Li Yunshu quickly stood up and went to greet him, "Hey, Director Jiang, you're here. Why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming so that I could pick you up."
Deputy Director Jiang smiled and waved his hands, "Don't answer it. What happened? I saw these young comrades were shouting, what are you going to change?"
Li Yunshu's eyes twitched, and she denied it, "It's nothing. Deputy Director Jiang, please come to my office and sit down. I'll make you a cup of coffee."
Li Yunshu wanted to take Deputy Director Jiang and the others away from this place of trouble as soon as possible.
"We have something to do." Qiu Shuang said loudly.
The others followed suit: "Yes, we have something to do."
Li Yunshu clenched her back teeth. What on earth do they want to do?
Do you still want to make trouble in front of Deputy Director Jiang and prevent her, the head of the group, from coming to Taiwan?
Do they still want to stay in the drama troupe in the future?
Li Yunshu looked at Tai Qiu Shuang and the others threateningly, warning them not to talk nonsense.
"Oh, what's the matter? Tell me." Deputy Director Jiang walked to the place where Li Yunshu used to sit and sat down, looking like he was listening carefully.
Qiu Shuang spoke boldly under the troupe leader's death stare, "Zhou Xue's acting is poor. She is the leading actress in a drama, but she can't even remember all the lines. The troupe leader let her play the leading role. We are not convinced."
Li Yunshu's eyes went dark, and it was obvious that her intimidating look had no effect.
"That's right, we don't accept it." Chen Lu followed up, "Not long ago, Zhou Xue forgot her lines on stage, and if Qiu Shuang hadn't come to the rescue, it would have caused a performance accident! With such unprofessionalism, why can she continue to be the leading role in the new drama?"
"That's right. Zhou Xue always comes last and leaves first during every rehearsal. We can all recite the script by heart, but she can't even remember the lines for her role. It's unfair to let us, the actors who rehearse hard and memorize the script seriously, to play the A role."
"Yes, it's unfair. How can someone so unprofessional still play the leading role every time?"
The actors were talking at once, all accusing the troupe of injustice.
"Captain Li, what do you say?" Deputy Director Jiang looked at Li Yunshu and asked. Although there was still a smile on his face, the smile did not reach his eyes.
Li Yunshu swallowed hard and said, "Zhou Xue is a very good actress and has a lot of talent. It was a unanimous decision of our group leaders to let her play the A role."
"It's inevitable that actors will forget their lines sometimes. Who can never make mistakes? Don't you think so?"
Deputy Director Jiang nodded, looked at the stage and asked, "Who is the B-lead in this play?"
"It's me." Qiu Shuang came out.
She is obviously prettier than Zhou Xue and has better acting skills than Zhou Xue, but she is Zhou Xue's substitute B role.
Deputy Director Jiang looked at Li Yunshu and said, "Then let's say Zhou Xue, who has great acting skills, follows a B-role and performs the same scene. Let's see who has better acting skills and whether your casting is fair, Captain Li."
Li Yunshu: “…”
Ah this...
Zhou Xue's acting skills are not as stable as Qiu Shuang's. In this situation, if the two of them compete in acting, Zhou Xue may be more likely to get into trouble.
"Are you the director?" Deputy Director Jiang asked the director.
The latter nodded, "Yes."
"Then you choose a play and let them perform it."
"good."
The director watched the opera and selected a scene with the climax and the most emotional outburst for Zhou Xue and Qiu Shuang to perform.
"Let Qiu Shuang start first." Li Yunshu suggested. She wanted to give Zhou Xue more time to prepare.
The others could see what she was thinking, but Qiu Shuang was not afraid and said directly, "Okay, I'll go first."
This play is about a girl's childhood sweetheart who sacrificed himself to save a child who fell into the water. The girl rushed to the scene after hearing the news and cried bitterly when she saw her lover's body.
The actor who played the corpse was lying in the middle of the stage. Qiu Shuang stumbled out from behind the scenes, and when she saw the actor's corpse, she fell to the ground and crawled towards the corpse step by step.
She used trembling fingers to feel Aixiao's breath, and only when she was sure that Aixiao was indeed dead did she start to cry. She clutched her chest with both hands, and opened her mouth but could not cry out.
After a long time, he finally threw himself on his beloved and cried out loudly, his cry was as sad as the cuckoo's cry of blood.
Many actors, including Deputy Director Jiang, were moved by Qiu Shuang's acting skills and their eyes were red.
After Qiu Shuang finished her performance, she bowed to the stage and retreated behind the scenes.
After a while, Zhou Xue finally walked out from behind the scenes, stumbling over to the actor with an exaggerated expression, then knelt on the ground and howled at the top of her lungs.
"Ah, Brother Dachui, why did you just abandon me?"
He howled for a long time without squeezing out a single tear, and his teeth were bared, his features were all flying around, and Deputy Director Jiang and his entourage were all silent.
"I, I'm done." Zhou Xue wiped her face, without a single tear, and said while pinching the hem of her clothes.
Qiu Shuang also stepped out from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.
Deputy Director Jiang turned his head and looked at Li Yunshu, "Captain Li, is this what you mean by acting and aura?"
"She, she obviously saw that you, Deputy Director Jiang, were too nervous and didn't perform well." Li Yunshu said stubbornly.
Deputy Director Jiang laughed, "She got nervous when she saw us. When the show started, there were still a few people sitting in the performance hall. She has a higher position than me, and there are many cadres who come to your drama troupe to watch the drama. Wouldn't she be even more nervous? How can she perform on stage?"
Li Yunshu: "This..."
She didn't know how to argue.
Deputy Director Jiang said: "This actress's performance is obviously not up to standard, and she is not capable of being the leading role. Captain Li, can you tell me why you must choose her as the leading role?"
"It is the unanimous agreement of our group leaders..."
Before Li Yunshu finished speaking, the screenwriter waved her hand and said, "I have raised objections every time, thinking that Zhou Xue is not qualified for such an important role. It was you, Captain Li, who overcame all objections and made the final decision on Zhou Xue."
The director also said: "I also mentioned that Zhou Xue is not suitable."
Li Yunshu: “…”
"So, Captain Li, why did you go against the crowd and choose someone who has no ability and has played the A role many times?" Deputy Director Jiang continued to look at Li Yunshu and asked.
Li Yunshu: "I..."
Deputy Director Jiang: "Or do you have any deal?"
Li Yunshu's brain exploded, and she quickly denied it, "Of course not."
"Really?" Deputy Director Jiang asked with a smile, but that smile was a little cold.
"According to our investigation, this comrade Zhou Xue has given you gifts more than ten times. And she has only been in the drama troupe for two years, and she has already played the leading role in a drama. Do you dare to say that there is no transaction between you two?"
investigation?
Hearing these two words, Li Yunshu was shocked. Why investigate her?
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