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Chapter 214 Western Detectives VS Qimen Dunjia
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The two shots took about an hour from preparation to filming.

The progress is pretty good.

"Xiao Gu, you can rest now. You can take pictures of your little house after dark."

Chen Sicheng directed the crew to wrap up filming, saying, "If you're worried about being bored, you can accompany your sister Yaya to Bangkok to go shopping, do some shopping, and visit some nearby attractions."

Tong Liya's eyes lit up, and she was about to agree with a happy smile.

"No, I hate going shopping with... uh... the most."

Gu Qing changed his tune in time, but it was too late.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Tong Liya's gentle smile froze instantly, her eyebrows furrowed, and her bright eyes seemed to spit fire.

She stepped forward and reached out to pinch Gu Qing's ear: "Did you feel wronged accompanying your sister shopping? Huh?"

"You also hate being accompanied shopping?" Which people have you accompanied shopping with?

Gu Qing reacted extremely quickly, ducking to dodge and raising his arm to block Tong Liya's outstretched "claws," his movements as swift as if he were filming an action scene.

He spoke rapidly: "Sister Ya Ya! Slip of the tongue! It was a complete slip of the tongue! I didn't mean I didn't want to go shopping with you."

However, I want to stay by Sicheng's side and learn more about filming techniques. Look at Baoqiang's sense of rhythm just now, I need to study it carefully!

While fending off Tong Liya's persistent hands, he quickly added a promise: "Really, after filming is over, I promise to go shopping with you!"

Tong Liya stopped what she was doing and withdrew her hand with satisfaction: "You said it yourself, I've remembered it, no going back on your word."

Chen Sicheng watched with amusement. Once Tong Liya had given up, he smiled and looked at Gu Qing: "Little Gu, want to learn acting skills from me? What, you want to be a director too?"

Gu Qing scratched his head and said frankly, "Brother Sicheng, I don't have any specific ideas yet."

However, it's always good to learn more; having more skills is never a bad thing, you never know when you might need them in the future.

His words were sincere, and Chen Sicheng nodded in agreement.

After all, in this industry, actors who don't want to be directors always seem to lack a bit of "ambition".

The film crew wrapped up work.

The group returned to the hotel for lunch. Chen Chichi and Xiao Yang also came downstairs, still sleepy-eyed.

"Hey Gu, come on, let's play a couple of rounds!" Chen Chichi invited, full of energy.

Gu Qing shook his head, his voice trembling with pain. "I can't open it any wider. I got humiliated by Brother Baoqiang during filming today. I need to find a place to practice more. I'm going to get my revenge."

His eyes held a tenacious spirit that refused to give up.

"What kind of acting skills are you comparing with Baoqiang?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Chichi's face immediately fell, and he exaggeratedly clutched his chest: "We two good-for-nothing brothers are doing so well, and you're working so hard, are you trying to kill me?"

He glanced at Xiao Yang, who was also intently studying the script beside him.

Don't let his background as a member of the Kuaizi Brothers fool you.
However, Xiao Yang is a true graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and a highly accomplished student, and he also appears to be focused on perfecting his role.

Chen Chichi suddenly felt like he was the only "useless" person in the room, and wailed, "Fine, you're all good students, and I'm the only one who's just lazing around!"

Okay, okay, I'll go play by myself!

After saying that, he went back to his room to play games, looking dejected.

The more he played, the less interesting it became, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt "degenerate." In the end, he simply threw his phone away and went to sleep.

at the same time,

Around three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun's intensity finally subsided somewhat.

Gu Qing followed Chen Sicheng and his group to a lively Chinese-run roadside mahjong parlor in Chinatown.

The scenes here require a group of extras who are "playing themselves."

Upon hearing that it was a film crew from China shooting a movie, the elderly men and women in the mahjong parlor became very enthusiastic and expressed their willingness to participate.

"Come on, props team! Place that blue dragon porcelain bowl to Tang Ren's left, yes, right here on the corner of the table. And put that lucky cat to his right. Make sure they're placed correctly."

Chen Sicheng directed the operation with composure, his sharp eyes scanning the surroundings. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he pointed to a lush money tree in the corner: "Hey, that potted plant! Quick, move it behind Baoqiang and make sure it's secure!"

Gu Qing was spraying sunscreen on his face when he saw this and asked curiously, "Brother Sicheng, is there any special reason for this?"

He felt that Chen Sicheng always set up the scenes as if he were setting up a mysterious formation. Chen Sicheng smiled and said, "It's just a little bit of feng shui arrangement. You'll understand when filming starts."

His smile held a hint of pride, clearly indicating his satisfaction with his design.

