Lunch was served. The four dishes were yellow and green, without any meat.
Zhuo Lu handed out chopsticks to everyone: "Don't be dissatisfied. Save the delicious food for tonight. Brother Hou will make bamboo shoots and bacon tonight. Liang..." He paused and turned to look at Xu Yan, "Does Liang Yisheng like bacon?"
Xu Yan was stunned by the question. His understanding of Liang Yisheng's taste was based on some interviews he had done. Some interviews would be quick questions and answers, such as spicy or not spicy, sweet or not sweet. The two of them also ate together, but Liang Yisheng showed no interest in food during the few times they ate together.
Xu Yan secretly glanced at Liang Yisheng, and when he saw him nod to him, he replied, "It's okay. Bacon is not an ingredient that appears on the table every day. I guess he doesn't dislike it."
"And braised chicken." Zhuo Lu said.
"I like this one!" Liu Jiayi answered.
Lunch time is a good opportunity to chat. The three permanent residents have been exposed, and they must be chatting about the flying guests. Hou Kai ate quietly and didn't join in the conversation.
Liu Jiayi took a bite of the leek and egg with her chopsticks and said while eating, "I really didn't know that Xiao Liang already had a partner. I had the chance to meet your mother last year, and she said that you didn't contact her, and she could only guess whether you were in a relationship by reading gossips. How long have you known Xiao Xu?"
Liang Yisheng smiled, "From what I heard from her, we can't find her at all. She has been married for 800 years and goes out on her honeymoon every day."
Xu Yan was just reaching out for the tomato soup over there, and Zhuo Lu pushed the bowl of soup close to him. He whispered, "Thank you, Brother Zhuo", and just as he was about to grab the spoon, Liang Yisheng snatched it away. After filling a bowl, he gave his bowl directly to Xu Yan. Xu Yan took it with his hand, and spent two seconds thinking whether to say "Thank you, Mr. Liang" or "Thank you". Before he could say anything, he heard Liang Yisheng speaking again.
"We've only known each other for more than a year. She was just on her honeymoon. You heard what she said and read the gossip. She only needs to move her fingers to search my name to know that I have a partner."
Xu Yan listened silently.
Liang Yisheng had never told him about Song Zi. Xu Yan had thought about whether Liang Yisheng had told his family about their relationship and it was fake, or whether he was taking advantage of him, so he simply came out to his family.
"You two are still brave enough to be open about the two boys." Liu Jiayi said.
"At first, I didn't want to make it public, because it would be bad for him. But one time when we were staying in a hotel, we were photographed, and some unpleasant comments came out, so I just admitted it." Liang Yisheng said this without changing his expression. This was the statement they had prepared long ago. When they first met in the hotel, they said it was something that happened after they started dating, but they were photographed spreading rumors that Xu Yan had slept with them, so they just made their relationship public.
"As an actor, you just need to act well. There are many comments online now. My daughter often doesn't let me read Weibo. I don't want to read it myself. I was sad after reading it once. One of my fans said that my acting range is too narrow now. I can only play other people's mothers. It's boring to watch too much. Who says it's not true? Xiao Lu can play the male lead in idol dramas even if he is over 40 years old, but I can't." Liu Jiayi said while swiping the rice in the bowl with chopsticks.
Xu Yan understood her feelings too well, and smiled to comfort her, "Teacher, being able to play the mother of so many people is also something to be proud of. I've read your Weibo, and many of Zhuo Ge's girlfriend fans like to call you 'Mom'. Gaining so many 'daughter-in-law fans' is more important than those bad comments about you."
Liu Jiayi laughed and picked up some food for Xu Yan.
In the afternoon, Liu Jiayi found two hats for Xu Yan and Liang Yisheng to protect against the sun. They were big hats with wide brims, and they looked like women's hats. Liang Yisheng looked disgusted and didn't wear them. Liu Jiayi also said that if he didn't protect himself from the sun and got sunburned, he would probably be scolded to death by his agent. He didn't get sunburned, but he almost missed a step when he came down from the roof in the evening, which scared Xu Yan so much that he paused for several minutes without saying a word.
"I was a little dizzy and didn't see clearly." Liang Yisheng didn't care much.
"You should wear a hat tomorrow." Xu Yan was still afraid, and his tone was unconsciously a little hard, like an order.
Liang Yisheng was not angry, and even smiled a little, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
In the evening, they started to prepare dinner. Zhuo Lu and Hou Kaian picked up a lot of branches and exchanged them with the director's team for a piece of pork and some fresh green leafy vegetables. The main camera was set up in the kitchen. Hou Kaian was rare to talk a lot, and introduced to the camera how to stew braised pork so that it was soft and not dry.
In the end, the dish on the table was indeed rich. Hou Kaian was from Northeast China, and he paid attention to thick oil and red sauce when cooking. Just looking at the sugar color of the braised pork made me drool. Braised pork, stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots, braised chicken, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried mustard greens, and baby cabbage with tofu.
Liu Jiayi touched her belly, "It's not easy to maintain your figure as you get older. Your metabolism is slow, and you get fat if you eat a little."
"You're still young." Zhuo Lu said, he looked at Hou Kaian, "Brother Hou is such a good cook, it must be difficult for sister-in-law to lose weight."
Speaking of his wife, Hou Kaian smiled very rarely, and looked embarrassed, "I seldom cook at home, she cooks better than me, I learned from her."
