Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 119 - A new beginning (please read)
At five o'clock in the morning, Chen Bolin, Zhang Ruoyun, and Jing Boran, who had been busy for most of the night last night, got up one after another.

"I really admire Chen Yu who goes out for morning exercise around four o'clock every day."

Chen Bolin sat cross-legged on the moderately soft bed and sighed in a low voice to Jing Boran, who was still in a hazy state.

After washing, Zhang Ruoyun leaned against the wardrobe and expressed that the price to pay for becoming a top professional athlete is too high.

He can neither enjoy delicious food nor stay in bed as he pleases, and even the number of times he can have sex with his girlfriend or wife is limited.

"But people can indeed make a lot of money. We work so hard on business and endorsements that we can just throw in a few coins. Chen Yu earns tens of millions of dollars in just a few minutes for a boxing match."

Jing Boran gently closed his sleepy eyes and yawned as he muttered that all the price and all the hard work Chen Yu had paid could be exchanged for a huge amount of real money.

On the other hand, those who work in the entertainment and film and television industries often encounter embarrassing problems such as delayed remuneration.

Chen Bolin caught the iced juice thrown by Jing Boran and took a swig. He and Ha Ji-won co-starred in the movie "Fatal Love" last year and have not yet been able to pay off the last six million yuan remuneration.

"Fuck it!" Zhang Ruoyun and Jing Boran opened their mouths and cursed at the same time. After all, these two people also suffered from "arrears of wages."

Chen Bolin got up from the bed and handed the iced juice to Jing Boran. At the same time, he shrugged helplessly. How could he "break up" when it came to human relations?

Various intertwined human relationships and interests that require long-term consideration make it difficult for many celebrities to recover their arrears of wages.

"The Worry-Free Grocery Store" in which Reba participated played a similar routine.

As the management, Wanda and Yinghuang only gave Reba 75% of the contract salary, and the remaining part was replaced with so-called "follow-up resources".

This is by no means a partnership between two companies to bully Reba, but they feel that Reba values ​​the opportunity to be the protagonist on the big screen more than money.

Of course, it doesn't matter to Wanda or Yinghuang if Reba chooses money, but they may not put Reba's priority so high when they cooperate in the future.

Therefore, asking for money or choosing opportunities is a tacit understanding between the actors and the management. There are cases where the store bullies the customers or the customers bully the store, but it cannot be done often to undermine the reputation of the industry.

But to be honest, Chen Yu was quite surprised that Reba chose to get a chance. After all, this sister clamored every day to earn money for milk powder and diapers for the baby.

And who knows when Wanda or Yinghuang will be able to fulfill this promise. If the script and role are not suitable for Reba, there may be "resource replacement".

But the problem is that Reba is almost equivalent to a "little transparent" in the Chinese film industry, and it is extremely difficult to find a matching "resource replacement" partner.

Therefore, Chen Yu feels that Reba's choice of opportunity and Wanda and Yinghuang's agreement to give her a chance is a very typical "no winner" case.

In order to save the cost of three melons and two dates, Chen Yu really didn't understand what Wanda and Yinghuang were thinking.

After all, they specialize in the big screen, not the small screen.

Could it be that he planned to trap himself into the game through Reba? Since you can't repay Reba's favor, why don't you just give it to yourself? Chen Yu's thoughts are infinitely close to the truth.

Chen Yu, whose head was filled with questions, wiped his hair and walked back to the dormitory.

At 8 o'clock this morning, the eight-member "Hua Shao" group will go to the airport to fly to Windhoek, the "heart" of Namibia.

The three boys who had already packed up were sitting around watching a video of everyone performing on the streets of Cape Town last night.

With Chen Bolin's guitar, Chen Yu's drums, Zhang Ruoyun's piano and Jing Boran's vocals, the four boys had a great time last night.

However, due to copyright restrictions, Jing Boran's signature songs cannot be performed publicly (because they are for-profit).

So everyone chose to play around and use the copyrighted English, Korean and Japanese songs purchased by Mango Channel to earn travel expenses.

Here I must give special praise to Jing Boran. Even though his English is poor, he sings English songs with precise pronunciation and pronunciation.

"Chen Yu's drum playing is really good and his basic skills are very solid." Jing Boran can still tell a few tricks as a singer.

According to him, Chen Bolin's guitar in "Hua Shao" is considered professional-grade, Zhang Ruoyun's electronic keyboard is just a little bit inferior, and Chen Yu's drum set is good enough to play in a second-rate band.

In fact, Chen Yu can also play the piano. After all, Reba has a level 10 piano professional certificate. Although that thing is equivalent to useless paper, it is enough to teach Chen Yu nothing.

"Reba can't do any non-exam repertoire." Chen Yu waved his hand and lifted up his girlfriend's bottom.

If Reba's piano skills were really at a "normal tenth level" level, then there would be no need to use a double and post-production editing in movies and TV dramas.

According to Chen Yu's rough understanding, "Piano Level 10" should be just getting started.

This year Reba began to increase her daily practice of dance and piano to prepare for cultivating her baby's interests in the future.

"Similar to my Tang Yixin, now she just reads elementary school textbooks when she has nothing to do. All kinds of application questions and short essays give me a headache."

After Zhang Ruoyun heard Chen Yu's complaints, he met his bosom friend and began to pour out his bitterness to the latter.

