After worshiping the ancestors, the two men brought the food upstairs, and Lao Li cooked two more hot dishes. The two of them seemed very deserted during the Chinese New Year, but they have long been used to it over the years.
Li Tang opened a bottle of Maotai. After pouring the first glass of wine, he solemnly saluted his father: "Happy New Year, Dad!"
"Well, happy New Year!"
Father and son had a drink.
After performing the ceremony, the atmosphere relaxed. While Li Tang was pouring wine for his father, he said: "Abba, how can you and Aunt Xiao talk about it? How can you get married?"
"Don't worry, it will take two years and we will talk about it after Xiao Xiao is admitted to college." Old Li said.
Li Tang could tell that this was what Aunt Xiao meant. After all, the three years of high school were a critical moment. She didn't want to distract her daughter and wait until her daughter was admitted to college before she could think about her own affairs. This kind of thing is reasonable. Anyway, as long as his father is willing, Li Tang has no objection.
Lao Li took a sip of wine, looked at his son and said, "Don't just talk about me, talk about yourself. Sometimes you are a gold lock and sometimes you are a piano. What's going on?"
"It doesn't matter, we're all friends." Li Tang smiled and said a scumbag quote naturally.
Lao Li was not happy when he heard this. He put the cup in his cup and said seriously: "If you are serious about talking about friends, my father will not care about you, but if you do it blindly, be careful about your life!"
Li Tang looked at his father in surprise. He really couldn't understand how he had the courage to say the word "blundering". Wasn't what you did in the past called "bluffing"?
Lao Li was a little embarrassed when his son saw him, so he calmed down and said: "What do you expect me to do? You are in a different situation than me. You are an ordinary citizen. As long as you don't break the law, you can do whatever you want. You are different. You are now a member of the state." People, and your industry is all about reputation. You have such a bad reputation, no one would want to look at you!"
"..."
Li Tang had to admit that what his father said made sense.
To put it bluntly, the entertainment industry is a vanity fair. Since it is a vanity fair, there is nothing that is not dirty. This is true both at home and abroad. He has now witnessed a lot of "irregularity" in China. Not to mention that Xiao Teng and others were drunk and dreaming all day long. Even for those who were praised as artists by the outside world, it was common for them to break their shoes and molest their concubines.
In the original memory, the folk customs used to be relatively conservative, but it seems to have become more and more conservative in the past two years. Among other things, more and more hair salons are opening in the streets and alleys.
This change in folk customs is especially obvious in the entertainment industry. Lao Li didn't know much about the situation. He just used his own life experience to tell his son that reputation is very important. Lao Li may not be able to pronounce new words like "public figure", but he feels that people of the country and celebrities who appear in public are more important to reputation.
And Lao Li does have foresight. There is a saying that goes well: Don't look at the trouble now, be careful about making lists in the future. Li Tang knew that in more than ten years the country would introduce so-called measures to ban tainted artists, with the purpose of rectifying the atmosphere in the entertainment industry.
Of course, this kind of move has become one of the so-called "undemocratic and unfree" crimes in the Western media. Some artists who have been banned for bad behavior go abroad and talk nonsense.
To be honest, Li Tangte looked down on this kind of person in his previous life. They overseas Chinese are actually very affectionate towards their motherland. Whenever major events occur in the country, such as earthquakes and infectious diseases, they don’t hesitate to donate masks. He still clearly remembers the scene in his previous life when his parents burst into tears while watching the domestic movies "Youth" and "Return".
As for why he didn't pay attention to domestic film and television dramas in his previous life, it's a long story. As a professional, he has also watched some excellent domestic film and television dramas, such as "Hero", "The Wandering Earth" and so on. There is no doubt that these movies have reached the standards of Hollywood A-class blockbusters.
Especially movies like "Farewell My Concubine", "Raise the Red Lantern", and even "Youth", if the cultural background and racial differences are removed, and based solely on the artistic standards of the Oscar selection, it will definitely not win a few Academy Awards. Next words.
But good movies are rare after all, and most of them are full of loopholes in the plot and poor acting. If you eat too much of this kind of shit, you will naturally lose interest. However, he still envies those celebrities in China, who can still make a lot of money at this level.
Well, that's a bit far.
Back to the subject, Li Tang faced his father's "earnest instruction" and nodded politely: "I understand."
You really need to be cautious about some things and not be too blatant, otherwise you may be unlucky if someone finds out in the future.
Although Li Tang's attitude was good, Lao Li still sighed worriedly. In his simple thinking, his son's ex-girlfriend Binbin, Qinqin who was here last time, and Jin Suo, whom he has never met, are all good girls, and any one of them can be his daughter-in-law.
There is one good thing about Lao Li, that is, he won't be long-winded after what he has said. One vaccination and it's over.
