soul collector

Chen Bing came back from the outside and saw Tang Xiu staring at the table in a daze, "How about my writing?"

"It's very beautiful. Senior can also calligraphy, which is very good."

Chen Bing took a few wet wipes and squatted on the ground to wipe the dripping ink, and sighed while rubbing hard, "I learned calligraphy for ten years when I was a child. If I hadn't been stubborn at the age of 17 and wanted to take the film school, my dad would have given it to me. I am cultivating in the direction of calligraphy masters."

His handwriting is indeed powerful, and it is not something that amateur calligraphers can write.Tang Xiu glanced at the copybook spread out on the table again, "You really imitated it."

"These poems are all classics, and I have copied them many times." Chen Bing said casually.

"so."

Tang Xiu helped Chen Bing clean the room and left without letting Chen Bing see him off.The moment he stepped out of the door, the opposite door just closed.

The sound insulation of the crew dormitory was extremely poor. After the door was closed, Tang Xiu could still hear Hu Guangran's footsteps clearly.

From the door to the house, you have to panic as much as you want, how urgent you need to be.

Tang Xiu was stunned for a moment, turned around and went back to the room.

Jiang Qiao's old Lai was still in the room and didn't leave at all. Tang Xiu was thinking about something. When he entered the room and saw someone sitting in the room, he was shocked, "Why are you still here?"

"Wait for you to come back." Jiang Qiao closed the script on the table and smiled, "You have written down all the faults you picked on you today. Young people are more motivated than I imagined."

Tang Xiu curled his lips, and subconsciously looked back at the soul-collecting banner on the wall.

It was as if Jiang Qiao was holding a drug primer to seduce Jihun Banner in his arms, which could make this old man restless anytime and anywhere.Tang Xiu was a bit afraid to let him be alone with Jihun Banner, it would be bad if it frightened people.

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Qiao turned his head and saw the soul-collecting banner, and said, "Oh my God, do you have some psychological problems? You have to bring this thing out and hang it on the wall when you come out to shoot a movie. go up."

As he spoke, he frowned, looked at it carefully again, and came to the same conclusion as last time.

"It's really ugly, and the cut is also rough, with frayed edges."

"..."

"With such a thing hanging on the wall, don't you have nightmares?"

"...don't do it."

"Yes, to ward off evil spirits."

Tang Xiu finally couldn't bear it and walked over to cover Jiang Qiao's mouth, "Stop talking, you are really trying to die."

The soul-collecting pennant is a magic weapon for practitioners. Although there is nothing wrong with bloodthirsty, this kind of long-lasting artifact is itself a way. If you provoke it without opening your eyes, no one can tell what will happen.

Jiang Qiao closed his mouth obediently, but it wasn't because he realized the majesty of the magic weapon. He froze there like a statue...

The little hand touched his lips on its own initiative.

It's still the same touch as last time, warm, soft, dry and wet just right.But this time it was different, this time it was the lips, which gave the illusion of a kiss, and also covered the nose, giving him a nice smell.

Jiang Qiao sniffed it calmly, but there was nothing specific about it.You can't talk about smell, it's breath, Tang Xiu's breath.

Tang Xiu suddenly realized what this guy was doing, and immediately retracted his hands, "Your family..."

He swallowed the words back again.

Jiang Qiao smiled and leaned on the back of the chair, swaying from side to side, making one wonder if he wanted to take a turn while holding back his joy. "Come on, how serious and polite you usually pretend to be, one mouthful of director and one mouthful of yours. What do you want to call me at critical moments? Guy?"

Tang Xiu held back and didn't speak.

"Hey, you are the first person who dared to cover the director's mouth."

"..."

"Okay, tomorrow is estimated to be NG all day."

After listening to several words, Tang Xiu finally couldn't hold back anymore, "If you have nothing to do, you can go, it's midnight, and I have to get up again at six o'clock tomorrow morning."

Jiang Qiao smiled and seemed in a good mood. "Okay, then go to bed early and get up at six tomorrow morning to continue training."

Jiang Qiao stood up and walked out the door, when Tang Xiu suddenly stopped him from behind.There was a rare look of entanglement and helplessness on the face that had always been indifferent and Buddhist.

"Director, how many people have you trained?"

Hearing this, Jiang Qiao was stunned for a while before he realized what Tang Xiu was asking, and his mood suddenly became turbulent. "It's just you. Other actors..." Jiang Qiao tactfully said, "There are elm heads everywhere, and geniuses are always rare. I don't have such high demands on others. If you don't believe me, go ask Zhang Kaixing and the others."

