I'm just an actor

Chapter 23 Preparation
"cheers."

"May we become more and more popular." Xiao Zhang said as he drank the orange juice in the glass.

This is a celebration "ceremony" that the two have just started recently. Whoever accepts the show should treat the other party to a good meal.

Xu Rong wants to invite three meals in a row, and this is the first meal to celebrate him signing "Da Ming Dynasty 1566".

The remaining two meals were due to changes at the annual meeting.

Guo Si did not choose to speak out in the end, but left the hotel with a disappointed face after the annual meeting.

Xu Rong thought about it afterwards. From Guo Si's point of view, no matter how unwilling he was, he would not dare to say it.

The only thing the chairman cares about is who did it.

It's not who had the idea and thought of helping him up.

No matter how beautiful the process is, as long as the result is unsatisfactory, even if it is described as a hype, it will not make any sense.

And his experience is exactly the opposite of Guo Si's. He did notice the sign that fell on the ground, but he never had the intention to help it up.

How about Hairun, what has it to do with him?
He's just a little guy who's being hammered by the big guys.

However, in the end he got up.

This is the fact that the chairman saw, although it is not the truth.

On the third day after the annual meeting, the company proposed an early renewal.

Xu Rong was quite hesitant at first. At the annual meeting, he just had a vague premonition that it would be better in the future, but he didn't expect more.

The reason for his hesitation was that he was still not quite sure what Chang Jihong's attitude was and how he viewed him.

The county magistrate is not as good as the current manager. The chairman is indeed the head of the group, but at the executive level, Chang Jihong is the actual manager of the brokerage company, which determines his life and death within the next two years of the contract period.

Together with the contract renewal, there are two scripts, one male lead and one male second.

This not only disrupted his plan, but also made him doubt his steadfastness. He had already planned that after the contract expired, he would not renew the contract with Hairun.

When waiting for the start of school three months ago, he made a rough plan, and before the annual meeting, he was still meticulously and step-by-step implementing it.

He expressed his "thanks" to Guo Si in private, and at the same time inquired about some news. According to Guo Si, this matter was arranged by an assistant named "Xiao Zhang" in the group.

As for Mr. Chang, he didn't make any statement from the beginning to the end.

Xu Rong actually understood that no attitude is the most obvious attitude.

Because silence itself is a form of resistance.

However, the conditions are too tempting, he doesn't know if he missed this time, when will he have such an opportunity in the future.

Although he knew that he shouldn't, and that he was not capable enough, he signed the contract extension without thinking too much.

He would rather be stoned to death by pie than starve to death.

Moreover, there is no choice in itself, is there?

He is just a fringe actor in the industry, because of some coincidence, he was favored by the chairman, if he refuses, it is ignorant of compliments.

Measure the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and the consequence of ignorance of flattery may be, Xuezang.

Just like the "Da Ming Dynasty 1566" he is studying.

The chairman is not the ancient emperor, nor is he a subject, but because of the unequal resources at his disposal, there is a huge disparity in status that can determine his future with a single word.

After Xu Rong renewed his contract in advance, Hairun's internal newspaper also quickly published the ins and outs of the matter, and asked all branch and subsidiary managers to write an article of no less than [-] words after studying carefully. After reading.

Under Guo Si's suggestion, Xu Rong also stayed up all night and wrote a small composition of [-] words, which was used as the material for the next issue of the newspaper.

The article first expresses the reverence for the chairman and the company's cultivation, and expresses his sincere gratitude to the chairman and the company's cultivation.

Xu Rong stated many times in the article that in the future, he will take the company as his home, unite more closely around the Hairun leadership group with the chairman as the core, and more firmly maintain the group leadership with the chairman as the core. In terms of ideology and action, we maintain a high degree of consistency with the company leadership with the chairman as the core, and more solidly implement the chairman's decisions and deployments.

The words are sincere, and the true feelings revealed between the lines make people cry.