After a few glasses of wine, Lao Li began to look forward to the future.
"The area in the north of the city near Daying Port is going to be developed into villas, which cost about just over two thousand per square meter. I want to book one."
"Didn't you say that the new city will be developed to the east?" Li Tang said.
After the county was changed to a district, new city development is said to have been put on the agenda, and the district government building is currently being built on the east side of the city.
Old Li shook his head and said: "The new city will not be developed too fast. The area in the north of the city has a good environment and is close to the hotel..."
As he spoke, he looked at the house he was living in and said, "Business is getting better and better now. I plan to renovate this place next year and turn it into private rooms. There will be at least six private rooms, large and small."
"Do you have enough money on hand?"
Baldy Xu repaid 100,000 yuan, and received a net 80,000 yuan after deducting the share of the salary from "New Cut Plum". In addition to the salary from "Broad Days", his mother in the United States learned that he had bought a house in Beijing, so she specially sent him two yuan. Ten thousand U.S. dollars. Now Li Tang has a total of more than 400,000 in cash on hand.
Lao Li was very pleased to hear his son's words. In the past two years, he had bought and decorated a house for his son. He really didn't have much money left on hand, but he still waved his hand and said, "The down payment for the villa is not much. I will decorate the hotel." I plan to do it in the second half of the year, the money will be fine.”
He knew that his ex-wife had sent money to his son again, so he thought for a while and said, "If your mother gives you the money, just take it. I heard from Ila that Americans are not very kind. When your mother is old, if Ila You have to take care of the little girls in America who don't care about her. No matter what happens, she is still your mother!"
"got it."
Li Tang knew that with his mother's current job in the United States, her future pension would definitely be indispensable, and there was a high probability that she would not have to worry about pension issues. But since his father had told her so, he readily agreed.
When it was almost eight o'clock, Li Tang turned on the TV.
This year is the first Spring Festival of the millennium, and it is also the Year of the Dragon. The dragon has a special meaning for the Chinese people, so the 2000 Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala is said to be unprecedentedly large in both scale and cast.
At eight o'clock, the Spring Festival Gala starts on time.
The opening was indeed extraordinary, with as many as twenty hosts alone. In addition to gathering almost all the famous hosts from CCTV, there are also Xiao Yanzi, Mr. Wen from "I Love My Family", RTHK representative Wen Zhaolun and Wang Siyi, who plays Pan Jinlian in "Water Margin", as well as Feng Gong, Niu Qun, Jiang Kun and other crosstalk actors.
The first program at the opening was "Bringing in the Spring" sung by Zhang Ziyi. After the release of "My Father and Mother" directed by Zhang Yimou, Xiao Zhang has become famous all over the country. Moreover, "My Father and Mother" has been shortlisted for the upcoming 50th Berlin International Film Festival. What is even more coincidental is that the chairman of the jury of this Berlin Film Festival is actually Gong Li.
It can be seen that Xiao Zhang, who was on stage for the first time during the Spring Festival Gala, was really nervous, so that her singing was not up to par, and she could clearly hear many out-of-tune vocals.
This year, many Hong Kong and Taiwan celebrities were invited, such as Zhang Huimei, Limin, Xie Tingfeng, etc., all of them appeared. "Huan Zhuge Ge" became very popular last year. Not only did Xiao Yanzi become the host of the Spring Festival Gala, Lin Xinru also sang a duet with Xiao Cui, "Liu Liu She".
Of course, the sketch that brings the most joy to people across the country is "Hourly Worker", a collaboration between Uncle Benshan and Song Dandan. A line borrowed from a very popular Internet slang is "Small, I don't recognize you when you take off your vest?" In an instant, Explosion.
Before the midnight bell rang, the most golden time of the Spring Festival Gala, Mainland actor Dong Jie and now popular Hong Kong singer and actor Xie Tingfeng jointly sang a song "Together in this Life".
Dong Jie is a newcomer, but she is the heroine of Zhang Yimou's new film "Happy Time".
From Zhang Ziyi to Dong Jie, it shows the influence of director Zhang Yimou. And from the two of them, Li Tang found that Director Zhang's aesthetics were surprisingly consistent, and he chose girls of eighteen or nineteen who were very thin, small, and very pure.
However, in terms of personal aesthetics, Li Tang still prefers a type similar to Gong Li with a big frame, big breasts and a more majestic temperament.
As in previous years, Lao Li drank too much before the end of the Spring Festival Gala. Li Tang helped his father into the room, cleaned up the mess, and stood on the balcony to smoke.
Outside the window, firecrackers were blasting and fireworks were in full bloom. When the zero o'clock bell came from the TV, fireworks outside the window resounded through the night sky.
To paraphrase a movie line: "The twentieth century has passed and I miss it very much!"
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