Under the cheers of all her friends, Liu Xiaoli pulled away from the excitement of surprise, put down her hands and let go of the couple, and turned to face her friends and family.
Facing everyone's blessing and interesting eyes, Liu Xiaoli was not only happy to have many friends come to her birthday, but also embarrassed to face so many people suddenly without knowing it.
"Sister Li, I really envy you. You are really lucky to have a daughter and son-in-law who care about you so much." Hu Jun's wife was the first to say.
She just gave birth to a son last year. She is a first-time mother, maybe she is also a mother. Seeing Liu Xiaoli was moved to tears by these photos. It is understandable that Liu Xiaoli is crying and laughing at the moment.
"It's really good. I'm really envious to see you enjoying yourself so much." Liu Jialin and Liu Xiaoli hugged each other.
Also last year, she and Tony Leung completed their wedding abroad. This middle-aged couple who kept fighting could be regarded as completing a major life event. However, only those close to the industry knew that these two people were not planning to have a baby, so they were just planning to get married.
It's just you and me who will spend the rest of our lives as a couple.
Therefore, when Liu Jialin saw that Liu Xiaoli's two children were so filial and grateful, and specially prepared such a birthday surprise for Liu Xiaoli, a mother, she was very emotional and touched.
Faced with such compliments from the two eldest sisters, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei smiled, embarrassed that they couldn't reply.
Liu Xiaoli and Liu Jialin separated, but they said with a smile: "You too, these two brats are playing around, and you are playing along, which makes me very embarrassed."
She looked at Wang Jinhua and said jokingly: "And you, the eldest sister, took the lead in making noise."
She turned her head and looked at it again, and said helplessly: "Mr. Han, Teacher Kaige, Director Tang, Brother Zhang, Teacher Huang Lei, why are you so busy people coming here to join in the fun with the children?"
She turned to look at her grandmother and family again, feeling very ashamed: "It's a tough day for my son's birthday. Mom, I celebrated my birthday too, and you even came here in person. This generation has been messed up. It's really...
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She squinted at her daughter and son-in-law, then turned her attention to her younger sister Zhou Wenqiong's family, shook her head and sighed: "I even called your aunt over and ran all the way from Los Angeles... I was convinced too."
On the surface, she was complaining, scolding her daughter and son-in-law from different angles, but the happiness and joy on her face was beyond words.
Everyone saw this without saying much, it was just a mother showing courtesy to her child, and everyone looked at this scene with a smile.
"Everyone, my daughter and son-in-law are not sensible and have called you here for such a trivial matter. I would like to apologize on their behalf. Thank you very much for your coming and blessings. Thank you very much."
"Well, since we are all here, let's have some fun tonight. It should be treated as a big family gathering, so let's..."
"Eh?" Liu Xiaoli suddenly got stuck and asked her daughter and son-in-law: "Where to eat?"
"Hahaha..." The polite greeting was serious, but when it came to the key issue, it dropped the key. This sudden reversal made everyone present laugh, which was really interesting.
Liu Yifei covered her mouth and looked like she couldn't help laughing. She felt that her mother was too cute and wanted to help her and Chu Xuan hold up the scene, but she didn't know anything. This was really fun.
"There are two tables set up in the small villa restaurant." Chu Xuan reminded his mother that since the surprise is in place, the subsequent initiative should be left to her. After all, it is my mother's birthday, and she is in charge of the overall situation.
It will give her more face.
"Let's walk around and eat. It's almost eight o'clock. These two guys don't know how to take care of the meals of their friends and teachers. I'm sorry for the poor reception. Everyone, come in and eat. It's so hot outside.
Now..." Following my mother's chatter and enthusiasm, about twenty people walked into the small villa talking and laughing.
There were two tables in the restaurant. After some miscellaneous furniture was moved away, the space for the two tables seemed very spacious.
The dishes have already been served, and both tables have the same dishes. After a while, the air conditioner blew again, which made it a little cold, but it could not eliminate the pleasant atmosphere of the place.
Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli were seated separately, the couple and their friends were at the same table, Liu Xiaoli, Wang Jinhua, Han Sanping and other seniors and teachers were at the same table, so they could all be taken care of separately.
There are a total of twenty-seven or eight people present. According to the normal situation of ten people per table, the round table is wider, and it will not be too crowded if there are more people sitting at each table.