Xu Rong put down his water glass, looked at Xiao Zhang with a wry smile, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he was so far away from a historical legend like Hai Rui who would rather die than submit in the script, he couldn't even resist the temptation of a male first and a second male , Even the power of a figure like the chairman dare not confront him head-on.

Xiao Zhang, who was sitting opposite him, lowered his head, carefully peeled a shrimp, put it on the plate between the two of them, picked up another shrimp, and asked, "Mr. So much drama?"

"Would you believe me if I said I was lucky?"

Xiao Zhang doesn’t like to eat shrimp, but she likes to peel the shrimp. She will carefully remove the head and tail, peel the skin, and then carefully pick out the shrimp line.

Xu Rong is just the opposite. It takes a lot of effort to peel it off, but it's really delicious when you eat it.

Seeing classmate Xiao Zhang peel another shrimp and put it on a plate, Xu Rong didn't speak again.

Xiao Zhang’s eyes are round, the seagull line under the small and delicate bridge of the nose is quite obvious, the lip line of the mouth is clear and full, even if he is quiet and does not make any expression, he looks like he is smiling, giving him a very gentle look Feel.

His eyes were dazed, and he suddenly realized that she was probably the first girl who treated him so well in 18 years.

Although it was just peeling a plate of shrimp.

"Hey, why does Teacher Xu look at me like that? The eyes are so strange."

Feeling that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Xu Rong made a joke, saying: "You remind me of my mother whom I have never met."

"That can't be done, I'm not married yet." Xiao Zhang's eyes widened suddenly, and he said decisively, "I can't be your mother!"

Xu Rong suddenly felt that the prawns peeled by Xiao Zhang were not so tasty anymore.

Xiao Zhang seems to have gotten the hang of it recently, and actually saw that Xu Rong's pulling face meant that he was unhappy, he laughed dryly, and said, "Let me tell you something interesting."

"Well, let's eat first."

"Don't we eat together all the time?" Xiao Zhang took the paper from Xu Rong, lowered his head seriously and wiped his hands, "Shanshan suddenly asked me a few days ago if we were in love, and I said no, Do you know what she said?"

"What did you say?"

"She said that Xu Rong is so handsome. She made several movies in her freshman year. What a good boyfriend, haha. She said that you are the most handsome in our class. Do you think it's funny?"

After classmate Xiao Zhang finished speaking, he turned himself forward and backward with joy, but after a while, seeing Xu Rong's face became even uglier, blinking his almond eyes, he wondered: "Mr. Xu, isn't it funny?"

Xu Rong leaned on the table with one arm, tilted her body slightly, gave her a sideways glance, and said, "I think you are fine in everything."

"Hey, Mr. Xu is quite discerning."

"Unfortunately, it just has a mouth."

Xu Rong found that Xiao Zhang became more confident after receiving the first play, and even talked a lot more than before.

But no matter how you look at it, this doesn't seem to be a good thing.

After eating and drinking three times in a row, the exam week came.

Xu Rong didn't take it too seriously. Even if he was allowed to take the sophomore exam at this time, even if he couldn't get a high score, there would always be no problem in passing.

But he was not at all relaxed. Since the day he signed the contract, he has been feeling heavy in his heart.

After the Chinese New Year, it was a year of torment. Among the three plays, except for "The Ming Dynasty", the rest were all important roles.

He is very clear that his current professional level cannot support a play, but he is really reluctant to refuse.

However, since the company dared to throw resources at him, he was not afraid of complaining afterwards, and he didn't ask for it on his own initiative.

But if possible, he still wants to be as popular as Li Youbin, and he doesn't want to earn half his life's money in a month.

A quarter will do.

Therefore, he has considerable expectations for the filming of "The Ming Dynasty".

The first point is naturally the improvement of acting skills, otherwise he is really afraid that his reputation will be ruined when he shoots the later scenes. The company sets an example and sets an example, but it is not for charity. Thousands of dollars buy horse bones.

