Chapter 154: Senior
Lin Xi donated 100,000 Hong Kong dollars to Pui Ching Middle School to improve the campus setting, and Pui Ching Middle School also announced on the same day that Lin Xi's new film will be filmed in many places in the school, and at the same time is preparing to recruit a group of extras from the students.
As soon as they heard the news, the campus of Peizheng Middle School immediately boiled, except for the sixth grade students who were facing the pressure of the examination after they were banned from signing up by the teacher, students of other ages filled in the registration forms one after another.
After school, the two girls walked side by side on the road, discussing the same thing.
"Hey, Doudou, did you sign up this time?"
"Me?" The petite girl lowered her head a little shyly and whispered, "I reported, but the chances of being selected should not be very good." β
The girl next to her, who was a little taller, encouraged her, "That's not necessarily! My uncle works in the crew, and he told me that the general crew doesn't look at the face at all when choosing extras, as long as the appearance is passable, it is almost the same, in fact, it depends on the director's mood! β
"The director also personally picks extras?" The little girl asked with some curiosity.
"You're right, directors are very busy, and it's usually the assistant director who does this...... But this time it's different, Senior Lin Xi is our alumnus, maybe he will come to check it himself! β
When the tall girl said this, her expression jumped again.
"Maybe!" The little girl agreed, but she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
She has just transferred to Peizheng Middle School, and she is not yet fully familiar with the people and environment, this time the crew went to the school to select extras, and she estimated that she would not have much chance of being selected.
Mainly because she is small, she can easily be ignored when standing in a crowd, so she doesn't have much confidence.
The next day, the crew went to the school to select people, because there were too many applicants, and there was no way to interview all of them, so they first selected about 300 students from the registration form handed in for interviews.
Sure enough, the little girl was unexpectedly defeated, and she didn't even make it to the interview.
And the tall girl who went home with her after school yesterday not only entered the interview, but was lucky to be selected, and when she came back, she held a commemorative water cup issued by the crew in her hand, and excitedly showed off to her classmates around her.
Those unsuccessful classmates all gathered around her and asked her about the interview, and the most asked question was, of course, whether Lin Xi had come.
"Senior Lin Xi didn't come, the person in charge of the interview was an assistant director named Chen Jiaxiang, the interview was in a large classroom, twenty people entered at a time, and then he selected people from it, and in my group, only me and a girl from the next class were selected."
After hearing this, a boy couldn't help but complain: "Why are all the girls selected?" β
Someone next to him immediately coaxed and said: "This movie is made of a girls' school, of course, only girls, if you want to act, you can go for sex reassignment surgery!" β
This caused the people around him to laugh.
The little girl sat at her desk and buried her head lower.
When the bell rang, the students who were gathered around quickly ran back to their seats and sat down.
The teacher walked into the classroom with a few books, helped her glasses, and finally found the little girl with her head down and a depressed expression.
"Qiu Shuzhen, come out with me!"
"Oh!" The little girl stood up and walked out of the classroom under the gaze of her classmates.
I thought it was the teacher who was going to talk to me alone, but I didn't expect to find a person standing outside when I walked out of the classroom.
"Director Chen, this is the student you're looking for."
The teacher pointed to Qiu Shuzhen who came out of the classroom, and then turned his head and explained to Qiu Shuzhen: "This is Director Chen, who is in charge of interviewing extras today, he has something to find you, you follow him, take a test in this class, and I will give you the test paper when I come back, and I can take it home and hand it in." β
Chen Jiaxiang glanced at Qiu Shuzhen seriously, she looked petite and cute, there was nothing special about anything else, why did Lin Xi fall in love with her?
"Hello Director Chen!"
Qiu Shuzhen said hello to Chen Jiaxiang timidly, but she was a little nervous in her heart, not knowing what would happen next.
"You come with me, and I'll take you to meet someone."
Chen Jiaxiang led Qiu Shuzhen to an empty classroom on the top floor, where the crew was moving some equipment in and out, and a young man was standing inside to command.
"Yes, this table is here!"
"Also, clean the walls!"
Chen Jiaxiang asked Qiu Shuzhen to wait at the door, and walked next to the young man to report.
"Mr. Lin, someone has been found."
"Okay, good work." Lin Xi turned his head to look at Qiu Shuzhen who was standing at the door, patted Chen Jiaxiang's shoulder and said, "I'll talk to her about it." β
Qiu Shuzhen had probably guessed the identity of the young man in the classroom at this time, and when she saw him walking towards her, she became more and more nervous, her hands were twisted together, and she didn't know what to do.
Lin Xi walked up to Qiu Shuzhen, looked at her seriously, and then said, "Hello, I'm Lin Xi." β
"Hello senior!" Qiu Shuzhen was so nervous that she didn't dare to look at Lin Xi with those eyes, and her voice was so low that only she could hear it.
