Fringe artists in the entertainment industry

Chapter 178 176. Occupy your bathtub! (Please subscribe)

The cold wave from Siberia has enveloped the capital, and a bleak cold wind has quietly invaded. The locust trees in the alley and the ginkgo trees in the yard have turned yellow, and fallen leaves swayed from the branches in the cold wind. , covering the ground with a layer of golden decoration.

Chen Li'an was sitting in the small courtyard, flipping through Chen Meiren's financial statements for Liu Luoguo's crew. There were so many messy purchases and expenditures that he put down the statements with a headache after looking at them for a while.

This thing is too unfamiliar to him. He doesn't understand many things, nor does he understand the actual situation of each expenditure. It is no different from reading a bible.

Chen Li'an returned the report to Chen Meiren and said, "You can take care of these things yourself. Is it finalized and in post-production now?"

"Yes, originally there weren't many scenes left, and now I'm mainly doing post-production." Chen Meiren explained in a slightly unsatisfying way: "I haven't had enough of it yet, and the filming is over. The money we invested is mainly They are all used for post-production.”

Seeing Mei Chen like this, Chen Li'an smiled and pinched her smooth cheeks and said: "Producers don't just manage money on the crew. They are also responsible for selling the film after the post-production is completed. You have to learn a lot. ”

Speaking of this, Beauty Chen felt even more helpless. She looked at Chen Li'an and said with a wry smile: "What's the matter with me? Zhang Guojun said that he will be responsible for this matter and guarantee that the investment will not be wasted."

"Are you stupid? He said he was responsible and didn't care?" Chen Li'an said funnyly: "Even if you just follow and watch, you can get to know the people in the TV station. This is a good time to accumulate contacts, but this time you follow and watch Just talk less and watch more.”

"I know." Chen Meiren raised her face and said unconvinced: "I also know many people from the TV station, okay?"

Chen Li'an looked at Meiren Chen who was a little restless, pondered for a while and said: "Well, let's talk to Zhang Guojun and try to see if you can sell the film to Wanwan. Didn't you and Qiong Yao cooperate several times? Okay, give it a try and treat it as exercise."

After hearing Chen Li'an's suggestion, Chen Meiren's eyes lit up. After thinking about it for a while, it might actually work. She immediately hugged Chen Li'an's face and kissed her, saying, "I'm going to make a call right now!"

After saying that, Chen Meiren let go of Chen Li'an's neck and ran to contact Qiong Yao anxiously.

Who says women don’t have career aspirations? Before they have children, women’s career aspirations are no worse than men’s. Only after they have children will they put more energy into the career of motherhood.

Speaking of which, this is much stronger than that of men. Anyway, Chen Li'an now knows that he is about to have a child, and he has no awareness of being a father at all.

I don’t know how Gong Li is doing in Singapore. There is no video call these days. If I want to know more about Gong Li’s condition, I can only make phone calls. I can’t feel the joy of the child growing little by little in the mother’s belly.

Chen Li'an thought about waiting for a few days to find time to fly to Singapore to see Gong Li. He couldn't really be a dumping dad. That would be too heartless.

But even if you want to go to Singapore, you have to wait for a while. The Winner is about to be released. This is Chen Li'an's first theatrical movie, which is still very meaningful.

In addition, Cheng Shufen also wants to come to the mainland. After meeting with her, we will talk about going to Singapore.

After making a silent plan, Chen Li'an saw that Beauty Chen hadn't come back yet, so he went to the living room to take a look and found that she was sitting on the sofa and chatting happily on the phone.

After seeing Chen Li'an come out, Chen Meiren made a gesture to him, then continued chatting while holding the phone.

Chen Li'an sat helplessly next to her, looking at Beauty Chen's calves in plush pajamas. He picked them up and squeezed them out of boredom. Her delicate feet were very cute with a pair of furry beige socks.

While talking on the phone, Beauty Chen felt a little itchy on the soles of her feet. She rolled her eyes at Chen Li'an, put her feet into Chen Li'an's arms, and continued on the phone.

Chen Li'an played for a while and saw that Beauty Chen was still chatting enthusiastically. He glanced at the time on the phone, put down her legs and whispered in her ear: "I'm going back first and come back tomorrow. It’s up to you.”

