I'm just an actor

Chapter 1
Kyrgyzstan Province in May 2004.

"Xiao Xu, take a Zhasi."

Xu Rong squatted on the criss-crossed steel mesh, passed the hook from his right hand to his left, lifted his dirty sleeve, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and casually grabbed a handful of [-]-centimeter-long thin The wire was handed to the middle-aged man who was shouting at him, and said, "Uncle Liu, here it is."

"Xiao Xu, go with a bucket of water."

"Okay, uncle." Xu Rong responded, picked up the bucket not far away, turned a corner, and went downstairs along the uneven concrete stairs.

Carrying the empty bucket, he urinated on the second floor and went down to the first floor. Xu Rong got out of the scaffolding and went straight to a row of simple houses not far from the construction building.

A bucket of steaming boiling water was filled from the large iron pot on the stove, and when he was about to lift it, Xu Rong looked at the gray face in the water, his expression dazed.

He pursed his lips and cheered secretly: if you persist, if you earn money, you can go to college.

"Ding."

"Loading completed."

"The acting training system is on."

A sudden crisp sound resounding in his ears made him stunned, turned his head and looked around, but there was no one.

After a pause, he seemed to think of something. With his thoughts moving slightly, a light curtain that only he could see appeared in front of his eyes. What was displayed on the light curtain was no longer the previous progress bar, but rows of progress bars. data.

Acting training system
Name: Xu Rong

Emoticon: E
Lines: E
Limbs: E
eyes: D
Rhythm: E
Overall evaluation: E+
Experience Points: 99/100
Glory value: 25/100
Traits: None
"Is this what's been loaded for 17 years?"

Xu Rong didn't know how this "acting training system" came about. He only knew that since he could remember, a green progress bar had existed in his consciousness, and it kept showing "loading".

He once told his grandfather once when he was a child, but after listening to it, his grandfather didn't say a word, but he turned around and invited the witch from the east of the village to come over, and forced him to pour a bowl of black paper gray water.

Since then, he has understood that the existence of this thing cannot be told to others.

After a long time, he didn't realize that this thing had an abnormal effect on himself, so he threw it behind him.

After Chinese New Year this year, in order to raise the cost of going to college, he had to follow his uncle in the village to the construction site and became a great socialist builder-a migrant worker.

Looking at the content on the light curtain, he vaguely guessed the purpose of this system.

However, you still have to work.

Carrying a bucket of boiling water, Xu Rong carefully avoided the scattered iron nails and cement blocks on the ground, and got through the scaffolding.

The moment he lowered his head and probed, he caught a glimpse of several middle-aged men wearing yellow hard hats coming not far away, the leader of which was Boss Liu, the foreman of the construction site.

I can't help but wonder, is it possible to check again?

Because usually, except for inspections, there are only two technicians wearing hard hats on the entire construction site.

But it doesn't matter to him whether to check or not, he just needs to work, thinking about it, he turned his head and went straight up the stairs to the sixth floor.

"The water is coming."

"Pay attention, pay attention, the big guys come down first, the big guys come down first."

Xu Rong just took two sips of warm water in his big blue plastic water cup. Hearing the noise from Boss Liu below, he walked a few steps, reached the edge of the steel mesh, and took a look down while holding onto the scaffolding.

Boss Liu was holding a loudspeaker, and beside him stood two middle-aged men whose stomachs stretched out into a semicircle.

"What's the matter?"

"Eighty percent of carpenters make mistakes again."

"Go, go down and take a look."

Following the people downstairs, when they arrived at the simple house, seeing that almost all the people on the construction site had come, Xu Rong realized that it must not be the carpenter who wove the shell wrong, because there was no need to call all the people here, the foreman just let him know .

Boss Liu was wearing a white short-sleeved plaid shirt, with a big belly, and shouted, "This is the great director Guan Hu. He came to our construction site today to cast actors for a TV series. Has anyone signed up?"

As he spoke, he pointed his chubby thumb at the middle-aged man in a black coat beside him.

Xu Rong's heart moved, and he took a closer look at the man named Guan Hu. He was tall, with a beard and black-rimmed eyes.

He didn't say a word. One worker a day on the construction site costs 30 yuan.

"Eighty a day, food and lodging."

"I sign up."

A long-haired young man among the carpenters raised his hand and asked with a hey smile, "Can I be on TV?"

Guan Hu grinned, nodded and said: "Yes, if you choose, you will definitely be able to appear on TV."

The carpenter said without hesitation, "Then I will sign up."

Guan Hu didn't respond immediately, instead he said, "Let me see if you act it out. For example, you are very angry with me and want to do something but dare not."

"Leave it here?"

"Right here!"

Because standing at the back, Xu Rong couldn't see the young carpenter's face, he just took two steps forward with his fists in his hands, but after a few seconds, Guan Hu shook his head and said, "No way!" .”

The young carpenter shrank his neck, smiled dryly with a reddish face, and slipped back into the crowd.

"Is there any more? Eighty a day, food and lodging."

Xu Rong hesitated for a while, then slowly raised his hand and shouted, "I sign up."

"Boom."

"Xiao Xu, what are you doing nèng?"

Xu Rong staggered, turned around and saw that Uncle Liu kicked him, patted his buttocks with a smile, and said, "I'll try."

When Xu Rong came up to him, Guan Hu looked him up and down and asked, "Are you young?"

"I am seventeen this year."

"Same as before, let me see."

Xu Rong nodded and said, "Okay."

He took a deep breath, recalling the anger of being bullied by the children in the village when he was a child, his fists were slowly clenched, his teeth were clenched, and his eyes were fixed on Guan Hu.

