The straight man of steel in the entertainment industry

The shop owner is an old man in his 60s. He doesn't recognize these celebrities like Lin Li, but he seems a little scared when he sees so many people coming in from the program group.

Wang Zhilong stepped forward and said, "Hi, old man, this is the breakfast shop, right?"

Facing so many people, the old man nodded unnaturally.

"Old man, do you know us? We are here to record the Tomato program." Fang Tiantian asked.

The old man shook his head: "Do you want to eat? I haven't prepared that much, I'm afraid it's not enough."

Lin Li stepped forward and took the old man's rough hand, and said, "Grandpa, just the four of us, we want to ask you for some breakfast. Anything is fine. We don't have money for you, but we can do something for you."

The old man looked at Lin Li, saw the sincerity in his eyes, he immediately relaxed a little, and said with a smile: "You guys are filming TV series, I know, I've seen you a few times and you are all stars, right? There are only soy milk, fried dough sticks, steamed buns and pickled vegetables, I don’t know if you can eat them.”

"We're not stars. We just know more people. We're actually ordinary people. We can eat whatever everyone can eat." Lin Li laughed.

"Then sit down and I'll get it for you."

The four of them sat down, and Fang Tiantian even took out a few napkins and wiped the chairs.

Lin Li almost couldn't hold back his yelling at her, but he held back after thinking about it, and turned around to help the old man serve soy milk and fried dough sticks.

The smell of traditional Chinese medicine in the back kitchen was stronger. Lin Li looked at it, and there was a stove in the corner of the back kitchen that was boiling medicine.

The old man is also considered generous, four people, gave four bowls of soy milk, four fried dough sticks, four boiled eggs, plus some mustard.

"Thank you grandpa, have you eaten yet, why don't you eat with us?" Lin Li said.

The old man said: "you eat, I have eaten."

The three guests also thanked, and then Wang Zhilong said: "Then let's eat."

Lin Li, Wang Zhilong and Liu Yizhou picked up the chopsticks in the chopstick holder next to them, while Fang Tiantian yelled at the boss: "Old man, do you have disposable chopsticks?"

The old man was busy behind and said, "Oh, no, I scalded the chopsticks with boiling water early in the morning."

Fang Tiantian didn't say anything else, and muttered softly, "It's not disinfected either."

Lin Li heard her talking so much, he couldn't help but said, "If you don't want to eat, you don't have to."

Fang Tiantian knew that Lin Li had a bad temper in the entertainment industry, and she was very unhappy when she heard Lin Li's words, but seeing that she was recording a show, she finally held back.

"Who said I won't eat!"

Wang Zhilong and Liu Yizhou also looked at each other, feeling that today will not be peaceful.

Lin Li's thorny head is really not easy to mess with, but Fang Tiantian didn't do much, so he started to piss him off.

But Lin Li doesn't think so, they are just begging for food, and they are kind enough to give you food, but you still dislike it, and you can't let go of your broken status as a celebrity. To put it bluntly, this kind of person deserves a beating!

Lin Li is already very polite today.

The four of them ate for a while, Lin Li finished, and the other three had some left over, and Fang Tiantian, who kept saying that he had eaten early, had the most left over.

After the three of them finished eating, they started looking for topics for the show. Wang Zhilong called out to the old man who was busy in the back kitchen: "Boss, what are you busy with?"

"Oh, it's okay, boil the medicine, have you finished eating?"

Liu Yizhou said, "Well, it's over."

"Okay, I'll clean up"

The old man came out of the back kitchen and was about to clean up.

Lin Li pulled his wrist and said, "Grandpa, sit down and I'll clean up."

"No, no, I'll clean it up. You big stars don't get your hands dirty, you'll be filming TV later." The old man smiled and wrinkled his face.

Lin Li glanced at the three of them. The three of them looked very much like customers eating in a restaurant, and they subconsciously didn't intend to help clean up.

Lin Li sneered, forced the old man to sit down, and then picked up the dishes.

Seeing Lin Li doing this, Wang Zhilong, Liu Yizhou and Fang Tiantian thought to themselves that it is no wonder Lin Li has been talking about it since he entered the entertainment circle, this guy really knows how to put on a show.

"Old man, you sit down, we clean up the dishes!"

"Yes, yes, there is no reason for you to clean up?"

Under Lin Li's leadership, the other three were not far behind and packed up.

Just for show, who has been in the entertainment industry for so long, who can't do it.

The old man sat on the chair and said with a smile, "This is the first time I've come to be a celebrity in this shop."

After the four of them cleaned up, they sat around the old man and started the interview session to see if they could dig out some stories.

"Old man, how long has your shop been open?" Wang Zhilong asked.

"It's been a while, maybe 40 to [-] years." There was a hint of pride in the old man's tone.

"Wow, they are older than me." Liu Yizhou said.

Fang Tiantian said: "I see that your store's business is not very good, how can it be open for so many years?"

After Fang Tiantian finished speaking, the atmosphere suddenly froze. Both Wang Zhilong and Liu Yizhou felt that Fang Tiantian's words were not very pleasant, but Lin Li gave her a silly look.

The old man smiled wryly, and said: "The business was very good in the past few years, but in the past two years, the old lady fell ill, and the store has been brewing medicine, so there are fewer people."

When everyone heard it, they knew there was a story, and they hurriedly asked.

After some inquiries, everyone found out that this breakfast shop was bought and operated by an elderly couple when they were two middle-aged. The elderly couple had a very good relationship, but they had never had children, so they wanted to earn more money while they were young.

At the beginning, the business was very good and they made a lot of money. The two bought the shop. Fortunately, the shop was not very expensive 20 years ago.

It's a pity that as they grow older, their bodies are getting worse day by day. The old woman suffered from chronic cholecystitis three years ago and has been taking traditional Chinese medicine. At the beginning, she boiled traditional Chinese medicine at home, but the old woman couldn't stand the taste and kept vomiting. So later, the old man boiled Chinese medicine in the store, and then sent it to his wife.

But in this way, the breakfast shop has always had such a smell of Chinese medicine, and there are fewer and fewer customers.

Everyone was very moved after hearing this, Fang Tiantian even shed tears on the spot, but from Lin Li's point of view, she was more of a showman.

"Can we meet grandma?" Wang Zhilong asked.

The old man said with a silly smile, "the old woman is nothing to look at."

The director of the program group was gesturing, obviously asking the guests to watch.

This is a touching story, not to be missed.

Liu Yizhou said: "Old man, we will be on TV here, your wife should be willing to be on TV."