What does it mean?
Long Tianao was particularly sensitive and realized that Cheng Baodong was talking about him. He sneered unhappily and was about to retort when all the newcomers straightened up and greeted the big guys in the circle in a polite manner.
Shen Yu, who had no sense of being an insider, held up his phone and asked for a photo: "...Brother Yuan, let's take a photo together. I'm your fan."
Wang Boyuan has never met Shen Yu in person, but this does not prevent him from knowing that Shen Yu is the young master of the Shen Group. By the way, the luxury brand endorsement that Wang Boyuan just won at the beginning of the year was under the Shen Group. Even for the sake of his financial sponsor, Wang Boyuan would not disappoint the young master of the Shen family.
With Shen Yu taking the lead, others also swarmed over to ask for photos. The male and female protagonists of "Jianghu Zhiyuan" are both top domestic superstars. Although the leading actress Guo Yaning lost the Best Actress award several times, her box office performance is very impressive and she has always been a sought-after partner for producers. Therefore, he was hailed as the uncrowned king by the media. Several male and female supporting actors are also veteran actors with a good reputation in the circle. Out of respect for their predecessors, Shen Yu and others ran to ask for photos. The noisy crew was bustling with activity and it was very lively.
Cheng Baodong originally hated the noise and disturbance of the crew's filming by the visitors, but when he saw Shen Yu who was so excited in the crowd, he didn't say anything. With a serious face, he told Tao Mu to enter the field and move.
Seeing the crew start working, Shen Yu and others finally calmed down and stood by and waited obediently.
This scene tells the story of a grassland Khan who sneaks into the Central Plains and falls in love at first sight with a princess who is disguised as a female knight. Then the grassland Khan took the princess back to the enemy camp, trying to force her to marry him. In order to prevent the heroine from sneaking away, she was given a drug that could restrain her inner strength. The male protagonist hides his identity and sneaks into the enemy camp under the name of a musician. Then he reveals his identity at the banquet and kills everyone in sight, successfully rescuing the princess.
Because it is a comedy movie, there is a plot in this section where the protagonist sneaks into a troupe and cannot go on stage because the main star of the troupe elopes with someone. In desperation, the troupe owner forces the protagonist to pretend to be a dancer and perform on stage. The hero therefore performed a fan dance at the banquet, and then the grassland Khan was amazed by the dancer played by the hero, so he arrested the hero and forced him and the princess to follow the example of Ehuang and Nvying and marry him. As a result, Ehuang rescued Nvying and eloped, leaving only the grassland Khan left there with a confused look on his face.
——Although Tao Mu didn't know how the logic of this comedy script was straightened out, as the male protagonist's stunt double, he had to perform the most shocking scenes in this scene, where the male protagonist dressed up as a woman and danced with a folding fan, then used the fan as a weapon to fight with the grassland Khan, and finally changed his weapon to a sword to PK the grassland soldiers. Due to the complexity of this scene, Director Cheng plans to finish filming it within ten days. What Tao Mu has to shoot today is the scene where he changes into men's clothes and takes the heroine out of the enemy camp.
It is also the highlight with the most fighting scenes in the entire movie.
Director Cheng strives for perfection and even recruited more than a hundred extras to play the roles of grassland soldiers. He also asked the martial arts director to design and choreograph a set of Bagua battle formations for the extras to help the male lead show off.
Unfortunately, the filming of this scene did not go smoothly. It's not that there's a problem with Tao Mu, but with the extras. First, the stunt doubles acting opposite Tao Mu always have poor coordination. Their movements are either too early or too late, or they fall to the ground before Tao Mu even raises his hand. It looks even more fake than a fake insurance scam and very discordant. On the other hand, there were too many extras who needed to be in the shot, and the assistant director in charge of this part failed to coordinate well. More than a hundred people were crowded in the camera, and all the movements were disorganized. They looked like a mob, and it was impossible to embody the deterrent effect required by Director Cheng of "the male protagonist breaking through the enemy's battle formation and killing everyone in all directions."
In a rage, Cheng Baodong called the assistant director over and scolded him, ordering him to train the extras within half an hour, and then gave Tao Mu a half-hour break.
