Chapter 21: Sweeping the snow in front of the door
Cardamom spread the sheets and quilts she had brought, and simply packed her luggage, when she heard Duan Xiaobing's voice downstairs, followed by a lively and cheerful laughter.
"Brother Duan, it's great to have you here. This is the first time I've joined the group to film, and I don't understand anything. β
"If there is anything you don't understand, just come and ask me, it's all on me."
"Brother Duan, you're really good."
Cardamom gently opened a little curtain, and saw a very cute girl downstairs following Duan Xiaobing very innocently, shouting Brother Duan very happily.
After a while, Duan Xiaobing also came to the second floor with the girl's luggage, and her room happened to be next door to Cardamom.
When she came up just now, Cardamom paid attention to the name tags posted on the doors of each room, and it turned out that this girl was the other heroine in the play, Xu Jiajing.
Before coming, Sister Cao sent her a list of actors from the crew, and also attached some preferences and taboos.
This Xu Jiajing is a first-year student at the School of Drama, because of her cute and beautiful appearance, she was discovered by the crew and invited to star in "First First Love".
The newcomer has few requirements, the salary is low, and he is obedient, which is indeed very suitable for such a crew.
Cardamom quietly lowered the corner of the curtain and went back to tidy up her things.
"Oh, Brother Duan, I'm so embarrassed to ask you to help me carry boiling water when I take a bath."
"It's okay, you have little strength, you can call me for such things in the future."
"Thank you, Brother Duan. Brother Duan, this is the beef jerky that my mother sent me from my hometown, it is very delicious, you can take a little and eat it. β
"I should take care of you, don't be polite to me, it seems too raw, I'll go and bring you boiling water, you pack up and take your clothes and come down to take a shower."
"Okay, I'll be right here."
The studio room built in this way is not soundproof at all, Cardamom listened to the two of them, packed up his things, put on a hat and planned to go around the set first, see if he could meet the director, and say hello first.
"Hey, someone else came before me." Xu Jiajing glanced at the sign in Cardamom's room and stretched out her hand generously, "Hello, your name is Cardamom, right?" My name is Xu Jiajing, and we will be working together for the next three months, please take care of me. β
Cardamom smiled, "Hello, my name is Cardamom." β
"Cardamom, you look so young, are you seventeen? Are you still in high school? β
"Nope." Cardamom changed the subject, "What are you going to do here?" β
"Oh, I sweat easily, I've sweated too much all the way, and I'm going to take a shower first. What about you? β
"I'm going to go around and around."
"Okay, then I'll go take a shower first, and I'll see you later."
Separated from Xu Jiajing, Cardamom went to the set by herself, only the staff were working on the set, and she didn't see the director and assistant director.
She came back in a circle, and Xu Jiajing stayed with Duan Xiaobing to chat again, her cheeks were still a little red.
"Cardamom, you're back, come and play together." Xu Jiajing waved her hand.
"You guys, I'm a little tired, go up and sleep for a while."
"Your face is a little bad, could it be heat stroke?" Xu Jiajing walked over a little worriedly, "This is the beef jerky my mother sent me, you can eat and play if you have nothing to do, it's delicious, for you." β
"Thank you." Cardamom smiled, "Then I'll go up first." β
Duan Xiaobing also smiled and said, "Teacher Dou, let's have a barbecue together at night, don't forget." β
Cardamom nodded and went upstairs.
Xu Jiajing was a little worried, "Cardamom's face is not very good, could it be that she is sick?" β
"You're just naΓ―ve." Duan Xiaobing sneered meaningfully, "You are a newcomer, and Mr. Dou is an old man who has been in the circle for four years, so people are unwilling to play with a newcomer like you." You don't understand too much, don't stick a hot face to a cold ass in the future, and ask me more if you don't understand. β
"Is it like this?" Xu Jiajing was a little disappointed, "I thought Cardamom didn't look like that." β
"Little fool." Duan Xiaobing smiled and pulled her wrist seemingly naturally, "Come here, the sun is very hot over there, don't bask in the sun." β
"Mmmm, Brother Duan is still good to me."
Cardamom stood at the corner of the stairs, listened to everything the two of them had to say, and instead of going upstairs, she turned around and went to the bathroom that had been built in the back.
The bathroom is a simple bathhouse with a blue tin sheet on the floor.
Cardamom went in, closed the door with his hand, and the light in the bathhouse dimmed. She glanced and saw red dots behind a decorative green leaf.
This pinhole camera is quite hidden, and if she hadn't been aware of these doorways, she might not have been able to find out.
Cardamom took two pictures with her phone, pulled over the leaves to block the camera, and exited the bathroom.
