Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 3 The Silent Brother Ye

"Don't be foolish, why don't you find your old man happy when you're full? I wanted to beg my wife a long time ago, and I'm still waiting now!"

Lao Li was a little embarrassed by what his son said, and he knocked his chopsticks on the bowl, and pretended to reprimand him: "You should think about your own problems carefully, and ask for a wife earlier, so that I can settle this matter earlier."

As he spoke, he paused, and said with a serious expression: "By the way, I happen to have something to tell you."

"what's up?"

"Your house in Shanghai is too small and too old. I'm going to help you change to a bigger new house." Lao Li said.

When Li Tang heard this, he was a little stunned, and said in disbelief: "Dad, the old apartment on Wuyuan Road has two bedrooms and one living room, 82 square meters, not the building area, but the usable area! The city center, protected buildings, wax land Steel windows, the top corner of the top corner! Don't you think it's bad?"

This house is Ms. Tang's ancestral property. Ms. Tang knows that she is ashamed of her son and uses the house as compensation.

Li Tang is very satisfied with this apartment. To be honest, if you are in New York, such an apartment in the rich area of ​​the city center will cost millions of dollars.

The usable area of ​​more than 80 square meters is already very good.One must know that He Zhengjun, the mainstay of the Drama Center and the backbone actor, is still living in a nine-square-meter dormitory with his wife and children.

Of course, this was also an important indicator of Li Tang's ability to quickly capture the heart of his ex-girlfriend.

But Lao Li frowned and waved his hand to stop: "I think it's still too small. Now there is a real estate, Xujiahui Garden, which is newly opened. I went to see it two days ago, and it is about to be capped. It is on Wanping South Road Yes, it’s not far from your unit. The four-bedroom and two-living room is about 170 square meters, twice the size of your current house, a little more than 7000 square meters, and the one-time payment can be cheaper. It’s estimated to be about 120 million. , just for your future marriage."

As he said that, Lao Li couldn't help feeling annoyed: "Actually, the house should have been bought earlier, maybe Binbin wouldn't have gone to the capital."

Li Tang has no idea about houses. In his last life, he lived in rented houses no matter in Los Angeles or New York.

It's not that he can't afford a house, it's really not worth it.

Don't talk about the freehold property rights of houses in the United States. You must know that the United States still has the concept of property tax.

For example, if you buy an apartment worth 100 million US dollars in New York, the tax rate is 1%, and you have to pay [-] US dollars in property taxes every year.Add in strata fees and homeowners insurance, and the bill can exceed $[-] a year.And that same amount was enough for a master bedroom in a nice apartment he rented on the Upper East Side.

After traveling through time, he found that he actually owns such an apartment without paying property tax, insurance is negligible, and the property management fee does not exceed 50 yuan a month, which already makes him very satisfied.

He originally wanted to refuse Lao Li's proposal, but he was embarrassed.But as soon as the words came to my lips, I suddenly realized that this was in China and not in the United States.

And he clearly remembered that around 04, his parents in his previous life had bought a villa in the capital, and they planned to retire and return to China for the elderly.At that time, the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar was high, and the total price of more than 700 million yuan was equivalent to less than 100 million U.S. dollars.

As a result, the man has not yet retired, but the housing price has been rising all the way for more than ten years. Later, it is said that the value of that villa has already exceeded [-] million, which has increased by more than ten times.

Since housing prices in Beijing are skyrocketing, there is no reason why housing prices in Shanghai should not rise!

He suddenly realized that this was an excellent way to invest, and quickly changed his words: "It sounds like this house is pretty good, and it's a good deal to buy."

After speaking, he hesitated and said: "What about the apartment on Wuyuan Road, is it sold?"

If it is really sold, he is really reluctant to subsidize the purchase of a new house.

Old Li snorted, and said domineeringly: "Your mother gave you that house, and I don't care about it. The new house was given to you by your old man for your wedding. Each person will give you a flat, is it fair?"

"unfair!"

Li Tang yelled, then raised his thumb and said flatteringly: "Dad, you are still awesome!"

"Nong Zai Xiaoju, come, have a drink!"

After taking a sip of wine, Lao Li and Lao Huai felt relieved.

After a rare two days of rest at home, Li Tang will return to the city on Sunday afternoon.

