1979 The Life of Idle Fish

Chapter 542: Digging a hole when first meeting Pete

Ever since Lao Zhangtou knew that Luo Tao was going to shoot a food documentary, he had other ideas in mind.

Especially these days, we have to prepare for the official start of filming.

Jin Ye is naturally the protagonist of this food documentary.

The two old men lived in the same hospital, looking up but not looking down. They each had made achievements in their own industries. He naturally had some thoughts in his heart whether he had it or not.

"Hey, that's why I'm so mysterious! Why do I think so?"

Seeing Luo Tao talk so lightly, Lao Zhangtou said with a straight face, "This matter is still small! Of course it is a small matter to you, but it is a big deal to me."

This is true. People in the past began to write books in order to prevent their theories from being lost in the long river of history.

As for people nowadays, scholars naturally still follow the old path of writing books and biographies.

But with skills like Jin Ye and Lao Zhangtou, not everyone has the ability to write a biography.

So they all hope to go on TV and leave audio and video recordings, just like the singers and opera singers.

When he was asked this question today, Luo Tao also thought that after making a good food documentary?Make another documentary of the "Great Country Craftsman" type.

While the older generation of craftsmen are still young and some techniques are still very traditional, why not record them.

Thinking about it this way, Luo Tao personally thinks it's pretty good.

Also, since I had the idea of ​​forming a Xichang shooting team before, isn’t this a good genre?

Luo Tao smiled and said to him: "Have you always wanted to be on TV?"

Lao Zhangtou was also honest. In his opinion, Luo Tao just asked something that was not true, "Isn't this nonsense? Who wouldn't want to?"

After complaining, he quickly realized what Luo Tao had revealed, and his attitude immediately made a 360-degree turn. He said with a smile: "I just said that you are very capable. You can't handle such a small thing easily."

Luo Tao just smiled at this.

After a while, she said to him: "When the food documentary is finished, I will have someone shoot a special episode for you."

Hearing Luo Tao's kiss promise, Lao Zhangtou was very excited about the result. He held Luo Tao's hand tightly and said, "Taozi, we men speak with spit and nail. If you say this today, tomorrow No regrets."

Luo Tao first shook off his painful iron hand.

"I said this as if I had lied to you.

By the way, the reporter from the United States is coming over for an interview. I think this garden is pretty good. If you have nothing to do, could you please give it a try and make it more beautiful? It will also make us look good when the time comes. "

Luo Tao put forward his request very naturally, and Lao Zhangtou also responded very naturally. The old man and the young man cooperated very well.

After inspecting the Orchid Garden and seeing that there was nothing else to do, Luo Tao quietly left with Xu Lexun and a few pots of flowers.

Time flies, time flies.

The day of the interview finally arrived.

On such an important day, everyone in the family, except Luo Tao and their two children, seemed particularly excited.

When I got up early in the morning, the courtyard was in a state of shock.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I heard a burst of chicken crows coming from the backyard, which actually woke me up.

My mother, Su Guilan, directed Ermei to catch chickens in the chicken coop, "Ermei, don't panic, catch them when you get closer."

For a while.

"Ouch! I asked Ermei, are you from the countryside? Why can't you even catch a chicken?"

"Mr. Su, I used to feed old hens at home, but I haven't fed old roosters. I really haven't caught them."

This answer defeated Su Guilan. She could only shake her head and leave a sentence, "Remember to catch the rooster with the big red crown."

After giving instructions a few times, I watched Ermei clumsily catching the chicken, feeling anxious and unable to do anything else.

Su Guilan is not young now. It would be really difficult for her to catch the chickens herself.

After saying the next sentence, she chose to be out of sight and out of mind, letting Ermei catch her however she wanted.

"Oh! I know."

When Su Guilan left the backyard, Ermei showed a fierce expression and looked around at the big roosters in the chicken coop.

All of a sudden, chickens and dogs were jumping around, and even the hens, which usually didn’t like to crow, started to cluck unexpectedly.

It seems that he is watching the excitement.

Make a heckling sound.

Luo Tao couldn't bear the noise, so he was forced to get up early.

Put on the gray tunic suit that Zhu Lin picked out at midnight last night.

