Chapter 112: Debt of Money, Debt of Love

"Well, I see."

"Leave the money to me, don't worry."

Under the moonlight, Cheng Hao put down his phone and sobbed softly.

She leaned against a leafless, bare tree trunk and slid down slowly and weakly until her legs went limp and she squatted on the grass covered with dead leaves.

"Good sister, what's wrong with you?"

Zhang Yuan came out from behind her.

Seeing him appear, Cheng Hao stood up stubbornly and wiped the tears from her cheeks with the back of her hands.

"fine."

"It's okay. You've cried so hard." Zhang Yuan choked the script on his belt: "Just tell me. You'll feel better if you tell me. Besides, only if you tell me, people will be able to help you."

When Cheng Hao heard this, his eyes turned red. He covered his mouth with his hands and sobbed again while speaking intermittently.

"My father...is not in good health."

"I've been in the hospital the whole time. Last time... after the surgery, I've gotten better... that's why I came to shoot this film."

"But my mother told me a while ago that the new test results were not good and I had to proceed to the next stage of treatment."

"But I've already spent all my previous film remuneration."

Oh, so this is the reason why she is so angry.

My father is seriously ill and needs treatment. No child would not be angry.

Having said this, Cheng Hao had already burst into tears.

Leaving aside literary and artistic films, she earned at least millions in pay from these hit dramas alone, including "The Legend of Lü Buwei", "Li Wei as an Official" and "Sex and the City".

If other things were included, all the money added up would be enough for her to buy a small courtyard house in the imperial capital.

But this is a huge fortune for ordinary people, but it seems like a drop in the bucket when facing my old father's illness.

She had tried her best and had not even originally intended to play the role of "heartthrob", but faced with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary offered by the crew, she chose to compromise.

The reason he took on the role in "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" was because he had spent all his previous film remuneration on treating his father's illness, and the treatment was beginning to show results, so he decided to act in a play for himself, not just for the remuneration.

After all, everyone knows how thick the beard is.

Hu Jun only gave 300,000 yuan, and Cheng Hao's salary was less than 100,000 yuan.

Of course, if Cheng Hao wants to make money, it won’t be easy.

Mr. Wu of Chengtian was staring at her all day long. If she was willing to take off her clothes and sign a multi-year contract with Chengtian, not to mention 100,000, even 1 million would be deposited into her account in minutes.

But she was a very stubborn woman. If she wanted to be someone else's canary, she would have done so long ago.

"Treatment is a serious matter and cannot be delayed. How much money are you short of now?" After hesitating for a while, Zhang Yuan finally spoke.

As the saying goes, talking about money hurts feelings, and talking about feelings hurts money.

After careful consideration, he felt that Cheng Hao was a reliable person with good future prospects, and it was definitely worth spending a little money to make good friends with him.

Besides, I don’t have any urgent need for money recently.

More importantly, he could understand the suffering of wanting to take care of one's parents but they were no longer around.

Cheng Hao stopped crying and wiped her tears again, her makeup was ruined.

"It's no use telling you. You're a little actor with no money."

"I don't have much more, but I can still gather together more than 100,000 or 200,000." Zhang Yuan made an estimate.

Although it cost a lot to open the Heya Food Box Restaurant, the business has been very good in the past few months and I have made back the profit. Add to that the 50,000 red envelope that Zhao Decai gave me, and I have almost enough money.

"You... really have that many?" Cheng Hao was a little surprised.

She never thought that Zhang Yuan, who had only been in the industry for a year, could save so much money.

She only received a salary of more than 10,000 yuan in her first year after her debut, but she felt very satisfied.

The times were different, and she was making art films, so she was paid less.

In addition, Zhang Yuan really works hard, shooting three or four movies a year, and also has a side job, which is certainly more than the average newcomer.

"enough?"

"It's enough for the first stage of treatment, and it'll last until I get paid for this film." Cheng Hao's eyes lit up with hope: "But I can't pay it back within a year."

"It's okay. You can pay it back with your body." Zhang Yuan joked.

"Really?" Cheng Hao suddenly took a few steps forward seriously, and the distance between them was shortened to less than half a meter.

"Is this your way of confessing, throwing money at someone?"

Zhang Yuan: ???
He didn't understand what the other party meant, but at this time Cheng Hao stood on tiptoe and tried his best to climb high enough to be at eye level with him.

"Taotao told me that you didn't want to get involved in their affairs because you have always had a crush on me and wanted to confess your feelings to me."

This woman has a big mouth. She tells everything.

This was the excuse he made at the time.

But in this situation, it would be too ignorant to deny it.

He could only nod woodenly.

