Relying on Liang

Lei Zhen explained the matter to Zhao Quan, and finished processing some documents. After a while, the internal phone call from special assistant Wang Manli came in.

"President, our lunch meeting with the representatives of Hollywood MGM is expected to start in half an hour, do you need to prepare the car now?"

Lei Zhen pressed the hands-free button and replied directly: "Manli, get the car ready, we'll go straight away."

"Understood, President."

Sometimes things are just so coincidental. When Lei Zhen began to have doubts about the situation at MGM Film Company, the representative of this veteran Hollywood film company stationed in China had also arrived in China earlier today.

MGM Films, which has a history of nearly a hundred years, has gathered superstars under its umbrella and created a film myth that released a film every week. It is one of the most prestigious film companies in Hollywood.But things always have ups and downs. After experiencing the overall crisis of the American film industry in the 50s, this once glorious film industry giant fell into a slump and began to slowly decline.Although there have been a few short-lived revivals, overall, the number of films produced by the company has been declining year after year, and the market share of the film has gone from an astonishing 78% in the heyday of that year to less than 10% now. People sigh.

Now, Thunder Entertainment has acquired 51% of MGM's shares, becoming the company's largest shareholder in one fell swoop. The remaining 49% of the shares, most of which are scattered in the hands of a dozen major shareholders of the former MGM's board of directors.In order to further discuss cooperation matters, and to show sincerity and welcome to the American representatives, as the head of Thunder Entertainment, the luncheon between Lei Zhen and the representatives of the other party at noon today was pre-booked.

When Lei Zhen, Wang Tezhu and a group of more than ten people arrived at the arranged hotel, not long after, the American representative of MGM also arrived on time.And when he saw the other party's representative appearing with several assistants around him, except for President Lei, Tezhu Wang and several other capable subordinates of Lei Zhen, although they concealed it very well out of professionalism, their There was still an involuntary look of astonishment and astonishment in his eyes.

"Mr. Roy, welcome to Huaguo." Lei Zhen's voice was calm, and he led Wang Tezhu who was beside him to shake hands with the other party's party one by one.

The MGM company representative named 'Roy' came in surrounded by a group of blond foreigners, but he was an authentic oriental face.However, the oriental blood alone is not enough to make Wang Tezhu and their well-informed elites lose their temper. The more important reason is the indescribable temperament that Roy exudes from all over his body.

After working in Thunder Entertainment for so many years, the special assistant Ms. Wang has even seen Zhong Yunqing's unparalleled beauty, but seeing this Mr. Roy now, she still couldn't help but feel a little bit of a deer in her heart.

In terms of the perfection of facial features, the Roy in front of him is not Zhong Yunqing's opponent at all, but the combination of his not outstanding facial features is surprisingly just right, adding one point is too long, minus one point is too short, matching it His pair of red phoenix eyes with inner divine light and slightly raised eyes, is absolutely like a handsome young man walking out of a yellowed ancient painting scroll.

Roy smiled slightly, and in an instant, as if being blown by a gust of breeze, he felt extremely comfortable and appropriate.When Lei Zhen stretched out his hand to him, he also stretched out his well-maintained thin white palm, and responded in fluent Mandarin: "Nice to meet you, Mr. Lei."

Roy's slightly chilly fingertips touched Lei Zhen's palm, and the hands were clasped politely and then quickly separated. In less than three seconds, Lei Zhen felt a strange feeling in his heart.

But in the eyes of others, Roy and Lei Zhen are two equally outstanding men. Their heights are about the same. One is as stable as a mountain, while the other is as light as a weight. Standing face to face, they are definitely a pleasing pair. landscape.

"The original representative of MGM, Mr. Milton, regrettably canceled his trip to China due to his illness. Therefore, the company has assigned me to be responsible for all matters. I hope you can understand."

MGM formally notified Lei Ting early in the morning of the replacement of the former US representative due to a sudden heart attack and hospitalization.Now Roy personally explained and apologized warmly, and immediately gained more favor from the people present.

"I have worked and lived in North America for many years, but in my heart, Huaguo has always been my homeland. I wanted to come back a long time ago, but unfortunately I couldn't make the trip because of work. This time, I was finally able to come back with the convenience of work. I The only feeling is—Wanghai has changed so much now!"

After sitting down at the dining table, Roy didn't come up directly to mention the topic of cooperation between the two parties, but changed the subject and said in a tone of reminiscence: "In the past, my parents and family members and I often went to a bakery in the south of the city to buy Chestnut cake, I don’t know if that shop is still there?”

