Li Qingning simply turned his gaze to Zhao Fan who was standing aside.
He also met Meng Fu through this program. Later in Wanmin Village, he deeply realized how difficult it was for a child from the mountains to reach where he is today.
There are many people in the entertainment industry who have negative information about them. If you put together all the negative information about Meng Fu in the entertainment industry, it would be enough to circle the earth. However, through getting along with Meng Fu, Li Qingning felt that all this negative information was fake.
It wasn't just because he felt sorry for Meng Fu, he also felt that Meng Fu was a good match for him, so he kept looking for a role that suited her.
After being in the circle for a long time, Li Qingning naturally knows that only with ability and works in hand can one remain popular for a long time.
Before choosing a role for Meng Fu, Li Qingning specially found Meng Fu's works.
Meng Fu didn't have many works before, and they were all passers-by. Although she has a pretty face, her acting skills are indeed a bit exaggerated. So when Li Qingning was choosing roles for her, he specifically looked for roles that did not require high acting skills.
Including the role of Xuannu, the acting skills do not need to be particularly superb, because Xuannu just needs to be cold.
But even so, given the excellent production level of this movie, the role of Xuannv is irreplaceable, and these three minutes of scenes would have taken at least half a day to shoot.
Who would have thought——
...
...
It's only been fifteen minutes.
Meng Fu only shot it three times, but her lines and expressions far exceeded Director Xu's initial expectations of her.
Zhao Fan had just retracted her gaze. Meng Fu's performance just now really surprised her. She originally thought that Meng Fu would be more comfortable playing a more sassy role like Yan Li, after all, it was closer to her, but she didn't expect that she would be better at playing Xuan Nu, who didn't need many lines.
"Three times," Zhao Fan smiled, "that's not bad."
Li Qingning had already looked away, but when he heard Zhao Fan's words, he couldn't help but turn his gaze to Zhao Fan again: "Are you okay?"
Why do the people who are with Meng Fu talk so much that make people want to beat her up?
Zhao Fan glanced at Li Qingning, "...normal?"
After all, with Director Gao, Meng Fu basically got it done in one take. Of course, that was a TV series, and it can't be compared with this movie.
But seeing Meng Fu do it once was something she was used to, so this time it happened three times, Zhao Fan really felt that it was not so bad and was within her expectations.
Not to mention the three times, even if Meng Fu did it just once this time like she did in the past, Zhao Fan felt that she would not be very surprised.
"Teacher Li, Director Xu," Meng Fu had already finished work and came back. She broke the silence between Li Qingning and Director Xu and asked politely, "Are there any other shots that need to be shot?"
It has been a long time since she finished filming "A Day in the Life of a Star". Before she returns to the "Bourne" crew, she has to go to the Xiangjiang Medicinal Materials Market to find all the herbs and spices she needs.
Apart from these, there is also Tang Ze’s matter.
So after finishing filming Li Qingning's scenes, she was still in a hurry.
"No more," Director Xu had come back to his senses. He looked at Meng Fu and couldn't help but said, "You've acted so well. I think you can stop being an idol and get rid of the label of traffic star as soon as possible."
Hearing Director Xu's words, Zhao Fan nodded. She had the same plan in mind.
"Thank you, Director Xu," Meng Fu nodded, then turned to Li Qingning, who had been silent the whole time, "Are you okay?"
Li Qingning recalled the words he had often seen on the bullet screen in the past two days: "...I am torn apart."
It's okay if you can still talk like this.
Meng Fu ignored Li Qingning and continued to say goodbye to Director Xu before changing her clothes and removing her makeup.
After removing her makeup, Li Qingning was waiting for her outside. "Come on, I'll take you out."
Artists' schedules are always very tight, especially for someone like Xiang Mengfu who has been a hot topic recently. She will probably be approached for various endorsements and variety shows. Li Qingning didn't let her stay to see the veteran actors here.
"Have you ever acted in a costume drama before?" When taking Meng Fu and the others out, Li Qingning couldn't help but look at Meng Fu.
Costume dramas are different from modern and contemporary dramas.
There are many aspects of walking posture, movements, and spirit that require attention and require special training.
When Director Xu asked Meng Fu to audition for the first time, he wanted to see what Meng Fu was lacking in, and then have someone who knew the movements train her specifically.
But unexpectedly, Meng Fu's every move, especially when holding the teacup and the book, was more like an ancient person than Li Qingning.
It feels like she came from some time period in ancient times. It's so natural, without any trace of acting.
Even Director Xu, who strives for perfection, couldn't find any mistakes, so the filming was done so quickly in three takes.
Hearing Li Qingning's question, Zhao Fan couldn't help but look at Meng Fu.
Meng Fu casually pushed the hair on her forehead behind her ears and answered nonchalantly, "No."
