Chapter 026: A Phone Call
With the arrival of the Lunar New Year holiday, the crew of "Love Apartment" has also taken a holiday in accordance with the national statutory holidays.
Generally speaking, the end of the year is the busiest time for people in the entertainment industry, but this rule is obviously not suitable for a crew like "Love Apartment".
Few of those rookies have ever experienced the days when they had to spend the New Year in the crew, and if they were forced to stay, God knows if they would rebel.
What's more, even if you hang yourself, you have to take a breath first......
So Li Mo waved his hand and directly gave everyone in the crew 10 days of vacation.
It is said to be 10 days, but in fact, it is two days off in advance, one day late to start work, plus the statutory seven days.
As the producer of the crew, Zong Shuai will naturally express his dissatisfaction with any behavior that may lead to the extension of the completion time, but when Li Mo promised that he would take three days of vacation to accompany him to run the release, Zong Shuai's dissatisfaction disappeared.
After the staff was almost gone, Li Mo sent an invitation to the leading actors who were celebrating the Spring Festival alone, inviting them to have dinner in the small building that still belongs to Li Mo, which should be the annual meeting of the crew.
Moreover, Li Mo also made a special statement that there were special surprises at the annual meeting.
Sun Yizhou, as the senior of the Modu Drama Academy and the eldest brother of the crew, is still very interesting, he was not only the first to stand up and accept the invitation, but also said that he would bring his family to attend.
At such times, there is a significant difference in the degree of attention between appearing alone and bringing family members to attend.
Although Chen Chichi's home is in Hujian, since he graduated, he entered the Magic City Drama Art Center and settled his home in the Magic City, and he also said that he would participate on time.
Lou Yixiao was born in the three eastern provinces, originally planned to go home for the New Year, but at this time there was no air ticket, so he planned to leave after Chinese New Year's Eve, because at that time not only there were tickets but also discounts.
It's also a shame that she can live so economically.
Fat Di is still in her freshman year, although her family does not lack that amount of air ticket money, but because the crew did not inform her holiday plan in advance, she did not book a ticket, she wanted to stay in the dormitory to watch TV, but she was dragged by Lou Yixiao to participate.
Li Jinming and Wang Chuanjun had already asked for leave and left before. It is said that the respective agents arranged auditions for them.
However, Li Mo was not worried that they would default because of the schedule.
Zong Shuai needed to go back to the imperial capital first, but he didn't say whether he would be able to catch up with this small gathering.
Li Mo felt that Zong Shuai was looking for a suitable reason to go down the steps......
It's not that Zong Shuai doesn't want to go to Li Mo's party, but the eldest of the leading actors in "Love Apartment", Sun Yizhou, is only twenty-eight years old, and Fat Di is just eighteen.
Zong Shuai is a few years older than them, and he still has the name of a producer, if he appears at the party, it is easy to stiffen the atmosphere of the party, it is better to let Li Mo, who is about the same age, come forward and have more common topics with them.
After arranging everything, Li Mo sent Zong Shuai to the airport first.
When passing the intersection, Zong Shuai suddenly said, "When you celebrate the New Year, don't you go back to see your uncle?"
"Huh?" Li Mo looked at Zong Shuai with some surprise, he had never asked himself about this aspect before.
Zong Shuai vaguely knew that there were some problems between Li Mo's father and son, but he never gave Li Mo any advice in this regard.
It is also normal, it is difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs.
What's more, he is just Li Mo's agent, and their relationship before was not close enough to talk about these things.
Is this taking the wrong medicine today?
Zong Shuai understood Li Mo's reaction as unhappy, and he pointed to an old man pushing a large bag of New Year's goods on the zebra crossing in front of him, "Xiaomo, father and son don't have an overnight feud, not to mention that you can't talk about the degree of enmity." Listen to my advice, it won't take much time to make a phone call. ”
Li Mo's parents divorced very early before the crossing, and he grew up with his mother.
Since he was a child, there was no role of a father in his world, and when his mother also left him, he never experienced the taste of family affection again.
One person endures hardships, one person works hard, one person succeeds, one person crosses, Li Mo in his previous life always used all kinds of things to occupy his time, so as not to think or face some things, but just keep telling himself in his heart that you want to succeed......
