Chapter 6
The next morning, Yueyue got up early and prepared breakfast and lunch for the three of them. The one for A'mo was a special nutritious meal with a lot of boiled chicken breast added.
Although it was boiled meat, Yueyue had learned from the chef invited by the organization before and was very good at using spices, so the taste did not smell monotonous.
Ah Mo held the boiled meat lunch box and cried quietly.
Qiao Yiqiao patted A'Mo's shoulder with great understanding: "If you want to be a male artist, you have to eat these things. Just bear with it."
Ah Mo hummed: "This boiled meat is much more delicious than the rotten meat noodles..."
Even eating two more meals of rotten meat noodles would not affect his feelings for A-Da.
but.
My body can’t take it anymore.
Recently, I have gradually developed symptoms of conditioned reflex retching.
Qiao Yiqiao: “Oh.”
He doesn't believe it.
He must have missed the rotten pork noodles I made so much that he said it sarcastically.
This child is becoming more and more sensible.
Afterwards, Qiao Yi Qiao set off with A'mo and Yang Yang in the morning light.
Yueyue volunteered to stay at home to clean the house, thinking that the environment at home was no longer suitable for human habitation.
Before leaving, Qiao Yi Qiao solemnly entrusted his bank card to Yueyue, asking him to arrange the group's recent meal menus and pay water and electricity bills.
Yueyue linked her bank card to her mobile phone, looked at the four-digit deposit in it, and sighed.
In the past, this amount would not even be enough to feed the hundreds of gang members with a meal.
Boss, you're having a miserable time!
Although Yueyue couldn't express it, she was anxious to do something for the boss.
But what can he do when he can only steal and cook?
Yueyue held her cell phone, looked at the bare kitchen, and fell into deep thought.
at the same time.
Yangyang was driving the car with his boss and A'mo, who had almost no driving skills, on the way to the film and television city.
Although the Wuling Hongguang left by my father after his retirement is old, this domestic car is sturdy and is qualified to be used as a commuter nanny car for three people.
Yangyang's driving skills are among the best in the gang. The journey that should have taken two hours was completed in just over an hour and a half.
Heng City, near City A, was originally an industrial city. During its transformation ten years ago, the government took the lead in establishing the Heng City Film and Television Group, and spent a lot of money to build a film and television city on the outskirts of the city, attracting tourists and film and television companies from all over the country to come and shoot.
It has to be said that the city leaders at that time were quite far-sighted, and the film and television industry was indeed thriving. Even after several major earthquakes, the film and television city is still crowded with people.
Some people come here for tourism, while others come here for photography.
There are eight major scenic spots in the film and television city, among which the most famous ones are the Ming and Qing Palaces, the New Yuanming Garden, the Qin Palace, the Qingming Riverside Scene and the Cantonese-style Xiangjiang Street, which are one-to-one replicas of real scenes. Together they cover more than a thousand acres and can be called China's "dream factory".
Tourists who come here to travel need to spend 360 yuan to buy a pass to enter the scenic area, but if you come here to take pictures, you can enter the park for free as long as you go through the relevant procedures.
The reason why the three men, who were over 1.8 meters tall, didn’t rush to enter the park was not because they were stingy with the money…
That's all.
Qiao Yiqiao was worried about spending money, so he didn't rush into the park.
Yangyang looked at a group of people wearing sun hats, carrying large water bottles, and carrying folding fisherman chairs on their shoulders. They could enter the park after showing some kind of certificate. He was a little puzzled: "What kind of certificate is that?"
Qiao Yiqiao had done his homework before coming here, and quickly answered, "Actor's license. Those people are all extras, and the kettle, sun hat, and fisherman's chair are the three pieces of extras' uniform."
It is no longer the 1980s when people could get jobs outside the studios. If you want to be an extra, you need to register with the Hengshi Actors Union first, receive training and unified management.
After that, once you get your actor certificate, you can go inside and outside the scenic area without a ticket.
After listening to the boss's explanation, Yang Yang understood: "Okay, I'll go get some actor certificates."
After saying that, he went to the extras and said, "Hey, Brother Liu, you are getting more and more handsome. What project are you working on? Ah, aren't you Brother Liu... Oh."
Qiao Yiqiao grabbed Yangyang by the back of his neck and pulled him back like a big cat carrying its cub.
"You can't steal."
Qiao Yiqiao hit Yangyang.
Yangyang looked aggrieved: "Okay."
But it has been accomplished.
While Qiao Yi Qiao was not paying attention, he reluctantly stuffed back the actor's certificate he had just stolen.
Qiao Yiqiao pointed to a long queue next to the ticket office in the distance and said, "We can just go to the union to get an actor's license. I already made an appointment last night."
Yangyang and A'mo's admiration for Qiao Yiqiao instantly reached a new level.
Sure enough, everything has been thought out!
He is worthy of being their only boss!
The three of them took their number tags, stood at the end of the line, and began a long wait.
