Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 615 Even a dog can do bass.

On New Year's Eve, the couple went home to celebrate the holiday.

Li Qiutang's parents didn't come to Yanjing this year, and her son started work on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Is this what you call celebrating the New Year?

For this, Li's mother complained to Li Qiutang, saying that she was raising someone else's son.

Li Qiutang didn't have much to say, but agreed to take his wife back to Fengtian for a while after filming was finished.

The Spring Festival Gala is getting less and less interesting every year, but Liu Xiaoli's generation still has a soft spot for it, so she drags her daughter and son-in-law to watch it with her.

Liu Yifei looked at the messages half-heartedly, focusing most of her attention on her phone. She also enjoyed grabbing red envelopes in various group chats.

"You send one to someone too," Li Qiutang said after looking at it for a while. This woman only took other people's ones, and after getting one, she would say "thank you, boss" but she wouldn't give a single penny to herself. "Don't be stingy."

"I'll send it after I finish grabbing this one. Xiaoming is going to send it, so I need to make him send more."

Li Qiutang noticed something was off: "Hey, why aren't you including me in this group?"

"This is our cast, what are you doing meddling in?" Liu Yifei's eyes were glued to her phone screen. "Wow! 29.9! Boss Huang is so generous!"

Liu Yifei also sent a large red envelope in that actor friends group. She was so busy sending it that she immediately yelled, "Don't send red envelopes when I'm sending them! I can't get any!"

When Liu Yifei sent out red envelopes, Li Qiutang also sent one in the "Butterfly Lovers" drama group chat.

"Whose fault is it if you can't get it?" Li Qiutang teased her.

"How could you be so annoying? You have to buy me one."

"No compensation, why would anyone ask for a red envelope?"

Liu Xiaoli was engrossed in watching TV and pretended not to hear anything, letting her daughter and son-in-law talk nonsense.

The two bickered for a while, then quieted down, some playing on their phones, others watching TV.

Liu Xiaoli suddenly said to Liu Yifei, "When will you be on the Spring Festival Gala?" Actually, Liu Xiaoli herself knew that her daughter did not need the exposure of the Spring Festival Gala stage, but it was always a good thing to be on the Spring Festival Gala once. Being able to be on this stage would give people some face.

In fact, a few years ago, the Spring Festival Gala really intended to invite Liu Yifei, but she was unable to do so due to various reasons such as scheduling conflicts, program application, and personal circumstances.

"What would I perform if I were on the Spring Festival Gala?" Of course, Liu Yifei would also like to be on the show if she could.

"Why don't you go up and sing a song?" Li Qiutang said.

"I want to perform in a skit." No one could guess what Liu Yifei was thinking. "Skit sketches are so much fun!"

Just then, the Happy Twist team's skit "A Son-in-Law is Half a Son" started playing on the TV screen.

"I really like Shen Teng." Liu Yifei sat up straight and watched TV intently.

He then asked, "Do you know Shen Teng?"

"We've met a few times, but we're not close." Although Qiu Tian is a shareholder of Happy Twist, Li Qiutang doesn't pretend to be arrogant and admits that she's not familiar with Shen Teng. "We have each other on WeChat, but we don't keep in touch much."

"You want to meet him? I'll shamelessly invite him over so you two can meet."

"Never mind, I wouldn't know what to say if I met him. It's better to just watch his show. Hehehe." Liu Yifei was amused by the line in the show, "You're thinking of using my 100,000 yuan in cash to bump into your 100,000 yuan, right?"

"How come he's so relaxed?" Liu Yifei said, expressing her envy as she watched Shen Teng's performance.

"If I don't want the car body, then I really won't have anything left, just four wheels and a chassis. So I guess I can just buy a sled for 100,000 yuan."

Liu Yifei chuckled when she saw it.

Li Qiutang asked her, "Do you know what a sled is?"

"She doesn't even know what a sled is?" Liu Xiaoli thought her daughter didn't know what a sled was.

"I don't know." As expected.

"The one we took you on when we went to Harbin before, the one pulled by dogs and the one pulled by horses, that was a sled."

