Chapter 11: Curry and Cauldron
Summer afternoons are always much longer than mornings.
Song Pingguo, who had been hiding in the shade of the trees, felt a little unbearable, not to mention the actors who were holding on to thick clothes and performing all kinds of large-scale movements, the food they ate at noon had long been consumed, and every minute of time was consumed slower than the previous minute, and the sun didn't seem to have any intention of moving westward at all, hovering in the air in the position that could torment them the most.
In this state, only Lei Qiu still remained calm, his body did not sweat, his face did not redden, and he did not need to fill a bottle of ice water continuously, and when others enviously asked her about her experience in resisting the heat, she said calmly: "I ate an extra boxed lunch at noon." ”
As soon as Xia Yiming heard that the big thing was not good, this was a big problem related to funds, so he rushed up and threatened in advance: "This method is not allowed to be imitated!" ”
Mulberry Branch, who was not far away, answered lightly: "Director Xia, even if we want to follow suit, we have to eat two boxed lunches." ”
Only Song Pingguo knew in the entire crew, if Lei Qiu said that she had eaten one more boxed lunch, then she must have eaten three boxed lunches.
There is only one case where Song Pingguo likes to stay by the stove in the summer. That's what it is now, the beef in the pot is squatting, and after adding curry powder and spices, it begins to exude fragrance, and next to the steaming cauldron, Song Pingguo simply sweated happily, thinking that this effect is similar to that of a sauna.
At dusk, the aroma of this large pot of beef curry has already made many people feel ape, and they can't wait to start the meal in advance with Xia Yiming's eyes.
And Song Pingguo was still standing by the pot and pouring oil on the fire.
Every time she shook in a spoonful of new spices, there was a unified sound of swallowing saliva in the air, as well as Xia Yiming's helpless scolding, and when she took out the broth in the mineral water bottle and poured it into the pot, Gong Xiao also ordered Xia Yiming to finish work early today as a sponsor.
The actors cheered and rushed to Song Pingguo's cauldron from all directions, and raised the building with a big mouth:
"Can you leave onions without them?"
"I don't like carrots very much, hey......"
"What kind of meat is this? Beef? So much? Oh my God, our crew is so rich! ”
"What's in there? Why is it so fragrant......"
Only Lei Qiu was unmoved, she had already discovered the crux of the problem, and dragged out a second cauldron from Song Pingguo's small truck, which was full of rice. The rice was brought with the morning lunch, and of course it was already cold, and it seemed to be deliberately hard cooked, but everyone knew why, because only this kind of rice could greet the spoonful of beef curry that would be poured later.
Just when Song Pingguo was stirring the curry that had turned into a sticky state in the pot, and was about to serve a spoonful to the plate filled with rice for everyone, the accident happened.
The inferior rubber band she had bought at the stall died honorably when she went to get the spoon - fortunately it didn't fall into the pot.
The hair fell apart with the breaking of the rubber band, Song Pingguo adhered to the professional ethics of being a chef, quickly took three steps back away from the pot, and went to dig into the pocket while picking up her hair, only to find that the spare rubber band was gone.
Song Pingguo anxiously looked around, only to see a suitable candidate.
"Raichu! Raichu! Come here! ”
Lei Qiu hesitated, handed over the lunch box he had packed to Xia Yiming for safekeeping, and ran to Song Pingguo's side.
"My rubber band is broken." Song Pingguo turned her back to Lei Qiu, "Come, you help me grab my hair, so I can share the curry for them." ”
Lei Qiu was glad that Song Pingguo was slightly shorter than her. But she soon found out that this job was quite technical, and Song Pingguo's upper body moved around with the action of pouring curry for everyone, so she had to move with it.
Lei Qiu used all her life's cheekiness in eating and acting, and she was a very thin-skinned person in other aspects, so she was embarrassed to cling to Song Pingguo, of course, she didn't dare to get too close, because Song Pingguo warned her: "Don't go any further, if you go any further, I will lift the pot for you." Raichu? What are you doing, Raichu? Raichu, don't drool! ”
"I'm sorry, but I'm really hungry......"
As the sun gradually sank in the west, everyone had a meal and a curry in their lunch box, and Raichu walked to the pot with a bitter face and bent down, only to be pleasantly surprised to find that the beef would sink to the bottom.
"Small! Duckweed! Fruit! Lei Qiu was moved to sit down next to Song Pingguo with a lunch box full of beef, "I love you to death!" ”
"If you love me, can you please not call me Little Apple, and don't pick out the carrots I put in it, I stew it all badly!"
"Oh, don't be discouraged." Lei Qiu leaned on Song Pingguo's shoulder, "No matter how good a chef is, he can't save a picky eater." ”
"It would be nice to have a sip of wine at this time." Gong Xiao also looked at the beef in Lei Qiu's bowl enviously, "Or some more beef." ”
"I'm eating curry rice and thinking about drinking, be careful of stomach bleeding like your dad." Raichu glanced at him, "Why don't the sponsors pay for it, and we can buy some?" ”
"Hey, Raichu, sit tight and don't lean on me, let me stand up." Song Pingguo put down the lunch box in her hand and ran to the compartment of the pickup truck to take out a small cardboard box.
