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Chapter 182
Rong Yu was born into a family of opera performers and learned opera performance from his elders since childhood. After leaving the warehouse at the age of seventeen or eighteen, he went south again.
The inexperienced Rong Yu encountered a shady agency contract as soon as he arrived in the south. He didn't have Wei Sheng's experience or Bai Jing's resilience. After discovering the true face of the agency... he suffered a lot. In the end, the agency was afraid that someone would get hurt, so they held the agency contract to him.
He was not assigned a job, nor was he allowed to look for a job privately.
After four or five years of being buried in the cold, the Weisheng incident hit. The agency's boss was imprisoned, the agency collapsed, and the contract, which had been weighing on Rong Yu like a mountain and was now worthless, became worthless.
Afterwards, Rong Yu returned to his hometown first, and only then did he enter the entertainment industry through the introduction of his family.
He studied opera from a young age. Though his voice is hoarse, his every smile, every gesture, and every expression are the product of years of practice. Not to mention his command of dialogue is unmatched by many non-professional actors. This man truly thrives in the entertainment industry through genuine talent, not just his good looks.
After the director finished shooting this scene, he was about to go back indoors. He saw the big boss sitting and talking with a pretty girl. The girl was wearing a "costume", so he thought the big boss was going to squeeze someone into his crew.
In later generations, people wearing cheongsam and Hanfu can be seen everywhere on the streets, but it is extremely rare to wear cheongsam as casual clothes at this time.
When a beautiful woman wearing a cheongsam appears in a film and television studio, everyone's first reaction is which drama the actress is from. It's no wonder that the director of a Republican drama would have such an idea.
The director felt a little unhappy, but thinking that the boss was usually quite reasonable, he thought that there must be a reason for his behavior today, so he went over.
Just when I was about to give Weisheng a commercial compliment, the big boss introduced Weisheng to the director very solemnly.
"This is Bai Qing, Doctor Bai."
Bai Qing?
Why does this name sound so familiar?
"Oh, you're Doctor Bai!" The director was slow to remember why the name sounded so familiar, and his attitude instantly changed 180 degrees. "I've heard a lot about you!"
I have indeed heard of your name for a long time.
Back then, the incident was a major event, affecting a wide range of people. The entire entertainment industry felt like it was struck by a disaster. Not to mention the director, there weren't many people in the entertainment industry who didn't know the name Bai Qing.
Now that he had met the real person, the director could understand why that bastard had resorted to threats and inducements, but at the same time he was a little curious about why Weisheng had joined their circle again.
Seeing that the big boss and Weisheng had very good attitudes, the director asked his doubts.
Weisheng naturally wouldn't say that he came to the entertainment industry to plow the land. After thinking about it, he came up with his relatively tenable reason of curiosity to fool people.
The director was also a wonderful person. After listening to Weisheng's reasons, he smiled and asked him about his own problems.
Lately, I've been experiencing occasional numbness in my arms and legs, or when I exert force suddenly. Sometimes I also get headaches and feel dizzy. "...Can you tell me what's wrong with me? Do I need any medicine?"
After hearing this, Weisheng gestured to the director to pass his hand to her, and the director obediently passed his hand to Weisheng to feel his pulse.
After a while, Weisheng withdrew his hand and said in a steady and confident tone: "This is a precursor to a cerebral infarction. It was discovered in time, so no surgery is needed. You can adopt a treatment plan that mainly uses Western medicine and supplements with Chinese medicine..."
As she spoke, she opened the small handbag she had brought with her and took out a small and exquisite notebook. She first wrote down the name of the Western medicine on it, and then wrote down a Chinese medicine prescription. After tearing off both pages and handing them to the director, she said to him:
"Tomorrow morning, on an empty stomach, go to the county hospital for a blood test and an X-ray. Tomorrow evening, I'll go to your place and give you acupuncture. Seven days of acupuncture shouldn't leave any sequelae. Okay?"
Weisheng paused, then turned to Xu Guangyuan and said with a smile, "Since I'm your man, I'll ask you for my consultation fee."
"Don't worry, as long as Lao Gao can be cured, I will pay any amount of money." Xu Guangyuan said while praising Weisheng for his cleverness and insight in his heart.
When Weisheng heard this, he just tilted his head and said with a cute smile: "With your words, I feel relieved."
"Then I'll leave Lao Gao in your care. When Lao Gao gets better, I'll thank you handsomely!"
After listening to the conversation, Director Lao Gao said: "..."
Look at all this singing and drinking. If I don’t work hard to film for the big boss, I will be unworthy of this friendship.
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Weisheng was curious about how the director shot the film and even went up to him to see how he held the camera. Seeing Weisheng's curiosity, the director would explain to him how many different shots there were and how to shoot them when he was not busy.
After spending most of the day on set, Weisheng looked up at the sky and said to the director and Xu Guangyuan, "It's raining too hard tonight."
"rain?"
"Will it rain tonight?"
The director and Xu Guangyuan asked in surprise, then looked at Weisheng in unison, "Is it what the weather forecast said?"
