Chapter 54

The performance was short but wonderful.

The actress who played the empress played the roles of two people. In the plot, the heroine heard the parrot mimicking and after obtaining evidence, she brought the emperor to Changning Palace for questioning. The palace maid hesitated, but the parrot raised by the empress revealed the conspiracy.

The queen was still aloof and reserved in the last second, and the palace maid with red eyes in the next second: "The queen--"

As if a switch had been turned on, the Big Head began to speak: "The Queen Mother said that if there is no one in the lotus pond at midnight tonight, then... Gah!"

Bai Gaoxing was stunned. It was the same dialogue, except this time he omitted a word.

So why is it always ga?

He curiously stuck his head out and looked up, trying to hear if this "fellow bird" was speaking bird language.

Huang Shaqing said dejectedly, "Director Sun, just watch."

Director Sun sighed with a headache and said to Li Pu: "This is the current situation. As long as Da Bai can remember those lines quickly, Da Brain can be replaced."

He paused, "Dabai just arrived, the ring

I am not familiar with the environment and I don’t know if it can handle it… So, your performance will be postponed to tomorrow. When Xiao Yi takes care of it, you can also watch over it. This way, you can rest assured.”

Li Pu lowered his head slightly. Inside the cage, the snow-white parrot seemed unaware of the important responsibility it had shouldered and was very curious about another parrot of the same kind.

After looking at it for a while, Li Pu retracted his gaze and said, "Okay."

Afterwards, Bai Gaoxing was taken by Li Pu and followed the instructor on a tour around Changning Palace and its vicinity.

The trainer made a point of getting him familiar with the entrance to Changning Palace and the nearby flower bushes - this would be where he would be hung high up, and then the nearby doors and roads - it was said that this was just in case, if he really flew, he would still be able to remember the nearby scenes.

Soon, Bai Gaoxing was taken back to the bird house.

The first thing he did was to be released. He stretched his wings and listened openly to the conversation between the owner and the trainer.

"That's right." The trainer Xiao Yi said solemnly, "During the filming, Dabai will definitely not be locked in a cage like this. He will be on a rack without bars, just like the one that Big Head is standing on today."

He took a sample, which was a golden hanging stand with only one horizontal bar and two vertical bars, hanging with golden chains of the same texture. The two ends were circled with gold wire, and a jade cup was placed inside.

"Dabai is kept in a cage at home, right? We need to quickly get him used to this method, otherwise he won't be able to get used to it in a short period of time and will fly around randomly—"

"It's free at home." Li Pu said suddenly.

"Ah?" Xiao Yi was stunned, then repeated in disbelief: "Raised in the wild?"

"You let a sycamore tree run free?"

Li Pu thought his attitude was a little strange, "What's wrong?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Yi's expression was a little tangled. "Wutong is a parrot that is on par with Kuihua in terms of its ability to destroy a house. Moreover, because the Zongqi Wutong lives in groups, adults, especially when they are active, will build nests and can turn a house upside down."

He asked tentatively, "Is everything ok at home?"

I thought I would see Li Pu's anxious expression, but I didn't expect the man to just glance at him calmly, with a hint of doubt in his eyes, "It's okay, Dabai has never made trouble at home."

Except for the time when the electricity bill went up for no apparent reason, Li Pu added in his heart.

"That Dabai is simply an angel!" Xiao Yi was extremely surprised and exclaimed at Bai Gaoxing.

It's too loud!

Bai Gaoxing was startled and blushed at the description.

The next second, he heard Li Pho's smiling voice: "You can say that."

Bai Gaoxing turned his head away and shook his feather crown.

Afterwards, Li Pho brought the golden bird stand over and said, "Just let it go up?"

"Yes, let Dabai get familiar with the cage first, and then take it for a walk in the house. After it is put on the chain and will not fly around, you can take it outside for a walk." Xiao Yi said on the side.

Bai Gaoxing glanced at the cage twice, stretched out his claws to test it, and then stood on it.

Mainly want to know if this is real gold...

Bai Gaoxing pecked at the rack tentatively, and a pair of slender and powerful hands took the opportunity to reach over and fasten the gold ring of the cage necklace onto his other bare leg.

Bai Gaoxing: “…”

bow your head.

It's so symmetrical! It's just like an orange!

But Li Pu seemed very satisfied and rubbed his head, leaving some warmth.

Then I heard Li Pu answer the instructor: "Probably not."

"When I took it downstairs before, it never flew around."

As if to prove his words, Bai Gaoxing stopped moving after standing on the shelf, and allowed Li Pu to carry him around the room several times.

Even when I opened the door and walked into the yard, the parrot did not panic and continued to stand there quietly.

The instructor who watched the whole process was thoughtful, "At this rate... I feel like we can just go outside."

He suggested tentatively: "Brother Li, should we get a little closer? Use this to take Dabai out for a spin?"

So within half a day, I went out for the second time.