Li Qingning also knew that Meng Fu had never acted in this industry. All he saw in the collection of Meng Fu's acting works compiled by netizens were modern and ridiculous dramas, but he still found it strange.
How did she achieve such a natural talent if she had never acted before?
When the group arrived at the entrance of the film and television base, Li Qingning stopped.
"By the way, what kind of perfume do you have?" Li Qingning just remembered this when Meng Fu was about to get in the car. "It's really useful. Where did you buy it and how much did it cost?"
Meng Fu was thinking about the medicinal herbs. Hearing this, she said casually, "I bought it at the night market. It cost ten yuan a bottle."
Ten dollars is a huge sum of money.
Judging from her expression, she didn't seem to be joking.
Moreover, the glass bottle was indeed of poor quality, as if it was purchased from wholesale and didn't even have a label.
Li Qingning believed it.
"It's a bargain price," Li Qingning quickly took out his phone and transferred a thousand yuan to Meng Fu: "Then buy me another hundred bottles. I'll buy one bottle for Director Xu and the others. Their memory is not very good, and there's not much in one bottle. I'll probably use it up in less than half a year. Buy a few more and store them at home."
Meng Fu reacted and looked down at the one thousand yuan that Li Qingning handed over. She: "..."
Finally I realized what it meant to shoot oneself in the foot.
Regardless of whether this is a matter of ten dollars, this kind of perfume, although there is not much in a bottle, is not something that can be easily extracted.
"You collect the money first." Li Qingning urged Meng Fu.
Meng Fu held the phone, then looked up and looked at Li Qingning seriously, "Teacher Li, the old man who set up the stall changed his job because he couldn't sell the perfume."
Li Qingning was stunned. "Changed career?"
"Yes, he went to tell fortunes for someone. I don't know where he is and his output is low. Next time I meet him, I will ask him to bring you two bottles." Meng Fu looked at Li Qingning and nodded.
Li Qingning frowned and thought about it. "He is just old. No one believes him. The packaging of the perfume bottle is not good. No one knows the value of it. It's a waste of talent. You keep the money. When you meet him in the future, give it to him and let him study his stuff well."
After all, not everyone is like Meng Fu and really believes that these perfumes can help improve memory.
Maybe most young people bought it out of pity for the old man, but ten yuan was more expensive than a cup of milk tea for young girls nowadays. Li Qingning felt that those girls didn’t take it seriously after buying it and just threw it away, so it wasn’t selling well.
After all, when he first received the perfume Meng Fu gave him, he didn't take it seriously.
He imagined the miserable situation of the old man, looked up and told Meng Fu: "By the way, if you have his contact information, remember to give it to me, and I will invest in him."
Meng Fu: "...Thank you."
Meng Fu got into the car with heavy steps.
**
"Brother Cheng calls." In the car, Zhao Fan handed the phone to Meng Fu.
Meng Fu put on the blindfold and put the phone to her ear, "Brother Cheng."
"Yeah," Su Cheng put on his headphones, his brows cold, and casually browsed the files on his computer: "When will you be back?"
He always has a low voice and speaks in a straightforward manner; even a question sounds like an affirmation.
"I'm exhausted both physically and mentally," Meng Fu lowered her chair and lay down on it, "I still have some things to deal with. We'll arrive in T City around 11pm."
Su Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "I'll ask Su Di to wait for you at the airport."
Su Di did not follow Meng Fu on the live broadcast this time. Although he was nominally Meng Fu's assistant, in fact, only Zhao Fan knew that she was Meng Fu's real assistant.
Not to mention Su Cheng, Su Di also disappeared for two days from time to time.
Zhao Fan didn't know what he was going to do.
"You have over 10 million followers on Weibo." Su Cheng politely reminded Meng Fu.
Zhao Fan also said last time that Meng Fu seldom sang or danced since joining the girl group, so he asked Meng Fu to perform a few minutes of solo dance as a bonus.
Meng Fu was surprised, "So fast?"
She knows that she has a Weibo account, but she seldom goes online. Her Weibo account is managed by Zhao Fan. She has no original Weibo posts, and only reposts official advertisements.
Someone commented on Meng Fu’s Weibo posts over the past three months:
[It's nothing but advertising.] 】
That's why Zhao Fan asked Meng Fu to perform a solo dance in her welfare video last time.
"Okay," Meng Fu thought for a moment, "I'll try to finish filming when I get back to the crew."
After the two hung up the phone, Su Cheng put down his phone, reached out to take off his headphones, then looked at the computer and reopened WeChat. Zhao Fan's chat interface was still on WeChat.
Su Cheng looked at the several photos sent by Zhao Fan, and his face was still cold and indifferent.
About two minutes later, he exited Zhao Fan's chat page and opened Su Di's avatar.
