raknovel Chapter 142 A Surprise That's Terrifying
Chapter 142 A Surprise That's Terrifying
Chapter 144 A Surprise That's Terrifying
As December arrives, time seems to stand still in New York.
The Christmas atmosphere is getting stronger, and many places have begun to decorate with Christmas trees and other decorations to welcome the Christmas season.
Even Chinatown was affected.
Uncle Gui said that since the 1990s, Chinatown has become more and more fashionable!
However, adhering to its own characteristics, while decorating Christmas trees, large red lanterns also began to appear on the streets and in shops.
Of course, this was a rehearsal.
The busiest time in Chinatown won't arrive until the end of next month.
That was the Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year.
But young people are getting more and more used to Christmas.
The flagship store of "ChinaTown" on Canal Street is also filled with the Christmas atmosphere.
Xu Shengjie drove his car onto East Broadway.
Well, the United States in the 1990s was quite different from the United States thirty years later.
People in this era are more energetic and vibrant.
The works of this era, whether films, novels, or songs, are all highly distinctive and represent America in this era.
Thirty years later—
In fact, the underlying rules have never changed.
The only difference is that the politicians of this era were called politicians, while thirty years later they were a group of opportunists.
The difference is quite significant!
Of course, this is not to say anything good about Ami.
According to Lao A, the Chinese community in the United States is the most disgusting and weakest group living overseas in the world.
Xu Shengjie acknowledged this.
However, it also depends on the era. In the 1990s, Chinatown was mainly composed of older immigrant groups. This generation of Chinese was not weak. In particular, the descendants of the older immigrants were extremely assertive towards foreign powers, and they knew how to fight back and defend themselves.
By the time of Gao Hua's generation —
Basically, they're the kind of people who never fight back when hit or talk back when insulted, just like those prostitutes from a certain dynasty.
Yes, that means lackey!
Xu Shengjie enjoys this era.
Especially after finishing "Lola", I felt extremely relaxed and in a very good mood.
Tupac called from Los Angeles and told Xu Shengjie that Romelle said he would have a conversation with Puff.
Romeller is Dr. Dre.
"Rommel said that Puff was behind this whole thing."
He'll talk to Puff first, and then he'll communicate with BIG. If Puff still refuses to stop provoking him, then war will break out!
"roar!"
Xu Shengjie smiled.
Now, things are about to get interesting.
Romelle is known as the "Godfather of Hip Hop," and naturally, he has powerful backers.
His position on the West Coast is unshakeable, while for Puff to take over the East Coast, he not only has to face the challenge from BIG, but also has to wait until Jay-Z and Usher truly rise to power before he can secure his position as the hegemon.
The prerequisite is that he can handle BIG.
But BIG is no pushover either; he lives up to his name: infamous.
More than a decade later, when people mention BIG, they use beautiful words like "simple" and "naive" to describe him.
But in fact—
How naive and innocent can someone who's entangled with DF (Democracy) be?
Anyway, Xu Shengjie didn't really believe it.
"Ashish moved away?"
Back at his residence on East Broadway, Xu Shengjie heard some shocking news.
The administrator said, "It's not exactly moving out, but rather being evicted."
After his family came over, they became too noisy and unhygienic—his father urinated and defecated in the stairwell, which stank horribly, and his mother always liked to cook very strong-smelling food, which made the whole building smell terrible.
So the residents on your floor banded together to sue the landlord.
The landlord was also very angry when he arrived, and immediately terminated the contract and kicked the family out.
"It's not a good idea to rush out now, it's so cold outside."
"That's not the case," the landlord said, adding that they just need to move out by the end of November.
He offered to pay $100 without giving a day's notice—and Ashish moved out on the 23rd without a word, taking $700 for moving expenses. I heard he moved to Little India in Jackson Heights, Queens.
That's an Indian community; there are many Indians there, and they can look out for each other.
"That's a real shame. Ashish is actually a decent guy."
"Yes, he often brings me roti and curry rice, which I really like."
Xu Shengjie exchanged a few insincere words with the administrator, then went upstairs with Theron.
A strong smell of curry still lingered in the hallway, and the door to the stairwell was closed, with a faint, unpleasant odor wafting out.
