Whether it is a store owner or a film crew, one of the things they fear the most is definitely gathering to cause trouble.

Taking advantage of troubled waters to fish, taking advantage of the fire to rob, and finally the law will not hold them accountable... this is the common routine used by people who gather to cause trouble.

China is a place with a large population, and since many people like to form small groups, it is more likely for people to gather and cause trouble.

Especially in areas like the southern coastal areas, southern Fujian, and Chaoshan where there are clan ties, people from a village or town would unite and dare to fight against the government. This kind of thing has never disappeared, and even happened from time to time in later generations.

Zhang Guoli has a line in the movie "Cell Phone".

"The only thing in the world that is afraid of is alliance!"

Once we form an alliance and have a lot of people, we can do anything.

For example, now, dozens of young men, holding white foam plastic lunch boxes, are shouting and walking towards Cao Jianjun and a dozen others who are responsible for serving meals to the crew.

There are many people in the bearded crew.

There are more sets, more viards, and more actors!
When we were on the set of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, on the busiest day, the number of extras and leading actors reached several hundred.

The Return of the Condor Heroes had a higher budget and bigger scenes.

In addition to the temporary personnel pulled in from the surrounding areas every day, there are hundreds of extras who work regularly in the crew.

If you count all the extras, there would be more than three or four hundred people.

And there were not many people here at the moment, so we didn’t get to take pictures of the grand scene of Xiangyang City.

The meat dish on his plate was snatched away by Liu Qianqian in a fit of anger, so Zhang Yuan came to Cao Jianjun to get some more and share it with some friends in the crew.

Whether it is eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, or eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.

See, whether good or bad, eating is always put first. This is the wisdom of the ancients.

The desire for food is the easiest to satisfy and is also the most basic need of human beings.

Only when you are full and happy can you work well.

This is why it is easy to gain weight at work, because everyone is trying hard to compensate themselves for that little bit of “slut pay”.

On the contrary, over the past five thousand years, countless peasants have revolted because they were hungry, and that’s why they waved their banners and shouted, “Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?”

If you don’t have enough food, big problems will arise.

It was precisely because Zhang Yuan was thinking of giving everyone more food that he happened to encounter this trouble.

Cao Jianjun used to be a soldier. Not only is he as stubborn as a donkey, he also has some skills.

But the problem lies in some skills.

Sima Qian wrote this in his "Preface to Biographies of Knights-Errant" more than two thousand years ago.

【Han Zi said: "Confucians use literature to disrupt the law, while knights use force to violate the law."】

When people deal with problems, they will subconsciously choose the method they are best at.

Officials will choose to use their privileges.

Those who do business will choose to spend money.

Rural women would choose to cry and make a fuss.

Most people who have practiced will choose to take action rather than argue.

So the first thing Cao Jianjun did was to take out an engineer shovel from under the lunch cart.

Used for cooking, chopping, killing and robbing, and digging graves, the engineer shovel is truly a sharp weapon in the world.

Zhang Yuan immediately showed a helpless look.

"This bunch of crude warriors whose brains are full of muscles..."

Although he has also learned martial arts and has reached a high level, when encountering problems, he will not always think of using force to solve them like them.

He reached out and pushed Cao Jianjun down to prevent the situation from escalating further.

At the same time, he pulled him aside and retreated behind a few workers.

If a fight really breaks out, the food delivery truck will be worth only a few dollars after it is smashed, and a new one will only cost a few hundred or thousands of dollars.

If the younger brothers got beaten, the worst that could happen was they would have to pay for the medical expenses, and the worst that could happen was they would have to pay for the funeral expenses.

But Zhang Yuan, the lead actor in the crew, thought that it was not worth getting beaten up just for ordering a box lunch.

As for Cao Jianjun, he is at least a small boss and manager. If he is injured, who will help him make money?

Besides, Zhang Yuan has already seen that the people who came to cause trouble are not ordinary people!
Putting aside other things, the average height of these people exceeds that of ordinary extras.

The extras, especially those of those days, mostly came from poor families, had malnourished children, and most were less than 170cm tall.

These people generally have a height of 170cm or above, except for a few.

Especially the leader, whose height was about 180 cm, only half a forehead shorter than Zhang Yuan.

Coupled with the loud voice when he was yelling, it was obvious that he was full of energy.

Zhang Yuan took another look and saw that those people walked with light postures, as if they had practiced walking, which was definitely not something that ordinary people could compare to.

As the saying goes, a wise man never suffers a loss in front of him. Escaping is shameful but useful.

If you don't hide now, when will you hide?

Gold and jade should not come into contact with bricks and stones.

