Even in order to make a good impression in front of Zheng Xu, a senior brother, what is the loss of a month or two?

It was the performance of the two of them that reminded Zhao Dongbei of the other apprentices who stayed at home, a bowl of water is not good for leveling, Zheng Xu doesn't care about it first, he should say what the master should say.

Zhao Dongbei has known Zheng Xu for a long time, and the relationship between the two is like this, but Zheng Xu rarely asks Zhao Dongbei for help, even if he went to the Northeast to shoot "Once Upon a Time in South Korea" some time ago, Zhao Dongbei didn't help much.

To put it nicely, he said hello in advance.

But even if he didn't come forward to say hello, Zheng Xu's preparations were quite sufficient, whether it was the direct docking of Zhongzhou City officials or the paving of the commercial projects of several of their enterprises, the preliminary work had already been completed.

Now let him ask Zheng Xu for resources, Zhao Dongbei was still a little guilty for a while.

Both sides are their own children, Zheng Xu is closer to him in his heart, and the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat.

"Hey, uncle, where do you want to go, you can speak at any time if you need my help, it's this junior disciples, when the time comes, I'll find Xiao Fengtian and the others to understand, and see if I have the opportunity to mention them, after all, I have TV series and movies here, and the opportunity is not less, but I have to delay their time."

Zheng Xu saw that Zhao Dongbei said this, so can he still disagree?

Among the remaining apprentices of Uncle Zhao's gang, there are still a few talents who can be used, such as Asian dance king Nicholas Zhao Si.

An actor with this kind of appearance and figure, whether he plays a Korean or an island country, is more than enough.

There are a few uglier ones, so it's better to arrange, as long as they don't give them too important scenes, and he doesn't pick acting skills too much.

"Oh, good boy." Zhao Dongbei saw that Zheng Xu agreed so happily, and pressed back the words in his heart, and could only pat Zheng Xu's shoulder with emotion.

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What is the difference between award-winning films and ordinary commercial films?

More in-depth connotation, more in-depth plot, satire, reflection of social issues, etc.

There are also directors who are stream of consciousness and do not meet the above conditions, their movies belong to that kind of storyline, the story line is a little sparse, and a thousand kinds of audiences have a thousand thoughts or perceptions after watching it.

This kind of film participation in the award is all about luck, and if you meet a judge who likes this kind of tone, and then go through public relations, there is still hope for winning the award.

The rest is like this, with a little bit of private goods, a piece of in-depth theme, and the story is made profound.

At this point, the part of the film is over, and the rest is PR!

Any film festival in Europe is no exception, Zheng Xu's biggest disadvantage is that the Oscar traces on his body are too strong, and he will be looked down upon by those traditional European filmmakers if he goes to the European film circle now.

The three major European film festivals generally despise the Oscars.

In addition, Zheng Xu is still a native of Yanguo, and with the double blessing, the disadvantage is very big.

That's why he wants to open up the situation from French business.

Now that the plan has changed, the French company has not opened up, so I can only rely on this film to wipe the edges and give it a try.

The rest of the various PR projects have to be changed.

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And Chen Yao does not play a large part in this film, although she is the starring role, but her role is used to advance the plot, almost the nominal heroine, today's scenes are to highlight the indomitable people of the Yanguo border, even a little girl dares to resist.

The rest is to use a group of special actors to play Vietnamese people to reflect the ugliness of Vietnam, which is all an old routine.

No matter how brave Chen Yao is, she is just an ordinary little girl in Yanguo, and a gun is not invincible, dozens of Vietnamese pursued, Chen Yao couldn't stop it, and she couldn't stop it, she was a little injured, and the bullets ran out, so she dropped the gun and started to flee for her life.

"Card~ Let's get here today."

Staying up late for several days, Zheng Xu is a little tired, after this shooting, the time is almost up, and I will shoot again tomorrow.

A few people from the drama will stay to watch things, and some equipment is too troublesome to move back and forth, so they are dismantled and placed in the temporary storage tent on the set, and as for large items such as rockers, they are placed in place, and they can't be lost if someone looks at them anyway.

Zheng Xu crossed his arms, stood on the sidelines and watched the employees of each group carry things, tidy up the scene, and check the set every day when the crew finishes work, especially the garbage and the like must be cleaned up, and when it is daytime, before filming, it has to be checked again at dawn.

