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Chapter 41 Waiting for you to come back with the Palme d’Or (please read~)

In a clean and tidy single room, on a medium-sized square table, the clear soup base in a copper hot pot is constantly surging, exuding bursts of fragrance.

Chen Shiping poured the chopped cabbage into the pot and added some vermicelli.

Yu Hua, who came to eat, was sniffing his nose and couldn't wait. Hachiko was also wagging his tail happily beside him.

Tao Huimin brought two plates of mutton and put them on the table, and said with a smile: "It's ready to eat."

When Tao Huimin sat down, Chen Shiping and Yu Hua looked at each other and at the same time picked up their chopsticks and pointed them at the mutton on the plate.

The thin mutton fell into the clear soup and rolled up and down a few times, and it was immediately cooked and the bright red color faded.

The cooked mutton is rolled in a circle of thick sauce in the prepared sesame sauce bowl, and the aroma of the mutton and sesame sauce is immediately released.

Chen Shiping couldn't help but swallow, put the mutton into his mouth, chewed it a few times and let out a satisfied sigh.

Eating a mutton hotpot in winter is simply a magical day.

"It smells so good!" Yu Hua also said with a satisfied look on his face.

"Wang!"

Hachiko looked at the two of them anxiously, wagging his tail, "You all ate mine!" Where's my mutton!

Tao Huimin made a small bowl of mutton and poured it into Hachigong's dog bowl, hoping that it would be too laborious for a man to raise a dog.

Chen Shiping and Yu Hua saw Hachigong eating with his mouth full of oil. They looked at each other and at the same time rolled the mutton in their chopsticks in sesame sauce and put it into their mouths.

The two of them had a great time eating the mutton, and Tao Huimin ate the cabbage quietly. The sweet cabbage was fragrant with meat, and every bite was filled with fresh and sweet soup.

How can you eat mutton without drinking alcohol? Chen Shiping specially bought a bottle of Erguotou. The green bottle looks like beer. He used chopsticks to pry open the bottle cap, and a fragrance immediately wafted out.

The clear liquor fell into the glass and hops floated. These days, Erguotou is really made from pure grains.

The feeling is different when you drink it. Although it is spicy, the aftertaste leaves a fragrant aroma in your mouth.

After downing a glass of wine, Chen Shiping and Yu Hua slowed down their eating speed and started chatting.

"I heard from my siblings that you are writing a novel again? Have you finished writing the first draft?" Yu Hua looked at Chen Shiping curiously, with a hint of envy in his tone.

Why is it so easy for Chen Shiping to write a long novel? It will be great if he can write a long novel himself someday.

"The second edition has been written, but there are still many problems. I can write slowly and don't rush." ​​Chen Shiping explained casually, but felt a little helpless.

This time, unlike Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller, who had to just write and copy it, this time he was revising the novel.

There is a huge difference between copying and editing. I haven’t written it myself yet, otherwise the process will be even more difficult.

But what Chen Shiping said is right. He has plenty of time, so just write slowly.

Chen Shiping and Yu Hua were chatting and eating, and soon it was half past seven.

Many households in the Tongzi Building have already finished their meals and are beginning to greet their close friends to go to the auditorium to grab a seat and wait to watch the party.

After Chen Shiping and the others finished eating, they hurried to the auditorium, leaving Hachigong to look after the house.

The seats in the auditorium are divided according to each workshop, but there are too many people in the factory to seat so many people bring their own stools.

Yu Hua was still a little embarrassed that an outsider occupied a seat.

"Sit down, we don't let guests stand." Chen Shiping smiled and pushed Yu Hua down on his seat.

Yu Hua chuckled and said, "I'm not a guest, but I can see clearly from this position."

There were so many performances at the Beijing Film Studio's party, and all the actors in the studio were versatile. Tao Huimin just entered the factory late, otherwise he would have been arranged to perform.

This year I can be lazy and sit in the audience and watch the performance.

There are quite a few star actors and actresses in the factory, but the most famous ones are the actresses.

These days, male actors are not as famous as female actors. Even popular film magazines with high sales do not use male actors on their covers.

Most people don't like watching male actors, they all like pretty girls.

When famous actresses like Liu Xiaoqing, Fu Yiwei, and Lin Fangbing came on stage to perform, the applause in the auditorium nearly lifted the roof.

"Today will be unforgettable, tonight will be unforgettable, no matter the ends of the earth or the ends of the earth..."

Finally, the unforgettable evening party ended with a chorus. When we came out of the Litang, everyone was still humming and wishing the motherland well.

After the show, everyone went back to their homes. Yu Hua also returned to Beijing Normal University alone. He was the only one living in the dormitory tonight.

There is no need to dislike Mo Yan for disturbing his creation, but I don't know if the deserted dormitory will make him homesick.

New Year's Day has passed, and the New Year's Day is not far away. The factory is also on New Year's holiday. Many people in the factory rushed back to Laojia to celebrate the New Year.

