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Chapter 5 A penny beats a hero

I frowned. It is said that money can make the devil push. Now I realize the preciousness of money. If you don’t have money, even if you have a huge burden, you will just be a piece of empty paper.

"My father's cinema will be taken back in a few months. This guy Baoji has failed to do this and it took several thousand yuan for this. I guess it would be great if I could get 10,000 yuan from my father. The rest will depend on you." Gans and I looked at the fat man at the same time, and the two of us were full of expectations.

Our business is all about Fatty in the end.

The fat man looked at us and breathed a sigh of relief, "I still have more than 10,000 yuan in private money, so it should be fine to get 20,000 or 30,000 from my father. After all, he is the only son like me."

"Fatty, you are quite honest, so you do such unethical things!" Gans grabbed the fat man and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"What's wrong?" I was stunned by the two of them.

Gans swallowed hard and smeared, saying, "Boss, you don't know. Last time I asked him to borrow a few hundred yuan, but he said he didn't. He said he was so poor that he was so poor that he said he had more than 10,000 yuan in private money! This guy doesn't take his brother seriously!"

Berg said without changing his face: "I don't know why you borrow money for?! You don't do any serious things at all! This money is the hard-earned money I have worked hard to earn over the years. You have to go there without going back?! This time, Andre is right this time. We have to do something about our own things, grandma, it's a big deal!"

After hearing Berg's words, I felt moved. Fatty is so frugal in life that he can't finish buying a bread and still has to leave a meal. The more than 10,000 yuan he must pick out from his mouth. Unlike Gans and I, they often spend so much that there is not even a single blow in their pockets.

"Fatty, aren't you afraid that we will smash it this time?" I looked at Berg. Although I am confident of making a movie that makes money, there is no absolute success in the world. If it is destroyed, the fat man will spend all tens of thousands of dollars. In this era, tens of thousands of dollars are almost the sum of the salary of a family for several years. If it is lost all of a sudden, wouldn't a person like Fat man who regards money as more important than life go crazy?

Berg's face turned red after asking for a long time, and it took him a sentence: "I'll fight! At worst, I can save it for a few more years! But boss, if I smash it this time, we won't expect to get money from my dad in the future."

"Okay! Like our men in Los Angeles!" Gans patted the fat man's shoulder hard, stretched out his right hand and said to us: "Boss, fat man, fuck him a lot!"

"For the sake of a lot of money, I can count it in a lot of money!" The fat man put his right hand on Gans's hand in a row.

"I hugged my arms so hard that my arms hurt!" I also stretched out my hand.

Our first movie was decided in this small cinema.

After drinking more than a dozen bottles of beer and eating the snacks he brought, a group of people scattered. The fat man drove home by himself, while Gans and I returned home after cleaning the cinema with me.

Both my father and my mother were not sleeping, and they sat on the chair on the porch and talked. They could not see their faces in the darkness, but only my father's pipe was bright and dark.

Gans greeted them and went to my room to sleep. I slipped out to a chair next to my mother and stared at them in a daze.

I was considering whether to ask them for money. I had two consecutive problems at home, and it would undoubtedly be a big problem for me to withdraw money. But when I thought that if this movie became popular, I would no longer have to worry about money, and my heart could no longer hold back.

"Dad..., me, I..." I muttered a few words, and couldn't speak.

"What's wrong, son?" My mother stretched out her hand and stroked my head, and a warm feeling suddenly surged from the bottom of my heart.

"Dad, I want to discuss something with you." I bit it and took the initiative.

My father sat up from the recliner, knocked off the ashes from his pipe, and said to me, "What's the matter?"

I rubbed my hands: "I, I, I want to make a movie with Berger and the others."

"Making movies? Are you talking about filming like those films played in our theater?" My mother smiled when she heard this: "My son has grown up. He used to know how to live a life, but now he knows how to do some serious things."

"Hmph." My father let out a muffled groan from his nose and said to his mother in a deep voice: "Do your business?! In my opinion, finding a job honestly is the business! Do you think making a movie is as simple as cooking?! Money! It takes a lot of money! Now that there are not hundreds of thousands, how can you make a movie?"

"I don't want hundreds of thousands, just over ten thousand, and Berg will take out some. Let's make up for the share together, about 40,000 or 50,000 is enough." I continued.

"Forty or fifty thousand?! What movies can be made for 40,000?! Who can watch movies for 40,000?! Who wants to play movies for 40,000?! Who wants to play movies for 40,000?? "The father said the louder the more he said, "Andre, I have this idea, I am the same as your mother, and I also think you are not as careless as before, but you are still young and don't know how difficult it is to do things. If you do this, the 40,000 to 50,000 yuan will definitely be wasted. If I had done it before, I might have given you it, but now you look at our family, where can I take out the money for you to take risks, the cinema will be taken back soon, Bao Ji was locked in the police station, and you must not stop eating at home, right?"

My dad stared at me, his eyes covered in blood.

What else can I say? I know everything about the family. My dad and mom have not lived easily. In an instant, I began to wonder if I was really naive. This movie is really so easy to shoot?!

I stood up from the chair with my head down and whispered, "I understand." After that, I was about to turn back to the room.

My mother grabbed me, looked at me lovingly, and said to my father: "Hall, Andre is doing serious business. We can't compare him with Baoji. We should support this matter more. Don't you have 20,000 dollars in deposit?"

My father stood up and looked at my mother, sighed, and left the yard without saying a word.

My mother touched my head, pulled me into her arms, and said softly: "Andre, don't worry, things will always get better. My mother will support you even if she is hungry. I can't say that in a few years, our Andre will become the number one director in Hollywood. By that time, I can also visit the jewelry store in Los Angeles like those rich wives!"

Listening to my mother's words and smelling the inferior perfume on her body, my tears gushed out.

When I returned to my house, Gans was already asleep, but I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. It was quiet outside the window, and the insects were whistling. I walked to the window with a glass of water and opened the window and blew the oncoming night wind, trying to clear my messy mind.

You can see the cinema at home from the window, and accidentally I found that the windows of the cinema were still lit.

"Is there anyone inside now?" I put down my cup and put on my clothes, walked downstairs toward the cinema.

The door of the cinema was not locked. After being pushed open, it was dark and empty inside. A beam of light hit the screen from the second floor to the opposite curtain, and Porter's "The Great Train Robbery" was on the screen.
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