Chapter 316 Pressure on Li Changhe

Late at night in the capital city, a van sped past and soon arrived at the telegraph building in the capital.

The lights here are bright at this moment because both the telegraph and long-distance telephone departments are open 24 hours a day.

"Xiao Xie, wait for us downstairs!"

Zhu Lin gave instructions to the driver, then took Gong Xue into the building.

The long-distance telephones are still busy at night. After all, many people make long-distance calls after work and can only do so at night.

However, international long-distance telephone lines are still relatively unpopular. Firstly, they are expensive, and secondly, not many people have overseas connections.

Zhu Lin first paid a two hundred yuan phone bill in advance, then went to the selected phone and dialed the number Li Changhe left for her.

At the same time, in the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong Island, Li Changhe was studying at his desk.

Now that he has come to Hong Kong Island, he cannot participate in school work, but he still has to take the exams.

Therefore, he had to study on his own during this period.

When he has time in the evening, he will study by himself in the library.

Just when Li Changhe was concentrating on doing the questions, the phone in the room rang.

Li Changhe walked to the bedside and answered the phone: "Hello"

"it's me!"

The voice on the other end of the phone was a little distorted, but Li Changhe still recognized it immediately.

It’s my own wife, Zhu Lin.

"Wait a moment, dial this number!"

Li Changhe then told Zhu Lin another number, and Zhu Lin quickly wrote it down.

Afterwards, Li Changhe hung up the phone, packed up his things and walked out.

He left Zhu Lin's hotel phone number just as a reminder. In fact, hotel phones are very easy to be monitored, and it is impossible for Li Changhe to talk to Zhu Lin directly in the hotel.

After going downstairs and driving his own car, Li Changhe quickly arrived at his company in Central.

Li Changhe went up to the building and came to the office of the company and walked in.

At this moment, the phone on the table started ringing.

Li Changhe closed the door and walked over to answer the call.

"What's wrong, Linlin, is there something wrong at home?"

Generally speaking, Zhu Lin would not contact him unless there were special circumstances.

On the other end of the phone, Zhu Lin felt a little sad when she heard Li Changhe's words.

After walking for so many days, when she heard his voice again, she suddenly missed him very much.

However, Zhu Lin still suppressed her emotions and said in a low voice: "No, there is something I need to tell you."

Afterwards, Zhu Lin told Li Changhe about the situation of the Hundred Flowers Awards. Li Changhe was quite speechless on the other end of the phone.

"I didn't know how to respond to Director Wang Yang, so I decided to give you a call to ask."

"What should we say?"

Zhu Lin asked Li Changhe hesitantly.

Li Changhe from Hong Kong Island smiled after listening to this: "They are waiting for us to speak up."

"Go find Uncle Mantang tomorrow and tell him what I said. Ask him to send a notice to the Beijing Film Studio in the name of the military, asking them to withdraw from the award review on the grounds that Jungle Gun King is classified."

"As for the award that The Letter won, it's ours and it's still ours. If there's a place where I need to claim the award, you can go and claim it on my behalf."

"The organizers and Beijing Film Studio don't have the courage to directly cancel the award for "Jungle Gun King", so they want to wait for me to take the initiative."

Li Changhe explained to Zhu Lin with a smile.

The Hundred Flowers Awards will not be held for another month. Telling the Beijing Film Studio so early actually depends on their attitude.

Wang Yang from the Beijing Film Studio did not act on his own, and told Li Changhe through Zhu Lin. In fact, it was just to see Li Changhe's attitude and put pressure on Li Changhe.

When Li Changhe heard his wife say this, he understood that she was waiting for him to speak first.

Of course, Wang Yang’s analysis to Zhu Lin also made sense. There was no need to suppress so many people just for a mass award.

This would not be worth the effort, not to mention that even if he didn't win the prize, there was no way he would go to receive it.

"Then we won't give out any awards?"

Zhu Lin said hesitantly. Speaking of "Jungle Gun King", she was also involved. "I won't comment on it. Besides, the film itself involves some military information. We don't want it to be at the center of the storm again. Let the Popular Film Magazine issue a notice when the time comes."

"Then you've lost your title as best screenwriter!"

Zhu Lin was a little unhappy because the screenwriter of "The Letter" was not Li Changhe. The only work that Li Changhe won an award for was "Jungle Gun King", for which he was the screenwriter.

"It doesn't matter whether we win or not. Besides, we still have The Wrangler. We can win another award next year."

Li Changhe said to Zhu Lin with a smile.

"By the way, how is the filming of your movie going now?"

International long-distance calls are very expensive, but for Li Changhe and Zhu Lin, it is nothing.

The two chatted for more than half an hour until someone knocked on the door.

"Sister, the operator is here!"

Gong Xue said to Zhu Lin in a low voice at this time.

Then the operator came to Zhu Lin.

"Comrade, we have a special line that needs to come in now. Your line must be cut off."

"okay!"

"Then I'll die!"

Zhu Lin said something hurriedly to Li Changhe on the other end of the phone, then hung up.

The operator looked at Zhu Lin with envy at this moment. Not only did this comrade have a special letter of introduction issued by the foreign affairs department, but he also managed to make the call for so long.

How much does it cost?

A special letter of introduction generally means that the caller has a special identity and is exempt from monitoring.

After all, these days, international calls basically require background monitoring, and only people with special identities are exempt from monitoring.

Zhu Lin holds a special letter of introduction issued by the foreign affairs department.

In addition, the other party took half an hour to beat the doctor, so the price was sky-high.

One phone call costs several hundred yuan, after all, international long-distance calls start at twenty yuan per minute.

Like in the farther United States, the starting price is 60 yuan per minute.

After paying the phone bill, Zhu Lin and Gong Xue walked out of the telegraph building and returned to the guesthouse.

When Zhu Lin entered the house and took off her clothes, the list in her pocket fell out.

"Sister Linlin, you dropped something!"

Gong Xue helped her pick it up and handed it to Zhu Lin.

Zhu Lin looked at the list and sighed.

"It's all his fault."

"Sister, is this the list?"

She helped Zhu Lin guard outside the phone booth, so naturally she heard some of the conversation.

It seems that she made this call in a hurry because her brother-in-law won the award.

Zhu Lin nodded. "This is the list of this year's Hundred Flowers Awards. Your brother-in-law's film Jungle Gun King has won many of the awards. Director Wang Yang thinks that's not a good idea."

"Finally, I found your brother-in-law and he said that he would withdraw "Jungle Gun King" from the competition."

"Ah? With so many awards, you're all withdrawing?"

At this moment, Gong Xue had already seen the list and was a little shocked.

"Jungle Gun King" has won so many awards, and you don't want this anymore?
"Yes, they all quit, leaving only The Letter. The director of The Letter is also Director Ling anyway."

"Next year, we will compete for awards again with The Horse Wrangler."

Zhu Lin said confidently to Gong Xue at this time.

"Ok!"

Gong Xue thought of the movie they had made, and a look of anticipation appeared on her face.

On the other side, in the office in Central, Li Changhe sat there, put down the phone, and began to think.

(End of this chapter)