Luo Huai is a lively person. As soon as he got off the car, he rushed into the villa carrying peaches and shouted, "Director Zhong bought peaches for everyone. Each one is so fresh!"
Although it was noon, a group of evil spirits who relied on their own knowledge still floated out of the room and gathered in the lobby on the first floor waiting for Peach.
Dozens or hundreds of years ago, agriculture was not as developed as it is now, and the evil spirits could not even eat a few fruits, so they had never seen such big, juicy and plump peaches. A group of ignorant people gathered around the basket and pointed at them, saying, "Wow, why are these peaches so big? I can't even hold them with my fist."
Since these were peaches that Luo Huai had given to everyone sincerely, every ghost got to eat some. Aunt Yang sniffed the rich peach scent in the basket and picked up the whole basket.
"Aunt Yang, what are you doing?" Fu Yue held Aunt Yang down with one hand, a hint of viciousness flashing in her eyes.
"I'll go wash the fruit." Aunt Yang smiled slightly, "You can't just let everyone eat it directly."
Luo Huai, who was chewing a peach: "..."
He just wiped it with his sleeve and then ate it. Director Zhong said that these peaches have no pesticides and are pure natural and pollution-free. There is just some dust, so he is not that particular.
"There are more than fifty peaches in this basket. How should we distribute them?" Qi Wanlian asked.
Luo Huai: "I'm full after eating one. It's not good to keep the fruit for too long. Everyone eat one, and whoever wants to eat the rest can share it."
The ghosts were satisfied. At least each ghost got one peach, and the rest was up to each of them.
Luo Huai saw them surrounding Aunt Yang, and they were all guarding the basket with lightning eyes. Not to mention how many peaches there were, they were even counting the number of hairs on the peaches, for fear that Aunt Yang might hide one.
"Everyone loves to eat fruit so much," Luo Huai thought secretly, "But this peach is really delicious, so fresh. Fruits just picked from the orchard and shipped overnight taste fresh."
When the ghosts were fighting over the peaches, Zhong Hongyi stood outside the villa and did not take a step in or out for a long time.
"Our company?" Zhong Hong asked, pointing to the villa.
"It's tentative. Guan Su said he would help me push for the movie share. The possibility of the cinema chain will wait, and the network share will be credited to my account soon. I will then rent two floors of an office building." Zhong Jiudao explained.
Zhong Hongyi stared at him for a while, took out a pair of glasses from his bag and put them on, then looked at the villa again and staggered. What kind of ghost cave was this? It was dozens of times more gloomy than the Ten Thousand Ghosts Forest simulated by the Zhong family's formation. It took at least thirty people working together to retreat safely out of the villa.
That little actor named Luo Huai just rushed in carrying a basket of peaches? Would he be eaten by the evil spirits in there
Zhong Hongyi said that there was no way to get in. At this time, she saw Zhong Hongyan's head popping out of the lower floor window and waving at her: "Sister, come in and eat some peaches. They are so fresh. If you are late, you will miss them!"
Zhong Hongyi: “…”
Zhong Hongyan is his biological brother, he doesn't want to let him be in danger alone.
He took out a peach wood sword from his bag, grabbed a few self-defense weapons with his other hand, and walked in carefully.
Zhong Jiudao followed closely behind, and he did not explain anything to Zhong Hongyi. His cousin did not seem to be swayed by other people's opinions. The situation in the villa needed to be verified with his own eyes. Zhong Jiudao only needed to stop her from fighting with the ghosts in the villa, and would not interfere in other matters.
As soon as Zhong Hongyi walked into the door, he saw his younger brother running down the stairs and rushing into the kitchen, yelling, "Slow down and leave two peaches for me. I haven't eaten peaches in a long time!"
The younger brother who couldn't even light the talisman fire dived into the group of evil spirits and competed with them for the peaches.
Zhong Hongyi, holding up the peach wood sword: "..."
Zhong Hongyan relied on his connections and snatched three large peaches in one breath. When he came out with the peaches, he saw Lian Ziyu wearing a mask and a hat standing beside him, staring at the group of ghosts with a melancholy expression.
Zhong Hongyan knew that Lian Ziyu had become very self-abased after being cooked in spicy hot pot. He didn't want his friends to see his red skin and the lingering spicy hot pot smell. He usually avoided ghosts and even stood on the stairs to learn the daily literacy lessons silently. In this situation, if he didn't rush up, he would not be able to grab the peaches at all.
He walked over and handed Lian Ziyu a peach: "I'll give you one, Xiaoyu."
"I'm not dead." Lian Ziyu looked at him.
Zhong Hongyan: "Of course I know, her name is Xiaoyu, huh? I heard her speak in class very carefully, she hasn't even learned pinyin well."
He stuffed the peach into Lian Ziyu's arms without saying anything. Lian Ziyu stretched out her two red-skinned hands to hold the peach, tears falling like pearls on a string: "You, you don't have to be so nice to me anymore."
