Li Tang has always thought that memories are a very luxurious thing, because only successful people are qualified to recall those unbearable memories. It seems that every successful person has an unbearable and painful past, and then through hard work, they succeeded. When they recall the past, it seems that those have become their military medals. Even the more miserable and embarrassing the past is, the more it reflects their greatness.
Twenty-seven years later, Ma Jianling became a musician traveling in France, and Luo Ming became an authority in dental medicine, a doctoral tutor in China, and an expert enjoying a subsidy from the National Academy of Sciences.
In a luxury hotel in Shanghai, the floor-to-ceiling window shows the brightly lit night view of the Bund, and the TV shows a video of Ma Jianling returning to Phoenix Mountain to shoot.
The old folk artist in the video who once taught them local folk songs was playing the two-stringed harp and singing loudly: "What kind of birds are flying around..."
The two friends were drunk and sang together: "What kind of bird flies like a pair of swords, what kind of bird flies into the Tianchi, what kind of bird comes to lie down on the green grass..."
Wearing a pair of wide-rimmed black-rimmed glasses, Chen Kun, who was sitting on the ground, said with emotion: "I remember that Laozui sang this riddle to me twenty-eight years ago. I never knew the answer."
Li Tang staggered over to him with a wine glass in his hand and sat down next to him. When he heard Chen Kun's words, he couldn't help but raise his head and laugh.
"I'll tell you what the answer is!"
After saying that, he raised his hand and hooked Chen Kun's neck, whispering a word in his ear.
Bird, if you combine the riddle you just sang, everyone will understand. The working people in the mountains are so simple and honest.
After hearing this, Chen Kun was stunned for a moment, then fell backwards, and the two of them laughed.
"Cut!"
Dai Sijie shouted stop.
This scene of old friends reminiscing over wine in a hotel room had been shot for two nights because the background was the night view of the Bund in Shanghai outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. This was the last shot.
Li Tang and Chen Kun, including all the staff on the scene, all set their sights on the director.
Dai Sijie smiled and shouted: "Passed!"
Everyone looked at him with bated breath.
Until he took two steps forward, stood in the middle of the room and shouted loudly: "I declare that "Balzac and the Little Chinese Tailor" has officially been completed!"
"Wow!"
"Hua Hua Hua..."
Both the Chinese staff and the foreigners at the scene cheered in unison and burst into warm applause.
Compared with the actors, the staff worked longer hours. They started from the early preparations, and the fruits of their busy work for nearly half a year finally came to an end.
Moreover, producer Lisa has already stated that "The Little Seamstress" will premiere at next year's Cannes Film Festival as expected. As the world's premier film festival, the Cannes Film Festival is also the largest film trading market. However, this film, all starring Chinese actors and telling a Chinese story, has become a French film due to the sensitivity of the times. Naturally, it Became the biological son of the Cannes Film Festival.
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"Teacher Li!"
In the airport lobby, a fat man wearing a hat and mask rushed up to Li Tang and gave him a big hug.
"Why are you here too?"
"I miss you!"
Although the hotline is always constant, in the blink of an eye, the two have not seen each other for more than two months. The two people in love really feel like they are separated by three autumns.
"Okay, okay, that's it. Don't let anyone recognize you." Li Tang patted the little fat guy on the back.
Before the invention of smartphones and the popularity of self-media, celebrities’ travel was relatively safe. There are very few reporters who would like to stay at the airport to take pictures of celebrities unless they get accurate information.
The so-called airport photos of celebrities that are generally circulated are actually all self-directed and self-acted photos. The celebrity makes an appointment with the reporter, or the celebrity himself hires a photographer to take the photo and send it directly to the media.
"Jiajia, thank you for your hard work!"
Li Tang nodded again to Zeng Jia who came to pick him up.
"Brother Li, what are the arrangements for dinner?"
Zeng Jia still looked like an elite executive, but there was a trace of lingering sadness between his eyebrows. Li Tang guessed right, Nai An finally rejected her suggestion to expand the company's brokerage scale.
Nai'an feels that the company's current main business is still investing and shooting movies. Especially at this time, Lou Ye, who had been released from the ban in advance by the General Administration, was negotiating with Shanghai Film Studio about cooperating on a new film. Nai'an really didn't have the energy to take care of other things. Because in her eyes, Lou Ye's movies always come first.
Before Li Tang opened his mouth, he saw Xiaopang with a proud look on his face and said: "There is no need to arrange dinner today. I have already bought the vegetables. I will cook them myself when I go home."
"Hey, you can cook now. Can you eat it?"
Li Tang knew that Xiaopang had been learning cooking skills some time ago, so he was a little surprised because he didn't know how to cook.
Xiaopang hummed: "Please remove the word "?"
"Hey, is it so awesome? Then I have to give it a try today."
While talking and laughing, the three of them walked out of the airport hall together. The Buick business car driven by Shen Lin was already waiting at the door of the domestic arrivals.
"Sister Hong said that she would also equip me with a special car. I think your Buick business car is quite good. It is spacious and can store things in the back."
