Chapter 3: Where did the ancient dragon go?
"I'm ......" Lin Xi's mouth was big, but he didn't know what to answer.
"I know, it's new, right?" Chen Gangsheng stretched out his thumb and pointed at himself, "I am the chef here, if you don't understand anything in the future, you can come and ask me, I am responsible for this part of the kitchen." ”
After speaking, he didn't care if Lin Xi listened carefully, turned around and walked to the kitchen.
"Aren't you making movies?"
Lin Xi, who came back to his senses, shouted in the back.
Chen Gangsheng, who had already walked to the door of the kitchen, suddenly stopped, turned his head and looked at Lin Xi with a surprised expression.
"How do you know?"
"I ......" Lin Xi was stuck again, seeing that the suspicion in the other party's eyes was aggravated, he hurriedly said: "I saw you in Bruce Lee's movie." ”
Seeing Chen Gangsheng's increasingly frowning brows, Lin Xi thought to himself, could it be that he guessed wrong? In this time and space, Mileage Dragon and Bruce Lee have not cooperated?
After a moment of silence, Chen Gangsheng finally spoke.
"Are you sure you recognize me from the movies?"
These words made Lin Xi's heart settle, in order not to let the other party see that he was really chaotic just now, he deliberately puffed up his chest and said: "Of course, you have appeared in "Enter the Dragon" and "Jingwumen", I have the videotapes of these two movies at home, I usually look at it when I am bored, and after watching it more times, I noticed some of the supporting characters in it, and you and a fat man made a deep impression on me." ”
"What a fat man, that's my senior brother, he's not fat, it's ......" Chen Gangsheng wanted to correct Lin Xi's statement, but for a while he couldn't think of a word that could better describe his senior brother besides being fat and not unpleasant.
Seeing his "anxious" look, Lin Xi couldn't help but help him add: "You want to say strong, right?" ”
Chen Gangsheng nodded as if he was relieved.
"That's right, it's strong."
"Then how are you ...... now," Lin Xi cautiously pointed to the chef's uniform on Chen Gangsheng's body.
Chen Gangsheng's eyes darkened, and he sighed and said, "It's been almost two years since I changed careers. ”
When these words came out, Lin Xi immediately became calm.
Cheng Long said that he is no longer an actor, which is like a cow not eating grass and eating meat instead, how to look at it is unscientific!
"Now that the kung fu movie market is so good, it should be very popular to be an action actor? Besides, you suffered so much when you learned kung fu, don't you think it's a pity to give up like this? ”
It's good that Lin Xi didn't mention this, but he became excited when he mentioned Chen Gangsheng's feelings.
"If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't get along, you thought I liked to be a chef? Kung fu movies are very popular, but everyone only recognizes Bruce Lee's kung fu movies, and I have played many roles in Bruce Lee movies before, but the attention of the media and the audience will always be on Bruce Lee, and they will not care about the other characters in the film at all...... Okay, let's not talk about that, anyway, you are the first person to recognize me after I changed careers to become a chef, although I called my name wrong, but I still want to thank you, if you encounter any difficulties in working here in the future, just come to me, and also, if someone bullies you, report my name directly, do you see if they dare! ”
The kitchen was busy at this time, and Chen Gangsheng and Lin Xi had already delayed a lot of things when they were talking, and after "complaining" about their years of experience in film, he suddenly remembered that he was still frying vegetables in his nest, and he hurriedly rushed back to deal with it before he had time to say hello.
Lin Xi returned to the dishwashing room with a puzzled mind, at this time, the mountains of dishes on the table could no longer arouse his more interest, while washing the dishes, he was thinking about what Cheng Long had just said in his heart.
Bruce Lee didn't die, Cheng Long did a few years of "dragon sets" and felt hopeless, so he changed careers to become a chef, which is very different from his memory, but it is normal to think about it carefully.
At the time of Bruce Lee, there was a long gap in Hong Kong kung fu movies in the mid-70s, and Cheng Long also met Yuan Heping after experiencing the embarrassment of the male protagonist not being popular in many movies, and finally became famous with "Drunken Fist" and "Serpentine Trickster".
It is said that during the period when Cheng Long was unwilling, he once thought about changing careers to become a chef, because Cheng Long's father was a chef, and Cheng Long grew up in the kitchen when he was a child, so it is not surprising to have such an idea.
In this time and space, Cheng Long finally realized his childhood dream and became a chef like his father.
Cheng Long has changed his career to not act in movies, and it is estimated that the senior brother Hong Jinbao mentioned earlier is not much better, and Bruce Lee's fate has shifted, which has indeed changed the trajectory of many people's fame.
Lin Xi pondered these things while doing this, watching the cleaned plates in front of him continue to be taken away, and then new plates were sent in.
Time passed little by little, and by the time he had finished washing the last plate, he looked up and saw that it was almost ten o'clock.
