Chapter 61 New Movie Invitation

After eating and drinking, they played another round of crazy games together. When the sun was setting, Su Yun reluctantly said goodbye to the others and got into a taxi with the two brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang.

It's not that she has forgotten her roots and is unwilling to take the minibus that goes directly to her home now that she has become rich. The main reason is that people are afraid of being famous, just like pigs are afraid of being fat. Even if she is dressed up, once she is recognized - especially on a minibus, she will have nowhere to run even if she wants to.

Even though she had passed the driving test, due to historical reasons, Hong Kong had right-hand drive cars and traffic on the right, not the left-hand drive cars she was familiar with. Secondly, she was not old enough to have money to drive...

Therefore, taxis are the only means of transportation.

"Are you two kidding me? You actually let me go on stage like this!" After getting in the car, Wang Jia, who had already noticed something was wrong, suddenly started yelling at the top of his voice.

"I'm sorry, I saw you staring at someone before, so I thought you liked that type of guy - I caused you to not be able to catch up with that guy before, and now I've met someone similar, so I just want to make it up to you." Su Yun explained.

"Don't look at me, I'm just helping!" Seeing that his brother's gaze shifted to him after hearing Su Yun's explanation, Wang Jiaxiang hurriedly raised his hands and gave him a standard "French military salute".

"It's not as good as you two!" Seeing Wang Jiaxiang raise his hands in surrender, Wang Jiaju snorted.

"So you are not angry anymore...right?" Su Yun asked tentatively.

"When did I ever say I was angry with you?" Wang Jia suddenly glanced over.

"That's right. No matter how much we quarrel, we still have to live in the same room and cook together!" Su Yun leaned forward and reached out to pinch Wang Jiaju, who was sitting in the front passenger seat.

"Hey, stop messing around. We're in a car!" Wang Jiaju was suddenly grabbed by the neck by Su Yunchong from behind and he shouted hurriedly.

"What are you afraid of? You're just riding in a car, not driving it!" Su Yun realized that his anger just now was just an act, so of course she had to return the favor and tease him again.

The driver nearby saw the two naughty kids fighting non-stop while making sure they didn't interfere with his driving. He smiled secretly in his heart, then quickly stepped on the sprint car and continued driving towards his destination.

It's a new year again. I hope everything will be like these carefree children. Although the sun is setting in the background, the road ahead is full of vitality and brightness.

The impact of the stock market crash in 1973 has not yet ended. The economic downturn has caused all walks of life to be in a recession. However, the price of gasoline has skyrocketed as the economy has declined... Therefore, the driver sincerely hopes that this recession will recover soon.

By then, when gasoline prices drop, more people will be willing to take taxis, so he won't have to work all day to pick up a few kids and earn enough money to barely break even.

The driver hoped so, but he could not foresee what kind of crisis would come next that would be closely related to him.

Anyone who can go against the current in a crisis is either a smart person with a forward-looking vision, or a reborn person like Su Yun.

Stock market crashes, wars, oil crises and other major events, each of which is a crisis and an opportunity. In October 1974, the Fourth Middle East War broke out. Su Yun, who had already hoarded gold before leaving for the United States, once again took advantage of this "opportunity" to make a fortune.

At that time, when she was vaguely telling people she knew to buy more gold to preserve its value, many people laughed at her for being so conservative at such a young age and learning from the old-fashioned people to hoard gold. As a result, at the end of the year, if she hadn't been in a foreign country and difficult to contact, she would have received a large number of regretful telegrams and phone calls...

This kind of people are mostly the dragon and tiger martial artists under Lu Shaolong who have learned opera since childhood and therefore have a low level of cultural education. Those who can listen to Su Yun's words, such as the Wang family who used to follow her and thought she had first-class vision, made a lot of money again.

They had enough money to send Wang Jiaju to study abroad after he graduated from elementary school. The child's academic performance was not very good and he didn't like to work hard, but he was quite good at playing music. So, at Su Yun's suggestion, the Wang couple began to prepare for him to study music in Japan.

