Very Happy

Chapter 31 Counting Dumplings

The sound of the boy's even breathing came from the phone, as well as the faint noise of the studio. Yan Ting took the phone and opened the door leading to the lounge on the side, took off his coat and lay down on it.

The bed was cold, but the sound of breathing on the phone carried warmth.

In the silent room, his breathing merged with Li Zhao's breathing, and the noisy brain finally got a moment of tranquility.

The drowsiness gradually came over, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness in front of his eyes, as if a fat lamb was jumping over. He seemed to see Li Zhao riding on the back of the sheep with his teeth and claws open, jumping and jumping in front of his eyes, until it jumped into his mind.

"Li Zhao, Li Zhao!" Song Yu searched half of the set before finding Li Zhao, who was sleeping soundly in a coat under his coat. After taking it back, he poked Li Zhao's forehead with his hand expressionlessly: "The surname is Li, it's your turn."

In a daze, Li Zhao subconsciously covered the phone's microphone, not wanting to disturb Yan Ting's voice.

"Brother Song?" Li Zhao opened his eyes. As soon as he stood up, he was shivering from the cold wind. He put his ear to the receiver and listened carefully. He only heard the faint sound of breathing. Ting Ting should be asleep. caught.

He hung up the phone and thanked Song Yu: "Thank you for waking me up, Brother Song."

"If it wasn't for a rival scene with you later, who would care about you." Song Yu sneered, and casually looked at Zhao Junnan, who was chatting with a few young actors in the distance: "Since he joined the crew, the crew has taken care of you." Our filming schedule is disrupted, and your night scenes are the most."

Shooting night scenes for three consecutive days until three or four in the morning, who can bear it?

"Could it be that your work team usually only receives salary and doesn't work, and they don't negotiate with the crew?" Song Yu glanced at the dark circles on Li Zhao's face: "Or is it that your company is for the benefit of this drama? Want to wrong you?"

Li Zhao shook his head and remained silent.

Seeing him like this, Song Yu felt angry: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to tell you, forget it if you're stupid!"

"Zhao Zhao, drink some hot tea to refresh yourself first." Dake trotted all the way to bring hot tea to Li Zhao, followed by the make-up artist of the crew.

"Dake, thank you for your hard work. You go back to the hotel to rest first, and wake me up tomorrow morning." Li Zhao looked at the time and said to Dake: "I have nothing to do here, I can go back after filming sleep."

"It's okay, I'll just go to the RV and lie down for a while." Dake pointed out: "The company heard that you have been filming night scenes for the past two days, and worried that your health would not be able to bear it, so they specially arranged a RV for you to rest. It will be more convenient."

When the makeup artists heard this, they knew that Strawberry Entertainment was not satisfied with the crew arrangement.Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, one of them turned around and told the crew about it.

When the film crew heard the news, they immediately understood that this was the investor's father euphemistically expressing his dissatisfaction.It's just that Director Yang has a relatively high status in the TV drama circle, and Strawberry Entertainment didn't want to make things too embarrassing, so they adopted this gentle method.

Although Zhao Junnan is popular now, it is not worth mentioning compared to the main investors.There is always no shortage of actors in the entertainment industry. This year there will be a Zhao Junnan, and next year there will be Li Junnan and Zhang Junnan.

In this circle, it is difficult but not difficult to become popular.

After understanding the meaning of the investor's father, things will be easy to handle.That night, the crew re-worked the filming schedule overnight, and gave half a day off to several actors who were filming consecutive night scenes, including Li Zhao.

"Brother Nan, this is the new filming schedule made by the crew. You have two night scenes tonight." The assistant found something was wrong when he got the schedule sent by the coordinator of the crew.

A few days ago, they communicated with the crew, saying that Brother Nan has suffered from a nervous breakdown recently, and they should try not to arrange night scenes for him.The production team also understood Shi Shi very well, and quickly adjusted Li Zhao's filming to night, trying to let Brother Nan rest as much as possible, but he didn't expect to change his mind so quickly.

"What does the crew of "Song of Heaven" mean?" Zhao Junnan's expression darkened after reading the filming schedule. His scenes were either scheduled in the early morning, or during dinner time in the evening, and there were even night scenes.It takes several hours just to do the styling in a costume drama. According to this schedule, he needs to get up early in the morning to put on makeup, and then wear it until night.

Slapping the timetable on the table, Zhao Junnan got up and went out.

