soul collector

Tang Xiu didn't speak all the way out from the security office.He thought about it repeatedly in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more strange it became.

Long before Song Mian and the others were secretly photographed, Jiang Qiao had said that Song Mian was a person with a track record and would not lose control of his emotions and act casually in the company.It was indeed so. Three o'clock in the afternoon was the most deserted time in the company's restaurant, and they still chose a deserted corner. If Tang Xiu hadn't paid careful attention, even he wouldn't have noticed.

It was so covert, yet it was still filmed by someone, and judging from the video, the filming tool was a DV, so it can be seen that the person who secretly took the film did not do it on a whim, but planned it for a long time.

A person who guessed that Lu Kangjing was driving with drugs, and even guessed that Song Mian would be angry with Lu Kangjing in the company, must know these two people very well.The person who took the sneak shot was most likely the person who wrote the letter.

Jiang Qiao said suddenly, "I heard that your company is very strict about the surveillance video, and you can't delete the surveillance video without high authority. As for the security guard just now, his machine should only have the right to access, but not the right to delete."

Tang Xiu paused, "You mean you didn't delete this person secretly?"

Jiang Qiao hummed, "Maybe he can be a hacker, I guess."

When the two walked to the door, Jiang Qiao saw that Tang Xiu was still in deep thought, and couldn't help but said, "It's actually not his duty to help Lu Kangjing. If it's too much trouble, let it be. What do you think?"

Tang Xiu initially agreed to help out of pure kindness, but just now, when he found out that the video in the monitoring room had been deleted, he suddenly became interested.This person hiding in the dark is far more complicated and cunning than he imagined. Spying secretly, looking for organizations to harm, and destroying relationships are not small evils.This person must have a ray of evil spirit that is difficult to collect. Although he is no longer a newcomer on the banner of collecting souls, it is still quite a temptation for a soul collector.

What's more, after walking for thousands of years, one always understands the truth that what one can see is always only the tip of the iceberg. Under the clues of these evil deeds, there may not be any interesting secrets hidden.

Looking at Jiang Qiao's concerned gaze, Tang Xiu slightly raised the corners of his lips, "Don't you think it's interesting to reveal all these secrets?"

Jiang Qiao's eyes were complicated, "I think you are quite interesting. Newcomers don't want to make their debut, they just want to watch the excitement every day."

Tang Xiu smiled, waved his hand and entered the house.Jiang Qiao is a famous director. Although the director's drama is very exciting, it is not as exciting as the real drama.

……

It took less than a week for the supplementary shooting of "The Spy" and the progress was smoother than expected.Although that director Cai was not easy to serve, he was very satisfied with Tang Xiu's performance, and he didn't pick any faults in the later stage, and occasionally introduced other directors in the circle to Tang Xiu.After filming the last shot to be made up, Cai posted a Weibo.

@蔡大晚明: ""The Espionage Storm" had to re-shoot the series because of a certain incident. Cai was originally upset, but he didn't expect to meet a young man with acting talent. A new villain will appear on the stage a week later, although it is a pick The picture is replaced, but everyone can still look forward to [holding fists]”

After Li Ziping read this Weibo post to Tang Xiu, his eyes crooked with laughter, "You are really crazy. Director Cai and Director Jiang are at a loss, and they are willing to publicly praise Jiang Qiao. If it is broadcast later, everyone I really like it, you have another wave of fans."

Li Ziping put down his phone, shook his head, and said, "Unexpectedly, I originally gave you this cutout scene just to grab some buzz, but I didn't expect to be able to act so well. You guys are really lucky to enter the circle, amazing."

Tang Xiu glanced at the comments on that Weibo, and most of them were guessing who was the substitute. "It doesn't matter whether you are a fan or not, as long as you don't act badly, otherwise Jiang Qiao will really use this excuse to nag me endlessly."

Li Ziping squinted his eyes and looked at him for a long time, "Why do I think...the way you get along with Director Jiang is a bit strange."

Tang Xiu rolled his eyelids, and asked him without changing his expression, "What's wrong?"

Li Ziping stared at the ceiling and pondered for a long time, "You seem to be very polite to Director Jiang, but in fact you lack awe, and you are not afraid of him at all. Director Jiang is also very strange. He is usually the most arrogant, but he also Don't compare yourself to you."