With Su Yun being a great example of someone who is very successful in the entertainment industry and can act and sing, the Wang family is no longer opposed to the brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang playing music as they were in the original world line.

Ultimately, it is the original sin of poverty: when you live in a housing estate and work as a worker, your children playing music is considered a waste of time; when you live in a western-style building and become a boss, playing music at home is not a big deal, and your parents and siblings all tacitly support it.

They didn't think that the entertainment industry was easy to make money, but they felt that they already had an older son and two daughters to inherit the family business, so they let the two younger ones be more free and gave them the right to choose what they liked.

Su Yun was very pleased to understand the Wang family's thoughts: outsiders think that it is easy to make money in the entertainment industry, but in fact, it is only marginal extras who can easily make more money than those who choose normal work. The real big share is still with the film companies and those who have the power to profit.

Although everyone says that making movies is risky but profitable, the actual rate of return is basically not that good and the profit payback period is particularly long. It is common for a movie to take several years from the time it is released to the time it is taken off the screen and then the box office is calculated and the profits are distributed.

It is said that this movie has made so much money, but those who are waiting for the money are waiting in vain. In the end, they can only accept the long and scattered recovery period one after another.

Just like Su Yun now, the profits from "The Perfect Match" have been almost a year apart, and they have not yet been fully collected.

Fortunately, she has many ways to make money, otherwise with such a long payback period, it would be difficult for her to continue investing and seeking opportunities - during this period, those tycoons who later swept the world have already started their own businesses one after another, and entering the real estate and IT industries is the best direction for the future!

As long as he can use the money to open a way to enter the real estate and IT industries, and then use it to buy shares of several well-known companies, then even if Su Yun makes a series of hits and misses, or even just makes art films that are box office poison, he will still have enough money to do things...

The economic base determines the superstructure, and this is really not empty talk.

After dinner, Su Yun stayed with Grandma Su for a while, and then played guitar with her two guardian brothers Jia Ju and Jia Xiang.

This kind of home, which is always full of vitality and lively scene, is the ideal home in her mind.

Especially Wang Jiaju, the seemingly irritable but actually arrogant neighbor brother, who has always regarded himself as the protector of her and Wang Jiaxiang, even though his younger brother is almost as tall as him, and even though Su Yun is no longer the Su Yun of the past...

Thinking of how he walked on the outside as usual when they were walking today, protecting Su Yun and Wang Jiaxiang inside, Su Yun couldn't help but smile with gratitude.

This is probably what real family is like - no matter how glorious and powerful you are in the outside world, in their hearts you are just a little cabbage that needs care.

Especially for Su Yun, who was once a member of the only child generation, having such a silly, cute and lovable older brother has helped her to develop a childlike and girlish heart that wants to be cared for.

Even Tom, who has stunning looks, can't give her this kind of reassuring feeling - after all, Tom is no longer the spy who can steal a plane with his bare hands, but a silly and innocent girl with low IQ...

It can be said that when Su Yun looks at these future superstars now, they are either children of a younger generation than her or elders whom she looks up to; as for the only two opposite sexes that she can appreciate normally psychologically, one is the youthful and attractive Zhuang Long who is in his twenties, and the other is her childhood sweetheart, the warm and moving Wang Jiaju.

Simply put, one relies on looks and the other relies on experience.

However, what Su Yun did not expect was that on the second day of New Year's Day, at breakfast time at the table, the Wang couple suddenly mentioned that they wanted to buy a house and move.

"We're living here well, why are they moving?" Su Yun was deeply surprised: Although she knew that the Wang couple were sensible people and would not stay here for long, it was too sudden that they were planning to move out in less than a year.

"We were already disturbed, and just recently our neighbors were planning to emigrate to England with their whole family and sell their property for a low price, so we came up with this idea." Mrs. Wang faced Granny Su's gaze, which seemed to understand something, and her tone was filled with some unconcealed joy: "Jia Wei has a new girlfriend, and if nothing unexpected happens, they may plan to get married in the middle of the year."

