Fringe artists in the entertainment industry

Chapter 100 98. Be rigorous in doing things

In the dark night, the street lights on the street seemed to be broken, with only a few scattered lights still on.

Under the broken street lamp, Chen Li'an and Mr. Zhou stood face to face, without even a shadow. The rich night made it difficult for the two to see each other's expressions.

Mr. Zhou's question just now is still ringing in Chen Li'an's ears, raise her? It's not that there is no money, it's just that the word "support" can't be used between friends.

"I have no money." Chen Li'an patted Mr. Zhou's little head, then turned his head and looked at the pink-red bar sign and said calmly: "Singing in the bar has no future, and you don't plan to be a singer. I'll look back later." Let me help you find out if there is any shortage of people in the crew."

Mr. Zhou knew that Chen Li'an would not answer his question directly, and he felt a little depressed in his heart, and he said glumly.

"Let's go, go shopping with me." Chen Li'an took Mr. Zhou's hand and said.

Mr. Zhou's little hand was grabbed by Chen Li'an, and the warmth in his palm made her unable to blame her. What can you do if you choose your own life? Just accept your fate.

Open-mindedness is an obvious characteristic of Mr. Zhou. Another is his free nature. He never lets himself be depressed. After taking two steps with Chen Li'an, she forgot about what just happened.

She snuggled close to Chen Li'an and asked him in a low voice what he was busy with during this time.

After a while, Mr. Zhou heard what Chen Li'an said and said with a sense of disappointment: "I feel like your life is so exciting. So many things have happened in such a short period of time."

Compared with Chen Li'an's life, Mr. Zhou felt that his life during this period had not changed at all. He went to find the crew during the day and sang at night. It was simple, boring and unchanged.

Most people's lives are like this. They don't feel it on ordinary days, but after seeing the colorful lives of others, they feel as if their life has been in vain.

This is how Mr. Zhou feels now. His life is like a glass of cold water, neither hot nor tasteless. You can see the bottom of it at a glance.

Singing in a bar seemed really boring. Mr. Zhou sighed inwardly, turned to look at Chen Li'an and said, "I won't be singing tomorrow. I'm going to find a few more crews to try."

Chen Li'an nodded when he heard this and then frowned and said, "It's useless to try blindly on your own. Even if you find some small roles, it won't be of much help to you. Just wait for me for a few days and I will help you find out."

"Don't you know anyone?" Mr. Zhou knew that Chen Li'an had just entered this circle, so he had no connections or resources.

Chen Li'an smiled and said: "Don't worry about it, I will definitely find it for you."

At least we still know a few people!

Mr. Zhou didn't ask Chen Li'an how to find it for him. He was afraid that the answer was not what he wanted to hear, so he lowered his head depressedly, thinking that he would have to fight for it in the future and not let Chen Li'an worry about him.

Especially in the "sacrifice yourself" way! What's the difference between this and wearing a hat!

The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable Mr. Zhou felt. He pulled Chen Li'an to stop and said, "Don't look for it for me! I will find a way myself!"

Chen Li'an looked at the suddenly stubborn Mr. Zhou and vaguely guessed what she was thinking. After being silent for a while, he said: "Okay, you can go out and try more by yourself, but you'd better not go to the bar."

"I understand." Mr. Zhou smiled and said, then he held Chen Li'an's arm and raised his head and said, "Then I have no money to live, do you want to support me?"

"Don't say it's so ugly. Help each other, do you understand?" After Chen Li'an settled on the nature of the matter, he touched Zhou Xu's head and said, "If I don't have any money in the future, why don't you help me again?" ”

"It's not to help, it's to support!" Mr. Zhou said persistently, and then looked at Chen Li'an with a smile and said: "In the future, if you have no money, I will support you! I will definitely raise you until you are fat and white."

"You think I'm a pig."

"I don't care, I will support you from now on!"

"Okay, okay, I'll wait for you to support me."

Under the flickering street lights, two people, one big and one small, walked in the winter night, like two people with nowhere to go, clinging to each other.

The next morning, Chen Li'an woke up in Mr. Zhou's rental house and had time to look at the room carefully.