She opened the carton to reveal six small cakes inside.
The first person to reach out and grab it to eat was naturally Leichu, she put it under her nose and sniffed it vigorously: "Got the wine?" ”
"yes, taste it."
There are only six cakes, Lei Qiu, Xia Yiming and Gong Xiao also took one by themselves, and two of the remaining three were given to Lu An and Sang Zhi, since it was an extra benefit, not everyone in the crew had it, so Song Pingguo took the rest and took that one with peace of mind.
Raichu carefully tore off the wrapper next to him and took a bite, in addition to the original fragrance of the cake, he could also taste the strong aroma of beer: "Beer? ”
"The dark beer muffin cake was made and left on for two days, and now the smell of the wine has penetrated into it, and it is the best time to eat it." Song Pingguo impatiently brushed away the hair that hung down to her cheeks, "It's really annoying to die in the big summer." ”
"It's okay, I have a trick."
Raichu took out a crumpled black square scarf from his pocket, spread it out on his knees, wiped two handfuls on his knees, and tried to smooth it out - of course, the result was very different from what she expected - and then folded it into a triangle and handed it to Song Pingguo: "Use this?" ”
Then before Song Pingguo could answer, she had already diligently tied the headscarf on Song Pingguo's head, helped her stuff the broken hair hanging outside, and commented sincerely: "It matches your little rabbit apron quite well, and you can use it at home." ”
Song Pingguo tore off the headscarf, pinched it in her hand and put it under her nose and sniffed it: "Hey, where did you get this headscarf, it's so fragrant?" ”
"Oh, that's what I used to wrap apples."
If the person admired most by the entire crew is Leiqiu, then the person everyone takes the most care of is Sang Zhi.
After all, she just graduated from high school, and the whole crew is the youngest, because of the needs of the role, she has to wear a layer of heavy and impermeable armor outside her clothes, she is always the most tired one at the end of the day, but she really never shouts tired, and she will stay late at night when everyone sits and chats together, holding the script and flipping it aside.
Lei Qiu, Song Pingguo's overall evaluation of her is "can eat, drink, sleep, fight, run, and speak", as long as she is full and has nothing to do, she suddenly becomes a chatter who can talk about everything in the north and south, and she will not be poor in words all night.
However, her life experience sounds ups and downs, and it is a bit boring to say, after graduating from primary school, she entered a drama school, and after finishing the drama school, she went to act in dramas, and every day was hard training and performance, and her spare time was limited. And Rachu even thinks about how to act in his spare time.
So the topic of the chat soon came to when she used to act in dramas.
What Lei Qiu talks about the most is not what she will perform after entering the door with a teacher to teach her seniors, but the scene where Wu Song fights the tiger when she first came into contact with drama.
It hadn't been long since she started when she was called for a temporary replacement, and luckily Tiger didn't have any lines, just remember what to do when she came on the court. It was only after Rachu knew how to act in Tiger that he realized why they went to the drama school to find her as an extra.
It's not too difficult for people to walk on the ground, but walking on the ground has to get out of the feline demeanor, and they have to make those difficult fighting moves, and after a scene, Raichu's palms, wrists, and knees were bruised by the floor of the stage, and it took a long time to disperse.
There is a little supporting role with a look of longing and yearning, saying that she studied in college is actually a major that has nothing to do with acting, she ran to Hengdian to be an extras for her dream, but luck gave Xia Yiming a fancy and finally had the opportunity to play a supporting role.
Looking at it this way, there are really not many people in the crew who are really from professional classes, everyone is talking about their majors, and when she asked Song Pingguo, she laughed: "My major and acting really have something to do with it, I studied stage management." ”
"You studied stage management?!" Raichu was shocked.
The stage manager can be said to be the soul of the director in the theater.
A stage manager needs to make a rehearsal schedule, organize the play, coordinate props, manage personnel, design the movement and prop positions on the stage, constantly confirm the schedule with the director and actors, feed the actors when they forget the words, and submit the rehearsal report every time...... All in all, the stage manager "supervises" everything, is the general coordinator of a play, and due to the particularity of the stage play, the stage manager has a higher status than the director, and sometimes the stage manager is also the director.
They are also very easy to identify, and when they walk into a rehearsal site, the one who is busy is definitely the stage manager.
Raichu was still in this extreme shock: "Why did you never tell me that you studied stage management?!" ”
"You didn't ask me what I studied?"
"Then why did you never talk to you about science drama every time I talked to you?" Raichu didn't dare to think back to the previous scene, "Isn't that a standard class axe?" ”
"I think you're right, huh?"
"Don't talk about it." Raichu covered his face and squatted on the ground, "If you say it again, I'll die of shame and show you......"