Chapter 35: Four Hundred Years of One Dream
Donghai Pearl Film and Television City, located in the northern suburbs of Longcang City, was about 10 years ago, rebuilt from a loss-making resort, famous for its imitation of a large number of ancient famous architectural palaces, about one-third of the costume dramas in Huaguo were filmed here.
As the popularity here becomes higher and higher, there are more and more crews and actors who come here, and there are more and more fans who come to chase stars, forming a tourism effect and stimulating the local economy.
In the south of this film and television city, there is a row of private houses, these private houses were originally to be demolished, but because of the existence of the film and television city, the local government will use these rents as "prosperous shops" and lease them to others as shops, which not only saves the cost of demolition and reconstruction, but also "turns waste into treasure", killing two birds with one stone.
There is a lot of daily traffic here, and the business of these shops is very good, such as the "Beigong Fast Food" on the very edge, although the name of this store seems to be a bit of a vassal elegance, but the business of the people is very prosperous - because the dishes are delicious, many of the crew's box lunches have been rounded up by this store.
It's early in the morning, like all restaurants run by Xiaoben, the owner and the guys in the store have been busy for a few hours, and now they are preparing to package the steamed buns, fritters, baked cakes, soy milk, or something and send them into the film and television city - today another palace drama has entered the group and started filming, and this crew with a total of more than 200 people is a "new customer" According to the usual practice, the meals delivered for the first time are all free, and if people think it suits their taste, then the fast food in the next few months or even a year will be ordered by them, which is also an unspoken rule.
Next to the back kitchen of the fast food restaurant, there are two small bungalows, and a chubby middle-aged cook holds a basket of steamed buns and a small bucket of soy milk, pushes open the door and walks into one of them.
"Old man, I brought it to you earlier, did you join the group this morning?" The middle-aged cook put breakfast on the square table against the north wall of the room, and in the innermost part of the square table, there was a wooden tablet with a letter written on it: "Emperor Qintian Zhidao Yingyi Divine Xuanwen Guangwu Hongren Da Xiaosu Emperor", there was a bronze incense burner in front of the rank, and three purple incense sticks were inserted in the incense burner.
"First of all, I respect the Emperor Su. "There was a desk by the window in the room, and an old man was wearing makeup in front of a round mirror, thick foundation filling the folds of his face.
"Hmm. The fat chef closed the door first, then put the bun fritters in the bowl, put them in a pattern, and then said something in his mouth, looking quite sincere.
"Our family is going to work today. The old man finished the foundation before he thrushed, "Then girl, don't forget to feed it, first feed one ball in the purple bottle, then feed three balls in the white porcelain bottle after a quarter of an hour, and finally feed a bowl of porridge into it, you know?"
"Don't worry!" The fat chef was already accustomed to the old man's nagging, he poured a bowl of soy milk for the old man and put it on the desk: "You can drink a little, I got up early to grind it." ”
"Hehe, what a filial child. The old man looked left and right in the mirror, was very satisfied, and stood up: "Let's change our clothes!"
"Hmm. The fat chef found a set of robes and shoes and hats from a wardrobe on the edge of the west wall, this robe had a purple round neck, a four-clawed python dragon pattern case with a cluster of flowers sitting on the chest and abdomen, a python embroidery pattern on each shoulder, a jade belt around the waist, a triangular resolute hat on his head, and a pair of short pointed soap boots under his feet.
"The old man is still so energetic!" exclaimed the fat chef, "Nine years ago, you were like that, and now my hair is half white, but you are still the same." ”
Yes, this old man and this middle-aged man are the two people who took away the golden scale man last night, that is, Murong Nana, the middle-aged man is a chef, and the old man has made guest appearances in many TV series.
In fact, it is not a group performance, it should be said that it is some unimportant supporting roles.
He only took on one role - a eunuch, and he had to be a eunuch in the Ming Dynasty.
9 years ago, the fat chef did not come to Longcang City, at that time Longcang City was not developed now, when he was still a member of the North Drift, in a big hotel in Yanjing City as a man, one night, drunk he, riding a motorcycle fell into a big pit in the wild, fainted, when he woke up, it was already daytime, an old man in a beautiful costume saved him.
The one he was wearing at that time was the one worn by the old man now.
The old man said that he had slept for four hundred and forty years, and when he woke up, his majesty was gone, and even the world had changed color.
"Before the emperor's big trip, the old Danshi sent the last furnace of the immortal pill, that is His Majesty's last hope, as the head of the inner chamberlain, our family personally tested the poison, who knew that after only half a meal, our family lost its pulse and breath, and the old Danshi was beheaded, and His Majesty also died. "The old man said this passage back then, the fat chef will never forget it for the rest of his life - an old eunuch who has taken immortal medicine and lived for hundreds of years, how can this make people forget?
The old man brought out of his own tomb only this outfit and a whole box of porcelain medicine bottles—the final work of the old Danshi, all here, became the old man's funeral goods.
The fat cook asked the old man's name at that time, and the old man just smiled and said, "Our family's surname is Huang, don't mention the rest, damn people, not enough to worry about." ”
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Wait for the old man to give the emperor tablet incense again, he went out to work, today is an inner court drama, the palace fight, the old man likes to participate in such a drama the most, in this film and television city for so many years, the palace drama has been filmed again and again, the old-fashioned harem competition for favor, the old-fashioned various poisoning abortions, framed and framed, but he is not tired of acting, because only when acting, he can vaguely recall the time of the year, the seventy-two concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards, competing for beauty, and now he has already become a skeleton ashes, only he is still living alone.
When the old man left, the fat cook went to another bungalow, and in the bungalow was a large fish tank more than one meter square, and the fish in the fish tank and the "strange stones and aquatic plants" were all fished up, and it was full of water.
A half-human, half-fish golden monster, curled up on its knees, hovering in the middle of the fish tank.
At the bottom of the fish tank, a layer of golden scales has been laid - this golden-scaled man has begun to shed his scales after being fed a medicine by the old man last night.
"Alas, you are a poor girl, and you will suffer this sin. The middle-aged man rolled up his sleeves, grabbed the arm of the golden-scaled man and lifted her up, pried open his teeth with chopsticks, and fed her medicine and porridge soup in order according to the old man's instructions.
"Rest well, said the old man, for you can hear us by now. After feeding the things, the fat cook asked her to continue soaking in the water, "I don't know when you will wake up, the old man said, now that I have turned you into such an enemy, I must be looking for you all over the world, I am going to the back kitchen to work, I don't have time to look at you, so if you wake up, don't run around, and when you recover, it's not too late to leave." ”