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Chapter 702: Little Baozi, You Have Grown Up

Poor English proficiency and limited voice have always been the Achilles' heel of Chinese filmmakers when participating in foreign film festivals.

For example, in 1997, the 50th Cannes Film Festival invited Gong Li to serve as a judge, making her the first Chinese actor to receive this honor.

That year, Wong Kar-wai's "Happy Together" was shortlisted for the main competition. Gong Li later talked about how she liked the movie very much, but unfortunately her English level was not good enough at the time and her ability to express herself was limited, which resulted in her not being able to fully express herself in front of the jury. It has always been a regret.

Fortunately, Wong Kar-wai won the Best Director Award in the end.

However, language has always been Liu Yifei's strong point, and her language talent is very strong. Of course, it is likely that she inherited An Shaokang's language talent.

After returning, Liu Yifei was still gesturing to Li Mu about the movie they had watched today and telling him her thoughts.

"Oh, there is something. The organizing committee asked me to give you this invitation." Liu Yifei suddenly pulled out an invitation with a palm leaf cover from her bag.

Li Mu glanced at the words on the cover, which read "Cannes 70th Anniversary Celebration Gala", which was obviously an exclusive event for the anniversary celebration.

This is also the birthday party, and what makes it different from other years of Cannes is that there will be a grand red carpet and evening party celebration.

Li Mu took a look at the time and arranged it for a week later, two days before the closing ceremony. This was a very good plan.

"so troublesome."

"You are the winner of the Palme d'Or. I heard that many other Palme d'Or winners were invited to participate this time, including Director Chen."

Liu Yifei said with a smile, then took out her cell phone, lay on the bed, and swayed her slender little feet up and down.

"Call mom via video, the little one must be getting impatient."

Li Mu also came over, and the little bun's fair and tender face appeared on the screen, along with his giggling laughter.

Little Baozi will come to Cannes the day after tomorrow, as planned.

However, Lu Yang and Zhang Yi arrived one day earlier than Xiao Baozi.

For the overseas promotion of "Assassins 2" this time, only Zhang Yi had a good schedule, so Lu Yang brought him along.

"Wow, Director Li, you really have a leisurely life."

Zhang Yi was quite envious when he saw Li Mu's casual outfit.

"You can too. Just put down your work and take a rest for two days." Li Mu smiled and said, "Let's go and have a drink first."

"I have already arranged the location in advance. You can go whenever you want."

Li Mu ordered three coconuts.

Although Cannes is an island, coconuts are very expensive and can only be found in some high-end hotels, health food stores, beach bars and specific restaurants.

The most popular wine here is rose wine, which is refreshing and suitable for enjoying at the seaside or in the sun.

However, Li Mu was not used to seeing people drinking on the beach in broad daylight.

"By the way, have you participated in any activities or forums?"

Li Mu asked casually. Generally speaking, when one comes to Cannes for overseas promotion, one also wants to gain some honor. For Li Mu, these resources are just a matter of words.

"I'll forget it. It's too much trouble." Lu Yang shook his head and didn't care about these meaningless tasks.

"I have received a message about the Zhihu Film Forum held at the Cannes China Pavilion. I will just go to this one. I don't plan to stay for a few days anyway."

Zhang Yi said with a smile.

Li Mu nodded. He knew that Zhang Yi was not the kind of person who liked to show off everywhere, so he did not continue talking about this topic.

While Li Mu was still in Cannes, the domestic film and television industry was about to reach the Dragon Boat Festival period.

This period is actually a bit of a stretch to call it that, it's just the way everyone usually calls it.

This year's Dragon Boat Festival movie season features four domestic films: Going Down with the Tigers directed by Gordon Chan, Kevin Tsai's first directorial work "Love Is Delicious", Temporary Actors starring Zheng Kai and Reyiza, and Portrait of a 19-Year-Old in Summer adapted from the original work by Shoji Shimada.

Li Mu also saw Mengying Media Cinemas’ analysis and predictions for these films in his email, and they were all very pessimistic.

Although the four films avoided direct conflict with foreign films and chose to be released during the seemingly safe "short holiday", there was no special feature in terms of subject matter and no highlights at all.

On May 5, Liu's mother brought little Baozi to Cannes to stay for two days.

Liu Yifei was very excited early in the morning, but she knew that she had a mission in the morning, so she could only have lunch together at noon.

"Don't let the little bun get too much sea breeze."

Seeing that Li Mu was ready to go out with the baby in his arms, Liu's mother gave special instructions.

She was still worried that the little one was still young and might catch a cold if he got too much exposure to the sun.

Li Mu nodded, then let the little kid ride on his shoulders and went out.

He didn't go to the film festival because there were too many media there and nothing fun to do.

When you come to the island, you still have to go to the beach to play. There is blue sea and sky, palm trees can be seen everywhere, and the soft sand will make you linger.

