Chapter 102: Old Hen Pays New Year's Call to Weasel

A piece of melodious music was playing, making people unable to help but sink into it, and a sad emotion surged out just by listening.

"Okay, this segment matches this!" Wu Yuchen decided after listening to this piece of music mainly based on the accordion.

In *My Brothers and Sisters*, the father played by Cui Jian is a teacher who can play the accordion. This setting is not only because of the plot needs. There are two kinds of musical instruments that come with a sense of the times and tear-jerking effects, which are the harmonica and the accordion. It is not just because of their timbre. For those who have experienced the 70s and 80s, these two musical instruments can evoke their memories as soon as they sound, and can increase their sense of substitution and stimulate emotions.

After finalizing this most important piece of music, Wu Yuchen also breathed a sigh of relief. The remaining post-production is left to the Beijing Film Studio, and he can take a break.

In the original movie, because the actress playing the female lead, Gigi Leung, is a singer herself, she also specially sang an ending song *About Love*. The producer's original intention should be to use it as a promotional point, but the quality of the song is average, belonging to the kind that doesn't even have a song comment on the music APP in later generations. It cannot be said that it has no influence on the movie promotion, it can only be said that it can be completely ignored.

But now the female lead has been changed to Joey Wong. Wu Yuchen didn't intend to let her sing any ending song or theme song, and didn't lack this bit of traffic and gimmick at all.

Of course, a more critical point is that Wu Yuchen didn't dare to let Joey Wong open her mouth. She is a real soul singer!

Many people should have heard the representative work *Missing is a Disease* by Zhang Zhenyue, but in fact, few people know that this song was written by Chyi Chin in 1989 for Joey Wong to sing.

Joey Wong sang it into *Missing is a Cake*, making a good song covered in dust for eighteen years! It wasn't until Zhang Zhenyue covered it later that this song became popular.

And Joey Wong belongs to the kind who is bad at singing but addicted to it. In the 1991 Miss Hong Kong finals, she was a guest performer and insisted on singing, and she sang two songs solo, *200 Degrees* (Cantonese) and *Dream Awakening* (Mandarin). Sarah Chen wanted to cry after listening, Sally Yeh wanted to hit someone after listening, and could only cry and applaud under the stage after listening, saying: "It was sung so beautifully!"

There are thousands of soul singers, and Joey Wong kneels as soon as she opens her mouth!

After leaving the Beijing Film Studio, Wu Yuchen drove to Li Xiaoran's place. After opening the door and entering the house, he saw her staring at the computer without blinking, the mouse in her hand moving quickly, and an excited expression on her face.

Wu Yuchen walked over and looked at the buildings she had just built and the small tanks moving one by one. Isn't this *Red Alert*?

Although Red Alert 1 is called Red Alert 95, in fact, this game came out at the end of '96. Because the game supports the Windows 95 operating system, it is called Red Alert 95. However, this game did not pass the review in China, so everyone played pirated versions. The reason for not passing the review is not because of the game content, but because of its game background information.

Great scientist Einstein invented a time machine to travel back and kill the leader Hitler. Without Hitler and his Third Reich, the Soviet Union began to expand rapidly under Stalin's rule, first annexing China, and then beginning to invade Western Europe. In order to deal with the Soviet Union, the Allies were formed to resist.

That's right, the great China was annexed by the Russians in the game data of Red Alert. It would be strange if it could pass the review in China!

"Sister, tell you a good news!"

Li Xiaoran's body didn't move at all, and her eyelids didn't lift: "Wait, I'm busy~"

Wu Yuchen stood behind her and watched for a while. Li Xiaoran should have just started playing this game not long ago, and she didn't have any tactics, and played a draw with a simple computer.

He had no interest in watching amateurs bicker, so he sat on the sofa and turned on the television. He began to watch *Prime Minister Liu Luoguo* with great interest. This show had been extremely popular since its release last year, sweeping across the country.

Although according to a certain classification, *Prime Minister Liu Luoguo* also belongs to the Qing dynasty costume drama, the ideological, critical, and satirical nature embodied in this play can be said to beat more than 95% of the same type of dramas later.

After watching one episode, Wu Yuchen found that Li Xiaoran's posture hadn't changed at all. He walked over and found that she had started a new game, just played the Soviet Union, and now played France.

"Sister Ranran, get up, I have something to tell you." Wu Yuchen patted her shoulder.

"Wait, wait, wait until I finish this game!" Li Xiaoran was obviously addicted at this time.

Seeing this, Wu Yuchen moved in his heart, hugged her waist from behind her, and seeing that she didn't react, his hands began to roam unconsciously, and at the same time kissed her fair and delicate neck lightly.

