After dinner that day, Haitang cut the reward watermelon into small pieces and brought them to the table. Everyone sat around in the yard, eating the watermelon and chatting.
Seeing that it was still early, Director Mu suggested playing a small game as evening entertainment.
"Everyone here is from the industry, let's play a game that everyone is familiar with." Director Mu said as he took out a small square box, "I have a set of role cards here, let's play 'You Act, I Guess', just to entertain the audience."
Seeing the box in Mu Zhixing's hand, Cheng Zhiyi immediately leaned on the table and groaned: "Director Mu, why are you using my dad's training card to play a game..."
To put it bluntly, this set of cards was originally used for acting training. Not to mention Qi Peng and Chu Yinlong who have been in the entertainment industry for many years, even Cheng Zhiyi has "played" the card-drawing role-playing game many times. When the difficulty is high, several people even draw cards separately, and then they have to force these characters to put together a logically self-consistent play.
Now that Mu Zhixing has played it as a game, for Cheng Zhiyi, it is no different from being suddenly asked to do homework.
"Let's play this, this is good." Qi Peng had obviously discussed this with Mu Zhixing, "Haitang, An'an, and Xiaodao probably haven't played this before. It will be fun for the audience to watch... Let's add rewards and punishments, it will be more interesting."
Everyone discussed the game and soon decided on the rules - the guests drew cards from the box and then showed what was on the cards through body language. He is not allowed to speak or imitate any sounds, and the others can only guess the content of the card based on his actions.
The guest who is guessed the fastest in each round can ask the guest who has been guessed incorrectly the most times to tell the truth or take a big risk.
"We agreed that cheating and intentionally guessing wrong are not allowed." Qi Peng set the rules before the game started, especially pointing in the direction of Cheng Zhiyi, "Everyone can see that he deliberately guessed wrong, so he should be punished to run ten laps down the mountain."
"No, Dad Qi, we are all well-behaved!" Cheng Zhiyi shouted.
The game started quickly, and Director Mu, as the proposer, drew a card first. He squinted his eyes, looked at it, thought for a moment, walked to the center of the field, made a motion of shaking out some kind of fabric, then retracted his arms, straightened his hands as if holding something, and then began to operate on that thing in mid-air with his hands, making the motions of combing hair and using scissors.
"Sculptor?" Haitang asked.
Director Mu shook his head regretfully.
"Barber?" Anzhe guessed tentatively.
"Oh, how is that possible? I think..." Cheng Zhiyi quickly interrupted, "I think it could be a bonsai master who spreads a tablecloth, moves the flowers to the table, and then trims them..."
No wonder Qi Peng gave that reminder at the opening. It turns out there really is someone here who doesn't follow the rules and talks nonsense.
Fortunately, the others had sharp eyes, and An Zhe also gave the correct answer, and was not entangled by Cheng Zhiyi's nonsense.
Next, Qi Peng drew a more difficult card called “Stewardess” and guessed incorrectly three times. Haitang then came on stage and her role as “Tailor” was guessed incorrectly twice.
Next it was Chu Yinlong's turn. He reached out and flipped open a card, raised his eyebrows slightly, and slowly put it back on the table.
Chu Yinlong stood up and entered the venue. As he walked, his back became hunched, and his legs and feet seemed to have lost their mobility. He limped with his knees bent. His sharpness was completely restrained. His eyes were dull and numb as he looked at everyone. He silently stretched out a trembling hand towards the table...
The whole place was silent.
Qi Peng couldn't help laughing afterwards: "Xiao Chu, you are taking this too seriously. Are you really showing off your skills?"
Chu Yinlong turned a deaf ear to him, his eyes slowly moved as if he was about to die, his gaze fell on Jiang Dao, and then he extended his hand weakly.
Jiang Dao looked at Chu Yinlong for a moment, then whispered, "...beggar."
Hearing this correct answer, Chu Yinlong's eyes suddenly regained their spirits, he straightened up, and curled his lips: "It's a beggar, I guessed it right."
He walked back to the dining table with a smile, picked up the card box and placed it in front of Jiang Dao: "It's your turn."
Jiang Dao withdrew his gaze, reached out and pulled out a card from the box, opened it, and saw only a simple word written on it - "cat".
What's going on?
Jiang Dao raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Why are other people’s performances like professionals, but his are like animals?
Moreover, the game clearly states that onomatopoeia is not allowed, so he can't cheat by imitating a cat's meow, and can only express it through actions... But the body structure of humans and cats is so different, how can he perform the feeling of a cat?
After thinking for a moment, Jiangdao put the card back on the table, recalling the cats he had seen before, stood up and slowly walked to the center of the field, then - bent his waist, stuck out his butt, stretched out his arms, and stretched slowly and lazily.
Cheng Zhiyi slammed the table and said, "Bar dancer!"
Jiangdao: ...
He said, how could a normal person think in the direction of animals!
This card is really a rip-off for him.
Recalling the cat behaviors he had seen, Jiangdao slowly squatted down, opened his hands to make a claw shape, and began to sharpen his claws on the ground.
“Hahahahaha!” Cheng Zhiyi laughed, “Are you acting as Taotao digging a pit? Did you draw a dog? Oh yeah, I remember there was an animal on the character card… Was it a dog, Xiaodao?”
Jiang Dao looked at Cheng Zhiyi speechlessly, and for a moment he was not sure whether the other party had made a mistake on purpose or really hadn't noticed.
