Perfect Life

"Hi, Elizabeth!"

"Hi, Hall. []"

After getting off the double-decker bus, Elizabeth McCullough walked forward on her own, but she couldn't help but someone took the initiative to greet her. Barely an acquaintance, a neighbor who lived in a block, and had been classmates for a few years when I was a child.

He seemed to be waiting for someone, but decided not to wait any longer, and walked towards the block with Elizabeth, who didn't notice any difference, and subconsciously talked to the other party, "Have you seen any interesting books or movies recently? If you have any good ones, please recommend them to me.”

Hall shrugged. "No! You know, my tastes are a little tricky. I'm waiting for the second part of Jurassic Park, but I don't like it."

Elizabeth turned to look at him, with the most beautiful smile, and said familiarly: "You just like dinosaurs!"

Hall shrugged. "Yes. But who isn't?"

Elizabeth smiled, shook her head, and strode forward.

She thought it was just a casual chat, but she didn't notice the admiration in Hall's eyes when he occasionally looked over - people are always like this, in some places, they are too smart to be like themselves, but in other places, they are not. And unbelievably sluggish.

The two walked back to the block with a quick walk. Hall was a little anxious, as if he had always wanted to express something, but he was a little shy, and his restraint made him unable to open his mouth to some things.

So, he had no choice but to talk.

"It is said that you are studying Chinese?"

"Yes! A professional Chinese training institution, summer school!"

"Wow, Chinese! Weird language!"

Elizabeth looked back at him in amazement, smiled, and didn't care, "It's a beautiful language!"

Hall shrugged and said nothing.

On the recommendation of Elizabeth, he went to watch "Once Upon a Time". To be honest, apart from the fact that the fights were really unique and attractive, he really didn't think there was anything good about that movie.

Soon after arriving at Hall's house, Elizabeth subconsciously waved at him, "Goodbye Hall!"

"Goodbye!" Hall responded, stopping, but then quickly said, "Hey, Elizabeth!"

Elizabeth stopped and turned around.

"Uh..." Hall hesitated and said, "China Qianxin has released an album, although it is only sung in Chinese, but I know you like his songs, so I'll try it out for you, it's great!"

Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, as if she suddenly understood something, she suddenly laughed and nodded, "OK! Thank you! I like that album very much too!"

Hall seemed slightly embarrassed, but asked again: "I know that China Qian's new movie will be released next week, I think if..."

"I'm afraid not!"

Before he could finish speaking, Elizabeth shook her head with a smile and said, "I'm going to see my parents! So, I'm sorry, Hall! Uh... I think you can ask Anna to see it together. As far as I know, she is very interested in seeing her. You have a good impression! And I can guarantee that the film of China Qian will be very good!"

Hearing this, Hall forced a smile and watched Elizabeth walk away. He couldn't help but ask loudly, "How do you know this movie will be good!"

Elizabeth walked and laughed, without turning her head, she just said, "You can treat me as China Qian's friend, so I personally experienced the shooting of this movie!"

The joke was good, and Hall was amused.

Although everyone knows that Elizabeth has a dad who is a movie master, it's still hilarious.

…………

When she got home, she put down her backpack, said hello to her mother, and walked into the kitchen. Seeing that lunch was ready, Elizabeth picked up a sliced ​​apple and threw it into her mouth, asking, "Do you need help? ,Mother?"

Helena smiled, "No need."

After a pause, he said, "Your father is sitting in the back."

The mother and daughter exchanged glances, and Elizabeth nodded, walked out of the kitchen, and walked back.

Opening the door, James McCullough was sitting in the shadows at the back of the house, casually wearing a T-shirt and shorts, with his pipe in his mouth.

In the smoke, he turned his head, "Oh, baby."

Elizabeth walked over, sat down on a rattan chair next to her, and wanted to nest in comfortably, but in the past two years, as her stature climbed up, it became more and more difficult for her to nest into this chair. Old rattan chair.

"Hey, Dad. How was the morning chat?"

James let out a puff of smoke, raised his arm, and shook it. "You know... ah, those guys, huh! You know, baby!"

Elizabeth shrugged, "Isn't the master too?"

