Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh.

Unexpectedly, when the poplar heard me sigh, he actually sighed fiercely.

I turned my head to look at him, and his stool was dry: "Are you still going to Mudanjiang?" Go now, the daylilies are cold. ”

I looked at my watch, and it was already eight o'clock: "Of course you have to go, hurry up." ”

After telling Yang Shu the purpose of going to Mudanjiang, I leaned back on the passenger seat and touched the five-pointed star cockade in my pocket, secretly worried.

My affairs with the Pickpocketing Ghost and the Black Dragon Sect Lu Jun are not over yet, and now I am in conflict with the Xiao family, but I don't have time to deal with these grievances, but I have to go to the fork to find trouble with others, which is simply exhausting.

Why do you suddenly feel like the whole world is against me?

How many people are still thinking about my Yang family openly and secretly?

What is all this for?

I don't know if it's because there is cause and effect in the dark, or if I'm too arrogant and ostentatious to cause public outrage, but at least I think one thing clearly, I must improve my strength, as soon as possible, and at all costs to improve my realm and Taoism.

Otherwise, in front of an existence like the ancestor of the Xiao family, I am an ant!

In the past, I thought that the Dao of the Holy Realm was enough for me to dominate one side like my master and no one dared to provoke me, but now that the world is changing, if I want to be invincible under the influence of all forces, I still have to live forever!

Yang Shu knew that I was thinking about things, and surprisingly didn't bother me, and he raced all the way, and his speed didn't drop below one hundred and two.

But when I arrived at Mudanjiang, it was already half past nine in the evening, so I had to dial the phone number of the film crew.

The other party didn't blame us, said a Bali hotel room number, and asked us to go directly.

Bali International Hotel is one of the only two five-star hotels in Mudanjiang, and the only one in the city center, adjacent to the bustling pedestrian street on the left and Beidou Street on the right.

We arrived at the hotel, the doorman dropped us off at the door of the room, I tidied up my clothes and knocked on the room door.

The one who opened the door was a young man in his thirties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, looking a bit like Zhang Jiayi when he was young, wearing a gray cashmere sweater, wearing the director's standard army yellow vest outside, with an indifferent expression.

"Who is the guide introduced by Mr. Xiao?"

The news of the recruitment guide was released by them through the Xiao family, but obviously they didn't know that this matter had already turned a corner in Luo Kaishan, and I was not stupid enough to correct him.

"I am, my name is Yang Lin, this is my younger brother Yang Shu."

He stopped at the door and replied coldly, "We're only hiring one guide." ”

"It's okay, I'll take him to help drive, no pay."

Only then did he look at me and Yang Shu, and let us into the room: "I am the director, Xie Zhijian." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to an old man who was sipping tea at the tea table in the room: "This is Professor Dongfang, the special consultant of the film crew." ”

The old man was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, about sixty years old, although his hair was gray and slightly bald, but his face was ruddy and his expression was kind.

Seeing us come in, the old man stood up with a smile on his face and shook hands with us vigorously: "It's so late to trouble the two of you to come over, it's hard work, I revive the East, a single name and a red word, you just call me Lao Hong." ”

Compared with Dongfanghong's enthusiasm, Xie Zhijian's attitude was much colder, and he didn't even mean to give up his seat, so he came up and asked a few questions about Dongning Fortress, and when he saw that I answered fluently, he threw a stack of contracts in front of me.

"This is our permission to shoot, and your contract, take a look."

I glanced at it roughly, the formalities were complete, the contract was perfect, and I was about to sign, but Xie Zhijian pressed the signature pen on the table.

"There are two precautions to remind you, first, you are a member of the film crew after signing the contract, and everything must be completely subject to the arrangements of the film crew, do your job well, and I will handle other things. Second, without the consent of me and Mr. Hong, you are not allowed to act without authorization, ask for leave, or leave the team, otherwise I have the right to fire you on the spot, understand? ”

His tone was quite unkind, although it was a scandalous remark in front, but it still made Dongfang Hong laugh and play a round: "Xiao Xie, don't be so dogmatic, I think this young man is very good, a little resolute." ”

Xie Zhijian let go of his hand holding the pen, but he was still staring at me, obviously waiting for me to make a statement.