Before the filming of the scene officially began, Chen Sicheng specially had someone bring over a small stool so that Gu Qing could sit next to him next to the monitor.

As for Tong Liya?
I originally wanted to come to the film set to see what was going on.
Chen Sicheng responded with, "You're already so dark-skinned, why are you still going out in the sun?"

With pinpoint accuracy, she took her assistant and translator straight to Bangkok's best beauty salon.

In the lens:
Wang Baoqiang, riding high on his luck, grinned as he sipped a cigarette, his face flushed, and happily accepted the money offered by the elderly couple across from him.
"Gambling money," he said, humming an off-key tune.

"Drip-drip-"

Suddenly, the old-fashioned telephone next to the mahjong table rang shrilly—it was a desperate call from my nephew, "Qin Feng."

Just as Wang Baoqiang reached for the phone, an elderly man next to him, who was engrossed in gambling, quickly grabbed his arm.

"Hey, you think you can just run away after winning money?"

"run?!"

Wang Baoqiang seemed to have been greatly insulted. He slammed his unanswered phone on the table, knocking a piece of cigarette ash off his mouth.

He gestured wildly, spitting as he spoke: "On my left is a green dragon drinking water, on my right a white tiger waving its tail, and I have sand hidden in my pocket, bringing wealth to my home! There's a tree behind me, so the God of Wealth will visit me!"
I'm going to slaughter you all, leaving you without a single piece of armor or a single naked body!

Wang Baoqiang smugly put the cigarette back in his mouth, looking arrogant and confident of victory.

"This is a feng shui arrangement to attract wealth and prosperity."

Sitting next to the monitor, Gu Qing suddenly realized.

"Click! Passed!"

After filming four or five takes, Chen Sicheng finally nodded in satisfaction. He looked up at the darkening sky and said to Gu Qing, "Gu, send a message to Teacher Chen and Xiao Yang and tell them to come over so we can prepare to film the next scene."

"Okay." Gu Qing replied and took out her phone.

"Baoqiang," Chen Sicheng turned and instructed, "Put that pack of cigarettes on the table under the lucky cat figurine. Make sure it's stable; we'll film the next shot after dark."

Wang Baoqiang did as instructed.

Gu Qing watched as Wang Baoqiang stuffed the cigarette under the base of the lucky cat, making the lucky cat noticeably taller than the green dragon porcelain bowl on the left.

Seeing Gu Qing's blank expression, Chen Sicheng smiled and asked, "Little Gu, don't you understand?"

Gu Qing honestly shook his head: "I don't understand."

During the few days of filming with Chen Sicheng, he felt like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden for the first time, with everything new and incomprehensible.

Chen Sicheng tapped the table with his finger and began to explain the "feng shui egg" he had buried: "There is an old saying in our country, 'It's not the Azure Dragon that's soaring high that's scary, but the White Tiger that's looking up.'"

This means that in feng shui, the Azure Dragon position, which represents the east, should be as high as possible, as it symbolizes rising yang energy and prosperous fortune.
The White Tiger position, representing the west, should be as low as possible, symbolizing the descent of yin energy and the avoidance of inauspicious influences. This is considered an auspicious arrangement for attracting wealth and good fortune.

He pointed to the raised lucky cat and the relatively "shorter" green dragon porcelain bowl: "Look now, the white tiger (lucky cat) is obviously taller than the green dragon (porcelain bowl), which violates the taboo of 'white tiger raising its head'!"

This foreshadows the end of Tang Ren's good fortune, followed by great misfortune and financial ruin. This is the real 'feng shui' reason why he will lose everything in the future.

Chen Sicheng said with a smile.

Are there really that many details?

Gu Qing was stunned.

He had seen "Detective Chinatown" in the cinema in his previous life.

But it didn't leave such a deep impression.

When creating "Detective Chinatown," Chen Sicheng did not merely use the framework of Western detective fiction; he also infused it with a wealth of uniquely Eastern metaphysical elements.
Feng shui, physiognomy, talismans, Qimen Dunjia...

Tang Ren's seemingly nonsensical jinxes, the amulets he pulls out at crucial moments, and even his signature incantation gesture of bringing his middle and index fingers together, all ensure that he can turn bad luck into good.

All of them are carefully designed, with cultural codes hidden in the details.

"Brother Sicheng, I finally understand why Sister Yaya likes you so much..."

Gu Qing couldn't help but admire him.

He finally began to understand why many actresses would fall madly in love with certain directors, and it was common for them to even pay money to them.

Aside from resources, talent is indeed very attractive!
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(End of this chapter)