Chapter 55: Good News After Good News (Seeking Collections and Follow-up Reads)

"Legend of the Northeast Hunter" has won the grand prize at the 5th SundanceFilmFestival in the United States!

This explosive news was printed directly on the front-page headline of "Mong Kok News," shocking the entire Hong Kong.

At the end of the year, the film industry gave those working in the film and television circle a huge surprise.

Immediately following this, "Wen Wei Po" and other leftist newspapers followed up one after another, confirming this explosive news.

This day happened to be the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, just two days away from New Year's Eve.

Chairman Liao of Silver City Institution not only called immediately to offer congratulations, but also invited Wu Feng to attend Silver City Institution's internal New Year tea party.

"Haha, I will definitely go then!"

Wu Feng accepted Chairman Liao's kindness without hesitation, and took the opportunity to discuss some other matters.

His trusted Underling Li Xin, through an international call, not only told him the good news that the film had won an award at the film festival and had been sold for a good price, but also that there was progress on the waste paper matter.

Originally, the Chinatown gangs in San Francisco didn't pay much attention to a small fry like him who came from Hong Kong.

The other side hadn't even heard of the name Hong Yi, so naturally they didn't care much; it was a very normal thing.

As a result, when the other side inadvertently learned of Li Xin's other identity, and that the film he brought had won an award at a United States film festival, their attitude immediately did a 180-degree turn.

Not only did they treat Li Xin as an honored guest, but they also took full responsibility for the waste paper matter!

On the phone, Li Xin couldn't help but sigh repeatedly, not expecting that the Chinatown gangs would value the film's award at the United States film festival even more than they did, and be even happier about it.

Wu Feng understood in his heart that no matter how much the public opinion in the United States boasted, the discrimination against Asians, or rather, against the Chinese, had never ceased.

At the present time, how many years had it been since the "Chinese Exclusion Act" was terminated?

Chinese living in the United States needed even more to prove the capabilities of their own group.

Whenever the Chinese achieved even the slightest success in the United States, all Chinese in the United States would be overjoyed and encouraged.

Some things really shouldn't be overthought!

Having read many rebirth business novels, he knew that there were many very formidable characters among the Chinese community in the United States in the eighties.

Not only were there those two scientists who won the Nobel Prize, but there was also an iconic Big Brother who was not only a pioneer in the technology field, but also a famous existence in the business world.

The software hegemon of later generations, Microsoft, started out by just copying and imitating the core products of his company.

It was just that this Big Brother, who had held the throne of the richest Chinese in the United States for many years, would soon pass away due to illness.

The listed Group Company he founded with his own hands would also completely disappear within a few short years.

In later generations, if one didn't actively search for relevant information, one wouldn't even know that such a badass existence had ever existed, nor the badass company he founded; it was as if the news had been deliberately sealed off.

With the memories of the twenty-first century, Wu Feng knew clearly that the United States would absolutely not allow such a badass Chinese technology company to exist within its borders, let alone a large Group Company led by the Chinese themselves.

Withdrawing his drifting thoughts, he needed to contact the COSCO shipping company through Silver City Institution as soon as possible, and have their empty ships returning from the United States help transport the waste paper back.

Additionally, Li Xin also spoke about the matter of leftover scraps from pig slaughtering in the United States.

When speaking of this, this guy's tone was somewhat uncertain.

The United States actually didn't want pig brains or pig trotters when slaughtering pigs, and even the internal organs were not wanted.

These things, which were normal food on the dining tables of Hong Kong people and Mainland people, were just trash that was difficult to dispose of in the United States.

But precisely because they were difficult to dispose of, the United States even issued incentive policies, encouraging capable businessmen to take them away so as not to pollute the environment of the United States.

Theoretically, such biological waste was even easier to get one's hands on than waste paper.

But as it happened, because of the incentive measures issued by the United States and various state governments, it actually hindered the possibility of Li Xin intervening through the Chinatown gangs.

If there was a loophole to exploit, then it was all work for those with connections.

Li Xin guaranteed that after he got familiar with the ropes, good news would soon be sent back.

On the phone, he also said that there were indeed many wild donkeys in the United States.

This matter still made Li Xin feel very incredible.

Although people in Hong Kong rarely ate donkey meat, that didn't mean he didn't know that donkey meat was a good thing.

He had also vaguely heard the saying, "Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground."

And here in the United States, there was no habit of eating donkey meat, and they wouldn't even look at it straight.

Because donkeys were the lowest-level transport carriers in the United States livestock system, the United States public didn't look down on them at all, feeling as if donkeys were dirty things that couldn't be brought to the table.

In short, Li Xin found out that there were indeed tens or even millions of wild donkeys in the United States.

The local United States public didn't care about these, and were even quite disgusted by them.

This guy excitedly stated on the phone that when he came back, he would first bring back a batch of donkeys; the United States was really wasting good things.

Wu Feng thought to himself that it was settled; thanks to a certain novel he had read in his past life, otherwise, as a shut-in who wrote web novels, where would he have known this quite niche information?

Once these were handled well, they would be quite astonishing wealth!

Back in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong film industry, which was originally in a holiday state, was shaken quite a bit by the sudden news of the award, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

Boss Lei of the Golden Princess circuit called immediately to congratulate him, and took the opportunity to invite Wu Feng to visit Cinema City again, saying straight out that he wanted to understand the matter of "Legend of the Northeast Hunter" winning an award overseas.

This time, even Golden Harvest sent an invitation.

However, the time Golden Harvest invited Wu Feng to meet was set for after the New Year.

Putting down the somewhat hot landline phone, Wu Feng smiled slightly, his mood quite good.

Compared to such a major event in the film industry, the Red Pole duel of the triad on Shanghai Street was not worth mentioning.

He tidied up his thoughts, and the next day he took six close Underlings and took a van to the Cinema City company headquarters.

In the car, the close Underling sitting in the passenger seat reported one thing.

Sai Kung had been completely taken over; he had thus easily achieved a clean sweep of Sai Kung.

"Didn't run into any trouble, did you?"

Regarding this, not a single ripple stirred in Wu Feng's heart.

Sai Kung couldn't be considered too remote in Hong Kong, but it was just one word: poor!

It wasn't even as economically vibrant as Tuen Mun.

It is the same; in many jianghu films, gangs of societies fight over territory here and there, yet rarely does any society actively seize territory in Sai Kung, as if they were deliberately ignoring it.

If one speaks of the society scum over in Sai Kung, the most famous is still the locally born Dashua!

"How could there possibly be trouble?"

The close Underling sitting in the passenger seat said confidently: "Once Big Brother's name is revealed, the low-level scum over in Sai Kung are all very proactive, especially a guy who just popped up named Dashua who is quite cooperative and even thinking about joining Big Brother's sect to become an Underling!"

"Oh, it seems that during the New Year, I must return to Sai Kung to take a good look!"

Wu Feng laughed heartily; this feeling of being flattered is still quite good.

There are two more updates tonight.

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(End of this chapter)