慢較弱，
所以，最開始相關部門的工作人員在和蘇韻聯系上時，是主動表示了和當年改開時差不多的意思：咱們現在沒有多少錢，只能是盡量給你調整出一些政策扶持和少量資金支持，你盡自己所能去争取就好……
以蘇韻從前的做法，相關部門的工作人員大概就是認為，蘇韻會選擇用宣傳募捐的方式，去籌出一筆救助城寨居民的善款，繼而在原址周邊興建用作慈善救助用途的樓房。
結果讓大家都沒想到的是，蘇韻壓根就沒有把目标放在原址周邊附近過，而是直接劍指原址，并且“野心勃勃”地想要達到一個兩全其美的結局來。
蘇韻這計劃太過瘋狂了吧？
即使她背後有着香江趙氏和南洋趙氏這兩座大靠山，即使趙家人都很樂意做慈善出捐款，也不是能這麽糟蹋的啊——畢竟大部分的圈內人都知道，蘇韻那些賺回來的錢大都花向了哪幾處。
已經是年年都撥一筆巨款給大陸修建道路了，現在還想要護住香江本地的底層人民，又不是什麽富可敵國的大土豪，有多少家底經得起這麽花的？
就算她還能依靠着每年源源不絕的各種投資利益回籠資金，也能靠着自身的人氣在國內外發動慈善捐款，但前期也還是需要以一人之力扛下不少壓力，那麽趙家人、尤其是那個出了名摳門孤寒的趙日賦，真的能允許她這麽做？
但蘇韻這一副胸有成竹的小模樣，倒還真的好像是獲得了趙日賦那邊的首肯……
不可能的吧？趙日賦雖然捐教學樓挺大方的，但也是賺回了神州大陸不少人氣以及政治方面上的認可與支持，對于以後搞影視鋪廣途徑有便宜可占……而花那麽多錢改建九龍城寨，又是為了什麽？
總不能是為了搶這塊地皮吧——誰不知道這塊地皮搞不得房地産，這樣搞不了買賣的地皮建設起來，還是建的紀念公園和“廉租樓”，對他們這些靠着房地産事業跻身富豪排行榜的大佬又能有什麽用？
拿來看嗎？！
咦，不對，好像是真的可以拿來看……
有些腦子轉得快的人，好似還真的就在那些不需言語只需眼神交流就能意會的讨論間隙，捕捉到了改建九龍城寨這種看似扔錢進海的慈（sha）善（bi）計劃上，如蘇韻和趙家人這種特殊型“豪門”所能獲得的用處。
這特麽不就是又一個小型的“新趙氏影城”？！
哪怕披着一張紀念公園的皮，但“影城”這玩意最不講道理的地方，就是它可不管你在群衆面前叫什麽名字，一旦拍進了攝影機裏頭，就是在影片裏想叫什麽名字、就能叫什麽名字……
難怪趙日賦那個老狐貍會點頭讓家裏孩子過來提出申請呢，既能打着慈善的旗號收買人心積累陰德，又能大幅度拓展自家影視制作時的取景途徑，還能強勢占住這一塊位于鬧市區域的地皮……這樣一舉多得的計劃，他不心動才奇怪了。
說起來趙日賦這家夥也是夠好運的，從前還沒開始建影城之前，就和他們争地皮，争不過就只好找了偏遠位置“占山為王”，建立起當年的趙氏影城——後來地區經濟發展之後，他那些個山頭倒是成了好一大塊好位置的靓地皮，看得為了好位置地皮勾心鬥角打生打死的他們眼熱不已。
當年那個已經成為十大奇案案例之一的嘉寧，那麽努力地收購趙氏，最主要的原因可不就是為了趙氏影城這一大塊地皮？
真當嘉寧的陳老板是想接替趙家做香江影視業龍頭老大的嗎——除了真的是想進軍影視業的潘老板之外，又有哪個老板不是為了那塊地皮，才對當年的趙氏影城有“好感”？
也虧得趙日賦還是對影視業留存着愛意，長久猶豫不決，之後又加上蘇韻這個“財女”回歸在他身邊保駕護航，才不至于被嘉寧騙了，成為奇案案例記錄裏最大最慘的受害者……
沒錯，魔幻又務實的港人，特別是身居上層的那些人，均是多對有關風水命理的堪輿學感興趣乃至信奉不已，因此蘇韻的“財女”之名不止在香江市民那邊流行，在他們這個圈子裏也是挺流行的……
但迷信歸迷信，在一起向錢看的資本家面前，只要有足夠的利益驅使，那麽就算你是他神枱上擺着的照片之“神”，他也是照樣會重拳出擊、戰鬥到底。
唯有是，政治這一只懸于所有人頭頂之上、無形無跡卻又無堅不摧的巨手，才能用強而有力的力度，去壓下資本家們心裏的蠢蠢欲動。
蘇韻之所以會膽敢在衆人面前提出這個九龍城寨改建新計劃的原因，不外乎就是得到了這只巨手的支持。
在面對這種自己抄不了也搶不來的情況，再加上那只懸于頭頂之上的巨手的壓力，在接下來的會議之中，陸陸續續就有了一個又一個的或是棄權或是支持的票數。
華夏這邊是大力支持蘇韻的改建新計劃，至于英方那邊的态度……倒是暧昧得很。
按理說，這個改建新計劃和原計劃對于他們來說，并沒有多大的差別，唯一的問題就是，如果他們同意了的話，那麽就間接讓出了這塊地皮的一部分不算被正式承認的管理權，使得“三不管”從此成為歷史。
但如果不同意的話——首先第一點，華夏現在已經在飛速崛起，不是現在的他們所能對付得了的了。
再然後，他們從前也就沒法管也懶得管，強行争搶管理起來，絕對是要付出不小的代價。
第三點則是這塊地皮按照新計劃來看，并沒有成為什麽軍事重地或者經濟重地，就是簡簡單單的紀念公園和廉租房區，頂天了也就是給影視公司添點可供選擇的外景……
自從“日不落帝國”名存實亡之後，這個國家似乎就已經越來越走向原先的小國軌道上了，再也沒了和真正地域廣人數多的大國抗争到底的勇氣。
就連香江這個費了不少心思和時間培育起來的“東方之珠”，當年都在會議上老老實實地簽署了歸還的協議文件，難道現在還差九龍城寨這一塊相比起來都不夠薯條大的那麽丁點地方嗎？
一想到這個，之前那些糾結頓時就迎刃而解一掃清光。
大概真的是躺下來就再也難站起，英方在經過自我糾結又自我排解之後，也是點頭同意了蘇韻所提交上來的九龍城寨改建新計劃。
兩只無形無跡的手雙雙掐住了他們命運的咽喉，而那個早就已經被華夏解決的“第三管”清廷更是不複存在，于是那些原先還在猶豫還在觀望還在想辦法對抗的資本家們，也紛紛地老實跪了……
得到了九龍城寨改建新計劃全票通過的消息，蘇韻忍不住就發自內心地露出了一個大大的笑容，要不是這份紙質文件看起來實在是脆弱不堪，她都想抱進懷裏狠狠地親上幾口以表示此刻的激動心情了。
“沒關系，你可以親我。”坐在旁邊的何屏思看出她的心思，頓時就笑着打趣了一句。
