Lu Wen looked at Sun Xiaojian and asked with his eyes: Who is Director Liu
Sun Xiaojian quickly checked the personnel information in his mind. There were quite a few people with the surname Liu, but there was only one person who could be called the "director". He was taken aback, and leaned into Lu Wen's ear and said, "It seems that the producer's surname is Liu."
"Damn?" Lu Wen's eyes widened, "Is the production director here to pick me up?"
They were lowering their heads and muttering, not noticing that someone was approaching the car door. When the car door was opened again, Lu Wen and Sun Xiaojian looked up together.
Director Liu appeared at the door. His exquisite Armani suit couldn't hide his fat beer belly, and his gold-rimmed glasses couldn't hide the surprise on his face. He was stunned for a moment, blocking the door and looking at the people in the car.
The driver was the first to break the deadlock and said, "Director Liu, look..."
Sun Xiaojian reacted quickly and moved away from the seat, holding out his hands and stretching out: "Director Liu, hello, I didn't expect you to come here in person."
Director Liu shook back lightly, but his eyes stayed on Lu Wen, as if he was trying to remember who it was. Sun Xiaojian immediately said: "This is my artist Lu Wen, who joined the group today, and we just got off the plane at that time."
Director Liu suddenly realized and nodded: "It's Xiao Lu."
"Director Liu, hello." Lu Wen said.
Director Liu asked: "Have you contacted the crew? Who is the crew in charge of the docking?"
"It's Xiao Zhang." Sun Xiaojian said, "Xiao Zhang is probably busy. We saw the crew's car parked here, so we got up by ourselves."
Director Liu took out his mobile phone, dialed and said, "This Xiao Zhang is famous for his irritability and frequent mistakes. Wait a moment, I'll contact him and ask."
Lu Wen clenched the bottle of Perrier tightly, feeling an ominous premonition.
"How do you do things? Sending a few cars can cause problems, and let the artist get off the plane and let you hang out? Don't talk about scheduling, it's fine, and don't apologize to me."
Director Liu reprimanded the phone a few times, and after hanging up the phone, he loosened his brows and said, "Xiao Lu, that's it. I asked Xiao Zhang, and the car that picked you up should be another car."
Lu Wen: "Huh?"
"The actors who joined the group in the past two days are relatively concentrated, and the dispatcher is not running, so it may be a bit slow." Director Liu said, "I scolded Xiao Zhang, wait for you to join the group, let him apologize to you."
Lu Wen was a little puzzled: "Then we now..."
Director Liu smiled, and replied tactfully: "Then let's meet the crew."
Lu Wen's wheat-colored face turned red. He sat on the heated chair, drank half a bottle of Perrier, rubbed the Shu embroidery pillow in his arms, and told him that this car was not for him
It is equal to Cinderella putting on her makeup, dress and glass slippers, but the pumpkin carriage refuses to board.
It was the first time that Sun Xiaojian encountered this kind of situation since he started his career. It was rumored that he lost his face. He gritted his teeth and fought for it: "There are extra seats, do you think we can go together?"
"I'm afraid it's inconvenient," Director Liu said, "Please forgive me."
Originally, there was no face left, but when it comes to this, it is tantamount to humiliating himself again. Lu Wen's head was buzzing, he got up from the seat suddenly, and got out of the car with his long legs.
At this time, Director Liu stepped aside, revealing Qu Yanting who had been standing behind him.
Lu Wen stepped right in front of Qu Yanting. He lowered his head and looked at the person who was actually picked up by Porsche and the production director. However, Qu Yanting's sunglasses covered most of his face, and he could only see his own expression reflected in the glasses.
Embarrassed, lost, unhappy.
After only facing each other for a second, Qu Yanting raised his legs and got on the car, taking the hot seat where Lu Wengang was sitting.
The driver unloaded several suitcases and loaded them into Qu Yanting's suitcase. Lu Wen and Sun Xiaojian stood side by side, watching the doors close, the engine start, and the Porsche was about to leave them.
