In order to facilitate her daughter's development in Hollywood, Kate Beckinsale's mother, Judy, bought a house near Los Angeles, and since her daughter's career in the United States took off, they have not been able to stay in the UK for a long time in a year, so it has effectively become their new home.

Kate has had a stomach ulcer since she was a child, and she has been suffering from it for a long time, she felt very uncomfortable in her stomach after waking up in the morning, and after taking medicine, she fell asleep again, and it was almost noon, when she got up. When she went downstairs in her pajamas, she was surprised to find Ex sitting in the living room chatting with her mother, Judy.

"Mr. Ex?" Kate Beckinsale had a puzzled look on her face, and her agent would not normally come to her at this time.

Ex turned his head to see Kate standing at the top of the stairs, "I heard you're sick?" ”

"It's just a little stomach pain, and I'll be fine soon after taking the medicine!" Kate subconsciously pulled the collar of her pajamas, because of the presence of a different surname, she couldn't dress as casually as when she stayed with her mother.

"Baby, your face looks so much better!" Her mother, Judy, also said hello to her.

"Thank you, Mom!" With a charming smile on her face, Kate motioned for her mother to continue the conversation with Ex, and she was ready to go to the kitchen to find something to eat, and when she woke up in the morning, she didn't want to eat, but now she was a little hungry.

Kate had just walked to the kitchen door, but found a noise inside, she turned to look at her mother, her eyes were full of confusion: "There are other guests in the house?" ”

"He's not a guest, to be exact!" Judy, the mother, didn't answer, but Ex said with a smile.

"Ex is right, I should be an uninvited guest!" Lin Mingyang, who was dressed as a chef, suddenly appeared behind Kate and startled her.

“felix？ Why are you here too? Kate Beckinsale covered her mouth in surprise.

"Am I not welcome here?" Lin Mingyang pretended to be angry and puffed out his mouth, compared with the handsome and chic heartthrob style in Pingyu, he was more like a 17-year-old boy at this time.

Kate hurriedly explained: "But aren't you filming Spider-Man? ”

"I thought you never paid attention to me!" The corners of Lin Mingyang's mouth rose, revealing a wicked smile, "In view of my excellent performance in the crew, the director gave me a day off." ”

"Really?" Kate was skeptical of Lin's claims.

"Actually, I'm dear Kate, so come and see her!" Lin Mingyang put his head into Kate Beckinsale's ear and whispered.

This intimate act made Kate a little uneasy, but her mothers Judy and Ex in the living room pretended not to see it, so she glared at Lin Mingyang angrily, "My mother is here, can you be serious?" ”

Lin Mingyang obediently retracted his head, and then greeted her officially, "Hello, Kate!" ”

Kate Beckinsale kissed him on the cheek like a dragonfly, and then began to "investigate" Lin Mingyang's current dress, "Why are you wearing this?" ”

"Is there something wrong?" Lin Mingyang stretched out his arms and turned around in front of her, "Don't you think this dress suits me very well?" ”

"But you're wearing my mother's cooking apron!" Kate Beckinsale giggled, "You look so cute!" ”

At the same time as the two were "flirting", Ex sniffed hard, "Felix, I seem to smell a mushy smell!" ”

"Oops, my porridge!" Lin Mingyang yelled and hurriedly rushed back to the kitchen.

-- Lin Mingyang originally came with Ax to persuade Kate to be the heroine of "Tales of the Night". Because he insisted on practicing Bajiquan, Lin Mingyang generally did not have the habit of sleeping lazy in the morning, even if he lived in a hotel, he would get up to the gym early to exercise his muscles. Today, Ex was pulled up from the bed by him, and after the two of them finished exercising, they knocked on the door of Kate's house early.

Lin Mingyang didn't know that Kate Beckinsale had been suffering from a stomach ulcer for a long time, and learned that the other party's condition was not very serious, but when he got up in the morning and didn't eat, Lin Mingyang was ready to surprise Kate on a whim - to prepare a Chinese medicinal meal for her.

To be honest, Lin Mingyang is not very interested in medicinal diets, but it happened that he himself had a stomach ulcer before the crossing, so he paid more attention to this knowledge, and he had cooked some medicinal diets by himself, but since he crossed over to the United States, he has not officially cooked.

