The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

Entering March, the photography industry ushered in a major event, the "Great Legacy" Magazine International Photography Contest was launched. The global circulation and influence of "Great Legacy" magazine is not inferior to "National Geographic", but this is the first time that this magazine holds such a large-scale photo contest for independent photographers all over the world. The only requirement for the identity of the participants It's an independent photographer.

The competition is divided into four categories: humanistic figures, humanistic scenery, natural organisms, and natural scenery. There will be several outstanding works in each category, and all outstanding works will have the opportunity to participate in the world tour of magazine photography works, but there is only one gold medal winner in each category , the gold award works will be published in the "Great Heritage" magazine, and the winners will also be invited to go to Masai Mara National Park with the "Great Heritage" magazine team for field shooting.Of course, these are regular awards, and the last one that attracts the most attention of photographers is the last one - the winner of the gold award will have the opportunity to become a contracted photographer of the "Great Legacy" magazine.

This is simply the dream of all field photographers.The young aspiring photographers must be in a very restless mood at the moment. Of course, Archer looked at Qin Xiu who got up to pour water. Qin Xiu was an exception. He was always that handsome and calm polar bear.

Jenny: "Qin Xiu, hold the cup upside down—"

The water in the drinking fountain splashed Qin Xiu's pants.

Wang Ziqiong: "School beauty, your chopsticks are sticking into my lunch box..."

Qin Xiu retracted his chopsticks absently, and poked into Shen Che's lunch box again.

"Forget it, let him poke it." Archer boldly handed over his lunch box, watching Qin Xiu eat up his braised pork bite by bite.

Another example is to calmly put the bought film into the refrigerator, and calmly walk out with an unwashed foam...

The big golden retriever stared dumbfounded at Qin Xiu and just went into the bedroom and went to bed, and said in his heart that you are really kind!flat!quiet!ah!

In this situation, it seems that he should let it go, but Archer understood what Qin Xiu was worried about. He was worried about what the studio would do if he participated in the competition.The studio does not belong to him alone, he cannot be so selfish.Because of the effect of the Fei Li Jewelry advertisement, the studio managed to establish a reputation in the industry. If he leaves at such a critical time, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Furthermore, the funding for participating in the competition is also a problem. To shoot in the field and strive to capture the best pictures, the travel expenses alone are a lot of money.

On this day, Jenny handed over a ledger to Qin Xiu: "Prince Qiong has something to do at home, let me take a few days off for him, and he asked me to show you this."

Qin Xiu opened the account book and found that Wang Ziqiong had been managing the income and expenditure of the studio. He was not familiar with it at all, but the accounts were written in a very detailed and clear manner. Qin Xiu saw the balance after deducting the expenses from the profit amount, and he was a little unbelievable: "60 How much?"

Archer was also taken aback. He didn't expect the number to be so high. They all thought that it would be good to have 50 million this year.

Qin Xiu looked at the account book and felt indescribable. When negotiating the contract, the price was all negotiating with Wang Ziqiong, and he just finalized the shooting plan with the advertiser.I remember that when the studio was established, the first business was negotiated with the advertisement by himself, and Wang Ziqiong was really furious when he saw the contract.

"You are such a stupid artist! There is also a modeling contract, let me see... Fuck! School girl, you are such a school girl! If you are like this, we won't be able to pay next month's rent, okay?" ?”

Wang Ziqiong scolded him in front of Jenny, and he still couldn't lose face: "How could it be so serious?"

Wang Ziqiong took the computer to show them the calculation quickly. After the calculation, Qin Xiu saw the big negative sign on it and fell silent.

"I'll talk about the contract in the future, let Jenny talk about the model and the recruiter, you just take your picture! It's useless to pout! You're mentally handicapped when it comes to money!"

Jenny looked at the numbers on the ledger and felt a little emotional while sitting on the sofa. There was a stack of yellow sticky notes on the computer desk. The last time she and Wang Ziqiong went to the art school to give lectures and walked out of the school, they saw someone handing out free sticky notes. Wang Ziqiong went back and forth to ask people for more than ten copies, not to mention asking her to ask for five or six copies. The girls who sent post-it notes often despised them.

Although Wang Ziqiong is sometimes too miserly, for example, when paying overtime to an assistant, it is really stingy to the point of counting, sometimes Qin Xiu can't see it, and asks him to pay it by one hour for more than half an hour. .

"Don't interrupt me when you're your school belle. For the sake of the studio's future, I can't wait to split a penny in half."

"Why don't you break yourself in half and use it?!"

"I think so too, so we can combine the two kings, and the studio's expenses will be reduced by at least half!"

Qin Xiu almost cut off the free ballpoint pen that Wang Ziqiong wanted: "I'm not praising you!"

But having said that, if there is no such careful calculation, there will be no such 60.

"Wang Ziqiong said, don't think too much, and go to the competition at ease." Jenny said to the thoughtful Qin Xiu.

