Chapter 483: Hook to Huaxia
That night, Louis called Xiao Yao as promised. What Luis brought is good news, he has adjusted his schedule, and he can come over tomorrow to train Xiao Yao in diving.
The next day, when Luis came to the island of Pardo with his diving equipment to find Xiao Yao, he heard two pieces of news that were not so good for him.
First of all, according to Chen Xuan's shooting plan, today's shooting location is not on the beach by the sea, but at a waterfall surrounded by a rainforest in the center of the island, several kilometers away from the sea. Although there is also water under the waterfall, he and Xiao Yao's diving training is to be carried out in the sea, and it must not be changed to a waterhole under the waterfall. This also means that it seems difficult for them to see the models during the day.
To make matters worse, this time the shoot in Pardo only lasted two days. This evening, the entire filming crew will move to the last filming location, Vieques. Xiao Yao invited Louis to live with him, and his plan to be neighbors with the models seemed to be in vain.
Xiao Yao didn't care about this shooting at all, so he didn't know about Chen Xuan's shooting arrangements, and yesterday's conversation with Louis was a bit of a matter of course. Chen Xuan knew about these follow-up arrangements, and he also heard the conversation between Xiao Yao and Louis on the boat yesterday. But he saw that Xiao Yao was so interested in learning to dive, and he encouraged Louis vigorously, and he didn't open his mouth to tell the truth to dismantle Xiao Yao's platform.
As for what to do if Louis is deceived, that is a problem that Xiao Yao needs to solve, and Chen Xuan doesn't pay attention to it at all. Xiao Yao has been a human spirit since he was a child, and Chen Xuan believes that he must have a way to deal with Louis. Of course, even if it can't be done, it's Xiao Yao's own business, who made him completely ignore this shooting?
Although Louis is unlikely to regret Xiao Yao after agreeing to him, Xiao Yao does not want to give people the impression of a "liar". After learning these two news, he quickly made remedial measures after knowing Louis's purpose. Isn't it just that I want to see models? This is not a difficult thing for Xiao Yao.
First of all, I definitely didn't see the models when I was learning to dive today, but they didn't stay in the water all day, and the models didn't stay in the rainforest all day. The cabin is very well equipped, with both a bathroom and a kitchen, and the filming team has brought enough ingredients, so Xiao Yao decided to cook in the cabin by himself at noon and invite the models to come over for dinner. Louis, the diving instructor, will also participate in the dinner party at that time, so it is natural to feast your eyes.
As for not being able to get Louis to be neighbors with the models, there is no way to do it. However, Vieques was not far from the island of Puerto Rico, where San Juan was located, and after transferring to Vieques, he asked Luis to come to Vieques to continue teaching him diving. Vieques is inhabited, and the filming location is definitely still on the beach with fewer people. When the time comes, Louis's desire to see a supermodel can still be satisfied.
It was expected that he would go to Vieques Island to continue his diving training later, but Xiao Yao specially cooked and invited the models to dinner in order to let him see the beauties, and Louis was very moved. For this point, Louis also privately gifted Xiao Yao a free surfing lesson. Although Puerto Rico is not a surfing mecca and the waves on the beach are not big, it is enough to learn some basic surfing skills.
Hearing that Xiao Yao personally cooked and invited everyone to dinner, or invited all twelve models at the same time, the models happily agreed, and they all said that they wanted to see the cooking skills of this Chinese young man.
Xiao Yao and Luis met at 7 a.m. on Pado Island, set off for a three-hour dive in the sea, and then went back to their cabin to prepare lunch.
A small cabin could not accommodate more than a dozen people to eat at the same time, and a table could not put enough food for a dozen people, so Xiao Yao put the dining place in the open space outside the house. Not only did he move the table out of his house, but he also moved the table from the two cabins next door and placed it outside his house.
For lunch this time, Xiao Yao didn't ask the logistics staff of the filming team to help, and even Louis refused to help when he went to the wooden house next door to move the table. In the two hours from ten o'clock to twelve o'clock, Xiao Yao really made enough food for more than a dozen people to eat.
When it was time for the lunch break, not only did all the twelve models gather in front of Xiao Yao's cabin, but even Chen Xuan, the photographer, was uninvited. Seeing more than a dozen plates of food on three tables, a group of people all jumped their index fingers and rushed up with cheers.
There were only six chairs in total in the three wooden houses, which was obviously not enough for a dozen people to sit, and Xiao Yao didn't want to go farther to move chairs back and forth, so he made the lunch in the form of a buffet, and prepared a dozen plates and forks for everyone to use freely.
"It tastes good!"
"Delicious!"
"Jan, I didn't expect you to be a good cook. ”
Everyone ate happily, and the praise for Xiao Yao was endless.
"I don't have enough ingredients, so that's all I can do. Xiao Yao said modestly, "When you have the opportunity to go to Huaxia, I will take you to eat real food!"