"Li Mo, Li Mo?" Seeing that Li Mo was stiff in place like this, without any response to his words, after Zong Shuai pushed Li Mo hard, Li Mo squeezed out a "uh" sound from his throat in response, and then grinned and showed a smile that was difficult to see, pointing to the traffic light opposite the intersection with his finger, "Zong...... Brother Zong, it's a green light. ”
"I can see that I'm not blind. Zong Shuai rolled his eyes and replied helplessly.
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Li Mo watched Zong Shuai walk into the waiting hall with his luggage, and instead of driving home directly, he turned on his mobile phone and looked at the phone number number in the address book, but he had no impression in his mind, if it weren't for the separately classified "father" tag in the address book, he would not have thought of the relationship between the person behind the number and himself.
It can be seen that even the "predecessor Li Mo" has probably not dialed this phone number for a long time.
After hesitating for a long time, Li Mo finally pressed the dial button, and when the sound of "beep-beep-toot-" in the handset of the mobile phone rang, Li Mo even had the feeling that what he was holding in his hand was not a phone, but a red-hot iron.
He could barely resist the urge to throw the phone out the window, to a place where he could no longer see.
Just when he wanted to press the hang up button, the phone was actually connected, and a rough and deep voice came from the earpiece, "Hey, I'm Li Hansheng, who is it?"
When Li Mo heard this voice, his mind instantly became blank, his mouth was wide open, his lips trembled slightly, but he didn't say a word for the first one or two seconds. It wasn't until the voice that came from the earpiece again became a little impatient that two words popped out of his mouth with difficulty, "Dad?"
"Xiaomo?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded very unexpected, and it seemed that it was unbelievable to receive a call from Li Mo at this time, "What's the matter?"
"Yes...... That's right, it's the Spring Festival in two days. Li Mo didn't expect that on this day when there were still two days before the Spring Festival, there would be people who would not know the other party's intentions when they received a call from his son.
"Well, I know when it's the Spring Festival, and then what? Is there something going on?" Li Hansheng replied in a rough voice, even through the phone Li Mo could hear the impatience in his tone, and the other party saw that he didn't get an answer, so he continued to ask in that impatient tone, "So what do you mean by calling?"
"I just wanted to ask if you have any arrangements for your Chinese New Year's Eve dinner...... Li Mo now felt more and more that making this call was a mistake, and he simply felt that he couldn't communicate with the person on the other side at all.
"There was no arrangement, as in previous years, I ate by myself. When he heard this sentence, Li Mo was directly blinded, because the amount of information in this sentence was really a bit large. Could it be that the "predecessor" has not been home for many years to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together?
"Well, actually, I wanted to ask if you would like to come to me and ...... with me" Li Mo was a little overwhelmed by the indifferent tone in his words, he was just persuaded by Zong Shuai, he simply wanted to make a phone call and try to see if he could ease the bad father-son relationship a little, but it seemed that the other party didn't care more than himself, but he still decided to try to explain his current situation again: "I have bought a small house now, and I plan to invite a few friends from the crew to my place to ...... together"
"Hehe, I bought a house, what did you say...... Director?" Although Li Hansheng's voice was transmitted by the radio waves, the disdain in his tone did not weaken in the slightest.
Li Mo knew from the memories left behind that this "father" liked skilled workers or skills with actual skills, but he really didn't expect that there would be such a big gap between the views and attitudes of the two sides about his current work.
From the tone of the other party, he could feel that even if he was holding a welding torch and screwing a bolt in a small street factory, the other party would feel more noble and real than talking about business with people in a big hotel.
The gap in awareness between the two sides is even greater than the distance between the two sides of the Pacific.
"Yes, director, I invested in the TV series myself. Li Mo's tone involuntarily rose, "And you'll see it broadcast on many channels soon, you ......"
"It sounds amazing, but I don't know what it has to do with me. The other side didn't wait for Li Mo to finish speaking, and hung up the phone directly.
Li Mo was stunned as he looked at the mobile phone that kept coming out of the busy sound, although he was mentally prepared that this communication would not go smoothly, but he never thought that things would turn out like this.
