Chapter 29: Pocket money given to you by Grandma Kim Hee Sun
The money-saving plan wasn't easy to start. Ye-eun didn't know how to keep records, Kwon Ji-yong spent money lavishly, and the two of them would get together after school every day with sad faces and sneaky behavior, which was hard for the parents not to notice.
Li Zhen changed the water in the chamomile beside her, turned around and glanced at the children kneeling in front of the little golden pig with serious faces.
The taller boy was leaning over to make notes on a piece of paper. The shorter girl shook the piggy bank, but when she didn't hear any clear crashing sounds, she still put three fingers inside, trying to see if she could get some more coins out from some corner.
"Alas." Quan Zhilong checked this week's income. After a week, they only had less than 300 won. "It's so hard to make money!"
Although not rich, the two children in the family at least had enough food and clothing, and now they felt the pain of lack of money for the first time in their lives.
Li Zhen put down the watering can and said, "Do you want us to help you a little?"
"Yes!" The two turned their heads immediately, their eyes curved with smiles at the same time. If humans had tails, they would probably break them by shaking them. "Is what my mom/aunt said true?"
"Of course." Li Zhen nodded. "Ye Eun and Zhi Long, if you behave well during the filming next week and don't cry or make a fuss, I can advance the reward to you."
Ye-eun's eyes lit up instantly, and when she smiled, her eight neat white teeth were exposed. "That's great! I knew my mom was the best mom!"
Quan Zhilong also nodded frantically, and felt like he was teleported to a convenience store, and jumped happily on the dance mat, "I can do this!"
The reward mechanism proposed by my mom is to let me rank in the top three in the class in the final exam. However, I have always been in the middle of the class. How is it possible for me to suddenly move from being in the top ten to being in the top three?
Quan Zhilong sighed deeply, it is so difficult to balance study and practice at the same time!
The play that Li Zhen mentioned was a TV series produced by KBS2 called "The Man Behind the Scenes". At the end, there was a scene of the protagonist's wedding that required two flower girls. S/M packaged up two of their famous childhood sweethearts in the company and sent them over to give it a try. Unexpectedly, they actually got the role, which only had a few seconds of screen time.
There were some surprises within the company about Lee Xiuman's move, but there were perceptive people, such as the acting teacher, who noticed that Director Lee Xiuman might really like Ye Eun. After all, arranging acting classes and work for an informal trainee had never happened before.
However, they did not know that this was also due to the recommendation of Jin Zhendao who was training in the company at that time.
Ye-eun was unaware of the discussions in the company. She was holding hands with Kwon Ji-yong in the chaotic yet orderly studio, fearing that he would get lost.
The two children changed their clothes and put on makeup, and stood obediently in the corner of the studio like two wooden stakes, until the director waved his hand and turned around to ask, "Where are the flower girls?"
They followed the staff forward.
The casting of such small roles was handled by the assistant director. It was also the first time that the director saw the two children and he looked them up and down.
The boy was wearing a fitted black suit. He had very light eyebrows and obvious bags under his eyes. His best feature was his pair of single eyelids. Although not particularly big, they were very bright. With the nonchalant expression on his face, he really looked like a young gentleman from a well-off family. It’s not the look that Koreans like, but it’s very attractive.
The girl was wearing a white gauze dress and had distinct facial features on her chubby face, with long eyebrows, round eyes, a small nose and a small mouth. Even when she wasn't smiling, she could make people feel soft-hearted, not to mention when she grinned at him, which made people feel even sweeter to the heart.
The director nodded with satisfaction. The heroine also looked down at the two children. The more she looked, the cuter they seemed to be. She raised her hand and touched the two babies' heads. The boy's cool expression instantly disappeared and he smiled at her, while the girl said sweetly, "Ouni, you are so beautiful."
No one would be unhappy to be praised by a cute child, even Kim Hee Sun, who has been praised for her beauty in the industry for only a few years. She was wearing a pure white wedding dress, and when she bent down slightly, the veil on her head covered herself and the little girl. "Sister is also very beautiful. Did you remember the position later?"