Unlike the last time when he carried the cage casually, Bai Gaoxing could feel that Li Pu was very careful this time, even raising his arm slightly to keep the cage from shaking too much.

The man seemed very afraid that he would fly around. He was probably frightened by what the instructor said: "I have seen birds in other crews fly hard when frightened and their legs were pulled and injured."

I really want to tell him not to worry, but unfortunately he has a criminal record.

Bai Gaoxing recalled the time when he secretly followed Li Pu up and down the stairs, and he completely felt the man's panic, so much so that he felt embarrassed to fly a few times afterwards.

Thinking of this, Bai Gaoxing couldn't help but raise his paw, feeling that the chain was real, and it was quite heavy when tied around his leg.

After walking for only a few dozen meters, the instructor following them suddenly received a phone call, and then came over and said he was leaving.

"Sorry, Brother Li, the director wants to talk to me about something, so I'll go over first." He looked at Bai Gaoxing and said, "Dabai has adapted well, you take him to crowded places. In addition to the scenes with lines, he will have to shoot a few more shots. There are a lot of people in those shots, so let him get familiar with them in advance. Then I'll come teach him the lines in the afternoon!"

Now there are only two of them left.

Bai Gaoxing stretched his wings, looked up at the man, and said crisply: "Go out and play?"

This is something he used to say often. It's been a long time since he last said it, and he's still a little uncomfortable with it.

Li Pu was stunned for a moment, then a hint of smile appeared in his eyes, "Let's go out and play. I'll take you with me this time."

Here, the two of them were enjoying a peaceful time together. Meanwhile, trainer Xiao Yi and the director discussed how to help Dabai memorize his lines quickly.

"The shortest learning record for this group of parrots is three days, set by Big Head. I estimate that it will take Dabai at least two or three days." Xiao Yi said.

"If it really doesn't work, the lines can be shortened." Director Sun frowned solemnly, "Try to get Dabai to join the filming within three days. As long as he can say the lines, it will be considered a success. Fluency can be practiced later."

"Okay, I'll try my best to teach it."

Xiao Yi nodded and continued to talk to Director Sun about the teaching plan for Da Bai. Before leaving, Xiao Yi couldn't help but comfort him, "Da Bai is very smart and can adapt quickly. Maybe he can adapt faster than Da Nao. Two days is possible."

"I'm confident in leaving it to you."

After responding like this, Director Sun sighed deeply as he watched the instructor leave.

To be honest, after calming down, he didn't dare to have too high expectations.

He invited Dabai to come here just because he wanted to seize the opportunity and give it his best try.

The crew borrowed a lot of parrots for the role, most of whom had acting experience. Even so, only a few parrots could say all the lines, not to mention how long it took to teach them.

When he first learned that Big Brain had memorized the lines in just three days and stood out from the crowd of parrots, he was surprised and even assigned an extra trainer to teach him.

But I didn't expect that once I really started shooting, there would be accidents every time, as if a tape was stuck, with a click here or there.

If it was just a "ga", it would be fine if you could recite the lines, at least it would have a sense of reality. But the "ga" of the big head would stop reciting the lines after the "ga" and just stand there in a daze.

From then on, whenever he thought about the feeling of unfulfilled expectations, he felt a little panicked.

Director Sun took a deep breath, took off his hat and scratched his hair vigorously.

I hope it really works this time.

…

At 2:00 p.m., the dialogue teaching started on time.

"Generally speaking, breeds that are good at learning to speak can quickly learn a word. The difficulty lies in the fact that Dabai needs to say sentences instead of a few simple words."

The instructor took the script and pointed it to Li Pu: "For example, the line that Big Head said is, 'The Queen Mother said, if there is no one in the lotus pond at midnight tonight, he will be punished!'"

Bai Gaoxing was stunned for a moment. There are only two words at the end?

The trainer smiled and said, "Originally it was 'not a good death', but Director Sun was afraid that the parrot would learn to say something unpleasant, so he changed it."

"..." That's right, which owner wants to hear his parrot whispering in his ear every day? Bai Gaoxing glanced at Li Pu subconsciously.

The man sitting on the sofa nodded and motioned to continue.

"Then, when teaching, we will first repeat the whole sentence to the parrot many times so that it will have the awareness of 'listening'. Please note that it cannot be interrupted here, because they do not understand the order. If it is interrupted, it is easy to speak it upside down." The trainer continued.

"When Dabai consciously wants to learn pronunciation and starts to utter ambiguous words, the first step of the goal is achieved."

Li Pu pondered, "How long will it take to be able to pronounce?"

"Brother Li, you don't know?" Xiao Yi was surprised. "Don't you remember how long it takes Dabai to speak clearly at home?"

Before Dabai joined the team, as a trainer, he had already learned the specific content of the parrot's speech. I have to say, you can tell that Dabai is very proficient in speaking. I wonder how much effort the person who taught him put in to teach him so well. -_-!This-_-!work-_-!is-_-!created-_-!by-_-!

