Chapter 2 Part 1 - 1

I have known Sammo Hung so far, I have forgotten how many years. The first cooperation was to shoot "Fuxing Gaozhao".The location of Tokyo needs some side streets and alleys, and the area I am most familiar with is called Kagurazaka District, which was the place where geisha concentrated in the past, and it still retains the flavor of the Edo period, which is exactly the momentum in the mind of director Sammo Hung. After seeing it, I decided that it would take two to three hours for the staff to light up the night scenes there, so I took Sammo Hung to a small restaurant I often go to for dinner.

This wooden building has two floors. There is a banquet and living room on the upper floor. It is not open unless there are more than a dozen guests eating together. There is a sushi bar downstairs, which can be crowded with up to ten guests, and usually only eight people can sit. The woman in this restaurant used to be a well-known geisha in this area, and the old factory has become a fat woman.The property is her own, right? She and her daughter rely on each other, earn a wage, and live a happy life.The biggest expense of a sushi bar is the labor of the master chef standing behind the counter, besides the purchase of goods.Inexperienced people can't cut sashimi, and this is not the biggest trick.Talking to guests and getting them to come back is the real skill.The fat woman in the latter thinks she is sure, she has been a geisha entertaining high-ranking officials and dignitaries for so many years, but she still can't handle a few diners?

But cutting sashimi and kneading rice balls requires a long time of training. What should I do? The proprietress came up with a way, that is, to recommend what she bought at the Tsukiji Fish Market to the customers.Like a box of sea urchin, there is no need to divide it, just throw it to you, you can't finish it and pack it.The octopus is also bought and boiled, and it is thrown in front of you in a ball as big as a grapefruit.Count how much you pay per customer, the private dishes that have long been available.The customers are also considered new. I used to be afraid of the price and didn’t order dishes. It’s great to come here to have a good meal! Sammo Hung, a big eater, fell in love with this restaurant at first sight!

The proprietress also fell in love with Sammo Hung at first sight, because there are not many fat people in Japan, she saw Sammo Hung's figure, and she recognized her relatives, so she decided to make a vow and become Sammo Hung's mistress. "Have you been to Qi's mother yet?" I asked Sammo Hung. After filming the location of "Lucky Stars", Sammo Hung still had many opportunities to go to Tokyo to work, and he often went to the small shop in Kagurazaka to eat and find his Japanese mother.At the same time, Qi's mother's daughter was also slim and fat like Qi's mother, so of course she was very friendly to Qi's brother.

"I haven't been there for many years. Is it still open? I always wanted to go, but I couldn't find the address." Sammo Hung said. "This time we made an appointment to have dinner at Jinbao in Kowloon City. The purpose is to let Qing Tasong visit the special exhibition of Yu Gong Kiln that opens the next day, help me do publicity, and let everyone catch up." "I haven't been there for a long time." I said.This is the case with restaurants. When I go to open a factory, I come here often. I don’t go there for a while, and because I am busy, I forget about that place, and I have endless memories when I think about it.I asked Sammo Hung and said, "Next time in Tokyo, I will definitely take a look for you."

"I don't know how Qi's mother is doing." He hissed. "I don't know how Qi's mother is doing." I booed him. "Are you still cooking something to eat?" He changed the subject. "Burn it," I said, "what about you?" "Of course," he said. Cooking is a hobby of both of us.When we were filming "Food Trucks" in Barcelona, ​​either he did the cooking or I did the cooking.Later, we invited a chef named Cui Minggui from Hong Kong to Spain, so we didn't cook.Cui Minggui, we have always called him Boss Cui, is now the official boss, running a "coarse restaurant", with two in Kowloon and one in Shanghai.

Sammo Hung and I were filming in Melbourne and rented a house. Both families have their own kitchens, and they cook after work every night. My favorite stories also happened there. It is said that Sammo Hung has no chili peppers, so he asked his wife Gao Lihong to borrow them from me. I gave them two Habaneros, which are the smallest but deadliest. When Sammo Hung saw it, he thought I was lonely, so he shredded the chili peppers and called me. He went to listen, listen. After I finished, I went to the bathroom on the way, and it turned out to be swollen for three days. "What have you been up to lately?" I asked Sammo Hung. "Filming TV series in mainland China." He said.

"Hollywood has a lot of opportunities, why not go there? If you don't become a martial arts director, you are better than many people!" I really don't care for Sammo Hung. "Everyone has their own thing to do." He smiled cheerfully, "I shoot in China, there is a day." "What purpose?" I asked. "Now both sons have grown up and become actors." Sammo Hung shook his head, "Time flies." "What? The younger son who was filming in Spain has grown up?" I don't believe it. "He's taller than me. I want to praise him and Tianming. The three of them, the father and the son, took pictures together." Sammo Hung said.