Archer was also very moved, especially now that Wang Ziqiong was not around, his mind was full of Mr. Wang's voice and smile, and he didn't even care about Wang Ziqiong still owed him 100 yuan.

Qin Xiu closed the account book: "The competition is over, and there will still be opportunities in the future."

Archer wanted to say something, but seeing Qin Xiu get up and go straight into the darkroom, his expression had already made up his mind, so he could only give up.In his heart, he actually hoped that Qin Xiu could leave everything behind and do what he wanted to do, but such a Qin Xiu made him very proud.

Wang Ziqiong took a week off, and the studio was quite busy this week. Luckily, Archer is now in a stable transformation state. With eight hours a day, he can handle basic work.

Halfway through the shooting that day, a few uninvited guests suddenly came and entered the studio directly.Qin Xiuxiu took a picture of the model, and when he heard the movement behind him, he frowned and shouted, "Shen Che!"

Archer had already gone over to hold back the three tall men, and solemnly asked them to go out to talk about their business, but the men refused to leave.

"Is Wang Ziqiong here? Tell him to come out and meet us." The tall and burly man in the suit had a domineering attitude.

"He's not here right now. Let's talk about it when we have something to do. Now it's the shooting scene!" The young dog stuck at the door with the temperament of a vicious dog to prevent the three of them from going any further.

But the female model has been affected by the movement at the entrance of the studio, and cannot enter the state.

Qin Xiu took down the camera in one breath, turned around and saw the curly-haired young man who was confronting three burly men with a height of 1.9 meters: "There are three people, why didn't you tell me?" Qin Xiu motioned for the model to rest, put down the camera and walked over. "A pair of three is a little bit reluctant, right?"

When the leading man in a suit saw the handsome photographer, he was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Want to fight?"

"Otherwise, what are you planning to do here?"

The man in the suit took out the hand that was in his pocket, and smiled sullenly: "We are not rough people, why would we touch our hands at every turn?"

As soon as the words fell, one of the men in suits kicked on the low table where the equipment and notebooks were placed. The table overturned, and the camera, lens, and laptop crashed to the ground.

"Sorry, my foot slipped."

Archer is on fire, how much time did I spend cleaning up those lenses, I just took my notebook to repair yesterday and waited for more than two hours, do you know that the young dog stepped forward angrily, but his body was pulled back, only to see Qin Xiu dodged to block the back in front of him and brushed away the jacket he had thrown away.

When Jenny came back with the lunch box, she heard the sound of ping-pong-pong in the studio, and the female model applauded and shouted "Yeah, beat him!", she rushed over to see Qin Xiu, who was standing at the door aggressively, Kicking the ground, the makeup artist lady lowered her head, the ground was not a cockroach, but a big man...

After Qin Xiu finished disposing of the man, he straightened his hair, tore his clothes, turned around and walked towards Shen Che, who was still dealing with the other two men. Jenny heard Qin Xiu making a terrible "crackling" sound as he walked all the way, and said to herself It's not that Thunderclap is really going to zoom in. Looking down again, it turns out that Qin Xiu accidentally stepped on the man's sunglasses that fell to the ground when he walked over.

Jenny and the man lying on the ground stared dumbfounded at the handsome and domineering back. Although the sunglasses were trampled to pieces, Qin Xiu obviously didn't notice it.

Shen Che's one-on-two was relatively difficult. Fortunately, there was a female model who hid behind the sofa, holding up her skirt and shouting from left to right: "Behind!... beat him, beat him!"

One of the men grabbed the tripod and threw it at Shen Che's back, but the tripod failed to fall, and Qin Xiu caught it with one hand.

"You hit a dog with a tripod?!"

In the next second, the man clutched his stomach and fell to the sofa. The female model took the opportunity to greet the man with high heels.

At the same time, Archer knocked the man holding him from behind with a rear head hammer, causing blood to flow from his nose. Qin Xiu saw that the bright red blood was about to drip on the floor of the set, and hurriedly shouted: "Dare!"

Archer quickly grabbed a tissue and pasted it on the man's nose. The man said "thank you" dazedly while clutching the tissue, and fell backwards on the ground.

The three men with bruised noses and swollen faces were invited outside the studio. Jenny looked at the three men sitting in a row on the sofa in embarrassment. Qin Xiu told them to wait until he finished taking pictures, and the three men just waited here honestly. .

An hour later, Qin Xiu came out. The model had to rest and eat at noon, and the shooting was temporarily suspended. Qin Xiu leaned against the computer desk with his arms folded. After the fight, he looked even more beautiful. A man, that's really heaven and earth: "What's the matter with the three, let's talk."

"We're looking for Wang Ziqiong!" The leading man said angrily, clutching his trampled sunglasses.

"What's the matter with him?" The beauty drooped her eyelids.

"That guy's father took out a loan shark, and we were entrusted by the creditor!" The man holding his nose said in a low voice.

