Under the moonlight, director Wang Xinming and the contractor who helped the crew build the scene returned from the hospital and handled the compensation for the injured.

The worker has elderly parents and young children to take care of, so his life is indeed not easy.

But the foreman was not kind, and the workers' safety awareness was poor in those days, so they didn't even bring a safety helmet.

Fortunately, the damage was not serious, and the bricks used on the set were hollow bricks for building partition walls, rather than solid bricks filled with cement used for structural walls, which are much lighter in weight.

So the final result was a mild concussion, plus multiple contusions and two fractures, and he needed to stay in the hospital for observation.

Originally, the foreman thought that he could understand the director's requirements for the crew's progress and ask for more compensation.

Then he took the lead in donating some money and encouraged other workers to help raise some nutrition expenses.

At that time, "the workers' money will be divided into 30% and 70%, and your own money will be returned in full", and you can make another fortune.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Yuan's intervention, Director Wang became stubborn and finally only paid 6 yuan for medical expenses, nutrition expenses, and half a year's loss of work.

Don't think it's too little.

In those days, 6 yuan could build a big house in the countryside.

And at the beginning of the 21st century, a human life is not worth much.

Just like in Zhao Decai’s family’s mine, people die every year.

Just ask the family to pay 200,000 or 300,000 yuan in compensation.

If you think about it, the dead horse on the set of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is worth more than the workers.

It is true that animals are more valuable than humans.

Since ancient times, the lives of working people have always been cheap, and most of the time they are not worth as much as the pets of the rich...

Although the compensation was settled, Wang Xinming was still worried.

Firstly, the startup was not good and blood was seen when going out.

Secondly, there will be conflicts between the crew and the workers, which may cause problems in the progress of subsequent scenes.

Although Zhang Yuan pointed out the construction team's shoddy work, Director Wang actually knew about it a long time ago but turned a blind eye.

Now that conflicts have arisen, if we continue to use this team, I'm afraid the opponent will become even worse.

No, it will be difficult to find suitable staff in a short time, the progress of the crew will be delayed and the losses will be greater.

In this situation, he was in a dilemma.

The best option at the moment is to give the engineering team some sweet treats to win over their hearts and minds so that they can get the work done.

Just like that, two old hands with "their own ulterior motives" returned to the crew.

As soon as they arrived, they were surprised to find that a large number of people had gathered in an open space in the center of the crew.

A group of workers in dirty army green camouflage uniforms were sitting on small stools, either scratching their heads or writing something in small notebooks.

"What are you...doing?" The worker stepped forward in confusion, while Director Wang stared blankly in front of everyone.

"Boss Huang, we are learning bricklaying."

"Who?" The foreman was puzzled: "Who did you learn from?"

As the foreman looked around, he caught a glimpse of a nearby brick wall and walked towards it in amazement.

"Great! This wall is well built, neat and tidy, with straight and even vertical lines. The mud joints are evenly spaced every day, as if they were carved by a machine."

The foreman turned around and asked, "Is this Master Liu's craftsmanship? I didn't realize it, but he seems to have improved recently."

Master Liu is an experienced bricklayer hired by the foreman. In 00, he was able to earn 250 yuan a day, and his skills were extremely high.

"Boss, it wasn't Master Liu who laid the bricks, it was him." The worker raised his hand and pointed at Zhang Yuan, who was standing in front of him with his hands on his hips, a tape measure hanging on his pants and a cigarette between his ears.

"The mortar fullness is required to meet the requirements of the 'three-in-one' bricklaying method."

"Three-in-one means one shovel of mortar, one brick, one kneading and pressing. The mortar fullness cannot be less than 80%..."

The foreman's eyes widened, unable to believe what was happening before his eyes.

"Isn't this the young actor who was trying to smooth things over that afternoon?"

"Why is he teaching my workers?"

The foreman turned his head to look at the wall again and rubbed his ears vigorously.

"This level... Could it be that this guy was originally from a construction site?"

"This level of experience requires at least 10 years of work experience, but he looks only in his 20s. This is not right!"

While the foreman looked puzzled, director Wang Xinmin was ecstatic.

I was just thinking about how to appease the workers and get them to work well.

Now, there is no need to comfort them. They are sitting here obediently and listening to Zhang Yuan talking in class.

"Wu Yue asked for 100 million yuan in salary."

"But his 100 million shouldn't be enough to do something like this."

