Recalcitrant

"How about cyanide? It works quickly, is easy to obtain, is difficult to rescue, and has a high success rate."

In the small living room of the hotel suite, Lu Shaoheng and screenwriter Yu Meng were sitting across a small coffee table, and the two were discussing a murder technique in the script.

Lu Shaoheng and Yu Meng are also old acquaintances. They met when they were preparing for Chen Zhuo's first movie "Snowman".They made an appointment to meet here today, and they are also preparing for a new project.

"It's boring." Lu Shaoheng lazily leaned on the sofa, not very satisfied with this idea: "I can become a forensic doctor in the movie because of the bad technique in "Detective Conan".

Yu Meng felt that Lu Shaoheng's words made sense, she thought for a moment, and said, "Or using fresh cassava directly can also achieve the effect of poisoning."

"It's too slow." Lu Shaoheng said his own opinion: "The murderer can't wait at the scene for more than ten hours. He should leave after he is sure that the person is dead. In the middle, he must ensure that the deceased cannot seek help from the outside world."

"Indeed." Yu Meng read this paragraph in the script again, and suddenly asked curiously: "Mr. Lu has a lot of research on these poisons?"

Before Lu Shaoheng could answer, the door of the room opened, and a staff member poked his head in: "Mr. Lu, the interview with Mr. Chen and the director is almost over. You should prepare a bit and go to the red carpet immediately."

"Come on." Lu Shaoheng turned around and answered, stood up and picked up his coat, and reminded Yu Meng while putting it on: "Our murder happened in a remote town, I think it's best to use everything that is more suitable for the regional background. method, otherwise it would look a little suspended.”

Yu Meng nodded, indicating that she would pay attention next time.

After bidding farewell to Yu Meng, Lu Shaoheng set off to find Chen Zhuo.Today is the first day of the opening of the Pingcheng Film Festival, and their film "Golden Que Fengyuelu" will be screened during this period.The film has also been set for the Golden Week. In order to promote it, Chen Yao and Lu Shaoheng brought the director and several main actors to the opening ceremony of the evening.

At this time, it has been four months since "No Man's Land" was finished, and Chen Zhuo has been very busy since returning from Gannan.He not only has to watch the later stages of "No Man's Land" and prepare new projects with Lu Shaoheng, but also travels all over the country to cooperate with the promotion of "Golden Que Fengyuelu".

In order to build momentum in advance, Lu Shaoheng signed up for overseas film festivals for "No Man's Land". After finishing these trivial matters, Chen Yao went abroad to travel between various film festivals.

Under the leadership of the staff, Lu Shaoheng met Chen Zhuo in the elevator room of the hotel. After all the staff arrived, the group set off for the venue together.

Today, the costume teacher was ingenious and matched two sets of red carpet looks for the two, one dark and one light. The color of your tie echoes my cufflinks, which looks a bit like a couple's outfit.When faced with the media's request to take pictures, Lu Shaoheng and Chen Zhuo's performance was also very tacit, just press the shutter, and it was a couple blockbuster.

But in private, this is still not the case between these two people.

While waiting to play, Lu Shaoheng looked at Song Shiming on the red carpet in front of him, with a generous professional smile on his face, and with a voice that only he and Chen Zhuo could hear, he read out what he said on Weibo this morning. Entertainment news seen on the Internet: "Song Shiming, a talented young student at the actor's night party, spent a sweet 48 hours together."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to ask the Lord for verification: "Is it true?"

Chen Zhuo was cooperating with the media outside the venue, and took the time to reply with two words: "Guess?"

Lu Shaoheng maintained an objective and rigorous attitude: "I can't tell."

The previous group of guests had already arrived at the main stage and was being interviewed by the host. Under the guidance of Miss Etiquette, Chen Yao and his party stepped onto the red carpet.

For someone like Lu Shaoheng who has grown up in the entertainment circle, the feeling of walking on the red carpet is no different from walking downstairs in their neighborhood.As he walked, he was still thinking about chatting: "A boy like Song Shiming, who is straight and straight, with a sense of story on his face, is indeed the type that Director Chen likes."

The shutter flashes all lit up, and when they stopped to take pictures, Chen Yao continued the topic just now: "You know my preferences quite well."

"Of course." Lu Shaoheng said seriously, "After all, I worked very hard to make the director like me."

Even though he knew that Lu Shaoheng was talking nonsense, Chen Yao was still amused by him, and this smile happened to be captured by the media.

"If you say you are jealous now, I will believe you." Chen Yao said.

The opening reception in the evening was held in the hotel banquet hall, and Zhang Guoqiang from "Tomorrow" was also there.

Cheung Kwok Keung is in good spirits recently when he has a happy event. "Tomorrow" not only has a good box office, but has also been shortlisted in many sessions, which is expected to set his own record for the highest award.

Seeing Lu Shaoheng at the banquet, the old man scolded him in front of several old seniors, and then gave him a big hug backhand.

The filming of this film was finally completed smoothly. There were some frictions between the two during the early stage of cooperation, but in the post-production and publicity links, Lu Shaoheng can be said to spare no effort and give everything to finally achieve a result that satisfies everyone.

"You little bastard." Zhang Guoqiang hugged Lu Shaoheng and punched him on the back mercilessly: "Thank you this time first, and if you dare to do this to me next time, see if I don't treat you like that." I beat my father so much that I didn’t even know him.”

"Hiss—a little bit of respect." Lu Shaoheng complained half-truthfully, "The media is filming, so give me some face."

"Hmph." Zhang Guoqiang snorted coldly and let Lu Shaoheng go.

