Chapter 185 We must follow the contract!
Looking at the gift Cheng Hao gave him, Zhang Yuan fell into deep thought.

"criminal law"

"Whether or not to punish him in this play is up to you." Cheng Hao said with a smile: "Shu Chang is still a minor, you should respect yourself."

Originally, she was thinking, what means could Zhang Yuan use to make Shu Chang lower his pay to cooperate with him?
This is not uncommon in the entertainment industry, but it usually happens between boyfriends and girlfriends or couples.

Cheng Hao's first reaction was that Zhang Yuan had done something evil to Shu Chang that was hated by everyone.

After all, if a woman is so obedient, there are generally only two possibilities.

One is persuasion, the other is sleeping.

Just like Li Yapeng and Wang Fei, they slept with the queen.

So before she came, she went to Xinhua Bookstore and bought a copy of "Criminal Law", intending to warn Zhang Yuan that people should have bottom lines.

Of course, when it comes to the bottom line in the entertainment industry, Cheng Hao can be considered an oddball. No wonder she was no match for Fan Bingbing in the future competition for the top female star.

Now that she knew things were not what she thought, besides the guilt she felt for not asking questions, she also felt a little jealous.

Done!

There is a new young and beautiful opponent!

She is still the most feared one in "Tianlong Crew". After all, Shu Chang is a rare talented actor with full of spirit.

"I'm leaving." Seeing Zhang Yuan still staring at the Criminal Law in a daze, Cheng Hao waved goodbye with a mischievous smile.

Zhang Yuan stood outside the door for a long time, first looking through the book catalog, and then finding the corresponding page.

"For less serious cases, less than three years."

"Three to ten years for serious cases."

He closed the book, rolled it up and put it in his trouser pocket.

"I always thought that only unruly people would harm me."

"It turns out that underage girls can also harm me!"

"Fuck, I am a law-abiding citizen. Don't let that little devil harm me!"

Returning to the yard, he waved to Shu Chang who was arranging the tables, chairs, and dishes.

"Little fairy, no, sing, come over here when you're done. I have something to tell you."

Soon, the two of them sat on the recliners, one on the left and one on the right.

"Brother Yuan, what do you want from me?" Shu Chang's eyes blinked, sparkling in the moonlight.

"How much did you get paid for filming 'The Untold Story'?" Zhang Yuan seemed to be weighed down and took a long time to speak.

"30." Shu Chang answered without hesitation.

"I'm asking, how much was it originally?" Zhang Yuan tilted his head and looked straight into her eyes.

Shu Chang avoided his gaze intentionally, lowered his head and hunched his chest, his cheeks flushed: "You know everything."

"Well, are you stupid!" he scolded.

Shu Chang didn't say a word for a long time. The yard was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

"What was it originally?" After a long time, Zhang Yuan sighed and asked again in a gentle tone.

"It was originally 50." Shu Chang raised his head with red eyes: "I told the director that I can reduce the salary by 20."

"Teacher Wu Yue originally wanted 100 million yuan for the film, but I said half of that would be enough."

"I'm sorry, Brother Yuan, I should have discussed this with you in advance."

Originally, Wu Yue received 100 million yuan, Shu Chang received 50 yuan, and the male and female protagonists received 150 million yuan in salary.

Now he gets 50 and Shu Chang gets 30, which adds up to only 80, which means they saved 70 in film remuneration.

Zhang Yuan calculated.

"The crew of The Untold Story should have started filming earlier, but the flu delayed it for more than half a year, and funds were tight to begin with."

"Shu Chang is really smart. Not only did he know for sure that the crew was short of money, he also knew my attitude. Compared to the salary, he valued the role of the lead actor more."

Zhang Yuan recalled that Shu Chang had asked him this at the audition.

If you can't get the leading actor role, would you be willing to play other roles?

Her attitude at the time was clearly not one she was willing to do, so she resorted to this last resort.

He never thought that one day he would enjoy the same treatment as Nie Yuan...

Seeing that tears were hanging in Shu Chang's eyes and were about to fall in the next second, he hurried to comfort her.

"I know you want to help me, but it's not good to treat yourself badly."

"I'm not short of money. A difference of two hundred thousand in pay is not a big deal." Seeing that he was not angry, Shu Chang sniffed a few times and said, "Besides, if you hadn't helped me come up with a way to drop out of school, I wouldn't have been able to take this role."

