"Hi Elizabeth!"

"Hi, Hall. ”

After getting off the double-decker bus, Elizabeth McCullough walked forward on her own, but she couldn't stand someone taking the initiative to greet her. Barely an acquaintance, a neighbor who lives in a neighborhood, and a few years of classmates when he was a child.

He seemed to be waiting for someone, but decided not to wait, and walked in the direction of the block with Elizabeth, Elizabeth didn't notice anything different, and subconsciously talked to the other party, "Have you seen any interesting books or movies lately? ”

Hall shrugged, "No! You know, I've got a bit of a tricky taste. I'm waiting for the second part of "Jurassic Park", however, I'm not optimistic. ”

Elizabeth turned her head to look at him, smiled the most beautifully, and said familiarly, "You just like dinosaurs!"

Hall shrugged, "Yes. But who isn't?"

Elizabeth shook her head with a smile and strode forward.

She thought it was just a casual conversation, but she didn't notice the admiration that occasionally came into Hall's eyes—people are like that, in some places, not as smart as they are, but in others they are dull and unresponsive.

The two of them walked briskly back to the block, Hall was a little anxious, as if he had always wanted to express something, but he was a little shy, and that reserve made him unable to open his mouth for something.

So, he had no choice but to find something to say.

"Supposedly you're learning Chinese?"

"Yes! A professional Chinese training institution, summer school!"

"Wow, Chinese! a strange language!"

Elizabeth looked back at him in surprise, smiled, and disagreed, "It's a beautiful language!"

Hall shrugged and didn't speak.

On Elizabeth's recommendation, he went to see "Once Upon a Time's Boy", and to be honest, apart from the fights that were really a bit unique and a little attractive, he really didn't think there was anything good about that movie.

Soon arriving at Hall's house, Elizabeth subconsciously waved at him, "Goodbye Hall!"

"Goodbye!" Hale replied, standing still, but speaking quickly, "Hey, Elizabeth!"

Elizabeth stood and turned around.

"Uh......" Hall hesitated for a moment and said, "China Qianxin has released an album, although it is only sung in Chinese, but I know you like his songs, so I helped you audition, great!"

Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, as if she suddenly understood something, and suddenly laughed and nodded, "OK!

Hall seemed slightly embarrassed, but still asked: "I know that China Qian's new movie will be released next week, I think if it ......"

"I'm afraid not!"

Before he could finish speaking, Elizabeth shook her head with a smile and said, "I'm going to accompany my parents to see it! So, I'm sorry, Hall......! I think you can go with Anna, and as far as I know, she has a crush on you! And I can guarantee that this movie will be very good!"

Hall smiled reluctantly when he heard this, and as he watched Elizabeth walk away, he couldn't help but ask loudly: "How do you know that this movie will definitely be good!"

Elizabeth walked and laughed, without looking back, but said: "You are my friend of China Qian, so I personally experienced the filming of this movie!"

The joke was good, and Hall was amused.

Although everyone knows that Elizabeth has a father who is a master of cinema, it is still too funny.

…………

When she got home, she put down her backpack, said hello to her mother, went into the kitchen, and saw that lunch was ready, Elizabeth picked up a piece of peeled apple and threw it into her mouth, and asked, "Do you need help, Mom?"

Helena smiled, "No need. ”

After a pause, he added, "Your father is sitting in the back." ”

The mother and daughter exchanged glances, and Elizabeth nodded, walked out of the kitchen, and walked to the back.

Pushing open the door, James McCullough was sitting in the shadows at the back of the house, wearing a casual T-shirt and shorts on the bottom, with his pipe in his mouth.

In the smoke, he looked back and said, "Oh, baby. ”

Elizabeth walked over and sat down on a wicker chair next to her, trying to snuggle up comfortably, but in the last two years, as she had swayed upwards, it had become more and more difficult for her to snuggle up the old wicker chair.

"Hey, Dad. How's the morning talking?"

James took a puff of his cigarette, raised his arm, and shook it, "You know...... Ah, those guys, uh-huh! You know, baby!"

Elizabeth shrugged, "Isn't the master okay either?"