"No." Weisheng shook his head, "I figured it out myself."
ah?
The director and Xu Guangyuan exchanged a glance, then looked at Weisheng in unison, "You even understand this?"
Weisheng: "I've learned some meteorological knowledge on my own before, and my accuracy is... not bad."
Director/Xu Guangyuan: “…”
Xu Guangyuan thought about how Weisheng had looked at Rong Yu several times today. Regardless of whether it would rain tonight or not, he decided to invite the director and several leading actors to have dinner together.
The director was thinking that if it really rained tonight, it would be a perfect opportunity to film the scene where the hero's family was wiped out by the warlords.
As for Weisheng, she did look at Rong Yu several times today, but after finding that Rong Yu did not agree with her request, she no longer paid attention to Rong Yu.
From Rong Yu's body language, Weisheng could tell he loved his job as an actor. Weisheng didn't discriminate against the job, but she couldn't accept her actor constantly showing affection and love to other women in film and television dramas, even engaging in physical contact.
Seeing the director hesitate, he didn't want to waste his time on someone so insignificant, so he smiled and said to Xu Guangyuan, "Let's do it another day. I prescribed some medicine for you before I came. You must avoid alcohol while taking it."
Xu Guangyuan understood Weisheng's meaning. Seeing that she had no interest in Rongyu, he followed her advice and took Weisheng back to the county town.
In the car, Xu Guangyuan asked Weisheng what he had gained today. Weisheng thought for a while and talked about the huge profits in the boxed lunch fast food industry.
With so many crews and extras in the film and television city, the profit from four meals a day, including breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks, is definitely not a small amount.
The film and television studio is located in Jiangnan, where the cost of vegetables and other ingredients is extremely low. The boxed lunches and fast food are mainly sold to film crews, whose filming schedules vary. If you can win these orders, you can earn as much as you would from selling electronics.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Having more side jobs can also help share the risk.
"I read a financial report last month that said costs in the restaurant industry account for roughly 30%-45% of total revenue. If the cost of a boxed lunch is 50% of revenue, then a 2 yuan boxed lunch nets at least 1 yuan in profit. This afternoon, I took a quick look at the number of boxed lunches our crew had, and there were probably 300 of them.
I heard that's when there's less people, like when they're filming a big show, with lots of crew, actors, and extras. ...Don't think one or two yuan is too little. If there are ten crews ordering three meals a day, that's at least three hundred servings per meal."
150 yuan x 3 meals x 10 crews x 30 days
4,500 yuan a day, that’s 135,000 yuan a month.
If there were more crew members, and we ordered more food, and if we added a midnight snack...
Xu Guangyuan, sitting next to Weisheng, and Che Xueyi, sitting in the passenger seat, couldn't help but mentally calculate what Weisheng had said. Weisheng, noticing they were pondering his words, stopped talking. Only when the car pulled up to Xu's house did Weisheng add, "Most Chinese people like to compare prices before buying anything. If you really want to do this business, why not open a few more stores, like Xu's, Guang's, Yuan's... and run promotions from time to time? People who don't know would think you're just competing against each other."
Xu Guangyuan/Che Xueyi: ...This idea is a bit damaging.
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The next day, Xu Guangyuan and Che Xueyi began to think about the fast food business, while Weisheng continued to travel to and from the film and television city with the secretary and driver arranged by Xu Guangyuan.
However, when she went to the film and television city again, Weisheng no longer wore her own cheongsam.
She found Director Lao Gao and asked him to inform the costume and makeup department to take a few photos of her wearing the costumes from the Republican drama.
After that, Weisheng not only wore the costumes of Lao Gao's drama, but also wore costumes from many other crews with Lao Gao's help. With the makeup done by the crew, she did a lot of shooting in the film and television city.
Weisheng is beautiful, so there is no need to consider the character setting when doing her makeup. The makeup teachers all know that Weisheng is there purely for taking photos, so they just do whatever makes her look good.
Therefore, every time he creates a look, Weisheng can give people a sense of surprise.
Although they knew that Weisheng was just here for fun, many directors still persuaded him to play a supporting role "for fun".
If there is a role like that of a white moonlight who dies early, or a role that happens to be a miracle doctor who cures diseases, as long as it does not affect the character she has worked hard to build, she would really be willing to play it.
The most interesting thing is that Weisheng had previously guest-starred as a disciple of a miracle doctor, where she performed her secret acupuncture skills on the old emperor. Coincidentally, the actor who played the old emperor was old and had suffered from many illnesses in his early years.
It can be said that the entire TV series is fake, and this part is the only real one.
By the way, on the second day after Weisheng went to the film and television city, Director Lao Gao actually went to the county hospital as Weisheng suggested, and after coming back, he thanked Weisheng a lot.
If Weisheng had not come to the film and television city and happened to be willing to take his pulse, he might have missed the best time for treatment.
Weisheng strolled around the film and television city during the day, and before leaving the city at night, he went to find Director Lao Gao to give him an acupuncture treatment.
