Chapter Ninety-Six: The Drawing of Lots
After feeling that Lee Hyo-ri's mood was much better, Jang Sung-won left with a little relief and rushed back to the film crew to continue filming. Of course, he also solemnly apologized to director Jeon Ki-sang and promised that there would be no next time.
Seeing that his attitude was very sincere, and he usually admired his acting attitude and code of conduct, Jeon Ki-sang forgave him. However, in order not to make people think that he was biased against Zhang Chengyuan, he pretended to reprimand Zhang Chengyuan in front of the crew members. Then he called Jang Chengyuan to his lounge and asked gently, "Is there anything going on in Seoul?" ”
Zhang Chengyuan said: "It's okay! It's been taken care of. ”
Jeon Ki-sang smiled and said, "It's about my girlfriend." ”
Zhang Chengyuan nodded and said, "Well, yes." He still has a good impression of Jeon Kishang, after all, Jeon Kishang has given him so many fakes, so he didn't think about lying to deceive Jeon Kishang.
Jeon Ki Shang said: "When I was young, everyone would be like this, I can understand this. However, when there is such a thing in the future, give me an early hello first, lest I clean up the mess for you. ”
Zhang Chengyuan said sincerely: "I know the way, director, I will definitely not do it again!" ”
Jeon Ki-shang waved his hand to let Zhang Chengyuan go out, and when Zhang Chengyuan was about to walk to the door, he suddenly said: "Don't be too used to your girlfriend, otherwise you will suffer in the future."
After Zhang Chengyuan walked out of the room, he shook his head, he didn't care about Jeon Jishang's misunderstanding, and thought: "Where is my sister who is used to them, it is obvious that they have been used to me!" At most, I did what I could. ”
Time passed quietly, and in a blink of an eye, the last day of the lunar calendar of 2004 (February 8), that is, the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, was approaching. The crew was temporarily disbanded, and the members went home to reunite with their families, and Jang Sung-won was naturally no exception. In this short period of time, although the ratings of "Haojie Chunxiang" did not break through the 30 mark as everyone expected, almost every episode can remain above 25%, and the highest time reached 29.9% that made everyone sigh, only the most recent episode has dropped a little because of the impact of the Chinese New Year.
In addition, the ratings of "Shamrock" starring Lee Hyori continued to be sluggish and did not improve, and the production company replaced a new director in order to divert attention, blaming the original director for the poor ratings.
Fortunately, after being comforted by Jang Sung-won and his sisters, Lee Hyo-ri's mentality was much calmer, and he didn't pay much attention to these malicious attacks. Moreover, she also had a surprise that she was selected by Samsung to become the spokesperson of Samsung's anycall mobile phone, and in early February, she filmed and sang the mobile phone advertising short film "AnyMotion" in Melbourne, Brisbane and other places in Australia.
On this day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Jang Sung-won returned to his hometown in the Guro district of Seoul (Seoul was renamed Seoul from January 18, 2005), and since he moved to his current apartment in 01, plus he joined the army for two years and his father Jang Dong-hu often worked abroad, Jang Sung-won has not returned to this old house, but every once in a while he will ask a housekeeping company to clean and tidy up.
On this day, his perennial wandering father Zhang Donghu will also return home to meet him. It was the only chance he had to see his father in a year.
Speaking of which, Zhang Chengyuan didn't have much affection for his titular father Zhang Donghu, but because he occupied the body of someone's son, he spent more than a year when he was just reborn, and whenever there was a major event in his life, Zhang Donghu often ran out to express his concern. It's just that the personalities of the father and son are too introverted, and they can't get close when they get along, but fortunately, they feel quite used to it.
At about seven o'clock in the evening, the father and son sat on the ground, watching TV boringly, Zhang Donghu suddenly said: "You are 23 years old this year, right?" ”
Zhang Chengyuan nodded and said, "Yes." ”
"Do you have any plans to get married and have children?" Zhang Donghu continued to ask.
"Not yet!" Concise.
"When are you going to get married?"
