When Liu Wangxue and Ni Jia came back, everyone had already eaten.
The bottom-hung window opened a palm-wide gap, and in the antique private room, two tables were filled with plates of red meat, and the cloisonné copper pot in the center was steaming. .
Jing Yujun was putting a piece of cooked mutton into a bowl. When he saw the door of the private room opened, he hurriedly greeted them: "Hurry up, come here a little later and it will be gone. Didn't you see Lou Rui?" It’s so edible.”
Lou Rui just took a bite and wrapped it in the dipping sauce. Putting the meat into his mouth, he raised his head and defended himself: "Wuwuwu, Wuwuwu, uh uh..." I didn't, it was the director, he said...
"If you want to eat it, just eat it well. Let’s talk after we finish eating.” Jing Yujun glanced at him, dipped the meat slices on his chopsticks into the dipping sauce, and put them into his mouth.
Lou Rui curled his lips.
Shen Xun and Ran Anyu also greeted Liu Wangxue and Ni Jia. Ran Anyu pointed to the trolley next to them: "The ingredients are all over there. You can adjust them according to your own taste."
Shen Xun put a plate of mutton Go to the seat between Liu Wangxue and Ni Jia: "This plate, the best tenderloin, is specially reserved for you."
Liu Wangxue and Ni Jia responded, and first took the mixing bowls to mix the dipping sauce. Then come back and sit down to cook the meat with everyone.
The so-called "pork shabu-shabu in clear soup, sesame sauce bowl", this is the emphasis on mutton shabu-shabu in copper pot. The water in the pot is boiled water, add some ginger slices and green onions, and some mushrooms, wolfberries and jujubes, and that's it. The clear soup is light and the mutton is fresh. The two are harmonious and compatible, which is also a kind of gourmet wisdom.
There are not many parts of a sheep that are really suitable for shabu-shabu meat. You have to choose meat that is tender and lean but not fat or greasy. Qingji's mutton is hand-cut by master chefs. It is a technical job that pays attention to being as thin as paper, as soft as cotton, as neat as threads, and as beautiful as flowers. Just as Liu Wangxue saw on the mural, the cut mutton is so thin that it is transparent, and it is cooked as soon as it is rinsed.
In addition, you also have to put a lot of effort into the dipping sauce. There are not many kinds of dipping sauces on the trolley, only sesame sauce, chive flowers, fermented bean curd juice, shrimp oil, oil, chopped green onion, coriander, fried chili and so on.
Xu Qingsong just sent a message to Liu Wangxue saying that sauces such as sesame paste, fermented bean curd, and shrimp oil are all made by Qingji himself, with exclusive secret recipes that cannot be bought outside.
Xu Qingsong was particularly sorry: [I originally planned to take you to eat when I got back, but unexpectedly Director Jing, a foodie, beat me to it]
Liu Wangxue comforted him: [It doesn’t matter, When you come, we will come over for a meal when you have time]
Xu Qingsong: [It really doesn’t matter, there are a lot of delicious food in Beijing. I will take you to other places, and the three meals a day will not be the same]
Then Xu Qingsong told her a recipe for a mixing bowl : [Just do what I did, I guarantee you won’t be able to put down your chopsticks]
Liu Wangxue followed Xu Qingsong’s instructions, and made a bowl of thick and fragrant dipping sauce based on sesame sauce. material. Ni Jia also followed the same example and mixed a bowl for herself.
Put the meat slices between chopsticks and gently shake them in boiling water until the red color fades and turns pink. The meat is done. Put it on a plate, coat it with dipping sauce, and put it in your mouth. You will feel the great satisfaction of delicious food in your heart.
When you are tired of meat, try two cloves of sugared garlic. Qingji’s sugared garlic is the best. Pick up the pickled garlic cloves and look at the light. They are amber and translucent. Put it in your mouth. One bite, sweet and sour, crispy and refreshing, both appetizing and relieving.
After eating the mutton-boiled meal, everyone rarely spoke, their mouths were really busy.
While Ran Anyu was talking about the slow metabolism of old age and the need to control food intake, she couldn't stop using her chopsticks and mouth.
After the lamb was full, we rested for a while and started to cook the vegetables before everyone started chatting.
Vegetarian dishes include cabbage, tofu and vermicelli. When the mutton is boiled in clear soup, it becomes mutton soup. The vegetarian dishes are light and can be cooked in the soup to absorb the fragrance of the mutton soup without destroying the original taste. Everyone couldn't help but take two more bites.
While eating and chatting, the topic at Liu Wangxue's table was "Moonrise Spring Stream", the result of everyone's joint efforts. They chatted from casting to filming, and then from filming to publicity. to the broadcast and now the popularity on the Internet.
Immediately afterwards, Jing Yujun changed the topic and asked Liu Wangxue: "How is your script being revised? Is it not finished yet?"
