Golden Assistant 43

 

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Chapter 43

After resting for several days, Lu Zhou was finally able to change into lighter clothes. His skin had been tanned bronze, and he wore a beret, a camouflage vest, army pants, military boots, and also band-aids on his face. Sweat was all over his short hair, and Xiao Yi's expression was reflected in his sunglasses.

"Want to do it?" Lu Zhou looked at Xiao Yi and said with an insincere smile: "So you like uniforms?"

Xiao Yi: "......"

"Would you like to be the bottom of the uniform department?" Xiao Yi said, "Or would you rather do it while being done?"

Lu Zhou: "You talk back more and more nowadays, your daddy I has been spoiling you."

The set scenery was fixed up, and the two were sitting underneath it. Xin Hongkai came over and stretched out his hand. Lu Zhou shook hands with him and got up.

"I'm going." Lu Zhou said.

"Do your best!" Xiao Yi said.

Xiao Yi was afraid that Lu Zhou would be injured during the action scenes, so he had specially made a lot of preparations. Now that they were filming the action scenes, he felt afraid, for fear that Lu Zhou would fall off the viaduct.

Both parties parked their cars on the side of a highway. Lu Zhou took a shotgun and got off the car. He was wearing sunglasses as he slammed the door of the car shut, momentarily leaking a domineering aura. 

Xiao Yi felt that everyone present was shocked. Xin Hongkai came out from the other side and drew his hand pistol. Lu Zhou's thugs and Xin Hongkai's police officers appeared one after another.

The two sides started a gun battle. The scene was simply earth-shattering. Ads were planted in for Toyota, and so there were three Toyota cars parked in the background. One car was specially modified by the props team, and one of them held a remote control. A small detonator that was attached inside to the glass shook and the glass shattered all over the ground in an instant.

"Cut!" The director shouted.

The props team went in to fix the scene, and the two sides temporarily paused. Lu Zhou was smoking a cigarette, looking at Xiao Yi in the distance with his eyebrows raised. Xiao Yi was extremely worried, and patted his own shoulder to signal him to be careful of the gun's recoil.

At the beginning of the scene's second half, four cameras were rotated and pushed in from different directions. The sound effects were fixed onto the microphones, the detonating device affixed in the car was pre-activated, and the props team were on the sidelines to press the remote button.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!  Four bangs, and four bullet holes appeared in the door where Lu Zhou was hiding.

This is too awesome——! Sure enough, professionals are different ahhh! Xiao Yi did not know how to describe it. Lu Zhou bit the bullets and loaded them in. The camera took a close-up of his face. Then, Lu Zhou was solemn as he placed the machine gun on the front of the car for a burst of fire. One of the props team shook his head and pressed a button.

With a loud bang that had almost frightened Xiao Yi, the car door was blasted out.

The camera was pushed to the ground, and the director said: "The others can rest."

The camera started to take shots of Lu Zhou walking and stepping on the glass pieces, and a close-up of his army boots.

"Cut." Director Huang said, "It's slow!"

Thus, Lu Zhou stepped back and started over again. The step-by-step shot had to show Zheng Changrong's determination to take Hu Ying's life without any hesitation. That friendship of life and death had to end there. This time, Zheng Changrong would not show mercy anymore, and all that had to be expressed through the step-by-step shot. It was too difficult to express so many meanings and also the approaching death. It was August and the sun was deadly scorching. Lu Zhou had not even celebrated his birthday and had been filming this movie the entire time.

Xiao Yi suddenly discovered that the director seemed to have very low requirements for the male protagonist, and most of the time he had been shooting Lu Zhou repeatedly.

"Once again!" The director shouted.

Lu Zhou carried the gun and walked one last time, it passed. The props team immediately went forward to fix the scene. After turning to the car, Lu Zhou stepped forward. First, a close-up of Xin Hongkai’s expression was shot. He clutched his left arm as Lu Zhou put the gun to his head.

Hu Ying: "......"

"Cut." The director shouted, "The expression is wrong."

Xin Hongkai nodded and said: "Sorry."

"There are no bullets." Lu Zhou said, "Don't be too nervous."

No matter who it might be, they would be scared when they had a gun against their forehead. It was an instinct to be nervous. Xin Hongkai's expression was constantly wrong and after a while, the director had to let them take a break. After twenty minutes, they did not speak. Holding a pistol, the female protagonist appeared from the side and reached the back of Lu Zhou's head.

