Chapter 2 Film and Television City
The next day.
The sky just turned a little white. Gan Tao, who was sleeping against the window, opened his black and white eyes and looked at the paddy fields behind the rental house through the broken glass window.
That night, he slept very uneasy, and the stuffy room was just one of them. What made him most uncomfortable was the frogs behind the house croaking all night, and the large worms that came out of nowhere on the mosquito net.
The worms and lees in the paddy fields were stuck on the white mosquito nets and moved slowly. When he saw the black shadows in the middle of the night under the moonlight outside, he was really shocked!
After lying for a while, he couldn't sleep early at home, and he jumped over Gan Jun's straight body with his hands and feet. When he was about to get out of bed and wash, Gan Jun rubbed his sleepy eyes, picked up the glasses on the table and put them on, and said, "I'm sleeping for a while, I don't have to go to work today."
Seeing that Gan Jun woke up, he apologized: "You go to bed, I'll wash my face, and go out to call home."
Gan Jun works in a machinery factory, and he only takes Sunday for a week. Maybe he will be one of them after tomorrow.
He took out a short-sleeved shirt from his pocket under the bed. His lower body was still the big trousers he wore when he came yesterday. He applied some toothpaste, dragged Gan Jun's sandals to open the door, and kicked it to the edge of the pool in front of the door.
When I came in the middle of the night, I couldn't see the decorations in the courtyard clearly, so I looked at the sun that just came out carefully.
The rental house may be the former storage room or kitchen of the landlord's house, but now it is divided into two pieces of wooden boards for rent to outsiders.
There is a square and four straight courtyard between the rental house and the building in front. There is a half-meter-high tap water pool in front of the Ganjun room, and the other one is a water well in front of it. There is an alley at the upper left corner of the courtyard. He came in from there last night.
The comb was not found in the house, and Gan Jun on the bed had already closed his eyes again, so he had to stretch out his hand and pluck his hairstyle.
The alley entrance was very short. After going out, I realized that there were fifty or sixty buildings in this row. The shape of the buildings was basically the same. He looked around and confirmed that it would be no problem to come back later, so he stepped onto the cement road ahead.
Although his father is an unemployed accountant, he still has many requirements and occasionally has to hold small meetings, so his family also has one of the few phone calls in the village.
As soon as the phone rang out, it rang out a few times. The opposite side immediately answered it. It was estimated that there was still water on the first floor of the house, and the old couple were still staying upstairs!
"Mom, what did you shout yesterday? I didn't hear it clearly!"
"I told you not to make friends randomly and learn to be smart outside."
His mother Jiang Mei’s warning was that he had become accustomed to it, and “learning to be smarter” has become his mother’s catchphrase in the past two years.
As for the good relationship between the opposite sex, he can't change this thing.
His mother kept talking nonsense, and he finally got rid of it with the reason why the phone bills were expensive.
As for his father Gan Guohua, he rarely mentioned him. His son is mature and grows taller than his peers. He has never bothered him since he was a child. Only someone will worry about it!
"Boss, give me two bottles of Coke!" Gan Tao pointed to the Coke on the shelves and said to the boss of the convenience store.
Before he came to Haishi, his mother stuffed him 1,000 yuan, and two bottles of drinks worth more than 1 yuan can still be consumed.
The water cup, wooden comb, and daily necessities that should be available in mirrors cost him more than 20 yuan, which is already the daily salary of ordinary employees.
"Don't sleep?" When we arrived at the rental house, Gan Jun was already standing by the pool to wash his face.
Gan Jun wiped the water stains on his face, hung the towel behind the door, put on glasses and said, "You just came here, take you out for a walk."
Chedun is a town in Hai City. It is not the most prosperous area in Hai City, but the place Gan Hua took him to today is quite special, the Chedun Film and Television City that has just been opened to the public.
Movie.
He watched very little, after all, his home is in the countryside, and the places where he could see movies were because someone celebrated his birthday and showed his open-air movies.
The last time I watched was "Tang Bohu's Flavor of Autumn" I saw when I was a child. While this comedy movie made him laugh badly, it also made him feel like he had watched it a long time ago.
television.
He watched a lot of animations when he was a child, a slightly larger costume TV series, and occasionally accompanied his mother to watch some crying TV series.
When he encounters some interesting TV series, the feeling of being familiar with him will pop up inexplicably, making him once suspicious of his identity as a big star in his previous life.
The two of them, who were fat and tall, were driving extremely slowly with their bicycles. Fortunately, the film and television city was not far from the rental house, and they arrived almost when their clothes were wet.
“Is there any money to visit?”
Gan Tao pointed to the queue queuing to buy tickets and asked Gan Jun.
My cousin's reaction was normal, and Gan Jun did not think of ridicule. He was worse than him when he first arrived in this metropolis. He smiled and said, "It must be. Moreover, if you want to enter some places in the film and television city, you will have to charge a second fee."
The two of them lined up for a long time and spent a full 10 yuan to buy two tickets. After walking into the film and television city, they saw that they were crowded with people. Gan Tao wiped the sweat from his face, feeling like he was using money to buy the pain.
