Chapter 57 Big News
Inside the KTV room.
Hu Dahai [Chen Bing] was hugging a short-haired girl and singing Farewell My Concubine at the top of his lungs.
Han Yueping was also hugging a girl in white clothes. He lazily picked up a bottle of beer, shook it twice, then tilted the bottle and stuck the edge of the bottle cap on the top of another bottle of beer.
Then he picked up two bottles of beer at the same time and knocked them lightly on the coffee table.
bang~
With a crisp sound, the bottle cap disappeared.
The girl in white exclaimed "Wow" and her eyes widened, and the girl with short hair couldn't help but look sideways.
Han Yueping [Xu Kun], however, did not look proud at all. He poured Hu Dahai's glass of wine with a heavy heart.
"Click~"
Gao Qunshu called for a stop at the right time, and then urged repeatedly: "This scene is over - hurry up, go to the next room to shoot the next one!"
The crew members who were huddled in a corner of the room immediately filed out.
Xu Kun and Chen Bing also changed their leisurely appearance, each picked up beer and fruit plates, and went to the next box.
This box is twice as big as the previous one, with two tables, and the number of actors has increased from four to eight.
There was a beer and fruit plate on one of the tables, but the other was empty.
Xu Kun and Chen Bing placed the beer and fruit plate from the next room on the table, then retreated to the corridor outside.
Because the crew is short of funds, they booked this KTV today. In addition to filming the plot where Han Yueping [Xu Kun] and Hu Dahai [Chen Bing] flee to Jinling because of Sun Honglei's killing spree, they also come into conflict with local gangsters.
They also had to film a scene where Song Lao Hu, after being released from prison, helps Hengzhou KTV owner Ying Hong settle accounts with her creditors.
Separated by a wall, they are now worlds apart.
At Gao Qunshu's command, the crew started filming again.
After the actor who played the foreman, Boss Shen, said that Ying Hong owed him 100,000 yuan for the project and all expenses would be deducted from this amount, Song Lao Hu [Zhang Yong] immediately pushed the door open and saw that Boss Shen was a monkey stealing peaches, and he came to control the princes with his two eggs.
"Do you know who I am? You don't know, then I'll tell you who I am. Listen carefully, my name is Song Lao Hu!"
A person's reputation is like the shadow of a tree. When the three words "Song Lao Hu" were uttered, all of Boss Shen's brothers became dispirited.
So Boss Shen asked Song Lao Hu [Zhang Yong] to help settle the bill of 100,000 yuan. Boss Shen still owed the KTV 2,800 yuan. In the end, he could only scrape together 2,000 yuan and leave.
Boss Shen was a temporary guest star, and Zhang Yong was not a serious actor, so their coordination was naturally far inferior to that of Xu Kun and Chen Bing. This scene was NGed seven or eight times before Gao Qunshu approved it.
Then the crew took some beer and fruit and moved back to the small box.
After Xu Kun and Chen Bing sat down, they ate one third of the fruit in the plate without saying a word, and threw the peels and cores on the table and under the table, pretending to be having a wild party.
The props took away the real beer cups, and Gao Qunshu personally placed two saccharification glasses on the table and instructed: "Kun'er, Xiao Chen, we don't have many beer cups prepared, let's try to pass them in one go."
This was the first time Xu Kun saw a glass cup made of syrup. It felt a little sticky when he held it, and when he licked it with his tongue, it choked his throat.
This thing can't last too long at room temperature. Either it needs a special container, or it can only be made on site - given the conditions of the "Conquest" crew, it can only be the latter.
During the first take, Han Yueping [Xu Kun] and Hu Dahai [Chen Bing] dominated the scene with their aura and acting skills, and ultimately completed a double kill with a headshot using a syrup beer cup.
But two extras made mistakes. The one in the front who had lines was quite professional, but the one at the back not only kept peeking at the camera, but after falling to the ground he even deliberately adjusted his posture so that his face was facing the camera.
Gao Qunshu's face turned black after watching the replay. Wang Baode, who played Feng Biao, fired the extras without saying a word and picked someone from the staff who rarely appeared in the scene to take over temporarily.
Although it is not as good as "Blind Shaft" where the director had to perform multiple duties in the mine, the staff of "Conquest" are also versatile, and almost all of them appeared as extras.
