Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 2 Xiao Li and Lao Li
The entire 90s was a period of great construction in Shanghai, with roads being dug and bridges everywhere, and construction sites everywhere.

Yan'an Road, which runs through the entire urban area, is undergoing viaduct construction, and the wide road has been compressed into two-way two-lane lanes. It is also the rush hour, and Li Tang is riding a motorcycle through the traffic with difficulty.

The road conditions gradually improved after driving out of the urban area. The accidental death in his previous life made him a little more cautious and cherish his life. Rao was on National Highway 318 where there were not many vehicles, and the speed of the motorcycle was still maintained at 60-70 yards.

It took nearly an hour for a road of more than forty kilometers, and it was already the beginning of the lights when driving on the main road of my hometown county.This is a suburban county in the southwest of Shanghai, located in the lower reaches of Taihu Lake and the upper reaches of Suzhou Creek, a typical water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the eyes of Shanghainese, the outside of the urban area is all countryside.When people from suburban counties go to urban areas, they don't talk about going to the city, but go to Shanghai.Because before the 50s, the so-called Greater Shanghai was limited to the central urban area, and the nine surrounding counties were all subordinate to the neighboring provinces.Later, the administrative regions were re-divided to form the present Shanghai.

The county seat is not big, but it is very lively.

Li Tang was both familiar and unfamiliar with everything in front of him.He not only inherited the memory of this body, but also integrated all the emotions of this body.

Familiarity is this life, and strangeness is past life.The air here is filled with more pyrotechnics than in America.

Walk a few hundred meters along the main road, cross the bridge and turn into a side street.Adjacent to the city river, there is a row of facade houses, and the light boxes and signs are colorful.

The small street of nearly [-] meters is a three-bay restaurant after all. Through the large glass windows, there is a lot of people inside.The sidewalk at the entrance is full of all kinds of bicycles and scooters, and there are several Santanas and vans in the open space next to it. It is clear that the business is booming.

Li Tang got into a small alley next to the hotel, the front room was connected to the courtyard behind, and there was a door on the courtyard wall.He stopped to push the cart and entered the door. Half of the small courtyard was occupied by the kitchen, with a pergola and a pool, where vegetables and dishes were washed.There are also three bungalows along the river bank, which are the warehouses of the hotel.

"Ouch, the little boss is back!"

"Little boss, why didn't you bring your girlfriend back when you came back alone?"

There are two middle-aged women in the yard, one kills fish and the other washes dishes.

"Yeah, I'm back."

Li Tang answered vaguely, parked the car and asked, "Where's my dad?"

"In the private room upstairs, people from the bookstore are here."

"Oh."

Don't underestimate bookstores these days. In addition to opening a store to sell books, they are also in charge of textbooks for primary and secondary schools in the county.

Every month, the person in charge of each store in the township below will come to the county for a meeting, and the reception will be served in their own restaurant, which can be regarded as a big customer.

"Boss, what do you want to eat?"

"I'm not hungry now, I'll come down and eat by myself later."

The hotel has three floors, the lobby on the first floor, boxes on the second floor, and the third floor is where the father and son live.

Li Tang greeted the two aunts and ran upstairs.

The third floor has a layout of three bedrooms and one living room. Please ask the aunt in the store to come up and tidy up frequently, so it is still tidy and clean.

When Li Tang entered the door, he turned on the air conditioner first, took his clothes and went into the bathroom.Driving all the way back, the whole person was already frozen through.

The hot water was rushing, and the hot skin was a little red, and it was considered to be over.

He stood in front of the mirror with a big towel to dry off. The spirited guy in the mirror looked thin at first glance, but his muscles were strong, his outline was clear, and his lines were smooth. He had a handsome face and a net height of 179.5. Can be on the cover of a magazine.

After changing into cotton pajamas, I smelled a strong fragrance when I came out of the bathroom.There is a pot on the coffee table in the living room, with lamb haggis, lamb blood, and thick white lamb soup, with a handful of garlic leaves sprinkled on it, and it is simmering over a low fire.

When Li Tang smelled it, he felt hungry instantly, so he hurried over to scoop up a bowl of soup, blew his breath, and drank it in small sips.After a few mouthfuls, my stomach felt warm and my whole body felt comfortable.

"Why do you want to come back today?"

Lao Li walked in from the door with a plate, a plate of neatly cut white water mutton, and a plate of roasted mandarin fish, both of which his son usually likes to eat.

"Busy, I just came back after the rehearsal today."

Li Tang traveled here for half a year, and he hasn't been back a few times. It has been more than a month since he went home last time. No wonder Lao Li is dissatisfied.

"How was the rehearsal?"

"It's very good. After the new year, it will be officially performed."

"Can you come on stage?"

"I'm corner B, see the opportunity."

As Li Tang said, he couldn't wait to pick up a piece of mutton with skin on and dipped it in his own secret sauce. The mutton was fragrant and soft without any smell.

"Dad, eat some old wine!"

This stuff is delicious.

"Well, eat a little."

After all, it was a happy thing for his son to come back. Lao Li took a bottle of Wuliangchun, but poured it directly into a bowl without a cup.

When pouring the wine, he still reminded: "You are in Shanghai, don't drive a motorcycle after drinking old wine."

In fact, he has always been opposed to his son buying a motorcycle.