After Zhang Chengyuan pondered for a while, he said, "In another five or six years." ”
Five or six years later, Zhang Chengyuan is not yet thirty, for urbanites, it is not too late to get married at this age, and Zhang Chengyuan is still one of the groups of acting stars with a fairly high average age of marriage.
Zhang Donghu nodded with satisfaction, and after being silent for a while, he suddenly asked, "Do you have a girlfriend now?" ”
Zhang Chengyuan was stunned for a moment, and felt that there was no need to hide it, so he said: "Yes!" ”
Zhang Donghu is not surprised at all, an excellent young man like his son Zhang Chengyuan will be surprised if he doesn't have a girlfriend, he doesn't believe that idol stars don't have time to fall in love. Zhang Donghu then asked: "Is it an outsider or an insider?" ”
"Insider."
Zhang Donghu was a little unhappy after hearing this, if Zhang Chengyuan found a female star to be her daughter-in-law, I was afraid that he would not have time to teach his husband and children in the future. Although his son Zhang Chengyuan's wishes are the most important, before that, he has to check for Zhang Chengyuan, so as not to let Zhang Chengyuan be young and love the wrong person. So he said, "Bring her home and show me tomorrow!" Without waiting for Zhang Chengyuan to object, he got up and left.
Although Zhang Chengyuan didn't take his words to heart, he didn't want to destroy the current bland but good relationship with Zhang Donghu, after all, Zhang Donghu was his father in this life, and Zhang Donghu's request was not excessive, so he found his four sisters the next day to discuss what to do.
At noon on the first day of the first lunar month, Lee Hyo-ri, Ok Joo-hyun, Lee Jin, and Sung You-ri gathered in Jang Sung-won's apartment to meet with Jang Sung-won, and they were all forced out by Jang Sung-won. Originally, the four daughters were rare to be able to spend a day with their families and relax their mood, but they were destroyed by Zhang Chengyuan, so the four daughters didn't give him a good face after seeing Zhang Chengyuan.
In order to avoid the punishment of the four sisters, Zhang Chengyuan hurriedly told the original story of the incident and the request of his father Zhang Donghu.
When the four girls heard this, they were stunned on the spot, looking at each other, and they didn't know what to do. Even under normal circumstances, when a woman goes to see her boyfriend's parents, she will feel frightened, not to mention that the relationship between the four of them and Zhang Chengyuan is still abnormal! Do you want the four of them to go to see Zhang Chengyuan's father together in the name of Zhang Chengyuan's girlfriend? When they thought about it, they all thought it was ridiculous! At the moment, Zhang Chengyuan was counted down again, blaming him for not finding a reason to prevaricate last night, but now he threw this problem to them?
Zhang Chengyuan didn't mind taking his four sisters to see his father Zhang Donghu at the same time, because no matter whether Zhang Donghu praised it or not, it was difficult to change his decision. However, he knew that the four sisters would never agree to him doing this, so he kept silent and waited for the sisters to make their own decisions, anyway, no matter which one of them went with him to meet his parents, his heart would be extremely happy.
The idea of the fourth girl was not as simple as Zhang Chengyuan thought. They feel that this matter is even related to the happiness of their lives, and no matter which one of them goes to see Zhang Chengyuan's father, with their excellent conditions, it is very likely that he will be recognized by him and recognized as a future daughter-in-law. And as soon as the identity of this daughter-in-law is confirmed, the other three daughters can hardly be with Zhang Chengyuan anymore, well, at least on the bright side.
The four girls each thought about it for a long time, but they didn't know who to go, they didn't think that they had to go by themselves, but they felt that after electing one, they would be sorry for the other two sisters.
Things have to be solved after all, although it is Zhang Chengyuan's fault, but it is still up to them to make up their minds, the four women discussed, and finally decided to draw lots, which is the most fair way they can think of
Li Xiaoli asked Jang Sung-won to find a piece of paper, cut it into quarters, and wrote on it: "Go", "Don't go", "Don't go", "Don't go", and then each of them crumpled into a ball, covered it upside down with a bowl, shook it for a while, picked up the bowl, and let the four women choose each other.
