Chapter 18 Come to the door
Chapter 18 Come to the door
"Mr. Huang! Mr. Huang!"
In the staff dormitory building of Beijing Film Academy, Wang Hao was carrying beef, pork tripe, noodles and other cold dishes to go with wine, as well as a half-bottle of unlabeled white wine he had borrowed from his uncle. He stood at the door of Huang Lei's house and knocked heavily.
However, after waiting for a long time, just when he thought that the other party was not at home, a noise came from behind him.
When Wang Hao heard the voice, he turned around and saw a young woman in her thirties, with a gentle and charming appearance, poking her head out from the crack of the door behind her.
"Mr. Luo across the street is on a business trip and has not been home these days."
The young woman looked at Wang Hao's appearance, especially the gift in his hand, and thought he was a student who came to give gifts. She frowned subconsciously, but still spoke patiently.
However, Wang Hao smiled slightly when he looked at the young woman, then immediately turned around and approached her enthusiastically.
"You must be Senior Sister Sun Li, I'm here to see Teacher Huang."
"Looking for Teacher Huang? What do you want to do with Teacher Huang?"
After hearing what Wang Hao said, Sun Li did not open the door, but asked very vigilantly.
When Wang Hao saw him like this, he immediately realized that the other party had misunderstood him.
As the end of the semester approaches, there are always some students whose grades are not satisfactory and they have some crooked thoughts. The other party thinks that he is a bad student who got in through the backdoor.
Wang Hao was not surprised by this and quickly explained: "Of course I came here to invite Mr. Huang to make a movie."
"Looking for Lao Huang to make a movie?"
"Lily, who is it?"
Sun Li was still thinking when Huang Lei's voice came from behind her.
"A student said he came to you to make a movie."
"Filming a movie? It's Xiao Wang, right? Why is he blocking the door of my house? Let him in."
Following Huang Lei's order, Wang Hao was let in.
As soon as he entered the door, Wang Hao complained unhappily:
"Mr. Huang, I respect you, but you can't call me 'Xiao Wang'. How about you call me by my nickname 'Mouse' or Xiao Hao? I have no objection."
"You are just a joke to me, wow, now that you are here, why did you bring food with you?"
Huang Lei, wearing an apron and holding a spatula, walked out of the kitchen. He did not look at all stern as he usually did in class, but rather a typical housewife.
"I heard from people that Mr. Huang is a good cook, so I came here on purpose to have a free meal.
It's not appropriate to come empty-handed, so I bought some food and a half-bottle of wine from my uncle. Shall we make it tonight?"
Wang Hao carried the dishes into the kitchen with a smile on his face, and the fine wine in the white porcelain bottle made Huang Lei's eyes light up.
But when he noticed Sun Li standing next to him, Huang Lei's face became serious.
"This is inappropriate, inappropriate!"
As he spoke, he waved his hands repeatedly and winked at Wang Hao subtly.
"Teacher Huang, now that I'm here, why don't you have a drink with me?"
Wang Hao, who received the message, pretended to be unhappy and said, "Then do you still want to play the leading role of this movie? You are a man, but you are so fussy. How can you be so unpleasant?"
"No, of course I want to act in this movie. It's rare to come across such a good script."
Huang Lei said this with an embarrassed look on his face, while secretly glancing at his wife.
"Then...drink less?"
"Humph!"
Sun Li snorted coldly, glanced at Huang Lei, turned her head and returned to the living room. "You are a teacher, but your acting skills are so poor."
Huang Lei smiled awkwardly, and Wang Hao came close to him and joked, "Why, Mr. Huang is also afraid of his wife?"
"Go away, kid, what do you know? This is 'love'!"
Huang Lei pushed him.
"I've been busy with important life events recently, and I've quit smoking and drinking for a long time. But I'm so greedy, I'll drink a little later, please persuade me."
When Wang Hao heard this, he remembered that their eldest daughter Duoduo would be born next year. So the timing was perfect and the couple was preparing for pregnancy. No wonder Sun Li was dissatisfied.
"If that doesn't work, forget it? In order to avoid making Senior Sister angry, when can we not drink this wine? Life matters more important."
Wang Hao thought about it and still felt something was not right. However, as soon as he finished speaking, Huang Lei chuckled, and the smile on his face was like a flower, with countless wrinkles.
"It's okay, it's okay, the mission has been successfully completed."
"Then we really have to have a good drink," Wang Hao laughed and said, "Congratulations, Mr. Huang. Congratulations, Mr. Huang."
Huang Lei was naturally overjoyed and started cooking with great motivation.
They had been planning to eat, so now it was just a matter of adding an extra pair of chopsticks.
In just a moment, four dishes and a soup were placed on the table. In order to go with the wine, Huang Lei even specially cooked a few salted duck eggs that he had pickled himself.
Although there is still more than a month to the Dragon Boat Festival, the salted duck eggs pickled by Teacher Huang are already cooked to perfection, and the taste is just right, neither too salty nor too bland.
Pour a glass of wine, pick up a salted duck egg, crack the "hollow end", poke the tip of the chopsticks into it, and the red oil will come out with a "squeak".
I scooped out a little and put it in my mouth. The yolk was delicate, loose and oily, and the egg white was tender and a little tough. It was not like the duck eggs in the school cafeteria which were dry and powdery and tasted like chewing wax.
Although it is a bit salty, it has a unique flavor when paired with the spicy and refreshing white wine.
The two of them drank slowly, chatted about everything under the sun, and talked about things in the movie. Before they knew it, they had been sitting there for over an hour. The food had already gone cold, but they didn't care.
Sunli couldn't bear to sit with these two grown men for a long time, so she went back to her room early.
As the two talked, they came to the topic of "Buried Alive".
"I have already prepared the project plan for the film, and there is no problem with funding. I am looking for a relationship with the movie channel next door, and I plan to make it into a TV movie instead of going to the theaters."
"With such a small budget, you still want to sell it to theaters? It's already great if you can sell it to a movie channel."
The slightly tipsy Huang Lei swung his wine glass and clinked it lightly with Wang Hao.
"So, everything is ready, and I can't refuse to be the lead actor?"
"Teacher Huang, you just agreed to participate in the performance, you can't go back on your word!"
Wang Hao narrowed his eyes and looked at Huang Lei, grinning.
“Don’t worry, our project has sufficient funds, and you will definitely not be shortchanged on this remuneration.
But there is still a problem now.”
"I knew you had bad intentions. You brought wine and food to my door. Tell me, what's going on?"
"It's a small matter, a small matter. It's a big trouble for me, but for you, Mr. Huang, it's a small matter."
Wang Hao raised his glass and clinked it with Huang Lei's again, then told him everything about how he had planned to go to Qingying Studio to discuss cooperation during the day, but ended up hitting a wall.
"It's easy. Lao Liu from Qingying Studio is my classmate. I'll give him a call tomorrow and you can go find him. I guarantee there will be no problem."
As they drank and chatted, Huang Lei patted his chest loudly and agreed to the deal very readily.
A society of human relationships, and social relationships are nothing more than this. There is no problem that cannot be solved by relationships.
(End of this chapter)