China Entertainment: Sister, I don’t want to work hard anymore

Chapter 20 What the hell!

Evening, 10:24.

Just after an hour and a half of strenuous exercise, Li Xiaoran, who loves cleanliness, went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Chu Hui opened the window of the room to ventilate it, then put on a coat and went outside to breathe fresh air.

Immediately afterwards, Chu Hui faced the cold wind and lit a cigarette for himself to replenish his energy.

After smoking two cigarettes, Chu Hui stretched, returned to the room, and locked the door.

I saw an advertisement for China Mobile playing on the TV in the room.

"Travel to China, I think it will work!" This catchy advertising slogan is plain and casual, just like a casual sentence spoken by ordinary people. It is easy to remember and has a long meaning.

Uncle Ge's vivid interpretation has no intention of making this advertising slogan a classic and has added enough mass base.

A few months ago, Uncle Ge's sinister image of Emperor Li in "The Night Banquet" has not yet dissipated in the minds of the audience.

In the recent series of commercials for "Travel to China", Uncle Ge's performance as the neighbor's uncle was so popular that Chu Hui had to admire his acting skills.

After watching a boring TV commercial for a while, Chu Hui's cell phone suddenly rang.

Seeing that the call was from Zhao Baogang, Chu Hui hurriedly answered the call.

Zhao Baogang on the other end of the phone said straight to the point: "Huizi, where are you?"

Chu Hui was stunned for a moment and replied: "Director, what's wrong at home?"

"I asked you if you are in Yanjing?"

"Director, here you are, please speak if you need anything!"

Zhao Baogang said bluntly: "You come to my house early tomorrow morning!"

Chu Hui asked curiously: "What's wrong, director?"

Zhao Baogang said angrily: "Why are you asking so many questions? You'll know when you get here, so let's do this for now."

"Oh, good director, please hurry up..."

Before Chu Hui could finish his words, Zhao Baogang hurriedly hung up the phone.

At this moment, Li Xiaoran came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel and asked, "Did Director Baosteel call you?"

Chu Hui nodded: "Yes."

"What did you say?"

"I didn't say anything, just asked me to go to his house tomorrow morning."

Li Xiaoran suddenly remembered something and said happily: "Maybe there is a role for you."

Chu Hui's eyes lit up: "What should I say? Are you ready to start a new play?"

Li Xiaoran nodded: "Yes, we are still preparing. It is expected to start filming after the year."

Chu Hui asked again: "What show?"

Li Xiaoran replied: "Harbin at night."

Chu Hui was a little surprised: "How do you know?"

Li Xiaoran rolled her eyes at him and said arrogantly: "Nonsense, I am the female lead in this drama, how can I not know that?"

Chu Hui then asked: "You play the female lead, who is the male lead?"

Li Xiaoran said uncertainly: "I heard it's Lu Yi."

Chu Hui asked: "Then what do you think he will ask me to play?"

Li Xiaoran thought for a while and said, "I guess it's the second male lead, or the third male lead, it's possible, I don't know."

"I haven't read the script yet. It's at home. I'll bring it over to you some other time."

Chu Hui said: "Okay, then don't forget it."

the next day.

Chu Hui woke up as soon as it was dawn, without even needing an alarm clock to remind him.

In order not to disturb Li Xiaoran's sleep, Chu Hui tiptoed and climbed up from the bed carefully.

After washing up, Chu Hui came out of the yard and walked along the green bricks and green tiles of the alley into a busy breakfast shop.

A large bowl of hot soy milk, two golden butter sticks, and two freshly cooked meat buns.

Brother Chu Hui's breakfast today was considered a success.

After eating and drinking, Chu Hui leisurely lit a cigarette and observed the diners coming and going with the mentality of experiencing life.

When he is not filming, Chu Hui still enjoys this kind of slow life. The premise is that he has deposits in his bank card and a new movie will be launched soon.

Chu Hui's most ideal situation at this stage is to shoot two movies a year, one in the first half of the year and one in the second half of the year.

This kind of work intensity will neither make you too hard nor too boring, and combine work and rest. Half an hour later, Chu Hui, carrying two pieces of China and a large bag of fruit, hailed a taxi and headed to Silver Lake Villa to visit director Zhao Baogang.

Silver Lake Villa is located near Dashanzi, Chaoyang Capital Airport, at the intersection of Wangjing Caihong Road and Jingshun Road.

In addition to Zhao Baogang, insiders such as Feng Xiaogang, Chen Daoming, and Wu Yongbo all live here.

Seeing Chu Hui coming, Zhao Baogang's wife Ding Xin stepped forward to greet him without haste, and said with a smile on her face: "Huizi, just come, why do you bring gifts? You are too polite."

Chu Hui smiled and replied: "Auntie, it's just a little bit of fruit. I'm just kidding."

Ding Xin took the gift from Chu Hui and said, "How could it be? Come in, your uncle is waiting for you in the house."

"okay!"

Although Chu Hui usually calls Zhao Baogang "director" respectfully, in private, especially in family situations like this, Chu Hui occasionally calls him uncle.