There was a slight tug at the corner of Lu Zhou's mouth and his eyes narrowed.

Female protagonist: "Put your gun down!"

"Hurry and leave!" Xin Hongkai shouted.

"Cut!" The director shouted immediately, "Now take action!"

Lu Zhou turned around and raised his left foot, his right heel following, and swept his legs together. He was extremely chic. With a faked kick, the female protagonist fell backwards and was caught by the staff. Xin Hongkai immediately dashed from the side of the car and pointed his gun. Lu Zhou dodged behind the car. Xiao Yi suddenly felt his heart momentarily rising up to his throat as Xin Hongkai fired a shot.

"Cut!" The director shouted, "Perfect."

Everyone was paralyzed with fatigue. Lu Zhou was sweating all over. His machine gun was heavy, and he was a little bit weak when he walked. Xiao Yi immediately took him to the car and gave him water while two fans blew wildly at him.

In the afternoon, everyone hid in the car to eat. They were nowhere near a town nor a store, and could only eat the cold mung bean porridge they had brought along in the morning. Lu Zhou reluctantly ate some and continued to film the escaping scenes in the afternoon.

After shooting under the viaduct for four full days, two main scenes were successfully filmed. Xiao Yi got a whole shade tanner, and Lu Zhou's nose was even peeling due to sunburn.

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Finally, it was the last scene in Tianmo*.

*Tianmo is a desert in China

At five o'clock in the morning, everyone was waiting for the sun to rise. They could only shoot at this time every day. This was also the scene that Xiao Yi was most worried about, because when the screenwriter wrote this scene, everyone had heated arguments. The director thought that this was a problem that only amateurs would commit, because every day they could only shoot such a scene at dawn. If they had to reshoot, and because when time passed the sun would rise, they would have to wait till the next day.

If the weather was bad, and not to mention that Beijing was always hazy and the sunrise effect was not ideal, the entire crew would be played to death by the screenwriter.

But the screenwriter insisted that it could not be changed. When the two sides were arguing, the director sought the male protagonist's and male supporting's opinions in the end. Lu Zhou said it was okay, if it did not work today, he would just wait for the next day.

Xiao Yi was afraid that Lu Zhou would forget the script because the volume of the lines in the last scene was too large, and the male protagonist killed the male supporting role, which required very complicated meanings and a strong sense of drama.

Lu Zhou told Xiao Yi not to worry. He set off from Beijing at two o'clock in the morning and upon arriving at Tianmo, Lu Zhou sat in the back seat and looked at the dark sky.

The air conditioner in the car was a bit cold. Xiao Yi and Lu Zhou were cuddling together under a blanket. Looking out from the window, it was a sunny day.

"Don't be nervous." Xiao Yi was actually more nervous than Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou said: "I won't, I can do it, your music saved me."

"Really?" Xiao Yi said puzzledly.

Lu Zhou closed his eyes and tapped his fingers on his knees rhythmically, vaguely humming the melody of the unknown song that Xiao Yi had accidentally played. Xiao Yi said: "If I had known, I would have recorded it down for you."

Lu Zhou did not answer. In the dim light of the night, his profile was firm and steady, and his confidence was so strong that Xiao Yi could not control his feelings. He hugged Lu Zhou by the neck and leaned forward to give him a kiss. Lu Zhou turned his head, pressing him in the car, and kissed him seriously.

There was a knock on the car door.

"Action!!" The director's voice shouted from afar.

Xiao Yi smiled. Lu Zhou got up and said: "I'm going."

"Do your best." Xiao Yi said.

Lu Zhou stood in the dim light that signified the dawn that was about to arrive, as if he was about to usher in a new life in his acting career. When Xiao Yi saw him holding a gun in his hand in completed makeup, standing in the desert and looking out at the distant mountains, he knew that Lu Zhou had emerged from his slump.

The Lu Zhou now was stronger than before, and his deductive soul was like being reborn from Nirvana.

"AH——!" Lu Zhou hollered wildly in the desert.

He clutched his waist, dragging out a trail of blood as he staggered in the desert.

Zheng Changrong's death could not wipe out the past crimes, but he still could not let go. Hu Ying chased behind him. He knew he could not escape, but he was still staggering towards the dawn.

Xin Hongkai slowed down, and Lu Zhou staggered alone into the desert.

The guy from the props team was resting on Xiao Yi's shoulders and holding the remote control in his hands. Both of them forgot to speak as they looked at Lu Zhou in the distance.

