I, the emperor, aspired to the top of the entertainment industry

"The Spring and Autumn of the Ming Dynasty" was filmed in the ancient town next door, Zhouzhuang.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty has now become an ancient town with a population of tens of thousands. The scene is no longer what it used to be, but film crews often come here for filming.

After an hour's drive, Xie Mingzhou got out of the car, and there were densely packed studios in front of him.His audition time is actually tomorrow morning, and he came early mainly to see the place where he lived before.

Xie Mingzhou was very relieved to learn that the shooting location was in his hometown.

Along the way, the walls are gray and earthen tiles, the streets are dilapidated, and old people selling traditional handicrafts can be seen on both sides.But in the past here, the market was lively and people came and went.

Xie Mingzhou's eyes flickered slightly, and he squatted down on a floor stall. When he was a child in the palace, his mother and concubine especially liked to teach him to carve patterns on red sandalwood.

The memory was touched, he carefully selected a few woodcarving figurines, and then bought carved boxwood boards and Yuwan knives, so that he can carve and play when he has nothing to do in the future.

Xie Mingzhou followed the memory of his previous life and walked all the way to the phoenix flower tree.Unexpectedly, a hundred years later, this tree is still there. It has just begun to spring, and the dry branches and leaves are stained with sporadic fiery red.

In his last life, he bid farewell to his untimely death under this flower tree.Just like the flaming phoenix flower on the top of the head, it will wither when it is extremely gorgeous.

Xie Mingzhou walked to the edge of the tree and sat down idly, the sun shining on his face, with laziness.He took out the wood and knife from his bag, and carved it as he pleased.

In the previous life, he was busy with government affairs and left early, but in this life it is rare to enjoy the sunshine.

At this time, at the corner of the street a few meters away, a black commercial vehicle slowly stopped by the side of the road.

Inside the luxurious car, the secretary respectfully said: "President Fu, we are here."

Fu Chengu stepped forward with his long legs and slowly got out of the car.

The secretary looked at the tall and tall figure of Fu Chen, and secretly sighed that Mr. Fu really loved the history of the Ming Dynasty deeply. Although he was busy with his career and had a full schedule every day, he would spend half an hour every month to visit the hometown of Emperor Ming. .

Fu Chengu looked forward, not far away was the imperial mausoleum of Emperor Ming, and the flower tree in front of the imperial mausoleum was the place where Emperor Ming passed away.

He walked a few steps, and there was a beautiful young man lazily sitting under the flower tree that was empty before.

The young man's bright peach blossom eyes are lowered slightly, he is concentrating on carving the boxwood in his hand, exuding a bright and lazy temperament all over his body.

Fu Chengu's eyes paused very often, and after seeing the young man's appearance clearly, he restrained his expression.

It was Xie Mingzhou, the young actor who broke his game in variety shows a few days ago.Later, he also learned from his secretary that she was a secret lover played by his little nephew.

He has always hated the unhealthy tendencies in the entertainment industry, and his appreciation for Xie Mingzhou's talent is also scattered.

Fu Chengu walked past Xie Mingzhou indifferently, and just about to look away, he saw the wood carving in Xie Mingzhou's hand, the pattern on it was very familiar to him.

——The dragon pattern on the jade pendant worn by Emperor Ming.

At that time, the mother and concubine of the Ming emperor entrusted the famous craftsman in the capital to make it. It was a gift given to Emperor Ming at the coming-of-age ceremony of Emperor Ming. The fine carving work is difficult to surpass in modern times.

Fu Chengu stopped in his tracks and looked down at the wood carving from a height. Under the young and straight fingers, the lines gradually became vivid.

Until the young man finished engraving the last stroke, he raised his head unhurriedly, like a lazy and elegant cat, and asked him: "Have you seen enough?"

Xie Mingzhou looked at the stern and gentle man in front of him.The shirt and trousers are lined with broad shoulders and long legs. He is taller than him visually. He has a handsome and tough face, and looks down at him indifferently.

She is a cold beauty.

Xie Mingzhou loves beauties, but he doesn't like the feeling of being oppressed, and there is a trace of displeasure in his eyes.

Fu Chen did not have the slightest embarrassment of being caught out of the current situation. His eyes gradually shifted from the wood carving to Xie Mingzhou's face, with a bit of inquiry: "The carving is good, who did you learn from?"

"Want to know?" Xie Mingzhou's neck was very uncomfortable, and he waved at him with a half-smile, "Squat down."

Fu Chen stayed silent for a while and looked at Xie Mingzhou, then glanced at the exquisite wood carving in his hand, and then slowly squatted down on one knee, with his elbows resting on his knees, and the muscle lines of his shoulder blades were clear and sharp.

Even if he squats down, he is half a head taller than Xie Mingzhou.