"So this money is extra income, it's not a pity."

Shu Chang slowly crossed over the armrest of the recliner, moved closer, and looked at him with burning eyes.

Her eyebrows are like distant mountains covered with dark clouds, and her eyes are like rippling autumn water.

Her appearance is not like Liu Xixi's. Although they both have oval faces, Shu Chang's face shape and eyebrows appear more majestic and dignified.

Coupled with her sensible and considerate attitude, she seems even more gentle, virtuous and beautiful.

"Brother Yuan, don't be angry. I know I was wrong." Shu Chang moved like a snake, twisting his waist and moving towards him little by little.

She turned her head to the side, her cheeks became redder and her voice was as soft as a mosquito.

"If you are really angry, then punish me..."

Gudong!

Zhang Yuan swallowed.

With such a beautiful scene and a lovely body by my side, if I were to accomplish this most important thing in my life during this romantic time, wouldn’t it... result in a heavy blow from the Supreme Court!
He touched the hard...rolled-up book in his trousers and muttered something in his mind.

"Under three years."

"Less than three years..."

In the end, the desire to survive prevailed.

"Sing, it's getting late. Let me take you home."

"Ah." Shu Chang exclaimed softly, a trace of loneliness appeared in his eyes, and then he lowered his head and replied: "Yeah."

After a long time, he took a taxi to send Shu Chang home. The other party reluctantly said goodbye to him and walked into the apartment building where he lived, looking back every few steps.

After returning home, Zhang Yuan sat back on the recliner. This time, the seat next to him was empty, with no beauty lying beside him anymore.

"Once I get paid for the film, I will return the two hundred thousand to her."

"It is neither reasonable nor moral for her to suffer this loss."

Zhang Yuan knew that the other party was willing, but he couldn't do it.

Shu Chang is different from other people of her age. She is single. Although she has relatives to take care of her now, when she becomes an adult in a few years, these film remunerations will be her livelihood.

"Give her the money, and help her pick out some good locations to buy properties."

"Even if I don't get involved in the entertainment industry in the future, I can still live comfortably just by collecting rent."

Parents who love their children have far-reaching plans.

Since Shu Chang has no parents around, he has to take on this responsibility himself.

Just consider it as a reward for her “sacrificing her life to help” this time.

……

The filming schedule of The Untold Story is very tight, after all, the crew is short of funds after the production was postponed.

Director Wang Xinming is a rather stubborn person who likes to stick to certain rules, so the snow scenes in the later stages of the series were planned to be shot on location rather than artificially making snow in the studio.

Therefore, the crew arrived in Ganzi area of ​​Sichuan Province in advance to facilitate filming the snow scene on Gongga Snow Mountain later.

I flew to the Tibetan Autonomous Region and took several buses before I got to the set.

The crew had been setting up the scene there more than half a year ago, but an outbreak of influenza brought everything to a halt.

Nowadays, many scenes need to be repaired, so they can only be built while being filmed.

Zhang Yuan had long been accustomed to this situation. Half of the crews he had been in had all kinds of problems when doing their work, like a makeshift troupe.

In fact, this is the norm for TV drama crews. There are bound to be problems.

As soon as he arrived at the scene, Zhang Yuan saw a dark and strong man.

"Nian Gengyao... Teacher Du Zhiguo, hello."

Du Zhiguo was wearing a black leather jacket, with eagle-like eyes and a serious face. Only when he saw him approaching did he put on a smile.

For those who like entertainment, you may not be familiar with Du Zhiguo, but his son Du Chun should be well-known.

After all, he is the leader of the "Stabbing Knife Cult".

This is the guy who squeezed Wu Yue out... Teacher Du thought to himself.

Like Wu Yue, Du Zhiguo graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and they are alumni.

Not only that, they are both from Hebei, so they are fellow villagers.

I originally wanted a fellow schoolmate from my hometown to play the male lead, so he can be considered one of our own.

But I never expected that Wu Yue would be replaced by a young man.

There is a small rumor within the crew that Zhang Yuan was able to join the crew because Shu Chang reduced his own pay.

Du Zhiguo also heard about it.

At his age, he has seen everything, so he didn't find it strange or disgusting. He just had a lukewarm attitude towards him.

"Teacher Du, Zhang Yuan, please go to the makeup artist to get your makeup done." A staff member came over and led them to a rest tent near the set.

