Chapter 435 Hello comrades, thank you for your hard work
"Is this Hetian Qingbai jade?"
"Oh, I didn't realize you really know it."
"I studied it before, but I couldn't afford it at that time, so I could only look at it." Li Yitong stroked the delicate feel of the bracelet and smiled, "I can afford it after filming, but it's not convenient to wear it on the set."
"It sounds a bit like work, money but no time, time but no money." Meng Bai said: "Try it on."
Li Yitong picked up the bracelet, put it on her hand to try it out, the size was just right, and her eyes suddenly curved again.
"How is it?"
She stretched her arm in front of Meng Bai and swung it. The slender wrist was like a piece of white and tender lotus root against the green jade bracelet, which made people want to take a bite.
Thinking of this, Meng Bai couldn't help but grab her wrist and bite it lightly.
"You, what are you doing?" Li Yitong was frightened by his action and asked with blinking eyes.
"Show your appreciation."
"Uh - your way of expressing it is quite unconventional... and strange.
Li Yitong wisely chose a suitable adjective in Meng Bai's sight.
Meng Bai retracted his gaze with satisfaction and looked at the gift box again: "You haven't finished looking at all the gifts."
"There's more! You plan to give out three years of gifts in one go, so that you don't have to give gifts for the next two years, right?"
Li Yitong muttered, but still took the gift box. Sure enough, there was something like a certificate at the bottom of the box.
"What is this?"
She took out the certificate and turned it to the front: "Real estate certificate... What, Landlord Meng doesn't want to rent it out anymore, and plans to sell it directly to me? Let me make it clear, I can't afford it."
Meng Bai tapped the certificate with his chin: "Take another look at what it is?"
"Yes, isn't this the property certificate? Could it be another house... eh? Wait, Shuangyushu, HD District, Beijing North... Why does this address sound familiar?"
Li Yitong looked at the location on the certificate, and some memories from many years ago gradually emerged in her mind.
"Ah! "She shouted with a look of surprise on her face: "You bought back our teahouse?"
"It's your teahouse." Meng Bai smiled and said, "How can you be considered Boss Li if you don't even have a shop."
The house on the property certificate is not the large flat that Li Yitong lives in now, but the teahouse that she failed to run.
It was because the teahouse was not doing well that the girl changed her career to become an actress.
Meng Bai had asked around before and found out that the shop had just been vacated not long ago, so he went straight to the owner and bought it.
"This land is empty anyway, you can open a teahouse again. You can also find a few friends to go with you, take some pictures, post on Weibo, etc., to help you attract business."
Li Yitong frowned: "But I don't have time."
"I didn't ask you to look after it yourself, just find two people to manage it, anyway, you don't rely on it for a living, just treat it as a private domain of your own. "Meng Bai said.
Li Yitong suddenly understood. Yes, she was just being too picky. This is not like starting a business right after graduation. The shop has been bought anyway, and the cost is not much. Just find someone to look after it. It doesn't matter whether there is business or not. It's just for fun.
The most important thing is that this teahouse records the memories of when Meng Bai and I just met.
That should be around 2011 or 2012. At that time, Meng Bai was still a newly graduated young screenwriter. Occasionally, when chatting with people about scripts, the coffee shop was crowded and expensive, so he would take them to the teahouse, and even call it elegant.
Because they went there most frequently, and with the help of their looks, the two became familiar with each other after a few visits. There were not many customers in the teahouse. Li Yitong, the boss, would stay behind the counter and secretly watch him when she had nothing to do, and gossip with Hua Yan after people left.
Li Yitong showed a nostalgic smile on her face. Who could have thought at that time that it would be like this a few years later.
She raised her head, looked across, and smiled with crescent eyes: "Meng Bai, thank you for your gift. I'm very happy."
Meng Bai touched his chin: "That's it? Is it enough to just say thank you?"
"What else do you want?" Li Yitong said in a rare coquettish tone.
Meng Bai didn't say anything, but hooked his finger and motioned her to sit over.
Li Yitong's cheeks were flushed, but she didn't refuse. She walked over obediently and then sat on his legs face to face.
"Now it's all right, you want... um!"
Before she finished her words, Meng Bai had already grabbed her waist and pulled her into his arms, and then her mouth was blocked.
The river breeze blew slowly, and the noisy noises from the Bund in the distance had dissipated when it reached the center of the river. The deck was quiet, leaving only the sound of tuts.