The house is not very big, only about 60 square meters, and the furniture is not very complete. The wardrobe door is broken. Only the heat from the stove is sufficient.

Chen Li'an looked at this environment and couldn't help but frown. Although his living conditions were not very good, they were much better than Mr. Zhou. Looking at Mr. Zhou who was still sleeping soundly, Chen Li'an quietly got dressed and went out.

These days, housing agencies are not yet established, so it is very troublesome to rent a house. Chen Li'an can only call his friends who used to walk around and have no real jobs, and ask them to help them find out where there are better houses for rent.

This group of young men moved very quickly, mainly because they had been repaired by Chen Li'an before, and when they knew that Chen Li'an was looking for a house, they immediately went out to help sweep the streets.

The call came back in more than an hour. Chen Li'an, who was having breakfast with Mr. Zhou, took out his phone and glanced at the caller ID on it.

So he got through directly and asked, "Hey, did you find it so quickly?"

In a canteen in the north of the city, a man in his twenties sniffed and said to the phone: "Brother An, I found it. I guarantee it meets your requirements."

Chen Li'an listened to the trembling voice on the phone and thanked him: "Thank you for your hard work in such a cold weather. I will treat you to dinner another day. Please tell me the address and I will go and check it out later."

"Hey, it's not hard work." The man smiled, knowing that Chen Li'an was a generous person, and immediately gave Chen Li'an the address he had just copied, and said a few more polite words before hanging up the phone.

Chen Li'an wrote down the address and put the phone away, then looked at Mr. Zhou's curious eyes and said, "I found a house for you. It's too remote for you to live here, and the conditions are not good."

Mr. Zhou, who was drinking porridge, licked his lips after hearing this. His eyes were no longer smiling, and he muttered in a low voice: "You don't want to keep me, you dog man."

Chen Li'an: "." Can you please stop saying what's on your mind!

"That's right." Mr. Zhou took a bite of the fried dough sticks, looked at Chen Li'an's speechless look, and said arrogantly, "You just have a tough mouth!"

"I'm too lazy to tell you. You can think whatever you want." Chen Li'an wouldn't admit it. We are all friends and we can't support each other!

The house my friend helped me find is in a new community. It is an employee community built by a state-owned enterprise with funds raised. The environment of the community is very good, and the decoration of the house is also very good.

It has a layout of two bedrooms and one living room, fully furnished, and looks like a wedding room.

The landlord was an aunt in her fifties. She was quite satisfied with Chen Li'an and Mr. Zhou, who both looked good in appearance and temperament. She was especially satisfied with Chen Li'an's authentic Beijing dialect, so she asked: "Just you two can live here. do you have any kid?"

Just as Chen Li'an was about to explain, Mr. Zhou quickly replied: "Yes, but I don't have any children."

After Mr. Zhou finished speaking, he glared at Chen Li'an who was about to speak. Then he took the landlady's hand and asked, "Auntie, how much does this house cost per month? We have just started working and don't have much income. Can it be cheaper?"

The landlady looked at Chen Li'an and Mr. Zhou, hesitated and said, "Okay, I'll give you thirty yuan cheaper, three hundred and thirty yuan a month."

The price of three hundred and thirty is not expensive. Renting a single room in a large courtyard in the Third Ring Road costs more than one hundred a month. However, three hundred and thirty is not cheap either. The average salary in Beijing is less than seven hundred a month.

Most people would not rent a house in Sanbaisan, but Chen Li'an didn't care about the price of Sanbaisan. The house was very good and the location was satisfactory. The price was quite cheap.

Chen Li'an looked at Mr. Zhou who was still trying to bargain, pulled her and said to the landlady: "No problem, just three hundred and three, I'll pay half a year in advance."

Hearing that Chen Li'an agreed so readily, Mr. Zhou pursed his lips and wanted to haggle more. However, in front of outsiders, she still respected Chen Li'an and did not interrupt. She watched Chen Li'an give out more than a thousand yuan at once.

After paying the money and signing a simple contract, the house is considered rented.

After the landlord made a lot of explanations and left, Mr. Zhou finally couldn't help but feel happy and jumped on Chen Li'an like a sloth.

"So happy!" Mr. Zhou hugged Chen Li'an's neck and said happily, "I feel like I'm married."