It was too late to say that, Lu Wen rushed up and patted the car door hard.
Before getting into the car, Qu Yanting didn't have much patience left, so he lowered the car window by a gap and asked, "What's the matter?"
Lu Wen raised the pillow in his arms: "I forgot to put it down just now."
Qu Yanting said indifferently, "Let's keep it as a souvenir."
Before Lu Wen could react, Qu Yanting had already closed the car window. The Porsche gradually drove away from the airport, leaving only a trail of exhaust fumes.
Sun Xiaojian raised his mobile phone: "The license plate number has been sent."
In the past, it was okay to be treated coldly, but now he is still being neglected as the number one male. Lu Wen said speechlessly, "It's so fast, it was posted with IE browser."
Sun Xiaojian coaxed: "Let them go for now, you wait, I'll go find a car."
Ten minutes later, Lu Wen finally got into his nanny car. He didn't know who had been in it before, and there was a lingering smell of perfume in the car. He folded his elbows to admire the scenery flying by outside the window, and thought with emotion, there are so many slopes in Chongqing, no wonder he experienced ups and downs as soon as he came here.
Lu Wen couldn't help singing a line of lyrics: "Floating in the sea of people is a dream..."
He is a natural subwoofer, singing too mellowly like a mobile phone vibrating. Sun Xiaojian said: "Singing again, your current identity is an actor."
Lu Wen turned a deaf ear to it: "The deep love is passed down forever and floats in the sky..."
The car turned around and slid into an old neighborhood after more than two hours. The side of the road is full of old trees and residential buildings, and after driving for a while, there are a few nanny cars parked in front, which seem to be temporary parking spaces rented by the crew.
"Here?" Lu Wen didn't see anyone.
The driver was pretty cool: "Follow me."
Lu Wen and Sun Xiaojian followed the driver, passed through a narrow alley, and walked out of the end of the alley. As if refreshing the page, another old street and several residential buildings appeared in front of them.
The crew has arrived.
The picture in front of me is very close to the scene described in the script—
The old street has cracks and stains on the pavement, and a "No Access" sign is thrown on the sidewalk. It is full of rust, and it is unknown which year the construction fell. People passing by turned a blind eye to it, and a stray cat lay directly under the sign to sleep, which seemed much more comfortable than the first-class cabin.
There are four or six stores crowded along the street, including a small supermarket, a barber shop, a photo studio that also does printing business, and two snack bars that have been fighting for more than ten years.
The community across the street is quite old, there are no gates and security guards, and everyone comes in and out at will. There are only two buildings in the community, and the wall paint of the buildings is peeling off in large areas, and the slightly flat parts are covered with small advertisements. There are seven floors in total, and some houses do not have their balconies closed, and the drying pants and the dried sausages are evenly divided.
The balcony on the third floor is the cleanest, with a row of potted plants and two pairs of clean sneakers on the windowsill. One of the windows was missing a piece, and it was pasted with a math paper with a big "39 points" on it.
Lu Wen looked up, and he knew that it was his "home".
The community is next to an abandoned elementary school, separated by the fence of the playground. For the convenience of entry and exit, several fences on the wall were removed. Every evening, old men and women got into the playground for a walk and dance.
There is a vine in the innermost part of the community, the dense branches and leaves are covered with skeletons, like a gazebo. Over the years, whenever someone moved away, a few pieces of furniture would be thrown away, and a round table and four chairs were slowly assembled under the shelf.
There are people playing mahjong under the vines all day long, and they will be charged two yuan after playing mahjong, because the vines are owned by the owner, and it is the only place in the community that is taken care of.
Lu Wen felt a little empty, everything described in the script appeared in front of him, as if the fictional world really existed.
Sun Xiaojian said from the side: "This is too realistic, is it real or a set?"
One sentence brought Lu Wen back to reality. He realized that this was a film crew, and there were more than 200 people coming in and out, all staff from various departments.
