Birth of an actor

The host stood at the front and called a man's name, and the man took a step forward with his basket. After being introduced to the name and the contents of the basket, the girls' auction began.

"One hundred dollars, one time!"

"$150, one time!"

"Fifty dollars, one time!"

"$350, one time!"

"$650, one time!"

Perhaps it was because the girls couldn’t let go at first, the price of the lunch baskets of the first few men was not very good, but the atmosphere gradually increased, and many men’s lunch baskets were auctioned for more than [-] US dollars high price.A lunch of five hundred dollars is a luxury no matter which country or era it is placed in, but this is charity, and charity has no upper limit.

In fact, just like the most popular fraternity club members in the school who can be selected as "lunch boys", although there are many girls participating in the auction, the ones who can keep bidding until the end are either rich girls or members of the sister club. They may have a charity purpose, but mostly to date the best guy in school.

After the big ginger-haired boy was offered four hundred dollars by a brown-haired girl, it was finally William's turn.

As soon as he took a step forward with the basket in hand, there was a loud whistle, cheers and booing from below the stage.

"The next man is William Bradley, I don't think I need to introduce too much, Will, what's in your basket?" the host asked.

"New York Reuben sandwich, Boston pie, a bottle—" William hadn't finished his introduction, and the audience was already bidding one after another.

"Five hundred dollars!"

"Eight hundred dollars!"

"A thousand dollars!"

"Two thousand dollars!"

"Five thousand dollars!"

The shouting of the girls and the noise of the crowd made people dizzy, but even though the scene was so chaotic, the earth-shattering shout was heard by everyone:

"Ten thousand dollars!"

……

"Ten thousand dollars!"

The crisp female voice yelled out too impactful numbers, the stage was silent for a while, and everyone looked towards the source of the sound.

It was clear that the bidders were girls who looked like rock punks. People's eyes turned from the girls to William on the stage, and then back again. Everyone showed disapproving eyes: orthodox elegance and gothic rock The impact is too strong, no matter how you look at it, these two people are not right.

There was surprise and doubt in William's eyes. What surprised him was that even if it was for charity, a lunch was sold at such an outrageous price on campus. What puzzled him was that he recognized the black-haired girl who had been in the market before. The one talking to Lance.

The black-haired girl met William's eyes, and opened her mouth excitedly towards him. A bubble of chewing gum appeared on her tongue, and it exploded with a "pop" after blowing bigger and bigger.

"Anyone else offer a higher price?" the host asked.

"One, ten thousand..." The first blond girl with the fiercest bidding before bit her lip, with a bit of unwillingness on her expression.

Immediately, someone looked at her with encouraging eyes: come on, ma'am, come up with a higher price!

"Eleven thousand dollars!" The blond girl clenched her fists, closed her eyes and shouted recklessly!

"Twelve thousand dollars." The goth girl said the figure in a nonchalant tone, as if the money was not spent on her own.

The host waited for three seconds, and then directly raised the volume: "1 US dollars, one time! The highest auction price in the history of the 'Lunch Boy' event, countless children who can eat lunch because of this will be very grateful for this Generous!"

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"Where's my reward?" The goth girl had been chewing on her gum for at least an hour, and she stretched out her hand impatiently.

The five Franklin greenbacks were placed in the girl's palm by slender and white fingers, and the goth girl immediately put them on her lips and kissed them: "I'm already yours, handsome handsome blond guy, enjoy the world of the two of you."

After the gothic girl turned and left, William, who was carrying the basket, and Lance, who was standing by the tree, looked at each other for a few seconds, "You hired her to take a picture of me?" William asked first.

Lance nodded: "The remuneration is five hundred dollars, and the commission is less than 1%. The fee is very reasonable."

"...I'm not against having lunch with a strange girl, Lance, for charity."

"Since it's charity, it's the same for anyone who does it." Lance didn't want to get too entangled in this issue: "Besides, I'm doing it for pie."

"Boston pie in the basket?" After receiving Lance's affirmative look, William suddenly felt that the lunch basket in his hand was much heavier: "If I knew that a piece of pie could sell for 1 dollars, I should have baked more, so that I There are more poor families who can give their children a good lunch." He joked to himself somewhat dumbfoundingly.

Lance slowly took the lunch basket from William, found a clean place behind the big tree, spread the tablecloth, and placed the meals in the basket one by one: "I have to do this, Will, The traditional Boston pie baked in Bradley's family workshop, I haven't tasted this taste for three years." Lance opened the fresh-keeping box containing the Boston pie, and carefully transferred the pie to an exquisite dinner plate, Then he picked it up and looked at it carefully for a while, then scooped out a small piece with a spoon and put it in his mouth.

Although the name is called pie, Boston pie is not the kind of pie that is baked crispy on the outside and filled with pulp in the usual sense, but a sponge cake, which is baked with only the highest quality and simplest raw materials such as butter, eggs and wheat flour. A round cake, then split from the middle, sandwich two layers of fresh cream, and then drizzle icing on the outside-the cloud-like sponge cake and fresh cream are perfectly combined, and the icing is responsible for adding delicate and sweet taste, William and Lance favors this most traditional taste. Nowadays, many so-called reformers who add strawberry, mango, apple, and cranberry pulp jams are not liked by both of them. As Jenny Roderick would often do, she later taught the recipe to Madeleine Bradley, and now William inherits it.

"That's right." Lance's expression was full of nostalgia: "That's the taste."

Although Lance did not expressly criticize, William understood that after the sentence "I haven't tasted this taste for three years", there was an unfinished sentence "but you didn't bake it for me", which made him a little He looked away guiltily.

There was enough Boston pie for two to share, and Lance quickly finished half of it. William reached out to cover the plate: "It's too sweet, Lance, your dentist will protest."

