"Brother, you smoke?"
"No, Thank you, I don't smoke."
"Oh ."
With the setting sun, the sunlight painted the sky with orange and red color, giving the sky a different flavor.
When Lu Yuan met the glasses Li Qing who have an honest face, his face showing a sincere and thick smile, while Wei Fat stood beside Lu Yuan with eyes full of excitement, rubbing his fat hands from time to time.
....
"Do you really want to shoot a movie?" Li Qing looked at Lu Yuan, his eyes were skeptical.
No matter how he looked at it, Lu Yuan, who is wearing a second-hand suit and messy hair, doesn't look a bit like a filmmaker.
"Yes." Lu Yuan nodded.
"The total investment is only 800,000?"
"True."
"It's not easy to make a movie. With an investment of 800,000, it'll be extremely difficult to make a good movie." Li Qing shook his head, a strong doubt was pressed deep in his eyes, and the last trace of expectation in his heart had disappeared completely.
On the phone earlier, the fat man was very energetic and full of confidence when he talked about the funds. And when he talked about the screenplay, he brazenly bragged that the film will be screened on international cinemas and it was bound to be a hit.
Because of this, Li Qing chose to meet Wei Fat and talk about the movie.
Before they met, he was looking forward to the movie.
After they met, he found that the total investment is only 800,000 yuan. The actor, Lu Yuan is the only actor in the whole movie, and the director is a homeless fat man.
Li Qing fell in a terrible mood.
'This is no longer what the "shit crew" can describe.'
'It's almost like a scammer group with a liar as the team leader.'
....
"Everything has an exception." Lu Yuan looked at Li Qing, and he is very sincere, so he explained the situation as soon as they met.
Lu Yuan can't talk nonsense about the investment and the situations that they are in ...
Some things he can lie, and some things he must say honestly, otherwise, it would not end well.
Half true and half false lies, added with some acting skills, this is the real big lie.
Well, the knowledge didn't came suddenly to Lu Yuan, but he got it from the second hand book "How to be a Liar" that he bought at the bookstore next door.
Lu Yuan deeply agreed with the theory, and he thought it was truer than gold.
After all, he was once the man who aspired to be the king of liar.
"800,000 investment, how much box office do you think it can make?" Li Qing pushed his glasses and was very serious. "Now the movie market is getting weaker, millions of investments movie can even fail badly in box office, let alone your 800,000 movie. Sorry, but with all due respect, your movie might not even be able to get on the cinema line, and all your efforts going to be a big joke in the end."
"No one has ever stipulated that a movie with an investment of 800,000 can not have a good box office." Lu Yuan smoked his cigarette and turned his head to look at the sunset in the distance. He was not scared by Li Qing's words and looked quite confident.
Lu Yuan actually the least stressful.
...
"Confidence is a good thing, but blindly wasting time is a bad thing. You see... The sunset is almost gone, let's meet another day? I always believed that time cannot be wasted on meaningless things." Li Qing smiled, his smile was not a ridicule nor scornful, it was just a polite smile and he just wanted to go home.
"How do you know if you haven't done it or tried it? And you haven't even see the script yet."
"Do you think I need to see a script with a total investment of 800,000?"
"You don't?"
"Sorry, I can't do anything about it. "The Capital" has consumed me too much time and energy, I need to take a good rest. And I have an appointment with Sky group to talk about their next movie three months later, so I have to prepare for that. Sorry, I can only wish you success on the box office" When the last rays of the setting sun dissipated, Li Qing smiled and euphemistically rejected Lu Yuan again. After pushing the glasses, he stood up and turned away.
He's leaving.
He feels that should he leave now, before getting entangled further.
He doesn't have time to play with these people.
.......
At this moment, Lu Yuan glanced at Wei Wu Ji, his eyes were vague, and the corners of his mouth were raised.
"Li Brother, I think there are more things to discuss, let's have a good talk. Everyone is a young man. I think everyone needs to sit down for a cup of coffee, listen to music, talk about life and happiness. Oh, yes, everyone. We are all cultured young people anyway ... "
Wei Wu Ji understood Lu Yuan's gaze, and after he stood on Li Qing's side, he was suddenly smiling brightly and put his hand on Li Qing's shoulder like they're best mate.
"Youth? What youth? What do you mean?"
"Yeah, I don't think it's good to talk outside. After all, there are no people in this place, and there is no mood to talk properly. In fact, many things can be discussed in details." Lu Yuan also laughed, and his smile was bright.
