Chapter 30: The Wrong Taste
It's not right, Guo Baochang felt that nothing tasted wrong when he got up in the morning, the fritters he ate in the morning didn't taste right, the camel cigarettes in his hand didn't taste right, and even the tea leaves in the purple sand teapot on the coffee table didn't taste right.
When Guo Baochang opened his eyes this morning, he felt that his whole life was awkward.
The wife knew his donkey temper, and after breakfast, he went to play cards with other old ladies in the community, so as not to provoke the old man who was in menopause if he didn't deal with it, and then there would be another quarrel. At this time, Guo Baochang, who was at home alone, didn't even have an outlet, and he was uncomfortable no matter how he stayed.
Guo Baochang pondered carefully, this is not a feeling of physical discomfort, it may be related to the straightforward conversation of the kid who came last night, those words hooked out the strong sense of guilt that was no longer there, like tearing open the blood scab on the scar. It's a heart disease.
When, when, when.
When the knock on the door sounded again, Guo Baochang walked to the door helplessly, he knew that this was an actor recommended by a company from time to time, he really didn't want to see it, but if he couldn't find the starring actor, the whole play would be stuck here, and he couldn't get up or down.
Click.
The door opened, and this time Old Man Guo didn't even bother to speak, opened the door and turned around and walked back into the house.
The agent and actor carrying fruit outside the door didn't even know whether to go in or not, and in the end, if it weren't for this role, I am afraid that the embarrassment at that time would have no other choice but to turn around and leave.
The two people who entered the house in front of them sat face-to-face with Guo Baochang in the house: "Director Guo, we are ......"
"Okay, it doesn't matter where you are, the main thing is how you act." Guo Baochang looked up at the actor in his thirties, who was full of people who met the standards, and looked like a man with an angular face.
"Hello Director Guo, this is how I understand this play, this Bai Jingqi was born in the house, and he has the temper of a rich young master and the temperament of the old capital, and the most difficult thing is to combine the two......"
Guo Baochang started to get annoyed when he heard this, this book was written by him, why did an actor come to tell him who Bai Jingqi was?
"Let's do this, have you read the book? After watching it, you can pick a random play to act, and I'll see if your posture has the flavor of Bai Jingqi. ”
One sentence held back the actor who was about to talk about it, and the agent and the actor didn't know what to say at all.
What else can they say?
Shao Yingying had a preconceived idea as soon as he came, which aroused the wound in Guo Baochang's heart, and now whoever mentions this book to him is sprinkling salt on the old man's wound, so can the old man be happy?
The actor saw that there was nothing to say, so he stood up and put on a posture, he graduated from the Academy of Opera, and the Peking Opera posture revealed a professional style as soon as it came out.
"Look at the black hole in front of you, it must be the thief's lair, wait for me to catch up and kill him cleanly!"
This sentence is a line that is favored in the pulley, and the actor with great Peking Opera skills plays it vividly.
Guo Baochang frowned when he saw this, he was looking for Bai Jingqi, not Gao Pet, even if you have a deep foundation in Peking Opera, what can you do? Bai Jingqi is a young master, the head of the Bai family, he sings just to have a piece of music, if he really sings the same as the real thing, Bai Jingqi or Bai Jingqi? Isn't it a corner on the stage of Peking Opera?
"Uh, that, good, good. So, you go back first, and when the assistant director comes to the meeting in a few days, I will notify you when it is decided. ”
The old man opened his mouth directly, his heart was already in chaos, but when such a person came to tell him who Bai Jingqi was, and another Peking opera came, the old man who watched it was about to become popular, even if this line was very important, he didn't want to continue listening to it.
finally sent the two away, Guo Baochang didn't wait to catch his breath and knocked on the door again, this time, there were four of them.
An agent leads three actors, these three actors are good-looking, they have a bold type, a cream boy, and a face with a great sense of justice, they have all kinds of smells, but they are missing Bai Jingqi who is not afraid of that kind of wild way.
The old man repeated his old tricks and asked them to act, but the three of them came up with a classic line.
"Up and down, inside and out, big and small, big and small, all fucking bastards." This is a line chosen by the bold type, and the scolding is impassioned.
Guo Baochang felt more domineering, but there was no helplessness in this scolding.
"Spring, come, take a sip of incense." This is the line chosen by the cream Xiaosheng, which simply plays the eagerness of Bai Jingqi to touch a woman for the first time, but Guo Baochang always feels that this child is like a stinky -------- hooligan gnawing on the side of the street with a female student in his arms?
Just when he was about to act with a sense of justice on his face, Guo Baochang's phone rang, Guo Baochang really didn't want to endure it anymore, so he directly picked up the phone and connected: "Hey? Mr. Wang, ......"
The room was quiet.
Guo Baochang was tired, his heart was tired, and he didn't have any thoughts to talk to the guy who didn't even have time to report his name yesterday. Guo Baochang felt that the kid was not a thing, too not a thing, and a little self-aware that after saying that he couldn't act, he was not a person inside and outside the world.
But what did Guo Baochang write the manuscript of "Mansion Gate" three times over the years? Is it to portray everything about that era and yourself? No, definitely not.
He just couldn't solve the knots in his happiness, and the mess made of too many dead buttons made him wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night.
Almost every one of the more than a thousand characters was standing in front of him, Yang Jiuhong, Old Ancestor, Third Master...... These people seemed to stand there and watch him, and he couldn't stand or sit when he saw it.
"Hey, hey, Mr. Guo, it's me, Wang Zhongjun. Our actor went to your place yesterday, didn't you get in trouble, did you? ”
Listening to the voice on the phone, Guo Baochang smiled and said into the phone: "You didn't trouble me, how can you trouble me?" People are polite, when they come, they will give me a stinky roll, why did I sell my adoptive mother and force my adoptive mother to hand over the family property, you actor can be regarded as checking me out. ”
"Is there such a thing? Don't be angry, Mr. Guo, he just entered the industry and doesn't understand anything, I apologize to you, and I'll go to apologize. ”
Guo Baochang looked up and saw the four people in the room who were stunned, and quickly got up and said, "I'm sorry, I want a friend here, I'm talking about our affairs next time, I'm sorry." ”
drove away another batch, Guo Baochang took a long breath and said into the phone: "Mr. Wang, don't say that he doesn't understand anything, he really understands what "Mansion Gate" means in my heart." Originally, I planned to contact Chen Baoguo, but in my impression, only he had a little shadow of Bai Jingqi, but now, I want to see how you little actor is, last night he said something I didn't dare to recognize in my life, those things...... In this way, you ask him to come again, take a good look at the script before coming, I want to see if he can perform Bai Jingqi's energy. ”
Guo Baochang is not sick, let alone scolded and addicted, but everyone has not touched his pulse.
He has been writing "Mansion Gate" for forty years, and what he wants is a Bai Jingqi in his head, not the Bai Jingqi in anyone's mind, if you don't even know who Guo Baochang is, don't even want to get involved with this play.
Shao Yingying did it, he didn't act with red mouth and white teeth after he went, but chatted first, talked about it thoroughly, and Guo Baochang, who was chatting, saw that no actor could find that kind of understanding of himself from the second person. Then, a play played by anyone is not a play, at least in Guo Baochang's eyes, it is not a play.