I'm just an actor

Chapter 2 The Crew
"Hey, where are you from?"

After Xu Rong put his luggage away, he saw that he didn't go to work right away. He changed his dirty clothes and took a shower with a bucket of water. As soon as he entered the work shed, he was called out by Guan Hu, who was leaning over to watch someone play cards. Living.

Xu Rong was holding the bucket in one hand and the basin in the other. Hearing this, he couldn't help being stunned. He looked at Guan Hu strangely and said, "You asked me to come."

Guan Hu frowned and looked at him for a while, then patted his forehead suddenly. He remembered that this was the young man he found on the construction site in the morning.

But the face in front of him and the slightly protruding muscles on his body really went against the imaginings of migrant workers in his mind.

Guan Hu hesitated for a while, showing a sorry expression, and said, "Little brother, I'm afraid you won't be able to make it. We are going to shoot migrant workers, not idol dramas."

Although Xu Rong didn't quite understand the meaning of "idol drama", he understood what he said.

He can't.

But he is still counting on earning money to go back to take the college entrance examination next year.

After pestering on the spot for a while, he put the basin and bucket on the bed beside him, and said, "I don't mind you waiting a moment."

Next to Guan Hu, sat a bald middle-aged man in his fifties. Unlike other migrant workers in the work shed, he was wearing a white vest and metal-rimmed glasses.

Looking at the back of Xu Rong running out, the middle-aged Xie Ding half-smiled and half-seriously said: "This kid looks a bit like a dragon."

"Hey, I just said it's wrong to look at it, Mr. Tao, you really are right when you say that." Guan Hu patted his thigh, then raised his chin towards the door and said, "But he really doesn't look like a migrant worker. .”

"Old man."

Just as he was talking, Xu Rong ran in, his face turned gray again, a lot of gray was mixed in his wet hair, his lips were slightly dry, and he smiled, revealing his white teeth.

"Look, is this okay?" He stared at Guan Hu without blinking.

Probably because he was in a hurry when he rubbed the dirt on his face, there was a piece of wheat-sized skin glowing bright red around the corner of his eyes.

Guan Hu looked at the young man in front of him, the muscles in the corners of his eyes twitched inexplicably, especially when he looked at those eyes full of expectation, he felt as if some string in his heart had been touched.

The middle-aged man called Lao Tao also stayed for a while, coughed, and then said in a low voice: "Old Guan, although he doesn't look like it, but he is indeed."

Guan Hu sighed, stared at him for a while, then waved his hands and said, "Stay here."

"Thank you."

Lying on the bed, Xu Rong let out a sigh of relief. This day's life was too bizarre for him.

His life in the past 17 years was like a pool of stagnant water. He never left the county where he grew up, and went step by step from preschool, elementary school, junior high school to high school. He also had fantasies, but those fantasies were relatively close to reality.

until today.

He never expected the pie to fall from the sky, but now that it has fallen, he just wants to hold on to it.

As long as he works for three months, he can get 7200 yuan.

Then go back to the original construction site and work until the end of the year, and then you can go home and prepare for the college entrance examination.

Thinking of this, he turned over and got out of bed again, startled the old carpenter who was lying on the lower bunk and fiddling with his mobile phone: "What are you doing?"

Xu Rong smiled, untied the nylon bag on one side of the empty bed, and said, "I'll take a book to read."

The old carpenter sighed. He had seen such things a lot. How many rural children were not able to go to college, but had no money to go to college, so he asked, "Where are your parents?"

"do not know."

Xu Rong shook his head first, and then said casually: "I haven't seen my parents since I was a child. People in the village say that my grandfather picked me up on the way to the market."

The old carpenter became interested, stuffed the phone under the pillow, turned over, elbowed his head with his fist, and asked, "Then how did you go to school?"

"My grandfather supported him. He used to be a soldier. After changing jobs, he worked as a worker in a coal mine and got paid." Xu Rong put the book on the bed and said as he crawled, "When I was in my forties, my leg was smashed in the mine. , Retired early, so the salary is not high, it can only support me to go to high school."

"Your child is also suffering."

"What's the matter?" Xu Rong poked his head down and said with lingering fear, "I'll tell you, when I went to school in the county, it was cold and I saw a newborn child thrown on the asphalt road several times. On the other hand, I guess it's about the same, without my grandfather, I might have died early."

