Porcelain to Porcelain

In July, Huacheng Film Company was established in Shanghai in a low-key manner. Zhou Hongxun was part-time president, Lu Qiu and Xie Pu were vice presidents, and the final decision was made on the company's production.The headhunting company hired an executive surnamed Tian from a foreign film and television company as the general manager, responsible for the company's administrative management.

Lu Qiu and Xie Pu were busy filming, Huacheng only returned to Shanghai one day before the opening ceremony, and returned to Wuxi to continue filming after the opening ceremony.The company affairs were left to Mr. Tian.

Mr. Tian has rich management experience, Lu Qiu and Xie Pu do not come to the company, and the company operates in an orderly manner.

At the end of September, the pre-shooting work of "Farewell My Concubine" was completed. Zhou Hongxun and Mr. Tian rushed to Wuxi on the same day to hold a wrap-up banquet for the crew to congratulate.

The wrap-up banquet was scheduled to be held at the five-star Linshui Hotel in Wuxi. A table of banquets, including drinks, cost 6000 yuan in total, and there were everything from shark fin to sea cucumber.

Lu Qiu finally doesn't have to be taboo to lose weight, and can eat extravagantly.

Lu Qiu sat at the table with the highest status. Except for Zhou Hongxun and Mr. Tian, ​​the main and deputy directors of the film crew, artists Ju Gui and Feng Hao, only Lu Ya and Sun Jiaxing were qualified to accompany them.

When the movie finished, everyone in the crew was happy, Zhou Hongxun was even happier, Lu Qiu would have a lot of time to spend with him in the future.

Sun Jiaxing was sitting on Lu Qiu's left hand side, Zhou Hongxun was on Lu Qiu's right side, and Zhou Hongxun was Xie Pu and Tian Zong in the past.At this time, Zhou Hongxun was discussing a topic with Mr. Xie Pu and Mr. Tian.

Taking advantage of no one's attention here, Sun Jiaxing quietly asked, "Brother Qiu, what are Director Xie's plans for next?"

"Director Xie said that he won't be filming in the second half of the year, and he will be promoting "Farewell My Concubine" instead." Movies are different from fine wines, the smell of wine can not be afraid of deep alleys, but movies have to rely on promotion and publicity.People will only buy tickets to go to the cinema if they are interested in the movie.

When Sun Jiaxing heard this, he felt happy. He happened to be free in the second half of the year.He is an artist of Yaotu, and after filming "Farewell My Concubine", he will return to the company to film a TV series.This is stipulated in the contract, and you must make one or two movies or TV series for your company every year.

"What about next year?" Sun Jiaxing waited anxiously for Lu Qiu to reveal that he wanted to star in the movie directed by Xie Pu again.

"Next year's script role is not suitable for you." Lu Qiu has already made an appointment with Xie Pu to start filming the next film "The Love of Ghosts".

Qiuming and Cheng Dieyi's characters are too soft, Lu Qiu doesn't want to be stereotyped, so he has to change his image.How to reverse it, it is natural to play a brave and affectionate man.

Lu Qiu adapted "The Love of Ghosts" and put the background of the story in Hong Kong. The protagonist was changed to a mixed-race Chinese-Hong Kong nationality, and the psychic was changed to Guan Blind Goddess who was walking in the underworld.

Lu Qiu was set to play the lead role of Sam, and Sun Jiaxing had only the second male lead to fight for.

The second male lead, Carl, is of Caucasian race, and Sun Jiaxing does not fit the image or the character of the character.

Sun Jiaxing was disappointed. "In the future, your company will have suitable external candidates for roles, please let me know."

Lu Qiu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, there will be opportunities in the future."

Sun Jiaxing said a few more words to Lu Qiu, and when Zhou Hongxun turned his face away, he let go of Lu Qiu and turned to talk to Lu Ya.

"What are you talking about to Sun Jiaxing? Are you talking so speculatively?" Zhou Hongxun glanced at Sun Jiaxing, and he had to keep his words close to his ears!

"Jiaxing inquires about the next movie with me." Lu Qiu took a sip of wine from the wine glass.

"Oh, he's quite active." Zhou Hongxun touched Lu Qiu with his arm. "We'll go to Europe in October."

"I'm afraid I don't have time."

