It was just a joke, nobody took it seriously.
During the meal, Xiao Qifeng and Mu Qinshu kept putting food on Lu Wanzheng's plate. She could barely keep up with the speed at which she ate, and before she could even swallow the food in her mouth, her bowl would be filled again.
At the Xiao family's dinner table, there was no such thing as not talking while eating. It's just that there's usually nothing to talk about during meals, and everyone usually keeps quiet. But this time was different. Everyone ate happily. Eating allows people to let down their guard, which is how people can get closer to Lu Wanzheng and learn more about her.
Mu Qinshu smiled as she looked at Lu Wanzheng. To build a good relationship with her, she needed to talk about her. "Wanzheng, I heard from Qi Feng that you're an actress. When did you start acting?"
Lu Wanzheng looked up when she heard this. Speaking of this, she remembered what Xiao Qifeng had told her before she came. Xiao's mother was so angry about being scolded that she couldn't sleep for a long time. She was somewhat touched.
She nodded. "I officially started acting in college. I studied performance, but when I was young, in order not to put too much financial pressure on Lao Xu, I took a role in a movie when he wasn't looking. I was young then, and the director didn't pay much, but I was happy to earn a little money."
"You had a very tough childhood."
Xiao Junnan would naturally not let just any girl into his home. After learning who his son's girlfriend was, he investigated Lu Wanzheng's life for the first twenty-four years. Mu Qinshu also read the information she found. Lu Wanzheng's life for the first ten years could be described as smooth sailing, but after her mother's divorce, her life plummeted. She left home and depended on her uncle for survival until her family started making money and her life gradually improved.
Lu Wanzheng sensed the heartache in Mu Qinshu's words, and the atmosphere suddenly turned sour. She immediately said, "Back then, the pay was given on the same day. On my first day of receiving my pay, I wanted to buy a gift for Lao Xu, but I didn't expect to lose the money after only a few steps."
"Really?" Mu Qinshu was shocked. She hadn't expected such a twist in the story. The money she had worked so hard to earn was gone before she could even enjoy it. She must have been a little sad.
Lu Wanzheng: "It's true. I don't know how many times this has happened since I was a child. When I was a child, my family was rich, so I didn't care about this. Later, when we ran out of money, Lao Xu found out about my situation and never gave me any money again. I was disappointed for a long time after losing the money I had worked so hard to earn. So I directly asked the director to transfer the money into Lao Xu's account."
Mu Qinshu: "Haven't you been like this since you were little? And now?"
Lu Wanzheng shook her head. "I've never had good luck since I was little, but now it seems like things have turned around. My luck is getting better and better, and I haven't been losing money anymore."
"Oh, I see," Mu Qinshu felt more and more sorry for Lu Wanzheng as she listened to Lu Wanzheng talk about her. Now that Lu Wanzheng was part of their family, her life would get better and better. She told Xiao Qifeng, "Treat Wanzheng well. If she suffers any injustice, you'll be in big trouble."
Xiao Qifeng, who had been listening intently to the two without saying a word, nodded. "Don't worry, she won't be wronged. I usually pamper her like a treasure." As he spoke, he put another piece of meat near the gills on Lu Wanzheng's plate.
This part of the meat is Lu Wanzheng's favorite.
"Really?" Mu Qinshu looked at Lu Wanzheng, knowing the answer already. If Lu Wanzheng nodded, it would be an affirmation of her son.
Lu Wanzheng nodded vigorously. Mr. Xiao was really good to her in normal times.
"By the way," Mu Qinshu took a sip of juice and used serving chopsticks to put a piece of meat on Lu Wanzheng's plate, "what's the name of the movie you filmed? Which role did you play?"
Lu Wanzheng looked at the meat in her bowl and paused. She was actually a little too full to eat anymore, but Mr. Xiao and his mother kept putting food on her plate. She could have been full just by eating the vegetables.
She put down her chopsticks and bowl. "I remember it was a TV series, I think it was called 'Tears of Mountains and Rivers'. I played the female lead as a child. The plot was relatively short, and it was filmed in two or three days."
She spent some time thinking about the title of the drama. Although it was her first drama, it had been quite a long time since then. In addition, she didn't know much about the industry at that time. When the director approached her, she only heard that there was money to be made, and she agreed without thinking. Now, her memories of being on set are like a mosaic, and she can hardly see them clearly.
The reason I remember losing money is probably because I was really upset at the time.
After all, that was the first money she ever earned.
"Tears of Mountains and Rivers? You're the little girl in it?" Mu Qinshu was slightly surprised, she hadn't expected this...
Lu Wanzheng nodded, puzzled. She was the only girl in the crew at the time, so the one Mu Qinshu was talking about must be her.
“Son, I have good taste, don’t I?” Mu Qinshu suddenly said something nonsensical, leaving Lu Wanzheng stunned. Xiao Qifeng, on the other hand, was lost in thought. He seemed to have heard the name “Tears of Mountains and Rivers” before, and he lowered his gaze slightly.
Lu Wanzheng grabbed Xiao Qifeng's hand under the table, turned his palm over, and drew a question mark on it with her fingertips.
Mu Qinshu seemed oblivious to the question under the table and Xiao Qifeng's silence. She assumed that Xiao Qifeng hadn't remembered, so she explained, "When this drama aired back then, I watched a few episodes. I happened to see a little girl in it. She was so cute, with round, rosy cheeks and bright, round eyes. Her ancient costume looked perfectly natural on her, as if she were a person from that era. Her every move was like that of a young lady from ancient times."
After seeing this young girl, I really liked her. At that time, I really wanted to have a daughter, a daughter as cute as the little girl in the TV series. It's just a pity that my body couldn't cooperate. So I told Qi Feng, who was seventeen or eighteen at the time, that I wanted a daughter-in-law as cute as her. And guess what? This guy didn't even glance at me and just replied, "The age gap between us is too big."
When filming "Tears of the Mountains and Rivers", Lu Wanzheng was only about eleven or twelve years old, not even fully developed yet, just about to step into puberty. At that time, Xiao Qifeng was already seventeen or eighteen years old, in the middle of puberty, and had grown taller. If the two of them stood together at that time, they would look like a child and an adult.
In everyday life, someone Xiao Qifeng's age would already be called "uncle" by children.
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