As soon as she heard that Chen Li'an was leaving, Chen Meiren immediately covered the phone and asked in a low voice: "I'll finish the call soon. Can we go to Fangshanfang together in the evening?"

Chen Li'an shook his head slightly and made a drawing gesture. Seeing that Chen Li'an was really going to leave, Chen Meiren immediately asked, "Then when will you come tomorrow?"

Looking at Beauty Chen holding the phone, Chen Li'an smiled and rubbed her head and said, "Let's do it tomorrow night. You can get down to business first."

"Oh, then I'll wait for you at home tomorrow." Chen Meiren whispered, took Chen Li'an's hand and kissed him before waving and letting him go.

Chen Li'an looked at Mei Chen who was chatting about work on the phone, and thought it would be good to find something for her to do so that she would not be like Gong Li, who had to focus on having children and forcing marriage.

After returning home, Chen Li'an came to the study and looked at the layout of the courtyard and the photos taken in the studio. After thinking for a long time, he took out a piece of drawing paper and started sketching.

Installation art is not decoration. Chen Li'an will not touch the structure of the courtyard. Instead, he will place artworks in the space of the courtyard and integrate it with the entire courtyard space.

Artworks exist alone, and they also echo the space. The connection between the two is very subtle, and both are indispensable.

Chen Li'an took a pencil and started sketching on the paper. After spending more than ten minutes, a set of strange-looking patterns appeared on the blank drawing paper.

Looking at the sketch on the drawing paper, Chen Li'an thought carefully for a while, put down the pencil in his hand, picked up a new piece of clay, kneaded it in his hands, and planned to make a small model first to see how it would work.

Chen Li'an compared the photos and spent more than an hour making a rough model of a courtyard house. Although it was not precise enough, it was enough for experiments.

After the model of the courtyard was finished, Chen Li'an began to construct his own whimsical ideas on it.

The straight, thick and messy steel structure with strange regularity seemed to be drilled out of the ground, arching the flat bluestone floor of the courtyard high. Above the courtyard, seven huge cement stone pillars descended from the sky and penetrated straight into the ground of the courtyard.

The reinforced concrete forest is like growing and blooming in the ancient traditional courtyard house. Countless steel structures emerging from the ground are like the roots of the forest. They are devouring all the nutrients of the courtyard house and are about to completely submerge the building and make it disappear. in modern civilization.

This is just Chen Li'an's most basic idea, and it is just the framework of the entire work. When it is actually done, decorations and objects representing modern civilization must be continuously added for transformation.

Looking at the model that was beginning to take shape, Chen Li'an shook the table a few times. It was very solid and firm, but whether it could be built like this would have to be checked by a professional.

After all, it involves the field of architecture. Chen Li'an has only a little knowledge of this aspect and is not sure whether the structure he designed is solid.

Art creation seems boring to many people, but for artists, the process of creation is very interesting and exciting, as if the width of life is expanded and the soul is stretched.

Chen Li'an was very involved. One moment he was scribbling on the drawing paper to modify his design, and the next moment he took the clay and kneaded out various shapes and added them to the model.

In the dance practice room of Nortel, Chen Zihan practiced his body movements over and over again with a grimace and sweat dripping from his face.

Li Keji sat in the classroom holding a teacup and glanced at it from time to time until the time came to half past six, almost time for dinner at home. He put away the teacup and stood up and looked at Chen Zihan who was still practicing and said: "Okay, tonight Come here, don't be late for no reason next time, you don't look like a student at all."

Hearing Li Keji's words, Chen Zihan immediately collapsed and gasped, "I know Teacher Li, and I won't dare to do it again next time."

Li Keji nodded with satisfaction. Students should behave like students. What does it mean to be late for class!

After waiting for Li Keji to leave, Chen Zihan lay on the floor without any scruples, wiped the sweat from his face, and complained feebly: "Why don't you care if Chen Li'an doesn't come to class?"

Li Keji, who originally went out to go home for dinner, was worried that Chen Zihan had practiced for too long and forgot to do stretching and recovery, so he turned around and came back to remind him. However, as soon as he walked to the door, he heard Chen Zihan complaining to himself, and black lines suddenly appeared on his forehead.