"It's not that I defeated you." Xin Hongkai said cheerfully, "Zhangrong, you destroyed yourself. You can't get out, you can only stay in the dark forever."

"Defeated myself?" Lu Zhou looked at Xin Hongkai, his mouth full of blood and shivering as he said, "How easy it is to say? Do you know what I have experienced in these years? I have worked hard for the boss for so many years! In exchange for a body filled with injuries, a title for being shameless! What about you! Do you think you are different in his heart?!"

"You are just another dog he raised——!" Lu Zhou shouted angrily.

"Do you still not understand?!" With a gun, Xin Hongkai took a step forward and shouted at Lu Zhou, "Your file has long been destroyed by the boss!"

Lu Zhou was immediately shocked, and Xiao Yi became nervous in an instant.

"No... I'm not reconciled!" Lu Zhou roared.

Then, the two drew their guns at the same time.

This action must happen at the same time. Zheng Changrong still wanted to counterattack at the last moment, but Hu Ying was faster than him. Hu Ying fired his gun. Xiao Yi decisively grabbed the props team's remote control and pressed it.

With the bang of the gun, the blood bag in Lu Zhou's chest burst, sputtering with blood and spraying all over the ground.

Props guy: "......"

Xiao Yi thought to himself, I knew you would watch till you forgot to press the remote control. The props guy wiped off his sweat, and nodded to express thanks to Xiao Yi. If the remote control was really forgotten, the director would definitely kill him with a headshot.

Lu Zhou was lying on the sand with his eyes open, looking towards the horizon.

The sun had risen.

"Hu Ying——!" The female protagonist ran into the camera view.

Director: "Cut——! The feeling is not right!"

Xiao Yi thought No! Don't play with me! Reshooting this scene equals to death!

The female protagonist stepped back and ran up again. Following which, Xin Hongkai turned his head several times. The female protagonist rushed to hug n times, during which Lu Zhou was motionless, lying on the sand as a corpse.

Finally the director said: "Ok!"

When Lu Zhou heard it, he immediately got up and ran towards Xiao Yi. The two of them were like the male and female protagonists as they completed a flying swoop*.

*This in slower mo okay hahaha :D

Lu Zhou laughed loudly. He had never been so happy before. Xiao Yi almost cried. Holding him, the two stood in the dawn.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot! Hey!" Lu Zhou said to the camera, "What are you doing! Teacher! Leave me some face!"

"Behind-the-scenes." The director said, "It's not bad to make a post credit scene. Come on, everyone continue. The feelings are too plentiful, everyone continue! The most difficult scene is settled!"

"Lu Zhou, don't remove the makeup yet." The director said, "May have to reshoot. I'll watch it a few more times and let you know later."

Xiao Yi seemed to be punished by God for having done harm, Don't be like this, being like this is not good, director...

Lu Zhou gave a nod. There was nothing to do on his end for the time being, and the two leaned against the car. Xiao Yi said: "Actually, a lot of it can rely on dubbing to be completed."

Lu Zhou waved his hand and said: "Dubbing is inferior. So many people broke through and squeezed onto the big screen, if they had no skills would it even work?"

Xiao Yi thought about it, and agreed. The crew asked Lu Zhou to remove his makeup outside, saying that the scene was okayed. Both the protagonists were still filming a scene of walking in the desert, and so the two of them enjoyed the air con and chatted in the car for a while. Xiao Yi massaged Lu Zhou's shoulders, and Lu Zhou said: "Let's celebrate when we get back today! Haha, your daddy I have climbed back up again!"

The box office of this movie may not be huge, but Lu Zhou has found the most suitable way for him, and finally came back to life. Half a month later, the movie filming was over. Everyone got together for a meal and chatted with each other. They agreed that they must cooperate if they had a chance in the future.

Although Lu Zhou and Xin Hongkai acted as rivals in the movie, they had barely communicated with each other out of filming. However, he had always been like this. After everyone was disbanded, Lu Zhou took three more days to touch up the audio. Only then did Xiao Yi discover that Lu Zhou was indeed extraordinary. He was very hardworking in both memorizing the script and acting. Even with the voice acting, Lu Zhou could fully follow the emotions of the character.

When he took a deep breath and faced the mike to add a few voiceovers, that low and dull voice filled with feelings of hatred and anger, coupled with the character on the screen, Xiao Yi almost felt his heart doing a few convulsions.