Zhang Yuan thought that he only made a few hundred... bucks every minute, so it wasn't worth it.

He had just stepped back for a few seconds when the emotions of the people on the other side who were making trouble became increasingly intense.

"We want meat!"

“We want to have enough food!”

"I don't eat cabbage sticks!"

I don't know who it was, but someone yelled a curse, and then the lunch box along with the rice, vegetables, and soup inside was thrown towards the group of people who had put their meals.

How fast is Zhang Yuan's reaction?

He just assumed a stance, gathered his energy, and then stretched out his hand... and pulled Cao Jianjun over and stood in front of him.

Hurala!
Wow!
It took several minutes for all the lunch boxes that were falling like raindrops to be thrown away.

The ground near where Zhang Yuan was was covered with scattered rice grains and white lunch boxes, as if he had arrived at the Forbidden City in winter, which was covered in snow.

Hearing the noise gradually subside, Zhang Yuan stepped out from behind Cao Jianjun.

"Not bad, it didn't hit me at all." Zhang Yuan checked his whole body and was very satisfied.

Cao Jianjun, who was used as a shield and turned into a "snowman": ...Aminos.

Although the lunch box has been smashed, the matter is not over yet.

Dozens of aggressive extras were still blocking their way, showing no intention of backing down.

At this moment, Zhang Yuan was actually a little angry.

If you have something to say, just talk about it nicely. What's the point of wasting food?

However, after glancing at the food that had become garbage on the ground, it seemed that there was indeed no meat, only a little bit of minced meat and shredded meat occasionally, which was quite bleak.

He thought to himself that he had taken care of it.

The first priority when dealing with extras is to make sure they have enough to eat. Life is hard already and we all come from the lower class, so we can’t betray our own class.

But this situation is obviously abnormal.

But now that the matter has come to a head, it is obviously not the time to dwell on these things. I have to find a way to calm my anger first, and then get out of this situation.

"If you don't give us meat, we'll go on strike!"

"You are a bunch of conscienceless people. You must have cut corners and left us with less food."

"Smash their cars and arrest their people!"

It’s different when there are more people, and those who are brave enough... Zhang Yuan sensed a sense of crisis and felt that today might not end well.

At this moment, a heroic female voice suddenly came from the side.

"Xiao Wu!"

"Lengzi!"

"Two sticks!"

"What are you doing!"

Everyone's attention was drawn to the angry voice and they turned their heads.

"School girl."

"Senior."

"Xiao Dan."

There were immediately many greetings from the crowd, with very friendly tones.

The source of the female voice took a step forward, carefully stepped over the dirt on the ground, came close to Zhang Yuan, and then stopped.

The person who came was Zhao Xinxin, who played Hong Lingbo. She had not taken off her costume at this time. She was wearing a brown ancient costume jacket and a wig, and had a bit of the temperament of an ancient female knight.

Zhang Yuan saw that she used nicknames when greeting those people, and they even addressed her as seniors and juniors, so he immediately knew what was going on. "I said these people don't look like ordinary people."

"So, like her, we are all students of the martial arts school."

"No wonder. The poor are good at literature, but the rich are good at martial arts. Naturally, the aura of practicing martial arts is different. They eat well, and their average height is taller than the average extras. This makes sense."

Zhang Yuan thought to himself that it was a good thing that he held down Cao Jianjun's engineering shovel.

If a fight really breaks out, he will definitely not be able to withstand a group attack from so many martial artists, and he will be the one who suffers.

It means that when encountering something, you should use your brain first, not your actions first.

When he saw Hong Lingbo standing beside him, he realized that at least there was someone who could talk to both sides and was on his side.

"There are not many female students in martial arts schools."

"Zhao Dandan is pretty. She's probably considered a school beauty in their place."

"When facing these men, speaking should be of some use."

Sure enough, as he expected, as soon as Zhao Dandan opened her mouth, the group of troublemaking martial arts school extras quieted down a bit.

"Junior, the meals arranged for us by the crew are really terrible." Someone in the crowd said with a bitter face.

"Then you can't hit people with lunch boxes." Zhao Dandan glanced sideways and found that Zhang Yuan was basically fine, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother Zhang Yuan has been very caring towards me. This meal is also his business. You guys can't mess with it."

Zhang Yuan introduced her to an advertising job, where she earned 8000 yuan, so of course she had to think highly of it.

Besides, the two of them would practice sword fighting together every night, and it would be easy for them to develop feelings for each other as they practiced.

She must help Zhang Yuan.

"I think there must be some misunderstanding."

"How about I be your guarantor and ask for you guys? I wonder if you guys can trust me."