于是蘇韻就真的在她臉頰上啵了響亮的一記，看得坐在另一邊的趙勵明皺眉也不是、不皺眉也不是……
“只是十分正常的深厚友情，沒有別的。”蘇韻看到趙勵明那個比先前英方人員還糾結的苦瓜臉，立刻就義正詞嚴地解釋了一句。
“那還好……”趙勵明勉強恢複了正常表情，輕輕地點了一下頭。
以前是忙着工作沒怎麽注意這個，一旦稍微閑下來之後，為弟弟妹妹的感情問題操碎了心的老大哥趙勵明，頓時就開始有了關注閑事的心思。
多年英屬租借屬性再加上持續不斷的出國留學、移民潮，少不免是給新一代的港人灌注了外國那些“自由開放”的情感觀念，而在外面那麽多的國家裏，英方就是特別有名的基腐百合彙聚地……
Even in their own movies and TV series, they dare to describe these strange emotions openly. It seems that it is not a rare thing to see a few couples who break through the limitations of the world around you...
And Su Yun is the one who can't resist temptation the most. Men come one after another, and suddenly adding one or two women doesn't seem to be wrong...
No, no, no! This is even scarier than Su Yun bringing back the "cut rat" and announcing that she wants to marry him!
Thinking of this, Zhao Qiming shook his head hastily, at least to get rid of those terrible fantasies that came up in his mind.
Su Yun was unaware of Zhao Qiming's complicated feelings at the moment. After hugging He Pingsi again for successfully achieving their goal through cooperation, she worked with the staff of the relevant departments to handle some of the subsequent work.
However, one has to work hard to achieve his goals. Even if such a big plan passes the review, there is still a lot of related work to be done. They were busy until the sun set and darkness rose. Then Su Yun and others said goodbye to the staff of the relevant departments and went out to take a car back to the small courtyard.
Looking at the exhausted Su Yun and He Pingsi dozing off with their heads leaning against each other in the back seat, Zhao Qiming, who was sitting in the passenger seat, really turned his head at least three times a minute, making the driver think that he was working too hard and had a muscle spasm or something like that...
After returning home, Zhao Qiming saw Zhuang Long, who had gone back to the kitchen early to cook dinner because the filming was not busy today. Zhao Qiming, who had always been annoyed by Zhuang Long's self-defense, looked at him busy in the kitchen and suddenly felt like crying with relief.
After a long time, Zhuang Long received Zhao Qiming's good face again. He was flattered and surprised. He secretly pulled the corner of Su Yun's clothes and asked cautiously: "Did your elder brother... suffer any stimulation at the meeting?"
"Maybe he's just hungry." Su Yun glanced at the plate of delicious braised pork in his hand and answered while swallowing his saliva.