"Don't mess around, don't mess around!" Li Xiaoran shook her body, but the mouse in her hand didn't stop.

Seeing this, Wu Yuchen became more presumptuous. Li Xiaoran was annoyed by him. Before long, she fell into a disadvantage, and soon the base was pushed by the prism tanks on the opposite side.

She pouted and turned her head angrily: "It's all your fault, it's all your fault!"

Wu Yuchen took the opportunity to block her mouth directly, picked her up and walked to the bedroom. Li Xiaoran kept whimpering and patting Wu Yuchen's arm, quite dissatisfied with him causing her to lose the game.

But Wu Yuchen didn't care at all. He wanted to let Li Xiaoran experience more advanced weapons personally. Can the French giant cannon in Red Alert be as powerful as his Chinese giant cannon?

Not long after, the room turned into a battlefield, with artillery fire, causing Li Xiaoran's position to fall many times!

Li Xiaoran lay on her side on the bed, her whole body revealing a lazy look. Seeing Wu Yuchen looking at herself with a smile, she pouted and hummed softly: "Really annoying!"

"Didn't you like it very much just now?"

"Just now is just now, now is now, I was clearly about to win!"

Wu Yuchen smiled and turned to ask: "How is your learning with your teacher during this period?"

Wu Yuchen also gave Li Xiaoran a salary of tens of thousands for shooting *Run Lola Run*. After she came back, she didn't run out to run alone anymore, but followed the teachers Wu Yuchen contacted for her to practice basic skills.

After Li Xiaoran finished shooting a movie as the female lead, she also knew that she was lacking in many aspects, so she deliberately went to learn to make up for it. With the previous shooting practice and then coming back for targeted training, she felt that she had made great progress during this period.

However, she was still dissatisfied with Wu Yuchen harassing her and causing her to lose the game, and she didn't speak after rolling her eyes at him.

Wu Yuchen smiled and rubbed her butt, didn't say anything, reached out and took something and handed it to Li Xiaoran.

"What is this?"

Li Xiaoran looked at Wu Yuchen suspiciously, then opened it and looked. Seeing this pile of English, she was a bit confused at first, but after recognizing some words, she couldn't help but look surprised and said a bit incredulously: "This is..."

Wu Yuchen nodded: "Well, Berlin Film Festival invitation! Take you to Berlin after the Spring Festival!"

Hearing this, a strong joy surged in Li Xiaoran's heart, and she threw herself on Wu Yuchen and kissed him fiercely.

"Am I still annoying?" Wu Yuchen couldn't help asking with a smile.

"Love you to death! Love you to death!"

Li Xiaoran's eyes narrowed into a line, hugging Wu Yuchen and cheering. She was indeed very happy. She was a newcomer actor. When she first entered the industry, she could only run errands and play small supporting roles in TV series. She remembered all the white eyes she received in the crew at that time.

And now, only half a year later, she can participate in the Berlin Film Festival as the female lead. Li Xiaoran naturally knows who brought this change and encounter to her, and her chest couldn't help but feel moved again, turning over and riding on Wu Yuchen.

Wu Yuchen raised his eyebrows. She was begging for mercy after being killed by him just now, and now she thinks she can do it again? He doesn't mind letting Li Xiaoran taste his Black Eagle bombing tactics again!

The Spring Festival this year was in early February, so there is no need to run to Berlin for the New Year like last year. It is not too late to go after the Spring Festival.

On New Year's Eve, Wu Yuchen and his family arrived at their grandparents' house, wrapped dumplings, cooked sweet rice balls, and spent the reunion night together.

This year, Wu Jianping and Wu Yuchen, father and son, naturally became the focus of the dinner table. After all, one became a popular writer, and the other shot a movie and won an award, and it was released in the cinema.

"Brother, let's talk behind closed doors. Is *Drawing Sword* really written by you and Chenchen together?"

"Hi! I said it was a story created by Chenchen, and I wrote it. It doesn't matter if outsiders don't believe it. Don't you know me? If I could write it, I would have written it myself!"

"That is, who dares to doubt my eldest grandson! Chenchen, Grandma believes you! And the movie you shot is really good, *The Postman in the Mountains*, and that *Comet* something, I went to the cinema with your grandpa to watch it!" Wu Yuchen's grandmother praised with a smile.

"Grandma, it's called *Coherence*! Brother, I especially like your movie. I took my classmates to the cinema to watch it 5 times!"

Wu Yuchen's cousin, three years younger, looked at his cousin admiringly and asked for credit.

