Chapter 4 Being a Stand-in

Back home.

Little An An was inexplicably locked outside the room.

She couldn't understand what her parents were doing and why they locked her up outside.

I took a sneak peek and couldn't hide my desire to secretly watch the Teletubbies.

In the room.

Chen Pingsheng mysteriously pulled Song Yanxi onto the big bed, where there was a pink curtain next to the window.

The house is not big but it is cozy.

"Honey, what do you want to do in broad daylight?"

Song Yanxi thought he was thinking about that, but since they had a daughter, they did that less often.

The main reason is that the house is small and there is no sound insulation.

To put it bluntly, the conditions do not allow it.

"Yanxi, I'll transfer the money I earned today to you first."

As a true homebody, all my income must be handed over to my wife for management.

Chen Pingsheng only kept a maximum of 500 yuan in his card for his own spending. If nothing unexpected happened, this money would be enough for him to spend for a month.

After all, he doesn't have any big expenses. His most fixed expense is a pack of Lao Baisha for seven yuan a day.

My wife helped buy the rest of the clothes and shoes.

"Ding! Four thousand yuan has arrived in your Alipay account."

Song Yanxi frowned slightly, seeming a little surprised. It was normal for her husband to give her the money he earned every day.

The key point is that four thousand a day has never been so high!

The highest profit was during the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, when I made more than 3,000 yuan in one day by selling durian.

"Husband, are you doing something bad?"

"No, I made some money helping someone move, and I delivered a truckload of durians to someone on the way."

Chen Pingsheng had already thought of an excuse and coughed slightly: "Yanxi, I may be able to earn this much every day in the future. You have to get used to it and enjoy the feeling of being a rich woman."

What are you enjoying?

Song Yanxi was very happy to hear what he said. For a family like theirs, nothing was more exciting than making more and more money.

"Honey, I suggest that we go have that candlelight dinner your little sister always talks about today."

Song Yanxi rolled her eyes at him. "What a waste of money! Why don't we just cook two dishes at home and light some candles? Won't it smell good?"

Uh~ it smells quite good.

Chen Pingsheng did what he said and actually went to the store downstairs to buy that kind of red candle.

When he came up, Song Yanxi settled the family accounts again.

Adding the money he earned today, the total savings of their small family would be 386,000.

It may seem like a lot, but you have to know that this is the money they have saved by not skimping on food and clothing for five years since they got married.

"Honey, with another 120,000 we can get enough for the down payment."

Song Yanxi said with longing that in 2012, the average price of a house within the Third Ring Road in Beijing was around 25,000 yuan.

The two of them wanted to buy a small house of 80 square meters, which would be enough for the whole family to live in.

It comes down to about two million, and the down payment is about five hundred thousand.

"After we buy a house, we can have some romance."

Song Yanxi is usually even more frugal than him, and she wears any piece of clothing for several years.

Those candlelight dinners that cost hundreds of dollars a meal, while you're eating, your heart is bleeding.

It is absolutely not to be enjoyed.

Chen Pingsheng stopped trying to persuade her. Just as he went to the kitchen, his sister-in-law Song Wu sent him another message.

Inform him to go to their house to celebrate the New Year this year.

To be honest, going to my mother-in-law's house is really a torture under normal conditions.

Only those who have experienced it know.

After the meal was ready, Song Yanxi lit the candles in a very formal manner, which made Xiao An An stunned.

I thought I would have birthday cake to eat the next moment, but there was nothing there. I just smiled foolishly at the red candles.

She was still young and didn't know what her parents were laughing at.

That is the hope of life and a glimmer of hope for the future.

At night, Song Yanxi even accompanied her to watch Teletubbies with the volume turned up very loud. After the little one was fascinated, she secretly pulled Chen Pingsheng to the room.

Be quick.

You never know when the little guy will come knocking on the door.

No matter how fast he goes, he is still a strong young man and it will take at least 30 minutes for him to get down.

But Song Yanxi was so satisfied that tears were streaming from the corners of her mouth.

The next day, after Chen Pingsheng sent his wife to work, he immediately opened the moving group.

Now that he has a clear small goal of making money, his enthusiasm for making money is unprecedentedly high.

In the moving group, the one called Shaoshuai is his childhood friend.

It was he who introduced me to Beijing to make money. A 30-year-old bachelor could earn more than 10,000 yuan every month, and my life was very carefree.

He knows all the shops with red lanterns under the overpass.

Moving group.

Shao Shuai: "I just got an order to move a washing machine to the seventh floor for 100 yuan. Damn it."

There's definitely no elevator here, and no one really wants to do this kind of work.

It rained heavily again today, so they couldn't sell durian. They could only make money by doing odd jobs.

Sometimes I can get it, and sometimes I really can only rest.

The general said: "I have an order here. Do you want to work with me? It's just moving furniture. Three hundred a day."