Tang Xiu smiled, "Director Jiang is actually a pretty good person, but he looks more serious. He once told me that he was very distressed that the actors were afraid of him and refused to get close to him. It was probably because I was not afraid of him that he Be very lenient to me."

"Is it……"

Li Ziping's face was wrinkled together, and his intuition told him that Tang Xiu was fooling him nonsense, but Tang Xiu's expression was frank, thinking that a rookie who just entered the circle, shouldn't be able to fool people without changing his face... right?

Before Li Ziping could figure out his confusion, "Fox Killing Terrace" took over and started.The film crew was located in a well-known film and television city in the south. Tang Xiu originally planned to join the crew two days in advance, but when he went to the company to buy an air ticket, he was told that Jiang Qiao had already bought the air ticket for him, and he would join the crew on the same day and on the same flight.

Tang Xiu sent a text message to Jiang Qiao to ask about this, and the reply he got was—"I didn't go to the set, and you have nothing to do when you go."

Tang Xiu was helpless, it was the first time he saw someone who was so confident in creating a chance to be alone.

"Have you brought all your things?" Li Ziping looked nervously at Tang Xiu's small suitcase, "Last time I went to record a variety show and it only took two days, but this time it will take a long time, so there are only a few things. .”

Tang Xiu hummed, "I have few things." He put the pillow with the soul-collecting banner in it, and it occupied half of the box at once.Li Ziping hissed, "You are the most unpretentious artist I have ever seen. So is Director Jiang. What's the problem? The manager of the starring role can't follow up with the group. I've never heard of any director with such an attitude." Set the rules."

Tang Xiu thought to himself, it was only recently that the precedent was created.Jiang Qiao had long disliked Li Ziping's talkativeness and being an eyesore. This time, he directly stipulated that the agent of the leading actor was not allowed to join the set, and that he could only bring one assistant. He said that he wanted the actor to concentrate on his work, but in fact he was just cleaning out a light bulb.

With that little thought, the ancestors can't figure it out.

Tang Xiu was just too lazy to expose it.

Li Ziping was muttering, Jiang Qiao pushed open the half-covered door and came in, and glanced at the box next to Tang Xiu. "There are still four hours before takeoff. There will be a traffic jam. We have to go."

Tang Xiu agreed, buckled the suitcase, and handed the key to Li Ziping.

"Help me water the spider plants every week, it's hard work."

Li Ziping hummed, Tang Xiu's balcony had a lot of green leaves, it was so green that he panicked just looking at it.

"Let's go." Jiang Qiao called out, and Tang Xiu dragged the box out with him.Li Ziping looked at the backs of these two people from behind, they were inexplicably harmonious, they both only carried a small suitcase, those who didn't know thought they were just going out for a self-driving tour.

Hey, it's no wonder that Jiang Qiao fell in love with Tang Xiu, what kind of director is matched with what kind of actors.

When we arrived at the airport, there were still two hours before take-off. After getting the boarding pass, Tang Xiu came out of Jiangqiao Station and glanced at his ticket, "What's the seat number?"

"3A."

Jiang Qiao pushed down his sunglasses, and said in surprise, "That's quite a coincidence, I'm 3B."

Tang Xiu couldn't help but want to laugh.For the first-class ticket, people didn't even ask for seat preference just now, obviously someone had already selected the seat when buying the ticket.

"Director Jiang."

"what?"

Tang Xiu said meaningfully, "It's too deliberate."

"……Have it?"

Tang Xiu smiled, and glanced not far away, "Let's have a cup of coffee together before boarding the plane."

Jiang Qiao nodded, "Okay."

There were quite a few people in the coffee shop, and there were seven or eight people lined up in front of the cash register.Tang Xiu and Jiang Qiao, two tall and tall men, walked in together, which was a bit eye-catching. The woman standing in front of them looked back twice, said ah, and whispered to Tang Xiu: "Are you the one who is the most recent, that one, that one, that one? , Tang Xiu?"

Tang Xiu was surprised when he heard this, is he particularly hot?

no.In Li Ziping's words, he is a second-tier Internet celebrity.

However, before he could answer, Jiang Qiao next to him suddenly said with a sullen face, "No, you made a mistake."

