1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

“Basic acting is that simple!”

"I don't need you to have a very good theoretical foundation. I just need you to be in my Tai Chi crew and listen to me!"

"You just need to do whatever actions I tell you to do and talk however I tell you to talk, and you can totally support the performance requirements of this movie!"

"So next, I will show you some basic expression and body language training!"

Cheng Xuemin signaled to everyone not to just applaud, but to listen carefully to his next lesson first.

"Okay, okay, Brother Cheng, just now... just now I..." Li Lianjie also came back to her senses, and was shocked to realize that she had actually wanted to attack Cheng Xuemin just now. She was so scared that her face turned pale and she was sweating.

"Little Leo, you have great talent. You were so into the role just now! It was your first time on camera, and you were able to get into the role so quickly. That's great!"

It was originally a crash course in acting, so if you act well, then you act well. Cheng Xuemin praised Li Lianjie generously and did not belittle him just because the guy got angry and wanted to fight with him just now.

"Haha, really? Then Brother Cheng, did I succeed?" Li Lianjie obeyed with a happy face, and did somersaults like a child.

"Don't be proud, this is the most basic!" Cheng Xuemin pointed at the boy and said, "Now I want you to play a dandy boy who drinks and goes to a brothel!"

"Qiu Yan, you will act with him this time. You will play the role of a brothel madam who welcomes guests!"

Then he called out Huang Qiuyan's name and asked her to play opposite Li Lianjie!
"Ah? Let me play this?" Li Lianjie's face, which was quite excited just now, suddenly turned red with embarrassment. After all, she was only sixteen or seventeen years old.

"Teacher Cheng, I, I, I...can I not act?"

Huang Qiuyan was so embarrassed that she hesitated and didn't dare to come forward. She was asked to play the role of a brothel madam, but... she really couldn't think of how to play the role of a brothel madam?
Moreover, I have never even seen what the madam of a brothel looks like!

After all, they are a promising young generation, and the word "brothel" has never been mentioned in the books they read since childhood, let alone playing the role of a brothel owner.

Anyway, as soon as I heard about the madam of a brothel, the memory in my genes felt that it must be a very embarrassing thing.

"Can't!"

"Since you have joined my Tai Chi crew, you need to challenge any role!" Cheng Xuemin was stunned. Huang Qiuyan saw that she couldn't avoid it, so she stood up timidly and acted with Li Lianjie.

But it was extremely awkward. If she was really a brothel madam, it would be strange if she could attract customers!

"Look carefully, this is how a role like this should be played. I will only do the moves once, and you learn from them!"

Cheng Xuemin shook his head at their stiff performance and immediately performed a set of actions for everyone to watch.

"Master, come and play!" Cheng Xuemin got a handkerchief from somewhere, leaned half of his body on the gatehouse, twisted his waist and hips, made movements with his index finger, and winked at the street outside.

In an instant, all the men present took a deep breath.

Even the extremely reserved Zhu Lin, and the two Lius beside her, Liu Xiaoli and Liu Xiaoqing, were all dumbfounded by Cheng Xuemin's performance.

Everyone sighs that when this man acts coquettishly, there is really no one who can be coquettisher than him!
With this performance, Cheng Xuemin perfectly brought the role of the madam welcoming guests at the door of the brothel to life.

At this moment, Cheng Xuemin is just a brothel owner.

"Don't laugh, is it funny?"

Seeing that everyone couldn't help laughing, Cheng Xuemin's face turned dark. I'm just giving you a demonstration lesson. Is it that funny?

"No, no, Xuemin, keep going! You explained it very well, and your performance and demonstration were also very good. We benefited a lot from it, really benefited a lot!"

Director Huang Jianzhong was really overturned his understanding of directing by Cheng Xuemin's lesson. He really sighed that Cheng Xuemin is a genius!
Really, although he is a professional director, compared with the genius Cheng Xuemin, he really feels ashamed and inferior to him.