The props team rescued Tao Mu from the wire suit. The little girl who was the heroine's stunt double, who was held in Tao Mu's arms the whole time, looked at Tao Mu with spring in her eyes and said with admiration, "Tao Mu, you are amazing. I am tired after shooting so many scenes, but you are still so steady. No wonder Director Cheng and Brother Yuan said that you were born to do this job."
Tao Mu pinched his arm, which was so sore that he could hardly lift it, and smiled gently: "That's also thanks to your thinness. It saved me a lot of effort."
Actually, it wasn't. Although the stunt girl was light in weight, Tao Mu had to be careful during the filming and not hug her too tightly. Instead, he had to control the strength of his arms. This will naturally make you more tired than usual.
The stunt girl also knew what was going on. When no one was paying attention, she whispered, "You don't have to do this. We're filming, I understand. It's okay for you to hug me harder. You're already very gentlemanly."
Unlike some male actors or male extras who deliberately take advantage of girls during filming. Dirty hands touching everywhere.
To be honest, the stunt girl was also very worried when she first started filming with Tao Mu. Even though Tao Mu is handsome, she is not that kind of casual person. But throughout the morning, Tao Mu not only did not do anything to her, but in order to avoid suspicion, he endured a lot of unnecessary force. People are all made of flesh and blood. The little girl felt sorry for Tao Mu's arm, and she took the initiative to bring it up to avoid Tao Mu's embarrassment.
Tao Mu lowered his head and chuckled: "Thank you for your understanding."
The sunlight was warm, and Tao Mu's smile against the light made the stunt girl blush. She thought Tao Mu's smile was so beautiful.
Seeing this, Ye Yao and the girl number N who had come over to chat up earlier hurried over and asked, "What are you talking about?"
The stunt girl looked at Ye Yao and girl number N: one was a popular young actress who was very popular recently, and the other was a female newcomer who was able to play a role in Director Cheng's movie right after graduating from college. She was much better than her in terms of appearance and starting point. In comparison, she is just a small stunt double with no fame or background. Even if Tao Mu wanted to fall in love, he would never fall in love with a little substitute like her.
Thinking of this, the little girl couldn't help feeling ashamed and eclipsed.
Ye Yao proudly puffed out her chest and said with a beaming face: "Tao Mu, what time do you finish work tonight? How about we go karaoke?"
"Not interested." In order to catch up with the progress, Tao Mu had to shoot for at least ten hours every day. During these ten hours or so, I was almost always hanging on the wire and flying around. It is the height of summer, and the temperature in H Town can reach as high as 48 or 49 degrees. Tao Mu felt like a roast duck in a hanging oven. I finally have a day to finish work early, so of course I have to go home and watch the Olympics.
Ye Yao curled her lips: "You are so boring."
As they were talking, Da Mao and Xiao Pang, who had been preparing for a long time, came over and said excitedly, "Brother Mu, Brother Mu, our stocks have risen again, and have reached their daily limit. You are amazing!"
Before Tao Mu could react, Xiao Pang complained in a pretentious manner: "I told you that Brother Mu has a good eye and the stocks he picked will definitely make money. But you are worried about it, and you forced us to withdraw the principal after the profit has increased several times. It makes us feel bored when we celebrate."
Damao also agreed: "That's right! If you put your money in the bank, you can earn a lot of interest. The stock market is rising so well now. If our money is still in the stock market, I don't know how many times it can be multiplied. It's not like now. No matter how much you earn, you feel like you have lost money."
Da Mao and Xiao Pang really care about money, and their words are very sincere. It's a pity that Tao Mu grew up with these two childhood friends, so how could he not know what evil these two people were up to. He immediately frowned and said: "You two——"
Before he finished speaking, Wang Boyuan, who had come over from some unknown time, asked with a smile: "Tao Mu, are you still playing stocks?"
"Just do some speculation to earn some pocket money." Tao Mu smiled modestly. He didn't lie. With his current capital, no matter how much he moved around in the stock market, he would only make pocket money. The real first pot of gold still has to be hoped for outside the Olympic Games.
Fortunately, the Olympics have already begun. He withdrew funds promptly before the opening ceremony and placed bets based on the ownership of the medals as he remembered. In order to keep it secret, Tao Mu started making arrangements half a month in advance, using proxy IPs to register accounts around the world to log into gambling platforms. As the Olympics progressed, the more than one million yuan earned from the stock market began to be injected into major peripheral gambling platforms in batches and regions.
