Lu Yinbing laughed like a dog in the homestay where he was staying temporarily on the other side of the strait.
"Zhao Min, hahahaha, what are you thinking? If your child grows up and blames you, it has nothing to do with me," Lu Yinbing hugged his legs and swayed back and forth on the sofa, holding a lollipop produced by his own candy factory in his mouth, and said happily, "I said it's good to call you Zhao Lailai, come on, come on, be more intimate."
"Be affectionate, sir."
"I've told you so many times, my dad is the boss, but I don't have an uncle. You became stupid for three years during pregnancy, and even your memory has become worse. No, you originally had a bad memory, and you always scolded me wrongly."
"Your sister."
"I'm sorry, Orange is married."
"Your wife."
Lu Yinbing’s wife Xia Yitong: “???” She just provided a mobile phone, why did the war suddenly come to her
"Hey, you can't be intimate with my wife. I'll settle the score with you later." Lu Yinbing took the lollipop out of his mouth, held it in his hand, and said, "Hurry up and ask my wife to answer the phone. I miss her so much."
"Damn, are you a human being? You hold candy in your mouth when you talk to me, but when you want to talk to your partner, you take out the candy quickly." Laiying couldn't ignore Lu Yinbing's suddenly clear articulation.
"If you are a human, return the phone to her quickly. Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Lu Yinbing clicked his tongue impatiently.
Laiying bent down and whispered to her infant daughter Zhao Min: "Did you hear that? You, the godmother named Lu, are always against me. When she returns to China, you must bite her to avenge her mother."
Xia Yiting glanced at the figure coming, walked to the corner of the room, and said "hmm" softly.
Lu Yinbing's heart softened immediately, as if his whole body was soaked in warm spring water. He put away his carefree look, leaned back on the sofa, and spoke in a tone that was more than a little gentler than Ying's: "Do you miss me?"
"Yeah." The answer was still the same.
"Are you shy? Why don't you stay in the same room with Laiying? She might hear you and laugh at you."
"Okay." Xia Yitong opened the door and tiptoed out under Laiying's contemptuous gaze. This was Laiying's residence in Beijing. Her husband moved here many years ago and bid farewell to their long-distance life. Now, they have changed from a world of two to a happy family of three. Zhao Jun has had a smile on his face for the past month.
Xia Yitong found that she seemed to have a destiny with midsummer. In the midsummer of 2016, she returned to the company from the airport and got the opportunity to be in the same crew with Lu Yinbing. Many good and bad things happened in the following summers. Today, she listened to the sound of her best friend and husband coaxing their children inside, looked up and saw the light shining through the dense leaves in the yard, and suddenly realized that it was another summer.
Lu Yinbing was reporting the situation of the past two days to her in her ear. The situation of the past few days had already been reported in the video call a few days ago. After a few words, Xia Yitong smiled and her brows relaxed: "Let's video chat. Is it convenient for you?"
"Convenient." Lu Yinbing hung up the phone and started the video call. He started to speak sweetly, "I haven't seen you for two days. You have become more beautiful behind my back."
Xia Yitong could handle such compliments, but she was too lazy to do so. She just smiled wider and replied sweetly, "You too."
Lu Yinbing rolled her eyes and said, "Come on, it's so hot on the set. I'm wearing layer after layer of clothes every day. I'm almost getting prickly heat on my face."
"Is there? Not at all." Xia Yitong's face was getting closer and closer in Lu Yinbing's video interface.
"Beep" sound -
Lu Yinbing gave her a loud kiss on the other end of the phone.
Xia Yitong touched her face, her eyes curved into little crescents.
Lu Yinbing said shamelessly: "If you want me to kiss you, just say it directly. There's no need to get so close."
"I can feel it when it's so close." Xia Yitong squinted his eyes. The sunlight shining on his body was so warm that even his hair was covered with a layer of gold.
"You feel it now?" Lu Yinbing smirked and lowered his voice, "Does it feel like the last time you called me last night?"
Xia Yitong covered the camera. A heat rushed up from the soles of her feet. Her face suddenly felt hot and she didn't know where to look. She even suspected that Zhao Jun had followed her out and was watching her from behind the balcony.
Xia Yitong's face flushed, her heart pounding. After confirming that there was no one behind her, she lowered her voice and said to the person opposite her, "What nonsense are you talking about in broad daylight?"
Lu Yinbing said: "I'm not, it's night time, take your hands away and don't let me look at you, I'm going to get angry."