"Can you not be so smitten." Lu Zhou said to Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi used all the beautiful words he had accumulated in his life to praise Lu Zhou. Lu Zhou felt goosebumps all over his body after hearing them. Xiao Yi clung to Lu Zhou's waist again with a look of excitement.

"You're crazy!" Lu Zhou yelled. He then grabbed Xiao Yi to the sofa and started tossing him.

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At the end of August, there was a thunderstorm in Beijing, and Xiao Yi and Lu Zhou went shopping in the evening. The car had to be stopped and they walked back through the water. Xiao Yi remembered that there was also a thunderstorm last year, and Lu Zhou had even scolded him for not properly writing his songs while hugging him home.

"Don't walk over there!" Lu Zhou shouted, "It's all water! Won't you stand further from the side of the road!"

Xiao Yi: "......"

A car drove past, splashing Lu Zhou all over, and Xiao Yi immediately laughed.

"You're more and more like my dad!" Xiao Yi said.

Lu Zhou stared at Xiao Yi and said: "Faster walk, go!"

Xiao Yi said: "There's no more drama, is there enough money for food?!"

Amongst the thunder and lightning, Lu Zhou said: "No more! There's 20,000* left!"

*About 3K USD

Xiao Yi really believed that it was true, and said: "What should we do?!"

Lu Zhou: "I don't know! I won't pay you any more wages! If you spend all your pocket money, it'll be gone!"

Xiao Yi understood that Lu Zhou was teasing him: "Can I take some of the underwear you've worn to sell? While you're not completely past your popularity, I can still sell to perverted uncles!"

Lu Zhou: "......"

The storm swept across the city, but their home was extremely warm. The bathtub was filled with hot water. Lu Zhou leaned in the bathtub, and Xiao Yi sat on his lap with his back against his chest. The two clung together to take a bath.

The sensation of bare skin rubbing together felt very comfortable. Lu Zhou drank cold rum and enjoyed the bath while showing Xiao Yi his financial records on his iPad.

Lu Zhou said: "The house is 27 million. In recent years, it increased by 40%. The movable assets are more than 55 million. The annual rate of return fluctuates around 17%. You remember carefully, you won’t be without food."

Xiao Yi was dazzled. Lu Zhou had tens of millions of fixed deposits. He managed his finances through private banking from a large bank. After the price was negotiated, there was an annual interest rate of 12%. Private banking services also provided various wondrous services such as hiring a nanny and cleaning services for you.

Apart from that, Lu Zhou also invested in a winery in Penglai which was losing money every year. Up till now, it had not yet begun to make a profit.

"It'll take at least ten years for this to become profitable." Lu Zhou said, "Don't care about it, you look at this again."

"No need." Xiao Yi said decisively, "I don't have any economic acumen, so I shall not damage your finances. Are these things done by a financial advisor?"

"The advisor won't help you operate." Lu Zhou raised one of his legs and rubbed Xiao Yi's waist. Xiao Yi helped him scratch around. Lu Zhou said, "I'll take you to the bank for a certification in a few days. In the future, you can transfer money directly from my card. Do you want to buy a house in Beijing?"

"No no." Xiao Yi said immediately, "Definitely not."

Lu Zhou said: "Buy it if you miss your family, find a job for your younger brother."

"It's really not necessary." Xiao Yi knew that it was tough for Lu Zhou to earn that money. All of it was hard-earned money. A house in Beijing would cost seven to eight million, or even tens of millions. Lu Zhou was definitely willing to pay, but in any case buying it and spending tens of millions in one go, even with Lu Zhou's net worth it was still a tremendous sum of money.

"I'll just pay their mortgage off." Xiao Yi said, "Well, my 200,000+ yuan is enough to pay it back."

Lu Zhou said: "Have your parents urged you to get married yet?"

Xiao Yi hurriedly said: "No."

"No." Lu Zhou said with a sneer, "How many times have they urged you previously?"

Xiao Yi thought, Why did you still ask if you already know. Which pot to open and which pot to not open, the issue of parents was an almost insurmountable gap.

"Can you betray your family for your love of the male god, huh?" Lu Zhou asked.

"It's not good for the male god." Xiao Yi thought for a while and said, "But you are my lover, and as a man, I have to be responsible for you. No matter what, I'll have a good talk with my parents, but I have to wait for the right opportunity."

"Aren't you afraid that I'll dump you?" Lu Zhou asked.

"No." Xiao Yi said.

Lu Zhou said: "And you know that I won't? Whether it's male or female, there're so many people pursuing me."

