The Jiang family's birthday banquet was no different from that of ordinary families. On the dining table was a table of home-cooked dishes made by Ms. Xu, next to a custom-made cream cake, as well as candles and birthday hats that Jiang Zhao decisively rejected.
Firstly, Jiang Zhao is a public figure, not suitable for big fanfare, and secondly, he doesn't like to be lively, so only a family of three and a dog participated in this birthday party.
Xu Xinnan complained countless times: "It has to be done in a lively manner, so it will be decent?"
Jiang Zhao swallowed a mouthful of steak slowly: "No, I will always remember the birthday you gave me when I was eighteen years old."
When he was eighteen years old and had just entered college, Ms. Xu specially held a vigorous birthday party in the largest three-story villa in their house in order to celebrate his birthday, and invited all Jiang Zhao's friends and college students. students from here.
However, Jiang Zhao, as a character who doesn't answer anyone, has been in college for two and a half months. Except for his roommates and Qin Youyou, who he met when he took care of the stray cats on campus, he basically never talked to anyone.
If it weren't for Qin Youyou who was always chattering around him, with Jiang Zhao's distaste for socializing, he could simply escape through the window.
But having said that, it was also the first time Jiang Zhao saw Xiao Siye in his memory.
Xiao Si is also their direct senior brother. He is responsible for helping the freshmen to take care of their daily life with the mentors. Of course, he was also invited by Ms. Xu.
At that time, Xiao Si was not as disgusting as he is now. He was wearing simple white T jeans, and his black hair was short and neat. The classmates who smelled it seemed particularly out of place.
The two were not opposite each other at that time, and Jiang Zhao didn't displease him that much, and among those flattering eyes surrounding Jiang Zhao, Xiao Si was the only one who looked at him without any purpose. sexual.
He still remembered that he managed to get away from a group of classmates surrounding him, and went to hide by the balcony on the second floor. It was windy there, and it was winter, and the banquet attendees who wore small dresses or thin suits would specially avoid it. Only a tall and thin young man stood there and looked outside.
When Jiang Zhao saw him, he was stunned for a moment, and walked forward, taking the initiative to talk to someone for the first time on the night of the birthday party: "Aren't you going downstairs to play?"
Qin Youyou had already brought a group of his classmates downstairs to cheer up and started disco dancing. Ms. Xu admired it very much, and even made people find a colorful lantern from nowhere, and the dance party directly turned into a disco.
Xiao Si also turned around, the moonlight dipped in his brows and eyes, making his gentle appearance during the day seem to be coated with a layer of coolness.
But when Xiao Si also smiled at him, that trace of coolness also melted into the moonlight, like Jiang Zhao's illusion.
"It's lively down there, but I'm not used to it," Xiao Si also said with a smile, "I haven't had time to say it to you alone, happy birthday, junior."
Jiang Zhao looked at him for a moment, then looked away.
"Thank you, senior."
The short conversation ended here, and the two stood together on the terrace in silence for a long time, until the people downstairs started calling Jiang Zhao's name and asked him to share the cake.
Now that I think about it, what kind of sick behavior is it to stand on the terrace in November and blow the cold wind for more than half an hour.
What's hard to understand is that his impression of Xiao Siye was not bad at the beginning.
But good luck tricks people, the only person who caught his eyes back then became his opponent, and now he is the object of his desire for Dark Shark.
Jiang Zhao swallowed hard the sweet and sour short ribs.
Just wait, he must take the role of Qu Zhen.
When he stood on the podium of the Golden Orchid Award again, Goubi could only roll off the stage and applaud him obediently.
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Even if he wins Best Actor, Jiang Zhao's rest period is only a few days, and he is back in intense work in a blink of an eye.
Since he won the Golden Orchid Award, there are several more high-end luxury brands queuing up for him to endorse, two magazines are waiting for his exclusive interviews, invitations from foreign fashion weeks, invitations to satellite TV's New Year's Eve party, and so on.
In the blink of an eye, it was the shooting day of the variety show "Morning in the Country" that he had scheduled two months ago.
This is a lifestyle leisure variety show. The guests will come to a designated village to live together. All the basic necessities of life need to be solved by themselves. Daily necessities including food need to be exchanged with the villagers through physical labor.
During the recording of the program, mobile phones and other electronic products need to be confiscated, so that the stars can fully experience the slow pace and comfort of today's rural life.
There are 12 episodes of this program, and it will be recorded in four times. Each time it only needs to be recorded for three to four days to end. From December to April of the next year, except for the Spring Festival, it will be recorded once a month. The program group spoke very sensationally in the promotional text, saying that they wanted to accompany the audience through every morning from winter to spring in the twelve episodes of the program.