In addition to them, there were other boats on the river. Although they were far apart, who knew if they would have telescopes like on their yacht, so it was not really safe.
"I know." Meng Bai leaned close to her ear and whispered, "The cabin is downstairs, the stairs are closed, and no one will come up to disturb us."
"Then, let's go down."
"But my brother said that he is a little uncomfortable now and may not be able to leave for the time being. "
Meng Bai's finger brushed across Li Yitong's lips and raised his eyebrows: "Or, why don't you help him first?"
"Huh--that's it, I knew you were thinking of this..."
Li Yitong rolled her eyes at him, but did not refuse.
The girl rolled her eyes at him.
"Tsk, these fish and shrimps are getting a bargain." Meng Bai sighed.
"It's okay, the Huangpu River does not flow to the north, it doesn't matter."
"Haha, then I thank you on behalf of the people of Shanghai."
"It's what I should do."
Ignoring Li Yitong's sidelong glance at him, Meng Bai stretched out his arms comfortably, and then directly hugged her horizontally.
"Ah! What for?"
"The appetizers are over, and the main course will naturally follow."
Meng Bai walked into the cabin holding Li Yitong, and waves of charming voices floated out through the window, dispersing into the moonlit night of the autumn river.
——On
the night of their birthday, they had a "New Year's Eve firecracker", and both of them felt very good.
In the next few days, one of them went to a meeting during the day, and the other went to the crew. At night, they returned to the hotel and continued to stay together.
Pinduoduo's shareholders' meeting and board of directors lasted for three days before it ended. Meng Bai stayed for another day, then said goodbye to Li Yitong and returned to Beijing North.
As soon as he came back, he received an invitation that surprised him.
"National Day viewing ceremony?"
Compared with those technology companies and physical enterprises, these companies in the film and television industry are a little bit inferior. In comparison, only the young man Meng Bai has the most outstanding performance, so the cultural department recommended him.
This is a National Day viewing ceremony that only takes place once every ten years, not to mention that he was invited as an industry representative, which is an unbeatable lineup!
"That's great, then will I stand on the city wall at that time?" Meng Bai asked.
Tsk, thinking back to the founding ceremony that I learned in school was also under the same city wall, it makes people a little excited to think about it.
Unfortunately, Director Nie ruthlessly destroyed his fantasy.
"What good things are you thinking! Standing on the tower." Director Nie laughed and scolded: "Only Mr. Xu from Evergrande can go up for the entrepreneur representatives, and the others are all below. The area where you watch the ceremony is behind the national flag in the square, which is also a very close position."
"Oh, is that so." Meng Bai smacked his lips, it was a pity that he couldn't go up to feel it, "That's fine."
"You sound a little reluctant, how about I change someone?"
"No, no, Director Nie, not reluctant at all, I'll go." Meng Bai smiled and said, "Thank you, leader, for thinking of me."
"No need to thank me, we can be considered to complement each other."
After a few words, Director Nie gave some precautions and then hung up the phone.
Don't say it, the radio and television side is quite fast. In less than two days, Meng Bai's invitation letter and guest card were delivered.
The guest card is about the size of an ID card, all red, with the words "70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" written on the top. Below is Meng Bai's photo, name, and information code. One person, one card to prevent people from sneaking in.
In fact, this guest card is not only for people like Meng Bai. Those with some connections can ask someone to get it, and ordinary citizens can also apply for it on the official website - of course, you can imagine how low the probability of being able to apply is.
Looking at the invitation letter and guest card in his hand, Meng Bai was still very satisfied, and even posted a circle of friends for
the first time in a long time. He was too lazy to post ordinary things, and only this level was worth showing off.
Sure enough, as soon as this circle of friends was posted, it was filled with likes and comments.
Meng Bai's WeChat friends are either familiar practitioners in the circle, or celebrities, or bosses of cooperative companies. These people have seen everything, but when faced with the level of "National Day viewing invitation", they also half-jokingly expressed envy.
However, he was not the only one who was invited. Among the people he knew, there were also Wu Jing and Tong Liya.
Tong Liya, the senior sister, even called him and said that they could go together when the time came. But then he found that the viewing areas of the two were different, so he could only give up with some regret.
Although many people in the circle of friends shouted "Please take me, Mr. Meng", most of them were joking. However, there were still some people who didn't think of being polite and called directly.
"Uncle, please help me get a viewing pass." Meng Ziyi's voice came from the phone with a bit of a spoiled tone.