Cheng Hao, with tears still on his face, finally smiled and said angrily: "Are you stupid? What if I don't pay you back? All the money you saved with great difficulty will be wasted."

"If it were you, it wouldn't matter whether you return it or not." Zhang Yuan replied with high emotional intelligence.

It’s better not to pay it back. Money debts are easy to pay back, but debts of favor are hard to pay back.

Cheng Hao's heart was beating wildly, like a horse out of a stall, running wildly in all directions.

Those deep fox eyes flickered several times, and the light in them became more and more intense, but after a few seconds, her cheeks turned red and she lowered her head.

He is younger than me, why can't I look into his eyes...

Am I caught?

"Thank you." After a while, she spoke again.

[Received thanks from Cheng Hao, acting skills +3, appearance +3, figure +2, calligraphy +6, flute +5, dance (folk dance) +4! ]

No other reason why he could become famous is because he knows so many things.

With these attributes and this favor, he will not be at a disadvantage.

A light north wind blew by, and Cheng Haoliang shrank his neck, perhaps because the crying just now had consumed too much energy.

Or maybe she was already exhausted from shouldering the burden of the family alone.

In a trance, she really wanted to find someone to rely on.

Cheng Hao's body softened and he fell into his arms, like a kitten snuggling against a fireplace.

Oh my god, there’s an unexpected gain!

Not only did I not lose money, I even made a huge profit.

The air in the forest is cool, but the two people's hearts are warm.

Zhang Yuan's hands were cold, but the body of the beauty in his arms was warm.

Qu Yuan once said: I will search up and down.

Zhang Yuan respected Qu Yuan very much.

So while there was no one around, Zhang Yuan searched Cheng Hao up and down for a long time.

To sum it up in three words.

Big, soft and smooth.

In every sense.

What is satin? Which is silk? None of them are as soft and smooth as the skin on a young woman's waist and back.

"Oh, the filming is about to start, and someone will come to look for us." Seeing that the situation was not good, Cheng Hao quickly pulled his hand out of his underwear.

Zhang Yuan shrugged and almost experienced the happiness of Hu Jun and Liu Tao.

Questioning Jun Ge, understanding Jun Ge, he almost became Jun Ge just now. However, the process is different from Liu Tao, relatively traditional, and cannot be forced.

"Okay, let's go back then." Zhang Yuan knew that haste won't pay off.

"Wait a moment." Cheng Hao gave him a reproachful look and used her cold palms to cool her cheeks: "Let me take my time..."

After resting for about ten minutes, they headed towards the shooting site.

Zhang Yuan was also thinking, I haven't even transferred the money to her account yet, and she's "opening up access" in advance, isn't she afraid that I'll take advantage of her for free?

He didn't know that money was important, but in Cheng Hao's heart, how much money she was willing to spend on her was more important.

For someone like Mr. Wu from Chengtian, it would be easy for him to give Cheng Hao one million, two million, or even five million.

This person later swallowed up Golden Harvest Films and went public through a backdoor listing, becoming the first listed entertainment company in mainland China.

Several million is just a drop in the bucket for Wu Kebo.

Cheng Hao knew that Zhang Yuan could not come up with millions, or even hundreds of thousands.

But these hundreds of thousands are all his property.

Will Wu Kebo take out all his assets for himself?

Besides, it is easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to provide timely assistance.

What moved her most was Zhang Yuan’s kindness, regardless of how much money he gave her.

It is no wonder that girls in their teens and twenties are easy to deceive. They are not as firm as steel, nor as rational as computers. After all, they are easily swayed by emotions.

Many female stars get married in their twenties and divorced in their thirties. After that, they focus on making money without any distractions. Women at this stage have become very strong and utilitarian, and rarely feel moved in life.

Just like Liu Xiaoli, the businessmen behind her paid money and worked hard for Xixi, and all their efforts, but they failed to completely impress this aunt who still had charm.

The two of them came back just in time, and the crew was ready and ready to start filming.

Everyone was very professional and the shoot went smoothly.

But as a director, Ju Jueliang was a little surprised.

"Zhang Yuan's fighting scenes tonight seemed particularly vigorous and powerful, as if he had a passion that he had nowhere to vent."

"He hit me harder than usual."

"Hiss, this Cheng Hao is also different."

“I was still in a very bad state during the afternoon shoot.”

"The foot-licking scene required Zhang Yuan's help to complete the filming."

"But now he looks so energetic and radiant, he is totally different from the afternoon!"

Ju Jueliang touched his double chin and asked, "Is Zhang Yuan's massage so effective in adjusting my condition?"

"Why don't I go get him some massage someday?"

He didn't know that Zhang Yuan not only pressed the acupoints on the soles of Cheng Hao's feet.