Although Qiao Yi Qiao and Yang Yang don't want to be actors, applying for an actor's license is indeed the fastest way to enter the film and television city. Moreover, the time it takes for one person to apply is almost the same as for three people to apply, so it is better to apply together.
After waiting for more than half an hour, the line still didn't move. Although Qiao Yiqiao was not an impatient person, this was really too strange.
"Go see what's going on."
He directed Yang Yang Dao.
"Okay!"
Yangyang immediately ran to the front of the team, but returned in less than three minutes.
"I think everything is normal in the front, everyone is doing it one by one, but I don't know what's going on, the team just won't move." Yang Yang scratched his head, "How about we get some numbers at the front?"
As he said that, Yangyang made a "take" gesture.
Qiao Yiqiao: “…”
Of course not!
But before he could answer, a man with shifty eyes suddenly came over and smiled at them: "You can't do it today."
The three of them immediately became alert, and Yang Yang asked, "What's going on?"
"Look, you're all over 400 in line, and there must be at least 400 people in front of you," the man smiled at them, "I have dozens of seats here, how about I take you in?"
As soon as Qiao Yiqiao heard this, he knew what kind of person this was.
cattle.
Although he had looked up a lot of guides on the Internet before, he didn't expect that there would still be various "loopholes" when he arrived at the scene.
Although Heng City's economy is good now, management in all aspects is still not standardized and needs improvement.
Yang Yang asked tentatively: "How much is it?"
The man held up five fingers: "This number."
Yangyang was a little shocked: "Alone?"
500 is not a small number!
"Yes," the scalper smiled, "otherwise you would have to queue for at least three days. Just think about how much money you can make as an extra in these three days. This amount is not expensive, right?"
Qiao Yiqiao's expression immediately turned cold.
Scalping, like candid photography, is an act that walks on the edge of the law.
In fact, he hated scalpers the most in his life.
Qiao Yiqiao still remembers taking his seriously ill father to the hospital, but was unable to get an appointment and was asked to pay an exorbitant price by the scalpers at the door.
Qiao Yiqiao raised his eyes and said, "Give us three numbers. Can I pay in cash?"
The scalper was relieved: "Okay, okay, I'll give you 26 to 28, consecutive numbers, also auspicious, I wish the three bosses a smooth career and great success."
Qiao Yi Qiao nodded, handed over the money with one hand and took the number with the other.
Yangyang and A'mo both looked at the boss strangely.
It seems that it is not the boss' usual style to be so submissive.
"Watch carefully."
Qiao Yi Qiao didn't say anything else, just whispered in Yang Yang's ear.
The tacit understanding of many years did not require any other words. Yangyang understood what he meant and immediately began to observe to the best of his ability.
The three of them were taken in by the scalper and the formalities were completed quickly. They will get their certificates tomorrow.
After coming out, the three returned to the Wuling Hongguang.
Qiao Yiqiao lit a cigarette: "Did you see everything clearly?"
Yang Yang switched back to a professional look: "Yes, there are eighteen scalpers in total."
Qiao Yiqiao slowly blew out a smoke ring: "Go ahead."
"OK!"
Yangyang got off the car immediately.
Qiao Yiqiao looked at A'mo again: "Get off the car too. I'll make a phone call."
"good."
Although A'mo didn't understand what the boss meant, he got out of the car obediently and became alert.
Qiao Yi Qiao took out his cell phone and called the Heng City Culture and Tourism Bureau.
"Hello, Director Wei, yes, I am Qiao Yiqiao. Yes, Qiao Tang is my grandfather's brother. Thanks to you, they are in good health. Mainly, I want to report a problem to you..."
To solve the problem of scalpers, the authorities must take action first.
Soon, Qiao Yi Qiao hung up the phone, and A'mo and Yang Yang returned to the car.
Yangyang took out a piece of paper from his trouser pocket and said, "I've got them all. There are about 200 numbers in total. These scalpers deserve to die."
Then he took out a stack of banknotes from his other trouser pocket and said, "This is the fifteen thousand we just had."
After saying that, he looked at the boss and said, "What should we do with these numbers? Resell them?"
This was the fastest way he could think of to make money, and he thought the boss meant the same thing.
Qiao Yi Qiao took the number sheets, lit them with his cigarette butts, and threw them out of the car window.
"A gentleman loves money, but he gets it in a proper way," he looked at Yangyang and A'mo, "We don't make this kind of money."
The two looked at the fire and nodded.
As expected of a man who has reached the top, he doesn't even care about this little bit of money.
In the following week, Qiao Yi Qiao took Yang Yang and A'mo to find different scalpers to buy accounts every day, and then repeated the above steps.
And because Qiao Yi Qiao made phone calls for three consecutive days, the Bureau of Culture and Tourism finally began to crack down on scalpers at the film and television base.
In fact, he knew that the authorities were not unaware of the matter, but they just didn't want to get involved in such trivial matters.
But Director Wei was Qiao Tang's old comrade-in-arms. When he first received one or two calls, he thought Qiao Yiqiao was meddling in his affairs, but he could not stand the repeated torture.