In addition, there are many actors in this group who he thinks are better than him in acting. Based on this, he set a small goal in his heart.

In the early stage of filming, he focused on learning, and when his professional level improved, he directly improved his eyesight, because through the script, he found that most of Shen Yishi's scenes were not expressed by lines and body.

In the later stages of filming, they had to let them feel the helplessness they felt when they acted in the previous stage. They obviously felt better than themselves, but they just couldn't catch up.

30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, don't bully the young and poor! ! !
After the school holiday, Xu Rong returned home early, and had been out for half a year, so he had to go back and have a look.

On this trip back, he has another plan, to contract out the family's two acres of land.

Now it is not like before, he is not at home, grandpa is getting old, and his legs and feet are not very convenient.

Now that he is in college, he is far away from home, and considering that he will become more and more busy in the future, he will never be able to go back to the harvest season. Grandpa is an old man, so he can't take care of him without thinking about it.

Neighbors can help once in a while, but you can't point out that people help every year, that will be said behind their backs.

There are no close relatives in the family. It is said that my grandfather used to have a brother, but he fled famine and settled in other provinces in his early years. He has not contacted him for 20 years.

He knew that it might not be easy for his grandfather to agree. A farmer who spends half his life digging in the fields is not doing his job properly if he gives the land to others.

But he has made up his mind to do this matter. If it is really impossible, he will find an uncle in the village, give them some money, and ask them to help watch the crops every year.

To his surprise, after he mentioned it, Grandpa didn't object, but just told him that he could be planted, but no matter how rich he was, he couldn't sell the land.

If it is sold, the root will be broken.

The old man is a sensible person. When he was young, he studied in private schools for a few years, and later joined the army and traveled all over the world. Compared with most of his peers who lived in that small county all their lives, they have seen a lot of world.

He understood what Xu Rong was thinking, and he also knew that if he didn't sell the land, he would always miss it.

The year has not yet passed, and Xu Rong rushed to Zhejiang Province on the fourth day of the lunar new year.

The crew notifies the assembly and tries on makeup.

Every actor in the Daming production team signed the whole process. In theory, from the beginning of the first month to the middle of the year, the actors must stay on the production team.

But in fact it is not the case, but once the crew needs it during filming, the actors must arrive.

Xu Rong's salary has increased a little bit, 5000 episodes, a total of 12 episodes.

48 episodes, 12 episodes, not too much, only accounted for a quarter, and finally got almost 2 yuan.

When filming "Stepfather", his salary had already risen to [-], and after Liangjian was broadcast, his salary should have doubled theoretically.

But he was lucky to be able to sign the contract.

Because he heard that the salary of most of the actors in the group has dropped compared to before.

There is no way, Uncle Li's reputation is too great, and the competition is already fierce, so it won't have much impact if anyone is missing.

His salary has risen instead of falling, and he is already content.

After joining the group, the first thing he did was not just to try on makeup, but before trying on makeup, he had already started another more important thing, looking for his status.

The makeup test is very slow, but it is also very delicate. There are about one or two people a day, and the hairline is required to be from sparse to dense, natural and not rigid.

When they really worked together, Xu Rong suddenly felt that Uncle Li was definitely the most enlightened director he had ever encountered in his career.

The studio of the production crew is full of photos of makeup trials, using the largest size of photo printing paper, and the walls are full. Uncle Li takes the actors to see the effect every day. If the suggestions made are reasonable, he will call people immediately After a meeting, make adjustments after the decision is made.

Xu Rong's Shen Yishi is middle-aged, so the makeup is heavier, and it takes longer. The final decision is made after seven or eight adjustments.

The props are also a bit different from the previous production crews. They don’t start to be used until they are turned on. The warehouse is open for the actors at any time. They can go in to see, choose, and pick. If the warehouse does not have the props they need, they can mention them to the props team and let them prepare. , but there is only one requirement, to use things in the play.

This is the preparation before starting up.

(End of this chapter)