"Brother Nan, Brother Nan!" Seeing this, several assistants hurriedly stopped him: "Brother Nan, if there is anything we can discuss with the crew slowly, don't be impulsive."

The investors of "Song of the Sky" crew are all big companies in the industry, and it will not be good for Brother Nan if it gets bigger.

"They specially invited me to participate in the performance. Is this the attitude?" Zhao Junnan gasped heavily, pushed away the assistant who was blocking him, and barely calmed down his anger: "Go and find out about Li Zhao's filming time."

After a while, the assistant came back, and he said in anticipation, "Brother Nan, the crew said that Li Zhao had been filming night scenes for three consecutive days, and let him go back to the hotel to rest today."

"Damn it, they're playing tricks on me!" Zhao Junnan kicked over the chair next to her feet: "Don't blame me for being rude when they make me lose face for a newcomer."

When Yan Ting woke up again, it was already the next morning.It's been a long time since he slept so peacefully, and he didn't seem to be so disgusted when he looked at the sunlight coming in from the window.

The phone still has less than [-]% battery left, and his call with Li Zhao has already ended.At five in the morning, Li Zhao sent him a message.

Zhaozhao has good luck: Tomorrow is a half-day holiday, and I can finally sleep for eight hours, happy!

His happiness almost comes out of the simple 20-odd words, twisting and dancing.

Putting down the phone, Yan Ting went to the bathroom to take a shower, put on clean clothes, and made an internal call to ask them to bring in breakfast.

"Assistant Qin, the boss has been in the company for dozens of hours, so he hasn't slept all the time, has he?" The new assistant has a sweet appearance and a warm and lovely personality. He quickly got acquainted with his colleagues after he first joined the assistant department. stand up.

Assistant Qin carried the breakfast on the tray, and looked at the new employee with long black hair: "I heard that you had excellent grades during school?"

The little assistant is humble and shy: "It may be because of good luck that I get good grades every time."

"Now that you have entered the assistant department, you must understand a truth. It is useless to rely on luck." The smile on Special Assistant Qin's face faded, and when he was not smiling, he looked very serious: "When working in the assistant department, first of all One thing to understand is not to discuss the boss's living habits in private."

"Or, you just entered the assistant department and couldn't wait to replace me as a special assistant?"

The little assistant's face turned pale, and he shook his head again and again, "Special Assistant Qin, I didn't mean that."

"If you don't mean that, just go to your class." Assistant Qin raised his wrist and looked at the time, his tone was cold: "What's your name?"

The little assistant's face was even more embarrassing. She didn't expect that she had been in the assistant department for nearly half a month, and Special Assistant Qin didn't even know her name.She lowered her head, bit the corner of her mouth and said, "I, my name is Wei Tian."

Assistant Qin glanced at her, turned around and walked towards the office without saying anything more.Wei Tian looked at his back, tears rolled in his eyes, but no one around dared to go up to comfort him.

The big boss doesn't usually appear in front of the employees, and Special Assistant Qin is the big boss' right-hand man, and even the executives of various departments will not offend Special Assistant Qin.The new colleague is really amazing, and can make Qin Tezhu look down.

It took a while before Wei Tian adjusted his mood, and managed to keep up his spirits and continue working.

"Sweet." The colleague sitting next to her whispered to her: "The big boss is worth a lot of money, and there are countless people who want to find him every day, so the big boss's schedule is a company secret. Only the secretariat and Special Assistant Qin Clear. Don't commit this kind of taboo in the workplace again in the future. "

"Thank you." Wei Tian thanked with a red face: "I just asked one more question because the office lights were always on, and there was no other meaning."

The colleague next to her glanced at her and said nothing else. The office became quiet again, so quiet that it made people feel depressing.

In the next few days, Zhao Junnan worked hard on filming. He is an outstanding actor, and he didn't have too many scenes. After filming all the scenes, the crew held a wrap-up banquet for him in a restaurant in the film and television city.

At the beginning, the atmosphere at the dinner table was good, until Zhao Junnan took the initiative to toast Li Zhao: "Come on, Xiao Zhao, Brother Nan toast you. When you were on the set of "Heroes", you were still an actor with no lines. I haven't seen you for a year. It's been a while." To be able to play an important role in Director Yang's drama is really a formidable young generation. When you go higher and higher in the future, don't forget to support me."

Zhao Junnan's words sounded well-intentioned, but upon closer inspection, it seemed that Li Zhao's current role was not based on the right path.Otherwise, how can a rookie who made his fortune by relying on online dramas have the ability to support top-notch celebrities?

