Chapter 4 Wonderful Night

"cheers!"

The two of them smiled and toasted to celebrate, and the sumptuous dinner ended in a joyful and loving atmosphere. Looking at Greta Garbo's red cheeks due to drinking, Zhang Feng couldn't help but put his arms around her slender waist and swayed slowly. Greta Garbo also danced to Zhang Feng's rhythm. The two didn't say anything, just hugged each other and immersed in this beautiful atmosphere.

About a quarter of an hour later, the two of them had unknowingly arrived at the bedside of the bedroom. Zhang Feng took his hands off her waist, held her cheeks, and slowly kissed her from her forehead to her lips. Greta Garbo slowly closed her eyes during this process, and then the two of them fell on the bed.

In the early morning, sunlight shone into the house from the window and sprinkled on Zhang Feng's face. He blinked and opened his eyes. Their clothes were scattered all over the bedroom.

Zhang Feng looked sideways at Greta Garbo who was still sleeping. There were traces of tears of joy on the beautiful woman's face. Zhang Feng tried it for the first time last night. Although he had done it many times, he still enjoyed it. However, considering that the beautiful woman's body might not be able to withstand his enhanced body, and he had to shoot a movie today, it was more important to make money at this stage. There was still a long way to go.

So, Zhang Feng resisted the urge to do morning exercises, gently lifted the quilt on his body, stepped on the floor barefoot, then picked up the clothes of both of them one by one, put them on the desk, and then left the bedroom.

Zhang Feng closed the door gently to avoid waking up Greta Garbo with his voice, and went to the bathroom to take a shower to remove the sweat stains from last night. After washing and getting dressed, he looked at the watch and it was already eleven o'clock in the morning.

In order to arrive at the set before 2 p.m., Zhang Feng hurried out to buy groceries and cook. By the time he finished everything, it was almost 12 o'clock.

Zhang Feng brought the food to the dining table, walked towards the bedroom, opened the door, walked to the bed, bent down and kissed Greta Garbo. Greta Garbo was also awakened by Zhang Feng's kiss and opened her eyes.

"Get up, dear. After dinner we have to get to the set before two o'clock." Zhang Feng looked into her eyes and smiled lovingly. Then he turned around and handed her the clothes.

"Okay, Feng, turn around quickly, I want to put on my clothes." Greta Garbo sat up suddenly, found that her upper body was naked, and quickly lay down, covered herself with the quilt, and said with a slightly red face.

"Baby, I've seen everything on your body." Zhang Feng teased. Although he said that, Zhang Feng turned around and slowly left the bedroom.

Half an hour later, Greta Garbo finished washing up and came to the restaurant wearing the same clothes as yesterday, and sat down to eat.

"Jiabao, bring all your clothes here today, otherwise you will have no clothes to change here." Zhang Feng said casually.

"Okay, after filming this afternoon, you accompany me to my apartment, but you can't treat me like you did last night," said Greta Garbo.

"Honey, you are so charming. I couldn't help myself last night. So from now on, I'll do it once a night." Zhang Feng said, changing the subject.

Greta Garbo blushed and said nothing more. The two quickly finished their lunch and went out to the set.

When they arrived at the set, Zhang Feng and Howard Hughes smiled at each other, and then arranged today's shooting schedule. Because they were delayed for half a day in the morning, they needed to speed up the shooting.

After finishing today's filming, Zhang Feng and Greta Garbo went to her apartment, packed her belongings, found the landlord to vacate the house, and then took a taxi back to Zhang Feng's residence.

He opened the door and went into the house, putting Greta Garbo away. After dinner, Zhang Feng couldn't wait to pull her into his bedroom, and it was another night of love.

From then on, the two lived together without shame or haste.

A month later.

At present, the film "Special Forces" has been half completed, and it is estimated that it will be finished in another three months. However, because the nylon stockings factory has been built today, the equipment has been installed and debugged, and it is about to start work, so the shooting is suspended today.

Early in the morning, Zhang Feng and Howard Hughes came to the Langsha Stocking Factory. Yes, Zhang Feng named the nylon stocking factory they cooperated with Langsha.

"Philip, are you all ready?" Howard Hughes asked a middle-aged white man.

Philip is the general manager of Langsha Stockings Company, and he is in charge of almost everything in the company. Howard Hughes and Zhang Feng only come to inspect occasionally, understand the progress, and issue tasks. After all, they are the bosses and there is no need or time to do everything themselves.

"Everything is ready, boss. We can start production right away." Philip replied respectfully. His weekly salary here is not low, 30 dollars a week.

"How many stockings can be produced in a day? What is the cost?" Zhang Feng asked.

"According to the engineers' calculations, the daily output is about 60 pairs, and the cost is around 50 cents. Once the workers become more skilled, the cost can be reduced to cents." Philip replied, his attitude still respectful, because the Chinese man in front of him was also his boss. As long as he had money, there would be no discrimination, and even if there was, it would not be shown.

"Well, this output should be enough for now. If sales are good after the launch, we can add more machines." Zhang Feng said to Howard Hughes. The first batch of nylon stockings in history went on sale on May 1940, 5, and more than 5 pairs were sold in one day. Even if it is less now, it is not much less.

"Then let the workers get to work." Howard Hughes nodded.

"Okay, boss." Philip came back and went downstairs to arrange the production matters of the factory.

Zhang Feng and Howard Hughes then discussed the selling price of the stockings and finally reached a consensus that a pair of stockings would be sold for $2. Excluding production and sales costs, the net profit of a pair of stockings should be around $1.