This Roy is simply a master at controlling the atmosphere. His words immediately mobilized the childhood memories of Wang Manli, a native of Wanghai City, who were born and bred in Wanghai City.

The two sides ate and talked in the luxury box of the hotel. The topic changed from the huge changes in Wanghai City over the years to the merger plan of Thunder Entertainment and MGM Films. Next, it can be said that the host and guest enjoyed themselves.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Roy, the representative of MGM, and several of his assistants followed Lei Zhen, Wang Tezhu and others to the headquarters building of Thunder Entertainment.After visiting the various facilities inside the building, Roy and the others took the elevator to the 38th floor, where an area had been specially planned for housing Roy and his assistants.Just next door to the International Affairs Department, the nameplates of several offices have all been replaced with the words 'MGM China Liaison Department'.

Under the background of Thunder Entertainment's acquisition of MGM, this veteran film company that has lasted for nearly a hundred years now exists in the name of Thunder North America's subsidiary.However, as an exchange condition for the transfer of 51% of the equity by the major shareholders of MGM, Lei Ting, in addition to retaining the independent brand of MGM, also promised that the original board of directors would still have the voting rights to participate in the company's major initiatives.

After all, it is a cross-border merger and acquisition. No matter for Thunder Entertainment or MGM, for a long period of time, various personnel transfer arrangements and the formulation of the company's future policies can be said to involve all aspects of the two companies.In order to communicate and communicate smoothly, it was also agreed by both parties to send a representative to the Huaguo Thunder headquarters to set up a special office.

After looking at the office environment, Roy and his team representing MGM expressed their satisfaction.

"Mr. Lei, thank you for your thoughtful arrangement. Starting tomorrow, please give me your advice."

Before leaving the headquarters of Thunder Entertainment and returning to the hotel where he stayed, Roy, the plenipotentiary representative of MGM, stood under the row of 'dark blue' chimes in the lobby on the first floor, and shook hands with Lei Zhen again.This person knows how to advance and retreat, understands etiquette, and is personable, making people forget the vulgarity.He and Lei Zhen should be about the same age, but because of the natural and elegant temperament like the breeze blowing on his face, he also looks extraordinarily young.After some contacts, special assistant Wang Manli and others all had a good impression of him.

When Lei Zhen touched his cool skin again, the wonderful feeling in Lei Zhen's heart came up again.

Fortunately, Lei Zhen was resolute and remained calm on the surface. He and the accompanying personnel behind him socialized with each other. Under the watchful eyes of Wang Tezhu and others, Roy and his party were at least superficially very satisfied in the ride. The arranged car left.

"President, the monthly meeting of the finance department at [-]:[-] p.m. is about to start, look—" the special assistant, Ms. Wang, took out a pad and reminded Lei Zhen of the time.

As the head of Leiting's huge entertainment empire, Lei Zhen's daily work schedule is almost full.Not only had Roy and the others been sent away, but the next job came to him again.

Thinking of agreeing to Zhong Xiaoer to eat hot pot at night, Lei Zhen's heart warmed up. He didn't want to delay the agreement with Erhuo because of the routine meeting, so he nodded silently, and Lei Zhen quickly led a group of his men Elite, take the elevator upstairs to catch up with the third meeting of the day.

Perhaps this kind of work intensity that counts against every second and rushes to the scene is unimaginable to ordinary people, but Lei Zhen, a work expert who works in almost hell mode every day, has long been accustomed to it.

The regular meeting of the company's finance department that started at three o'clock lasted for more than two hours.

When President Lei Da officially announced the adjournment of the meeting, there were less than four or ten minutes left before the six o'clock dinner time agreed upon with Zhong Yunqing.Overwhelmed by all kinds of financial statement data, the tired-looking employees had not had time to stretch their waists and breathe a sigh of relief when they were surprised to find that their president looked so refreshed and got up faster than anyone else , didn't even say hello to them, just walked away briskly, left, left...

"Oh, a man who is deeply in love!" Special assistant Ms. Wang Manli shook her head through vicissitudes while arranging the documents in her hand.

Lei Zhen took the elevator down to the underground garage to pick up the car, the car drove out of the parking lot, and drove to the address of the hot pot restaurant given by Zhong Xiaoer in the north of the city.Even on the elevated highway, because it is rush hour, there is too much traffic on the road. If it were normal, the Leiting headquarters building is only about 10 minutes away from the Xichuan hot pot restaurant, but this time it took Leiting. Vibrate twice as long.