"Boss, you're done."

A team leader of the drama team trotted over to inform Zheng Xu.

Taking out his mobile phone and looking at the information that the canteen above had prepared supper, Zheng Xu nodded and said, "Get in the car, call it a day." ”

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The next morning, in the misty lake, Zheng Xu felt that someone was scratching him, and slowly opened his eyes and saw Wang Ou holding his hair and scratching his face.

"What's wrong?"

Zheng Xu, who hasn't woken up yet, is a little confused, he hasn't arranged any work in the morning these days, filming night scenes at night, and taking a holiday in the morning, leaving the crew with plenty of time to rest.

"I originally wanted you to sleep a little longer, but Lao Qin sent a message again just now, if something happens, you can take a look."

Wang Ou handed Zheng Xu a tablet and pointed to the news on it for Zheng Xu to see.

After a sigh, he picked up the pillow next to him and stuffed it behind his back, Zheng Xu stood up and leaned against the head of the bed, buckled the buttonhole, and then looked at the tablet.

The message on the screen is a piece of news from overseas.

The screenshot is a screenshot of several film reviews about "Once Upon a Time in South Korea" in a forum on the South Korean Internet, with translations below.

Zheng Xu glanced at it roughly, among them, Chef Xie's name appeared very frequently, and Chen Yao's name was also mentioned a lot, mainly to discuss the acting skills of the two of them.

As for the work, it must be "Once Upon a Time in South Korea", which is still being released in China.

Originally, all this seemed to be no problem, but it was these translated words that made people a little confused.

Many viewers in China who have watched "Once Upon a Time in South Korea", compared with the translation on the picture, feel that the film reviews of these Korean audiences seem to be a little wrong.

Let's not talk about where Koreans watched "Once Upon a Time in South Korea", just talk about movie reviews, everyone doesn't seem to be watching a movie?

But the actors discussed are the same, and the title is the same, why is it a little wrong to look at Korean film reviews?

[This group of Koreans hasn't seen the blind reviews, right? Chen Yao's life experience is so miserable, her parents are dead, and finally the killer is brought to justice, and even she committed suicide, although she looked very scary when she killed her stepfather, but how did this (Korean female national idol) and (Korean brave women) titles come about? 】

[Maybe the police in South Korea can do whatever they want? 】

[Hahahaha, what is the situation of Chef Xie called by this Korean national goddess? ] 】

[Poof~ Chef Xie was actually named the best supporting actress in Asia's screen image in recent years and the national goddess of South Korea?! 】

[Haha, Chen Yao cried and fainted in the toilet?! ] 】

[Could it be that the pirated version they watched and the "Once Upon a Time in South Korea" we watched were not the same version?] 】

[So Director Zheng actually engages in double standards? ] 】

[Another set of domestic and foreign sets of this kind of thing? ] It's disgusting, in vain I still bought a ticket to support him?! 】

[After a few Oscars, I will do this, and I look down on the Chinese people. 】

[The directors are all this kind of stinky problem, saying that the domestic scale is strict, and secretly engaging in double standards and treating them differently. 】

[Ask for resources, I also want to see.] 】

Zheng Xu flipped through the comments below, sneered, and looked at all kinds of comments, some followed the crowd, some sprayed randomly, some were witty, and there were all kinds of comments.

As for watching pirated copies, it is theoretically immoral, mainly because some people have not even watched pirated copies, and they also come out to spray indiscriminately, which is very disgusting, and they have not even figured out the reason for the incident.

Putting down the tablet and picking up the cigarette case at the head of the bed, Zheng Xu lit a cigarette and said a little depressedly: "That's it?" ”

He didn't realize that there was anything wrong with this, since he had made the official South Korean special online version of "Once Upon a Time in South Korea", he was mentally prepared for something about this little thing.

The main thing is that he hasn't woken up yet, and he has been woken up by this kind of thing, and he has a little bit of getting up.

"You can look at the other messages sent by Lao Qin..."

"Hey..."

Holding a cigarette in his hand, Zheng Xu sniffed, took out the mobile phone under the pillow, and flipped through the message sent by Lao Qin an hour ago.

At the beginning is a photo, and in the photo is a document, sent by the General Administration.

It is about Zheng Xu's penalty notice.

