Chapter 70 Beijing Roast Duck

Zeng Zhi followed the crew happily and filmed films in the tropical jungle. After a few days, he started to complain.

"I can't live these days. Without phones, newspapers, and television, I feel like I'm back in the Stone Age." Zeng Zhi said, wiping medicine at the place where mosquitoes and flies were bitten. This place is far away from the city, and there is not even a decent town nearby.

"You haven't had a few years of this good life. Didn't you shout 'There's endless joy' in the Great Northern Wilderness?"

"A hero doesn't mention his courage. The past is unbearable! It is because life is getting better now that he firmly says goodbye to the hard days." Zeng Zhi retorted, "If everyone lives such a peaceful life, without people like me, wouldn't the world economy return to the primitive society?"

"You are quite quarrel! I didn't invite you here. There are not many people here. If you are not here, there are not many people. The company can save money on air tickets." Li Siming chuckled.

"I won't come. If someone slacked off, the company wouldn't lose more money!" Zeng Zhi said, but he was insincere. Li Siming was the major shareholder.

"I won't argue with you, and you are not my opponent in eloquence. I never waste time with people who are not the same level as me." Li Siming said.

Zeng Zhi was just idle and asked someone to chat. He couldn't talk nonsense to the cast and crew. First, he wanted to maintain his boss' prestige, and second, he had no common language with others.

"What did Xiaodao do in the past? Where did he learn these messy things?" Zeng Zhi said, looking at Xiaodao not far away. Xiaodao was talking to a group of "American soldiers" about how to prevent mosquito bites in the jungle, which was his necessary knowledge.

"What is messy? Don't not know how to talk nonsense. This knowledge can make a soldier survive in the jungle. If it were you, hurry up and pray, pray that King Yama will not be at home when he travels abroad!" Li Siming said sarcastically.

"I decided to convert to God. God is good. I am at home every day and don't like to go out. Well, even if this is a serious science, Xiaodao did what he used to do, I always feel that there is something unspeakable between you." Zeng Zhi pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Li Siming saw that he deliberately enjoyed the fragrance and leisurely expression alone, and was amused and crying.

"He? It's the same work that Forrest Gump does in Vietnam!" Li Siming said.

"You mean..." Zeng Zhi understood a little, but had more questions. "This can explain why he could pretend to be a military adviser, but why did he follow you again? And is there any legendary story he has in Vietnam? I'm very curious!"

"I am a noble person, and I specialize in taking away the desperate people!" Li Siming said vaguely, busy with what he had on hand.

"Just blow!" Zeng Zhi made an indecent gesture to Li Siming's back. He thought of a lot, but he didn't associate Li Siming with the battlefield.

Li Siming suspected that Zeng Zhi wanted to change his taste when he came to this tropical jungle, because since he came, the wild animals nearby have obviously regarded this place as a forbidden area.

"I really don't know if you were reincarnated from a hungry wolf in your previous life. You are just asking for trouble for wild animals!" Li Siming was a little dissatisfied with his behavior. If an official from a wildlife protection agency was attracted and he was detained, it would be an international incident.

"You've guessed this right, but I'm a wolf, and I'm at the highest level in the food chain!" Zeng Zhi laughed.

"Fresh, are there people born in the year of the wolf? Tiger is the highest level. No, I wonder if dragons also eat meat?" Li Siming smiled.

Fortunately, there are not many scenes in this scene, and Li Siming took the crew to Beijing, and everyone did not need to go there, just treat it as a public travel. This qualification to make movies in mainland China was naturally handled in advance.

This scene in Beijing was specially added by Li Siming, and is the last part of the filming plan of the storyboard script. This part in the original film was just an explanation, but Li Siming is a Chinese. From his perspective, he naturally pays more attention to table tennis diplomacy.

Of course, Zeng Zhi wanted to play a Chinese table tennis athlete, and he didn't have a single line. He really took it seriously, and put on various styles, saying that he wanted to use his tall and noble image to represent the Chinese to educate the American people. In the play, Forrest Gump got lost on the streets of Beijing. Because of his language, the taxi driver took him to visit Beijing. Li Siming used a camera to record several of the most famous buildings in Beijing, Chang'an Street, Tiananmen Square, the Great Hall of the People, and the most Chinese-style bicycle torrent. So much so that a bicycle manufacturer read this passage and vowed to sell the bicycle to China, but the boss couldn't sell one before he went bankrupt. However, the taxi driver was run by Xiaodao, and there were not many lines, which was considered to be a good use for the people.

During the original novel, there was a scene where Chairman Mao met Forrest Gump for lunch. Chairman Mao asked Forrest Gump: "I heard you fought the Vietnam War. What do you think of this war?" Forrest Gump replied without thinking: "I think it was a shit war." Of course, Li Siming would not shoot such a scene, because the Chinese were still playing with Vietnamese.