This is a Chinese tradition, especially in the acting world, which is passed down from generation to generation. Sammo Hung's grandmother was also a red star back then. "Where's the wife?" I asked.Gao Lihong does not look like a Chinese, she is a great Western beauty, but her thoughts are completely Chinese, and she should be a good wife and mother when she gets married. She loves to read Mr. Jin Yong's novels. She reads one after another, and reads it over and over again. After reading it again and again, my Chinese skills are higher than other actresses. "She runs small restaurants for me in America."

"Where is it?" I asked. "In Las Vegas." Sammo Hung said. "How did you think of going there?" "Master's son Zhanyuan took our group of children to perform in the United States, some came back, and some stayed there. I was filming in the United States, and there was a man who kept looking at me. I thought it was a movie fan. Later, he came to recognize me, and I found out that it was Fan Guandong, the younger brother of the year. He had been working as a chef for others for so many years. In the end, we Decided to open one myself.Next time you go to Las Vegas, try the dishes for me. "Sammo Hung said.

Ms. Tong Yuejuan's memorial service, I went to Guangzhou due to business, so I didn't have time to attend.Speaking of female producers of Chinese films, Ms. Tong is probably the first. Her real name is Wan Xiuying, and she is from Hangzhou, Zhejiang.Tong Yuejuan learned the stage name of Peking Opera when she was six years old, she learned to perform at the age of eighteen, and became sworn brothers with Jin Suqin and others as the "Seven Sisters of Liyuan".In 1932, she married Zhang Shankun, the stage owner, and organized "Xinhua Film Company" after marriage. They were the first ones who created the Peking Opera with a set mechanism in those years. By broadcasting "The Legend of Honghua Heroes" on the screen, Tong Yuejuan was also a female actress, earning a lot of money. Since then, Zhang Shankun has become a film tycoon and has made countless films.He came to Hong Kong in 1946 and set up "Yonghua Company" with Li Zuyong. Later, "Great Wall Company" was also founded by Zhang Shankun, and Ms. Tong Yuejuan has always been his good helper. The film business always has its ups and downs, it just depends on who can maintain it for a long time. In 1954, Xinhua Company was heavily in debt, and Ms. Tong came out to work side by side with her husband to break through the difficulties.The first film he supervised was "Green Blood and Yellow Flower" with many stars, and later there were a series of blockbuster films, including "Little Cabbage", "Little Impatiens" and "The Moon Bends in Kyushu" and so on. A few years later, Zhang Shankun died of illness in Tokyo. Ms. Tong inherited her husband's career and was in charge of Xinhua Company. She continued to shoot several films every year for more than 20 years without interruption. It is one of the companies with the longest history in Chinese film history.Ms. Tong has a very deep relationship with the Taiwan Kuomintang. In the mid-1970s, the Shaw Brothers sent me to take charge of Taiwan’s production affairs. The first person I wanted to call on was Ms. Tong. She promised to find her if there were any difficulties, but later she Let go of your busy schedule. The "Hong Kong-Kowloon Freedom Association" established at that time was very powerful, and any Hong Kong companies and film workers must join as members, otherwise the films would not be sold in Taiwan.Ms. Tong served as the chairman, and she was re-elected with unanimous votes every year, which shows her prestige. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Liberty Federation became weak, and Ms. Tong also retired.Died in 2003 at the age of eighty-nine. When he came back from other places, he was shocked to hear that Luo Lie had died of a heart attack. In the movie circle, Luo Lie and Wu Ma were the first two actors I knew.Back then when Zhang Che was not yet a director, they ran around with Zhang Che. They had no money and cheated on food and drink. Luo Lie is an overseas Chinese from Indonesia. He speaks Hokkien and talks with me in Hokkien dialect, which makes us feel closer. He is a student of the third batch of Nanguo Experimental Theater Troupe, one class lower than Yuehua and Zheng Peipei. He came to Hong Kong in his teens, and his original name was Wang Lida.Wang Yu never called him by his stage name, but always called him Wang Lida Wang Lida. When I met him the first time, I noticed that he had the bad habit of blinking his eyes and squeezing his nose, and maybe he had facial nerves that he couldn't control.How can such a person become a star? Ha, when he heard the director call cailcYa, it was strange to say that his eyes stopped blinking and his nose didn't cramp. He was a hero. Luo Lieren is a strong athlete, but he has muscles as hard as steel. Many older filmmakers touched him and said that they would rather lose twenty years of life in exchange for his strong physique. I only saw him break down once, and that was when he was filming the snowy mountain location of "Dragon and Tiger" in 1997. He was in