Xie Mingzhou narrowed his eyes lightly, leaned closer, raised his eyebrows and said, "I won't tell you."

Xie Mingzhou subconsciously wanted to tease this kind of cold beauty.

Then, as expected, a trace of displeasure flashed across Fu Chengu's cold face.

Just as Fu Chengu was about to speak, he met a pair of amorous peach blossom eyes, as if looking at him for a second longer would make someone fall in love.

He looked away lightly and stood up expressionlessly.

Xie Mingzhou laughed softly, and said slowly: "Forget it, I was just joking, why are you angry? It's rare to see someone interested in traditional woodcarving."

Fu Chengu looked at him with stern eyes, as if he was judging the truth of what he said.

"I'm very interested in the wood carvings of the Ming Dynasty, so I wanted to carve a pattern for fun." Xie Mingzhou stroked the wood carving in his hand with his long fingers, and asked with great interest, "You have been standing here for 10 minutes. Woodcarving?"

"No." Fu Chengu said lightly.He does not do woodcarving crafts, nor is he interested in woodcarving itself.

He just because the pattern of the wood carving is very similar to the dragon pattern on the jade pendant of Emperor Ming.

Xie Mingzhou was stunned for a moment, he was not interested in woodcarving, how could he still stand here like a wooden stake?

"How do you sell this?" Fu Chengu asked in a low voice.

"..." Xie Mingzhou was speechless, he dared to treat him as a small woodcarving vendor, and replied casually, "Not for sale."

Fu Chengu stared at him with dark eyes: "What condition, you pay."

Xie Mingzhou frowned slightly, this guy is out of his mind, right?

"Any conditions are fine." Fu Chengu repeated, his resolute jaw line tightened, and his tone was unquestionable.

Seeing the serious eyes of the person in front of him, Xie Mingzhou immediately felt that this person was serious.Isn't it just a random wood carving, this person is so precious?

Xie Mingzhou patted the ashes on the wood carving, took it to the sun to check it, and then put it in the man's hand like a "charity": "Seeing that you are so precious, take it."

After finishing speaking, Xie Mingzhou patted the mud on his legs, stood up and stretched.

He's been here for over an hour, and it's time to go back and study the script.

Fu Chengu also stood up, his downcast eyes still fixed on him.

"..." Xie Mingzhou sighed, "My lord, I gave it to you for nothing, no money."

Although in ancient times, the wood carvings he carved by himself were never given to anyone, and no one dared to take them.

The man frowned lightly, and the wooden carving was still warm from Xie Mingzhou's hand, and his rough thumb unconsciously touched it.

Xie Mingzhou raised his eyebrows: "Keep it carefully, it is carved according to the pattern on the Ming Emperor's jade pendant."

"I know."

Hearing the word "Emperor Ming", Fu Chengu rubbed his fingers up and down the wood carving patterns, and continued lightly: "Emperor Ming's things are of course precious. I am here this time, and I plan to invest in rebuilding the ancient streets of Zhouzhuang."

Hearing the taciturn man say several words in succession, Xie Mingzhou wanted to laugh inexplicably.

Invest and rebuild the ancient city.This guy is really out of his mind.Just rebuilding an ancient street costs hundreds of millions of dollars, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Xie Mingzhou looked at Fu Chengu with caring eyes, patted the man on the shoulder, and said freely: "I'm leaving. See you, little brother!"

Before the man could reply, Xie Mingzhou walked past him and left gracefully.

He walked to the side of the street, and a welcome message played on the red marquee of the building in front of him.

"Zhouzhuang warmly welcomes the president of the Fu Group to invest in our town, and the project to rebuild the ancient town is under discussion."

Xie Mingzhou was slightly taken aback.

Does this person really want to rebuild his lost hometown?

Fu Chengu looked at the wood carving in his hand, and slowly took out a square box from his pocket, in which was placed the personal jade pendant of Emperor Ming.

Fu Chengu looked at the wood carving and jade pendant, his eyes flickered for a moment, and he tightly gathered his palms.

Although the two pieces are made of different materials, the patterns are almost exactly the same!

Fu Chengu suddenly turned around and looked thoughtfully at the figure who hadn't gone far.

It happened that Xie Mingzhou also turned around at the same time.

The four eyes met, as if separated by thousands of years.

The next morning.

Xie Mingzhou came to the shooting studio early. Today's shooting location is under the city wall of the back mountain of Zhouzhuang, the place where the ancient crew took war scenes all the year round.

After registering at the staff at the door, Xie Mingzhou walked towards the studio.

At this time, the leading actor has not yet arrived, and the staff in the studio are busy setting up the venue and props.Xie Mingzhou glanced across the audience, and finally caught a glimpse of a black-clothed man raising his hand in the center of the audience.

