New Year's Day.

The two of them went out early, Li Tang rode a motorcycle, and Lao Li drove a small van to buy vegetables at home, loaded with a small half car.

Before leaving, Lao Li instructed as usual: "Be careful, don't ride too fast." ”

During the Spring Festival, there were very few cars on the road, and the road was smooth, and it took less than an hour for the two of them to arrive at the old apartment building on Taiyuan Road almost at the same time.

Li Tang parked the car and went to help carry things upstairs, with a lot of big bags and small bags.

"Look at your mess here, I don't know how to clean up for the New Year." As soon as Lao Li entered the door, he began to pick his nose and eyes.

The fruits of my ex-girlfriend's labor last time didn't last a few days, clothes were thrown randomly on the sofa, and scripts and manuscripts on the table were messy.

Li Tang smiled, quickly gathered his clothes and threw them into the closet, and when he came out, he saw that his father was about to help clean up the table, and hurriedly stopped: "Dad, don't move!" These are all work materials, I know them in my heart, don't look back and find them. ”

During this time, he was busy familiarizing himself with the script and doing various desk work. When an actor gets the script to prepare, it is not as simple as memorizing lines, but first of all, he must sort out the plot, figure out the relationship between the characters, and write a character biography and so on.

Lao Li snorted twice, turned around and put the things he brought into the refrigerator.

His son does not rest during the Spring Festival, he is worried that his son will not eat well, milk and fruits, home-made beef sauce duck, bad fish and drunken chicken, as well as zongzi, glutinous rice cakes, and meat steamed buns, which are stuffed to the brim.

"Don't be lazy when eating, don't microwave it, it's delicious when it's steamed."

After Lao Li was busy, he had to go upstairs and downstairs to the neighborhood, and each family would send a glutinous rice cake. They are all old residents here, most of them have status and status, and when Li Tang's grandmother lived here in the early years, Lao Li often came and went, and everyone was very familiar with it.

Li Tang's grandmother was born in a big family, and everyone was beautiful, so she didn't look down on this country son-in-law at first. But Lao Li did a good job, even if he later divorced, he still treated the old lady as his own wife until the old lady died.

These neighbors all saw it in their eyes, and they had a very good impression of Lao Li.

Lao Li has a good side, and there are also chicken thieves from low-level citizens, patting horses and whiskers, watching people put down dishes, and the one who plays is called a slipper.

Shanghainese people like to eat sweet glutinous rice cakes, which are a must-have food for the Chinese New Year. Although there are some sold outside, it is definitely not as good as grinding fresh glutinous rice at home, willing to put the material, and the quality of steaming it out of a large pot is good. A small glutinous rice cake, delicious, good meaning, light and affectionate, this is all human affection!

After the incident, the father and son drove to Lou's house in a hurry.

"Teacher Lou, Mrs. Lou, Happy New Year!"

"Yo, Xiao Ye is back too!"

For the Lou family, Lao Li is really grateful, Li Tang took the exam and found a job, but they helped a lot.

"National Day, come as soon as you come, don't take so many things every time...... This cigarette will be taken back later, and the old building has quit smoking now. "Mrs. Lou is as polite as ever.

That's right, Lao Li's name Li Guoqing, born in 50, his birthday coincided with the first anniversary of the National Day, and his name was very in line with the characteristics of that era.

"Teacher Lou has quit smoking, okay, take care of your body, and give Xiao Ye a cigarette."

Lao Li took two Chinese cigarettes and stuffed them into Lou Ye's arms.

Lou Ye was not good at shirking, so he had to say: "Thank you, Uncle Guoqing." ”

"Thank you, thank you, it's all your own people."

Lou Jicheng reluctantly glanced at the cigarette in his son's hand, and beckoned the Li family father and son to sit down.

"National Day, business is good this year?"

"So-so, it's okay. Mr. Lou, the little guy didn't bother you much this time, right? Lao Li had a simple smile.

"Hey, it's him who fights for it." Lou Jicheng waved his hand.

Speaking of which, Li Tang was selected by Peng Xiaolian to play the male lead in the tribute film "Shanghai Chronicle" this time, he was really surprised.