Korea every night to pick up girls, and his feet were limp.In the duel scene with Wang Yu, he yelled and rushed forward. Before the two heroes fought, he was already kneeling in the snow, which made Wang Yu and Wu Siyuan, the assistant director, laugh endlessly.The fighting films that Shaw Brothers made back then mostly used Japanese movies for their stories. Next to the heroes Yujiro Ishihara or Akiyuki Kobayashi, there was always a character who was both loyal and treacherous, usually played by an actor named Anasanjo.Most of Luo Lie's roles in the play are this kind of person, and he doesn't mind playing the big villain, as long as there is a play going on.He does what the director says, this is his mantra. One of the films that left the deepest impression on the audience was his later filming of Xu Anhua's "Huyue's Killer", in which he played an alcoholic killer. He kept a flat tin flagon in his back pocket and kept taking it out to drink, and said I like to drink steamed rice the most. I asked Ma Zhan how intoxicated? What is that small bottle? Why didn’t you mention Xu Anhua who doesn’t drink? Luo Lie smiled: "I can do whatever the director wants me to do." "The First Punch in the World" opened up the international market for action movies, and Luo Lie, who was the protagonist, was of course very popular.Other actors breached their contract to accept plays as soon as they became famous, but Luo Lie didn't do that, and maintained a good guest-host relationship with Shaw Brothers.Shaw Brothers also reasonablely let him go to Taiwan to make a fortune, and when there is a scene, he will come back to shoot. In the mid-1970s, movies with the name Luo Lie could sell well.How many are starring roles and how many are guest roles.Luo Lie would take on any film, he was afraid of trouble, he said that 10,000 Hong Kong dollars a day was fine, and Luo Lie was the first actor to create 10,000 Hong Kong dollars a day. In 1977, Luo Lie made 31 films, which is more than many actors can film in a lifetime. Because the lead role sold more than the cameo, the Taiwanese producer paid 10,000 Hong Kong dollars to hire Luo Lie for a day.How can you be the protagonist in a sky drama? Please listen to me in detail: Luo Lie’s family was killed, and he swore revenge loudly. After speaking, he covered his face one by one. The close-up of the person taking off the mask afterwards, shouting that this life is happy. In 1973, Luo Lie organized Luo Shi Gong, Xi, and used Tang Jiali as the heroine, who later became his wife Guang. The two of them and I lived in the same Shaw Brothers dormitory. We had a close friendship and went to Thailand and Malaysia for many times. , often drinking and having fun.He received too many dramas, and there will always be a day when he is depressed. Later, I heard that he lives in Shenzhen and his financial situation is very good.I asked my friends to inquire about it, and when I wanted to help, there was news that he opened an actor training class and a sauna association, and the mouth was still passable, so I let it go. In his later years, he also filmed many episodes of ATV. Once I met him on the radio channel, I felt that he was much thinner than before, and his whole body seemed to be a few sizes smaller. Today's major newspapers also released a dark photo of him when he was young, with a melancholy and cynical look.All the male protagonists of the year had this picture of James on the right.One of the benefits of being an actor is that the image of the peak period will always remain in the minds of the audience.I heard that Shaw Brothers will upload CDs and videos, among which Luo Lie will appear a lot, so wait and see. Li Xu is from Beijing.He is tall and has a cute smile. At that time, he was a young man in a travel agency with only bare hands. Everyone liked him. What are his characteristics? He got the word "diligence".Work hard, do everything, take as much as you give, and smile all day long.How could such a person not survive. Chinese calligraphy and painting have such an impact on life. Li Xu’s family has contacts with Wu Zuoren and Li Keran. Seeing that this child is going to Hong Kong to venture into the world, the former wrote to him "Professional skills and hard work", and the latter wrote "Heaven rewards hard work. Send him off. Both of them used the word Qin at the same time, and Li Xu remembered it firmly. There was an opportunity for him to study in Japan. In just a few years, he has become proficient in Japanese, returned to Hong Kong as a tour guide, and climbed up step by step. Now he is the big boss of "Li Hui Jewelry". Japanese tourists go to his company to buy things by car, because the greetings are attentive and the goods are genuine.Li Xu is not proud of his success, and the most proud sentence is only: "I am worthy of Hong Kong, I have never earned a dime from Hong Kong people." Calligraphy and painting inspired him, and he naturally became a collector. Every time he bought a work of national treasure level, he did not use the word "buy" but said "gift".The mantra is: "Today someone gave me another picture" People give him away, and he also gives away. One day he came to my office and