The start-up is imminent, and each group is hurrying to arrange, including more than 40 rooms and countless small scenes. As big as furniture, as small as a broken ballpoint pen wrapped in tape, the art director's list has a total of 6,300 items that need to be checked one by one.
In fact, the crew has been based in Chongqing for a month and a half, and apart from the preparations, the empty scenes in the play have already started shooting.
A skinny young man ran out of Unit 1 with a large stack of forms under his arm. He stopped urgently when he saw Lu Wen. He greeted him: "Our male lead has arrived, I'll hurry up and apologize."
Sun Xiaojian guessed: "Xiao Zhang?"
"It's me, it's me." Xiao Zhang bowed ninety degrees to Lu Wen, "I'm sorry, today was too messy, I went to give points to the props group after dispatching the car, I'm really sorry."
Lu Wen's temper has always come and gone like the wind, also known as "nervous". He said carelessly, "It's okay."
"Thank you for your understanding." Xiao Zhang said as he pulled out a form, "Mr. Lu, please sign in first, and then I will take you to familiarize yourself with the environment."
Sun Xiaojian asked: "Is Director Ren here? Let's go and greet him first."
Xiao Zhang said: "Director Ren went to shoot the location. He said that we will meet together tomorrow, and there is no need to wait for him."
Lu Wen avoided the most annoying part of pretending to be a grandson, checked in, and got familiar with the crew environment with Sun Xiaojian. The scheduling room, warehouse and dressing room are all concentrated in one unit.
Unit 101 is a two-bedroom apartment, which is used as the director's lounge after cleaning and soft decoration. However, the director is very busy and hardly has time to rest.
There is an open space outside the back door of the complex, which is full of large RVs of uniform specifications. When I found one with Lu Wen’s name on it, Xiao Zhang said: “The actors are resting in the RV. If they need to replenish any items or food, just tell the crew assistant.”
Sun Xiaojian asked: "After work, do you want to go across the alley to take the nanny car?"
"Yes, the place is small, so the nanny's car has to be parked in the next street." Xiao Zhang replied.
Sun Xiaojian asked suggestively, "Everyone takes a nanny car?"
"It's all the same." Xiao Zhang said, "Teacher Lu is the number one male, and I specially arranged a new car. But in the past two days, the actors have joined the group together, and we even picked up the female lead at noon."
Sun Xiaojian is undeterred: "I think there is still a Porsche."
"There is indeed a Porsche, which is Director Ren's private car. I have no authority to arrange it." Xiao Zhang recalled, "Oh yes, you are waiting for the car after getting off the plane. Why did Director Liu call me?"
Sun Xiaojian said: "I met Director Liu at the airport."
Xiao Zhang muttered, "What is Director Liu doing at the airport?"
Lu Wen and Sun Xiaojian looked at each other, and then dispatched the director's car, and the director Liu was driving, even the director of the show didn't know who it was. If that person is very popular, fans should pick him up, and if he is a famous person, they should recognize him.
According to the invisible law of the industry, this kind of treatment is unusual for unknown people, and 80% of them are related households with backgrounds.
Xiao Zhang still has things to do, so he said: "If you have any questions, please contact me at any time. If there is nothing wrong, Mr. Lu can go back to the hotel to rest early. I would like to ask, do you live in the hotel arranged by the crew, or solve it yourself?"
The crew will arrange accommodation, but the actors can't stand the loneliness, they go out on dates, have sex, and have everything. In order to avoid a large area of vacancies, the crew will ask in advance.
Lu Wen said, "Fix it yourself."
On the premise of not delaying the performance, he always chooses to live outside, because he is an eighteenth line, and he needs to say hello when he meets one to seventeenth line in the corridor, which is really annoying. Moreover, his company cooperates with a fixed hotel and prepares a set of rooms for him all year round.
The phone rang, and it happened to be a message from the hotel.
Ask if you need to send a car to pick you up, whether to choose private meals, whether to book swimming, movies, spa and other items, and we will arrange special reception at that time.
Lu Wenquan denied it, and only glanced at the room number, high-altitude river view room, 6207 after skimming a few lines.