Moreover, different gambling platforms set different odds for different projects. Living his life again, Tao Mu, who could accurately remember the ownership of most medals and the scores of a small number of athletes because his memory was getting better and better, simply put all his limited funds on the projects with high odds.
Of course, in order not to attract the attention of the platform, Tao Mu's bet amount each time would not be too high. Less than two million Chinese yuan, converted into M yuan, euros and other currencies, was spread evenly on more than a dozen peripheral platforms and then bet on different projects. The amount of each bet was only a few thousand yuan, and the highest did not exceed 20,000 M gold. Tao Mu would deliberately bet wrong on some projects that he had vague memories of or where the odds were not high - in short, he held the principle of giving up in order to gain, and being careful in order to avoid making big mistakes, and would never give anyone the opportunity to doubt him and explore his secrets.
Although this approach will cause Tao Mu to lose some profits. But in general, through this external betting, not to mention Da Mao and Xiao Pang, Tao Mu himself can earn 2 million M gold during the Olympic Games, which is more than 10 million Chinese yuan.
Perhaps in the eyes of those wealthy conglomerates, or even in the eyes of top-tier celebrities like Wang Boyuan and Guo Yaning, this 10 million is nothing. But for Tao Mu, who "started from scratch", this is definitely a generous first pot of gold.
After getting the money, Tao Mu plans to invest it all in the futures market to short sell. Given the current situation of the international financial market, after this money has been struggling in the futures market for half a year, it is estimated that even a god will not be able to track all his operations in the financial market. Then he can use the money openly to build his entertainment empire.
More importantly, you can also create a reputation as a financial genius.
Tao Mu believes that if he can contact investors and bigwigs in the circle with the halo of "investment genius", it will be easier to develop his career than as a simple actor.
It's just that this matter involves the most important secret of Tao Mu's rebirth, and he can't let anyone know about it. Even when facing Big Hair and Little Fatty, you must keep your mouth shut.
It was also for this reason that Da Mao and Xiao Pang only knew that Tao Mu suddenly withdrew the principal in the stock market and most of his own funds. As for what Tao Mu was going to do specifically, the two did not know.
Although the two did not know Tao Mu's deliberate calculations, they both knew the truth that "money moves people's hearts". This time when they came to visit the crew of "Jianghu Zhiyuan", the two of them had rehearsed in advance.
In response to Wang Boyuan's seemingly curious question, the two of them lit up their eyes, and regardless of whether Tao Mu was willing or not, they immediately started bragging in front of everyone: "...Brother Wang, don't listen to our brother Mu's modesty. Our brother Mu is actually very powerful. He has a good eye and is ruthless. In just the past half month, our brother Mu has made a lot of money in the stock market, not to mention pocket money, and even saved up half of his wife's money."
Hearing this, Shen Yu and the others all looked over. Mu Huating, who had been silent, sneered, "You are so precocious, thinking about your wife at such a young age."
"What do you care!" Damao glared at Mu Huating and said, "My dad bought my wedding house before I was born. He was waiting for me to grow up and get married. So what?"
The coal boss who owns a mine at home is rich and willful, what can the little actor do?
Mu Huating chuckled twice, and exchanged a few disgusted glances with Da Mao and Xiao Pang. When he glanced at Tao Mushi's expressionless face, he finally remembered that he still had a heavy responsibility. In order to avoid being disturbed by Big Hair and Little Fatty when he was talking to Tao Mu later, Mu Huating pinched his nose and kept silent.
Ye Yao blinked her eyes and asked Tao Mu curiously, "They are talking so mysteriously, how much money did you make in the stock market?"
Before Tao Mu could reply, Da Mao Xiao Pang, who had bulging wallets, couldn't wait to say two numbers, and his arrogance was evident in his words.
"That's just a small amount! Not even enough for me to endorse an advertisement." Ye Yao frowned a little disappointedly, not taking it seriously.
Da Mao couldn't stand anyone saying bad things about Tao Mu, and he immediately got anxious when he heard it: "Do you understand? You can't look at how much we earn in this kind of thing, you have to calculate how much we cost, and then divide the total by the cost, and finally look at the rate of return! For example, our brother Mu only took half a month to multiply the principal seven or eight times. This rate of return of nearly 700 to 800% is much better than those large domestic investment companies and those so-called well-known stock brokers, right?"
