Another half an hour passed and there was still no connection. The director angrily announced that he would not wait any longer and would start recording directly.
The lack of a guest star did not affect anything, but the wait was too long, and two of the mentors were obviously impatient and their attitude towards the trainees was not as friendly as in the previous two days. The atmosphere on the scene was a little tense for a while.
"You remember to call now? Your artist is very popular." In order to catch up with the progress, the intermission time was compressed to ten minutes. When he was about to continue filming, the assistant director handed him the phone, "What's the matter? Who doesn't have anything to do? Everyone is free and waiting for him, right? Let me tell you, this was recorded two days ago, don't even think about keeping a second of the footage... Something happened, what do you mean something happened..."
The director quickly left with his phone, but even so, the last sentence was a little loud. The nearest row had obviously heard it.
"Come on, let's continue recording, continue recording." The assistant director quickly picked up the microphone to host the situation, "Thank you all teachers, please hold on a little longer. All departments, pay attention, action."
Because of the delay, the morning recording actually ended at 3 pm. The news that Qin Zhengchen had an accident had quietly spread. Clicking on the hot search, there were also a few sporadic blog posts on the square, but most of them were unclear about the inside story, and the authenticity was not certain, and the details were vague. They were soon drowned out.
"Brother, is it true?" After returning to the lounge, Sheng Min didn't know where he went. Yang Xu, who had been silent all the way, closed the door and came up to Li Xuan nervously and asked, "They said Qin Zhengchen was in trouble."
"What's up?"
"I don't know what's going on." Yang Xu looked at him blankly. Li Xuan hummed, picked up the fruit knife on the table out of boredom, and picked up a snake fruit at random.
"Brother!" Yang Xu called him again.
"Speak." Li Xuan raised his eyes while peeling the skin. "Why are you hesitating?"
Yang Xu was slow, but he was not a fool. The day before, Li Xuan talked to him and asked for Qin Zhengchen's number, but something happened to him the next day. He gritted his teeth and for a long while, as if he had made up his mind: "Just say it was me."
"You?" Li Xuan frowned at him, put down the snake fruit, and unconsciously twirled the knife with his other hand. The silver-white blade spun back and forth quickly at his fingertips.
"If anything happens, just say it's me! I'll admit it all! Anyway, I've disliked him for a long time and wanted to give him a slap in the face." He looked so righteous, as if he could die heroically for Sheng Min in the next second.
"You're sick." Li Xuan looked at him for two seconds, then laughed and shrugged his shoulders. "What do you want to admit? You don't know, and I don't know either. What do you want to admit?"
"Brother, stop laughing." Yang Xu's eyes turned red, and she asked him in a low voice, "Is anything going to happen to you?"
"Of course not." Li Xuan looked at him with a bit of pity. He casually stabbed the knife into the snake fruit, breaking it in half. He took a bite and heard a crisp sound. "No one will be in trouble. It's over. It has nothing to do with anyone."
"I won't say anything anyway." Yang Xu emphasized again.
"There's nothing to say in the first place." The warmth only lasted for half a minute. Li Xuan's patience was limited. Seeing that he was about to cry, he became impatient. After eating two bites, he threw the core into the trash can, "Don't cry in front of me. You are mourning for him here? If you don't hold it back in three seconds, I will help you beat it back."
Yang Xu sniffed: "I'll go get you some food."
"Yeah. By the way, let's see where Li Xuan went."
The lunch for the guests was ordered from a nearby star-rated hotel, with five dishes and one soup every day. Yang Xu brought it to him and said that he couldn't find anyone. Li Xuan had just called Sheng Min and was on the phone. He frowned and had to wait another half an hour before recording again, so he asked Yang Xu to eat first. Just as he sat down, Zhang Zhihua came.
"Yang Xu, please go out for a while." Zhang Zhihua said directly.
Yang Xu was very afraid of Zhang Zhihua before, but now that Li Xuan was taking a tough stance, he was no longer afraid. He did not move at all, just waiting for Li Xuan to speak.
Li Xuan brought him two dishes and said, "Go out first."
“There are lunch boxes outside… ..”
Li Xuan sighed, and Yang Xu took the food and left.
The aroma of food wafted through the lounge. Li Xuan methodically pulled out his chopsticks and said, "I remember you were supposed to go discuss the endorsement contract for next season today. Why are you here again? Have you finished the negotiation?"
Zhang Zhihua's face was wrinkled and the flesh was piled up together. He shouted: "Don't worry about it, I..."
The chopsticks hit the table with a clatter. He turned to look at Zhang Zhihua and said coldly, "Don't be rude to me. I want to ask you how the talk went."
"Let's talk. We've talked about it." Zhang Zhihua was shaken unconsciously by his fierce gaze. After a while, he finally gave in. "The endorsement fee has not increased, but the branch line will be increased across the board. It will be announced next week, and the warm-up plan will be sent to you in the evening."