The man is the director Xu Gang, who is more serious in person than in the photos.

Xie Mingzhou approached and smiled: "Director Xu."

Director Xu finished directing the lighting and scenery, then turned his head: "Who are you?"

Then he saw a handsome young man with a noble temperament looking at him, handing over the information without haste.

Director Xu took the information bag and looked down: "So you are the one introduced by Mr. Xie."

The young Emperor Ming's audition.

Director Xu's complex eyes scanned Xie Mingzhou's body from top to bottom, his appearance and figure were impeccable.

But whether it can be used depends on his audition for a while.This play is his final work, and he will strictly check the selection of candidates even if they are introduced by the management.Moreover, the employers only "introduced" it, and did not intervene much.

"Go to the end, go to the shed to change clothes first. I will call you when the audition time is up." Director Xu stared at the handsome and sharp face in front of him, becoming more and more suspicious.The extravagance of the people in front of me is extravagance, but the data shows that I haven't filmed a movie for five years, can I really play the complicated heart of the young Emperor Ming?

The role of the young Emperor Ming is rare, and every scene is fought on horseback, with a disheveled face.

The difficulty of these scenes is that it is necessary to perform both the muddy battlefield and the high-spirited youthful spirit, so as to pave the way for the young emperor in the future.

Ordinary young people either can't let go of the burden of idols, or they can't control them.

Director Xu shook his head, turned around and waved to Xie Mingzhou.

Xie Mingzhou walked to the door of the dressing room and opened the curtain. Several makeup artists were packing their cosmetic bags. Seeing the actors coming, they all looked at the door.

The visitor has exquisite facial features and extremely handsome bones.

Makeup artist Li Mu said in surprise, "You are..." Which new lead actor?

"Come to audition for the young Emperor Ming." Xie Mingzhou said calmly, and stood in front of the designated dressing table.

It turned out to be a role that wasn't even a male supporting role.

Li Mu looked Xie Mingzhou up and down, this extremely malleable face was completely feasible in the male lead position.

Li Mu was full of doubts and walked behind Xie Mingzhou. Xie Mingzhou glanced at the costumes and props in the room. He did not expect to see the costumes of his dynasty in this era, although the workmanship was far inferior.

Xie Mingzhou's long eyelashes drooped, he concentrated on looking at the densely packed script in his hand, and stretched out his hand to let Li Mu change his clothes behind him - as familiar as the maid changing his clothes before.

Li Mu looked at the focused Xie Mingzhou, and thought to himself that this little supporting actor seemed to be doing everything with ease, as if... he was used to being served by others.

Xie Mingzhou actually read the script last night. After all, he acted in his true colors in the first half of his life. Most of the lines don’t need to be memorized, just memorize the details.

Generally speaking, the plot is still faithful to history, and many famous scenes between him and Shen Shuxing have been restored, which shows that the screenwriter has put in a lot of effort.

But the only thing that displeased him was that the screenwriter changed the pure friendship between him and Shen Shuxing, the emperor and the gentle prime minister, the characters alone made people think about it, and added a lot of ambiguous rhetoric.

The insider Xie Mingzhou suppressed the strangeness in his heart, the specific situation will be discussed after the performance, the most urgent thing is to win today's audition - although in his dynasty, the status of actors was not high, but... his mother and concubine were actors Born, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she was so talented that he won the attention of his father, who took her back to the palace regardless of the class gap.Later, after ascending to the throne, the mother and concubine shared the worries and problems of the father and emperor, and also laid the foundation for the flourishing of Ming culture.

And his clip this time is the scene where the young Emperor Ming was transferred to the border of Liangzhou by his father, and after suppressing the rebellion, he finally returned triumphantly under the city gate.

"It's already changed." Li Mu reminded behind him.

Xie Mingzhou closed the script and looked in the mirror——

The black robe is noble, the jade crown is high and the ponytail is high, the face is heroic, and the peach blossom eyes that are raised up add to the romance.

Xie Mingzhou lost his mind for a moment.

He seemed to have returned to the time when he joined the army for the first time and was full of energy.

"Your face is really malleable, a noble young man, not to mention that you really have an inner taste." Li Mu sighed in admiration, and took a set of black and red-edged belt from behind, "Tie this on at last, and it's almost done."

Xie Mingzhou looked thoughtfully at the man's outfit in the mirror, curled his lips for a while and said, "This is not going to the battlefield."

Obviously to go on a date with a lover.

"Huh?" Li Mu looked at him puzzled.

Xie Mingzhou raised his eyes, looked at him with a complicated smile, his eyes were sharp: "There is no general who has fought on the battlefield without blood splashing on his body and soil not staining his face."

"Shh-"

Half an hour later, the curtain of the dressing room was lifted by Xie Mingzhou.