Chapter 485 Sunbathing
After dinner, Liu Wangxue received a reply from Du Yunxiang saying that the script was good, and the suggestions she put forward were almost the same as what Liu Wangxue thought.
The next day, Tao Huayu said that he came to the sun room to have tea with her but failed because something urgent happened in the company, so he went back to the city, and Liu Wangxue began to revise the script again.
In the next two or three days, Liu Wangxue stayed with Xu Qingsong all day as promised, and was asked to add another day because she went to help Qiu Xiangrong take pictures of the products. So Liu Wangxue occupied half of his table, he typed the code, and she revised the script. When Xu Qingsong's excitement subsided, she took the three to the rest area of the bar.
This time Liu Wangxue followed the agreement with Xu Qingsong, not working so hard, and slowly revised the script. The main reason was that Du Yunxiang was not in a hurry, and the time was completely up to Liu Wangxue. She would sign the contract when she finished. So Liu Wangxue worked like Xu Qingsong, working hard during the day and relaxing at night. Sometimes she would work overtime when inspiration suddenly came before going to bed.
The days passed slowly in January, and the post-production of "Moon Rising from Spring Stream" had been completed. Du Yunxiang and Jing Yujun both sent messages to Liu Wangxue, asking her if she wanted to go to Hai City to see the finished film.
Liu Wangxue didn't really want to go. If she went, it would take at least two or three days to write the script. So she said she would wait until the show was aired and it would be a surprise.
Jing Yujun didn't know about the script yet, so he asked a few more questions. Liu Wangxue told him the general idea, and he was quite interested: "Send it to me when you finish it."
"Okay," Liu Wangxue said, and then asked him with a smile, "Anyway, I submitted the manuscript to Sister Yunxiang, do you want to compete and see if you can get the director of this drama?"
"What are you saying?" Jing Yujun was very dissatisfied. "Why do you want me to compete? Shouldn't you, the screenwriter, take the script to the director?"
Liu Wangxue laughed: "The copyright has been sold to Sister Yunxiang, and the rest has nothing to do with me. Whoever is interested can fight for it."
Jing Yujun made a couple more jokes and then said, "From what I've heard about your story, the overall direction should be realistic and suspenseful. To be honest, I'm probably not good at this kind of drama."
Liu Wangxue pretended to be extremely surprised: "Hey, Director Jing also has times when he is not good at something?"
"Just tell me the truth." Jing Yujun pretended to be serious. "I wanted to recommend a director to you, but I tell you, with your attitude, forget it. You've already missed your chance with me."
Liu Wangxue was neither humble nor arrogant, and said, "My dad is going to pickle some radishes these days."
Last time, after the dried radishes were pickled, I mailed a can to Wenxi. Liu Wangxue’s family was also eating them. She also took a photo and posted it on WeChat Moments, adding a mouth-watering filter.
When Jing Yujun saw it, he remembered the meal he had at Tao Huayu's house - there was no connection between the two, he just remembered it, so he sent a message to ask Liu Wangxue if she had any at home so that she could send some to him to try.
Of course there are. In addition to Wenxi, Liu Nanshan also has to send radishes to Tao Huayu's family and Tao Qinglei's family. He bought a lot of radishes and pickled them into many jars. So Liu Wangxue sent a jar to Jing Yujun.
Jing Yujun's master also likes to eat this kind of side dish, but his master's wife thinks pickled food is not good and doesn't allow him to eat too much. But this is homemade, the taste is light, and there are no excessive additives except for the daily seasonings. Jing Yujun thinks it tastes good, so he kept half for himself and took the remaining half to his master's house.
After eating it, Jing Yujun gave feedback to Liu Wangxue, praising it highly and asking her when it would be available again and to remember to send him another can.
At this moment, Liu Wangxue grasped it accurately.
Jing Yujun coughed and said, "The person I want to recommend to you is my senior sister, my master's biological daughter. Like me, she is a talented new generation director..."
Liu Wangxue was amused by his undisguised and extremely ostentatious boasting.
"Laughing is an insult to me and my senior sister," Jing Yujun said.
"Okay, okay, go on." Liu Wangxue held back.
Jing Yujun also laughed, and then said: "My senior sister is good at the 'suspense +' theme. Have you seen the online drama, 'Detective Wulin'? It's a martial arts suspense theme."
"I've seen it." Liu Wangxue said.
Du Yunxiang had already put the matter of selecting a director for "The Twenty-one Cases of Dazhao" on the agenda. In October, he gave Liu Wangxue a list, which included Jing Yujun's senior sister, Meng Luoqiu. When Liu Wangxue was free, she went out of her way to look for her works and they were indeed very well filmed.