Those who can sit at this table to eat are all elites in the circle. He could hear that Zhao Junnan's tone was wrong, and even the voice of talking and laughing became quieter.

"Brother Nan, you're joking again." Li Zhao picked up the wine glass, and in front of the table full of people, raised his head and drank a large glass, smiling, and said: "On the road of filming, I am most familiar with playing tricks and giving people a lot of money. As a stand-in, being able to play such an important role in Director Yang's crew is already very fortunate for Sansheng."

Zhao Junnan frowned slightly when he heard the word "dragon set". He looked at Li Zhao's young face with a naive smile, and couldn't guess whether Li Zhao was just saying it casually or hinting at him intentionally.

"Hahaha." Zhao Junnan smiled and said, "You kid, you are still so serious, you don't know how to joke." He picked up the wine glass and drank it clean.

After the finale banquet was over, Zhao Junnan was already drunk. He put his hands on Li Zhao's shoulders: "Xiao Li, please take me to the car. My assistant has already got off with the things just now."

"There's no need to bother Xiao Li, just ask my assistant to take you down." Director Yang said with a smile: "I think Xiao Li drank a lot tonight, I'm afraid that you two will pass out together in the elevator and be caught." People see it, and it will be a hot search on all major platforms tomorrow."

"That's a good relationship, and it can help our crew save a lot of publicity expenses." Zhao Junnan ignored Director Yang's obstruction, and looked at Li Zhao with a half-smile: "Little Li, don't you want to send me?"

"Brother Nan, be careful where you step." Li Zhao said to Director Yang with a smile, "Director Yang, I'll be back after seeing Brother Nan off."

Director Yang hesitated to speak, and finally sighed: "Go early and come back early, call me if you have anything to do."

Zhao Junnan dragged Li Zhao into the elevator, let go of his neck, leaned against the elevator expressionlessly, and looked at Li Zhao coldly: "Did you hear what I said in the lounge that day?"

Li Zhao blinked: "Brother Nan, what do you want to say?"

"Young man, it's not easy to be popular. Don't go the wrong way and bury your future." Zhao Junnan lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and slowly exhaled smoke towards Li Zhao: "What should I say? What should I say?" You shouldn’t say it, you have to know it in your heart.”

Li Zhao stared at the cigarette in Zhao Junnan's hand, his expression became serious.

"Why, are you unhappy?" Zhao Junnan sneered: "Speak up, how much do you want to buy? Shut up?"

"Smoking is prohibited in the elevator." Li Zhao said sullenly, "For the health of others, please abide by public morality."

Zhao Junnan's hand holding the cigarette stopped, and he flicked the ash, as if he heard some joke: "Gongde, you are a child who has not been weaned in kindergarten? Don't change the topic, just ask for a price."

At this moment, the elevator door slowly opened, and outside the door stood Song Yu, his two assistants, and several other crew members.

"Ms. Zhao hasn't left yet?" Song Yu slapped his hands in front of him, and raised his voice, "Who is so shameless to smoke in the elevator? Is it immoral or not?!"

The others silently glanced at Zhao Junnan's hand holding the cigarette, and then looked away as if nothing had happened. The atmosphere became very awkward for a while.

"I'm sorry, I forgot to press the floor just now." Li Zhao showed an innocent smile, and turned to look at Zhao Junnan: "I was a little confused after drinking wine just now, which made Brother Nan laugh."

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and pressed the floor, and the elevator closed slowly again. There was silence in the elevator, and Zhao Junnan didn't speak again until the elevator door opened again.

Zhao Junnan walked out of the elevator with a sullen face, turned to look at Li Zhao: "You tell me when you get in the car."

Li Zhao looked at the RV in front of him, and got in without hesitation.

"You are so brave, you dare to just sit in like this." Zhao Junnan sneered, put his legs on the chair, and mocked, "Shut up for 100 million, is it enough?"

"The whole production crew saw me sending Brother Nan out, what could be the matter?" Li Zhao put his hands on his knees, like a child in a kindergarten waiting for the teacher to come to class, very well-behaved.

But in Zhao Junnan's eyes, Li Zhao was extremely ugly, and he wished that Li Zhao would accidentally disappear from this world tonight, because only the dead could not speak.

"300?"

Li Zhao still looked at him like a good baby.

"500?"

Li Zhao blinked, smiling innocently.

