In the dimly lit dining room, tables are lined up, and light green sofas are placed on either side of each table. Each of the two dining tables is quite far apart, and there are some green potted plants in between, so the private space is well protected.

Soft music fluttered in the restaurant, and the waiters, dressed in white shirts and brown-colored vests, walked around the restaurant with a very temperamental attitude, basically silent. Driven by the atmosphere, the guests in the restaurant also consciously lowered their volumes and spoke to each other as quietly as possible.

In the corner of the restaurant, two pairs of people sat by the window, Shen Huifang and Du An sat on the sofa on the east side, and opposite them sat a bloated middle-aged woman and a handsome young girl.

Duane looked at the mother and daughter opposite him with a polite smile, and the middle-aged woman's voice chattered into his ears: "...... I've heard a long time ago that Aunt Shen lives in a big director's house, and today I finally saw it, it's really a talent, hahaha......"

The middle-aged woman smiled, Duane continued to smile, and modestly said, "The big director doesn't dare to be a moviemaker", his eyes swept to the young girl, and found that the little girl was very reserved and quietly listened to them, in a ladylike style.

This middle-aged woman is the wife of Lao Li that Shen Huifang mentioned to him before, her surname is An, and she can be seen from her body shape that her family is good and her food is very good. The girl next to Aunt An is her niece who is a nurse in the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, listening to Aunt An's introduction just now, her name is Chen Shasha, she is delicate and beautiful, and her figure is slender, so there must be no shortage of suitors in the hospital.

It's the end of May now, and the later stage of "Pretty Woman" has been completed, and the finished film has finally been released and sent for review. Du An, who is idle, has nothing to do every day, either going to the library or taking his own 11 self-service bus in Nanyang City, but today he was lazy and sick, and after a day at home, he was pulled out by Aunt Shen on a blind date - it is also a coincidence that nurses in tertiary hospitals like Chen Shasha are usually very busy, and it just so happened that they were resting today, and the two idlers got together.

Several people went back and forth to each other politely complimenting each other for a long time, the smile on Du An's face was about to stiffen, and Aunt An suddenly said casually: "By the way, Xiao Du, I read what the newspaper said, you made that movie before and made 500 million?"

Du An's head nodded, and he was afraid that the other party would misunderstand, and explained: "The box office is 500 million, but those are not my money, they are all from the company, and my salary is 7,000." ”

"Oh, I earn seven thousand in half a year, that's not a lot......"

Duane saw that the light in Aunt An's eyes suddenly dimmed a lot, from a 200-watt large bulb to a 25-watt incandescent bulb, and his smile was a little unnatural.

Seeing this, Shen Huifang hurriedly interjected: "Xiao Du has made another movie now, and it has already cost five million, right?"

Du An received Shen Huifang's eyes, and had no choice but to respond, "Well, it cost five and a half million for filming and post-production, and another two million for publicity." ”

After all, the film production is too far away from a small citizen class like them, and the amount of tens of thousands as the basic unit is even more unimaginable, so Aunt An's eyes lit up again, and her smile rekindled the temperature, but there was still some confusion in her eyes.

"Didn't you just take seven thousand, where did you get those millions?"

She remembered the number seven thousand.

"The company invested. ”

"Yo, or just say that you people in the entertainment industry are different from us ordinary people, you can open your mouth and move millions and millions," Aunt An's eyes were full of doubts, but she paused in the middle of speaking, and scratched her chubby fingers on her wrist, which was almost as thick as her niece's upper arm, before continuing: "Then how much can you make from this movie? It won't be thousands, right?"

Without waiting for Du Ane to speak, she chattered again: "Xiao Du, we have just entered the industry, and we should pay some tuition, but you are now considered a teacher, but you can't do what others say, you have to have your own ideas." As you just said, you have already spent millions on this movie, you are the director, the director ......" She thought for a long time and didn't know what the director was doing, so she simply said: "Hey, anyway, you are the director, if you want me to say, they won't give you a million for this movie, how can you not agree!" Speaking of this, she also said the last sentence seriously: "Xiao Du, you can't be too honest, as the old saying goes, people are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden." ”

People who don't know look at it and think that Duane is her son-in-law.

