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Chapter 169 Mom Retires (Please Subscribe!)

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"Enter!"

Chen Fusheng heard that American actress Miss Diane had arrived. After printing out her character's lines and reading them through, he felt somewhat dissatisfied and made some revisions.

I had just finished making the changes when I heard a knock on the door. I looked up and saw that someone had already picked me up from the airport.

He smiled and stood up to greet him.

"Miss Diane, welcome to China! I am Chen Fusheng. I'm sure Miss Karina has introduced me to you before."

"Yes, Miss Karina also asked me to give my regards to Mr. Chen!"

"Thank you, Miss Karina, and thank you, Miss Diane, for traveling all the way to China to participate in my film."

After inviting her to sit down, Chen Fusheng continued with pleasantries, "I guess this is Miss Diane's first time in China? How is it?"

"Everyone was very welcoming. Before coming here, I learned that your country has a long history. On the way from the airport, I saw both modern buildings and many ancient houses. It was amazing."

"When she's not filming, Miss Diane can also enjoy a good trip around China..."

“Good suggestion, this is one of my plans for filming in China this time.”

"Haha, that's perfect."

At this point, Chen Fusheng changed the subject and asked, "Miss Diane, are you airsick? Should I have someone take you to rest for a while?"

"No, no, I'm perfectly fine now, Mr. Chen. Let's talk about work first. Before I came, Miss Karina gave me a brief introduction. She said I'd be playing a Christian female scholar, right?"

"Yes, the character you play is named Edith, and she is a university foreign language teacher."

With that, Chen Fusheng got up, walked to his desk, took the script he had just revised, and handed it to Diane Abbott, saying:

"This is the character script, Miss Diane, you can take a look at it first."

"Thank you."

Diane Abbott took the script, initially worried that she wouldn't understand it, but she was quickly drawn into the plot.

……

Have you ever heard a divine oracle at a tribal ceremony? Have you ever discussed reincarnation with the Buddha on the banks of the Ganges? Or perhaps, did you ever travel along the Mediterranean coast in the 1st century AD and encounter a carpenter from Nazareth and his disciples?

"Professor Edith, what would you like to hear from me?"

Which one is true?

"It is and it is not. People are always looking for a single, supreme truth. But the truth is, over the long years, there have been countless flames of wisdom lit up in various places. Buddha, Jain, Greek philosophers, Persian prophets... they all tried to answer the common questions of mankind, about suffering, about death, about transcendence. I have listened, I have learned, and I have been deeply moved."

"And what about Jesus? Have you seen Him?"

“I met a young man named Joshua. He was very charismatic, full of compassion, and had an incredible light in his eyes. He spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven in the countryside, about love and forgiveness. And what he said was essentially the same as the way of benevolence and forgiveness spoken of by the ancient sages of the East. It is an extremely powerful and beautiful force.”

……

Ten minutes later, Chen Fusheng saw that Diane had finally closed the script, looked up, and asked with a smile, "How was it?"

"Edith Moore is a very interesting character. I am grateful to Mr. Chen for inviting me to play the role. I will do my best to portray her well."

"I trust Miss Diane. Now let's discuss the payment..."

Chen Fusheng offered Diane a low fee of only $1500, but promised to finish filming within two weeks, with an additional $200 if filming took longer than one day.

Moreover, this date is calculated from today.

So, no sooner had Diane left than Chen Fusheng called Chen Kaige, the assistant director of the film crew, to his office.

"The actors are all in place. How's your pre-production work going?" "Almost done."

"What do you mean by 'almost done'...?"

Chen Fusheng asked himself and answered, "Never mind, I won't ask anymore. I need to turn on the machine next Monday. Is that possible?"

“…Okay.” Chen Kaige gritted his teeth and agreed, but at the same time, he was actually thinking that he would have to work overtime this weekend.

However, Chen Fusheng still sensed a hint of reluctance in his tone and asked again to confirm:
"Is it really possible?"

"It really works, Director Chen."

"Okay, then let's tentatively start filming next Monday. Remember to inform everyone as soon as possible, especially the teachers at Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama, and ask them to take at least a week off."

"Understood. Is there anything else you need, Director Chen?"

"That's all, go on with your work."

Chen Kaige nodded and was about to leave when he was suddenly called back.

Then Chen Fusheng said, "By the way, I made some changes to a line between Edith and Li Sen. Take this new script and make a copy for Chen Inaming."

"it is good……"

Seeing Chen Kaige still standing there after receiving the script, Chen Fusheng waved his hand at him and said, "Now it's really alright."

In the afternoon, after Chen Fusheng finished his meeting at the bureau, he realized that there was only half an hour left before he had to leave work. Why bother going back to the company? He simply asked the driver to take him home.

But he didn't expect that a surprise awaited him when he got home.

"Wow, Mom, when did you get here?"

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Chen Fusheng saw his mother, Yang Hongmei, playing with her eldest granddaughter in the yard, and thought he was seeing things.

"I arrived at noon."

Yang Hongmei glanced at her son, her concern hidden in her words, "You got off work so early again today."

"How was your day...?"

At this point, Chen Fusheng picked up his daughter who rushed towards him, teased her for a bit, and then looked at her grandmother and said, "Mom, why didn't you tell us you were coming? I didn't even know you were coming."

"Notifying you would be too much trouble, and I've been here several times already, so I know the way and I just came directly."

"There's no trouble at all. At most, I'll just pick you up from the train station... By the way, where's Dad?"

"Your dad's retirement application was not approved. He'll have to take leave next month to come over."

This statement was quite revealing, and it took Chen Fusheng a moment to process it. "What do you mean? So, Mom, you're coming here now because you've retired?"

"Yes, I'll be able to help you take care of your kids from now on. It can't always be my mother-in-law who has to suffer."

"That's good too. My mother-in-law had a tough time all by herself before, and she's about to give birth to our second child. Xiaoli will also be in postpartum confinement. I was thinking of hiring a cook for the family."

As soon as Chen Fusheng finished speaking, he was met with strong rebuttal and criticism from his two elders.

"Why hire a housekeeper? That's the way capitalists used to do things. Fusheng, even though you're highly valued now, you can't get carried away, you know?"

“That’s right, Fusheng, you are already in very good condition. You are a state cadre, so you can’t make such a low-level mistake.”

Chen Fusheng: "..."

(End of this chapter)