Although Jiang Qiao's old face was not thin-skinned, he suddenly felt a little timid when he met Tang Xiu's dark eyes.He also wanted to say that this is your first serious scene, and also the first scene you collaborated with me. I don't want anyone to find any faults. I want to give you the highest starting point in history.

But these words were all in his stomach, he stood there and said them in his heart without turning his lips.

It's a pity that the one standing in front of him is not the young man who just stepped into the society as he imagined, but an ancestor who would kneel down and slam his head on the ground three times in terms of seniority.

Tang Xiu felt as if he had vaguely guessed what Jiang Qiao didn't say, but he was not quite sure. An idea was half-hanging in his mind, which was very subtle.

His thoughts suddenly went for a fork, and he suddenly thought, if he really fell in love with Jiang Qiao, what would he do in the future.

He is absolutely unwilling to be alone after having a lover.Let's just fall asleep...Will Jiang Qiao agree if he finds out?

It would be great if Jiang Qiao was also a practitioner.

The two stood facing each other with their own thoughts, without saying a word, there was a sudden crack in the room, if it were in a costume drama, it would be an assassin shooting an arrow at the door frame, Jiang Qiao was terrified all over.

"what?"

Tang Xiu panicked all of a sudden, he immediately pushed Jiang Qiao out with one hand, pushing Jiang Qiao with one hand and pulling the door with the other, his rhythm was out of balance, the door had not been fully opened yet, someone had already pushed past it, with a bang!Jiang Qiao slammed his forehead on the door.The door was knocked back a bit, Tang Xiu didn't have time to retract his strength, and the inertia pulled the door back again, with another bang, and gave Jiang Qiao two consecutive blows.

……

It is said that people will be very irritable when they are hit on the head, which is a physiological instinct.But Jiang Qiao didn't, he just froze there, his whole body was knocked into a state of bewilderment, and he didn't recover after a long time.

"Jiang Qiao!" Tang Xiu was taken aback, and he didn't even call out to the foolish director, "Are you alright?"

Jiang Qiao stared at him blankly for several seconds.

"fine……"

"Why hit me??"

Tang Xiu's words choked in his throat.

"What happened just now? What did you raise in this room?" Jiang Qiao frowned and rubbed his forehead while pushing him away and walking into the room. The nerve signals that had stopped tenaciously picked up again, and he began to lose his temper.

"I didn't say that pets are not allowed in the crew. Did you hide some kittens and puppies behind my back..." Before Jiang Qiao finished speaking, he froze in place as if someone had acupuncture points on him.

His eyes were fixed on the wall beside the bed, on the broken flag that he said many times was ugly as hell.

Tang Xiu's mind was buzzing, the only thing he could do was to close the door tightly.

"I said..." Jiang Qiao's expression became serious, he turned to look at Tang Xiu stiffly, and pointed to the wall, "Has the color scheme of your thing changed?"

The soul-collecting flag is black, white and red, and the two colors will fade in case of serious situations.There are two souls, good and evil, and in case of a good soul, only white remains, and in case of an evil soul, only black remains.The fading of the soul flag will only appear when a new soul is about to enter the flag.

Tang Xiu was also taken aback. If Jiang Qiao's discoloration was true, then this progress was a bit outrageous. It was so outrageous that he felt that his previous deduction could be completely overthrown. The uncollected soul should have nothing to do with Jiang Qiao. .

But when he mustered up the courage to turn his head and glance at the wall, his scalp exploded immediately.

The soul-collecting banner turned completely red.

At the position of the blank arc corresponding to the No.80 soul before fading, there is a faint imprint, which seems to be shining and flickering, but it is very vague, and no specific shape can be seen.

For 1 years, there has never been such a situation.

Black gathers evil, Bai Ning is good, and red has always been just a foil color.When Tang Xiu first practiced, he asked his senior what the color red represented.The senior said he didn't know, he had never encountered a situation where the color of the soul-collecting flag faded to only red, and he would tell him later when he knew.

But later, the seniors got tired of living, and chose to sleep forever without waiting for No.80's uncollected soul.

Gradually, Tang Xiu stopped worrying about this matter, because the question itself might be meaningless.

Jiang Qiao swallowed a few mouthfuls of spit with difficulty. He could feel his hairs trembling one by one, his chest felt cold, and his heartbeat became more and more violent.

