Modern longevity: starting from Baduanjin

At the suggestion of Ding Beibei, Zhou Shen originally planned to come to participate in this masked martial arts competition.

But I didn’t know until I arrived at the registration point that non-invited ordinary contestants need to undergo a closed training period of 3 to 7 days after registration, unless you can prove that you are a "senior martial arts person", which can save the training time.

This is understandable, after all, this is not a child's play, but a martial arts competition presented in front of audiences across the country, it should not be too childish.

What's more, the masked martial arts king bears all the training fees, and applicants only need to pay a registration fee of 100 yuan. Compared with those martial arts competitions where the board and lodging fees are paid by themselves, and additional training fees are charged, it is really very conscientious.

However, Zhou Shen came to participate in the competition just on a whim.

It's good to get 100 million, but it doesn't matter if you don't get it. It's impossible for him to prove anything to others. There are various procedures to meet them, and there is still a three-day competition training after signing up, so he left in a dispirited manner.

After the two left the registration site for the Masked King Wu, they walked all the way towards the Taishan Fengchan Grand Ceremony Theater.

At this moment, two men suddenly blocked their way.

One of them, a tall, beardless middle-aged man in his forties, looked at Zhou Shen excitedly and said, "Hi sir, my name is Mei Zimo, can I have a chat with you?"

Zhou Shen asked suspiciously, "What are you talking about?"

The male assistant next to him immediately added: "This is Mr. Mei Zimo, the chief director of the Taishan Fengchan Grand Ceremony."

Zhou Shen: "Oh!"

Male assistant: "..."

Mei Zimo, the chief director of the Taishan Fengchan Ceremony, is also very famous in the domestic director circle. Many stars want to know Mei Zimo but have no results. Now director Mei took the initiative to come to know him. This young man is the only one?

But Mei Zimo obviously didn't have time to worry about these things. He looked at Zhou Shen and said excitedly: "That's right, we are filming the opening ceremony of the Fengchan Grand Ceremony now, and I don't want to use animation to synthesize the martial arts CG scenes for more than ten seconds. A live-action rendition."

After a pause, Mei Zimo followed, "I just saw you jump up and grab the balloon, sir..."

Said Mei Zimo and pointed to the little girl not far away, "Your skills and temperament are very suitable for our requirements, so I would like to invite Mr. to play the opening martial arts scene, do you think it is okay?"

Zhou Shen asked, "Are you rich?"

"what?"

Mei Zimo didn't expect Zhou Shen to be so straightforward, she couldn't help but hesitated for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Of course! You can rest assured about the remuneration."

Zhou Shen smiled and said, "That's fine, go and have a look."

Anyway, idle is idle.

……

It gets dark late in summer.

Zhou Shen was delayed for a long time at Dai Temple in the afternoon, and the sunset was still high in the sky when he arrived at the masked Wu Wang audition site.

At this time, when I followed Mei Zimo to the Fengchan Grand Ceremony Theater, although it was not dark outside, the lights inside the theater were already brightly lit, and many staff members were still rehearsing over and over again.

All the way through several halls, Zhou Shen and Ding Beibei watched as they walked.

When passing by a dance studio, Ding Beibei looked at the dancing dancers and said enviously: "My dream when I was a child was to be a ballerina, but my mother didn't allow me to dance ballet and insisted that I play the piano." , After so many years, up to now, I can only play two tigers."

"You still have a choice, which is good! I don't even know how to talk about piano."

Zhou Shen paused and said, "I grew up so old that I don't know any talents. I haven't learned singing, painting, or playing basketball at all."

"Speaking of playing basketball, when we were young, the primary school in the village didn't even have a basketball hoop, and the playground didn't even harden it. When it rained, it was rotten."

Ding Beibei smiled and said, "Then you know martial arts."

Zhou Shen shook his head and said with a smile: "Martial arts is only because I am the chosen one! Otherwise, I would already be a handful of loess."

Ding Beibei looked at him suspiciously, but seeing a faint smile on his face all the time, he didn't know if he was joking or really expressing his feelings?

Soon they came to an empty and super large hall on the west side of the theater. There were many people setting the scene here, and there were many indoor pavilions, palaces, jade buildings and so on.

Of course, these are just model props, but they are also very realistic.

"Hello Director Mei!"

"Director Mei~"

"Director Mei..."

When Mei Zimo and his group appeared here, people greeted them everywhere along the way, and many team leaders came up to ask for opinions.