Xia Yitong removed the finger covering the camera, and Lu Yinbing pouted when he saw the picture inside: "Turn your face to the sun, I can't see anything."
"I just want to bask in the sun." Xia Yitong's ears were still hot.
"I finally made you blush, but you didn't show it to me." Lu Yinbing sighed and looked at her with affectionate eyes. I felt pity for her.
"Look, look as long as you want!" Xia Yitong squatted down, found an angle where Lu Yinbing could appreciate her expression from all angles, and let her look at her face recklessly.
"I'm free tonight after 11 o'clock, about half an hour. It should be almost time for dinner at your place. Can I..." Lu Yinbing licked his dry lips.
"No!" Xia Yitong refused with a righteous face. But she was a little shaken in her heart. The last time was twenty days ago. Although it was so long ago and it was embarrassing, the temperature of her body was not just because of the sun. Honestly, she was thinking about it.
"Eat dinner early today, then leave the child to auntie and go back to your room to take a shower. Is that not okay?" Lu Yinbing looked at her eagerly.
"Can't."
Lu Yinbing noticed the hesitation in her eyes and continued, "I will start filming a very important scene tomorrow. I may not be able to talk to you properly in the next half month..."
"Only twenty minutes, then you have to sleep!" This was the final bottom line Xia Yitong drew.
“This…” Lu Yinbing looked embarrassed.
Xia Yitong was very determined: "Forget it!"
"No," Lu Yinbing shook his head and laughed softly, "I don't care. I'm mainly worried that you don't have enough time. We agreed on 20 minutes last time, but the one who refused to stop was..."
"I'm going to die if you say that again." Xia Yitong has become increasingly thick-skinned in recent years and rarely gets angry. But today, Lu Yinbing saw it again. His cheeks were puffy, like a little hamster, so cute that he wanted to eat him in one bite.
"Okay, okay, I won't say anything." Lu Yinbing raised his hands in surrender, already imagining eating the little hamster a thousand times in his mind.
After talking about the hot topic, the two talked about Laiying and the new play. Compared with taking care of her daughter at home, Laiying is more enthusiastic about filming. She plans to spend three months to recover her body after giving birth, and then continue filming. She read the script during her confinement and was very satisfied with the plot. She felt that the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth springs of her acting career might come together, and she was very excited. But she had a complaint about the name. Not only did it have the same name as a movie directed by a famous director many years ago, but it also sounded like a bloody family ethics drama at prime time instead of a serious drama.
The screenwriter has his own opinion on this. In fact, he has not been so obsessed with the title of a drama in recent years. It is not called a serious drama just because it has a serious drama name. Haven’t you seen so many grand IPs that are selling dog meat under the guise of mutton, doing bloody things in the name of serious drama, and ruining everything that can be ruined and cannot be ruined.
Instead of making a big gimmick of some legend or some secret, it is better to be simple and crude, and call it "Women at Forty", and the focus is on a few women in their forties. Besides, as long as the names of the main creative team are known, plus Lu Yinbing's promotion, a name is nothing. After much persuasion, Laiying accepted the name, but he would mutter a few words when joking: "I'm not even forty yet."
"You'll be forty by the time the show is aired, don't be impatient." Lu Yinbing replied to her from thousands of miles away.
"Anxious for your wife."
"You've learned your lesson this time," Lu Yinbing said with a smile, "I was worried that you would be stupid for three years after pregnancy and wouldn't be able to get into the acting state. Now it seems that you are smarter than before."
"Smart, your wife."
"Hey, this is not right. My wife has provoked you. You cue her every day."
Xia Yitong had to take care of a child at home and had no time to pay attention to the quarrels between her best friend and his wife.
Lu Xia didn't dare to get close to the baby in the cradle, but Xia Lu was bolder. She gently held Zhao Min's hand, then let go, her eyes flashing with surprise, "My sister has grown so small." She compared her hand with the other's.
She was also ugly, but she kept it to herself. Mommy said that we should not tell others that they are ugly, and we should only say it behind closed doors.
Lu Xia pursed her lips and said, "You were this young before."
Xia Lu didn't understand her sister's sarcasm at all. She opened her eyes curiously and asked, "Really? Will the little sister be the same age as us?"
Lu Xia continued to purse her lips: "No."
Xia Lu: "Why?"
Lu Xia: "We will continue to grow and will always be bigger than her."
Xia Lu: "Will it continue to grow when it reaches mom's size?"
Lu Xia: “…”
Xia Lu: "Will it happen?"
