Our Yangyang feels so wronged.
The next day was New Year's Eve. Lu Xinyang, who had finished filming his last scene before noon, happily sat on his suitcase and snatched the megaphone from the director's hand: "Everyone, please come over and gather!"
The staff member walked over slowly with a stern face. The makeup artist who used to treat him as a silly brother regretted for a second that she was too gentle when styling his hair this morning.
Okay, okay, the whole crew knows you can go home! But can you go quietly on your own?
The makeup artist sister had no makeup on, her hair was casually tied behind her head with a plastic clip, she was holding the hot pack on her stomach, and she was so hungry that tears were about to fall.
During the Chinese New Year, she couldn't go home and could only rest for a day and a half at most. On the second day of the New Year, she had to put makeup on the extras who were going to work.
The same goes for other colleagues. In addition, after the New Year, they will be shooting a unit where the leading actors enter ancient famous paintings. So many ancient costume headgear, antique props and clothes need careful care. The workload is so heavy that it can make people's myopia worse by 200 degrees.
At a time like this, people who can take a holiday don’t choose to leave quietly, but instead come out to attract hatred. It’s really infuriating!
Lu Xinyang, furious, drove away his nanny car, but what was placed in the car was not more luggage, but neatly stacked braised duck goods.
"Master Ji's temporary braised food stall is open! Don't miss it if you pass by, everyone can eat as much as they want!" Lu Xinyang picked up an insulated box with one hand, which contained duck wings.
Tang Lin followed closely behind and moved several other boxes filled with duck legs, duck necks, duck gizzards, duck feet, duck tongues and duck intestines.
After all seven thermal boxes were opened, the rich aroma and the abundant sauce-colored duck meat instantly burst out, making everyone's eyes green with envy.
The makeup artist immediately held back her tears and ran towards the food faster than those photographers who carried their equipment around all year round.
No one cared about the lunch boxes delivered by the food truck. The staff were standing by to distribute the braised duck. They drooled as they distributed the food and their movements became more and more skillful. They just wanted to get rid of their colleagues quickly so that they could have a bite.
Lu Xinyang stood beside the nanny car with his hands on his hips, watching them eat with their mouths full of oil and praising the food. He felt a strong sense of pride in his heart, as if "all the little kids in the kindergarten are bowing down to my mother's apron."
He watched Ji Rongyu cook the marinade while he watched Ji Rongyu. The ingredients included Sichuan peppercorns, Sichuan peppercorns, chili peppers, cloves, fennel, and thyme. Ji Rongyu cleaned and put them in while teaching him how to recognize them. There were also a bunch of spices that he hadn't memorized, and the aroma even woke him up in the middle of the night yesterday.
Although the ducks he carried back with his own hands were eaten by them, Lu Xinyang was not jealous. He thought proudly, I was the one who ate the first bite of these braised dishes. Ji Rongyu even packed a portion for me first, and then packed the rest for you.
Hearing people praising Ji Rongyu non-stop and saying in surprise that Teacher Rongyu's cooking skills were so good, Lu Xinyang hummed without disguising himself, thinking to himself, you guys only know this now, I knew it a long time ago!
Colleagues are just colleagues after all, we are not familiar with each other at all, Ji Rongyu is the best to me!
Lu Xinyang selectively forgot the fact that Ji Rongyu took the time and effort to stew such a big pot just to thank the crew members for teaching him many things during this period of time.
Ji Rongyu didn't like to show off. He carried a few other individually packaged boxes of braised food to the director team, said goodbye privately to the familiar staff, and then got in the car. Lu Xinyang waited for a while longer for Tang Lin, and only got in the car together after he had put both of their suitcases in place.
"We can go home soon." Lu Xinyang leaned back in his chair and waved to Ji Rongyu with anticipation.
Tang Lin asked, "Teacher Rong, don't you have anything?"
"No." Ji Rongyu shook his head.
He would only be back for two days, and would be back on the second day of the Chinese New Year, so he simply took his computer with him and traveled easily.
Tang Lin started the car: "Then let's go!"
"Finally, I can take a break!" Lu Xinyang stretched lazily, took out his fully charged mobile phone, and used it however he wanted.
"Let me tell my parents first," Lu Xinyang muttered. "Yesterday I told them that I earned my vacation and my own Baidu Encyclopedia through my own abilities, but my mom still hasn't replied."