When James heard this, he burst out laughing, and a puff of smoke choked in his throat, causing him to cough violently, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, "Master?"

James shrugged and spread his hands, "Unless the master promises to only receive the director's remuneration, no copyright, and the master's shooting must be restricted by the producer, otherwise, the master is not worth investing in!"

Elizabeth pouted.

James McCullough took another puff of cigarette, exhaled slowly from his nostrils, and then said, "Don't talk about that. Baby, how was the morning class?"

Elizabeth heard the words: "Wow, great! It's just a little slow, we only learned one poem in one morning. But you know, it's useless for me to give advice. The teacher said that we need to take care of most students. However, today the teacher randomly checked the homework that was specially assigned to me last time, and praised me!"

James McCullough gave a "hmm" and asked, "Sounds good. 【】What poetry did you learn?"

Hearing this, Elizabeth sat up straight and said solemnly, "An ancient poem that is said to be from a thousand years ago, the work of a great poet during the Tang Dynasty in China."

After she finished speaking, she recited fluently in Chinese, "The drums cut off people's walks, and there is a wild goose on the edge of the autumn. The dew is white tonight, and the moon is the hometown of Ming. There are brothers scattered, and there is no home to ask about life and death. Not suspended."

Then he explained in English: "The approximate meaning of this poem is that there is still a war at the frontier, and when the war begins, traffic is cut off. In the autumn of the frontier, a lone wild goose is chirping and flying south. From this time on, It entered the Chinese solar term of Bailu. When I wake up every morning, I can see the dew on the flowers and plants, and the moon is very bright, but the author, the poet, feels that the moon here is not as bright as the moon in his hometown. His younger brother We are separated from each other, they have no home, and even if they want to write letters to their relatives, they can't send them at all, because the war is still going on, and it is unknown when the war will end."

After explaining, Elizabeth looked at him.

James McCullough was so dumbfounded that he forgot to smoke his pipe.

After a long time, he made a "wow", took a few puffs of his pipe, and said, "Great piece of work. A thousand years ago? If he was born Now, he will be an extremely outstanding director. His ability to capture and use images is no less than modest!"

Elizabeth shrugged, "China has a lot of fascinating things."

James McCullough let out a "hmm", froze for a while, and then suddenly asked, "Baby, Elizabeth, how is your Chinese learning? Sounds pretty good?"

Elizabeth smiled proudly, "I can already read and write more than 500 Chinese characters! Normal oral communication is not a problem. The teacher in my training class praised my Chinese as being very standard, unlike other British people with a London accent. She is Chinese, she said that my spoken language is like the accent of a native of Shuntian, haha!"

James McCullough nodded, "Wow, that's great!"

Elizabeth gave her father a wink.

James McCullough took another breath and suddenly asked, "So, the charm of Qian...you know, it really fascinates you, right?"

Elizabeth looked at him, and after a while, she suddenly laughed, "Dad, what are you thinking about? And mom? What are you thinking about? Do you think I'll be one of Qian's many lovers?"

James shrugged. "I don't know, but your mother does seem to have concerns about that."

Elizabeth rolled her eyes subconsciously, "Dad!"

She shook her head, "I'm not a mother, I'm not that obsessed with artists. I'm not a Chinese woman, I'm not that...obedient. I'm a wild leopard! Mother leopard! Qian can't tame me!"

James McCullough shrugged, with a pessimistic look on his face, "Maybe!"

When Elizabeth got up and went back to the room, James McCullough took a breath, exhaled slowly, and said, "Mother leopard, wild leopard... is also a cat?"

"Oh...F! A cat, that's a bad metaphor!"

…………

After having lunch together, Elizabeth greeted her parents, picked up her backpack to go back to her room upstairs, but was stopped by James McCullough, "It is said that Qian's new movie is the one you participated in. , it's coming out soon, right? I guess you'd be happy to invite mom and dad to the movies with you?"

"Oh, no, Dad, you know, I still owe a lot of debt! And my income from last summer's summer job is almost exhausted..."

But looking at her father's innocent eyes, Elizabeth shook her head helplessly and smiled bitterly, "Okay, okay! I invite you to watch a movie! Anyway, that's what I said to the outside world!"

