[American Entertainment] Born to be passionate

"Since it was invited by my brother, come in quickly, don't be restrained, just treat this place as your own home."

The speaker was a dignified and beautiful young woman. After confirming Edmondo’s identity, she switched to English fluently and introduced him as she walked inside. Her name is Carina Lau, and this is her home. Tonight she and Leslie Cheung are together It is a small party to invite friends to play mahjong.

Walking through the corridor, the lively voices gradually become clearer. The interior of the room is decorated in a very stylish way. There are ink paintings and calligraphy on the walls, which are obviously different from the preferences of Americans.

Accompanied by the sound of 'crash', Edmundo saw a square table where three people were sitting around, chatting and playing with colored cubes, with wine glasses and ashtrays in hand.

Seeing them coming in, the two women and one man turned around to say hello. They were obviously taken aback when they saw Edmondo, but they quickly returned to normal.

This is no different from playing poker when Americans get together at a party. He has heard of this activity before, but he can't remember the name clearly. It seems to be called——

"This is called playing mahjong, everyone's favorite entertainment. I never talk about work at the mahjong table." Leslie Cheung took Edmondo's arm and whispered.

Since today is a small private gathering, there is no need to make it too serious, so he introduced everyone by the way.

"That's Zun Long, who came back from Hollywood the year before last to develop, you should be familiar with him; opposite him is Brigitte Lin, a very popular actress in Asia, you can call her Brigitte, next to her is Faye Wong, the most popular actress in Asia this year Singer, I remember CNN interviewing her."

Edmondo waved his hand, indicating that this is a bit redundant.

"You don't have to take care of me like that, Leslie, I'm pretty good with people," he said, "This is your party, I'm just here to visit, I'll find the way that makes me most comfortable, don't need to accommodate me. "

"Just to give you a vaccination, everyone here can speak English, we will not bully you in Cantonese in front of you." Leslie Cheung smiled, "Sorry, I was a little nervous, this is the first time I have taken a foreign country. Friends join the poker game."

"Don't apologize, you're right." Edmondo shrugged, "I haven't played this game, so there is a high probability that I won't be able to join it. You have fun, and I can watch from the side. By the way-English is not me mother tongue."

Leslie Cheung looked a little surprised, he didn't expect that Edmondo was not an American.At this time, Carina Lau passed them to the mahjong table, and after talking to the people there, she shook her head at the vacant seat.

"I won't play anymore, I'm going to rest for a while, brother, are you going?" She asked, "Or let your friend Mr. Moreira come, has he played mahjong before?"

"I haven't played it before. He didn't even know it was called mahjong before, so I brought him here." Leslie Cheung pushed Edmondo to the mahjong table to let him sit down, and then stood behind him, rather The general pinched his shoulders, "Ladies and gentlemen, the person in front of you is about to accept my advice and become the biggest winner. Are you ready to lose?"

"You can't play well yourself, and you still want to teach him to play?" Faye Wong joked while shuffling the cards, "Did you forget about holding the Guorong Cup last year, be careful to lose your underwear in the end."

Leslie Cheung scoffed at this view. He firmly believed that when he taught Edmondo to him, he would become a good player at the poker table. When the two teamed up, there would be no game they couldn't win.

Regarding this, Edmondo held a negative attitude. He didn't even understand the playing cards, let alone the small squares with wonderful patterns printed on them called 'Mahjong'.But seeing Leslie Cheung looking very interested, he couldn't say anything more, so he followed the other party's instructions and took cards from the two stacks of mahjong placed in the middle and placed them in front of him.

The last family, Faye Wong, drew a card of three and played it out. Edmondo followed her example and also drew a card and played it out. The speed was so fast that Leslie Cheung had no time to react.

"Eight barrels"

"Hey!" Leslie Cheung pinched his shoulder forcefully from behind, and Edmondo almost jumped up from the chair without knowing why, and he looked back with particularly puzzled eyes.

"What are you pinching me for?"

