In the city [entertainment circle]

38

Shen Xiao didn't expect Li Ruosen to be willing to come to such a place.

In fact, Shen Xiao also knew about this wonton shop. It wasn't the first time he came to this city to film. He also heard from the crew before that he had been to this wonton shop that had been open for decades.

The boss is an old man. At the beginning, he was carrying a burden to sell wontons at the entrance of the primary school. After the business was good, he opened a shop.

I haven't changed the place for decades, it's in an alley, and the surrounding area has been demolished. I don't know why, but the shops on this street remain.

Next door to the wonton shop is a grocery store.

The nearby elementary school students would occasionally come to buy things. When Shen Xiao came here for the first time, he felt like going back in time.

The alley is actually quite long, and the buildings are very low. It looks like it has been around for a while, and the people living in it are old men and old ladies... The last time Shen Xiao came was summer.

He remembered that at the entrance of the alley there were old people sitting in groups of three or four, carrying stools and waving palm-leaf fans to enjoy the cool air.

But there was no one in the alley at the moment.Shen Xiao pushed Li Ruosen and thought as he walked, perhaps because of the cold weather, those doors were closed tightly.

Only in front of the old man's wonton shop, there was a glimmer of fire.

"The environment of that store is not very good." Shen Xiao said to Li Ruosen, "and the place is small."

"Is there a lot of people?" Li Ruosen asked, "I'm worried that the wheelchair will be inconvenient."

"Not too many." Shen Xiao said, he remembered that when he came last time, there were not many people.Except for those who want nostalgia, few people are willing to travel so far to eat a bowl of wonton in memory.

Shen Xiao has a secret that is not a secret, it can only be said to be one of his hobbies.

He actually likes to eat wontons.

But he doesn't like the kind of wonton with a lot of meat, he likes the kind of wonton with thin skin and little stuffing that he used to eat.The reason why I came here is because I listened to the crew, and the owner of this place still has the taste of the past.

"Mr. Shen has been here before?" Li Ruosen asked when he saw that Shen Xiao was familiar with the way.

"I've been here a few times before." Shen Xiao said, he smelled a faint smell of firewood.This wonton shop hidden in the alley has been cooking wontons with firewood for so many years.

Because firewood has been used all the time, the walls of the house and the beams of the roof are all traces of being blackened by smoke and fire.

After saying hello to the boss and ordering two bowls of wontons, Shen Xiao pushed Li Ruosen to this small shop that could only seat ten people at most.

Li Ruosen looked up curiously at the exposed beams and the walls that didn't look like bricks.

"Boss, there aren't many people today?" After paying the money, Shen Xiao began to exchange pleasantries with the old man who made wontons.

"It's too cold." The old man spoke in a low voice, with a thick accent, and he motioned Shen Xiao to put the money in the jar beside him, "And it's almost gone."

"To be demolished?" Shen Xiao asked.

"Soon." The old man said, "It won't be long." He wrapped the wontons very quickly, and wrapped them in a few strokes, and then put them all into the boiling water boiled by firewood.

Shen Xiao sat on a long wooden bench. The quality of the stool was very poor and wobbly, so he had to be careful when he sat up.He looked at Li Ruosen, "Have you been to a store like this before?"

"I seldom eat out." Li Ruosen put his arm on the table. The table was also bumpy, and it looked like it had been used for many years.

The old man didn't like to talk, and there were only the two of them in the store, and there were not many people in the whole alley outside.Everything is so quiet.

Until the old man brought over two bowls of wontons and put them in front of them.

"I'm going outside to buy a pack of cigarettes." The old man said to Shen Xiao, seeming to want him to help take care of it.

"You can rest assured that we two strangers will stay in your store." Shen Xiao also found it incredible that he didn't come to this store many times, only a few times when he was filming.

"I've seen your movie." The old man pointed to the TV hanging in the corner. After speaking, he took some change from the jar and walked out of the wonton shop.

"I didn't expect the boss to have seen your movie." Li Ruosen said suddenly.

"No one knows me in so many places, but I am recognized here." Shen Xiao laughed, and then pushed the wonton in front of him to Li Ruosen, "If you are not used to eating it, just tell me."

Li Ruosen shook his head, he lowered his head and took a bite, "It's delicious."

Shen Xiao looked at Li Ruosen's unfamiliar movements, "You don't eat wontons much?"

"Brother doesn't like these things." Li Ruosen said, "Before Wang Ma cooks, she has to take the recipes to him to review. What to do next week and what to eat are all planned in advance." Carefully blowing on the wontons in the spoon, "So I don't usually eat much."