What Guangtou Xu told him before, he deliberately asked a few classmates from Shanghai Film Studio to inquire about it, and the news he got was very exciting. It is said that director Peng Xiaolian chose actors this time without sticking to one pattern, and he was not limited to his own acre. Three points of land, we must recruit talents from all over the world.

It's just that the time is very tight, and the audition will be arranged on Monday tomorrow.

"Here is mutton, which is Mrs. Lou's favorite sausage, and two grass chickens..."

Before leaving, Lao Li filled the trunk of the motorcycle and the suitcases on both sides with all kinds of food carefully prepared.Every Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Tang has to go through this experience.

Uncle Lou and Mrs. Lou are old friends who met when Lao Li was sent to Jiangxi farms to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants.

At that time, Uncle Lou was the deputy director of Qingyi, one of the predecessors of the drama center, and Mrs. Lou was the teacher of the Shanghai Opera.

As the saying goes, a friend in adversity sees the truth, and it was precisely because of this relationship that Li Tang was able to successfully enter the Shanghai Opera and the Drama Center.

The roads in the urban area were relatively clear on Sundays. Li Tang drove a motorcycle into the community where Lou’s house is located. When he was almost at the gate of the unit, he saw a dirty Santana just stopped. A small man with a camera bag got out of the car.

Li Tang's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly shouted, "Brother Ye!"

The little man stopped, turned around, and looked confused.

Li Tang quickly turned the accelerator, drove to a stop, and took off his tightly covered helmet.

"Brother Ye, it's me!"

The little man smiled after seeing clearly, "Li Tang, long time no see."

"It must have been two years. The last time we met was during the Spring Festival of the year before last."

The man in front of him was Lou Ye, the son of Uncle Lou and Mrs. Lou, a director and a legend in Li Tang's mind.

When Li Tang and his father came to the house of Uncle Lou and Mrs. Lou for the first time when they were young, they learned that many of the animations in their favorite cartoons "Tianshu Qitan" and "Golden Monkey Conquering the Demon" are about this taciturn big brother in front of him. Painted, shock and admiration were palpable on Li Tang's young face.

Brother Ye is very good at drawing, but unfortunately he failed to become an art student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, but was admitted to the Directing Department of Nortel.After graduation, brother Ye was assigned to the Shanghai TV station that everyone envied, but he didn't report for work at all, but went to film with the crew as an assistant director.

Then as an independent director, he made commercials, documentaries and so on, and made a big name in the circle.

What's even more amazing is that Brother Ye directed and directed a movie for the first time five years ago, and he won the Best Director Award at a foreign film festival.Immediately afterwards, the second film was shortlisted for the Golden Rooster Award that year.

Now he seems to be a representative figure of the so-called sixth generation of directors in China.

Lou Ye nodded with a polite smile, his lips moved but he didn't speak.

Li Tang was not surprised, since he was a child, he knew that brother Ye was stupid and not talkative, and the only thing he couldn't understand was how a silent director like him made movies on set?

"Brother Ye, just in time to help."

Li Tang parked the car, opened the trunk, and took out a big bulging bag from it.

"Be careful, it's a little heavy."

Lou Ye took it with one hand, it was very heavy, and almost fell to the ground inadvertently.There was a look of surprise on his face, but he didn't say anything.

Li Tang helped, then opened the two suitcases on the side and took out a few bags, and said to himself: "This is mutton, this is the sausage Mrs. Lou loves to eat, and there are two chickens and some soil. Pork, if I didn't meet you, I'm afraid I'd have to run twice..."

The two carried their things and went upstairs.

"Uncle Lou, Mrs. Lou, I'm here!"

After giving the New Year's gift and having dinner at the Lou's house, Li Tang left without staying long, because the atmosphere was always awkward facing the silent brother Ye.

The conversation between the two of them did not exceed ten sentences from the beginning to the end. They only knew that Brother Ye had been back for a week, so he took an [-]mm camera and went to the Suzhou River to shoot.

As for what to shoot, Brother Ye didn't say anything. Li Tang thought it might be a documentary about environmental pollution, otherwise I really can't think of anything good to shoot about the dark and smelly Suzhou Creek.

(End of this chapter)