At the very least, if he were to train these martial artists to perform in movies, it would take at least three to five months to produce a group of qualified characters.

But looking back at Cheng Xuemin, just this one class allowed Huang Jianzhong to benefit greatly and gain a lot.

It turns out that acting can be mastered so quickly!
Not only Huang Jian had this idea in his mind, but even Li Shaohong, Tian Zhuangzhuang and even Chen Kaizi from the academic directing department put aside their contempt and believed that this kid was quite capable!

There is also the old factory manager Wang Yang, who has always been unsure. Knowing that today is the opening day of the Tai Chi crew training class, he also wants to know how Cheng Xuemin trains them in this training class.

So not long after seeing Cheng Xuemin and the others enter the studio, he followed them downstairs, looked around outside the studio, and listened carefully to the class!
Really!

The old factory director Wang Yang was really amazed by the performance of Cheng Xuemin, a brothel owner, twisting her waist and hips and flirting with her eyes to attract customers!

Now I finally felt relieved and knew that if I handed over Tai Chi to this kid, there would really be hope!

It really is worthy of being the pioneer of reform and opening up. It will never take action, but will never fight an unprepared battle!
Now, the old factory director can finally sleep peacefully, waiting for this kid to make the "Tai Chi" movie, and then release a big satellite atomic bomb in their film industry.

Therefore, the old factory manager, who was already very confident, turned around and went upstairs back to his office.

"Old factory manager, how is it?"

In the office, there was a deputy director waiting for him. Seeing Wang Yang coming back, he quickly stood up and asked, "It's really outrageous for the Tai Chi crew to do this. Not to mention that many senior people in our factory have objections, if the news spreads to the Shanghai Film Studio in the south, the Emei Film Studio in the west, and the Changchun Film Studio in the northeast... we can't open this loophole!"

The deputy director is in charge of the factory's discipline and rules. There is a growing rumor of unhealthy practices in the factory, and letters of complaint are being delivered to his office like snowflakes. Now the entire Yanying Factory is in an uproar!
So the deputy factory director could no longer sit still and suppress the situation. He could only report to the old factory director, demanding that this evil trend be stopped and this loophole be sealed, otherwise something terrible would happen!

"Lao He, isn't it just a two-dollar subsidy a day? It's not as exaggerated as you say!"

"And Old He, you don't know the specific situation... Anyway, I just want to say one thing, don't get involved with the Tai Chi crew. If anything goes wrong, I, Old Wang, will take care of it!"

"That's my attitude. Lao He, please pass it on and ask them to actively cooperate and not do anything weird to me!"

Before, the old factory director was facing complaints from the entire factory and felt a bit of pressure. He was indeed not very confident about Cheng Xuemin because Cheng Xuemin was too young and became famous too early.

I'm really afraid that he will talk big and brag to his old leader!
But after listening to the boy's lesson today, the old factory manager felt more confident. He knew that the boy really had something in his head and was a real genius.

Therefore, the old factory director is also confident and can do anything for Cheng Xuemin's Tai Chi crew.

And it was just as the old factory director said, the old people in the factory like Lao He didn't know the specific situation. They didn't know that the movie "Tai Chi" led by Cheng Xuemin was not an ordinary movie in the factory, but was to be sent out to earn foreign exchange and test the waters!
Moreover, it is not quite accurate to say that it is a test of the waters, because there is a military order of 10 million US dollars involved, so we can't be careless!
So, what is the little pressure that Wang Yang is under now?
"Ah? Old factory director...you are too biased, aren't you? This is going to be a big trouble!" Deputy factory director Lao He was really shocked and horrified after hearing what the old factory director said.

The old factory manager is determined to support the outsider, right?
"I've told you, no matter how big the problem is, I'll take responsibility for it!" said the old factory manager Wang Yang, his tone toughening again.

"Well... okay! Since you, the old factory director, have said so, we... we will do our job well and will not let anything go wrong in the factory!"