"When a junior sister speaks, I will definitely believe it."

"That's it."

"Senior sister has a lot of face."

No one else's words worked, but Zhao Xinxin's few words made the group stop angry.

"Everyone, please go away. If the crew finds out, it will be embarrassing for our school."

"Okay, okay, let's go..."

Dozens of people gradually dispersed.

However, the 1.80-meter-tall leader glanced at Zhang Yuan worriedly before leaving. When he saw Zhao Xunxun asking Zhang Yuan with some concern, he gritted his teeth with an unfriendly look.

"Thank you for your help, senior sister!" Zhang Yuan clasped his fists.

"Sister?"

"I'm Yang Guo, you're Hong Lingbo, we're from the same sect, so naturally I'm your senior sister."

"Hehehe..." Zhao Xunxun smiled and nodded.

"I hope I didn't hurt you." She said a little embarrassedly: "The people in our school are all rough people, and they are easily excited..."

"It's okay, don't worry about it." Zhang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "I will personally take care of the meal."

"If I have any questions later, I'll need your help to convey them."

"okay."

He kicked Cao Jianjun and asked him to take out all the dishes he had reserved for him, and gave them to Zhao Xinxin to share with the leading actors.

These young workers all looked pale and they haven't recovered yet.

"It has to be Brother Yuan."

"That's right, I thought it was going to get cold."

"It was his face after all. Once the pretty girl spoke, the matter was settled."

The younger brothers sighed, but Zhang Yuan chuckled and said, "It's even?"

“It’s just the beginning.”

He pulled Cao Jianjun over and started asking.

"Brother Yuan, you don't know that we really didn't cut corners."

"You have taken care of us. We also treat these poor brothers who make a living on the crew as our own people. We give them enough."

“But…”

"Just say what you want to say." Zhang Yuan felt a little impatient when he saw that he was hesitant.

I still have to film, so I don't have time to talk to you about this shit all day long.

Selling lunch boxes was a way for him to gain some economic benefits by leveraging his personal connections.

Of course, making it bigger and stronger and achieving greater glory is another matter, but it is not his main business now and he doesn't want to spend too much time on it.

"But there's something wrong with the meal allowance given by the crew. The meal allowance for these people is one dollar lower than that of ordinary extras."

"Oh?"

Zhang Yuan was shocked.

These martial arts school students are tall and strong, and they eat a lot.

Moreover, the work they do is physically demanding, and the roles they play often involve fighting, which makes them much more tired than the average extra.

The meal standard is even lower?

No wonder only the cabbage stalks are left.

Zhang Yuan keenly realized that there must be something fishy going on here.

"It's like my people took the blame for the crew."

Zhang Yuan thought, it was clearly a problem with the crew's meal expenses, but it was blamed on me.

"Well, we should discuss this matter with the crew first. Go and ask them and report everything that just happened to their superiors." Zhang Yuan felt that things had to be done according to procedures, or at least with reason and evidence.

"Oh." Cao Jianjun ran away to do it.

After a while, he walked back angrily with a bitter face and a hint of anger between his brows.

Without even saying a word, just by looking at his expression, Zhang Yuan knew the result would not be good.

"How to say?"

"The crew said that the reason they were making trouble was because our food wasn't tasty, and that it would be better if we just gave them more meat."

“They don’t care about the meal standards.”

"Oh." Zhang Yuan replied calmly without any emotion.

"Then go and tell the person in charge of the crew that we can't provide lunch boxes for the extras from the martial arts school. Ask them to find another job."

"Okay." Cao Jianjun ran to negotiate again.

As the leading actor, it was inappropriate for Zhang Yuan to speak out in person, so it was only right for Cao Jianjun to come forward.

Not long after, the former cook came running back in a hurry. This time he was not angry, but had a twisted face, obviously very angry.

"Speak." Zhang Yuan asked concisely.

"The executive director said that if we can't do it, then we shouldn't do it. They will find someone else to do all the catering work for the crew."

Yo ho!

Zhang Yuan didn't get angry but laughed instead.

You are trying to argue with me.

Come to lead that set, right?

"If you don't do it, someone else will!"

Hehehe... Zhang Yuan was laughing, and the younger brothers around him felt a chill down their spines.

"Have you found the bearded man?"

"Big Beard is not with the crew. I heard he left last night. I think he went to Hong Kong."

"Xiangjiang?"

As a producer, Big Beard doesn't have to be on the set every day.

His whereabouts are generally incomprehensible to most people.

"Since he's not here, the head of the crew is Yu Min."

No need to ask, the executive director's meaning is his meaning.

"This old guy is getting angry with me again, right?" (End of this chapter)