I looked at him, stood up straight, and smiled faintly: "I am familiar with the local situation, and my suggestion is that if you want to go to Nanshan Village, it is best to follow the local customs." If you're going to do your own thing, you don't need me as a guide. ”

Xie Zhijian touched a soft nail, his face changed at that time, and he was about to get angry, but he was held down by Dongfang Hong.

"Xiao Yang is right, we are outsiders, so naturally we want to follow the customs."

Xie Zhijian bit his cheek and was silent, and only nodded after a while, but he looked at the poplar tree unwillingly.

"He is a supernumerary person hired by you, and the team will not sign a contract with him, and there is no insurance in case of work-related accidents and accidents. I can sponsor you a hundred dollars a day in my private name, which is counted as his labor fee. ”

Poplar and I looked at each other, both smiled, and didn't say anything else.

After signing the contract, we came out of the room and we were placed in another room on the same floor.

Xie Zhijian said that he would leave tomorrow, so let's stay in the group tonight.

After entering the room, Yang Shu finally couldn't help it, and threw himself into the oversized soft bed in the room: "What do you want to do, look at that Xie Zhijian, what kind of thing is it, it looks like 258,000 yuan." ”

"Five hundred wages a day, adding a hundred to you is a big show, I said senior brother, this is really treating the two of us as turtles!"

I also smiled bitterly, and it was only at this moment that I understood why Luo Kaishan would say that this errand might have wronged me.

It's not easy for me to serve someone like who's superior to others.

I was also tired, so I just slammed myself into the soft bed like a poplar tree, pillowed my hands, stared at the pink mirror inlaid ceiling and smirked: "Anyway, the accommodation conditions arranged by the people are not bad, five-star business suites." ”

Yang Shu suddenly sat up straight, and said with a rare positive color: "Senior brother, I found that you have changed!" ”

I tilted my head to look at him in confusion.

He said seriously: "You say that you are not good at learning, but you are biased towards me!" ”

"If you have to learn from me, you can pick up the merits to learn!"

"After all, I'm a person who is full of merits, and it's more than enough to be your role model!"

"But you just put so many advantages and don't learn, you only learn to be not serious!"

"Plus you're old, so you're veritable, old and not serious!"

"it...... Senior brother, you're playing with your dead hand! ”

Poplar barely caught the boning knife I flung over, and continued to flee while spraying me non-stop.

But he forgot that whenever Lao Tzu takes on business, he never only carries a knife on his body.

So, the knife flashed in the huge suite, and the poplar tree was like Erha who was chased by the owner, one would hang on the chandelier, and the other would run into the bathtub, so fast that a long string of phantoms dragged out behind him.

I chased after a while and stopped chasing, lying back on the bed and pondering, Xie Zhijian's attitude towards us was quite unfriendly, we met him for the first time, and we are not the kind of people who are disgusted when we meet, why is his bad attitude for?

What's more, Dongfanghong's old man is clearly an ordinary person, why should he fight against a real person?

Although Xie Zhijian tried his best to hide his breath, how could he hide it from me, this guy is a real person.

The strength of the Daomen True Realm is equivalent to the Xuanmen True Realm, and he has reached the peak level of overflowing qi.

It's already weird for a veritable Taoist real person to shoot a documentary with a film crew, and he has a lot of scruples about Dongfanghong, the mystery here is also interesting, it seems that the water of this film crew is not shallow.

I didn't think much about it, but told Yang Shu about these things and asked him to pay attention.

We arrived too late to see the rest of the crew, so tomorrow we will know if the crew is really a Crouching Tiger.