But Dad replied immediately. Lu Xinyang said he wanted to go home for a big meal, and Lu Huaicheng said they were all waiting at home, and asked Lu Xinyang to come back quickly, and also sent a little rose emoticon.
Ji Rongyu also reported to his grandfather, telling him the time he left the set and the time he expected to arrive home, and chatted with Ke Yule for a few words.
He used to ride in the same car with Lu Xinyang often. Every time, Lu Xinyang would chatter non-stop and would occasionally lean over to look at his phone screen. When he ran out of things to say, he would even repeat his chat history with others.
It was a rare moment of silence today, and I actually let him chat with someone for five minutes without him butting in.
Ji Rongyu turned his head uncomfortably, only to find that Lu Xinyang was not quiet, but had fallen asleep.
His head was tilted to one side, his phone screen still on.
Anyone would be tired after working so hard to catch up with the progress for so long.
Ji Rongyu's upper body leaned forward unconsciously, and then he came to his senses. He asked Tang Lin to hand him the U-shaped pillow on the passenger seat, and carefully put it on Lu Xinyang by holding his neck.
The car was stuck in traffic several times and we even had to turn to a gas station. The car stopped and started so many times, but Lu Xinyang didn't wake up.
It was already past four in the afternoon when they returned to Shangchuan. Tang Lin first drove the car to Baijiang Bridge and let Ji Rongyu get off.
Ji Rongyu thanked him, then gently opened the car door, waved to Lu Xinyang who was still unconscious, then gently closed it and walked home carrying the computer.
Tang Lin turned the steering wheel and drove to Lu Xinyang's house. He was stopped by the security guard at the door and only woke up Lu Xinyang, who had slept the whole way.
"Huh? Already... home?" Lu Xinyang rubbed his eyes and looked out the window. This familiar villa area, the familiar greenery, really... it feels like two months have passed since I last saw it.
"It's already five o'clock, Ji Rongyu... Oh, Ji Rongyu has also gone home. Why didn't he call me when he got off the car? I haven't said goodbye to him yet." Lu Xinyang reached out and patted the seat where Ji Rongyu had sat, then took off the U-shaped pillow from his neck and jumped out of the car to get the suitcase.
"Brother Lu, where do we park this car? And these keys..."
Tang Lin wanted to return the nanny car to him, but Lu Xinyang told him to drive away first: "Don't waste your time here, drive back to your own house and have dinner. How can I be without a car at home? You can drive over when you have to go back to the crew the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll be leaving now. See you the day after tomorrow."
Tang Lin drove away, and Lu Xinyang strode home. If the suitcase was a little lighter, he would probably be able to pull it into the air.
"Dad, Mom! I'm back!" Lu Xinyang shouted happily before reaching the door of the villa. His mind was filled with the heartwarming scene of the three of them happily gathered together, using scissors to remove the bones from chicken feet.
His aunt, who had worked in his family for over 20 years, immediately ran out to open the door for him. She missed him so much that two more wrinkles appeared on her face. "You're back, you're back! Oh, our sweetheart is finally back. It's good to be back!"
"I miss you, too, Aunt Xu!" Lu Xinyang gave Aunt Xu a hug and continued dragging the suitcase back home. Aunt Xu quickly grabbed the suitcase for herself, worried that he would get tired. But after taking it, she asked in confusion, "Why is it so light?"
"I didn't bring anything with me. I'm only back for two days." So the suitcase only contained his favorite down jacket, and the braised duck and boneless chicken feet that Ji Rongyu gave him.
The chicken feet were Lu Xinyang's escape route. If the cold sauce he prepared himself wasn't tasty, he could pour the one prepared by Ji Rongyu into it, so as to avoid a food poisoning tragedy the first time he cooked for his parents.
Lu Xinyang followed the smell of food and went straight to the restaurant, but was surprised when he entered.
There were more than twenty dishes on the big round table, with all kinds of delicacies from land and sea, but the only people sitting at the table were his mother and uncle. His father was not there, and neither was his uncle's daughter.
It was quiet, completely different from the warm welcome he had imagined.
"Where is my dad? Is my sister still watching cartoons upstairs?" Lu Xinyang looked around the house, but there was no one in the living room.
"No, she was taken in by her mother this year and hasn't come to eat since then." The uncle greeted him with a smile, but Liu Qingzhi just looked at him up and down without saying a word.
