Chapter 256

Last night, after sending Sister Xue home, Wei Ming and she carefully stole a kiss outside the alley.

But it was just a small kiss, after all, there were still people passing by.

Today, Wei Ming didn't wander around aimlessly; he spread out the manuscript paper, picked up his pen, and prepared to do some serious work. By the afternoon, feeling it was about time, Wei Ming set out.

Last night, the two had agreed on the dinner location for today: Deda Western Restaurant on Sichuan Middle Road, also a century-old Western restaurant.

Wei Ming wrote about this restaurant when writing about Jiang Jiang Limin lurking in Shanghai, but this was his first time coming here. If there was anything wrong, he could revise it when editing the text.

He arrived first and immediately grabbed a waiter to ask about the history of the shop, then learned that in the time of the story of "In the Human World, the Righteous Path is Vicissitudes," this shop should have been on Tanggu Road. Wei Ming hurriedly noted it down to correct it later.

Just as he was talking, Sister Xue arrived. The staff in the shop clearly lit up.

It was already November, and winter had already begun, but Gong Xue wasn't dressed bloatedly, looking slender and graceful. This, combined with the face that had gained recognition through "Popular Cinema," made it hard not to attract attention.

Wei Ming hurriedly pulled her inside and went upstairs to the second floor. She was beautiful, but he felt heartache: "Aren't you cold?"

Gong Xue took off her hat: "Not cold, I have thermal underwear inside."

Wei Ming held a skeptical attitude toward this and planned to check it personally when they returned to the guesthouse later.

"What exactly did A Long send?" Wei Ming asked after they sat down.

Gong Xue smiled lightly: "A wood carving, carved with A Ying's portrait. She treasures it so much that she even hugs it while sleeping."

It seemed that the affair between the two could basically be successful, and Wei Ming was also sincerely happy.

After ordering, Wei Ming asked: "Aren't you concerned about what gift I plan to give you?"

Gong Xue: "Gifts aren't important; I'm just happy that you can come."

The days of being apart were really hard. Now it's good; at least they could have about a month of time together, and her scenes weren't many, so she could also find time to accompany him well.

Wei Ming deliberately didn't mention his birthday, thinking that if he surprised her tomorrow, and she hadn't prepared a gift, he could make requests at will.

But he had prepared a gift for Gong Xue and invited her to accompany him to the guesthouse to pick it up after the meal.

Gong Xue hesitated slightly, although she knew that little Wei had ulterior motives, she still nodded.

At the same time, in the same Western restaurant.

In the McDonald's store on Paterson Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Zhou Zhou Huimin and several good female classmates in her class were celebrating her 13th birthday.

This shop was the first McDonald's in Hong Kong, opened in 1975, and business was very booming. Of course, the price wasn't cheap either.

In the past, Zhou Zhou Huimin wouldn't have been willing to treat classmates in such a place, but times were different now, and her pocket money was still very sufficient.

The current Mao Mao Amin was a middle-school girl, a girl in the second year of middle school.

In the first year of middle school, she didn't actually have so many friends; after all, her family was poor and she was a bit inferior.

But now she was the most popular female classmate in the class, one of a kind.

Several girls were proud to be invited by her to celebrate her birthday, and a large group of male classmates were stomping their feet and racking their brains because they weren't invited.

Through sports like basketball, Mao Mao Amin finally lost the baby fat on her face, and her face became more and more beautiful and exquisite. Her height had long exceeded 1.6 meters, and her legs were slender and well-proportioned, and still growing.

In addition, she was also a main member of the school choir, could play the piano, and was good at drawing. Except for her academic performance not being very prominent, she was simply perfect.

The key was that she even knew the big star Alan and helped several classmates in the class get autographed photos.

And all of this, Mao Mao Amin believed, was prompted by the changes she made because of A Ming, an excellent pen pal.

She brought a camera from home today and wanted to ask the waiter to help them take a group photo later. She wanted to mail it to A Ming and let him guess which one in it was her.

Although she hadn't seen his British ex-girlfriend, she shouldn't be bad, right?

Just as she was thinking, a female classmate, Ah Xiang, asked her: "Mao Mao Amin, why are you only eating so little? Is it not delicious?"

"No, Mom will also celebrate my birthday, so I have to save some room," Mao Mao Amin said while holding fries. She truly felt it was delicious and planned to pack some hamburgers for her mother and Uncle Gui later.

Ah Xiang said again: "Ah Jie in our class asked me to send you a letter, here, give it to you."

Mao Mao Amin probably guessed what kind of letter it was. She pushed it back: "What are you doing? You should give it back to him; I don't want to date now."

Ah Xiang was Ah Jie's lickspittle, and for this man, she insisted: "But Ah Jie said he just wants to be your pen pal, no other meaning."