saw the picture of Feng Zikai hanging on the wall. It showed a smiling man in a robe sitting on a rock as a sofa. After matching the characters, I gave me a pair of Qigong characters, and now I hang them on both sides of Feng Zikai, and the book reads: "Being able to turn a busy matter into a trivial matter is not to disrespect the people of the present and love the ancients." Qi Baishi's "Seven Chickens" was painted by the old man after the "July 7 Marco Polo Bridge Incident". People's Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall. In addition to painting, his three daughters are his treasures. The eldest daughter is beautiful, the second daughter is smart, and the younger daughter is eccentric. She is still in school. They grow taller day by day. people." Everyone reads a lot of Gu Long's martial arts novels. It turns out that he also wrote some prose.The book I'm reading now, "Who Come to Cheers to Me", was published by Tianjin Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House. It is well-founded and probably not a pirated version! The book is divided into two parts.The previous edition of "People in the Rivers and Lakes" is random thoughts, and the latter edition of "Talking about martial arts novels and others" is Gu Long's reading experience. Prose text can best understand the author's heart, and unlike novels, he can't hide himself. Gu Long mentioned in an article called "But Let the Orchid Wither" that he never had a girlfriend in his life in an orthodox way. He said that prostitutes always look particularly beautiful under the reflection of red lights and green wine, and of course their temper is not as hot as the eldest lady, and they are always more submissive to men. However, girls in the world often have an ulterior sadness in their hearts, and they often show some contempt for life in their actions, turning into not caring about anything.What he did was as chivalrous as a prodigal son. The women in this industry that Gu Long described were so apt, he really convinced him. Others still go to school with their schoolbags on their backs, but Gu Long has already "traveled in the rivers and lakes and carried wine".For the child who has the blood of a prodigal son in his blood, the feelings of a prodigal woman are exactly what Gu Long pursues.In the ten-mile foreign market, wine is indispensable.Gu Long said that he started to make money when he started writing martial arts novels.And if a person can only make money and not spend it, it is better to earn it happily and spend it happily. Similarly, drinking wine should also be enjoyable. When Gu Long drinks, he pours it down his throat cup by cup.It is literally "inverted".Not through the mouth, straight to the stomach.This is of course drunk, but when I wake up after being very drunk, I am usually not on the bank of Yangliu, and there is no dawn and waning moon, but I feel my head is five or six times bigger.His head was already very large, and he didn't have to rely on alcohol to help him.I think he drank alcohol, his other parts are also big, otherwise how can he deal with the group of experienced prostitutes? Gu Long talked about eating in his collection of essays, starting with beef noodles. He loves the beef noodles of "Tang Shorty". Shorty Tang has a buddy named Wang Yijun, who is tall and burly, with a thick waist, very different from Shorty Tang, so he is called "Fatty Wang". "Fatty Wang" came out to open a store, and it was very popular at the intersection of Xinsheng South Road and Xinyi Road, and later went to the United States. The only beef noodle shop that is still open is Laowangji on Taoyuan Street. You can’t see the signboard of Laowangji on Taoyuan Street. Ask the taxi driver and they will help you find it.Eating beef noodles in the store, I remembered which seat Gu Long had sat on. As for the stall on Kunming Street that Gu Long mentioned, I looked for it, but I couldn't find it.Gu Long described the attitude of the proprietress of this shop as she put the beef into the bowl with bamboo chopsticks, wearing presbyopic glasses, focused and cautious, just like choosing a diamond. In terms of pork rib noodles, Gu Long likes to eat "Jinwei" and "Songyuan". Flour-fried cane slabs, atrocious". Brother Ni Kuang also likes to use the four words "terrible".At the corner of Wuchang Street and Zhonghua Road, there is a stall called "Duck Bian". Gu Long said that the business of this family is "so good that it makes nothing". There are several restaurants here. Last time I went to eat it, I found it was not as good as before. The duck meat was a bit hard, but the taste was better than others. Basically, the "duck meat flat" is the same as the Hong Kong braised goose. In terms of restaurants, Gu Long likes to go to "Xiulan" on Yongkang Street. Now he has opened two or three restaurants. They are popular restaurants in Taipei, and they serve improved Taiwanese Shanghai cuisine. Gu Long also occasionally eats curry rice.The owner of a food stall ran to the dance hall after making money, and met Gu Long.When Gu Long went to eat, the boss pretended to be mysterious and secretly smiled, indicating to each other to keep a secret, but he would