At the barbecue in the evening, the actors who had a role in the early stage of the crew came, as well as the director and assistant director, Cardamom pinched a glass of beer and sat next to him after saying hello.
It's all young people, and it's easy for everyone to get acquainted with it.
Xu Jiajing estimated that she was rejected twice by Cardamom during the day, but she didn't come up again at night, and Cardamom didn't want to deal with this, so she simply watched everyone play with a blank face.
"Cardamom."
"Director Lin." Cardamom smiled.
Director Lin sat down next to her, "Why don't you play games with everyone?" β
"I'm old and lazy."
"I've seen a little bit of the drama you filmed before, it's pretty good." Director Lin is a female director, and she looks like she is in her thirties, and she doesn't like to laugh very much.
"Thank you, Director Lin, for the compliment." Cardamom raised her glass, "Director Lin, I toast you." β
"Whatever you want."
Director Lin took a sip, and Cardamom drank all the beer in the cup.
"Have you read the script well?"
"Hmm. The story is very interesting, and the characters are very distinctive. Cardamom couldn't figure out Director Lin's intention to come over to talk to her alone, so she didn't speak casually.
"You have a very advantageous appearance condition, and your acting skills are also good, or Cao Mei brought it, why didn't you fight for some good scripts before?" Director Lin suddenly smiled, "To be honest, I was quite surprised that you agreed to come over to film." β
"Director Lin, if you praise me so much, I'm going to swell."
"Are you inflated, then?" Director Lin changed the subject, "Speaking of which, Cao Mei and I are still college classmates, but I only studied in China for two years before studying abroad. She briefly mentioned you to me, saying that she was busy over there and couldn't follow you into the group, so let me take care of you more. β
"It's me who is not good, and I always let Sister Cao worry about it."
"No, if she hadn't recognized you as a person, she wouldn't have bothered." Director Lin stood up, "Come with me?" β
"Okay."
Cardamom put down the wine glass, and Director Lin said hello and took her away.
She followed the director, of course the others didn't dare to talk nonsense, the two slowly walked to the place where they lived, and Director Lin stopped, "Wash up and go to bed early." Tomorrow there will be a start-up ceremony, and I will be very busy if I want to take a few shots to try the feeling. β
"Okay, Director Lin also rests early, good night."
Cardamom carried two bottles of boiling water to the bathroom, looked over the camera, and saw that the things had been taken.
She didn't care, she went back to her room after taking a shower, sent a message to Cao Mei, and sent a photo taken during the day.
Cao Mei's phone immediately called, "Cardamom, you weren't photographed, were you?" β
"I'm keeping an eye on it, it's fine, but I don't know if anyone else has photographed me."
Cao Mei pondered for a moment and said, "Everyone is sweeping the snow in front of the door, and they can't care so much." So how do you take a bath? I'll tell Director Lin, you go to her bathroom to take a bath. β
"No, I don't. I just went to take a look and the camera in the bathroom has been removed. Cardamom smiled, "Sister Cao, the script of "First First Love" is not given to others, but from the beginning, Director Lin wanted you to show me, right?" β
"Yes." Cao Mei sighed, "But I didn't say anything at the time, I just said to show it to you." At that time, you were auditioning for "Prosperous Splendor", and I originally thought that you would be 100% good for that role. β
"As a result, I didn't expect Dong Wei to jump out halfway and grab the role, right?" Cardamom's eyes sank, and then calmed down again, "Sister Cao, thank you, you're always worrying about me." β
"Don't tell me this, take advantage of the opportunity."
"I know, then I'll hang up first, Sister Cao, good night."
Cardamom hung up the phone, took out the script and began to memorize the lines.
At about ten o'clock, the others also came back one after another, and there were voices of laughter in the corridors upstairs and downstairs, and after a while, they quieted down.
Cardamom glanced at the time, and lay down with the lamp she had brought.
In a few moments there was the sound of the door opening in the next room, followed by a low whisper.
Xu Jiajing seemed to scream, but her mouth was covered as soon as the scream came out.
Cardamom opened her eyes and stared at the roof of the shed, thinking about the lively and cheerful girl who took the beef jerky to her during the day.
The innocent strength of the laughter is two points of what my sister used to be.
"Don't, Brother Duan! No...... No! β
"Don't scream, if you attract other people, you won't be able to stay in the crew." Duan Xiaobing lowered his voice and threatened, "This is the first drama you have filmed, you don't want to lose the hard-won opportunity just like this, right?" β
"Don't, I...... Yes! β
Cardamom sighed and got up, grabbed a shawl and opened the door, knocking on the door next door.