Wei Sama, Let’s Stuff Them with Dog Food

229. Abduction of Child

Translator: 飞弹

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How could it be so easy to adopt a child?

Leaving aside their identities as homosexuals, even if a heterosexual couple wanted to adopt a child, they had to go through the rigmarole to do it. Qi Le’an was excited for a moment before he calmed down and said, “Let’s talk about it later.”

Wei Changfeng didn’t say anything else.

An Cheng ran from the door to the two of them. Qi Le’an held his hand and sat on a chair beside them.

He pulled out a candy from his pocket. An Cheng held it in his hand and said, “I have to wait for my sister to come out and we will eat it together.”

Qi Le’an said, “Okay, let’s wait for your sister.”

The operation was long and agonizing. Although it lasted just a few hours, they felt as if they had been waiting for centuries. Everyone stood up the moment the doctor pushed open the door. An Cheng ran over like wind and looked at the doctor nervously.

The doctor lowered his head to look at An Cheng with a tired face, but he still said with a smile, “The operation is successful.”

A happy expression finally appeared on the small face of An Cheng and he bowed low to the doctor. The doctor nodded and said to Qi Le’an and the others, “We’ll push her out soon. Don’t worry.”

Everyone surrounded the doctor and thanked him. The doctor smiled, waved his hand and walked away.

Soon, the nurse pushed Little Orange out. The quiet little girl was still asleep like a little angel.

The operation was remarkably successful. Half an hour later, Little Orange gradually woke up. The little girl’s eyes were still full of ignorance and confusion. When she saw Qi Le’an, she revealed a sweet smile. An Cheng looked at the little girl nervously, wanting to touch her hand but not daring to.

Little Orange was born crippled, so she only had one arm to be on a drip. They were probably afraid that the child would move randomly, so her hand was still immobilized by a medicine box.

An Cheng asked nervously, “Sis, does it hurt?”

Little Orange shook her head and opened her mouth slightly, as if she was saying “candy”.

Qi Le’an asked the nurse beside him if the little girl could eat candies now. After getting the affirmative answer, he asked An Cheng to peel the candy for Little Orange.

When a child received a candy, it was as if she had received the best gift from God and all the suffering and pain disappeared.

After the operation, Little Orange would have someone in constant attendance, which was very troublesome. Qi Le’an could not sit with her every day, so he could only ask his assistant and Mrs. Zhao to keep the girl company. When Sister Wei heard about Little Orange, she also rushed over from home and brought some presents to the child.

A week later, Little Orange was discharged smoothly and An Cheng also began to have a “class”. He played an important role in the movie “Abduction of Children” and he would directly have confrontation with Qi Le’an in several scenes. Qi Le’an was afraid that it would be difficult for Wei Changfeng to shoot when the filming started, so he started to perform with An Cheng in advance.

He was surprised to find that An Cheng was very talented in acting. As a child, he had problems with literacy and couldn’t understand the complete script, but as long as Qi Le’an told it to him, An Cheng could basically remember it.

If they repeated it two or three times, then An Cheng could completely perform the repeated content. As for the expressions and movements in the performance, he could understand them after being taught, and he was also not wooden at all in the performance.

Qi Le’an was secretly awed by it. Wei Sama was really lucky this time to get such a good actor.

Although Little Orange’s operation was over, she still had to go to the hospital. Apart from her heart, Qi Le’an also wanted to help her customize an artificial arm and accompany her back to speaking.

Life became more fulfilling at once. During the day, Qi Le’an was reading the script to study character relationships and performing with An Cheng. In the evening, he would play a parent-child game with Little Orange and wait for Wei Changfeng to go home for dinner. In this way, the four of them seemed to really become a family.

Even Mrs. Zhao sighed with emotion, “An Cheng hasn’t gotten along so well with his previous adopted family before!”

Qi Le’an had never heard of the past of An Cheng. He was a little surprised and asked, “Has An Cheng been adopted before?”

Mrs. Zhao sighed and nodded, “With his age, gender, and appearance, he is easier to adopt. In total, he has been adopted three times, but they all sent him back.”

Qi Le’an was even more surprised and asked, “How could this be?”

Mrs. Zhao gave a wry smile, “Generally speaking, adopted families don’t want to adopt two children at once, let alone Little Orange who is a disabled kid. An Cheng was unwilling to be separated from her, so he kept being mischievous after he was adopted, and the adopted families had no choice but to send him back.”

Qi Le’an was silent. He remembered that An Cheng asked him, “Will you adopt us?”

According to the little boy’s personality, he would never be separated from his sister.

After getting along with him for the most of the month, Qi Le’an deeply noticed that although An Cheng looked unapproachable on the surface, he was actually a very thoughtful child. He disguised himself as a fierce child probably because he didn’t want to get hurt.

In early October, Sister Wei contacted a company specializing in producing bionic prostheses. Qi Le’an and Wei Changfeng specially went to explore the company before filming the movie. They signed a ten-year contract with the company after confirming the safety and stability of the prosthesis.

In the next ten years, the company would produce an exclusive prosthesis for Little Orange based on her growth. The surface of the prosthesis would be close to the real human skin. Because Little Orange was malformed, her whole arm had disappeared, making it more difficult to produce the prosthesis. She needed to stay in Beijing for three to six months to assist in the production.

Now it would delay the return trip of Mrs. Zhao. She had planned that Little Orange would be brought back to the orphanage after the operation, while An Cheng would be left to film, and the orphanage teachers would visit him regularly.