Guan Hu only looked at it for a few seconds, then nodded and said, "Yes, you can."

"what?"

Xu Rong was stunned, he just tried it with a playful attitude, and it really worked?
"Well, go to the back and wait."

After Guan Hu said something, he ignored him, turned around and asked, "Is there anyone else who signed up?"

"Quota registration."

"I'm signing up too."

"The amount is also reported."

It seemed that Xu Rong's success had inspired the migrant workers present, and several palms wearing gloves with one side black and the other half gray and half white appeared in the crowd.

It's just that when they finally left, there were only Xu Rong and a 50-year-old old carpenter.

Carrying a nylon bag, Xu Rong followed Guan Hu and bid farewell to the folks on the construction site.

Because Guan Hu said, the shooting time will last about three months.

Eighty a day, settled on the same day, and board and lodging are also taken care of.

It's a good thing, I can't find it even with a lantern.

Following Guan Hu into the bus, Xu Rong was still in a daze when he saw a few migrant workers dressed similarly to himself sitting behind the bus.

Seeing that everyone was crowded at the back, he picked a seat near the front and sat. The old carpenter who came with him looked at it and sat down beside him.

After the car started and stayed away from the construction site for a while, Xu Rong came to his senses, wondering if he could play a fart?

The reason why I was able to pass it just now is that I was bullied a lot before, so I can remember that emotion. If I let myself act in other roles, I am afraid that I will have to give up immediately.

He was a little flustered, and subconsciously shouted in his heart: "System?"

Following his thoughts, the light curtain emerged again.

Acting training system
Name: Xu Rong

Emoticon: E+
Lines: E+
Limbs: E+
eyes: D
Rhythm: E+
Overall evaluation: E+
Experience Points: 100/100
Glory value: 25/100
Traits: None
"Hey, what are these flashing plus signs? Also, how did the experience value become 100? Does it mean that as long as I act, the experience value will increase? But why is there no plus sign behind this 'eye'?"

After looking at it for a long time, he didn't see why. In the end, he could only try to reach out and click the plus sign after the "emoji" at the top.

In an instant, he felt as if he had touched a power strip, his body trembled, and his whole body felt numb, as if he drank a bag of ice soda in August and September.

comfortable.

But then the refreshing feeling quickly faded away, as if everything that happened just now was an illusion, but when he looked at the light curtain again, he found that the content on it had changed a lot.

Acting training system
Name: Xu Rong

Emoticon: D
Lines: E
Limbs: E
eyes: D
Rhythm: E
Overall evaluation: E+
Experience Points: 0/100
Glory value: 25/100
Traits: None
"Is it really what you think?" Xu Rong seemed to have vaguely understood the rules of this so-called "acting skill development system" at this time.

"What's the matter with you?" The old carpenter who was sitting on the side and got into the car with him asked with a strange expression when he saw his strange behavior.

"It's okay." Xu Rong laughed.

The old carpenter's skin was dark, but because it was extremely rough, he didn't look very bright, his eyes were small, but he was shrewd.

Seeing that he didn't want to say more, the old carpenter let out an "oh" and groped into the pocket of his jacket, and took out a half-shrunken cigarette case, but he didn't take it out completely, and glanced at Guan Hu who was sitting in front of him. And another fat middle-aged man, stuffed it back again, and asked in a low voice: "Why are you out so early?"

Xu Rong didn't hide it either. He knew that the old carpenter was from the same town as himself, so he said, "I dropped out of school. My family is poor and I can't afford to go to college."

"Hey, are you still a high school student?" The old carpenter gave him a surprised look and asked, "Are you still in?"

"on!"

The old carpenter subconsciously stretched his hand into his pocket again, touched it, and finally took it back, wiped his mouth twice, and said: "Don't be discouraged, as long as you have a good brain, you can stand out everywhere. , Back then, Han Xin also beat a woman and got under her crotch, and later became the emperor too, didn’t he?!”

The corner of Xu Rong's mouth twitched, but he didn't try to correct the other party's fallacy.

Sitting on the bus, Xu Rong followed Guan Hu around three construction sites, and eight migrant workers arrived in various ways.

He didn't know Guan Hu, and he had never heard of it before, but since Boss Liu from his hometown said that he was a great director, he must not be bad.

And the shooting location is not too far from the construction site, only about ten miles away.

After going around for a long time, the bus finally stopped outside a construction site. When the bus was about to stop, Guan Hu stood up, supported the back of the chair beside him, and said to everyone: "My name is Guan Hu, you guys You can call me the boss, let me explain to you first, we will go to work during the day, and get out of the car if you want at night, and don’t go out and run around if you have nothing to do."

Xu Rong followed the crowd and got out of the car. It was completely different from what he thought on the road. He was at a loss as he looked at the shed and the weedy land where the foundation hadn't been dug.

He seemed to have just moved from one construction site to another, the only thing that changed was that his salary nearly tripled.

In a daze, Xu Rong followed the old carpenter to drag his nylon bag out of the luggage compartment of the bus and walked into the large workshop.

The shed was a bit damp, but there was no strange smell. Most of the bunk beds on both sides were empty. On the two beds near the middle, seven or eight men were sitting shirtless and wearing shorts, playing poker in a circle.

When those people saw them coming in, they glanced at them and ignored them.

"Xiao Xu, you are young, sleep on top of it." The old carpenter found an empty upper bunk, put his nylon bag on the bed of the lower bunk, raised his chin towards the upper bunk, and said with a smile.

"middle."

(End of this chapter)