Chapter 37: Return to Beijing
February 2002, 2.
The lunch rush hour at the restaurant had just passed and Mrs. Lin was leaning on the counter to rest when she heard the glass door creak and be pushed open.
"Welcome, may I ask..."
Mrs. Lin spoke in a reflexive tone, but when she looked up she saw two familiar smiling faces: "Xiao Xu, Bao Qiang, you are back from Shanxi?!"
"Yeah, I finally got back safely."
As Xu Kun spoke, he put a large bag of millet at the door, and Baoqiang also put down a box of Fenjiu with a silly smile.
Seeing this, Mrs. Lin hurriedly came out from behind the counter and said repeatedly, "You guys are back, so come back. What else did you bring? Take it away quickly, or your brother Lin will scold me again!"
Xu Kun smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, the wine is for Brother Lin to drink together. You can send half of the millet to the elderly at home, and we can cook the rest into porridge - the yellow millet is a specialty of Shanxi, and it is very good for the stomach."
"Look at you..."
"Let's go, let's pack our luggage first, and then come back to meet Brother Lin and his wife."
Xu Kun waved his hand casually and took Baoqiang to the small courtyard at the back.
When I entered the yard, I saw that the door of the civil engineer's house was wide open. There was a tall and thin young man chatting with the landlord under the eaves.
It seems that the house has not been rented out yet.
"Hey~"
Seeing Xu Kun and Bao Qiang coming in, the landlord slapped his fat thighs and said with a mixture of excitement and complaint: "You two are finally back. You've been gone for nearly three months. It's said that the weather in our capital is dry, but it's not good for no one to clean the house!"
This is because they are afraid of leaving the house unused.
Just when Xu Kun was about to say something perfunctory, he made eye contact with the tall and thin man. This was another handsome guy with a literary and artistic temperament, but he seemed more recognizable than Pan Yueming.
Xu Kun was thinking that this man looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before. Suddenly, Bao Qiang pointed at him excitedly and said, "Brother Kun, it's my son, he is my son!"
Xu Kun quickly pressed his hand down, but after this reminder, he also remembered where he had seen this man before.
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 him at first. The main reason was that he didn’t look carefully at the time and couldn’t help but imagine the battle situation of the civil engineer next door.
When the tall and thin man heard that the two were talking about That Man, That Mountain, That Dog, he was obviously relieved for some reason, and stretched out his hand to Xu Kun and said, "Liu Ye, I am indeed the one who plays the son in the play."
In "That Man, That Mountain, That Dog", the names of the two protagonists were 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 Baoqiang, and finally said with a smile: "What a coincidence, we are both actors, and we just shot a movie about mining disasters in Shanxi."
Liu Ye, who had just withdrawn his hand, was stunned when he heard this, then he smiled and said, "That's really a coincidence."
As he said this, he reached out to Baoqiang again.
"What's a coincidence?"
At this time, a young girl came out of the house. She had a dark baby face and was holding Liu Ye's hand and shaking it up and down with excitement. She couldn't help but frowned slightly.
Liu Ye pulled his hand away, turned around and said with a smile: "PIPI, the two people next to you are also in the circle. They just came back from filming a movie in Shanxi."
"Oh."
After hearing this, the girl named PIPI's brows not only did not relax, but they frowned even tighter.
Seeing this, Xu Kun pulled Baoqiang and said with a smile, "We still have to go back to the house to put away our luggage, so we won't disturb you from looking at the house."
"Then let's talk about it later."
Liu Ye nodded in a friendly manner and watched them go into the next room. Then he said to his girlfriend, "What do you think of the place you just saw? If you think it's suitable, rent it."
The girl ignored her boyfriend and turned to ask the landlord about Xu Kun and Bao Qiang.
"You mean the two of them? They are just extras. I heard that one always plays the Japanese devils and the other is a stand-in. But recently it seems that they got a big job..." After hearing what the landlord said, Pipi immediately said, "It's almost enough. Let's go back and discuss it."
Having said that, he pulled Liu Ye out.
When they got to the alley outside, Liu Ye asked curiously, "Didn't you say the environment around here was OK? Why did you deny it again?"
PIPI said confidently: "At that time, I didn't know that there were two extras living next door. If they invited reporters here, would we be able to survive?"
Liu Ye disagreed: "They may not be..."
"People's hearts are hidden in their stomachs. How do you know they won't? Things are different now. You are the newly crowned Golden Horse Award winner!"
At the end of 01, Liu Ye won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for his role in "Lan Yu". It was precisely because of his recent fame and fortune that the two of them thought about moving to a better rental house.
Liu Ye still felt that his girlfriend was making a big deal out of nothing, but when he thought about the last time she went to the airport to pick him up and was pushed into a corner by reporters and fans chasing after her, she became emotionally unstable when she came back, so he stopped talking.
Anyway, they are just two extras and I may not meet them again in the future.
…………
Let’s go back to the rental house.
Baoqiang went into the house and put down his luggage. He couldn't help but get excited: "Brother Kun, if they move next door, can we ask him for advice if we don't understand something in the future?"
He had tasted the sweetness of Li Yixiang, so he was thinking about getting the upper hand by being close to him.
"That's enough."
Xu Kun collapsed on the bed like a boneless person, and said with his eyes closed: "That Pi Pi is obviously wary of us. Liu Ye was obviously relieved when he found out that we knew him because of "That Man, That Mountain, That Dog". There must be something hidden behind this."
"What are you hiding?"
"It's probably a love triangle, an underground affair, or something like that."
Xu Kun said nonchalantly, took out his cell phone and threw it to Baoqiang: "You can find out the details by calling Brother Chen. It's a good opportunity to let him know that you are safe, and let him and Uncle Wang find a job for you."
The reason Xu Kun was able to join the crew of "The Thirteenth Princess" this time was entirely thanks to Li Xiaolu's relationship, so naturally he felt embarrassed to bring Bao Qiang along.
Baoqiang dialed the number and soon he suddenly exclaimed, "Brother Kun, that Liu Ye was the best actor at last year's Golden Horse Awards!"
"What?!"
Xu Kun got up quickly. Was he so destined to win the Golden Horse Awards? He had only been in the industry for more than half a year, but he had already met a queen and an emperor. Did this indicate that he would also win in the future?
"Brother Kun."
At this time, Baoqiang peeked out through the crack in the door for a while and said hesitantly, "It seems that the two people have left."
gone?
After learning that Liu Ye was the Golden Horse Award winner, Xu Kun changed his mind and hoped that Liu Ye could move next door - no need to ask for advice, Xu Kun mainly wanted to give it a try and see how much of a gap there was between him and the Golden Horse Award winner.
He pushed the door open and asked the fat landlord who was locking the door next door, "What did the young couple say just now? Do you want to rent it?"
"What are you renting?"
The fat landlord said angrily: "People heard that you two were just extras, so you just walked away!"
After saying that, he also walked away with a stern face.
Tsk~
After being looked down upon by the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, now he is being disdained by the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor?
Seeing the smile on Xu Kun's face fade away, Bao Qiang awkwardly tried to smooth things over: "Maybe he is not satisfied with this house."
"Haha~"
Xu Kun curled his lips noncommittally, then said with full fighting spirit: "Come on, let's go take a bath and wash it thoroughly, so that I can report to the crew of "The Thirteenth Princess" tomorrow!"
So what if he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor?
It’s still uncertain who will be more successful in the future!
(End of this chapter)