Li Xuan looked at him for a few seconds without commenting. Zhang Zhihua felt guilty: "The terms of this contract are already very good. I even asked my sister to negotiate for me. You know, they are a big brand..."
"I didn't say I was dissatisfied. You've worked hard. Your professional skills have improved recently. Keep up the good work. Then we can work together longer." Li Xuan smiled, "I see you've calmed down. Tell me. What are you doing here?"
"Do you know that something happened to Qin Zhengchen?" Zhang Zhihua finally got the chance to ask and asked hurriedly.
"I know." Li Xuan picked up the coriander leaves on the surface of the golden soup fish, and seeing Zhang Zhihua's face change slightly, he added the second half of the sentence, "I heard about it."
There was too much wild pepper in the fish soup, and it smelled a bit choking. Zhang Zhihua's heart was beating fast, and he checked again to see if the door was closed. He asked him, "Did you hear about it? Just heard about it..."
"What else do you think?" Li Xuan picked up a piece of snow-white fish.
"Did you do it?" Zhang Zhihua swallowed his saliva.
He himself still found it incredible to ask this question. He had been with Sheng Min for so many years and thought he knew her well. She was easy to control and had no temper. But for some reason, her temperament had changed drastically recently. On the way back to the company after discussing the contract, he accidentally heard that Qin Zhengchen had an accident. He broke out in a cold sweat, and the first thing that came to his mind was the busy tone when he hung up the phone that night.
"I did it?" Li Xuan raised his eyebrows. "What did I do? He's dead?"
"He's not dead. He was hacked to death." Zhang Zhihua was unsure of his attitude, and was extremely panicked. Sweat dripped down his face. He simply told him all the information he had gathered. "His legs and hands were all broken. His neck was hacked twice, and blood was everywhere..."
Li Xuan knew it was not that serious. According to Zhang Zhihua's description, the person had already died. It was just that the rumors were getting more and more exaggerated.
"His agent is now saying that he was hit by a barbell while working out in the gym, and that it's not serious. Who would believe that? I went through a lot of connections to find someone at the hospital, and they said it was horrible! How could he have been hit? It's obvious that he was beaten."
"What if?" Li Xuan picked up a piece of snow-white fish meat, "You haven't been hit before, how do you know that he can't? Maybe he is gifted and just happened to be hit like this."
God, he's so talented.
Zhang Zhihua was so scared and nervous that his teeth almost hurt: "Sheng Min, tell me the truth, did you do it? Don't eat yet. Why aren't you surprised at all?"
"I'm not eating, so you're going to record it for me in the afternoon? What does this have to do with me? His agent said it was caused by a barbell. You insist on saying it was me? If you have evidence, then show it to us. Did you open your mouth just to show off that you have a tongue and say nonsense? ... ... Surprised? What's there to be surprised about? You're surprised by what you've seen before."
Zhang Zhihua paced back and forth twice: "Don't talk nonsense to me. I was scared to death when I heard the news. Just tell me if it has anything to do with you?"
"Okay." Li Xuan agreed with him, "It's me."
"You?!" Zhang Zhihua's eyes widened, and he wanted to rush over and shake him, "How could you possibly do such a thing?"
"Yeah. I also think it's impossible. You just have to doubt me." Li Xuan shrugged.
Zhang Zhihua was about to be driven crazy in the next second: "Don't be kidding, sir. Is this true?"
"Where's your brain?" Li Xuan put away the cynical smile on his face. "Don't you think about it? If there is evidence that I did it, someone would have come to trouble me by now. Oh, there really is one person, you. If they don't know who did it, and they were really beaten like you said, they should ask the police to seek justice. What are you talking about?"
Zhang Zhihua was led away by him, his eyes rolling around: "So they covered up for that person because they knew who did it?"
"Where did you find the person?" Li Xuan continued to ask.
"I heard it's a self-built villa in the suburbs."
"Who found it?"
"His agent."
"Have you been to that villa?"
Zhang Zhihua was completely confused by all the questions: "How did I get there?"
"Yeah, I don't have one either." Li Xuan picked up another serving of greens with chopsticks. "Then who went there? Qin Zhengchen still has to record a show today, why did he go to the suburbs? Was he chopped up and thrown somewhere randomly? But doesn't his agent know about that?"
Zhang Zhihua was stunned for a moment, and remembered that the villa was located next to a river. It was a famous fishing spot in N City. The vice president of the video website that Qin Zhihua had been hanging out with recently seemed to love fishing.
"You mean, it was his sponsor who did it? That's why he doesn't dare to say it?" Zhang Zhihua suddenly realized and looked very disgusted. "Then don't let this go too far just for some excitement."
Li Xuan had not thought of this line of speculation, but it didn't matter. He lowered his head and drank a mouthful of matsutake soup, which was very delicious: "Who knows? I'm eating right now, don't disgust me by saying these dirty things."