"Don't tell me, you bastard..." Jiang Qiao held back the broken words, "Your flag is just a decoration." He forced himself to take another look, the glowing one on the red chess piece The small symbols gradually disappeared, and the chess pieces began to degenerate to their previous appearance at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Jiang Qiao was about to collapse, "What the hell is this? Is it materialistic?"

Tang Xiu was silent for two seconds, and after calm thinking, he broke the door lock with his backhand.

Click.

Jiang Qiao took a step back, "What are you going to do?"

"Director, don't be afraid." Tang Xiu sat on the bed, turned his head to look at Jihun Banner who had recovered as if he had done nothing wrong, and patted the place beside him, "Let's talk."

"What are you talking about??"

Tang Xiu's black eyes were particularly deep, as if there was an abyss hidden inside.He looked at Jiang Qiao for two seconds, and said softly, "I have been trying to avoid this situation, but since it still happened, I have no other choice."

Jiang Qiao seemed to have regained his senses all of a sudden, and almost jumped, "What are you talking about, don't talk! I'm going back to sleep!"

"Hey!" Tang Xiu stood up from the bed all of a sudden, and Jiang Qiao's steps became even bigger. He strode to the door, put his hand on the lock, and turned his head abruptly. "You locked the door, so you don't want me to go?"

Tang Xiu smiled wryly, "No. I can't help it either..."

"There's nothing I can do? I thought you were a pretty good boy to treat you...you..." Jiang Qiao stared, the veins on his forehead emerged. He looked at Tang Xiu for a long time, his chest heaved violently, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I Let's go, you go to bed early, tomorrow will be another day of play."

The door opened and closed, and Jiang Qiao left.

Tang Xiu heard a slam on the opposite door, and suddenly felt a little empty in his heart.

For 1 years, he hadn't experienced such a feeling of emptiness. He took two steps back and sat back on the bed, staring at the direction Jiang Qiao was leaving for a while.

Ye Zhiheng said that when mortals know their identities, they either think they are monsters, or they think they are insane, which is always bad anyway.

But what he was thinking at that time was that Minmin was just an ignorant woman from the bottom of the feudal society, and Jiang Qiao was different. He was a great director of this era, with thoughts and vision, smart and kind-hearted, so it wouldn't be the same.

Thinking about it, he underestimated the deterrent power of these gods and ghosts to mortals of flesh and blood.Probably in front of gods and ghosts, the gaps between ordinary people are insignificant.

Tang Xiu suddenly felt very irritated, a kind of irritability he had never experienced before.He raised his head and glanced at the soul-collecting flag. This guy seemed to know that he had made a mistake, so he stuck to the wall obediently, motionless and making no sound.

Tang Xiu thought to himself that the uncollected soul was not Jiang Qiao, and it had nothing to do with Jiang Qiao's liking for him, nor did it have anything to do with his gradually changing relationship with Jiang Qiao.No matter what the meaning of red is, the fading of the soul flag means that a new soul is about to enter the flag, such a big breakthrough...

All he could think of was the case of Lu Kangjing being followed.

Back and forth overthrowing and rebuilding his train of thought has long been a habit for him, but Tang Xiu found that he was not willing to think at all at this moment, and what uncollected souls turned out to be something that bothered him even more.The irritability in his heart seemed to ignite a fire, from his heart to his throat, it burned so much that he wanted to explode.

……

Early the next morning, the makeup artist yelled while putting on Tang Xiu's makeup, "What happened to you last night, your eyes were full of bloodshot eyes? How can you be on camera?"

Seeing that Tang Xiu didn't speak, she sighed and said, "Hey, don't be too stressed. I'll find you some artificial tears to look at. Maybe it will be better."

Tang Xiu finally hummed, "Thank you."

On the table was the breakfast bought by the assistant. Yesterday on the set Jiang Qiao casually mentioned that he thought his breakfast was too simple, so the assistant got a good memory and bought him seven or eight items today, enough for three or four people.But Tang Xiu didn't move, just let those things spread out there, the little assistant opened his mouth to ask a few times, but swallowed the words silently.

He felt that something was wrong with Tang Xiu today, not because he was playing big cards, but because he was in a bad mood.

Today's rehearsals are all line plays, and there are only a dozen dialogues with Zhang Kaixing.Zhang Kaixing witnessed Jiang Qiao gouging Tang Xiu for a whole day yesterday, so he felt a lot of pressure when he woke up early in the morning.He saw Tang Xiu approaching from afar and hurriedly waved, "We are opponents today, be careful."

Tang Xiu showed no expression, "Is the director here?"

"I just came to see the seat, and was called away to eat, but I should be back soon."

