Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 296: If you can’t do math, you just can’t
Blue Island, Oriental Movie Metropolis Studio.

As soon as Meng Bai entered the door, he was stopped by Guo Fan.

"Just in time."

Guo Fan had a look on his face as if he had seen a savior: "I have a very difficult problem now and I need your help."

"Besides not having enough money, what other difficult problems do we have now?"

Meng Bai followed Guo Fan to the studio lounge in surprise.

"Hey, Mai Mai is here too."

In the lounge, Zhao Jinmai was sitting at the table with books and test papers in his hands. He was writing and drawing on the paper and muttering to himself.

The character she plays in "The Wandering Earth" is called "Han Duoduo", a rebellious junior high school girl who has lived in an underground city since childhood and is full of curiosity and yearning for the world above ground.

Meng Bai, Guo Fan, Gong Geer and others discussed many candidates for this role at the beginning.

The first choice at that time was Zhang Zifeng, who is currently the hottest young actress born in the 00s.

Especially after "Detective Chinatown", his popularity has soared.

It’s a pity that the salary was too expensive. Even though the girl herself was embarrassed and wanted to lower the price, her family team still offered her one million.

For the crew of "The Wandering Earth", who are now eager to spend every penny, this price is almost close to the total budget salary of several leading actors.

We also considered several other candidates afterwards, but they were either too expensive, had no availability, or their image was not suitable.

So in the end, Zhao Jinmai was chosen.

She has a standard pretty appearance and her acting skills are acceptable.

The most important thing is that it is economical. The shooting schedule of more than four months only costs 50,000 yuan.

To be honest, even the big specials in the film and television city cost more than this.

Zhao Jinmai herself was quite happy. She happily came to the set carrying her textbooks and homework.

"Brother Meng Bai!"

Seeing Meng Bai coming in, the little girl immediately stood up and shouted happily.

This is her third time participating in Meng Bai's project.

From being unfamiliar in the beginning, to being shy as we grew older, to now having a very familiar relationship.

Meng Bai thought Guo Fan was going to say something was wrong with the crew, but unexpectedly he picked up a paper from Zhao Jinmai's desk and handed it to him.

"Look, can you do this question?" Guo Fan pointed to the question on the test paper.

Meng Bai took it and looked at it doubtfully.

【在平面直角坐标系xOy中，A（x1，y1）B（x2，y2）C（x3，y3）是二次函数y=-x+4x-1图像上的三个点。若m﹤x1﹤m+1，m+1﹤x2﹤m+2，m+2﹤x3﹤m+3，则m的取值范围是多少？】

"What the hell is this? A math problem?" Meng Bai looked at Guo Fan and said, "No, Brother Guo, this is the tricky problem you're talking about."

Guo Fan pointed at the paper and said, "Isn't it difficult?"

Am I asking you this?
Meng Bai sighed silently in his heart, and looked at the question in his hand again: "This question is quite simple."

Guo Fan and Zhao Jinmai who was sitting next to him both had their eyes light up.

"But I forgot how to do it." Meng Bai continued.

Guo Fan and Zhao Jinmai: …

"If you don't know, just say you don't know. Why do you have to say it's very easy?" Guo Fan pulled the test paper back.

"Nonsense, I'm a screenwriter, and I'm already good enough that I can understand the title."

"Didn't you say that high school is for science?"

"Brother, I've been graduated for so many years, who can remember this stuff?" Meng Bai said unhappily, "Besides, you are not an undergraduate from a 211 university or a graduate student from Beijing Film Academy, how dare you say that to me?"

"Alas..." Guo Fan sighed, "It's been so many years since I graduated, and the little math knowledge I had has long been lost."

Zhao Jinmai, who was standing by, looked at the two senior students who claimed to be "excellent graduates of higher education institutions" and couldn't help but shook his head helplessly. Speaking of this matter, the main responsibility still lies with Guo Fan.

Zhao Jinmai is in the third year of junior high school this year and will soon face the high school entrance examination. So when the invitation was first discussed, although the little girl herself was very happy, Zhao's mother was still very hesitant about whether to accept it.

Finally, Guo Fan patted his chest and said that there was no need to worry at all, as there were plenty of people in the crew who could explain the questions to her.

"I am an undergraduate of the Law School of Hainan University, a 211 university, and a graduate of the Management Department of Beijing Film Academy. Our screenwriter, Mr. Meng Bai, was an outstanding graduate of the Department of Drama and Literature of the Central Academy of Drama who passed the general college entrance examination. As for studying and answering questions, you can rest assured."

But when the girl really came to the crew with her homework and test papers, Guo Fan realized that he had been thinking too beautifully.

There is no problem with Chinese and English, and history, geography, and ideology and morality are also just passable. Physics, chemistry, and biology are a little difficult but I can still cope with them.

But there is really no way around mathematics.

If you don’t know math, you don’t know it.

Looking at Guo Fan and others who were grimacing in the face of various questions, Zhao Jinmai could only sigh helplessly, "Stupid adults", and then review by himself.

I thought Meng Bai's arrival would be of some help, but I didn't expect it to be the same as the others.

Hmm - Zhao Jinmai thought about it and felt that there was something different.

The director uncle and his friends are jars, and Brother Meng Bai is a vase.

Although they are all hollow, they look better, hehe...

The little girl laughed secretly in her heart.

"By the way, have you negotiated with the actor for 'Liu Qi'?" Guo Fan thought of another thing.

Meng Bai nodded: "Yes, I happened to chat with him when I returned to Jingbei the day before yesterday, and it went quite smoothly."

Zhao Jinmai, who was standing next to him, was a little confused: "Are you talking about my 'brother's' actor?"

"Yes." Meng Bai looked over and said with a smile: "According to your preferences, I picked a suitable one from the last batch of candidates."

"what……"

Speaking of this, Zhao Jinmai immediately covered his face in embarrassment: "I just said that, just follow the crew's requirements."

After it was confirmed that she would play the role of "Han Duoduo", Meng Bai took a stack of photos of male actors and asked her to choose a few that she liked as alternative actors for the role of "Liu Qi".

"Liu Qi is your brother, so he must satisfy his sister." Meng Bai said generously, "Just tell me who you like, and if none of them are good enough, just change to another one."

"I think they are all the same, but none of them are as good-looking as Meng Bai."

"Girl, although I like your honesty, you can't be too picky."

Zhao Jinmai thought it was a joke, so he picked out a few based on his own understanding of the characters.

Unexpectedly, Meng Bai actually found the person she chose.

She now felt both panic and a sense that she was trusted.

Adolescent girls are always easily moved by such little thoughts.

If you were a slightly older person, you would be able to see clearly that since Meng Bai was able to show her the candidates, he must have gone through a round of screening, so whoever he chose wouldn't make much of a difference.

"So who was chosen in the end?"

"Qu Chuxiao, a junior fellow student of mine at the Central Academy of Drama."

When Meng Bai returned to school to attend the ceremony as an outstanding graduate, Qu Chuxiao was the first to stand up and ask questions, which left a deep impression on him.

When selecting the actor for the role of "Liu Qi", the crew received quite a few audition resumes, including his.

When the candidates were being discussed, Meng Bai saw that the name looked familiar and picked him out.

Being a student at a professional university like the Central Academy of Drama, he has filmed several web dramas in the past two years, but most of them are supporting roles and his popularity is average.

So the pay is also cheap, twice as expensive as Zhao Jinmai, which is 100,000 yuan.

The total salary for the male and female protagonists is 150,000 yuan. This is the current financial situation of "The Wandering Earth".

(End of this chapter)