not pour an extra spoonful of curry on the meal. The first time I went to Brother Ni Kuang's house was when he lived in Causeway Bay, Yue Hua and Yi Shu took me there. At that time, the sea had not yet been reclaimed, and Izi could hang rattan baskets from the window of his house to buy food at the stall below. You can imagine how long it has been. The horizontal plaque of Brother Ni Kuang's house has two seal characters "Yuzhai".very beautiful.It was written when he was raising goldfish, but when he met him, he had already entered the age of collecting shells. I bought the house, but I couldn’t hold so many shells, so I rented a collection room next door, which was decorated like a room in a museum, and the lighting and air conditioning were adequate. Brother Ni Kuang wrote a paper on his experience in collecting shells and published it in academia, which is very respected. The picture in the living room was written by Mr. Jin Yong. We find it very strange, because ancient calligraphy does not have punctuation marks. Mr. Jin Yong’s one sentence is one point, anyway, he can write whatever he wants. There was a sword hanging on the wall. It was easier to buy mainland antiques back then, and the price was reasonable. Later I heard that after he got drunk, the junior Wen Rui'an asked him for it, and Brother Ni Kuang generously gave it to him.I regret that I am not thick-skinned, otherwise it would be mine. Mrs. Ni is good at cooking, and there is an old Cantonese maid in their family who is even better at it, but only Mrs. Ni is used to it. Brother Ni Kuang thinks that Cantonese cooking is weird, so he refuses to drink it. Fish lotus root, the soup is purple in color, so ambiguous as hell, raw and cooked soup is dark, who would dare to touch it? There are books all around the desk, and there is a thick dictionary, which is placed in the score of a music conductor On stage, easy to search.The stereo is well equipped, but the days of playing Hi-Pi are over. Ni Zhen was still very young, and his elder sister Ni Sui kept rebelling. The greatest pleasure for the family is to take a walk in the Daimaru department store in the evening.The three of us also followed Brother Ni Kuang to visit Daimaru. There were so many things and everything that one could expect.Now that Daimaru is closed, the saddest should be their family. I wrote about Brother Ni Kuang's former residence, and remembered that I hadn't talked to him on the phone for a long time, so I gave him a call. "Hahahaha." He laughed four times, "I'm cold in front of the door and the phone number is rare, there is someone who publishes it, of course the old stranger VsU6. "We must make more calls another day." I said, "Did you celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival yesterday?" "What's the Mid-Autumn Festival here?" He said, "It's just going out to have a meal with my daughter." "That's fun." I said, "Is there anything else to be happy about recently?" "Mr. Cha's daughter gave birth to a grandson, and she sent the photo over. She has a Chinese face, which looks really good. I'm happy for him." "anything else?" "I also watched a set of Korean movies, which were really good." "Is it "My Sassy Girl?" I asked. "How do you know it as soon as you say it?" "Only this one is the best shot." I said. "It's such an old-fashioned story, and it's played by two people from beginning to end. The director and screenwriter are extremely clever." movie of." "There are still shortcomings." I said, "the heroine's brutal behavior is weird, and I didn't explain it. If I add a dialogue, saying that the dead lover told her to be brutal, and if she meets a new boyfriend who can bear it, she can live with him for the rest of her life." .This completes the whole story." "You're right." Brother Ni Kuang laughed again, "But my requirements are not high now, as long as I don't find it hard to watch, I say it looks good." "Is it the same for reading?" I asked. Brother Ni Kuang said: "It's the same with reading. I can understand every word of some writers' columns and books, but I don't know what they are going to say. So as long as I can read it, it's fine!" "What have you been up to lately?" I asked. Brother Ni Kuang said, "I'm not busy with anything. What can I do for a person like me?" "Don't you change the water in the goldfish tank every day?" "Now I won't suffer." He said, "Let it grow moss." "Isn't there a fish called scavenger? It's raised to eat dirty things." "It's useless." Brother Ni Kuang said , "I fish them out when I see dead ones. But most of them are alive and well without changing the water, so I don't change them." "What about your body?" I asked, "Still so fat?" "More than one hundred and seventy pounds." He said, "The doctor told me not to eat any more, but to drink water when I was hungry, otherwise I would suffer from diabetes twenty years later, and I would die of laughter." "Eat what you see, the spirit is more important." "Not yet? Speaking of eating, why didn't you send me the mooncakes?" Brother Ni Kuang asked. "How do you know I made mooncakes?" "I saw what Li Bihua wrote in the column!" he said. "I seem to have forgotten. Let me ask." I said, "But