Ye Yao suddenly realized, and said with a silly smile: "It seems to be the truth." As she said that, she couldn't help but look at Tao Mu again and again. The more she looked at him, the more she felt that Tao Mu was indeed the man she liked. He was indeed handsome and talented.
Wang Boyuan was also surprised when he heard the return rate: "That's really impressive. To be honest, I also like to trade stocks. But the market has been sluggish recently, and the stocks I bought are basically stuck. So I can only work hard to take on acting jobs and sell myself to pay off my debts."
In fact, it’s not just Wang Boyuan himself. In the past six months, the domestic stock market has been affected by the subprime mortgage crisis and has plummeted. I don’t know how many people and financial institutions are trapped in the stock market. Those who go bankrupt go bankrupt, and those who close down close down.
Wang Boyuan became more and more sad as he talked about it: "I think this stock is really not something that normal people can afford. The growth in the first half of the year was quite good, and the Shanghai Composite Index exceeded 6,000 points. I didn't expect it to fall so much in the second half of the year. I almost got arrhythmia because of the losses."
Attracted by everyone's chat, Guo Yaning, who had been silent, also echoed: "That's right. The stock was obviously rising well, but it was crashed without any psychological preparation."
Several other veteran actors also nodded, feeling sympathetic. It can be seen that everyone is stuck with stocks.
Tao Mu then realized that everyone had gathered around him at some point.
Big Hair and Little Fatty are very popular. Seeing so many people showing off, they are even more proud: "So our Brother Mu is amazing! So many people have lost money, but our Brother Mu has made a lot of money. A return rate of 700 to 800 percent! Even in normal times, those large financial institutions and investment consultants can't do that, right?"
Tao Mu slapped Damao on the head and smiled modestly: "My classmate likes to exaggerate when he speaks. In fact, the pocket money we earn is nothing. It's not even as much as the pay of several teachers for making a movie."
Several veteran actors with superb acting skills and good value for money laughed when they heard this and said, "You are talking about first-line stars like Boyuan and Yaning. We old bones don't make that much."
Wang Boyuan and Guo Yaning also smiled and shook their heads: "You can't calculate it that way. But I really didn't expect that Xiao Mu, you are not only handsome and good at martial arts, but also so proficient in financial stocks."
Wan Meihong finally found an opportunity and said with emotion: "That's right. There are many highly educated actors in the circle. But it is really rare to find someone as talented in finance and stock trading as Tao Mu. I think if you gain more experience, Tao Mu, you will become a real-life overbearing president."
Da Mao and Xiao Pang agreed, "That's right. Our Brother Mu is the material for a domineering CEO. You don't know how handsome he is when he trades stocks! Now that the market situation is so bad, we didn't expect Brother Mu to be able to make money. When we first saw Brother Mu opening an account, we were worried that he would lose everything! In the end, we were jealous of his earnings."
Xiao Pang also added: "In fact, the two of us don't know how to trade stocks. We just saw that Brother Mu was making money, so we gave him our pocket money and asked him to help us manage it. We didn't expect Brother Mu to be so capable."
Da Mao sighed, "When I handed the money to Brother Mu, my dad reminded me that the stock market is risky and I should invest slowly. If I lose too much, my pocket money will be cut off in the second half of the year. Who would have thought that I not only didn't lose money, but made so much money. Even my dad is jealous of the rising rate of return. He calls me every night to inquire about the stock market. I guess I will have to wait and see for a while, and then I will have to hand over my private money to Brother Mu. Let Brother Mu be his investment consultant."
The simple little thoughts of Big Hair and Little Fatty are simply beyond words. Tao Mu frowned when he heard this, so he could only calmly pull back the words: "Actually, I am also very worried. So when we have made almost all the money, I let them withdraw all the principal. As for the remaining money, we will make as much as we can, and we won't feel too bad if we lose it. Just think of it as paying tuition."
Wang Boyuan smiled bitterly: "Your idea is rational." If he could be so rational and sell the stocks when the market was good in the first half of the year, he would probably be able to rest easy now.
Xiao Pang was not convinced: "What rationality! Our Brother Mu has a good way of making money. If you ask me, Brother Mu, you have such talent, why do you still want to be an actor! Why not just help others to make money by stock trading and be your own boss?"