Archer and Jenny looked at each other in astonishment, Qin Xiu frowned and said, "What business does his father borrow from usury?"

"His name is on the loan letter written by his father. Now that his father has run away, why is it none of his business?"

Qin Xiu was silent for a while, and asked, "How much do you owe?"

"50."

Wang Ziqiong came out of the hotel. He suffered from insomnia every day for the past few days. He finally slept all day with his head covered. It was past ten o'clock in the evening and he hadn't had dinner yet. He planned to go to the 24-hour convenience store downstairs to buy instant noodles.He knew that the debt collectors had been inquiring about his whereabouts endlessly during this time, and when he thought that his father had borrowed money without telling him, and ran away by himself after getting out of the basket, he couldn't help but growled angrily: "What? Pay off the father's debt, pay off your sister!"

The other two tall men at the counter who were buying cigarettes looked at him silently, and one of them took out a photo from his pocket while looking at him.

Wang Ziqiong saw her name behind the photo, threw Master Kang at the two men, and ran away.

He ran as fast as he could and still couldn't shake off the pursuers behind him. Hearing the movement behind him, it seemed that the two men were not the only ones chasing them.The mobile phone vibrated at this moment, Wang Ziqiong didn't have the heart to take care of it, but the mobile phone vibrated persistently, and the helpless stylist answered the phone while running.

"Who?!"

"What are you panting for?" a deep magnetic voice.

Wang Ziqiong recognized Qin Xiu, and hurriedly squeezed out a smile and said, "Oh, I'm running!"

"What do you run in the middle of the night?"

"I'm losing weight! Losing weight doesn't matter sooner or later!"

"Aren't you afraid of being beaten to death? Are you afraid of being maimed? Give you another chance to save your limbs and tell me where you are."

Wang Ziqiong finally couldn't hold back any longer, just listening to Qin Xiaohua's voice was full of domineering sideways, although I don't know how many people are behind him, but as long as the strongest weapon Qin Xiu comes, one of them will be no problem.Mr. Wang got into an unfinished building, and then wailed at the savior on the other end of the phone: "School beauty—"

Qin Xiu hung up the phone and put it in his pocket, and said to Shen Che behind him, "He's in Building 25, Mocheng Lane."

Archer nodded and helped down the windshield, but Qin Xiu didn't start the car for a long time.He raised the windshield again in puzzlement: "What's wrong?"

"Shen Che, when you came to apply for my assistant, you said that you have a friend who is a photographer and has color blindness. Is that true?" Qin Xiu, who had his back turned to him, said in a deep voice.

Archer didn't expect that Qin Xiu would suddenly bring up that incident at this juncture, and he would have forgotten it if he didn't mention it: "Ah, that... I made it up," that's all I can say, "The reason for saying color blindness is to arouse you Your sympathy, so that you can make up your mind to hire me...you won’t be angry with me, right?” I rely on this time, if you come to settle accounts with me at this time, it’s really too heartless and ungrateful.

Qin Xiu was quiet for a moment, took off his helmet, and turned around: "But I'm really red-green color blind."

Archer met Qin Xiu's quiet eyes in astonishment.

"No one else knows about this except for the deceased mother and grandmother." Qin Xiu stared at the dazed curly-haired young man, "You said that you made up the story of the color-blind photographer, so now, there really is such a photographer Teacher, how do you feel?"

Archer moved his lips, and Qin Xiu's eyes made him feel uncomfortable. At that moment, he even had an urge to tell him about his childhood, otherwise any comfort would be weak to him.

Qin Xiu turned around, put on his helmet again, and said in a calm voice: "I usually drive very carefully to identify the traffic lights, and generally there will be no problem, but now time does not allow, I will drive very fast , help me look at the lights."

"Okay." Archer agreed without hesitation, wrapped his arms around the person in front of him, and couldn't help tightening his arms.

The BMW Tomahawk roared and drove out.

Although it is a heavy machine with high horsepower, this is the first time for Qin Xiu to drive fast on the road. Sometimes he will go to the track to drive freely and heartily, but he will be particularly worried when driving in the city. In fact, the traffic lights now have arrows. Signs and countdown, if you are careful, there will be no major problems, but psychologically he always feels that he is disabled.

After telling Shen Che that he was colorblind, his heart suddenly became lighter, and the voice behind him would keep reminding him "you can drive over", "stop for a while", "the car in front has to turn", "it's okay to overtake", and sometimes it would be funny Say "very cool".

Qin Xiu smiled silently under the windshield.It's like the car's reversing beep saying "Please pay attention, please back up, please pay attention, please back up", while interjecting "You are very handsome in reverse".

The speed increased from 1000 to [-], and then to [-]. On the sea-crossing bridge, Qin Xiu heard the long-suppressed roar of the BMW Tomahawk in the sea breeze, and the [-]cc heavy locomotive was finally released.He felt liberated, too.