Jing Yujun said, "My senior sister has also agreed to participate in the filming of your "The 21st Case of Dazhao", but as it stands, we have to wait for this drama to start filming. Her last drama was also finished at about the same time as ours, and the post-production is almost finished. She is a career-minded person and can't sit still. She wants to shoot something else recently. I think your script should be very much to her liking."
"Sure!" Liu Wangxue was very happy. If she could hand the script to such a director, she would be relieved. "Then wait until I finish revising the script and ask Sister Yunxiang for her opinion. Then I can ask the talented new generation director Director Jing to help me make some connections?"
"That's easy," Jing Yujun reminded her, "If the radish is in place, the bridge will be built naturally."
Two or three days later, the script was finalized. As soon as it was completed, Liu Wangxue sent an email to Du Yunxiang, asking her to wait for her to finish reading the script before discussing the next steps.
During the time when the script was being revised, the weather was not very good. It was sometimes rainy and sometimes cloudy, and there were two light snowfalls. The day when Liu Wangxue finished the script happened to be Sunday the 3rd. When I woke up in the morning, it was a sunny day. Every household in the village started hanging clothes and quilts early in the morning.
Yesterday was Saturday. Xu Qingsong had to go to the studio to work overtime. Liu Wangxue accompanied him. He finished half of the work in the studio and worked a little overtime when he came back. He sent an email to Du Yunxiang after breakfast today.
There was nothing to do all day today, and it was a sunny day without wind. In their yard, just like everyone else in the village, they took out all the clothes and quilts to dry in the sun.
After breakfast, Liu Nanshan put up a clothesline in the yard and moved two floor-standing clothes drying racks to the roof of the bungalow. Gu Xuelan took a small broom and cleaned the fence around the roof of the bungalow so that the quilts could be dried here later.
Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong together took quilts, blankets, pillows, sofa cushions and other things to the roof of the bungalow.
On the first trip, the three little ones followed them up. Xiaoci waited for Liu Wangxue to put a pillow in place, then immediately lay down on it, lazily wagging her tail to bask in the sun, and did not go down with them. Pengpeng and Guagua, on the other hand, seemed to treat this as a game, following them up and down again and again.
After taking out the quilts and other clothes, they also took out some winter clothes to dry. There were not many clothes for a family of three, and excluding those that could not be exposed to the sun, the clothesline that Liu Nanshan had pulled was just full.
After drying the ones here, it was Xu Qingsong's turn, and the same procedure was followed.
After finishing all this, they returned to Liu Wangxue's courtyard. The four of them sat on small benches at the door of the living room, each holding a cup of hot water in their hands.
Xiaoci was still napping on the pillow on the roof of the bungalow, while Pengpeng was lying at Xu Qingsong's feet. He yawned in the sun and slowly closed his eyes. Guaguo liked warm sunny days, so he was very active. He flew up and down, sometimes to attract cats and sometimes to tease dogs, not letting them sleep well.
After a while, three or five little sparrows suddenly flew over and landed on the eaves of the courtyard gate, chirping.
When Gu Gua Guo saw this, he stopped bothering Xiao Ci and Peng Peng and instead fell on Gu Xue Lan's lap and shouted at her, "Eat! Eat!"
"I got it." Gu Xuelan touched its little head lovingly, stood up, put the cup on the stool, and walked towards the kitchen.
Guagua rushed over before her.
Liu Nanshan joked: "Our home has become a small canteen."
Xu Qingsong picked up the kettle beside him, refilled each cup with hot water, and said, "I'll put up a sign on the wall later. All the birds outside who come to eat will have to pay."
Liu Wangxue asked him, "Sir, how much do you plan to charge?"
Xu Qingsong thought for a moment and said, "At least bring some grass with you."
Liu Wangxue laughed when he heard this: "Why, are you planning to build a nest yourself?"
Liu Nanshan also smiled and said, "Okay, put it on the pomegranate tree, and these little sparrows can go in and rest when they are full."
After saying that, the three of them burst into laughter.
Then Gu Xuelan came out of the kitchen with her hands in her hands and scattered a handful of wheat kernels at the foot of the courtyard wall. Gu Gua chirped twice at the top of the wall, and the little sparrows flew down one after another, lowering their heads to peck at the food. Gu Gua was hopping back and forth around them, not knowing whether he was patrolling or monitoring them.
Humans cannot see the difference, but Guaguao could recognize this group of little sparrows. Pengpeng and Xiaoci could also recognize them. They were the "friends" that Guaguao made in the threshing ground in the summer.
