Chapter 13: Potatoes and Yu Ji
In the second half of the movie, there are no more accidents such as touching popcorn and touching your hands. Lei Qiu was finally willing to forget his shame on the axe of the class a few days ago, and walked out of the movie theater with Song Pingguo with a smile, passing by an overpass.
It's late at night, but the street has not become as quiet as imagined, there are still people coming and going on and off the bridge, and there are a lot of ancestral mobile phone films squeezed on the side of the bridge, as long as you pay five yuan, you can appreciate their professional film techniques.
Of course, there is no shortage of performers.
Lei Qiu and Song Pingguo's eyes invariably bypassed the big man playing guitar by the flower bed, and cast their eyes on a voice sitting on a small bench not far away.
With an erhu on her lap, the sleek melody flowed quietly through the night, and then she began to sing a ......
"Songs in Spanish?!" Raichu felt himself shocked, "What kind of person can come up with this idea!" β
But, it's nice to hear.
The girl's voice was clear and bright, she didn't sing loudly, but she didn't let herself be covered by the noise around her at all, Lei Qiu and Song Pingguo stood not far from her, and they could hear her singing clearly.
- I've been asking you over and over again.
deβwhen, where, and how.
des-you always answer......
quizas, quizas, quizasβ"Maybe, maybe, maybe." β
From the moment she heard her sing, Song Pingguo stopped and listened, and Lei Qiu saw her reaching out and digging it out of her pocket, as if she was ready for change. So Lei Qiu stood in place like this and listened to the song with Song Pingguo.
Just as Song Pingguo stepped forward to put the coin in the bowl at the girl's feet, Lei Qiu made a big discovery.
"It's you!" Raichu ran up with a cigarette, grabbed the girl's shoulder and shook it, "You're all down to being a street performer now?!" β
I saw that on the sidewalk where people came and went, Lei Qiu and the performer hugged each other affectionately in circles, and patted each other's backs vigorously.
"King!"
"Ah Yu!"
As soon as they called like this, Song Pingguo reacted, this is the "Yu Ji" who played with her when Lei Qiu played Xiang Yu before, right?
Yu Ji's real name is Xu Ran. Compared to Raichu, this is a very normal name.
Meeting old acquaintances in a foreign country is really one of the four joys of life, Lei Qiu and Xu Ran, who have not seen each other for many years, stood on the side of the street and chatted, exchanging recent situations.
"How long have you been here?"
"Three months, what about you?"
"I've only been here for a few days, and I just thought it was fun to come and see, but I lost my wallet ......"
Unlike Lei Qiu, Xu Ran has been staying in a Peking Opera troupe since graduating from the opera school, although he doesn't earn much, but he can barely make ends meet, who knows that a few months ago, the Peking Opera Troupe really couldn't sustain itself and was forced to disband, and Xu Ran lost his job.
She has never learned anything other than singing since she was a child, so she had to ask people everywhere if there was a troupe that lacked people, and finally asked one, but the other party had to wait two months before accepting her.
Xu Ran came to the city where the troupe was located, rented a house, and finally settled her future life, but she had no savings at all, and she couldn't be idle for these two months. Instead of doing odd jobs for two months, it's better to be chic and street performers.
After hearing about Xu Ran's somewhat embarrassing situation, Lei Qiu of course enthusiastically brought her old partner home, and Song Pingguo also contributed his living room for the two of them to drink and eat fried peanuts - wine and peanuts were actually provided by Song Pingguo.
Compared with Xu Ran's downfall, Lei Qiu still mixes well. But as they chatted, Raichu began to complain.
Song Pingguo can understand why Lei Qiu complained, after all, she has been really unhappy recently, and she was finally able to play a supporting role with a lot of scenes, not with her own strength, but with Song Pingguo's dish.
Gong Xiao himself may not think it, but her indifferent attitude is a harm to a professional like Lei Qiu who likes to be more serious.
It may be due to her profession or her personality, but Raichu always cares more about the details and experience in the process than the final result, and although she doesn't say it, she must still be a little haunted.
Even Raichu will have such and such troubles.
While Xu Ran and Lei Qiu were drinking and chatting, Song Pingguo was handling potatoes for tomorrow's box lunch.
She usually does not use a special household small planer to peel potatoes, but like peeling an apple, holding the potato in one hand and the kitchen knife in the other, pushing the blade along the shape of the potato little by little, the thin potato skin is intact, and all of it falls to the ground with her movements.