Combined, they said less than ten sentences.
A stream of blood rushed straight to Li Mo's forehead, at this minute, he didn't want to care about anything, he didn't want to pay attention to anything, he just wanted the person who answered the phone just now to know the breath he was holding in his heart.
So he dialed that number again, because he felt like his head was going to blow up if he didn't.
"What the hell is the matter with you?!" As soon as the phone was connected, Li Hansheng's impatient voice came, Li Mo simply didn't wait for him to continue talking, and directly opened a breath, "I'll call you for one thing, it's almost the New Year, and I plan to invite friends who work together to my house for a meal." If you want to come, I'll introduce you to them, and if you don't, that's up to you. ”
"Also, although I mortgaged the house I bought back with my hard work to make money, I am very confident in the TV series I am filming now, and I believe that it can be sold for a good price. So even if I don't have much money now, it doesn't mean that I won't have money in the future. ”
"In the end, whether I have money or not, I will not open my mouth to you, not before, not now, not in the future!"
Li Mo crackled a lot of words at a speed comparable to that of a machine gun, and these words directly completely overshadowed the voice on the other side.
"It's over?" After waiting for a few seconds, the voice that made Li Mo almost explode came unhurriedly, as if the target of Li Mo's bunch of words just now was not himself at all, "So, what do you want? Do you want me to go and give the future Director Li Da a platform? I tell you, I have never and will never regret that incident, let alone expect me to apologize to you for that incident." The scenario you wish for, or rather the fantasy of, is unlikely to happen in this lifetime. Chinese New Year's Eve dinner or something, for me there is no difference between a normal dinner. So be it. Are you okay? If you're alright......"
Feeling that the other side seemed to be about to hang up the phone, Li Mo hurriedly asked the last question, "After so many years, are you still looking for my mother?"
Li Mo's words immediately made the other side silent, the silence lasted for almost ten seconds, Li Mo picked up the phone to confirm whether the phone had no signal, just as he was about to say something, the opposite suddenly broke out, Li Hansheng said word by word in a tone that could almost be called gritted teeth, "You should remember that I said, that woman is not your mother, she is not worthy of you to call her "Mom", if you still want to recognize me as "Dad", never mention that woman in front of me." ”
After a pause, Li Hansheng calmed down his emotions a little, and continued to speak: "Also, although you didn't call today to say New Year's greetings, at least you called, so I'll treat you as if you gave me New Year's greetings." You do your own thing, my body is much better than before after the operation, you don't have to worry about me. After saying these words, without waiting for Li Mo to make any reaction, he hung up the phone again.
A hurried busy sound sounded in his ears, Li Mo looked at the mobile phone in his hand, and didn't know what to react to for a while.
What happens to the surgery?
After a long time, he slammed the steering wheel in front of him, and there was a muffled sound where his fist touched the steering wheel.
It seems that the relationship between the "predecessor Li Mo" and his parents is even worse than he imagined, and there is no reason for the divorce of Li Hansheng and his wife in his memory. But since they divorced when Li Mo was ten years old, there has been no trace of the existence of 'mother' in his life, let alone any situation where his mother took the initiative to contact "Li Mo".
It seems that the "predecessor Li Mo" first suffered the impact of his parents' divorce when he was a child, and fell out with Li Hansheng a few years ago, but now not only has he not had contact with his mother for more than ten years, but the relationship with Li Hansheng is only slightly better than "like a stranger".
It's no wonder that in the memories inherited at that time, the impression of parents was so thin.
It is no wonder that in the memories inherited at that time, the impression of "home" was so cold.
Now it seems that even if Li Mo takes the initiative to repair his relationship at this time, it is estimated that the best result will only be an unhappy breakup, and maybe he will be swept out of the house directly.
For Li Mo now, this may be considered good news, because at least there is not a lot of messy family relationships that he needs to deal with.
Li Mo really wanted to tell himself in his mind: Anyway, they are just the parents of the "predecessor", and I am just a stranger who has crossed over from a parallel world, and those messy interpersonal relationships are not the best.
But in his previous life, he worked hard for many years, and the lack of family care made it difficult for him to use such empty language to blind himself.
Perhaps, what he expects is not so far away......
Who knows......