Howard Hughes has reached purchasing agreements with retailers in many states. As for other states in the United States and foreign markets, we will have to wait and see the performance of the stockings after they are put on the market. If the sales are very good, we can just sit at home and wait for wholesalers and other chain stores to come to purchase.

Zhang Feng also suggested that Howard Hughes sell stockings in his cinemas so that customers could buy them immediately after watching the advertisements in the movie.

You should know that in 1924, Howard Hughes became interested in movies, so he moved to Los Angeles, California, and bought the operating rights of 125 movie theaters, starting his career as a producer and director. At that time, there was no Paramount Act, and making movies and operating movie theaters were combined. Howard Hughes appreciated Zhang Feng's suggestion very much and agreed to it very readily, after all, everyone was making money together.

Three months later, on the set of Hollywood G.I. Joe.

"Ka! Good, thank you all for your hard work. I declare that the Special Forces has officially finished filming today." Zhang Feng shouted loudly while holding a loudspeaker. Of course, this loudspeaker was only made of iron sheet, and electronic loudspeakers would not be invented until more than ten years later.

After four months of hard work, the film was finally completed. The film cost a total of 120 million US dollars. After all, it is a war film with many big scenes. If it were an ordinary silent film, it might have only cost tens of thousands of dollars.

This also shows Howard Hughes' courage. Three years later, he invested nearly 3 million US dollars to produce a war love film "Hell's Angels", which grossed 400 million US dollars.

Although the film was completed, it still took time to edit the copies, so it would be released about a month later, which was October 1926.

After the celebration, Zhang Feng and Greta Garbo returned to the apartment, and they ate and lay on the bed.

"Honey, I might be pregnant," Greta Garbo suddenly said.

Zhang Feng was stunned. He originally wanted to wait until his career was on track, but since he was here, he was still very happy. He was going to be a father for the first time, and he couldn't express his feelings at the moment.

"Really? Baby, I'm so happy that we have a child." Zhang Feng acted very surprised. No matter what he thought in his heart, he still had to shoulder his responsibilities as a man, but he never mentioned anything about getting married.

"It should be. I can feel it." Greta Garbo was relieved to see that Zhang Feng did not show any unhappiness. She was still very conservative and wanted to give birth to the child.

"Okay, I'll take you to the hospital for a checkup tomorrow." Zhang Feng said

"Well, Feng, you're so nice." Greta Garbo said emotionally.

After saying that, the two hugged each other tightly.

The next day, Zhang Feng took Greta Garbo to the hospital. After a day of waiting, it was finally confirmed that she was really pregnant.

"Jiabao, you can't go to film anymore in the future. I will make money to support you." Zhang Feng said seriously.

Greta Garbo did not object. In fact, the status of women in the West at that time was still very low, and most of them were housewives. And since someone was supporting them, who would be willing to go out to work? Those women who wanted to go out to work were only a minority.

Since Greta Garbo can no longer film, the movie Ghost needs to find another heroine, and Zhang Feng does not plan to film again in the short term. He plans to wait until the movie is released and the stockings are sold, then he will get a share of the profits and start his own career.

We’ll talk about the movie later. Maybe he will start his own film company, or have the opportunity to acquire one of the eight major Hollywood film companies.

He planned to let Howard Hughes film Ghost. He was going to be the director, so he could return the favor. After all, Hughes had helped him a lot. Although he also made money with him, Zhang Feng was still very grateful to him.

So the next day, Zhang Feng asked Greta Garbo to stay at home and went to the film company alone to find Howard Hughes.

"Howard, I have another script I want to give you." Zhang Feng said straight to the point, then took out the script of Ghost and handed it to Howard Hughes.

Howard Hughes took the script and read it quickly.

"Zhang, your script is also very good. I look forward to our cooperation again." Howard Hughes said happily.

"No, Howard, this time I'm going to sell this script to you. You can just give me any price. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work with me." Zhang Feng said sincerely.

If the previous cooperation method is followed, Zhang Feng can make a lot of money. The film is of high quality, but the shooting cost is very low. We are all businessmen, and Zhang Feng will not say that he will give it to him directly. There is no need for that.

"Zhang, I think you are very talented in this area. We can continue to cooperate and you will definitely achieve something in the film industry." Howard Hughes looked at Zhang Feng seriously and said.

"Howard, Garbo is pregnant and I need to take care of her. I also plan to start my own business, but I will not give up on movies. I believe we will have opportunities to cooperate in the future." Zhang Feng said with a smile.

"Oh, Greta is pregnant, congratulations. In that case, congratulations on your success and I look forward to our cooperation again," said Howard.

"Thank you, Howard. Haven't we always been cooperating? We also jointly opened the Langsha Stockings Company." Zhang Feng joked.

The two then began to talk about the movie Ghost and exchanged their thoughts. Zhang Feng talked about his ideas for writing the script so as to provide some ideas for Howard Hughes' filming.

In the end, Howard Hughes generously gave Zhang Feng $10,000. Of course, the script was not worth that much money, but Zhang Feng did not refuse. It was mainly because Greta Garbo was pregnant and had collaborated with Zhang Feng for two years. Then Zhang Feng said she wanted to start her own business, so Howard Hughes sponsored this sum of money.

It has to be said that Howard Hughes, whether now or in the future, does not attach much importance to money. But Zhang Feng is different. He has been a loser for decades and money is his life.

(End of this chapter)