Maybe I complicated things, but the next day, when Xie Zhijian introduced us to the rest of the film crew, I found that among the fifteen people in the group, except for Xie Zhijian, there was nothing strange about everyone else.

The film crew had three cars, two station wagons, a pickup truck for pulling equipment, and my Isuzu, which was also a small fleet.

There are many people and things, and the action is naturally procrastinated, and when I arrived at Nanshan Village in Sanchakou Town, it was already past lunch time.

Nanshan Village is not big, but it is not small.

It is said that it is large because it occupies the southern slope of the entire Wohu Ridge, and it is said that it is small because there are only about 30 households in the whole village, which are scattered on the rolling slopes, and the distance between each household is at least ten minutes if you walk on two legs.

This kind of village is very common in the vicinity of Dongning, but Nanshan Village is a relatively different kind of village.

It is closest to the Dongning Fortress Group Ruins Museum, the size is a tourist area, with the momentum of tourism development, the village should have opened a lot of farmhouses, family hotels and other stores, but Nanshan Village does not, there is no one.

Occasionally, tourists enter the village and want to spend money on food and accommodation here, but they will eat behind closed doors, and the people here seem to have a grudge against money.

At this time, the village was covered with snow and the dirt roads were rugged, and the convoy drove into the village in a hurry, but there was neither the imaginary welcome procession of gongs and drums, nor any village cadres to greet them, and the camera and field affairs sitting in my car could not help but whisper, which was obviously a little unaccustomed to them.

If other villages knew that there was a CCTV film crew coming, they would not be able to put up the lights, and they would be eager to use eight sedan chairs to carry people to the village to provide for them. Not to mention that their film crew has a background in the capital, and it is possible to reach the heavens, as long as they bring a few shots to their village during filming, it is better than any advertisement.

But this Nanshan Village, not to mention going out in a group to greet you, didn't even see half a figure along the way, like a dead village.

I'd heard about Nanshan Village for a long time, and I knew what was going on, but I wasn't in the mood to explain it to them.

I haven't spoken since the convoy entered the village, and I have been looking out the window at the snowy mountains, and I will take a few more glances at each house.

Because I really want to know which household is Chu Xue'er's home.

However, I will be angry, but if I want to hide it from Xie Zhijian, I can't do nonsense.

The convoy drove straight to the entrance of the village to the north, and then stopped in front of a compound surrounded by wooden planks.

The compound had been contacted by the film crew in advance, but the gate was still locked.

Yang Shu honked the horn for a long time, and then a lady wearing a red floral cotton jacket and a yellow woolen headscarf walked over from a distance. I got out of the car and stepped forward to greet me: "Auntie, open the door, we are filming TV, and we have said hello before." ”

The eldest lady looked me up and down with a cold face, pulled her hand out of her sleeve, and spread it out in front of me.

"Uh, hasn't the rent been paid?"

"This snow is soaking, let me freeze outside for so long?"

I was helpless, so I took out a fifty smile and handed it over.

Who knew that this lady not only didn't answer, but also gave me a blank look.

I had to exchange a hundred for her: "Well, you work hard." ”

Anyway, the film crew will reimburse me for this money, but from this point of view, the people in this village also know the money!

The eldest lady shone the banknote in the sun, put it into the padded jacket, and then turned around and opened the gate of the courtyard.

Then she threw the key into my hand and turned around and walked towards the village.

I hurriedly stopped her: "Hey, what are you going to do, auntie?" ”

"When I go home, won't I give you the key?"

"This courtyard is not your home?"

"Nonsense, if this is my yard, can I rent it to you for a dollar? This is the old Chu family, there is a girl in his family, and she hasn't been back for several days, you guys, if you have a little conscience, you can lightly harm the house. ”

She muttered as she walked away, but I stood at the door in a daze, not even waking me up by poplar honking my horn.

The Chu family? The girl didn't come back?

Could it be that it was such a coincidence that what they rented was Chu Xue'er's house?