"Nonsense, you just messed with yourself, why did you type it out!" Leslie Cheung lowered his voice and said in a tone that was almost gnashed in his ear, "I have never seen such a lucky and stupid person like you, quickly regret the card! !"

"You should have stopped me just now, this is my first time playing mahjong, be lenient with me!" Edmondo cast a condemning look at him, and just when he was about to get back the cards he played, he sat down Zunlong, his next family, showed him a charming smile.

"Qingyise, Dapinghu, Dudu, Jiangyan... six, seven." He pushed down the cards in front of him, and then explained at a very slow speed. He looked at Edmondo, his eyes full of teasing , "The first card of the first mahjong game in life can be fired (playing the card that someone just needs to send the other party's bewitching), which is also very powerful in a sense."

Edmondo: "..."

Leslie Cheung: "...Don't be dazed, give the money, and continue."

……

Facts have proved that Edmundo may not really be suitable for the entertainment of mahjong. Under the guidance of Leslie Cheung, he fired the cannon for Zunlong first, and then he fired the cannon for Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong at the same time. Three hands is even more incredible, playing a three-of-a-kind made a rare hit, Zun Long, Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong played all cards at the same time.

Leslie Cheung was also surprised by his luck, he had never seen such a backless person except in comedies.

Mahjong, the more you play, the better it is. Edmondo is the same. After the second half of the night, he no longer needs Leslie Cheung's guidance and can call the names of all the cards correctly.

It's not that he hasn't won before, it's just that the cards he wins are very small, and whenever he wins one hand, he will definitely lose a big one in the second hand, which is almost a rule. Carina Lau, who went to rest in the back room, was shocked, With her boyfriend out to watch.

After finally losing 5k yuan, Edmondo gave up and took Leslie Cheung to leave Carina Lau's villa angrily. Stone.

Have to say, this method is very useful.

The next day Edmondo fell asleep all day, woke up gradually in the evening, and took Leslie Cheung to ask if there was any poker game, just like those guys who are addicted to slot machines in Las Vegas. It's just that Edmondo insists that the harm caused by mahjong addiction is negligible.

In the next week, apart from contacting the person in charge of the Kowloon Walled City to negotiate with the person in charge of the Walled City of Kowloon and drawing and designing storyboards on the Walled City, Edmondo only played mahjong.

Leslie Cheung took him to participate in many Hong Kong artist group's poker games. Once he was lucky enough to meet Jackie Chan, who has a good temper and rarely gets angry when playing cards. We chatted about possible future cooperation.

However, no matter who he played cards with, he couldn't change the fact that he was unlucky, and Edmondo kept firing shots at others.

In addition, he also learned a lot of modal particles to express his anger at being shot, such as "push the street", "crazy line" and the heavier "top your lungs". The learning speed made Leslie Cheung burn I came up with the idea of ​​teaching him Cantonese, but no matter how carefully he taught, Edmondo used the most proficient swearing.

"It's normal. I guess the first thing you learned when you first arrived in the UK is not a good word." Edmundo leaned on the sofa and said, "Maybe I will learn Cantonese systematically in two years. Too much, no time at all."

"Don't hide it, you just want to drag it back and look at you sitting on the sofa doing nothing. You don't look like a big director who is too busy." Leslie Cheung replied with a smoke ring and a white eye.

At this moment, the phone specially arranged for Edmundo rang, and Anderson called to discuss the plan with him, and Edmundo stretched himself and got up.

"Look, isn't work here?" He laughed lazily, and after blowing a kiss to Leslie Cheung and receiving a disgusted expression from the other party, he picked up the phone, "Good morning, Andy, what instructions do you have? "

"There are no instructions. The film has been arranged. I just wait for the crew to move to Hong Kong after the Chinese New Year. I just want to ask you if you will come back for Christmas. Today is the 19th. If you don't come back, I will be killed by you." The phone calls from those men were flooded." Anderson was quite irritable on the phone, and he could clearly feel that he was about to go crazy, "I haven't been disconnected from the phone since the day you left, everyone, I'm not exaggerating. , everyone wants to ask me where you have been, I will count for you, River asked 52 times, Leonardo asked 58 times, Keanu asked 46 times, Johnny Depp asked It's-"

Counting like this will never come to an end, Edmondo interrupted his friend loudly.

