The moonlight tonight is beautiful, with a full moon hanging high in the sky and dotted with stars.

On the quiet street, the tall tung branches are luxuriant, Chen Li'an sent Liu Xiaoli downstairs to the apartment, and the two of them stood under the eaves of the apartment gate, and the warm yellow light gently sprinkled on the two of them.

Chen Li'an took Liu Xiaoli's hand and squeezed it lightly, before letting go of the bag in his hand and handing it to her and said, "Thank you for being my female companion tonight, I wish you a good dream." ”

The hand that had been held suddenly let go, Liu Xiaoli still missed the feeling just now, took the paper bag handed over by Chen Li'an, hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you want to go up and have a cup of tea, you drank a lot of wine at night." ”

"Is it convenient?"

Liu Xiaoli understood what Chen Li'an meant, and said with a smile: "The hotel apartment I live in by myself is not inconvenient. ”

"That" Chen Li'an just wanted to say yes, but the phone rang suddenly, so he glanced at Liu Xiaoli apologetically, took out the phone and connected it.

As soon as the phone was connected, Li Dabai's voice came.

"Teacher Chen, why haven't you come back yet? Did you drink too much? I just talked to Sister Huang Gong Li on the phone, and she asked me to tell you not to drink more, when will you come back, I will prepare a sobering tea for you. ”

After Li Dabai finished speaking quickly, he added uneasily: "Sister Gong Li said to let you go home and call her back." ”

Chen Li'an: "." If I knew it, I wouldn't have picked it up! When did Li Dabai defect! What a damn one!

Turning his head to look at Liu Xiaoli, who was looking at him, Chen Li'an's expression was slightly serious, and he said to Li Dabai on the other end of the phone: "I know!" Wait for me to go back and deal with it, I'm already on my way! ”

After speaking, Chen Li'an hung up the phone, walked up to Liu Xiaoli and said very apologetically: "I'm sorry, something happened temporarily, I need to go back to deal with it quickly." ”

"It's okay, you can go back and get down to business." When Liu Xiaoli heard what Chen Li'an just said, she had already guessed it, and she was both a little disappointed and relieved, after all, she hadn't gotten the divorce certificate yet.

Chen Li'an snorted, looked at the hair scattered in front of Liu Xiaoli's forehead, stretched out his hand and gently plucked it and said, "I will return to China tomorrow, when will you go back?" ”

Chen Li'an's sudden gentleness and initiative made Liu Xiaoli's eyes flash a trace of panic, and it felt like she had returned to the feeling she had when she first fell in love as a teenager.

After such a long dull day, in this romantic city on this romantic night, it seems to have rediscovered the girl's heart that has long been silent.

Liu Xiaoli bit her lip and said softly: "I booked a ticket for the day after tomorrow, and I still have some things to deal with tomorrow." ”

The style of a mature woman, coupled with the slightly girlish lip biting action, made Chen Li'an want to lose the phone and follow Liu Xiaoli upstairs directly.

But now there is no chance, Chen Li'an put down his hand and looked at Liu Xiaoli and said, "Then we'll see you in the capital, and I'll pick you up the day after tomorrow." ”

"No need, the day after tomorrow him"

Liu Xiaoli paused halfway through speaking, but Chen Li'an understood what she meant, so he nodded and said, "Okay, you deal with your own affairs first, and call me if you need anything." ”

Facing Chen Li'an's good sense of proportion, Liu Xiaoli always felt very strange, as if facing a man who was older than herself, obviously a few years younger than herself.

Shouldn't a man of normal age be very impulsive and domineering? Like a puppy?

Maybe it's because she and he haven't developed to that point, Liu Xiaoli looked at Chen Li'an and thought about whether to give him a little reward, what if he ran out of hooks.

However, Chen Li'an didn't give her so many opportunities to think, "I'll go back first, good night and good dreams." ”

Liu Xiaoli looked at Chen Li'an's back as he turned to leave, and she didn't look nostalgic at all, which was diametrically opposed to the gentleness just now.

"Good night!"

Liu Xiaoli shouted at Chen Li'an's back, and couldn't help muttering in her heart that she seemed to have been caught.

Little milk puppy! It's quite! But this is not the time to fall in love as a teenager, there is no ignorant love, only two people test each other.

More than 20 minutes later, Chen Li'an returned to the villa, looked at Li Dabai, who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa and tinkering with the spoils of war, sat opposite her and said, "Say, when did you rebel?" ”

Li Dabai was taken aback by Chen Li'an, and then he reacted and asked stupidly: "Teacher Chen, what kind of rebellion?" ”

"Don't pretend to be stupid, did you report my whereabouts to Gong Li?"