While washing up in the courtyard.

Seeing Zhu Lin come out of the little girl's room in the west wing, Luo Tao took a mouthful of foam star, quickly gargled his mouth, and asked: "Why are you thinking about killing chickens today if you are so disrespectful?"

Zhu Lin is the head of the family, and she takes care of all these trivial matters.

However, it turned out that Luo Tao still looked at her favorably.

She didn't say anything, and her eyes pointed Luo Tao towards the kitchen, meaning that Luo Tao should go directly to ask the person involved.

Then he took the little girl's clothes and entered the east wing.

Luo Tao was left in the courtyard, holding the red star tea porcelain jar in his hand, looking at the east wing and then the kitchen.

The confusion on his face gave Luo Tao the illusion that there was something wrong with the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
In order to find out the matter, Luo Tao went directly to his mother, Su Guilan, and after some careful investigation, he found out that the chicken was killed to celebrate Luo Tao's interview with foreign media today.

As for her and Zhu Lin, there was nothing at all.

Only then did his hanging heart fall to the ground.Luo Tao is not afraid of anything else, but now he is afraid of disharmony among family members.

This is also a shadow left by his previous life. He Luo Tao doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes in this life, and continue to follow the old path again.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

Luo Tao met Peter and his party at Orchid Garden on the east coast of Houhai.

"Mr. Luo, this is Mr. Peter, the China reporter for The Wall Street Journal."

The person who spoke was Ms. Fu Ying from the Foreign Affairs Department. She was Jin'er's translator and the highest-ranking person present besides Luo Tao.

Luo Tao and her had met before and were considered acquaintances compared to the others.

Pete, like other gringos, has fair skin, green eyes, yellow hair, a hooked nose, and is tall.

Luo Tao was sizing him up, and he was still sizing up Luo Tao.

The two people's eyes soon met. Seeing that the conflict was about to break out, Luo Tao smiled slightly, and he smiled back at Luo Tao.

Luo Tao extended his hand to express welcome: "Hello Mr. Peter, you are very welcome to come."

Without waiting for Fu Ying's translation, his big hands tightly grasped Luo Tao's relatively small hands.

He said in his extremely lame Chinese: "Thank you, hello, Mr. Luo Tao."

Luo Tao didn't expect that he could speak Chinese, nor did he expect that he could speak with such personality, with two words falling out.

Regarding language, Luo Tao couldn't act ungentlemanly and laughed at his poor Chinese.

“Your Chinese is very good!”

He obviously didn't understand this sentence, so he gestured to Fu Ying to translate it.Pete has only been in China for a few months, and he can now speak several common vocabulary fluently, which is already very good.

Fu Ying immediately translated for him.

He was very happy to hear that, and said thank you twice.

Then Luo Tao shook hands with several other people, which was regarded as acquaintance.

Before talking about business, Luo Tao also knew how to communicate well. He took them to visit the Orchid Garden first, and then talked about other things.

Today, there is no one else in Lanyuan except them.

Go to the back from the front yard, pass through the corridor, and enter the back garden.

It’s April when the spring breeze brings warmth and flowers begin to bloom.

The scenery that comes into view can only be described as charming.

Winter jasmine, kapok, magnolia, lilac, globe red... mixed with a few bonsai-style apricot blossoms, peach blossoms, beauty plums, arranged on both sides of the aisle or between rocks.

They echo each other and are incomparably beautiful.

Everyone watched mesmerized, even Peter, a foreigner, was intoxicated by such beautiful scenery.

As Luo Tao walked and chatted with Peter and others, he had to give Lao Zhangtou a thumbs up in his heart.

I must admire his good gardening skills.

When we came to the theater floor, tables and chairs had been placed.

Luo Tao invited them to take a seat.

Half basking in the little morning sun, he asked Pete with a smile: "I wonder if Mr. Pete likes Chinese gardening?"

(The following are all simultaneous interpretations)

He was very happy and looked surprised, "I like it very much. I have always heard about it before, but I finally saw it today. I am very happy and excited.

...This is the most beautiful flower art I have seen in my life. "

Listening to him speak, Luo Tao had the illusion that he was a fool!

