Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 30 Beautiful Young Woman
Jingle bells ~ jingle bells ~
"Link, are you busy? Your sister Xiaoli is in America. Do you have time to come back and visit?"

"Sister Xiaoli?"

Hearing the Chinese dialect coming from the microphone, Link rubbed his temples. The hippocampus in his head was expanding, and there were more memories that did not belong to him.

"Have you forgotten Liu Xiaoli? In 86, she came to Los Angeles to perform with a domestic song and dance troupe. She stayed at my house for more than a month. During that time, you often visited her."

Aunt Pei reminded on the phone.

"Oh, I remember now. Is she at your place now? Well, I have time in the afternoon. OK, I'll be there almost by the time you finish cooking."

After hanging up the phone, Link continued to look at the documents and signed several purchase orders.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Link left Guess What Pictures and drove to El Monte, east of Los Angeles.

El Monte is a city under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, about 30 kilometers away from the city center, similar to the suburbs of a big city.

The population here is not large, about 5 people, % of whom are Chinese. With the rise in housing prices in the city in recent years, the number of Chinese settling here has increased.

The predecessor lived here for several years.

My predecessor was originally an authentic Chinese. When I was two or three years old, I was adopted by an American couple in an orphanage. They were brought from China to settle in Appleton, Wisconsin in the northeastern United States, and I became an American from then on.

When I was 9 years old, my adoptive parents divorced and I moved to Los Angeles - El Monte with my adoptive mother. When I was 15 years old, my adoptive mother died of a heart attack. I didn't want to be sent to an orphanage, so I ran to a Chinese restaurant near El Monte to work as a child laborer.

Through this, I got to know Aunt Pei, the owner of the restaurant, and received some care from her.

He had been hanging around in El Monte for more than three years. At the age of 18, he went to Los Angeles to work as a porter in a juice factory. Sometimes he would go to a film crew to play a minor role. Once when he was acting as a stand-in, he accidentally fell off the shelf.

He seemed fine at the time, but died suddenly after returning home that night.

The Liu Xiaoli mentioned by Aunt Pei is Aunt Pei’s cousin.

A few years ago, I came to Los Angeles for a performance and came to visit Aunt Pei. My former lover saw that Liu Xiaoli was pretty, so he took the initiative to be her guide and took her around, like a dog.

The car drove to South El Monte and stopped in front of a Chinese restaurant along Valley Avenue. The restaurant was not big, with a sign of "Old Northeastern Restaurant" hanging at the door, and the walls were painted in the characteristic Chinese red.

Link got out of the car with the gift and walked into the store to talk to Aunt Pei and her husband.

When the Chinese people who were eating in the restaurant saw him, they greeted him enthusiastically and said that it was amazing that his movies were selling well in the United States.

Link responded politely.

As he was speaking, a young woman with outstanding appearance came down from upstairs. She had loose black medium-length hair, a tall figure, and was wearing a beige jacket and black pencil pants. She had an outstanding temperament.

The most attractive thing about her is her gentle and graceful temperament like that of a young woman. Her pair of peach blossom eyes are watery and crystal clear. When she stares at people, people may easily misunderstand that she is flirting.

This person is Sister Xiaoli that Aunt Pei mentioned.

What surprised Link was that this Sister Xiaoli looked very similar to the actress mother he had met in the circle in his previous life, except that she was much younger and more beautiful, with crystal smooth skin on her face, without the wrinkles he remembered.

"Are you Link? I haven't seen you for a few years. You've grown so big and are still so handsome. You seem like a different person."

When he was looking at Liu Xiaoli, Liu Xiaoli was also looking at him with a smile. Liu Xiaoli was a little over 1.7 meters tall, shorter than him. When she looked at him, she slightly raised her face with a smile on the corners of her lips.

"I haven't seen you for five or six years. Sister Xiaoli is still as beautiful as ever, like a fairy."

"Haha, you've changed a lot. Not only have you become more handsome, but you've also become more eloquent. I remember that you used to blush easily when you talked."

Liu Xiaoli pointed at his face and laughed.

"Yes, I was a little boy at that time, and little boys always have that kind of expression when they see a pretty older sister."

"Aunt Pei, listen to him speak, he sounds like an old man in his thirties or forties, with a slick tongue."

Liu Xiaoli smiled at Aunt Pei beside her.

"Link is an adult now. Don't all adults talk like this?"

Aunt Pei smiled and invited them to the dining table in the house to eat. There was a large table of Chinese dishes, including twice-cooked pork with bamboo shoots, General Tso's chicken, eel soup, four-happiness meatballs, etc. There were Sichuan, Shandong and Cantonese dishes. While eating, Link and Liu Xiaoli talked about her trip to the United States.

Liu Xiaoli came to the United States more than a month ago. She was initially in New York, where she played a small supporting role in the domestic TV series "Beijingers in New York".

I came to Los Angeles these two days, preparing to find a job and settle down here.

"Settling down here? You should be married, right? Your husband doesn't care about you?"

"We divorced last year because of personality incompatibility. I am living with my daughter now."

Liu Xiaoli brushed her hair with a calm expression, as if she was not affected by the divorce.

"My daughter is here too?"

"Yes, I brought Sissi with me."

"Strong woman!"

Link quipped.

Liu Xiaoli rolled her eyes at him, and her gentle temperament immediately turned fierce, "Humph, men are unreliable, what can women do if they don't become stronger, are they waiting to starve to death?"

"How's your job search going? Are you planning to continue being an actor?"

Link took a sip of soup from a spoon.

"No, I just want to settle down as soon as possible. I don't want to be picky about what job I have."

Liu Xiaoli looked at him, with a hint of hesitation and struggle on her face, then she suddenly became decisive and said with a smile: "Xiao Linzi, the news said that you have become a big director. Do you have any channels to help me find a job? I can dance, I know English, and I can speak a little French."

"Sure, you said you're not picky about jobs, are you really not picky about anything?"

"It has to be a serious job. I don't dare to work as a dancer in a nightclub. If I get the news back home, I'll be laughed at."

"We are friends, why would I introduce you to this kind of work?"

Link put down the spoon, looked at Liu Xiaoli and said, "I have a film company under me and we are recruiting staff. We need people for finance, public relations, assistants, logistics supervisors and other positions. Think about it and tell me which position you think is suitable. I will arrange it for you."

"Okay, this is what you said, I won't be polite with you."

Liu Xiaoli said with a smile.

"You're welcome. We're one family."

"Oh, your Mandarin is getting more and more standard. It seems you have practiced a lot in private."

Liu Xiaoli joked.

"Of course. No matter where we are, we are Chinese at heart. Our hearts are beating like Chinese here, so we must speak Chinese."

Link said, pointing to his chest.

"Haha, you have indeed changed. You have become much more interesting than when you were a child, but you are more smooth-talking and don't seem as honest as before."

Liu Xiaoli peeled a large shrimp and placed the shiny body on his plate.

"This is the way Americans speak. You say whatever you want to say. After a few months, you get used to it."

After having dinner at Aunt Pei's restaurant, Link left his contact information for Liu Xiaoli and drove away from El Monte and returned to Beverly Hills.

On the way, he received a call from Monica Bellucci, who asked him if he had time tomorrow and wanted to have coffee with him and talk about the script and the role.

Link told her the address of Guess Pictures and asked her to meet him at the company tomorrow afternoon.

(End of this chapter)