Play bone

The examination room was the rehearsal room of the performance department. There were three rows of mats against the back wall, and the examiners' seats were on the opposite side.There are five examiners in total. Excluding the central chief examiner who is senior and senior, the remaining four belong to the middle and young generations of teachers. It is said that there will be star alumni joining in the re-examination.

Candidates are seated in the order of their test numbers, with their heads held high and their chests upright, for fear of leaving the slightest negative impression on the examiners.After the examiner has finished reading the disciplinary matters, the examination officially begins.The first female candidate walked to the T-shaped mark on the floor and reported her name, test number and place of origin.

The first test is only for recitation, and the content is optional.In principle, everyone has 3 minutes, but in fact, most candidates will be stopped after reciting only one natural paragraph, and those who exceed 1 minute are even rarer.

Lu Li was ranked fourth in the second team, and in a blink of an eye it was Ma Meng's turn in front of him.

Ma Meng took off his sky blue down coat, and walked towards the examiner's seat with his brow full of sweat.What he prepared was Xin Qiji's "Beigu Pavilion Nostalgia" - Lu Li listened carefully to a few words, the timbre and intonation were very good, and the emotional control was also quite in place, obviously after a long period of training in the art examination training class.But it is precisely because of the strong "art test accent", that it lost some authentic things.

Sure enough, Ma Meng was called to stop by the examiner before he could finish his recitation, and returned to his seat angrily.

Then it was Lu Li's turn to make his debut.

Familiar venue, familiar project.Lu Li thought it was impossible for him to be nervous.However, when it came time to kick the door, his heartbeat was still a little too fast.

He couldn't tell how long he hadn't felt this kind of tension; but he liked this feeling very much, it made his blood pulse, every cell in his body was eager to try, and he was ten thousand times more awake than awake.

The examiner's gaze was a silent urging, and he quickly stepped forward to report the examination number, name and place of origin, and then took a deep breath.

Just like many contestants only sing the climax of the song in an audition, well-trained candidates will also choose famous poems with strong emotions and impassioned poems as the recitation content.However, Lu Li's choice was different - he chose a clip from a famous actor's memoir: the crew was hit by freezing rain during filming in the middle of winter, the director urgently interrupted the shooting, and everyone went up and down to rescue the rented equipment and props.In the end, the equipment was safe and sound, but the costumes on the actors were frozen into ice shells, and they took off and stood in the snow, like a stuntman.

Lu Li's recitation didn't contain any intense and exaggerated emotions, nor was there any accident that didn't match his age.The story itself sounds a bit absurd, but it's also extremely true—almost a year ago, at a production wrap-up banquet, the author of the memoir personally described this past event to Lu Li through the pleasure of drinking.

Success in Nine Turns, and joy in bitterness, this is the real life of an actor, which is not only familiar to Lu Li, but also should resonate with every examiner present.

Before I knew it, all the excerpts of four or five hundred words were recited.Lu Li stopped, raised his head, and calmly faced the five scrutinizing gazes.

The audience was silent.

The examiner was a female professor in her forties and fifties with an elegant temperament. She asked the first question of the exam.

"Why did you choose this article?"

Lu Li didn't change his face: "Because I live next to the film studio where the film crew was filming. On the day of the freezing rain, I happened to be working in another film crew."

"What did you do on set?"

"Assistant, scene recorder, drama manager..." Lu Li snapped his fingers, "I also worked as a lighting assistant."

"Which type of work do you like the most?"

"I like ordering and serving meals the most." Lu Li's answer was eccentric: "I have a small right, I can add a chicken leg to an actor I like."

The quality of box lunch is indeed one of the crew's consciences, and different crews will communicate and compare in private.At the scene, a young examiner lowered his head to hide the twitching of his mouth, while the female professor nodded: "Okay, thank you. Next."

Lu Li bowed and exited, returning to his seat.Ma Meng next to him made a face at him and gave him thumbs up again.

The rhythm of this group was faster than the previous group, and it ended early in only one hour and 10 minutes.Under the scheduling of the examination administration, the examinees left the field one by one, walked out of the teaching building in silence, and then took a deep breath one by one.

Marmon wrapped up the sky blue down jacket again, looking like an oversized angry bird.He graciously invited Lu Li to have lunch, but after being politely declined by Lu Li, he waved goodbye and ran quickly to his mother who was waiting anxiously at the school gate.

Another happy kid from another family.

Looking at Ma Meng's back, Lu Li suddenly felt a little envious and a little disappointed; to the extent that his smooth performance in the examination room just now didn't seem to be something to be happy about.

Before his mood continued to sink, he turned around decisively and disappeared into the bustling crowd at the school gate.

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The first test of the China Film Acting Department lasted for six days.On the evening of February 16th, the results of the preliminary examination will be released, and the results can be checked on the Internet and the re-examination procedures can be handled.