Lu Xia: "... You're so annoying. You're almost waking my sister up."
Xia Yitong smiled, squatted down and patiently explained to the two children: "When you grow up to be as big as mom, your sister will need another three years to be as big as you."
"Why?" This time it was Lu Xia who asked the question.
"Because you were born three years earlier than your sister." Xia Yitong said.
"Why were we born three years earlier?" Xia Lu asked.
"Why does it stop growing when it reaches your age?" Lu Xia asked.
"What is birth?"
“Why do you grow up?”
“Why is it so small when it comes out?”
"Why can't it just grow bigger instantly, like Sun Wukong?"
"Why… "
"Why… "
"This is because... that is because... Sun Wukong is a monkey..." Xia Yitong hesitated at first, then remained silent until she was sweating profusely, "Mom will explain it to you when she gets home. Now be quiet, you're about to wake up your sister."
There was no response from Lu Yinbing, so he called out "Hello, hello, hello" several times.
Lai Ying closed his chin and said with sympathy: "I just witnessed a tragedy. Your two twin daughters asked your wife 20 to 30 questions in one breath. I felt that Xia Tong was about to vomit blood..."
Lu Yinbing said: "You will be like this in the future, why are you in such a hurry?"
Laiying: "… Is your family still in need of a child? I'll adopt you for a few years."
Lu Yinbing: "You wish! I have to go to work. Tell Xia Yitong that I miss her."
"I won't say it. If you want to say it, say it yourself." Laiying would never spread this message. It's so corny. The two of them are over 70 years old in total, and they still talk about missing each other and loving each other every day.
"Please turn on speakerphone."
"No, it will wake up my Minmin."
Lu Yinbing laughed every time she heard the name "Minmin". "When Minmin falls in love, she must be more open-minded and not be like Zhang Wuji."
"No, Xia Yitong's Minmin has found someone like you, so my Minmin can't find someone worse than you."
"I%#￥..." Lu Yinbing was reminded of the future and couldn't help spitting out dirty words, "I'm about to spit out blood. No, no, you have to give your child another one as soon as possible."
"Oh, the name Zhao Min is reserved by your family? Xia Yitong only played Zhao Min, but she is not the real Zhao Min. There are so many people named Zhao Min in the world, are you going to settle accounts with them one by one?"
"Then I don't care. I just know you and my goddaughter. Is it reasonable to give the goddaughter the same name as her godmother?"
"That makes sense. It's cool. Look at all the fathers and sons abroad who have the same first name as their sons."
“We have to respect tradition.”
"Are you a zombie from the Qing Dynasty? We need to be open-minded."
"Come on Shadow!"
"There's no room for negotiation about calling her dad. My baby's name has been decided. I'm used to calling her that and she can understand it. Please bear with me. I didn't remember it when I was choosing the name earlier, and when I remembered it later, the name was already on the household registration book." Laiying was also helpless. She didn't want to break up Lu Yinbing and Xia Yitong.
"...Okay," Lu Yinbing said, "Then let's go with Zhao Min. I'll take two days to digest it. You can give the phone to Xia Yitong."
Xia Yitong laughed when she heard Lu Yinbing muttering a few names. She was fine, it was just one of the roles she had played. Even if a certain TV series was her masterpiece that made her famous, it was just a role. But if Lu Yinbing wanted to make a fuss about it, let her make a fuss about it. It would be fine in a few days.
The formation of the crew of "A Woman at Forty" started before Lu Yinbing went to the crew to film. The director was still Qin Hanlin. Qin Hanlin recommended himself after hearing that Lu Yinbing was going to film such a drama. After reading the script, he slapped his thigh and said, filming a drama about women, isn't this his forte? Although he is not as good at modern dramas as ancient costumes, he believes that no one in the current circle can film the character of beauties as well as he can.
In addition to Lai Ying, there is also an actress who announced her retirement from the screen two years ago to return home to take care of her husband and children. Qin Hanlin still needs to slowly polish the other candidates. It is worth mentioning that the olive branch thrown out by Qin Hanlin not only attracted these actresses in their thirties and forties, but also actresses who were very famous earlier but are now active in playing the role of mother-in-law in family ethics dramas. Those actresses, in order to get the roles, often deliberately dress up to be old and ugly, and after shedding those deliberate acts, their temperament is as eye-catching as a pearl that has been wiped off the dust.