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Li Tang and said, "Li Tang, the opportunity is rare, you have to listen more, watch more, and learn more." ”

Lou Jicheng is also an actor, and he knows too well how rare it is for an actor to get a leading role. Many actors never have the opportunity to play the lead role in their lifetime.

There is an old saying in the industry, acting pays attention to one life, two luck, three feng shui, four accumulation of yin and virtue, and five reading. It's about how an actor develops, first of all, fortune, and then the so-called personal efforts such as reading.

Li Tang is lucky this time, and the next thing is to see his real material.

It is said that if you don't understand anything, don't have enough reserve knowledge, can't feel the tension behind the character and the personality characteristics of the character through the script, and can't create a role that the audience recognizes, even if you have the opportunity, the probability is short-lived.

Li Tang understood what Lou Jicheng meant, and said seriously: "Uncle Lou, I remember, I will work hard to seize the opportunity." ”

Lou Ye sat next to him and blinked his little eyes, looking at Li Tang curiously, this little brother's growth seemed to be seriously beyond his expectations.

When Li Tang looked over, he smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Li Tang, congratulations!" ”

"Thank you, Brother Ye."

Every time I follow my father to Lou's house to pay New Year's greetings, I can always hear my father and Uncle Lou and Mrs. Lou talk about the hard years they had on the farm in Jiangxi.

Li Tang's ears were calloused when he heard it a long time ago, but he still showed a look of relish very politely, and asked or sighed at the right moment at the critical moment, which was very commendicated.

Suddenly, I heard someone next to me whispering: "Hey, I saw you riding a motorcycle on the street last time, and there was a girl behind you." ”

"Huh?"

Li Tang turned his head to look at Lou Ye, his face was surprised, as if to say: Are you talking to me? Don't you always play the role of a silent listener?

He was very flattered and said: "Oh, that's my classmate, from Beijing, who came to shoot an advertisement some time ago." ”

Schoolmate? How can there be a classmate who hugs so tightly.

Lou Ye is not a gossip person, he just wants to understand what he cares about.

"Your classmate is also an actor?"

"Well, her name is Li Binbin, from the Beijing Experimental Repertory Theatre, she has filmed "No Regrets Tracking", and she plays Feng Kangmei."

Lou Ye recalled carefully, nodded and said, "It turned out to be her, she acted well." ”

He rarely watches TV series, but he still has an impression of this spy war drama that was broadcast two years ago, he and Wang Zhiwen are good friends, and naturally recognize Feng Kangmei, who plays Wang Zhiwen's daughter in the play.

Since Lou Ye took the initiative to talk for the first time, Li Tang chatted with him: "Brother Ye, have you been busy lately, do you have any plans for a new film?" ”

"There are plans for new films, but they are ......"

Lou Ye sighed, and didn't know where to start for a while.

He really wanted to shoot his new book "Suzhou River", but there was no result in keeping up with the studio last time. Shanghai Film Studio has plans for three tribute films this year and next year, and it will not be able to cooperate with him for the time being.

Li Tang was originally speechless, so he didn't continue to ask when he saw this, but changed the topic interestingly and talked about the two movies that the other party had made before.

In his memory, he had seen Lou Ye's works before, and he still had the discs of these two movies at home. After touching Lou Ye last time, he revisited it again.

With his current cognition, after reading it, he naturally has a deeper understanding than his predecessor.

Lou Ye was very surprised, he didn't expect Li Tang to have such a deep understanding of his movies, not only did he have something to say, but most of them coincided with his original intention.

The scene he saw last time unconsciously came to his mind - Li Tang, who was wearing a leather jacket, rode a motorcycle with a thin girl, shuttling through the traffic......

……

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, in the morning.

A Happy 90 roared into the Shanghai Film Studio, in front of a small building, the car stopped, Li Tang, who was wearing a leather jacket and jeans, kicked the bracket, threw his long legs back, got out of the car, took off his helmet, hung it on the reflector, and the whole set of actions was done in one go.

Today is the day when the crew of "Shanghai Chronicle" assembled.