Zhao Junnan's face was completely gloomy: "Do you still want 1000 million? Have you ever seen so much money in your life for a poor boy like you who came out of the stinky valley? Don't be too ugly! Li Zhao, tearing your face is not good for you .”

"I've seen it." Li Zhao raised two fingers and smiled brightly: "My friend's house has two buildings, two buildings!"

The two fingers were bent and bent, looking very proud.

Zhao Junnan was agitated by the crooked fingers: "What does the two buildings have to do with you, what does it have to do with you?!"

"You didn't ask me, have you seen 1000 million?" Li Zhao looked at Zhao Junnan with an expression of "you are really unreasonable": "I am just answering your question seriously."

"Don't pretend to be crazy with me." Zhao Junnan took a deep breath: "I want you to rot in your stomach the matter of being my substitute, and never mention it in this life. Even if someone asks you, you have to deny it. As long as you can Do it, I can give you 600 million."

Li Zhao looked at Zhao Junnan sympathetically, as if he was caring for a fool: "There are so many people in the crew of "Heroes", knowing that there are not a hundred or fifty people who will be your substitutes, you can shut everyone's mouths ?”

"This has nothing to do with you, as long as you shut up." Zhao Junnan has lost patience, and his expression has gradually become ferocious: "It doesn't matter if you don't agree, now you just lose the endorsement and film and television resources. As for what happens in the future , don’t blame it on me.”

Li Zhao was stunned. Was he... threatened?

He was just earning money as a stand-in back then, so why did he put his personal safety into consideration?

"Knock, knock, knock." Someone knocked on the car window.

Zhao Junnan looked back and saw a handsome man in a suit with a pale complexion standing by the window. The man was just looking at the car casually, but Zhao Junnan felt inexplicably that the man's eyes penetrated the car film and saw everything inside the car clearly .

The assistant who sat in the front and kept silent opened the car door, and said in a bad tone, "Sir, my artist doesn't accept any requests from illegitimate fans, you get out of here immediately."

The man ignored him, his deep eyes looked into the car: "Zhao Zhao, get out of the car."

"Ting Ting." Li Zhao pushed Zhao Junnan's legs away from the chair, and Zhao Junnan almost fell to the ground.

Regardless of the embarrassed Zhao Junnan, Li Zhaoxi jumped out of the car door with a smile on his face, and walked to Yan Ting's side: "Why are you here?"

"I'm on a business trip, I'll drop by to see you." Yan Ting stretched out his hand, and wrapped the scarf on Li Zhao's arm, "Let's go."

"Wait." Zhao Junnan chased him out of the car: "Li Zhao, think about what I just said, I need an answer before noon tomorrow."

Yan Ting stopped, turned around and glanced at Zhao Junnan, his light eyes seemed to be looking at the rubble on the side of the road.

Li Zhao tugged at his sleeve: "Tingting, let's go."

Seeing that Li Zhao didn't react at all, Zhao Junnan's face was very ugly.As a popular star, no matter where he goes, someone will secretly take pictures of him with his mobile phone or ask him for an autograph.

Being treated like a roadside weed was the first time he encountered it after he became popular.

"What does he want to do to you?" Yan Ting walked neither fast nor slow, as if nothing would disturb his rhythm.

"He wants to ask me to agree to one thing with 600 million." Li Zhao put his hands in his pockets: "Seeing that I disagree, he laughed at me for not having seen so much money in my life. When I said I had, he was unhappy again. Yes, it's a headache."

Yan Ting's footsteps were slow: "His name is Zhao Junnan?"

"En." Li Zhao nodded.

"I see." Yan Ting's eyelids drooped slightly, covering the darkness in his eyes.

"Let's not talk about this weirdness anymore. When did you get here? Have you had dinner yet?" Li Zhao didn't want those messy things in the entertainment industry to affect his pure and well-behaved good friend. Ting walked side by side: "Which hotel are you staying in, and when will you go back?"

"No." Yan Ting looked at Li Zhao who was full of smiles: "You go back first, I can find a place to eat by myself."

"How can we do that? We haven't seen each other for several days, how can I let you eat alone." Li Zhao put his arms around Yan Ting's neck: "It happens that I didn't eat enough just now, let's find a place to sit down and eat slowly. eat."

"Okay." Yan Ting looked sideways at the child hanging on his body, smelled the faint smell of alcohol on his body, and let him hang on his body like a pendant.

"Are you still insomnia?" Li Zhao poured Yan Ting a cup of hot milk before the dishes were served.