There are three generations of Xingfu motorcycles, Xingfu 250, commonly known as "cannon"; imitating Suzuki's 125 and the third generation Xingfu 90 "Prince car".Motorcycles are covered with iron, and the risk factor is extremely high. It is said that the first batch of "cannons" were almost dead.

"I know, don't drink and drive, and don't drink while driving." Li Tang answered slickly.

"It's good to know. Is the money enough?"

"Enough! I have transferred all the living expenses sent by my mother to regular deposits, and I haven't moved a penny."

He now earns a monthly salary of just over a thousand, and there are subsidies for rehearsals. He usually has extra money for dubbing a voice, shooting commercials, and so on. He doesn’t have to pay rent and now he doesn’t have a girlfriend, which is enough for expenses.

Lao Li took a sip of his wine and said, "Tsk, you don't have to be too cheap. You don't have much money to drive a taxi (taxi) back. What kind of motorcycle are you driving? Oh, by the way, this trip will be sent to you How much?"

"The old rules, 5000 yuan." Li Tang sipped his wine and food, enjoying himself.

5000 yuan is five thousand dollars.

Old Li snorted, "A professor at an American university earns 10,000+ US dollars for less lectures a year, [-], what a shame!"

Li Tang looked up at Lao Li's displeased face, and explained: "It's not such an exaggeration as 10,000+. I estimate that she can only give me [-] to [-] a year. Five thousand is not bad."

As he spoke, he comforted his father and said, "Actually, the last time my mother called, I told her that I'm already working, so I don't need to send money over..."

Before he finished his sentence, he was roughly interrupted by Lao Li: "Why don't you? Stupid! I don't want the dollar for nothing. This is what I owe you, you know!"

"Oh."

Li Tang could only nod his head.

At the same time, he secretly sighed, after so many years, his father's knot is still unresolved.

The son of a landlord, the daughter of a capitalist, fish looking for fish, shrimp looking for shrimp, or huddling together for warmth, are all caused by the buzzing era.

Dad undoubtedly loves his mother. Although he is married and has children, he still supports his mother's college entrance examination.

Go to university, study abroad, and then Huang He never returns, and become a female version of Chen Shimei.

Li Tang used to hate his old mother too, but now he understands very well, because his old mother, Ms. Tang, is the same kind of person as his parents in the previous life.

In the 80s, a college student who graduated from a prestigious school saw the colorful world of the United States, and it was difficult to fall in love with a purchaser from a rural supply and marketing cooperative, because they were people from two worlds.

Although Ms. Tang and Lao Li divorced, they did not give up their responsibilities, and the support payments have not been cut off for so many years.On one point, Li Tang still agrees.

Besides, Ms. Tang has already reorganized her family in the United States, and she has two children, so why worry about it.

He glanced at the aggrieved father, and couldn't help persuading him: "It's been so many years, let's forget it. She is now a professor at an American university, but our life is not bad."

When his parents divorced, Li Tang was already in elementary school.Although it was not easy for the old man to take this oil bottle with him at first, but Lao Li was courageous and shrewd, and soon made his first pot of gold by selling foreign cigarettes.

Later, the supply and marketing cooperative was in a downturn, so he resigned and opened a restaurant.Over the past few years, the hotel business has become more and more prosperous, and I have earned this nearly 40 square meters of three-storey facade room, and now it is easy to pay [-] to [-] a year.

"Forget it? Humph!"

Lao Li picked up the bowl resentfully, drank a big gulp of wine, picked up the haggis in the pot, and remained silent for a long time.

"Okay, I won't talk anymore. Dad, come on, let me respect you."

It was rare for the father and father to sit together and drink, and Lao Li didn't want to mention these unpleasant old things. He glanced at his son and asked, "How are you and Binbin?"

"broke up."

"Ah... no, what's the matter?"

Lao Li just stuck out his chopsticks and stared at his son in surprise.

"It's nothing, it's just that I'm in Shanghai and she went to the capital, it's definitely unrealistic to be together." Li Tang shrugged and said nonchalantly.

"You can't find a way to make her stay!"

"That's the Beijing Experimental Drama Troupe. Is it possible for her to stay? Take a step back, even if she can stay in Shanghai, it's not certain whether she can go on." Li Tang said frankly.

"Uh……"

Lao Li was so stunned by his son that he couldn't speak, he was stunned for a while, and finally let out a deep sigh: "What a little girl, you are really unlucky."

"There are plenty of good girls, take your time." Father Li Tangchao said with a smile.

She is a woman who is destined to become a big star, and he doesn't want to be a stumbling block on her way forward.

"There are plenty of good girls, you can bring me another one." Lao Li was very dissatisfied with his son's understatement, and reprimanded her.

He has a good impression of Binbin, and he has long been his daughter-in-law.

"Don't worry, there will be opportunities in the future."

Li Tang didn't want to get entangled with his father on this topic, so he said with a smile: "Why don't you bring me a stepmother first."

"Hey, you little lackey, I'm in charge of you."

Lao Li put down his wine bowl heavily, and held up his chopsticks upside down as if to hit him.

Li Tang is not afraid of this kind of thing. Since childhood, Lao Li has never lifted a finger of his own.

As far as his father is concerned, he has no culture, and the seemingly rough old Li is much better than his professor Daddy in his previous life.Living in a single-parent family since childhood, Li Tang can still grow up happily, with a cheerful and open-minded personality, which shows that Lao Li is a good father.

(End of this chapter)