Chapter 103: Beating Jujubes
If Zhou Cheng is the most feared person in this family, his father Zhou Kezhi can only rank second, and the first place is none other than his aunt Zhou Kemin.
No way, this is a psychological shadow left since childhood.
When Zhou Cheng was still in kindergarten, Zhou Kezhi was transferred to Pyeongchang District to work, and Zhou Cheng's mother Lin Li was also transferred to a middle school in Pyeongchang District to teach in order to take care of Zhou Kezhi. In order to ensure the learning and growth of the two children, Zhou Ya and Zhou Cheng were entrusted to Zhou Kemin's house.
At that time, Zhou Ya was already in elementary school, and Qian Duo became her follower after being cleaned up by Zhou Ya, like a sister, basically not taking Zhou Cheng to play. And Zhou Cheng is facing the strictest woman in the Zhou family.
Especially after Zhou Cheng entered primary school, Zhou Ya and Qian Duo's grades have always been among the best, which brings out Zhou Cheng's relative mediocrity.
In order to be able to give Zhou Kezhi an explanation, Zhou Kemin became more and more strict with Zhou Cheng, which made Zhou Cheng always frightened when he saw her. There is a certain psychological shadow until I grow up.
After carefully greeting his aunt, Zhou Cheng took out the key to open the door, looked at the other three women with unkind eyes, and complained, especially Qian Duo, who grimaced at him.
"Did you do something wrong? Why do you run away when you see me? When he came to the courtyard, Zhou Kemin sat at the round table, looked at Zhou Cheng and asked.
"Definitely, you don't know what kind of character this kid is, he made mistakes since he was a child." Zhou Qian was pregnant and pulled another chair to sit next to her aunt.
"Aunt, don't listen to Sister Qian's nonsense." Zhou Cheng raised the vegetables in his hand, and said with a smile: "I ran just now, didn't I see you coming and want to buy more vegetables." ”
"Grocery shopping, you still cook?" Hearing her brother's words, Zhou Ya showed a look of disbelief and turned her gaze to Gu Xintong on the side.
"I won't, she will." Zhou Cheng looked at his aunt with the same scrutinizing gaze and hurriedly explained: "This is Gu Xintong, the tenant who rented my house. ”
"Tenants?" Zhou Kemin frowned slightly and looked at the bungalow in the courtyard.
"She lives in this room and we are like buddies in the morning. By the way, Brother Tong used to learn judo. Zhou Cheng also understood his aunt's general thoughts, and then explained again.
"Mom, this is Gu Xintong, isn't he very handsome?" As soon as Qian Duo spoke, Zhou Chengcheng knew who was the initiator today, and couldn't help but cast a dissatisfied gaze at her.
"Hello Xiao Gu, I am Zhou Cheng's aunt." Zhou Kemin also glared at Qian Duo, and then greeted Gu Xintong.
"Hello Auntie." Gu Xintong didn't expect that it would involve her, originally she was going to return to her room with a greeting.
"Your name is Gu Xintong, right, what are the two words?" Zhou Kemin's gaze at Gu Xintong was obviously more kind than when he looked at Zhou Cheng.
"The old and the new, the paulownia of the sycamore tree."
Zhou Kemin nodded: "The dew flows in the morning, the new tong is introduced, how much spring is you." This is a poem by Li Qingzhao, it seems that you are a spring birthday. ”
"Yes, it's my birthday in March." Gu Xintong was a little surprised, the origin of his name, Zhou Cheng explained it at the beginning, but he didn't expect his aunt to know very well.
Qian Duo explained to Gu Xintong: "My mother is a teacher in the literature department of Huaxia University of Communication and Communication, and she has some research on ancient poetry. ”
"Where is my aunt doing some research, she is completely a master in this area." Zhou Cheng followed up and said: "If you hold a poetry conference in the future, you can be a judge, auntie." ”
"Don't follow the hype, what kind of food did you buy? We're going to have lunch at your side today. Zhou Kemin looked at the dish in Zhou Cheng's hand.
"I bought pork ribs, osmanthus fish, river shrimp...... Zhou Cheng stepped forward to flatter: "Zhou Ya, they didn't say you were coming, I'll buy some eel later, I've been hungry for your soft eel for a long time." ”
Zhou Kemin went to the kitchen with the ingredients, and after looking around, he found that there were a lot of condiments missing, and Zhou Cheng wanted to eat soft eel again, so he called Gu Xintong to go to the vegetable market to purchase.
Watching his aunt go out, Zhou Chengcai took care to ask his sister: "Didn't you say that the three of you will come over to beat dates today?" Why did you bring your aunt too? ”
"I also went to pick up Duoduo when I learned that my aunt was also resting, and I heard that we came to beat dates, so I stopped by to see you."
Zhou Cheng leaned over to his sister Zhou Ya and cousin Zhou Qian, and asked in a low voice, "Is it really just jujube?" Nothing else? ”
"Did you do something bad?" Zhou Ya stared at Zhou Cheng and asked, "Who is that Audi outside?" It can't be yours, right? ”
"It's mine, I took 10% of the company's shares in exchange."
