soul collector

The program Li Ziping mentioned is a reading program aimed at popularizing knowledge of humanities and history to the public. CCTV's selection of artists this time can be regarded as open and transparent. There are only two requirements, one is to have a positive image, and the other is to have appeal.Although Tang Xiu is not considered a big shot, he fits these two points perfectly.

When CCTV selects candidates, there is less room for movement in the network. All you need to do is prepare the application materials and hand them in and wait for the notification of the interview.Tang Xiu had no objection, and agreed to let Li Ziping prepare the materials for him.

The two didn't talk for too long, when Tang Xiu came out of the teahouse, he glanced at the booths in the hall, and Shen Simo had already left.

Li Ziping turned to him and said, "That Shen Simo has a good relationship with Director Jiang, and it is said that the backstage is also very strong. No matter which company he signs with, he should try to build a good relationship."

Tang Xiu raised his eyebrows, "What backstage?"

"You can be considered a younger brother." Li Ziping lowered his voice and looked around cautiously, "No one knows who the boss is, so don't ask me, do you know?"

Tang Xiu agreed.

Li Ziping's room was on the floor below Tang Xiu's. He kept mumbling all the way that the crew had no winks and kept the artists and managers so far apart, but Tang Xiu thought to himself that it might be Jiang Qiao's arrangement.A certain director has always been very annoyed by Li Ziping, this super big light bulb, and he probably wants to shoot him away.

Passing by Jiang Qiao's room, the door was half open, Jiang Qiao was sitting in front of the table in a daze, Tang Xiu subconsciously stopped, "Director, what's wrong?"

Jiang Qiao waved at him, and after Tang Xiu closed the door, he said, "I think Shen Simo has changed a lot."

Tang Xiu raised his eyebrows, "Are you not good at acting? Don't want to use him anymore?"

"No." Jiang Qiao tapped the desktop with his fingertips, "Professionalism is okay, at least it has reached my expected level. It's just that I think my student's personality has changed a lot, and it feels strange to get along with him."

"What changes?"

Jiang Qiao narrowed his eyes and recalled, and said slowly, "He used to be very young, full of enthusiasm. Now..."

Tang Xiu smiled and said nothing, Jiang Qiao changed the subject and said, "He showed me a contract today." He frowned as he spoke, "I really don't know what he's thinking about this kid. Digging him When I came to act, I said that I would help him contact W to sign a contract, but today he told me that he has already contacted another agency company, which is a small company with insufficient resources and reputation, I really..."

Tang Xiu interrupted him, "Did you read that contract carefully?"

"No, I was so angry that he took it away."

"Hmm..." Tang Xiu paused, swallowed back the words that Shen Simo had probably already signed with him, and said, "Perhaps the revenue division of a small company is more favorable."

Jiang Qiao was a little speechless when he heard the words, "It's true. Big companies will draw more, but big companies have better resources and platforms. In the long run, why care about the tens or hundreds of thousands in the short term?"

Tang Xiu said lightly: "Perhaps, he is short of these hundreds of thousands."

Jiang Qiao waved his hand, "Impossible, his family..."

"Do you know who the hell is in his family?"

Jiang Qiao was taken aback by the question, "I know I know..." He hesitated, "Everyone in the circle knows that he has a high family background, but there are still a few people who know his family's background. I am his teacher, so I know something. .Anyway, it is absolutely impossible to be a family short of this money.”

Tang Xiu snorted.

Jiang Qiao probably didn't know that he, a student, flew back from Italy. The so-called wealthy family didn't even have a driver to pick him up. Instead, he was reduced to taking a taxi with his luggage to enter the set.

……

In the middle of the night, the lights in the entire dormitory area were turned off one after another, and Jiang Qiao also sent a good night early to tell Tang Xiu to go to bed early.Tang Xiu took a closer look at the quiet soul-collecting banner on the wall, and was going to take a look at Shen Simo, maybe there would be unexpected gains.

Tang Xiu had just softly closed the door of his own room when he heard the lock on the opposite door click. The next second, Jiang Qiao tiptoed out from inside.

Tang Xiu, "..."

Jiang Qiao, "..."

