The box wrapped in black cardboard, inside was a layer of oilpaper. When I peeled off the oilpaper, to my surprise, there was a large bag of well - packaged West Lake Longjing!


    Looking at those straight tea leaves and thinking of what Lenny said to me just now, "Pay attention to your health", my heart was gently electrocuted, tingling and extremely sweet.


    "Boss, what did Miss Lenny give you!? "


    "Yeah, yeah, let''s have a look."


    When I got into the car, Fatty and Gans rushed over and snatched the tea box.


    "Damn it! Isn''t this Longjing!? Boss, hehehehe, you still said there was nothing between you and Miss Lenny. Now you''ve been exposed! This Longjing is the evidence!" Gans was more excited than if he had smoked marijuana.


    "Gans, what is this called? This is an engagement token! Boss, I really admire you. Other people''s engagement tokens are diamond rings or necklaces and things like that. You two are so elegant, so extremely elegant. It''s actually a box of top - grade Chinese Longjing! Brother, I admire you! Admire!" Fatty also had a sly smile on his face. He patted the driver''s shoulder and said heroically: "Driver, drive! Destination, Harvey Street DreamWorks!"


    There were 44,638 US dollars in the suitcase Lenny gave us. When we were counting money in the office, James and Julie were also there. They were extremely puzzled and racked their brains, unable to figure out where we got so much money in one night, and it was all in whole numbers.


    Fatty seriously told them that we had robbed a bank at night. James naturally didn''t believe it, but Julie took it seriously and cried bitterly. When Gans told her the truth, Fatty was in trouble. The little girl scolded him severely and he also had to apologize.


    After this little setback, early the next morning, I took Fatty, Gans and James with me to the Vitagraph Film Company to make copies with the master tape.


    As mentioned before, this company had just been acquired by Warner Bros. not long ago. It mainly operated cinemas, some equipment, copy and film - processing businesses. At that time in Hollywood, when it came to the quality of master tapes and copies, they were the most reliable.


    Vitagraph had four copy companies in total, and the scale of each was not very large. The one we went to was in the concentrated area of cinemas in Hollywood and was the largest among the four copy companies.


    The manager of the company warmly received us and personally accompanied us into the copy room. I handed the master tape to their staff, and Gans and the others and I stayed in front of the copier and never left for a moment. As soon as a copy came out, we would take it immediately. Even if they took some copies out for repair, I would send someone to watch. There was only one reason for doing this. That was, before the movie was released publicly, the content of the movie must not be leaked except for our own people.


    Copying was a simple technical job, and the process was not very complicated. 40 copies were all done by one o''clock in the afternoon.


    I put 32,000 US dollars into the manager''s hand, and then directed Gans and the others to pack the copies into boxes and load them onto the car that had been called.


    "Andre! Why are you here?" Just as I was busy, someone patted me on the back.


    I wiped the sweat off my face, turned my head and took a look. It turned out to be the boss of Vitagraph, Wallace with a mustache.


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    "Nothing much, just moving the movie copies from your company." I continued to work and ignored him.


    I didn''t have a good impression of Wallace. The reason was very simple: it was he who came to our home and said that he would take back our cinema.


    "Young man, you are not simple. You found a job so quickly? Hehe, which movie company are you working for? Trust, Royal, or Flash?" Wallace squinted his eyes into a line and smiled extremely sinisterly.


    The Trust Film Company and the Royal Film Company he mentioned were two film companies under the "Mutual Company". This "Mutual Company" and Remer''s Universal Company originally belonged to a film distribution company called "Sales Company". Later, after "Sales Company" was divided into "Universal" and "Mutual Company", the Mutual Company was divided into two major groups. The former group was Atken''s Trust Film Company and Freudler''s Royal Film Company, and the other group was Kaisel''s "Pison No. 101 Company" and Baoman''s Qidongsi Company.


    Originally, whether in terms of company scale or assets, the Mutual Company could compete with Universal Company. However, Universal Company was integrated into an inseparable whole by Karl Remer, while the structure of the Mutual Company was loose. As a result, the Mutual Company gradually fell behind in the competition, and the development of its four companies was not very good.


    As for the Flash Film Company, it is now taken over by Chani Bara. Its situation is even worse than before. It produces an average of five or six movies a year, with little profit and can only barely survive.


    Wallace said so to me, obviously looking down on me.


    "We are from DreamWorks Film Company." Fatty said.


    "DreamWorks? I''ve never heard of it." Wallace looked confused, with a more disdainful expression.


    "You''ll hear of it soon." I smiled at him, and then took Fatty and Gans into the car.


    In the following week, I was busy with the public release of "Lust, Caution". I was busy inspecting the site, arranging supervisors, and writing letters to the people of the Film Commission to invite them to attend the premiere. A large number of trivial matters made me run around in circles. On June 20th, we held a simple press conference in the yard of DreamWorks Film Company. Basically all the newspapers and radio stations in Los Angeles were invited to the scene. The press conference was carried out in a very friendly atmosphere. I answered their questions about the planning, shooting and the content of the movie itself. Up to now, the originally speculative content of "Lust, Caution" has revealed a tip of the iceberg. Of course, I didn''t reveal too much. If I told them everything, I couldn''t arouse their appetite.


    At the press conference, I officially announced that DreamWorks'' "Lust, Caution" will be released simultaneously in 200 cinemas in Los Angeles on June 22nd. Among these cinemas, the DreamWorks Cinema in Burbank will be shown half an hour earlier. At that time, all the main creators will be present.


    After the press conference, when I was changing clothes in the office, Malskrov walked in with a big smile from outside.


    "Andre, I haven''t been away for long, and you have made such rapid progress. If I hadn''t heard it on the radio, I wouldn''t have known that the movie would be released on the 22nd." The old man looked haggard. It seemed that he didn''t even go home.


    "Old man, I was just about to look for you. I have already contacted Fox''s more than 70 cinemas, and they are also ready. I''m waiting for your 140." I put on a white suit prepared for me by Julie, made a please gesture to the old man, and the old man didn''t be polite and sat down on my sofa.


    "I had already told them when I left. Just take the copies over when the time comes." The old man looked around and saw that there was no one else in the room. He whispered to me: "Do you want to know what I went to San Francisco for?"


    "Just say it."


    The old man took a puff of a cigar and exhaled a puff of smoke. He said carelessly: "The Mutual Company is now being suppressed by Chuk''s Paramount almost to the point of collapse. They want to make up with Remer''s Universal Company and resist Paramount together. I was also called by them. Atken wants our three companies to unite."


    I frowned. As far as I knew, there was no such thing in history. They had always been at loggerheads with Universal and how could they take the initiative to look for Remer to unite?


    "What about the result?" I asked.


    "Well, Remer made a big demand. He said that the union was okay, but the Mutual Company must hand over ''Pison No. 101 Company'' to Universal. Of course, Atken wouldn''t agree. Finally, it fell through." The old man shook his head.


    Anyway, this was still in line with the real progress of history. Atken was originally so money - hungry that how could he be willing to give Pison to Remer for nothing?


    "What does this have to do with me? Why did you tell me?" I fumbled with my tie.