The buildings in Chedun Film and Television City are mainly restored to the sea city in the 1920s and 1930s, and there are also special means of transportation from that era - rail cars on the flatbed roads.
Walking aimlessly on the streets of the 1920s and 1930s, occasionally needing to avoid rail cars, and staying on the big butt sedans on both sides of the street, gave Gan Tao a feeling of time and space traveling again.
"Don't say it, it's really interesting." Gan Tao smiled at Gan Jun as he looked at the rickshaw coming towards him.
Gan Jun wiped the fine hairs on his thick black arms exposed and sweat: "It's so hot!"
Seeing that Gan Jun had sweat dripping as big as beans on his forehead, he couldn't help but laugh: "Then find a cool place to sit for a while."
The fat man was most afraid of summer. After Gan Jun nodded in panic, he looked around and stopped in front of a row of houses not far away.
In front of the door of the house, the two of them sat down on the steps with a big golden sword and talked about Gan Tao's interview at the machinery factory tomorrow.
The factory for the interview was to produce hydraulic equipment. The salary was 800 or 900 yuan per month, and the compensation was pretty good. Gan Jun stayed there for a few years and had some small connections. These days, he always brought one person to work outside, so after Gan Tao was 16 years old, he came to join his cousin in great interest.
When Gan Tao was listening carefully to his cousin's introduction to the hydraulic factory situation, the wooden door of the house opened, and a middle-aged man walked out of the room and shouted to the two: "Hey, I just walked for a while, why are you still sitting on the person? You are filming inside, so you can't sit here."
He stretched his head and looked through the middle-aged man's body into the house. Seeing that there were indeed people in the courtyard with shirtless and unknown machines on their shoulders, he couldn't help but raise his head and smiled at the middle-aged man with a pleated face and said, "We'll leave after a while."
The middle-aged man with a pleated face said unyieldingly: "That's not the case. You're talking nonstop here, it will affect the radio reception inside. Hurry up and go to another place to rest."
Gan Tao was a little unrelated. He spent money to come in. This house doesn’t require a second charge. Now he doesn’t even allow him to sit in it. In broad daylight, is there any other way to the bright world?
"I'll just sit here and what can you do!"
Gan Tao's little temper also came. He sat on the steps with his neck stuck and was still motionless. He also spoke in extremely obscure and difficult-to-speak Mandarin to question the middle-aged man behind him.
The middle-aged man pointed at him and said with a sharp voice: "Come with me, right? Do you know how much money is wasted if you waste one shot? If you destroy one, you can afford to pay!"
Gan Tao was very unhappy. He was educated at home for several years. When he just went out, he was not only educated but also intimidated. He even had a little contempt. He couldn't help but get up and said angrily to the man: "Are you crazy? Why do I have to compensate? Besides, this place belongs to your family? You are tourists, I am also a tourist. Everyone has equal status, so don't scare me!"
As he stood up, Gan Jun also stood up and stood beside him. The two had the advantage of height and weight, but they frightened the middle-aged man with a pleated face and retreated into the door, thinking that the two were going to attack him.
The middle-aged man walked into the yard with his sleeves. Gan Tao curled his head and looked clean in the yard. Seeing that there were twenty or thirty men and women inside, he hurriedly winked with his cousin Gan Jun and then quickly left.
He is not stupid, he knows the supreme truth that a hero does not suffer the loss in front of him!
At the entrance of the film and television base, Gan Tao looked at the two people holding a cardboard with the words "Come on it" and asked Gan Jun curiously: "Brother, how much does an actor pay a month?"
Gan Jun followed his gaze and looked at the recruiter who was surrounded by the crowd and shook his head and said, "How can I know about this? I have never done it!"
Gan Tao said: "It's quite fresh, let's try it too, anyway, I have nothing to do in the afternoon."
There were a lot of people joining in the fun, and they surrounded the three floors of the recruitment of workers. The two of them squeezed all the way up and the hot front chests and back against their backs, and they heard a lot of mixed news along the way.
The two recruited workers came from two drama groups in the Republic of China. The actors were treated the same, 20 days, 9 hours a day, and there was a meal at noon. There was overtime pay for filming. Because it was summer, I still had a bottle of water.
The monthly salary is almost the same as in the factory. There is nothing to do with both sides. Gan Tao shouted to the two recruiting workers from a distance: "Brother, do you think we can do this?"
The man looked at Gan Tao and the other two who stood out from the crowd, and waved, "Sure, come behind me."
The two brothers looked at each other in a daze, but they didn't expect it to be so easy to be an actor. They were selected without even having an interview.
Standing behind the recruiting workers for about half an hour, the man finally stopped recruiting people and led more than 40 men and women who had just been recruited to walk into the film and television city.
Gan Tao rushed to the next to the recruiting worker diligently and asked with a smile: "Brother, what role will I play?"
The man patted the cardboard in his hand: "Don't it say it's recruiting extras?"
Gan Tao tentatively said: "Others are just acting as crowds?"
This is his first time filming, and he doesn't understand the terms in it, so he can only understand extras based on the literal meaning.
The man smiled honestly and said, "It's almost that's the meaning. You can also understand it as A, B, C and D in the crew. Anyway, it means not being popular!"
Chapter completed!