Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 51 Plan ahead
Li Tang still wants to talk to Cheng Er about the character Hu Tian, ​​because Cheng Er is not only a director but also a screenwriter.

After he finished eating the small wontons in front of him, he felt that today's steamed ribs were good, but when he wanted to pick them up again, he found that the plate was empty. Looking again, there were a few bones piled up in front of Cheng Er.

Cheng Er noticed Li Tang's actions, half apologetic and half complaining: "The quantity is too small, Brother Li, I want another one."

Li Tang corrected him: "It's one guest, or two guests, one guest per person."

Cheng Er often heard that Shanghainese like to use "ke" when ordering food, such as a serving of fried steamed buns and a serving of small steamed buns.A serving of fried steamed buns is eight. He understands that one serving is about two taels, but a serving of steamed pork ribs is a bit unreasonable. Although a small plate of spare ribs is not much, it must be at least three taels.

He called the waiter to order two steamed pork ribs, and asked the waiter in a low voice what "one customer" meant?
"A customer is a customer!" The Shanghai aunt replied in broken Mandarin.

"I'm asking about how much is a customer?"

"A serving of steamed pork ribs is about six or seven yuan... Oh, don't worry, they are all about the same, and you won't be missing."

Auntie Shanghai is very busy. Seeing that Cheng Er kept pestering a customer for how much, although his words were still polite, but the meaning revealed was very impatient, and he almost wrote the word "Bazi" on his face.

Hearing the movement, Li Tang raised his head and smiled and said, "There is no specific number for one order. We are eating breakfast snacks now, and one serving is for each person. If I order one, I will eat one. Whoever ordered eats, If you don’t eat other people’s food, if you want to eat it, then order another one.”

It was only then that Cheng Er suddenly realized that he was not embarrassed by the steamed pork ribs he had eaten just now, but was particularly interested in this kind of Shanghai slang.

Li Tang explained to him a few local slang words that he didn't quite understand, and then said, "Let's talk about the character Hu Tian."

Li Tang can almost recite the full text of the dozen or so pages of the script of "Criminal".The more he read the script, the more he felt that the character Hu Tian was almost tailor-made for his father Li Guoqing.

For example, Hu Tian loves to fight against injustice and is willing to help others; for example, when his mother is sick, Hu Tian does his best to take care of him; All his savings, and there is no news, but he never forgets his ex-girlfriend.

All of these can be found in Lao Li.

Even in the end, Hu Tian picked up a huge sum of money and took it for himself, thus embarking on the principle of crime. This is a choice that a person is forced to make when he is at the end of his life.

The same is true for Lao Li. When he first returned to the city, Lao Li joined a supply and marketing cooperative with a salary of 36 yuan a month. At that time, Li Tang was still young and his wife was going to college, so Lao Li had to take risks and do some speculation. It's just that Lao Li is very lucky and nothing happened.

Cheng Er didn't communicate with Li Tang right away. At this time, the two steamed pork ribs with black bean sauce just ordered were served on the table.Cheng Er picked up a piece and chewed it slowly in his mouth. When he was almost finished eating and spit out the bone, he looked at Li Tang and asked, "Brother Li, what kind of person do you think Hu Tian is?"

Li Tang bowed his head to think for a while, and carefully said his words: "On the background of affection and righteousness, there are some gray elements; under the siege of life, he has been struggling with all his strength without complaining; just like the little people at the bottom of society in reality, Lively and fragrant!"

"Snapped!"

As soon as the words fell, Cheng Er slapped his hands hard, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the store, but he didn't care about it, looked at Li Tang with bright eyes, and stretched out his hand: "Brother Li, happy cooperation!"

Seeing this, Li Tang, who was still a little embarrassed at first, relaxed his expression, turned his mouth up, shook hands with him and said, "We are happy to cooperate!"

This is probably the so-called "heroes see the same thing!"

Afterwards, the atmosphere became obviously much more relaxed, and one person, one guest, one guest, one guest, enjoyed the meal.This steamed pork ribs with black bean sauce is the specialty of this restaurant. The ribs are soft and tender, with a rich bean aroma.

Cheng Er looked satisfied, wiped his mouth with a paper towel, took the initiative to fill Li Tang's cup with a teapot, hesitated for a moment, and asked curiously: "Brother Li, why are there so many Cantonese snacks in this store? "

"The boss is from Cantonese, oh, including the aunt you just asked is also from Cantonese." Li Tang was still dealing with the last two ribs on the plate without raising his head.

This store is not far from his apartment and he often visits it.

"Auntie obviously speaks Shanghainese?"

Although Cheng Er couldn't speak it, he could understand some Shanghainese, including Mandarin with a distinct Shanghai accent.

"That's right, they speak Shanghainese outside, but they speak Cantonese at home." Li Tang said with a smile.

