Ch6 - Toot Toot Toot

Edited – Zaki

Qi Linqing attracted the attention of many crew members when he walked over. 

Some people praised him for looking so handsome, while others spoke somewhat sarcastically:

“Hehe, what is the use of being good-looking when the character is so bad.”

The Scene Manager retorted, “What evidence do you have that proves his character is bad?”

The man hesitated a few times and said, “He grabbed the master bedroom from Qi Lele in the program… And gave a cold shoulder to Qi Lele.” 

The Scene Manager showed a displeased look on his face: “If you were born into a wealthy family, but you were taken away by mistake in the countryside to endure hardships, and when you finally returned to your real parents’ house at the age of 18, you were greeted by the person who should have grown up in the countryside, like a cuckoo occupying the magpie's nest. Would you show a good face to such a younger brother?”

The man was dumbfounded.

If you think about it carefully, what the Scene Manager said was correct. Qi Linqing’s behavior was quite reasonable.

If Qi Linqing treated Qi Lele dotingly as his biological brother without any complaints, then he was a Holy Father idiot.

These people were blindly influenced by the public opinion on the Internet and did not notice anything wrong.

———

Shooting site.

Du Yuanbai moved a small bench and sat down on the side to eat melon seeds and watched the show, while chatting with his deskmate on WeChat at the same time 

[Ah? I’m waiting to see Qi Linqing’s painting. Hahahaha, isn’t it funny? I wonder what the hell he can draw. ]

[Wait for me to show you the video later. It will probably be funny.]

Deskmate: [Alright  [grin] [grin]]

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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Qi Linqing only needed to pick them and smell to know that these were the boxed ‘Ma-something-ries’ brand’s pigments which were not easy to use.

“Gb sbe cffv ws tfiq ab qgfqjgf j qlmaegf ab mbqs ogbw?” Ojl If rqbxf j iba wbgf qbilafis cbk.

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A simple landscape painting, Qi Linqing could easily draw it with his eyes closed due to his extensive memory from the past.

———-

The other side.

Qi Lele tidied up his ancient robe costume, walked over to Qi Linqing and took up his wine glass. 

In this scene, Gao Lanxi was engrossed in his painting without even saying a line. He played the role of Li Tianyu, who was drunk next to him and needed to say words of praise from time to time.

“Action!”

“Action！”

The staff glanced this way. 

Qi Linqing did not hesitate this time and directly waved his brush to paint.

When Qi Linqing worked seriously, he often entered an extremely mysterious and immersive state.

In the eyes of onlookers, he had a straight back and serious face. Especially his black eyes staring at the rice paper, looking like a rolling sea of stars.

In his previous life, Qi Linqing had once wandered thousands of miles and wonderful rivers and mountains alone, and he remembered the hills and valleys he had seen vividly in his mind. 

He remembered the mountains and cliffs he had seen in the North.

He also carried a bamboo basket on his back and stepped between the rocks and grass, watching the towering trees between the strange forests.

He saw the smoke rising from the thatched hut at the foot of the mountain, and saw the leisurely shepherd boy herding cattle halfway…

The mountain and forest scenery, all of it was captured on the paper. 

According to the script, Qi Lele should have suavely praised: “Brother Gao’s landscape painting’s brushwork is vigorous. The colours are simple and light. There is no one who is better, then or now.”

But now Qi Lele was so frightened by Qi Linqing’s immersive aura in painting that he couldn’t remember his lines, let alone manage his expressions. The wine glass in his hand fell, and he could only dryly squeeze out: “The painting, the painting is so good…”

The staff, the producer, and Director Shen were also dumbfounded, and even forgot the “cut” that should have been called at this time.

Du Yuanbai didn’t know what to think. Today, Zhong Chen’s flying on horseback was enough to make him drop his jaw. And now unexpectedly Qi Linqing could really do a traditional Chinese painting?! 

What the hell happened to the world?

He wanted to see a joke, but now he had become the joke.

On WeChat, his deskmate was urging: [Where is the video? Have you finished recording yet?]

Du Yuanbai: [No, my mother called me to go home for dinner] 

[[Goodbye]The speed of light disappears.jpg]

Deskmate: [???]

After one take, Director Shen and the others were very satisfied with the scene.

Qi Linqing was also satisfied. He finally got enough income to buy paints. 

The only one who was not satisfied was probably Qi Lele.

He tried countless times to ask Director Shen if he could retake the shot: “Director Shen, I am very dissatisfied with my performance at that time…”

If it had been before, Director Shen might have gone along with this request.

But now the situation is different. 

“Just bear it and we will edit the scene later. Your performance in that scene was not so bad.” Director Shen comforted him.

Qi Lele lowered his head to cover the resentment in eyes, his clenched fingernails digging into his palms. The sharp pain instantly woke him up from his daze.

“Okay Director Shen.” When he raised his head again, he was back to being the smiling, sunny Qi Lele.

——- 

Afterwards.

Director Shen asked Lai Ze, “What do you think of Qi Linqing’s painting this time?”

Even if he knew nothing about Chinese painting, he could see the ingenuity and realism of the landscape painting in front of him.

However, out of caution, Director Shen chose to consult professionals. 

Lai Ze: “Wait a minute, I’ll ask someone else.”

There was a natural difference between Western painting and Chinese painting. Lai Ze did not dare to make any final conclusions. He immediately took photos and sent them to his Senior who majored traditional Chinese painting:

[Senior Li, this was painted by our crew member today. What do you think?]

Li Binhong was busy all through the afternoon when he saw this message from his Junior brother. He enlarged the picture to take a look, his expression was a bit amused. 

This Junior kid was teasing him again.

Li Binhong: [Just tell me straight. Which big shot’s work is this?]