Shen Xun and Ran Anyu thought it was "The Twenty-One Cases of Zhaozhao" The two of them had never played games before, and had only heard people around them mention it before. It wasn’t until New Year’s Day that they realized how popular the game was. They downloaded it and played it, and were immediately attracted by the plot. Based on their intuition as actors over the years, the two of them felt that this script would definitely be popular even if it was only used for filming. Unfortunately, it was buried back then.
Shen Xun and Ran Anyu asked, and Liu Wangxue said, "This script has been revised."
Ran Anyu looked at Liu Wangxue and then at Jing Yujun, Question: "Didn't I say that Director Meng has agreed to direct? Why hasn't there been any news in the industry about when casting will begin?" He asked with a smile: "Do you have a favorite role among the two teachers?"
Shen Xun informed happily and half-jokingly: "Didn't An Yu and I play this game some time ago? We really like the characters of Prince Yu and Princess Yu in it. We also collaborated on a historical drama in the early years. I also played the role of the prince and the princess. It has been more than ten years, and I have always said that I have never had the chance to work together again. Isn’t this just a coincidence? I just want to ask our beloved director and dear screenwriter, when will the casting be announced. , let’s submit our resumes to try out.”
Ran Anyu then laughed and said, “Let’s see if we can continue our relationship based on our strength.”
Shen Xun and Ran Anyu are over four years old. 10. They have been in the industry for more than 20 years. They are both good and conscientious actors. Liu Wangxue watched the dramas starring each of them when she was a child. It’s just that there are always waves from the Yangtze River pushing back waves ahead, or perhaps the current rule in the industry is that traffic is king. The cake is only so big, and many veteran and good actors have no choice but to make way.
Liu Wangxue was extremely happy when she heard that the two characters were interested in her. She expressed a very warm welcome and briefly talked about the preliminary preparations: "Mr. Du wants to strive for excellence, so , this drama will have to wait until at least next year to cast and start filming."
Jing Yujun continued: "We can't say the specific time. It mainly depends on the progress of the project. You don't know, my master got the script. I couldn't put it down after that, and I couldn't wait to start filming. Every time I went to his house, the only thing I heard him say the most was -" He imitated Meng Huadong's expression and tone: "Our country is not a big country in terms of infrastructure, so just build one. It’s just a theater, does it take that long?”
This imitation made everyone at the table laugh.
Ran Anyu once made a guest appearance in Meng Huadong's drama, and immediately commented on Jing Yujun's acting skills: "The imitation is so vivid that he looks like a naughty old Meng boy!"
After laughing, Liu Wangxue said to Shen Xun and Ran Anyu said: "I don't know if the two teachers have any schedules recently. I have a script on hand now, which is mostly completed. There are two characters in it that I think the two teachers will have. Teacher, if you are interested, you can give it a try." Shen Xun and Ran Anyu looked at each other, seeing strong interest in each other's eyes, and asked Liu Wangxue in unison: "What role?"
< br>Liu Wangxue was about to answer when Jing Yujun raised his hand and interrupted: "Let me guess, are they the couple in the third story?"
Liu Wangxue nodded: "Yes, exactly."
Jing Yujun looked at Shen Xun and Ran Anyu with a different look. It was what he used to do in the crew and was unique to the director when he looked at the actors in the camera. Looking at each other, he said: "If you perform the interpretation, maybe these two characters can shine."
Shen and Ran were immediately more interested. , Shen Xun smiled at Ran Anyu and said: "Wouldn't this renew our relationship in advance?"
Jing Yujun also smiled, a little maliciously: "Why don't you listen to the outline of the story first and then decide whether to continue it? ?"
Liu Wangxue answered the doubts in their eyes: "This story should be a bad relationship." Then he told them the general plot.
After hearing this, Shen Xun and Ran Anyu were speechless for a moment, but Ni Jia spoke first: "I feel like this is a huge subversion of the two teachers' screen images."
Isn't that a subversion!
Shen Xun is a drama actor by background, with handsome yet delicate features. His role on the drama stage has always been related to the handsome young master Pian Pian. Later, he moved to film and television, and he couldn't escape this kind of role in costume dramas. He was either an elegant knight or a noble son of a wealthy family. The roles he played in modern dramas were usually good sons, good husbands, and good fathers. He was born with this kind of temperament and has been immersed in such roles for many years. Even though he is away from the camera, he gives people the impression that his whole body is as gentle as jade.
But now Liu Wangxue and Jing Yujun told him that he could play a dressed-up beast, a domestic violence criminal who was extremely perverted.
If emoji could be vividly interpreted by real people, Shen Xun's face at this moment would definitely look like that little yellow face with downward eyes, a polite smile, and a crack in the middle.