"This is completely satisfying the great wish of the two Chinese to be a supporting role! And let Americans know the appearance of Beijing!" Li Siming explained this scene.

Li Siming is a landlord in Beijing, so of course he has to do his best to be a landlord. Tom Hanks and a group of Americans had an intimate contact with the capital of this mysterious country and took photos everywhere to commemorate them. However, they did not know that their group of foreigners have also become the most novel scenery for the Chinese. They thought that the Chinese were too enthusiastic when they were watched. What attracted them the most was of course climbing up the Badaling Great Wall to be a hero, "If you don't be a Great Wall, you are not a hero."

In the novel, Forrest Gump failed to eat Beijing roast duck. In reality, Li Siming met Forrest Gump's needs. Hanks really tasted the deliciousness of Beijing roast duck this time. Otherwise, why did Winston Glum, a novelist and screenwriter who had never been to China, just mention Beijing roast duck?

"Li, I thought about it. If one day I have no future as an actor, I will open a restaurant in Los Angeles and hire a Beijing chef to specialize in Beijing roast duck. That must be very good." Gary Sinnis, who plays Lieutenant Dan, is still savoring the deliciousness just now. This is an infringement!

"Li, I have to admit that the roast duck tastes really good! I am more lucky than Mr. Glum. He didn't have the chance to come to Beijing to taste it in person. He can only imagine it on paper based on imagination. But I have the same view as Forrest Gump. You Chinese should learn to use forks!" Tom Hanks sighed.

Hanks said a pun. In the original work, Forrest Gump thought that Chinese people used two thin sticks to eat, but it was impossible to use that thing to push things into their mouths, so most of the food fell on his clothes. Forrest Gump thought that this was the main reason why they could not see a few fat Chinese people.

Since he came to Beijing, Li Siming took the crew for his own business and gave him a frivolous vacation. Xiaodao brought the crew back to the United States, and he went home and passed by the house without entering. This was not Li Siming's approach, and there was no need. As for Zeng Zhi, he went to his uncle's house for a meal.

I returned home again, and after another half a year, my home in Beijing has now become a hotel where Li Siming stopped in Beijing. To achieve something, or to put it simply, even if it is to make a living, it will cost a certain amount of money.

"All of them are people with wives, why are they still like young men and don't care about their family at all?" As soon as they met, the mother sighed.

Li Siming had to smile and explain patiently. Speaking of Yang Yue, Li Siming was definitely not as relaxed as he seemed on the surface. Missing was absolutely absolute. Li Siming had to pray for the day of reunion as soon as possible.

"Siming, why are you running around every day? When will you settle down? This movie is not a serious matter!" My father Li Quan asked this as soon as he met. Li Siming shouted in his heart that I was still famous in Hollywood, but he had to nod and say yes when his father spoke.

This time in Beijing, Li Siming and Zeng Zhi had an important thing, that is, the "Educated Youth Friendship Foundation" was officially established. As the first official non-governmental organization in China, Li Siming and Zeng Zhi used their relationship to find a way for this, and finally got the official recognition and was completed.

In the past six months, Chen Cheng decided to officially take up the position of president after a fierce ideological struggle between heaven and man. Because this is a 100% non-governmental organization, and it is not a public institution, and it is guaranteed to earn money from drought and flood, and he may become an unemployed person in the future. Chen Cheng is willing to take up this position, except that he is born a good and enthusiastic organization, it is entirely out of trust in Li Siming and Zeng Zhi.

In the summer of 1983, the streets were steaming hot, but there was spring in a hotel in Beijing. This was the day when the Educational Youth Friendship Foundation was officially established. Almost all members could come over. Even Xu Dashuai and others who were far away in Shenzhen were present. Naturally, Yang Yue, who Li Siming was thinking about day and night, was indispensable. This time she not only attended the meeting as a member, but also came to interview as a reporter.

These former educated youth gathered together to recite quotations loudly, remembering the past and imagining the future. Then, the foundation was officially established in an initiative of "Cheers for the revolution!"

"When we first started, we had 212 members, and this number only increased by 108 in 20 years, because in the process of constantly summarizing work experience, we feel the need to remain stable. Too many members may have a negative impact on our work, and these people are often just for the sake of fame. In fact, we have learned lessons in this regard.

There were only 20 staff members at that time, but now we have a professional team of 312 people. The start-up capital was RMB 5 million, which was also an astronomical figure at that time. But now we have billions of dollars in donations, and we have special investment institutions to manage them and special accounting institutions to conduct audit supervision. We have had a complete system from the beginning. And our honorary president, Mr. Li Siming, is our soul!" Chen Cheng said this at a commemorative conference on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the foundation.
Chapter completed!