The next day, early morning.

Zhang Yuan sat in the temporary dressing room rented by the crew, reading his lines while waiting for other people to arrive.

One of the great advantages of Hengdian Film and Television Base is that it has complete facilities.

You can find everything you want and the crew wants here.

The accommodation was not as far away from the set as when they were filming in the snowy mountains for "The Untold Story". It only took Zhang Yuan twenty minutes to walk from the hotel to the set.

It's only about six in the morning now, and we don't have to go to work so early on weekdays.

There was more than just the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" crew in Hengdian. When Zhang Yuan slowly walked over, the entire Hengdian was still asleep.

In January in the south of the Yangtze River, it was less than six o'clock and the sky was still dim. Only a few strands of sunlight as thin as hair forced their way through the darkness and passed over the earth that was about to wake up.

The streets were peacefully quiet, with only a few breakfast shops lighting up, and the aroma of fried dough sticks wafting from time to time.

This shows that other crews did not start work so early.

Then why did Zhang Yuan rush to the crew so early?

He is not a fool. If he wants to show his professionalism, he should wait until there are many people around, so as not to act like an idiot...

Speaking of idiot, idiot really came.

She came here with her mother.

Liu Qianqian hung her head, her almond-shaped eyes narrowed into slits.

There were a few crystal traces at one corner of his mouth, like saliva.

There were some white marks on the other side, as if there was toothpaste that was not wiped off.

Liu Xiaoli got a wheelchair from somewhere and pushed the sleepy girl to the set.

Look at Sissi's current appearance, with her head drooping, saliva at the corners of her mouth, and sitting in a wheelchair...the same look as Hawking.

I got up early today just to film their scenes.

It's even mainly Liu Xixi's role.

The content is a classic scene in the game. Li Xiaoyao went to Xianling Island to collect herbs and happened to meet Zhao Linger who was bathing in the lotus pond.

This passage is probably inspired by the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Li Xiaoyao corresponds to the Cowherd, and Zhao Linger corresponds to the Weaver Girl.

Hengdian happens to have a lotus pond, but it is not very large.

But it's winter now, so there are definitely no flowers. It all depends on the efforts of the props team.

Another point is that this pool is not located indoors, but in an outdoor public area.

There are many crews during the day, and even more of them are shooting on location, which makes it easy to be exposed.

What's more, Liu Qianqian is only sixteen years old. If she wants to shoot a bathing scene where she pretends to be naked but actually wears not much, if she stays until nine o'clock, there will definitely be people watching.

With such long white arms and legs and a cute little face, which man wouldn't want to hug her?

That’s why the crew arranged the early morning scenes so they could finish the filming quickly before too many people showed up.

"Sissi, wake up."

"Baby, wake up, it's time to go to the dressing room."

call……

The only response Liu Xiaoli received was her daughter's steady breathing.

Aunt Liu held her breath and raised her voice.

"Liu Xi Meizi!"

"Ah!" Xixi suddenly jumped up from the wheelchair.

Zhang Yuan: A medical miracle!
I am not afraid of anything except my mother calling my full name...

"It's time to work, be alert."

After saying that, Aunt Liu went to buy breakfast for her daughter.

As soon as my mother left, Xixi's eyelids began to fight again, and her head kept falling down. When it reached the bottom, it would suddenly lift up again, just like riding a motorcycle that kept braking.

Seeing that she looked like a little sleepyhead, Zhang Yuan resisted the urge to pinch her face.

Yes, at this age, it is the time when you love to sleep. If you reach middle-aged or old age, you won’t be able to sleep so soundly even if you want to.

Zhang Yuan cleared his throat and shouted while pinching his throat.

"Liu Xi Meizi!"

"Mom, I'm not asleep..." Xixi stood up suddenly, turned her head and looked around, but there was no sign of her mother. There was only Zhang Yuan's face distorted by his attempt to hold back a smile.

"You lied to me, you bad guy!" Sissi walked forward extremely angrily and started to use her cloak hammer skills randomly.