An awkward atmosphere floated in the silent corridor. After a while, the corner of the ancestor's mouth dropped, "Didn't you just say good night?"

Jiang Qiao swallowed, "Didn't you go back to sleep too?"

Tang Xiu didn't speak, he vaguely guessed what Jiang Qiao was going to do, and sure enough, Jiang Qiao said immediately, "I'll talk to Shen Simo about the contract. Although where he signed has nothing to do with my drama, but after all, it's a one-handed contract." I will not completely ignore the students brought out, and watch him make a wrong step."

Tang Xiu curled his lips when he heard this, "Does the director know what time it is?"

"Huh?" Jiang Qiao was stunned for a moment. "It's past twelve o'clock... He shouldn't have slept. This kid is still jet-lagged. Italy..."

"I didn't mean that." The old ancestor suddenly frowned, his tone a little annoyed.Jiang Qiao was slightly taken aback, "What's wrong?"

Recently Tang Xiu seems to be emotionally unstable, with ups and downs.But the old ancestor was a dull gourd, he didn't show good or bad, which made Jiang Qiao often feel that it was his own illusion.

Tang Xiu glanced at him, and said in a cold voice: "Based on my understanding of the director's seriousness, it's best to spend less time chatting with actors in the middle of the night. It's easy to talk about something different..."

Jiang Qiao's eyes widened, Tang Xiu saw the disbelief on his face, so he didn't finish his sentence.Jiang Qiao stared at him dumbfounded for a long time, swallowed a few mouthfuls of spittle, and then there was a hint of joy in his eyes, "Are you jealous?"

Tang Xiu, "...you can make your voice louder."

"..." Jiang Qiao closed his mouth tightly, but his eyes still sparkled with excitement. After a long time, he couldn't help but chuckled twice, looked around quickly, then raised his hand and rubbed Tang Xiu's face vigorously. head.

Tang Xiu frowned and hid, "I told you, the ancestor doesn't like being bumped."

Jiang Qiao ignored him and said, "It's so cute."

"..."

The first person in ten thousand years who dared to use the word "cute" to describe him, a certain director is really impatient.

The two walked towards Shen Simo's room together, until they went down one floor, Jiang Qiao, who was addicted to Tang Xiu's jealous imagination for him, realized it and paused, "Wait, where are you going?"

Tang Xiu had no expression on his face, but said concisely, "Same as you."

"What are you doing with him?"

Tang Xiu glanced at Jiang Qiao, and said in a low voice, "Intuition. There might be something I'm looking for in this Shen Simo."

"What intuition?"

"Aura." Tang Xiu closed his eyes and concentrated for a moment, then said lightly, "A breath of a great soul."

Jiang Qiao groaned, and concluded, "Dog nose."

Tang Xiu, "..."

Shen Simo was the last to join the group. The dormitory was on the first floor, and the surrounding rooms were all empty.The two went to the door of Shen Simo's room together, only to find that the door was not closed tightly, and the voice of the phone inside could be heard very clearly in the quiet corridor.

Jiang Qiao was about to go up to knock on the door, but Tang Xiu pulled him back, motioning him to wait.

Jiang Qiao mouthed the question, are you going to eavesdrop again?

Tang Xiu gave him a white look.

- "30.00% profit is too high, I can consider other companies."

- "It's true that I've only borrowed less than two months, but that's not a reason to raise rates further."

- "Forget it, I have a project in my hand that can be used as a guarantee, so I might as well take a gamble and go to the bank to apply for such a high interest."

- "I don't think about it."

The room fell silent, Jiang Qiao was too surprised to react, the two of them were just standing there, when the sound of footsteps suddenly came towards the door, Tang Xiu immediately pulled Jiang Qiao back two steps, and casually pushed the empty dormitory next door door to hide in.

Shen Simo walked out of the room and walked towards the door of the building, passing by the dormitory next to him without stopping.Tang Xiu pulled Jiang Qiao's sleeve, and only let go when he heard the footsteps go away, and said in a low voice, "Don't let your student find out, when the time comes, you'll be hiding outside to eavesdrop in the middle of the night as a teacher, explain I can't explain it."

Jiang Qiao glanced at him with a dull expression. It took him a while to wake up from the matter of Shen Simo borrowing usury, and said, "Follow me out and have a look."