I originally wanted to go to the director's residence, but the director's working hours are irregular and he often has to shoot night scenes, so I gave the director acupuncture in the lounge for the past seven days.
It took no more than forty or fifty minutes. After finishing, Weisheng left the film and television city, and the director continued to do what he was doing.
On the fourth day after Weisheng gave the director acupuncture, Rongyu found Weisheng and expressed his sincere gratitude to him.
After talking with Rong Yu for a while, Weisheng also had a better understanding of what kind of person Rong Yu was.
After that, every time Weisheng came to the crew, Rongyu would greet Weisheng, and they seemed to be more familiar with each other.
But on this day, Weisheng discovered that Rongyu had changed.
The two looked very similar, but micro-expressions and body language could not deceive anyone. Seeing Rong Yu in front of him greeting him just like he had a few days ago, Wei Sheng's eyes lit up with interest.
Rong Yi was on vacation and came to deliver some gifts to his brother, who happened to have eczema. Rong Yu didn't want to delay the crew's progress, and since he happened to be the background today, he asked his brother to help him stand in the background.
The two brothers are twins. Not only do they have completely different personalities, but their life circumstances are also very different.
Rongyi did not lose his voice and successfully inherited his father's legacy. He is now working in a drama troupe.
His performance of "The Drunken Concubine" is no less impressive than that of his predecessors, and in "Farewell My Concubine", he perfectly portrayed the gentle yet strong character of Concubine Yu.
Just when Weisheng was thinking about whether to expose the fake Rongyu in front of him, Che Xueyi came to the crew.
"Doctor Bai, there's a call from Urumqi. They say there's an emergency patient, a woman named He Jiahuan, who wants you to come over."
He Jiahuan was a junior from Weisheng's class. After graduation, she was assigned to work at a hospital in Urumqi, Gansu Province. Because Weisheng had always been consciously in touch with those alumni, he would occasionally be asked by them to perform scalpel surgeries.
Weisheng does not accept money, nor does he allow them to accept money in his name, but they need to reimburse Weisheng's travel expenses and accommodation.
The day after Weisheng moved into Xu's house, he reported the landline number of Xu's house to the hospital. Knowing that Weisheng would take a vacation at this time every year, he still found this place after all the trouble, which showed that he was really anxious.
It just so happens that Weisheng has collected enough entertainment industry materials these days, so leaving now won’t have any impact.
After nodding goodbye to the fake Rongyu, Weisheng and Che Xueyi left the film and television city.
Maybe there really is a connection between twins. Although it was the first time Rongyi met Weisheng, Weisheng gave him a very familiar feeling.
After standing there and watching Weisheng's figure disappear from his sight, Rongyi turned around and went back to his brother's residence.
On the other side, Weisheng returned to Xu's house first and called He Jiahuan using the landline at Xu's house. After asking what the situation was, Weisheng hung up the phone and went upstairs to pack his luggage.
Che Xueyi knew that Weisheng was going to Urumqi, so he first told Xu Guangyuan who had already returned to Beijing, and then called the ticketing center to buy a train ticket for Weisheng.
The reason they didn't buy a plane ticket was that the county town where they lived was very far from the airport, and there was no airport in Urumqi. Even if they bought a plane ticket for Weisheng, the round-trip transfer time would not be faster than taking a train.
And the train passing through the county town goes directly to Urumqi.
The train leaves at around two in the morning, and after Weisheng packs his luggage he can still get another six or seven hours of sleep.
After buying the tickets, Che Xueyi instructed the kitchen to prepare dinner first and then make some food for Weisheng to take on the road. Then he went to Weisheng's room and told him about the arrangements.
"I knew that with you here, everything will be arranged perfectly." Weisheng praised Che Xueyi with a smile, and took out a small bottle of Qi-boosting pills from his backpack and handed it to Che Xueyi, "It replenishes blood and Qi. Just take one pill every few days."
Over the years, countless medicinal herbs have been planted in this space. There's even an acre of ginseng that's hundreds of years old, not to mention the other medicinal herbs.
For Yu Weisheng, preparing some medicine in his spare time was just like clearing out his inventory, but for Che Xueyi, it meant much more.
Woohoo, all the diligent investment these days has finally paid off.
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The next time I saw the fake Rong Yu was at the New Year's Eve party in Beijing.
Weisheng didn't recognize Rongyi in her role as the imperial concubine, but his eyes sparkled at the "imperial concubine" on the stage.
That beauty, that charm, made her intoxicated, and her little face flushed red.
Zhang Qiong smiled and gave Weisheng a glare. She never expected that Weisheng would like traditional culture so much.
Halfway through the party, Weisheng went to the bathroom and when he looked up, he saw Rongyi who had taken off her makeup.
Rongyi took off her makeup and changed out of her imperial concubine's clothes, but she was wearing a slanting-collared middle-length coat and red tight-fitting trousers, which were only worn by opera workers. It seemed that she was also going to the bathroom.
When their eyes met, Weisheng smiled!
"In what lifetime did we cultivate this fate that we can actually meet again?"
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