The woman was startled, and turned her eyes to Jiang Qiao's face, vaguely feeling that the outline was familiar, but she could only see a pair of dark glasses that almost blocked most of her face, and the owner of the sunglasses was peeking out from behind the glasses. Imposing, very unprovoked look.

So she faltered, muttered something in a voice that Jiang Qiao couldn't hear clearly, and turned away.

After buying coffee, Jiang Qiao asked, "What did she just say?"

Tang Xiu smiled, "It's not a good word."

As soon as Jiang Qiao said this, he wanted to know even more, "What exactly did you say?"

"Do you really want to hear it? It might be embarrassing."

Jiang Qiao raised his eyebrows, and Tang Xiu said, "She said——it's not about you, dramatist."

——Through a pair of huge sunglasses, the ugly face of someone is clearly visible.Tang Xiu tried his best, but he still couldn't hold back his smile. Just as he was smiling, Jiang Qiao fished out a pair of sunglasses from his pocket and put them on his face. He lowered his voice and said dissatisfiedly, "I told you to keep a low profile and not listen." , an artist doesn't even wear sunglasses when he goes out, deliberately causing trouble?"

Tang Xiu looked suspiciously through the glass window next to it, and it was the same model as the one on Jiang Qiao's face.

When you wear sunglasses to go out, do you still have to carry a pair of exactly the same...

"Director, you are so serious." Tang Xiu sighed and said sincerely.

After the plane took off, Tang Xiu read the script of "Fox Killing Terrace" with his arms in his arms.The script is full of dense annotations and notes, and you can tell the actor's intentions at a glance.Jiang Qiao had been thinking about finding an opportunity to have a conversation, but judging by his concentration, he couldn't come up with anything.For the first time in my life, I felt that my actor was a little too hardworking.

The director was very dissatisfied with his hard work.

"Gentlemen, would you like something to drink?"

Jiang Qiao squinted at Tang Xiu, and elbowed him, "May I ask you, what drink do you want?"

Tang Xiu waved his hand, "I don't need it."

Jiang Qiao was speechless, and waited for the stewardess to leave before lowering his voice and said, "Are you guilty of not being ready to join the team?"

Tang Xiu thought that Jiang Qiao was asking seriously, so he said, "No. I have seen the plot and the lines very clearly, but I lack shooting experience, and the camera angle is still very poor. I wrote some pointers and read them again before turning on the machine."

Hearing this, Jiang Qiao subconsciously sat up straight, "There is a director sitting next to him, what are you doing with those notes?"

"..."

Also.

Jiang Qiao was not serious every day, and Tang Xiu almost forgot that he was a director with strong professional skills.So he picked up the script and pointed to one of them, "How do you stand for a close-up shot like this?"

What Tang Xiu was referring to was the scene where Xiaobai met Renjun for the first time in the forest.Renjun was chased by the bear, Xiaobai threw Renjun away under the bear's paw, and the two rolled together.In order to frighten the bear away, Xiaobai immediately put out his twin tails, turned around and roared angrily.The fox's roar was not rough, but the two-tailed white fox was a spiritual creature, and the black bear was just a clumsy beast. It was so shocked that it immediately fell down and walked backwards.

Jiang Qiao said, "Xiaobai's shots in this scene are from multiple angles. Side view, back view, head-turning follow-up shots, and roaring close-up shots. The more difficult thing is to capture the facial expressions from the close-up perspective of the person. Regular shooting is done alone. In one shot, you threw yourself on the camera, so that from the perspective of the audience, you are the person in Renjun's eyes. As for the unconventional shooting..."

Jiang Qiao paused, and stretched out his arms to wrap around Tang Xiu's shoulders, "During unconventional shooting, the camera should be positioned next to Zhang Kaixing's head, so that you can't look at him when you meet his eyes, but look at the shot next to his face. , borrowing a seat is probably like this."

As he spoke, his face moved closer, and the distance from Tang Xiu could almost be measured in centimeters.

Tang Xiu subconsciously wanted to complain about this hooligan, but Jiang Qiao's expression was very serious, and the way he focused on explaining made it impossible to pick out any signs of hooliganism.

So he temporarily suppressed the thought of slapping him away.

"You see, our relative positions are face to face, but in fact my eyes are looking one inch away from you. If the machine is on his left, you have to turn to the left. Be careful not to move your head, but your whole body. You have to twist it in that direction, otherwise your neck will be exposed, and it can be seen from the camera that you turned your head on purpose."