Xiao Yi looked at Lu Zhou with a smile, and said: "I don't think you will."

When Xiao Yi said this, he thought Your mother, you don’t even know that your WeChat has been spied on by me n times, and you even sent a WeChat message to Zheng Xiaocong saying not only did I cure you, it only raised for me, it’s probably still dead to others...... what should you do if you were going to be locked up for a lifetime......

The person most afraid of being dumped is you right, but Xiao Yi dare not say it. If he did, there would no doubt be a tsunami in the bathtub.

"I'll think about how to solve the family affairs." Xiao Yi thought for a while and said, "But I promise to definitely solve it."

"You can solve what fart." Lu Zhou said.

Xiao Yi thought: 凸。

Lu Zhou said: "When the time comes, I'll find you a surrogate abroad and see if there's any technology that can enable twins to be inseminated separately. You'll have one and I'll have one, two brothers with the same mother. Being born in the United States, even a registered residence is exempted, and paying a fine of seven million for exceeding the national birth-control policy can be avoided."

"Ah!" Xiao Yi was elated at once. He thought okay, this was really not a problem for Lu Zhou, and then he asked, "How much is surrogacy?"

Lu Zhou thought for a while, and said: "I had this plan before. I was afraid that I would have no children, so I asked my friends in the circle to find out. It's about a million dollars."

Xiao Yi said: "Then how do I tell my family?"

Lu Zhou said: "Just tell your parents that you've found a girlfriend and gave birth to a child. She doesn't want the child so it's yours to raise, wouldn't this work!"

Xiao Yi thought this was a rather roundabout way to salvage the situation. Lu Zhou grinned and said: "So, you need to make money. If you have money, you can have a dream. Money can solve all problems. The Moon and Sixpence, understand? The Moon is an ideal, Sixpence is the money under your feet. Caring about the moon, the money remains unpicked."

Xiao Yi thought, The Moon and Sixpence does not signify that. Forget it, okay, got it your Majesty, as expected, your nickname Fortune Lu was not chosen randomly indeed.

After Lu Zhou finished filming《War of the Dawn》, he still wanted to accept another script. However, no one came to him recently, and because of the recoil from the guns, his shoulders started to relapse. Xiao Yi decided not to let him accept any scripts and to rest for a while, and in passing, go to Europe for a honeymoon, then rest at home every day after they came back.

Until the Spring Festival of this year, Xiao Yi called the family to arrange the house matters and send money back. This was the first year they were together for the Chinese New Year in Beijing. Feasting and pleasure seeking, people came and went continuously. The two had hot pot in the afternoon, then went to the premiere of《War of the Dawn》in the evening.

Xiao Yi sat in the theater, watching Lu Zhou's first movie after his comeback.

Many of Zheng Changrong’s scenes were cut, and due to that the character almost changed from a villain who was able to make others sympathetic to a completely unsalvageable abnormality. Xiao Yi felt very upset at first. They had filmed this movie in a high temperature of nearly forty degrees for a full two months. Basking in the sun, being drenched in the rain, getting heatstroke and colds, waking up at six in the morning and going to bed at two in the wee hours, doing everything. In the end, Lu Zhou's scenes were cut to no more than 15 scenes.

However as he watched on, Xiao Yi was completely immersed in it and he had already forgotten his anger.

Xin Hongkai's performance was not bad, it could only pass as average. But when Lu Zhou appeared, Xiao Yi felt that everyone in the entire theater was sitting up straight.

He turned his head to look at Lu Zhou, only to find that Lu Zhou was not watching the movie at all, he had been looking at him.

Xiao Yi laughed. He held hands with him, interlaced their fingers, and looked at the big screen.

"You're not going to say something?" Lu Zhou said.

Xiao Yi: "Is that shot an error? I seem to have seen a simplified Chinese character."

Lu Zhou: "......"

During the gun fight, Xiao Yi was shocked.

It was not so dazzling during the filming! It was just too fierce. Now that the thirty-two channel audio was playing, and coupled with various special effects and actions, Xiao Yi was instantly hysterical. The special effects nowadays were so well executed. Lu Zhou and Xin Hongkai started a gunfight, and bullets flew horizontally as if they could pass through the screen and wreck havoc across the entire theater. Amongst the villains, Lu Zhou was a fighter, and especially when the gunfight stopped and the whole world quietened down, the camera view rotated and suddenly faced the ground. Lu Zhou took a step, and the whole theater felt as if it was trembling.

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