Zhong Hongyan turned his face away and stuffed the second peach in his hand into Lian Ziyu's arms: "I can't eat so many either. I eat peaches every day at home. I have been eating them since I was a child. I am tired of them. One is enough."
Lian Ziyu held two peaches in her hands and cried, "If you continue to be so good to me, I can't help but seduce you again. I won't kill you this time, but it's good to cheat you of half your blood."
Zhong Hongyan: “…”
It's okay to die if you lose half of your blood!
"Can't you just take less?" Zhong Hongyan asked gritting his teeth.
Lian Ziyu: "Your magic power is too weak. If you want to break Director Zhong's ghost pattern, even half of your health may not be enough. It's better to use one-third."
Zhong Hongyan stared at the two peaches in Lian Ziyu's hand. He grabbed three and gave one-third to Lian Ziyu. Lian Ziyu really thought his blood was peaches!
Zhong Hongyi walked to Zhong Hongyan with trembling hands, pointed the peach wood sword at Lian Ziyu and said: "You are a great heavenly master, but you were bewitched by this evil thing? I will kill him right now!"
"No, no, no, sister!" Zhong Hongyan hurriedly stopped Zhong Hongyi, "He has already been fryed once, it's miserable enough, there's no need to punish him again!"
"Is he the online girlfriend you told me about last time?" Zhong Hongyi slashed with his sword, and a ray of spiritual light broke through the air. Lian Ziyu saw that the situation was not good. This woman's magic power was not weak!
Fortunately, the villa was the headquarters of the ghosts. Lian Ziyu moved freely in the villa. He dodged the sword light and teleported to Zhong Hongyan's ear and said, "This one is stronger than you. It only takes a pound of blood. If I had known you were so weak, I would have chosen him."
Zhong Hongyan's heart was also stabbed hard by Lian Ziyu. He couldn't help but feel pity for Lian Ziyu. These evil spirits had no heart at all!
Having absorbed the resentment from Zhong Hongyan's emotional injury, Lian Ziyu ran towards the group of evil spirits heartlessly, shouting loudly: "Sister Fu, I'll give you a peach, please help me block it!"
Fu Yue already had two peaches in her hands. Seeing that Lian Ziyu offered one as an offering, she was also ruthless and said nothing. She took the peach into her body and spit out a dark red flower from her palm to block the peach wood sword.
A flash of inspiration passed by, and Fu Yue and Zhong Hongyi took a step back at the same time. Fu Yue's flowers withered, and all the talismans on Zhong Hongyi's peach wood sword disappeared, and his arms were numb from the shock.
The two ghosts looked at each other warily, knowing that they had met their match.
Zhong Jiudao knew that Zhong Hongyi would have to go through some psychological struggles to accept this group, but he didn't expect that they would start fighting as soon as they said they would, and did not regard Luo Huai as an outsider at all.
When Zhong Hongyi drew his sword against Lian Ziyu, he took Luo Huai in his arms and made him face away from them, with only himself in his eyes.
"Director Zhong..." Luo Huai raised his hand and bit half of a peach, looking a little dazed.
He felt that this was not a good idea and wanted to turn around, but Zhong Jiudao grabbed his shoulders domineeringly and said solemnly: "Don't look back, look at me."
Luo Huai didn't know what to do. He stared at Zhong Jiudao for a while and found that Director Zhong looked a little haggard, but he seemed more handsome after not seeing him for two days. He felt that he shouldn't continue to watch him like this, so he lowered his head and ate the peach madly, stuffing the remaining half of the peach into his mouth in two bites.
Zhong Jiu said: "Let's go upstairs. I have something to give you."
"Hasn't it been given to Obito?" Luo Huai said, holding up a peach pit.
"There's more." Zhong Jiudao patted the woven bag hanging on his arm and said in a low voice, "It's not convenient to open this thing in the hall. Let's go back to the room."
Luo Huai was so bewildered by Director Zhong's actions that he could no longer see anything else in his eyes except Director Zhong's handsome face and Director Zhong's woven bag. The two of them walked with their backs to the group of ghosts and finally went upstairs.
Zhong Jiudao didn't plan to care about the friction between Zhong Hongyi and the ghosts. Anyway, even if he defeated two ghosts, he couldn't get any advantage from all the ghosts in the villa. After the ghosts in the villa gained the upper hand, they would not hurt Zhong Hongyi for Zhong Jiudao's sake, so they let them fight on their own.
He went upstairs and went straight to Zhong Jiudao's room. Zhong Jiudao locked the door. Luo Huai's heart was already pounding.
He looked at the woven bag, wondering what kind of shameful thing was stuffed in such a plain red and blue woven bag. Could it be a small prop? Director Zhong was eager to show him the small prop, what should he do? Should he agree, agree, or agree
No, he was too disappointing. The relationship between the two of them had not reached that stage yet, so he would never agree! Luo Huai slapped his cheek hard.
"Why did you hit yourself?" Zhong Jiudao looked at Luo Huai's face. "So hard? It's already red. If you hit me twice more, it will be swollen."
