Poverty story after Tokyo actress

"..."

Well, Jiang Bai suddenly had a sympathy, and the feeling is the same here in Dongying, receiving gifts and receiving a bunch of things that can't be eaten, just like the moon cakes that can never be eaten at home in China's Mid-Autumn Festival... …

But the problem now is... so much glutinous rice, it seems that we can't finish the rice cakes made by ourselves...

The next day, Jiang Bai watched Zhenqin making rice cakes there. In order to prevent this girl from making all the glutinous rice into rice cakes and finally making a pile that no one could finish, Jiang Bai finally kept some glutinous rice Save it for something else.

The technical content of making rice cakes is not high, soaking, steaming, smashing, basically a normal person can do it.

The steamed glutinous rice is put into the oiled stone mortar, and the two hold wooden hammers from left to right, grasping the rhythm and smashing the rice cakes.

"Beep, beep, beep, beep..."

A muffled sound came from the stone mortar. From the beginning, some glutinous rice grains could be seen in the steamed rice cake dumplings, and then gradually formed into a snow-white rice cake dumpling. In the middle, Zhenqin took a break several times, but every time Jiang Bai expressed his acceptance When she came down to do it by herself, the girl stubbornly said that she would continue smashing.

After the rice cake dumpling had completely lost its graininess and became round, Zhenqin and Jiang Bai squatted next to the stone mortar and asked each other: "Hey, Jiang Bai, is this considered ready?"

"You ask me, I don't know, this is also my first time cracking rice cakes..."

"Ah? First time? Then why do you talk about making rice cakes so well?"

"It's basic common sense, my friend."

"Your common sense... you have quite a wide range of knowledge..."

Although I don't know when it will be completed, but looking at the current appearance, it seems that it is almost, maybe, probably... ready to eat?

The cold air in winter allows the rice cakes to quickly set shape after being knocked, but after a while the rice cakes become much harder, and even feel a bit like slate.

"Huh~ The needle doesn't poke, it looks like I still have a talent for making rice cakes~ The two of us are amazing cooks!"

Makoto looked at her masterpiece with satisfaction, and stood arrogantly for a while with her hips on her hips.

Then... Jiang Bai brought out another glutinous rice.

"Then, Ms. Makoto, who is an amazing cook, we still have a few rice cakes to smash."

"what……"

"What? Are you tired after just smashing one?" Jiang Bai raised his mouth and asked Zhenqin with a sluggish face.

"... Ha! How is it possible! No matter how many copies he wants to sell, just come directly!"

In a few hours...

"Aha... ha... no, my arms are numb..."

"Ha~ Not bad, it looks like smashing rice cakes can also encourage you, a house girl, to exercise well. It looks like you can make more rice cakes in the future~"

"Dame! Yay! Butterfly!"

Although the process was extremely difficult (Makoto only), in the end the two of them finished all the rice cakes with customer service difficulties, and that night, Jiang Bai made a few pieces of fried rice cakes and rice cake soup.

But when doing it, Jiang Bai found that...

It seems that I and Makoto... did something wrong.

"Well...why do you feel...miamiamia~ this rice cake...so sticky..." Makoto muttered while eating a piece of "fried rice cake" that could be brushed, frowning. The difference, but the taste is actually good.

And Jiang Bai felt something was wrong the moment he ate the "fried rice cake". This sticky and grainy taste... This is not rice cake, this is glutinous rice cake!I worked hard with Makoto for a day, but I ended up doing something wrong!

However, looking at Makoto's appearance of eating happily, the mistake is that although it is wrong, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

"We seem to have done something wrong..."

"what?"

"This stuff seems not to be rice cakes, but glutinous rice cakes..."

"Hmm... Kacha, miamiamia~ Ciba?"

Zhenqin imitated Jiang Bai's pronunciation and chanted for a while, then shook her head, saying that she had never heard of such a word.