Wang Xinming increasingly felt that he had found the right person by asking Zhang Yuan to come.

[Received thanks from Wang Xinmin, Film and TV Appreciation +1, Literature Basics +1, Alcohol Capacity +1! ]

"Goodbye, Mr. Zhang!"

A few hours later, the workers and Zhang Yuan went back to their residence to rest, chatting and laughing.

Zhang Yuan also felt that he had not heard the name "Engineer Zhang" for a long time. At first glance, he felt it was somewhat familiar.

With his mediation, the tense atmosphere between the crew and the workers was eased a lot.

After all, the construction site believes in a very primitive "law of the jungle", and the income of ordinary workers is completely linked to their skills.

But the old master will not teach for nothing. He would like to keep the knowledge secret for his whole life. After all, if he teaches the young, the old will starve to death. Everyone wants to keep some skills.

It is rare to find someone as "selfless and dedicated" as Zhang Yuan.

In fact, he had two special skills to bluff people, which he used to deal with old-timers and troublemakers on construction sites.

One is building walls, the other is painting.

If you don't accept management and say that the management team can't do any actual work and can only talk nonsense, then let's practice.

He once met two strange men on a construction site during his internship. One was wearing white clothes and building walls, and the other was wearing a black suit and painting.

You know, both of these jobs are very easy to get dirty, but these two geniuses are different and can be spotless after a day's work.

This is what we call experts among the people!

Back then, he begged others to teach him. Seeing that he was a college student, they were still polite to him, offering him cigarettes and tea. They also said they would never argue with him in the future, so they taught him everything they knew.

After living a new life, his skills still convinced the workers. It turned out that having a skill is always useful.

After a night's rest, the crew held a start-up ceremony the next morning.

It was extremely lively, and there was a bit of a happy atmosphere in it.

Zhang Yuan was already accustomed to the opening ceremony and didn't feel too much about it.

However, after the official start of filming, two more "experts" arrived.

Yu Chenghui, who played Master Mei Niansheng in the film, met Zhang Yuan once during the audition.

Ji Chunhua, who played the villain Blood Knife, was even more familiar with him. The two had been together for a long time in the crew of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, and had several scenes together, so they were familiar with each other.

"Teacher Ji!" Zhang Yuan walked up to the ferocious-looking bald man and greeted him with a smile.

Although Ji Chunhua looks like an angry person, he has a very easy-going temper.

And they are not born like this.

Ji Chunhua has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. After his nose was injured and infected during a practice, his family prepared Chinese medicine for him.

It happened that the clay pot at home was broken, so in a hurry, he used an aluminum pot to cook the medicine.

Unexpectedly, the drug and the pot produced a chemical reaction, and after eating it, Ji Chunhua's hair and eyebrows all fell out, and his face became increasingly ferocious.

Especially after entering the entertainment industry, because of his unique appearance, he has always appeared in the image of a villain.

"Mr. Yu." The two were reminiscing about the past. When they saw Yu Chenghui with a white beard coming over, they hurriedly greeted him respectfully.

"Hello Chunhua." The old man smiled, which was rare when he saw an old friend.

"Oh, Zhang Yuan is here too. He looks more energetic than before." Yu Chenghui patted his shoulder.

Ok?
Ji Chunhua was stunned.

The old man has always been very frugal with words, and he is the type of person who would rather take action than talk too much.

But after meeting Zhang Yuan, he was more enthusiastic than when he met me.

"Mr. Yu, what are those packages behind you?"

While Ji Chunhua was still struggling, Zhang Yuan saw the long object wrapped in rough tarpaulin that the old man was carrying on his back.

"Oh, this is my gun barrel." After saying that, the old man untied the package, spread out the tarpaulin, and revealed a thick wooden gun barrel.

The old man took it in his hand and shook it gently. The wooden pole trembled and looked very tough.

Moreover, the entire gun barrel looks extremely shiny, and it is not the kind of shiny that is painted with varnish, but the kind of warm color that is completely covered after years of use.

There is no gun head on the wooden pole, it should have been removed, otherwise it would be inconvenient to transport.

"Mr. Yu, this is a good thing." Zhang Yuan praised immediately.

"Hahaha... It's not worth much, I just get used to it." The old man stroked his beard and said, "This old friend has been with me for nearly thirty years."

It is said that people become more nostalgic as they get older.