Chen Li'an looked at Mr. Zhou's happy look and didn't say anything inappropriate. He just looked at her with a smile and said, "As long as you are happy, I will buy one myself when I have money."

Mr. Zhou tilted his head and calculated, and then said: "The current house price is more than 3,000. If you want to buy such a big house, you will probably have to save money for a long time."

"When you become famous, you will make money by filming two movies." After Chen Li'an finished speaking, he looked at the excited Mr. Zhou and said, "If you like it, you can buy it now."

"I have no money," Young Master Zhou said, shrinking his neck. Then his eyes suddenly lit up. He looked at Chen Li'an and asked, "Do you want to buy it for me? You also said you don't want to support me!"

This topic couldn't be dealt with, and Chen Li'an didn't even bother to explain to Mr. Zhou, "Just think what you want, what's wrong with giving a house to a good friend!" Why don't you come over and stay if you're fine?

However, Chen Li'an does not have the financial ability now. He will have to wait until Mr. Tang transfers the money in his account to him next month.

Mr. Zhou looked at Chen Li'an who was silent and rolled his beautiful eyes. He stopped continuing the topic and jumped down from him and said, "Let's go shopping and decorate this place."

The new house is fully furnished and has nothing else. There are quite a lot of things that need to be purchased.

In the shopping mall, Mr. Zhou held Chen Li'an's hand and asked about everything he saw.

"Do you like this vase? You can put it in the living room."

"This bowl is beautiful. Do you like it?"

"Why don't you choose red sheets? Or buy a few more as spares. You always mess with me."

Listening to the sarcastic words Mr. Zhou was about to blurt out, Chen Li'an quickly covered her mouth. This was a shopping mall with many people coming and going, how could she be so stupid and bold!

At the end of the shopping mall, Chen Li'an was in a daze. Who was renting this house to? No matter how you decorate it, it’s all in the style you like.

Mr. Zhou was very happy and didn't care how it was decorated. He just simply thought that this was the home where he and Chen Li'an would live together in the future, even if Chen Li'an wouldn't come here often.

The house is decorated the way he likes it, and he will come here often in the future.

Mr. Zhou's excitement made Chen Li'an feel heavy, and there was always an inexplicable anger welling up in him, which made him feel a little guilty.

It’s not easy to be a good friend. From time to time, you will always want to go further. This kind of thinking is unacceptable!

After the new house was decorated, Mr. Zhou clapped his hands with satisfaction, looked at the newly put sheets, turned to Chen Li'an and asked, "Would you like to try the new bed?"

"Well, I want to give it a try. I don't know if the sheets will dry quickly if they are stained with water." Chen Li'an nodded and said seriously.

"Then it depends on you." Mr. Zhou hugged Chen Li'an's waist and said with a blushing face: "I want to change the sheets tomorrow. I have bought several sets and I want to try them all."

Chen Li'an agreed very much with Mr. Zhou's rigorous character. He had to try everything, otherwise how would he know whether the quality of the things he bought was good or not?

Testing the quality of sheets is not a simple matter. You have to test whether it is soft and elastic. Each step takes a lot of time.

Chen Li'an, who hadn't been home for a few days, didn't even heat up the pot of water when he got home, when he received a call from Gong Li.

"Where are you? Do you have time today?" Gong Li asked on the phone while putting on makeup at her home.

Chen Li'an sat lazily next to the stove and asked without interest: "What's the matter? If it's not important, I don't have time."

"What have you been doing these past few days?" Gong Li couldn't help but ask after hearing Chen Li'an's lazy voice: "Why is the voice so weak?"

Virtual? Chen Li'an felt that he was insulted, and immediately sat up from his chair and asked, "Where are you! I'll show you what it means to be powerful and powerful!"

Gong Li, who was wearing lipstick, laughed immediately and said in a charming voice: "Okay, then come to the Beijing Theater and watch the show with me."

Watching a show? Chen Li'an immediately lost interest, lay back lazily and said, "I'm not interested, I don't want to go."

"Hey, it turns out it's really false. Forget it, I'll go by myself." Gong Li said deliberately.

I can't bear it! Chen Li'an immediately said: "What time?"