"Maybe Dongying also has it, but it's called another name, hiss... I don't know what I did wrong, it's made into glutinous rice cakes..."

"Well……"

"How about... do it all over again?"

"what!"

Hearing that the rice cake was going to be tapped again, Makoto's body trembled, and she quickly vetoed it: "No, no! The rice cake is very good! It's delicious!"

"But we haven't made mirror cakes yet..."

"No need! You can buy mirror cakes outside, um! You can buy them in the market! Or..."

Saying that, Zhenqin raised the fried rice cake in his hand, and said solemnly: "Since the rice cake is made of glutinous rice, and the rice cake is also made of glutinous rice, and the rice cake is knocked out, and the rice cake is also knocked out, then we can completely use the rice cake as our The rice cake unique to our family, it can be glutinous rice cake or rice cake! Hmm! It’s okay!”

"..."

Wow, as expected of Makoto, she can always come up with some magical logic that we can't even come up with!It's fine, there's nothing wrong with it.

Regarding Zhenqin's nonsense logic, Jiang Bai just smiled and didn't veto it. She is used to this girl's logic.

And what Jiang Bai has to do now is to find a way to get rid of the rice cake soup in the bowl...ah no, it should be called glutinous rice cake soup...

Jiang Bai didn't understand the brain circuit of Dongying people from the beginning. Why did they choose to use high-density carbohydrates such as rice cakes, which have no taste, to stew soup. I thought it would have a special flavor, but now the two Made a mistake and turned into glutinous rice cakes, which caused the rice cake soup to become glutinous rice cake soup...

Glutinous rice cake stew... This is a deviant move in the hometown of Huaxia! ?Even Jiang Bai himself is a little bit unacceptable to this thing that came from his own hands...

Sucking... With the mentality of testing poison, Jiang Bai took a bite of stewed glutinous rice cake... miamia... Hiss, it seems, is it okay?

Chapter 290 Three: The Genetic Family Problem of the Hoshino Family

The new year is approaching, and Jiang Bai has rarely given herself a good vacation. For a few weeks, she has not participated in any work, ah, in fact, the main reason is that she has no crew to continue looking for.

As far as the crew invitations she has received so far, only the crew of "From the Abyss" that Maaya Hoshino offered her an olive branch.

And as a large-scale fantasy movie, From the Abyss requires much more work than those ordinary comics.

During the Chinese New Year, Jiang Bai and Makoto also went to visit his senior traveler, but Maaya said that it is still in the preparation stage, and the real start-up may have to wait until February or even March.

In order to make Jiang Bai feel at ease, Maaya also took her to the crew to observe it. When she really saw the crew from the abyss, Jiang Bai understood why the preparations took so long.

Because in order to ensure that enough real "Skeleton Village" can be shown, the art workers of the crew are replicating a high-level bionic skeleton village!

Although it is impossible to replicate one-to-one, the key scenes are basically crafted with props and built with models bit by bit.

"Why... no special effects?"

Jiang Bai asked Maaya.

"No way, the technology is immature, so we can only use this deadly method. We dug out a lot of excellent modelers and leather case makers from Yuangu to make the scene of the entire Bone Village."

Jiang Bai was quite surprised by Maaya's answer, because from Makoto, she learned that Maaya had a good relationship with Industrial Light & Magic. It stands to reason that as long as Maaya is willing, it must not be difficult to find Industrial Light & Magic to do special effects.

"Don't you have a good relationship with Industrial Light and Magic? Why don't you ask Industrial Light and Magic to do it?"

"Ha, Lucas's company? Well, forget it, after all, it's not my own technology. Is it possible that I will find them for any blockbuster special effects in the future? Then I founded Hongguang Studio for nothing? Special effects? Things, after all, still need to be developed by yourself a little bit.”

"Even if the technology is immature and you can only rely on models and props for assistance, it's better than relying on others and being too lazy to develop yourself."

