1979 Golden Age

"Teacher Li, Xiao Ji!"

After unveiling the plaque, Chen Qi called the two people from the film company to talk and asked, "How is it, are you used to living here?"

"I'm used to it, this place is pretty good!" Ji Chunhua nodded.

"It's pretty good, the house is big, the scenery is beautiful, and the people are warm, better than the guesthouse. It's just that the girls are young and energetic, and they are a little chattering." Li Jianqun smiled.

"I'll talk to them later. Although you are all under the company's name, you are divided into two units. If you have any questions, tell me and I'll solve them."

Chen Qi chatted for a few words and rode his bike to the Beijing Film Studio.

When he arrived at the main building, the small and shabby office of the East Factory, he had an appointment with the executive manager today. When he entered the room, he saw that the old man was waiting inside. The old man's name was Li Mingfu. To show his closeness, he always called him Uncle Li.

"Uncle Li!"

"Hey, Xiao Chen is here. It must have been a hard trip. It's been almost half a year since I left."

"Yes, things in Hong Kong are too chaotic. It's tiring and stressful."

After a while of greeting, he said, "I have something to ask you today. I must submit a report when I come back. You have to check it for me. What should be included and what should not be included. I don't have much experience."

"Okay, it's my duty."

"There's another thing. I want to continue recruiting people next year. I don't have a place to live. Can we write an application and ask the leader to solve it?"

"Oh, housing is a difficult problem!"

Li Mingfu shook his head and sighed, "Housing is tight across the country. All units are in a mess. They are fighting to get a house. How many rooms do you want to apply for?"

"Not many. People 10 square meters per person is enough."

"10 square meters! !"

The old man glared and said loudly: "The average per capita area in Beijing is only 4.8 square meters. You asked for 10 square meters? There are five people in our family, and we only live in a house of more than 20 square meters! You will be corrupted too quickly after going to Hong Kong!"

"Don't get excited, don't get excited. What I mean is that non-residential is also fine. Abandoned factories, yards, buildings, we can buy or rent, and we can renovate them ourselves. Is this feasible?"

"..."

Li Mingfu thought for a while and said: "It is somewhat possible. Are you going to live here for a long time?"

"No, just for a transition. I think it would be best to apply for a piece of land. We will have money next year. We can build a building, the kind with flush toilets, not a tube building!"

Hiss!

Li Mingfu became motivated. He is also a company member, so he has a share of the housing!

I really need to get a building with flush toilets, so that my descendants can work less for ten years!

"Apply for the land first. It's slow. It won't take three to five years. Let's get the transitional house first. Don't worry, leave it to me."

"Thank you for your help!"

Immediately, Chen Qi told him about his experience in Hong Kong. Li Mingfu taught him how to write a report. He had never worked in the system and he really didn't know how to write it.

…………

In the afternoon, in the studio.

"Mom, Love Me Again" was being filmed. It was arranged as a bedroom in a residential house in the Republic of China period. There was a wooden bed against the wall with a curtain hanging. Fang Chao was lying on the bed covered with a quilt, and Gong Xue was sitting next to him.

She was thin to begin with, and she deliberately tortured herself to become more haggard and thin, with a little sunken cheeks and messy hair.

The set was very quiet, and everyone moved lightly. Wang Haowei waited patiently and expectantly. Gong Xue also said nothing, just staring at the child on the bed in a daze, brewing her emotions.

After Chen Qi's training and tempering, she already had a lot of ideas.

No longer a rookie actor who passively accepted things before, she would think actively and even give the director some feasible suggestions.

She just made a gesture calmly, and Wang Haowei waved his hand and started filming immediately, with the camera pointed at the two of them: This scene is about a child who was snatched away by his father, but ran back secretly, and the mother and son hugged each other and cried bitterly.

"Dongdong!"

"Mom!"

Gong Xue hugged Fang Chao tightly, tears streaming down her face.

"Okay, pass!"

"Next scene!"

The mother and son talked, and the child talked about being sent to a new-style school to receive modern education, including Western music, and also learned a song that he wanted to sing to his mother.

"There is only one good mother in the world, and a child with a mother is like a treasure. Throwing into the arms of a mother, happiness is endless..."

This song comes from the 1958 Hong Kong movie "The Adventures of a Young Wanderer", starring Xiao Fangfang, who played Fang Shiyu's mother. She was a child star, originally an actress of Great Wall. The rightists offered her a high salary to recruit her, so her mother tore up the contract and jumped to the rightist company...

Fang Chao sang and gestured at the same time.

Gong Xue listened and watched, and her tears could not stop flowing.

She cried more and more beautifully now, and her tears were clearly visible, pattering like little pearls. She was crying, but her mouth was smiling - this was her unique trick.

"Xiao Gong is becoming more and more like a great actor."

Wang Haowei also secretly praised, and then watched Fang Chao finish singing the song, and the mother and son hugged each other and cried again, and Gong Xue said the lines: "Wuwuwu... Dongdong, my good child... Wuwuwu--u--puchi!"

"Xiao Gong!"

Wang Haowei slammed the table and shouted, "What are you doing? You were crying, why did you laugh?"

"I'm sorry, director, it's my fault!"

"What's wrong with you, how can you laugh while crying... laugh... huh?"

Wang Haowei turned his head and cursed, "Xiao Chen, you are a ghost! Where did you come from?"

"You are crazy, I finally got back."

"What does it have to do with me whether you come back or not? Don't disturb us filming, stay away, stay away."

Wang Haowei blasted him three meters away and continued filming.

Gong Xue was finished now. She was in a bad state. She hugged the child, her eyes always intentionally or unintentionally glanced over there, crying happily, and the corners of her mouth were raised, even AK couldn't suppress it.

"Stop!"

Wang Haowei couldn't bear it anymore, turned his head and was about to shout, but his eyes suddenly moved away.

"What are you looking at me for? I have retreated to the gate. Where can I hide?" Chen Qi shouted.

"Boy, you did it on purpose, right? Don't mess with me!"

"How dare I, okay, I'm going out, I'm going out!"

Chen Qi ran away.

He came to the tube building, took out the spare key from under a cabinet at the door, opened the door and went in. The inside was still clean and tidy, with a faint fragrance.

The two pots of flowers on the windowsill had withered, but the green leaves were well maintained.

On the table was a half-finished work.

"Home is where my heart is!"

He fell on the bed and closed his eyes to rest.

About an hour later, he heard the sound of keys opening the door, and Gong Xue rushed in.

"Huh? It's over so early?"

"Director Wang can't stand me anymore. I can't cry."

She stood by the bed and looked at me with a smile, tilting her head to look at me, as if she couldn't see enough, and said, "Are you really my little fool? Are you really back?"

"Oh, I've only been gone for a few months, but it feels like years."

Chen Qi pulled her over and hugged her in his arms. Gong Xue hugged him tightly, her eyes red: "It feels like several lifetimes to me. You don't know how much I miss you."

"Don't cry, don't cry, it's okay, I'm back."

"Um..."

(It's time to call it a day!

The rain is pouring down, it's endless, and the roads around the community are all flooded!)