Not far away, Guan Hu and Tao Zeru listened silently to their conversation. Guan Hu took out a cigarette and handed each other a cigarette, but said nothing.

Xu Rong gradually discovered that this construction site was very strange, because it was not really working, it seemed that they were just afraid that the migrant workers would panic, so they found something to do.

As for filming or something, he didn't even see half of it, only Guan Hu took a few people who didn't dress and speak like migrant workers, and lived with them all day long, sometimes playing cards together, Bragging, in addition to that, a few people gathered together to write at noon.

He touched the wallet next to his body, and didn't think much about it, he didn't care, he got the money anyway.

Two months later, two vehicles came to the construction site, a white bus and a red truck.

Many well-dressed men and women got on and off the bus, and many machines he didn't recognize were unloaded from the truck.

He originally wanted to lend a hand to help move it, but was stopped by a chubby middle-aged man, who said that he didn't understand and would damage the machine.

"The opening ceremony begins."

Xu Rong stared dumbfounded at the chicken, duck, fish and fruit tributes on the incense table, took the old carpenter with his arm, and asked, "What is this?"

The old carpenter was also taken aback by the explosion of cannons and incense not far away, but his momentum was not weak at all: "You ask me, how do I know?"

He said, pointing to one of the short young men, and said, "Look at that one, he's much taller than you, and he can also act?"

"You can look like this too."

"Xiao Xu, what do you mean?"

As the filming started, Xu Rong finally knew the name of the TV series they were going to film.

"Survival Migrant Workers"

But he didn't know any of those actors, but he didn't want so much, as long as he gave money.

At the same time, he also gradually understood what acting is all about, which is to put himself into a completely different identity from himself, express it naturally and smoothly, and make people look real.

He thought it was interesting, but that was all.

He still has to earn money and go to college.

On the set, when he needs to run along, he runs along, and when he doesn't need it, he just sits and watches.

The reason why he is sitting is because he is too tired. Once the filming starts, it will take several hours to go back and forth. Although he does not need to exert a lot of effort, he always feels more tired than carrying steel bars on the construction site.

"nature."

"nature."

"nature."

This is what Xu Rong hears the most every day. He could walk at first, but once he was filming, many machines came to him and many people stared at him. He felt as if he would suddenly not be able to leave. He is almost like, once this happens three times, Guan Hu will start to swear, not targeting a specific person, but swearing together.

What he is most afraid of is hanging the headlights at night, because once this happens, work will be over in the early morning, at least two or three o'clock is a common thing.

But he didn't slack off in the slightest. Instead, he got up and rushed to the set every day before dawn.

He didn't expect the old manager to suddenly take a fancy to him and give him a chance. He didn't understand anything, and sometimes when he ran with others, he would be asked to start all over again because he ran too fast and rushed too hard.

The past growth experience made him understand a truth, there are no miracles in this world, if there are, they must be created by himself.

It was not for nothing that he stood on the sidelines to observe, because he found that the experience value of watching other people's acting actually increased, although it did not increase as much as when he acted by himself, but he couldn't stand it for a long time.

Xu Rong hugged his big water glass and sat on the sidelines, looking at the words "experience value: 99/100" on the light curtain, feeling quite weak in his heart, this value has not moved for three days.

At this time, it has been almost a month since the shooting started, and the crew said that they will be able to go back to their respective homes in a few days.

The headlights had already been hung up. Seeing this scene, the old carpenter sitting on the ground patted his thigh, sighed, and said with emotion: "It's not easy to earn any money."

"The swarm is on the stage, the swarm is on the stage."

Xu Rong took a sip of water, put the water glass aside, and followed the crowd into the arena.

"Come, come, go one by one."

"Haven't you eaten yet? You are going to beg for wages, you just woke up and cheered up."

Just after running for a while, Guan Hu's voice came over, and as he spoke, he pointed his finger and said, "You, come here, and you can say the words, with more momentum, remember?"

Seeing the old Guan pointing at him, Xu Rong hurriedly nodded, ran to the front, and said, "Remember."

"It's quiet."

"Photography on."

"Start up."

"recording."

"Start up."

"Board."

"One scene per fifteen scenes."

"Action!"

Xu Rong led the people to rush up, grabbed the collar of Mr. Hu who played Zhang Biao, widened his eyes, and shouted redly, "Give me the money."