the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, is it okay?" "Eat whatever you want, of course it doesn't matter. Didn't you say that we don't have Mid-Autumn Festival here?" "I remembered. There is also a book about Shanghai anecdotes. I don't know if it has been sent. I will look it up for you tomorrow." "You don't need to check spiritual food." Brother Ni Kuang, "but real food, you have to check. Your mooncakes are not sold publicly, right?" "Make it as a gift, treat it as learning, and sell it next year." "It's the most enjoyable," he said. "At our age, the most important thing is to do whatever you want." "Some people still can't figure it out," I said. "When is it like a TV, suddenly turned off with a bang, and it's useless to think about it. How many years are there left to live? Why don't you think about it first?" Laughing, he hung up the phone. "Hahahaha." Brother Ni Kuang laughed four times as usual after hearing my voice.I also habitually ask: "What have you been doing recently?" "Taking blood pressure all day long," he said. What?, I worried, "Is there a problem?" "Too high." He said. So overeating and drinking, and not doing exercise, high blood pressure is quite normal. "Have you taken any medicine?" have eaten.He said, "I took a kind of western medicine to lower blood pressure, and recently found that it has side effects, which make me suffer from kidney failure." "Then how?" I asked. "Take a new medicine." He said. "Will the new medicine have side effects?" Nazhimai, let's talk about it later. "Western medicine is always domineering, do you want to try Chinese medicine?" I asked and then remembered, "But you don't believe in Chinese medicine!" "No no no no." He said, "It's not that I don't believe in traditional Chinese medicine, but I don't believe that anyone can use it." Now it's my turn to laugh. "Just like Feng Shui, a knowledge with such a long history must have its truth. But I just don't believe that anyone will read it." He said. "I've been to the mainland a lot recently, and I'll help you find out what's available to lower your blood pressure." "There is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in Beijing named Shi Jinmo. If he is still alive, he will be very old." "He has passed away. I heard that he had a son named Shi Xiaomo who opened a osteopathic clinic in Happy Valley and did not practice medicine. I will go to the pharmacy tomorrow to see what medicine is available and send it to you. Chinese medicine has no side effects, it is just rumored ." If you are a loyal reader of Ni Kuang, please check to see if there is anything that lowers blood pressure.I also don't believe that anyone can be a doctor, but I believe in giving it a try. After publishing the article about brother Ni Kuang's high blood pressure, he sent a lot of emails to kill people and provided special effects and spiritual prescriptions. I don't know if it is effective, but it can be seen that the author Ni Kuang still occupies such an important position in the readers' minds! I don't know if he wants it or not, so call him.This person sometimes wants to help him, but he still finds it annoying. "Hahahaha." Brother Ni Kuang laughed four times and said, "Just email me." After he said this, I remembered that I could forward the reader's message to his email address, and it would be sent out immediately with a click of a button.Why not? Stupid. "Did you receive the email I sent you last time?" asked Ni Kuang. "Received." I said, "I didn't reply, I still resist typing in Chinese, why don't I just call you?" "Use the Jiugong input method!" Brother Ni Kuang said, "It's like writing. Anyone can learn it. I don't believe you can't." "You live in the United States, so everyone can learn. Anyway, you have plenty of time." I said.Brother Ni Kuang could hear the bones in my words, but he didn't mind, and laughed four times: "The main thing is that Ni Zhen is willing to teach me. I ICQ with him every day, and his first sentence is: Hi, Dad. My first One sentence back to him: Hi, Son." "What?" I wondered, "Can you talk to him in English?" "A few simple sentences can still be dealt with. If it is complicated, use Chinese." He said. Unexpectedly, when he went to the United States, his English improved so quickly. Ni Zhen’s little brother is really a dutiful son. He ICQs with Lao Dou every day, which is very rare. "Where's Ni Sui?" I asked, "Did you come to see you?" "Yes." Brother Ni Kuang said, "She came to accompany me to see a doctor yesterday." Speaking of seeing a doctor, the topic returned to his high blood pressure. "Hahahaha." Brother Ni Kuang said, "After taking western medicine, my blood pressure has dropped to more than 70." "Too low is not good," I said. "So go to the doctor again." "What kind of doctor?" I asked, "foreign doctor, or Chinese doctor?" "Chinese." Brother Ni Kuang said. "Then there is no problem with language." "I couldn't understand a word of the Taishan dialect that the doctor spoke. In the end, he switched to English, and I only understood 30% of it. Ni Sui translated the rest." "What did the doctor say?" I asked. "Ha ha ha ha".Brother Ni Kuang smiled, "That guy is also my book fan. He