Entertaining Children

"You bastard, you really aren't a bit awkward!" Ye Jiaying said helplessly, "Okay, then you can spare your summer vacation and wait for me to notify you to join the filming team."

"What? Are you planning to shoot during the summer vacation?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Writing the script, preparing the crew, selecting actors, selecting locations, making a shooting plan, making props and sets, all these pre-works take time." Ye Jiaying said, "It's the beginning of March, and when these pre-preparations are done, no matter what. It will take a few months, almost until the summer vacation to start the machine."

"Of course, if all the preparations go well, it's not impossible for us to catch up with the start in May." Ye Jiaying continued, "But it's not like you participated in "Singer" last year and spent one or two weeks a week. It’s enough to record in one day, and you can still go to school to attend classes. You have to join a group when making a film, and you are still the lead actor, so it’s impossible to go back to class halfway. Can you ask the school for a month or two to film? Then after filming, go on summer vacation?"

"It seems inappropriate." Xiao Yao said, "Then let's go on summer vacation."

After entering university, no matter how Xiao Yao played outside, he always tried to keep a low profile in school, not wanting to appear too different. Since this time, Ye Jiaying's filming is progressing normally and will be filmed during the summer vacation, Xiao Yao will definitely not force Ye Jiaying to advance to May.

Huaxia's three major film and television schools are not very supportive of acting students who go out to take plays when they are freshmen and sophomores. Because in freshmen and sophomores, not only there are many theoretical courses, but also a lot of learning and training of basic skills, which belongs to the period of laying a solid foundation. And when it comes to junior and senior years, there are more practical courses, and it is also a kind of practice for students to join the crew to film, so the attitude of the school will be relaxed a lot accordingly.

The school cannot decide for the students whether to take the show or not. It mainly achieves its goals by restricting students from taking long vacations. Students are considered absenteeism if they do not show up for class without a leave of absence or when the leave of absence has not been approved.

The school has a whole set of punishment system for students absent from class. The number of class hours for absenteeism ranges from short to long, and the corresponding punishment measures range from deduction of usual performance points, deduction of total final grades, failure to retake courses, warnings, demerit marks, compulsory repetition, and even dismissal.

Usually, the filming period of a film and television work is at least one month or more. Except for those minor characters who play tricks, the filming of the main characters usually lasts for more than one month. If the school does not grant leave, it will be difficult for students to stay on the set for a long time. Continuous absence from class for one month will at least be a demerit penalty. If there are more class hours during this period, it is not impossible to be forced to repeat a grade or persuaded to leave.

In this way, between filming and demerits, repeating a grade or even being dismissed by the school, students will carefully weigh it. There are very few students who don't even want a student status from a film and television school for a play, and the school naturally achieves its goal of controlling students to take the play too early.

However, the original intention of the school to do this is to prevent students from wasting their studies because they go out to pick up plays too early. At the same time, they control it by restricting long vacations, so the winter and summer vacations are not within the scope of the school's control.

Zhao Rui is one year older than Xiao Yao, Lin Qisan and others. When Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan graduated from high school the year before last, Zhao Rui had already completed his freshman year at Yanjing Film Academy. At that time, Zhao Rui was able to participate in the filming of the TV series "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky". One of the very important reasons was that this drama was filmed during the summer vacation.

After Xiao Yao entered the Shenxi Acting Department, he took a total of three long vacations of more than a week, all of which were last year. They went to France to participate in the short film festival, went to the United States to find Sun Tingting to shoot "Thinking Out Loud" when participating in "Singer" and participated in New York Fashion Week.

These three times, Xiao Yao took a week off. Although the two trips to France and Fashion Week were extended by nearly a week, but the time in France was because of the award for the short film, and I had to discuss copyright with others.

There were robberies and kidnappings at New York Fashion Week, and for good reason. The reasons for asking for leave these few times were not for filming, and the duration did not exceed half a month. Strictly speaking, it was not considered breaking the school rules. The school agreed to Xiao Yao's leave and extension more painfully. Application for leave.

Xiao Yao doesn't have any bad records in school at present, and naturally he doesn't want to add a stain to his file in the last two months of his sophomore year.

It is now the beginning of March, not long after the start of school, and there are still four months before the summer vacation, a whole semester. Although Xiao Yao said that he didn't do anything except filming Ye Jiaying's movie, during these four months, Xiao Yao didn't plan to do nothing except go to school. With his current brainpower and energy, it would be too boring to do nothing but go to school for four months.

The first thing Xiao Yao plans to do is still related to Zhan Youcheng.

After talking with Ye Jiaying, Xiao Yao also called Zhan Youcheng and told him that he had agreed to play his role and that the conditions he had offered had been met, and Ye Jiaying would go to him to discuss specific authorization matters next.

