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Chapter 31 Counting Dumplings(1/2)

The big boy breathed evenly, and the vague noise on the set were heard from the phone. Yan Ting held his cell phone and pushed open the door connecting the lounge on the side, took off his coat and lay on it.

The bed was cold, but the breathing sounds on the phone were warm.

In the quiet room, his breathing and Li Zhao's breathing sound were merged together, and his noisy brain finally got a moment of tranquility.

The sleepiness gradually came, and the sky was white in front of him, as if a fat lamb was jumping by. He seemed to see Li Zhao riding on the sheep's back with his teeth and claws, jumping in front of him, and jumping into his mind.

"Li Zhao, Li Zhao!" Song Yu searched for most of the set before finding Li Zhao who was nestled on the chair and sleeping soundly in his coat. He stretched out his feet and wanted to kick the chair, but halfway through, he pulled his legs back and poked Li Zhao's forehead expressionlessly: "My man surnamed Li, it's your show."

In a daze, Li Zhao subconsciously covered his phone and microphone, not wanting the sound here to make Yan Ting noise.

"Brother Song?" Li Zhao opened his eyes, and as soon as he stood up, he was trembling with cold wind. He put his ears to the receiver and listened carefully. He only heard a very faint breathing sound, and Tingting should have fallen asleep.

He hung up the phone and thanked Song Yu: "Thank you for waking me up, Brother Song."

"If I hadn't had a rival scene with you later, who would have been willing to care about you?" Song Yu sneered and looked casually at Zhao Junnan who was chatting cordially with several young actors in the distance: "Since he joined the group, the crew has disrupted our filming schedule, and you have the most night scenes."

Who can withstand the night scenes for three consecutive days until three or four in the morning?

"Does your work team usually just get a salary and don't work? They don't negotiate with the crew?" Song Yu glanced at the dark circles on Li Zhao's face: "Or is your company going to avenge you for the benefit of this drama?"

Li Zhao shook his head and said nothing.

When Song Yu saw him like this, he felt angry: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to tell you, forget it if you're stupid!"

"Zhaozhao, you drink some hot tea first to refresh yourself." Dake jogged all the way to bring hot tea to Li Zhao, and the makeup artist of the crew also came with him.

"Dakkar, thank you for your hard work. You go back to the hotel to rest first, just ask me to get up tomorrow morning." Li Zhao looked at the time and said to Dakkar: "I have nothing to do here, I can go back to sleep after filming the film."

"It's okay, I'll just lie in the RV for a while." Da Keyi said with some advice: "The company heard that you have been filming night scenes for the past two days and are worried that your body can't stand it, so I specially arranged a RV for you, which will be more convenient to rest."

When the makeup artists heard this, they knew that Strawberry Entertainment was not very satisfied with the crew arrangement. One of them turned around and told the crew about this while everyone was not paying attention.

When the crew heard the news, they immediately understood that the investor's father was expressing his dissatisfaction in a tactful way. It was just that Director Yang had a relatively high status in the TV drama circle, and Strawberry Entertainment did not want to make things too embarrass the situation, so he used this gentle method.

Although Zhao Junnan is popular now, it is not worth mentioning compared to the main investors. There has always been no shortage of actors in the entertainment industry. One can produce Zhao Junnan this year, and one can produce Li Junnan and Zhang Junnan next year.

In this circle, it is both difficult and not difficult to become popular.

After understanding the meaning of the investor's father, things will be easier. That night, the crew re-established the filming schedule overnight and gave a half-day vacation to several actors who were filming night scenes, including Li Zhao.

"Brother Nan, this is the filming schedule newly formulated by the crew. You have two night scenes tonight." As soon as the assistant got the schedule sent by the crew, he found that something was wrong.

A few days ago, they communicated with the crew and said that Brother Nan had some neurasthenia recently and tried not to arrange night scenes for him. The crew also understood it very well, so they quickly adjusted Li Zhao's filming sessions to the evening and tried to let Brother Nan rest as much as possible. Unexpectedly, he changed his mind so quickly.

"What does the crew of "Tiange" mean?" Zhao Junnan's face suddenly fell down after watching the filming schedule. His scenes were either arranged in the early morning or in the evening meal time, and even night scenes. It took several hours to make a costume drama just by styling. According to this schedule, he needed to get up early in the morning to put on makeup, and then put on makeup until the evening.

After slapping the schedule on the table, Zhao Junnan got up and walked out.

"Brother Nan, Brother Nan!" Seeing this, several assistants quickly stopped him: "Brother Nan, if you have anything, we can discuss it slowly with the crew. Don't be impulsive."

The investors of the "Tiange" crew are all big companies in the circle, and it will not be beneficial to Brother Nan if it makes a big deal.