didn't talk about my illness, but about my works. He translated the names of my books in English. I had to listen for a long time before I knew him. Which one is it?" "Unexpectedly, Ban Tang Fan also reads books." I said. "Boring. In America." He laughed again. "Should we finally talk about the illness?" I asked. "Well, he said it doesn't matter if the blood pressure is low, you only worry if it's high." Brother Ni Kuang said. "Did he tell you to lose weight?" "Yes, he wants me to lose thirty pounds." Brother Ni Kuang said, "I said that if I can lose thirty pounds, I don't need to come to see him. After hearing this, he said that losing ten pounds is fine." "Can't reduce it?" I asked. "The doctor said that if you can't reduce it, you will definitely suffer from diabetes within three years." "If it's diabetes, I know there is a doctor in Beijing who specializes in treating diabetes. I will introduce it to you. What else did the doctor say?" I asked. Brother Ni Kuang said: "The doctor said that if I don't stop talking about my disease, I will definitely have a heart attack in twenty years. He didn't ask me how old I was, and he talked about things in twenty years. Ni Sui and I listened Laughed so loudly in the hospital that everyone else turned to look at us. Hahahaha. "I heard that Wang Jiasha opened a branch in your gourmet shop." Brother Ni Kuang said. "The pan-fried buns are well done." I said. "That's what Hong Kong people call it. We don't call it shengjianbao, we call it shengjianmantou." Brother Ni Kuang said, "Wang Jiasha has eaten it since he was a child, and his memory is still fresh." "The skin of the steamed bun absorbs water, so how to make it full of soup is really knowledgeable." I said. "That's right," said Brother Ni Kuang, "we still have knowledge when we eat raw fried steamed buns. From a young age, we learn to take a small bite first, suck the soup before eating, and every time we see others splashing all over their bodies, we go home and talk about it." I told my family members, and everyone laughed. I told this kind of thing a hundred times, and everyone still laughed." "The buns in that small shop on Huaihai Road are also full of juice." I wanted to lure him back to the East. "Really?" he said.Listen to the tone and be indifferent. "Shanghai people are learning to appreciate their own food now," I said. "The time to be influenced by Cantonese seafood is over." "That's not Guangdong influence, that's explosive production influence." Brother Ni Kuang said, "Even the developing cities can't resist the Quaker food of abalone and lobster. If you eat too much, you won't feel strange, and you will find the taste of your hometown. ""This is a good thing."I said, "Otherwise the practice will be lost." "The method can be found, but the material is not necessarily." Brother Ni Kuang said, "Like yellow croakers, when we were young, we saw yellow croakers swimming, and the water was golden. There are so many fish, and they can be eaten to extinction. The Chinese are amazing. ." "You can still buy small ones, very fresh." "That's called a small yellow croaker, not a yellow croaker. They are two completely different fish." After he said that, I knew. "Is there yellow croaker in San Francisco?" I asked. "No." He said, "Come here, what fish, what fish to eat." That's the attitude.to survive in America. "What about you?" Brother Ni Kuang asked, "You are in good health. After reading your articles, flying around, if it were me, I would have burst blood vessels and died." "It's not as good as it used to be," I said. "It's unnecessary to say that," he said. "It's definitely not as good as it used to be. If it's better than before, then I'll send you to medical school." "Sometimes I think: It's better to trust a fortune-teller than to trust a doctor." I said. "Numerology is really accurate in the past, but inaccurate later." Brother Ni Kuang said, "There is no need to spend that kind of money." "Your life book is also not accurate?" I asked. "It's ambiguous, it's okay to say this, it's not okay to say that," he said. "What's the use of the old standard?" I agree. "It's fun to watch, too," he said. "Many mainland youths now say that reading your book, you can see the future very accurately." "When will I change my career to be a fortune teller, hahahaha." He laughed. "The adaptation of your original book was released recently, should I send you a VCD?" I asked. "No, no, no." He said, "Others change your own stuff, and they will definitely think it's bad. If you see something that's bad, you'll get angry. How can I get angry?" "How old are you?" I asked. "sixty seven".he answered. "Is it Chinese or foreign?" "Foreigners' method of year calculation is better, but the Chinese method is not clear." I agree with this point. "Once my life is over sixty, every day is earned. I have already earned seven years, and it doesn't matter what happens again. The most important thing is: I live happier every day. Hahahaha." Laughed four times and closed the line. A producer is obsessed with Ni Kuang's original work and asked me to call to inquire about the copyright. "Hahahaha," he said after laughing four times, "there are still