"Why do you want everything?" Meng Bai said: "Besides, aren't you going to join the crew?"
"It won't start until after the National Day, and it's just a free time recently." Meng Ziyi's sweet voice came over, "Okay, uncle?"
"I'll ask for you, but it may not be successful."
"I understand, if I get it, I'm lucky, if I lose it, I'm dead."
Meng Bai didn't bother two people for the same thing, so he called Director Nie again and asked if he could give him another quota.
Unexpectedly, there was really one. Director Nie directly gave him two, but they were all ordinary quotas, and the viewing area was relatively outside, not as good as his invitation.
Meng Bai was naturally not picky, and solemnly thanked Director Nie, and said that he happened to have just returned from Shanghai and brought some local specialties, and he would go to his house to sit down when it was suitable.
After getting two places, Meng Bai was about to contact Meng Ziyi, but he stopped in an instant and sent messages to Li Qin and the other girls to ask if anyone wanted to participate.
Of course, he asked one by one. After confirming who would not participate, he continued to ask the next one.
Li Qin, Li Yitong and Song Zhi were all filming. Zhu Xudan was very interested at first, but when she heard that she could not be with Meng Bai, she immediately lost interest.
In this case, he could only give it to his eldest niece.
"Wow, it really is!"
Meng Ziyi said excitedly on the phone: "I love you, little uncle!"
"Don't come on, it's disgusting." Meng Bai said: "Two places, if you have friends, you can call them to come together."
"Friends..." Meng Ziyi thought for a while, "Hey, I haven't seen Chaoyue for a long time, I'll ask her if she has time then."
"Come on, Xiao Yang's schedule is even more busy than yours now, how can she have time to join in the fun." Meng Bai said.
Meng Ziyi was not giving up: "Let's try first. If she doesn't have time, I'll find someone else. Otherwise, if she finds out, she'll say I'm unfaithful and philandering."
"Tsk tsk, I didn't realize that our sister Meng is also a passionate seed."
"I told you not to call me Huahua." Meng Ziyi said: "Besides, if we compare philandering, I'm no match for you, little uncle."
"Comrade Meng Ziyi, I hope you will pay attention to your wording. The quota is still in my hands."
"Sorry, little uncle, I was wrong!"
After giving the quota away, Meng Bai didn't care who Meng Ziyi would invite at that time. This girl has many friends, so there is no need to worry about no one to accompany her.
Taking advantage of the few days before the National Day, Meng Bai dealt with several current projects of Arc Light.
This year's two movies, "Manslaughter" and "Famous", have been completed and are currently in post-production. If all goes well, they will be released during the summer vacation next year. Of course, in order to avoid cannibalism, the specific schedule must be staggered.
As for TV dramas, the post-production of "The Undocumented Crime" at the beginning of the year has basically been completed, and Qiyi TV is preparing to start broadcasting it before the end of the year, which is just right for the heavy snow in the story.
"The Silent Truth" has also been completed, and post-production will take some time, so it will not be released until next year at the earliest.
With the success of "The Hidden Corner", Meng Bai is still very optimistic about this drama with a similarly large story. In addition, he also likes this story very much, so he is particularly concerned about it.
When "The Hidden Corner" was broadcast before, the background music "Little White Boat" in the film also became popular, which made Meng Bai and others begin to pay attention to the role of music in the drama.
In fact, when "Soul Ferry 2" was filmed, the song "Red Ling" also broke the circle. However, because the performance of the first part was good, it was hard to tell whether it was the effect of this song or the appeal of the IP "Pendulum", so I didn't pay much attention to it later.
Although the subsequent works have also worked hard on the soundtrack, most of them are pure music that matches the plot, and there has been no song like "Red Ling" that can be a separate song.
Maybe we can start from "The Silent Truth".
The fragments of inspiration in Meng Bai's mind are mainly based on the plot, with a few variety show plans interspersed from time to time, and there are really not many songs. Therefore, he specifically asked the crew to find someone to collaborate on a suitable promotional song.
In addition to these completed and prepared projects, Arc Light has another job recently, which is to register several previously released films for this year's Golden Rooster Awards.
According to the requirements of the Golden Rooster Awards, "The Wandering Earth", "Detective Chinatown 2" and "Psychological Crime: City Lights" are all within the scope of this year's registration.
Since they meet the requirements, Arc Light submitted all three films at once. As for which awards will be shortlisted in the end, it depends on the preferences of the judging panel.
(End of this chapter)
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