Tao Huimin originally wanted to take Chen Shiping home to celebrate the New Year, but Chen Shiping was unwilling, so in the end he had to go home alone full of regrets.

Tao Huimin felt that Chen Shiping didn't want to completely settle down with him now, and was somewhat repelled by all topics related to marriage.

But he is already twenty-six after the Chinese New Year. He is twenty-seven years old and twenty-eight years old. He is thirty years old. Why is he not in a hurry to get married? Tao Huimin was worried about Chen Shiping and didn't know when he planned to get married.

Thinking of Chen Shiping going to Cannes to participate in the film festival in May, she vaguely wondered if Chen Shiping wanted to think about this issue after winning the award.

Will you consider starting a family and starting a business after you become successful?

Tao Huimin was particularly looking forward to Chen Shiping winning the Palme d'Or in Cannes and then returning to China to propose to him.

New Year's Eve is coming soon.

The aroma of food spreads everywhere in the crowded corridors of Tongzilou, and food is cooking in pots set up in the corridors of every household.

Big red lanterns are hung at both ends of the corridor, and the characters "福" are also posted on the doors of every house.

Many bored men stood at the door, eating melon seeds and chatting, and there were many children running back and forth in the aisles.

"Little ancestor, run slower!"

"Be careful with the pot, don't hit it!"

"You knocked off my sausage, Lao Li! Take care of your children!"

Chen Shiping dodged a group of wild boys and stepped on a small stool to put up a banner, holding a bowl of steaming paste in his hand.

"It's crooked, move it to the left." The neighbor next to him took a look and said.

"so?"

"Well, just right."

Chen Shiping finished posting it neatly, jumped down and took a closer look and said, "Not bad, it feels like home."

Hachiko is also barking, but he is a little listless. Where has the gentle mistress gone? This home is incomplete!

I want to eat the ribs fed by the hostess! I want to go have fun in the snow with her!

Hachiko groaned and lay at Chen Shiping's feet with his tail hanging down, feeling that the excitement outside had nothing to do with them.

Chen Shiping ignored the mental health of a dog. After stewing a pot of mutton for himself, he sat at his desk and started writing a book.

You still have a lifetime, you can't live by plagiarism, improving your own abilities is the foundation of your life.

Chen Shiping is a very self-disciplined person. During the whole New Year, except for visiting the leaders in the factory to pay New Year greetings, he hardly went out to play.

Where can a grown man go with a dog?

Every day I write, walk the dog, and then call Tao Huimin and then Chen Hong.

Each time I talk to Tao Huimin on the phone, I can talk for up to ten minutes, and if I talk to Chen Hong on the phone, I can talk for half an hour.

What you can't get is the commotion.

After the New Year, everything returned to normal. Chen Shiping went to work and went to school every day.

The literature class has an entrance exam this semester. The reason why the entrance exam is scheduled in the second semester is to take care of many students who do not have solid theoretical knowledge and have low overall education levels.

The enrollment requirements for literature classes are relaxed to at least junior college. Many students have graduated from junior college and have never systematically studied writing before. They rely on their talent to support their writing.

Among the courses taken in the first semester are "Creative Aesthetics", "Special Topics in Literary Culture", "Special Topics in Western Literary Theory", "English", "Special Research on Marxist-Leninist Literary Theory", etc.

This is the first time for many people to come into contact with such a systematic course. If they take the exam before enrolling, at least half of them will fail.

The entrance exam after school started was not difficult for Chen Shiping. He had basically studied it in his previous life and passed the exam easily.

After his academic problems were temporarily resolved, Chen Shiping started working on movies again.

Time passed in a blink of an eye, and when May came, Chen Shiping began to feel nervous.

Domestically, distribution and screening arrangements have already begun. We are waiting for Chen Shiping and others to go to Cannes and get good results before returning home, and they will release it immediately.

In Chen Shiping's dormitory, Tao Huimin was packing Chen Shiping's things for Cannes.

It’s not cold in Cannes in May, so you don’t need to bring anything with you, but it’s my first time going abroad and I always want to bring a few extra things just in case.

Chen Shiping saw Tao Huimin stuffing the box so full that it was almost impossible to zip it up. He said with some humor: "I'm only going away for a few days. You've prepared so many things because you don't want me to come back."

"What if you need anything when you are away from home? It's a waste to spend money on things abroad that are so expensive."

Tao Huimin pressed on the box and pulled the zipper hard. It took a lot of effort to zip it up.

"Producer Chen! I have your phone number!"

Suddenly there was a shout outside the door, and Chen Shiping gave up trying to persuade Tao Huimin and ran out to answer the phone.

Chen Shiping ran downstairs and picked up the receiver. Just after he had spoken, he heard Chen Hong's voice coming from the other end of the phone.

"I'm waiting for you to come back in Shanghai with the Palme d'Or."

(End of this chapter)