231. Chapter 231 Scene 231 Negotiations at the wine table
Everyone sat down with their own thoughts in mind. Jiang Wencai suddenly slapped his head and pointed at Zhang Mo and said: "Hey, you... I recognize you. Aren't you the kid from the Guoli family? Why have you grown so big?"
"Uncle Jiang really loves to joke~" Only then did Zhang Mo feel that he had regained his face. He flipped his long hair with his hand and looked at Li Xiaole and Sun Li with a look of dismay, "What's up, bro, I'm not bragging, am I?"
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"Here, little girl, eat this, Yunnan cuisine with stone moxibustion beef~" After Jiang Wen finished speaking, he gave Sun Li a piece of beef with a smile. Only then did Li Xiaole and the others notice that there was a piece of black roast beef on the big dish.
It has some red marble, and the beef strips laid on it are so hot that it makes people salivate just by looking at it.
Sun Li picked up a piece and bit it lightly with her jade teeth, and put it into her mouth. She felt that her mouth was full of deliciousness. It was definitely not ordinary beef. Every time she chewed it, there was a new layer of flavor. Sometimes it was tender and smooth, sometimes it was crispy and refreshing. It was extremely delicious.
Then I picked up the beef strips and took a closer look. I found that the dish was made up of four thin strips of meat twisted into a shape like twists.
"What is this made of?" Sun Li sighed softly with her beautiful eyes widened, timidly not daring to look into Jiang Wen's eyes.
"Hey, even though this dish doesn't look very good, Teacher Jiang put a lot of thought into making this dish specially. Among the meat, one is lamb leg, one is pig ear, one is beef loin, and one is rabbit.
Butt meat.”
"Mr. Jiang made it by herself, so talented~" Sun Li looked at Jiang Wen with admiration, admiring this great artist even more.
"It's just a small craft." Jiang Wen shook his head disapprovingly, tapped the stone with his chopsticks and said with a smile: "Even if the material is excellent, without this piece of Yunnan Laoshan marble to back it up, the flavor won't come out. How about cooking?"
It's just like making a movie. If you have good actors and good directors, but without good investors, you can't make it. Don't you think so, Director Xiao Li?" Jiang Wen said and looked over with a smile.
Li Xiaole.
"Have a nice meal and drink today, let's not talk about work." Li Xiaole said it with a smile, thinking that Jiang Wen was obviously here to beg him, but he refused to lose his face and insisted on giving in to him. This meal
But it’s very useful.
"Haha, it should be right~ Let's not talk about business while eating~ Come~ Director Li, let's have a drink." Jiang Wen didn't take it seriously, laughed boldly, raised his glass, and drank with Li Xiaole. The wine Jiang Wen prepared this time was Erguotou.
, I just planned to knock Li Xiaole over at the wine table if they couldn't agree on it. I didn't expect that he would dare to challenge me to compare the drinking capacity. I thought, Okay~ let's try to compare the drinking capacity.
Seeing that although the two people were toasting each other with smiles, and you drank one glass and I drank another, they seemed to be in a tit-for-tat attitude. Sun Li and Zhang Mo were both a little confused, wondering whether these two were friends or enemies.
?This atmosphere is not quite right.
Wei Xiao was holding the dishes beside him, and he smiled and leaned into their ears: "I advise you not to get involved. Teacher Jiang is fighting with Director Li."
"How can they fight?" Sun Li asked with wide eyes.
"They made a bet. If the box office of "Crazy Stone" exceeds 40 million, Director Xiao Li will apply for the factory to give Mr. Jiang 10 million yuan to make a new work, but Director Xiao Li wants to default on the debt..." Wei Xiaoyong
He narrated the matter from his own point of view and never mentioned Jiang Wen's promise to guarantee Li Xiaole's career as an actor.
This matter is actually very simple. Jiang Wen now wants Li Xiaole to apply for investment for him, but he is also unwilling to become an actor for Li Xiaole. Otherwise, he would not have spent so much effort to treat Li Xiaole to this meal.
"It's so abominable that he didn't provide Teacher Jiang with the application funds." Sun Li raised her fist angrily, walked to Li Xiaole, and whispered in his ear: "Come here."
"What's the matter?" Li Xiaole was having a drink with Jiang Wen and was in high spirits, so he asked, smelling of wine.
"Tell me, did you agree to Teacher Jiang to apply for investment in his work?" Sun Li asked him with a serious expression.
"Isn't that right?" Wei Xiao, who was snickering next to Li Xiaole, and Jiang Wen, who squinted his eyes and pretended to eat vegetables, but peeked at himself, immediately understood what these two were planning. What was going on?
He thought Sun Li was his girlfriend and used her to break the deadlock.
"Li Xiaole, I know you as a manly man and a director who keeps his word. How could you break the appointment?" Sun Li also knew that she had no position to criticize him, so she could only persuade him in a tone commonly used by political commissars in the army.
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"Think about it, in the future of your long artistic career, you will encounter people who are not trustworthy, such as investors who withdraw their funds mid-shooting? How would you feel?"
"Well, that should be it. In a market economy, people have the right to choose." Li Xiaole said matter-of-factly as he would never jump into a hole.
"How could it be? You should be angry~ I lied to you~" Sun Li said anxiously with her eyes wide open. She was stunned for a moment. How is this different from the educational work routine learned in the army for new recruits?
"No way~ Isn't this a matter of mutual consent? For example, it's like falling in love. At the beginning, you and your boyfriend vowed to live together forever, but then they broke up halfway through the conversation. Shouldn't you be angry?
Is that so? And then you get entangled with your ex all the time, crying and screaming?" Li Xiaole asked Sun Li in a roundabout way.
