Chapter 37 Finale and return to Beijing
February 22, 2002.
It was just after the lunch rush hour in the restaurant, and Mrs. Lin was lying on the counter to recuperate when she heard the glass door creak and be pushed open.
"Welcome, may I ask..."
Sister-in-law Lin reflexively spoke in clichés, but she looked up and saw two familiar smiling faces: "Xiao Xu, Bao Qiang, are you back from Shanxi?!"
"Yeah, I finally came back without any danger."
Xu Kun said, placing a large bag of millet at the door, and Bao Qiang also put down a box of Fenjiu with a naive smile.
Seeing this, Mrs. Lin hurriedly walked out from behind the counter and said repeatedly: "Come back as soon as you come back. What else are you bringing? Take it away quickly, or your brother Lin will scold me again!"
Xu Kun smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, the wine is here to drink with Brother Lin. You send half of the millet to the elderly at home, and we make porridge for the rest - the yellow millet, a specialty of Shanxi, is very good for the stomach."
"Look at you..."
"Let's go, let's put our luggage away first, and then come back to meet Brother Lin and sister-in-law."
Xu Kun waved his hand carelessly and led Baoqiang around to the small courtyard at the back.
When I entered the courtyard, I saw that the door of the civil engineer's house was wide open, and there was a tall and thin young man talking casually to the landlord under the eaves.
By the looks of it, the house probably hasn't been rented out yet.
"Hey~"
Seeing Xu Kun and Bao Qiang coming in from the outside, the landlord slapped his plump thighs, half excited and half complaining: "You two are finally back. You have been gone for only three months, and it is said that the weather in our capital is dry. But it won’t work if there’s no one to clean up the house!”
This is because I am afraid that the house will be abandoned.
Xu Kun was just about to say something perfunctory when he met the eyes of the tall and thin man. This was another handsome guy full of literary youth temperament, but he seemed to be more recognizable than Pan Yueming.
Xu Kunzheng felt that this man looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere. Baoqiang suddenly pointed at him excitedly and said: "Brother Kun, he is his son, he is his son!"
Xu Kun quickly pressed his hand down, but after this reminder, he remembered where he had seen this person.
So I asked tentatively: "Are you the one who played the son in "That Man, That Mountain, That Dog"?"
It’s no wonder that Xu Kun didn’t recognize it at first, mainly because he didn’t look at it seriously at the time and couldn’t help but think about the fighting situation of the civil engineering guy next door.
The tall and thin man heard that the two people were talking about "That Man, That Mountain, That Dog". For some reason, he was visibly relieved. He stretched out his hand to Xu Kun and said, "Liu Ye, the son in the play is indeed played by me."
In "That Man, That Mountain, That Dog", the names of the two protagonists are never revealed from beginning to end, so they can only be referred to as father and son.
"My name is Xu Kun, and this is Wang Baoqiang."
Xu Kun shook hands with him, introduced himself first, then introduced Baoqiang, and finally said with a smile: "What a coincidence, we are both actors, and we just shot a movie related to the mining disaster in Shanxi."
Liu Ye, who had just withdrawn his hand, was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled and said: "That's really a coincidence."
With that said, he reached out to Baoqiang again.
"What a coincidence?"
At this time, a young girl came out of the room and frowned slightly when she saw a dark baby face holding Liu Ye's hand and shaking it up and down with excitement.
Liu Ye took out his hand, turned around and said with a smile: "PIPI, these two people next door are also from the industry. They just came back from filming a movie in Shanxi."
"oh."
After hearing this, the girl named PIPI's brows did not relax, but instead furrowed even tighter.
When Xu Kun saw this, he gave Bao Qiang a hand and said with a smile: "We still have to go back to the house to put our luggage, so I won't disturb you to see the house."
"Then let's talk later."
Liu Ye nodded friendly, watched the two of them enter the next door, and then said to his girlfriend: "What did you see just now? If you think it's suitable, rent it."
