Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

The clicking sound of taking pictures alarmed Meili, who was playing the piano. She turned her head and looked at Yu Dongqing holding a mobile phone in his hand to take pictures, with some confusion in her eyes.

"Brother-in-law?"

"It's okay. I thought the scene of you playing the piano just now was very beautiful, so I took it for you to take a look at." Yu Dongqing explained quickly.

"Look at it often. What's so beautiful about it?" Meiliang muttered and walked over.

"I want to see, I want to see." The daughter jumped up and ran over, climbed onto Yu Dongqing's lap, and took the phone first: "Oh, Dad, Dad, my aunt is so beautiful."

"Your aunt has always been beautiful."

Ah?

What happened to brother-in-law today?

Such a sweet mouth?

Meili also walked behind Yu Dongqing and looked at the screen on her phone.

It was the silhouette of himself playing the piano. Under a ray of sunshine, the whole person seemed to be emitting a holy light.

"Brother-in-law, you chose the angle of this photo really well! There are people who don't know the light and shadow here and think you are a professional photographer."

Yu Dongqing smiled slightly.

In that time and space, photography was one of my great hobbies!

I remember that I even made a guest appearance as a cinematographer on a whim.

"Dad, take pictures for me too. You must take pictures as beautiful as my aunt!"

"Okay, okay" Yu Dongqing held the mobile phone, and her daughter excitedly displayed various POSS. Yu Dongqing's mobile phone kept clicking.

"I want to take a photo with my aunt!"

"I want to take a photo with my dad"

"I want the three of us to take a photo together!"

Her daughter kept making various requests, and Yu Dongqing fulfilled them one by one.

In the end, Mingliang hugged the little girl, and the three of them stood together very closely.

"Attention. Smile and look into the camera."

"3, 2, 1"

As Yu Dongqing pressed the button, a photo was frozen in the phone.

In the picture, all three people have smiles on their faces.

At almost six o'clock in the afternoon, we started discussing dinner.

"Dad, I want to go to McDonald's!" Yu Tongtong shouted immediately.

"Okay, dad will take you to eat!"

Meiliang next to her glared at Yu Dongqing, didn't she agree not to take her children to eat these fast food? High-calorie and high-fat foods not only make it easy for children to gain weight, but I heard they contain hormones!

But seeing Yu Tongtong's excited look, she swallowed her words again.

Forget it, let’s indulge a bit since it’s the weekend.

Yu Dongqing drove the two of them to a McDonald's on Chaoyang North Road in his white Camry, ordered family photos and ate them.

While Yu Dongqing's family was enjoying the weekend happily, Wu Lan was still busy in the office. Seeing that it was almost six o'clock, she was ready to leave.

This is basically the case every day. Others work from nine to five, but she usually doesn't get off work until after six o'clock.

It was her habit to open her email inbox before leaving to see if she had missed any emails.

Sure enough, there was an email lying quietly inside, and it turned out to be from Yu Dongqing.

Completed the arrangement so quickly?

Wu Lan was a little curious. She put on her headphones and clicked on the audio file. An unfamiliar melody sounded. She was shocked by the majestic momentum created by the sudden suona sound. It was not "Jianghu Overture"!

Wu Lan quickly opened the music score file and saw a few words written on it:

"Knife Club Overture"!

Did he really write the music?

Never heard of it myself.

Wu Lan put on his headphones again and started to admire them quietly.

The suona is followed immediately by the pipa, which has a lively sound and is full of tension.

The two drum sounds at the beginning, the bass drum, have a strong and powerful sound. Later, towards the end, there are several loud gong sounds.

Magnificent and domineering!

Wu Lan was stunned.

This is the first time I heard such majestic martial arts music!

Little did she know that this "Little Knife Club Overture" was one of the "Little Knife Club Suite", which was the soundtrack composed by Shang Yi, a famous composer of that time and space, for the national dance drama "Little Knife Club" in 1959.

The early "Little Knife Club Overture" appeared in King Hu's "Dragon Gate Inn", and it is also Stephen Chow's favorite!

The most typical ones are the movie "Westward Journey" where the Supreme Treasure was spotted with three moles and looked at the demon mirror, and the Supreme Treasure appeared after turning into Sun Wukong before fighting the Bull Demon King, "The Deer and the Cauldron", "Ouchi Secret Agent Ling Ling Fa" and the movies "Kung Fu" and "Journey to the West· Movies such as "Conquer the Demon" have used this soundtrack.

In addition, this soundtrack was also used in the opening music of Sammo Hung's movies "The Rogue One Plum" and "Once Upon a Time in China". "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" is a vivid interpretation of the overture of the Little Knife Club.

Wu Lan listened to it three times in a row before putting down his headphones, calming down his excitement, picking up the phone on his desk, and made three calls in a row.

The first call was made to Zhang Zhongping, the head of the review department, and his voice was crisp and clear: "Old Zhang, you haven't left yet? Well, I have a song to send to you. Check it out immediately to see if it is original. I want to know the result tonight!"

Although she personally trusts Yu Dongqing, this is a necessary procedure.

The second call was to Wang Zheng, the director of "Jianghu Inn".

"Director Wang, we have re-produced a soundtrack. We are reviewing it now and will send it to you. I guarantee your satisfaction this time!" Wu Lan sounded very excited.

The third one was called to Yu Dongqing, with a gentle voice.

"Holly, I'm sorry to disturb you now, but the song "Knife Club Overture" you wrote is very good, and the company decided to adopt it!"

"Oh, I see. Nothing else? I'll hang up if it's okay. I'm having dinner with Tongtong." After saying that, Yu Dongqing hung up the phone.

This guy.

Wu Lan shook her head helplessly,

She was about to tell him how she felt, but she unexpectedly hung up the phone.

"Brother-in-law, who called?"

As Mingliang drank Coke, she heard a woman's voice and was a little curious.

"Oh, it's Wu Lan, the music director of my company. She said that the soundtrack I wrote for the movie "Jianghu Inn" has been adopted by the company."

"Brother-in-law, have you started writing music again?" Meiliang looked surprised.

"Um"

You know, my brother-in-law hasn’t written music for several years!

"Come on, brother-in-law, let's celebrate!" Mei Mingli happily raised the Coke bottle.

"Dad, aunt, I want it too!" Yu Tongtong also quickly raised the milk tea, and the three of them happily drank together.

After eating fast food, Meiliang was about to go home. Yu Dongqing said he would drive her back and the girl agreed.

Meili lived in Yanzi Hutong near Houhai, a small courtyard house passed down from ancestors.

Yu Dongqing drove her to the entrance of the alley and said with a smile, "I won't go in, lest your dad doesn't like me."

"Brother-in-law." Meiliang said softly, but still sighed quietly and got out of the car.

"Bye, aunt." Yu Tongtong, who was sitting in the back row, said quickly.

"Tongtong, be good, listen to daddy, I will pick you up early the day after tomorrow and take you to grandpa's house." Meimei replied, just after taking two steps, something suddenly occurred to her and she turned around to look at Yu Dongqing.

"Brother-in-law, next month is dad's birthday, can you come then? Although dad has some opinions on you, but"

"I know." Yu Dongqing interrupted her: "Don't worry, I will come."

"That's good, bye." Mingliang smiled brightly, turned and walked into the alley.