The filming team purchased ingredients in San Juan, naturally based on local ingredients, and Xiao Yao did not make Chinese food, but looked up the recipes on the Internet and made them according to the local dishes taught on the Internet. After these things were made, Xiao Yao tried them himself, and the taste was definitely not bad, but it shouldn't be as good as the models said. Perhaps due to work, everyone has always been a fast food solution at noon, and it is rare to eat such a hearty meal at lunch, which invisibly amplifies the feeling of taste.
"Okay, when we have a chance to go to Huaxia, we will definitely go to you!" the models exclaimed with laughter.
"Fay, control your appetite. Tracy pointed to Fay, who was feasting, and exclaimed, "As a model, it's taboo to get out of shape!"
"Don't worry, I'll work out and burn it out!" Fay said indifferently, "Don't talk about me, you don't eat a lot yourself." ”
"The lunch break is only an hour, how do you consume it?The first person to shoot in the afternoon is you, if you eat a small belly, how can you take pictures?" Tracey smiled, "My shooting today is over, of course you can eat it open!"
"Huh?" Fay looked at the food on the plate, turned to Chen Xuan and shouted, "Tiel, I hate you!, why don't you let me shoot in the morning?"
"Huh?" Chen Xuan, who was enjoying eating, paused in surprise, and immediately shifted his artillery fire, "If you want to hate, you will also hate Yang! Who knew that he would invite everyone to lunch today." After speaking, Chen Xuan continued to bury his head in eliminating the food in his hand. As a photographer, his physical energy consumption is much greater than that of models.
"Hey, why did it become my fault to invite guests to dinner?" Xiao Yao said helplessly.
After a lively lunch, the filming team returned to the waterfall in the middle of the island to continue filming, and Xiao Yao and Louis also returned to the sea to continue their diving training.
By the end of the evening, both sides had finished their work. Luis sailed back to San Juan, while Xiao Yao sailed with the crew to Vieques.
At noon, Xiao Yao invited everyone to dinner and dinner, which was already a surprise to the models, and in the evening, the shooting team gave the models another surprise. After arriving in Vieques, the head of the shooting team told the models that there was a party for everyone tonight, with a band performing and some locals present. Hearing the news, the models naturally cheered again.
After dinner, everyone set off in several cars. As the translator, bodyguard and guide of the models, Xiao Yao naturally went with him.
Ten minutes later, everyone arrived at the location of the party. After getting out of the car, Xiao Yao found that in front of him was a large wooden house built on the beach not far from the sea. Outside the hut there is a large L-shaped wooden shed with many colored lights hanging from the roof, railings and pillars. The party should not have taken place in the wooden house, but under the large wooden shed, where many people were already sitting or standing.
Xiao Yao and Chen Xuan walked into the wooden shed with the models, while the shooting team behind them was looking for a place to set up cameras around. This party is obviously also an important part of future documentaries.
After discovering the arrival of the models and the shooting team, the people in the wooden shed let out a burst of cheers and greeted them with applause. However, everyone just laughed and applauded, but no one surrounded the models like fans chasing stars. This is a party prepared in advance, everyone has known that these supermodels are coming, and has also been given some behavioral instructions in advance. Therefore, the models, Xiao Yao and Chen Xuan were very free to move, and they each found something they were interested in to play.
Xiao Yao looked around and found that the short part of the space in the L-shaped wooden shed was where the band was located. The band includes modern instruments such as drums, keyboards, and bass, as well as local instruments such as the tambourine that I saw in San Juan the other day. The lead singer of the band is a guitarist with an acoustic guitar on his back and sings a lilting song in Spanish. Judging from the performance style of the band, this is not a rock band, it shows a full Latin style.
However, what attracted Xiao Yao the most in the studio was not the band, but a square table at the junction of the long and short sides. Xiao Yao was surprised to find that in this place and in this environment, there were actually several local old people sitting at the square table in the shed playing cards.
Let's talk about playing cards, because these locals play things that Xiao Yao has never seen before. It was a flat, rectangular white domino with different black dots on one side. Those black dots make this domino look a bit like a Chinese pai gow at first glance, but this domino is not only different in color from pai gow, but also in size and quantity. In addition, the gameplay is completely different from Pai Gow.
These dominoes are played on a square wooden plate on the table, the four sides of the wooden plate are an inclined plane, and there is a support below, and each person puts the dominoes in his hand obliquely on the inclined plane of the wooden disk in front of him, and the other three people cannot see it. Everyone picks up the dominoes in front of them and puts them in the middle of the table according to some rules, which is a bit like the "cards" in Huaxia mahjong. But compared to mahjong, this domino game is also very different, not only the number of dominoes is very different, but there seems to be no rules for drawing cards and eating and touching.
It's not just Xiao Yao who is attracted to this featured card game. When the models entered the wooden shed, some stood in front of the performing band, some scattered among the locals, and a few models gathered around the square table where the game of dominoes was played, and watched with great interest.