What else can Deputy Factory Director Lao He say?

Cheng Xuemin had almost finished his talk, and then at the end of the get out of class, he assigned everyone an assignment, which was to ask them to learn how to perform several common emotional performances every day, whether they were acting with each other or completing the performance independently.

For example, how to cry and how to cry in different ways, he should figure it out and practice it by himself. When the homework is checked, he must see at least five acceptable ways of crying.

The same applies to laughing, walking, eating, riding in a car... etc. As long as it is a common action in life, you must pay close attention and think about it carefully.

"Anyway, I'll check one thing every day, and you can choose whatever you want to perform. Those who pass will pass, and those who fail will have to perform their talent shows for me!"

“You can sing and dance!”

"By the way, you are not allowed to perform martial arts. You are too good at this. No pressure!"

Finally, Cheng Xuemin emphasized that there should be no martial arts performances. The truth is, they are just a group of warriors. Isn’t performing martial arts their strong point?
If we ask them to sing and dance, it would cost them their reputation.

"Huh?! We can't do martial arts performances!"

Sure enough, when they first heard that the performance was not up to standard and they had to perform a talent show, Li Lianjie and the others felt no burden at all. But when they heard Cheng Xuemin emphasized that martial arts performances were not allowed, their faces fell.

Cheng Xuemin couldn't care less about all these. He left after the class and asked Huang Jianzhong to continue teaching them something else!
"Kapok robe?"

Liang Xiaosheng finally waited for Cheng Xuemin to come back. He followed Cheng Xuemin into his office and saw him take out a piece of manuscript paper from the drawer of his desk and handed it to him.

Then Liang Xiaosheng glanced at the title and read a sentence!
"Well, this is an introduction and a detailed outline that I drafted when I had some free time. Teacher Liang, can you see if I can write it?"

"If you want to write, then let's do as we agreed before. You'll be responsible for filling out the content, and I'll be responsible for submitting it for publication. We'll split the royalties 50-50!"

Cheng Xuemin certainly won't spend as much energy on popular fiction as he does on serious literature.

So he planned to learn from the studio model of online novels in later generations. He had the ideas, themes and thoughts, and provided the outline and details of the novel. He just needed to hire a ghostwriter to fill in the content according to the details.

This is what Liang Xiaosheng is doing now!!
But Cheng Xuemin is more conscientious and can split the profits with Liang Xiaosheng 50-50. The ghostwriters for online novels in later generations basically earn a few yuan or more per thousand words, but the studio earns a few dozen yuan per thousand words, which is really unscrupulous.

"Let me see, let me see!" Liang Xiaosheng nodded repeatedly, and then couldn't wait to watch the rest of the plot.

Cheng Xuemin really treated Liang Xiaosheng as his own personal gun to be trained, so the outline and details were written in great detail, and how the plot would develop, how it would be continued, how the climax would be set, how the breaks would be made, in short, he did not mind the trouble at all and described it in detail almost without reservation.

Knowing that this was only the beginning of the collaboration, after working together on a few articles and having enough time to get used to each other, Cheng Xuemin firmly believed that Teacher Liang Xiaosheng would definitely grow into a very qualified royal gun writer.

At that time, Cheng Xuemin didn't need to write the outline in such detail. As long as he gave Liang Xiaosheng an idea, he could submit a very qualified manuscript.

As I said, I don’t ask for it to be very exciting, but just ask for it to be large in quantity and filling.

Liang Xiaosheng didn't think so much. Now he finally got on the path of Cheng Xuemin, a pioneer of reform and opening up, and he was so generous to take him to earn royalties, so what else could he say?

A gentleman will die for his friend, of course, it can be summed up in one word: do it!

At this moment, I was completely attracted by the content on the manuscript. I stared at the manuscript word by word, afraid that I would miss a key plot if I missed a word!
The general outline of "Kapok Robe" is as follows:

The Kapok Robe is a sacred garment left by Bodhidharma, the founder of Shaolin Temple. It has been passed down from generation to generation by several abbots and has become a symbol of the abbot's power and a token of his identity.