After Youyou and Jinghe returned to Beijing, Liu Wangxue would still take the three to the threshing ground to play. Later, when the filming of "Moon Over Spring Stream" was about to start, she became busy and went less often. Especially since October, she has been on the crew almost all the time and has no time to accompany the three, let alone take them out to play. Only Gu Xuelan would occasionally take them to the threshing ground for a run.
Although he goes there less often, the friendship between Guagu and the little sparrows remains unchanged.
A few days ago, Xu Qingsong finished his work early and was taking the three sparrows home with Liu Wangxue. Liu Wangxue suddenly had an idea, so the two of them went to the threshing ground and played with the three sparrows there for a while. Before leaving, Gua Gua was with a few sparrows, chirping for a while.
The next morning, when Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong came back from jogging, they found several little sparrows standing in a row on the courtyard wall.
Liu Wangxue didn't think much of it. Little sparrows weren't unusual, and they all looked exactly the same to her. She reached out and poked Xu Qingsong's sports jacket pocket, jokingly saying, "Your friends are here to see you."
Gu Gua flew out as soon as he heard it. When the little sparrows saw it, they jumped and chirped, probably to say hello. Gu Gua jumped with them for a while, then flew directly to the kitchen to find Gu Xuelan.
Gu Xuelan was very surprised to hear it shouting "eat" and said to Liu Nanshan, "This is the first time our Guaguao has shouted that he is hungry."
While cooking, Liu Nanshan smiled and said, "You can't feed them too much."
Gu Xuelan took Gu Gua back to the living room and poured mixed cereal into its small bowl: "Eat it."
Guaguai didn't eat it. Instead, it chirped twice towards the direction of the courtyard wall. When it got no response, it flew away again.
Gu Xuelan didn't understand what was going on, so she went out to see.
Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong had already entered the yard and were also observing.
Then Gu Xuelan guessed: "He's inviting friends over for dinner again."
She also fed them a few times in the summer. At that time, the pomegranate tree was still lush and leafy. The little sparrows stood on the top of the tree and came to call her. She scattered some rice under the tree, and the group of birds ate happily.
Liu Wangxue thought of the scene where Gua Gua and the little sparrows gathered together to "talk" before leaving the threshing ground, and said, "Maybe the weather has been bad recently, with either rain or snow, making it difficult to find food in the wild, so I made an appointment with them to come to my house for a meal yesterday."
So from that day on, every day before and after breakfast, three or five little sparrows would fly over. Sometimes when Gu Xuelan saw them, she would go to the kitchen, grab a handful of wheat kernels and scatter them at the base of the wall without any reminders.
These little sparrows will not leave immediately after eating. They will first fly around their yard and the vegetable garden behind them for a few times, and then play with Guagua for a while before flying away.
The next morning, three or five more birds flew over. Liu Wangxue didn't know whether they were the same ones as before or if they were different birds. Anyway, she couldn't tell them apart at all.
After feeding the sparrows, Gu Xuelan came back and sat with them to drink tea and bask in the sun.
After adding a pot of water, Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong took the four people's cups away and took them to the kitchen to wash.
Liu Nanshan and Gu Xuelan went back to the room, changed their clothes, took the car keys and prepared to go out.
Gu Xuelan received a call from the framing shop yesterday, saying that her cross stitch was framed and asked her when she would be free to pick it up. The shop does not have a delivery service, and most of the customers are residents from the surrounding area or the same city, and everyone picks it up by themselves. Gu Xuelan naturally wanted to get it back quickly, so she made an appointment this morning.
When Liu Wangxue came back last night and found out, she suggested that the two elders should not come back so early after picking up the cross-stitch. Instead, they could go out for a meal, a visit to the park, and a movie together, just like last time. This would probably be their last time together as a couple before the Spring Festival.
Gu Xuelan originally wanted to ask her and Xu Qingsong if they wanted to go together, because Liu Nanshan saw a video a few days ago saying that a new cultural and food commercial street had opened in the city. It looked quite interesting and many people went to check in. The two elders thought that they might as well go and have some fun together.
Liu Wangxue refused without a second thought: "Qingsong and I also want to live our own world."
Okay, Gu Xuelan and Liu Nanshan will not say anything.
Xu Qingsong and Liu Wangxue stood at the gate of the courtyard, watching the car drive away. Xu Qingsong hugged her and asked, "How do you want to spend your time alone together today?"
Liu Wangxue hung on him like a boneless person: "What about you? What do you think?"
Xu Qingsong held her and turned around, pointing to the sun room upstairs: "Sunbathing?"
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