TWEHGC Chapter 23.4

Shen Wenyu grabbed him and asked him while laughing hard: “Aren’t you touched, Mr. Luo?”

Ning Luo chuckled coldly: “I dare not.”

“Oh, why are you still crying? Your tears sure are long-lasting.” Shen Wenyu took a tissue paper to help him wipe his tears.

Ning Luo sniffed and said, “Oh”: “Because I am actually a jellyfish, with a 100% water content. When I encounter fish species like Chaoba [mfn]1. The “fish species” (chaoba) isn’t real at all. It’s actually slang in the Shandong dialect, chaoba is an insult similar to “idiot” or “dumbass.”[/mfn], I will spray tears crazily and then shrivel up.”

(Note, Chaoba in Shandong dialect, meaning the same as idiot) [mfn]2. this is the author note in the story[/mfn]

Shen Wenyu: “…”

Wang Lin called them from a distance: “Come over and see the result.”

Ning Luo walked over to take a look.

Wang Lin sighed: “This is the first time I have seen an actor with such consistent emotions. There are so many lines, and each one is impeccable. Even when the crying scene was interrupted to change the camera angle, the emotions can be perfectly connected when shooting again.”

[Of course, I have been in the industry for more than 20 years and have been filming since I was a child. How can I make a living if I can’t even do this?]

The three of them were stunned when they heard this.

Ning Luo was happy when praised: “Director Wang, you are too good at praising people. It’s still Director Wang who taught me well, otherwise I wouldn’t understand it so quickly.”

Flattery is give and take, and he understands that.

Wang Lin was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said sincerely: “Ning Luo, you really have a bigger stage. It’s a waste of your talent and time to act in a TV series like mine.”

“It’s a pity that I don’t have better resources to recommend to you. The only one I can show is the drama Sun Xuebin adapted, and you still need to audition yourself. If you want to move up, maybe you can ask your eldest brother for his opinion.”

Based on Ning Yang’s attitude towards Ning Luo, he would definitely be willing to give better resources.

Ning Luo shook his head: “No, I think it’s also interesting to act in these roles.”

The plays he had taken before were all art films and political films, which could hone his acting skills, but they were far less interesting than these scripts.

Moreover, the crew was basically composed of actors of his grandfather’s and father’s generation, and there was not even a single peer to chat with. In comparison, Ning Luo liked the atmosphere of Wang Lin’s crew more.

Wang Lin observed carefully and found that he was not just talking for show and laughed more heartily: “Okay. Calculating the days, Sun Xuebin’s drama will be put on the agenda soon, and you can seamlessly join the crew.”

“Wait a minute,” Ning Luo interrupted him tremblingly, not believing what he heard, “Why so fast? Isn’t it an S+ level project, Doesn’t it take a long time to prepare in the early stage?”

Wang Lin: “I heard that they found a very generous investor and directly solved all the worries.”

He saw Ning Luo’s face, which was gradually losing its smile, and hesitated: “Are you unhappy? Don’t you like filming very much?”

Ning Luo, thinking about his lost vacation, felt a grief greater than a heartbreak: “…I don’t like it that much anymore.”

[My vacation! My game cartridge! My beach bath! My male babysitter!! Noooooooo!!!!!!!]

The last syllable was so long that Wang Lin was afraid that he would faint from not being able to catch his breath.

Shen Wenyu picked his ears.

What an impressive lung capacity.

–

Fortunately, Ning Luo’s vacation was not completely squeezed dry. He still had half a month to hang on to survive.

Ning Luo was so happy that he cried tears of joy. As soon as he got home, he went straight to his big bed and slept soundly for three days. In the end, Mother Ning was afraid that his reversed day and night schedule would cause problems, so she asked him to change it quickly.

“Okay, mom,” Ning Luo, eating the braised pork made by Aunt Zhang, raised his hand and swore with tears of happiness, “I will definitely sleep early tonight, if I stay up late again, I’m a dog.”

As for the breed, he hasn’t decided yet.

Mother Ning: “What’s with dog or not dog, Luo Luo, don’t talk like that. I’m just worried that you’re always sleeping and not eating, and your body can’t stand it. Didn’t you lose weight some time ago? You’re so thin now that only bones are left.”

She picked up a big chicken leg for Ning Luo with heartache: “Come on, eat more.”

Ning Luo nodded repeatedly, finished a bowl of rice in a few bites, and refilled the bowl, pressing it until it was full, then seeing there wasn’t much left in Ning Yang’s bowl, asked, “Brother, do you want rice?”

Ning Yang: “…”

He said: “Can’t you see whether I want rice or not?”

“Oh oh,” Ning Luo asked again considerately, “So do you want rice?”