Although Xiaopang had a car before, it was not fixed. Sometimes it was a van, and sometimes it was a Jetta. It's like she uses whatever car the company has unused.
However, her treatment is relatively good, at least the company has a car. Before my ex-girlfriend bought her own car, she had to take a taxi when going out.
"Hey, has your assistant's matter been finalized?" Li Tang asked.
"Not yet." Xiaopang shook his head.
Previously, the company temporarily found two assistants for her, but she was not satisfied with the results. Nowadays, a third-tier star like her has no accent even when she goes out without an assistant.
"So what are you looking for?"
"Actually, I don't have many requirements. As long as I don't talk too much and the person is honest, that's fine. But the ones the company found for me don't look very reliable."
"Then how about..."
Li Tang thought for a while, then patted Zeng Jia, who was sitting in the front row, and said, "Jia Jia, do you have a suitable assistant here?"
This little girl had previously been obsessed with expanding the company's brokerage department, and she still had some ideas in this regard.
It is definitely not possible to find a personal assistant like Xiaopang without experience. It is best to find someone who has worked as a temporary assistant on a film crew or as an assistant to a small star. Of course, you can’t be too experienced, and it’s not good to have too many ideas.
"Okay, I'll keep an eye on it." Zeng Jia turned around and responded.
Xiaopang hurriedly thanked her and said, "Thank you, Sister Jiajia!"
"It's okay, I still have to satisfy you."
With that said, Zeng Jia said to Li Tang: "Brother Li, why don't you find an assistant too."
Li Tang shook his head and said, "I'll forget it. Anyway, the drama team has temporary assistants, so there's no need."
He can act as a man, unlike an actress, who has to put on makeup, change clothes, etc. when she is busy at work, which is very cumbersome. In addition, when working outside the home, after all, as a girl, it is safer to have her own person by her side.
There was a bit of traffic jam on the road today, and night was almost falling when we arrived at the courtyard.
"What are you planning to make delicious today?"
After entering the door, Li Tang wanted to go to the kitchen out of curiosity.
As a result, Fatty stopped him at the door: "Oh, you just got off the plane. Go take a shower and rest for a while. I'll call you when I'm done."
Either it’s a surprise, or the craftsmanship is still fashionable and I’m a little afraid to meet people.
However, it was already a big improvement for Xiaopang to be willing to learn. Li Tang always encouraged this. After all, as long as she learned it, she would still enjoy it.
Now that the two of them are basically living together, there must be someone who can cook and clean the house.
The house is very clean inside and outside, and it is probably Xiaopang's work. After all, the character An Xin she will play is a hard-working girl. If you can't even hold a broom, why are you acting?
Li Tang went back to the main room, took a shower, put on his home sweats and beach pants, and made himself a cup of tea.
In fact, after filming the scene in Zhangjiajie, he has completely relaxed his diet. He eats and drinks when he should. However, when he weighed himself just after taking a bath, he still weighed only 145, and he had not gained a pound of flesh. It seems that I will eat some beef and eggs for a while, and then I will have to exercise more.
Xiaopang was busy in the east wing kitchen, and from time to time there was the sound of chopping knives, chopping boards and spatulas.
About half an hour later, I heard Xiaopang shouting: "Teacher Li, it's time to eat!"
"Coming!"
Li Tang rushed to the restaurant excitedly and saw four dishes already on the table, braised prawns, steak, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and cold cucumbers. They looked good, but he didn't know if they tasted good.
"There is another soup, it will be ready soon. You can eat it first." Xiaopang turned around in front of the stove and said.
"No rush, I'll wait for you and we'll eat together."
After all, this is Xiaopang's first time cooking, so there must be a sense of ceremony.
Li Tang went to the basement to get a bottle of Maotai.
"When I went shopping today, I saw fresh oysters, so I bought some and made some tofu soup. To use your Shanghai dialect, they were so fresh that my brows dropped!"
The little fat man brought up a large bowl of soup. The milky white soup was filled with plump oyster meat and white tofu, with a layer of chopped green onion and minced coriander sprinkled on top. It looked very appetizing.
Xiaopang first scooped a bowl of soup for him.
"Try it, just put some salt and no MSG. Is it fresh?"
Li Tang took a bite and found that the taste was bland and a little fishy. But his expression did not change, he nodded and said: "Not bad!"
"I'm not lying to you, oyster and tofu soup is a specialty of our hometown."
The little fat man smiled brightly, picked up another prawn and handed it to his mouth: "You can also try this prawn. This is my mother's specialty, and I learned it best."
Li Tang quickly caught it with his mouth and slurped the soup outside the shrimp shell. He almost spit it out. It was so salty!
He quickly took it, peeled off the shrimp shells, and tasted the shrimp meat inside. Although it was still a little salty, at least it was edible.
"Try this steak again..."
Xiaopang took the knife and fork to cut the steak again.
Li Tang hurriedly stopped him and said, "Okay, okay, stop working and let's eat together."
With that said, he opened Maotai and poured a glass for each of them.
First update, second update before twelve o'clock.
(End of chapter)