As a result, something unexpected happened again during the second filming. When the extras playing the local gangsters reached out to pull up the girl next to Han Yueping [Xu Kun], the girl in white accidentally stepped on a banana peel and fell down on the spot.
If Xu Kun hadn't been quick-witted, even the coffee table would have been overturned by her.
The only thing to be thankful for was that the two spare syrup beer bottles had not been used yet. It was not until the third time that the shooting was finally completed successfully.
Next, it's the KTV's turn to have a power outage, and the scene where the proprietress Ying Hong and a group of beautiful girls are having a conversation in the corridor.
Taking advantage of the fact that there was no filming task for the time being, Zhang Yong pulled Xu Kun outside the KTV and said, "If we can finish the filming smoothly tonight, I won't stay overnight in Shishi."
"It will be late at night before the shooting is over, right?"
Xu Kun frowned and said, "It's not safe for you to drive alone at this late hour... Did something happen back home?"
"No, in addition to the greenhouse vegetables, I also built ten acres of grape sheds at the suggestion of the county. Isn't it time for the fruits and vegetables? I have to hurry back to find people in advance."
For fruits and vegetables, the overly dense grape berries should be evenly removed in the early stages of their development to ensure that the grapes are plump and juicy when they mature.
This is a very important and also the most troublesome process.
Xu Kun couldn't stop him, so he could only tell Zhang Yong to call him when he got home to let him know he was safe.
Speaking of the phone, I couldn't help but mention it. Not long after I finished speaking, Xu Kun's phone rang.
I took it out and looked at it, and the caller ID showed: Big Mouth Elk.
After answering the phone, Xu Kun teased, "Isn't this our most popular female No. 3? How come you have time to call me today?"
During the intermission on the top of the water tower, Li Xiaolu laughed at Lu Liting, saying that she, the third female lead, had the nerve to take advantage of the popularity of "Young Huang Feihong".
This is because Chun Chun's "Fairy Tale of Youth" was overshadowed by Shi Xiaolong's "Young Huang Feihong".
As a result, after "Young Zhang Sanfeng" was broadcast on local TV stations in late April, it became a huge hit. She began to regard herself as the third most popular female star and was looking forward to "Young Zhang Sanfeng" being broadcast on satellite TV every day.
"Bah, you can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth!"
Li Xiaolu was already used to bickering with Xu Kun, so she only cursed him once before getting back to the point: "Big news, big news, Liu Xiaoqing is under investigation!"
"What?"
Xu Kun was a little confused at first, then blurted out: "Is it because of tax evasion?"
"Huh? You already know?"
Li Xiaolu was very surprised. She had just received the news. Xu Kun was far away in Shi City. How could he have heard about this earlier than him?
Of course Xu Kun knew about this in his previous life. His impression of this incident was not as deep as that of a certain toothpick. It was so long ago that he even forgot the exact time.
Thinking of the X Eight Billion, X Yin Yang and the like, Xu Kun kindly reminded: "You have to grasp this aspect well, and don't follow in Liu Xiaoqing's footsteps."
"Tsk, take care of yourself first!"
Li Xiaolu said disdainfully: "Liu Xiaoqing is a tall tree that attracts the wind, and he was too high-profile and offended people, so he was investigated - besides, it's just an investigation now, not an arrest."
"They will be caught."
"how do you know?"
Not only did I know that, I also knew that she was sentenced to more than a year.
After talking about the big news, Li Xiaolu deliberately mentioned that she had gone out to play with Li Chen before. Li Chen gave her a heart-shaped stone and also introduced her to a young sister in the circle.
Xu Kun didn't respond at all. Instead, he kept asking whether the girl was pretty or not and whether she had a hot body or not. Li Xiaolu was so angry that she hung up the phone directly.
Tsk~
The Seventh Prince is still not so good. Even after giving Li Xiaolu a heart-shaped stone, he is still thinking about himself.
Zha Kun was complacent for a while, then he remembered Liu Xiaoqing's tax evasion. He recalled that he seemed to have never paid taxes since he started working as an actor.
After all, each time the money was paid directly in cash, and the crew never mentioned whether it was after-tax income.
It seems that I should go to the tax bureau to inquire about it when I get a chance. Otherwise, it would be a great loss if my bright future was ruined because of tax evasion.
(End of this chapter)