Qin Hanlin was simply overwhelmed by the choices, and wanted to cram all the beauties of all ages into the TV series, but there were not so many roles in the show, so he had to reluctantly select the best ones. That night, he made an international call to Lu Yinbing and asked her if she could shoot another one. He also wanted to direct an ancient drama, and based on the personal temperament of the actresses he had seen these days, he had a preliminary idea. Lu Yinbing gave him the contact information of the screenwriter Ning Qing, and once again plunged into the intense filming.
Xiaoxi brought boiled eggs to Lu Yinbing. Lu Yinbing's right face was sickly red, and her cheeks were puffed up. There was a slapping scene, which could not meet the director's requirements. She had no problem. Her opponent was an internationally renowned veteran actress, who was older than her. There was no problem. It was just that the spark between the two of them was always a little short. Because of this, they had fought back and forth more than ten times. Acting is real fighting, it cannot be faked.
The director observed her left face and confirmed that it was impossible to continue filming today. He told her to deal with it well in the evening and let her go early.
Lu Yinbing put an ice bag on her face, spat out a mouthful of bright red water into the sink, and began to study the script, walking back and forth in the room, sometimes putting herself in her own role and sometimes in the other person's role.
Hearing footsteps outside, she leaned her head out to take a look, and seeing that it was the senior, she packed up her things simply and went to find the other person with the script in hand.
When the door was opened, the other person did the same thing as her, holding the script in one hand and about to go out.
The two smiled at each other, and Lu Yinbing greeted him: "Hello, senior, I came to discuss the script with you."
"Please take a seat." The other person nodded, stepped aside half of his body to invite her in, and said with a smile, "The younger generation pushes the older generation forward. There's no need to call me senior. Just call me by my name."
Lu Yinbing: "Senior, you are too modest. When you were standing on the international podium, I was still digging bird nests out of the tree."
The other party did not correct her, but his expression was relieved, and he was quite pleased with her modesty. She was once glorious, and was even praised as a person who amazed a generation of youth, but the only people who remembered her were the aging generation and a small number of young people who would revisit old movies. Her smile will always amaze those people in their memories, and it will only remain in their memories.
Now the world belongs to the young woman in front of me. I have heard of her name, and I am also sincerely impressed by her acting skills.
There is still hope in this circle. She was relieved, but also felt lost. She rarely accepted roles. She was unwilling to lower her standards and accept roles just to make a living. In this movie, she played a supporting role for Lu Yinbing. If it wasn't for her good friend's recommendation, the script was exquisite, and the supporting role was outstanding, she would not have come out.
He focused his mind and discussed the script with the young man sitting opposite him. Their ideas clashed, and flashes of inspiration came to him from time to time. After a long talk, all the problems encountered today were solved, like a skillful hand clearing away the clouds to reveal the sun, and finally getting a colorful cloud.
I admire the young person in front of me more and more, and I envy her more and more.
She still has movies to film, she can play the leading role, and she can indulge herself in her acting career.
"You took this role in order to win an award, right?" This senior who was known to be taciturn in the industry spoke for the first time in his life. He felt a little regretful and as if he had been rude, but he couldn't take back what he had said. Well, he had been tame for half his life, so it was okay for him to step out of line occasionally.
"Yes." Lu Yinbing was also a little surprised, but still answered honestly. In front of this senior whose eyes seemed to see through everything in the world, there was no need to hide anything.
"You will succeed." The senior patted Lu Yinbing on the shoulder, smiled faintly and gave him good wishes.
"Thank you for your good wishes." Lu Yinbing nodded.
"Go back and rest. Your face..." She looked at it carefully and said softly, "You need to apply it again."
"Oh, I will. Thank you, senior."
"You're welcome. I'll take you there."
Lu Yinbing said no, stepped back to the door, opened it and went out, walking about four or five meters away. She felt as if there was a gentle gaze staring at her from behind. She turned around and the senior smiled at her slightly. There was a gleam in her eyes and a certain emotion called loneliness flashed across her.
Lu Yinbing felt heavy in her heart because of her smile. She took one step, two steps, three steps, and then she ran back quickly like an unstable child. In just a few steps, she was actually out of breath.
Her eyes were fixed on the other's beautiful amber eyes, which had not yet completely hidden their emotions. Those eyes were exactly the same as the ones she saw on TV when she was a child, persistent, firm, and full of power, and they had never changed. It was too cruel to let such a person disappear from the screen.
"Senior, I have a plan, are you interested?"
Lu Yinbing clearly saw the astonishment in the other person's amber eyes.