I remembered a lot about the dietary formula for treating stomach ulcers in my mind, but when Lin Mingyang rushed to the supermarket, he found that there were no materials he needed. Many of the ingredients used to make medicinal diets are traditional Chinese medicines, which are simply not available in the United States. It was Aix who reminded him that he could look in the shops near Chinatown.

Los Angeles is a major Chinese settlement in the United States, and Chinatown here is naturally famous, and the surrounding shops do sell ingredients for cooking Chinese food, but Lin Mingyang still has not enough ingredients to need. In the end, it was the chef of a Chinese restaurant who helped him prepare all the herbs he needed.

After returning, Acks and Mrs. Judy chatted in the living room, while Lin Mingyang was busy in the kitchen. When Kate went downstairs, he was preparing to make a medicinal dish called bergamot porridge, which is made by decocting the juice from bergamot water, removing the slag, and adding lentils, rice, yams and pork belly soup to make a thin porridge. The function is diarrheal heat and stomach, relieves stomach pain.

Patronizing and greeting Kate, Lin Mingyang cooked the porridge and had to make it again. During this period, Kate stayed in the kitchen with him, and at first Lin Mingyang was happy to let her help, but in the face of a bunch of ingredients that could not be named, Kate often misplaced things, and finally Lin Mingyang still felt that it was better to let her be an "audience".

Kate was originally going to the kitchen to find food, but she was pleasantly surprised by Lin Mingyang's sudden appearance, she forgot about it for the time being, and then she was really hungry, so she remembered it, and then took a carton of milk from the refrigerator, poured it into a cup, and prepared to put it in the microwave to heat it up.

"You like to drink milk?" Lin Mingyang, who was adding honey to the medicinal diet he had just made, suddenly stopped what he was doing.

Ketten nodded: "Drinking milk works well when you have a stomachache!" ”

Lin Mingyang walked over and took the milk from Kate's hand and put it back in the refrigerator: "Milk is rich in protein and calcium, which can promote gastric acid secretion. Drinking milk into the stomach, although it can neutralize some gastric acid, but it will stimulate gastric acid secretion, so that the ulcer surface is constantly eroded by gastric acid, which is not conducive to the healing of ulcers. ”

"Where did you know all this?" Kate asked curiously.

"I used to like to read popular science magazines, and there was an article that said that gastric acid secretion will increase by 30% after drinking milk." Lin Mingyang pushed all the problems on the former felix, and he tried this trick repeatedly, "If you are really hungry, you can try this!" ”

Lin Mingyang handed over the egg notoginseng stew he had just made, and Kate watched his entire production process, first beating the eggs into a bowl and stirring, then adding a Chinese medicine powder called notoginseng, and finally stewing through water.

"What is this?"

In order to clarify the English translation of this medicinal food, Lin Mingyang spent a lot of effort, and Kate tasted it first.

"It's a little bitter, but the taste is unique!"

"You can add a little more honey when you eat it!"

Kate followed Lin Mingyang's advice, and the honey diluted the bitter taste of Panax notoginseng, and the taste was indeed much better than before. Soon, this bowl of egg notoginseng stew was all filled into her stomach. At this time, Lin Mingyang still had the last dish left in his hand, and Kate recognized all the ingredients, which made her feel very excited.

"This is cactus and beef?"

"Clever girl!" Lin Mingyang peeled and thorned the cactus, washed and chopped it and fried it in a hot oil pan with beef, and the last dish of lunch was finally completed.

Because of the bowl of eggs stewed just now, Kate didn't eat much at the table, and she and her mother both maintained a very elegant eating action, but Ex ate it and unceremoniously swept away all the food that was distributed on his plate.

"You said eating these dishes can also cure diseases?" Although he felt that Lin Mingyang's cooking skills were good, it was difficult for Ex to accept the statement of medicinal food.

