Chapter 45 Rejection Refreshing
Seeing Gu Jingsi, Ji Qingzhi remembered his words. Being a vase was an insult to an actor. She didn't actually want to fight for a role at that time, but Yan Si was determined to get the role. Unfortunately, Gu Jingsi was a tough guy and did not succumb to the pressure from Yan Si and the company. Then she became the cannon fodder and was bluntly called a vase by Gu Jingsi, who said that vases would not be used in his plays.
Meeting Gu Jingsi's clear eyes, it was good. It seemed that he didn't remember her at all. She gave him a polite smile and said, "Hello, what would you like to order?"
"Meat sauce." As Gu Jingsi spoke, his eyes fell on the bottle of meat sauce on the table next to him.
"Sorry, there's no more." Ji Qingzhi snorted in his heart.
"Isn't it still here?" Gu Jingsi frowned.
"That was reserved by someone else." Ji Qingzhi said gently.
"What's over there?" Gu Jingsi didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that the person opposite him seemed hostile to him.
"That was the toy my dog was going to use to get the vase." Ji Qingzhi deliberately emphasized the word "vase" when she spoke. There was nothing she could do about it; she was a vengeful person. Besides, she wasn’t lying, the meat sauce here was originally intended for a lottery.
"Then how can I make a reservation?" Gu Jingsi was basically certain that she was indeed hostile to him, although he didn't know where this hostility came from.
"The reservations are fully booked recently." Ji Qingzhi's face almost looked like I just don't want to sell it to you.
Gu Jingsi rubbed his eyebrows and understood what she meant. He glanced at the woman opposite with a raised corner of her lips and turned away.
Watching his back getting farther and farther away, Ji Qingzhi felt refreshed. Since he said that she was a vase, it would be reasonable for her to reject his order, right?
After leaving Ji's Restaurant, Gu Jingsi returned to the car, took out his phone and searched for Ji's Restaurant. The first video that popped up was the video of hot and sour cabbage. He couldn't help but frown. Wasn't this the internship assignment he had edited for Xu Yu'an?
When Xu Yu'an received Gu Jingsi's call, he was editing the next episode of the late-night poison video. After pressing the answer button, he said directly: "Brother, what's wrong, I'm busy?"
"The internship you mentioned before is at Ji's Restaurant?" Gu Jingsi asked directly.
Xu Yu'an couldn't help but stop what he was doing when he heard this: "How did you know?"
"So you know the boss?" Gu Jingsi still wanted to know where her hostility towards him came from.
"What's wrong?" Xu Yu'an answered very cautiously, not directly saying yes or no.
"So what did you do to make her so hostile towards me?" Gu Jingsi asked.
"You went to Ji's restaurant?" Xu Yu'an was a little surprised.
"So the point is how you framed me outside?" Gu Jingsi said with a hint of coldness in his tone.
"Brother, is there a possibility that it has nothing to do with me and you are the one who offended others?" Xu Yu'an hurriedly defended himself.
"Neither she nor I know each other."
"Have you forgotten the time when you publicly called her a vase?" Xu Yu'an said dimly. There was no other way. If he didn't say it out loud, he would have to take the blame.
After being stunned for two seconds, Gu Jingsi finally remembered the whole story. So that's why she emphasized the word "vase" to him just now.
"Brother, you haven't told me why you are going there?" Xu Yu'an asked curiously.
"Since you are interning at the Ji Family Restaurant now, it shouldn't be difficult for you to buy me some meat sauce," he continued without waiting for the person on the other end of the line to speak, "Xu Yu'an, no one in my family supports you in photography except me. Now it's time for you to repay me."
"I'll try my best. How much do you need?" Xu Yu'an thought, at worst he could ask these people in the dormitory to help him grab the reservation.
"The more the better. The filming will start next week and the shooting location is a bit remote." Speaking of ordering meat sauce, it was a staff member who mentioned Director Jiang's crew, so he thought of giving it a try.
"Then I'll do my best. Maybe you can take a look at the account of Ji's Restaurant." Then he will know how rare the meat sauce is.
"Remember to deliver it to my apartment on Sunday afternoon." Gu Jingsi said and hung up the phone without giving him a chance to speak.
After hanging up the phone, Gu Jingsi originally planned to put away his phone, but remembering what Xu Yu'an said before hanging up, he clicked on Big Eyes again and searched for the account of Ji's Restaurant. It was also at this time that he understood the intention of Xu Yu'an's previous call. This Sister Ji/Teacher Ji is indeed very popular now, and it seems that her career change was very successful.
Bai Hongkai, who knew that his boss went to Ji's restaurant, almost screamed. He hurriedly called and said, "Director Gu, why didn't you take me with you when you went to buy the meat sauce? Just leave this little thing to me."
"No need, I'm back." Gu Jingsi said, staring at the red light ahead.
"You bought it?" Bai Hongkai's voice was full of surprise.
"No." Gu Jingsi said calmly. When the red light was about to turn green, he spoke again: "I'm driving. Hang up."