The voice was gentle, the movements were soft, and Ye-eun just thought that the unnie in front of her was incredibly beautiful, "Get ready!"
Quan Zhilong scratched his head in confusion, and a hesitant voice came from behind him, "You, Zhi... Zhilong, right?"
The voice sounded familiar. Quan Zhilong turned around and took a look. It took him several seconds to remember that this was the Hiong who followed them to the director's office at that time. What was his name?
"I'm Jin Jin-do, oh, my current stage name is Won Bin." Won Bin squatted down and looked at him curiously, "Are you really here?"
This was the first job Won Bin received after leaving S/M. In this TV series, he played the role of a male No. N who had a crush on the heroine. Although he didn't have many scenes in the beginning, once the show was broadcast, he attracted the attention of the audience because of his handsome looks and good acting skills.
After the crew found out, they immediately added a few more scenes for him in the follow-up. In the final wedding of the hero and heroine, he also appeared as the loser of secret love.
At the same time, when the screenwriter teacher said that they were still short of a pair of flower girls, he immediately thought of the two children in the company who could act in front of everyone.
Quan Zhilong was more relaxed when he met an acquaintance. Although he didn't know why he asked this, he still bowed politely to his brother and pointed at Ye Eun who was about to grab the heroine Noona behind him, "Yes, Ye Eun and I will play the flower boy. Is Hiong an actor now?"
"Yes, is Ji-yong interested in being an actor?" Jin Zhendao looked at Kwon Ji-yong. Having been in S/M for more than a year, he actually felt that the company's top management liked good-looking kids like him, but his ability was not enough to make his debut.
The boy in front of him might not look like the type that the company directors like. He squatted down and looked at him, thinking about how his fellow trainees of the same period had caused a storm in Korea and even in neighboring Japan and China after their debut as HOT, and many Korean entertainment companies seemed to have begun to learn this model to select good-looking and talented children.
He was not worried about the girl who looked like a Korean. Instead, he was a little worried about the boy with a gentle personality.
However, Quan Zhilong did not think too much about it. He shook his head and said, "I am here to accompany Ye Eun. I want to be a rapper."
The way he was trying so hard to learn the social rules of adults made Kim Hee Sun, who was being praised by Ye Eun, look over at him sideways. These two children have completely different personalities, but they are actually good friends?
She was a little curious, but the scene started filming immediately. Kim Hee Sun walked to her position, while Ye Eun and Kwon Ji Yong stood on the set that was decorated as a wedding scene.
The two of them stood in front of the two leading actors holding small baskets filled with flower petals. When they heard the director's "action", Kwon Ji-yong, who had experience in filming, adjusted his expression first, smiled sweetly, and walked forward.
Yi-eun was a beat late, but she quickly caught up as Kwon Ji-yong deliberately slowed down his pace, and then she grabbed the petals in the basket and threw them out with a smile.
The assistant director stared at the picture on the monitor and nodded with satisfaction. The two children were chosen because they were the only pair of child stars who came for the interview together. They had a tacit understanding when trying to move around, unlike other children who would not think of adjusting and coordinating when they occasionally walked too fast or too slow.
Ye-eun stared at the photographer standing on the pulley. She was very graceful in front of the camera, and smiled even sweeter than usual as she threw flower petals and waved around her. Even the photographer couldn't help but smile.
It was not until the two little flower girls brought the protagonists to the main stage of the wedding that they walked down to the side of the stage, took the ring box from the staff, and hurried back to the front of the wedding stage to wait for the next performance.
Because they hadn't had their scenes yet, the two stood together and whispered. Quan Zhilong hesitated for a moment and asked seriously: "Ye Eun, do you think that Nu Na is pretty?"
"Beautiful." Ye Eun looked at Kim Hee Sun. Her eyebrows and eyes were delicate under the light, and she looked like a fairy in a cartoon.
"Then why do you think Wen Xijun is handsome too?" Quan Zhilong was puzzled. Yien thought that Noona was beautiful, and he also thought that Noona was beautiful, but Yien thought that the handsome brother...
He then pointed at Won Bin who was sitting in the group of relatives and friends. That brother was recognized as handsome. "Do you think he is handsome, Ye Eun?"