Yan Ting looked at the glass of milk without moving.

"Drinking milk is good for sleep. Anyway, no one has seen it except me." Li Zhao also poured himself a glass: "At worst, I'll drink with you, and we don't think anyone is not enough man."

There was a slight blush on his cheeks, and the alcohol had not completely faded away.

Yan Ting picked up the milk and took a sip, the fishy smell spread in his mouth: "I can't sleep."

Holding the milk cup, Li Zhao drank most of it in one go. Hearing Yan Ting said that he still couldn't fall asleep, he looked up at him: "Counting sheep is useless?"

Yan Ting shook his head slightly.

"Some people say that counting sheep is not in line with our country's language habits, and counting dumplings is more useful when you can't sleep." Li Zhao put down the milk glass, stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "Why don't you count dumplings, but I'm worried that it will get worse and worse. The more you count, the more hungry you will be."

Yan Ting looked at Li Zhao, and suddenly said, "You counted sheep for me that night, it was very useful."

"Really?" Li Zhao cheered up: "I also feel that I have a good command of lines and is very magnetic. Ting Ting, you are worthy of being my good buddy, and you know how to appreciate me."

He was very excited, although Yan Ting never praised his lines from the beginning to the end, but this did not delay Li Zhao's self-improvement of Yan Ting's semantics in his mind: "Wait, I will record a section of counting sheep and counting dumplings for you." If you can’t sleep at night, just listen to it, it might be of some use.”

"Okay." Yan Ting agreed without hesitation, as if he had long expected Li Zhao to say so.

After they finished their meal, Li Zhao squatted in Yan Ting's car, counted the lambs and dumplings, and said goodbye to Yan Ting: "Ting Ting, if you have time tomorrow, you can come to the set to play."

Yan Ting: "Okay."

"One dumpling falls into the bowl, two dumplings fall into the bowl... After eating all the [-] dumplings, Ting Ting will go to bed obediently, and I will say good night to you."

The boy's voice was clear and clean. Yan Ting stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, listening to the dumplings falling into the bowl one by one, reached out to turn on the bedside lamp, and pulled the audio progress bar forward.

"Ting Ting sleep well, let me say good night to you..."

"Ting Ting sleep well, let me say good night to you..."

The bedside lamp went out, and the room was plunged into darkness again.

"Good night."

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone was asleep, Zhao Junnan's work team was overwhelmed by a bad news.

They have already negotiated with a world-renowned luxury brand that Jun Nan will be the Asian spokesperson for this season's new products, and they will promote print photos in major squares.

Faced with the envious eyes of other competitors, Zhao Junnan's team was very proud, and even told some big fans the news in advance, and then asked them to disclose the news to other fans, so as to strengthen their pursuit of the artist.

But at the moment when the official announcement was about to be made, the brand suddenly called and said that Zhao Junnan's image was not suitable for their products, and the cooperation would be discussed later.

Later, what is there to talk about later?

They were obviously released by the brand side.The team was anxious and angry, but they couldn't offend the big brand, so they had to hold an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures

In order to increase Zhao Junnan's social status, a few days ago, they began to arrange trolls to speculate on Zhao Junnan's upcoming cooperation with luxury brands on various forums and public platforms. Zhao Junnan also reposted a Weibo from the brand yesterday.

Now that the brand side suddenly repented, they immediately became a joke in the eyes of other opponents in the circle.But they didn't dare to fall out with the brand side, so they could only hold an emergency meeting to try to minimize the loss.

Just as they were discussing the solution, two more brands who were about to negotiate a cooperation called and canceled the cooperation plan between the two parties.

"It can be regarded as a coincidence that one brand party canceled the cooperation plan, but overnight, all three brand parties canceled the cooperation plan, and someone was obstructing it." Zhao Junnan's agency held an emergency meeting overnight to discuss countermeasures: "Now we have to figure out , which one is making life difficult for us.”

The endorsement of luxury goods has a very important bonus to the value of first-tier and super-tier-one artists, and fans of all industries are also proud of it. Now that the endorsement that is about to be accepted has become a duck and flew away, the brokerage company is naturally very anxious.

After Zhao Junnan became popular, he blocked the way of many first-line male artists. From the perspective of the agency, every male artist who had competed with Zhao Junnan was suspicious.

But who has such great ability?

The author has something to say: one Zhao Zhao jumped over, the other Zhao Zhao jumped over, Ting Ting put them all in his pocket.

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