Chapter 265: The Villain’s Tool Aunt (11)
Huo Shichu received the notification that her script had entered the finals, but she was very calm and did not feel it was a big surprise. If she had not entered the finals, she would have thought that there was something fishy about the competition.
During this period, she went downstairs to eat a few meals at Fu Bojian's. Fu Bojian said that he really liked cooking, and cooking was a way for him to relax. Huo Shichu was a little surprised by this, after all, few men like to cook, but his hobby benefited her, so she appreciated it very much.
Huo Shichu did not stop writing scripts during this period. She sometimes went to forums to exchange experiences with like-minded people. Among them, there was a netizen named "徐徐图之" who gave her a lot of useful suggestions. Huo Shichu would talk to him every time she went to the forum.
It's the same this time, but this time the enthusiasm for "taking it step by step" doesn't seem to be very high.
【Hohoho】: What's wrong? Are you unhappy? Didn't you say that your script is about to start filming?
[Slowly but surely]: Oh, don’t even mention it. The investor went bankrupt, and the crew was just formed and now it’s disbanding again.
[Hohoho]: Can’t we find other investors?
[Slowly]: We have tried, but nowadays businessmen are all shrewd, and we are all unknown people. Who would be willing to invest in us? There is no way to do this business without a reputation. Even if you kneel down and beg, people will not even bother to look at you.
[Hohoho]: How much money is still missing?
[Slowly but surely]: The gap is much bigger, several million. Even if Lao Cha and I sold our house, it still wouldn't be enough. Now we're stuck in the middle. We've lost our house, and we can't put together a film crew. Lao Cha's family is asking him to go back to his hometown and take the civil service exam, and stop struggling.
[Hohoho]: Can you send me the script?
[Slowly]: What? Are you interested? I spent three years writing this script. Although I dare not boast that it is a masterpiece, it is still a fine product. The TV series made from it will definitely be good.
"Xu Xu Tu Zhi" couldn't wait to send the script to Huo Shichu. Perhaps he was desperate and had to give it a try. Huo Shichu showed some signs of interest in investing, and he didn't want to miss it at all.
[Hohoho]: I need to spend some time to read it.
[Slowly take it]: Just look!
Huo Shichu began to read the script sent to her by "Xu Xu Tu Zhi".
The name of the script is "Zhu Lu", and it tells a story about fighting for the world as expected, but it is not a story of many heroes fighting for the world, but a story of two countries fighting for the world.
The Western Dynasty and the Eastern Dynasty were big countries located at the east and west ends of a major road, surrounded by some small vassal countries. Usually, they kept to themselves and although there were occasional frictions, no major wars broke out and the situation was generally peaceful.
But the coming of a plague changed the situation. The plague first occurred in the Western Dynasty. Many people in the Western Dynasty died from the plague. Those who did not die became increasingly frightened, fearing that one day it would be their turn to be infected and die. In this fearful situation, some people in the Western Dynasty began to flee to the Eastern Dynasty to avoid the plague.
However, the Eastern Dynasty took measures for the sake of its own people and strictly prohibited the people of the Western Dynasty from entering. As a result, the people of the Western Dynasty had many conflicts with the Eastern Dynasty on the border.
The plague in the Western Dynasty gradually faded away two years later, but by that time the Western Dynasty had suffered heavy casualties and was severely damaged. The gap in national strength between the two countries had already widened. In addition, conflicts broke out between the two countries on the border over how to avoid the plague, and the two countries started a war.
Of course, the Eastern Dynasty was the initiator, wanting to take advantage of the situation and destroy the Western Dynasty before it could recover.
As expected, the Western Dynasty was unable to resist the invasion of the Eastern Dynasty and lost several cities. However, the Eastern Dynasty did not gain any advantage either, because the people of the Western City, in the face of the crisis of national destruction, were brave and fearless, and killed many Eastern Dynasty soldiers. It can be said that the Eastern Dynasty killed one thousand enemies and injured eight hundred of its own.
The situation came to a stalemate. At this time, Li Hengshui, the youngest prime minister of the Western Dynasty, proposed to send a princess to marry and end the war.
The Eastern and Western Dynasties, both of which suffered losses, quickly agreed. The Western Dynasty sent its most favored princess Wen Ya to marry the emperor. Although her mother was the empress, she was not liked by the emperor and died early. Princess Wen Ya was brought up by servants since she was a child. Although she was a princess, she was still bullied by palace maids and guards. If it were not for this marriage, the emperor would not have thought of her at all.
Princess Wen Ya then went to the Eastern Dynasty to marry, but the man she married was not the emperor or the prince, but the general Zhao Qian who led the troops to invade the Western Dynasty, and could be said to be an enemy.
The Emperor of the Eastern Dynasty was afraid of Zhao Qian, but had to use him, so he deliberately let him marry the princess of the Western Dynasty.
After Zhao Qian and Wen Ya got married, they became distant and distant from each other. Except for attending palace banquets together, they never met each other at other times. They were like strangers living under the same roof.
A few years later, the Eastern and Western Dynasties had recovered their strength, their troops were strong and their horses were strong, and they were ready to go to war.
As a princess of the Western Dynasty who married into the Eastern Dynasty, Wen Ya became the most embarrassed person. Zhao Qian was sent to attack the Western Dynasty. Although it was well known that the couple had a disagreement in their relationship, they were in a difficult situation because of their marriage.
Zhao Qian was suspected by the emperor, who deliberately withheld military rations and sent people to kill him during the chaos. After he escaped death, he learned of the emperor's conspiracy and rebelled in anger. He first destroyed the Western Dynasty, then turned around and destroyed the Eastern Dynasty, and became the emperor who unified the world.
Wen Ya, as a princess of a fallen Western Dynasty, escaped the assassination attempt by the Eastern Dynasty emperor, but because her country was destroyed by Zhao Qian, she was unable to be with Zhao Qian and eventually disappeared.
But in fact, Zhao Qian liked her, but because the Emperor of Dongchao was afraid of him, he did not dare to reveal the fact that he liked her, for fear that she would become a weakness and be known by the emperor, so he deliberately alienated her.
Later, he destroyed Wen Ya's motherland and really became her enemy. He could no longer face her and had to miss her with regret.
"Slowly and slowly" describes the national affairs of the Eastern and Western Dynasties in a magnificent manner, depicts the war scenes in an exciting and passionate manner, and even the vague feelings between Zhao Qian and Wen Ya are written in a lingering and sad manner, making people feel sorry for them.
The writing skills are indeed very strong. At least after reading it, Huo Shichu, a person with indifferent emotions, felt very upset for a long time.
She knew immediately that this was indeed a script worth investing in.
[Hohoho]: This script is very well written. How much more investment is needed?
【Slowly】: Five million short! If you don’t have five million, three million will do…
It's a really humble request, and it reduced two million in one fell swoop.
Huo Shichu thought about her current wealth and fell silent. Although she had earned some money as a translator and invested it in the stock market, she had now saved more than one million. However, this was still two million short of the minimum amount of three million that "Slowly" wanted!
The one who is humble is not "slowly taking it step by step", but herself.
(End of this chapter)
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