Staring at the hung up phone, Bai Hongkai couldn't help but wonder, the reason he didn't get it was because he went too late and the ticket was sold out, or was it because Ji Qingzhi was unwilling to sell it to him? Soon, Bai Hongkai felt that this issue could not be explored further.
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After rejecting Gu Jingsi, Ji Qingzhi felt refreshed. To be honest, his acting skills were indeed much worse than those of other veteran actors and talented actors who auditioned. However, his words did have an impact on his subsequent work, which is why Ji Qingzhi still holds a grudge.
Now that I have rejected his purchase in person, I will just consider it as repaying the debt I owed him. Soon Ji Qingzhi put the matter behind him and went to the backyard. In just a week, the vegetables in the garden and the chickens and ducks were growing visibly. Old Ji was pushed by Aunt Chen to the edge of the vegetable garden to look at the vegetables.
"What do you think? Do you think I'm much better than you?" Ji Qingzhi said as he pointed towards the vegetable patch. The vegetables were growing really well.
"It's really amazing. I guess we'll be able to eat the peppers soon." Ji Yuanfu had experience in growing vegetables, so he could naturally see that these vegetables grew very fast. He attributed all this to Ji Qingzhi's ability to take care of them.
"Probably. I hope I can finish climbing the flower wall over there soon." The rose vines have already climbed up from the bottom of the flower stand, but they are not dense enough yet.
"It's not blooming season yet, no rush." Ji Yuanfu said leisurely. During this period, he basically stayed in the backyard during the day except at night. Staying in the backyard made people feel happy, but the reason for his happiness was Ji Qingzhi's daily company.
"Well, no rush. I'll wait for you to pick some flowers for me when the time comes." Ji Qingzhi still remembers that when she was a child, the roses in Uncle Wu's house bloomed, so she dragged Old Ji to Uncle Wu's house to pick a basket for her. She played with the roses first, and when she got tired of them, she would take a petal bath like she saw on TV. Although this was considered nonsense in Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes, Old Ji would always satisfy her nonsense.
"Okay, I will pick the most beautiful one for you then." Thinking of the past, the expression on Ji Yuanfu's face became gentle. At that time, he felt that he was the happiest man, but he did not expect the change to come so suddenly.
"By the way, Dad, do you remember that time when you delivered meat sauce to a film crew?" Yun Xiangrong and his team had finished their scenes in the mountains, and would soon continue filming urban content. Jiang Yan knew that Old Ji had woken up, and planned to come visit him tomorrow.
"The crew?" Ji Yuanfu asked with some doubt.
Ji Qingzhi told him everything Jiang Yan had said to her last time, and finally said, "Now, the young director you helped back then has become a very famous director, and he wants to thank you in person."
"It's just a simple favor. It's amazing that he remembered it for so long." Ji Yuanfu had a vague impression.
"He has been thinking about you for so many years. The reason he was able to find you this time was because I gave Xiangrong two bottles of the meat sauce you made. He tasted the difference as soon as he tasted it." At this point, Ji Qingzhi also felt that Jiang Yan was a grateful person.
"Then let's meet." Ji Yuanfu said and lowered his eyes to stare at his toes. Compared to when he was just discharged from the hospital, his health is much better now. After he recovers completely, if Qingzhi still wants to act again, he will not stop her, so he chose to meet Jiang Yan.
"Well, Director Jiang should be here tomorrow." Ji Qingzhi replied to Yun Xiangrong's message.
"Well, go and do your thing. Sister Chen is here, and I can leave by myself now." Ji Yuanfu signaled her not to worry about him.
Ji Qingzhi glanced at him. It had been almost ten days since he came back. Old Ji had finally gained some weight, and his face was fuller than before. His overall mental state had also improved a lot. Ji Qingzhi was very satisfied with this. When she went to the front yard, she did not forget to remind Aunt Chen to supervise Old Ji to drink more water. After her experiments, she found that the best effect was to drink well water directly.
When she arrived at the front hall, she found Xu Yu'an coming. Today was not the weekend they agreed to meet, so she was a little confused: "Why did you come today?"
"Sister Ji, I want to order a batch of meat sauce for Sunday afternoon. How much is it at most?" After the lottery, the daily production capacity of meat sauce has indeed increased, but the number sold to the outside world is still twenty bottles.
"Why are you ordering meat sauce at school?" Ji Qingzhi asked casually.
"I ordered it for a relative of mine. Sister Ji, please believe me, it's only this time. He helped me a lot before." Xu Yu'an quickly assured.
"Can you guarantee that he won't sell it a second time?" This is exactly why Ji Qingzhi doesn't sell in bulk.
"Of course, their crew has to go to a very remote place to film, and they can't get used to the food there," Xu Yu'an explained.
"Okay, I can give you five bottles every day before Sunday." Ji Qingzhi thought for a while and said.
"Thank you, Sister Ji." Xu Yu'an calculated and found that twenty-five bottles were quite luxurious.
"Do you have any relatives who are actors? Do I know them?" Ji Qingzhi asked casually.
"Sister Ji probably doesn't know him, he's not very well-known." Xu Yu'an quickly shook his head and arranged an 18th-tier identity for Gu Jingsi.
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