"I will go back, but it should be after Christmas. I have to go to a few rounds during the Christmas days. I have to get back the money I lost last time." He said to the agent quite seriously. Said, "Please, dear Anderson, tell them not to worry, I will bring them gifts when I get back."

Edmondo hung up the phone before Anderson could throw a fit, honestly, he couldn't contain his excitement at hearing River and Leo's anxiety about his disappearance, and now they should know what pissed him off It's over.

"Aren't you planning to go back for Christmas?" Leslie Cheung walked over with a wine glass and lightly kicked Edmondo's calf, "I thought you were a devout Catholic, no offense, but you often mentioned that you were A child of God's favor."

"In a sense, my existence proves that people's reverence for God is correct." Edmondo did not answer this question directly, he leaned on the telephone station to look at Leslie Cheung, and then quickly changed the subject, "To interpret You're a little bit overweight for that character—when is Chinese New Year next year?"

"February 2th, wait, what did you mean just now?"

"There is still a long time between now and the beginning of March, and you can lose weight in a healthy way." Edmondo flicked his hair, "Yun Qi (the male lead) was sent to the 'downtown' and suffered a lot, I can't let you appear in the camera as healthy and round as you are now, or do you want me to use special effects technology for post-production?"

"—Oh, you are talking about this, don't worry, I will spend half a month to meet your requirements after the year." Leslie Cheung raised his glass to him, "I have planned everything, including how to diet, how to exercise, and have--"

While talking, he stopped suddenly, looked out the window with dull eyes, and walked there slowly.

"What's the matter? What did you just say is planned?" Edmondo didn't notice the other party's strangeness, and continued to make arrangements for the film's early stage work. "The body problem is not big, and we will use the The special effects technology turns a part of your body into a machine, so you don't have to worry about exposing your shortcomings to the audience—”

Leslie Cheung almost jumped back to Edmondo's side, holding his face with both hands and making him look out the window.

Outside the window is the bustling night scene of Hong Kong. Due to the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors, a lot of fog has condensed on the glass, but it is not difficult to see through the fog. Small white snowflakes are floating in the dark sky.

"It's snow! It's snowing in Hong Kong! I've never seen it snow in Hong Kong!" At this time, he was so excited like a child, he even hugged Edmondo's neck and kissed him on the forehead, and then he took Put on your coat and car keys and rush to the door, "Come on! Let's go to a better place to see the snow!"

His reaction was no different from that of a Florida man who saw heavy snow for the first time. Edmondo raised the corners of his mouth and followed his footsteps and walked out.

Unfortunately, the snow was so small that it was almost negligible. By the time Edmondo and Leslie Cheung drove to the best snow viewing spot, the snow had turned into rain, surrounded by disappointed people. Obviously they all gathered here to see the snow.

Leslie Cheung was optimistic, he threw away his umbrella and walked into the rain.

"It's okay, rain is romantic too," he said.

"Don't make trouble, you'll catch a cold. It's not summer now." Edmondo chased after him with an umbrella, "You are my hero, if you delay because of this, I will deduct your salary."

Leslie Cheung smiled at him and gave him an 'I know you won't' look.

And just when Edmondo was about to say something more, a familiar voice came from behind him. The voice was not loud, but at a certain moment it did overwhelm the surrounding voices and rain.

"Hey! I found you!"

Edmondo was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly put the umbrella into Leslie Cheung's hand, and plunged into the rain.

"Where are you going?" Leslie Cheung yelled at his back, "You said just now that you would catch a cold—oh! This is so sweet!"

Under the watchful eyes of many passers-by, Edmondo ran towards the man in the rain, then almost jumped on him, hugged his neck and kissed him passionately.

The man staggered two steps, then stabilized himself and held Edmondo's thigh to let him hug him tightly. The transparent umbrella was thrown on the ground and splashed, and now they were also wet.

"You found me, little Phoenix."