Chapter 196 Chinatown Detective

Lin Feng had never thought that someone would trust him so much. He was speechless and waved his hands repeatedly, saying:
"Brother Baoqiang, please stop flattering me! How can I be that great? This 5 million box office revenue must have come out of nowhere, it's not that easy!"

But Wang Baoqiang said confidently: "Why not! Others can't do it, but you can do it.

If you can even promote an art film like "Mr. Six", it is not impossible for it to have a box office of 10 billion in the future.
Besides, our film "Detective Chinatown" is a suspense comedy, much better than "Old Cannon"! Do you think it can make over 5 million? "

"What about 5 million or 10 billion? What are you talking about?!"

Hearing the voice, Lin Feng and Wang Baoqiang turned around and saw that it was Chen Sicheng who had arrived, exhausted. He had just finished arranging matters related to the premiere, so he hurried over to say hello to Lin Feng!

Chen Sicheng really admires himself. Fortunately, he chose Lin Feng as one of the two male protagonists, which is the salary of a second-tier actor, that is, "500 million basic salary + 5% box office share".

It can definitely have the box office appeal of a top-tier star. He will definitely meet him first. This is his "box office magic weapon"!

When he saw Chen Sicheng, Wang Baoqiang continued the previous topic and said, "I told Lin Feng to take more care of our "Detective Chinatown". Our movie is much funnier than "Mr. Six". The box office can reach at least 5 million. Is that right, Sicheng?"

"You're absolutely right. We need to let Lin Feng lead the team. We can definitely reach 5 million. No, no, no, why did I just hear about 10 billion box office? We need to let Lin Feng lead us to 10 billion too!"

Chen Sicheng is an ambitious director. His first film, Beijing Love Story, grossed 4.05 million yuan.

He must have higher expectations for his second film, "Detective Chinatown", and the minimum guarantee must be 5 million yuan. After all, the investment in this film is almost million yuan.

Of course, as for the box office exceeding 10 billion, Chen Sicheng also meant it as a joke. After all, this is something that cannot be forced. However, because it is Lin Feng, Chen Sicheng also has an inexplicable belief.

"You guys! I don't know what to say. Of course, I also hope that the box office of our "Detective Chinatown 10" will get better and better, but when it comes to the box office exceeding 100 billion, I dare not guarantee 80%, but at least %!" Lin Feng said casually.

Originally, Chen Sicheng thought that Lin Feng just treated the "box office exceeding 10 billion" as a joke. After all, no one can say for sure about the box office until the end!

What Chen Sicheng didn't expect was that Lin Feng actually believed it. Although the probability was 80%, it was actually 100%.
So Chen Sicheng's expression was the same as Feng Xiaogang's at the time. He asked in great surprise, "Lin Feng, are you kidding me? Our Chinatown Detective movie can also make over 10 billion at the box office?!"

"Sicheng, don't worry. You don't have to believe me. Just believe in our movie Detective Chinatown. There will be absolutely no problem."

Chen Sicheng was a little excited. Just when he was about to say something, the movie premiere began.

Chen Sicheng, Wang Baoqiang, Lin Feng, Chen He, Xiao Yang, Xiao Shenyang, Pan Yueming, Ma Yuke, Zhang Zifeng, Zhao Yingjun and Sang Ping made a grand appearance wearing the same "Detective Chinatown" costumes.

Several main creators also briefly introduced their respective roles in the movie, and then talked about the interesting things that happened during the filming process.

Tang Ren, played by Wang Baoqiang, is a very funny character. Although he looks a little mean on the surface, he is a detective with great wisdom and sense of justice.

Wang Baoqiang portrayed Tang Ren's comedic elements and inner struggles vividly, making this character the soul of the movie.

Qin Feng, played by Lin Feng, is the brain trust of the film. He not only has an extraordinary memory and reasoning ability, but also has a hint of youthfulness and innocence.

With his natural performance and deep understanding of the role, Lin Feng successfully portrayed the image of this smart and handsome young detective.

Tong Liya did not come, so she was introduced by Chen Sicheng. She played Ah Xiang, Tang Ren's dream lover in the movie. She is not only beautiful, but also has a mysterious temperament.

With her superb acting skills, Tong Liya portrayed the character A Xiang's complex emotions and inner struggles vividly.

There are many other outstanding actors in the film, such as Xiao Shenyang, Chen He, etc. The characters they play have their own characteristics, adding rich jokes and suspense to the film.

Especially Xiao Shenyang and Chen He, their performance in the movie can be described as a perfect combination of comedy and suspense, allowing the audience to laugh easily during the tense reasoning process.

Ma Yuke, who has the latest white-haired look, said at the press conference that he is a professional villain, from Duan Kun in "Drug War" to Liang Hao in "Lost City" and Tony in "Detective Chinatown".
Ma Yuke treats every character as a treasure, and it is this responsible attitude that makes every character a classic villain.