Du An didn't know how to explain to Aunt An, he was annoyed by saying too much, so he had to say: "Aunt An, that's not how it is, how much I can get depends on the box office of the movie." ”

"Oh......"

Aunt An understands a little now: dare to listen to this kid's meaning, don't look at this movie, there are millions of votes, how much he can get in the end is still unknown?

These people in the entertainment industry are just unreliable.

Just as Aunt An was about to continue to break the casserole and ask to the end, Shen Huifang spoke: "Yanhong, isn't there a party in the street office today? It's too late for us to go back." ”

An Yanhong was stunned for a moment: Why didn't she know that the street office had a party today? But when she looked at the old sister's appearance, she also understood.

Forget it, leave the children's affairs to the children themselves, anyway, today is a meal, and it is not too late to understand some cases slowly.

"Oh, if you don't say I'll forget. ”

Then the two aunts left hand in hand.

Seeing the two aunts disappear from the door of the restaurant, the smile on Duane's face naturally came down.

It's too tiring, three sessions of triage.

The lady on the other side had maintained a reserved and elegant posture from the time she came in until just now, and finally chuckled lightly at this moment, "My aunt is very verbose, isn't she?"

The sound is crisp.

Duane shook his head and said with a smile: "Fortunately, my sister is much more verbose than your aunt, so it's quite kind to hear this." ”

"You're the first to say that my aunt is kind, it's so fresh,"

Chen Shasha said this, and asked again: "Are you the director?"

Duane nodded, "Hmm." Immediately, he reacted that his answer seemed too cold, and he added: "You didn't know before?"

Chen Shasha said: "I don't watch movies much, and the stars know so much about Zhou Xingchi, Andy, Fa Ge, and the director doesn't know any of them." You don't know how busy we are as nurses, and we can't wait to get to bed immediately after work every day, and we don't have time to watch movies. ”

Zhou Xingchi is also a director now, and you still know one of the directors.

Duane thought to himself, but didn't say anything, just continued to smile.

Chen Shasha took out a stack of things from her Xiaokun bag and spread it out, and it turned out to be a stack of newspapers.

"Look," she pushed the newspaper in front of Duane, "it was my aunt who stuffed it to me today, saying that she wanted me to hurry up and do my homework." She chuckled at this, as if she thought it was funny.

"That's really hard for you, and you have to do your homework on your days off. ”

Duane said politely, flipping through the newspapers and reading them casually.

""Kung Fu" is coming in July", "Gu Changwei's transformation to Virgo, the internal test screening of "Peacock" was applauded", "Huang Shengyi and Zhang Jingchu booked the Huabiao Award for Best Newcomer"......

is basically the news of several other movies released in July, but without exception, every report mentions "Pretty Woman" that was also released in July: some of them were naturally mentioned when they scheduled the same films for "Kung Fu", and some of them were borrowed from Zhang Jingchu's audition for "Pretty Woman" but finally chose "Peacock".

There is also no exception, that is, when "Pretty Woman" is mentioned in every report, it can be seen between the lines that they are not optimistic about this film - first of all, this movie was made by Duane, and what was Duane's previous work? "Saw Horror", a horror movie. A wild man, who seems to have a little luck in making bloody horror films, but he doesn't grasp this bit of luck, and he has to transform into an urban love light comedy, isn't this looking for death? Does he know what a romance movie is? It's not something like stealing love and yelling twice like in "Saw Horror". What's more, it's still an urban love light comedy, in the previous film library, are there any movies that can be used in this niche genre?

Secondly, because of the turmoil in the past, Duane's reputation was not very good, and under the overwhelming coverage of the media at the time, many viewers also had the impression of "moral turpitude" of the director, and based on this alone, there will probably be many viewers who refuse to watch this film.

In the end, none of the leading actors in the movie "Pretty Woman" are famous, and they have to carry the big one among the short ones, and Duane, the male protagonist, is the most famous - God, what's even more ridiculous is that this film is not only the second film for this novice, but also self-directed and self-acted, does this Duane think he is Zhou Xingchi?