At first, Qiao Yi Qiao’s phone calls only lasted two minutes, but later on, we would talk for at least half an hour each time. Who could stand that?
As soon as the authorities took action, they knew whether there was any scalper or not. They quickly arrested a group of people and issued a public notice, hoping that everyone would join in boycotting scalpers.
But Qiao Yiqiao also knows that official action is only the first step. Sooner or later, scalpers will feel that the hype will pass and will continue to do this business.
Therefore, Yangyang’s action is the more critical second step. Only when they feel that they are being targeted will they give up completely.
Again, he understood too well the limitations of the authorities in certain matters that did not completely touch the bottom line of the law.
In short, under this two-pronged strategy, within half a month, these scalpers could no longer do their job and started to change their careers.
Lian Yangyang was secretly tired, and after a week he asked to switch shifts with Yueyue.
Qiao Yi Qiao even thoughtfully introduced a check-in mechanism and KPI tasks for him.
Two people must steal for eight hours every day and steal at least 200 numbers. If they fail to do so, they will have to sleep in the vegetable field and feed the mosquitoes.
As a result, within a week, both people's kleptomania was greatly alleviated.
Hair loss and dark circles appeared one after another. Even every day when the alarm clock rang, the two began to complain.
——Turning a hobby into a nine-to-five job is so painful!
The long queue in front of the Actors Guild finally disappeared. Countless young people who flocked to this dream factory with their dreams were silently grateful in their hearts to someone who had taken action and finally solved this trivial matter.
The chaos on the margins of the film and television industry has since been alleviated.
Why do we say it is just relief rather than a complete solution?
Because Qiao Yi Qiao knew that this matter was not over yet.
In the past, so many scalpers were able to live in harmony, so there must have been a bigger force behind the scenes manipulating them.
But at that time he had not thought that the person behind this would be an old acquaintance of his.
…
During the past half month, Qiao Yi Qiao and A'mo were not idle, but hung out in the film and television city.
On days when Yangyang was not on duty stealing numbers, he would mingle with the extras. In just half a month, he had joined work groups with more than 30 extras and even got to know quite a few of the group leaders.
There were often some recruitment information for extras, so Qiao Yi Qiao took A'mo to participate in a few of them every day.
But they were all in a small crew where they only paid 100 yuan a day for lunch boxes, so they couldn't make a big name for themselves. They could only be considered to have accumulated some experience.
It was also during this period that Yang Yang and several group leaders, through constant networking, developed a promotion path for actors.
Extras (stand-ins) → special actor → supporting role → leading role.
Becoming an extra is just the beginning.
But if you can become a special actor and have a stable job, then you can be said to be on the path of a "professional actor".
(A special actor is an actor who has a special skill and is suitable for a specific role.)
Therefore, Yang Yang inquired about several suitable studios, and Qiao Yi Qiao took A'mo to shoot a proper martial arts demo video and casting model cards, hoping to work towards becoming a "special actor".
However, big crews hope to find experienced ones when looking for special actors.
Because the short drama hadn't been aired yet and A'mo had no outstanding experience at the moment, all the resumes he sent out fell into oblivion and no one responded.
But Qiao Yiqiao was not in a hurry.
When A'mo went to perform in a play, Qiao Yiqiao had nothing to do, so he often strolled into the crew, hid behind the director team and watched the show silently.
Having been undercover for so many years, he naturally knew how to hide and disguise his identity, so he had never been discovered.
Qiao Yiqiao felt that this behavior was purely a mindless way of killing time.
But Ah Mo asked several times, "Ah Da, do you actually like movies?"
Qiao Yiqiao always waved his hand and said, "No."
The brief opportunity to direct the skit that day did indeed ignite a secret fire in Qiao Yiqiao's heart.
But he only attributed the anger to "being forced to eat A-Mo's food", "the threshold for the film and television industry is low and the money comes quickly", etc.
His only hope is to find a decent way to make a living for A'mo as soon as possible.
He was too lazy to think about the deeper issues.
On this day, A'mo had just finished acting as an extra in a modern drama crew. The two met at the large sculpture garden in the Huaxia Culture Park scenic area and planned to go home together.
Qiao Yi Qiao worked even harder than A'mo. He starred in a late-night scene and had dark circles under his eyes.
Ah Mo looked at Qiao Yiqiao with some distress: "Ah Da, you look so haggard."
Although Qiao Yiqiao was very tired, he was inexplicably happy. He smiled and comforted A'mo: "It's okay."
As Ah Mo walked, he rubbed Qiao Yiqiao's shoulders vigorously: "When I make money, I will let Ah Da enjoy a good life at home. Which gang leader would personally take action..."
Qiao Yi Qiao was just about to stop A'mo's impending tears when he suddenly saw the door of a set of scenery nearby open and a man suddenly walked out.
The man was wearing a fisherman's shirt, and it was obvious that he was a member of the director team. He looked at the two of them in surprise.
"Are you... gangsters?"!
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