It's too pitiful to be alive.Shen Xiao thought, he always felt that the first half of his life was not happy, but compared to Li Ruosen, at least he can go where he wants to go, and eat what he wants to eat even if he makes money.

The more he looked at him, the more he felt that after being raised by Li Zhengying for so many years, he was not turned into a lunatic. Li Ruosen's psychological quality is really extraordinary.

"When I was young, there was such a wonton shop near my home." Shen Xiao suddenly said, he seemed to have aroused interest in telling Li Ruosen about his past, "That shop is also very small, only people who live nearby eat it, the boss It was a couple who couldn't speak, and they had a daughter who was in elementary school at the time."

"Only selling wontons does not make money, so the boss's house also sells fried dough sticks and tofu nao. I liked his wontons very much at that time." Shen Xiao said, "Actually, my idea was quite simple at that time, as long as I could eat enough. I think you'll never know what it's like to be hungry."

When Shen Xiao said these words, his expression was very calm. After all, he is already 37 years old this year. Although he is not at the point of becoming famous, he can be regarded as successful in his career.

So when it comes to the down and out years in the past, I am a little calmer.

"More than ten years ago, I hated to mention my past. Fortunately, no one was interested at that time." Shen Xiao said, "As Xiao Wu told you, basically as long as you give money, the thugs I did a lot of things, I thought about it carefully, and I couldn’t make any money at that time, so I could only do such things.”

"He's actually right. I'm not a good person." Shen Xiao never felt that he was a good person. A really good person would at least not be like him, who would bully others because he had no money.

Although he didn't bully people directly, it was more or less enough to collect money to do things.

"... Teacher Shen suddenly said this, what is he trying to say?" Li Ruosen asked.

"I just think that you like me just because you don't know me well enough." Shen Xiao said.

"I know now." Li Ruosen looked at Shen Xiao, "But I still like you." He has never understood Shen Xiao's concerns. If he is only considering gender, then Li Ruosen is understandable.

But judging from Shen Xiao's performance, he actually doesn't pay much attention to gender.

Instead, focus on other things.

"Do you think you are much older than me?" Li Ruosen thought for a while before asking a question.

"We are ten years apart." Shen Xiao said. "When I was in high school, you were still in elementary school." Of course, this is an excuse, after all, if it is calculated according to this, most people in the world will stop dating.

Shen Xiao just felt that Li Ruosen had met too few people. When he was in his adolescence, he suddenly appeared in his smooth and even somewhat depressed life.

After a long time, it is normal to regard it as a spiritual sustenance.

Li Ruosen is impeccable no matter in appearance or family, the only fly in the ointment may be his physical condition.Shen Xiao felt that if Li Ruosen fell in love with a middle-aged man that much.

That's still his fault.

"Mr. Shen." Li Ruosen said softly, "It would be great if you didn't point it out at that time. Now I can just be your fan, and you don't have to worry about these things."

In fact, Shen Xiao pointed it out directly at the time, and also meant to tell Li Ruosen not to waste time on him, but he didn't expect that Li Ruosen would be so persistent.

"Look, if you didn't say anything at the time, I wouldn't say anything. Now I'm still just a fan of your movie. You won't feel uncomfortable, and I won't show anything."

"Your acting skills are not that good." Shen Xiao said, he took a bite of the wonton that was almost cold.Because Li Ruosen's acting skills are not that good, he can clearly see the liking in Li Ruosen's eyes.

It was because I saw it that I didn't want to delay him.

Li Ruosen didn't speak any more, he just ate the wonton in the bowl in silence.

It wasn't until after eating that he dialed the phone in front of Shen Xiao and asked Wu Tao to pick him up.

Shen Xiao understood that Li Ruosen should be angry now.

Why.Shen Xiao thought, what is this?He really doesn't hate Li Ruosen, even seeing him angry because of his words now, he still wants to coax him.After getting along for a while, Shen Xiao also discovered that although Li Ruosen has a very gentle personality and is easy to get along with, he occasionally has his own little temper.

Shen Xiao thinks this kind of temper is quite cute.

Just like now, he must be angry because of his words and attitude just now, but he won't get angry at you, he will only sulk silently.

Like what?

Just like a small animal, it is very intuitive to like it or not.

"Wu Tao came to pick you up, so I feel more at ease." Shen Xiao said.Of course, there is still some deliberate element in this sentence. To put it bluntly, no matter how honest a man is at this age, he has his own little thoughts, and Shen Xiao does not belong to the category of honest people.