"Card."

"Could you show me some energy when you fucking run away? If you don't want to shoot, get the hell out of here." Guan Hu was probably really angry, and he couldn't help but start swearing.

Xu Rong has long been accustomed to this. After shouting "Cut", he either passes it off or starts cursing his mother. When these migrant workers participated in the filming, the latter usually happened more often.

Subconsciously, he called up the system again and found that the experience value had reached 100.

Without hesitation, he immediately clicked on the plus sign behind the lines, and as the E evaluation of the lines increased to D, his comprehensive evaluation unexpectedly jumped from E+ to D-.

Acting training system
Name: Xu Rong

Emoticon: D
Lines: D
Limbs: E
eyes: D
Rhythm: E
Comprehensive evaluation: D-
Experience Points: 0/100
Glory value: 25/100
Traits: None
"Again."

"Card!"

"Pass!"

Guan Hu nodded to Xu Rong first, and then said: "Don't run back if you have nothing to do, stand in front."

Turning his head, he said to the assistant director: "Old Kang, you go through it for him, and let him speak the lines."

Xu Rong was excited. He was sure how the system worked. Although he didn't feel it clearly, he knew from the old manager's reaction that the system was for acting.

He was busy until [-]:[-] in the morning, and when the work was over, Xu Rong took a rest for a while, and when his body regained some strength, he carried a bucket of water and entered the large toilet behind the work shed.

It is not only a toilet, but also a place to take a bath. There is no barrier such as a partition in the middle, and the view is quite good.

Two long troughs above the ground were built with cement near the walls on both sides. The small ones stand up and lean in, and the big ones can squat on one side or sideways. Because the troughs are deep enough, you don’t have to worry about the water flowing all the time. Flushing water splashes down the ass.

After entering the toilet, he took off his underpants and threw them in the basin, planning to wash them later after taking a shower.

Looking up, he saw Mr. Ma from the film crew next to him. He hesitated for a moment, then picked up the bucket again, ready to go inside.

"Hey, young man, your name is Xu Rong, right?" Ma Shaohua didn't pay attention to him at first, but when he saw that he took off his clothes, he picked up the bucket again to leave, turned his head and asked with a smile, "Why, I'm afraid that men will see ?”

Xu Rong smiled and straightened her hips.

On the ground, in the lower half of the shadow, a black shadow swayed slightly.

"Hehe, you're still showing off!" Ma Shaohua glanced at him, smiled dryly, and asked him with a handful of water, "Are you going back to the construction site after the filming?"

Xu Rong didn't go in any more, soaked the towel in the water, wrung it dry, and said: "Yes, I came with my uncles, if I don't go back, I have no place to go."

Ma Shaohua looked at him with his head tilted, and asked, "Do you think filming makes more money than you do on the construction site?"

"It must be a lot." Xu Rong grinned and said, "One day's work is worth three days on the construction site."

"Then I'll show you a way to tidy up, get a haircut, buy some decent clothes, and squat at the gate of Beiying early in the morning. Within three days, I'm sure you'll make money, and you'll definitely be better than that." You earn more on the jobsite."

Xu Rong looked at him suspiciously and asked, "Is it true?"

Although he doesn't know much, he is not stupid. How can it be so easy to make money?
"What did I lie to you, kid?" Seeing that he didn't believe him, Ma Shaohua couldn't help raising his voice, "Although your level is a bit amateur, but your image is good, let me tell you, if you want to be popular, it is basically impossible in this life , but it’s definitely better than working hard on the construction site, you earn money, can’t you go home and go to school when you turn around?!”

Three days later, after Guan Hu announced that their role was over, Xu Rong was tangled.

He felt that he was standing at a T-junction in his life. On one side was a possible brilliant but full of uncertain future, and on the other side was an ordinary and predictable life.

After he hesitated for 5 minutes, he decided to take a look at the arrangement of fate.

He took out a coin from his pocket, took a deep breath, and said in his heart, "Go back to the construction site for words, and go to the capital for flowers."

After thinking about it, he tossed the coin.

The coin was spinning rapidly, the flowers and characters were almost indistinguishable, and quickly rose to the level of his sight, paused in the air for a moment, then flipped and fell.

"Snapped."

The palm of his right hand was pressed against the face of his left hand.

(End of this chapter)