Mei Zimo led Zhou Shen and the others to the center of the hall. There was a giant man-made ladder with a height of 20 meters. It was very steep and at an angle of nearly [-] degrees. It was covered with yellow roses.

There are also more than a dozen four- to five-meter-high Panlong columns, on which are hung yellow silk and satin representing majesty.

The satin is drooping now, but there are many blowers behind it, once it blows up, it must be very magnificent.

Mei Zimo stood under the ladder, looked up at the ladder, danced and explained to the two of Zhou Shen: "What I want to see is a master of martial arts with outstanding martial arts, standing on the ladder, leaping with swords and horses, flying over eaves and walls."

"First punches, followed by swords, guns or sticks, and finally jumps off the ladder!"

"Although I want to take one shot to the end and complete it all by one person, it is almost impossible, so I can only take the next best thing, divide it into several parts, and finally combine them."

"But it has to be all real shots. I don't want those computer-generated CG special effects. I want to tell those audiences that our ancestors still have some real things!"

"In order to make the effect look more explosive, the entire ladder is actually transparent. Let me show you the effect..."

As she said that, Mei Zimo said to the assistant next to her, "Xiao Li, go and turn on the light."

"Good Director Mei."

The assistant standing next to Mei Zimo immediately ran to the lighting engineer.

Soon the lights in the hall dimmed, and then all the colored lights on the ladder went out. Instead, the back of the ladder lit up, illuminating the entire giant ladder.

At this time, the top of the ladder looks like a shadow puppet show, very clear.

It's like observing with a magnifying glass. When others say people, even an ant can see clearly.

In this case, it is impossible to hang the wire at all, otherwise the two lines can be seen clearly, which would spoil the atmosphere too much.

Zhou Shen also looked up at the ladder, and said, "I understand what you mean. The opening CG of this section is sure to explode, but it will also magnify the flaws, so there can be no mistakes in the slightest."

After a pause, Zhou Shen followed up: "Besides, in such a big scene, if a martial artist wants to show the aura of thousands of troops, ordinary swords and sticks will definitely not work, only big guns!"

When Mei Zimo heard Zhou Shen's words, she immediately nodded and said, "Yes, yes, Teacher Zhou is right! I thought of the big gun at the beginning, and I even contacted Mr. Hua Feihonghua, the king of big guns in Cangzhou, but Hua The teacher is too old to climb high."

"Later, I contacted several others. I heard that they wanted to punch and use big guns without any protection on a platform of more than ten 20 meters high. They all refused."

After a pause, Mei Zimo said: "If it really doesn't work, then I can only contact a stuntman, and find someone to train me in boxing and spear skills, but the opening CG of this section must be shot in real life, even if the effect is almost better than animation .”

Zhou Shen took off his backpack, threw it on the ground, and then used the jumping vertical technique, a run-up, followed by a jump, and he had already jumped onto the ladder.

Then he quickly jumped up the almost 90-degree ladder, as agile and swift as an ape.

In a blink of an eye, he had reached the top of the 20-meter-high ladder.

Standing on it, turning around and looking down at the thousand-square-meter theater hall, the people below are as insignificant as ants.

At this time, the area of ​​the ladder was dimly lit, and the shadow lights behind him made his figure even more majestic.

Hundreds of staff members in the hall, including director Mei Zimo Mei who was standing with Zhou Shen just now, and assistants, all stared up at Zhou Shen above with their eyes wide open.

Zhou Shen was standing on the platform on the ladder. The platform here is actually quite wide, 60 centimeters.

However, it should be considered that the ladder is almost vertical, and there is no handrail and safety belt, and the height here is more than 17 meters from the ground.

Zhou Shen stood on the steps, stretched out his boxing frame and practiced Xingyiquan.

……

Following Zhou Shen's rehearsal, Director Mei, who was standing under the ladder, was immediately overwhelmed with excitement.

"Yes, yes, this is what I want!"

"Xiao Li, hurry up, let them start the machine and prepare to shoot..."

Xiao Li, the assistant next to Director Mei, was about to run away, but was grabbed by Ding Beibei.

Turning his head and smiling, he said, "Director Mei, there is no hurry to shoot. Let's talk about the cost first, and then it won't be too late."

"Huh? Oh oh oh...Okay, okay, let's make a price."

Mei Zimo said with a smile on his face.

Ding Beibei smiled and said, "Since Director Mei asked me to make an offer, I'm not going to be polite! Five million."

Ding Beibei opened his mouth wide.

"What, what? 500 million? You..."

Hearing Ding Beibei's words, Mei Zimo and his assistant were dumbfounded on the spot.