"Don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person." Lin Xi opened the door of the teacher's lounge on the side and motioned for Qiu Shuzhen to come in with him.
Originally, it was an empty room, but because the crew was going to shoot here, it was completely furnished, just like a normal office.
Lin Xilai opened a chair and asked Qiu Shuzhen to sit down, and he also pulled a swivel chair without armrests from the side, sat on it upside down, put his hands on the back of the chair, and faced Qiu Shuzhen.
"There are three heroines in my movie, and the other two candidates have been decided, and I want to ask you to play the last one, I don't know if you have any opinions?"
Qiu Shuzhen raised her pointed chin, and her eyes as bright as stars flashed with disbelief.
"Me?"
She raised her hand and pointed at herself, wondering if she had misheard.
"That's right, it's you!" Lin Xi nodded affirmatively, "I saw you from the registration materials, the photo of you on it was taken beautifully, the smile was sweet, and there was a little naughtiness in the innocence, which just matched the image of a heroine in my movie, especially after seeing you again, my feeling was even stronger." β
This statement was already thought of by Lin Xi, and it sounded very convincing, of course Qiu Shuzhen would not doubt it.
"But I've never acted, and I'm afraid of ...... when the time comes."
"As long as you're not as nervous as you are looking at me in front of the camera, then it's definitely no problem, because the character in this play is a schoolgirl, you just need to let go of your personality a little bit and make yourself look lively, and then I will tell you what to do when you shoot, and then you can do what I say, it's very simple."
Lin Xi's first sentence made Qiu Shuzhen lower her head a little embarrassed, clutching the corners of her skirt with both hands and not knowing how to answer.
"If you don't speak, then I'll take you as a default." As soon as Lin Xi saw Qiu Shuzhen like this, she knew that the matter had been done, of course she didn't want to waste time, so she began to explain the movie role to her.
"This movie is about the Qing Dynasty, there was a Xiucai surnamed Zhu, who failed more than ten times in the exam, his father was angry with him, his wife thought he was unproductive and ran away with others, he couldn't stand this series of blows, so he committed suicide by hanging a beam in a temple, and because his resentment was too heavy to be reincarnated, his soul was attached to the hemp rope he used to commit suicide."
Qiu Shuzhen thought it was a ghost story, and her face showed a frightened expression.
Lin Xi didn't rush to explain, but continued to speak: "Time came to the 80s, three high school girls Lin Jingqing, Lin Xiaohua and Yan Ruyu encountered a storm on the way to summer travel, and broke into the temple where Zhu Xiucai committed suicide to avoid the rain, one of the girls brought the hemp rope with Zhu Xiucai's soul back to the school dormitory, Zhu Xiucai's appearance startled her and her two friends, but as the exchange deepened, they slowly found that Zhu Xiucai was not only harmful, but also helpful, and the two sides soon became friends who talked about everything. β
When Qiu Shuzhen heard this, she couldn't help but ask: "Ghosts don't hurt people but help people?" β
"Of course, there are good and bad ghosts."
After Lin Xi patiently answered Qiu Shuzhen's somewhat naΓ―ve question, he also told the next plot.
Zhu Xiucai helped Lin Jingqing win the championship of the school sports meeting, helped Lin Xiaohua successfully date the boy she liked, and helped Yan Ruyu scare the girl who bullied her, but during the mid-term exam, he refused to help Lin Jingqing and Yan Ruyu cheat, and the guide zhΓ¬ both failed the exam, and the friendship was tested, at this time Lin Xiaohua's boyfriend also began to change his mind, and hooked up with a rich girl without telling Lin Xiaohua, Zhu Xiucai was angry but helped Lin Xiaohua teach her boyfriend a lesson, and successfully rescued Yan Ruyu who wanted to jump off the building because of poor gradesIn the process, the resentment in his heart slowly disappeared, and he was finally reincarnated with the help of three girls. β
As soon as Lin Xi finished speaking, Qiu Shuzhen, who was sitting opposite, applauded.
"This story is awesome! Seniors are amazing! β
Seeing Qiu Shuzhen looking at herself with admiration, Lin Xi was a little embarrassed.
"Actually, it's nothing, by the way, this story is called "Happy Ghost", I'm going to let you play Lin Xiaohua in it, there's no problem, right?"
"Huh?" Qiu Shuzhen's clapping action stopped there all of a sudden, and she looked at Lin Xi blankly.
If she remembers correctly, Lin Xiaohua is the most beautiful of the three girls in the story setting, and she is very popular with boys, which is the opposite of her in reality, Lin Xi handed over this role to her to play, which made her feel at a loss.
Lin Xi saw Qiu Shuzhen's worries and encouraged: "Believe me, you will definitely shine in this movie." βR1152