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Seeing this look up, Zheng Xu came to a little spirit, and even brought a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Wang Ou, who was about to watch the joke, looked at Zheng Xu and actually laughed, a little puzzled.

"What are you laughing at? You've been punished with notices, and you can still laugh? ”

Zheng Xu didn't reply, and continued to read the penalty notice, this inexplicable penalty notice did not write any specific reasons, but there was a line of small letters at the end: In view of director Zheng Xu's personal faux pas, punish his unit ---- Flashing Media and its films, and ban him from participating in any domestic awards for one year.

The prohibition period lasted from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015, for a total period of one year, but the notice in the bottom right corner was issued on May 15, 2015.

Looking at the punishment time and issuance time, Zheng Xu understands the meaning, this punishment seems to be a bit severe, for ordinary directors, film works that have worked hard for several years can't even participate in an award, that is a denial of all his efforts, second only to the punishment of banning filming.

But it's a bit strange to replace this person with Zheng Xu, he basically didn't participate in domestic film and television awards, this punishment is a bit painless for him, and this year is almost halfway over, this so-called one-year punishment, from the time of the so-called punishment notice in this chapter, there is only half a year left...

As for this personal faux pas...

Except for the Vietnamese reporter, there will be nothing else, although they are too scared to say it, but the injury is there, and you can see it, but since ancient times, the people have not raised officials and not held them accountable, and it is not a big deal, and in the end it has become a faux pas.

Zheng Xu nodded with satisfaction, this punishment is quite appropriate, and the others who understand it have understood it.

With his current status, if he keeps being honest and unchanged, it is easy for people to form a fixed cognition, not that this kind of character is not good, but this kind of image character that does not make any mistakes, Zheng Xu has a number of self-forcing in his heart, he really can't stand this kind of personality.

In the future, with the rapid advancement of the Internet era, some information will be exposed a little bit, although some of the things he did abroad before, the leader may not be too lazy to talk about him, but what if he does it in China in the future?

can only make a big mistake, occasionally make a small mistake, just like this time, both found a punching bag, out of the gas, although the method is rough, but in the end the matter can be solved, the leader gave this punishment.

In the future, such a character will be slowly used to it, even if he is accidentally exposed to any news occasionally, he will not suddenly overturn, and he will be regarded as having an accident insurance for himself.

Seeing that the result was not bad this time, Zheng Xu of course smiled, but as for the inside story, there was no need to talk to Wang Ou in detail.

Reply to Lao Qin with an understanding of the information.

I clicked on the recent network public opinion war sent by Xiaobai, Minister of the Internet Department, at present, South Korea is not chaotic enough, and the second wave of the offensive against the comprehensive plan of the Lotte Group is still brewing, Xiaobai found a few food safety experts, and cooperated with Wang Yi of the short video department, and made several issues of "popular science" videos, first put them abroad to test the water, and see the acceptance of the people in the early stage.

Everything was going well, and Zheng Xu replied to Xiaobai with an arrangement for starting the second step of the plan that only they could understand.

Now that public opinion in South Korea has risen, Zheng Xu is watching from a distance, and his grasp of the situation is not so accurate, and he has to count on Xiaobai to stare at the point, and then throw in some material at the right time.

Putting down the tablet, Zheng Xu, who was in a good mood, didn't even have the gas to get up, looked at Wang Ou, who was holding a thin blanket with one hand and flickering, smiled, and suddenly wanted to study.

It's two hours before lunch, so it's enough time.

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Before starting the meal at noon, Zheng Xu took another bath, sweated after exercising, and took a hot bath.

Coming out of the bathroom, I lay down on a small simple table, pulled out a chapter of scratch paper, picked up a pen and began to write down a few bullet points.

When Wang Ou came out of the bathroom, he saw Zheng Xu writing seriously, wiping his hair, while standing behind Zheng Xu curiously, peeking at his toe probe.

The handwriting on the paper is slightly sloppy, with words such as food, scenery, scenic spots, and specialties, and several items are listed.

"What are you writing about, you won't be idle for a while."

"Hahaha, I'm in a good mood today, and I've done some things together!"

