7. Chapter VII
A few years later, Ji Tang participated in a talk show and was asked by the host about the audition that changed her fate.
She smiled indifferently, "I don't remember what I said or did in front of the director at that time, I just remember that when I walked out of the interview room, my brain was blank and full of despair." I thought, I'm going to die, I'm definitely not going to get this role. She lowered her eyelids, brushed her broken hair, and whispered, "I don't think I have the face to go back to see Xu Jing, and at that moment, I even had the idea of jumping off the roof." β
The blazing white sun hit her, and she walked out of the media building, shivering with chills all over her body, every bone shivering.
She took the bus home, and on the way saw a fast food restaurant recruiting waiters, with a starting salary of 15,000, including food and accommodation. Her eyes turned red all of a sudden.
Maybe that's where she ends.
The money owed to Xu Jing will be repaid in two years if it is not enough in one year, and it will be repaid in three years if it is not enough in two years. Although he didn't care about the little money, she would have to pay it off one day. She made Xu Jing see it wrong! She's not the Maxima he's looking for, and she's not Cinderella! She's just an ordinary girl.
Ji Tang was on the bus, ignoring everyone's strange eyes, burying his head and crying.
She returned home in a trance. Xu Jing was not there, and Miao Miao was basking in the sun on the terrace. She prepared cat food for Miao, and then shrunk herself in the room, covered with a quilt, to escape this qiΔ. She thought of a possibility, leaving Beijing, leaving the entertainment industry, and leaving ...... Xu Jing.
The words "Xu Jing" seemed to be dug out of her heart and liver, and it hurt as if she touched it.
Her eyes were dripping with tears and her pillow was wet.
Before she knew it, it was getting dark, and someone knocked on her door, "Hey, girl." β
He's back. He must have known the results of the audition. How disappointed should he be?
You can't be a shrunken turtle for the rest of your life. Ji Tang said to himself. She wiped away her tears, slowly got out of bed, and fumbled her way through the dark room to open the door.
"Click-"
The moment she pushed the door, the light from the living room shone in, stinging her eyes. Tears flowed uncontrollably.
Xu Jing stood against the backlight of the door, blocking all her vision. She was just up to his shoulders. She lowered her face, hoping he hadn't seen herself crying so wolfly.
"Girl." A warm palm pressed against the top of her hair, and Xu Jing was caught off guard and hugged her full arms, "Silly girl." His voice was hoarse, and he usually listened to a kind of laziness that looked down on people, but at this time he was extremely gentle.
She lifted a pair of red eyes like rabbits, and the water was steaming.
"Do you know how good you are today? Director Zhang told me that he was taken aback by you. β
Ji Tang thought he had misheard, "What? β
Xu Jing hugged her, like a child, and shook her feet off the ground twice. Seeing that Ji Tang was still dazed and stunned, he rubbed her hair with his hand, and a big arc appeared on his lips, "The role of Lin Chunhua is yours!" β-
Lin Chunhua is not the heroine reporter she auditioned for, but the second female lead who was abducted and trafficked to the village by traffickers.
Because this role is too difficult, the original plan was to invite an old actor in his 40s to dress up as a woman in her thirties to perform. But I didn't expect Director Zhang to fall in love with Ji Tang, who had just turned twenty years old!
"We tried to get her to improvise a play by Lin Chunhua. Maybe she only prepared the heroine's part, so the whole person was confused. So the producer shook his head and said no, this kid is too stupid and has no spirituality. But what I didn't expect was that as soon as we finished speaking, she immediately became the same as Lin Chunhua's upper body, full of despair and numbness. Tsk, what do you keep saying about cherishing talents, I didn't believe half a word, and I thought you and that little girl were ...... Now believe! Absolutely! β
Xu Jing remembered what Director Zhang said to himself, and then looked at the crying girl in his arms, he couldn't help but be amused and helpless.
"I really chose it, you can't lie to me, right?"
He showed her the chat history with the director on his mobile phone, "Did you believe it now?" β
Ji Tang held his mobile phone and looked at it over and over again, as if he wanted to see this text message.
"Pack up your things, the crew is going to Gansu soon." Xu Jing knocked her brain, "This time you are playing a rural woman who is one round older than your actual age, you are going to die ugly, are you afraid?" β
Ji Tang stood on his feet and shouted happily: "Don't be afraid!" β
As long as she can not disappoint him, she is not afraid of anything-
In Gansu at this time, it is like a furnace during the day and an ice cellar at night.
The village where the crew stayed was on the Loess Plateau. The land is barren and the yellow sand is flying. As soon as you exhale and breathe, the floating dust burrows into the mouth and nose. Everyone laughs at themselves, this is the real eating of soil.
The heroine Wang Qiao finally fell to Song Jingjing. Ji Tang was still quite surprised by this result, she thought it would be Zhang Jiameng or Zhao Ying. Xu Jing squinted, yawned, and said lazily: "Director Zhang hasn't screwed investors." Song Jingjing is crazy about lack of awards. β
After arriving at the crew, Ji Tang found that he was really a word.