Be polite.
"Didn't you guys called me here to talk?" Li Qing strangely looked at the bright smiles of the two.
'Do they have any bad intention?'
'Why are their expressions seemed wrong?'
He suddenly became vigilant.
"Fat! You grab his body, I grab his feet!"
But at this moment, Lu Yuan suddenly shouted.
"Lu Yuan, why did you call me fat!"
"Catch him!"
"What!... What are you guys doing! No! Stop! You guys are kidnapping! I tell you... No! Don't!"
When the setting sun fell, the last red aurora reflected on Li Qing's glasses was also gone.
Then...
Li Qing felt that his body was pulled up by Wei Fat from the back with great force, and he suddenly felt that he was turned by an excessive centrifugal power. Reflexively, Li Qing tried to lift his leg to balance himself, but his legs unexpectedly caught by a pair of strong hands and his hands and feet were quickly tied unreasonably on a bamboo tree ...
"Stop, stop! Let me go, or I'll call the police!"
Both of them are quite powerful and overbearing, making Li Qing completely helpless. He kept shouting ...
But it was useless.
Li Qing was carried like a pig with a long bamboo tree on both of their shoulder. Their legs ran fast, and the smiles on the two kidnappers were even brighter because their cooperation was extremely smooth.
The evening shadows grows longer, and the dark horizon getting higher ...
Li Qing's shouts became desolate and weaker. In the end, he sounds like a whimpering pig waiting be slaughtered.
In his mind, he had scolded the two barbarians with all the bloody expletives and profanities that flows through their family tree.
......
"Remote Film Company" is not on Hengdian main street.
It's located in a remote back-alley.
Professor Zheng Guo Long searched for a long time before he found the half-hanging billboard of this shell company.
Looking at the narrow and almost-broken door, Zheng Guo Long felt quite a gap with what he was expected
It's a run-down house.
'The talented kid lives here?'
Zheng Guolong shook his head and looked a little helpless after looking at the locked door of the "company."
'The kid is not in the company.'
'It's a pity.'
Zheng Guo Long wanted to see the kid and talked about the song "To Alice" when they met, also give a little direction for the kid's future by the way, but now it really seems that he have to return without seeing him.
Zheng Guo Long was helpless, but he did not feel too disappointed.
He just felt a bit pity.
And there are also some regrets.
'Let's go back.'
'I'll come again when i go back Hengdian.'
Zheng Guo Long shook his head and turned to prepare to leave, but when he turned around, he saw two men walking towards him while carrying a red-faced glasses youth in between ...
'Li Qing?'
He knows the glasses youth, he is one of the professional videographers in the Sky Entertainment Group and an alumni of Yan Ying University.
As for the other two ...
A fat man with a bright smile, and a young man who looks quite honest.
Zheng Guo Long's eyes fall on the young man.
'This young man is somewhat familiar.'
'Is he that Lu Yuan in the video?'
'Talented young people, sure enough, the new replaces the olds.'
"Fucking Li, you really have to forced us to do this to you just to come over. Well, aren't you coming over now? Ha... ha... ha... Hey, are you dead? Ha... Ha..." Wei Wu Ji laughed, brilliantly.
"Yeah, Li, come on, smoke, oh, I forgot you didn't smoke ... Well, we will talk about the script and shooting details later ... Fuck, why there's no more, Wei Fat, wait, help me get a pack of cigarettes."Lu Yuan pulled out an empty pack and shook his head.
"Fuck you, don't order me, I'm the director you hired, not your slave!"
"..."
"I said, can you guys let me go?"
"Let you go back home?"
"Li, you aren't dead yet?"
When Zheng Guo Long heard the voices of the two, and saw Li Qing's weak face, he suddenly froze.
'This swearing young man is really the talented young man who wrote "To Alice"?'
'This ...'
'Seems not quite right.'
"Stop, are you Lu Yuan?" When Lu Yuan and others passed by Zheng Guo Long, he finally stopped Lu Yuan.
"Ah, uncle, do you know me?" Lu Yuan froze, the glasses old man who's holding him is a bit like the rent collector.
"You, you, you ... you, you are ..." Wei Fat's bright smile suddenly twitched.
"Pro... Professor Zheng...?" Li Qing, who was hanged up-side down, was also stupid and began to stutter.
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