Just a few pots of flowers?It has to do with art anyway.

Is art so popular in China?Just a few pots of flowers.

Luo Tao smiled and praised their country's human body... modern garden art.

If you are not careful, you may speak your mind.

He was very pleased with this and chatted with Luo Tao about art very enthusiastically. Foreigners are foreigners, compared to us, they are very casual.

The two chatted for a while on the road of art, and then Luo Tao tried his best to bring the topic back.

It’s better to talk about the current scenery.

"It's very beautiful. It's like a big garden here, which makes my heart linger... Unfortunately, there are some flowers and plants that I have never seen in Meijiang."

Pete praised the beauty of the orchid garden without hesitation, and then complained a little about his knowledge.

This kind of self-criticism moved Luo Tao very much.

This means that I am short-sighted, and this clearly means that my short-sightedness comes from the fact that there is no such species in the country.

After this conversation, Luo Tao gradually understood the pulse of this foreigner. He knew a lot about China and liked Chinese culture, but he still retained a lot of Western self-awareness.

To put it bluntly, he personally thinks he is higher than us.

"Then Mr. Peter should learn more about China in the future. In this ancient land of China, there is not only horticultural art, but also many excellent cultures... If you want to truly understand Chinese culture, then you can You must be able to speak Chinese.”

He agreed very much with Luo Tao's suggestion and said that he must study Chinese well in the future.

Then it officially entered the interview time.

"I also learned a little bit about your life before this interview. I don't know whether it is accurate or not. I would like to ask you for confirmation?"

They are very strict in what they say and do, which is a bit like a Westerner.

Luo Tao naturally had no reason not to respond to this question.

The two of you come and go verbally...

Afterwards, he showed a surprised expression, as if he had discovered a new continent, "You chose to go to sea in 79, so you should be the first group of people in China to go to sea. In your words, you are the leader of this industry."

Luo Tao didn't dare to accept this big hat.

"No, I'm just the one who got the benefits of the reform very early, and I'm far from the leader you said."

Peter is not surprised by such answers. In the past few months since he came here, he has also interviewed many heavyweights. When they talk about contribution, they always attribute it to the collective.

He doesn't quite understand this kind of thinking yet. When he hears it more, he has to force himself to understand it.

He naturally ignored the topic. He knew that instead of dwelling on this settled question, it would be better to ask something more valuable.

For example, the history of Xichang's fortune.

In particular, where did the initial start-up capital come from?

For Luo Tao, this is definitely a problem that will kill him.

Was he planning to expose his background, or was he doing it in front of the organization?

But now he can't avoid this problem, everyone is looking at him.

Rather than hiding something, it is better to be frank and lenient.

However, Luo Tao would not stupidly say that he made his fortune by selling antiques. By saying so, he would lay a trap for himself and let later Internet archaeologists catch his little pigtails.

But I have to admit it.

Fortunately, Luo Tao was gifted. He made full use of his eloquence and briefly described how he had sold several pieces of folk art to foreign friends.

Then he focused on emphasizing that his family was well off and he had a considerable amount of royalties at that time, so that he could hide the matter.

Luo Tao couldn't hide this even if he wanted to. This was one of the few stains in his life.

Pete took his notes seriously, and so did everyone else.

The words have been spoken, and as for how they write it, that's their business. I don't expect them to be too shady about Luo Tao.

"I think more people will choose to enjoy life when they have money. So why do you want to do charity? As far as I know, you are the first entrepreneur in China to donate money?
Moreover, the amount of donation is also very huge. Are you really doing it voluntarily? "

This last question has a bit of a BBC feel to it, and he meant something.

"Enjoy it, of course you have to enjoy it. From now on, I will eat meat every meal, especially pork belly."

Luo Tao's answer triggered bursts of laughter.

"To be honest, I never thought that one day, I would do charity. ...

Seeing the disaster coming, when the kindness deep in my heart was inspired, money became not so important to me. …”

Luo Tao answered this tricky question with extremely simple words.

"Everyone hopes that they will be good, and few hope that they will learn to be evil... People also believe that if they do too many good things, they will go to heaven after death, and if they do too many evil things, they will go to hell after death."

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