Directors with bad reputations, self-directed and self-acting who don't know the height of the sky, leading actors who are not famous, the total production cost is only a few million, and there is no successful precedent...... "Pretty Woman in the Wind and Moon" almost gathers the characteristics of a bad movie, everyone seems to have seen the birth of a bad movie, so it is no wonder that the media is so optimistic about "Pretty Woman", and they don't bother to mention it twice. After all, what the audience loves to watch is controversial and uncertain, for example, can "Kung Fu" break the myth of "Hero"? Who is more likely to win the Huabiao Award for Best Newcomer between Huang Shengyi and Zhang Jingchu? Can Gu Changwei's transformation from cinematographer to director succeed? As for things that are a foregone conclusion, such as "Pretty Woman" being a predictable bad movie, the audience will not be interested, and the media will naturally not bother to write about it.

"You're the first director I've ever known. ”

Chen Shasha held her chin with one hand, stared straight at Duane, and said, "But the media doesn't seem to be optimistic about your movie." ”

Duane pushed the newspaper aside and continued to smile: "It's normal, I'm a small director, and our crew is a small crew, and it's definitely not comparable to a blockbuster like "Kung Fu". ”

As he spoke, he stared at Chen Shasha quietly.

Although today's blind date was arranged by Shen Huifang, in fact, he himself also had this meaning - he was probably indeed in spring, so he agreed to Shen Huifang's arrangement, and did not resist and let Shen Huifang dress himself up like this, like an egg with a shell.

He is not young, he really wants to fall in love, and he wants to give himself a chance.

But looking at Chen Shasha, just watching quietly, he couldn't find the feeling of spring at that time - in fact, the Miss Chen Shasha in front of him was quite beautiful, and only one or two of his female classmates in college were at this level.

Maybe the moon isn't round enough today?

He tilted his head and looked out at the sky through the window.

It's really not round enough.

So is the seventh day of the first lunar month a full moon?

He turned his head and thought about it like this, his eyes unconsciously continued to stare at Chen Shasha.

Maybe you should howl like a werewolf? Maybe you'll find a little spring......

The little girl was easy to be shy, and was stared at intently by him like a pervert for a long time, Chen Shasha couldn't bear it, two faint blushes floated on her cheeks, and she lowered her head slightly, like a quail.

"Hey!"

The little girl sneered for a moment, disturbing Duane's thoughts, "What's wrong?"

Chen Shasha raised her eyelids, glanced at Duan, was silent for a moment, and whispered, "Is it time to order?"

Only then did Du Anrealize that he had been sitting in the restaurant for so long, first chatting with Chen Shasha and her aunt, and then with Chen Shasha's little girl, and they hadn't ordered food until now. So he quickly called the waiter over and asked Chen Shasha to order a few dishes.

The whole meal was quiet.

Du An didn't like to talk when eating, and Chen Shasha didn't know why she didn't speak, so Du An was also happy to eat with peace of mind, thinking about how to make himself spring to Chen Shasha.

Thinking that the meal was over and he didn't come up with an idea, Duane had to give up the idea for the time being.

After eating, the two sat and chatted, and then went outside to press the road for a while, to see that the time was not early, and Duane sent Chen Shasha home.

"I had a lot of fun today. ”

At the entrance of the door of Chen Shasha's unit building, the little girl said this to him.

Chen Shasha was looking at him at the moment, her eyes shining like stars in the sky.

After all, Duane is also a man who has been a screenwriter twice, especially "Pretty Woman" is still a romance film. As the saying goes, if you've never eaten pork, he's seen a pig run, and he knows that he should now say "So can I make an appointment with you next time?" or just ask for a phone number.

But after all, he just nodded and smiled, "Me too." Then he watched Chen Shashamo stand for a while, then turned around, opened the unit door, closed it, and the footsteps going upstairs slowly faded away, and gradually disappeared.

Duane glanced at the sky, and the moon peeked out of the dark clouds, it was the quarter moon.

He had confirmed it at the restaurant just now.

"Whew......"

He howled like a nervous disorder, causing the lights of a house on the third floor to turn on, and an aunt leaned out of the window and scolded, "The third watch screams in the middle of the night!"

Duane hugged his head and scurried, the appearance of a short-haired woman looming in his mind.

"Little Red Guy is running fast!"

The aunt's scolding was left behind by him.

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