As Jiang Qiao spoke, his breath hit Tang Xiu's cheekbones, a little itchy.

Tang Xiu was not used to being in close contact with people, but Jiang Qiao's breath had a faint mint smell, and his exhalation was warm and refreshing, so he didn't feel disgusted.

Jiang Qiao looked back at Tang Xiu after explaining, "Understood?"

Tang Xiu ignored the question and said with a smile, "Director, your toothpaste smells really good."

"..."

Jiang Qiao's face turned red all of a sudden.

He immediately withdrew his hands, straightened his posture and sat down again, looked ahead and coughed.

"I know it's useless to teach you the business. If I knew you were like this, my leading role would never be played by a newcomer. It's not professional at all, and it will ruin my career."

Tang Xiu smiled and said nothing.However, he involuntarily glanced at the luggage rack on the opposite side. The soul-collecting pennant was hidden in the pillow. If he could take it out and look at it, he might react again.

"Why do you always look at the luggage?" Jiang Qiao frowned, "What treasure is in the luggage?"

Tang Xiu immediately retracted his gaze, "No."

"Hmm." Jiang Qiao frowned. He suddenly thought of the strange sound he heard in Tang Xiu's box that day, and the vibration that he didn't know if it was hallucination.He hesitated for a moment and asked, "You don't have anything with a lithium battery in this box, do you?"

"lithium battery?"

"That's right." Jiang Qiao paused, "Things that vibrate are usually lithium batteries."

Tang Xiu shook his head, "I know that some airlines have strict inspections, and they don't even bring electric toothbrushes with them. Go to the supermarket and buy another set."

Jiang Qiao snorted.

He's not talking about electric toothbrushes.But judging by Tang Xiu's reaction, he probably didn't do anything shameful.

Jiang Qiao asked again, "Have you ever talked about being in love?"

Tang Xiu didn't change his expression, "No."

He was afraid that Jiang Qiao wouldn't believe him, so he said, "Didn't I tell you that my biggest hobby is to watch the excitement, and I'm cold by nature, so I can't keep warm."

Jiang Qiao groaned, and gave him a half-believing glance.

The city where the filming took place had a typical southern climate. It was a time when it was extremely hot in August, and the air was humid and stuffy. As soon as Tang Xiu stepped out of the airport, he felt that his shirt was sticking to his body.Jiang Qiao usually likes to show off, but he doesn't pay attention to going out. He even skips the car that the crew needs to pick up people, so he takes Tang Xiu to the film and television city by taxi.

The director and leading actor who arrived by taxi are probably the number one.

It was a bit congested to catch up with the rush hour, and when we arrived at the set, it was already dark.Tang Xiu sent the luggage into the dormitory, and found that the place where he lived was also very mysterious, just opposite Jiang Qiao's room.He turned around and saw Jiang Qiao taking out the key and turning the lock, and said with a smile, "It seems that the director not only manages the directing of the play, but also manages the logistics and distribution work."

Jiang Qiao glanced at him and acted like I couldn't understand what you were talking about.

Everyone else has arrived.There are not many main characters in this movie, apart from Xiaobai and Renjun, the focus of the scene is Xiaobai's cousin Baifeng, the general who forced Renjun to kill Xiaobai, and the treacherous national teacher Wei Chimu .

The actor who played Bai Feng was Hu Guangran, an actor who was two years older than Tang Xiu.

The actor who plays General Lie is Chen Bing, who is about the same age as Zhang Kaixing, but not as good as Zhang Kaixing.Tang Xiu had seen Jiang Qiao's appearance many times when he was repairing Jiang Qiao's works. It is said that this person meets Jiang Qiao's standards for employing people.

Wang Yu, who plays the national teacher, is making a difficult transition from an idol school to a powerful school. In recent years, each work has made great progress.

The more interesting thing is that according to the list sent by Lu Kangjing, these three people were all people who participated in variety shows with Lu Kangjing and Song Mian.In other words, they are the few people in the circle who have the opportunity to get in touch with Song Mian and Lu Kangjing in their daily life, and they may all be the ones who secretly took pictures and wrote letters.