"They specially invited me to participate in the show. That's the attitude?" Zhao Junnan gasped, pushed away the assistant who was blocking him, and barely calmed down his anger: "You go and ask about Li Zhao's filming time."

After a while, the assistant came back. He said, "Brother Nan, the crew said that Li Zhao had filmed night scenes for three days in a row, and today he asked him to go back to the hotel to rest."

"Damn, they are playing tricks on me!" Zhao Junnan kicked the chair at the edge of his feet: "Don't blame me for being so arrogant for a newcomer."

When Yan Ting woke up again, it was the next morning. He hadn't had such a safe sleep for a long time. He looked at the sunshine shining outside the window and seemed to be less disgusted.

The phone had less than 10% of its battery left, and his call with Li Zhao had already ended. At five o'clock in the morning, Li Zhao sent him a message.

Zhaozhao has good luck: I can finally sleep for eight hours after half a day of vacation tomorrow, and I am happy!

His happiness almost jumped out of these simple words with twisted dance.

Putting down his cell phone, Yan Ting went to the bathroom to take a shower, changed into clean clothes, called the inside line, and asked them to bring breakfast in.

"Assistant Qin, the boss has been in the company for dozens of hours. Could it be that he has not been sleeping yet?" The new assistant looks sweet and has a warm and cute personality. Not long after he came to the assistant department, he quickly became familiar with his colleagues.

Qin Te assisted holding breakfast on a tray and looked at the new employee with long black hair: "I heard that you had excellent grades during your school days?"

The little assistant is both modest and shy: "Maybe it's because of good luck that you can get good grades every time."

"Now that you have entered the assistant department, you have to understand one thing: luck is useless." The smile on Assistant Qin calmed down. When he didn't smile, he seemed particularly serious: "The first thing you need to understand when doing things in the assistant department is not to discuss the boss's living habits in private."

"Or, you just entered the assistant department and couldn't wait to replace me as a special assistant position?"

The little assistant pale and shook his head repeatedly, "Assistant Qin, I don't have that intention."

"If you don't have this meaning, go to your class." Qin Teshou raised his wrist and looked at the time, and his tone was cold: "What's your name?"

The little assistant's face became even more embarrassing. She didn't expect that she had been in the assistant department for nearly half a month, and Assistant Qin didn't even know her name. She lowered her head and bit the corner of her mouth and said, "My name is Wei Tian."

Assistant Qin glanced at her, without saying anything more, turned around and walked towards the office. Wei Tian looked at his back, tears rolling in her eyes, but no one around dared to go up to comfort her.

The big boss doesn't appear in front of employees very often. Assistant Qin is the boss's right-hand man, and even senior executives of various departments will not offend Assistant Qin. The new colleague is really amazing and can make Assistant Qin look dark.

After a while, Wei Tian adjusted her mood and barely cheered up and continued to work.

"Tiantian." The colleague sitting next to her whispered to her: "The big boss is worth a lot of money, and there are so many people who want to find him every day, so the big boss's schedule is the company's secret, and only the secretariat and Qin Tejiao know it. You should not commit such taboos in the workplace again."

"Thank you." Wei Tian blushed and thanked: "I just saw that the office lights were on all the time, so I asked one more question, and there was no other meaning."

The colleague next to her glanced at her and said nothing else. The office became quiet again, so quiet that it made people feel depressing.

In the next few days, Zhao Junnan was working very hard in filming. He was a special actor and did not have too many scenes. After filming all the scenes, the crew held a final banquet for him in a restaurant in the film and television city.

At the beginning, the atmosphere at the dinner table was pretty good, until Zhao Junnan took the initiative to raise a glass to Li Zhao: "Come on, Xiao Zhao, Brother Nan, I wish you a cup. When you were in the crew of "Xia Jun", you were still a supporting actor who had no lines. After not seen each other for a year, you can already play an important role in Director Yang's drama. It's really awesome young man. When you get higher and higher in the future, don't forget to support me."

Zhao Junnan's words sounded good, but if you take a closer look, it seemed to be saying that Li Zhao's current role is not right. Otherwise, what ability would a newcomer who made a fortune by online dramas have to support top-tier celebrities?

Those who can sit at this table and eat are all the people in the circle. I heard that Zhao Junnan's tone was wrong, and even the sound of laughter became weaker.

"Brother Nan, you are joking again." Li Zhao picked up the wine glass, raised his head and drank a big glass in front of the table, and smiled: "On the road of filming, what I am most familiar with is playing supporting roles and being a substitute for others. It is already a blessing in my life to be able to play such an important role in Director Yang's crew."