Zheng Xu put down the pen, pulled Wang Ou with his backhand, dragged her to his side, put her on his lap and said, "I'll give you a task in the next few days." ”

Wang Ou had just finished taking a bath, and he was a little flustered when he saw that Zheng Xu suddenly did something to her again, but after hearing that Zheng Xu was just going to explain some tasks to her, and had no other ideas, he was a little annoyed.

"What's wrong?"

Zheng Xu watched Wang Ou go from shy to annoyed, and in just a few seconds, the expression on his face changed, and he was a little confused.

"Hmph... It's okay, you can say it. ”

"Well, I'm not busy these days, you collect some information, I think so, when we are almost done shooting, leave the crew, I will only take away some of the people who need to be used in the later stage, and the rest of the people, let them help the province shoot a show, just like our Tip of the Tongue series."

"The specialties in your province, the food, all take a picture, since you are here, let's shoot a documentary or something, just give them a vacation, you go to your provincial tourism bureau to discuss, set up a project, the funds are casually discussed, how much is missing, let's make up for them, when the copyright is left, put the film on the penguin video, and finally bring all the income, you bring it back, see if the Xiguang Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation and the Women's Federation have any projects that need help, you are responsible for this project."

After listening to this, Wang Ou's complexion improved again, blinked, tilted his head and thought for a moment: "Just like when I followed you to shoot "Nanhe on the Tip of the Tongue"? Play all the way and shoot all the way? ”

"That's right, anyway, these people go back, and they won't be needed for a while, so they should be given paid leave, and you can just follow our model this time."

Wang Ou is not stupid, she has followed Zheng Xu for so many years, what she does, for what purpose, and what benefits she can get in the end, she is also a door, and now Zheng Xu has let her do this project by herself, which is to further give her a cover, such a long-faced project, and the conditions given by Zheng Xu can be regarded as losing money and making money, and the income is not wanted, and she will let her operate it when the time comes...

"Hmm..." Wang Ou snorted in a nasal voice, and he agreed, reaching out and scratching Zheng Xu's chest with his slender fingers, and the nameless fire just now was gone.

Looking at her posture, Zheng Xu raised his eyebrows, he is now in the time of a sage, and he is more Buddhist, besides, it's time to start eating, and he has to film in the afternoon!

"Hurry up and pack up and eat."

The thigh shook Wang Ou who was sitting on his lap twice, Zheng Xu patted her back with his right hand, and coaxed her softly.

This time, Wang Ou glanced at Zheng Xu with a smile and did not refute, only throwing Zheng Xu a roll of the eyes.

.................

"Senior!" When the scenery saw Zheng Xu, he said hello very happily.

Pete, a black man, was holding a pig's trotter while gnawing and looking up, seeing that Zheng Xu just wanted to speak, but he hadn't swallowed anything in his mouth, so he could only nod.

"Hahaha, you two are eating here, how are you feeling these days?" Zheng Xu passed by the table next to them, saw the scenery and greeted him, simply stopped, sat at their table, put down the plate, and asked the two cameos how they felt recently.

"It's okay, it's not difficult to have lines, senior, I heard that you were very strict when filming, I think you are quite gentle."

I didn't expect a big man like Zheng Xu to sit and eat with them, and Pete next to him was a little restrained.

The scenery of this white guy has a little golden retriever, laughing and looking at the simple, with the identity of Zheng Xu's junior brother, he has been like a fish in water in the crew these days, and everyone calls him senior.

When he first established Flashing Media, Zheng Xu struck a handful of wool and fooled a group of juniors and sisters to start a business with him, and now they are all group leaders or ministers in the company.

"Director Zheng, I heard that you are going to take this movie to Cannes for the awards?" Pete finally swallowed the meat in his mouth, and asked Zheng Xu for confirmation of the information he got with some trepidation.

"What? Don't you like Cannes? ”

"No, no..." Pete waved his hand in a panic, his black hands were full of oil, in fact, in the hearts of many Americans, the Oscar is just like that, after all, it is their domestic film award, although there are many stars, although the scene is large, and although the spread is wide, it can't change the fact that this is a regional film award.

For example, some Americans admire the traditional culture of Europe, and in the minds of some American audiences, the status of the three major European film festivals is a little higher than their Academy Awards, after all, they are international and professional film awards.

Pete, who thought it was a commercial movie to make a cameo, joined the group for a few days to shoot, and only then did he realize that this movie was going to be taken to Cannes for the awards.

