"Which group of people can it be? They are the bosses of the five film companies that screened "Lust and Caution". Because of your movie, Hollywood is now accidentally divided into two major camps. One is Mutual Aid Company, Fox, Paramount, First National Film Company, Warner, and the other is Issane, Callum, Lightning, Colombia, Bivograf, and my Universal. This is a battle!" Lemmer drew a tea-stained picture of the two major camps on the coffee table.

"Then who can win this battle?" I asked lazily.

Lemmer glanced at me angrily and said, "The two sides are not on the same level. Their five companies are all film giants. Paramount and the First National Film Company are almost the same strength as ours. You know that the investment of the Civil War by others is 2 million. I don't need to tell you how much your "Lust and Caution" costs. We have little hope in this battle. If we lose and we are greatly damaged, their strength will increase greatly."

Lemmer is right. In Hollywood, it doesn’t mean that you can survive without damage. As long as others’ strength grows too much, you are in danger of being swallowed up. This is also the reason why Lemmer comes to me. Although he doesn’t have to worry about losing money now, he is not willing to watch those opponents grow bigger.

"Don't worry about me, I've made a lot of money anyway. Mr. Lemmer, don't worry about this. How great it would be to collect money at home." I rubbed my butt on the sofa, looked up at the ceiling with my head raised.

Lemmer pointed at me and sighed: "Andre, why didn't I expect you to be so confused! You have completely taken revenge with those people now. They are getting bigger and can you let you go?!"

"But what can I do! I have done everything I should do! Could it be that you asked me to set fire to their cinema!?" I shrugged.

Lemmer smiled and whispered to me: "You guy, just act for me. You know more about these things than me, and you have to force me to tell them! The biggest problem now is that the strength of the two camps is too different, so you have to balance it."

“How to balance?”

Lemmer was asked by me so much that he wanted to bite me: "How to balance it, you don't know!? Isn't there an old fox not moving?!"

"Are you talking about Lao Ma?"

"Besides him, there are ghosts?" Lemmer took a sip of tea and said in a deep voice: "As long as we pull MGM, the sky tree, over, we will be basically invincible. If the old horse throws at each other, just wait and cry!"

To some extent, Lemmer is right.

"Okay, I'll try." I lit a cigarette: "But I have a condition."

“What conditions?”

"Can I be a few days later? Look at my equipment has not been sorted out yet, and I still have time to clean up the newly bought things in the factory. My clothes have not been washed yet, I..."

Bang! A wet towel hit me head-on.

After Lemur left, I called Lao Ma. Lenny answered it. I asked Lao Ma that he would not be on a business trip and hadn't come back yet. Lenny smiled and said that her father was there.

"Andre, how do you know I'm back today? Hahahaha, how about it? "Lust and Caution" was well screened. You kid may have made a lot of money this time."

Old fox! I'm going to do this with me.

"Mr. Marskolov, Hollywood is almost in trouble when you are away, but it has made a small person like us suffer. Can you give me a meal tonight? Is it a reward?"

"Okay, of course it's good if someone treats you, then let's go to the Imperial Hotel."

He was not vague at all, but I had a cramp in my calves: Imperial Hotel, there is no place where you can't come out!

"Don't, a little person like me can't enter that high-end place. There is a tavern on Harvey Street, with authentic Chinese flavor. I'll treat you to dumplings, how about it?" I quickly greeted.

"Okay! See you at 8 o'clock in the evening."

"Fuyuanzhai" on Harvey Street, the boss is from Sichuan, with his surname Chen. He has been in Los Angeles for almost thirty years and only opened his store into Hollywood five years ago. Americans cannot eat spicy food, so Boss Chen switches to Shanghai cuisine and makes some dumplings and snacks business. I often go there, and I talk to my boss in standard Mandarin. I can hear the national voice in another place, so Boss Chen naturally feels kind. In addition, I often talk about Chinese culture with him, eat and eat chopsticks, and can recite a few Tang poems and talk about the Water Margin of the Three Kingdoms. Over time, he regards me as half of his compatriot.

At 7:30 pm, I came to Fuyuanzhai and asked for a private room at the elegant seat. Boss Chen gave me a pot of good tea. I drank tea while waiting for Lao Ma's arrival. I was bored. Seeing that there was half of the book next to me, it was all in line, which was extremely exquisite. I knew it was Boss Chen's private collection, so I picked a random book from above. When I saw it was "Selected Excerpts of Song Ci", I flipped through it page by page under the lamp. I read it for so long. I suddenly saw the Chinese characters and felt very good. But there was Ouyang Xiu's "Waves and Sha Ling" inside, and recited it loudly: "The weeping willows and purple roads in the east of Luocheng, always joined hands and traveled all over the fragrant clusters. The gathering and separation were bitter and the hatred was endless. This year's flowers were better than last year. Unfortunately, the flowers were better next year, so I knew who they were with."

As soon as I was chanting a poem, I heard someone outside the door chuckling, and turned around and saw that it was Lenny.

"What are you laughing at?" I asked with the book on the table.

"What are you reading? Chinese?" Leni raised her foot into the room, her eyes flashing at the book on the table.

"Miss, you don't know that this song is a masterpiece by a famous Chinese poet. Mr. Corleon's Chinese studies are very wrong, and even I feel inferior to me." Boss Chen raised the curtain and flashed in, followed by Lao Ma.

"Andre, sometimes I feel that I can't see through you. I don't say anything else. In this Chinese word, ordinary university professors don't expect to understand it without more than ten years of hard work, but you just twist it. You don't know how many secrets you have." Lao Ma sat on the stool, poured a cup of tea and drank it by himself.

After ordering the dishes, Boss Chen left, and the three of us were left in the room. Lao Ma and I were silently patrolling for tea, but Leni was curious about the book on the table. He turned to the page I opened and asked me to explain what the words meant.

"The meaning of this word is, even if the poet has a very beautiful girlfriend, and the two have a good relationship and are bonded together all day long, just like Romeo and Juliet in love. Later, for various reasons, they wanted to separate, so the poet took his girlfriend's hand to the place where the two often came, and told her that the flowers in this place were brighter than last year and would look better next year, but when she was gone, the poet could not appreciate her." I explained with a smile.

Lenny was very attentive when he heard it, frowned and looked at the lines of words, and then asked foolishly: "What about it later? Did the two of them meet again?"

I shook my head and said, "I don't know either. Maybe I met, maybe I haven't seen each other since then."

Lenny's eyes suddenly had a layer of sadness. Seeing her taking it seriously, I quickly opened the topic and said to Lao Ma: "Mr. Marskolov, don't you want to finish the tea pot, right?"

Lao Ma glanced at his mouth: "I heard that you like drinking tea so much. I originally thought tea was much better than our coffee. Now I have drunk so much in one breath, but I found that the more I drink, the harder it is, it is not good, not good."

I laughed: "Tea is for tasting, not drinking. You are like this. Chinese people call it Niu Drink. When drinking tea, you have to sip it in small sips and feel it with your tongue. Drinking it in this state is like life. It is meaningless to just think about money all day long and destroy your opponent."

After hearing what I said, Lao Ma was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "It turns out that there are so many things to pay attention to. I think this tea is not suitable for me. I still like to drink coffee. It's simple and realistic. Andre, what's the matter with me tonight?"

"Eat, say while eating." I saw Boss Chen bringing the food up, picked up the chopsticks and pointed at the dumplings.
Chapter completed!