After that, Xiao Yao stopped for about a week. After hearing the news from Ye Jiaying that she and Zhan Youcheng had negotiated authorization, she and the screenwriter she was looking for also had preliminary contact and conversation with Zhan Youcheng, and one weekend after starting to write the script, Xiao Yao appeared again In front of Zhan Youcheng.

This time, Xiao Yao found Zhan Youcheng's store directly.

"Brother Cheng, have you ever applied for a passport?" After exchanging pleasantries, Xiao Yao asked Zhan Youcheng.

"Huh? Why are you asking this?" Zhan Youcheng asked curiously.

"I want to ask you to go to Germany with me." Xiao Yao smiled.

"Why go to Germany?" Zhan Youcheng was even more puzzled.

"To install artificial limbs." Xiao Yao said, "I know that there is a prosthetic limb manufacturing company in Germany that has a kind of prosthetic limb that can allow people to climb rocks and mountains."

"Prosthetics that allow people to climb mountains?" Zhan Youcheng's eyes lit up.

"Sure enough," Xiao Yao smiled, "It's not that you don't want to wear prosthetics, it's just that you don't want to pretend that you can't climb mountains."

"Actually, I originally wanted to order one for you directly." Xiao Yao scratched his hair in embarrassment, and continued, "I even sent you the leg circumference and photos of your severed limb wounds, but people said that you have bare legs Circumference data is useless, they not only need to know the circumference of your leg at the wound, but also know the length of the missing part of the leg and your own height and weight, and also need to do a series of tests on the healthy right leg to make a Fit your prosthetic."

"No wonder you wanted to measure the circumference of my wounded leg and take a picture that day. It was for this purpose. Did you have that thought in mind at that time?" Zhan Youcheng said, "As I said earlier, you will go to a prosthetic company to wear a prosthetic leg. Just send the data over like this, of course not."

"Yes, this is a blind spot in my knowledge, but it has been filled in now." Xiao Yao said, "I heard you say that you can't climb mountains with artificial limbs, and I didn't believe it. After I went back, I checked and found that there are already Prosthetics that can assist mountaineering or even rock climbing. At least this point, my judgment is correct. I compared and found that a German company’s products have the best reputation, but they don’t have a branch in China, so we can only go to Germany."

"Thank you." Zhan Youcheng said gratefully, "I'm already very grateful for you telling me this. Tell me about the German company. I can go to Germany myself."

"Do you speak German?" Xiao Yao asked.

"I can't speak German, but I can barely speak English." Zhan Youcheng said.

"Then have you ever been to Germany? That company is in Munich, do you have any acquaintances there?" Xiao Yao asked again.

"No, I have only traveled to Asian countries such as Thailand and Japan." Zhan Youcheng shook his head, "I have never been to Europe, and I don't know anyone abroad."

"Your legs and feet are not very convenient, and you have never been to Germany, so let me go with you." Xiao Yao said, "I can speak German, and I know people in Munich."

"This..." Zhan Youcheng hesitated.

"Okay, don't do this." Xiao Yao said, "Since you have traveled, you must have a passport. Judging by your age, your passport should not have expired. If you need a visa to go to Germany, I also have a visa for Germany. I haven't done it yet, and I'm waiting to do it with you. I'll make an appointment online in a while, and when the appointment is made, I'll pick you up to Yanjing, and we'll go to the interview together."

"So thoughtful?" Zhan Youcheng smiled wryly, "I don't even know what to say."

"Then don't say anything, just follow me when the time comes." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "I won't take you to Germany and sell you."

"Why are you helping me like this?" Zhan Youcheng suddenly looked at Xiao Yao seriously and said.

"Then why do you insist on appointing me to play you?" Xiao Yao also looked at Zhan Youcheng.

"Does it matter?" Zhan Youcheng said.

"Of course there is," Xiao Yao said, "I do this with conditions."

"What conditions?" Zhan Youcheng asked.

"Do you know the character experience?" Xiao Yao asked.

"What role experience?" Zhan Youcheng shook his head blankly.

"It's the role an actor wants to play." Xiao Yao said, "I want to play you, and the role I want to experience is you. I want to be in your environment, watch what you watch, do what you do, and experience you I will live in your house if I don’t go back tonight, and in the next four months, as long as I am free, I will come here to feel your life at any time. Live in your house , do what you do, such as help you look at the store or something. When the prosthesis is ready, I want you to take me to climb the mountain, I hope you don't refuse."

"So you took me to Germany to order prosthetics for the purpose of acting in that movie?" Zhan Youcheng said.

"You can understand that." Xiao Yao nodded and smiled.

"Although I don't really believe it, well," Zhan Youcheng said, "I accept everything you said."

"Okay, now the first step, you first introduce to me the products and prices in your store, and I will first experience how you run this store in a while." Xiao Yao pointed to the products on the shelves in the store road.

"So you're starting to enter the role?" Zhan Youcheng stared.

