"Brother Li, the gas is full."
"Thank you, Xiaoqi."
Li Tang took the car key from Xiao Qi.
The crew was in a hurry to use a car, and Zhang Dabeard happened to return to the capital temporarily, so Li Tang temporarily requisitioned his Mitsubishi off-road vehicle.
"Oh, by the way, if you want to go back to the set, I'll take you there."
"No, no, Brother Li, please go ahead and do your work. I'll just follow the prop truck there in a moment." Xiao Qi waved his hands and trotted away.
Li Tang watched his back and couldn't help but smile.
This Xiao Qi is really good at getting things done. He just called me and he not only filled up the car's gas, but also washed it, making it clean inside and out. With such a considerate assistant, no wonder Lao Zhang joked that he would accept Xiao Qi as his godson.
The reason why Li Tang laughed just now was because he thought that if Lao Zhang really accepted Xiao Qi as his godson, wouldn't Sister Xinman also have to recognize such a big son?
Not long after, Jiang Qinqin came down from upstairs, wearing a white shirt, jeans, and a beige jacket. The flat-heeled travel shoes made her look a little shorter than usual. Her long hair was simply tied into a ponytail. Wearing a long-tongued baseball cap, he also carried an ordinary canvas backpack.
"Wow, you brought Teacher Zhang's car!"
"This car is idle. Hey, isn't Xiao Tang with you?"
Li Tang discovered that Xiao Tang, who was usually inseparable from her, was not with her.
"It's a rare break. Let's give her a day off. She said she's too lazy to move. Leave her alone and let's go." Jiang Qinqin sat up and said with a smile.
It was almost noon when we set off. It’s funny to say that I rushed back from Ningbo early in the morning and now I’m going to Ningbo again.
Nowadays, the car-passenger ferry on Taohua Island basically serves the crew. The crew's license plate number is registered on every ferry. Especially when the producer Zhang Dahu's Mitsubishi SUV boarded the ship, the ferry started sailing in advance without saying a word. I'm afraid that it will delay the crew's important events.
Arriving at Shenjiamen on the other side, Li Tang drove towards Dinghai and said to Jiang Qinqin who was sitting in the passenger seat: "Are you hungry? Why don't you finish your lunch in Dinghai first?"
"No, I want to save my stomach to try the food in Yinzhou Old Street. Are you hungry?"
"No, let's try to hurry up."
"No rush, safety first."
It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon when the two drove to the city. Ningbo's urban area is generally larger than Hangzhou's, and the busiest place is naturally Sanjiangkou.
The Fenghua River and Yuyao River converge here, and then form the Yongjiang River and run all the way to the sea.
This has been the center of Ningbo since ancient times, and it also has the famous Old Bund of Ningbo. Since more than a hundred years ago, countless people from Ningbo have boarded ships here, passed through Hangzhou Bay, entered the Yangtze River Estuary, and then sailed upstream along the Huangpu River to land at the Bund Pier in Shanghai.
It's just that this place is under construction now, and there are many tower cranes densely surrounding it, and they are all surrounded by walls.
In fact, Li Tang was not familiar with the so-called Yinzhou Old Street. He only learned that it was a food street when he saw the promotional brochure distributed when attending the opening ceremony yesterday. ,
Fortunately, there is a detailed route map in the brochure, which is very close to Sanjiangkou and right on the edge of Fenghua River.
This area is the old city, which is in great contrast with Sanjiangkou, which is under construction in full swing not far away. The streets are not wide, paved with bluestone slabs, and there are buildings full of age on both sides.
The two were walking on the old street. In addition to a baseball cap, Jiang Qinqin also wore a pair of Chanel's classic square-frame sunglasses.
The old streets in Jiangnan are much the same, and Li Tang feels almost like walking on the streets of his hometown in his memory a few years ago. It's just that construction has been going on everywhere in the past two years. The old houses in my hometown in the county have almost been demolished, and the streets have been widened and new buildings have been built. For example, this is the case on the street where his hotel is located. In the past, there were old houses similar to the one in front of the street and the river. Later, they were demolished and new houses were built, so Lao Li had the opportunity to buy a three-bay, three-story shop and open a restaurant.
As a result, Jiang Qinqin also looked surprised and said: "Wow, this place looks like my hometown!"
Li Tang had never been to Chongqing and couldn't help but asked: "Do you also have this kind of house in your hometown?"
"Well, I lived in a house like this when I was a child, and there was a stone pavement in front of our house. But our place is built against the mountains, high and low. Especially on rainy days, water would flow down from the stone pavement and steps. Whenever this happens, I especially like to run outside and tread water.”
"So you were so naughty when you were a kid?"
"How can children be naughty? Besides, I was very fierce when I was a kid. Most boys couldn't beat me!"