This made Pete feel a little apprehensive about being able to participate in an idol director's movie.

"You two act well according to the requirements of the script, your performance was good in the first few days, just keep it up, if there is a problem, I will tell you, don't have a psychological burden."

"Okay, I got it!" Pete nodded in disappointment, and began to eat the pig's trotters with his head down.

Fengguang asked with some expectation: "Senior, that... Can I shoot a few clips from the crew and post them as short videos? Don't worry, I definitely won't shoot anything involved in the plot! ”

Zheng Xu, who was eating, didn't reply, only nodded, and agreed.

Seeing that Zheng Xu was so easy to speak, he agreed, and with a roll of his eyes, he asked again: "Senior, can I also shoot you?" Belch... It's what you look like when you're working. ”

Zheng Xu took a few more bites of rice, and waited for the contents of the plate to be eaten clean, before he put down his fast son and looked at the scenery with an expectant face: "Do you two want to join Flashing Media?" ”

“？？？”

Fengguang looked at Zheng Xu with a shocked face.

"Ahh Senior... You are... Want to invite us to join your studio? We also... Can you get into the media of a flash? ”

Pete didn't even eat, and looked at Zheng Xu with a confused expression.

Being invited to make a cameo appearance on the camera is not the same level as entering a flashing media.

He's even more excited than the scenery!

Not to mention anything else, just the international popularity of Flashing Media, although the company is not large, but the people are famous, as for the internal operation mode of Flashing Media, it is more attractive to foreigners!

Don't think that these two goods are Americans, they really know about Flashing Media, plus they have lived in Zhongzhou City for two years, how good it is to be able to enter Flashing Media, needless to say!

The end of the universe is weaving!

As long as you join the flashing media, from now on, as long as you don't make particularly huge mistakes, you don't have to worry about anything for the rest of your life!

"Haha..."Zheng Xu looked at the reaction of these two foreigners with great satisfaction.

These two people's skins will still be very useful in the future, even if they can't be used for a while now, they will be pulled over and cultivated first, so be prepared.

"After filming, you two stay in the group first, I will ask you two to get a temporary employee card first, and you have to inspect for a while, and if you perform well, you will have the opportunity to join us Flashing Media, do a good job, you two eat slowly here."

Zheng Xu got up, knocked on the table and said, "I'll clean up my dinner plate for me, let's go." ”

Watching Zheng Xu walk out of the cafeteria, Fengguang turned around, glanced at the two of Pete, and then looked at the plate left by Zheng Xu in front of him.

Fengguang was just about to raise his hand, Pete was tall and long-armed, and snatched the plate left by Zheng Xu, but Fengguang only grabbed a pair of fast children.

"Hahaha, I'll make a short video, I've eaten with Director Zheng, and I can help him clean up the dishes, I may be the first black person to eat with Director Zheng, right?"

Pete grinned happily while imagining, protecting the dinner plate with one hand for fear of being snatched away by the scenery, and taking out his mobile phone with the other hand to prepare to shoot a short video.

Fengguang looked at the only pair of fast children left in his hand and pouted: "I am the fast son used by Director Zheng, and you are just a dinner plate." ”

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Xiao Fengtian and Song Xiaobao each held four bottles of Liushen Flower Water.

Around a large awning, the two rotated counterclockwise, sprinkling flower water on the ground as they walked.

This old brand of toilet water, how to say the mosquito repellent effect, there is, but the effect is not as strong as the special mosquito repellent water.

However, many special mosquito repellent water has a certain toxicity and is not very safe, so the wealthy and wealthy Flashing Crew purchased a car of Liushen Flower Water to repel mosquitoes.

Bad mosquito repellent effect?

That must be that the dose is not enough, open sprinkling, one bottle is not enough to sprinkle ten bottles!

Xiao Fengtian and Song Xiaobao were responsible for arranging the venue in advance, and the people from the drama crew next to them were responsible for arranging the filming venue, and they were responsible for arranging the place where Zheng Xu would sit later.

Leveling the land, cleaning up the garbage, seeing if there are any foreign objects, snakes and insects around, and finally when Zheng Xu is about to arrive on the set, he starts to sprinkle a lot of toilet water around the awning.

From a distance, I saw Zhao Dongbei with his hands behind his back, chatting with Zheng Xu while walking and walking this way.

