Huayu: King of Kung Fu

Lin Hu, Wang Baoqiang, and others took their equipment and traveled by train to Kunming.

Airfares are so damn expensive these days. There are more than ten of them, and the airfare would cost forty or fifty thousand yuan. They can't afford it.

Bored on the journey, a few martial arts masters started playing cards.

Their game is called "Knock on Three Houses". Lin Hu had never played it before. He joined in and played for a while, but found it boring, so he taught them "Dou Dizhu" (a card game).

"Dou Dizhu" is not yet popular throughout the country; it is only popular in the Hubei area.

"Dou Dizhu" is much more interesting than "Knock Three Houses". These people fell in love with it as soon as they started playing, and then lost more than 200 yuan to Lin Hu.

A martial arts master named Fang Yu couldn't help but complain, "Boss, you're a master, so don't bully us newbies!"

Lin Hu laughed heartily, used the money he won to buy them a pack of cigarettes, and even paid out of his own pocket of over a hundred yuan.

With the card game over, Lin Hu went to a different room to see Gao Yuanyuan.

Gao Yuanyuan sat on the bed, listening to music with earphones in her ears.

"What are you listening to?"

When Gao Yuanyuan saw Lin Hu come in, she smiled at him and handed him an earphone.

Lin Hu put the earphone into his ear, and a male singer's voice came through it.

"Treat every day as an anniversary, treat yourself as a keepsake, spend every day aimlessly together, and even if we don't talk about anything meaningful, it's still so interesting..."

"Huang Shujun's songs?"

"You know Huang Shujun?" Gao Yuanyuan was surprised because Huang Shujun was a very obscure Taiwanese singer.

"I know, the song is called 'Love Syndrome'."

Huang Shujun was a contemporary of Qi Qin and Wang Jie, two superstars in the music industry who shone brightly, naturally making him seem insignificant in comparison.

The reason Lin Hu knew about this song was actually related to Gao Yuanyuan.

Because when he was reading gossip news in his original timeline, he accidentally saw a love letter handwritten by Gao Yuanyuan.

The love letter quoted a lyric: "Treat every day as an anniversary."

He became curious, so he searched for the lyrics and found the song.

Lin Hu thought to himself, "So she's been listening to this song for so long. She really likes it."

When Gao Yuanyuan saw that Lin Hu accurately said the name of the song, she immediately felt a sense of destiny.

She asked excitedly, "You like this song too?"

Lin Hu poured cold water on her enthusiasm, shaking his head and saying, "I just happened to have heard about it!"

"I think the lyrics are quite interesting!"

Lin Hu took off his headphones and said, "This trip to Yunnan will be arduous and the conditions will be tough. Actually, it would be better if you waited half a month and set off with Huang Bo and the others. It won't interfere with your studies."

Gao Yuanyuan pressed the button on her Walkman, took off her headphones, and said earnestly, "Because I don't have much acting experience, I want to learn more from the crew."

Lin Hu thought to himself, "They make it sound so high-sounding, but they just don't want to go to school!"

With nothing else to do, Lin Hu began to help Gao Yuanyuan review her studies.

Gao Yuanyuan was doing practice tests, and she would ask Lin Hu questions whenever she didn't understand something.

Lin Hu explained a few problems to her, then suddenly remembered something.

So-called mock exams often contain questions that have appeared in previous years' college entrance exams.

So, what about the 1998 college entrance examination questions...?

Lin Hu had also survived a sea of ​​exam questions in his previous life, so he had naturally done all sorts of college entrance exam questions.

Thanks to his enhanced memory, Lin Hu carefully recalled several college entrance examination questions from 1998, and they quickly came to mind.

"Can I help Gao Yuanyuan cheat?"

The thought flashed through Lin Hu's mind for a moment, but he quickly gave up on it.

Gao Yuanyuan is a terrible student anyway, so helping her cheat won't change anything, and you can't even explain it yourself.

Moreover, sending her up there would squeeze out another person who is studying hard.

Gao Yuanyuan's Chinese grades are pretty good, and her English is so-so, after all, her family is well-off and can afford tutoring.

She was terrible at math, physics, and chemistry; no matter how Lin Hu explained it, she couldn't understand. She couldn't help but complain, "I heard your brother is a top student from Tsinghua University?"

Gao Yuanyuan sighed, feeling very embarrassed.

"I don't know why, but just looking at physics and chemistry makes me want to sleep!"

Lin Hu thought to himself: Your parents' genes were inherited quite evenly. Your talent went to your brother, but your good looks were passed on to you.

From a certain perspective, this can be considered that each has its own strengths.

After a two-day train journey to Kunming, it took another ten-plus hours by car to reach Jinghong City, our destination.

Lin Hu looked at the scenery before him. Coconut trees lined both sides of the road, frangipani flowers were in full bloom, and palm trees stood tall and lush.

Lin Hu had traveled to Thailand in his previous life and felt that this place was very similar to Thailand. He passed several temples along the way, which were exactly the same as those in Thailand.

After a long journey, everyone rested at the hotel for the night.

This trip took four days just to get around; it was really tough.

The next morning, everyone had breakfast at the hotel.

While eating, Ning Hao reported on his recent work to Lin Hu.

Ning Hao had already found a village for filming, hired extras, trained them in advance, and arranged a van for transportation.

"For meals, we'll order from a restaurant in the city, and the driver will pick them up every day at noon..."

Ning Hao explained everything in great detail and in a very organized manner, and Lin Hu was very satisfied with his work.

This person is very useful and capable; he's worth investing in!

With limited funds and a tight schedule, there was no time for anyone to explore Jinghong city. After breakfast, they headed straight to the filming location.

Upon arriving at the village, the village chief personally greeted them. Lin Hu exchanged pleasantries with him and presented the village with some gifts.

This was probably the first time a film crew had come to shoot a movie in this village, and the village children all came to see what was happening.

Lin Hu asked Gao Yuanyuan to take out the candy and distribute it to the children.

The people here are all dark-skinned and thin. Gao Yuanyuan stands there with outstanding looks, a true "rich, beautiful, and fair-skinned" woman.

She even gave candy to the children; she was beautiful inside and out, like a fairy.

Before long, the children surrounded her and called her Fairy Sister, which made her extremely happy.

The first scene Lin Hu was to film was the scene of picking green leaves.

The original Ong-Bak was about a group of people climbing a Bodhi tree to pick green leaves.

Lin Hu once thought that if it were to have Chinese characteristics, should it be changed to lion dance picking greens?

But in the end, they gave up.

The lion dance performance requires a high platform and skilled lion dancers, which is quite expensive and very complicated to film.

Moreover, Hong Kong films like Wong Fei-hung from the 1990s had already taken lion dancing to a whole new level, making it difficult to surpass.

Let's just pick the green leaves instead; that would be more unique.

In this area, every Dai village has a Buddhist temple.

Ning Hao chose this village because there was a large Bodhi tree planted outside the village's temple, which was perfect for filming.

Ning Hao said, "Yesterday, I already had the villagers loosen the soil under that tree!"

Lin Hu was full of ambition. After several months of preparation, filming was finally about to begin.

Although we were in unfamiliar land, there was no opening ceremony, no red carpet, and no media.

But he has Ning Hao, Wang Baoqiang, Gao Yuanyuan, and the staff he personally recruited by his side.

That's enough!

Lin Hu waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"