Du Zhiguo plays the role of "Five Cloud Hands" Wan Zhenshan in the film, one of the villains in the story.

The male lead Di Yun, played by Zhang Yuan, is the apprentice of Qi Changfa, the "Iron Chain Across the River". Qi Changfa and Wan Zhenshan are brothers from the same school, so Qi Changfa is considered Di Yun's uncle.

Teacher Du Zhiguo's hair is short to begin with, so it's not difficult for him to wear a wig. And with that beard, he already looks like an ancient landlord.

At this moment, he doesn't look like Nian Gengyao, but more like Li Yuan...

Zhang Yuan has several different looks for Di Yun.

The farmer costume in the early stage, the "prison-going" costume after being framed and imprisoned, the foreign monk costume pretending to be a disciple of the Blood Knife Sect, and the knight costume after he matured in the very late stage.

There are more than ten sets of costumes alone, and they have to be tried on one by one and photographed and finalized. After confirmation by the director, they will not be changed during the filming process and will be used as a model.

He first changed into a farmer's outfit. The makeup artist was a young lady. After she was done, she asked Zhang Yuan to stand up and turn around.

"He is still so handsome even when wearing the clothes of ancient country people. It's not difficult for him at all." The young lady looked around with a happy look.

Du Zhiguo at the side shook his sleeves and glanced sideways: "It is better than Wu Yue's image."

"If I take the entrance exam for the Central Academy of Drama, my appearance alone will add a lot of extra points," Du Zhiguo said in his mind.

Don’t think that schools like the Central Academy of Drama and the Beijing Film Academy, which emphasize “performance” and “professionalism”, don’t care about appearance.

When Huang Xiaoming was taking the entrance exam for Beijing Film Academy, his teacher asked him to perform "Catching Grasshoppers" when there was no physical performance. Huang Xiaoming replied...

“There are no katydids in Qingdao.”

This answer with low IQ and EQ is worth being kicked out on the spot.

But Cui Xinqin, the head teacher of the 96 class of Beijing Film Academy, said: "It's just a piece of wood, but it's a beautiful piece of wood."

So he was recruited in.

Therefore, actors who are good-looking have a big advantage, while those who are ugly will really suffer a great disadvantage. After all, the audience doesn't care whether you are professional or not, and they will simply change the channel and stop watching if they don't like you.

They changed Zhang Yuan into a set of prison uniforms and painted his face with horrible scars and mud marks, making him look dirty and decadent.

The makeup artist pouted and nodded: "It's still quite handsome."

Change into another set of clothes, this time it is the turn of the Blood Knife Sect’s disciples to wear them.

According to the initial setting, the Blood Knife Sect was a branch of the Youth Sect of the Tibetan religion.

Later, someone raised the opinion that all foreign monks in Jin Yong's works are villains.

From King Jinlun to Jiumozhi, and then to the Blood Knife Patriarch.

Especially Jiumozhi and Blood Knife Patriarch, both of them belong to the Tibetan Buddhism. After all, Jiumozhi was a Tibetan translator, and the Tibetan Kingdom was also located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

In fact, King Jinlun and Jiumozhi are better. After all, they are legitimate monks. It is another matter whether they have ulterior motives.

But the Blood Knife Sect is an out-and-out cult, but it uses the name of Tibetan Buddhism.

Under pressure, Mr. Jin later modified and blurred the settings.

The previous two styles were fine, just put on a wig.

But when it came to the Blood Knife Sect's followers, the makeup artist took out a razor while working.

"What are you going to do?" Zhang Yuan covered his head and looked at her in horror.

"Shave their heads. All the people in the Blood Knife Sect have bald heads." The young lady, holding a pair of scissors in one hand and a razor in the other, replied naively.

"If I want to shave my head, should I let him know in advance or even write it in the contract?" Zhang Yuan asked, "Go ask Director Wang, did I write in the contract that I want to shave my head?"

Du Zhiguo on the side remained silent.

Not to mention Zhang Yuan, even if it was him, he could shave his head for filming, but he could not do so without saying hello.

When he was filming "Yongzheng Dynasty", he shaved his head in order to grow a ponytail to cover the moon gate, but this was written into the terms during the casting and contract signing.

He didn't expect that the crew made a small mistake with Zhang Yuan.

"Let's see how they solve it." Teacher Du took a sip of tea and watched the situation develop.