Xiao Fengtian hurriedly set up the two small soft stools in front of the monitor, wiped the small coffee table, turned on the switch on the electric kettle, turned on the water temperature, and used it to make tea for a while.

......................

"Xiao Xu, I watched the filming in the past two days, and thought about the script again, is it really okay for you to take this content to participate in the award?"

Zhao Dongbei is mainly not used to the plot of the People's Liberation Army rescuing the French and Americans arranged in Zheng Xu's plot.

This kind of plot is a bit inconsistent at first glance.

"It's not like I haven't been saved before, why do you think of this?"

Zheng Xu glanced at Xiao Fengtian and Song Xiaobao, who were cleaning up the venue, and nodded with a smile.

"Master, you sit, senior brother, sit." Xiao Fengtian helped Zheng Xu move the small soft stool slightly.

Zhao Dongbei nodded, sat down with a golden knife, and looked at the crew who were still arranging the venue in the distance.

"Uncle, do you know that when I used to shoot the film "Hot Afternoon", I asked people to go to the United States to shoot the camera, right?"

"Oh? That movie of yours wasn't made in the United States? ”

Zhao Dongbei was stunned, he didn't remember what Zheng Xu told him.

"Huh? Then I just remember it, we were shooting in Canada at that time, and it was convenient over there, and some of the shots were shot in the United States with a team led by Pai Yi Xiaoxing. ”

"When I was filming at that time, Yi Xiaoxing met a photography group in the United States that was interviewing on the street, and after communicating with them, I found their interview very interesting, so I asked for their interview video."

Zheng Xu paused, took the teapot handed over by Song Xiaobao, pointed to the small stool next to him, and motioned for the two of them to sit down and rest for a while.

"I watched that interview at the time, and I was a little emotional, uncle, I still can't forget that interview video!"

Zhao Dongbei thought that Zheng Xu was chatting with him at first, but when he heard this, he felt that Zheng Xu had said the point, so he didn't make a sound, lit a cigarette, and prepared to listen to what Zheng Xu wanted to say that he couldn't forget to this day.

"They were interviewing people on the streets, probably all under the age of 30, young Americans, and the question was, do you know who attacked Pearl Harbor? On this issue, nearly 1,000 interviewees are all young Americans, and I thought that this kind of problem, even if it is a young person in our country, no one will not know about it, right? ”

"But... I underestimated the heroes of the world, and more than 80% of these young Americans interviewed didn't know who attacked Pearl Harbor! They're all young Americans! I don't know, there are even more than 30% of them..."

Zheng Xu sighed with emotion, looked at Zhao Dongbei and said: "Uncle, more than 30% of the respondents gave the answer that it was actually the United States!" Haha, ridiculous or not? ”

Looking at the three listeners who were a little dumbfounded, Zheng Xu smiled, he was also confused by this interview video, in his opinion, even junior high school students know the problem, most young Americans don't know!

"Do you know what my first reaction was? I just think that the education of young people in these old Americans is too poor! I can't even learn the history of my own country, so what can I do when I grow up? Isn't this a bunch of trash? ”

"I've kept this impression for years! Until some time ago, when I met an American friend of mine, I talked to him about this, and you know what he told me? ”

Zheng Xu said with a slightly serious face: "He told me that they are a country of immigrants in the United States, there is no history, history is just the story of the predecessors, and the new generation of Americans do not need to remember history all the time, because they are going to create the future!" ”

Looking at the three people with surprised faces, Zheng Xu squinted his eyes and whispered: "I heard him say this at the time, I was a little angry in my heart, fuck these old Americans are really crazy, but people also have crazy capital, I actually have nothing to refute others, people have the strength of that madness, but I'm just unhappy!" ”

"Later, I was a little stunned because of this sentence, and I was even a little discouraged!"

Zhao Dongbei looked at Zheng Xu, who was a little hideous on his face, he knew that Zheng Xu was very strong, sometimes he didn't say it, he looked very low-key, and he didn't like to show off everywhere, but a person can try his best to get three Oscars with his head stuffy, who would think that this person is not strong? !

This is very strong and arrogant!

But it is such a strong, arrogant, and unyielding person who is almost stunned and discouraged because of the words of an American, or because of this ideology!

"Xiao Xu, don't be under so much pressure, you're doing well enough."