"Then it would be so happy to be your child, you and your wife cook so deliciously." Xu Yan said with a smile.
"Humph." Hou Kaian thought of his son, "Indeed, my son is almost 160 kilograms."
According to the procedure, after dinner, Liang Yisheng had to give a score for today's dinner. The full score was 100, and Liang Yisheng gave 200, successfully unlocking tomorrow's guest of assistance. The time after 10 o'clock in the evening is free. The roof is almost fixed, and the wooden house is already habitable. The main camera stays in the wooden house and enters the rest time.
But whether to rest or not depends on the wishes of the guests.
Smoking is not allowed in the forest, and drinking is not allowed in front of the camera. It is feared that bad values will be spread to minors, and the director's team does not have any wine to exchange. Liang Yisheng's assistant stayed in the crew, so he could only call Zhang Yuanyi. Xu Yan heard him making a call when he came out to get some water. The forest was very quiet at night, so Zhang Yuanyi's voice was quite loud, and he was swearing.
"You still want to drink, do you want to eat pineapples grown in Xishuangbanna? I'll go to Xishuangbanna and pick some for you right away."
Liang Yisheng sat on a small stool at the door and said, "It's not like I didn't say hello when I came here, why are you so angry?"
"That's what you call saying hello to me? Is that how you say hello? What you mean by saying hello is just sending me a WeChat message, but you didn't even call me, and it took me three hours to see you, and by the time I saw you, your plane had already landed. 'Director Green Oxygen asked me to come to the rescue, and I told the crew here', is this what you call saying hello?"
"Come on, I'm not going to drink anymore, you're so annoying." Liang Yisheng was annoyed, and cursed him and hung up the phone.
Xu Yan didn't intend to eavesdrop on his phone call, but he was already standing there, and he couldn't stay or leave. Liang Yisheng probably heard the noise and turned to look at him, "Why are you out? Are you not used to sleeping?"
Xu Yan shook his head, "It's not time to go to bed yet, I'm not sleepy." He looked at Liang Yisheng. There was a light bulb hanging at the door of the wooden house. It was just hung in the afternoon. It was very simple and had a yellowish light. It shone on Liang Yisheng, who seemed to be approachable. Maybe it was because the air in the forest was too good. Anyway, Xu Yan was in a very relaxed mood. He stood behind Liang Yisheng, leaning against the door frame, and asked him, "Does Zhang Yuanyi always speak to you in such a fierce tone?"
Liang Yisheng laughed: "Did you hear it?"
"Yeah." Xu Yan replied, "He was too loud."
"I didn't tell him when I came here, he was angry. He delayed the progress of the crew, and he had to invite the director to dinner and pretend to be his grandson for several days. I guess he will call me a bastard in his dreams tonight." Liang Yisheng said.
Xu Yan took a bottle of ice water in his hand, and the bottle was full of water droplets condensed from the heat, soaking his palms. He stared at Liang Yisheng's head and saw that there was a swirl on it. It looked very cute. He said: "You came here like this, which must have delayed a lot of things."
Liang Yisheng didn't say anything for a while.
There were a lot of mosquitoes. Zhuo Lu lit a mosquito repellent incense in the house after dinner, but the windows and doors were open and it was in the forest, so it was really useless. Liang Yisheng sat here for an unknown amount of time, with a bottle of mosquito repellent floral water lying at his feet, and the air smelled of mint.
"The director told me you were here," Liang Yisheng said after a while, and for some reason he laughed very softly, "I haven't seen you for a long time, so I came to see you. It will take at most a week, so it won't delay much. I can shoot other people's shots when I'm not here."
That laugh suddenly pierced Xu Yan's heart. Inexplicably, he felt that laugh was warm, soft, and furry, as if something was rubbing against him. Xu Yan didn't know what to say, his Adam's apple rolled again and again, he wanted to ask a lot of questions, wanted to say a lot of things, but couldn't say them.
"Does it make you think I'm here to catch someone cheating?" Liang Yisheng asked with a smile.
Xu Yan pursed his lips, neither saying yes nor no. It's not that he caught someone cheating. He felt sad only because he knew that Liang Yisheng didn't like him and treated him as an object, a "property", cold and empty. Liang Yisheng came to catch him because he didn't like his property being out of his control, but he was flesh and blood, so he was sad.
"Is the person you like Zhuo Lu?" Liang Yisheng asked suddenly.
"What?" Xu Yan was stunned.
"Zhuo Lu is straight. He broke up with Bian Jingjing because he didn't have the extra energy to deal with other problems during the time when his mother was sick. Bian Jingjing was in the rising period of her career, and he was afraid of delaying Bian Jingjing, so he broke up. They both still like each other. If you..."
"Liang Yisheng." Xu Yan interrupted him. Suddenly
quieted down.
Liang Yisheng didn't look back, he took a deep breath and exhaled, as if he was particularly irritable. Xu Yan took a step forward, and his profile could be seen. There was light behind him and moonlight in front of him, sandwiching the man in the middle. Liang Yisheng could feel Xu Yan's gaze, but he tried not to look at him. When he couldn't help it, he took out his cigarette box from his pocket.
"Liang Yisheng, smoking is not allowed in the scenic area." Xu Yan reminded him.
Liang Yisheng pressed the lighter with full force, and the smoke suddenly dispersed. Liang Yisheng's voice was heard, "Fuck the scenic area."
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Don't learn from Liang Yisheng! You are not allowed to smoke in the scenic area!