Ma Yuke partners with his good brother in "Detective Chinatown", and the wonderful chemical reaction will give the audience a completely different experience.

In the film, the bad guy group of Ma Yuke, Xiao Shenyang, Zhao Yingjun and Sang Ping were "bullied" by Wang Baoqiang. Director Chen Sicheng prepared "Iron Man protective shorts" on the spot to protect the four bad guys. Ma Yuke and others were equipped with new protective gear on the spot, and jokingly said that they would never have to worry about safety issues again.

After the on-site introduction, the most crucial part of the entire premiere was about to begin, and the movie "Detective Chinatown" was officially screened.

Although there are many main plots in "Detective Chinatown", the story is not complicated. The main plot is:
The story happened after the male protagonist Qin Feng, played by Lin Feng, failed the entrance exam to the police academy. He was depressed and was sent to Thailand by his family to be taken on a trip by his distant cousin Tang Ren to relax.

Tang Ren is known as the number one detective in Bangkok's Chinatown, but in fact he is superstitious, greedy for money and a little lustful. Tang Ren's so-called detective solving cases is nothing more than helping neighbors find lost cats and dogs, and he does this by lying to deceive people.

As a result, Qin Feng was greatly disappointed with Tang Ren. Just when they looked down on each other, Tang Ren was wanted by the police. Qin Feng inexplicably fled with Tang Ren, and Tang Ren had no idea why he was wanted.

It turned out that when Qin Feng arrived in Thailand, the police were investigating a gold theft case, and Songpa, the main suspect in the theft of the gold, was assassinated in a secret room.

The murder weapon was a statue's walking stick, which had Tang Ren's fingerprints on it. Just before Songpa's death, Tang Ren had been to Songpa's sculpture workshop to deliver goods.

In the secret room, Tang Ren was the last person to stay here. The murder weapon had his fingerprints. Almost all the evidence pointed to Tang Ren as the murderer. It would be strange if the police didn't arrest him.

Although Tang Ren and Qin Feng temporarily escaped the police's pursuit, they could not escape the encirclement of the gold-stealing gang. Xiao Shenyang caught them and interrogated them about the whereabouts of the gold. He learned that the box of gold might have been packed into a box and transported away from the sculpture workshop by Tang Ren by mistake.

After a lot of trouble, Tang Ren and his friends escaped. Tang Ren's good friend, Detective Tai, who knew Tang Ren well, knew that Tang Ren was innocent.
They were planning to send Tang Ren and Qin Feng out of Thailand and flee far away, but it turned out that the ship was not heading to China, but to Guinea in Africa. They might die on the ship before reaching their destination.

At this time, Qin Feng, who was obsessed with detective reasoning, began to become more and more interested in the case, so the two decided to redress their grievances and find out the truth to clear their names.

They first went to the abandoned parking lot, which was the scene where Tang Ren had transported the boxes. Qin Feng used his dog nose ability to smell that the car that transported the boxes had transported seafood. So they looked for the most likely seafood markets and followed the clues to find a scrap yard, but they did not find the white van that took the boxes away. However, this search work would become very important later.

Afterwards, they went to the crime scene at the sculpture workshop and conducted a second round of evidence search, finding several important clues. The first was that Songpa's room was clean and tidy and had no odor, so he was either a transvestite or a gay.

The second is that Xiao Shenyang and his friends came suddenly, and when Qin Feng and his friends were hiding under the bed, they found traces of someone hiding there for a long time, but the motive and reason were still unclear.

The third is that the police's henchmen are accomplices, so even though all the accomplices have been found, there is still no way to clear Tang Ren's name because the person who took the box remains a mystery.

In order to get more crucial clues, Qin Feng had to watch the road surveillance, so he went to find Brother Tai for cooperation and staged a scene of a big fuss in the police station. Qin Feng watched 7 days of surveillance in the chaos and also got important information and history of the police investigation of Songpa.

An important clue is that Songpa has a son who disappeared more than a year ago. Songpa often went to a cafe, so Qin Feng and his friends followed Songpa's previous trail and staked out the cafe.

During this process, Qin Feng discovered that Sinuo, a classmate of Songpa's son, was the person Songpa was tracking. After their questioning failed, they were captured by Mr. Yan, the boss of the gold business, who gave them five days to find the gold, otherwise their lives would be in danger.

Qin Feng was so confident that he said he could solve the case in three days, which led to Tang Ren and him breaking up.

Qin Feng went back to find Sinuo, but unexpectedly ran into Sinuo's adoptive father returning home. Qin Feng investigated the smell and found that Sinuo's adoptive father was working in the abandoned parking lot of the white van. In other words, Sinuo's adoptive father was closely related to the gold case.

So Qin Feng returned to the crime scene of the sculpture workshop, and Tang Ren reconciled with Qin Feng there. The two of them searched for evidence and conducted in-depth investigations again, replaying all the details of Tang Ren transporting the boxes that day.