Li Tang looked at her and smiled: "No wonder you know how to learn swordsmanship. It turns out you are good at fighting!"
"That's not true. I originally learned from Qingyi, but later I changed to Daomadan."
Speaking, Jiang Qinqin also added: "At that time, there were many people studying in Tsing Yi, and it was very hard to learn Dao Ma Dan. There were not many people studying it. But precisely because there were few people studying it, it was easy to find a job after graduating from art school, so I changed my career. "
Daomadan in Peking Opera is similar to the beater in the current film and television industry. If you had not known about it for a long time, it would be difficult to imagine that a seemingly weak girl like Jiang Qinqin was actually a beater.
Li Tang suddenly asked out of curiosity: "Hey, can you still sing Peking Opera now? I've never heard you sing before."
Jiang Qinqin smiled shyly and said: "This is a child's skill, how can I forget it. But I haven't sung it for a long time, and I'm afraid of making a fool of myself."
"You can sing a few verses to me someday when you have time. Don't worry, it's just the two of us. You sing and I listen. It doesn't matter if the singing isn't good."
"You still want me to give you a solo performance? Hum, that's a good idea. I won't sing." Jiang Qinqin curled her lips and turned her head arrogantly.
At this time, she happened to see a small shop on the street next to an alley. Two large buckets were stewed on the stove at the door. The steam was steaming, and waves of fragrance wafted down the wind.
Jiang Qinqin felt her saliva secrete when she smelled the fragrance. Her stomach, which had not eaten lunch, also felt hungry. She hurriedly pointed to the shop and said, "Shall we go to that shop to have something to eat?"
"hungry?"
Jiang Qinqin couldn't help but blush, and said angrily: "Are you going or not?"
After saying that, he took a step and left.
Li Tang hurried to follow. Not to mention, he also smelled the aroma, which seemed to be the smell of beef soup, mixed with the smell of seafood.
I walked over and saw that it was indeed a beef soup shop that also sold fish balls.
"What kind of fish are these fish balls made of?" Li Tang asked.
An old aunt in the store said in Ningbo-flavored Mandarin: "It's rice fish, very fresh."
Li Tang knew that the rice fish looked like yellow croaker, but the skin was black. The small fish weighed one or two kilograms and the large fish weighed more than ten kilograms. In the memory of the original owner, when he was a child, some unscrupulous traders often used rice fish to sell them as yellow croaker.
Originally, he wasn't too fond of fish balls because the area around his hometown was rich in river fresh food. He often used grass carp or silver carp and bighead carp to make fish balls. However, these fish balls had many bones. Even though the fish meat was chopped very finely, the fish bones would not get stuck in the throat, but they still tasted good after eating. not good.
But when he heard that it was rice fish, he felt relieved. There were no back spines in sea fish, so it should taste good, so he said: "Two bowls of beef soup and two fish balls."
"Do you want the fish balls spicy?"
"One is not spicy, one is spicy."
Hot girls naturally want to eat spicy food.
The beef soup is served first. The beef soup here is very unique. It is stewed with beef and straw mushrooms. When you put it in front of you and smell it, it is full of rich meat and mushroom aroma.
Jiang Qinqin couldn't wait to take a bite, nodded quickly and said: "Fresh!"
The fish balls served at the back were also delicious, with no tiny bone spurs affecting the taste, and they were fresh and chewy.
Jiang Qinqin's food was very sweet, especially when she stuffed fish balls wrapped in red oil and chili peppers into her mouth. Li Tang swallowed hard. He could imagine the spiciness, but he didn't feel it at all. The thin The lips were still stained with red spicy oil.
Li Tang just wanted to take a napkin and pass it over, but his uvula came out and he licked the spicy oil on his lips cleanly.
Seeing Li Tangzheng looking at her intently, Jiang Qinqin smiled sheepishly and asked, "Do you really not like spicy food at all?"
"You can eat a little bit, it's slightly spicy." Li Tang raised his hand and gestured with his index finger and thumb.
"Then you won't be able to get used to it when you come to Chongqing."
"Hey, didn't you tell me last time that your Chongqing food isn't all spicy?"
"I'm talking about hot pot! If you don't eat spicy hot pot in Chongqing, your visit will be in vain."
"Isn't there a Yuanyang pot?"
"Hey, why don't you make excuses!"
Just like when the two of them usually talk on the phone, they always bicker and never have time to talk properly. In fact, although Jiang Qinqin's screen image is very gentle and tender, in private she is really hot-tempered and very spicy.
Jiang Qinqin had almost finished eating. She sat on the chair and straightened her chest. She put her hands on her waist and twisted a few times.
"Why, your waist feels uncomfortable again?"