The shape of the potato is not strange, at least it is much more irregular than that of an apple, but this does not seem to be an obstacle at all for Song Pingguo, she can empty her mind and concentrate on the mechanical movements in her hands.
This time, it was not only Lei Qiu, Xu Ran was also paying attention to Song Pingguo's movements, watching Song Pingguo shave a potato cleanly, throw it into the basket at hand, and then pick up a new potato, and continue the action just now, as smooth as a machine.
When people are in a bad mood, it seems that they are particularly easy to get drunk when they drink, and Lei Qiu, who can drink sponsors into a thousand cups of stomach bleeding, is a little dizzy without drinking much today, and pulls Xu Ran to talk about his life experience: "I tell you, one of the tricks to treating the boss is to always make the boss feel that you are a great person." β
Xu Ran was almost drunk, and choked back on the spot: "Come on, my previous three bosses fired me because of this." β
Potatoes are an ingredient that is good at absorbing and carrying out the aroma.
If you use radish to roast meat, the meat will be stained with the smell of radish, and people who hate eating radish will shy away when they smell it, but if you use potatoes to roast meat, the aroma of the meat will be soaked in the potatoes, and even if the meat is removed, the remaining potatoes can be used as a good dish.
It's so good as a supporting character that people forget that it's still good when it's the main character.
Rachu has played too many leading roles. She is the pride of her master and the pride of the head of their repertory troupe, and she is a pillar to be taken out to show off wherever she goes.
Raichu doesn't necessarily have to play the leading role. She plays the leading role mostly because she plays it too well, and when she plays a supporting role, she is easy to be forced to dominate. She is also willing to play supporting roles when someone can hold the scene, and in the scripts she has been exposed to, none of the roles are irrelevant, each of which can make her devote herself to it, and each one can make her mesmerized after the closing.
After arriving in Hengdian, not to mention the supporting role, she even worked as an extra-she didn't care about what she was playing, she was pouring out of her stomach full of bitterness now because she found that no one seemed to care about whether she acted well or not.
It's really a grievance that I don't meet.
Her hard-working performance, with an understatement in the eyes of others, seems to have really lost its meaning.
Xu Ran had already fallen asleep on the sofa, and Lei Qiu was still sitting on the edge of the coffee table and drinking silently alone. People who look very arrogant on the surface are particularly distressing when they are sad.
Song Pingguo sighed, threw the last potato into the basket, and turned to go into the kitchen.
"Running out of peanuts?" Song Pingguo pushed the cold cucumber in front of Lei Qiu, "Don't be sad, mortals are always sleepy, like you is a dormant trough, and after a while, you can stop screaming and you will be a blockbuster......"
"Wait a minute? What? Raichu took a bite of the cold cucumber, "Who's sad?" β
ββ¦β¦ So you just babbled so much? β
"That's to comfort Ah Yu, her life is very uncomfortable, if I am also miserable, she will sound better."
"Really?"
"Really. The character is not yours. Nor is the love of yours. Nor is the glory yours. You are not qualified to think about anything, you are not qualified to delve into it, but you are just like a machine, showing what can only be shown by reading through guΓ² words in front of the camera and on the stage. Raichu smiled and drained the last sip of the glass, "It's not yours in the first place, so what do you care about?" The one who doesn't care about anything is the actor. β
"I've been making love for most of the night, and I'm stupidly going to pour you chicken soup for the soul?"
"Little apple." Raichu got up and patted her on the shoulder a few times, and told her earnestly, "People, don't think too much. β
Raichu wakes up from his sleep to find that he hasn't woken up from his hangover. She rubbed her temples and staggered off the couch, surprised to smell the rich fragrance wafting from the kitchen, and craned her neck to the kitchen, "What did you eat this morning?" β
Song Pingguo brought the bubbling soup to the table, and replied to Lei Qiu while dividing it into a bowl: "Potato soup." There are also sandwiches and bacon omelette. β
The sandwich's bread was pressed thin after the side was removed, and the good taste was full of bite, and there were only lettuce, cucumber slices and ham in it, which was very refreshing to eat, so that Xu Ran, who was also hangover and did not wake up, also had a great appetite, and after eating his own sandwich, he solved the bacon omelette and potato soup, and put down the bowl contentedly.
"That's it!" Song Pingguo opened the curtains, "A new day has started again, what should you do, don't sit there and look at me, there is nothing to add." β