Young Marshal: "What the hell, if I had this time I could go to Xidan and hang out there, maybe I could find a wife."

Chen Pingsheng ignored their boring chatter. Although they were all from the countryside, they could earn around 10,000 yuan every month.

I really don’t look down on ordinary small orders.

But at this moment, the girl he just met yesterday actually sent him a message.

"Brother Chen, are you busy?"

"Not busy."

"Are you free today? We have a special extra here. They pay 2,000 yuan a day and they don't have to show their faces. Do you want to try it out?"

You must try it.

Otherwise, why do they say more friends mean more paths.

No matter how unknown Zhao Liying is in the entertainment industry, she has been a veteran supporting actress for more than four years.

In any case, I know more people than newcomers who have just entered the circle.

Naturally, he wouldn't miss such a good opportunity, but he still asked if he needed any acting skills.

After all, he really doesn't have this thing.

Zhao Liying introduced it twice, without any acting skills required, but it was extremely tiring and she didn't know if he could handle it.

To put it bluntly, the average extra can only earn three to five hundred yuan a day at most. If they can earn two thousand yuan, they must have special conditions.

After arriving at the crew, the assistant director didn't even ask him his name, but asked him to take off his clothes.

These two thousand dollars were not something a human could earn. In minus four degrees Celsius, he was left naked in the lake going crazy.

Originally, the young and handsome actor was supposed to star in this scene, but he tested the water temperature in the lake and left without saying a word.

What a joke, how can he do it with such low water temperature?

What should I do if I catch a cold?

The fans must be heartbroken.

There was no other way, the assistant director could only find a stand-in and shoot from a distance.

Several people in the crew also tried it, but no one could resist taking off their clothes. They were all shivering in less than a minute.

This is just bullshit.

It was at this time that Zhao Liying thought of Chen Pingsheng, who was also a foreigner and was working hard to make money.

He has been doing physical labor for many years and has maintained a very good figure. He can also endure hardships that ordinary people cannot.

However, after putting on some simple makeup, Chen Pingsheng walked to the edge of the small lake. The clear jade-green water now felt so cold that it penetrated his bones.

As soon as I put my feet down, I shivered with cold.

"Can you do it? If not, just get out."

The assistant director was both impatient and annoyed with these special extras.

Look, he is afraid of the cold and starts cursing.

Chen Pingsheng gritted his teeth and jumped into the lake.

His scene is very simple. The young male protagonist is betrayed in love and vents his emotions in the lake. There are no lines and no expressions.

Just act however crazy you want.

Because it wasn't the real person, the assistant director couldn't get close to shoot at all.

Chen Pingsheng was also shivering from the cold, but he kept thinking about his little house.

I am also looking forward to my wife's happy face when she moves to a new home. No matter how hard it is, I can get through it.

He thought he only needed to shoot this one scene and be done with it.

Who would have thought that the young and handsome male lead, who received a salary of tens of millions, could not endure any hardship at all.

Today we have to finish filming all the scenes where he suffers from the cold winter.

The parts that don't require acting skills are fine, but the most difficult part is the scene where this young man accidentally falls into a lake and unexpectedly obtains peerless magic skills.

From then on, he punished those women who looked down on him and betrayed him.

Then there are all kinds of regrets.

It’s really an old routine in Chinese dramas, where the protagonist must gain extraordinary magical skills after falling off a cliff.

This scene was originally supposed to be shot by the young actor himself, but how could he endure such hardship in such freezing weather?

A stand-in is necessary, and he can just reshoot the highlight moments later.

Chen Pingsheng secretly sighed that it was so easy for these people to make money.

He made tens of millions just by standing there.

On the other hand, he would risk his life for two thousand.

From ten in the morning to four in the afternoon, he filmed a total of four scenes in the lake.

His body was almost stiff, but luckily Zhao Liying brought him a bowl of freshly cooked ginger soup.

Working people understand other working people best.

She is still a supporting role, playing the maid of the heroine.

She had no idea how many plays she had played a maid in, and she also had no idea how many people had said that she was destined to be a maid.

"Brother Chen, warm yourself up by the fire and take a rest."

Zhao Liying also gave him a white towel, and Chen Pingsheng felt much better after changing into his own clothes.

"Your sister-in-law is about to get off work, I have to pick her up."

Chen Pingsheng signaled her to go to the crew to get the money. If it wasn't for the two thousand yuan, who would suffer like this in such horrible weather?

Zhao Liying nodded and quickly took out his two thousand yuan.

They are a big crew, with an investment of hundreds of millions.

Naturally, no one cares about these small amounts of money.

But when he was about to leave, the assistant director came.

"You're great. Do you have a business card for me? I'll look for you next time I need a difficult role like this."

He doesn't have a shitty business card, he's just a durian vendor on the street.

But Chen Pingsheng still gave him a number.

As long as there is money to be made, he is willing to do anything.

(End of this chapter)