Zhang Kaixing handed the phone to the assistant, and asked casually, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Eat." Tang Xiu said.

The two were facing the line, Zhang Kaixing glanced at the distance, put down the script, "The director is here."

With his back turned, Tang Xiu only gave a perfunctory hum.He didn't really want to see Jiang Qiao, he was upset and more angry.

Jiang Qiao probably didn't want to see him too much.

However, Jiang Qiao didn't expect to come straight here, holding two stacked lunch boxes in his hand.Zhang Kaixing said hello, "Director, start?"

Jiang Qiao waved his hand, and came over to give Tang Xiu a hand, "I just passed by the dressing room, you didn't have breakfast?"

Zhang Kai let out a sigh, then turned to look at Tang Xiu, "Didn't you say you ate it?"

Tang Xiu didn't say anything.

Jiang Qiao sighed, "Eat breakfast before turning on the machine. For a day's play, if people don't eat breakfast, people outside will blackmail me for abusing actors."

Tang Xiu lowered his eyelids and glanced at the lunch box in Jiang Qiao's hand. Inside the transparent lunch box were millet porridge and small wontons, and there were two soft-boiled eggs lying in the porridge. It wasn't his assistant who bought it for him, probably Jiang Qiao. own breakfast.

"Did the director sleep well last night?" Tang Xiu asked calmly.

Jiang Qiao paused, "It's good, you didn't sleep well?"

Zhang Kaixing interjected: "It's still not used to joining the group for the first time, his eyes are full of bloodshot eyes."

"what."

Jiang Qiao couldn't help but put the lunch box into Tang Xiu's hand, and gave him a hand, "Walk around and eat the food first, then start work after eating."

Tang Xiu didn't agree, but he didn't refuse either. He followed him to the monitor table, pulled a small stool and sat down to eat.Zhang Kaixing watched the two walk away, and suddenly realized something was wrong.

Jiang Qiao really made exceptions for this rookie actor.The previous actor would not even blink his eyes even if he had three hunger strikes, not to mention skipping breakfast.Whether you eat or not is up to you. I just ask you to shoot the show well. What does it have to do with me if you starve yourself to death?

Zhang Kaixing suddenly smacked his mouth.

These two are interesting.

"Why don't you have breakfast?" Jiang Qiao asked in a low voice.

Tang Xiu's porridge spoon paused, "I'm not hungry."

Jiang Qiao was choked back, watched him drink the porridge for a while, and said in a low voice, "Actually, I didn't sleep much last night."

Tang Xiu didn't speak.

"Did you not sleep too?"

Tang Xiu put down his spoon and raised his eyebrows to look at Jiang Qiao. His black eyes were still bright, but colder than usual. "Does the director have anything to say?"

He calmed down for a whole night, and it would have been fine if Jiang Qiao continued to avoid him, but this guy suddenly reversed his attitude and came forward to show courteousness, as if nothing had happened, Tang Xiu couldn't hold back his anger.

Intellectually speaking, he could fully understand Jiang Qiao's repulsion after seeing supernatural phenomena as a mortal of flesh and blood.But he is not a Tathagata Buddha, he also has emotions.

He also figured it out when he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep last night.Regardless of whether the uncollected soul had anything to do with Jiang Qiao, this person might not have been an ordinary friend in his heart for a long time.At least among the friends he had made before, no one had such a great ability to make him lose sleep.

He even naively thought that Jiang Qiao's liking for him would evolve into a great kind soul.Just dream, when this person left yesterday, he didn't spare any sympathy.

The anger in his heart was pounding, and he was so angry that his liver hurt, and he really wanted to suffocate this stubborn junior with a soul-collecting banner.Ancestor Wannian, did you provoke me as soon as you wanted to, and end it as soon as you wanted to?

Thinking of this, Tang Xiu's eyes grew colder, "Is something all right?"

Jiang Qiao paused, he had never seen Tang Xiu angry before.He sighed and looked away.

"Don't be angry, when I calmed down after I went back last night, I guessed that you might have misunderstood."

The big director rubbed his hair, feeling that he was really low-key, low-key and small, and he didn't have the face of a director at all.

"I bumped my head and found that thing last night... My whole mind is in chaos. Once you locked the door, I thought you saw that I found out about you and wanted to kill me."

Tang Xiu, "..."

"If you don't believe me, think about it. What are you talking about with me? You said that since it has already happened, there is nothing you can do about it."

"..."