It seems the Ashish family has caused quite a stir here.
Xu Shengjie opened the door, went inside, and then quickly closed the door.
Why are you making that face?
Theron finally couldn't hold back and burst into laughter, saying, "Jeffrey, the way you were chatting with the administrator just now was disgusting!"
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"No way!"
"You're clearly overjoyed, but you're pretending to be disappointed."
You're so hypocritical!
As she spoke, Theron gave Xu Shengjie a hard slap.
She is now finally free from the constraints of her crutches and can walk freely.
However, strenuous activities are still not allowed; the focus is mainly on stretching or practicing Tai Chi.
She has now become Master Mai's apprentice and has been learning from Manny for a month. She is now practicing quite well, with the style of the elderly men and women in parks back home.
However, Manny's job was also over.
Theron can move around without crutches and is basically fine now.
Manny terminated her contract on the first Sunday of December, December 4th, and has already returned to Boston.
Her family is in Boston, and she wouldn't have stayed in New York for so long if it weren't for the money.
This made Xu Shengjie and Theron's time together much more relaxed.
Theron began tidying up the room.
Although Zhang Ping'an and his girlfriend would occasionally come over to clean, the place was still a bit messy since no one had lived there for two months.
Charlize Theron will stay here until the new house is fully renovated.
Tribeca's house design was completed, and renovations began at the beginning of the month. Instead of using a real estate agent's construction team, she hired a renovation team recommended by the designer, Kevin. The team was entirely Mexican, very hardworking, and their craftsmanship was quite good.
Xu Shengjie originally planned to hire a Chinese renovation team.
but----
Because he was Chinese, the other party actually quoted him a construction price of 350,000.
Xu Shengjie turned around and left immediately.
As expected, when fellow countrymen meet, they stab each other in the back.
The Mexican construction team's cost was less than 200,000.
"His construction team are all unlicensed workers, paid on the spot."
They finish their work and leave, so they put in a lot of effort!
The older generation of Chinese people were also very hardworking, but the new generation—
Xu Shengjie declined to comment.
Charlize was cleaning in the bedroom, while Xu Shengjie was tidying up the worktable in the living room.
He needs to organize the manuscript for Tomb Raider. At the current pace, the first part of the manuscript should be completed next week.
We still can't relax; we still have to keep working hard!
He was wiping the worktable with a rag when the landline at home suddenly rang.
"Jeffrey, is 'Lola' finished?"
"Yes!"
"Let's hold a small preview screening in January."
"what?"
"Steven and some other old guys are quite interested."
"Which Steven?"
"That's Steven, Steven Spielberg."
Xu Shengjie was stunned.
Why would he be interested in my small production?
Wasn't he busy building DreamWorks? Didn't he just get the project "Tornado" approved? Why did he suddenly decide to attend the test screening of "Lola"?
"you do not know?"
"What do you know?!"
Xu Shengjie has been busy with the post-production of "Lola" recently, so he has no energy to pay attention to what's going on outside.
"At the beginning of this month, Random House started the release promotion of Fight Club and Phone Booth—Jason found Larry, gave him the manuscript of Phone Booth, and then Larry went around telling everyone that the story of the phone booth that he and Mr. Hitchcock discussed back then had come to fruition, and he liked it very much."
As you know, a full thirty years have passed since the 1960s regarding this story.
Before Alfred died in 80, he was still asking Larry if he had thought of a story and wanted to write it down.
You can imagine how excited Larry was!
He talked about it everywhere, and directors like George Schumacher, Kubrick, Coppola, and even Steven are now very interested in *Phone Booth*. A few days ago, Dan and I went to Los Angeles for a meeting and met Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former CEO of Disney films. He casually mentioned you, and Steven became very interested.
He then suggested organizing a preview screening.
When "Telephone Booth" is published, I'll have a chance to enjoy your "Lola" as well.
You might not know, but because of Richard Gere and Jon Snow, half of Hollywood's filmmakers are paying attention to "Lola"—
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Xu Shengjie swallowed.
"so----"
"Steven is coming to New York on business on January 12th, and he's suggested holding a preview screening at the NYFA theater. George Schumacher, director Kubrick, and Sean Penn will all be there. Just wait and see how amazing it is."
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