After all, Zhao Baogang is more than 20 years older than Chu Hui. Chu Hui calls him "uncle", which is not considered a relationship based on emotion or reason, but most of the time, he is still used to calling him "director".

Zhao Baogang was making tea in the living room. When he saw Chu Hui coming in, he smiled and said, "Sit down."

"Okay director." Chu Hui sat down as he was told.

While the two were drinking tea and chatting, Zhao Baogang's son, who was under four years old, would come over to cause trouble from time to time.

Speaking of this son, Zhao Baogang, who is usually very serious, has a smile and doting on his face.

Back then, Zhao Baogang and Ding Xin had agreed to be a DINK couple, so they had been married for more than ten years and had no intention of having children.

But when she was really pregnant with the child, Ding Xin no longer wanted to be a child, and came up with the idea of ​​keeping the child.

But Ding Xin didn't know that as the couple had been married longer and longer, Zhao Baogang always felt that something was missing between them, but he never understood what it was.

After Ding Xin told him that he had an unexpected pregnancy and hoped to keep the child, Zhao Baogang finally knew that what he and his wife lacked was a child, so he agreed to Ding Xin's suggestion.

In early 2003, after ten months of pregnancy, Ding Xin successfully gave birth to a child, a boy, in Yanjing.

Zhao Baogang, who unexpectedly gave birth to a son, was already 48 years old at the time. He was very happy to have a son in middle age. He gave his son a very easy-to-remember name, Zhao Martin.

This kid Zhao Martin has a tiger-like head, he is not afraid of strangers at all, and he is very cute. Chu Hui just teased him for a while, and he became completely attached to Chu Hui. He even took out his Ultraman toys to share with Chu Hui. ,show off.

Later, Ding Xin brought out a plate of fruit and took Martin Zhao out for a walk, and then Chu Hui and Zhao Baogang started talking about business.

Zhao Baogang said bluntly: "Huizi, if I remember correctly, you haven't signed the company yet, right?"

Chu Hui answered truthfully: "Not yet, director."

Zhao Baogang said bluntly: "Then you come to my company."

"Uh..." Chu Hui hesitated to speak.

Zhao Baogang said angrily: "What? I want to sign you, but you are not happy yet? Do you know how many people are begging me to join our company?"

Chu Hui hurriedly explained: "No, director, that's not what I meant. I am very grateful that you can give me the opportunity, really! I am very grateful!"

Zhao Baogang said with a sullen expression: "Then why are you talking nonsense to me? I only gave you this opportunity because I see that you are a down-to-earth kid and a good prospect."

"Don't be in the midst of blessings and not know what is good or what is bad!"

Chu Hui also felt a little guilty and said with a queasy look on his face: "The director I know, I'm just... used to freedom and don't want to be bound by a contract..."

In fact, Chu Hui didn't want to sign a contract with Zhao Baogang, mainly because he felt that the contract time was too long. If he signed a contract casually, it would be five years, and seven or ten years would be a common phenomenon.

Chu Hui's inner plan is to transform into a director or producer within three years, and invest in a TV series or a movie by himself.

If he signs a contract with Zhao Baogang's Xinbaoyuan Company, Chu Hui may only be able to work under his banner as a TV actor and film various TV series in the next five years. It will be difficult for him to make a big breakthrough.

Before Zhao Baogang could get angry, Chu Hui quickly took out the handwritten script of "Who is in charge of my youth" from his coat pocket and held it in front of Zhao Baogang.

It is worth mentioning that so far, the script "Who is in charge of my youth" written by Chu Hui has reached the 20th episode, and there are still 12 episodes left to complete.

The script Chu Hui brought only had 10 episodes, and he wanted Zhao Baogang to try out a few episodes to see if he would be interested.

Zhao Baogang didn't understand what was going on and asked, "What is this?"

Chu Hui said respectfully: "Director, this is a script I wrote. I would like you to review it for me and give me some advice."

Zhao Baogang suddenly realized: "I asked you, why do you always hang out with Shi Kang when you are on the set? I dare you that you are not satisfied with just being an actor, but also plan to cross over to become a screenwriter?"

Chu Huixin said, I not only want to be an actor and screenwriter, I also want to be a director and producer.

Of course, Chu Hui felt that it was too early to say this, and the time was not yet ripe, so he did not tell Zhao Bao everything.

However, Zhao Baogang not only did not support Chu Hui's part-time job as a screenwriter, he was even a little disgusted.

As the saying goes, there are specialties in the arts, but Zhao Baogang really didn't believe that Chu Hui was an all-rounder who could act well and write good scripts.

Chu Hui also guessed Zhao Baogang's thoughts, so he lied to Zhao Baogang and said: "Director, I am not doing my job properly. I didn't write this script when I was filming "Struggle". I started writing it a year ago and took more than a year to write it. ”

"I came to you today because I wanted to ask you for advice. Take the time to help me find out if I am qualified to be a screenwriter."

"If you, the director, feel that the script I wrote is not good, I will definitely listen to you and work hard as an actor from now on."

(End of this chapter)