Several models stood by and watched for a while, and found that they seemed to be unable to read. Sally looked up and saw Xiao Yao also standing next to her, so she asked, "Yang, do you know how to play this?"
"Not before, but soon!" Xiao Yao replied.
"What do you mean?" said Sally, puzzled.
"It means that if I watch them play a few games, I should be able to learn it. Xiao Yao explained with a smile.
In fact, Xiao Yao can also directly ask the locals who are playing. However, seeing that the few locals who were playing were all gray-haired old people, I was afraid that people would not be able to speak clearly, and I didn't want to disturb others, so I simply watched it myself.
"Bragging!" Sally said, rolling her eyes in disbelief.
"I'll show you in a moment!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"I'll wait!" Sally said.
"Sir, can you let me try?" After watching two more rounds, Xiao Yao leaned over to an old man in front of him and said.
"Yes. The old man didn't ask Xiao Yao if he would, so he stood up happily.
"Thank you!" Xiao Yao thanked him, sat down in the old man's place, and "fought" with the other three.
"Did you really learn so quickly?" several models were dumbfounded.
After Xiao Yao sat down, the actions of "shuffling the cards" and "touching the cards" were all done decently, and the speed of "playing the cards" was also very fast, and there was almost no hesitation. The three locals next to him did not point out Xiao Yao's mistakes, and there was no strangeness in their expressions to "shield" Xiao Yao, and several models could easily see that Xiao Yao had really learned and played with others.
"Young, teach me, I'm going to play too!" Sally said immediately after a round.
"I'm going to play too!" said the other two models.
"Gentlemen, can you let them try it too?" Xiao Yao said to the other three locals.
"Of course!" the other three happily moved out of the way.
"Oh yes!" the three models sat down happily.
"Let me tell you about the rules of this first. Xiao Yao said to the threesome who sat down.
The gameplay of this thing is actually not complicated, although several models don't understand it very well, but after Xiao Yao's explanation, it immediately became clear and quickly figured it out.
"It's a lot of fun! I'm going to buy a pair to take home and teach my family and friends to play with. After a few rounds, Sally happily announced.
Xiao Yao pursed his lips when he heard this, smiled and shook his head. This domino game is very simple, and its fun is much worse than that of Chinese mahjong and pai gow. Xiao Yao played a few games, and as soon as the novelty passed, he was no longer interested. This is also because there are three beautiful models at the same table, and Xiao Yao has been patient to play with them until now. If it was still those local old people just now, Xiao Yao would have gotten up and left a long time ago. Listening to Sally shout how interesting this game was, Xiao Yao naturally couldn't agree.
"Yang, why are you shaking your head?" Sally sat opposite Xiao Yao, very keenly aware of Xiao Yao's movements, and asked Xiao Yao curiously.
"It's nothing," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I just thought that we have a kind of entertainment called "mahjong" in Huaxia, which is also played by four people, and there are more than a hundred cards in total, which is much more complicated than this, and of course it is much more interesting." ”
"Mahjong"? More than a hundred cards, how to play it?" Sally said with interest.
"There is no 'mahjong' here, and it's hard to explain it that way. Xiao Yao said, "When you have the opportunity to go to Huaxia, I will teach you!"
"Yes!" Sally said with a smile and a nod.
"Speaking of Huaxia food at noon, and Huaxia mahjong at night, are you going to hook them all to Huaxia?" Chen Xuan didn't know where to get out, patted Xiao Yao's shoulder and smiled.
"Why not?" Xiao Yao turned around and smiled, "Huaxia has a very long history, and now the economy is developing very well, with islands, rainforests, deserts, grasslands, plateaus and other natural scenery, which is originally a good place to go." Actually, I think that the next time Eva asks you to shoot a swimsuit special, you can suggest that Eva go to China to shoot. Don't forget, you're also half Chinese!"
"I'm only half of the Chinese bloodline, but you're all of them!" Chen Xuan said with a smile, "If you want to suggest, when Eva asks you to shoot a swimsuit special, you can go and suggest to Eva's senior management yourself." ”
"I agree!" Sally immediately raised her hand.
"I agree!" the two models echoed with a smile.
I don't know if they said that they agreed to go to Huaxia to shoot the swimsuit special next time they filmed it or that they agreed that the swimsuit special would be filmed by Xiao Yao, or maybe it was both? In fact, none of them have been to Huaxia, and after getting along with Xiao Yao, a Chinese young man, they not only have a good impression of Xiao Yao and are very interested, but also full of curiosity about the country that raised Xiao Yao.
"Come on, Eva won't be looking for me to shoot a swimsuit special. Xiao Yao shook his head with a smile and said, "Even if they really find me, I don't have the ability of you to take this project forward." This kind of project, I can do a miscellaneous job at most!"
"You have it!" Chen Xuan unceremoniously debunked Xiao Yao and said, "I don't know your other skills, don't I know my photography ability?