Hearing the word "supporter", Zhao Junnan frowned slightly. He looked at Li Zhao's tender face and looked a little naive and smiled. He couldn't guess that Li Zhao was just saying it casually, but he was deliberately hinting at him.

"Hahaha." Zhao Junnan smiled and said, "You kid are still so serious and don't know how to joke." He picked up the wine glass and drank the wine cleanly.

After the finale banquet, Zhao Junnan was already drunk. He put his hand on Li Zhao's shoulder: "Xiao Li, please send me to the car. My assistant has already taken the things down first."

"There is no need to bother Xiao Li, just ask my assistant to send you down." Director Yang smiled and said, "I think Xiao Li is drinking a lot tonight. I'm afraid that you two will be seen in the elevator together and will be on the hot searches on major platforms tomorrow."

"Then the relationship is good, and it can also save our crew a promotional fee." Zhao Junnan looked at Li Zhao with a smile, regardless of Director Yang's obstruction: "Xiao Li, don't you want to send me?"

"Brother Nan, be careful of your feet." Li Zhao smiled and said to Director Yang: "Director Yang, I will be back after I send Brother Nan."

Director Yang wanted to speak but stopped, and finally sighed: "Go early and come back early, call me if you have something to do."

Zhao Junnan dragged Li Zhao into the elevator, let go of his neck, leaned against the elevator expressionlessly, and looked at Li Zhao coldly: "You heard what I said in the lounge that day?"

Li Zhao blinked: "Brother Nan, what do you want to say?"

"Young man, it's not easy to become popular. Don't go the wrong way and bury your future." Zhao Junnan lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and slowly let out a mouthful of smoke at Li Zhao: "You must know what to say and what not to say."

Li Zhao stared at the cigarette in Zhao Junnan's hand, and his expression became serious and solemn.

"Why, are you unhappy?" Zhao Junnan sneered: "Tell me, how much is the price to buy, shut up?"

"Smoking is not allowed in the elevator." Li Zhao frowned: "For the sake of the health of others, please abide by public morality."

Zhao Junnan's hand holding the cigarette was stopped. He blew the ashes, as if he heard some joke: "Public morality, are you a child who has not been weaned in the kindergarten? Don't change the topic, just offer the price."

Just then, the elevator door slowly opened, and outside the door was Song Yu, his two assistants, as well as several other staff members of the crew.

"Teacher Zhao hasn't left yet?" Song Yu slapped his hand in front of him and raised his voice and said, "Who is so shameless? He actually smokes in the elevator, is not moral or immoral?!"

The others silently glanced at Zhao Junnan's hand holding the cigarette, and then withdrew their gaze as if nothing had happened. The atmosphere once became very awkward.

"Sorry, I forgot to press the floor just now." Li Zhao showed an innocent smile and turned his head to look at Zhao Junnan: "I drank just now and my mind was a little unconscious, which made Brother Nan laugh."

After saying that, he reached out and pressed the floor, and the elevator slowly closed again. The elevator was quiet. Zhao Junnan didn't say anything again until the elevator door opened again.

Zhao Junnan walked out of the elevator with a calm face and turned his head to look at Li Zhao: "Tell me about getting in the car."

Li Zhao looked at the RV in front of him and sat in without hesitation.

"You are so brave that you dare to just sit in like this." Zhao Junnan sneered, put his legs on the chair, and his face was full of sarcastic: "Shut up if you buy one million yuan, is it enough?"

"The whole crew saw me sending Brother Nan out, what could it be? "Li Zhao put his hands on his knees, like a child waiting for the teacher to come to class in kindergarten, very well-behaved.

But in Zhao Junnan's eyes, Li Zhao was extremely ugly. He wished that Li Zhao would disappear from this world unexpectedly tonight because only dead people could not speak.

"Three million?"

Li Zhao still looked at him like a good baby.

"Five million?"

Li Zhao blinked, his smile innocently.

Zhao Junnan's face turned completely gloomy: "Do you still want ten million? Have you seen so much money in your life if you are a poor boy who comes out of a stinky mountain valley? Don't be too ugly to eat! Li Zhao, it's not good for you to tear your face."

"I've seen it." Li Zhao raised two fingers and smiled brightly: "My friend's house has two buildings, two!"

The two fingers were bent and looked very proud.

Zhao Junnan was furious by his bent fingers: "What does the two buildings have to do with you, and what does it have to do with you?"

"It's not that you asked me, have you seen 10 million?" Li Zhao looked at Zhao Junnan with a look of "You are really unreasonable" and said, "I'm just answering your question seriously."

"Don't pretend to be crazy and stupid with me." Zhao Junnan took a deep breath: "I want you to make a substitute in your stomach and never mention it in your life. Even if someone asks you, you have to deny it. As long as you can do it, I can give you six million."
To be continued...
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