"The recording starts at six o'clock in the morning and lasts until twelve o'clock in the evening," Zuo Xiaoqiu explained the precautions in the nanny car, "be careful not to talk too much, don't gossip about other guests casually, don't ignore other guests, Respect and understand the arrangement and painstaking efforts of the program group... "
Jiang Zhao nodded: "You have said it the third time."
Zuo Xiaoqiu showed a sad face: "If you can really listen to it, then I can live ten more years."
Jiang Zhao looked out the window and pretended not to hear, drinking the cheese berry milk tea he just bought.
This is the first time he drinks milk tea this month. He was ordered to maintain his figure for the cover of a magazine before. Since his birthday, he can't even eat more meat. At this time, drinking the rare calorie bomb, he felt as if he had passed away.
What Qin Youyou said is correct, as expected, eating grass is not something that human beings can insist on.
It's a pity that he has to enter the village the next day after filming the magazine, and he can only drink a cup of milk tea by going to the program group.
Of course, even if he had the chance to drink every day, Jiang Zhao would restrain himself. He usually looks lazy, but in fact he is very strict in body management. He will run and plank every night, and keep in the best condition at all times to prepare for filming.
For the job of an actor, he has never been negligent.
The nanny car came all the way to the airport. Jiang Zhao drank the last sip of milk tea and boarded the plane on time.
The plane landed in Y City in three hours, Jiang Zhao caught up with a short sleep, got off the plane, and was picked up in the nanny car of the program team.
From the moment I got into the car of the program group, the shooting began. Jiang Zhao has already adjusted to the business mode, and when he saw the camera, he showed a faint smile.
The director was sitting in the co-pilot, and turned to greet him cheerfully: "Good morning."
"Director Du," Jiang Zhao nodded, "Long time no see."
Let the director come to pick him up in person, and he is the only one among the guests this time. Except for him, there is basically no one with a higher status than him among the others, and this is the reason why Zuo Xiaoqiu is so worried—only Jiang Zhao makes things difficult for others, and no one dares to find fault with him.
This caused Jiang Zhao to be accused of "playing big names" and "bad personality" as soon as he showed a little casual and surly personality.
This is the case in the entertainment industry, where there are clues, even a moving picture can be drawn into a small offensive composition, and then arouse public opinion that does not know whether it is true or not. Therefore, most of the people in the circle had to put on a human mask and be cautious.
But Jiang Zhao is not someone who likes to set up a personality for himself. He only distinguishes between his business status and his daily status. In the final analysis, his personality should be what he should be. As for Zuo Xiaoqiu's painstaking instructions...
If he had really heard it, Zuo Xiaoqiu wouldn't repeat it over and over again.
While chatting with the director all the way, the nanny car detoured the winding mountain road and came to the small village where the filming took place.
When Jiang Zhao got out of the car, he was amazed by the scene in front of him.
Among the hidden clouds and mist of the mountains in the distance, it is looming, and layers of terraced fields are lined up in the mountains, and the tea trees are green and dense, which is a scene that has never been seen in the north. A girl in ethnic minority clothes carried a basket of wild fungus on her back, humming unintelligible folk songs, and bouncing up and down the path.
There is also a series of stilted buildings in the village, but it is a pity that it is not the residence prepared by the program group for the guests. They lived in a small one-story house with white bricks and black tiles. There was a big magnolia tree planted at the gate of the yard, and the branches had not yet budded.
Just as Jiang Zhao pulled his suitcase into the yard, a young man with big eyes walked out of a room in the bungalow. When he saw Jiang Zhao, he greeted him nervously: "Hi, senior!"
Jiang Zhao nodded: "Hello, Jiang Zhao."
He felt that he should behave kindly, but the young man trembled all over, stood at attention instantly, and opened his mouth baldly, and uttered a series of self-introductions: "I am He Qinuo from the fg group. This year, I am 23 years old and usually like to stay alone Play guitar and sing at home to practice singing and dancing... "
"Please take care of me!" He Qino suddenly bowed at ninety degrees.
Jiang Zhao immediately understood that this was social terror.
He pondered for a second: "How about I say goodbye to you?"
"No, no, no, no!" He Qinuo got up quickly. Before he finished flustering, he saw Jiang Zhao stretching out his hand to him calmly, smiling: "Please take care of me."
He Qino shook hands with him flattered.
