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Chapter 110 Props
Wearing a white robe, Li Boda was waving his sword in a bamboo forest.

The sword light flashed, like a silver dragon dancing, which was very beautiful.

The director directed the camera, constantly shooting Li Boda from different directions.

After finishing the sword dance, Li Boda took out a red tasseled spear and began to wave it. In Li Boda's hand, the red tasseled spear was like a swimming dragon. As the spear stretched and retracted, it emitted a bit of cold light.

"I didn't expect Li Boda's kung fu to be so outstanding. I feel like he is no worse than me." Wu Yue couldn't help but sigh as he watched Li Boda dancing with sword and gun.

"I think he is better than me." Shi Xiaolong looked at Li Boda's figure with a little admiration in his eyes.

Wu Yue and Shi Xiaolong are both professional martial arts actors, and both have some real skills. The other people in the crew may just watch Li Boda's beautiful movements, but they can see the truth and falsehood of Li Boda's performance, at least they can see the truth and falsehood of Li Boda's performance.

The director looked at the agile Li Boda with a look of satisfaction in his eyes.

In fact, when filming started, the director was thinking that when shooting this kind of fighting scene, he would trouble the photographer to shoot Li Boda's feet or something, occasionally take a few close-ups of Li Boda's face, and then leave the rest to the stunt double to complete.

After all, when it comes to filming, fighting scenes are usually performed by professional stunt doubles, unless they are the kind who really have real kung fu skills, such as Wu Yue and Shi Xiaolong.

But the director didn't expect that Li Boda actually had real kung fu skills, and they were not bad at that. Li Boda didn't even need to practice the moves and routines assigned to him by the martial arts instructor, he could do them right away. This saved him a lot of trouble.

Li Boda first wore white clothes and danced with sword and spear, then changed into a slightly thicker set of clothes and danced with sword and spear again.

Although there was almost no interval between the shootings and the only thing involved was changing clothes, it was the key to the TV series expressing the passage of time. This kind of shot showed that Li Boda practiced martial arts very hard, training in the coldest days of winter and the hottest days of summer.

It feels a bit like when Jet Li filmed Shaolin Temple.

In addition to the martial arts scenes, there are also scenes of Xue Pinggui learning literature and calligraphy.

After all, Xue Pinggui, played by Li Boda, is not only a military general, but also a commander who must be proficient in writing and military tactics.

So after the fight scene, the director immediately arranged for the props team to carry a table into the bamboo forest, covered it with white paper, and prepared pens, ink, and other supplies.

After everything was ready, Li Boda stood in front of the table, picked up the brush, and got into the writing posture.

"Exon!"

At a command, the camera filmed Li Boda from a distance, while Li Boda took a brush and wrote a line of words "One general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers."

"Stuck! Passed!"

In fact, the director didn't think that Li Boda could write any good characters with a brush, because this was a long shot, and he just took such a picture to show that Xue Pinggui was learning literature while practicing martial arts.

So after filming this scene, the director immediately arranged for the crew to move the table, pen, ink, paper and inkstone to the other side.

As the prop crew carried the table to the courtyard of another thatched cottage, the director approached Li Boda: "Boda, can you write calligraphy? We're filming later. Write the line 'One general's success is the cost of thousands of lives.' If you can't, practice first. It doesn't have to be beautiful, just make sure you can read the characters. If you really can't, I'll have someone else in the crew write it for you."

"Director, I can write calligraphy. I have practiced calligraphy for several years. Although my handwriting may not be very beautiful, people can still recognize it." Li Boda said modestly.

Li Boda himself had never practiced calligraphy or anything like that.

However, the calligraphy that Li Boda's golden finger gave him was not bad at all.

Whether it is Ouyang Mingri in "Snow Goddess Dragon", who is extremely talented, well-educated, has superb medical skills, is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, is good at astrology and divination, has superb medical skills, and knows everything about astronomy and geography, or Tao Zui in "Liao Zhai: The Flower Girl", who is both an excellent calligrapher and painter and is good at music, both are enough to make Li Boda a master even in the calligraphy world.

Therefore, calligraphy was not difficult at all for Li Boda.

When the director heard Li Boda say that he had practiced calligraphy for two years, he didn't ask any more questions. He thought that as long as Li Boda could hold a brush and write a few words, it would be fine. If that didn't work, he could just have someone else write the calligraphy and replace him later. He had no idea that Li Boda's calligraphy would be so amazing.

On the other side, the props guy in charge of moving the table was just following the director's instructions to move the table from the bamboo forest to the thatched cottage. However, when he was moving the table, he was a little surprised when he saw the calligraphy written by Li Boda.