Ye-eun turned around and looked at his face carefully, then shook her head and honestly expressed her thoughts: "I think he's just average. Does Zhilong think that Oppa is handsome?"
really! Her magical aesthetic is only for the opposite sex!
Then Quan Zhilong asked the last question he should have asked in his nine years of life, "Then Ye Eun, do you think I'm handsome?"
He tugged at the bow tie on his suit, patted his wrinkle-free trousers, pretended to be indifferent on his face but his ears perked up.
Ye-eun nodded without hesitation, "Of course he is handsome. How could Ye-eun like to play with Zhilong if he is not good-looking?"
“…”
Kwon Ji-yong pursed his lips, and his hands holding the ring box trembled slightly. He felt indescribably complicated in his heart. It didn't seem like a good thing to be praised for being handsome by Ye-eun.
Two villains started fighting in his mind.
Yeen said you are handsome and likes playing with you, how nice!
But what Ye-eun thinks is handsome doesn’t seem to be what normal people think is handsome!
His mind was already wandering, but he came back to his senses immediately when the staff instructed them to go on stage to present the ring.
The two put smiles on their faces again, and walked towards the stage hand in hand with the rings in hand. Under the shining lights, the two mothers who were watching couldn't help but smile lovingly.
Ye-eun and Kwon Ji-yong lowered their heads at the same time and opened the ring box to their brothers and sisters in front of them, and they took out the sparkling diamond ring from the red box.
Kim Hee Sun looked at Yoo Shi Won in front of her with tears in her eyes. In the play, they went from being childhood sweethearts to getting married. Now that the play is about to end, she feels as happy and emotional as her character.
The scene was frozen in the beautiful picture of the two people kissing. After childhood sweetheart found a lover, she found out that her beloved childhood sweetheart was not defeated by the sudden appearance of love, but got what he wanted. The ending made everyone smile with satisfaction.
Only Kwon Ji-yong was still sighing, wondering why he was just a handsome boy in Ye-eun's eyes. She wouldn't say that on purpose just because they got along well, and she was afraid of hurting him.
"Ye-eun doesn't lie." Ye-eun said this with a smile on her lips as she took the orange juice handed over by Won Bin, "Thank you, Oppa. Oppa is so handsome."
Quan Zhilong was stunned, and hope ignited in his heart, "Then Yeen said I'm handsome..."
Ye-eun looked at him in confusion, "Of course it's the truth, Zhilong is really handsome. Of course, not as handsome as the oppa I met before!"
Kim Hee Sun took the water handed to her by the staff and took a sip. The drama ended like this, but they still needed to wait for the director to confirm whether there were any shots and angles that needed to be reshot in this scene, so the actors had not left yet.
The other artists were basically all adults, only the two children who played the flower girls were young. The actors present had nothing to do anyway, so they all gathered around and listened to the two children chatting.
As they listened, one of them occasionally handed over a drink, the other took a candy from time to time, while they were still eating snacks themselves, completely treating the two children as a show.
Hearing the conversation between the two children next to her, Kim Hee Sun turned around curiously and saw the boy looking depressed. "What's wrong? Your friend praised you for being handsome. Are you unhappy?"
Quan Zhilong curled his lips and did not complain to Nuna in front of him about Ye Eun's strange aesthetic taste. "Happy, of course I'm happy."
Ye-eun sipped her orange juice and smiled at Kim Hee-sun.
"Oh my god, you guys are so cute." Kim Hee Sun looked at the whorl of hair on Ye Eun's head and couldn't help pinching her little face again, "Why do you want to act? Are you going to be an actor in the future?"
She had heard the boy say that he wanted to be a rapper, but this girl was cute, generous, and not camera-shy, so she was indeed a good candidate to be an actress.
"Alas." Unexpectedly, the two children sighed at the same time, looked at each other and spread their hands, "To make money."
He is worried about his livelihood at such a young age. The adults who are listening to him can't help but frown. Could he be the kind of child who comes from a poor family but has outstanding looks?