"Aren't you going to be filming for the next three or four months?" Zhou Hongxun scheduled most of the meetings before October in order to keep pace with Lu Qiu.

"I want to go to study." Lu Qiu glanced at Feng who was opposite him: "Teacher Feng suggested."

After all, he is not from a major, and Lu Qiu’s acting skills are blunt. He has watched "Farewell My Concubine" five or six times, and he pays special attention to Leslie Cheung. He can learn [-]% or [-]% of his performance as Dieyi, but not for other movie roles.For example, "The Love of Ghosts", Lu Qiu has only watched it once, and only knows that Patrick Swayze, the actor who starred in Sam, played very well, so I can't remember the specific performance.But the theme song in it, Lu Qiu can hum and sing, and I often sing this song when I go to karaoke.

"The place of study has been decided?" Zhou Hongxun was very unhappy, and his enthusiasm was met with cold water.

"Not yet." Lu Qiu looked at Zhou Hong and asked. "I'm not good at acting, so I can't just rely on my face for food. Teacher Feng said to help me go to the capital to find out if I can get into a Chinese opera training class."

"Chinese opera is the best?" Zhou Hongxun heard that it was Feng Hao's suggestion, and the anger in his heart was slowly extinguished, and he began to think about problems from Lu Qiu's standpoint.

"Of course not. Hong Kong is the best Chinese-speaking region at the moment."

"Then go to Hong Kong for training." Zhou Hongxun made a decision for Lu Qiuxia.

Lu Qiu spread his hands: "It's hard for me to get into Chinese opera, let alone Hong Kong."

Zhou Hongxun smiled: "You forgot that Du Zhiwen still owes us a request."

"That's right, Du Zhiwen's bet has not been honored to us." Lu Qiu had already forgotten about that bet.

"Wait, let me mention this to Du Zhiwen." Zhou Hongxun felt that Du Zhiwen didn't think highly of Lu Qiu.Zhou Hongxun felt that the social atmosphere in Hong Kong is different from that in the mainland, and the social atmosphere is stratified. This difference is not obvious in the mainland.

At the wrap-up banquet, most of the crew got drunk, the main banquet was better, and few people came to toast. Only Sun Jiaxing, Xie Pu, and Feng Hao were drunk.

Sun Jiaxing was escorted away by Lu Ya, Xie Pu was taken away by the assistant director, and Feng Hao had to be sent off by Lu Qiu.

Lu Qiu sent Feng Hao to the hotel room and gave it to Ju Gui to take care of him.When he returned to his residence, Zhou Hongxun came to knock on the door.

"Brother Qiu!"

As soon as Zhou Hongxun entered the room, he hugged Lu Qiu.

"Hongxun, Brother Wang is here!" Lu Qiu hurriedly pushed Zhou Hongxun away.

"Why is he here?" Zhou Hongxun pulled his face down. Before the banquet started, he hinted that Wang Gui would return to the rented house.

"People from the crew sent him here." Lu Qiu rubbed his nose: "Brother Wang is drunk."

Only then did Zhou Hongxun smell the strong smell of alcohol in the room. "Are you going to my room?"

Before coming here, Zhou Hongxun wanted to have a good night, since there was no space at Lu Qiu's side, he went to the presidential suite he reserved.

"No, Brother Wang needs someone to take care of him." Lu Qiu frowned.

Wang Gui on the bed made a sound of vomiting as if cooperating, and Lu Qiu hurried over to wipe it with a towel.

After vomiting for a long time, Wang Gui didn't vomit anything, and fell on the bed like a dead pig again.

"Can't you ask someone else to take care of you?" Zhou Hongxun refused to give up.

Lu Qiu stared at Zhou Hongxun with wide eyes.Finding someone else to take care of him will definitely doubt Lu Qiu's whereabouts.

Zhou Hongxun confronted Lu Qiu for a while, seeing that he couldn't change Lu Qiu's mind, he left disappointed and went back to his residence.

After Zhou Hongxun left, Lu Qiu kicked Wang Gui's bed.

"Brother Wang, get up and take a shower, your body stinks to death."

"Unconscionable, who is the cause of my sour smell?" Wang Gui, who was as drunk as a dead pig, turned over and stood up.