It seems that Senior Jiang, who is not close to strangers in the legend, is not that scary.
and…
While Jiang Zhao was looking around, he sneaked a glance at the other party. Jiang Zhao himself is even more stunning than in the camera. On the face carved by an artist, there are affectionate eyes, the tails of the eyes are slightly raised, and there is a small red mole at the corner of the left eye, which adds to the perfect cheek. A touch of unique style. Even without make-up, she looks so pretty.
After shaking hands, Jiang Zhao asked, "Where is our residence?"
For some reason, he felt that He Qinuo was a bit inexplicably awkward, and even volunteered to lead him the way.
There are two dormitories for them, separated by men and women. The men's side is a row of connected bunks, which can sleep seven or eight people, so there is no need to worry about it being crowded.
Jiang Zhao is not dissatisfied with this environment. He has experienced many worse environments than this when he was filming. At that time, it was common to sleep in a sleeping bag in the wild.
After he packed the things he brought into the cabinet one by one, the program team brought two more people. One is Wang Zuosi, a young student who is in the limelight, and the other is Jiang Han, a cheerful new generation hostess of Taotao TV.
Jiang Zhao didn't know them well, so after greeting each other, he walked out of the house with He Qinuo to wander around.
But after they were almost familiar with the environment in the yard, the last person still didn't come.
Jiang Zhao recalled the name of the person Zuo Xiaoqiu was talking about before, and the last guest... seemed to be the girl who didn't have a good relationship with Qin Youyou.
Wang Zuosi and Jiang Han had already packed up their belongings, and the four of them had nothing to do, sitting and chatting together on the saddle in the yard. Jiang Zhao doesn't talk much, and basically listens to other people's chats. He also noticed that Jiang Han and Wang Zuosi have a lot of interactions. He has seen the new dramas of these two in the hot search, and he is probably planning to speculate on CP.
After half an hour, the last person finally arrived late.
"I'm really sorry," Xu Qingqing, wearing a big-name short skirt with hip wrap, opened the door and entered the small courtyard. "There is something wrong with our car, and everyone has been waiting for a long time."
Although she was apologizing, there was no apology on her face, and the first thing she saw when she entered the door was Wang Zuosi sitting on the side, but she didn't give Wang Zuosi a look at all, and came straight to Jiang Zhao: "We met for the first time, Brother Jiang is good."
As soon as Xu Qingqing approached, a scent of fragrance hit her body. This perfume can more or less kill mosquitoes in summer.
Jiang Zhao nodded without expression: "Okay."
His eyes didn't stay on Xu Qingqing, Xu Qingqing found that she was ignored, her expression froze, but then she went to greet other people with a smile.
Xu Qingqing's attitude naturally made other people a little dissatisfied, but the entertainment industry is full of people, even if their mental activities are ever-changing, they will not show much.
After Xu Qingqing finished packing, it was finally time for the program team to assign tasks.
The director is holding a very rustic loudspeaker, with a towel around his neck, as if he is ready to go to work in the field at any time: "Everyone's task this morning is to help our villagers work, and according to the quality of your tasks, you can earn Today's food. I have a total of five mission cards here, and now I will randomly draw them."
Jiang Zhao picked a random card along with the others, turned it over and read, "Help Uncle Wang at the entrance of the village feed the geese."
Goose
The first reaction in Jiang Zhao's mind was to stew a big goose in an iron pot.
Although he has never fed pigeons before, he has had the experience of feeding pigeons in the square before. It shouldn't be too difficult to compare.
What satisfied Jiang Zhao the most was that this was the only task that could be completed alone.
The task of Wang Zuosi and Jiang Han is to "help the villagers pick tea leaves", while He Sinuo and Xu Qingqing "help the villagers dry the tea leaves". The five people separated at the door and went to their respective mission locations.
Jiang Zhao was walking on the road, looking at the continuous terraced fields not far away, feeling the tranquility of the surroundings, he was immediately relaxed and happy.
Live here for a few days, no flash, no paparazzi to follow, and no annoying opponents.
It seems... is also a good thing.
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Meanwhile, another nanny's van was heading towards the village.
"The first task of the flying guest is to choose any one of the existing tasks and cooperate with the guests who received the task before to complete it, in order to get the final reward."
The man in the back seat nodded slightly: "Understood."
The staff asked again: "Then which task do you plan to choose? If you can't choose, you can also randomly choose from the task card in my hand."
The man took off the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, revealing a pair of magnificent amber eyes: "Thank you, no need. I think the third mission sounds very interesting, and there happens to be one person missing."
As he spoke, a faint smile appeared on his lips, as warm as a spring breeze, which perfectly covered up all the hidden thoughts:
"So, I choose Jiang Zhao."
The author has something to say:
At this time, Jiang Yingdi didn't know that his opponent was on the way to ride a horse.