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Beijing, Yanjiao Equestrian Center.

Several leading actors from the "Mulan" crew are seriously undergoing equestrian training here.

Including Xiao Mingge and others, they have already signed contracts with the crew. It has been basically confirmed that they will officially join the crew in October this year and wrap up around February next year. If the training time is included, they will have to spend a total of 10 months on this project.

In this "restless" era, spending eight months, including more than four months in training, to finally shoot a movie is already a very serious act.

At least Brother Xiao Ming, Hu Ge, Zhang Hanyu and others haven’t experienced such a serious crew for quite a long time.

Brother Cheng Long is used to it. After all, the movies he makes are mainly action movies, and the preparation period is quite long.

Today is a sunny day. The five leading actors have been training here for almost two months and have basically mastered the skill of horse riding.

If you say that you can train a cavalryman in two months, you must be joking.

But it is not difficult to spend two months teaching someone to ride a horse.

Wu Yuan didn't expect to be able to train a few cavalrymen.

However, he did hear from Sang Lin that the male group of the "Fengshen Trilogy" had really learned horse riding to a very high level, and could even shoot arrows on horseback.
No matter how accurate you are, just being able to shoot an arrow while riding a horse is already amazing.

This group of boys really started training in 2017, and didn’t start filming until 2019.

Wu Yuan couldn't help but admire it, and sincerely hoped that "The Investiture of the Gods Trilogy" would be a success.

But if you ask him whether he would invest money, he still says no.

Emotion cannot dominate reason.

Reason told him that it was really hopeless to make money with this trilogy.

But we should still admire what we deserve.

Ahem, cough, let’s get down to business.

The reason why Wu Yuan was able to let his mind wander right now was because he was on his way to the Beijing Equestrian Center.

Not only him, he also brought Sang Lin and Sang Lin's martial arts team.

The reshoots for "Fengshen Trilogy" have been completed and the crew has been disbanded. After a month of design, Sang Lin also made arrangements for the closed training process for "Mulan".

So Wu Yuan brought his martial arts team to meet his actors and welcome them to finish their equestrian training.

Near noon, the convoy arrived at the entrance of the equestrian arena.

Liu Yifei, who had received the news long ago, met Wu Yuan and others at the door with several male actors.

Cheng Long had naturally left the equestrian arena a long time ago. He didn't have many horse riding scenes in the movie, and he could ride a horse, so he didn't need any training with the crew. A day or two of familiarity would be enough.

The main trainees are Hu Ge, Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Hanyu and Zhu Yilong, especially Zhu Yilong, a new emerging actor in the era of light and shadow.

The other three had more or less been exposed to circus in their past filming work and had learned some horse riding skills, but Zhu Yilong had never ridden a horse before and had to learn from scratch. However, he had good talent and was able to keep up with the learning progress in two months. Now he can ride a horse quite well.

"Where is our daughter?" Liu Yifei, who brought the male actors to meet Wu Yuan, asked about her daughter as the first sentence. Although she hadn't seen her for only half a day, she still cared about her.

"Mom is taking care of her." Wu Yuan shrugged and explained, "Mom is worried about letting Aunt Liu take care of Qingqing alone, so she stayed at home to accompany the child."

Wu Yuan hired a full-time confinement nanny to take care of his daughter. After all, neither he nor Liu Yifei could stay at home full-time to take care of the child, so hiring someone to take care of the child was a must.

However, Liu Xiaoli was not too reassured. After all, there were often news reports on the Internet about confinement nannies and babysitters bullying children, and no one dared to bet that the same thing would not happen to them, so if Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei were not at home, she would come to see the child.

She doesn't need to do anything specific. Her main job is to keep an eye on the confinement nanny and make sure she doesn't abuse her granddaughter. This way everyone can rest assured.

"That's good." Liu Yifei was relieved and started talking to Wu Yuan, "Today is the last day of equestrian training."

"Are we going to do martial arts training next?"

"Yes." Wu Yuan nodded, and after greeting Huang Xiaoming and others who were walking towards them, he introduced Sang Lin and others standing behind him, saying, "These are the main actors of Mulan."

After that, he also introduced Huang Xiaoming and others: "This is our crew's action director and martial arts instructor Mr. Sang Lin, and the martial arts team he leads."

"For the next two months, you will follow him in closed martial arts training and master some cold weapon techniques and basic fighting moves as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, they are all carefully selected by Teacher Sang Lin and his team. They will be useful when we shoot. Now that we have practiced well, it will be much easier when we shoot."

"But you don't have to start training right away. It's been tiring practicing horsemanship for so long. Take a rest for three days first, and then continue training."

"I have rented a training shed at the Huairou Film and Television Base. Everyone will move there for training. However, for convenience, the next training will be closed training. You will have to eat and live at the Huairou Film and Television Base."

"Special times call for special treatment."

The black swan event that swept China has now stabilized, but large-scale screening will still be carried out at regular intervals, so it is best not to run around if you can.

Moreover, when it comes to training, closed-door training is the most suitable. Only by devoting yourself to it wholeheartedly can you learn quickly and well.

For this reason, Wu Yuan did not even let his wife go. He did not give Liu Yifei a back door, so she would have to live and eat at the Huairou Film and Television Base from now on.

However, Wu Yuan would often take her daughter to see her. After all, her mother is now overflowing with maternal love, and she can't go two months without seeing her baby.

Wu Yuan also discussed these matters with Liu Yifei in private. His wife was very understanding and had no objection to this.

At this time, after introducing each other, Sang Lin took the initiative to step forward and introduced himself to Huang Xiaoming and others.

Unlike top directors like Wu Yuan who can use their faces to attract attention, although Sang Lin is also one of the best martial arts instructors in the circle, he is not to the extent that he can be recognized by just looking at his face or name. At least Zhang Hanyu and Zhu Yilong looked confused about him.

So Sang Lin took the initiative to introduce his resume. There was no need to say too much. Just being a martial arts instructor in the "Asian Blade" series was enough. After all, as the best martial arts film in the post-martial arts era, he was still quite prestigious in the circle.

When they heard that Sang Lin was the martial arts director of "The Blade of the Assassin", several male actors immediately paid attention to him and greeted him repeatedly.

"Well, I'll have to thank you all for your hard work in the future. Train well!" Wu Yuan said solemnly. (End of this chapter)