Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 647 Ginseng Chicken Soup
The production team should submit their accounts multiple times. Those who know, know. Chen Zhixi isn't the petty type. It's not that she doesn't want you to earn money, but submitting accounts 12 times a month is a bit too much!
Does Chen Zhixi think she's blind?

However, to say that these 12 expense reports went unnoticed by the production team's finance department and producer would be unfair to the production team.

As I always say, you can make money, but you have to do your job well.

The budget for "The Wandering Earth" was 5 million yuan, and the extra money reported by the makeup team was not even a drop in the ocean.

The film crew starts work at 9 a.m. every day, and makeup starts at 5 a.m. They work from dawn till dusk, can't you let them earn some money?
Does your film crew work 5*8 hours a day? Do you give people holidays off?
The producer and makeup artists were still busy on set, so Chen Zhixi didn't contact them. She only held meetings with the makeup team leader and the finance manager.

Tell the makeup team leader to keep a close eye on his subordinates, and not to let them act like starving ghosts, grabbing money at the drop of a hat.

The finance department also failed to reimburse such unreasonable accounts.

Director Li is still filming on set and has no idea about this. He just needs to focus on filming.

Filming went on until after 10 p.m., more than eight hours. The two simple scenes, Han Duoduo attending class and Liu Qi smashing the classroom power supply and taking advantage of the chaos to escape with his sister, were still not finished.

"Let's take it." Liu Yifei couldn't sit still in the afternoon and kept yawning, so she went back to the hotel to sleep and never came back.

The meeting lasted until 11 o'clock, and Li Qiutang went to the computer room to check the editing progress of "The Butterfly Lovers" on the cloud.

It wasn't until after midnight that she returned to her room. Liu Yifei was sitting on the floor practicing yoga when she saw her husband come back. She happily got up and said, "You're back. How was the filming?" She then handed him a glass of water.

Li Qiutang shook her head: "No, I didn't pass any of them. Maybe it went too smoothly in the morning, so I couldn't pass in the afternoon and evening."

After putting down her bag and drinking some water, Li Qiutang said, "I'm going to take a shower."

Liu Yifei smiled.

"Hey!" Li Qiutang shouted, "I said I was taking a bath and going to bed, what are you thinking!"

"What I wanted to do was take a shower and go to bed too," Liu Yifei smiled. Seeing her husband glare at her, she added, "Oh, I know how to take care of you, my husband. You've been working so hard, I won't make things difficult for you. Go take a shower."

Li Qiutang was skeptical. When did this woman become so understanding?
He gathered his clothes, went into the bathroom, and locked the door with a click.

"Hey, you're even wary of your own wife?!" Liu Yifei's voice came from outside.

Li Qiutang said, "Who would know someone like you?"

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes, pursed her lips, and gave a half-smile.

Li Qiutang was taking a shower when she heard Liu Yifei open the door halfway through, as if someone had come to ask her for something.

After showering, I came out. "Let me tell you, we're filming this afternoon... what's wrong with you?"

Li Qiutang saw that Liu Yifei had set out bowls and chopsticks on the small table.

Liu Yifei invited Li Qiutang to sit down: "Come on, I've been stewing chicken soup all day."

"Did you make this?"

"I asked the hotel kitchen to stew it," Liu Yifei said apologetically. "But I bought the chicken; you've been working hard filming, so I wanted to give you some nourishment."

"I just finished brushing my teeth."

"Let's finish eating before we clean, come on."

Li Qiutang sat down, lifted the lid, and a rich aroma wafted out.

Liu Yifei also introduced, "These are free-range chickens from the countryside, and they're not cheap. You should try them."

She stewed a whole chicken for Li Qiutang. "Who eats so much so late at night?"

Eat as much as you can.

"There's ginseng too?" The ginseng was hidden inside the chicken's belly. Liu Yifei poured out a bowl of oily soup and put the ginseng slices in the bowl as well. "So you can nourish me to death so you can remarry?"

"You can't expect ivory from a dog's mouth. This is good stuff, given to me by Shu Chang, wild ginseng."

As a native of Northeast China, no one knows ginseng better than Li Qiutang: "Give me a break, there's no wild ginseng left now, it must be artificially cultivated to fool Shu Chang."

"Ginseng always has some nourishing properties, so eat it quickly." But Li Qiutang really had no appetite right now. Who would eat this stuff in the middle of summer?

"Eat something with me."

“I won’t eat it. What woman would eat something like that?”

"Then you should eat some meat. This chicken is too big for me to finish by myself." He said, tearing off a chicken leg and putting it on a plate, then pushing it in front of Liu Yifei.

"I stewed this for you."

"Eat up, what's with all the fuss between you two?" Li Qiutang took a sip of chicken soup. "It's so oily."

The two ate and talked. Li Qiutang said, "I don't have such a big appetite now. When I was fourteen or fifteen, I could eat the whole chicken like this by myself, and I would also have to eat a bowl of rice."

"Until I was twenty-one or twenty-two, I ate three or four bowls of rice every meal. I could really eat back then."

Liu Yifei laughed and said, "This is what you call a half-grown boy eating his father to death."

"Well, that's just the main meal, not counting snacks and fruit. Back then, I grew really fast. I was less than 1.6 meters tall in the first year of junior high, but I was 1.8 meters tall by the time I graduated from junior high. I didn't grow much during my three years of high school."

"Aren't you fat from eating like this?" Liu Yifei had found photos of Li Qiutang when she was a child at her home in Fengtian, and there wasn't a single one of them showing her as chubby.

"No, I wouldn't have gained weight back then. But if you asked me to eat like that now, I definitely would. What about you?"

“I was never fat during my adolescence,” Liu Yifei said. “On the contrary, after I got together with you, there was a period of time when netizens said I had gained weight.”

"Fatty Immortal," Li Qiutang said with a smile.

"You still have the nerve to say that."

"You can't blame me for this; you were lazy and couldn't control yourself."

Liu Yifei also had her own reasons: "It's just that I didn't practice for two days, and they took pictures of me and posted them online."

Li Qiutang said, "It's good to be a little chubby. Only those who don't know anything would like a skinny figure. There's a saying that goes, 'Whether a family is doing well or not depends on whether the wife is fat or not.'"

That's what she said, but Liu Yifei disagreed: "I don't want to get fat."

He had drunk the soup and chewed the ginseng. Under his wife's orders, Li Qiutang ate the other chicken leg, but he really couldn't eat anything else.

"It's such a waste to give you such good food." Liu Yifei was still unwilling.

"If you finish all of this, I won't be able to sleep tonight. I'm going to brush my teeth."

Liu Yifei didn't bother Li Qiutang tonight, which surprised him a bit, and after the surprise came a touch of emotion.

She flew all the way to see me, didn't want anything, and even made soup for me. What a good wife.

But when he returned from work the next evening, Liu Yifei tormented him for half an hour.

The reason is that the effects of ginseng should have started to appear.

Enraged, Li Qiutang slapped her buttocks twice.

"Was my behavior really that bad before? When was it ever you who begged for forgiveness? Did you need ginseng?"

Liu Yifei nestled in her husband's arms and whispered, "Well, you're over 30 after all, and you work so hard, so I'm giving you something to eat. Do you feel any different today?"

"You seem to be even better at it now. What movies did you watch?"

"I'm talking about how you feel on set! Don't you feel more energetic? More motivated to work?"

"It's alright. I told you those were artificially bred, they're completely useless."

"Come on, let's continue. You're leaving tomorrow."

Li Qiutang was completely devoted to his wife.

(End of this chapter)