"Nope! Sister Gong Li and I hit it off at first sight! It was just about you when I called in the evening."

"Hmph, don't admit it, you have the ability to let Gong Li pay you a salary, and the salary will be halved from tomorrow!"

Chen Li'an went upstairs after speaking, and he couldn't hold your salary if he didn't credit his salary, you little money fan! I guess I'll come to confess later.

Li Dabai scratched his head, the salary is not from you, the salary paid to me by the beautiful woman Ji Fa.

Looking at Chen Li'an's back as he went upstairs, Li Dabai muttered in a low voice: "Do I have to tell you that the queen mother has also paid me a salary, huh?" The queen has sent it, can other concubines also cheat a salary? ”

"No, no, I'm so sorry for Mr. Chen."

Li Dabai sighed melancholy, what a good way to make money, in the final analysis, he is still too conscientious, otherwise he would have sold Mr. Chen's underwear for money!

Chen Li'an, who went upstairs to take a bath, was a little surprised that Li Dabai was not frightened, so he went downstairs with a straight face and watched Li Dabai packing the things he bought.

Chen Li'an sat next to him and picked up a bag and looked at it a few times, Li Dabai raised his head and glanced at him and said, "Teacher Chen, the ticket has been booked, tomorrow morning at 9:15, rest early, I'll just clean it up myself." ”

Chen Li'an: "."

This girl is hopeless, so she won't think she's here to help her clean up.

Chen Li'an threw the things in his hand on the table, looked at Li Dabai and said, "Forget about today's matter, there is no next time, you remember that you are my assistant, understand?" ”

"Understood!" Li Dabai raised his head and looked at Chen Li'an with a smile, then took out a small box from the bag on the table and pushed it in front of him and said, "This is the gift I bought for you, this bottle of perfume is so expensive." ”

Looking at the perfume box in front of him, Chen Li'an coughed unnaturally, is this considered a female subordinate bribing a male boss

After Chen Li'an took the perfume upstairs, Li Dabai smiled proudly, the crisis is over! But you really have to pay attention in the future, no matter how powerful the queen is, she has to listen to the emperor.

The next morning, Chen Li'an and Li Dabai stepped on the plane back to China.

On the balcony of an apartment in Paris, Liu Xiaoli held a coffee in her hand and looked up at the planes flying in the sky, then turned around and went out with her bag, hanging yesterday's dress on the hanger in the room, which was particularly dazzling in the early morning sun.

On the high-speed flying plane, Li Dabai looked at Chen Li'an and said, "Teacher Chen, this time it's first class, are you satisfied?" ”

"Well, that's good."

Chen Li'an put on an eye patch and was about to sleep, and Li Dabai continued: "It's that the first-class cabin is so expensive, and the foreign exchange brought this time has been spent." ”

"When you go back to the capital, you go and change a little more, and you will come back in a few days." Chen Li'an replied and turned over and went to sleep.

Li Dabai pouted when he looked at Chen Li'an, feeling that he was too extravagant, and the economy class was no different.

However, when Li Dabai leaned comfortably on the seat, he still showed an expression of enjoyment, and the money was indeed worth it.

More than ten hours later, the plane landed in the capital, but at this time the Beijing airport was more than three o'clock in the morning, and there was still a trace of cold air in the air.

Chen Li'an and Li Dabai did not stay in the capital for too long, and after waiting for a few hours at the airport, they transferred to Nanjing.

The Christian crew in Nanjing has arrived, and the plan is to officially start shooting in five days, but before the start of production, a lot of work has to be prepared in advance.

Chen Li'an also has to meet with the director and the main creative team first, whether it is to read the script or communicate the specific shooting plan, it must be set in advance.

Time is tight and the task is heavy, Chen Li'an will return to Cannes to attend the closing ceremony in a few days, and he has no time to stay in the capital.

At a roadside stall in Nanjing, Chen Li'an and Li Dabai sat at a small table, eating potsticker dumplings and duck blood vermicelli soup, and Nanjing had just started a new day.

Many office workers eat breakfast here, and many people take insulated buckets to pack and eat at home.

Li Dabai took a bite of the pot sticker dumplings, but his eyes stayed on the leather belly noodle stall next door, and the people of Beijing have a soft spot for belly.

However, the duck blood vermicelli soup is also delicious, Li Dabai touched his little belly and gave up the plan to eat another bowl of skin belly noodles.

Chen Li'an wiped his mouth with a little roll of paper and said, "Hurry up and eat, the crew is still waiting over there." ”

"Oh," Li Dabai took his gaze back from the bowl of the child next door.