Jing Yujun has seen the original version written for the game and the revised version for the drama. He is fully aware of how the characters in each story are fleshed out, and he also feels that Liu Wangxue chose it for the script. The name "Moon Halo Effect" is so apt.
Jing Yujun persuaded Shen Xun: "Mr. Shen, this character is like this. His external personality is almost carved out of the same mold as yours. Think about it, if you were to play it, it would be extremely Did the strong contrast appear immediately? ? Because of the extreme contrast, does this character shine? Nowadays, the audience always loves to watch this." Ni Jia and Lou Rui followed Jing Yujun's words and nodded sharply: "No. Wrong, yes yes!”
Liu Wangxue continued: "The so-called 'moon halo effect' is like this. It's very similar to the word 'a blinding leaf'. The appearance of the male protagonist is this leaf. If you come to act, not only can you deceive the female protagonist in the early stage, Lord, I can definitely deceive the audience."< br>
Ran Anyu bumped Shen Xun with her elbow and advised him: "Old Shen, just give it a try. This role is subversive and challenging. Maybe you can still rely on this role when you are nearly fifty years old." Take your career to the next level!”
"What year is it nearly half a century? I'm only forty-three!" Shen Xun couldn't laugh or cry, and said to Liu Wangxue and Jing Yujun, "Let me think about it again, think about it." He was very entangled in his heart, so he diverted everyone's attention and asked Ran Anyu: "Stop talking about me, what about you? The heroine in this story and your current screen image are also very different."
Ran Anyu doesn't have too many worries. : "Don't forget, I have a background in acting in sad dramas. Although I haven't acted in that kind of little white flower who is full of despair in her fragility and clings to hope in despair for many years, I still haven't lost my professional skills. ”
Ran Anyu was born in a major. When she was young, she was a pretty little flower with a sense of story in her eyes. The film she became famous for was a drama about bitterness, and she has acted in many similar movies later. During this period, he chose to take a break because he got married and had children. However, a few years later, his marriage suffered changes and he came back again. However, her time has passed. After her comeback, most of her roles were supporting roles in movies and TV series.
However, the supporting roles she took on all had the same character, they were all career-oriented strong women in the style of a royal sister. If the lives of these characters were a dictionary, there would only be two words in it, "fighting" Strong and competitive" and "strategic", he is affectionately praised by fans as a "ruthless career machine".
Finally, after finishing the sesame biscuits, Shen Xun still did not agree. However, Liu Wangxue couldn't explain things like casting. He had to wait for the script to be completed before discussing it with Meng Luoqiu, so he made an appointment with the two teachers to send the script to them first. Then make the final decision.
The group of people sat and chatted in the private room for a while before calling the waiter to come over and pay. I'm really full, and I'm too lazy to move for the time being. I'll just sit there for a while, so I can eat.
Lou Rui still has some idol baggage: "Otherwise, it would be embarrassing if he was photographed while holding on to the wall."
The waiter responded, but did not come over immediately, so everyone started talking again Sit and wait. After a while, the manager came over with the foreman, followed by the waiter who answered the door just now. All three of them were carrying gift boxes.
The manager first exchanged greetings with everyone, asked how the meal was, and then said to Jing Yujun, who was sitting at the head table: "Your bill has been debited. These are gifts from our store to distinguished guests. The gift box is what you just ate. Those kinds of sauces, as well as the candied garlic, are all secretly made in the store and are only given away, not for sale." Jing Yujun was confused and asked the manager: "No, this is my first time here. Why do you become a distinguished guest when you eat?”
No one here answered easily, so the manager looked at Liu Wangxue.
Liu Wangxue explained to Jing Yujun: "My boyfriend's uncle's shop." He was still a little embarrassed.
Jing Yujun smiled and pointed at her: "It's not kind, and you didn't tell her in advance."
Several other people at the same table also made fun of Liu Wangxue.
“That’s not true!” Liu Wangxue defended, “I really didn’t know before!”
Everyone joked for a while, then got dressed, picked up their bags, took the gift boxes distributed by the three managers, and said thank you.
The gift box was not prepared for Liu Wangxue. When sending everyone downstairs, the manager said to Liu Wangxue: "Mr. Jiang said, you will stay in Beijing for a few days, so I won't be tired of carrying it." , I originally wanted to prepare it for you when you go back, but We were afraid that it would be inconvenient for you to bring it, so we took it upon ourselves to ask Mr. Xu for the address and sent it to your home. Mr. Jiang also said that these are not expensive things, but your parents didn't come with you this time. I'll send some back first so I can try them. "If you like it, please give me a call. We will send it to you at any time. When you come to Beijing for a visit in the future, I will invite you to the store to eat."
Liu Wangxue accepted this kindness: "It's too polite to cause trouble to you. I’ll thank my aunt again when I see her again.”
“No,” the manager’s eyes narrowed with a smile, “You’re welcome, that’s right.” (End of this chapter)< br>