A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 230 The silly son of the landlord

Chen Ming thought that Qiao Weidong would only need a few hundred thousand to deal with the emergency. He didn't expect that the other party would ask for such a huge amount and directly ask him to borrow 15 million. It was really exaggerated.

Not to mention that the financial power of their family is in Su Ying's hands, even if it is in his hands, he would not dare to lend out such a large sum of money.

He is not an inexperienced young man. These days it is easy to lend money but difficult to get it back. Most of the money lent to others is no different from skipping stones on the water. No, there is a difference. When skipping stones on the water, you can see the splashes, but when you borrow money and come to get it, you can't even see any splashes.

Qiao Weidong also knew that his idea was a bit excessive. After hesitating for a while, he said, "How about 10 million?"

"I'll go to hell with you."

Chen Ming's face turned red when he heard this. Did Qiao Weidong treat him as a turtle in a wishing well? He paid back 10 million, and now he doesn't want to lend him even if he asks for 10,000.

He turned around and went back to the ward to see how his wife and daughter were doing.

Seeing Chen Ming about to leave, Qiao Weidong quickly put his arm around his shoulder to keep him there. "Old Chen, Old Chen, could you please listen to the rest of my story first and at least ask me what the money is for?"

Chen Ming, considering they were long-time friends, suppressed his dissatisfaction. He sighed heavily and said, "Old Qiao, let me be honest with you. If you want to borrow so much money, I can't make the decision at all. I need my wife and my son to agree before I can consider it."

Without waiting for Qiao Weidong to speak, he continued, "Besides, I don't have that much cash on hand right now. I've invested 10 million in Jinnian's company. This money is for my son and can't be touched. I've also stockpiled another 10 million or so on goods, which are now in the warehouse. I'm going to use the rest of the money to mortgage a house for my daughter. It will be hers when she grows up."

Now it was Qiao Weidong's turn to be dumbfounded. Among all the people he knew, Chen Ming had the most cash, but he didn't expect that the other party could spend such a large sum of money in just two or three months.

"Old Chen, why don't you save some for yourself?"

"Yes, we kept it. We have stockpiled goods." Chen Ming said.

"That's not what I meant. I meant, hey, forget it." Qiao Weidong adjusted his glasses, indicating that he had nothing to say about Chen Ming's behavior. He really couldn't understand why Chen Ming, who had been in the investment business for some years, still couldn't forget that crappy hardware company.

Mobile phones will be the king of the world in the future, so who would still buy those heavy computer consoles?

After a while, Qiao Weidong said, "Do you know how many investment opportunities I found during my travels around Hainan and the Pearl River Delta? How can you make money if you spend all your money?"

"Opportunity, what opportunity?" Chen Ming asked puzzledly.

"Of course it's real estate and the sharing economy. Do you know how ridiculously expensive housing prices are right now? They change every day, especially those sea view properties on Hainan Island, which have increased by 60% in just one year. Then there's the sharing economy: shared bikes, shared umbrellas, shared power banks. That's all part of the future economy."

Apparently, during the vacation around the Spring Festival, Qiao Weidong did not spend every day in the company of worldly people and have fun every night. Instead, he read some serious things to understand the actual situation.

Chen Ming doesn't want to understand the sharing economy, and when it comes to real estate, Chen Ming is even less interested.

Their family has already bought several small houses, all of which were chosen based on school districts. They were prepared for Chen Jinnian's schooling. Now that the eldest child is about to finish school and the second child has just been born, they might as well just use the ready-made house.

The only house in their family that is not in the school district is the one they live in now. They bought it because of the good property in the community and its proximity to the hospital. He has no interest in simply investing in real estate.

"Housing prices have almost reached their peak. What if I lose money? Speculating in real estate can lead to debt."

"I've calculated it. Based on the current trend, it's a guaranteed win. And how much lower can it go?"

Qiao Weidong was about to continue, but Chen Jinnian had already come over along the corridor. Seeing the two people standing at the corner of the stairs, he quickly shouted, "Dad, what are you dawdling about? Come up quickly and take the soup that Auntie Song brought in. Grandma and I need to go home to get something."

"Oh, I understand." Chen Ming quickly agreed, then turned around and left a message to Qiao Weidong, "Let's talk about this later. I don't have time to think about it now."

After watching Chen Ming jogging up the stairs, Qiao Weidong was too lazy to go up and greet him. He turned around and walked downstairs to try to borrow some more money.

After Chen Jinnian stuffed the insulated lunch box into his father's arms, he asked curiously, "What does Uncle Qiao want to talk to you about?"

"He asked me to borrow some money to invest in sea view houses and the sharing economy." Chen Ming mentioned it casually, and then hurried to the ward.

Chen Jinnian was stunned by what he heard. It seemed that neither the sea view house nor the sharing economy was particularly reliable. And even if he wanted to invest, why would he borrow money from his father?

Then he remembered that Qiao Weidong had invested all the company's money in a winery.

He quickly turned around and chased after Chen Ming, "Dad, did you borrow it?"

"How is that possible? Your mother will tear me apart." Chen Ming glanced at his silly son. He had to ask for permission for any expenses over one thousand, but Qiao Weidong added four zeros. How could he possibly lend the money?

The love and care that Chen Jinnian saw in his father's eyes was similar to the love a landlord felt towards his own stupid son.

Feeling somewhat humiliated, he found Qiao Yingzi, who was chatting with Wang Yidi about her review progress, and asked, "What if your dad goes bankrupt?"

Qiao Yingzi actually glanced at him with the same look, "How is that possible? Besides, what does my dad's bankruptcy have to do with me? I'm following my mom."

Chen Jinnian then remembered that it really didn't matter. When Song Qian and Qiao Weidong divorced, the property had already been divided. Over the years, Song Qian didn't even ask Qiao Weidong for child support, and she paid off the remaining mortgage on her own.

After receiving the double "care", he said goodbye and went home with his grandma to pack up the things he needed and stay away from this sad place.

In the following week, Wang Yidi returned to his normal self and went back to Chunfeng Middle School to attend classes as usual, but Chen Jinnian did not go back to class and was still busy with the crew and post-production of the film.

Because of his extremely tight schedule, the actual cost of the film was less than seven million. Therefore, Chen Jinnian was not short of funds like the previous film. Instead, he generously found a very good company to carry out post-production and also included dubbing in the process.

Although there was live sound recording during the filming, the environment was far from meeting the recording conditions of indoor studios in the United States, and the sound produced was unusable.

In addition, the film's renegotiated financing came from several companies under the Penguin platform, namely, Mouda, Taopiaopiao and others. Chen Jinnian asked them to invest in the finished film, which was actually no different from giving them money.

But what he got in exchange were theater resources, ticket subsidy resources and publicity resources.

Chen Jinnian does not have these resources, and it is impossible for him to have them. It would be better to use them to exchange for benefits and strive to make the box office of this film higher.

After all this trouble was over, more than a week had passed, and now there was only one thing left before him.

So how should we deal with Li Meng?

This is a problem.