Song Jingjing didn't like this character at all, and she didn't like this movie. She doesn't like anything except Weibo and games. The director said that her expression was stiff, her feelings were wrong, she responded to the hmmmm on her mouth, and she would shoot the next one, but she still had the same crooked eyes and nose.
"Hey, how do you eat all this stuff every day?" Song Jingjing put the lunch box aside and looked at Ji Tang who was eating with relish suspiciously, "This rice is as hard as a stone, and it seems to smell of sand in it." β
Ji Tang felt that the meals given to them by the crew were already very good, and the staff at the bottom ate even worse. She honestly said, "It's okay, there are ribs and greens." β
Song Jingjing threw the lunch box into the trash in disgust, called her assistant in, and bought her something else to eat, "I want sushi." β
Her assistant looked about the same age as Ji Tang, she was busy running around, her cheeks were sunburned, she stood in embarrassment at this time, and said for a long time: "Sister Jing, there is really no sushi restaurant here, and there is no one in the town outside." β
"If you don't have it in the town, you go to the county to buy it, and if the county doesn't have it, you go to the city to buy it. If there is no one in the city, then you can go to Lanzhou to buy it. Song Jingjing said coldly, "I'm going to eat sushi anyway." β
It is a three-hour drive from the village to the town and seven or eight hours to the city...... The little girl's eyes turned red all at once.
Ji Tang couldn't look at it, and helped persuade her: "Even if you buy it back, you won't have time to eat it." This is about to start filming, how are you going to act when you're hungry? β
Song Jingjing looked at her like an idiot. If the actress doesn't take Joe and doesn't make excessive demands, people will treat you as a big name? I heard that the newcomer who plays the second female lead also came in with a background, how can she be like a village girl? No wonder a cave sent her away, and she lived in the only new building in the village that was completely modern.
Ji Tang touched his nose, not knowing what he had done wrong.
Obviously, every sentence is very polite and sincere.
"Sister Ji Tang, the filming progress in front is fast, the director asked you to shoot first, and the sun will go down in a while." A girl with smiling eyes ran over and said. She is Xu Jing's assistant to Ji Tang, called Fang Fang. Ji Tang is now signed under contract in Xu Jing's studio, and he is a real actor.
Ji Tang put down the lunch box that he had eaten half-eaten, responded busily, and followed the assistant out.
Song Jingjing sneered contemptuously from behind, "Fool." β
She had to pretend she didn't hearβ
After work at night, Ji Tang lay on the bed, and through the glass window, he saw the starry sky.
She put on a down jacket, came out of the cave, and sat down on a dirt slope.
I don't know what Miao Miao is doing.
I don't know what Xu Jing is doing.
She looked up at the starry sky and felt a heavy weight in her heart. Half a year ago, she was still a penniless street girl, and she was very happy to do tricks. But now, I can hear others praise her every day, she has talent and potential, and she will become a great weapon in the future.
If Xu Jing was there, he would definitely rub her hair and snort coldly: "What a big thing, I can't grow tall." β
As she thought about it, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.
"What do you think, laughing alone in the middle of the night as if stealing."
Ah, has she missed Xu Jing to the point of auditory hallucinations? Ji Tang scratched his ears.
"Meowβ"
Hey, this time I heard even a faint cry. She must be too tired from filming, so let's go to bed early.
Ji Tang slapped his face twice, took a deep breath, got up from the dirt slope, put his pockets in his pockets, and walked towards the cave tremblingly.
There is no street light in the village at night, and it is dark. As she climbed down the dirt slope, she tripped on her heel and nearly fell. "Ouch," she snorted subconsciously. finally stabilized his body, but he got into a shoe of yellow sand, which hurt his toes.
A slender figure, trotting from not far away, shone on her head is a "chestnut".
"The road is unsteady, how old are you? Believe it or not, if you break your leg here, and no one hears you in the middle of the night? β
This is true, the crew specially separated her from a single courtyard. The closest place to live is a hundred meters away from here.
No! That's not the point! The point is......
Ji Tang's eyes widened, and he was so frightened that he burst into flames: "Why are you here?" β
The earth cat in his arms, which was nocturnal and rarely energetic, jumped up and jumped on top of her, and replied for his master: "Meow-" kept rubbing his head against her neck.
Xu Jing pretended to look at it and turned his gaze away, "Well, the scenery is good." β
Ji Tang followed his gaze and only saw mountains of firewood, decaying broken walls, and small dirt slopes with strange shapes......
"Ahem, it's so cold, don't you invite us in and sit?"
Miao Miao echoed: "Meow meow." β-
The host clapped his hands and laughed: "Xu Jing still has such a time?" It's ...... "I've lived for a long time!"
Ji Tang nodded solemnly: "I swear, although it was dark at night, I really saw him blushing at that time." β