Mao Mao Amin smiled: "I already have a pen pal, I don't need other pen pals. Ah Xiang, if you insist again, then I can only think that Ah Jie is more important to you than me."

Hearing this, all the other female classmates looked at Ah Xiang.

Ah Xiang thought that Ah Jie was of course more important to her than you, but if she said that, she wouldn't be able to mix in the girls' group in the class in the future. She could only awkwardly put away the letter.

Because of this small episode, Mao Mao Amin was in low spirits and didn't even take a group photo, just packed some McDonald's hamburgers to share with her mother and Uncle Gui.

As for their proposal to tour Causeway Bay at night, Mao Mao Amin flatly refused; she heard that there were many gangsters in Causeway Bay.

When she got home, the lights were off. Her mother hadn't come back yet. Business at Holiland was getting better and better after expansion, and her mother always had to be busy until very late. Mao Mao Amin even suspected that she had forgotten her birthday.

Mao Mao Amin returned to her room and opened the drawer. Inside was a Rubik's Cube, and the method A Ming wrote to her to solve the Rubik's Cube, and he even drew diagrams, which was very thoughtful.

She used this method and was indeed able to restore the Rubik's Cube relatively easily. I heard it was researched by his sister A Hong, what a smart girl.

It is estimated that the Rubik's Cube she mailed should have arrived, but she didn't know when his reply would arrive.

Just as she was thinking, suddenly the lights went out.

"Ah? Is it a power outage?" Mao Mao Amin sighed. Such things were very common in public housing. If power needed to be cut, it would definitely start from them first.

Just when Mao Mao Amin was about to go out to find candles, she suddenly saw her mother appear with a birthday cake, with 13 thin candles lit on the cake.

In addition, behind her mother were Uncle Gui and Uncle Bin.

Mao Mao Amin couldn't laugh or cry; she didn't expect her mother to play such a small surprise with her.

"Mao Mao Amin, hurry up and blow out the candles and make a wish," Uncle Gui reminded the moved little girl.

Mao Mao Amin walked to the birthday cake, put her hands together, and then blew out the candles, all at once, indicating that her wish would definitely come true.

Mom asked: "What wish did Mao Mao Amin make?"

Mao Mao Amin shook her head: "It won't come true if I say it."

Uncle Gui smiled and said: "It must be hoping that Mom is healthy and Holiland makes a fortune."

Zhou Zhou Huimin was a bit embarrassed; she actually hoped to see A Ming in the coming year.

She hurriedly borrowed the excuse of cutting the cake to change the subject: "Oh, by the way, I also bought hamburgers from McDonald's for you to eat. I don't know if you are used to eating them."

"Isn't it just a foreigner's meat sandwich?" Uncle Gui didn't care. Their shop also had a meat sandwich project.

However, after really eating it, Uncle Gui said: "It seems it's actually not bad."

Then Zhou Mom and Liu Bin also ate one. Although it wasn't that hot anymore, it was still okay to eat. With meat, vegetables, sugar, and flour, eating one was almost enough. It was indeed a good choice for Hong Kong people with a fast pace of life.

Old Gui said: "This is called McDonald's, right?"

Zhou Zhou Huimin: "That's right."

"How is the business?" Old Gui asked.

"Very good. Anyway, when we went, it was almost full, all young people and children. Children even have toys to take."

Old Gui asked again: "What about the price?"

Zhou Zhou Huimin recalled and told him. Uncle Gui and Liu Bin immediately looked at each other; the profit in this was not small!

After leaving the Zhou family, Old Gui instructed Liu Bin to find out the truth about this McDonald's tomorrow.

"Come in."

After coaxing Gong Xue into the guesthouse, Wei Ming couldn't wait to close the door.

Gong Xue had said in advance: "I'll just sit for a while and then leave. The waiter recognized me."

Wei Ming sat on the bed: "Of course."

Gong Xue walked around uncomfortably and asked Wei Ming: "Where is the gift you mentioned?"

Wei Ming pointed to the table.

Gong Xue saw a stack of letter paper: "This is?"

Wei Ming: "A script I'm preparing to create, the heroine is you."

"Me?"

"The image of the heroine is written based on you, gentle and resilient, making people feel extra pity. No matter which film studio shoots it, which director directs it, the heroine can only be you." Wei Ming stood up, his hands gently resting on Gong Xue's shoulders, very firm.

Gong Xue looked at little Wei gratefully. Good brother spoiled her too much; she was almost becoming his exclusive heroine.

"Can I take a look?" She stared at the words "Mom, Love Me Again" on the cover. This time the heroine seemed to be a mother again, and it looked very moving.

Wei Ming: "It hasn't been officially written yet, it's all character settings and outlines, and you can't see much. Let me tell you about the background of this story's birth."

"Hmm." Gong Xue nodded obediently; she loved to listen.

Wei Ming suddenly hugged Sister Xue horizontally: "It's cold, let's talk under the quilt."