It’s not that he understands calligraphy, but he didn’t expect that Li Boda’s handwriting looked quite beautiful.

Originally, such a piece of paper with writing on it should have been thrown into the trash can, but the props inexplicably felt that the words written by Li Boda were very beautiful. After a little hesitation, he folded the paper a few times and put it directly into his pocket.

"Anyway, it's the handwriting of a celebrity. Maybe it can be sold for some money. Even if it can't be sold, the handwriting looks pretty good. If not, I'll just throw it away home." The prop muttered to himself, moved the table to the yard of the thatched house, and took a piece of blank paper to spread on the table.

On the other side, the director saw that the props were ready, so he started shooting.

As for what character Li Boda was supposed to write, it was still the line "One general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers." To be honest, Li Boda was quite speechless when the director asked him to write this line of poetry. Fortunately, Xue Rengui was changed to Xue Pinggui.

Otherwise, it would be really funny to ask Xue Rengui to write this poem.

What dynasty did Xue Rengui live in? He was a figure in the middle Tang Dynasty. And Cao Song, the author of the poem "One general's success means thousands of bones are broken", was a poet in the late Tang Dynasty.

It is also thanks to Xue Pinggui, who was adapted from Xue Rengui. He also lived in the late Tang Dynasty. Although he may be earlier than Cao Song, he is barely different.

Li Boda once again stood in front of the desk. After hearing "Aixon", Li Boda picked up the brush, dipped the brush in the inkstone, and then wrote the word "one".

Just as Li Boda continued to write, the wooden stick in the hand of King Backer Yang Lin had already stretched out and clamped Li Boda's wrist.

Okay, it’s not Yang Lin, the King of Backers, but Wang Huichun who played Yang Lin, the King of Backers in The Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties.

However, in this play, Wang Huichun plays Xue Pinggui's master Li Jing.

Wang Huichun held Li Boda's wrist, and Li Boda continued to write with difficulty. Then the two began to fight according to the movements arranged by the martial arts instructor.

Li Boda just swung the brush in his hand - and a line of black ink was directly smeared all over Wang Huichun's face.

"Card!"

Seeing this, the director had to call cut.

Li Boda quickly directed: "Teacher Wang, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my mistake, my fault——"

"It's okay, it's okay. There's something wrong with the props." Wang Huichun wiped his face, and then the face that was originally just a line of ink spots turned into a black face. Many people around couldn't help laughing when they saw it.

The director, trying hard to hold back his laughter, yelled, "Props! Props, get over here! Didn't I tell you to prepare some special ink? What the hell is this?"

The props person ran over with a bitter face, bowing and apologizing. He bowed and apologized to the director, and then bowed and apologized to Li Boda and Wang Huichun.

After all, this is indeed the fault of the props.

Generally speaking, many costume action dramas will have the characters fighting while writing, but the ink will fly everywhere as soon as it is swung, which is not beautiful at all, let alone pretending to be cool.

Therefore, the props team will prepare special ink that can be used for writing but will never be easily thrown away.

This time, the props team obviously mixed up the props, so this problem occurred. It’s really not someone else’s fault that the props were criticized.

The prop bowed, apologized, and then replaced the ink.

But Wang Huichun needs to wash his face properly, and it’s not just about washing his face.

Wang Huichun not only had to wash the ink off her face, but also had to remove her makeup, and then put on makeup again.

It would take at least an hour to go back and forth like this.

So this scene was delayed for over an hour, and the entire crew had to take an hour's break while Wang Huichun finished her makeup.

So it’s no wonder that the director cursed at the props. This was just a small problem that delayed the entire crew for more than an hour. Who wouldn’t curse?

It was also thanks that Li Boda's fighting scenes were filmed very smoothly. The original plan for Li Boda's fighting scenes required Li Boda to show his face and a stuntman to take his place in the fighting scenes, which would take several hours to complete. However, because Li Boda himself was very skilled, there was no chance for the stuntman to take the stage, and the overall filming became smoother, saving almost half of the time.

So the one hour that Wang Huichun wasted to put on makeup again did not delay the crew's overall filming plan.

Otherwise, the director would be even more annoyed.

After scolding the props and deducting their money, the director finally calmed down. When he looked at Li Boda, he felt that Li Boda was pleasing to the eye. His originally angry face became cheerful and smiling when facing Li Boda. The change in his attitude was really huge.

"Boda, thank goodness you saved us so much time when we were filming your scenes earlier, otherwise we would have to work overtime today." The director said to Li Boda with a smile.

"I was in better shape today, so filming went smoothly..."

(End of this chapter)