At this time, the little bun, wearing a sun hat, cool short-sleeved T-shirt and shorts, was riding on Li Mu's shoulders, and had already attracted the attention of many passers-by on the road to the beach.

Li Mu felt that when he took Liu Yifei for a stroll here, not many people paid attention to them.

“I became the most handsome guy?”

Li Mu was in a good mood. The little bun was still smiling above his head and grabbing Li Mu's hair.

"Hey, baby, your dad doesn't lose his hair, but if you grab it like this, I will become bald sooner or later."

Li Mu smiled faintly, he never thought that one day he would become the most handsome guy in the place, not because of his own looks, but because of his daughter. On the beach, Li Mu rented a spot under the golden palm tree, lying here with Xiao Baozi, wearing sunglasses and admiring the people coming and going.

The little bun just lay there for a while and then got up again. Many beautiful girls passing by would come up to him and shout “So cute!”.

Cute children can always attract women's love. Li Mu has been lying here for several days, and he has not taken the little bun here to lie here for a while, so he has seen many beautiful women.

"father!"

The little bun looked at the crowd in the distance, pushed Li Mu's arm, and then pointed at the crowd playing and having fun on the beach in the distance.

Maybe because he couldn't express what it was, he could only point his fingers wildly to indicate that he wanted to go.

"Little Baozi, little Baozi, you have grown up, you have to learn to be independent," Li Mu muttered, but when he saw the little Baozi looking at him cutely, he immediately stood up and said, "Okay, okay, go play, you can't lie down all the time, life lies in exercise."

Li Mu carried the little bun into the shallow water.

"Hee hee hee"

As the little boy saw the sea so close, he became more and more excited.

"Don't get your clothes wet, or you'll catch a cold and get scolded!"

Li Mu muttered to himself, this sentence seemed to be spoken to the little kid, but there was no way the little kid could understand it all.

Fortunately, the little kid was wearing shorts, so wading through water was not a big problem.

Li Mu held her up and then carried her down to the water. The little girl was having her first time playing at the beach with so many people around. She was so happy that she didn't know what to do.

After playing for a while, Li Mu looked at the time and saw that lunch time was almost here.

"Let's play for a while longer, then we'll call it a day." Li Mu said with a smile, picked up the little kid who was kicking the water, and then shook the water down again.

Unexpectedly, when they touched the water, Li Mu might have lost some strength from holding the little kid so hard that he sat down firmly in the water, with his entire pants getting wet.

Its big round eyes were still a little confused, as if asking me where I was, but then it smiled cheerfully. After all, it didn't hurt and it was sitting in the water.

"Hahaha"

Many people nearby were also amused by this scene.

"So cute."

"I wish I had a cute baby like this."

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Many people nearby were commenting.

"father!"

"Oh, you fell accidentally, didn't you?" Li Mu quickly picked up the little kid whose pants were soaked.

"It's over, it's over, there's not enough time"

Li Mu secretly calculated the time. He might have to dress the little bun later and might run into Liu Yifei who was taking a lunch break. So he quickly got up and left with the little bun in his arms.

"Mom is coming back for lunch, let's go back first."

"If you run into mom and grandma later, just say you were playing in the water by yourself and sat in it. Make an agreement, or dad will get scolded."

Li Mu gently touched the little bun's palm, "Let's high-five to form an alliance!"

The little kid didn't seem to understand what Li Mu was saying. He thought the high-five was a game and laughed for a long time.

Li Mu quickly returned to the hotel room and wiped the little bun without saying a word. Then he prepared to change his clothes. After all, he was wet and it would be really troublesome if he caught a cold.

Just when he was halfway through changing, the door opened and Liu Yifei, wearing a casual long dress, walked in. She immediately saw Li Mu who was changing clothes for the little kid.

"Hey, why are you changing clothes?" Liu Yifei walked over and touched the clothes she had taken off. They were wet. "I took the little one to play in the water. He's still young and it's easy for him to catch a cold."

"Well, she sat down in the water by accident, didn't she, girl?"

Li Mu said with a smile as he put shorts on the little bun.

"Mom. It's Dad!"

The little bun just pointed at Li Mu with his soft little hand.

"What is it?" Liu Yifei squatted down and helped the little boy put on his shorts.

"Dad"

The little boy could only say a few words, but Li Mu's face changed. Liu Yifei seemed to see it and asked with a smile:
"Did Dad put you in the water?"

"Dad"

"You're wrongly accusing your daughter now?" Liu Yifei scolded, "If I hadn't seen your expression change, I would have been deceived by you."

"Hey, my hands are weak, I didn't hold you well."

Li Mu smiled and said, "You little traitor, didn't we just high-five to form an alliance?"

"Dad"

The little bun in the black shorts he had just put on was obviously smiling happily and jumping up and down.

(End of this chapter)