"You're not my dentist, Will, and my teeth are pretty healthy."

"I'll tell your GP, I'll do what I say."

The icy blue eyes and William looked at each other for a few seconds, "Okay." Lance put down the spoon, picked up the thermos cup on the side instead, and blinked as soon as he took the first sip: "Darjeeling? Added brandy ?”

Adding a little brandy to black tea is his favorite way to drink it. The fragrance of black tea combined with the aroma of brandy will create a special fragrance. Astringent, but the special taste with a long aftertaste can also refresh you better.

William nodded: "I added a tablespoon of stag brandy, is that a little too much?"

"No, the ratio is just right." The thermal insulation cup works so well, and the black tea still feels hot when you drink it in your mouth. Lance can't help but take another sip. His eyes are on the lunch basket, table cloth, Boston pie, sandwiches He turned around with the thermos in his hand, and suddenly said, "You made a Reuben sandwich, why not a cheese sandwich?"

"Cheese sandwiches should be eaten when they are fresh out of the pan. I can't heat the sandwiches in today's situation that requires an outdoor picnic. Reuben sandwiches can be eaten at room temperature."

"But Reuben sandwiches are my favorite too," Lance said thoughtfully.

The Reuben sandwich is actually a corned beef sandwich. It is made of two slices of rye bread with a dozen slices of corned beef, a few slices of German sauerkraut and Swiss cheese, and it is said to be invented by the owner of a Jewish grocery store around World War I. It became popular from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to the whole of the United States. No matter in terms of material or method, the Reuben sandwich is a kind of rough food, which is not half elegant at all, but this is Lance’s favorite in private. One of the favorite street foods. Before he was 11 years old, he didn’t even touch this kind of food. One day when he was 11 years old, he and William played too long in the city and avoided the driver and didn’t want to go home. He was tired. Hungry, they bought a Reuben sandwich made by a small shop with a lot of people queuing up with the only change in their pockets. They ate it together at the door of the shop. Since then, they have fallen in love with this kind of high-calorie and unhealthy food But delicious and convenient food.

"That's right." William glanced at everything in the lunch basket and couldn't help laughing: "I actually made everything you like, even put brandy in the black tea. Fortunately, no girl took pictures of me today Otherwise, a sandwich without a leaf of fresh vegetables, black tea with brandy, and Boston pie without strawberries, few girls would love such food.”

Lance leaned on the tree trunk to drink black tea, and slowly drank the liquid in the thermos to the last drop.He was both happy and sad in his heart. The happy thing is that William's cooking skills will always be his favorite food, but the sad thing is that it almost became the other girl's.

William covered his mouth and yawned, getting up too early in the morning to make sandwiches and pies, and now he was a little sleepy.

Infected by him, Lance slowly closed his eyes while drinking tea.

Harvard’s spring is full of greenery, the sky is blue, and the sunniest moment of the day is approaching. Every piece of lawn around is filled with students basking in the sun. William packs up his finished lunch basket, and the sun falls on his eyelashes According to the photo, he was a little lazy. When he looked up, Lance was about to fall asleep with his eyes closed, and his body was still slowly sliding down the tree trunk.

William leaned over and moved Lance's upper body from the tree trunk to the soft lawn covered with a blue cloth towel, and carefully placed his head under the shade of the tree that would not be exposed to direct sunlight. Lance opened his eyes wide during the movement. He opened his eyes and fell asleep in peace after seeing that it was William. After finishing all this, William yawned lightly and fell asleep leaning on Lance's head.

The old Harvard campus, the beautiful blue sky and the grassland, two handsome young men sleeping lightly in the sunshine and green shade like Adonis and Narcissus, this realistic scene is full of vivid colors like oil paintings of the Renaissance The beauty of color and bloom.

With a soft "click", a group of bold girls only dared to stand not far away and secretly took a picture, then turned around and ran away, and they didn't dare to laugh and shout excitedly until they ran a long way. They talked excitedly The picture just captured by the lens has no idea how precious this photo will become after many years.

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William believes that even Alan Rickman would feel ashamed of his "good luck" if he was here.

When filming "Sense and Sensibility", Alan Rickman encountered a wedding scene with Kate Winslet on the first day he joined the group, and William's experience now is undoubtedly even more tragic, because he was filming on the first day he joined the group. The play is a sex scene.

In "Shakespeare in Love", Viola disguised herself as a man and came to the theater to audition. Shakespeare was shocked by the other party's talent and hurried forward to strike up a conversation. Viola fled in a hurry because she was worried that her identity would be exposed. At the ball, she fell in love with Viola who had already put on women's clothes at first sight. Later, she learned that the new actor in the theater was Viola who was disguised as a man. Like fire, they became a secret couple.

In terms of emotional development, the love between Shakespeare and Viola is as rapid as his Romeo and Juliet, but dramas are dramas after all, and movies are movies after all, and William and Gwyneth Paltrow can't be like the script "Love at first sight" as described in the book.

William greeted Gwyneth Paltrow for the first time this morning when he was putting on makeup and changing costumes. The two chatted politely for about 5 minutes. William didn't know Gwyneth Paltrow What impression did Lowe have of himself? Anyway, at that time, he was thinking about the script for a while, and thinking about the "Gwyneth Paltrow and Winona Ryder incident" that Amon Goffman told himself for a while. , although I saw that Gwyneth Paltrow is indeed a very beautiful blonde, pure and beautiful, and her smile is contagious, but William couldn't help running away for a while, his big Part of the attention was on Gwyneth Paltrow's blond hair, and she couldn't help but began to evaluate which kind of gold was more attractive compared with her friends who were also blond.

And now, he's being told he's going to make out with Gwyneth Paltrow in half an hour, with at least a few dozen people and cameras watching the whole time, and God, it's too embarrassing.