[Ask Manager Sheng to get ready, we are going to meet him tomorrow.] 】
**
Here, Meng Fu has returned to Xiangjiang River.
It was already late, Zhao Fan accompanied Meng Fu out of the car, looking at the unfamiliar place, and then looking up at the plaque at the intersection that read "Xiangjiang Medicine City". She was a little curious, "Medicine City?"
Meng Fu also got out of the car. She put on MF's hat, looked up at the quaint plaque, and said nothing.
Seems to be in a daze.
"Are you okay?" Zhao Fan called her several times.
"It's okay," Meng Fu came back to her senses, retracted her gaze, and walked inside, "Let's go."
When you enter from the entrance, you can see medicinal herb shops on both sides.
Nowadays, traditional Chinese medicine is on par with western medicine in China. There is also a traditional Chinese medicine research base in Beijing. In addition, several domestic traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are also famous internationally, so there are many Chinese medicine stores in China.
However, Zhao Fan didn't know that there was such a large medicinal material base in Xiangjiang River.
Standing on the street, you can smell the faint scent of medicinal herbs.
The entire medicinal material is very large, and all the streets are in the shape of a "田", which is very regular.
Meng Fu was very purposeful and turned left at the second fork in the road. Zhao Fan noticed it and asked, "Have you been here before?"
"Hmm." Meng Fu stopped in front of a large medicinal materials store and said "hmm" lightly.
Zhao Fan tilted his head in surprise.
When she met Meng Fu two years ago, she had just dropped out of school and was very unfamiliar with T City and the entertainment industry, which was very consistent with her image as someone who came from the "Wanmin Village".
Xiangjiang River is some distance away from T City, and it takes some time to get there by train or plane.
Meng Fu hadn't even been to T City two years ago, so how did he get here?
Meng Fu was not afraid of Zhao Fan's inquiry. She pushed her hat down and walked straight into the herbal medicine store.
There are small drawers for medicinal herbs on three sides of the herbal medicine store, and the scientific names and serial numbers of the herbs are engraved on the outside of the drawers.
The order of placement is based on the order of the medicinal materials.
Zhao Fan took a look and found that there were 699 serial numbers, big and small. She was a little surprised. It was the first time she saw so many medicinal herbs.
There were still a few individual customers in the herbal medicine store.
The middle-aged man sitting at the cashier counter was reading a book. When he saw another customer coming, he raised his eyes slightly and said in a non-enthusiastic voice: "Look around. Tell me the serial number of the herb you want."
After saying this, he continued to read with his head down.
The other individual customers were not surprised by the attitude of the herbal medicine store manager, and Meng Fu was also used to it.
She did not go to look at the medicinal materials like the other tourists, but walked directly to the man in the middle and reported the twelve serial numbers, "62, 109...711, 769, 898."
Beside him, Zhao Fan patted Meng Fu's shoulder and reminded her quietly, "There are only 699 kinds of medicinal herbs here at most."
The three types that Meng Fu reported later all exceeded the sequence number.
"Grind into powder, 711, 150 grams, and the others, measure by one portion." Meng Fu looked past the middle-aged man and looked behind him.
The middle-aged man turned on the computer and typed the medicinal materials Meng Fu needed on the order number. At first, he typed down the number Meng Fu reported indifferently, until Meng Fu reported the number 711. He paused, looked up at Meng Fu, and held up his glasses. "Sir, do you need the medicinal materials 711, 769 and 898?"
Zhao Fan, who was standing next to Meng Fu, discovered that the middle-aged man, who had always had a dull expression, became much more respectful when he heard Meng Fu report the last three numbers.
Meng Fu tapped the table with his fingers, "Hurry up."
"Please wait a moment." The middle-aged man quickly dialed three numbers, then pressed the call button and went to prepare the materials Meng Fu needed in person.
Only then did Zhao Fan realize that Meng Fu was right. Some of the medicinal herbs here were not kept in the open.
But she was puzzled by the middle-aged man's attitude.
Is there anything odd about these last three herbs?
Five minutes later, the middle-aged man took the herbs.
It didn't look like much, so it was packed in a wooden box. Meng Fu reached out to take it, then turned to Zhao Fan and said seriously, "Sister Fan, the money for the herbs will be deducted from your salary."
Zhao Fan took out the card and swiped it for Meng Fu, and planned to go back and give it to Su Cheng to show him, so that he would remember to deduct the money from Meng Fu.
It was just Chinese medicinal herbs, so Zhao Fan originally thought that there wouldn't be much money.
When it showed that a ten-digit amount had been deducted, Zhao Fan raised his head and looked at Meng Fu: "..."
She finally understood why Meng Fu asked her to brush it.
When the two of them went out, the middle-aged man behind them personally escorted Meng Fu and Zhao Fan out with a very warm and respectful attitude.