There is no suspense about the result of the initial test, and the travel expenses home are too high.So for the next five days, Lu Li became extremely boring.

Every day, he would do his morning work and run regularly, send a message to his mother to tell him he was safe, and then wander around in random places, but he didn't want to stay in that dark and dilapidated guest house.

In two days, Valentine's Day.

Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, couples appeared everywhere on the streets of the tourist area.The snow covered all kinds of red, white, and pink roses, and the air seemed to be full of love.

Lu Li was still wandering the streets alone, and when he got tired, he would sit on a bench and watch people skate in Houhai.He suddenly discovered that ice skating is such a philosophical thing: the more eager you are to get close to a person, the more that person will be knocked away by you.Only when we extend our arms to each other can we support each other.

Lu Li stared at the ice surface for a long time, but his peripheral vision was full of couples coming and going, red and white roses.After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly got up and walked to the nearest flower shop to buy a yellow rose.

The clerk in the flower shop was a little embarrassed, and kindly explained to Lu Li: According to the language of flowers, yellow roses can be used to express beautiful friendship; but if given to a lover, it means apology, parting or even lost love.

Come to think of it, anyone who can send or receive a bouquet of roses on Valentine's Day should have a positive vision for love, and who would be so unlucky to buy a bouquet of dead love.

When I walked out of the flower shop with a yellow rose, the sun had already set in the west.Lu Li didn't look back, he jumped on an arriving bus and headed towards the sunset during the most congested time in old Beijing.

When the sky was as dark as ink, it began to snow lightly.

Lu Li gasped and stood downstairs in his hometown.He looked up, and there was a little light behind the curtain that was supposed to be dark.

There are still two years left on the lease of the house, so it should not be the landlord trespassing.At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, it is unlikely to be a thief.

With an answer in mind, Lu Li looked at the hazy light yellow halo, and felt that he had suddenly turned into a moth to the flame, unable to suppress the infinite desire to get closer.

On his last return, he had taken a small piece of bone from his urn, which now resides in the amulet pouch his mother had given him.He took the amulet in his palm and rubbed it lightly.The cold brocade soon warmed up like a human body, but the bones were still bones, silent and realistic, and would not give him any hints.

The snow is getting bigger and bigger, and the wind is like an ice knife cutting the face.Lu Li hid the roses in his backpack, and covered his face with the hood of his down jacket.He hid in the hall, thought for a while, walked to the intercom, and pressed the doorbell.

A simple and boring electronic bell echoed, but the screen for the conversation never lit up.Lu Li quickly turned around and walked outside the building, only to find that the lights in the windows had been turned off.He immediately went down the stairwell to the underground garage, found a pile of debris as a cover, and hid to wait and see.

About 10 minutes later, the elevator leading directly to the garage descended from the fourth floor.After the door was opened, a tall man wearing a down coat, sunglasses, mask, and scarf tightly wrapped up came out from inside. He walked hurriedly and got into a luxury car.

Maybe it was because his mind was frozen, Lu Li suddenly had an impulse in his heart: he didn't care what he wanted, ran out to stop the car, and then yelled at the man, yelling out the most absurd truth.

But the scene of watching ice skating in Houhai during the day suddenly appeared, as if a hand was tightly strangling his throat.Because of this, Lu Li hesitated for a moment.

Just at this thought, the luxury car drove away, and the dark underground garage returned to a pool of dead silence.

Lu Li didn't know how long he stayed there.When he came back to his senses, his hands and ten fingers were too cold to bend.He walked out of the garage slowly from the hiding place while breathing hot air, leaving him with only two shallow ruts in the snow.

Now that Shen Xingxuan had already left, he simply went upstairs boldly.

Maybe the company helped pay the utility bills and property miscellaneous fees, and there was heating in the house.Lu Li didn't dare to turn on the light, and only took out his phone as a light.

He soon discovered that the pile of rubbish on the ground had been cleared away.The living room returned to the deserted appearance when he went out to film.There is no longer the smell of tobacco in the air, on the contrary, there is a vague fragrance of flowers.

Lu Li followed the scent of flowers to the bedroom, and found that it had also been tidied up.The urn was still placed upright on the bed, and on the left and right bedsides were two large handfuls of yellow roses in full bloom.

This bed sheet has not been changed until now - Lu Li couldn't believe it, this was actually the first thought that popped into his mind.Then he went to the head of the bed and took out the yellow rose in his backpack.

In comparison, the rose bought in the florist is really sleepy. It is only about half the size of other roses, with layers of yellow petals that are not pure.

Lu Li reached out and touched it lovingly, then removed the cellophane and put it in a vase.

Maybe in a few days, this weak little flower should be able to bloom with a unique brilliance.