"I said I won't go back tonight, of course it will start now." Xiao Yao laughed.

"Okay," Zhan Youcheng stood up on crutches, took a brochure from the counter and handed it to Xiao Yao, "Here is the list of goods. You can introduce me while you look at me."

"Boss, are there any tents for sale here? The ones suitable for camping in the wild." A pair of young couples walked into the store, and one of the young men asked.

Zhan Youcheng sat without moving, and did not answer the young man, but turned to look at Xiao Yao.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Xiao Yao, who was also sitting still, looked at Zhan Youcheng and said, "I want to buy something, why don't you, the boss, stare at me instead of greeting customers?"

"Didn't you say you want to be a shop assistant? Go up and greet the customers." Zhan Youcheng said, "I just told you the list of goods, and they asked about the tents. Go and introduce the tents in our store to others."

"You have to do it first to demonstrate to me," Xiao Yao said as a matter of course, "If you don't demonstrate to me, how will I know how you do business and entertain customers? How can I learn?"

"You..." Zhan Youcheng opened his mouth, but couldn't speak, and finally shook his head helplessly and stood up.

"Hey, what a great clerk!" The young man said in surprise, "Do you need the boss to demonstrate in person?"

"I can't afford such an awesome shop assistant." Zhan Youcheng shook his head and muttered, and said to the young couple, "There are tents for camping in the wild, see which one you need, please come with me here to see, everyone There are all price ranges…”

The business of the outdoor goods store is relatively mediocre. In the whole afternoon, a total of four groups of customers came in. After the first demonstration, Xiao Yao also came forward to greet two groups of guests who came in to inquire. However, Xiao Yao only helped greet two groups of customers, and left the store after calling Zhan Youcheng. Zhan Youcheng asked him what he was doing, but he didn't say anything. Xiao Yao returned with two things when Zhan Youcheng was about to close the door.

Seeing the two things in Xiao Yao's hands when he came back, Zhan Youcheng was speechless again, pointing to the two things and said, "Why are you doing this?" It turned out that Xiao Yao got two crutches from somewhere.

"Experience the role!" Xiao Yao said seriously, "You just said that you accept my experience role, don't you think I'm trying to trick you? I definitely didn't mean that."

"You want to experience this too?" Zhan Youcheng said, "I have already discussed the outline of the script with your mother and the screenwriter. The movie will end when I am rescued. There is no need to experience this at all!"

If it wasn't for the fact that Xiao Yao was very similar to himself in terms of wording and tone of voice when greeting customers in the store just now, and that he was indeed learning to imitate him, Zhan Youcheng would have swung his cane over.

"This can help me feel your psychology." Xiao Yao said.

"I can't stand you anymore!" Zhan Youcheng rolled his eyes helplessly, "I'm going to close the door and go home. The car at the door is yours, go and drive."

"What kind of car are you driving?" Xiao Yao said, holding his crutches under his armpit, "you usually walk back, of course we also walk back. The car will be thrown at the door of your store, and I will drive it when I go back tomorrow. "

"Whatever you want!" Zhan Youcheng said, and started to close the shop.

Zhan Youcheng first locked the glass door, then pulled down the rolling shutter iron door and locked it. During this process, Xiao Yao, who was on crutches, stood aside and watched, without any intention of stepping forward to help.

Xiao Yao and Zhan Youcheng walked home, and met Jiang Yan downstairs who was coming home.

"Brother Cheng, you're back." Jiang Yan first greeted Zhan Youcheng who was walking in front with a smile, and then found that there was a person behind Zhan Youcheng.

"Hey, Brother Xiao, you've come to Wuyou County again!" Jiang Yan said in surprise. Xiao Yao was wearing a hat and glasses, and was not recognized by customers when he was in the store just now, but Jiang Yan was much more familiar with Xiao Yao than the customers who came into the store to buy things, so he recognized him immediately.

"Yeah." Xiao Yao smiled and nodded.

"Why don't you come with me..." Jiang Yan suddenly noticed that Xiao Yao was also leaning on a pair of crutches, and his left foot was still raised in the air. Before he even finished the previous sentence, he exclaimed, "Your leg What's wrong?"

"It's okay!" Xiao Yao said.

"It's nothing, why are you on crutches!" Jiang Yan said doubtfully.

"He said that he needs to experience the role, and he learns to do what I do, even learning to walk with a cane!" Zhan Youcheng said angrily, "Do you think he is crazy?"

"When I played "Chengying", I was always experiencing the role, and many people said I was crazy, but I won a newcomer award." Xiao Yao laughed. At this time, there was no one else downstairs, and Xiao Yao talked about his past without any worries.

"Really?" Zhan Youcheng said, "I went home with a cane for the first time, and fell three times when I went upstairs!"

"Uh~" Xiao Yao's smile froze on his face.