"Boss," the staff at the herbal medicine store who was handling the herbs finished processing Yao Ci. Seeing the boss's attitude, he was very shocked and puzzled: "Is that customer our platinum user?"
As the largest pharmacy in the entire medicine city, the staff naturally knew the ins and outs of the store, and they also knew that their store was connected to the auction house.
Their boss rarely appears in the store, unless there are platinum-level customers, their boss will come out to receive them.
But just now...
The female customer did not take out her platinum card, not even a regular membership card.
"You don't understand." The middle-aged man just glanced at the staff and shook his head.
The medicinal materials after 700 are all the raw materials for spices needed by special perfumers. They will naturally not be sold to ordinary people, so they will not be put on the table. The female customer just now was able to report the last three serial numbers, which means that she remembers all the raw materials after 700.
Ordinary people naturally cannot remember these raw materials. Only perfumers can know them.
Or someone close to the perfumer.
The status of perfumers has always been noble. The raw materials they use are basically carefully selected from the medicinal materials market, and few people will come here to buy them in person.
It's so difficult to meet a perfumer, even middle-aged men have only met one a few times.
"Dragon bone incense, golden wood..." The middle-aged man looked at Meng Fu's back as he left and murmured, "What kind of spice is this?"
He has also come into contact with many kinds of incense, but so far he has not found any spice that requires the use of Jin Yanmu, because the properties of Jin Yanmu cannot be integrated with other spices at all.
The Zhong Nian man retracted his gaze and made a phone call, "Hello, Lao Jin, is there a new young female apprentice in the Xiang Association?"
**
This way.
Meng Fu also arrived at T City Airport.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, there were not many people in the airport and the lights were very bright.
Zhao Fan saw the car coming to pick them up from afar.
The person in the car seemed to have seen them as well, and got out of the driver's seat and stood on the side of the road.
The other person was wearing a beige sweater and gray trousers. She had a tall and straight figure. Under the airport headlights, she looked extremely beautiful, but she had a cold aura and passers-by did not dare to look at her for long.
"Brother Cheng? Why are you here?" Zhao Fan was a little surprised.
Su Cheng sat in the driver's seat, his slender fingers resting on the steering wheel, "Just in time," he looked towards the back seat, "Manager Sheng will be here at nine tomorrow."
Meng Fu held the box and yawned, "Okay."
Zhao Fan thought Manager Sheng came to discuss Meng Fu's matter, so he didn't care and nodded, "I'll go directly to the branch tomorrow."
Su Cheng was driving in front.
Meng Fu had a nap on the plane and was not sleepy. On her phone, Li Qingning sent her a WeChat message asking if she had arrived.
It was sent an hour ago. Meng Fu was on the plane and turned off the internet so she didn’t see it. She just saw it now.
It was eleven ten now, and Meng Fu did not call Li Qingning, but just sent him a message -
[Just arrived.] 】
After replying to this message, she scrolled down her WeChat account and saw several messages she received on the plane, from Director Xu.
[I recommended the postcards of Fangzhong Town to you]
Xu: [This person insists on adding you. 】
Last time when it came to Yi Tong, Director Xu mentioned Yi Tong, but today he just said "this person" indifferently.
Meng Fu raised an eyebrow, then clicked on the postcard and sent a friend request.
She originally wanted to ask Director Xu about the role of Li Qingning, but it was too late now, so she didn't send a message and planned to wait until tomorrow to ask Director Xu.
After replying these, she wanted to turn off her phone, but a new message popped up on her phone -
Teacher Li: [You arrived so late? 】
Are you still awake so late?
Meng Fu didn't expect that Li Qingning was still awake, so she replied that she bought the plane ticket late, and then she remembered about introducing him to the role, so she asked first -
[Teacher Li, I might introduce you to a movie role, do you want to go? 】
On the other side of the phone, Li Qingning had just finished filming his last scene.
Because he was filming a variety show these two days, his role was somewhat delayed.
He was currently removing his makeup and chatting with his agent, and when he heard Meng Fu's words, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"This child still knows how to respect me." Li Qingning reached out and took off his outer robe.
Seeing him like this, the agent asked, "Is it Meng Fu?"
"Well, she said she wanted to introduce me to a movie resource." Li Qingning said this with some emotion, "
"Introducing resources to you? It must be because you've taken care of her for so long." Hearing Li Qingning say this, the agent also laughed. He couldn't help but shook his head, "This kid has a grateful heart, but he thinks too much. How can you lack resources?"
There are many people waiting for Li Qingning to make a movie.
If Meng Fu wants to introduce resources to Li Qingning, she will have to wait at least ten years. Now, the agent doesn't take Meng Fu's suggestion of introducing resources to Li Qingning seriously.
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