"No." Li Pu said calmly, "Every time it speaks, it speaks fluently."

???

Xiao Yi looked at the big white parrot on the shelf in shock.

Is it possible? It can't be the master filter, right?

But he still decided to believe it once. "It depends on talent. Every parrot is different. The smart ones take about three to seven days." He paused, "Then I'll start."

"Okay." Li Pu nodded.

Bai Gaoxing watched the young instructor slowly walk up to him, squatted down and looked at him, and said in the gentlest tone possible: "Dabai, you should pay attention in class later."

Well... I'll try my best to cooperate with you within a less scary range.

Bai Gaoxing stroked his chin, wondering how many days it would take to learn it normally.

Three days? Five days? A week?

Or maybe we should do it later to avoid scaring people.

But the instructor encouraged him, "Keep going, you can only try filming after you have memorized everything, otherwise you won't even have the chance to see the camera."

So strict! ?

Bai Gaoxing's feather crown trembled for a moment, and he decided to get it done within three days.

The instructor taught very seriously. Bai Gaoxing would tease him occasionally and say some irrelevant words, but soon he uttered the four words "Empress Dowager" in a very interesting way.

"It's much faster than expected." The trainer exhaled, "Next..."

“What the hell!!!”

Li Pu was looking down at the script when he suddenly heard a heart-wrenching creaking sound, followed by a cry with extremely clear enunciation.

He raised his head quickly and saw a shocking scene: the instructor who was fine just now was now holding up his hands in a panic, and the big white parrot was flapping its wings wildly and trying to fly up, while its claws were pulling his hair.

In the room, bird feathers and head hair fell together.

Li Pho hurriedly stood up and came to the instructor's side, calling Da Bai while reaching out to grab it and holding it in his arms. After finally comforting it in his arms, Li Pho looked up and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Yi rubbed his burning scalp with a grimace, but there was no blood. "It's okay, maybe Dabai is still scared."

How dare you say that!

Bai Gaoxing nestled in Li Pu's arms and glared at him.

God knows how horrible it was for him to see this man who was talking to him peacefully one second and then hugged him and kissed him the next!

Pervert?!

Seeing Li Pu's still puzzled expression, Xiao Yi pressed the stinging corner of his mouth again and explained, "I originally wanted Da Bai to feel the feeling of pronouncing words, and the vibration of the vocal cords can also stimulate the parrot's pronunciation, but it started kicking me."

"But," he raised his thumb, "that 'what are you doing' was a good one."

"...Dabai may not be very adaptable to contact with strangers." After listening to this reason for a while, Li Pu spoke.

"That's right. After all, this is only the first day." Xiao Yi decided to give up this plan today. "I'll get to know Dabai better later."

Li Pu thought about it, picked up the snow-white parrot in his arms and took a look. He felt that the pair of wet eyes were very pitiful.

He looked at the bird grooming

The trainer took a look, stroked the edge of the parrot's feathers, and said, "Let me try."

“That’s OK…?” The trainer was stunned. It was the first time he saw a celebrity willing to teach in person. He felt that this might be the difference between being a tool bird and someone who really takes care of the child, so he started to teach him how to do it.

"Put your mouth on the beak and let it feel the breath and the vibration of the throat." Xiao Yi pointed to his Adam's apple to indicate where Li Pu was.

Before Bai Gaoxing could react, he saw Li Pu getting closer and closer.

Seeing such a face at such a close distance was truly shocking. His breathing stagnated and he forgot to struggle, and had no consciousness to struggle.

Then something soft touched the side of his face.

"Like this?"

A deep voice, and... a warm breath.

Then, a soft touch brushed across his face, and his head was pressed against some slightly hard raised area.

Ah…ah…!

Bai Gaoxing pressed his lips against Li Pu's Adam's apple, feeling his body temperature, vibrations and pulse, his mind going blank.

His mind gradually became empty, and his body became stiffer. Later on, he no longer knew what he was saying, and could only answer subconsciously...

…

evening.

Director Sun sat in front of the monitor, flipping through the marked script. After a busy day, he finally had some free time to explain the play to Dabai, and he couldn't help but wonder if the instructor had made any progress today.

Turning around, I saw Xiao Yi walking in hurriedly from the door.

His heart skipped a beat, and he had an uneasy feeling. "What's wrong?"

"It's Dabai...it..." His expression was indescribable.

really.

Director Sun's mood dropped, and the light in his eyes slowly dimmed.

He sighed, thinking of too many previous failures, and his mood completely fell to the bottom, so he sat back at the table.

He even slowly picked up the thermos cup and glanced at the instructor who looked strange, "Just tell me."

Whether he couldn't utter a word or was incoherent and uncooperative, he was mentally prepared.

Xiao Yi was so confused and shocked that he could hardly organize his words. After a while, he stuttered and said:

"Dabai has memorized all the lines."