James burst out laughing when he heard this, and a wisp of smoke choked in his throat, causing him to cough violently, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, "Master?"

James shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "Unless the master agrees to only take the director's salary, not the copyright, and the master's shooting must be restricted by the producer, otherwise, the master is not worth the investment!"

Elizabeth pouted.

James McCullough took another puff of his cigarette and exhaled slowly through his nostrils before saying, "Don't talk about that." Baby, how was the morning class?"

Elizabeth said, "Wow, that's great! It's just a little slow, and we only learned one poem in one morning." But you know, it's useless for me to make suggestions, the teacher said that the learning progress of the vast majority of students needs to be taken care of, but today, the teacher randomly checked the homework that was specially assigned to me last time, and praised me!"

James McCullough let out a "hmm" and asked, "Sounds good." What poetry did you learn?"

Elizabeth sat up straight when she heard this, and said solemnly: "A poem that is said to come from an ancient poem a thousand years ago, the work of a great poet during the Tang Dynasty in China. ”

After finishing speaking, she recited fluently in Chinese, "The drum breaks the pedestrian line, and the sound of a goose on the autumn side." The dew is white from tonight, and the moon is the hometown of Ming. There are brothers who are scattered, and there is no home to ask about life and death. The length of the letter is not reached, and the army has not ceased to be suspended. ”

Then he explained in English: "The general meaning of this poem is that the border pass is still at war, and the war is together, and the traffic is cut off, and in the autumn of the border stopper, a lonely goose is chirping and flying south, and from this time on, it has entered the solar term of white dew in China, and every morning when I wake up, I can see the dew on the flowers and plants, and the moon is very bright, but the author, the poet, feels that the moon here is not as bright as the moon in his hometown." His younger brothers are far apart, they no longer have a home, and even if they want to write letters to their relatives, they can't send them at all, because there is still a war, and the war does not know when it will end. ”

When she had finished explaining, Elizabeth looked at him.

James McCullough was so stunned that he forgot to smoke his pipe.

After a long time, he said "Wow", took a few puffs of his pipe, puffed smoke out of his mouth and nose, and said, "A great piece." A thousand years ago, if he had been born now, he would have been an incomparably brilliant director. His ability to capture and use images is no worse than that of Qian!"

Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders, "There are a lot of fascinating things in China. ”

James McCullough snorted, was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly asked, "Baby, Elizabeth, how are you learning Chinese?

Elizabeth smiled proudly, "I can already read and write more than 500 Chinese characters! My course teacher praised my Chinese as standard, not with a London accent like other Brits. She is Chinese, and she said that my spoken language was like the accent of the Shuntianfu people, haha!"

James McCullough nodded, "Wow, that's great!"

Elizabeth winked at her father.

James McCullough took another puff on his cigarette and suddenly asked, "So, the charm of Humility...... You know, it really fascinates you, right?"

Elizabeth looked at him, and after a while, suddenly laughed, "Daddy, what are you thinking? And Mommy? What are you thinking? Do you think I'm going to be one of Qian's many lovers?"

James shrugged, "I don't know, but your mom does seem to be worried." ”

Elizabeth subconsciously rolled her eyes, "Dad!"

She shook her head, "I'm not a mom, I'm not that obsessed with artists. I'm not a Chinese woman either, I'm not that ...... Submissive. I'm a wild leopard! Mother leopard! Humility can't tame me!"

James McCullough shrugged with a pessimistic expression, "Maybe!"

When Elizabeth got up and went back to her room, James McCullough took a puff of her cigarette, exhaled slowly, and said, "Mother leopard, leopard in the wild...... Also felines?"

"Oh...... F! A cat, that's a bad analogy!"

…………

After lunch together, Elizabeth greeted her parents, picked up her backpack and went back to her room upstairs, but was stopped by James McCullough, "It is said that Qian's new movie, the one you participated in, is about to be released, right? I guess, you must be happy to invite your parents to accompany you to the movies?"

"Oh no, Dad, you know, I've got a lot of debt! and I'm almost out of my income from my part-time job last summer......"