Just like that, both sides poured wine, stood up and toasted Liu Xiaoli for three rounds, and the small birthday party started happily and happily.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei came to their mother's table with wine glasses and invited people to celebrate their mother's birthday. They naturally wanted to return the wine glasses to express their gratitude.
Under the instruction and leadership of my mother, the three of them toasted to the visitors one by one.
"Third brother, thank you for coming. Our whole family is honored."
The whole family came to Hansanping first.
"Hey, don't be too polite. It's my 50th birthday. If you have time, come naturally. If you don't have time, there's nothing you can do about it. I just don't have time to catch up today."
"Seeing you seeking happiness for your mother, I, an outsider, am also happy for your family happiness."
"Congratulations to Sissi for successfully graduating from Yale University's advanced training class. From now on, she can safely settle her career in China. I hope your family will get better and better."
The whole family had a drink with Han Sanping.
"Teacher Kaige, thank you very much."
The family came to Chen Kaige.
"You're welcome, I'm 7 years older than you, but no junior has ever done anything like this for me. Seeing Xiaoxuan and Sissi do this for your mother..."
"First of all, because of Xiaoxuan and Qianqian's filial piety, I feel that 'the future is not as promised, but this character is worthy of the dragon and the phoenix'."
"Secondly, because you, as a mother, can have such kindness and love for your children, I feel that 'I feel like I am old after half my life, and I will never be happy for the rest of my life.' I hope your family will always be happy."
After finishing his words, Zhang Jizhong beside him said cheerfully: "As expected of a poet, his words are really good."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There was a burst of laughter from the people at the two tables. They were both impressed by Chen Kaige's poetic reply and amused by Zhang Jizhong's ridicule.
"Come on, Brother Zhang, thank you."
"Come on, I'm not as good at talking as Poet Chen, so let's keep it simple. I wish you happiness and health, and everything goes without saying."
These senior teachers are guests, and the whole family treats them with courtesy.
Although Wang Jinhua and her family were considered guests, the relationship between them made the family less polite.
After just a token toast or two, the couple and my mother came to another table.
"Auntie, have you eaten these four dishes? Master and wife have been working on them all afternoon. They are full of love." Zhao Liying used her chopsticks to indicate the four dishes, fried meat with green beans, fried loach, boiled fish fillets, and Buddha jumped over the wall.
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"After eating it, I have no conscience to comment that it is very delicious." Liu Xiaoli put her hand on the back of Zhao Liying's chair and said.
Unconscionable... Such comments made friends laugh, and also made Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei look at each other and look embarrassed.
"Come, come, young children and adults, thank you for coming." Liu Xiaoli picked up the wine glass and said.
When was the last time so many friends celebrated her birthday? The memory is too long ago, and it seems to be pushed back ten or twenty years ago. It seems that it was still when Anjia was settled, the two families held a 30-year-old banquet for her like this.
Then she became obsessed with dancing, was too career-minded, and divorced Ankang. She then brought Sissy into the industry, but she was new to the industry and had no connections. Birthdays and other things had long been forgotten by her.
Twenty years later, facing such a birthday situation can be described as deplorable, but it can also be said to be gratifying and congratulatory.
In addition to family members, the visitors are all people who are wearing the stars and the moon, and even more top-level people like Han Sanping.
I remember when I first brought Sissi into the entertainment industry several years ago, how could such a scene happen to her?
Really, sitting on the shoal with the gravel, sailing far away under the stars and the moon.
But she also knew that these people were not here for her so much as they were for their daughter and son-in-law. To put it bluntly, they were here for the pursuit of interests derived from the brilliant era.
No matter how you say it, it can always be said: low and low, no one cares about it, dragons and phoenixes rise up to become the mother's beauty.
The daughter and son-in-law have become successful, which gives her, as a mother, a lens of magnificence and grace.
No matter what, just from the perspective that her children are capable, this is something to be happy about and something that makes her feel happy.
In this high mood of joy and happiness, in the warm and joyful atmosphere, on the first day after returning to China, she was happily drunk.
"You go out first."
Late at night, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei helped their mother upstairs. After returning to the room, Chu Xuan withdrew. Liu Yifei ran back and forth from the bedside to the bathroom, washed her mother's face, wiped her body briefly, and finally wiped her body.
The quilt covers my mother.
"Mom, good night."
