Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 9 Nini
Li Xiaotian was holding a reflector at the scene. When he was shooting for the fourth time, he asked someone to take over his job, walked quickly to the back of the monitor, and asked Zhang Yiyi: "Zhang Yiyi, what are you doing?"

Zhang Yiyi was sitting in front of the monitor, watching with great excitement. Hearing this, he said, "Come and have a look. Look at his legs. The angle of his squatting is different this time. The lines are so good. So touching."

Li Xiaotian's expression was very grim: "Little one, we have already agreed that you can't do whatever you want this time."

Zhang Yiyi said excitedly without even turning his head: "But this time it's really different, it's definitely not random, come and see. You see, he made a fist here, which represents Zhang the Mute's inner resistance. But he let go immediately, which means he wanted to resist, but didn't have the courage. The second time, he changed his method. See, he didn't make a fist, but..."

"Stop!" Li Xiaotian pulled Zhang Yiyi up, grabbed his collar, and said with gritted teeth: "Zhang Yiyi, do you know what you are doing now? Do you know that what you are burning is not the film, but the coffin book of your parents and my parents? Are you going to piss me off to death! If you keep thinking of yourself as Wang Jiawei, I will withdraw my investment and you can have fun however you want."

After shooting for the fourth time, Chen Nuo began to doubt himself.

What went wrong?

One shot was shot four times. How can you still be an actor?
Chen Nuo decided that if he had to shoot it again, he would have to ask Zhang Yiyi how he should act.

But, this time it passed.

Chen Nuo didn’t know what Zhang Yiyi’s standard was, because he didn’t think the fourth time was that good, nor did he think the first time was that bad.

After the initial hiccups, the rest of the filming went exceptionally smoothly. In that morning, except for some unexpected incidents during the scheduling of extras, Chen Nuo's other scenes were almost all passed in one or two takes.

At noon, the crew didn't have boxed lunches, so Li Xiaotian took everyone to find a rice bowl restaurant, where each person got a 10-yuan rice bowl. Guaranteed to keep you full.

At the end of the day, Zhang Yiyi called Chen Nuo over, looked very excited, patted Chen Nuo on the shoulder and said, "Let's go to my house for dinner."

It was already dark. After a day of filming, Chen Nuo was a little tired, so he declined, "Thank you, director, but it's getting late, and it will take a long time to go there and back, so forget it."

"Why delay? No." Zhang Yiyi pulled Chen Nuo into the courtyard next door. "It's right here."

"what?"

Chen Nuo looked around. The courtyard he was entering was exactly the courtyard where the first shot of the day was. It was dinner time, and every household was crowded with people. An old man happened to come out of the room next door. He raised his head and greeted Zhang Yiyi, "Yiyi, your mother has been stewing pork elbows for the whole afternoon. I can smell the smell."

"Haha, Uncle Zhang, how about you come to my house and have a bite?"

"Don't worry, if I leave, you won't have anything to eat. Oh, isn't this the male lead? Yi Yi, this kid you found this time is really good, so handsome." The old man gave a thumbs up.

"That's from the acting department, a future superstar. Uncle Zhang, I'm going to go home first. We'll talk later."

"Okay."

Chen Nuo stared at Zhang Yiyi, not quite reacting, "Isn't that the old man?"

"Yes, it was him. He was the one who started the fight with me this afternoon, saying that I was wrong in this and that. My Uncle Zhang, he has watched me grow up since I was a child."

"You...is this really your home?"

"What else?" Zhang Yiyi asked in surprise, "Where else can I find so many extras? All the neighbors who appeared this afternoon are my acquaintances. They are purely friendly guest appearances and I didn't ask for a penny."

The pork elbows stewed by Zhang Yiyi’s family are delicious. They are fat but not greasy, soft and tender, and melt in your mouth.

For Chen Nuo, the only drawback is that no matter how much chili is added in the north, it is not spicy enough. As a native of Xichuan, I have been in Beijing for ten days and have not found a restaurant that suits my taste.

Zhang Yiyi's parents were very enthusiastic about him. Both of them were in their sixties, and they loved their youngest son Zhang Yiyi very much. They kept saying, "Little Chen, Yiyi has been weak and bad-tempered since childhood. You are acting in his role, please be tolerant of him." Chen Nuo couldn't imagine how the old couple would react if they knew that he had kicked Zhang Yiyi's vitals.

The next day, Chen Nuo got up at 5:30. Zhang Yiyi specifically asked him to arrive early because the leading actress would be there today and the two would have a scene together.

"You two should get to know each other as quickly as possible. By the way, she is younger than you, so... don't have any bad intentions."

Chen Nuo looked surprised. "No, Director, why do I feel like you always look at people with tinted glasses?"

"Okay, I won't argue with you. Go back and get some rest. Tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock, sharp."

Chen Nuo arrived at 6:50. By then, the sky in Beijing was already bright. When he was still a hundred meters away from the alley of the studio, Chen Nuo saw Zhang Yiyi and a tall girl talking and gesticulating.

"Good morning, Director." Chen Nuo walked over and greeted him.

"Are you here? Let me introduce you two. This is Chen Nuo, from Xichuan. This is Nini, from Nanjing. You two are of the same age, so you should have something in common. Come, shake hands and get to know each other."

The girl was quite generous and took the initiative to extend her hand, "Hello."

"Hello."

Chen Nuo looked at the other person's face. Although she was still young, the girl's appearance was already quite attractive. Especially her eyebrows, which were slightly wide between her eyes, and her pupils were long and narrow, slightly slanting upwards. There was a kind of heroic spirit in her gaze.

He felt that she looked familiar, and he had also heard of the girl's name.

Therefore, this girl must be a mainland Chinese star in the future, but she is not very famous.

Otherwise, even if he spent a lot of time in LA in his previous life, he should be able to recognize her at a glance like Yang Mi.

"Okay, you two can chat for a while, I'll go over there and take a look. We'll be ready to start shooting at 8 o'clock." Zhang Yiyi said, and then left.

Chen Nuo and Nini stared at each other, and no one spoke for a while.

"This is my first time filming a movie, how about you?" In the end, it was Chen Nuo who took the initiative to speak.

"I filmed commercials when I was very young, and this is my first time filming a movie. Are you familiar with Teacher Zhang? Before you came, he kept talking to me about you." It can be seen that Nini is actually quite cheerful. After Chen Nuo started talking, she naturally continued.

"I'm pretty familiar with him. He's... my acting teacher."

Nini laughed, her long and narrow eyes narrowed into slits, "What a coincidence, I also came to Beijing to take classes before. He also taught me. So we are considered brothers and sisters from the same school?"

Looking at the girl's smiling eyes, Chen Nuo couldn't bear to tell her that they were not from the same sect, but should be called fellow sufferers.

After chatting for a while, the two began to change clothes. The first scene shot today was when Xiaozhu brought a bowl of eight-treasure porridge to Zhang Yaba. When Zhang Yaba drank the porridge, Xiaozhu watched him from the side.

It was a simple scene, but it was NGed five or six times. This time, Zhang Yiyi did not sit behind the monitor. Every time there was a freeze, he would come over and explain the scene to Nini.

Only then did Chen Nuo realize that Zhang Yiyi was able to explain the plays to the actors.

(End of this chapter)