Chapter 5 Language Skills
"You mean..." Li Qin looked around, leaned forward and whispered, "Lie to them?"
"The word 'lie' is not used accurately." Meng Bai frowned and corrected her, "Lying directly is called lying. Telling the truth but having the other party misunderstand it is called language skills."
"Huh! It sounds nice, but it's not the same thing." Li Qin snorted and rolled her eyes, "If you do this, then what's the difference between us and the liar who lied to us?"
"No, no, no, we are completely different from that liar. We want to make a movie, and the liar wants to run away with the money. Our purposes are different, so he is lying to us; we want to make a movie, and the website also wants to make a movie. The ultimate goal is the same. How can this be called lying, right?"
Meng Bai tried hard to brainwash the girl in front of him, "And our motives are different. The child is sick and coughing but insists on eating candy, and the mother hides the candy and says she has finished eating it. Can this be considered lying?"
"For example, your best friend is a love-brained person who insists on being with a scumbag. You tell her that the scumbag will block her fortune and convince her to leave him. Can this be considered cheating?"
"We want to make the movie, but the website doesn't believe in our ability. We say we have a professional team, and finally we succeeded in making the movie. Can this be considered cheating?"
"..." Li Qin listened to Meng Bai's words blankly, feeling that what he said seemed to make sense, but it seemed that something was wrong.
Meng Bai talked for a long time, and seeing that the girl's CPU was about to be unable to turn around, he knew that the time was almost right, so he slammed his knuckles on the table to attract Li Qin's attention, and concluded: "So, we are not actually cheating, but just reaching a result that both parties want through communication, understand?"
"... Yeah!" Li Qin thought blankly for a few seconds, and then nodded, with an expression of "I seem to understand".
Meng Bai breathed a sigh of relief, very good, finally unified the internal opinions.
Li Qin thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure out the logic, so he stopped thinking about it and asked Meng Bai: "Which website should we go to next? And what should we say if we go to find a website? What do we need to prepare?"
Meng Bai waved his hand: "Leave the video website to me, you have a more important job."
"What is it?" Li Qin asked curiously.
"Convince your company to agree to let you act in it." Meng Bai said solemnly.
Li Qin took a deep breath. Yes, before, he was only thinking about how to get investment from the video website, and almost forgot that he had to be able to act in it first.
"It should be no problem. Our company has no regulations that we can't take on external dramas. And I just finished filming a drama not long ago, and there are no scripts for me recently, so I have enough time." Li Qin said thoughtfully.
"But ours is a web drama, which may not be in line with the planning and positioning given to you by your company." Meng Bai reminded.
"Well, that's true." Li Qin nodded, and then thought about it and said easily: "It's okay, I'll talk to Aunt Li and say that a friend's play asked me to help, she should agree."
At this point, Li Qin thought of another problem: "But even if the company agrees, my salary must not be less. But if I directly pay and receive money from the video website, won't it be exposed?"
"Small problem, I will go back to register a film and television studio. If the crew can really be put together, all the accounts will be handled by this studio, and there will be no contact between them." Meng Bai said. "That
's good."
"As for how much your salary is, you can talk to the company yourself. Anyway, remember that you are now the main creator of the crew, and you will have to share the profits in the end. The higher the cost of the salary, the lower the profit of the final share. You can control it yourself." Meng Bai reminded.
Li Qin was stunned for a moment, and then reacted. Yes, I am still the main creator this time, and I will have to share the money in the end.
She suddenly fell silent, and began to think about how to find an excuse with the company to reduce her pay.
Hmm? Reducing your own pay? It sounds weird.
Looking at Li Qin who was lost in thought, Meng Bai thought about it and roughly knew what she was thinking. With a smile, Meng Bai raised his hand and took a sip of tea.
Not to mention, although the positioning of this store is a bit abstract, the taste of the tea is still good.
Just after putting down the teacup, he saw Hua Yan standing at the counter waving at him, motioning him to come over.
Meng Bai stood up and told Li Qin that he was going to the bathroom. The girl was still busy calculating her own pay, and she responded casually twice, not caring about what he was going to do.
Standing up and walking to the counter, Meng Bai looked at Hua Yan, who looked sneaky, and raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you doing?"
Hua Yan raised her phone, pointed the screen at Meng Bai, and then carefully pointed at Li Qin over there, and asked excitedly, "Is the sister who came with you this Li Qin?"
Meng Bai glanced at his phone. On the screen was Li Qin's encyclopedia information, and on the side was her photo.
"It's her. Why, do you need me to get an autograph for you?" Meng Bai didn't hide it and admitted it directly.
"Wow, it's true!" Hua Yan widened her eyes, looked at Li Qin and exclaimed, "Tsk, this is the first time I've seen an actor in real life!"
"Go out and turn left after three intersections to the east, and go straight for 400 meters to the east and you will see the Beijing Film Academy. You can wait at the door for a day and meet as many actors as you want." Meng Bai said leisurely.
"How can the feeling of going to meet someone on purpose be the same as that of meeting him by chance?" Hua Yan shook her head and looked at Meng Bai again. A gossipy expression suddenly appeared on her face. She lowered her voice and asked, "Brother Meng, are you guys secretly in love?"
"What the hell is love!" Meng Bai glanced at Hua Yan: "Didn't I just tell you, partners, let's talk about script cooperation or something."
"Oh, so that's it." Hua Yan stretched out her tone: "So you really are a screenwriter!"
"Hey, it seems you never believed me before, right?"
"That's not our fault. You said you were a professional screenwriter, and when I asked you what works you had, you said none of them had been released, or they had been released but you were not signed, so how do we know if it's true or not?" Hua Yan said, "Only my boss is stupid, he believes whatever you say."
"So he's the boss, and you're just a part-time student." Meng Bai said, "By the way, speaking of your boss, why didn't I see her today?"
"Oh, she said a friend from the film school is going to make a short film recently, and asked her to help play the leading role." Hua Yan said.
"Oh, you're embarking on a career in acting." Meng Bai teased, then shook his head and sighed, "There's not much business to begin with, and your boss is always on and off. I guess this store will close sooner or later. Huahua, when you lose your job, tell me and I'll find you a new part-time job."
"Haha, I'll tell your boss if you plan to poach her employees while she's not around."
"Go ahead, tell me, one day I'll poach your boss too."
(End of this chapter)
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