But looking at her father's innocent eyes, Elizabeth shook her head helplessly and smiled bitterly, "Okay, okay! I'll invite you to watch the movie! That's what I said to the outside world anyway!"

James McCullough was dissatisfied, "Hey, we're helping Qianduo sell at the box office!"

Elizabeth shook her head and made her way up the stairs while raising her middle finger high with her back to below.

James McCullough laughed.

Helena immediately looked dissatisfied, "Hey, Elizabeth?

…………

Back in her room, she browsed the web for a while, and found that her mailbox still had unanswered emails, she shrugged in disappointment, then turned on the CD player, put on her headphones, and pulled out her exercise book.

It has always been considered difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese, but Elizabeth has been studying for less than a year now, and she has been relatively proficient in reading and writing five or six hundred Chinese characters, which is definitely very fast.

And the root cause of this is that she feels that it has something to do with her insistence on writing 100 Chinese characters every day.

The object of the practice was a fountain pen calligraphy notebook sent to her by Li Qian.

While practicing the writing and pronunciation of Chinese characters, while listening to Qian Chinese songs, I was pleasantly surprised to encounter a certain character in the song that was the same as a certain character I was practicing!

And although it was difficult at first, it is not too difficult for Elizabeth to practice writing a hundred Chinese characters now.

In less than half an hour, she was able to complete the homework.

Then, enjoy ten more minutes of music, take off your headphones, think about it, and decide to go to the library.

But when she walked down the stairs, she unexpectedly overheard the conversation between her parents downstairs.

"No, you don't care, and I won't care. Elizabeth has grown up, and this is her freedom! Even if it hurts, it's part of growing up. ”

"But ......"

Elizabeth simply stood on top, leaning over her shoulders against the railing, listening to the conversation below.

When the conversation finally came to an end, and the two of them began to talk about meeting the producer of a film company with her agent this morning, Elizabeth deliberately walked down the stairs with a heavy pace.

"Hey, Mom and Dad. I think Dad might be able to think about the evil Hollywood movie dealers!"

"Oh, forget it, I hate the word 'Hollywood'!"

Elizabeth laughed, walked to sit down opposite her parents, and said, "But Columbia Pictures already belongs to the Chinese, doesn't it?"

James looked at Elizabeth and then at his wife.

Helena shrugged and didn't speak.

James thought for a moment, and suddenly said, "Elizabeth, you may not know what Hollywood is! It's not just a geographical concept, and it's not just a big part of the movie world." It is led by the seven major Hollywood film companies, surrounded by hundreds or thousands of various small and medium-sized film companies, brokerage companies, technology companies, and many other forces. ”

After a pause, he said very seriously: "Qian bought Columbia, I know, but just buying Columbia is useless. He had to turn this money-losing company around the first place! And that's very difficult! Because, as I said, Hollywood is not a region where independent companies are living. ”

"There's a huge net there!"

Elizabeth shrugged, "But he's almost omnipotent, isn't he? If he dares to pay so much money to buy this company, he will surely save him, won't he?"

James spread his hands, "I don't know. But I know, that's hard!"

Elizabeth stood up, "'The Matrix' is wonderful, it must be wonderful, believe me, it's going to be a film that will break the glasses of Hollywood's arrogant 'movie merchants'!

James McCullough shrugged his shoulders indispensably.

However, Elizabeth had already gotten up and walked out, and Helena stopped her, "Elizabeth, where are you going?"

Elizabeth walked away, put on her bag and packed her keys, and said, "I, maybe I'm going to buy a ticket to China? Ah, I forgot, I can't afford a ticket! Okay, I'll go to the library and look up the materials to see if there is any magic array that can let me go directly!"

With that, she waved her hand, "Bye!" and flashed out the door.

Leaving the McCulloughs to look at each other, Helena looked helpless.

***

It's back!

Recently, I have been thinking hard about the outline, and I have forgotten myself, and I got up this morning to prepare for the start of the code, only to find that I have missed the chopping hand, woohoo!

How many good things are bought less, and how much GDP is contributed less!

I feel sorry for Lao Ma and Xiao Liu.