Jin Xishan couldn't help but feel nervous. She thought she wouldn't touch the child's pain point. She said with some apology: "Ah, are you short of money?"
Could it be that someone in the family is in trouble and urgently needs money that is why the child is sent out to earn money? If the child is really short of money, maybe she can provide some appropriate care in the future, but if the family can still make ends meet, she doesn't have to do anything.
The kind-hearted Kim Hee Sun did not expect that even though she later found out that the two children's family conditions were not too bad, when they went to another company and collapsed from exhaustion due to training and were starving from time to time, she would not be able to help but take the two children she had watched grow up out to find food.
At this time, neither of them knew that the sister in front of them, who was already known as "Korea's No. 1 Beauty", would become their lifelong friend in the future. They just explained seriously, "No, because we want to play on the dance mat."
Ye-eun looked at Kim Hee-sun, who had a blank expression on her face, and drew a big square with her hands. She explained to her seriously, "It's just a blanket this big. When the music starts, the blanket will light up. We have to step on the bright spots. It's fun."
The little girl's cute actions and words melted Kim Hee Sun's heart, "Oh my god, it turns out that our Ye Eun-xi and Zhi Long-xi are here to earn some pocket money."
She thought about it, turned around and took out a 50 won coin from her assistant's bag, smiled and lowered her head to Quan Zhilong and said, "Zhilongxi, can you help Nuna get the small blanket from the dressing room? This is your errand fee for Zhilong."
50 won is not much in the eyes of adults like them, but in the eyes of children, any amount of money is a lot. Quan Zhilong's eyes lit up instantly, and he ran two steps in the opposite direction before reacting, "Um, where is the dressing room?"
Although he called her Nuna behind her back, when he really spoke, he didn't know how to address this superstar sister who was surrounded by everyone. After all, although he is young, he has been in this circle for several years. He once called an artist "hiong" without any scruples, but was corrected with a frown and told to call him "senior".
Jin Xishan immediately understood his concerns. She originally used honorifics but directly called the two children by their names, "Well, you can call me..."
She joked, "At your age, you can call me auntie."
Yien looked at the unnie in front of her, she was pretty and young, how could she be an aunt?
"Hahaha, you can call me Auntie or Oumuni (Grandma)." The director waved the script in his hand. After two months of getting to know this beautiful actress, he also understood that although she looked gentle and elegant in front of outsiders, she actually had a lively personality and loved to joke.
Kwon Ji-yong also scratched his head, not knowing whether she was serious or joking. He opened his mouth to call Noona, but when he heard the director's joke, his mouth suddenly slipped and "Oomuni" came out.
His face instantly turned red, but Kim Hee Sun chuckled nonchalantly, "Okay, that's fine, I'll be older in an instant."
Ye-eun turned around to look at unnie who was much younger than her idol mother, and then stared at Kwon Ji-yong who was only a few years older than her. Various names floated in her mind.
Finally, she frowned and called out the wonderful name she had come up with to the incredibly beautiful sister in front of her, "Sister?"
Kim Hee Sun laughed even more exaggeratedly, with tears sliding down from the corners of her eyes, scaring the makeup artist to pat her hurriedly, "Ah, control yourself, or you will have to reapply your makeup if you really need to shoot again later."
Ye-en scratched her head in confusion, not understanding why she was laughing so loudly, since she had clearly come up with a very good nickname.
“No, no.” Kim Hee Sun covered her stomach which hurt from laughing, “Ye Eun, you should just follow Zhi Long and call me grandma.”
Otherwise, she would definitely laugh every time she was called "sister" by a child's self-created title. Besides, how would she calculate her own generation in this case?
Kim Hee-sun, who was full of the desire to take advantage, gave each of her two newly adopted grandchildren a 50-won coin, "Here, this is pocket money for you, Omoni."
The two mothers who finally wrote down the contact information of this famous Korean star blinked in confusion. Why did this beautiful child sound so weird even though she was speaking honorifics to them?
Ye-eun and Kwon Ji-yong didn't know what the mothers were thinking, so they put the 500 won reward they received today and the 100 won given by their new grandmother into the piggy bank, and said, "It would be nice if there were more grandparents!"
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