"I'll get you a collective autograph of them tomorrow~" Wu Yuchen said with a smile.

"Thank you brother!" The cousin laughed foolishly.

Wu Yuchen chatted and laughed with his relatives, eating dumplings while watching TV. In this day and age, watching the Spring Festival Gala is a must-have item.

'97 is the year of Hong Kong's return, so this year's Spring Festival Gala theme naturally revolves around Hong Kong's return.

For example, a song was sung twice in this Spring Festival Gala, which is unprecedented and will not be followed in the history of the Spring Festival Gala, respectively at the beginning and end of the Spring Festival Gala, which is *Hand in Hand, Heart to Heart*. And the heavy track before the zero-point bell is the star chorus *AD 1997*, a song created for Hong Kong's return.

Of course, golden sentences were also born. Zhao Benshan shouted to Fan Wei in front of the people of the whole country: "Laborers are the most beautiful people!"

However, the Spring Festival Gala that left the deepest impression on Wu Yuchen was a combination that many people in later generations don't know, "Youth Beauty Combination," which can be called the grandmother generation of mainland girl groups. Five youthful and beautiful girls used their light dance postures to turn into "youth birds" on the stage. Their appearance made the previous programs pale.

This girl group is actually quite popular in these years, and has also performed in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and many other places. Many people have not heard the name of this combination, but those who have experienced this era should have heard a song, *Happy Baby*, which is also the advertisement song of Beibeijia.

But the absolute C position in the combination, the core player girl Jiang Zhongyi, was the first to withdraw from the combination after the '97 Spring Festival Gala. The official reason is that Teacher Liu Huan earnestly taught her not to give up learning after the Spring Festival Gala. Then there is nothing to say about this combination, and the first generation of popular mainland girl groups disbanded.

Wu Yuchen couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the sprout of the Chinese girl group was pinched off by Teacher Liu Huan invisibly.

Wu Yuchen threw away this irrelevant miscellaneous thought with a light smile. He undoubtedly gained huge gains in the past year. In terms of awards, there are Berlin Golden Bear Short Film, Tokyo International Film Festival Grand Prize and Best Actress, as well as small awards brushed by *Coherence* at the Sydney Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, etc. In terms of money, he has accumulated considerable wealth from several movie copyrights, and has also gained a lot in the stock market.

However, thinking of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival, he hopes to have greater gains this time!

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Li Xiaoran was brought to Wu Yuchen's house by her parents to pay a New Year's call. Originally, Wu Yuchen really thought it was like paying a New Year's call as usual, but after a while, he understood.

"Chenchen, you tell Auntie, is what Xiaoran said true? Is she really shooting a movie with you now? Is she going to the Berlin Film Festival soon?"

"Auntie, it's true. Xiaoran has the talent to be an actor, so I invited her to be the female lead!" Wu Yuchen naturally wanted to speak for Li Xiaoran at this time.

"Hey! This girl is really going to piss me off! She has resigned for more than half a year and didn't tell us. If it weren't for going abroad soon, how long would she hide it from us? Am I still your biological mother!"

Li Xiaoran's mother angrily criticized in front of her old girlfriend Zhou Shulan.

"Mom! Am I not fine? The song and dance troupe is nothing great. I can support myself now..." Li Xiaoran retorted.

Li's mother patted the table angrily:

"Nonsense! You said that the establishment of the song and dance troupe is so easy to earn? How many people broke their heads and couldn't get it! If it weren't for Chenchen taking care of you, do you really think you can be a female lead!"

Zhou Shulan immediately opened her mouth to persuade:

"Okay, okay, it's the New Year, what are you angry about! I think what Xiaoran said is not a lie. She has had artistic talent since she was a child. Which teacher didn't treat her as a treasure? If the child doesn't love dancing, forget it. Didn't you force her to complete your own dream back then? Changing to an industry she likes, maybe she can become a big star in the future!"

"Big stars are not so easy! This crazy girl is really pissed off!"

Li's mother said and sighed again, then turned her head to Wu Yuchen:

"Chenchen, Auntie knows you are a capable person. I heard that the entertainment industry is very chaotic. Xiaoran is an actor now, you have to take care of her more, don't let her be bullied!"

"Auntie, don't worry, I know how close I am to Ranran, how could I let her suffer! I will definitely take good care of Ranran in the future!" Wu Yuchen promised solemnly.

Li Xiaoran glanced at her mother holding Wu Yuchen with a bad look, and muttered silently in her mouth, you are really an old hen paying a New Year's call to a weasel, and it is he who bullies the most! ===== CHAPTER 103 =====