The Golden Age of China Entertainment

"I... really quite..."

"If you still treat me as a friend, I want to hear the truth!"

Although it was very dark, Zhang Li's expression could not be seen clearly, but from her silence, Yi Qing could feel that she must be struggling in her heart at the moment.

"Is it not convenient to tell me?"

"no!"

Zhang Li hurriedly said, but after she finished speaking, she didn't know how to speak.

After a long time, Zhang Li finally spoke at the door of the building where Zhang Li lived.

"I just don't know how to put it. When I first came here, I didn't think about what to do. Now I have been in the United States for a while, and I still don't think about it. I don't seem to have any direction at all. Every day It’s going to class, part-time job, going home to sleep, repeating every day, I…”

normal!However, it is not normal!

Normally, it is because Chinese people in this era lack understanding of the United States itself, and going abroad is only a moment of enthusiasm. When they really arrive here, they will immediately find that they can't do anything.

It's not normal because, in Yi Qing's impression, Zhang Li should not be such a blind person. When she was on the set, she would carefully arrange even a small matter, and she would only do it when everything was ready. .

As a result, on such a big matter as going abroad, she, a person with a very stable personality, was impulsive once.

"It's really not like you to go abroad without thinking about anything!"

Zhang Li smiled when she heard the words, and there was a bit of bitterness in the smile. She also came out as soon as her head was hot, because even in China, she didn't know what she should do.

continue acting?

After "Family Spring and Autumn", she lost interest in acting.

Otherwise, she would not have gone to school in Shenzhen, but after learning to direct, she found that she was not made for this at all.

Continue to return to the Zhanqi Song and Dance Troupe?

"Dream of Red Mansions" has been filmed for several years, and the previous basic skills are still comfortable. If I want to continue to jump down, I know it is impossible.

What to do?

This is probably the question that all the friends in the Red Chamber are thinking about after they leave the film crew.

It seems difficult for them to find a suitable position in society. "Dream of Red Mansions" made them stand at the pinnacle of life, but this pinnacle came too early. When they needed to return to normal life, they realized that they had experienced the pinnacle of themselves Only... in my 20s.

"Are you in school now?"

Zhang Li nodded.

Yi Qing looked at her, and noticed someone passing by at this moment, and was also looking at the two of them.

"It's all at the door of the house, don't you invite me in to sit?"

"what!?"

Zhang Li was startled, and instinctively wanted to refuse, the lonely man and widow at night, and the place where she lived was really...

"Let's go! Let me also see my old friend's home in America!"

Knowing that Zhang Li couldn't refuse, she could only nod her head helplessly, and then led Yi Qing to the basement.

That's right, just like Wang Qiming and his wife in "The People of the Capital in New York", Zhang Li, who just came to the United States not long ago, lives in the basement.

Open the door, turn on the light, and the room is lit up. It doesn't look like a very big space, but Zhang Li has cleaned it up very cleanly, and there is also a faint fragrance.

Zhang Li has always been a clean girl. She was like this when she was on the set. Unlike Chen Xiaoxu, she changes clothes and washes them when they are dirty.

Up to now, Chen Xiaoxu has certainly changed, but her habit of loving cleanliness is learned from Zhang Li.

"Sit wherever you want!"

Zhang Li seemed a little embarrassed, and she didn't know if it was because she was alone with Yi Qing, or because Yi Qing saw her predicament.

Speaking of it, Zhang Li is not short of money. Although she didn't make much money when she was filming, she followed the big team and earned a lot of money.

But if you put that little money in the country, you can join the rich class, but in the United States, it is obviously not enough.

"How much is a month here..."

Yi Qing wanted to ask Zhang Li about the rent, but felt reckless as soon as the words came out, so she quickly changed the question.

"What are you studying now?"

"Oh! Finance! Actually... I don't know what I should study. My family members helped me advise me. I am now an auditor. If I want to get a degree, I have to take many exams."

Zhang Li was a junior high school student in China before, and the university she went to in Shenzhen was also a grassroots team. Let alone this kind of school, even if it is a degree from a regular domestic university, Americans do not recognize it.

It can be seen from Zhang Li's choice of study direction that she really came to the United States on a blind impulse.

“Finance is also very good!”

Yi Qing wanted to ask Zhang Li how she lived in the United States now. Looking at the basement where she lived, one could guess that her financial situation must not be very good.

After all, actors in this era are different from those in later generations who earn more than 200 million a day. How much money can Zhang Li make from filming "Dream of Red Mansions"?

If it wasn't for following the big team later, I'm afraid that after a few years of youthful time, I won't be able to afford a penny in the end.

It's just that Yi Qing is not easy to get over it. After all, the relationship between the two of them has not reached the level where they can talk about any topic casually. Moreover, because of that letter, there is a little more embarrassment between them.

"Sit down, I... make tea for you!"

Zhang Li was also extremely embarrassed. Wanting to find something to do for herself, she turned around and went to the side cabinet, and took out a can of tea from it.

"This is the last thing I brought from China!"

As Zhang Li said, she turned around and showed the tea pot to Yi Qing, and Yi Qing was also stunned after taking a look.

This tea caddy was given to Zhang Li by him!

When I was in the Red Mansion crew, the crew members often came to Yi Qing’s house to have tooth sacrifices. Later, Yi Qing left the crew after filming Liu Xianglian, and everyone met for the last time in his yard on the other side of Mengduan Hutong.

At that time, Yi Qing had already collected a lot of old things through Li Chengru, so he picked up some not very valuable ones so that no one could pick one.

Yi Qing still remembered that Chen Xiaoxu picked out a brush washer, Deng Jie picked out a small carved wooden screen, and Zhang Li picked out this tea jar.

"It's been several years, and you still keep it!"

Zhang Li smiled: "Of course I have to keep it. Didn't you say that this is an antique, and it might become very valuable at some point. Maybe when I run out of money one day, I'll sell it. Make a fortune!"

Zhang Li was joking, and her expression suddenly became gloomy: "I really miss that time when we practiced, studied, and rehearsed sketches together every day. Apart from working hard to play our roles well, we didn't have to think about anything else. OK!"