It turned out that the Songpa that Tang Ren met when he picked up the box that night was not Songpa himself, but someone else. Songpa had died long before Tang Ren came.

Just as the mystery was becoming clearer, the murderer started committing crimes wearing a mask and deliberately set fire to destroy the scene. After Qin Feng and his friends escaped, they encountered a detective named Ma Zai who kidnapped Ah Xiang at home. The two conspired to beat Ma Zai, but Ah Xiang was accidentally injured.

On the way to rescue Ah Xiang, Qin Feng and Tang Ren had a spiritual communication. It turned out that the reason why Tang Ren went abroad was because Tang Ren saw his wife committing adultery at his wedding, and she was also a good friend of Tang Ren.

Ahem...Lin Feng and Chen Sicheng had both mentioned this matter to Wang Baoqiang in a tactful way, but he was still happy at the time and didn't know about these things, so let's not mention the past anymore.

Let’s go back to the movie: The reason why Qin Feng applied to the police academy was to commit a perfect crime. Of course, the police academy would not admit him with this motive.

The source of Qin Feng's motive is related to his father being arrested when he was a child. As for why Qin Feng's father was arrested and whether there are any other secrets, the film did not reveal more, which is tantamount to laying a trap.

At this time, the police and the theft gang all knew that Qin Feng and his gang were in the hospital, so the three parties gathered at the hospital and staged a gunfight and chase scene that was quite a performance art.

After escaping all pursuits, Qin Feng and his friends came to Sinuo's home again, but found that Sinuo had committed suicide by taking sleeping pills and burned her diary.

After Sinuo was rescued, Qin Feng found the motive for the murder from Sinuo's diary, and also found the gold.

In fact, the gold never left the sculpture workshop, but was made into a Buddha statue by Songpa. Qin Feng also found the murderer who killed Songpa.

So, let's review the whole story. It turns out that the whole incident consisted of a gold case and a homicide case, and the two were actually relatively independent. It was just that during the investigation process, they were mistakenly examined as one case.

The whole story of the gold case is actually very simple. A group of gangs stole the gold. Songpa made the gold into a Buddha statue, but was killed before he could tell his accomplices.

The person who killed Songpa was Sinuo's adoptive father.

This story begins a year ago when Songpa felt alienated after his son went missing. He began to stalk Sinuo, a schoolmate of his son who was on good terms with him, and often stayed in the coffee shop downstairs from Sinuo's house to take pictures.

Sinuo recorded every move of the perverted Songpa in her diary. Songpa even tried to rape Sinuo once. The adoptive father saw Sinuo's diary by chance and decided to kill Songpa because he loved his daughter so much.

So, knowing that the street cameras would automatically cover their work after 7 days, the adoptive father hid in Songpa's sculpture workshop in advance, and after enduring for 7 days, he came out to kill Songpa.

At this time, they called the scapegoat Tang Ren to come and pick up the goods and take the box, and then the adoptive father dressed up as Songpa to get through, saying that he hid in the box when Tang Ren was not paying attention.
Tang Ren saw Songpa working in the room at that time. In fact, Songpa was already dead at that time. The working sounds were recorded in advance and played through a Bluetooth speaker.

The evidence is whether the adoptive father’s mobile phone can automatically connect to the Bluetooth speaker on site.

But before the evidence could be verified, the adoptive father confessed and committed suicide by jumping off a building out of fear of being punished.

It seemed that the truth was revealed. When Qin Feng was leaving Thailand for the airport, he accidentally passed by a bar that Songpa often went to. This bar was a gay bar.

Qin Feng recalled what Tang Ren said casually in Songpa's room: "The room is clean and tidy, there is no peculiar smell, he is either a transvestite or a gay."

It is obvious that Songpa is most likely gay, and then everything starts to turn around.

Qin Feng returned to Sinuo's ward and told Sinuo a truth that he had no evidence for: Songpa suspected that his son was missing and was murdered.

So he found Sinuo, who was relatively close to his son, in his son's photo album, and followed her to find his son.

And Sinuo herself also has a secret. The love that Sinuo's adoptive father has for her has gone beyond family affection and has become a deformed love that makes Sinuo feel suffocated.

So Sinuo changed her mind and made a plan. She exaggeratedly recorded in her diary that Songpa was following her, and wrote down a comprehensive plan on how to get rid of Songpa. After seeing this, her adoptive father carried out his plan to kill Songpa.

But unexpectedly she met Qin Feng on the way. Sinuo had to play along with him. She tore off the pages of the diary that contained the plan to kill Songpa, and deliberately staged suicide, getting rid of her adoptive father in the process.

After Qin Feng said this, Sinuo showed the strangest smile in the whole film, and there seemed to be a bigger secret hidden in that smile.

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(End of this chapter)