It's a very simple truth, but if you are willing to spend energy and spend less money to do it, Jiang Bai looked at the busy modelers and prop masters on the set, and nodded.

"And." Just when Jiang Bai was feeling emotional, Maaya added: "Industrial Light and Magic charges are really expensive! Especially for these overhead environments, a little bit of work on modeling and details..."

Saying that, Maaya pointed to the abyss-style moss and plants made by the prop master on the ground, and said, "It's just such a small piece, it might cost hundreds of dollars to the prop master, and it can be rendered by Miyano Mitsumo. It may cost several thousand, and we really can’t afford to hire them for special effects.”

Jiang Bai was taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a wry smile, ah, indeed, the special effects in Europe and the United States are really pure money, and in the investment of 80.00 million knives, [-]% may be spent on special effects.

Until now, Dongying’s film investment amount has not kept up with the large investment in European and American production costs, and the costume blockbuster "Heaven and Earth", which is known as Dongying's largest investment, costs only 20 billion yen, which is equivalent to US dollars. Knife, can barely count as 1200W knife...

And Heaven and Earth was produced in the 90s. Considering inflation, it should be worth 5000 million dollars.

5000 million knives, in the current film investment industry in Europe and the United States, can only be regarded as a medium-cost investment. Compared with those blockbusters that start at [-] to [-] million, this amount of money can only be regarded as a fraction.

And 5000 million knives, in Dongying, the cost of 70 billion, if anyone spends all of it to make a movie, most of them will feel crazy, because even now, Dongying has no movie with a cost of more than 50 billion.

However, the 50 billion mark that no one in Japan has surpassed may not be enough for special effects in Hollywood!

Although there is a problem of different purchasing power in the middle, the authority of special effects is in Hollywood, which directly overwhelms the so-called purchasing power conversion. No matter what purchasing power your yen has in China, if you want to do special effects in Hollywood, you can only convert it. Become a dollar, spend money with the purchasing power of a dollar.

It can be said that the special effects industry is the most intuitive industry affected by the hegemony of the dollar.In terms of general photography, every country is similar, so each country has its own reasonable price, and the cost of each country is determined by purchasing power.

But the authority of special effects has always been in Hollywood. 5000 million US dollars and 5000 million RMB were spent in two countries to shoot movies that did not require special effects, and the results were not much better.

But the difference between a 5000 million U.S. dollar special effects movie and a 5000 million RMB special effects blockbuster is like the exchange rate, you can only be equivalent to one-sixth of the other party!

Why in the previous life, there were so many movies with Hollywood special effects teams as the selling point in China, but the special effects afterward felt like [-] cents, and they were not even as good as the domestic special effects production?

It is because in terms of the purchasing power of Europe and the United States, the large investment you make according to the purchasing power of your own country, in their eyes, is sending beggars away!You think the 3000 million RMB is a huge investment, but in their eyes, what you are giving is a low-cost small production of [-] million dollars.

Even if you don’t pay enough, you still expect to do special effects?

The only way to get rid of this kind of containment is to develop a special effects industry suitable for her own purchasing power. This is what Maaya has been promoting, but... one step at a time, one step at a time.

This is a long way to go.

"Well, let's not talk about this. It may take a few more months for these prop masters to finish all the preparatory work. By the way, the New Year is coming, do you want to come to my house for a gathering?"

"Ah, no, I'd better live with my mother."

"Huh? Your mother?" Maaya's face was quite surprised, "Your mother has also time-traveled?"

"..." Why do you have such outrageous thoughts, Jiang Bai complained in his heart.

Then he explained: "No, I'm talking about my Yuanshen's mother, she is a very good person, and now I am taking care of my mother instead of Yuanshen."

"Ah...you really are filial piety, well, I'm more rebellious...When I first transmigrated, I always had a feeling of repulsion, even disgust, towards this world...so much so that when I was young, I even had a feeling of dislike for me. Parents in the world are also quite indifferent and resistant, they are too traditional."