Jing Boran looked at the dejected Chen Yu and Zhang Ruoyun with envious eyes and an aunt's smile.

Chen Bolin kept his eyes focused on the mobile phone screen, and murmured to himself a soft affirmation of everyone's performance last night.

Chen Bolin especially hopes that everyone can maintain this "band".

It's not that he wants to use the "band" to gain popularity and attract traffic, he simply thinks that doing so is very fun and fun.

After Chen Bolin expressed the idea, Chen Yu agreed and the other three also responded. It’s just for fun anyway. Even if there are business activities, you can’t take them if you can’t afford to recruit people, so it’s difficult for everyone to have differences due to financial interests.

As for the name of the band, we haven't decided yet. After all, we mainly focus on having fun and don't need to be so formal and serious.

The time had reached seven o'clock as the four boys chatted and laughed.

Nazha and the others were still immersed in sleep when Chen Yu and Zhang Ruoyun parked two pickup trucks at the door of the girls' dormitory.

"Excuse me, why didn't you call us earlier?" Jiang Shuying, whose hair looked like a chicken coop, stood at the door and yelled at the boy.

Chen Bolin looked at Zhang Ruoyun who was stunned, Chen Yu who was distracted, and Jing Boran who was laughing and could only weakly ask Jiang Shuying why she didn't set an alarm clock?
Jiang Shuying's reply was to close the door and make the boys stand outside.

In the dormitory, Nazha gently took Song Zuer's hand out of her pajamas, and then asked Jiang Shuying slowly and softly if there was any unexpected situation.
Nazha didn't wake up until she heard that she was going to the airport this morning. The relaxation and leisure yesterday made her completely forget about her itinerary.

Chen Yu and others who were playing airplane grid outside heard crackling and shouting sounds in the dormitory and thought there was a gunfight.

But fortunately, the four girls had already packed most of their luggage yesterday, so the departure time was not delayed much.

At 8:10 in the morning, the eight-member "Hua Shao" group shook hands with all the staff of Talitali Wildlife Sanctuary and said goodbye.

The hotel proprietress even thoughtfully provided free meals, which made Song Zuer, who was worried about not having enough snacks, smile brightly.

"You made a total of nearly thirteen thousand rand last night, which is about 4,900 yuan."

Jiang Shuying was surprised and surprised by the ability of the four boys to attract money. After all, Chen Yu was not as popular in South Africa as he was in Europe and the United States.

South Africa prefers football and rugby while boxing and fighting are less popular in the mainstream.

In addition, Jiang Shuying, Nazha, and Zhou Yangqing were not accompanied by the four boys last night because they had to re-record the brand's commercial.

Only Song Zuer was sent to the scene to help, but the little girl ran to the Armani boutique behind the performance venue to enjoy air conditioning and refreshments.

"Now, including miscellaneous change, our funds have returned to the [safety baseline] of 25,000 Lanta."

Jiang Shuying closed the small ledger, leaned back in her chair, and let out a sigh of relief. The current economic crisis above the team's head was temporarily lifted.

Then she asked Chen Bolin whether the prices at Hanas Wildlife Conservation Base were expensive.

Chen Bolin pursed his lips and shook his head slightly. Prices there are lower than in Cape Town, but supplies are relatively scarce, so you can't buy many things.

To put it simply, the drinks there are affordable and limited supply. Ice-cold Coke is not expensive and each person can buy up to three cans per day.

Although the mineral water is unlimited, I'm sorry that there is no iced one, because it is very uneconomical to put this in the freezer.

"Then let's buy some drinks in advance and bring them in." Song Zuer took the walkie-talkie and made her own suggestion.

Chen Bolin told her that there was no refrigeration equipment in the dormitory, and even if she brought it in, it would not be able to be refrigerated.

This is also the reason why Chen Bolin does not want to return to Hanas Wildlife Conservation Base again.

After all, the living conditions there are too difficult.

"As soon as everyone arrives, you will understand the difficulties we will face." After saying this, Chen Bolin put a brand new baseball cap on his face.

Both cars fell into silence at the same time. Even the most eloquent Song Zuer retreated to the back seat and silently ate potato chips.

Although the program team has told everyone that this trip to Namibia will not be as physically and mentally exhausting as the trip to South Africa.

But I never expected that the program team would use lower living conditions to assist with the deduction of funds to create problems for the eight-member "Hua Shao" team.

In this way, the impact that Chen Yu can exert in a narrow space will become even smaller.

It can be seen that the program team really took great pains and exhausted all means to restrict Chen Yu.

Starting from Brazil to South Africa and then to Namibia, the secret battle between the program team and Chen Yu is constantly escalating.

But so far, Chen Yu can always come up with countermeasures to mess up the program crew's plans.

Now it depends on who can win the third behind-the-scenes contest between the two sides in Namibia.

After everyone arrived at the airport, they had a meal of fried chicken and Coke at Chen Bolin's suggestion.

Chen Yu also called the Houston Training Center and asked them to airmail nutritious meals to the Hanas Wildlife Conservation Base with a proportional increase in vegetables.

There was no shortage of meat and fruits but relatively few vegetables.

Chen Yu thought that he could make his life in that damn place a little more comfortable by using vegetables as bargaining chips.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the eight-member "Hua Shao" group successfully flew to Windhoek, the "heart" of Namibia.

But as soon as the journey began, everyone received a "blow in the face".

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