People like them who have been practicing martial arts or dancing since childhood will have some old injuries on their bodies. Jiang Qinqin suffered a waist injury in her early years, and it is easy to relapse when the weather is cold or if she is not careful during exercise.
Seeing Li Tang's concerned eyes, Jiang Qinqin was very helpful and said with a smile: "No, I'm just used to doing activities, and I ate a little too much just now."
"Hey, I noticed that you don't have any food taboos now, so you're not afraid of getting fat?"
"Hehe, I have learned from experience that if you want to enjoy good food, exercise more. That's why last time I advised your Bingbing not to go without food all the time and rely on starvation to lose weight, but to exercise more..."
As he spoke, he deliberately sighed and said: "It's a pity that people don't listen!"
Li Tang smiled bitterly and did not continue. After all, Xiaopang still can't endure hardship, or he can endure hardship but doesn't have the perseverance. There is a saying that goes well: If you want to be holy in front of others, you must endure hardships behind others.
He knows many successful actresses, such as Jiang Qinqin, Yuan Quan, Zhang Ziyi, and Zhou Xun. They either sang or learned dance when they were young. As Jiang Qinqin said before, these are all childish skills for them. They endured a lot of hardships in this process, and it also strengthened their will. That's why they have to have a good figure and a good body, which has laid a solid foundation for their acting career. At the same time, their tenacious will is the key to their popularity.
Seeing Li Tang's silence, Jiang Qinqin smiled proudly and changed the subject: "Hey, have you heard that Li Yapeng is pursuing Zhou Xun?"
This time Li Tang couldn't help but open his mouth: "No way? Isn't Li Yapeng a couple with that person?"
Although he had made some guesses before, but thinking about what Zhou Xun told him last time and Zhou Xun's own attitude, could that guy really be that thick-skinned?
"Tch, don't you men all eat from the bowl and look at the pot? I guess you are the only one who doesn't know about it. Almost everyone in the team knows about it. They are chasing her very closely." Jiang Qinqin curled her lips and said.
"Don't overturn a boatload of people with a bamboo pole. By the way, what about Zhou Xun's attitude?"
Li Tang recalled that some time ago, he was basically practicing tricks and marksmanship with the martial arts brothers in the group. In addition, Zhou Xun and Li Yapeng had many roles, so they only met Zhou Xun three or four times. They just said hello in a hurry and didn't talk much, so naturally there was no way to know.
"Who knows, but then again, a good girl is afraid of stalking a man, and if they don't keep it together, they will get along well." Jiang Qinqin looked at Li Tang and said with a mixed smile.
Li Tang still shook his head and said hesitantly: "I don't think it's possible. Li Yapeng has a girlfriend. If Zhou Xun gets involved, wouldn't she become a mistress?"
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.
For some reason, Jiang Qinqin suddenly felt her face getting hot when she heard Li Tang mention the word "mistress". Yes, they all have girlfriends now, so why don’t you give up?
Just when she was in a complicated mood, a cool phone rang. She picked up the phone and took a look at it, made a quiet gesture to Li Tang, answered the phone and said: "Hello, Sister Jingping..."
Li Tang knew it was her manager Li Jingping as soon as she heard it. She was once considered Xiaopang's manager. She was a very capable woman.
I don't know what Li Jingping said on the phone. Jiang Qinqin's face turned a little ugly and she said to the phone: "But I haven't prepared a dress or anything. This closing ceremony has a dress code."
"Ah...then, okay then."
"Okay, Sister Jingping, I understand, won't it be over when the time comes to participate?"
When Li Tang saw that she hung up the phone unhappily, he probably made a good guess, so he asked with a smile: "Does your agent insist that you attend the closing ceremony?"
Jiang Qinqin nodded helplessly and said, "Well, she asked me to participate. She also helped me ask for leave from the crew, and even had someone send me the dress from Shanghai."
This year's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival has a dress code for the first time, that is, men must wear formal attire and women must wear formal attire, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter.
Of course, the red carpet is an opportunity to show off. Even if there are no clothing requirements, many actresses will dress up.
As she spoke, she sighed again: "It's really boring. You know you can't win the prize, but you still have to study with the prince."
In fact, there are already problems with this year's Hundred Flowers Awards shortlist. For example, Gong Li, who is currently the most popular Best Actress in the Hundred Flowers Awards, actually won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress in the previous year for her film "Pretty Mom." As a result, it was shortlisted for the Hundred Flowers Award again this year. It is probably a deliberate move by the organizers to attract popularity and increase attention.
Li Tang smiled and said, "Isn't that great? This way I don't have to rush to send you back to the crew. You can stay one night today and attend the closing ceremony together tomorrow."
(End of chapter)