Main feature: replying randomly after reading.

“……Yes.”

Ning Luo brought him a bowl.

Mother Ning watched them get along, smiled, and said to Father Ning: “I was worried that you two wouldn’t get along, but I didn’t expect you to get familiar with each other so quickly. It’s true that when you are of the same age, it’s very easy to play together.”

“After all, they are brothers.” Father Ning was very relieved.

Ning Yang didn’t even bother to mention that they were five years apart. When Ning Luo was in the sixth grade of elementary school, he was about to take the college entrance examination.

Ning Luo couldn’t stop his mouth even while eating: “Yes, Mom, big brother is very good.”

[He is a golden thigh that can explode gold coins! From now on I will only support Big Brother!]

Ning Yang was very disgusted with his useless appearance: “You are chasing food with your head, it seems that you really forget to eat and sleep in the crew.”

Ning Luo: “Of course I am very hardworking.”

“No,” Ning Yang shook his head, “I mean there is a little loser who forgot to eat in the dormitory.”

Ning Luo said faintly: “Brother, you are too serious.”

“If your words are heavy, I will bear a grudge in my heart for a long time.”

Father Ning was stunned for a moment and laughed heartily.

Ning Yang, who was still preparing to fight back: “…”

He looked at Father Ning’s throat and was a little unable to swallow.

–

Ning Luo had a holiday, and the happiest person was Mother Ning. She exhibited him among relatives and friends like a figurine and said that this was her biological son who was lost outside.

Although Ning Luo’s face was stiff with laughter, he had no complaints. He was sensible and well-behaved, sticking close to Mother Ning, and would even hug her arm and act coquettishly.

Mother Ning’s overflowing love was extremely satisfied, and she received many envious and jealous glances.

On this day, she originally planned to go shopping with Ning Luo. Ning Luo was ready to go downstairs but saw that she sat on the sofa without saying a word after receiving a phone call.

“Mom, what’s wrong?”

Mother Ning patted his head with deep disgust in her eyes: “Let’s not go shopping today, Mom is going to meet someone.”

Ning Luo soon knew who it was.

Mother Ning’s cousin, Lin Zhanpeng.

A leech that clung to and sucked blood from Mother Ning’s family, he would grab whatever Mother Ning liked, and he had been grabbing it since he was a child. When he got into trouble, he pushed Mother Ning to take the blame. Mother Ning’s grandmother favored boys over girls, so Mother Ning suffered a lot when she was a child.

His own family was idle and relied on Mother Ning’s family for support, and after knowing that Mother Ning married a rich man, they spoke a lot of bad things behind her back while still shamelessly asking for money.

I didn’t expect him to come to the door today.

Before the person arrived, the voice came first: “Sister, I heard that you found a wild child from the street?”

Mother Ning’s expression suddenly darkened.

Lin Zhanpeng was already over 40 years old and still not in good shape. When he saw Ning Luo, he looked up and down: “Is it him? He doesn’t look like you and is not as good-looking as Xiaobai. Are you sure you didn’t recognize him wrongly?”

Mother Ning was very angry: “Lin Zhanpeng, mind your words.”

Lin Zhanpeng sat down and crossed his legs: “Sister, don’t be angry, you know that I have this temper. If I speak a little bluntly, my nephew will definitely not take it to heart. Right, nephew?”

Ning Luo patted Mother Ning’s trembling shoulders, looked at him directly, and said: “Uncle, it’s very impolite to speak like this. You are so ugly, but I didn’t say anything to you directly because I am very polite.”

Mother Ning was stunned and looked at him.

Ning Luo winked at her quietly and moved his lips: Leave it to me.

He actually dared to bully his mother; then he will sweep away morality and be himself.

Ning Luo cleared his qualities with one click, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to charge.

Lin Zhanpeng didn’t expect that this child who looked so well-behaved had such a vicious mouth: “Sure enough, you were picked up from outside, you have no education at all, sister. Are you just going to watch me being scolded?”

Ning Luo smiled: “If I scold you, just think of it as me scolding a dog, it’s the same, uncle.”

Lin Zhanpeng was furious: “You scold me like a dog?”

“I can’t help it if you think so. But I firmly remember one thing, if I scold others, they deserve it, and if others scold me, they have lost their conscience.”

Lin Zhanpeng had never seen such a sharp-tongued person, pointing at him and saying “you you you” for a long time but couldn’t spit out a word.

Ning Luo frowned: “Do you have limited time as a human to speak every day, can you only say five sentences?”

Lin Zhanpeng was so angry that he trembled and finally said the sixth sentence: “Lin Qingye, look at him!”

【Author’s Note】

Lin Qingye is Mother Ning’s name.