After saying good night to her mother who fell asleep after being drunk, she turned off the light and closed the door softly and left.
He and Chu Xuan looked at each other in the corridor at the door, and then the couple hugged each other.
"Mom is very happy today, and our mission is finally accomplished."
"Continue next year."
"It's not good. Mom won't like it if she comes every year. That's her character."
"Then...60 years old?"
Liu Yifei raised her head in Chu Xuan's arms and nodded repeatedly: "It's just like what I thought. I'll give her a bigger surprise in ten years."
Chu Xuan had a gentle expression on his face, thought for a moment and said, "Ten years from now, we will probably be a family of four."
A family of four?...Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized and blinked: "Can't it be a family of five?"
Chu Xuan raised the corner of his mouth and looked at Liu Yifei with a smile.
When my mother celebrated her birthday happily, the couple also had a fun exchange in a good mood.
The senior teachers left early after a few brief tastes, and business friends also left early after chatting for a long time.
The couple went downstairs and returned to the restaurant. Only their family, a few friends and elder brothers and sisters who had free time were still there.
Sister Hua chatted with her family at one table, and they chatted with their friends at another table.
Those who have not left are all massive. It is impossible for the couple to fight for drinks. They can only divert the attention of these "massive" with various topics.
"Xuan, Xiaodao, when will you film "Zhu Xian 2"?" Chu Xuan asked after eating some peanuts soaked in vinegar.
"It hasn't been decided yet. We are still setting up the scene in the studio." Zhao Liying said.
"Zhao Jian is still getting along with the special effects team and our writing team," Liu Yi added.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei nodded, roughly understanding what was going on.
The story background of "Zhu Xian 2" is set in the "Land of Nine Netherworlds". To interpret such a scene requires special effects, and the entire drama uses special effects almost throughout the scene presentation.
For this drama, Century Culture rented a total of eleven studios at the Beijing Film and Television Base. You must know that the special effects blockbuster "At the Gate" only rented thirteen studios in Hollywood at that time.
The special effects aspect of a drama is about to catch up with that of a special effects movie, so you can imagine how difficult and time-consuming the preliminary preparations for setting up the scenery for this drama are.
Moreover, it also draws on the excellence of Western film and television industrialization, and puts the special effects parts originally used in post-production in China into the two stages of script creation and scene construction, thereby improving post-production efficiency.
This requires cooperation between the three companies of Brilliant Times Century Culture, Brilliant Times Digital Special Effects, and Brilliant Times Creative Literature, which means combining scene design, special effects planning, and script creation.
This is a common job in Hollywood, but it is innovative in China.
Without experience, you can only rely on time to get used to it.
No wonder there has been no news about "Zhu Xian 2" for several months. Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying, the male and female protagonists, still have time to attend their mother's birthday party. The couple also understood the current situation of this drama.
Some situations.
"Eh." Ren Quan said confused, picked up the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables, and saw that Li Congcheng could still find a duck wing among the remaining duck meat on the plate, but Li Congcang slipped his chopsticks and the duck wing fell off again, and he stretched out his hands calmly.
He took out his chopsticks and gave the duck wing to himself to prevent Li Congcheng from snatching it. He didn't put the duck wing in the bowl and took a bite immediately.
This series of actions lasted only a second or two, and Li Congchen was stunned for a while, while Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and their friends laughed at it. This scene was very interesting.
Li Zhengtong rolled his eyes at Ren Quan and said speechlessly: "You are so shameless."
Ren Quan smiled, ignored her, and continued what he wanted to say: "I remember that the heroine in the first part of "Zhu Xian" was Dong Xuan. Isn't she missing in the second part?"
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying looked at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. This question was not something they understood, and they didn't know what the situation was.
Chu Xuan and Hu Jun clinked glasses of wine, put down their glasses and said, "It seems that Teacher Li He and Teacher Zhao Jian invited her to participate in some scenes of Lu Xueqi, but they seemed to be rejected by Huayi. They probably didn't like it."
Just a supporting role."
After hearing this, everyone nodded thoughtfully.
In "Zhu Xian 1", Huayi Brothers' Dong Xuan was the heroine.
At that time, although Bright Times and Huayi Brothers seemed to be inseparable from each other due to their past relationship, capital was chasing profits and Dong Xuan, the newly signed artist, needed support, so Bright Times was founded.