Li Keji hesitated at the door for a while, and finally snorted, picked up his stainless steel thermos cup, and turned around to leave.

Chen Zihan, who vaguely heard the movement, sat up from the ground and glanced at the door. After seeing nothing, he breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest, smelled the faint smell of sweat on his body, and wrinkled his nose. Sighed.

It would be nice if I could take a bath, but public bathrooms can only shower, and the hot water supply is limited, which is very troublesome.

Chen Zihan was sitting on the floor and suddenly thought of the big bathtub in Chen Li'an's house. His eyes lit up and he immediately got up from the ground, took his things and ran out of the practice room.

In the girls' dormitory, Jiang Qingqing prepared everything for taking a shower and sat on the bed waiting for Chen Zihan to come back. Going to take a shower together was not the most important thing. What was important was that she wanted to ask where Chen Zihan went last night.

Her intuition told her that Chen Zihan definitely didn't go to meet some high school best friend yesterday. How could he stay up all night after seeing his high school best friend!

Jiang Qingqing sat on the bed and scratched her back subconsciously. She felt that her back was itchy as if she had been stabbed. She wanted to wash it off when she went to take a shower later.

It's a pity that she waited for more than ten minutes before Chen Zihan came back. At this time, Chen Zihan had already arrived at the school gate and stopped a taxi with his hand.

As soon as Xu Jinglei came out of the school gate, she saw Chen Zihan stopping a taxi and getting in. She vaguely heard her telling the driver that she was going to Fangzhuang or some other community.

It was a little far away, and she couldn't hear clearly which community it was, but the word Fangzhuang still caught her attention. Didn't Chen Li'an live in Fangzhuang?

Xu Jinglei squinted her eyes and looked at the leaving taxi. She was basically sure that Chen Zihan was going to find Chen Li'an. However, she couldn't figure out why Chen Zihan looked so embarrassed. There was still sweat on his forehead and he was wearing a jacket. Or practice clothes.

Going to see Chen Li'an like this? It doesn't feel very similar, and how did Chen Zihan and Chen Li'an get together? Xu Jinglei wouldn't be surprised if it was Jiang Qingqing.

Xu Jinglei couldn't figure it out, so she went to the phone booth and dialed the number she knew by heart, but it rang many times and no one answered.

At Chen Li'an's house, his cell phone was left in the living room and was ringing. Chen Li'an in the study was focused on the drawings in front of him and didn't pay attention to the cell phone in the living room.

Chen Zihan, who got into the taxi on the other side, tidied his messy hair, wiped the sweat from his face, and thought about how to act coquettishly later.

Chen Zihan's face turned red at the thought of being pushed down on the sofa and spanked by Chen Li'an in the morning, and now that he thought about it, he still felt the burning pain.

"It's so rude, how can you spank someone?" Chen Zihan blushed and muttered in his heart. He didn't know what he thought of but suddenly raised his hand and covered his face with his clothes and snorted shyly.

The driver in the driver's seat glanced at the little girl with a nymphomaniac face through the rearview mirror, subconsciously brushed his thin hair, and his foot on the accelerator was a little looser.

Chen Zihan, who felt the speed of the car suddenly slowed down, turned to look outside the car window, and then couldn't help but said to the driver: "Uncle, can you drive faster? I have something urgent."

uncle? You call me uncle? I'm only in my thirties, okay! Your uncle!

The driver snorted coldly and immediately stepped on the accelerator to speed up. The little girl who has no eyesight should be sent to the place quickly without even wanting to take a second look!

Chen Zihan didn't care what the bald old man was thinking, he was just looking forward to what would happen next.

If you deliberately annoy him, will he get spanked? As for how to annoy him, it's too simple, touch his abdominal muscles and eat his tofu! Surprise him and kiss him!

Hey, Chen Zihan was sitting in the back seat and giggling. The driver took one look at it and couldn't help but curl his lips. He turned out to be a fool. No wonder he couldn't use his eyes well!

As Chen Zihan propped her chin up and looked out the car window, in her imagination, it was like a couple's interaction, a sweet little game in love.

Chen Li'an, who had no idea that he was in love, looked at the dozens of messy drawings and the overwhelmed and collapsed models in front of him. He sighed, sorted out his thoughts, and gave up the idea of ​​continuing. He planned to buy some books about architecture tomorrow. Come back and take a look.