Yu Chenghui, now with white hair and beard, looks at the gun in his hand with eyes as if he is looking at his own child, full of love and care.

"Let's talk later. I'm going to go store my things first." Yu Chenghui said and left alone.

"Zhang Yuan, do you know Mr. Yu?" Ji Chunhua asked in confusion as he saw the old man walking away.

"I met him once during the audition."

"No?" Teacher Ji touched his big bald head and said puzzledly: "I have known him for more than 20 years. This is the first time I see him so enthusiastic about a junior. I thought you had a personal relationship with him."

Soon the crew was ready.

The show starts with a fight scene.

Master Mei Niansheng versus Blood Knife Patriarch!

Logically speaking, this is a very intense fight scene, and the two actors had to practice their moves before filming began.

But that is for ordinary people.

Both Yu Chenghui and Ji Chunhua are masters of Tongzi Kung Fu and have real kung fu skills.

Not only that, the two of them are old acquaintances and have collaborated many times, so they are already familiar with each other.

Everyone is familiar with "Shaolin Temple", a milestone in Chinese martial arts films.

But what most people don’t know is that this movie, which has extremely exciting action scenes, actually has no martial arts director at all!

Yes, there is no martial arts director in this film, and all the actions are designed by the actors themselves.

Of course, only this film is qualified to do so. After all, when the cast list is drawn, half of the crew are martial arts masters, including these two.

Besides, these two have been martial arts directors before. The martial arts directors of the film have to call them "seniors" when they see them. What kind of guidance can they provide?

"You guys need to let go a little for a while, and don't pull the wire rope too tight, which will affect the performance of me and Mr. Yu." Teacher Ji and the martial arts directors took care of us.

"Row!"

Although they said so, several martial arts directors did not dare to relax.

He didn't even use these two combos, he just demonstrated them a few times before filming and was ready to go. It's too scary!
But when the assistant director called for action, several martial arts directors realized they had worried too much.

In this scene, the two men are fighting on flat ground, purely hand-to-hand combat, with no special effects to assist.

There were constant sounds of swords clashing in front of the camera. The two men exchanged moves and tactics, and once they started fighting, they were very fierce, but they both had their backup plans in place and did not hurt the other at all.

Especially old man Yu Chenghui, who is obviously over 60 years old, but his skills do not show any signs of old age and he is still extremely agile.

"Cut! Get on the wire." Wang Xinming nodded vigorously. He was indeed an expert. The filming went so smoothly.

Zhang Yuan standing by was also seeing for the first time how casual the preparation for a fight scene was, yet how precise and fierce the fight was.

Especially when he saw the two of them fighting, he wanted to call Jet Li.

"Jueyuan, Vulture and Wang Renze are fighting!"

"It seems that these two are the real masters!" Zhang Yuan narrowed his eyes and looked at the two of them.

"If we don't pluck them both bald, the crew will have come here in vain... although Mr. Ji Chunhua seems to be bald already."

After they finished the wire work, the two of them became more intense.

Sometimes it goes up to the sky, sometimes it goes down to the ground, and it poses in the air, looking very cool.

"It went so smoothly, so smoothly..." Director Wang Xinming sighed on the side.

The scene went so smoothly that he forgot about yesterday's unpleasantness.

But God always likes to play pranks, and what he likes to do most is to give humans a big disaster when they think everything is going well.

Ji Chunhua and Yu Chenghui are indeed masters, but after shooting such intense fighting scenes for several hours in a row, their physical strength can no longer keep up.

Once your physical strength cannot keep up, your mind will become scattered and your attention will no longer be focused.

Coincidentally, this scene was the Blood Knife Patriarch sliding towards Mei Niansheng's lower body.

According to the action design, both actors are wearing wires, and Yu Chenghui will be pulled up before being kicked, creating the effect of a leap in the air.

Ji Chunhua would slide forward, then turn around and use the knife to steady his body, then pounce on the enemy again like a tiger.

If two people cooperate well, this action is not difficult.

When the shooting officially started, Mr. Ji slid and it was no problem.

Yu Lao took off, no problem.

Teacher Ji slipped out...and there were some small problems.

His sliding was perfect, except that he wasn't paying attention and his body tilted slightly, causing the direction of his sliding to deviate.

It was supposed to slide towards an open space, but it deviated slightly to the right by about ten degrees.

Then... a big tree appeared in front of him! (End of this chapter)