Her attack power was not enough to even hurt Zhang Yuan's skin. After she tired herself out from beating him, she sat down angrily, scratching her head angrily.

"Why are you so angry?" Zhang Yuan asked with a smile.

Xixi rolled her eyes at him and said, "I can't be grumpy when I wake up!"

"You're not usually like this, right?"

"Usually I sleep until I'm exhausted before getting up."

Zhang Yuan: …

What you said makes a lot of sense, I can't refute it.

"Okay, how are you going to work like this?" Zhang Yuan stood up and walked towards her while rubbing his fingers.

"What are you going to do?" Sissi saw him stretching out his hands towards her with a look of fear on her face, but there was also a hint of expectation in her panic.

"What, hey, hey, hey, hey..."

Fifteen minutes later, Liu Xiaoli returned to the dressing room with two cups of soy milk, five hot mushroom vegetarian buns and fresh meat buns.

As I walked to the door, I heard the conversation between my daughter and Zhang Yuan from inside.

"Don't move."

"No, it hurts."

"It should hurt. If it doesn't hurt, it means I'm not trying hard enough."

Liu Xiaoli: !!!

All the hair on Aunt Liu's body stood up, her hair almost flew off, and veins popped out on her head.

In broad daylight, in the open, he actually dared to attack Sissi in the dressing room.

He introduced the role to my daughter and I wanted to thank him, but it turned out that his motives were not pure!

Liu Xiaoli kicked the door open with a bang and rushed into the room, then saw Zhang Yuan giving Liu Qianqian a head massage.

"Mom, you're back."

Liu Xiaoli withdrew her right foot that was about to kick the door somewhat awkwardly, and looked at the two of them somewhat awkwardly.

"Mom, Zhang Yuan's massage is so comfortable."

"Aunt Liu, do you want to give me a few massages? I've learned massage."

Zhang Yuan thought to himself that he basically only used this hand to massage his daughter, and she had to be a pretty woman, so Liu Xiaoli was also included in that category.

"No, thanks." Aunt Liu put down her breakfast and looked at her daughter with some confusion.

He found that her eyes were clear and her face was rosy, and he knew that what Zhang Yuan said was true and he was not trying to take advantage of her by giving her a massage.

"Zhang Yuan, here are some meat buns and soy milk. You didn't have breakfast, right? Let's have some together."

When Liu Xiaoli brought Xixi here, she saw Zhang Yuan there, so she brought him some food as well.

Whether to eat or not is Zhang Yuan's business, whether to buy or not is her business. Aunt Liu still did a good job in some details.

"Thank you, I'm just hungry."

In fact, he had already eaten it, but such good intentions should not be wasted.

But when he was eating the meat bun, Xixi, who was chewing on a vegetable bun, looked at him with eyes full of resentment, similar to the look a golden retriever gets when he watches his owner chewing on a big bone stick.

Lao Di has a saying when talking about eating lamb ribs: it makes people anxious to death and dogs greedy to death.

The situation now is eighty percent similar.

While putting on makeup, Zhang Yuan sent a message to Cao Jianjun, who had already arrived in Hengdian to open a branch, asking him to prepare some things.

When he negotiated with Cai Yinong before, he mentioned the long-term cooperation with the catering company.

Now that the other party has fulfilled his promise, the meals for the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" crew are provided by his people.

All things are difficult at the beginning. With the support of Tangren, the catering company has made a good start in the south and has established a firm foothold.

By the time the two of them finished their makeup, the crew members had already made preparations by the pool.

Dozens of fake lotus flowers are either in bud or about to bloom.

At Liu Xiaoli's request, the crew also prepared a large number of fences and screens to ensure the actors' privacy.

A large amount of dry ice is placed beside the pool to create a fairy-like scene.

"Why are there girls' clothes here?"

In front of the camera, Zhang Yuan lowered his body, sneaked to the edge of the pond, and quietly picked up a neatly folded top and skirt.

Normally, at this point, the director should call a stop and change the camera to shoot the next angle.