He wanted to check the thermal underwear by the way.

Gong Xue's face turned red to her ears: "Speak properly, don't touch randomly."

"Don't worry, I touch regularly." Wei Ming put her on the bed, and the two covered themselves with the quilt, then began to tell.

"The story starts from when I helped my family find my aunt. This summer vacation, I..."

Wei Ming started from Teacher Song Fei Lian's letter, then introduced a pitiful crazy mother, He Hua. In the process of telling, Wei Ming added many details, all of which were prepared for the new script, very inflammatory.

Soon Sister Xue cried, and Wei Ming hurriedly stopped the movement of his hands.

"Sorry, sister, am I too much?"

Gong Xue gently patted his arm, tearful: "It, it's the story that's too moving. This mother is too pitiful. Is she going to lose her child forever?"

Seeing that Gong Xue wasn't crying because of his roughness, Wei Ming breathed a sigh of relief, and that hand continued to do whatever it wanted.

"In reality, it only goes up to here, but in my script, I certainly don't hope the ending is so tragic. I hope to give the audience beautiful hope."

Gong Xue highly approved: "Right, reality is already bitter enough, don't be so abusive in the movie."

Wei Ming thought: Not abusive? Impossible!

As the biggest tear-jerker blockbuster of the 80s, this movie made hundreds of millions of Chinese audiences cry. Now that the script is handled by Wei Ming, he will only do better than the original version.

The tear-jerking bridges of the original version were somewhat rough. He wanted to do it more delicately and reasonably while ensuring the tear-jerking effect, so that even if this movie is watched again decades later, there will still be an audience, and it will still make people cry.

Unlike that Taiwan version, which didn't have that punch after a few years, except for a song "Only Mom is Good in the World," nothing was left.

"Sister Xue, shall I sing you a song again?"

Gong Xue pressed the increasingly unscrupulous hand under the quilt: "I, I want to go back. Tomorrow, tomorrow I don't have scenes, I'll accompany you for a day."

Wei Ming: "Go back, go back to the film studio or go home?"

"Go back to the film studio." Gong Xue thought, it's convenient to take a bath there. She needed to take a bath and change some underwear.

Wei Ming said "Good," but asked again: "Then do you want me to accompany you back, or go back by yourself?"

"I can go back by myself."

Wei Ming: "I'm not very at ease, I'd better send you back."

"Alright."

"Then do you want to walk back, take a bus back, or take a taxi back?" Wei Ming asked slowly.

Gong Xue finally understood; he was delaying time. Bad boy, he wanted to make her exhausted so she couldn't go back, so he could succeed.

Gong Xue cheered up, struggled to lift the quilt, climbed out of bed, and painstakingly organized her clothes.

"Take a taxi." She said with watery eyes.

Wei Ming liked her like this, wanting to bully her, but feeling reluctant in his heart.

But he also understood that this was a guesthouse, not his own home. Doing such things in a guesthouse was somewhat unconventional for a woman of this era.

He still had to have a home in Shanghai. Tomorrow, tomorrow he would go to see a house.

The next day.

Liu Bin, the highest-educated and first strategist of Holiland, had been busy investigating McDonald's and soon told Uncle Gui.

"McDonald's is the number one fast-food brand in the United States and the world. There are more than 6,000 stores worldwide. I saw in the newspaper that McDonald's recently opened another branch in Hong Kong, which happens to be the 1,000th overseas branch. The company's annual global turnover is billions, and it's in US dollars!"

Hearing these data, Old Wei, who was bent on buying property in Hong Kong, said excitedly: "I knew it. Although this thing looks simple, it is very suitable for white-collar workers in big cities. It has great potential."

Liu Bin nodded: "I also heard that the world's second-largest fast-food brand, KFC, once entered Hong Kong, but withdrew after two years. It seems the taste wasn't very accepted."

"What does KFC do? Selling chicken?"

"Hmm, mainly fried chicken, also selling hamburgers," Liu Bin said.

Old Gui thought: "Ah Bin, you are a college student. If you go to McDonald's for an interview, do you think they will accept you?"

Liu Bin was excited: "Uncle Gui, are you asking me to be an undercover agent?"

Old Gui couldn't help but start imagining the past: They were called special agents at that time, all infiltrating the enemy's interior, infiltrating the KMT's interior. He didn't expect that times would change, and now he was thinking about infiltrating the interior of a fast-food restaurant. He felt ashamed of Chen Chen Dajiang.

November 10th is Zhou Zhou Huimin's birthday, and November 11th is Wei Ming's turn. I wonder if Sister Xue knows.

Early in the morning, she came to the guesthouse to find him. At this time, Wei Ming hadn't woken up yet.

Hearing that it was Sister Xue knocking on the door outside, Wei Ming simply wore only underwear to open the door~

(End of chapter)