It is easier to design if you have some relevant basic knowledge.

Otherwise, we will just build a castle in the air like today, and it will collapse in a moment.

After Chen Li'an organized everything in the study, he saw that his sticky hands were covered with mud. After rubbing them casually, many tiny mud strips fell out, just like the scene when a bath master uses a mud rub.

The thought of taking a bath made Chen Li'an want to take a bath, so he immediately ran to fill the water. Fortunately, he used an air-energy water heater, otherwise it wouldn't be enough to fill a bathtub.

Air-energy water heaters are very niche. Electric energy and solar energy are mainly popular on the market now. People don’t know much about air-energy water heaters, and few people buy them.

However, Chen Li'an still knows something about this. If nothing else, it is at least three or four times more efficient than electrical energy.

Just when Chen Li'an put on the hot water and was about to take off his clothes and take a shower, there was a knock on the door. Chen Li'an put down his hand in confusion, thinking that someone had just called him and didn't answer the phone, so he thought that something urgent had happened and came to the door. I immediately ran to open the door.

Outside the door, Chen Zihan's face was red, and he listened carefully to the movement inside. When he noticed the sound of footsteps, he immediately adjusted his expression, showing a menacing and fierce look.

As soon as Chen Li'an opened the door, he saw Chen Zihan standing outside. If it was this girl, there should be nothing urgent to do with him.

"Why are you here again?" Chen Li'an held on to the door frame and looked at Chen Zihan, who was still wearing training clothes under his coat, and asked strangely: "You won't come over right after class, right?"

"I'm here to take revenge on you! Who told you to bully me this morning!" Chen Zihan deliberately looked angry and was about to rush inside.

Seeing her like this, Chen Li'an obviously wanted to rely on him and quickly blocked the door.

Chen Zihan's little head hit Chen Li'an's chest, and then he raised his head and looked at him deliberately aggrieved, his eyes blinking as if he was about to cry.

"Don't be like this, tell me, what's going on?" Chen Li'an asked calmly after watching Chen Zihan's performance.

Chen Zihan looked at Chen Li'an's cold face. His emotion, which was just a pretense of grievance, turned into real grievance in an instant. He looked at him with red eyes, tugged on his clothes and whispered: "Why are you so mean to me? Do you hate me that much?"

Of course, hating is not really disliked, but what is the reason for this inexplicable grievance? Chen Li'an looked at Chen Zihan's pitiful look, sighed helplessly and said, "Let's talk about it first."

"Yeah!" Chen Zihan raised his head and looked at Chen Li'an, nodded twice, grabbed his clothes and followed him in.

After entering, Chen Zihan heard the sound of water coming from the bathroom. He poked his head out from behind Chen Li'an and glanced at the bathroom. He immediately grabbed Chen Li'an's clothes nervously and asked, "Is there anyone else at home?"

"No, I'm just about to put the water on for a bath." Chen Li'an pulled his clothes out of Chen Zihan's hands. He really couldn't stand her pitiful look, so he asked especially helplessly: "Can you tell me why you came here now?" Bar?"

Chen Zihan rolled his eyes to see that Chen Li'an didn't look like he was lying, and said deliberately: "You didn't lie to me, did you? Is there really no one at home? I want to go take a look!"

After saying that, Chen Zihan quickly ran to the bathroom door, opened the door and went in. Before Chen Li'an could react, he heard a crisp locking sound coming from inside.

? ? ?

Chen Li'an was sitting on the sofa, looking at the locked bathroom, his head full of questions, what kind of trouble is this?

Soon Chen Zihan's cheerful voice came from the bathroom, "Can I wear your nightgown after I take a shower?"

In the quiet living room, Chen Li'an wondered if he had heard wrongly. Did this girl come to take a shower with him? I still plan to wash myself off and go to bed.

No matter which answer he gave, Chen Li'an was a little confused as to what kind of brain circuit this girl had!

"This is the bath water I put in for myself. I even put a little duck in it."

Doesn’t this directly kill society? ? ?

(Let’s update 5,000 words first. I originally planned to finish writing 10,000 words and put them in one chapter)