"Meet you in front of the theater at half past seven." Gong Li hung up the phone after saying that, not giving Chen Li'an a chance to regret it.

Gong Li looked at herself with exquisite makeup in the mirror, couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, and then took her bag and went out.

After Chen Li'an hung up the phone, he looked at the time. It was almost six o'clock now. It was about the same time. He sat up from his chair, packed up briefly and took a taxi to the Beijing Theater.

I don’t know what kind of performance it is or whether it’s good or not.

In the taxi, Chen Li'an, who was listening to the driver's talk, reminded each other of the performance of the elder brother who took the taxi last time.

It seems that a song and dance troupe from the south is performing, but today is only the 28th. Why is it so early? Or is it a different dance troupe that performs for three days?

If it was to watch dancing, Chen Li'an would still be very interested.

The Beijing Theater is located next to the Anhui Bridge in the Asian Games Village. It is the largest theater in Beijing and has hosted many performances.

More than 20 minutes later, Chen Li'an got off the car at the entrance of the Beijing Theater and felt a headache as he looked at the crowds of people queuing up outside to check in for tickets.

It's popular to watch girls dancing. Almost all the people who come here are young men.

Just when Chen Li'an was in a daze, Gong Li came over wearing a hat and mask and patted him on the shoulder.

"Why are you dazed?"

Chen Li'an turned to look at Gong Li and said, "Isn't it waiting for you? Why did you think of coming to the show?"

"My friend gave me two tickets, so I came to take a look if I had nothing to do." Gong Li said, holding Chen Li'an's arm, and then looked at his less obvious dark circles and asked: "What have you been doing these days? Dark circles appeared under my eyes.”

"It's okay, I just didn't sleep well." Chen Li'an glanced at the people still queuing up, changed the topic and said, "Let's go queue up, there are quite a lot of people."

Gong Li looked at Chen Li'an suspiciously. If she hadn't known that Wang Zuxian had left and Cheng Meiren was also running a business performance out of town, she would have doubted that he was going to hang out with them and that Mr. Zhou had been forgotten!

"Are you with Master Zhou these days?" Gong Li asked pretending not to care.

Chen Li'an frowned, and then said frankly: "Well, I'll help her move."

"I knew it!" Gong Li pinched Chen Li'an angrily, but she wasn't angry. He wasn't her man anyway, so why not treat him like a cat in heat!

"What's the show tonight? Why are there so many people?" Chen Li'an looked at the growing audience and turned to ask.

Gong Li took out the ticket, took a look at it and said, "Chu Yun, the award-winning work of Wuhan Song and Dance Troupe."

"I've never heard of it, but it should be pretty awesome to win an award." Chen Li'an shook his head, then took a look at the ticket and found that it was a VIP ticket. He immediately said speechlessly: "Why do you have to queue up for a VIP ticket?"

"Isn't this talking to you?"

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After entering the theater, the two found their own seats in the private room and sat down. Chen Li'an looked at the prologue on the huge stage below that had not yet begun, and suddenly remembered that he had performed several plays here in his previous life, all of which were classic plays.

It's just that at that time, many classic dramas were not as popular as they are now, and tickets were half sold and half given away.

"I wonder when I will have the opportunity to perform a play here." Chen Li'an suddenly said with some nostalgia.

Gong Li turned her head in surprise, looked at Chen Li'an and said, "You seem to have acted before. Drama is different from film and television performances. If you really want to act, take the Chinese test in the future."

Take the Chinese test? Chen Li'an doesn't want to take the exam, he hates the establishment!

Soon the performance hall became quiet. The lights were turned off and the host came up and briefly mentioned the precautions about not making any noise during the performance before leaving.

The curtain on the stage slowly opened, huge lights shone in the middle of the stage, beautiful music slowly sounded, and a graceful and dancing figure appeared in the center of the stage.

Chen Li'an looked at that figure, sat up straight and began to appreciate it seriously.

I encountered an emergency today and lost time. I can only update 5,000 words first. I will add 5,000 words later, and 10,000 words per day in the next few days! I still owe twenty chapters, and I will try to pay them off within twenty days.

I'm sorry, gentlemen.