"What?" Zhou Cheng's words made Qian Duo on the side exclaim: "Your broken company is not worth this car even if you sell it." ”
Last time Qian Duo saw this car, he thought he borrowed it for the premiere, but he didn't expect it to be Zhou Cheng's, and it was exchanged for 10% of the shares.
"There is a lot of money, who do you look down on?" Zhou Cheng said: "For this 10% of the shares, he will have to make up the difference to me in the end, I am not a leather bag company for a long time." ”
"You're not going to mess around outside in the name of Dad, are you?" Zhou Ya was a little unconvinced.
"You can rest assured of this, my money is an honest income, I have a script ready to make a movie, and the investment alone will cost 10 million."
"Brother Zhao is looking for you for this?"
"It's a little related, I have a little caries with Huang Teng, and he has lost face......" Then Zhou Cheng briefly explained the matter to the three sisters.
Zhou Qian has the most impatient personality among the sisters, and after listening to the general situation, she couldn't help complaining: "It's the fault of the Huang family's father and son, why did Zhao directly suppress it, so that people will think that Zhou Cheng is a bully." ”
"Brother Zhao should be worried that someone will use this incident to map Zhou Cheng's background." As a lawyer, Zhou Ya considered it relatively comprehensively: "The other party is an old actor who has been famous for a long time, and he has always had a good reputation. If this matter is really not suppressed and is released, the other party is thinking about his son's future, and he is sure whether he will distort right and wrong, and Zhou Cheng will not be able to defend himself at that time. ”
Zhou Kemin came today, and at noon, she was the chef, Gu Xintong helped to help, and took three kitchen whites to work together on a table of dishes.
After lunch, Zhou Ya and the three of them began to officially beat dates, as if it was a ritual. From a cabinet in the living room, they took out the mat they had purchased and spread it under the jujube tree. Then at the corner of the yard, he took out the bamboo pole that Gu Xintong had always thought was used for drying and preparing to beat dates.
The whole process was commanded by the pregnant Zhou Qian, Zhou Ya came to fight, and Qian Duo pulled Gu Xintong to pick it up.
Jujubes are Cangzhou small jujubes, the climate here in Yanjing is close to Cangzhou, there is no difference in the quality of jujubes, the only difference is that the number of jujubes is less.
"Mom, you taste it, this year's dates are quite sweet." Qian Duo washed a few dates and sent them, looked at Zhou Cheng and said dissatisfiedly: "The output of this date this year is a little small." ”
Zhou Cheng kicked the jujube kernel that he had eaten last night and hadn't had time to throw away under the table with his foot: "This year is a small year, and the jujube bears few fruits, and birds often come to steal it." ”
"Believe you, a ghost." Qian Duo glanced at Zhou Cheng with disdain, and then went to compete with Zhou Ya for the right to use the bamboo pole.
Zhou Kemin didn't care about the frolicking of a few girls, and ate a few washed jujubes, which still tasted like before. Looking at Zhou Cheng, who was sitting next to him, he asked, "It's been more than a year since you graduated, do you have any plans?" Do you want to apply for my graduate school and study it? ”
"Aunt, just let me go." Zhou Cheng shook his head: "I'm busy making movies now." ”
When Zhou Cheng was in the college entrance examination, he deliberately avoided Zhongchuan and applied for Nortel, just because he didn't want to be under his aunt's nose, and now it is even more impossible for him to apply for Zhou Kemin's graduate school.
"Is what Duoduo said true? Did you really write a movie script? Also awarded? ”
"It must be true, you wait, I'll show you the script."
Zhou Cheng dispelled his aunt's doubts, not only took out the printed script, but even took his award certificate in Ningxi to testify, which made Zhou Ya and the others give up beating dates and surround them.
"Really? It can't be a false testimony. Zhou Ya took the certificate and looked at the sun, looking for a watermark.
Zhou Qian looked at the script in Zhou Kemin's hand: "Zhou Cheng still has some scripts, aunt, you can show me after you read it." ”
Qian Duo took a jujube and teased: "It's okay, the east is not bright, but the west is bright, and our scumbag can actually win an award with the script." ”
"Qian Duoduo, if you don't show me the respect you deserve, I won't take you to play this movie." Among the three sisters, the only one who dared to scare Zhou Cheng was Qian Duo.
"It should cost a lot of money to make a movie, right?" Zhou Kemin handed the script to Zhou Qian, looked at Zhou Cheng and asked worriedly.
"The budget is 10 million, Yanjing Renyi will invest 3 million, and I will invest the rest of the funds from other places."
"Many foreign film and television companies make movies with loans." Qian Duo, who was reading the script with Zhou Qian, raised his head: "Do you want to find old money to approve a loan?" ”
Qian Duo's father, Zhou Cheng's uncle is the vice president of the Yanjing branch of the China Construction Bank, and the main focus is on loan approval, which is also the origin of Zhou Cheng's nickname "Qian Duoduo" for Qian Duo since he was a child.
Zhou Cheng glanced at Qian Duo, he did not say that in order to maximize profits, he would invest one million as a start-up capital, and this money was going to use his current house to apply for a loan from his uncle.
"Aunt, don't worry, I still have an artist in my company, and now I can earn 20,000 yuan for a performance, and when I don't shoot a movie next year, I can earn about the same."