Film resources are needed to meet the needs of some artists to make up for the excessive development needs of the company when it was first established.
It just so happens that Dong Xuan can be praised by this drama as the heroine.
He, Hu Jun, Tong Dawei, Xia Yu, and Ren Quan joined Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" to pursue a career transition in a company that has just been established and requires time to integrate and allocate resources.
Both have interests, and it seems that the two companies, which have never had any contact with each other, have this cooperation in resource exchange.
For Huayi Brothers, there was a premise for this cooperation back then, which was that Bright Era had no plans to develop movies, so providing a few movie resources was not a big deal.
And now, not to mention the theaters of Brilliant Era, the blockbuster "At the Gate" has been highly promoted last year. This is obviously a signal that Brilliant Era will enter the film industry.
When it comes to movies, there are only a few movie schedules throughout the year, so it’s hard not to compete.
Under such circumstances, firstly, Century Culture's original "Zhu Xian 2" greatly reduced the plot of Lu Xueqi, focusing on a person who praises himself, and promoted Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying;
Second, Huayi Brothers saw that the role that was originally the heroine was only a supporting role in this second film. It would be strange for everyone to agree to let Dong Xuan play the role, let alone the replacement of resources.
What Huayi Brothers should consider more is, after Bright Times enters the film industry this year, how to deal with the problem of another good company coming in to share the cake.
Based on all these circumstances, everyone present heard Chu Xuan's vague words and roughly understood the underlying logical relationship in the matter, so they stopped asking any more questions.
"By the way, what happened to "The Lamp"? When I was still filming "The Twilight Saga" in Hollywood, I got a phone call from Li He and asked me to play the female lead. Shirley Young, what's the situation?
"Li Congcheng said.
She was still filming a movie two months ago, and Li Hedong called her and hoped to play the female lead in one of the company's dramas.
When her film career was on the rise, if someone asked her to act in a TV series, she would refuse without hesitation.
But the company had demands, so naturally she couldn't respond immediately and was prepared to come back and take a look at the situation.
She hasn't been back for a few days. She was delayed by some business matters. She still doesn't know what the situation is.
It happened that the two bosses and their wives, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, were there, so she asked.
"Sister Li Cong, you are really suitable. Teacher Li He has good taste." Liu Yifei said with a smile. Li Congchen is indeed a good match for Shirley Yang in her imagination. She is dashing and has that temperament.
"No, I still don't know what's going on." Li Congcheng and Liu Jialin clinked a glass of wine and said.
"Kong Sheng's "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" has difficulties in selecting actors." Chu Xuan explained: "Let's see, Sister Li, if you are free tomorrow, let's go and see it together tomorrow. I don't know the specific situation."
"Okay, give me a call when you go there tomorrow." Li Congcheng happily agreed.
"Boss, boss lady, would you like to come and have a look at my literary company?" Liu Yi joked.
Chu Xuan said: "Why are we here to see your literary company? My "Star You" post-production team is not with you at Century Culture. I am too lazy to run. It is faster to call if there is anything."
He went to his own company to see if he was too lazy to run, and there was no boss like this... Liu Yi shook his head, he also knew that this was Chu Xuan's joke in front of his own people, so he threw out a bait: "It's completed, this is what you had originally
Why don’t you come and take a look at my proposition?”
"Is it completed?" Chu Xuan became interested.
"It's built, let's come and take a look." Liu Yifei also became interested.
"Come take a look and make sure your trip is worthwhile." Liu Yi suppressed a smile, as if he was holding back something interesting, waiting for Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei to witness it.
At this time, Wang Jinhua said at another table: "We have finished eating here, and the elders have to take a rest. Do you want to continue eating or change places?"
Liu Yifei glanced at her friend and suggested, "Would you like to go sing in the big villa?"
"If you don't sing, singing is boring." Hu Jun suggested: "Don't you have a barbecue grill on the stage? Let's go barbecue and drink together. It's not easy to get together. Let's talk more. Singing is too noisy and disturbs the family.
sleep."
"Then get up and go to my place." Chu Xuan spoke, making a decision for everyone.
"Then you go first and I'll help you clean up before you come back." Wang Jinhua said.
Just like that, the group of people got up one after another, those who took wine took wine, and those who took ingredients took ingredients, and rushed to the next show in the middle of the night. They planned to carry out the joy of Liu Xiaoli's birthday in this night.