In the name of art, this kind of reception is actually a large-scale vanity fair, talking about dreams, but full of business.Just after dealing with Zhang Guoqiang, Lu Shaoheng was stopped by several film and television company bosses.

For film and television production companies, no matter how prosperous they are in the capital market, they must return to content production in the end, otherwise it is tantamount to walking a tightrope.With the success of "Tomorrow" at the box office, "No Man's Land" and other film projects are progressing smoothly, and the multiple crises faced by Juxing have temporarily eased.

Lu Shaoheng was ordered in the face of danger. Although he could not turn the tide, he managed to stabilize the situation.His own word of mouth also changed overnight from an unlearned and incompetent prodigal son to a young and promising young boss.

Holding the wine glass, Lu Shaoheng absently listened to Mr. Wang of Jiacheng Films Co., Ltd. describing his grand blueprint. He looked past the figures and looked at the corner of the banquet hall.

Chen Zhuo and Song Shiming avoided the crowd and chatted alone in front of the bar. From time to time, someone came up to strike up a conversation with Chen Zhuo, but Chen Zhuo just responded with a few words, and all his attention was always on Song Shiming.

Later, I don't know what Chen Zhuo and Song Shiming said, and they made this actor with the nickname "Bingshan God" laugh out loud, while Chen Zhuo just looked down at him with a conniving and gentle expression.

Lu Shaoheng lowered his head and took a sip of the wine in his glass, then turned to join Mr. Wang's topic.For Chen Zhuo, it is very easy for people to like him.

Because of Lu Shaoheng's joining, Mr. Wang became more and more enthusiastic, and when he was talking about the excitement, there was an exclamation not far away!

Lu Shaoheng turned around and looked back, just in time to catch a young boy who ran into his arms.

With a sound of "crash", the glass in the boy's hand fell to the ground, and most of the glass of wine spilled on the ground, while the remaining half of the glass spilled onto Lu Shaoheng's front without leaving a single drop.

"Hey, whose family are you from? How do you look at the road?" Mr. Wang is not a sympathetic master, seeing this situation, he yelled on the spot.

"Be careful." There was no reproach in Lu Shaoheng's tone, he lifted the boy up gentlemanly, but with appropriate concern: "Why are you so careless, what should you do if you get hurt?"

Seeing that he had gotten into trouble, the boy immediately panicked, quickly took out the decorative handkerchief on the chest of his suit, and hurriedly wiped the wine stains on Lu Shaoheng's clothes.

At this time, Lu Shaoheng recognized that the boy's name was Fu Di, and he was an idol who had just emerged in this year's draft. Because the follow-up resources were relatively poor, and his own professional ability was not good enough, after the heat dissipated, he can only be shown in third-rate online dramas. Familiar face.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lu, I didn't mean it." Seeing that the handkerchief had been wiped for a long time without any effect, Fu Di's voice was filled with tears: "I'll take you to the bathroom to deal with it."

Lu Shaoheng has always been more tolerant to people with good looks, so he generously accepted his proposal: "Let's go."

Before leaving, Lu Shaoheng looked back in the direction of the bar in a strange way.There was no one in front of the originally secluded bar, Chen Zhuo and Song Shiming left early, and they didn't know where they went.

***

Chen Yao always felt that those who work in the film and television industry must have strong adaptability.For example, he was at the international film festival that was full of grotesques and flowers one day before, and he was leaving for a small town in the southwest the next day.

In addition to Chen Zhuo, Lu Shaoheng, screenwriter Yu Meng, Jiang Xiaobo, art director and other main creative personnel are also accompanying.They went to the Southwest this time mainly to scout for a new movie.This movie tells a suspenseful story that took place in a remote town. The protagonist is a young man who has never left the town all his life, so most of the location shooting will be done in several villages and towns in the southwest.

As the departure time approached, everyone was waiting in the hotel lobby, except Lu Shaoheng who was nowhere to be seen.The accompanying assistant called him several times, but none of them answered.

The assistant swiped open the door of his room with a temporary room card. There was no one in the room, and the quilt on the bed was neatly folded. Obviously, he didn't come back last night, and he didn't know where he was wandering.

"Mr. Chen, what should we do now?" The assistant couldn't make up his mind, so he came to ask Chen Zhuo for help.

"Let's go first." Chen Yan closed the laptop in his hand and said, "Leave someone here to wait for him and take the next flight."

As soon as Chen Zhuo finished speaking, the elevator door of the annex building of the hotel opened. Lu Shaoheng walked out of the elevator with a handsome young man in his arms, talking and laughing.

He first escorted the young man into his nanny car thoughtfully, then stood still, watching the car leave, and finally dragged his suitcase and walked towards Chen Zhuo.

Facing such a plot trend, everyone present was a little embarrassed except for Jiang Xiaobo, who had long been used to it.They were not only wary of what kind of commotion these two people might make here, but also vaguely awaiting Chen Zhuo's reaction.Although it has long been heard that they play in their own wells and do not violate the river water, but this is the first time everyone has encountered such an exciting scene.

But the scene that everyone was expecting did not appear, Lu Shaoheng walked forward as if nothing had happened, and sincerely apologized to everyone: "I'm sorry everyone, I'm late."

Chen Zhuo's reaction was even more ordinary. He put away the computer, glanced at Lu Shaoheng, stood up and said, "Let's go."

The author says:

*What happened last night was not what they thought each other, and they will have the opportunity to talk about it in the extra episode in the future.

(There may not necessarily be this part of the story.)

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