Jiang Qiao looked at Tang Xiu with complicated eyes, "That's why I left in a hurry, and I was also a little angry when I left. I thought in my heart that I treated you so well, and you not only didn't want to repay you, but when I found out what you wanted The secret is actually going to kill me, isn't that a white-eyed wolf?"

Tang Xiu, "..."

Zhang Kaixing yelled from a distance, "Director Jiang, what are you doing? It's time to start filming, Tang Xiu hasn't finished eating yet?"

Tang Xiu took a long breath and closed the lunch box, "Okay, let's work."

As soon as he stood up, Jiang Qiao reached out and grabbed his arm, "Are you still angry? Let me explain clearly, if I don't understand..."

"Director." Tang Xiu sighed, feeling a little helpless, "Let's get started."

There are so many people watching, what else do you want to do?

Jiang Qiao let go.

Tang Xiu re-stacked the lunch box and pushed it in front of Jiang Qiao, then walked towards the shooting site.He took a deep breath, although he was still very angry, but it was not the same as before.

Jiang Qiao's abnormal behavior last night did start after he locked the door behind him.

Misunderstood.

It was as if a blocked boulder was suddenly crushed. Tang Xiu felt his heart brighten up. He passed by Zhang Kaixing. Zhang Kaixing asked, "What did the director tell you? He threatened you that if you don't perform well, the filming will end in the middle of the night." ?”

Tang Xiu paused.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhang Kaixing went around to look in front of Tang Xiu, and he was actually smiling.

It was the kind of smile that was a little helpless but also a little relieved.

"What's the matter?"

Tang Xiu shook his head, "It's okay, you just reminded me."

"Remind you of what?"

Tang Xiu turned his head and glanced at the shed. Jiang Qiao was still sitting where he was just now, looking at him with a dazed expression.He sighed softly, "Remind me that Jiang Qiao really doesn't seem to have anything else to offer other than a few threats."

Zhang Kaixing let out a cry of surprise. Just as he was about to say that the two of us might not be acquainted with a director, Tang Xiu waved his hand, "Let's start, don't delay everyone."

Today's filming went much smoother than yesterday.Zhang Kaixing felt that the director didn't suddenly increase his demands on him, and he didn't give Tang Xiu several more requests for a certain scene.But today's play doesn't involve action. Tang Xiu's literary play is very good. Originally, Jiang Qiao didn't find any faults with him in the literary part yesterday.

It was reasonable to think about it this way, but Zhang Kaixing always felt that something was wrong.

He observed for a whole day, and it wasn't until Jiang Qiao called everyone to eat at night that he finished work that he suddenly figured out what was wrong.

Director Jiang felt cautious towards Tang Xiu today.

It's that kind of - "This shot is pretty good. Here, there, and there are all very, very good. But there is a small detail that can be polished. Do you feel tired? If we are tired, we can talk about it later."

Although it wasn't Jiang Qiao's original words, Jiang Qiao meant that all day long.

Zhang Kaixing became more and more confused. He thought to himself that Jiang Qiao owed Tang Xiu money.

Speaking of which, Tang Xiu has never followed an unusual path since his debut. Could it be that he is some kind of low-key capital tycoon?

Beside the table not far away, the person who owed money was pointing to four lunch boxes and asking the creditor.

"Which one do you want?"

There was no one around, and Jiang Qiao was shameless, "You pick two that you want to eat, and we each have one, and I'll leave the food you want to eat for you."

Tang Xiu didn't say a word. The Wannian ancestor didn't get angry easily, and when he got angry, it was difficult to coax him a few times.

Jiang Qiao suddenly remembered, and asked in a low voice, "By the way, what exactly are you? Are there any taboos for you...creatures? There won't be any of your kind on the table, right?"

Tang Xiu's face turned even darker.

Jiang Qiao carefully observed his expression, and his heart skipped a beat, thinking that he might not be right.

He thought about it as logically as possible, "No wonder you drink so much. It's not difficult to play me. You're not some awesome nine-tailed fox..."

"I'm not some animal turned into a demon." Tang Xiu finally interrupted someone's rambling thoughts, raised his eyelids and gave Jiang Qiao a cold look, his expression was so stiff that he said word by word: "I can eat Human food."

"Ah..." Jiang Qiao seemed to heave a sigh of relief, "Then you can eat this, it contains lamb chops and..."

"director!"

Not far away, a man suddenly ran over, panting while running. He was an assistant next to the assistant director.Jiang Qiao withdrew his doggy look, "What's wrong?"

The assistant pointed to the back of the building, "Come on, Wang Yu and Hu Guangran are fighting!"