The girl ignored her boyfriend and turned to the landlord to ask about Xu Kun and Bao Qiang.
"You're talking about the two of them. They are just walk-ons. I heard that one plays the role of a Japanese devil and the other works as a stand-in. However, it seems that he has taken on a big job recently..." After hearing what the landlord said, PIPI immediately said: "It's almost done. Let's discuss it when we go back."
With that said, he pulled Liu Ye out.
When they arrived at the alley outside, Liu Ye asked strangely: "Didn't you say that the environment around here is okay? Why did you say no again?"
PIPI said confidently: "Didn't I know at that time that there were two walk-ons living next door? If they invite reporters, we can't survive?"
Liu Ye disagreed: "It's not necessarily that..."
"How do you know they won't do it when people's hearts are so far apart? It's no better than it used to be. You're the new Golden Horse Best Actor!"
At the end of 2001, Liu Ye won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for "Lan Yu". It was precisely because of their recent fame and fortune that the two of them thought about changing to a better rental house.
Liu Ye still felt that his girlfriend was making too much fuss, but thinking about the last time she went to pick up the plane, she was squeezed into a corner by reporters and fans chasing her, and her mood was not very stable when she came back, so she said nothing.
Anyway, they are just two walk-ons, and they may not meet again in the future.
…………
Let’s go back to the rental house.
Baoqiang entered the room and put down his luggage, and couldn't help but feel a little excited: "Brother Kun, if they move next door, if we don't understand anything in the future, can we ask him for advice?"
He had taken advantage of Li Yixiang, so he thought about getting the first-come-first-served position in the nearby water tower.
"That's enough."
Xu Kun collapsed on the bed as if he was boneless, closing his eyes and saying: "That so-and-so Pipi is obviously wary of us. Liu Ye found out that we knew him because of "That Man, That Mountain, That Dog", and he was obviously relieved. , There’s probably something hidden here.”
"What are you hiding?"
"Probably a love triangle, underground love or something like that."
Xu Kun said nonchalantly, took out his cell phone and threw it to Bao Qiang: "You will know exactly what happened if you call and ask Brother Chen. You can just give him a peace of mind and let him and Uncle Wang take care of it." Find you a job."
Xu Kun was able to join the crew of "Thirteen Princesses" this time entirely because of Li Xiaolu's relationship. Naturally, he was embarrassed to bring Bao Qiang with him.
Baoqiang dialed the phone, and not long after, he suddenly exclaimed: "Brother Kun, that Liu Ye was the Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards last year!"
"What?!"
Xu Kun got up quickly. Are he and the Golden Horse Award so destined? I have only been in the industry for more than half a year, and I have already met a movie queen and a movie king. Does this bode well for my future...
"Brother Kun."
At this time, Baoqiang peeked out through the crack of the door for a while and said hesitantly: "Those two people seem to have left."
Gone?
After learning that Liu Ye was the Golden Horse Best Actor, Xu Kun also changed his mind and hoped that Liu Ye could move next door. There was no need to ask for advice. Xu Kun mainly wanted to give it a try to see how far he was from the Golden Horse Best Actor. .
He pushed the door open and went out, asking the fat landlord who was locking the door next door: "What did the young couple say just now, do you want to rent it or not?"
"What to rent?"
The fat landlord said angrily: "I heard that you two were part-timers, so you raised your butt and left!"
After saying that, he left with a sullen face.
Tsk~
After being looked down upon by the Golden Horse Best Actress, is he being disliked by the Golden Horse Best Actor again?
Seeing the smile on Xu Kun's face disappear, Bao Qiang awkwardly smoothed things over and said, "Maybe he's not satisfied with this house."
"Haha~"
Xu Kun twitched the corner of his mouth noncommittally, and then said with full of fighting spirit: "Come on, let's take a shower and get clean. I can report to the crew of "Thirteen Princesses" tomorrow!"
What about the Golden Horse Best Actor?
It’s not certain who will be more open in the future!
(End of chapter)