Ding Beibei smiled and said, "Why is Director Mei so excited? I know that the price of 500 million yuan is a little low, but your theater also needs to make a profit. We just need to be close."

Mei Zimo finally came to her senses, and hurriedly said, "Miss Ding, the price is too high to be honest, we can't afford it."

Ding Beibei said with a smile: "Director Mei, the high price is naturally due to the high price. Brother Zhou is a real martial arts master. Don't say you are 500 million, if you add 0, you may not be able to invite him."

"I know Teacher Zhou is a master of martial arts. I also saw him jump up and catch balloons before, so I specially invited him."

"Hahaha, Director Mei, you are really lucky! Today I was going to let Brother Zhou participate in the Masked Martial King, but he thought it was too troublesome to sign up..."

After Ding Beibei's explanation, Mei Zimo also had a basic understanding of Zhou Shen.

However, I really don't believe Ding Beibei's words such as "superior in martial arts" and "invincible all over the world".

Mei Zimo is not a novice either. Over the years, she has planned the Taishan Fengchan Grand Ceremony and met many martial arts people. She knows that even if she is good at light kung fu and routines, it does not mean that her kung fu is really high.

Just like Daoist Chen Shixing, everyone knows that he has real kung fu, but he can't beat UFC fighters.

Because kung fu and kung fu are also different.

Facing Mei Zimo's questioning, Ding Beibei didn't try to refute it.

If it was changed to when she first met Zhou Shen, she might explain a few words, but now she won't. Zhou Shen doesn't need to prove his martial arts to anyone!

Believe it or not, anyway, brother Zhou's current martial arts, if not the best in the world, is also the second in the world.

"For a skill like Big Brother Zhou, the usual appearance fee starts from one million yuan. Buying out all the copyrights at one time for 500 million yuan is really very cost-effective."

"Of course, Director Mei, you can also choose to share, just like that who...Chang Wei participated in the Matrix and showed his face for a total of 3 minutes. It has been more than ten years, and there are hundreds of thousands of dividends every year."

Mei Zimo couldn't laugh or cry when he heard that, "That's The Matrix, it's released worldwide. Our Feng Chan Grand Ceremony, which is to show tourists on Mount Tai, how does the annual income compare with The Matrix?"

Ding Beibei smiled and said, "Director Mei is being modest. Your annual box office exceeds hundreds of millions of dollars. In terms of investment costs, it makes more money than The Matrix."

"Our hidden costs are very high, and the profit margin is really not as high as you think. 500 million is really impossible."

After a pause, Mei Zimo followed, "Miss Ding, we are very sincere, 20, how about asking Mr. Zhou to punch a few times on the ladder?"

Ding Beibei asked: "Then what about dancing with big guns behind?"

Mei Zimo said: "If it doesn't work, let the stuntman go up and perform for a while."

Ding Beibei said: "Director Mei, time waits for no one. It's the peak season for summer vacation tourists. If you delay for a day, you will lose a lot of money. Let me tell you a plan. You can take that big gun king from Cangzhou and spend it on the Feihong flower." The teacher came over and taught Brother Zhou directly."

"Brother Zhou is a prodigy in martial arts. He can master any martial arts as soon as he learns it."

Mei Zimo hesitated and said, "Are you sure he can learn big guns? Big guns can't be learned in three to five days."

Ding Beibei said: "Then you find stuntmen, can they learn it in three to five days? At least Brother Zhou is a real martial arts practitioner, so he can learn it faster by teaching him, right?"

"Uh, that's right!"

Mei Zimo then said: "Time waits for no one, let's be quicker, don't say 500 million. If Mr. Zhou can learn the shape of a big gun in three days, and punch and dance a big gun on the ladder , plus a scene of flying over the eaves and walls, for a total of 1 minute, I will pay 100 million."

"30 deposit, pay 30 after the director is satisfied with the study, and pay the remaining 40 after the shoot."

"Okay, deal!"

……

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On the way back to the hotel, Zhou Shen was also amused when he heard Ding Beibei's words.

People spend money to invite masters of big guns to come and teach him the skills of big guns, and they will pay him a high appearance fee later.

To be honest, if it was him who talked about it himself, that director Mei could find a master of great spears to come and teach him great spears, and he would be willing to help him shoot for free.

What Zhou Shen didn't expect was that as soon as they arrived at the hotel, Director Mei's call came.

The big gun master is already on his way.

"So fast?"

"We have already contacted each other. If it wasn't for Mr. Zhou, we would have changed stuntmen."

"I see!"