Plot: In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, treacherous officials were in power and the East Factory usurped power. Years of famine had left the Central Plains full of starving people and the people were living in misery.

Wang Cheng, the minister in charge of the Imperial Guards, ignored the lives of the people and continued to impose heavy taxes, forcing people from all over the country to fight against Wang Cheng under the banner of Shaolin warriors.

Wang Cheng hated Shaolin Temple to the core. Seeing that many people not only fled to Shaolin Temple to hide, but also used the name of Shaolin Temple to oppose him, he summoned the killer Qi Tianyuan and ordered him to go to Shaolin Temple to loot the kapok robe, and promised that if he succeeded, he would take over the position of abbot.

Qi Tianyuan was originally a Taoist priest who was expelled from Wudang Mountain. With the Wudang boxing he learned from Wudang Mountain, he committed all kinds of evil and corrupted Wudang. Under the instruction of Wang Cheng, he changed his name to Master Kong and, together with the Jinyiwei thugs, broke into Shaolin Temple and killed many people, forcing Master Yuanhui to hand over the kapok cassock and give up the position of abbot.

The Shaolin monks were caught off guard and were ultimately outnumbered, with most of them killed or injured. Master Yuanhui was also seriously injured and had no choice but to retreat to the Sutra Repository.

When the eldest disciple Huineng rushed back to the temple, the temple had been completely controlled by Qi Tianyuan. In order to preserve his strength and keep the Kapok cassock from being taken away by the villain, Yuanhui ordered Huineng and Huici to fight their way out with the surviving Shaolin disciples, send the cassock to Fahua Temple, and give it to Uncle Yuanxiu for collection, while he himself burned himself to death.

After a bloody battle, Huineng and a group of Shaolin disciples finally broke out of Shaolin Temple. But unexpectedly, on the way to Fahua Temple, they were chased by Qi Tianyuan and Jinyiwei.

During the fight, Huineng was injured and jumped off a cliff, but was rescued by Lin Cangbo, a horse dealer who passed by.

Qi Tianyuan pursued him relentlessly, and Lin Cangbo was also killed while trying to save Huineng. After going through untold hardships, Huineng and Lin Cangbo's daughter Lin Ying finally escaped from the clutches of the devil and were rescued by Yunwan Zhenren from Wudang Mountain.

Huici, who was carrying the cassock, was unfortunately killed in the fight with the Jinyiwei. The cassock fell into the hands of Qi Tianyuan, who, under the instructions of Wang Cheng, prepared to take over as the abbot of Shaolin Temple.

Huineng and Lin Ying returned to Shaolin after learning martial arts from Yunwan Zhenren in Wudang Mountain and defeating Qi Tianyuan.

Just as the bells and drums rang and Qi Tianyuan was about to put on the kapok robe and take over as abbot, Huineng appeared in the main hall.

With the help of Lin Ying and the Wudang Taoist priests, after a fierce battle, Huineng finally neutralized Qi Tianyuan's special move, killed Qi Tianyuan, drove away the imperial guards, and regained the kapok robe.

Huineng put on a kapok cassock and was elected as the 28th abbot of Shaolin Temple by all the monks in the temple...

This is roughly the plot of "Kapok Robe", but it made Liang Xiaosheng's blood boil. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Xuemin, I have it, I have it, don't worry, I will definitely be able to write your novel well, just wait!"

After saying that, he rushed out of Cheng Xuemin's office with the manuscript paper in his hand. It was obvious that the spark of inspiration had been ignited, and he was ready to write it down without stopping!

Very good, this is a natural good penman. Cheng Xuemin is very satisfied with Teacher Liang’s performance!
Now you can just sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor, waiting for Teacher Liang to hand in the homework. It’s free!
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