"But after living in this world for a long time, I found that I don't need to look at the world with such a big hostility, and I gradually saw it, but the gap between the two generations has been completely irreparable. .”

Jiang Bai listened to Maaya's narration, and couldn't help but think that emotion, a family problem of the Hoshino family, is actually a traditional art inherited from the family?

"When my father passed away, I didn't go back to see him in order to make a movie. I didn't have time to put a bouquet of flowers until everyone else was buried and the tombstones were erected... But after so many years, I also understand, what Not having time is just an excuse."

"At that time, I simply didn't want to go back... I didn't want to send my cheap old man for the last time, and I wasn't ready to send him away. I didn't even know what to say to this dying old man. Even now, I don't know what I can say to him..."

"So I used the excuse of not having time to escape, and I am also avoiding now. Even if the time can be restarted, let me go back to that time, I may choose not to go home..."

"When my mother died, I had time, so I stayed with her all the time, but it made me feel awkward. Even though she never asked for anything from me, she always showed the gentleness of a mother, and I was still full of dissatisfaction. comfortable."

"I always regarded them as a familiar stranger... However, on the deathbed, my mother praised me once..."

Saying that, Maaya turned her head and glanced at Jiang Bai, as if she was waiting for something.

And Jiang Bai saw Maaya turning her head, thinking she was looking at other people, so she turned her head and looked around, eh, there is no one?

Maaya's expression turned awkward, and she asked earnestly, "Aren't you curious about what my mother praised?"

"Ah? I'm curious, so Maaya-san, you take the

"... Tsk..." Without getting the response she wanted from Jiang Bai, Maaya was a little embarrassed, so she cleared her throat and continued: "At that time, everyone in the family knew that my mother was dying soon. They all cried there."

"But at that time, I really didn't have any sad emotions. The only feeling I felt was pity... So I was considered an outlier among the tearful people. And my mother praised me specifically for this.

"She said: 'A group of people crying and chirping really disturb people's sleep. Sure enough, Maaya is better. I know that mother likes to be quiet~Maaya, mother may have to sleep for a long time, but you don't have to be sorry, because mother will go soon. I saw my father, so, can Maaya wish her mother? It’s better to say with a smile, it’s auspicious.’”

"I don't know if my mother was justifying my indifference or if she really thought so, but at that time, I was really touched. I smiled and said my best wishes to my mother. In the early morning of that night, she passed away in her sleep. "

Maaya talked about her father and mother in such a flat manner, Jiang Bai even failed to see any so-called nostalgia and regret from her eyes, as if, as she said, she was telling about two familiar stranger.

Looking at Maaya with a flat tone, Jiang Bai asked curiously: "Miss Maaya...do you always feel that you are just a bystander?"

"A bystander? Ah, indeed, I've always felt that way, and I still do until now. I have always had an inexplicable sense of alienation from this world... Even my divorce is because of my alienation."

"Then Maaya-san, do you... regret it?"

"No, actually... I didn't feel anything. I was touched by the words when my mother passed away, but that's all. I didn't cry or feel sad. She went to heaven, and she might be with Dad. Went together, I don't think it's a very sad thing."

"Really...then are you happy?"

"I can't even talk about being happy... After all, life and death are parting, how can you be happy... If I really want to say it, I probably spent a lot of money to buy something, only to find that it was discounted at the next store."

"... This metaphor... is really quite strange."

"Qingqi is just Qingqi. Anyway, that's how it feels to me. Is it a bad thing? It's indeed a bad thing, but to me, it's harmless. I bought everything, and it's impossible to buy another one at a discount just to save it. I also feel the same way about their departure, they have already left, and I can't change their ways to save them..."

"That's free and easy. Maybe the second elder will be very happy to see you so free and easy."

"Ha, I think so too~"

Chapter 290 The Four Monsters!