James McCullough was very dissatisfied, "Hey, we are helping Qianduo sell the box office!"

Elizabeth shook her head and headed up the stairs, holding her **** high with her back to the bottom.

James McCullough laughed.

Helena immediately showed a dissatisfied look, "Hey, Elizabeth? This is impossible!"

…………

Back in her room, browsing the web for a while, and finding that there were still no replies in her mailbox, she shrugged in disappointment, turned on the CD player, put on her headphones, and pulled out her exercise book.

It has always been considered difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese, but Elizabeth has been studying for less than a year, and she has been able to master the reading, writing and use of five or six hundred Chinese characters relatively proficiently. The speed is definitely very fast.

The root cause is that she thinks it has nothing to do with her insisting on writing 100 Chinese characters every day.

The object of practice is a pen calligraphy copybook that Li Qian sent her.

While practicing the writing and spelling of Chinese characters, while listening to Qian's Chinese songs, I occasionally encounter a certain character in the song that is the same as the one I am practicing. It is a pleasant surprise!

And although it was difficult at the beginning, it is not too difficult for Elizabeth, who is already familiar with it, to practice writing 100 Chinese characters.

In less than half an hour, she could finish the homework.

Then, enjoy another ten minutes of music, take off the headphones, think about it, and decide to go to the library.

But when she walked down the stairs, she unexpectedly heard the conversation of her parents downstairs.

"No, you don't care, and I don't care. Elizabeth has grown up, and this is her freedom! Even if it hurts, it's part of growing up."

"But……"

Elizabeth simply stood on it, leaning against the railing with her shoulders folded, listening to the conversation below.

When the following conversation finally came to an end, the two of them started chatting about meeting a producer of a film company with their manager in the morning, and Elizabeth deliberately stepped down the stairs.

"Hey, Mom and Dad. I think Dad might think about the wicked Hollywood movie businessmen!"

"Oh, forget it! I hate the word 'Hollywood'!"

Elizabeth laughed, walked over to sit down opposite her parents, and said, "But Columbia Pictures already belongs to the Chinese, doesn't it? Your friend is their boss!"

James looked at Elizabeth and then at his wife.

Helena shrugged and said nothing.

James thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Elizabeth, you may not understand what Hollywood is! He is not a simple geographical concept, nor is it just a large territory in the movie world. It is based on Hollywood. Headed by seven major film companies, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized film companies, brokerage companies, technology companies, etc., it is composed of many forces ~www.wuxiaspot.com~."

After a pause, he said seriously: "Qian bought Colombia, I know, but it's useless to just buy Colombia. He has to turn this annual loss-making company into profit first! And This is difficult! Because, as I said, Hollywood is not an area where independent companies survive."

"There's a huge net there!"

Elizabeth shrugged. "But he's almost omnipotent, can't he? If he dared to pay so much to buy this company, he must be able to save him, no?"

James spread his hands, "I don't know. But I know, it's hard!"

Elizabeth stood up, "The Matrix is ​​very exciting, it must be very exciting, believe me, it will be a movie where Qian broke the glasses of those arrogant 'movie dealers' in Hollywood! If you don't believe it, go and see its preview. Film it! He will surely succeed!"

James McCullough shrugged indiscriminately.

However, Elizabeth had already got up and walked out, and Helena stopped her, "Elizabeth, where are you going?"

While walking, Elizabeth put on her bag and packed the keys, and said, "Me? Maybe to buy a plane ticket to China? Ah, I forgot, I can't afford a plane ticket! Well, I'll go to the book Check the information in the museum to see if there is any magic circle that can let me go directly!"

After she finished speaking, she waved her hand, "Bye!" She dodged out the door.

Leaving the McCullough couple to look at each other, Helena looked helpless.

came back!

Recently, I have been thinking hard about the outline, and I have completely forgotten myself. I woke up this morning to start coding, only to find that I have missed the hand-picking festival, woohoo!

How many good things are bought less, and how much GDP is less contributed!

I deeply feel sorry for Lao Ma and Xiao Liu.