But maybe it was because he got up too early, the director was also a little confused. After Zhang Yuan finished his lines, he waited for a few seconds, but no one called for stop.

In fact, this situation is very common in the crew. Some people do it unintentionally, while others do it intentionally by the director.

The most famous one is "The Graduate" starring Dustin Hoffman in 1967.

In the last shot of the film, the male lead and the female lead escape from marriage, and the two sit in the last row of the bus, with the camera locked on the faces of the two protagonists. As time goes by, their smiles gradually disappear, replaced by confusion and helplessness.

All the fans said that this scene where the smile disappears reflects the hero and heroine's gradual calmness after escaping their marriage, and the helplessness and confusion they feel in facing reality after the passion fades.

It's a good thing to say, and it's not wrong.

But this was not the case when filming!

The role that director Mike Nichols assigned to the actors was to smile at the camera after getting in the car.

But after filming started, the two of them finished laughing and found that no one called cut.

With no lines and no idea what to do next, the actors will of course gradually reveal a confused expression.

And this is exactly the effect the director wants!
This natural confusion created this classic film and television shot, which is called fake play becomes real, and real play becomes fake.

Otherwise, Director Mike would have won the Best Director award at all the top awards including the Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Berlin Golden Bear Award, Oscar, etc.

This guy really knows how to use actors.

Zhang Yuan didn’t know whether the situation he was facing now was the same as Dustin Hoffman’s.

But if you stand up, raise your hands and shout.

"I've finished my words, why don't you stop?"

layman!

Of course he couldn't do that. No matter what the situation was, he had to continue acting as long as the camera didn't stop.

Just like Yin Tianchou in "The King of Comedy", he has to endure even the most urgent situation. This is what an actor does.

Zhang Yuan thought quickly and raised the clothes in his hands and placed them in front of him. Then he closed his eyes, raised his nose and sniffed hard.

"Wow, it smells so good."

As he said this, he also gave a cynical, natural smile that appears when a young boy is overwhelmed by hormones.

"Card!"

Only at this moment did Wu Jingyuan react and quickly shouted to stop.

"Director, there doesn't seem to be a scene about smelling clothes in the script," the assistant director reminded.

"There's none?"

Director Wu took the script and checked it carefully.

I noticed the dialogue ended with "Why are there girls' clothes here?"

"Wow, the actions and lines at the end were all added by him..."

“Good addition!”

"Li Xiaoyao's early image was cynical, teasing cats and dogs, and flirting with girls. This action he added just fits the character, which is good."

Director Wu turned to the cameraman and said, "Keep this part."

"This Zhang Yuan can play the role of a playboy with ease, and he even said that he has no life!"

Zhang Yuan's face turned pale as he was walking towards the director.

What should I do if the director of the crew slanders me every day? Waiting online, it's very urgent.

"Zhang Yuan, you performed very well on the spot." Director Wu praised.

He accepted it with a wry smile, but then he heard Sissi's voice from behind him.

"Zhang Yuan, smell it."

As he said this, he put his sleeve in front of his nose.

"What?"

"Didn't you say my clothes smell good? Let me show you how to smell them."

Zhang Yuan thought to himself, I'm not a pervert, how could I smell a girl's clothes?

Breathe in...

"Does it smell good?"

"Why does it smell like Wahaha?"

As the two were chatting, the director came over and asked Xixi to prepare to go into the water.

She quickly unbuttoned the green military coat she was wearing, revealing her white skirt and flesh-colored tube top underneath.

When Zhang Yuan's eyes swept across her chest, Liu Qianqian straightened her chest slightly.

"It seems to be a little bit bigger than when I was in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils..."

"As expected, she is still young and has a chance to grow."

Zhang Yuan seemed to feel a little bit of the happiness of the cultivation system.

Seeing that he was deep in thought, Xixi raised the corners of her mouth slightly, but then suppressed it in an instant.

But she lowered the corners of her mouth, but Zhang Yuan couldn't.

"Pfft hahaha..."