It's just that you can't see anything just by looking at the face.Hu Guangran and Tang Xiu are the closest in age, and have the most cheerful personality.Wang Yu's first impression was similar to that of Lu Kangjing back then, gentle and polite.Chen Bing was a little older, quite calm, but not aloof.They were very friendly to Tang Xiu, the dark horse hero, they all greeted him when he came in just now, and gave him a lot of food and supplies.

Tang Xiu was packing his things while thinking, Jiang Qiao knocked on the door suddenly and came in, "Come out when you're done packing, start the machine tomorrow, and go out for dinner tonight."

"it is good."

The director invites you to dinner before starting the film, and all the important characters in the crew have been invited. The location is nearby, a barbecue restaurant in the film and television city.The two leading actors, Tang Xiu and Zhang Kaixing, sat next to Jiang Qiao, and the others dispersed one by one.

Except for Zhang Kaixing, the others were quite restrained and had a sense of distance from Jiang Qiao in awe.Jiang Qiao returned to the professional and serious demeanor that Tang Xiu had when he first met him. The topics discussed at the dinner table were almost all about how to perform the play and what kind of personality the characters should be.

Tang Xiu lowered his head to listen to everyone's words, and didn't really join in the discussion.

After three rounds of cooking, and the script chat was almost done, Hu Guangran finally mustered up the courage to say the first similar words to Jiang Qiao.

"Isn't Director Jiang aiming for the championship? Many people are eyeing this year's grand trophy."

Jiang Qiao smiled lightly, "The subject matter, depth and storyline of this script are quite good, but whether you can catch up with it depends on how you act."

Hu Guangran subconsciously sat up straight, and Wang Yu next to him quickly stated, "We will definitely work hard. If something is wrong, Director Jiang will scold us. It is the first time for Guangran and I to be in your play. We have thick skins and are not afraid of being scolded. We only want to Do your best to take a better shot."

Zhang Kaixing and Hu Bing also expressed their opinions after hearing the words, saying that everyone should work harder and try not to delay the progress, so that the tricks can be filmed smoothly.It's all clichés, and Jiang Qiao didn't listen to it well. After listening for a while, he turned to look at Tang Xiu, who was concentrating on eating meat, "What about you?"

Tang Xiu smiled, "One newcomer, everyone is my teacher."

Hu Guangran quickly waved his hand to tell him not to be humble. Tang Xiu said, "I have a thin skin and I am afraid of being scolded by the director, so I may walk around with everyone more often to ask for advice."

Several people agreed, Tang Xiu caught a glimpse of Jiang Qiao looking at him out of the corner of his eye, obviously guessing all of his plans.

After eating, Jiang Qiao took out another red envelope from his pocket and stuffed it into Tang Xiu's hand in front of everyone.Tang Xiu was taken aback. Just as he was wondering whether Jiang Qiao had lost his mind and wanted to recruit him, Zhang Kaixing said with a smile, "It's the rule of the crew that the director of a dying character will give a red envelope, so let's go."

"Oh." Tang Xiu heaved a sigh of relief, squeezed the red envelope, it was very thick.

Jiang Qiao said calmly: "Xiaobai was tortured by Ming Zhengdian and killed with a sharp axe. His death was too miserable, so I will give you a bigger bag. It's a lot of money, go back and dismantle it."

Tang Xiu nodded, guessing in his heart that there was something unscrupulous about the unevenness of the red envelope, so he put the red envelope in his pocket, "Thank you Director Jiang."

After washing in the evening, Tang Xiu sat on the bed and suddenly thought of Jiang Qiao's red envelope, so he dug it out.The glue sticks so tightly that you have to carefully cut along the lines with scissors.Tang Xiu poured out the contents, there was a thick pile of red banknotes, estimated to be several thousand dollars, and a thin piece of paper fell out together.

It was a ticket for running a red light, dated last month.That time when he was distracted and ran a red light, Jiang Qiao took care of it for him.

Tang Xiu frowned while pinching the ticket, what the hell is this guy doing?

Just as he was thinking about it, Jiang Qiao called.

-"are you asleep?"

- "No, I saw your ticket."

Jiang Qiao hummed, then paused and said, "It's going to be different after joining the group. I'm very scary when I'm filming. You guys are not used to being big or small. I'm afraid you won't be used to it."

"so……?"

Jiang Qiao cleared his throat, "I want you to think of me someday when you are scolded by me until your heart breaks and you want to break up with me."

Tang Xiu, "..."