Straightened up, moved his waist that was numb from bending over for a long time, Lin Xi took off his two gloves and threw them aside, and was about to call it a day and go home, when there were footsteps at the door.
"You're not gone yet?"
At this time, Chen Gangsheng, who was not called Cheng Long, pushed open the door and walked in, and saw that Lin Xi was the only one in the room, and his expression was a little surprised.
"You washed the dishes tonight?"
Lin Xi raised his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and said with a wry smile: "I knew that the boss was so black-hearted, let me wash so many dishes by myself, and I would not even do this job." ”
Cheng Long was stunned, and a sentence came out of his mouth: "Didn't you wash the dishes here because you ate the overlord meal?" ”
Lin Xi's face was embarrassed, and he smiled.
"I brought my wallet after going out, and no one answered the phone at home, so I ......"
Before he finished speaking, Cheng Long raised his hand to interrupt him.
"Okay, Ah Qiang has sued me for your business, I really didn't expect your kid to be quite tough, I'd rather wash the dishes yourself than someone else to pay the bills for you, I like this."
"That person didn't deal with my dad, he actually wanted to use this to embarrass my dad by helping me pay the bill, if it were you, you wouldn't agree, right?"
Lin Xi told the truth, and Cheng Long couldn't help but nod after hearing it.
When we met for the first time, Lin Xi said that he had a lot of movies and videotapes at home, and his family could afford to buy a video recorder this year, and he thought that the conditions in his home should be very good, at least he would not be the kind of person who couldn't even pay for a meal.
"What did your parents do?"
"My mom left a long time ago, and now it's just me and my dad at home."
"No wonder you are so skilled at washing dishes...... Cheng Long nodded understandingly, and then realized that it was a little inappropriate for him to say this, and was about to change his words and apologize, but Lin Xi raised his hand and waved it to show that it didn't matter.
"And what does your dad do?" Cheng Long then asked.
"My father's name is Lin Shu......"
Lin Xi said very vaguely, in his opinion, his father may have been famous in Hong Kong, but there have been no good works in the past few years, and it is estimated that he has long been forgotten, but he didn't expect Cheng Long's reaction when he heard this name was beyond his expectations.
"You are the son of Lin Shu? Is that the same forest tree who wrote martial arts novels? ”
Looking at Cheng Long with a light in his eyes, Lin Xi was suddenly a little overwhelmed.
"It should be him, right? If Hong Kong didn't have an author with the same name and surname as him, he was also writing martial arts. ”
Lin Xi's words seemed to be somewhat lacking, but Cheng Long didn't care.
"Why didn't you say it earlier? I've read a lot of novels written by your dad, like "Excalibur and Dragon" and "Xinglin Wizard" I like very much, and I also acted in a movie adapted from his novel, although there were only a few scenes, but that movie sold well at the box office. ”
Lin Xi was stunned when he heard it, he hadn't even heard the novels that Cheng Long said, but looking at Cheng Long's expression and tone when he spoke, it seemed that his father was not as unbearable as he imagined.
The works written can be adapted into movies, not to mention reaching the level of Jin Yong, at least at the level of Liang Yusheng and Wen Ruian.
Lin Xi thought happily in his heart, in a few years, martial arts movies and TV series will usher in great development, and he can make a lot of money just by selling the copyright of film and television adaptations.
It's a pity that he didn't wait for Lin Xi's dream to finish, Cheng Long's next sentence was like a basin of cold water poured on his head.
"It's just that in the last two years, your father hasn't had any new works, and then borrowed money to invest in real estate and failed, and selling the copyrights of all his previous works is not enough to pay off the debt, and now he still owes the publisher a lot of money......
The more Lin Xi listened, the more wrong it became, he just thought that things were taking a turn for the better, why did it go in a worse direction?
"This ...... My dad has been having a bit of a hard time lately, but I'm sure he'll be able to get out of it. Lin Xi rubbed his nose with his hand a little unnaturally, he actually didn't say a word, in case his father really couldn't get out, wouldn't there be him.
After figuring out the difference between this era and memory, and having the memory of the next thirty years in my head, it is really not too easy to be a literary nouveau riche.
"By the way, in addition to what my dad wrote, who else do you like to read other martial arts novels? You must have seen Jin Yong's, you must have seen Gu Long's, and then what about other people's? ”
Lin Xi asked this just to confirm from Cheng Long's side that there are still those famous martial arts novel authors in this era, but he didn't expect Cheng Long to have a confused expression when he heard his words.
"Of course I've read Jin Yong's novel, but who is this ancient dragon?"
Lin Xi's eyes widened, looking at Cheng Long as if he was looking at an alien, and was about to say why don't you even know Gu Long, when suddenly a thought slipped through like a meteor, and then exploded in his mind with a bang.
Isn't there such a thing as Gu Long in this time and space?
(A different attempt at Hong Kong entertainment, if the book can still enter the eyes of readers, please collect it.) )