people who want such old stories." "It can be seen that your brother is very capable!" "Yeah. How about Hong Kong?" he asked. "Although it has not been declared as an epidemic port, everyone regards Hong Kong as one." I said. "Six million people, more than a thousand sick, should be dealt with calmly." He sighed. "That's right," I said, "Got to live!" "The problem lies in panic," he said, "people will panic about things they don't know. Now they can't find out where the pathogen is, don't know what it is, and can't find a cure. This phenomenon occurs. Special effects Sooner or later the medicine will show up." "How are you doing?" Brother Ni Kuang asked again, "I told Mrs. Ni today that the two industries that have been hit hardest by the disease are food and tourism, both of which are related to Cai Lan." "It's okay," I said, "it's not just relying on these two things to survive. In Hong Kong, you just get bored." "Well, even if you're not sick, that feeling is not good. You might as well go out for a few days. "He said. "Some countries send young nurses to check at the immigration. If you are really sick, you have nothing to say, and you will be arrested for a few beggars. Isn't it wrong? Taiwanese hotels even put up notices saying that Hong Kong people are not welcome! I have lived for so long , but also suffer from blank stares?" "You'd better come to America with Mr. Cha," said Brother Ni Kuang, "it's not the same thing here." "Also a good idea," I said. It would be a pleasure to chat with him in San Francisco.I don't know if there are terrorists bombing the US plane, so it's good to take Cathay Pacific, but Cathay Pacific said it would suspend flights.This disease (referring to SARS. Editor's Note) is disturbing! "I made a phone call just now, and a woman said that you have gone out. She claimed to be a kning craftsman, and it took a long time to figure out what Shan Xiaoning was doing," I said. "Hahahaha." Brother Ni Kuang laughed, "Please come to do the cleaning, once a week." "Did you drink tea on Sunday?" I asked. "Well, here are friends from two publishing houses in Taiwan. They used to publish Gu Long's novels.". "Speaking of Gu Long, there are still many people studying the upper line of his sentence that ice is better than ice water ice. I also received a letter from a reader in the United States yesterday, asking me to ask you if anyone can match the second line. To fulfill Gu Long's wish." "What ice is better than ice water ice? It doesn't make any sense at all. Didn't it come from Zhanlong?" Brother Ni Kuang and Gu Long are good friends, and they still want to protect him after death. "In the note at the end of an article in the "Legend of Lu Xiaofeng Series", Gu Long wrote about this incident, and he also wrote that he told you when they were drinking together." "No way? Why can't I remember this?" Brother Ni Kuang denied it.Gu Long may have written it for entertainment. It doesn’t matter whether it is true or not. The most important thing is whether it is readable or not. There are a lot of news about Brother Ni Kuang, and I also wrote it. Gu Long did write that he said Ni Kuang was much more fun than him, and even the pickiest women would comment on him when they saw him. I can't help it either. Regarding this matter, Mr. Jin Yong once mentioned it in the new preface of his recently published large-print collection of works.查先生说："有些翻版本中，还说我和古龙、倪匡合出了一个上联冰比冰水冰征对，真正是大开玩笑了。汉语的对联有一定规律，上联的末一字通常是仄声，以便下联的平声结尾，但冰字属蒸韵，是平声。我们不会出这样的上联征对，大陆地区有许许多多读者写了下联给我，大家浪费时间。" 打电话和倪匡兄聊天，通常在家的时候他都不自己听，都是倪太栳的。 "倪太呢?"找叫。"又去香港。" "这次一定要好好请她吃饭，但是我过两天要去北海道，她能住多久?" "很久。" "那圣诞节你一个人过?" "我过冬也是一个人，圣诞节也是一个人，新历新年也是一个人，农历新年也是一个人，元宵也是一个人吧。"他说，"我喜欢一个人，不要紧。""那倪太也放心一一"我说。 rest assured.他说，"来了美国十年，她至少回香港四十次，每次飞机票三千多块美金，加起来也要一百多万港币，好在都是倪震出的钱。""这一点我也觉得这个孩子真好。" "他自己用起钱来反而很省的。"倪匡兄爱意，从语气中听得出。"在外国住惯丫，香港人乱花钱的坏习惯都会改掉的。"我说。 "也不能说是坏习惯，赚多花多。赚少花少，很自然。""一个人干些什么?"我问。 "我刚要做午餐吃。"他说："做做饭，养养鱼，读读书，看看录像碟，忙得要命。总之要找事情做就是，我真不明白为什么有些人不找事情做。""我有一个朋友。移民到西雅图的小镇去，刚去的时候所有老太婆都从窗口探头出来看他，后来有什么人来了，他也从窗口探头出去看人家。什么事都不做，最后死了，名副其实地闷死。"我说。 "哈哈哈哈。"倪匡兄笑，"这不叫闷死，这是该死。" 版权事，大陆方面需要倪匡兄的签字，我已寄丫绐他，补上一个电话。 "哈哈哈哈，"他大笑四声后说，怀从新刖圾凹米恫思灭旭巴?新加坡那边怎么样啦?" "还好，没看到有人戴口罩。我姐姐戴了一个，上的士时司机吓得一跳。" "人人戴你不戴，会给人骂；人人不戴你戴，又吓人，真是的。""好在在新加坡那几天不必戴，天气那么热，一定炯死人。" "就是嘛，已经证明没有用的东西，大家还戴着!"倪匡兄说，"医生护士还不是戴得紧紧的?患病的都是他们!" "吃大蒜最有用，"我说，"泰国有种小颗的，又香又辣又脆，我拿它当花生吃。" "我也喜欢吃大蒜，"他赞同，"吃得口气之大，四尺之内薰死人!""香港现在大家都戴口罩，我尽管吃，别人闻不到。"我说。 "真是有用的，你看韩国人都吃，所以没有沙士(SARS)。"他引证。"三藩市不受影响吧? "我问。 "也有影响呀，今天和倪太去饮茶，唐人街冷清清地，洋人都不来丁，反正他们认为都是东方人引起的病，少惹麻烦。我们去泊车，空位多得很。""有没有人戴口罩?"我问。 他说："洋人才不吃这一套，连银行劫匪也不戴口罩，他们戴滑雪用的面罩。" "受不受他们歧视?" "表面上他们还是不敢的。"倪匡兄说，"不过还是别自讨没趣。我本来最爱看洋人小孩子，名副其实的洋娃娃嘛，现在也不走近他，给人瞪一眼，也不好玩。" 母亲节，我难得回来，记起倪太还在香港，想请她吃一顿饭，又遗失了她的号码，打电话给倪匡兄问问。 "哈哈哈哈，"他说，"早已经回到三藩市了。""倪太妹妹的病已经好了? " "我问。 "好了。"倪匡兄说。 听了甚欢慰，倪太原名李果珍，有一妹妹叫李果珠，两姐妹感情最佳，又嫁了给倪匡兄弟二人，亲上加亲，关系又密切。妹妹生了病，姐姐老远飞来陪她，真难得。 "你有没有电脑邮址?"我问。我们一向只通开电话，连信都懒得写，问问罢了。 "有呀。"倪匡兄说，"不过不要说你的邮址给我听，我不会发电邮，我只会在电脑上的回复Reply按一按罢了。" "你还是用声控?"我问。 "不。"倪匡兄说，"写卫斯理用声控，发E-mail用打字。"原来他还会打字，"什么输入法?" "九宫格。"倪匡兄说，"倪震教了我几十种输入法，我都学不会。九宫格只要五分钟就完全掌握。你呢?" "我用粤语拼音，但只上了一堂课，不知行不行?我懂得几种语音和方言，但是没有一种说得准。"我叹气，"我想最后还是要用手写板。""什么方法都行，你打来，我一定回。"倪匡兄对我真好。 "每天还坐残废电动车去买报纸?" "不。"他说，"在电脑上看，消息灵通得多。我现在胖得不像话，走几步路就气喘如牛。倪太在的时候迫我每天散步一小时，痛苦之极，自己一个的时候绝对动也不动，有人叫我回香港，我连金门桥也不想去看，回什么香港?"