"Oh, that? That was pretty fun," Liu Yifei said. "Ugh, after watching the Spring Festival Gala, I still have to lecture you two. It's so boring." "Okay, okay, I'm not talking about it anymore. Let's watch TV. I'm going out for a bit," Li Qiutang said, getting up to leave.

"Where have you been again? It's a holiday now."

“Several film crews, about a hundred people, are sitting there. I’ll go check on them.”

"You're worrying about things that aren't your business," Liu Yifei muttered, and told him to leave.

The crew members were all playful and rebellious. At this hour, some were playing cards, some were singing karaoke, and others were continuing their drinking session. When Li Qiutang arrived by car, there were hardly any people in the building.

"Director, Happy New Year." I greeted him when I bumped into him.

"Happy New Year! Happy New Year!" Li Qiutang replied with a smile. "Didn't you go out to play?"

"I'm coming back to get something, hehe." He said and left.

Li Qiutang wandered around the building for a while, looking left and right. Finding nothing amiss, she politely declined invitations to have late-night snacks and drinks.

Just as Li Qiutang was about to leave, a car with its lights flashing stopped in front of him. Before Li Qiutang could see who it was, the person greeted him with a hearty laugh: "Director, Happy New Year!"

Li Qiutang looked and saw that it was none other than Da Peng.

"Happy New Year." Li Qiutang shook hands with him. "Not going home this year?"

"Why are you coming back? The movie is in such a tight schedule," Da Peng said. "I had nothing to do at home, so I came to the base to take another look."

As a new director, Da Peng can be said to be walking on thin ice. "Jianbing Man" grossed 11 billion yuan, but due to its poor reputation, he was not particularly happy. After two years of holding back, he is finally going to start a new film, which is a musical comedy called "Sewing Machine Band". He will invest half of the money in the fall, his own company will take 20%, and the remaining 30% will be given to other partners.

The production team's preparations in Yanjing were also held at the Huairou Building in the autumn.

"The release date was announced on the 12th, saying it would be released during the National Day holiday this year. I'm both excited and worried now, worried that I won't be able to make a good film." Da Peng said a few more words after running into the famous director.

“That’s normal. I’ve been filming for 10 years, and every time I’m preparing to start filming, I still feel the same way you do now,” Li Qiutang said.

On the eve of the Lunar New Year, the two of them stood at the door talking.

Li Qiutang is very interested in music and has played in bands. He is a mediocre drummer.

"Director, are you the drummer?"

"Yeah, you wouldn't believe it, would you?" Every time Li Qiutang says she's a drummer, no one believes her.

"I am a guitarist and lead singer."

Li Qiutang quipped, "Hmph, even a dog could do that."

Da Peng immediately realized what was going on and said, "That's the bassist! The guitarist and lead singer are the soul of the band."

"Bullshit! The soul of a band is the drummer. What are you singing without a drummer to keep the beat?"

Each member of the band claimed to be the soul of the group and belittled the other working dogs, saying they could do the job.

After the joke was over, Li Qiutang asked Dapeng how the preparations for his new movie were going, and if he had any difficulties, he could tell him and he would definitely help to solve them if he could.

Da Peng was very polite. Apart from the tight schedule caused by setting the release date early on, there haven't been any other difficulties in preparing for "Sewing Machine Band".

Li Qiutang really couldn't solve this problem, and only said, "Pressure will motivate you."

He added, "I've seen your 'Jianbing Man,' it's very good. It's already amazing that a new director can achieve such results. My first film only made 3000 million, which is not even a fraction of what you made."

Da Peng could tell that Li Qiutang was being polite and encouraging, but he was also very grateful to Li Qiutang for saying these things to him.

"We've been standing at the door chatting like idiots for ages. You're here to check on the preparations, so go ahead. I'm going back too." I don't want to delay their work.

"Okay, thank you, director."

"Why thank me? I didn't do anything. I'm leaving." Li Qiutang reversed a few steps and drove away, leaving two taillights in the night, gradually disappearing from Da Peng's sight.

(End of this chapter)