The four girls began to make a choice in order of age, and Lee Hyo-ri came first, she hesitated to touch it, but at the same time she paid attention to Zhang Chengyuan's gesture, and finally chose a paper ball closest to her. Then there was Ok Joo-hyun, who secretly glanced at Jang Sung-won, and then grabbed one seemingly casually; Then there was Li Zhen, her hand touched the two paper balls, and suddenly glanced at Zhang Chengyuan very quickly, and then grabbed one of them. In the end, the remaining one went to Cheng Youli, and she had no choice at all.
The four women unfolded the paper ball together, and Lee Hyo-ri, Ok Joo-hyun, and Lee Jin all wrote on the paper: "Don't go", only Sung You-ri's paper had a big word "go" written on it. So the final result came out: Cheng Youli accompanied Zhang Chengyuan to meet his father Zhang Donghu.
Cheng Youli didn't feel any joy at all, but looked at the other three girls with a complicated expression, and after a while, her tears burst out of her eyes, and after that, she covered her face with her hands, lowered her head and seemed to dare not look at the three sisters again. Li Xiaoli and the three of them came around, hugged Cheng Youli together, and comforted: "Youli, it's okay, my sisters won't blame you!" Tears flowed involuntarily.
At this time, Zhang Chengyuan said with some smirk: "Four sisters, it's not a life and death, why are you so sad?" ”
Lee Hyo-ri, Ok Joo-hyun, and Lee Jin all turned around and glared at him fiercely, and said in unison: "It's all your fault!" "If it weren't for Zhang Chengyuan's big mind and taking down all four of their sisters, how could they have today's troubles?
After being blamed, Zhang Chengyuan immediately honestly lowered his head and stopped talking.
Sitting in the car bound for Zhang Chengyuan's hometown, Cheng Youli was still a little sad and didn't say a word. Zhang Chengyuan persuaded: "Sister Youli, it's okay, I won't let you separate, so you don't need to be so sad!" Zhang Chengyuan is not a Lu man, and he has some understanding of his sisters' thoughts, but he doesn't think there is anything to worry about, no matter which sister he marries, the actual situation between them will not change. Besides, it was still early to get married, although he said in front of his father that he would get married in five or six years, but he only said it casually, and in fact he might not be able to get married in ten years.
Cheng Youli gave him a blank look and didn't want to pay attention to him.
Zhang Chengyuan smiled and said, "Sister Youli, your eye makeup has been sparked by your tears, let's fix it!" ”
Cheng Youli hurriedly took out the mirror from the handbag to check when she heard this, she didn't want to be rude in front of her future father-in-law, and saw that it was indeed a little spent, so she took out a makeup pen to trim it, and after a while, she suddenly asked: "Cheng Yuan, did you do the lottery just now?" ”
At this time, a car just passed by Zhang Chengyuan's car, almost brushing with his car, which scared Zhang Chengyuan a lot, so he didn't think about it in a trembling heart, so he casually responded: "Well, yes." ”
Cheng Youli leaned back in his seat, exhaled, and said quietly: "I knew that the Dao would be like this." ”
After Zhang Chengyuan adjusted the car, he sighed: "My sister Youli, can you not ask me questions at such a dangerous moment, and you are not afraid that we will have an accident?" ”
Cheng Youli said: "If I don't ask you at this time, can I ask your true words?" And you're so good at driving that there's absolutely no way you'll have a problem. After a pause, she continued: "Also, who told you to do things in the lottery?" The tone was a little angry.
Zhang Chengyuan no longer had time to blame Youli for being reckless, and said honestly: "Sister Youli, it's none of my business, it was Sister Xiaoli who asked me to do this, and Sister Zhuxuan and Sister Zhenzhen also agreed." ”
"I've been with you all the time, why don't you know the way?"
"Before the lottery, didn't Sister Xiaoli suddenly say that she was thirsty and asked you to go with me to make coffee? It was at that time that they discussed it, and they knew that my ears were good and I could hear, so they threatened me to help them. Zhang Chengyuan replied truthfully.
"And what do you do with your hands and feet?"
Zhang Chengyuan said: "Didn't I write the words on these pieces of paper?" While writing, I secretly put a true qi mark on the three pieces of paper that said 'not go'. ”