"I'll wake myself up." Luo Huai said.
"Didn't you sleep well last night?" Zhong Jiudao said as he took out an exquisite sandalwood box from the plain woven bag.
Luo Huai: “…”
This box can be sold for four to five figures, so why is there such an expensive thing in the woven bag
When Zhong Jiudao opened the box, Luo Huai almost fainted. Inside were ten crystal clear peach pendants. Judging from the carving craftsmanship, they could not be jewelry costing only 9.9 yuan per kilogram!
"This is the jade I brought from home. The things I gave you a few days ago were of very poor quality, and you threw them all away. Keep these." Zhong Jiudao stuffed the box into Luo Huai's arms, and then took out a small box inlaid with gold carvings from the woven bag.
Luo Huai: “…”
Even if he didn't know much about jewelry, he could tell from the workmanship and color that the peach pendant was worth a lot of money, at least six figures. Director Zhong packed jewelry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in boxes worth thousands of dollars, and used woven bags worth a few dollars to pack boxes worth thousands of dollars
Is this the legendary nesting doll? Is it too expensive
Before Luo Huai finished looking at the peaches, Zhong Jiudao had already piled dozens of boxes on his legs. Looking at his casual attitude when throwing the boxes, it seemed as if he was throwing a few peaches with ease.
"Stop it!" Luo Huai opened a box and was shocked. He didn't dare to open any more after opening three boxes. He held down Zhong Jiudao's hand that was taking out the woven bag and said seriously, "Director Zhong, are you going to rob someone?"
"This is the last one." Zhong Jiudao pinched the woven bag, indicating that Luo Huai only had the box in his hand left.
"How much do these... cost?" Luo Huai looked at the jade artifacts placed on the bed and felt like his eyes were about to be blinded.
"Not much, just five million." Zhong Jiudao still cited the cost price in the 1950s.
"That's worth two and a half copies of "The House of Fallen."" Luo Huai said.
"I helped my family with the matter, and the compensation they gave me is what I deserve." Zhong Jiudao told the story of "Shouzhenglu". He did not say that his family was a family of heavenly masters, but only said that his family ran a small business and had some property.
"It turns out that 'Shou Zheng Lu' was invested in by Director Zhong's father. It's a family inheritance. You have such a powerful family, but you insist on making the movie on your own without relying on your family's support. You are amazing!" Luo Huai looked at Zhong Jiudao with admiration.
He would not be jealous of Zhong Jiudao's family background. Luo Huai witnessed the filming of "Fallen House". He saw that Director Zhong was very busy and exhausted every day. "Fallen House" had nothing to do with family. It was created by Director Zhong with his own strength.
"I helped them secure 100 million yuan, so it's not too much to charge them a commission of 5 million yuan," said Zhong Jiudao.
"It's really not excessive." Luo Huai also felt justified.
"These jewels are..."
Before Zhong Jiudao said "give it to you", Luo Huai said, "It's the company's property, right? You can lend it to the actors when you attend important events in the future, right?"
Zhong Jiu said: "..."
If Qi Wanlian and others wore these things, they would probably get killed.
"It's for you." Zhong Jiudao said seriously.
"Will you let me keep it? Or open a safe in the bank." Luo Huai said.
Zhong Jiudao wanted to explain that this was a gift for Luo Huai, but seeing Luo Huai's clueless expression, he suddenly realized that these jewelries were too valuable for him and Luo Huai might not accept them.
"Okay, put it in the safe and change it." Zhong Jiudao suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and followed Luo Huai's words.
But he still had to give Luo Huai something to wear, so Zhong Jiudao picked out two peaches, a heart-shaped jade pendant, and a few other shaped small charms, and hung them on a simple silver bracelet. He gave the bracelet to Luo Huai: "This is for you, it jingles and is fun to wear. If you don't want to wear it on your hand, you can take it off and use it as a pendant."
Luo Huai still felt it was too expensive. He felt comfortable charging 9.9 per kilogram, but this one would cost at least hundreds of thousands (the cost price in the 1950s), and he didn't want it.
Zhong Jiudao put the bracelet on Luo Huai's hand without further ado and said, "You have to wait for a while for the next movie. This is a bonus from the company."
Luo Huai then took it and looked at Zhong Jiudao with sparkling eyes.
Zhong Jiudao always felt that what he gave was too little. He originally wanted to give all the jewelry to Luo Huai, but now he only gave this much. He felt a little unhappy and couldn't help asking, "Is there anything else you want?"
Luo Huai wanted to say no, but when he caught a glimpse of Zhong Jiudao's desk, he couldn't help but ask, so he said weakly: "Can you draw a picture for me? I see many of my peers have it. Your painting is really beautiful, please sign it for me, and I will take it back and frame it and hang it at home."
Zhong Jiudao then remembered that the pile of painted skins had not yet been opened, and Luo Huai's drop of blood was also hidden in his pocket.
He didn't know why, but his heart softened and he nodded and said, "I'll draw the best one for you."
"Okay." Luo Huai smiled happily.