"No way, big brother, why don't we know anything?!" Upon hearing this, the two brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang immediately showed dissatisfied looks towards their big brother Wang Jiawei, as if they were deceived and betrayed.

"Go, you two little kids, stop meddling in adults' business!" Grandma Su held Jiaju and Jiaxiang down, her expression filled with reluctance and happiness. "That's right, Jiawei is old enough now, it's time for him to get married..."

"Grandma, our new house is next door. From now on we will just return to where we started and continue to be neighbors." Wang Jiawei explained quickly.

"You have been a stable and mature child since childhood. I am not worried about you. I am just thinking that the house next door is small, has only two floors and no garden. Can you live in it?" Grandma Su became more and more reluctant.

"We were able to live in the housing estate before, so it will be fine if we move to a western-style building now. We have already planned it out. The downstairs will be used as the living room and the rooms for mom and dad, and we brothers and sisters will live upstairs. My eldest brother and his wife will have a room, and my two sisters and Jiaju and Jiaxiang will each have a room." The two sisters of the Wang family had already planned the next arrangements. "However, because we need to negotiate the price and rearrange the layout of the upstairs, we may have to live there for a while... I wonder what you think?"

"I'd be so happy if you could stay a little longer!" In Su Yun's current situation, she would have to stay at least a month away from home. During this period, Grandma Su relied on the Wang family to live with her so that she wouldn't be too bored. Besides, they have been friends for many years, so how could she refuse?

Seeing Grandma Su happily discussing the renovation with the Wang family, Su Yun, the youngest person in the room, began to feel like an empty-nester whose family was leaving home...

However, she also understood the principle that things that come together must eventually separate: her idea at the time was to let the Wang family take care of Grandma Su and satisfy her family needs when she was not at home; but the Wang family was only staying there temporarily, and now that the conditions at home had improved and they wanted to leave, they even specially prepared to buy the house next door in order to continue the friendship between the two families, which was already very loyal.

The impact of the stock market crash has not yet completely subsided. Apart from the sharp drop in Hong Kong's housing prices after the Sino-British negotiations in a few years, which will continue to fall to the lowest level in history, it is now in the later stage of the stock market crash.

Anyway, their house is next door, and the two families can visit each other frequently in the future.

Thinking of this, Su Yun finally felt relieved.

"Then I'll go to Jiahe's place. You don't have to wait for me for lunch at noon." Su Yun packed up his things, went out again and took a taxi.

When I was in the hospital, Zou Yunhua said that he planned to release the Hong Kong version of "Artificial Intelligence" during the Lunar New Year. Because English-speaking Western movies are not selling well in Hong Kong, even if "Artificial Intelligence" is a big hit abroad, the Hong Kong version will have to find someone to re-dub it.

This time, Su Yun went there, in addition to helping plan the promotion for the New Year's movie, she was also assigned a job to dub her own character.

But every time the plan can never keep up with the changes.

When I arrived at the conference room and met Zou Yunhua according to the instructions of the front desk, he was talking to someone.

Su Yun looked closely and saw that the two people talking to Zou Yunhua were a translator in a suit and a beautiful girl dressed meticulously in a full set of kimono.

She had seen this kimono girl once before: when she first followed Lin Jingying to find Zhuang Long, the kimono girl looked at her and smiled for a long time.

"You are finally here." Zou Yunhua walked over with a smile on his face. "Let me introduce you - this is one of the pillars of our company, Su Yun, whose English name is Mary Su."

The translator turned around and said a few words to the kimono girl, then stood up and bowed 90 degrees: "Hello, Miss Su, Miss Iwasaki wants to invite you to go to Japan to shoot a movie. The role is the childhood of the heroine..."

"The character of Chiyo who has not yet officially changed her stage name to 'Yuriko'!"