When Shen Long came in, he looked a little familiar, and when he asked him, he was really the one he guessed, Ang Lee is now studying at the Film Production Institute of New York University; There are two film centers in the United States, one is the famous Hollywood, and the other is in New York, which is the home of art filmmakers represented by Woody Allen, and Woody Allen lives in Greenwich Village, so it is not surprising that Ang Lee is here.

"This is my girlfriend Lin Huijia, and the two of you are from the mainland?" Ang Lee also introduced his girlfriend to them, while looking at them both curiously.

"Yes, we used to work in the symphony orchestra in Beijing, I played cello, she played violin, and I just arrived in the United States for a month." Shen Long glanced at Lin Huijia, this is a great woman, it can be said that Ang Lee's future achievements are inseparable from Lin Huijia's support for him.

Two years later, Ang Lee graduated from New York University with a master's degree in his graduation book, The Dividing Line. The film won the New York University Wasserman Award for Best Director and Best Picture; After that, Ang Lee stayed at home for 6 years, during which he watched films, wrote scripts, took care of all household chores, laundry, cooking, cleaning, and the family expenses were borne independently by his wife Lin Huijia, who is still studying for a doctorate in biology at the University of Illinois.

In the past six years, Ang Lee and Lin Huijia have also given birth to two sons, and the burden of the family has fallen on her.

Li An didn't want to go after knowing it, and secretly learned computers to find a job, but was discovered by Lin Huijia and scolded, "There are so many people who learn computers, and you Li An is not bad!" Ang Lee was able to persevere.

Seeing the two of them, Shen Long remembered another great director he had met in "Ordinary World" and came to Greenwich Village a few years later.

Guo Yan also felt cordial when she saw the Chinese, so she asked, "Are the two from Baodao?" What to do in New York? ”

"I studied at the New York University Film Production Workshop, and Huijia did her Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Illinois." Ang Lee replied with a bit of shyness.

Shen Long was also able to cut in from the perspective of movies and chatted with Ang Lee, he opened a film company in Hollywood back then, and cooperated with big directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and it was not false at all when it came to movies, and soon chatted with Ang Lee extremely speculatively.

Over there, Lin Huijia and Guo Yan also chatted happily, and even after eating, they also invited Ang Lee and Lin Huijia to their home as guests, and Shen Long and Guo Yan played a piece of "Liang Zhu" for them, which won the praise of Ang Lee and Lin Huijia.

After the performance, the four of them sat in the living room, chatting casually over beer like those Americans, and talked about Ang Lee's latest work, "I like Chinese food culture very much, so I plan to make a short film about Chinese food, and I have already written the script, which is called "I Love Chinese Food." ”

Shen Long nodded slightly, Ang Lee also integrated his preference for Chinese food culture into the movie, and in the future, the "Men and Women in Diet" starring Lang Xiong and Wu Qianlian made Shen Long's mouth water at the beginning of the cooking scene.

"Five-minute short films don't cost much, and schools have equipment and everything, but it's not easy to find chefs in New York who are good at cooking Chinese food, and I found a few chefs, and they didn't have time." Li Ang has been worrying about this matter for the past few days, he has not yet started the life of a househusband, and his cooking skills have not yet been practiced.

"My wife will." He didn't say anything about himself, just deal with this kind of small piece Guo Yanshang, he always has some friends when he is alone, and it would be good if he could take this opportunity to make Guo Yan and Lin Huijia best friends.

It took two or three days to help Ang Lee make this short film, and the relationship between the two families became close, and the two of them finally had their first pair of friends in New York.

During this period, Shen Long's occasional understanding of movies and familiarity with photographic equipment surprised Ang Lee, and even joked, "Qiming, shouldn't you have worked in a film studio before?" ”

This is really not, I just learned two hands from Lao Mouzi, if you want to talk about this photography skill, you must not be able to compare to him, Shen Long smiled and vaguely passed.

First they were looking for a house to move, then they helped Ang Lee make a short film, and by the time they returned to the performance venue outside Lincoln Center, a week had passed.

"King, I thought you weren't coming!" Robert and Boris greeted them happily, then took out their cellos and violins, and began to play for the day.

This kind of life lasted for another month, and when the month ended, Guo Yan began to settle accounts according to her habits, and after calculating, Guo Yan frowned.

"Qiming, we have earned less this month than last month." In the past, they both received fixed salaries in the symphony orchestra, and Guo Yan still didn't adapt to the rhythm of this income change, "This month only adds up to barely 3,000 US dollars, and I have to rent a house for 1,000 yuan, and then add Ning Ning's, food, water and electricity bills, etc., we can have less than 1,000 US dollars left, so it can't go on like this." ”

"Moreover, you come to look at the account books, it was better at the beginning of this month, but in the second half of the month, the income began to decline, if it continues at this rate, it is estimated that it will be more than two thousand points next month." When she first arrived, Guo Yan thought it was a lot when she heard about $800, but now she began to dislike $2,000 less.

"Pretty normal!" Shen Long lay on the desk and didn't look up, and replied while writing something, "I was able to earn so much last month because New Yorkers rarely listened to "Liang Zhu" and "Jasmine", and now that it has been two months, the novelty has long passed, and the money they give is naturally less." ”

"What then? Let's change to another tune? "Guo Yan is in a hurry, why is it so difficult to make money.

"What's the tune?" Shen Long raised his head, "If it were Raschmann, Dvořák, Strauss or something, our skills would not be better than Robert's, and they would still not be able to attract the audience; If you play Chinese tunes, to be honest, our own tunes are still weaker, and it's almost impossible to find one that can compare with "Liang Zhu". ”

"Isn't that just a change of job?" As soon as she heard this, Guo Yan panicked even more, this good day has only been over for a month, is it about to end?

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