From Lingxu, Shenfeng, Qichong, Qugu, he pressed all the major acupoints on the human body...

The Natural Gate is good.
The next day, Zhang Yuan transferred the money to Cheng Hao's card.

Despite repeated objections, Cheng Hao still stubbornly signed a promissory note for him and promised to return the principal with interest.

He then asked for leave from the crew and went to the hospital to take care of his father.

Fortunately, 90% of her scenes have been completed, and after a slight adjustment, there will be little impact on the progress.

Before leaving, Cheng Hao held his ear and whispered to him for a long time. After reluctantly getting into the car, she leaned on the car window and waved to him continuously until her figure turned into a blurry black dot...

After returning to the crew, the next few days were peaceful. It was nothing more than filming and taking a break, which was not a difficult task for him.

When they were free, Li Yu and his friends would ask him to tell stories.

However, the scene of feces and urine all over the place that day was still fresh in his memory and almost left him with a psychological trauma.

Every time he told a story, he would constantly observe the expressions of the people present, and if there was any slight change he would be ready to pack up his bucket and run away.

The bearded man kept his word and handed over the lunch box business of the entire crew to him.

Not only that, he was also introduced to several business deals with the imperial capital's drama crews, as a reward for keeping the "Sima Guang Smashing the Jar" incident a secret.

However, unlike Zhou Xiaowen, Zhang Yuan gave Lao Zhang kickbacks according to the rules, and this guy accepted them all.

Zhang Yuan doesn't mind it, as the bundling of interests is beneficial to him.

It also brought him and the bearded man closer.

Even Zhang Jizhong pretended to be friendly and often called him to join the crew members when they had meals together.

That day, Big Beard, Yuan Bing, Zhao Jian, Ju Jueliang and others were all having dinner under a tent, and Zhang Yuan was also present.

"Director Zhang, I've contacted him about the theme song."

"Zhe Ying and Sun Nan want 100 million, but the copyright must belong to them."

"Lin Zhiying can sing it and the copyright can belong to us, but the price of 300 million is a bit too high and not worth it."

The bearded man curled his lips and said, "300 million, why don't you go and rob it."

"Have you contacted Wang Jingwen?" Zhang Jizhong picked up a piece of stir-fried kidney and ate it with his mouth full of oil.

"This..." Ju Jueliang was stunned and looked embarrassed.

"Speak directly if you have anything to say."

"She's asking for 2000 million..."

Cough, cough cough...

"Director Zhang, Director Zhang, hurry up, I'm choking!"

As soon as Ju Jueliang finished speaking, the bearded man almost choked on a ball of rice.

I spent just over three thousand dollars on this film...

After resting for a long time and drinking some sheep penis soup, the bearded man finally felt relaxed and full.

"Jingwen is different from other singers. Her attitude is a bit arbitrary." Fatty Ju looked worried.

"I know. To use the words of the imperial capital, she is a bit 'colorful' and has a weird temper." The bearded man smiled helplessly.

"When I called her, she was very impatient and just casually quoted the price."

"I heard the sound of shuffling cards on the phone. She must have been playing mahjong at the time."

"He offered this price not because he was greedy for money, but simply wanted to reject us." Ju Jueliang expressed his judgment.

"I asked someone and she has been playing mahjong for more than three months and has not worked for a single day."

"But she is the one I like the most." The bearded man stroked his beard.

02Last year, Wang Jingwen won the honor of the best-selling Cantonese female singer in history with her best-of album "You Faye Wong So I Faye Wong" with a total sales of 970 million.

She was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards for her role in "The Invincible Warrior".

Her sunburn makeup look has become a memory of an era.

At that time, Wang Jingwen was in a state of "seeking defeat alone".

He just put his hands in his pockets and met no rival.

Precisely because of her popularity, Big Beard, who loves to create hype, wants her to sing the theme song for his TV series.

He even asked Ju Jueliang to go to Hong Kong Island to contact Lin Xi, who is the lyricist of the Hong Kong version of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", the theme song of which is "The Hard-to-Read Sutra" by Wakin Chau.

The bearded man said he looked down on the Hong Kong version, but in fact he was just being stubborn. He quite approved of the theme song of that version, otherwise he would not have gone to find Lin Xi.

"Well, let's try harder. This woman is really hard to handle. She's very troublesome." Wang Jingwen is one of the people who can't even handle the bearded man.

It is said that one who has no desires is strong.

At this time, Zhang Yuan, who was sitting in the corner of the dining table and listening the whole time without saying a word, raised his arm with a smile.

"Director Zhang, Director Ju, if it's Wang Jingwen, I might be able to find a way..."

(End of this chapter)