Zhang Yuan remembered that when filming "Conquer", Ma Xiaoming, who played Song Lao Hu, had a disagreement with the director and almost went on strike. He was only able to come back after he accompanied the director for drinks.

The reason was that the makeup artist shaved Ma Xiaoming's head bald while he was sleeping without informing him.

Ma Xiaoming cares about it even though he looks like that. How could he not care?

After a while, the makeup artist came back with red eyes and chapped cheeks, obviously she had just cried.

She sobbed as she took each step back to Zhang Yuan.

"What did Director Wang say?" Zhang Yuan asked with a frown.

"He, he, he told me to go find the casting director..." the young lady replied aggrievedly.

"So what did the casting director say?"

"He told me to go to the assistant director who was in charge of contracts."

Zhang Yuan: …

This "The Untold Story" crew must be the reincarnation of the district service hall, they are so good at passing the buck.

"What did the assistant director say?"

"The assistant director scolded me and asked me to find you, wuwuwu..." The young lady was obviously angry. She started crying again before she finished three sentences.

When the people above made a mistake, the pressure was passed down one level at a time... As a worker in his previous life, his genes were almost shaken.

It's like an accident happened on a construction site. The developer blames the general contractor, the general contractor blames the subcontractor, the subcontractor blames the foreman, the foreman blames the workers, the workers curse and deliberately mess up the work, and then the customers buy the house and find out there are a lot of hidden problems... Everyone is using the "non-stick pan" approach to vent their anger downward.

"I guess the assistant director said something harsh. If I don't agree, he will fire the makeup artist."

"Then the assistant director will dismiss the 'culprit' as a solution and come back to me."

"Everyone is open now, so you can't get angry. You can only agree. Otherwise, you'd be acting like a big shot."

"As a result, the assistant director in charge of the contract pushed the conflict onto me and the makeup artist, and he corrected his own mistakes at work."

Zhang Yuan figured it all out and turned to look at the makeup artist.

"Go get my contract," he said as gently as possible.

"what?"

"Go ahead and just say I want to take a look."

The makeup artist ran back to the assistant director and came back a few minutes later.

"Look." Zhang Yuan took the contract and flipped through it. "There's no clause in the contract that says I have to shave my head, right?"

The young lady remained silent.

"When we do things outside, we have to be firm and orderly."

"So, we have to follow the contract!"

The young lady's eyes became red again.

Du Zhiguo on the side was humming a little tune leisurely, pretending to know nothing.

But the next second, Zhang Yuan's actions were completely beyond their expectations.

He found a pen from his backpack, turned to the last page of the contract, and added a line of big words next to his signature.

"Note: If needed, the crew is willing to get a haircut."

After writing it, he threw the contract back to the makeup artist and said casually.

"Well, now let's follow the contract."

【Received thanks from Zhou Xiaoli, makeup skills +13! 】

The young lady wiped her tears and picked up the scissors. Zhang Yuan reached out to stop her.

"Why don't you cry for a while, and then cut it after you're done."

"In your current state, I'm afraid your shaking hands will pinch my ears."

"After all, one ear doesn't look good."

"Haha, no, I'm a professional!" The makeup artist wiped his snot bubbles and turned worry into joy.

"There is one more thing. When you send this contract back later, don't give it to the assistant director. Give it directly to Director Wang Xinming. OK?" Zhang Yuan instructed.

The makeup artist didn't understand, but nodded and agreed.

Du Zhiguo on the side narrowed his eyes and said, "This kid is really amazing!"

"The director team put the pressure on the makeup artist, and he added the clauses himself."

"Not only did he help the makeup artist out of her difficulties, he also deliberately made some witty remarks to ease her mood."

"If they let the contract be handed over to Wang Xinming, it must be to pass the pressure back to the top management of the crew."

"Handwritten documents don't count. We must sign a new contract. Wang Xinming will then use the contract he wrote to cause trouble for the assistant director."

Du Zhiguo looked him up and down with a sidelong glance and took a good look at this junior.

He thought that if an old hand like himself were to handle it, he might not be able to control every aspect so perfectly in such a short time.

"No wonder Wu Yue can't beat him." Teacher Du sighed in his heart.

"But he was pretty nice to the crew."

Du Zhiguo thought to himself as he looked at Zhang Yuan, whose hairstyle was gradually becoming more "programmer-like".

"It seems that this young man is not simple!"

(End of this chapter)