To deal with Zhou Hongxun, Lu Qiu made Wang Gui pretend to be drunk.To make the effect realistic, Wang Gui poured half a bottle of wine on his body.

Lu Qiu touched his nose. "Hey, Brother Wang, I made you suffer."

Wang Gui snorted: "Zhou Hongxun is not stupid, if he keeps coping like this, he will always notice."

Lu Qiu sighed: "Hey, let's take one step at a time..."

Things have come to this point, the better Zhou Hongxun treats him, the greater the pressure on him.

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Du Zhiwen's actions were very fast. Zhou Hongxun made a request to him that day, and gave him a reply the next day.A fall training class just started, Du Zhiwen called to help him sign up, and Lu Qiu had to leave for Hong Kong immediately.

On the third day of the wrap-up banquet, relevant procedures were quickly completed, Lu Qiu packed his bags, and flew to Hong Kong by himself.Zhou Hongxun had a chamber of commerce to attend, so he couldn't accompany him there.

At the beginning, Lu Qiu was a little worried. He was afraid that Du Zhiwen would not fulfill his bet seriously, so he would find a wild way to train him to fool himself. Only after he went there did he realize that he had wronged Du Zhiwen. The training that Du Zhiwen helped report was a crash course for his artists.

Xingchen's autumn training class is held in the branch building of the company. The students are all contracted artists of Xingchen. Lu Qiu is the only foreign student who comes from the mainland. On the first day of class, he received the attention of everyone.

The trainees in the training class are all arranged to live in one room, and Lu Qiu is assigned to a separate dormitory under the patronage of Prince Du Zhiwen.After a day or two of being curious about the mainlanders, the students ignored Lu Qiu, except for a student named Fang Zhe.

Fang Zhe is the same age as Lu Qiu, talks a lot, and has a good relationship with his classmates.

Fang Zhe treats people warmly and gives a lot of advice to Lu Qiu who has just arrived. Lu Qiu is grateful for this. After coming and going, the two got acquainted and began to meet to go out for dinner together.

"Lu Qiu, do you plan to come to Hong Kong City to develop in the future?"

"No, I still want to film in the Mainland."

"Several male movie stars from your mainland have come to us to develop." Fang Zhe reported a series of names, and Xu Tingfeng's name was listed first.

"Do you know Xu Tingfeng?"

"I don't know." Fang Zhe shook his head and laughed at himself: "Our students are all Xiao Luoluo, how can we associate with their famous stars."

In less than two days, the well-known celebrity that Fang Zhe talked about came to visit Lu Qiu.

"Xu Tingfeng?" Lu Qiu was surprised to see the handsome and sunny Xu Tingfeng.

Xu Tingfeng smiled brightly: "Lu Qiu, I heard that you came to Hong Kong for training, so I came here to do my best as a landlord."

"It's too troublesome." Lu Qiu became suspicious again. Xu Tingfeng and him just met by chance, and they didn't have much friendship, so they didn't come to visit on purpose.

"Meeting fellow villagers in a different place, with teary eyes, let's go, I will take you to eat the famous delicacies in Hong Kong City."

"Lu Qiu, go, don't stay in the dormitory all the time." Fang Zhe happened to be in Lu Qiu's dormitory. He suggested that Lu Qiu go out for entertainment at night several times before, but Lu Qiu politely refused.Being unfamiliar with the place, Lu Qiu didn't want to cause trouble.

The hospitality is hard to come by, so Lu Qiu and Xu Tingfeng went out to have a meal together.

After drinking two glasses of wine, Xu Tingfeng and Lu Qiu poured bitter water.

Mainland actors are always humiliated and discriminated against by the Hong Kong media in Hong Kong. When it comes to mainland actors, they will say that they are from the countryside. They came to Hong Kong to get rid of poverty and to grab the business of Hong Kong actors.

Having been in Hong Kong for more than a year, Xu Tingfeng has been squeezed out too much, and when he met fellow villagers, his boredom poured out like a flood.Less than a week after Lu Qiu came to the training class, he had a personal experience, and the two of them had a resonance.

After a meal and a bitter experience, the relationship between Xu Tingfeng and Lu Qiu became closer.Every two or three days, Xu Tingfeng would come to ask Lu Qiu out for a meal.Fang Zhe and Lu Qiu got close, and over time, they were invited, and the three of them went out together.