Tao Mu was speechless. But there was also a nephew who was stupid and rich and followed suit: "I think it makes sense! How about I give you my pocket money, Tao Mu, and you can help me manage it?"
They sing and respond to each other, like three people performing a crosstalk!
Tao Mu was speechless as he looked at the two top celebrities and a group of experienced people who were watching the show.
This level of shame is no less than public execution.
Tao Mu said unhappily: "I have to shoot until 2 a.m. every day, where can I find the time to help you trade stocks!"
Big Hair and Little Fatty seemed to realize that Tao Mu's repeated humility was not due to shyness.
The two looked at each other, touched their noses, smiled awkwardly, and said timidly: "...Well, we just think that Brother Mu, you are awesome."
Shen Yu, who had been watching, looked at Tao Mu with admiration: "I think so too. Taotao, you are really amazing. I thought my brother was very good. But his vision is still not as accurate as yours. I think if you two were together, you would definitely have something to talk about."
Tao Mu didn't respond. He felt from the bottom of his heart that he would never have anything to talk about with the Shen family in his life.
"Is it about time?" Tao Mu turned his head and looked at Cheng Baodong: "Director Cheng, when do we shoot?"
"No, we're having a great time chatting here, why are you in such a hurry?" Cheng Baodong sneered, playing with the script in his hand, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why don't you tell us which stocks you bought that have risen so much, so that we can all learn more."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone could tell something was wrong. No matter how stupid Big Hair and Little Fatty were, they realized that they seemed to have caused trouble for Tao Mu. He looked over eagerly, at a loss as to what to do.
Tao Mu smiled at his two childhood friends in a comforting way, casually mentioned the names of a few stocks, and patiently explained: "But the market is unstable now, so we are only speculating in short-term stocks."
"Yes, yes, yes," Big Hair and Little Fatty quickly agreed, "The market is really too unstable. In just the past half month, we have changed hands several times. But Brother Mu has a keen eye and usually sells out the stocks before the price drops."
After saying that, the two of them looked at Tao Mu in unison, trembling like two large dogs who knew they had caused trouble but didn't know how to please their owner. The owner continued to stroke the fur to comfort the child.
"...Tao Mu, we are friends too, right?" Ye Yao, who was standing aside, suddenly spoke up. The little girl blinked her big watery eyes and looked at Tao Mu: "Since we are all friends, why don't you help me trade some stocks?"
"I don't have time recently, let's talk about it later when we have the chance." Tao Mu was a little absent-minded.
It has to be said that Da Mao and Xiao Pang's actions completely disrupted Tao Mu's plan. It is estimated that in the eyes of these "experts who are not old but have become shrewd", Tao Mu's label of being eager for quick success and scheming and deep-minded cannot be torn off. Of course Tao Mu doesn't care about what these people think. He was just a little concerned that Da Mao and Xiao Pang's presumptuous behavior would put him in a passive position in some of his future plans.
——In Tao Mu's original plan, his talent for investment could have been revealed more naturally. The means of luring these big guys with benefits can be used more skillfully and silently. But Tao Mu can also understand Big Hair and Little Fatty. These two kids must have been scared after what happened in "The Legend of Heroes". That’s why I wanted to praise him more in front of the big names in “Jianghu Zhiyuan” to enhance his core competitiveness. I hope Tao Mu can receive more attention because of this and stand in front of everyone with a more equal attitude.
It's a pity that two kids who just graduated from high school can't possibly beat this old fox who has been up and down for many years. I guess as soon as Big Hair and Little Fatty opened their mouths, these people knew what they wanted to say and do. As for whether he would speculate that the two of them were instigated by Tao Mu, Tao Mu didn't know. Of course he didn't care too much. After all, there is no right or wrong in the adult world. Tao Mu was confident that as long as he could bring more benefits to everyone, no matter how clumsy the methods of Big Hair and Little Fatty were, how simple their words were, or how shallow their thoughts were, these people would be considerate and give the most perfect and comfortable steps for Tao Mu to walk down comfortably.
Therefore, the most urgent thing for Tao Mu was to find a quiet place to quickly comfort these two childhood friends who were so embarrassed by the atmosphere that they were about to cry.
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