At this time, Zhao Linger's shoulders, waist and abdomen were all white, and her thighs were so white that it made people dizzy.

But on his feet, he was wearing a pair of black rubber shoes that were the same as the ones Gao Qiqiang wore at the fish market, which was extremely incongruous.

Zhang Yuan felt like he saw a golden dragon, with a dragon head, dragon body and dragon claws, but ended up hooking up to a pair of corgi butts, which was extremely awkward.

The director team asked her to wear black rubber shoes because there were a lot of dead branches and stones underwater and they were afraid of scratching her feet, and the camera couldn't capture them anyway.

As I said before, it is January in the south of the Yangtze River. Although there is not as strong cold wind of dozens of degrees below zero as in the Northeast, the temperature has also dropped to around zero degrees.

The lotus pond is not a constant temperature swimming pool. After a night of cold, it is freezing cold.

Liu Qianqian tentatively stepped her feet into the pool and immediately shivered from the cold, with goose bumps breaking out all over her body.

Da da da da…

Zhang Yuan looked back and forth. This is a costume drama, and there are no machine guns on the set?
After a closer look, I realized that it was the sound of Sissi's teeth chattering.

"Is Zhao Linger ready?"

"Okay, okay, I'm ready." Xixi gritted her teeth and went into the water with her stubbornness.

Liu Qianqian looks delicate, but she is actually very stubborn and considerate of her reputation, which is a good thing for filming.

She really works hard when there is work to do!

The pool was very shallow. If she stood, the water level would only reach below her chest. She had to squat when filming, revealing only her shoulders and arms, and not letting her tube top show.

It was so cold, and Liu Xiaoli felt so sorry for her daughter squatting in the ice water to film a scene...

But parents who love their children will plan for them in the long run. Aunt Liu is a parent with a broad mind. She just endured the heartache and said nothing.

Since you have chosen the path of an actor, you can avoid today but you cannot avoid tomorrow, and you will inevitably have to endure hardships.

She practiced dancing until her toes were deformed, which earned her the title of a first-class dancer, so she knows this very well.

"All departments in place... ACTION!"

When the director saw Liu Qianqian already soaking in the water, he gave an order and officially started filming.

Wow…

A snow-white arm slowly rose from the water, and the boiled water slid down the fair and smooth skin, causing faint ripples in the calm water.

Zhang Yuan took a closer look.

Sissi was never the type to be skinny as a skeleton. Her shoulders and arms were slender and graceful like a young girl, but also slightly fleshy. She was not as dry and woody as those in later generations who had a morbid aesthetic.

"Card!"

"Zhao Linger, be gentler and more agile in bathing. You should think of yourself as a fairy."

"Don't let your hands shake, okay?"

Xixi nodded helplessly. She didn't want to shiver, but she couldn't help it because of the cold.

"Next, all departments prepare... ACTION!"

With a splash, the arm emerged from the water again.

When preparing for the scene last night, Liu Xiaoli taught her daughter a set of hand movements.

The dance she is best at is the water sleeve dance, which is graceful and agile, and is perfect for her.

Xixi held on and swayed slowly in the water according to the movements her mother taught her, and it was indeed much better than the last time.

"This is good..." Director Wu showed a satisfied smile.

But his smile lasted less than two seconds. Liu Qianqian, who was as beautiful as a lotus emerging from the water in the camera, suddenly waved her arms and shouted at the top of her lungs.

"what!!!"

Accompanied by a scream, Sissi's body suddenly sank and her head was submerged in the pool.

Zhang Yuan rushed up quickly.

But "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is not "The Untold Story" after all, and Hengdian is not Gongga Snow Mountain.

The crew knew that they would be filming underwater scenes, so they had already prepared lifeguards.

Xixi had just sunk for less than five seconds when a strong man jumped into the pool and pulled her ashore.

Zhang Yuan felt relieved upon seeing this.

But at the same time, a question arose in my mind.

"its not right!"

"The water is so shallow, how could she drown..." (End of this chapter)