"Ah."

Shen Simo stood outside the dormitory building.There are no street lights in front of this building, and it is already pitch black outside, Shen Simo can't go far, and can only stand at the door with the extremely dim cluster of small yellow lights in the hall of the building.

The figures of Jiang Qiao and Tang Xiu were hidden in the darkness. After a while, Shen Simo took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth. He lit the lighter in his hand a few times before he managed to ignite, then his hand trembled slightly. Go and light that cigarette.

A smell of low-quality cigarettes spread immediately, Tang Xiu frowned slightly, Jiang Qiao raised his hand, and gently covered Tang Xiu's nose with his sleeve.

Shen Simo was standing in front of the building smoking a cigarette.He smoked in a hurry, puffing and puffing. The low-quality cigarettes were poorly made, and the remaining cigarettes fell apart before one-third of the cigarette was burned.So he hurriedly dropped the cigarette and stamped it out, and took another one out of his trouser pocket.

Tang Xiu could clearly see from the angle from where he was standing that the two cigarettes looked different.But after igniting, it is the same taste of inferior nicotine.

Shen Simo was standing there smoking. While smoking, he changed his feet back and forth, sometimes shaking his legs and sometimes moving his neck. His whole body seemed to be in an epileptic fit, moving around, very anxious.He stood there and smoked three sloppy cigarettes, the shaking of his body eased a little, then bent down, rubbed the cigarette butts and ash into his palms under the dim light, and walked to the trash can not far away to throw them away, regardless of the dirt. Go in, cough twice, turn around and walk back.

Tang Xiu pulled Jiang Qiao to escape through the fire door behind him. Through the glass of the door, they saw Shen Simo walking towards the room.There was an almost numb indifference on that person's face, without any emotion.

Tang Xiu pulled Jiang Qiao out after the door of the room at the end of the corridor was closed.

"Are you alright?" Tang Xiu looked at Jiang Qiao, and he could feel the suppressed anger of the person beside him.

Jiang Qiao's face was almost cold, and the deep anger was condensed between his brows. He looked in the direction of Shen Simo's room, and said in a low voice, "Go back, I'll talk to him."

"Don't." Tang Xiu grabbed him and looked him in the eyes, "Don't be impulsive. Have you ever thought that Shen Simo might be short of money now?"

"Lack of money?" Jiang Qiao seemed to have heard a big joke, "You don't know that his family..."

"The more powerful his family is," Tang Xiu interrupted him, "the stronger his dependence on his family. Like you said, he used to be a high-spirited boy. After graduation, your protagonist doesn't even want such a good starting point. He is willing to go Pursuing advanced studies in the ivory tower is all because he has a rich family, so he doesn't have to think about making money."

"However, once this back-up disappears and the young master falls from the altar, he will face even more disturbing survival problems than ordinary people."

Jiang Qiao looked at Tang Xiu, "What do you know?"

Tang Xiu sighed, "I only know that he flew back from Italy and entered the film set by himself in a taxi. I know that he has actually agreed to sign with that small agency and will not change jobs or renew the contract within five years. I also know..." Tang Xiudun After a while, "I also know the pair of leather shoes on his feet. Although they are expensive at first glance, they have not been sent for maintenance for a long time, and they are dirty and old."

Jiang Qiao was silent for a long time, then murmured to himself with uncertainty in a low voice, "Could it be... something happened at home?"

He turned his head and denied his thoughts, "No, his family is fine."

Tang Xiu sighed, "Don't take the risk to ask, he signed a contract with that company is already a decision, it's very difficult to reverse it, let's observe."

Jiang Qiao hummed, "Okay."

Based on his understanding of Shen Simo, if something really happened at home, that boy would never admit that there was something unspeakable.Especially since he joined the group yesterday and now, he has been using a slippery and sophisticated disguise that doesn't belong to him. Jiang Qiao feels very uncomfortable when he thinks about it.

He has no idea about Shen Simo, that is one of his students, a student he admires very much.There are not many children in the film academy with a clean mind and a true love for art. Most of them come here with dreams of becoming famous.Although the top film academies have a good source of students, there are always very few really good seedlings. Shen Simo is the best student Jiang Qiao has seen in so many years.