Seeing that Cheng Er was still puzzled, Li Tang explained to him: "Shanghai is a city of immigrants, the most people are from Jiangsu, and the No. 2 is from Zhejiang. Do you know where the people from the third place are? They are Cantonese!"

"Why are there so many Cantonese?"

Cheng Er was very curious. He knew that there were Jiangsu and Zhejiang immigrants in Shanghai, but he had never heard of so many Cantonese.

"Uh……"

Li Tang thought Cheng Er was funny, he didn't talk much, but he was very persistent in the topics he was interested in.

"Why are there so many? Come to do business! Cantonese people have banknotes. The famous department stores such as Xianshi Department Store, Wing On, Xinxin, and Daxin in Shanghai's history were all opened by Cantonese. And you ate at the Mid-Autumn Festival last year. Have you ever tried Xinghualou mooncakes? Xinghualou, Xinya, and Guanshengyuan are all opened by Cantonese. You must know that the Shanghai Knife Society Uprising, you must have learned in history class, Liu Lichuan, the leader of the Knife Society Uprising It’s Cantonese. You said there are many Cantonese in Shanghai?”

Li Tang took a sip of tea, saw that Cheng Er was listening seriously, and said with a smile: "Actually, no matter where you are from, everyone speaks Shanghainese outside, and you can't usually tell it. Only when you are at home will you speak your own native dialect." If you are fine, you can go to Zhejiang Luqiao for a stroll, you will see some fashionable old aunts or young girls, they come from the north of Suzhou River, and they probably speak Subei dialect in the north of the bridge, but As long as you cross the Zhejiang Road Bridge, it will automatically switch to Shanghainese.”

Cheng Er listened with relish, and suddenly asked, "Brother Li, where are you from?"

Li Tang paused, and said, "The locals are also what Shanghainese commonly call rural people."

……

Good Times KTV.

"Difficult to solve all kinds of worries, know each other and love each other"

"The sea of ​​love becomes boundless, infatuation meets the cold wind"

"..."

"Ah - send lovesickness in the wind and rain"

"Ah——Send infatuation in the wind and rain"

"Embrace the moon..."

Xu Guangtou was holding a Sichuan lady in his arms, singing "Lovesickness in the Wind and Rain" affectionately in broken Cantonese.

Liu Xiaofeng, who obviously drank too much on the sofa, held the cup and said with his tongue: "Old classmate, it's been a long time. You are not righteous, and you haven't contacted me for such a long time."

"Okay, okay, it's my fault, come on, you did it, I'm free." Li Tang touched him with a cup.

"readily!"

Liu Xiaofeng laughed, raised his head and drank the wine.

The lady sitting next to him hastily filled his glass with wine.

Today's episode was set up by Xu Guangtou. His "Bright Spring Pig Bajie" that he has been working on for more than half a year is finally going to start, and he will report to the crew with Liu Xiaofeng in two days.

Liu Xiaofeng also got a relatively important role in this play, playing Wu Gang, who is said to be Chang'e's licking dog.

Bald Xu sang a song, threw the microphone away, walked over and pushed Liu Xiaofeng away, sat down and hooked Li Tang's neck, and said in a tone full of envy and jealousy: "You red man, how can you be lucky, you pay the bill today !"

After rounds of broadcasts by various TV stations, "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" has become popular all over the country, and Little Swallow and Ziwei have become the idols of the public.Now everyone is looking forward to the broadcast of the second part, it is definitely popular before it is broadcast.Li Tang, as the actor second only to the four leading actors in the second part, has the potential to be popular, which was something that everyone did not expect at the beginning.

Speaking of Li Tang's luck, last year he unexpectedly became the number one actor in the Shanghai Film Studio's gift film, and took a role in a seemingly ordinary costume drama, but it was just a supporting role. All kinds of envy and jealousy towards him.

Seeing Xu Guangtou's despicable behavior, Li Tang immediately said righteously: "Don't even think about it, you have taken a lot of money and still want to keep nothing!"

"Not much, not much." Bald Xu said hastily.

Having said that, the look on this guy's face has already betrayed his heart, and he must have taken it this time.

This time he was negotiating with Fan Xiaotian, and he actually negotiated a salary of [-] yuan for a single episode, and he has already received a part of the advance payment. Thinking that his dream of a house is about to come true, this guy is very excited, and took the initiative to save for today. and even brought Liu Xiaofeng along.

This guy has a purpose in everything he does. Although Liu Xiaofeng is only a supporting role, he acted very early. In the past few years, he has appeared in seven or eight TV dramas. Although the role is not big, it is enough to prove that he is very mixed in the circle. open.

It was the first time for Xu Guangtou to be the lead actor, so he was still quite nervous, so he contacted Liu Xiaofeng in advance to establish a good relationship, so that if something happened to the crew, he would not be alone.

This can be considered a rainy day.

(End of this chapter)