"Mom? What's with that expression on your face?" Lu Xinyang looked back bewilderedly. He realized that Liu Qingzhi was not wearing home clothes, but the white suit she wore at the company, as if she had just returned.
"Why are you still wearing this at home?" Lu Xinyang took off his thick down jacket, went into the kitchen to wash his hands, and then naturally took a piece of carrot from the table full of fish and meat and ate it.
After taking a bite, Liu Qingzhi suddenly became angry without warning: "You still remember to come back! Wouldn't you rather go against me and become a lousy celebrity?! What did you come back for!"
Caught off guard by the sudden shouting, Lu Xinyang was so frightened that she almost dropped her carrot. The uncle sitting next to her was not much better. After getting over his shock, he even stood up to smooth things over: "Oh, it's New Year's Day. You can't lose your temper with your child at this time!"
Lu Huaiqian smiled and took out the car keys from his pocket and put them in Lu Xinyang's hand: "Yangyang, take it. This is a new model. It's not expensive, just over two million. If you like it, you can drive it for fun."
He said it wasn't expensive, but there was a hint of pain in his eyes. He quickly added, "But don't drive to that film set of yours. I heard that place is too remote and it's easy to damage the car."
Upon hearing this, Liu Qingzhi became even angrier. "You know that place is shabby and remote, maybe even in some mountain ravine. Do you know how vicious the bites of insects there are? Do you know how easy it is to fall in there and never be found again?"
"Anyway, I won't agree to you continuing filming. You should terminate your contract now and join my company after the New Year." Liu Qingzhi did what he said and actually called his assistant on the spot to ask him to fire Lu Xinyang's acting teacher and dialogue teacher.
"...Mom? How could you do this?" Liu Qingzhi's unprecedentedly strong attitude left Lu Xinyang bewildered and aggrieved. "I know you've been against it, but I haven't even finished filming a single movie. Can't you just give me a chance and let me try?"
"You have no idea how happy I've been in the past month. There are a lot of fun people on our crew, and..." His nose felt sore and he turned his head away in anger, "Forget it... I don't want to talk to you anymore. Where's my dad? Where is my dad?"
He rushed back excitedly to celebrate the New Year. He had a lot of fun and happiness to share with his parents, but now all his enthusiasm was extinguished by his mother's cold response. However, Lu Xinyang knew that she was a person who kept her word, so he could only place his last hope on his father.
However, Liu Qingzhi said coldly: "It's no use looking for your father. Your father has already promised me. Either you listen to me or get out."
Lu Xinyang looked at her in disbelief, his chest heaving irregularly.
"You're so ignorant, your dad is fooling around with you, right? Really... before everyone knows about this, you should hurry home and do what you should do!"
"I won't!" Lu Xinyang couldn't stand it anymore and yelled back on the spot. He didn't want to see the strange expression on his mother's face anymore, so he turned around and ran out of the house.
There was a suffocating silence in the room.
Three seconds later, Liu Qingzhi glared at his angry back as he ran away, then burst into tears. "Why is this kid so stubborn? Look at him! He's darker and thinner. There are so many things on the table that he loves to eat, but he only eats carrots and doesn't even dare to touch a bite of meat! Woo woo woo!"
Lu Huaiqian also looked at the large table of delicious food, swallowed his saliva and said, "Alas."
Liu Qingzhi wiped her tears and ran to the balcony. Seeing Lu Xinyang not even wearing a coat, she got into the car that Lu Huaiqian gave him in the cold wind and sped away. She cried even harder.
"They can't even let people eat properly. What kind of entertainment industry is this? Where's the entertainment at all? Our Yangyang feels so wronged! Being a celebrity is not a human being!"
"Alas," Lu Huaiqian said, clutching his stomach, "my sister-in-law is right, alas."
"Huai Qian, you don't know. A while ago, there was a female celebrity who was rumored to be having an affair with our Lao Lu. Actually, I like her and I found the role for her. She was polite and came to my house to thank me. But, but when I saw her, I couldn't like her anymore. Wuwuwuwu..."
"She came to my house to have dinner with me the other day. Not only was her face not as pretty as in the photos, but she also had bones all over her body. She even vomited out the chicken soup she drank. I found it terrifying. It was because she starved herself from not eating. I'm so scared that our Yangyang will become like that too, wuwuwuwu..."
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