Knowing that these dishes were specially prepared by Lin Mingyang, Kate's heart was full of sweetness and gratitude, and in the face of Ex's suspicion, she naturally wanted to help Lin Mingyang speak: "I think the dishes made by Felix are really effective, and my stomach feels much better now!" ”

"So Chinese don't need to take medicine when they're sick?" Ex looked at Kate's defection without a position, and his expression was very helpless.

"Of course not." Lin Mingyang didn't want Ex to explain the complicated principles of traditional Chinese medicine, he made a very popular analogy, "The function of medicinal diet is more like the food combination scheme designed by a nutritionist, but it is more complex and more specific to the surname." You can also think of it as a slow treatment. ”

"I have to admire the wisdom of the Chinese, I can actually think of such a miraculous treatment!" After listening to Lin Mingyang's explanation, Ex, who began to believe in the function of medicinal food, praised it sincerely.

Lin Mingyang taught Kate and her mother a few simple dietary recipes for treating stomach ulcers, and after lunch, the conversation finally returned to the movie "Tales of the Night".

Kate said bluntly, "I don't really like the role of a vampire. ”

"Maybe you should read the script first, it's going to be a very unique story." "And don't forget, Felix's most famous novel is about a vampire love story, and I, like many readers, want to know, at the end of the story, will the hero turn the heroine into a vampire?" So that they can be together forever. ”

"You want to know?"

The way Lin Mingyang spoke made Exx feel that he seemed to be really ready to reveal the puzzle, so Exx nodded very hard.

But Lin Mingyang smiled, and then gave him four words: "No comment!" ”

Although he hit a nail, Ex didn't care about Kate Beckinsale's snickering on the side, and said to her seriously: "I promise your character will be cool this time, definitely not the kind of female vampire in comics or novels!" ”

After finishing speaking, Ex gave Lin Mingyang a look, which attracted Kate's gaze, and Lin Mingyang could only follow Exx's words and say his thoughts.

"Ex is right, I've read that script, both in terms of conception and plot, it's very different from traditional vampire movies. The most important thing is that the heroine in this film comes first, and all the plots revolve around her, and there will be a lot of room for performance to play. ”

Lin Mingyang's words were indeed more useful than Exx, seeing that Kate was a little moved, Exx took the opportunity to take out Len Wiseman's hand-drawn stills artwork, holding a pistol, and the heroine in a black shiny leather coat successfully attracted Kate's attention, and under the attraction of the pictures, she read the script.

Kate slowly discovers that the heroine of the play, Serena, is a completely flesh-and-blood character, which is very different from the characters in comic books. After reading the entire script, she has a whole new understanding of the heroine, but new problems arise again.

"There will be a lot of fights in the plot of the script, do you think I can do it?"

"You're doing a great job in Terminator 3!" Ex's answer was very agitating, and Lin Mingyang thought more about it than he did.

"Kate, don't think about anything else, I just want to know, do you like this character?"

Seeing Lin Mingyang's rare seriousness, Kate thought about it, and finally nodded very seriously.

"Then don't think about any difficulties, as long as you like it, I will help you achieve it!" This time, no one regarded Lin Mingyang's solemn promise as "crazy talk", Ex was surprised, and Kate was moved with deep feelings.

"You're going to be there for me all the time when you're performing?" In the depths of her love, Kate asked stupidly, and when she found that there was an unrelated "light bulb" sitting next to her, she immediately blushed.

Even if he is a fool, he can hear the meaning of Kate's words, Exx secretly shook his head and sighed in his heart, Lin Mingyang already owed a lot of romantic debts, and now there is another Kate, this guy will have a busy love life in the future.

Of course, as an agent, Ex abides by his duties and ethics, never interferes in the private life of his employer, and does not make any evaluations.

Lin Mingyang felt that his mouth was also a little dry at this time, his throat rolled, and just as he wanted to say something, Ex coughed twice, pulling everyone out of that embarrassing atmosphere.

Ex didn't let go of this opportunity to tease Lin Mingyang, "You don't need to worry too much about action performance, Felix is a ready-made teacher, I think he will be happy to direct you!" ”

Lin Mingyang nodded very cooperatively for the first time, and the smile on Ex's face became more and more intense: "And I promise that he will definitely be with you when you perform, because he is the hero of this movie!" ”

(To be continued)