"Of course not, why should I cry for him? I can find a better one..." Sun Li blurted out, but was stunned in the middle of the sentence. When she saw Li Xiaole's smiling face, she immediately knew that she had been fooled.
He said angrily:
"Wait a minute, you confused me... Let me organize my words..." After saying that, he felt that the logic in his mind was in chaos, and his train of thought was completely disrupted by Li Xiaole.
Seeing Sun Li thinking hard and getting angry in distress, Li Xiaole laughed so much that his stomach ached. This girl is too simple. She can't be detoured if she goes around casually. With her level, it's no wonder she was stupidly used as a gun.
Did it,
Wei Xiao was listening to the conversation between the two, and shook his head at Jiang Wen from a distance, indicating that the plan had completely failed.
Jiang Wen frowned and could only continue to pour wine to Li Xiaole with a smile. In the end, he still had to fight in person.
The two of them drank another whole bottle of white wine. Seeing that Li Xiaole's face was slightly red, it was obvious that he was already too drunk. He also felt that it was time to talk about business, so he simply drank the whole glass of Erguotou in his hands, then took the bottle and walked over.
He poured a full glass for both Li Xiaole and himself, and while taking advantage of the smell of alcohol, he put his arms around Li Xiaole's shoulders and looked at him deeply with two eyes, his tongue tied and he said:
"Xiao...Director Xiao Li, tell me~ are we friends... friends?"
"Teacher Jiang, I don't dare to take this seriously~" Li Xiaole sat on the bench and waved his hands repeatedly while smelling of alcohol.
"I said you are, you are, and you are not~!" Jiang Wen burped, slapped the table, stood up, and said in his deep and deep voice: "You know what you should do when your friends are in trouble.
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"You don't have to ask, just draw your sword and help~!" Li Xiaole suddenly shouted in a high-pitched voice. The other three were frightened by the drunk two. They were not going to start a fight.
"Brother, do you understand what I do?" Jiang Wen looked at Li Xiaole and said.
"Making movies~" Li Xiaole replied matter-of-factly.
"Wrong~!" Jiang Wen waved his hand and said, "I am just a businessman making money for China Film."
"Brother, have you made a lot of money?" Li Xiaole asked curiously.
"Earn!? Of course not. Your brother and I were too naive before and specialized in making some stupid art movies. I couldn't make any money. Now I understand that filmmakers, who live by movies, just want to make money!" Jiang
Wen lowered his voice and raised his wine glass and said:
"If you think about it, when I made "The Sun Still Shines", it was pure art. I even took 50 million at the box office. Such a small box office is not enough to fill my teeth~! If we want to make movies in the future, we will make blockbusters! Epic level
Blockbusters, if we want to overwhelm the American devils, we cannot allow our Chinese GDP to be lost to the American devils! Do you think Big Brother’s words are unreasonable or not?”
"Absolutely reasonable!" Li Xiaole nodded sternly.
"So, now that my eldest brother wants to make a big movie and make a lot of money, he will definitely be able to return his investment. Not only will he be able to return his capital, but he will also be able to make a large sum of money. With such a big deal, do you think I can take advantage of outsiders? That's for sure!
No way! You can take advantage of us brothers. As long as we are friends with each other, Xiao Li, if this matter doesn't fall on you, who should it fall on?" Jiang Wen became more and more excited as he spoke. He lifted up Li Xiaole's wine and stretched it out to him.
before:
"If you accept this favor, drink this cup from me~!"
When Jiang Wen suddenly took a detour with his drunkenness, Li Xiaole also stared at him in silence for a moment, thinking that Teacher Jiang was too cunning... But he was not an idiot. He blushed and stood up, shaking his hands and saying "Pah!"
"Tah!" He slapped the table and shouted proudly:
"Teacher Jiang is so arrogant! I have a share in this matter. You don't have to shoulder the burden alone to make money~! My brother is good at it." He said while spitting out the alcohol and patting his chest arrogantly:
"Aren't you making a blockbuster? Let's do it! I will shoot this epic blockbuster, you will act, and we brothers will join together. We will earn back all the fucking GDP of the United States. Brother, if you think highly of me, you will do this to me.
A glass of wine, and we will advance and retreat together from now on." After Li Xiaole finished speaking, he pushed Jiang Wen's full glass of wine in front of him.
At this moment, the scene immediately froze. No matter how young Zhang Mo was, he could tell that these two people were pretending to be crazy through drinking. This was a tug of war. Both sides had already stated their respective positions in the conversation just now. It didn't matter whether they drank this glass of wine or not.
But when they got older, the wait-and-see atmosphere made both Wei Xiao and Zhang Mo feel extremely nervous, and they looked at the two of them without even breathing.
Only the innocent Sun Li looked worried. Seeing the two of them drinking so much, she was just worried that they might cause stomach bleeding.
Jiang Wen's face was gloomy and uncertain. He was looking at the glass of wine in front of him, obviously hesitating. He didn't expect that he had drank so many glasses of Li Xiaole, and this kid was not drunk at all. This amount of alcohol really surprised him.
He didn't expect that Li Xiaole would turn around what he said just now, and instead put himself in a dilemma. He never thought that Director Li, who was so young, would be as good at the wine table as he was. This made Jiang Wen really
Somewhat caught off guard.
Wei Xiao stepped forward and brought him the hangover soup that had been prepared in an attempt to relieve the atmosphere. Jiang Wen waved his hand and just stared at the glass of wine in front of him in a daze. Everyone held their breath, but he still had not made up his mind.
Determined, the uncomfortable expression on his face was either due to his gastrointestinal turmoil after drinking too much or because he was irritated by Li Xiaole's words.
Chapter completed!