In a mid-range hotel on the banks of the Qinhuai River, Chen Li'an successfully met with the crew, but what he didn't expect was that Cheng Shufen also came over.

"Sister Shufen, why are you here too?" Chen Li'an looked at Cheng Shufen and asked.

"Xueyou is holding a concert in Yangcheng, and I will come to see you not far away." Cheng Shufen said with a smile, in fact, she was a little worried that those people in the crew would give Chen Li'an a look.

Xiangjiang's entertainment industry has always been looked down upon by no one in the mainland, and Zhang Guorong was singing in the middle of the night before, and he was still filming in Beijing Film Studio, which would give Chen Li'an face.

But this time, there is no cooperation with the mainland studio, and the crew does not have Chen Li'an's acquaintances, so it will not be good if there is something that does not open his eyes and provokes Chen Li'an.

Cheng Shufen came here specifically to give Chen Li'an a platform, saving those who didn't know how to show a lofty posture.

Cheng Shufen took Chen Li'an to the conference room provided by the hotel to introduce Chen Li'an's identity to the crew.

Directors Ou Dingping and Chen Li'an had already met and knew his identity, so they stood up and shook hands with Chen Li'an very cooperatively and said, "Master Chen, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Chen Li'an, who was called by the master, was a little embarrassed, so it was better to call him by name.

Everyone in the conference room saw that the investors and directors were very polite to Chen Li'an, and they all knew about it in their hearts, and they all greeted Chen Li'an politely.

A few camera assistants sitting in the corner of the conference room whispered about Chen Li'an's affairs.

"Isn't he just a little actor in the mainland? Any background? ”

"There should be a background, otherwise how could I play midnight singing with my brother."

"Then why does the director call him Master?"

"I know this, the artist came, and he won some awards before, I saw it in the newspaper."

No one paid attention to the gossip here, and Li Dabai, who was standing next to him, heard it vaguely, but he couldn't understand Cantonese and didn't know what they were talking about.

Li Dabai's eyes were on the heroine of the movie at this time, actress Yasuko Tomita from Japan.

Yasuko Tomita bowed to Chen Li'an very politely at this time, but Chen Li'an didn't understand a word of the Japanese he said.

The translator next to him immediately followed the translator and said: "Yasuko said that she likes your work very much, and I didn't expect to be able to cooperate with an artist like you, I am very flattered, I am very happy to be able to cooperate with you, and I hope you can give me more advice." ”

Chen Li'an bets that Yasuko Tomita has never seen his own works, and Ji Fa has never brought his works to Japan to exhibit, and has been wandering around Europe and the United States.

Yasuko Tomita should have checked Chen Li'an's information and knew that he was an artist, so she was so polite, after all, in a social environment like Japan, writers and artists have a much higher status than actors and singers.

In the face of Yasuko Tomita's politeness, it will still be very useful, Chen Li'an also replied politely: "It's too polite, and I look forward to the next cooperation." ”

At this time, Yasuko Tomita was 26 years old, and her debut was not popular in Japan for ten years, after all, when she debuted, she was the most beautiful women in the Showa era.

Even though the Showa era has passed, it still hasn't been her turn, otherwise she wouldn't have starred in this large-scale movie.

But after this movie, Yasuko Tomita became popular in Japan, no way, there are too many little perverts in Japan, so I like this tune.

Yasuko Tomita looks very pure, with a pitiful taste, and later was hailed as the last representative of pure desire in the Showa era, and I don't know who rated it, but Yasuko Tomita does seem to be the one with pure desire.

Yasuko Tomita fits well with the innocent Jinhua in the script, and Director Ou Dingping will still choose people.

After a simple greeting, everyone sat down and began to read the script, Hong Kong films will not normally carry out such a reading, but the directors of literary films are different, and Ou Dingping has put a lot of effort into this movie, and the degree of attention is also different.

The script reading is actually very simple, that is, the main creative team sits together and goes through the script from beginning to end, without acting, but the actors have to go through the lines with the emotions of the characters.

If you find something wrong, you will raise it, and then discuss how to change it.

This method is very beneficial to creation, which can make the actors familiar with the script as soon as possible, and can also make them more familiar with each other, and there will be a lot of tacit understanding after the official shooting.

The Christ of Nanjing is a tragic story, and the atmosphere in the conference room is hardly enthusiastic, always with a sense of oppression.

Chen Li'an and Yasuko Tomita sat together, and when they read the rival play, they would watch each other substitute more emotions, but the communication between the two could only rely on eyes and expressions, one spoke Chinese and the other spoke Japanese, and language communication became an obstacle.

But fortunately, just read the lines again, and each other knew what the other was saying, and the reading went quite smoothly.