However, Mrs. Zhao also knew that producing a bionic prosthesis would only be beneficial to Little Orange in the future. Such an opportunity was not available to everyone, so she shouldn’t reject it for Little Orange and she also couldn’t do it.

Besides, with the help of Qi Le’an and Wei Changfeng, Little Orange gradually started talking.

As for those simple words such as “brother”, “teacher”, “eat” or “I want”, although Little Orange said them slowly and indistinctly. She was trying her best to express her thoughts and feelings.

Mrs. Zhao was in a dilemma now. On the one hand, Little Orange was a little girl. If she went out like this, she had to be accompanied by a female teacher. On the other hand, it was impossible for Mrs. Zhao to stay by her side for so long, which was unrealistic.

Wei Changfeng also knew Mrs. Zhao’s worries. He went back to the house that night and talked about the situation with Sis Wei.

Sister Wei looked at Snowball, then at her brother, and asked, “Have you really thought it over?”

Wei Changfeng nodded, his eyes full of gentleness, and he said, “Yes.”

Sister Wei smiled and said, “What about Le’an? Have you discussed it with each other?”

Wei Changfeng shook his head, “He will be happy. I want to give him a surprise.”

Sister Wei smiled knowingly and said, “So, what reason do I have to not help you?”

Since Sister Wei stepped in, everything was well arranged. As for a family consisting of elite like Sheng Chang’an and Wei Xin’an, it was easy for them to adopt children. Although they did not formally adopted Little Orange, they could pick her up for treatment.

Qi Le’an was too stunned to say anything after knowing the news, then he kissed Wei Changfeng desperately. Of course, Wei Changfeng accepted all his kisses. He was willing to do things that could make his beloved happy.

On October 10th, the opening ceremony of the movie “Abduction of Children” was officially held in Beijing.

Qi Le’an, the leading actor, stood beside the director Wei Changfeng and greeted their ancestor with three incenses. He had experienced many opening ceremonies of movies or TV series, but he had never been as solemn as ever.

This was Wei Changfeng’s transitional movie and it could be said that he had gambled all his property on it. Qi Le’an had seen Wei Changfeng modifying the script, perfecting the shooting script, meeting with the creator team, and talking with Brother Zhi on the phone day and night.

He knew how many efforts Wei Changfeng had made to shoot this movie, which had nothing to do with money. They only contained the dreams and beliefs of a person who had been in the showbiz since he was a child.

Whether it came to acting or shooting, Wei Changfeng tried his best to perfect it. The same was true for the first film he directed independently. The crew shot the movie in a totally closed manner, preventing any reporters from interviewing. The crews also asked the actors to not leave during the shooting period.

The whole movie involved the filming locations in three provinces, including the center, north and south areas of the country from October to February. Qi Le’an saw that Wei Changfeng had been devoted to his work.

The two of them didn’t even sleep together in the crew. When Wei Changfeng came back every night, he would read the materials until late at night. Qi Le’an stayed with Wei Sama with the script in his hand. Sometimes, he would squat in front of the computer with Wei Changfeng, looking for his shortcomings under the enlarged scenes and absorbing the experience of the seniors.

Occasionally, he didn’t have any scenes in the movie while Wei Changfeng was in the shooting place. Then Qi Le’an would lock himself in the room, face the huge fitting mirror and focus on performing which he would do in the movie.

He even asked Chen Shan to prepare a camera for him to use it to record his expressions and movements on the side. After practicing, he went over to check the video, remembered the satisfactory parts and replayed those again which was unsatisfactory.

In the movie “Abduction of Children”, Chen Guai was a person with sharp and indifferent eyes. He almost didn’t smile all year round, which was far from Qi Le’an’s original appearance. When he was stressed out, Qi Le’an couldn’t sleep late at night. In the end, it was Chen Shan who reminded him.

“Since Wei Changfeng is not afraid of it, what are you afraid of?”

That was right. Since Wei Sama believed in himself. What reason did he have to disbelieve himself?

Without the burden in his mind, Qi Le’an’s performance in front of the camera became more and more stable, and he even had signs of surpassing himself. The two famous actors who had performed with him were all unstinting in their praise to the young man, saying that the young man was really excellent.

After the shooting, Qi Le’an became humbler and humbler. He patiently accepted every suggestion and went to look for Wei Changfeng to discuss when he really encountered something he couldn’t understand.

At this time, Wei Changfeng would teach him in person. The two of them already had a cozy relationship with each other for a long time and their behavior had a vague trace of each other. Wei Changfeng’s teaching was twice as effective and Qi Le’an would understand with just little advice.

When they acted with each other in private, Qi Le’an seemed to have returned to the scene where he was filming “Blue” at that time. He found that working with Wei Changfeng gave him a sense of satisfaction that no one could bring him.

The two of them were inseparable in the crew. In the beginning, everyone would be regretful that the two were gays and were destined to not come out of the closet. But after getting along with them for a month or two, everyone felt that it was fine. As long as they were not blind, they could see how tender and passionate they were towards one another.

Even they were so busy, Wei Changfeng still didn’t forget Qi Le’an’s birthday. And the director gave everyone a rare holiday on November 22nd.

Qi Le’an was still nervous, saying that it was not good while Wei Changfeng raised his eyebrows and said, “I’m the director here. Is there any problem that I let them have a day off?”

“Besides… there’s another gift I want to give to you.”

When Wei Changfeng said this, he had just dried his hair and his chest was naked. For some reason, Qi Le’an thought of the gift he didn’t give Wei Sama in June and swallowed hard.