Smart, good at thinking, enthusiastic and humble, his performance is very aura and not impetuous.Jiang Qiao originally had no feelings for the second generation of officials, but Shensi was different. His family background did not make him an unpleasant character, but instead became a guarantee for his pure pursuit of art.

Jiang Qiao really loved this student. Although the age difference was less than ten years old, he once even regarded Shen Simo as his own child.

As if a big stone had been pressed in his heart, Jiang Qiao followed Tang Xiu upstairs and walked back to the room. Tang Xiu was two steps in front of him. Looking at Tang Xiu's back, he suddenly felt that it really looked alike.

They don't have the same appearance and personality, but they are the spiritual image of the show.Zhang Kaixing concluded that he likes uncut jade, which is indeed the case. Which director does not like uncut jade.Leaving aside his selfishness towards Tang Xiu, even if Tang Xiu resolutely rejected him and made him give up, he still felt that Tang Xiu was very good.

"Tang Xiu." Jiang Qiao called out suddenly.

Tang Xiu squatted down and turned around, "Huh?"

The corridor was dark, and he couldn't see Jiang Qiao's expression clearly. He could only feel a tall silhouette and the man's suppressed emotions.

"No matter what happens, you should never do this." Jiang Qiao's voice was a little hoarse, and he said in a low voice.

"Huh?" Tang Xiu was slightly stunned, "What kind?"

Jiang Qiao raised his hand and messed up his hair, walked up to hold Tang Xiu's shoulder, and said seriously: "I like you, you know. Whether you accept me or not, you are an actor I have recognized and cultivated with all my heart. , is a person with aura and a bright future. No matter what happens, you can’t ruin yourself. Once a person falls, it’s not only yourself who is ruined, but also those who have paid for them with all your heart..."

Tang Xiu suddenly laughed, a low laugh, with a hint of helplessness and relief, he said softly: "Director, what are you thinking about? I have lived for thousands of years, how can I be so overwhelmed?"

Jiang Qiao choked for a moment, and after a while, he said in a low voice, "Alcoholism, heavy smoking, neither."

Tang Xiu had a smile in his eyes, "Okay."

"If you have something to worry about, or you can't find the last ray of your soul, you can come to me and talk to me, don't hold it alone."

"it is good."

"You promised me?"

Tang Xiu sighed slightly, "I promise you. It's almost thirty, why are you still being coaxed?"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, the man holding his shoulder suddenly increased his strength. The tall figure approached, and Jiang Qiao's breath was instantly within reach.

The man lowered his head in the darkness and kissed him tentatively, carefully and tenderly.Tang Xiu was slightly stunned at first, then he suddenly felt his heart beat faster.The dark and quiet corridor brought a different kind of feeling, which was even more thrilling than the kiss that was tried in front of the soul-collecting banner that day.

Jiang Qiao gently sucked Tang Xiu's tongue. He had never kissed anyone before, and it was a little raw for the first time, but he was emotional.He was more than happy that the old man didn't push him away.

In the dark and quiet corridor, only the sound of the two men's increasingly rapid breathing overlapped. Tang Xiu was held in Jiang Qiao's arms. This guy's arms were very hot, so hot that the old ancestor was a little unconscious.

"Director..." He gently broke away and leaned back.In the dark, the opposite pair of eyes stared at him, Jiang Qiao swallowed and spit out very clearly, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, don't call me the director."

"Ok?"

The man's hoarse voice whispered in his ear: "You call me a director, I can't help it."

Tang Xiu, "..."

Just as he was about to say what was wrong with this, this unscrupulous guy came up again, this time instead of kissing his lips, he pulled open the collar of his shirt to kiss his neck. Tang Xiu almost couldn't stand still, so he could only lean against the wall, Shortness of breath.

When the breathing in the corridor became more rapid, the fire door was suddenly pulled open.

Jiang Qiao froze, and before he could let go, he heard Li Ziping murmuring to himself from around the corner, "What kind of broken crew, there isn't even a light in the corridor, it's dark."

In the next second, a flashlight, which was suspected to be a mobile phone flashlight, shone over, and it happened to shine on the profiles of the two people.

Li Ziping, "...Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."