At five minutes past six, Lei Zhen drove to the road where the hot pot restaurant was located.After parking the car, the location of Xichuan Hot Pot Restaurant is not hard to find, although the facade is small. A pair of red lanterns and a few bunches of peppers are hung in front of the door, and the glass square wooden door is also painted vermilion, which looks festive and eye-catching.Through the frosted glass, the dizzy yellow lights in the store, the curling smoke from the hot pot, and the lively voices of people are reflected on it like scenes of vivid silhouettes.

In the bleak winter air, Lei Zhen, who was wearing a black lapel coat outside, his entire face was a little stern by the light of the street lamps.When he heard the voice of people coming from the store, he slowly smiled, because he knew that there must be his second-hand guy waiting for him inside.

The doorbell jingled, and Lei Zhen pushed the door open.

"Lei Zhen, you are so slow! Here--"

Sure enough, Zhong Yunqing who was sitting at the third table by the window on the left hand side of the entrance, several other members of the Order of the Phoenix, Zhou Beibei, Wu Wei and others all arrived.Since Lei Zhen was about ten minutes late, Zhong Xiaoer, who was anxiously waiting and about to make a phone call, frequently looked towards the door. As soon as he saw Lei Zhen coming in, Zhong Er stood up and waved to Lei Zhen.The tall and handsome young man, at this moment, is so hot from the hot pot in the shop that his face is like a peach blossom, which makes people stare straight at him.

Lei Zhen's eyes, when he didn't even realize it, became as gentle as an amber ocean.After approaching, he, Wu Wei, Zhou Beibei and the others nodded slightly, and sat next to Zhong Er in the special seat reserved for him.

"Lei Zhen, take off your coat quickly, it will smell like hot pot." Zhong Xiaoer, with only a shirt on his upper body, urged President Lei to take off his coat.He himself doesn't care much about the clothes, he is so good-looking, even in a sack, he still shines brightly, but since he learned the specific price of each piece of Lei Zhen's clothes, this guy has become more and more prodigal to Lei Zhen step of cognition.

A coat costs a million dollars, and a shirt costs hundreds of thousands. Even if a thread falls off, Zhong Er's heart aches.

At this time, the mandarin duck hot pot on their table had already begun to boil. On the table in front of everyone, all kinds of beef and mutton, meatballs, duck blood, frozen tofu, fungus, kelp shreds, etc. were placed on the table.

"You have a bad stomach, eat something in the white soup first." Zhong Er said, and before the corn and the others started, he quickly grabbed the colander and put Lei Zhen's favorite chicken balls and lotus root slices in the white pot. and various mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms and Pleurotus eryngii were scooped into his bowl.Then, with lightning speed, he changed a spoon and scooped two spoonfuls of soup into Lei Zhen's bowl.

The natural, unpretentious and careful look stunned a group of people.

Lei Zhen still couldn't see anything on his face, but he was also a little surprised in his heart.The fragrant and mouth-watering hot pot is now, if it is normal, Zhong Xiaoer will be the first to eat it, and Lei Zhen has to worry that he will burn himself.

What's going on today?

Right now, Lei Zhen of course doesn't know yet. After hearing Zhao Quan's confession, Zhong Er was so moved to death that he secretly made up his mind to treat him better.

Stared at by Zhong Xiaoer's bright eyes, Lei Zhencai drank two mouthfuls of soup and sandwiched a meatball. Lei Zhencai touched his head with warmth in his heart, and persuaded him in a low voice: "Hey, eat it yourself. The pot Everything in it is going to be scooped up."

When President Lei Da reminded him, Zhong Er turned his head to look, good guy!The corn pigeons and the others looked like starving ghosts who hadn’t eaten for hundreds of years. They had already spooned beef slices, yellow throat, shrimp balls, enoki mushrooms, coriander, etc. up and down in the red and white soup base. The good material was picked up clean and transparent.

Zhong Xiaoer watched as the corn rolled the last big chopsticks of the fresh, spicy, oily fat beef in the dipping sauce, and then slowly put it into the mouth. With a slap of the chopsticks, anger rises from the heart to the gallbladder——

"Damn it, I'll pay the head of the team today, why don't you save some for me!"

The author has something to say: ※The background part of the MGM film company here refers to the Hollywood MGM company.