The morning passed quietly, the conference room was already cloudy, most of them smoked, Chen Li'an also lit a cigarette and put it on his finger, although he had quit, but the characters in the script smoked, and now he can be regarded as regaining the feeling of smoking.

The morning reading was only half past the script, and during the lunch break, in the hotel restaurant, Yasuko Tomita took the initiative to sit next to Chen Li'an and said hello to Chen Li'an in Chinese, whose pronunciation is not standard.

Li Dabai listened and wanted to laugh on the side, and hurriedly stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth, estimating in his heart that Chen Li'an should not be able to develop a good friend this time.

I don't know how to hook up, do you rely on sign language?

Chen Li'an listened to Yasuko Tomita's greeting, smiled and replied in Chinese, and then said in English: "We can also communicate in English." ”

"Hmm" Yasuko Tomita said in English after a while, "My English is not very good, please forgive me." ”

Li Dabai really couldn't help but want to laugh, it was difficult to even communicate in English, so he could report to the queen with confidence.

Chen Li'an turned his head to look at Li Dabai, who was holding back a smile, and said, "What are you laughing at, are you good at English?" ”

Li Dabai: "." Learn now! I'm!

Yasuko Tomita couldn't understand the conversation between Chen Li'an and Li Dabai, but she could guess that Chen Li'an seemed to be speaking for herself, so she said in English that she was not very fluent in: "Is my pronunciation too non-standard?" I'm sorry, I'll practice a lot. ”

Chen Li'an turned around and said, "No, you are the Japanese with the most standard pronunciation I have ever seen." ”

This is not a lie, Chen Li'an has never seen a few Japanese in his life, and Yasuko Tomita is indeed the best pronunciation.

Hearing Chen Li'an's words, Yasuko Tomita felt a little crying and laughing in her heart, it sounded like a compliment, but in fact she was complaining about the English pronunciation of the Japanese.

But this is also true, there is indeed an accent problem in Japanese English, and Yasuko Tomita did not dwell on this problem, and still tried to communicate with Chen Li'an in English.

Chen Li'an was also very patient to chat with Yasuko Tomita, and Li Dabai, who was sitting next to him, was angrily competing with the ribs on the plate, he didn't understand it at all, and he couldn't make a small report.

Lunch time passed quickly, and the group returned to the conference room to continue reading the script.

In the lines of one person and one sentence, the sky outside gradually darkened, and when the end of the script was read, when the male protagonist hugged the female protagonist who died on the railway and cried bitterly, Chen Li'an's choked and sad voice made the entire conference room quiet.

Yasuko Tomita listened to Chen Li'an's lines, looked at his affectionate and sad eyes, and the emotions in her heart were also stimulated, thinking of Jinhua's tragic life, tears slipped from the corners of her eyes unconsciously.

It may be that Chen Li'an was a little involved, and unconsciously stretched out his hand to gently wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Ou Dingping looked at this scene, and his heart was also full of emotion, although it is not a real shooting now, the time, place and dress are not right, but Chen Li'an and Yasuko Tomita feel at this time is moving.

When Chen Li'an finished all his lines and broke away from his emotions, applause suddenly rang out in the conference room.

Ou Dingping pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray and couldn't help but say excitedly: "You guys feel so right now!" ”

The interpreter explained next to Yasuko Tomita, and she turned her head to look into Chen Li'an's eyes, revealing an extremely innocent smile.

Chen Li'an looked at Yasuko Tomita's smile like this, and suddenly had some feelings in his heart, if he fell in love with someone like the male protagonist in the movie, would he also let himself fall into pain and entanglement?

After all, it's not easy to be a scumbag, how painful Okayagawa in the movie is at the end, Chen Li'an can understand.

A good scumbag suddenly becomes affectionate and falls deeply in love with a woman who shouldn't be loved, which is not a touching love, it will only fall into entanglement and pain.

Because scumbags never love just one person.

After the reading ended, Chen Li'an's mood was not very good, and Li Dabai followed him and asked in a low voice, "Teacher Chen, you haven't played yet?" ”

Chen Li'an snorted, and then reacted and said, "No, I just thought of some questions." ”

Li Dabai sighed and said: "The script is very exaggerated, how can there be a person like Jinhua now, and there will be no such love." ”

Chen Li paused for a moment, turned his head to look at Li Dabai, and suddenly said with a smile: "Yes, Dabai, I still know love very well." ”

"I don't understand!" Li Dabai immediately shook his head like a rattle, then looked at Chen Li'an with a long sigh and said, "After being by Mr. Chen's side for a long time, I don't believe in love anymore. ”

Chen Li'an: "." Are you connotating me?!

(End of chapter)