Otherworldly Merchant

Me and Li Mazi took the 3: 00 a.m. train back to Wuhan.

The first thing to go back to Wuhan is to order a table of Southern cuisine and eat it. After all, we really don't love Northern cuisine.

The next day, Yin Xinyue came to the antique store to see me. She smiled at me mysteriously and said she wanted to ask me for help. I laughed and asked if she was a friend who didn't have eyes and what she shouldn't have received.

She said no, their company invested in an ancient costume drama a while ago, it was a great martial arts movie, it was about to start, but the director was a more real person, I suspected that the prop restoration was not high enough, I had to fight back to redo it. Prop team leader is ready to go to the museum to invite experts to sit in the town, but a drama team hundreds of people, even if the movie doesn't shoot, all kinds of expenses, all the cost is the producer's money, can't really delay, put Yin Xinyue's boss in a hurry like what. She immediately thought of me and asked me if I had a temporary loan of two Ming Dynasty antiques.

And I thought about it, and I said, "I have some objects from the Ming Dynasty, but I collect them all. Throw it in the crew. If something happens, I can't eat it and walk. ”

“What can we do? The crew costs tens of thousands a day to eat and drink, and it's not a lot of money.” Yin Xinyue complained: “This stinking director really annoys me...”

I was smart enough to say, "By the way, look for Li Mazi, he should have a lot of antiques on his hands! Besides, does your crew rent their antiques? ”

Yin Xinyue nodded: “That's for sure. It's public and private. I would never do anything wrong with Li Mazi. ”

I immediately called Li Mazi and told her the story again. She was excited to hear that she was making money and said yes immediately.

I went out for dinner with Yoon Xinyue. When I came back, Li Mazi had parked outside the store with a pickup truck and asked me to help him move it. Several boxes were ancient swords, incense stoves, yuppei and cultural relics of the Ming Dynasty. I asked him why he had so many antiques at home.

“I used to keep it on my hands and couldn't sell it. Didn't I follow you in this business? So these were also thrown in the basement to eat ash.” Li Mazi explained.

“If you don't do this one day, open an antique store, and you'll have enough of this for the rest of your life. It's good.” I said.

“What's good? Ninety-nine percent of them are fakes, blame me for not seeing them.” Li Mazi said secretly in my ear.

Yin Xinyue roughly looked at it. Li Mazi asked her if she was enough, not enough for him to pull a few more boxes over. “Enough, it's not really for filming, it's for the prop team to use as a model. ”

“Brother and sister, what's the cost of this rental?” Li Mazi is a little vague.

“I have to talk to the director in person about this, but he's shooting in the mountains now, so I'll take a run for you! Anyway, I'm hanging a supervisor title, and I'm going that way every three turns.” Yin Xinyue explained.

“Why don't we go talk to the crew ourselves? When I opened my eyes, I've seen a lot of TV shows this big, and I've never seen a movie before.” Li Mazi squeezed his eyebrows at me.

I understood what he meant, a television drama was filmed for a few months, and the world was isolated, plus the lack of wolf meat in the drama group. I was a little uncomfortable going alone with Yoon Xinyue, so I said, “Anyway, there's not much business lately, you can go check it out. ”

Yin Xinyue blinked at me. “Brother Zhang, are you worried about me being dived? ”

“No, no!” I waved quickly: “How could I think in that direction? I'm not comfortable with you. ”

“Don't worry about me? Turns out I'm so unattractive.” Yin Xinyue mumbled.

“I definitely didn't mean it that way! ”

Yin Xinyue immediately called the director. At this time, Li Mazimei said to me: "I hear there are so many beautiful women in the crew that they can go to fill their eyes. ”

I looked at him with disdain, and I actually thought he was thinking of Yin Xinyue.

Yin Xinyue immediately started booking tickets. The crew was in a small town in Handan, Hebei, and she ordered another car to take these things to the airport. Although they are all unsold chicken ribs, but at least they are valuable. Li Mazi and I took a taxi to meet Yin Xinyue at the airport.

After checking out the airlift, we took an afternoon flight to Handan in an hour, but it took a whole afternoon to get from Handan to that town.

I asked Yin Xinyue: “Why didn't the crew go to the Cinema to film? You have to pick such a remote place. ”

“You'll find out when you get there, there's an ancient town of Ming, the bridge is flowing, it's beautiful, we took a lot of lips and tongues to rent it. In fact, this martial arts film was made in two parts. A small part is here, and the rest goes to the Cinema. ”

“It's hard enough shooting!” I sighed.

“No, when I used to film, I slept only four or five hours a day, and I was too sleepy to walk. Sometimes in the winter, in the summer, in the winter, you think about wearing a single shirt at five degrees below zero, or what it's like to have a cotton padded jacket wrapped in a hot day.” Yin Xinyue complained bitterly.

Li Mazi inserted a sentence: "Why can't you do it upside down in the summer, in the winter? ”

“A movie will be finished in a few months, how can it be a year, now the competition is fierce, everyone is racing against time, otherwise how can a star shoot four or five movies a year. ”

As soon as Yin Xinyue talked about it, he couldn't stop talking about it, giving us some common sense of TV drama.

She said that China is a major television drama country, producing tens of thousands of episodes a year, tens of thousands of practitioners are contributing their sweat and wisdom, but only a few episodes are broadcast each year, and most of the rest may not even have heard the name. There are many examples of whether a movie can be fired or not. Sometimes even a big investment, a big front, a big director may just pay more.

At five o'clock in the evening, we arrived in the town where the crew was located. It was truly a well-preserved ancient town of Ming. It was a brick-and-white architecture, and the water by the mountain gave people a sense of tranquillity and rusticity. The director was quite good at picking places.

There were a lot of cars parked at the entrance of the town, some were private cars, some were sprayed with the words of a film and television company, and a banner was pulled on the tree: "The scene of the shooting of the large ancient martial arts television show". I saw a lot of red paper scraps left by firecrackers on the ground. Yoon Xinyue said that he had to worship Master Guan before starting the machine. It was a custom on the Hong Kong side. Now the mainland is also talking about it, for the sake of drawing a good color.

We got off at the intersection, Yin Xinyue made a phone call. Soon, an SUV car drove over. A man came down from the car. Yin Xinyue introduced Xu as the leader of the prop group. Xu Xinyue said a few words of gratitude. We helped him move things into the car and then took his car into town.

The car was slowly driving in the town, and we saw some cranes, Yoon Xinyue said it was for Weia, and some staff members were assembling the camera tracks to use when shooting, and there was a middle-aged man with sunglasses next to him, who was discussing something with others.

“The one with the sunglasses is Zhang Guide!” Yin Xinyue said.

“We're not going to cause any trouble here, are we?” I asked.

“Why don't you guys go report a mass actor? A special agent is fine. He's just a housekeeper, a shop sophomore or something. He doesn't have a few lines.” Yin Xinyue laughed.

“But we never acted.” I said.

“If you don't need any acting, show your face a few more times than you would normally run a dragon.” Yoon Xinyue laughed back and forth.

“Do you think I can do that? ”

“It's okay, he's too handsome to grab a mirror, and the director doesn't dare to use it yet. ”

“Oops, that hurts my heart!” I covered my chest and said.