After thinking carefully again, Jiangdao lowered his head, imitated the actions of a cat, stuck out his tongue, and began to pretend to lick his arm with his eyes narrowed.
"Oh, a cat." Cheng Zhiyi guessed right this time.
After realizing it, he added: "The most obvious difference between cats and other animals is that they lick their fur. You should have performed this at the beginning, and I wouldn't have guessed wrong."
Jiang Dao smiled, said nothing, stood up and returned to his seat.
Next, Cheng Zhiyi and An Zhe also drew cards and performed. Cheng Zhiyi is indeed a young and talented actor with a good reputation. His performance was so lifelike that An Zhe guessed it at a glance.
But Anzhe was not so lucky. Not only did he draw a cross-dressing role like "maid", but he also had no distinctive expression. Cheng Zhiyi guessed it wrong seven or eight times and he had to come in last place.
"Two winners of the first round, who of you will ask An An a question?" Qi Peng said with a smile, "An An, do you want to play truth or dare?"
Anzhe hesitated for a moment: "I choose the truth."
Chu Yinlong smiled and waved his hand: "Then Xiaoyi asks."
Cheng Zhiyi smiled evilly and put his hand around Anzhe's neck: "Then let me ask you, have you ever had a crush on someone? Hmm? Don't lie!"
Anzhe hesitated for a moment and looked at the camera hesitantly.
Cheng Zhiyi turned his face back: "Hey, don't worry about the camera. Look how righteous I am. I didn't ask you who you have a crush on. I only asked if you have ever had a crush on someone. Just tell me whether you have had one or not. I don't need you to tell me the name... Hurry up!"
After a while, Anzhe nodded and whispered, "It's normal to have a crush on someone in middle school!"
Cheng Zhiyi's eyes widened: "Wow, middle school! Then you are not only secretly in love, but also in premature love!"
Everyone responded with good-natured laughter.
Soon, the second round of the game began.
This time, Chu Yinlong drew "Mother".
Although he played a role opposite to his real self, he relied on his excellent acting skills and his mastery of the character's characteristics and temperament. He only managed to pass the test once when Cheng Zhiyi made a wrong guess.
Recalling the time when Chu Yinlong played the role of "mother", with his face lowered, submissive, happy and gentle, Jiang Dao's understanding of "actor" also quietly changed.
In the past month, he has watched a lot of plays and movies, and naturally also watched the films starring Chu Yinlong. But because Chu Yinlong is a kung fu star and mostly plays tough guy roles in movies, which is very similar to his own temperament, Jiang Dao did not feel touched at all.
But just now... Chu Yinlong could actually have such a gentle expression on his face, pouting his lips to tease the "baby" in his arms, and lifting up his clothes to pretend to "feed" without any embarrassment, which Jiang Dao did not expect.
The "entertainment industry" he experienced and saw these days seemed to be somewhat different from what he read in this novel?
"Okay, it's time to go to the island." Mu Zhixing's voice interrupted Jiang Dao's thoughts.
Jiang Dao came back to his senses, smiled apologetically at Director Maki, reached out and flipped open a card, and saw the word on it - "Hunter".
He was very familiar with this role.
Jiang Dao put the card back on the table, stood up, turned around and grabbed an air "gun", raised his hand to adjust the brim of his non-existent hat, then raised his leg to step over the "grass" and "bush" and walked forward. After walking a few steps, he leaned over to check the "footprints" on the ground, searched for a while, suddenly stopped, raised the "gun" in his hand, waited patiently for a moment, and pulled the trigger.
The recoil caused his body to tremble slightly, and then he suddenly stood up, ran forward a few steps over the "grass obstacle", squatted beside the "prey", pulled out the "dagger" from his waist, and began to deal with the "prey".
Off the court, Mu Zhixing and Chu Yinlong looked at each other and chuckled at the same time.
Qi Peng couldn't help but nod his head in praise: "This 'Hunter' has grasped the essence."
Being guessed right at the first try, Jiang Dao walked back to the table with a smile and subconsciously glanced at Chu Yinlong.
Chu Yinlong curled the corners of his mouth and gave Jiang Dao a thumbs up.
In the end, the second round of the game ended with Jiang Dao winning and An Zhe failing again.
Anzhe chose "Truth or Not" again, and Jiangdao didn't make things difficult for him. He just asked him to pick an embarrassing thing from his childhood to tell.
"Okay, let's have one last round."
Mu Zhixing smiled and took back the cards that everyone had just drawn, then took out half a box of cards, sorted a few cards carefully, and placed the remaining half stack of cards on the table.
"Increase the difficulty a bit and try an emotional round."
Only then did Jiang Dao realize that the cards taken away by Director Mu all had blue card backs, while the cards left on the table had red card backs. These were probably the "emotional" cards that Director Mu mentioned.
As expected, the first performer Mu Zhixing performed the role of "Angry Old Granny". This time, the performance became much more difficult. It took five guesses before everyone got it right, and they were all laughing at the various mistakes.
Afterwards, Qi Peng performed the role of "a jealous woman", Haitang performed the role of "a self-admiring young man", and Chu Yinlong performed the role of "a broken-down old man". No one was spared, and all of them were guessed wrong several times. Chu Yinlong was lucky enough to be in the lead temporarily with two wrong guesses.
Jiang Dao raised his hand to rub his jaw which hurt from laughing, then reached out to open his character card.
The next second, his smile froze at the corners of his mouth. There were a few words written on the card that seemed to be deliberately provocative:
"Girl in Love".
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